Piper earns her keep by babysitting. Aleida pressures Hopper to go for a promotion. Random drug searches put the heat on Alex. Daya gets an offer.
This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
- A Day in the Limelight: This one goes to one Artesian McCullough showing her days in the Army. Part of it involves a birthday celebration for a soldier in her squad.
- Facial Horror: One of the women in Florida, Judith, threw acid in a woman's face.
- Frame-Up: Alex tries to slip the drugs into Hellman's locker but gets caught by McCullough, who takes the drugs for herself, then has Alex sell the drugs for her..
- It's All My Fault: Daya feels she killed Daddy by giving her the heroin that killed her.
- Lady Macbeth: Aleida is this to Hopper, urging him to apply for the position of Warden now that Fig is fired from it not only to get a bump in pay but also to move the product easier.
- A Lighter Shade of Black: McCullough plans to be this to Hellman by having Alex sell drugs for her with a 5% bump.
- Open Secret: Mccullough knows full well Hellman is the one smuggling heroin into Litchfield.
- Rank Up: Ward gets a promotion from Head Guard to Warden.
- Shaking the Rump: The episode starts off in a twerking contest that Maritza wins.
- Spanner in the Works: Ward getting hired as Warden is this for Hopper as well as Aleida.
- Status Quo Is God: Caputo's advice to Ward about appealing to Linda for the head guard position is to keep the status quo in check.
- Sudden Downer Ending: Maritza is arrested by ICE agents at the club without her ID showing she's an American citizen, putting her in the same PolyCon immigration detention center Blanca's in.
- Terrible Interviewees Montage: Linda goes through one of the various guards applying for Hopper's now vacant Warden position.
- The Bus Came Back: This is Maritza's first episode on the show since the end of season 5 and being separated from Flaca after the riot.
