A new warden institutes big changes; Blanca reconnects with an old friend; Suzanne tries to help Taystee and Black Cindy's relationship.
This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
- Batman Gambit: Pen and Suzanne get Black Cindy to meet Taystee in the library by offering to show her a then-unreleased season of Outlander.
- A Day in the Limelight: Blanca gets another one showing her and Diablo celebrating her green card status. It also shows what happened to her after the season 6 finale.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Badison gets one from Taystee after her meeting with Black Cindy.
- Internal Reveal: Suzanne tells Pen about Piscatella's murder through a sock puppet.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Red not wanting to run the kitchen is to the point she'd rather listen to Dwight's rambling thoughts.
- Wiki Walk: During Piper's time with the other moms while babysitting her niece, one of them says she can't look up “baby shit” anymore. She was looking for baby spoons. In six hours, she's in a Google deep-dive about leaching plastics.
