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Recap / Orange Is The New Black S 05 E 10 The Reverse Midas Touch

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Negotiations between the prisoners and Figueroa continue, cumulating in her asking for evidence that CO Humps is still alive. While Caputo assures her that Humps is fine, Suzanne finds him unresponsive in the medical bay and immediately tries to bring him to Taystee for advice, but Cindy and Watson are able to stop her before either Caputo or Figueroa can see the state that he's in. Gloria continues to help the guards escape and is almost caught by Ouija, who assumes Gloria is just being manipulated by them, and the Methheads debate about stealing CO Stratman's finger to replace the tip of Leanne's finger that she lost when she was accidentally shot by CO Coates.

Then the riot takes a dark turn as CO Piscatella finally has Red and her family tied up and gagged and completely at his mercy. He starts torturing Red by scalping her, so that everyone will see the frail old lady she truly is. Piper is able to work her gag free enough to scream for help, drawing the attention of Freida and the others who are hiding in the nearby bunker. Piscatella breaks Alex's arm when she tries to fight back, which is when Gina reveals herself and allows Freida and the others to knock Piscatella out with a combination of a blow dart to the neck and forcing him to trip over an extension cord.

The flashback focuses on Piscatella as a young CO at an all male prison, where he starts a relationship with one of the prisoners there.


  • Cold-Blooded Torture: Piscatella kills the inmate that killed his boyfriend by leaving him under a hot shower.
  • A Day in the Limelight: Piscatella gets one of these to his days working in men's prison.
  • Immodest Orgasm: Leanne has her first orgasm with Stratman masturbating her.
  • Jingle: Penn passes time in the Poo by singing the Big Red jingle which Linda joins in in.
  • Kids Prefer Boxes: Penn tells Linda a story about playing in boxes when she was a kid.
  • Sanity Slippage: Due to not being on her meds, Suzanne starts going back to her Crazy Eyes persona.
  • Secret Relationship: Piscatella had one of these with his inmate boyfriend.
  • Slap-Slap-Kiss: Black Cindy is getting quite turned on by Caputo and Fig's arguing, knowing it's gonna turn into this.
  • Title Drop: Fig says Caputo has the reverse Midas Touch where everything turns to shit.
  • Traumatic Haircut: Piscatella slices off bits of Red's hair along with bits of her scalp.

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