Directed By: Adam Bernstein
Written By: Tom Fontana
Tropes applying to this episode:
- Blatant Lies: Morales when he denies knowing who hurt Brass.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Said is revealed to have been a drug addict.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Ryan fears for Suzanne's safety when Jia starts attending her classes.
- Falsely Reformed Villain: Jia fools the prison staff into thinking he's changed though Ryan can see through it.
- Heel–Face Turn: Hoyt is haunted by what they did to Cloutier and decides to kill Timmy to end his reign of terror.
- Honor Among Thieves: Morales stops Guerra from doing anything to Miguel as the debt is settled by Guerra stabbing him.
- Horrible Judge of Character: McManus again makes a terrible decision by letting Jia back to Em City.
- If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: Miguel will only allow Velez to join him if he kills Guerra.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Glynn really doesn't have any reason to want Keller to be happy.
- Kick the Dog: Glynn doesn't put Alvarez into solitary because he wants him to get killed and has no problem admitting that to his face.
- Never Live It Down: Brought up by Said. He tells Peter people will always see him as the man who was raped by Adebisi and nothing more.
- Revenge Before Reason: Peter Schibetta tries to kill Vern to avenge Pancamo's beating even though he was told to wait until Pancamo had recovered from his stay in the hospital.
- Undying Loyalty: Despite not liking Said's recent behavior Arif still stands by him.
- You Did Everything You Could: Beecher tells Katherine this about her failed efforts to get him released.