That night, in the kitchen, Red does some DIY branding of her own. “Well, you can’t go around with that horror,” a softened Red tells her. Piper says it doesn’t matter… “I probably deserve it,” she says. Hot plate accident? Another tattoo? Red insists on looking at the injury, and when she sees what it is, she demands to know who did it. And she tells her what Alex did to Aydin is morally defensible - he was there just to kill her - and that that fact will help her accept the situation someday.Īnd then Red asks about Piper’s arm. Red tells her Alex will be OK, and that she wasn’t alone, that Red and Frieda have been helping her. If I had known, I would have done something. She was all on her own… I should have been there for her.
“I just can’t, I can’t believe she did what she did.
And I’ve destroyed people’s lives.” She admits she didn’t even feel bad about what she did to Maria, and during a chat with Nicky in the previous episode, she actually expected sympathy for finding herself aligned with the wannabe Nazis, ignoring the fact that it only happened because she had used them to advance her plot against Maria.įor once, and in her most challenged state, Piper is actually thinking about someone else’s pain.
LEGO PRINCE OF PERCIA SETS CRACK
Emotionally, she’s just as wiped out, confessing to Alex and Nicky during a session in which the three of them smoke crack in the small cornfield of Red’s garden, that, “I think that I’ve been trying to win prison. Physically, she’s in so much pain from the swastika they burned into her arm with a DIY poker that she can’t move the arm, and the wound is bleeding through her clothing.
She’s been broken down by what Maria and her friends did after Hapakuka helped them grab her from Nicky’s party. Those first seasons of Orange Is the New Black did so much in establishing her as a pathologically self-involved character, and everything we’ve seen from her recently - getting Stella sent to Max, setting up Maria to have years added to her sentence because she dared to start a rival business, and, oh yeah, organizing a white supremacy group at Litchfield - has just continued to sharpen the picture of her as a spoiled person who will go to any lengths to get what she wants, far-reaching consequences, especially for others, be damned.īut when being mutilated by her enemies coincides with her finally realizing the woes in her life are largely the result of her “always going too far” - and yes, the latter most definitely only came about after the former - it might be time to cut Chapman a little break. It can be nearly impossible to muster up a dose of sympathy for Piper Chapman. Warning: This recap for the “ Friends in Low Places” episode of Orange Is the New Blackcontains spoilers.