'Orange Is The New Black' Episode 2.06 Recap: "You Also Have A Pizza"

It’s Valentine’s Day at Litchfield and most of the women are bitter about their neglectful significant others in the free world. Some dream of the day they’ll reunite with their loves and Daya (Dascha Polanco) celebrates the day with Bennett (Matt McGorry) in a closet. The inmates describe their definition of love, and mostly all of the women have beautiful responses. Aleida Diaz (Elizabeth Rodriguez) does not enjoy the holiday like her daughter Daya, saying, “Valentine’s Day was invented to make people feel like s—t if they’re not part of a perfect couple.”

Larry (Jason Biggs) comes to visit Piper (Taylor Schilling) for the first time in a while and tells her he wants her to be the inside source for his article about how Litchfield is not using money properly. Piper tells Larry that she wants to go home when she is released, but it doesn’t look like a real reunion between the two will happen any time soon. Piper receives a letter from Alex (Laura Prepon), who’s been released from jail, and throws it out before even opening it. At the end of the episode, Larry kisses Piper’s best friend Polly (Maria Dizzia). This is pretty screwed up even after all the ways Piper has hurt him.

Red (Kate Mulgrew) is back at it; she sneaks contrabands in through the green house and tries to win her old friends over with presents. Piper asks Healy (Michael Harney) for furlough to see her dying grandmother, though she feels she has no chance of getting it. The inmates’ distrust of Vee (Lorraine Toussaint) continues. Red and Poussey (Samira Wiley) are especially suspicious of Vee. After Vee gets Taystee transferred to custodial duties from her library job, Poussey tells her she will kill her if she gets Taystee into any trouble.

Most of the episode is devoted to Poussey’s flashbacks. As a young army brat, she moved to Germany from New Jersey. Poussey had a girlfriend and was deeply in love, but the girlfriend’s father, a member of the German army, sends Poussey’s father back to the United States after finding Poussey naked in bed with his daughter. A drunk and deeply sad Poussey approaches her girlfriend’s father to tell him she loves his daughter and to yell at him for sending her and her father back to the states. Poussey goes to pull out a gun when her father comes up behind her and stops her. The flashbacks don’t show the viewer how Poussey got arrested, but it’s clear that she’s not in the right mental state after being torn away from the love of her life.