“Always so rude, that one.”
The penultimate episode of Orange Is the New Black Season 2 ended with Vee (Lorraine Toussaint) clocking Red (Kate Mulgrew) in the head, and then beating the hell out of her.
Season 2 of the Netflix series is about many things — friendship, how people behave under pressure, the possibility of love in captivity, and much more — but as it drew to a close, the main plot boiled down to Vee's stranglehold on Litchfield and its inmates. With her precise, vindictive manipulations throughout the season, Vee caused strife among friends, as well as racial divisions. She had also been leading a smuggling operation through the greenhouse tunnel. Red, Vee's main antagonist of her many enemies, was getting in the way, and so she needed to be dealt with — with a slock (a lock in a sock).
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That's the setup for the finale: As a result of the attack on Red, and also because one of the Golden Girls had tried to shank Vee, the episode begins with prison investigators (called SIS) coming to Litchfield to see what's up.
Caputo (Nick Sandow) greets them, and says he'd be happy to help. They say they're under orders to speak only with Figueroa (Alysia Reiner), the assistant warden, and are dismissive of his offer, instead asking him for coffee.
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Janae (Vicky Jeudy) and Black Cindy (Adrienne C. Moore) are talking about the investigation when Vee sneaks up on them.
She tells them she did it, which, duh. They're nervous around her: "Vee, you know we ain't gonna say shit," Janae says.
Vee tells them they need to tell the investigators that Suzanne (aka, "Crazy Eyes," but we won't call her that here) attacked Red. "That's cold!" Black Cindy says, thinking about how Suzanne loves Vee so much and, more than any of them, considers her to be her mother.
Vee: "Is it? Really? Is it cold for Amazon to underprice books just to capture market share?"
They can't argue with that logic. After some discussion — Vee says she knows Red won't give her up — they agree to blame Suzanne.
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