OITNB S2 E13 “We Have Manners, We’re Polite”” is about:

* Investigators show up to look into who tried to kill Red. Vee convinces her remaining team members and some of the Latinas to tell the investigators that Red was attacked by Suzanne. Vee also convinces Suzanne that she did it and steals and plants her lock to complete the frame job. Meanwhile, Poussey and Taystee start to convince Cindy and Janae that Vee will turn on them soon too.

Vee finds out her heroin got stolen (by Nicky) and almost kills Cindy over it (irrationally). This convinces Cindy that Vee is anything but a reliable partner. With no more allies, and with the investigation turning against her, Vee escapes through the tunnel in Red’s greenhouse.

* Caputo agrees to stop Chapman’s move in return for Chapman agreeing to give him the goods on Fig’s embezzlement (this also means Maria and Sister Ingall’s are also not moved). Being allowed to stay at Litchfield means that Alex can visit (more on this later) but when Alex visit’s it turns out that she is in bigger trouble outside of prison than she was inside the prison. Piper starts manipulating Larry and Polly until she gets them to call Alex’s parole agent about Alex having a gun (in order to get Alex back into prison where she is safe).

Anyway, despite the massive evidence of embezzlement, the warden chooses to let Fig resign and does not bring charges (more on this in a second). Caputo gets Fig’s job on a temporary basis (and all hell breaks loose).

* Nobody shows up for CO Healy’s ‘Safe Space’ group and he goes to look for Doggett and finds her talking with two of the inmates he hates most in the world (Boo and Sophia). Even worse, from his crazy perspective, Doggett tells Healy he was responsible for her making friends with Boo. Despite all of that, Doggett does thank him in a way that softens his terrible anger.

* Gloria and Norma make a Voodoo concoction to make Vee go away.

* The nuns finally show up to support Sister Ingalls hunger strike. CO O’Neill is forced to spend time babysitting them even though he hates Nuns. Sister Ingalls tries to convince Red to turn Vee in for attacking her and eventually, Red agrees but Healy won’t let her turn Vee in. Sister Ingall’s and Doggett (indirectly) convince him to do the right thing and save Suzanne from being unjustly charged with murder.

* Bennett admits that he is the Father of Daya’s baby but Caputo tells him to shut up and never mention it again. Instead of forcing the issue, as Daya wanted, he agrees to bury it.

* Rosa goes for chemotherapy and finds out both that the chemotherapy isn’t working and that the cancer is spreading rapidly (and that she has only a few weeks left to live). As they return from the treatment, Morello purposefully leaves the keys to the van inside so Rosa can have one last joyride. As she is driving away from the prison, Rosa sees Vee on the side of the road and swerves purposefully to hit her with the prison van at high speed. Adios Vee.

Believe it or not, on the way back from Chemo, they are listening to the song Breakfast at Tiffany’s by the band Deep Blue Something. I hate the song and the music of the band, but I actually know them. They worked as student helpers in the Department of Communication at the University of North Texas while I was also working at the University of North Texas (before the song hit big). Nice enough folks (not my kind of music).

We have manners really refers to Rosa’s feelings about Vee. But it is a comment that Suzanne makes to the investigators during an interrogation (the main reason she hates Vee is that she is “incredibly rude”). An aside, Suzanne calls Red Heat Miser which was a joke in Season 5 also (totally forgot that it was used before).

Stop The Insanity

There was a bunch of total nonsense in this episode. Not sure if the prison consultants took the week off or the writer’s just outvoted them for this episode.

Absolutely ZERO chance Alex Vause would either be cleared to visit while on parole (even if she was a direct family member, which she is not). There is also ZERO chance her parole agent would allow her to visit even if, by some impossible miracle, the BOP allowed a parolee to visit (which they would not).