8. Appropriately Sized Pots

Figueroa pressures Caputo over the prison's increased contraband. Caputo starts to distrust Red's greenhouse, but Red has moved all her contraband to Gloria's kitchen before Caputo can make a search. Piper faces a backlash from the other inmates when she is granted furlough. She later calls her mother to tell her about the furlough, only to find that her grandmother had died a day before. Soso is forced to take a shower by the guards. Healy informs Rosa that officials at the Department of Corrections are unwilling to fund her life-saving operation.

Rosa later bonds with a young boy in chemo whom she later learns is in remission. Caputo feels pressure to toughen up, and he immediately fires Fischer when she stands up to Caputo over his rules. Following Fischer's termination, Figueroa rehires Mendez to work at Litchfield. Flashback: In the 1970s, Rosa helps with her first ever bank robbery and quickly becomes the leader of the gang.