They find not the entire stash, but just a small baggie.
The meth heads snitch on Luschek and Caputo, desperate to keep his guards obedient before the prison closes in two months, makes them search Luschek’s desk. Nicki figures out they have it, and Luschek gets it back, smuggles it out, and sells it for the two of them, making a boatload of money. Leanne and Angie find the stash when it falls out of the light where Nicki put it, but they think it’s a consequence of Norma’s ball of blue energy magic. As she tells Big Boo, she could pull a Courtney Love every day until her sentence is up with that much heroin, but what is the point of slowly committing suicide? It was about having something of value in this place where everything is stripped or stolen from you. She definitely lied to Big Boo and Luschek about it being stolen so that she could keep it around, but I didn’t think she was using it - I thought that she just wanted to have it there to comfort her. What I loved the most about this episode was the ambiguity that we get regarding Nicki and the heroin. Even disgraced Figeroa made a return cameo this week, and you know Pornstache is lurking somewhere just beyond the fence ready to make an appearance. Like comic-book superheroes, these characters have a way of not staying dead. If more information means throwing people out on their incarcerated heinies, then Jesus save Black Cindy, Taystee, and Lorna, who are my favorite characters now that Nicki is gone and all.
Is that what this whole season is going to be? If so, please please please let us get a Piper backstory next so we can cross her off the list. Now we got another Nicki backstory, one of the few characters to get a second helping, and she was carted off to maximum-security prison when her plot to smuggle heroin out of the prison with Luschek went south. I bet Annalise Keating is real happy about that.
Not only did he leave Daya’s old crib on the side of the road, but he’s taken off for good and left his “fiancée” and child in the lurch. Last episode we learned what a coward Bennett was in Iraq, and it turns out he’s an even bigger coward than we imagined. Seriously, what is up with the backstories this year? It’s more of a curse than a blessing. I didn’t notice how much I loved you, until you took my Natasha Lyonne away.