Orphan Black Recap: Scarred by Many Frustrations

Season: 3 / Episode: 5 / BBC America OOOOOOOO-BLACK! Helena wakes up after what we imagine was a hella ass-whupin after she Shawshanked the lab rat last episode. The scorpion giving her shit because instead of escaping, she was in the cleaning room failing at Operation. She finds a metal piece in the sand and goes back to her Murda Muzik Season One days and starts carving the Grand Canyon in her back to get that release. Probably could’ve just asked a guard for a cigarette, but whatever. The scorpion travels to the other cell and there’s Sarah, knocked all the way the fuck out. Sarah wakes up in the cell, not knowing where the hell she is. And since it’s a pretty white woman waking up in imprisonment, it looks like the plot of every other horror/suspense film in the last decade or so. Before Sarah can even find true north, Helena start trolling her through the vent. Sarah, who basically sent her kid away for the 14th time in less than 2 1/2 seasons, has done nothing but look for a way to find and free Helena, but Helena let Den Mother get in her head and thinks that Sarah wake up every morning listening to those Judas Mixtapes. The scorpion basically pumping up Helena like cats used to do to Jesse Jackson when he ran for office. Helena just sitting back like, “yeah, fuck em.” Art is worried about Beth Sarah because Beth Sarah was supposed to check in and hasn’t yet. He’s got a knock at the door and it’s she who be cast out, Gracie herself. She’s got nowhere else to go, she lo…