The rookies must find ways to assert their authority or risk being preyed upon by predatory inmates. Ariel is nervous about supervising a death-row inmate on tier time, while Lilly struggles to assert herself in a pod full of unruly gang members. Purto returns to work for the first time after a brutal inmate assault only to be confronted by another inmate, and new rookie Fabian is overwhelmed on his first day on the job.