01x05 - Identity Crisis

[bunniefuu]

[tense, dramatic music playing]

[buzzer sounds]

[camera whirring]

-[Hudson] While y'all two are in here.
-[Berens] Yeah.

I want to make an announcement.

-To us or the group?
-Everybody.

Oooh!

Not so fast.

[Hudson] This morning after I woke up,

I realized that the majority
of the people in this experiment,

most of them could care less about power.

Like, right now, the power dynamic
can definitely be changed,

but they didn't even wanna try.

All right, everyone,
we have a small announcement

if you guys could listen up a little bit.

[yawns] All right, guys,
I got to give everybody a two-day notice

on something that's
about to happen around here.

I'm leaving to-day. [laughs]

It has been a pleasure
meeting every single one of y'all.

Y'all are all awesome people.

I'm so glad I got to meet y'all,

and I really think that,
for the next 7 out of these 14 days,

y'all are going to do great.

To only experience the one side,
and as soon as things got hard

and as soon as he wasn't able
to get his way, he bowed out.

Greatly disappointed in him.

[Hudson] So, I'm gonna go bowhunting,

and I'm gonna go sit
titty-deep in my hot tub,

and I'm gonna hang out with my hound dog.
I appreciate every single one of y'all.

I'm glad I got to meet
every single one of y'all.

[somber music playing]

Is there another one, or that was it?

[Berens] That was it.
That was the one announcement, yes.

[indistinct chatter]

As soon as Major said, "You are now
an inmate," it was over for Hudson.

He didn't want to be a part of us.

Hudson as a guard was aggressive.

But as an inmate,
he couldn't take not having power.

It's a trash move for someone
that holds himself to have character.

You little m*therf*cker.

He's the one that got this whole,

you know, uprising thing
kind of stirred up and then left, so…

Uh, it's kind of some p*ssy stuff,
I think, in my opinion. Sorry, Chetter.

I guess it's my turn to stir sh*t up.

Nothing we can say to keep you here?

You ain't got much incentive
to offer. [laughs]

I feel like a lot of people are in this

for a simple pride thing
or just to challenge themselves.

For me, my everyday life
is harder than this.

Pipe's falling out of the derrick

'cause the f*cking wind
blew it out of there.

I can handle six more days in here,

but at the cost of me not being happy.

Like, I'm not getting any type
of stimulation from that anymore.

It's definitely not something
that I have to do for my "pride."

Like, I already know that I can do that.

-Take care. Oh…
-All right, girl.

Bye. We'll see y'all.

-Have fun.
-Later.

[door closes]

[Gaona] God.

You don't even got the mental fortitude
to stay here for 14 days?

Get the freak out.

I don't have nothing to prove to anybody.

Did he leave already?

Yeah, he's out.

Aw, f*ck him.

[dramatic music playing]

[tense, dramatic music playing]

[Chris Lee] I mean, dude,
his true colors came out.

When you bail
as soon as you become a prisoner,

true colors come out.

Lost my respect. Lost it all.

I was trying to give him a little respect,
but, dude, none. Gone.

[Brooks] By design,
this role reversal phase of the experiment

has upended the power dynamic.

We've already seen that Chet has left.

His fall from high-power
to low-power inmate,

he couldn't handle it,
and he left the experiment.

Taking the three most disruptive inmates
and making them guards

has really sent ripples
throughout the pod.

That's right. We're in a spot right now
that feels a bit like a power vacuum.

It will be very interesting to see
who rises to fill that space,

both for the inmates and for the guards.

[Jefferson exhales]

The most dangerous…

[Jefferson over radio] Officer Berens?

Yes?

Can you both come
to the break room, please?

Copy. We gotta go.

All right.

[Gaona] Was that Jefferson?

[Jefferson humming]

Lay it on me. What?

Read the paper.
We gotta select a head guard.

-Head guard.
-Oh my…

-What?
-Head guard?

Laura just naturally commands a room.

Laura is the most vocal
of the three of us ladies.

Can you come out of your cell, please?
We're all out here right now. Thank you.

And she's compassionate, but stern.



you called my guards "ladies."

That's disrespectful.
That's not gonna happen.

She's not afraid to,
you know, lay the law down.

[Berens] Do I wanna be head guard,
is that what you're saying?

Yeah.

You.

-Are you sure?
-Mm-hmm.

Ugh. I have to wear that vest. [laughs]

I do feel like women can be great leaders
in a unique, different way.

-Are you good with it?
-I'm fine with it, yeah.

-Congratulations, head guard.
-Thanks.

[Berens and Jefferson laugh]

[Berens] The day shift, the female shift
gave me an opportunity,

and I'm thankful and grateful for that,

and I'm happy to take on
that responsibility

and be a voice
and show confidence and stand up.

But obviously, the guys on my shift
weren't treating me, like, super equal,

and now it's on me to make sure
that everyone respects all three of us

because I…
I know that's gonna be an issue.

-[Gaona] Ready, ladies?
-[Berens] Yep. Here we go.

-Charlie's Angels, boom, on three.
-[Jefferson laughs]

[buzzer sounding]

All right, you guys, awesome day.

Thank you very much
for following the rules.

We did a vote,
and, um, I'm going to now be head guard.

-And yeah…
-[applause]

To reiterate, if you guys have any issues,
definitely come and talk to us,

and hopefully have a great night tonight.

Yeah.

[tense music playing]

All right?

-Thanks, guys. Yup.
-[indistinct chatter]

Can't you just work a 24-hour shift?

I know. We need to stay!

We'll be all right. I'll just hang out
in my room for the night shift.

Is it that bad?

It's inevitable
that something's gonna happen.

Thanks, officers.

-Good night.
-[Gaona] Good night, good night.

Please be respectful to the night shift.

-Please be good and respectful.
-Me? Why are you…?

Please be nice and respectful to them.
I'm begging. Please. Thank you.

[Jefferson] Be good. Yeah.

[Zaremba] There's no way Chet left.

Where else would he be?
He'd have to be in seven.

[Cook] He's gotta be here.

[door opens]

Hello, night shift.

Good evening.

Is Chet down there?

-[Berens] Sorry.
-Chet is gone.

-[Berens] So…
-What?

-Wow.
-Hudson left.

[somber music playing]

That's soft. Come on.

[Berens] He had some reasons.

And he said his purpose was showing
that you can give authority

without, how would you call it,
like a power trip.

-[Cook] Yeah.
-[Berens] He felt like he did that.

It's a sucker move.

Officer Hudson not being here
is just such a coward move.

You leave after one day?

If you're gonna talk the talk like he did,
you gotta walk the walk, man.

When he was a guard, he was so strict.

-[Hudson] Hey, we're not showering now.
-[Cook] Sorry.

No, we done said that 100,000 times.

You're gonna shower
when we tell you to shower.

[Zaremba] He put me in lockdown.

Put him in lockdown until 6:00.

[Zaremba] He made me feel
like a really bad person

because I said I'm not gonna
put my face on the floor.

Don't be that guy.

There's absolutely no sense
in causing chaos for no reason.

So for him to, like, say
about these morals and values

and then instantly just,
"Yeah, I got what I wanted out of it."

Yeah, because it was easy.
You didn't push yourself at all.

So I just, uh, think I did have respect
for him still, somehow,

but that's completely gone.

I did get a comment from multiple inmates.

They're still a little on edge.

-[Zaremba] Really?
-They're on edge with you guys.

-Yeah.
-Just tread a little lightly.

-Got it.
-[Zaremba] Aye-aye.

-[Cook] I appreciate that insight.
-Yeah. For sure.

Yeah.

[Washington] So, if you wouldn't allow it
outside of here,

then why would you allow it in here?

[Terry] It's a show.

That's the very reason that 878,
he said, "I don't believe in this."

"This goes against what I believe."

It would be different

if they came in on the same energy, like,
"Do what y'all wanna do."

Mm-hmm.

That's how they was when they was in here.

For the other two,
they owned up to what they did.

They served their time.

But 878 got to go.

I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble
accepting orders

from one guy specifically.

You no longer wanted to be
a part of the experiment

based upon your beliefs.

Now you've come back as a guard
having power and control over us?

That's some bullshit.

To have somebody do something like that,

give up on us and then come back
on the other side and try…

That's just like
somebody in the street, right?

You come back as a police officer.

Who gonna respect you?

We chose to stick it out
and stand on what we believed in.

How do you think we're supposed to feel
if you come back as a guard?

I can't respect that.

For sure.

[Washington] I come from New Orleans,
the hardest of the hard.

Breaking laws, doing crimes and whatnot.

Eventually, I left the street side alone,
joined the military,

and I ultimately ended up
buying my own rig

and starting my own business
as a truck driver.

It took a long way for me
to get to where I am today.

But if you disrespect that,

believe you me,
I will go back to that person.

[Zaremba] Ooh!

Hello, fellas.

-[Chris Lee] Good evening, guards.
-[Zaremba] Good evening.

Laundry is here. Laundry is here.

-What's up, fellas?
-[Chris Lee] What's up?

[Berens] You wanna go see the transition
or no?

-[Jefferson] Yeah.
-[Gaona] I do.

Look how he come in here.

Sleeves up. Who do that?

Like, y'all gonna start pissing me off
with that sh*t, bro. For what?

[Cantrell] Brendan's got
his top button undone now.

-[Brooks] Oh, yeah.
-He was all squared away yesterday.

Do you want to go to the tower room?
What are the girls doing still?

[Berens] Okay.

Seriously, 975?

No hanging on the railings.
You're a guard.

Major said no hanging on the railing.

[ominous music playing]

As a lead guard,
I feel like I have to understand

both sides of everything all the time.

And the night shift, you know,
they're former inmates.

I feel like I have to be
a little bit more on.

We got shirts off.
We got people randomly on the phone.

What is going on?

But I'm a little worried

they're not keeping up
that image of guards.

Ah, we are not supposed
to go into the cells, sir.

[Berens] We've kind of seen what happens

when you have two shifts
doing complete opposites.

Like, I know that's gonna be an issue.





Oh! Look at Washington! Washington!

-[Hardey] What?
-Why are you here?

What do you mean?

You told me, man to man, face-to-face,
this goes against what you believe in.

[Hardey] Being a guard
goes against what I believe in?

This whole experiment.
That's what you said.

Why would you choose to leave,
and then you come back as a guard?

[Berens] Uh-oh.

How can you do it as a guard,
but you can't do it as an inmate?

You think that's fair
to the rest of these dudes?

I could. I did seven days.

You said this is a joke. You don't believe
in it. You don't believe--

You don't take it seriously
because you got held up by cops

with g*ns pointed at you, all that.

You said all of that, right?

[Gaona] They just cornered him.

[Gaona groans]

-The officers need to shut it down.
-Let's see who has power.

If you told me this goes against
what you believe,

and now you smiling
and shits and giggles as a guard,

you need to get the f*ck up out of here.

I'd lock him up now.

If they can't find a way to stop this,

they're going to lose control
of this whole pod.

You did not want to serve your time.

These dudes did their time.

He owned up to what he did like a man,
and you chose to leave.

Who's gonna respect you as a leader?

[Hardey] I don't know what you mean.
What do you mean?

Why is Cook not doing anything?
You're head guard.

Why do you think this uniform
makes me a leader over you guys?

You were so mad when I said that to you.

-Huh?
-We're in the same experiment.

[Washington]
You're contradicting yourself.

They can't control these dudes.

Clearly, you guys don't respect him,
but you're ganging up…

[Terry] It's not about respect.

It's like four on one.

If that's what you believe in,
it shouldn't matter.

-The first--
-Why are you now trying to be a power?

You said that's what you believe in.

I have no power over you.

If you did your time
and they chose you to be a guard…

[Berens] Hey!

What's going on?

-878.
-Yeah?

He shouldn't be here.

He couldn't cut it as an inmate,
so you shouldn't be a guard.

Okay. Can I get you guys off the railing?
Thank you so much.

Cook, within 20 seconds,
these conversations should be shut down.

Twenty seconds.

Let's keep it calm, y'all, all right?

-It's kinda too late.
-No, now you're doing it.

What are we doing here?

What are we writing notes on
when your guards are getting yelled at?

Is there anything that he can do or say

that would make you, at this point,
respect him?

Yes. Take 20 steps this way,
knock on the door, and walk out.

[Zaremba] All right.
Hey, guys, he's not leaving.

You've made your points.
We've heard them. He hears them.

So he did serve his time.

If you don't respect him as a man,
that's how you feel, but…

we're the officers now.

-Is that fair?
-Yes, sir.

-[Cook] All right.
-[Zaremba] Let's move on.

I appreciate that. I really do. Thank you.

Thank you. Let's get back to it.
Dinner will be in 30 minutes.

Thank you for coming in
and settling it down.

-[Gaona] Can we circle up upstairs?
-[Zaremba] We should probably circle up.

[Berens] I don't want to have to step in,
but I'm a guard.

The biggest thing is to maintain
order in the pod, control the pod.

And I felt like we had given them time
to gain order and control,

but it wasn't gonna de-escalate.

What happened down there? Why did you
guys feel like you had to come down?

These guys are getting crowded around.
They're gonna get jumped.

Please, like, don't demean me
in front of the inmates.

You were just standing at the podium.

Oh my God, if I was head guard,
and she was surrounded,

or she was surrounded,
I'd be down there in two seconds.

Shut that conversation off
in 15 to 20 seconds.

And, if not,
he gets a consequence, you know?

I'm not trying to be, like,
throwing out all these consequences…

No, but you have experience,
and that's what needs to happen.

Is fighting and yelling
not one of the rules?

-[Zaremba] Yeah.
-[Berens] Right here. "No fighting."

"No yelling."

-Consequences are here, okay?
-Right.

These guys are gonna get attacked
if you don't step in.

You need to talk to them
and control the situation.

I just spent a week
with these guys as an inmate.

It's a whole different ball game for me.

I understand. My guards are in there.

[Zaremba] I didn't have that big a problem
with the female officers coming in,

because we were overwhelmed.
It was out of control.

Let's go in there
and establish, "We heard you,

but you're not going anywhere."

I mean, you can decide
where you want, you know?

You can take rec time,
you can take phone time.

It's up to you.

[Zaremba] I kind of looked to Officer Cook
to kind of settle the situation down,

and I think he was a bit overwhelmed.

If I was head guard in that situation,
I might have spoken up earlier.

But now I'm just concerned
about night shift being able

to keep things in order.

[Cook] Here's what we're gonna do.

Obviously, there is a lot
of animosity to you.

-Right?
-Mm-hmm.

[Cook] With that, they do respect me.

Like Officer Hardey or not,
he's my partner right now.

-[Berens] Yeah.
-If you respect me, you'll respect that.

-Yeah.
-That's what I'll ask.

-Don't ask them. Tell them.
-Yeah.

Don't ask them sh*t. Tell them.

We have a lot to unpack here.

That was a lot.

[Brooks] Let's start with the tension
that we're seeing

between these two guard shifts right now.

[Cantrell] Laura, what I think she saw
from the top was just a lack of action.

That's what she was seeing,
and it drove her nuts.

-[Brooks] Definitely.
-But I have to give her props.

Even though Jeff may think
she overstepped,

she confronted the situation head-on

and restored a sense
of authority immediately.

[Brooks] I think
we're also starting to see

a major lack of leadership from Jeff.

He started with a very strict approach.

But then, at the first sign
of resistance from the inmates,

he did a complete 180.

He's got the vest.
I don't know that he's got leadership.

And if you're gonna completely wither
in a time of crisis,

that gives the inmates free rein
to start pushing boundaries.

[Lee] A lot of these inmates
do not respect these guys

because they were all equals
just a few days ago.

Yeah.

So for the first time, we've never seen
this many voices from the inmate side

rising up and flexing their power.

Is this the moment where we see
the seething rebellion actually take form?

Will that seed spread among the inmates?

To realize, like, wait a second,
they don't have any power over us.

And they actually put that into effect?

I'm looking forward
to seeing what happens.

[Nazarov] If the majority
wants Officer Hardey gone,

I will stand with the majority
because I'm also here with you guys.

[Chris Lee] You're playing mental games.
You don't get to vote him off the island.

Holding a vote
is doing nothing for you mentally.

-I think you're wrong.
-[Chris Lee] No. It would be ridic--

You have no ability to vote this man
off the island. Quit being dumb.

-You have the ability to make him quit.
-No! Just ignore him. He doesn't exist.

But if you feel
the people who have authority

are unfairly put in place,
we don't have to listen to them.

That is life.

-So, conform? So, conform?
-[Chris Lee] What? Conform? No!

Control my own emotions.

[Nazarov] I really respect
that 125 called out the guard

that he had a problem with.

It kind of stirred everybody up, right?
It got everybody fired up.

And it seems like
we finally might be ready

to actually change the dynamic of power.

My question is, if the entire group
had an actual issue with this…

Then what do we? Then what?

[Nazarov] By just a show of hands,

who actually feels
that Officer Hardey should not be a guard?

At any given time,
we can all rise up and say,

"You are not the authoritative figure
in this experiment anymore."

And I'm willing to push that.

Do you guys want to stand on that and say
we will not listen until he is gone?

[door opens]

[Zaremba sighs]

Yeah.

All right,
food will be here in ten minutes.

Um, I've spoken with Officer Hardey.

If you guys have a problem
with Officer Hardey,

I suggest you ignore him,
come talk to me, and we'll talk it out.

-Is that fair?
-[Chris Lee] Yes.

[Cook] All right. That's all I ask.

[somber music playing]

[camera whirring]

So what happened here is a split between
Chris quelling any kind of pushback.

Silencing people.
He's trying to silence people.

And of course, Anatoly saying,
"Fellas, what are we gonna do as a team?"

But now, can he organize others
to really challenge their authority?

Some people have taken on the "comply
and survive" perspective so sincerely

that they feel like any different
perspective is a personal affront to them.

It seems Anatoly, Hadley, and anyone else
they'd convince to join them

will have to take matters
into their own hands

if they're gonna try to take down power.

Yeah.

[dramatic music playing]

-[thunder crashing]
-[rain pouring]

[Zaremba, sleepily]
Long night at the office, huh?

[Cook] Yep.

-Come on in.
-You guys awake?

-[Zaremba] Good morning.
-Good morning.

-[Berens] Top of the morning.
-We're back, b*tches!

Yeah.

-[Jefferson giggles] He said, "Yeah."
-[Zaremba] Yeah.

-So, how are y'all?
-[Berens] How'd it go?

[Cook] It went good overall.

-Really?
-[Zaremba] Yeah.

[Cook] Things calmed down
after the drama with the officer.

[Gaona] So nobody left last night?

-No one left last night.
-Okay.

I'm glad everything
went well after everything.

-[Zaremba] Yeah. Let's go. I'm exhausted.
-[Cook] All right, y'all.

-Good night. Thank you for everything.
-[all overlapping]

-[Cook] Bye.
-[Zaremba] Good luck.

[Gaona] I'm surprised no one left.

I'm so proud of them!

From our shift to, like, just viewing
what happened, I was like…

[Jefferson giggles]

They were angels for us.

Yeah, they were.

I hope they still are. You ready?

-[Gaona] Yes.
-[Berens] Okay.

[dramatic music playing]

[buzzer sounds]

[key jangling]

-[Gaona] Good morning.
-[Chris Lee] Good morning!

How many days are left?

Six.

Everyone's too docile for me, dude.
My fuse is burning fast.

You want to just cause mayhem?

They're, like, too… They're too worried
about, like, making it to the end.

It's not about that.

-It's about power.
-[McDaniel] It's about power.

Dude, you know there's some
interesting stuff going on over there.

Yeah. And it's just funny
how crazy attracts crazy.

[laughs]

Toly, Luke, and Hadley,

those guys, uh, definitely have
a bunch of different plots going on.

I said, "I'm not gonna support
any of that."

-They're this, like, throuple.
-[Chris Lee] Yep.

[laughs] It's like,
how does crazy attract crazy like that?

Like, I'm trying to bring guys together
and create brotherhood.

And they're acting like children.

Miss Officer Jefferson,
can I touch this? Like this?

Can I do this? Or can I just not do this?

You cannot lean on the railings.

I'm not leaning.

We already didn't respect
the night guards anyway,

but it's even less now

because they got their asses chewed
in front of us by the other guards.

He's gonna jump. No.

I could do a front flip.

Everyone's saying, "Oh, we have
a problem with the night guards."

"I'm not listening to them."

But they're scared
to actually do anything about it.

All right, so here's the plan.
Those three goofy goobers come in tonight.

[Forrester] We tell them
to get in our cell.

-Just say, "Give us the keys"?
-Yes, no frills.

Let's take the guards' keys,
lock them in their cell,

and show everyone
the guards don't have any authority.

This is my prison now.

-Then we'll see how the inmates react.
-Yeah.

Then we can come together to test
the boundaries of what the experiment is.

Nothing against you,
but give us the f*cking keys.

-In a respectful way.
-In a respectful way.

The three most dangerous people in here.
That's not good.

-[Berens] That they're chatting?
-Yeah, that's all bad.

-Hello. How are you guys?
-Hey. You guys are here early again.

-Hey!
-[Berens] They're getting here early.

-What is going on?
-What is going on?

-Here's a soccer ball.
-Cool.

[Berens] It was a pretty chill day.

-But he's acting suspicious.
-[Cook] Okay.

And he is now buddy-buddy
with Anatoly and this guy.

[Cook] Oh, yeah.

[Zaremba] Yep, that's a dangerous crew.

-We'll keep our eye on them.
-If you're gonna do something, just do it.

[Zaremba] Yeah.

They're gonna wait for us
when you guys are gone. [laughs]

Y'all got it. Yeah, you got this.
Y'all got this.

Last night, uh, didn't go the right way.

It got very confrontational very quick.

I'm… I'm just… I'm really about
what's right and what's wrong.

Here's the rule. Here's the consequence.

And I hope we can have
just a normal, peaceful night tonight.

We'll head in.
You guys can call it early if you want.

-Go early if you want to.
-You ain't gotta ask me twice.

-[Zaremba] I'll see you guys.
-[Berens] See you later.

-[Jefferson] You guys have a great night.
-[Berens] Have a good shift.

-[Hardey] Petey. Wait for us.
-[Zaremba] Yo.

[tense, dramatic music playing]

[Zaremba] Yo, yo, yo.

-What's up?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's up, gentlemen?

[Zaremba] How are you, partners?
How are you, boys?

Howdy, howdy.

If you guys wanna shower now, you can,
because we got a little time until dinner.

If you guys wanna go hit it.
We came in early.

-[Correra] What up?
-[Cook] It'll be a good day today.

-Good to see you.
-Thank you.

[McDaniel] How are we gonna
get the keys?

-I don't know.
-[McDaniel] Yeah.

-Let's call him over and talk to him.
-[Forrester] Who do we want first? Jeff?

[McDaniel] Yeah, with keys.

So me, Toly, and Lucas,

we're going to get the keys
and then lock the night guards in a cell.

We got to get Cook off to the side.

Yeah. Like, in a cell.

You just gonna snag
the sh*t out of his hands?

Or you shut your door
and ask for it to get unlocked.

And then you guys are gonna take it?

-[Forrester] Yeah.
-All right.

The plan is, I'm gonna go into the cell,
shut the door.

They're gonna get the key
when he tries to open the door.

Let's just do it, yeah. Let's just do it.

[Forrester] No, not right now.
Let's get food first.

All right.

Keys. I'm gonna bring the broom.
I'm gonna sweep. Not a bad look, right?

-It's still our pod. We can keep it clean.
-It's fine. All right. Yeah.

I'm proud of the pod
that we take care of, you know.

I'll be right back.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Brooks] So we're on the second night
of our third phase of the experiment,

role reversal.

These three former inmates
who are now guards,

Pete, Brendan, and Jeff,
are off to a rocky start.

And we're going to see
how that continues to evolve

when they're faced with a familiar task
that we've seen before.

Ugh!

[Brooks] And that's riot drill training.

[ominous music playing]

[groans] This is so difficult.
I don't know what we're doing.

[Cantrell] For me, this is
a make-or-break moment for them.

This is when they can determine

what the balance of power
in that pod's gonna be.

[Zaremba sighs] Oh my God.

Perfect timing.

[Zaremba] Let's talk this through first
before we make any decisions.

This is part of legitimate training
many officers will go through, right?

Riot control drills
have been a big part of my career.

And even though this is only a drill,

it's a way for them
to show authority over the inmates.

Let's not forget,
Pete and Brendan pushed back

against the previous riot drill.

[alarm sounding]

-[Chris Lee] On the ground!
-[Jefferson] Get your a*s on the ground!

[Chris Lee] 878!

That's ridiculous, bro.

[Zaremba] Will you explain
what this is about?

Silence.

[Brooks] It was a sort of tipping point
for them as inmates

when they swore they would never
put their face on the ground again

like they did
during that first riot drill.

So we've seen the power dynamics
shift so dramatically, right?

The hierarchy has been shaken up.

So this is like a big moment of truth.

Will they be able to wield any power
or control or authority over these guys?

Okay. "Your rookie officers undergo
a riot training drill."

"Remember what you learned

in your training with the Major
on day one."

"Your riot training drill should be done
before inmate dinner."

"Remember, you are in charge."

Jesus Christ.

This is the drill that I opposed
when I was an inmate.

I said, "Why are we doing this?
This isn't respectful."

And I just can't see a way
where I don't look like a total hypocrite

to expect them
to all put their face on the floor.

Let's think about how we're gonna do it.

If I didn't want to do it,
how can I make them do it?

Especially because
we said we won't do that again.

I got this.

I've been cloudy
for the last two days, bro.

For once, I'm so clear in
what the mission is.

-So what do we…
-[Cook] We gotta stand up in unity.

If there's any time I'm asking you
to trust me, it's right now.

-Okay.
-[Cook] I got this.

Just seeing all the riot gear,
I had an epiphany.

As soon as I became a guard,

I became a hypocrite

of the things
I once stood so strongly for.

That has to change.

We were the three
that originally challenged authority.

They put us in this position for a reason.
It all makes sense now.

The psychological experiment
that we're in,

it's chess in here,
not checkers, that's for sure.

I really started putting
all of the pieces of the puzzle together,

and it's a new dynamic now.

It's a psychological experiment, ain't it?

So let's make it one.

It's time to, like, flip the script
and make their heads turn on a swivel.

Because mine's been
on a swivel this whole freaking time.

And I'm done with it.

All right, man. I'm following your lead.

[Cook] Follow me here.

-[Zaremba] Let's do it.
-[Cook] All right.

[suspenseful music playing]

It almost, like,
feels like yesterday at this time, I…

[man] I'm feeling sore.
Did I stretch a lot?

[McDaniel] I'm very sore today.

[man] Like what helps? Stretching?

[Chris Lee] We good with that?

[Paramore] Every game it's the same one.

-[Chris Lee] How do you do this?
-[Paramore] You got one, you play it.

You got none?

I got one.

Hey, is everyone in here?

[McDaniel] Yeah.

All right, can everyone sit down for me?
I would really appreciate it.

[Cook] Um…

This is a psychological experiment,

and I've been critically thinking
about this

this entire time I've been in here.

And, um…

just when I feel
like I figured this whole thing out,

they make me a guard.

Huh.

And then I got brainwashed again.

[inmates chuckle]

No more.

I, uh…

First of all,
let me take this stupid thing off.

-I'm done with this sh*t.
-All right.

[inmate] All right.

[applause]

[Cook] All right.

So, I basically go upstairs,

and I get a shift assignment today.

"Rookie officers undergo
a riot training drill."

"The goal is to practice this procedure
in the event of an actual riot."

[riot gear clattering]

"Your riot training drill should be done
before inmate dinner."

Well, I'm gonna miss that.

'Cause I'm not doing it.

f*ck that.

All right.

I'm one of you guys.
You guys are one of us.

If you guys want to cuss, f*cking cuss.

I'm not going to give you guys
any consequences.

What is going on?

-I'm not gonna lock you in your cells.
-What are you doing about day shift?

Oh, they don't know.

[all laugh]

Order is good. Like, order--

The only rule I have is that
I have to feed you guys.

-Can you feed us?
-Yeah, I'm gonna get that going.

-And hopefully…
-Let's get a pizza party going!

Hopefully, I can bring in some other food
for you.

-[Forrester] Give us some pizza.
-[Cook] Okay?

There's some food up in the break room.
I'm gonna bring it down here.

You guys can do whatever you want.

[applause]

Wow.

[Paramore] This sh*t
is going to hit the fan.

It's full anarchy.
That's not going to benefit anybody.

I've always believed a leader is not
being a victim of our circumstances,

and taking full ownership.

I would say Jeff is probably
gonna have the complete opposite effect.

[Cook] Obviously, we can't escape.

We're still here for another six,
seven days to my knowledge.

-Six, seven.
-Six, seven.

[Cook] We've still got six, seven days
up in here.

Basically, you're quitting,
you're giving up and saying,

I can't handle this thing anymore.

You guys are just acting
like a bunch of pussies.

Dinner will be here
in five minutes or so. Cool?

All right.

Despite me unshackling them
and giving them more freedom,

because of how conformed they are
and how scary change can be…

[chuckling] …people still might have
a problem with it.

Jeff is mentally not stable.

[Cook sighs]

I'm back, baby.

This just changed everything in the pod.

And the last thing I want is
three new guards in here

who were terrible inmates
running the prison.

That's not how it's going to work.

I think you guys can maintain order

without somebody holding your hand
the whole way.

I wasn't expecting Jeff
to take it as far as he did,

but I'm not in charge of these guys.

I never once felt like I was,
and I don't want to feel like I am.

It's only you get three meals a day
and don't punch anybody in the face.

That's pretty much it.

They're free. They're grown men.

I guess we'll have to see
what they do with that.

[Zaremba] Food is here!

Same drill as before.
Line up, get your food.

[Cook] Food's here. Come get it.

You boys can…
I trust you to figure that out?

Yeah, you guys are probably good.

[Hublitz] What is it today?

-Mystery meat?
-Mystery meat.

They shoved the food cart out.

Most people are coming in
and grabbing food. There's no line.

[Zaremba] Some sandwiches here.

[Hardey] This is all we have right now
from the a.m. shift.

Yo, what is this?

[Hardey] The a.m. shift didn't touch it
and just let it go to waste.

-Hold on.
-Hang on.

Hold on.

-[Forrester] Let's all back up a little.
-[Correra] This is ridiculous.

He's gonna get people pissed off
at each other.

-Everybody get food?
-No.

No? Okay.

I come downstairs, and I don't see
any food left on the food cart.

It's so hard to not lose it right now.

-What is that?
-Cobb salad.

-You guys eating these breadsticks?
-Mm-hmm.

Who has two food?
Sonny didn't get any food.

[Zaremba] Do not turn into animals.

I come down here
and I don't have any food for me?

-What kind of order is that?
-Mike doesn't have any food either.

[Paramore grumbles angrily]

As soon as you release the guards,
people taking people's food,

tensions are now rising.

It was going to make the pod lose control.

[Paramore] It doesn't make any sense!

Every day has been structured!

You get this, you do this.
At this time, you do this.

And I think the pod is now seeing
that, as soon as structure's gone,

everything's gone.

Without structure, we're doomed.

f*cking insane, man.

-So you're gonna trade on what you know?
-I didn't do sh*t! They did it!

That's not even real life.

This isn't real life! It's an experiment!

I get it, guys. I do. I get it. I get it.

[Forrester] Let's start a riot!

They can do whatever.
He's the one yelling at me first!

I know.

The f*ck is we talking about, bro?

This is when there's no control.

This is sort of what Brendan,
Pete, and Jeff wanted from the beginning

when they were inmates.

Days of structure and order to chaos.

It could be
a bit of a shock to the system.

Yeah, the guys that have
wanted the structure,

the guys that have wanted the order,

now they don't know what's going on.
They're nervous.

That's literally like a purge down there.
It's literally a purge.

[Robertson] Lord of the Flies.

[Chris Lee] Hey, when you remove order,
this is what you're gonna get.

[Zaremba] Jeff does have a good mind,
but he could kind of get lost in it,

and he kind of approached it
as pure anarchy.

And I realized pretty quickly,
like, we went too far.

Let's still respect each other, all right?
Let's still respect each other.

I didn't want to do this drill again,
but relinquishing our roles

and completely letting loose
of our grip on the pod,

I think we made a mistake.

[radio chirps]

Yo, yo, yo.

Hey, Chase, just from a safety standpoint,
be careful with the leaning.

-Will do.
-I'm not telling you no rules.

Yeah.

You got those keys?

Hold on. I can't give you that.

Why not?

-We can't run around.
-[Forrester] I'm not gonna run around.

-[Cook] What do you want?
-[Forrester] I just want to see the keys.

[Cook] I can't do that. I can't do that.

At first, they're like,
"We're not guards."

"We're all in this experiment together."

Then they're like,
"Hey, guys, actually there are rules."

"We can't give up the keys, and
we have to keep things chill and calm."

Hey, just make sure you throw the cans
away in the trash when you're done.

Once you strip the snacks away,
nothing has changed at the core,

and we still want to rebel.

This doesn't change anything.

It doesn't.

I still gotta keep the keys, bro.

-Keep those.
-Do not…

Keep those.

-That's our one thing.
-That's the only thing that matters.

It's all for just making sure
that we're safe.

-Decision-making.
-[Cantrell] Yeah.

[Cook] Might need this, actually.

[Lee] He put that vest back on.

What's up?

[laughing]

And now the so-called troublemakers,
Hadley, Lucas, and Anatoly,

they still wanna push it even further.

They want the inmates
to have full control of the pod.

-We could get him now.
-Right now.

[Forrester] Want to do it?

Yeah. Let's do it right now.

[Nazarov] Yeah, right now.

-So, I'll go to my room?
-[McDaniel] Yeah.

[suspenseful music playing]

-[door slams shut]
-[Nazarov] Aw!

[McDaniel] He accidentally closed it.

I got you, Anatoly.

Uh-huh.

Hey, nothing against you guys,
but give us f*cking keys.

-Can't do that.
-Give us the keys.

[Cook] Come on, man.

What are you doing?

Oh, wow. Look.

-[McDaniel] Give us the f*cking keys.
-[Cook] Hey.

Now, I'm the f*cking guard, bro.

-Come on now.
-[Chris Lee] Hey.

[Cook] Nah.

Yeah, there's a safety issue here.

At what point does anyone
just shut it down?

-[Cook] Don't piss me off.
-[Forrester] What are you gonna do?

[dramatic music playing]