When the guards storm, Alison takes off her hijab, revealing her hair. However, her hair is a much darker red than it was at the end of Season 4, which takes place only a few days prior.
When the guards do a head count, the mistakenly say there are 10 inmates unaccounted for. There are 10 in the pool (Frieda, Suzanne, Cindy, Taystee, Red, Piper, Alex, Nicky, Mendoza, and Flores), but Pennsatucky and Mei escape through the fence. Even if Linda, who's not an inmate was counted, there would still be 11 missing.
This will be explained in the next season as a miscount, but the writers likely intended viewers to guess it was a miscount given how prone the guards were to getting counts wrong. The whole point was to set up plot lines in the upcoming season for characters who weren't recognized as missing.
This will be explained in the next season as a miscount, but the writers likely intended viewers to guess it was a miscount given how prone the guards were to getting counts wrong. The whole point was to set up plot lines in the upcoming season for characters who weren't recognized as missing.
When the CERT team tells the bigwigs that ten inmates remain unaccounted for, Caputo does not even ask if they already have any names for the missing.