Piscatella is one of OITNB most vile villains, and his season five flashback attempts to make us sympathize with him a little bit. Long before he started working at Litchfield, Piscatella was a happy, fresh-faced C.O. at a men’s prison, where he entered into an illicit relationship with one of the inmates. When a gang figured out Piscatella was gay, they beat his lover to a bloody pulp, leaving Piscatella with a thirst for vengeance. He takes the leader of the gang to the prison showers and chains him up under two streams of scalding hot water, and the inmate dies from his burns.