


We also learn in this episode that Alex is the one who gave Piper’s name to the Feds from Larry Bennett and Dayanara start taking their relationship a little more seriously after passing notes to each other and that Burset was denied estrogen pills.īecause Larry told Piper that Alex had nothing to do with her imprisonment, the two ex-lovers start rekindling their relationship. Red starts freaking out and offers a reward to anyone who catches the chicken and gives it to her to so she can cook a proper meal - and “absorb its powers.” She finds it weird and tells the inmates. While relaxing in the prison yard, Piper spots a chicken. This was hands down one of our favorite episodes. We also find out how Miss Claudette was locked up for murdering a man who abused one of her housekeeping company's employees. Chapman offers to review appeal letters for her and other inmates who want help. Miss Claudette freaks out because she could be held accountable for this, and she doesn’t want to spend any more time in prison than necessary.Īfter the search comes to an end, Piper and Miss Claudette make peace. Mendez, who is better known as officer Pornstache, molests Piper while “looking” for the screwdriver. She asks her wife to smuggle in pills to maintain her female physicality but is flatly turned down.Īh, the screwdriver episode! The ladies of the prison have found themselves in deep - ya know - when a tool (aka a weapon) goes missing from the electrical shop. In episode 3, we learn about Burset and that she’s behind bars because she committed credit card fraud to finance her gender reassignment surgery. Piper has a lot on her plate in this episode: She lost authority over her soap-making business with her best friend, Polly turned down advances from “Crazy Eyes,” deal with the repercussions of turning “Crazy Eyes” down (there was pee on her bedroom floor) and make nice with her not-so-nice roommate, Miss Claudette. In one flashback, viewers see Red pop one of the Russian wives' breast implant, which is how her family gets mixed up in “holding packages” for “business men.”

Flashbacks explain Red's backstory about how she was once an outsider in a group of hoity-toity Russian housewives. This is also the episode in which we get a look at Red’s life before prison. This ultimately ends Piper’s unintended fasting. Everyone except “Crazy Eyes,” that is, who helps Piper concoct a medicated lotion to soothe Red’s aching back. Even the inmates are too scared to intervene to stop Red’s punishment. But things only get worse when the protagonist's former lover, Alex (who recruited her to carry the drug money), gets sentenced to the same prison.Īfter insulting Red’s food, Piper is starved out by the kitchen. As a result, Piper's life is turned into a living hell. During her first few days behind bars, Piper offends the most powerful inmate in the prison, Red - the bold matriarch and prison kitchen chef.
