Thanksgiving arrives with the promise of a visit by Larry, but Piper’s raunchy dance moves land her in solitary with a holiday feast of moldy bologna.
Red gets pressured to smuggle drugs through her kitchen; Larry publishes an article about Piper in the “New York Times;” two babies come into the world.
Piper wants the prison’s outdoor running track reopened, but in order to get it, she’ll have to give her corrections officer something he wants.
The inmates campaign along racial lines for positions on a prisoners council, but Piper tries to stay above the increasingly raucous competition.
When her sighting of a legendary feral chicken polarizes the inmates, Larry wonders if Piper is getting too absorbed in the “fishbowl” of prison life.
Piper gets to know her stern new roommate; the prisoners prepare a farewell party for one of their own; a misplaced screwdriver has dire consequences.
Targeted for romance by a fellow prisoner, Piper finds that subtlety is an ineffective approach to letting her suitor down.
After insulting the food in front of the prison chef, Piper is starved out by the kitchen staff and struggles to offer up an acceptable apology.
Sentenced to fifteen months for a crime committed in her youth, Piper Chapman leaves her supportive fiance Larry for her new home: a women’s prison.
