However, her death prompts Taystee to reconsider her suicidal ambitions, and Luschek to take the fall for Gloria's mobile phone, preventing her from getting more time added to her sentence. At the end of the season, Tiffany is playing kickball with the other inmates after convincing Suzanne to join her. Realizing that Brook will be taken to psych if the truth is known, she takes the foils and gets Taystee and Suzanne instead of the CO's. Harney is credited as main cast in season 5 despite not appearing in any of the episodes. Following repeated threats from Vee against Red's girls and her family outside prison, Red attempts to strangle Vee during a blackout, but cannot bring herself to finish the job and instead agrees to a truce. ‘Orange is the New Black’ actor suing N.J. doctor accused of reusing needles Updated Apr 17, 2021; Posted Apr 17, 2021 Actor Christina Castellanos in the Amazon series "Chase Street." After Piper is released from prison, she moves in with Cal and his wife Neri, and she has to frequently check in with her probation officer Wyndolyn Capers. Later in the season, she goes on a forest retreat and meets Zelda, who she eventually starts dating after an unexpected visit from her former CO McCollough convinces her not to continue staying faithful to Alex. [7], Following her death, Poussey is featured in several flashbacks. During the second season, she battles with Gloria to be a mother to Daya, and manipulates Bennett to bring in contraband from the outside hidden in his prosthetic leg. Larry is initially vocally supportive of Piper, and proposes marriage to her before she goes inside. The gun goes off, shooting Leanne’s finger off, and he runs out of the prison. In the sixth season, Piper is being held in Max and has not seen Alex for days. She seems to suffer from some sort of mental illness. Alex is then made to join the kickball team, where a knife fight is planned. He is ordered to wait until MCC can find a way to relieve the company of any blame for wrongdoing, and then finds out that the company wants to turn Bayley into a scapegoat. After Poussey's death, she and Maritza overheard Kasey and her gang discuss plans to fight Poussey's old friends and she then started practicing how to react when the media comes to the prison. Later on, he begins writing a newspaper article titled "One Sentence, Two Prisoners" about the experience of having a fiancée in prison. For her race and mental illness, Suzanne was often shunned by her parents' community and her little sister's friends. She makes numerous attempts to silence her bunk mate, and eventually resorts to taking sleeping pills. When Aleida is returned to Litchfield after her parole violation Daya immediately attempts to assert dominance and then intentionally sets her and Hopper up to be caught having sex in the SHU as a distraction so she could recover her contraband that was confiscated earlier by the guards. They then forced her and Gloria to kiss each other in front of them for their enjoyment, while claiming that it was to make sure that there was no more animosity between them. In the fourth season, Suzanne becomes put off when Maureen turns out to be quite strange, and abandons her in the woods. The first season shows Piper's journey through the prison system, beginning with her rough first week, during which she accidentally makes several enemies and struggles to adapt to life on the inside, as well as reuniting with Alex. Caputo and Pearson argue with the latter's father against this unfair treatment, and his frustration results in Pearson quitting. Madison initially muscles in to be captain for the team, but they eventually vote for Piper to take over, which incites Madison's jealousy. In the sixth season, it is revealed that she ended up in D Block at max, and she is reunited with Nicky. Upon learning that Norma is plotting to poison Vee, Gloria convinces her to use Santeria to get back at her instead. Marisol "Flaca" Gonzales (played by Jackie Cruz) – One of the Hispanic inmates, she is close friends with Maritza. She eventually attempts to do so by pulling several bookshelves on top of herself, but luckily, a grieving Brook happens to be nearby, and she quickly alerts the COs. Suzanne is taken to the medical facility, where she discovers that her neighbor in the next bed is Maureen. She was previously married to Christopher Noxon. At the end of the series, she reveals to Aleida that she got her little sister Eva involved in her drug smuggling operation and threatened to get the rest of her younger siblings involved. Nicky has a scar on her chest from having heart surgery as a complication of a bacterial infection in her heart, which came from using a dirty needle. Feeling depressed, lonely and in need of a girlfriend, she joins Norma's "cult," although she later ends up leaving when she becomes unsatisfied with them. Healy convinces Caputo to let her back into the kitchen, but shortly after she takes over the kitchen, it is revealed that MCC has begun to order prepackaged foods as a cost-saving measure, severely diminishing the quality of the food and limiting her ability to cook traditional meals. Judy later offers Poussey a job once she gets out of prison, ensuring she will have something to look forward to. Follow Newsbeat on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. As a result, Sophia is taken into "protective custody," which is actually just her being thrown into isolation as punishment for her threat to sue. She concludes the season clean, but admits to Lorna that she is unhappy and a 'junkie addict liar'. She is shown as compassionate and easily susceptible to other's feelings, as she forgave her boyfriend repeatedly, and fell for Vee's charms at the beginning of the season. Later on, he tries to help Taystee during her negotiations with Figueroa, although he was unable to convince her to surrender in exchange for what the state was offering because they claimed that charging Bayley with murder for Poussey's death was not within the state's jurisdiction. She received her nickname "Crazy Eyes" due to her tendency to widen her eyes when she talks. Upon learning that Gloria had made a deal with MCC to get furlough in return for releasing the hostages, Maria betrays her confidence and releases them herself in hopes that she would get time taken off of her sentence. Alex is good at reading people and is perceptive, quite often surmising Piper's true feelings and intentions. Tasha 'Taystee' Jefferson (89 Episodes) Dascha Polanco. At the beginning of the fifth season, Daya, while trying to decide what to do with Humphrey and McCullough, gets annoyed at Humphrey and shoots him in the leg while he is trying to appeal to her in Spanish, pointing out that she does not understand him. During the torture, Piscatella brutally breaks Alex's arm, not knowing that the incident was secretly filmed by Gina, one of Red's girls, and uploaded to the internet. Figueroa manages to avoid being fired or charged, resigning with a commendation for her services by the warden because he didn't want a scandal from the embezzlement and didn't want to make a political enemy of her husband. Feb. 27, 2019; The Final Season Of "Orange Is The New Black… She performs oral sex on him in an attempt to buy his silence, only to find out afterward that Caputo has already given copies of the evidence to the warden. In the fifth season, when the riot breaks out, Piper and Alex find Linda Ferguson taking shelter in the bathroom and, after initially attempting to take her hostage, disguise her as an inmate so that she is not subjected to the same brutal treatment as the other hostages. The local press believed that it was instead because of her religious beliefs – leading to her receiving funding, support, and even a fan base from some pro-life religious groups. He later offers her an apology, and Tiffany decides to accept and forgive him. Although Larry expresses doubts, Piper is able to appeal to Polly who agrees to help. While in Germany, she had a sexual relationship with Franziska Mertensacker, the daughter of her father's German superior officer Jürgen Mertensacker. Upon returning to prison, Piper lies and tells Red that the business is doing well. She becomes a fully-fledged member of Barb's gang, but her newly acquired addiction to heroin distresses her mother. They briefly reflect on their relationship and Piper asks for advice on the next step to take in her own life. It is later shown that Miss Claudette was inducted into forced child labor and sent to the United States from an unknown French-speaking country (possibly Haiti) to pay off a familial debt. She has a teardrop drawn under one of her eyes as well as eyeliner in the style of Amy Winehouse and bangs in a blunt style;[5] according to Cruz the teardrop is in the wrong location.[6]. Ward finds the letter and encourages her to try and use it to get her conviction overturned, but she was not successful. At one point while answering an anonymous letter written by Cindy she reveals that Maritza was sent to a prison she claimed was 1500 miles away (she was actually sent to an Ohio prison) before insulting the author of the letter. After a conversation with Alex, Larry's controlled anxiety gets the better of him, and he breaks off his engagement with Piper. She is shown to shirk her responsibilities; in one instance, she took her daughter out for ice cream, only to leave her in the car for hours after she spontaneously decided to hang out with some friends. Discover (and save!) While high, Piper discovers that Kubra sent Aydin to kill Alex and she killed him after he failed. When she goes into labor she is taken to a hospital, and later returns to the prison after having her newborn daughter Pepa taken away from her, which elicits sympathy from her fellow inmates. During the fourth season, Aleida is informed that she is eligible for parole and she asks Gloria to watch over Daya after her release. In the later part of the season, she begins to suspect that Vinny is cheating on her with her sister, despite her having asked her sister to go and visit him herself, and ends up angrily accusing both of infidelity. This leads to Maritza stating that her head is full of "caca" and Aleida referring to her as "Flacaca." Daya receives help from Dominga "Daddy" Duarte, the right-hand woman of D-Block gang leader Barb Denning, who had taken a shine to her. Upon the discovery of Aydin's body, she is separated from the other inmates, along with Ouija and Blanca, for further questioning. During the fourth season, her relationship with Brook becomes romantic and she becomes excited at the prospect of meeting Judy King, the cooking show host Poussey was a big fan of who was sent to Litchfield for tax fraud. However, shortly after, the bunker is stormed by the CERT officers. During the first-season finale, she is revealed to have a great singing voice, and performs an improvised rendition of Amazing Grace. She also comes face to face with her former friend, Tamika Ward, who is now a CO at max, and the two clash over being on opposite sides of the bars. The two later reconcile after a physical fight in the library and work together to turn the other black inmates against Vee. [1] The series' protagonist is Piper Chapman, a woman sentenced to 15 months in a woman's federal prison for her part in a drug smuggling operation ten years before the start of the first season. At times, Healy also finds himself at odds with new counselor Berdie Rogers and her alternative methods, feeling that she is encouraging the prisoners to engage in deviant behavior. She also convinces Caputo to give her a wristwatch, which none of the other inmates have, and it is later broken by one of the guards. By the time she was forty, she had adopted a "butch" self-image which she protected militantly, but at the same time struggled to contain her inner anger and rage at the world brought on by these experiences, and she had become completely estranged from her parents. She states during an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting that being in prison is her "rock bottom" experience. Later, he discovers that Judy pulled some strings to get Nicky out of max, and ends up being forced to have sex with Judy as payment. Andrea Lee Christensen TV Commercials. However, Vee sneaks up on Red in the greenhouse and beats her violently with a sock with a padlock inside, sending her to the prison hospital. When Piper calls her on the phone, she reveals that Kubra had walked free, and she is now in fear for her life. Seeing that Lolly is becoming extremely erratic, she later tells Red and Alex that she plans to kill her to prevent her from accidentally exposing them, but is prevented from doing so when Red reminds her that doing so will likely lead to her being returned to max, also revealing that Frieda is a former biker. Due to MCC trying to remove liability from the company for her death, they order Caputo not to call the police until they can find a way to make the incident look like Poussey's fault, before deciding to switch blame to Bayley and portray him as a rogue guard when they have difficulty conjuring up such an image of her, as she came from a respectable family, her charge was for a non-violent offense, and she was a model inmate. At the end of the fourth season, she is in the middle of the riot that was started when Taystee informed the rest of the inmates that Bayley was not arrested for Poussey's death. When Barbara and Carol don't show up, she convinces the rest of D Block that the fighting is pointless, and the kickball game continues with nobody harmed. She is initially unsure about reapproaching her old friends, but eventually is persuaded to by Frieda, and makes amends with them. During the fourth season, she continues her friendship with Tiffany, but she becomes angered when Tiffany proposes forgiving Coates for raping her. Unfortunately, she becomes addicted to opioids when Daddy gives them to her to help with her physical pain. During the third season, Flaca's backstory is revealed as a high-school student that sold fake acid to students. Unbeknownst to her, Red uses her influence to get all of the prison drug dealers to cut Nicky off, while Pennsatucky provides her with emotional support. Later, when Coates tells her that he is planning to quit his job, due to the horrors that he has witnessed at the prison, she tries to persuade him not to go and kisses him. Suzanne reveals that she has no sexual experience and is completely naïve in regard to sex, having never actually had a girlfriend before, and that the stories are based on other sources. Flashbacks from her childhood revealed that Frieda had a very close relationship with her father, a paranoid survivalist who, during the early years of the Cold War, feared that America's tension with the Soviet Union would ultimately escalate into a full-on war. Convincing them that the darts were poisoned, she tricks them into releasing them, before forcing them to join the other guards that were being held hostage. Upon arriving in prison, Red had helped her through her worst bouts of cold turkey. The bunker is then stormed by the CERT officers. Plenty of entertainment brands tackle Hollywood, but Nicki Swift stands apart in style and smarts. While boarding the bus, Maritza tells her that she loves her. After Poussey's death, he sends Piscatella home and attempts to convince MCC to call the police. Horrified, and high on amphetamines from some pills she took, Red becomes obsessed with finding ways to take Piscatella down, and eventually finds what she believes are humiliating pictures of him, though she later discovers that he is not embarrassed by them at all. She leaves medical, and rejoins the other inmates. Unknown to Caputo, she was present during the press release announcing Poussey's death and was angered when he stated Bayley was not being arrested and when Caputo failed to mention Poussey's name. During the third season, she is inspired when she realizes that Tiffany is getting donations from numerous religious groups and decides to pretend to renounce homosexuality in order to get a similar support base. Orange Is the New Black is an American comedy-drama series created by Jenji Kohan that airs on Netflix.It is based on Piper Kerman's memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, about her experiences in a women's prison. Following her father's footsteps, she builds her own bunker in the prison using an abandoned swimming pool, which she used to get peace and quiet, and she had stocked with supplies she has been gathering for several decades. She is initially shown ending a fling with Stella Carlin after discovering that she is using drugs again, but shortly after, falls off the wagon and starts using them herself. After joking with Piper about who would give Bayley a handjob in exchange for burgers, the two once again rekindle their relationship. She developed a romantic relationship with prison guard John Bennett and became pregnant with his child. In the present, it is implied that she is in love with Taystee, who does not return her feelings on account of being straight but does make an effort to be gentle with her about this. This, together with the new breakfast timetable, severely affects Red's ability to sleep. Not wanting to be the reason negotiations fail, and growing fed up with Aleida's control after being ordered to lie that the shooting was in self-defense, she decided to turn herself in. While in the bathroom washing her face, she discovers Maureen inside of a stall with her injuries infected, and Suzanne takes her back to medical, where she discovers Humphrey is not breathing. Piper is assigned a bunk with Claudette, who treats her rudely at first, but eventually warms up to her. Red tries to sabotage Gloria's kitchen operations, but fails to discourage her replacement. Piper agrees to her demands but fires her in revenge. Eventually, he is locked into a Porta-Potty while pleading with whoever could hear him to release him. When the CERT has the prisoners rounded up, she leads other inmates in repeating Linda's declaration that she is an MCC employee to prevent her from getting away. She and Red remain on good terms however, as she talked to Red first and warned her. She kills a customer who beat and abused one of her cleaning girls, which is the basis for the rumor amongst the prisoners that she is in prison for murder. When Aydin's body is found, Red is one of the first suspects, and Piscatella deliberately prevents her from sleeping in an attempt to force a confession. COs Garza and Hellman broke them up and then took them to the shower to spray them with a water hose. Alex becomes consumed with guilt for killing Aydin, and tells Red about it. ; Since she has not mentioned anything related to her boyfriend on any of her social media accounts, we can say that Andrea Lee Christensen is currently … Artesian helps Alex getting out of Hellman's business and make her selling phone chargers for her. She asks Delia to adopt her and give her a better life, and after Delia tells her yes and she ensured that Delia knew how to correctly pronounce Armaria's name, she ends the call and goes outside the prison to surrender. 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