Suzanne has hallucinations while getting back on her medications. Frieda attempts suicide. Piper desperately tries to find Alex. Gloria tries to attack Maria. Taystee is visited by CO Tamika Ward.

Detectives are pressured to file charges on two murderers and three riot leaders within a week. Daya makes a plea agreement for Humphrey's murder. Cindy tries to warn Taystee about the framing with a note. Gloria names Maria as the riot's mastermind and pressures Blanca to do the same. Piper bonds with her cellmate. Caputo becomes depressed while on suspension. Dixon invites himself on a road trip with Coates.

Linda is identified in a Cleveland prison. Red learns of Piscatella's death during her interview. Nicky is threatened with drug, theft, and distribution charges to pressure her testimony against Red. Frieda retrieves Cindy's note and fakes senility in her interview.

Blake, Luschek and McCullough return to duty. Alex returns to general population and reunites with Piper. Coates, Dixon and Pennsatucky spend their day at an amusement park. Aleida struggles with employment outside of prison. Taystee speaks with Caputo after learning she is being charged for Piscatella's murder. Nicky tells Red about the drug charges and gets Red's permission to testify against her.

Luschek hosts the fantasy inmate draft party. Alex helps Badison with a prank to make peace. Daddy instructs her D Block gang to release rats in the cheese-packing facility. Blanca reveals that Maria set the hostages free. Linda blackmails Caputo into taking a dead-end job at a Missouri prison. Coates convinces Pennsatucky to hike across the Canadian border.

Daddy's rat prank results in MCC losing the lucrative cheese-packaging contract and unintentionally closing the route that CO Hellman uses for smuggling. Badison seeks revenge by having her people defecate in D Block's laundry. Daya consoles Daddy. Luschek is made head of recreation and interviews radio show acts. Flaca looks for a co-host and finds an unexpected rapport with Cindy. Gloria fears she is entering menopause. Blanca learns that she has limited fertility.

Carol holds Badison accountable for Daddy's prank that cost them their cushy job and cuts her out. Badison consults with Alex and convinces Luschek to smuggle valuable smartphones. Taystee receives fan mail. Suzanne reunites with Taystee and Cindy. Pennsatucky blackmails Linda for a bunk in B Block. Piper determines to heal divisions by bringing back kickball.

Alex hides the cellphone through a lockdown and search. Gloria helps Luschek with his dance-aerobics class. Piper extorts Luschek to return kickball. Daddy asks Daya to buy drugs through her friends in C Block. Blanca, wanting a baby due to her limited fertility, provides Daya the drugs in exchange for retrieving Diablo's sperm donation from the visitation washroom. Red schemes against Frieda and gains an alliance with Carol. Aledia is stopped from selling outside the prison by CO Hopper.

Zirconia becomes jealous when Gloria causes Luschek to get an erection in dance-aerobics class. Daddy gives Barbara "bath salts," sidelining her in the infirmary. Nicky bonds with Barbara over addiction experiences and Barbara agrees to get clean. Red reconnects with her real family. Piper gains Carol's permission for kickball. Caputo is deposed ahead of Taystee's trial. Linda confronts Caputo over the deposition. Cindy continues to struggle with guilt.

Aledia uses Hopper as an unwitting mule to bring drugs into the prison by using a false bottom of the dietary shake container. Gloria continues to be harassed. Barbara achieves 30 days of sobriety. Cindy makes an anonymous call to Caputo. Frieda apologizes for misleading Suzanne and explains the block feud.

Hopper confronts Aledia about the drugs but, nearing 10 years at Litchfield, he continues the operation. Badison vomits when Piper has her team run sprints. Barbara sends her gang to kill Carol and her lieutenants at the salon. Nicky talks her way out of suspicion. Caputo asks Sophia to join a lawsuit with other inmates wronged by MCC. Sophia agrees and signs a non-disclosure agreement. Maria is inspired to be a good person.

Barbara and Carol agree to a truce. Caputo tells Taystee that she has a chance if she can win over the jury. McCullough snaps after a kickball bursts. Alex asks Badison to leave Piper alone. Hellman gives a fraudulent incident report to Hopper. Gloria helps with Flaca's radio show in order to warn Luschek about the impending block war. Red prepares for her first visitation with her grandchildren.

Piper, Sophia and Blanca are told they'll be released the next day. Aleida is shocked to see Daya high on heroin. Caputo confronts a CERT member. Luschek visits Gloria. Carol and Barbara meet in a closet. Maria has a change of heart and convinces McCullough to let the captains pick new teams. Lorna goes into labor and is brought to medical in distress.