In doing so, Alex finally atoned for having landed Piper in jail in the first place.īefore Piper left Litchfield, the couple fulfilled one of her wishes, getting prison-married in a sweet but possibly nonbinding ceremony officiated by Nicky (Natasha Lyonne) with a very pregnant Lorna (Yael Stone) providing their something-old-something-new-something-borrowed-something-blue in the form of a shiv. She agreed to run drugs for her cellblock queen in exchange for keeping her fiancee's bratty cellmate "Badison" from sabotaging said release. But unbeknownst to her, that freedom came at a price, paid by Alex. Much to her surprise, Piper actually got out early. That's not to say they didn't at least think about killing him: Red considered torturing him and Taystee even held the gun to his head. Moore) and Taystee (Danielle Brooks), but none of the women pulled the trigger. Prosecutors tried to pin the murder of the authoritarian guard (Brad William Henke) on Red (Kate Mulgrew), Cindy (Adrienne C. What we know now Who killed Piscatella? (Hint: Not the person convicted) Let's sort through what we learned from Season 6, figuring out where our favorite inmates landed and which questions remain unanswered. (Who amused themselves by playing Fantasy Inmate, complete with draft night.) They also had to adjust to new cell-block politics and abusive new guards. A number of the Litchfield ladies were transferred from minimum security to max, where they had to fend off additional charges (and face longer sentences) for their involvement in the uprising. Much of Season 6 of "Orange Is the New Black" (available now) was spent dealing with the fallout from the prison riot that consumed much of Season 5.
Spoiler alert: This story contains plot details about Season 6 of Netflix's "Orange Is the New Black." If you haven't made it all the way through the newest episodes and don't want to know what happened, you should probably report to solitary until you've caught up.