While the issues at the detention facility were going on, she was also trying to prevent Caputo from engaging with former CO Fischer after Fischer accused him of sexually harassing her during her time as a guard, but Caputo failed to adhere to her advice. When Piper finds evidence of Figueroa embezzling funds from the prison, Caputo uses it to force her resignation and he becomes the new assistant warden. During the second season, Nicky stages a sex-based point scoring competition with Big Boo, during which Nicky even makes advances on Officer Fischer. Upon discovering the phone is missing, however, her grief and anger lead to a violent tantrum that is mistaken for a breakdown, and she is taken away to psych. In the third season, she returns to Litchfield, and despite finding out that Piper was the reason she was arrested, she restarts their relationship. She and Alex then organize the inmates not participating in the riot into a single party, which stays out in the yard away from the action. She first met Yadriel when she saw him throwing his drugs into a bush while being pursued by the police, and later returned them to him. Jill Greenberg for Netflix | Getty Images Danielle Brooks plays Tasha 'Taystee' Jefferson on 'Orange Is The New Black'. 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. 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. Piper at first pretends to forgive her and allows her to keep the money, but later plants several contraband items (including a shiv and some marijuana) in her area and arranges for them to be discovered, causing Stella to be moved to maximum security, while facing an extended sentence. In the sixth season, Taystee is being held in max and is abused by the guards who suspect her of killing Piscatella. During the third season, Taystee finds herself becoming the leader of her group and ends up having to be the one to keep them in control. 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. In all other third-season episodes she is not credited and does not appear. Linda transferred her from Litchfield to PolyCon's new immigration detention facility, but she soon realizes that most of the power she had as the warden has been stripped at the detention facility due to restrictions put in place by ICE. Alex specifically named Piper during her testimony, which is what led to Piper's later arrest. Her ambiguous sexuality is a source of amusement to her best friend Polly and of frustration to her fiancé Larry. In the third season, Piper admits to Alex that she was the one that alerted her probation officer that she violated her parole, causing her to be sent back to prison. Piper agrees to her demands but fires her in revenge. Nicky offers to help Blanca artificially inseminate with a makeshift syringe, and some of Diablo's sperm which Daya helps to smuggle in, though the attempt results in her being beaten up by her wing. It is a wry American sensation made by Jenji Kohan for Netflix. Explore these and other titles in IMDb's Guide to Streaming. Sam, an 18-year-old on the autism spectrum, decides it's time to find a girlfriend, a journey that sets Sam's mom on her own life-changing path as her son seeks more independence. After being rebuffed on her attempt to show the company that they were wasting fabric and could make an extra pair of underwear with each sheet, she uses the extra fabric to start a used panty business with her brother Cal, recruits some of the other inmates to wear the panties, and uses Officer Bayley to smuggle the panties out of the prison. Following this, Healy and his wife appear to split, while Healy then forms a closer bond with Red. In the third season, she has become obsessed with trying to discover who was stealing her moonshine and starts to set traps to catch what she believed was a squirrel stealing it. Whilst hiding in the bunker, Piper proposes to Alex, and she joyfully accepts. He proposes to Linda that the prison should offer college classes to the inmates, only to be disappointed when Linda informs him that MCC replaced the common core classes with labor-intensive classes that are just a front to make the inmates do unpaid labor. Meanwhile, Suzanne becomes nervous upon discovering that one of her fans, Maureen Kukudio, is interested in her romantically. After the beating, she appears to have gotten over her vendetta, presumably because Piper's beating allowed her to get a new set of porcelain teeth at the expense of the prison. Healy's background is further explored in the fourth season. Carol also gets her stylists to help fix Red's hair, which is dyed blonde. Owing to her time spent in the prison law library, she has accrued a wide knowledge base concerning the law. After Poussey died, she was devastated, but refused to take the day off from being Caputo's secretary, offering to call the police for him and trying to convince him to call Poussey's dad. She becomes convinced to participate in the plan to attack C Block during the kickball game but then decides to remain out of the war and in a closet with Nicky. After subduing him, Red initially wants to kill him, but is restrained. She tells him to let them grieve and that she will let them know he is sorry in order to prevent him from going to their cell block. Piper tries to convince Piscatella to stop the increasingly draconian treatment of the other inmates by the guards, and when he refuses, she joins the protest to include standing next to Blanca Flores on the cafeteria table. She is often grumpy and holds her bunk-mates to very high standards. She and Alex decide to get makeovers from Flaca and Maritza, resulting in her getting bangs and her hair straightened. Subsequently, when Red pairs her with Nicky to search the grounds in order to keep them busy, she has to fend Nicky off once again, but eventually confesses through tears that she is destroying her relationship and is powerless to stop herself. Here's Everything You Need to Know About Orange Is the New Black's New Inmates. The cast of "Orange is the New Black" performs onstage at the 61st Annual Obie Awards at Webster Hall on May 23, 2016 in New York City. Later, she is revived, and she ends up in Frieda's bunker prior to the riot team breaching the bunker. Piper ends up getting selected for a new work detail creating underwear for Whispers, a lingerie company. Alex tells Piper to have sex with other people to feel better. Forced to trade power suits for prison orange, Chapman makes her way through the corrections system and adjusts to life behind bars, making friends with the many eccentric, unusual and unexpected people she meets. Orange Is the New Black (TV Series 2013–2019) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. She hysterically telephones her daughter, and when Daya explains what happened, Aleida demands that she lie, and say that Humphrey threatened her. At the end of the season, when Caputo crashes the event where the renamed PolyCon Corrections reveals their upcoming immigration detention centers, she tells him that she's only with her husband Jason at the event for show. She is later seen having sex with an unknown blonde inmate while Lorna looks on sadly. Later in the season, she starts to tutor Tiffany while she tried to prepare for the GED exam. It is eventually revealed that Christopher was a man whom she had obsessively stalked and threatened at the same time that she was running a mail-order scam, and the reason she is in prison is that she placed a car bomb under his car. Later, after Coates gets reprimanded by Caputo and put on probation for missing count, he rapes Tiffany in the prison van. She and Caputo were planning on trying to have a child together, and she was expecting to start In vitro fertilization treatment to assist her to get pregnant. She received her nickname "Crazy Eyes" due to her tendency to widen her eyes when she talks. She and Red remain on good terms however, as she talked to Red first and warned her. Daya and some of her gang leave, but one of them stays behind to take some more, and Tiffany asks for some. She seems to suffer from some sort of mental illness, possibly Borderline personality disorder. She is always accompanied by Norma and Gina, who cater to her needs and work with her in the kitchen. However, she is inspired by the members of Black Lives Matter and the ACLU who attend her hearing, and rejects the plea deal, deciding to plead not guilty. In the sixth season, Blanca is held in Max alongside the other ten inmates who were in the bunker. She and the rest of the group are forced to watch Piscatella physically and emotionally torture Red but are saved by Frieda and the rest of the women hiding in the abandoned swimming pool. Galina "Red" Reznikov (Kate Mulgrew) Red is like the grandmother you never knew you needed. Eventually, after finally getting her medication back, she remembers enough to tell the officers that neither she nor Cindy were in the bunker, and to explain why she previously suggested she had been. The agents investigating initially consider ruling her out as a suspected instigator, as there is little evidence of her playing an active role in the riot, but when some information is discovered on her file, they change their mind. On Taystee's recommendation, they induce vomiting to purge the medication and try to keep Brook from falling asleep at breakfast the next morning. During the second season, Healy makes amends with Piper, supporting her idea of a weekly prison newsletter and getting her a furlough to visit her dying grandmother. Frieda Berlin (played by Dale Soules) – A blunt, curmudgeonly German American woman who is a member of the "Golden Girls", (the collective nickname of a group of seniors in the prison who befriend Red in the second season) alongside Irma, Jimmy and Taslitz. She is concerned with Lolly's actions when she continues to insist that Aydin was a government agent, but she tries to stop Frieda from killing Lolly to silence her. Back in the present, she is offered a plea deal by the public defender to plead guilty to murdering Piscatella and get life imprisonment. Her back story is explained more in the second season, where it is revealed that she worked for the TSA and occasionally stole items from the luggage of travelers. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. After Taystee is talked out of executing Piscatella and he is released, Frieda is standing with the other inmates while waiting for the CERT officers to breach her bunker. Officer Humphrey attempts to pull out a smuggled gun and is pushed over by Maritza, causing it to fall in front of Daya. Later that night an old classmate of hers, Michael Spence, enters the restaurant and attempts to rob them. In the subsequent fight, Maureen takes her taunting too far, and Suzanne violently tackles her to the ground and proceeds to beat her severely, before she is eventually dragged off. Check out photos of the cast in character and in real life. Eventually, after an explosive argument, the two permanently fell out. Fig also appears at length as a negotiator for MCC during the riot at Litchfield, where she often is out-matched on facts by Taystee and has a frosty reunion with Caputo. With Judy's help, she is able to get the Poussey Washington Fund started and at the end of the series, she is briefing several inmates about to be released about the fund. Unknown to her at the time, Humphrey wasn't actually dead at this point, but he died not long afterward as a result of an inmate-caused stroke. Prior to a press conference to announce Poussey's death, he calls her father to inform him of her death. 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. She grabs it and takes Humphrey and Officer McCullough hostage, while most of the other inmates present loudly cheer her on and urge her to shoot Humphrey. We've curated a list of lesser-known films to help you explore the space-time continuum from the comfort of your couch. She is then released into B Block, one of the safer blocks, and becomes Frieda's cellmate. Nicky then convinces Lorna to hide from the kickball game and stay out of the cell block war. For most of the season, she and Lorna attempt to find out who is defecating in the showers, before Nicky eventually deduces that it was Angie, and that she was doing it to smuggle drugs inside the prison. Eventually, with the help of Judy King, Luschek secures her return to the regular prison, and she has an emotional reunion with Red and Lorna. While boarding the bus, Maritza tells her that she loves her. At the end of the season, Tiffany is playing kickball with the other inmates after convincing Suzanne to join her. 51 wins & 137 nominations. A cynical young woman in New York City keeps dying and returning to the party that's being thrown in her honor on that same evening. She gets revenge on Vee for Red's slocking by stealing her stash of heroin, causing her to again face her addiction. When Red attempts to get the message to her group that Piscatella was killed after he was released, Piper misunderstands the message, thinking that it was Alex who died, which is strengthened when she learns that one inmate died in the riot. She betrayed Carol and turned in her contraband to the warden in exchange for a transfer to minimum security while the Denning sisters got extra time. After being given a tip from Caputo to call for help from his office, she is told by MCC that if she gets the hostages out, they will ensure that she is able to see her son. Will ‘Mrs. 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. Believing that Red's actions got Alex killed, she names her as an instigator, causing ten years to be added to her sentence. During a session, she was selected to lead a prayer and after completing it fellow group member Beth Hoefler confessed to pushing her head into the toilet. However, I do think the show in general was good enough to give 7 score (0 for last season and 8-9 for other seasons). Eventually, when Poussey's actions damage Vee's business, Vee decides to cut her losses and appease her by expelling Taystee from the group. Coates is genuinely shocked by this disclosure. Following this, he goes to the operations center outside of the prison, where he learns that the CERT officers are preparing to storm the prison due to Maria releasing the majority of the guards in an attempt to cash in on Gloria's deal with Pearson. While smoking marijuana with one of them, she tells him that she lost her chance to go to West Point after her incident with Franziska's father in Germany and that she was planning to move to Amsterdam in a few weeks. She spends the second season a step ahead of Larry and a reporter's hunt, focusing on her husband's campaign to become a state senator and on getting pregnant. Caputo is also seen to be very ambitious, and desired to move up the ladder to eventually become warden. Following Caputo's departure, Piscatella promptly ignores his orders and the following morning, he threatens to pull all of his guards if Caputo attempts to suspend any of them for their actions. However, because Piper chose to tell Hopper in advance what Madison was doing, he destroyed the report, and instead had Piper put forward for early release, fearing she would expose the drug smuggling operation he was assisting with. Tiffany is pronounced dead at the scene, and her body is taken away by the coroner; Tiffany ultimately leaves the prison in a body bag. She appears to have moments of depression, telling Nicky that she can no longer "get past the swirling darkness in her brain long enough to land on anything," and mentioning to Piper that upon entering prison, she was on anti-depressants, which she now trades for black eyeliner. During the second season, he begins an affair with Piper's best friend Polly after becoming a more supportive partner than her husband, who was frequently gone for trips. The gun goes off, shooting Leanne’s finger off, and he runs out of the prison. After claiming she is unable to get into the cash register (she was afraid the management wouldn't believe her if he robbed them and would punish them instead) she gives Michael her "Gordons" (a pair of counterfeit Air Jordans) and then she and Ward walk home joking with each other. She has history with Vee, a returning prisoner who had befriended her when Red first went to prison years before the series began, only to beat her violently and try to take over her smuggling operation. However, she is pulled into the riot herself after discovering who Linda is by looking through her phone and then using it to film the inmates burning their peace offering. Alex is then made to join the kickball team, where a knife fight is planned. Alysia Reiner. Z. Eventually, Lorna and Vince get married in the prison's visitor center and they consummate their marriage in the visitor's snack room. When Suzanne becomes unhinged and almost beats Maureen to death, Maria finally has enough and, with Ouija's help, manages to pull Suzanne off Maureen and comforts her. Eventually, Poussey accepts Brook's apology, the two begin anew, and it soon becomes clear that they have fallen in love. 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