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. While early on he appears particularly sympathetic towards Piper and even acts biased in her favor, he increasingly dislikes her as he hears rumors of her alleged lesbian activities. During the fourth season, she joins Maria's Dominican gang. Luschek finds it on them and threatens to kill them if they tell anybody else about it. Galina "Red" Reznikov (played by Kate Mulgrew) – Red is a Russian inmate who runs the prison's kitchen as the master chef and is the behind-the-scenes leader of the prison's white population. Later, she breaks free, but instead releases Piscatella. Upon discovering a disused sewage drain in the prison greenhouse, Red restarts her smuggling business and reunites her shattered circle of friends. Wanting to straighten out after her release from prison, Alex makes an application to business school. Before leaving, Nicky and Lorna organize a surprise wedding for her, so that she and Alex can be married before she leaves. 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. Orange Is The New Black Season 8 was completed in July a year back. She is finally released from prison and collected by Cal. In order to continue seeing Alex when she got transferred to a prison in Ohio she quit her job at her father's company in favor of moving close to Alex' prison, getting a new job at Starbucks, and taking a civil class. In her earlier life, she and her husband had migrated from Russia and ran a struggling restaurant in Queens, eventually getting involved with the Russian mafia bosses who frequented their establishment. After their relationship started to grow, Millie fired Diablo, stating that she thought he was a distraction for Blanca. When she tells Vinny about it during a visit he reveals that he reported the accounts as fraudulent and he then tells Lorna he wants a divorce due to her inability to accept Sterling's death. COs Garza and Hellman broke them up and then took them to the shower to spray them with a water hose. She then joins Piper in organizing a non-participation movement in the exercise yard. In the third season, she becomes depressed and lonely after being relieved of her duties as the van driver and losing Nicky, who was sent to Maximum Security at the beginning of the season. Caputo initially tries to find the CERT leader Herrmann who helped cover up CERT's role in Piscatella's death and then seeks to draw negative publicity to MCC in the hope of eliciting sympathy from the jury. Larry tells her to "do what new Piper would do" and appears to have come to terms with the ending of their relationship and be genuinely supportive of Piper's path forward. As the series progresses, he begins to lose interest toward her, becoming angry when he learns that Piper's former lover is in the same prison and that she did not tell him about it. 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. Out of all of the girls in her group, she is closest to Nicky, and loves her as if she were her own daughter. Tricia and Boo have had problems in the past fighting over a girl. At the end of the third season, Piper discovers that Stella stole her money from her panty business to use as a financial cushion on the outside due to her pending release. She takes the gun from Daya, but ends up losing the gun to Angie after dropping it on the ground. She is moved to max along with the other inmates after the riot at the beginning of the sixth season. He displays blatant racism, and generally does not care what the women in the shop do as long as they leave him alone, though he is good friends with Nicky. However, in the second-season finale, she is last seen being visited by her boyfriend and her daughter, happy to see that he is taking a deeper role as a father and apparently plans to stay true to her. Red eventually discovers that Piper lied about the business's prosperity and berates her for attempting to cover it up. 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. 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. The gun goes off, shooting Leanne’s finger off, and he runs out of the prison. Around this time, Caputo begins an affair with Figueroa in order to relieve his self-hate at all the compromises he is being forced to make. Initially optimistic, her appeal is denied, and in a fit of anger she nearly strangles a prison guard in grief, and is immediately transferred to a maximum-security prison with an extended sentence. In the fourth season, it is revealed that his hatred of lesbianism was imbued in him by his father, who believed that it was a disease akin to schizophrenia. 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. It is implied that Healy lied about himself to her on the Internet, and she is only staying with him because she has two years left until she gets her green card. For this reason, Nicky has disowned her mother, and now looks up to Red as a mother figure, to the point where she openly calls her "mom" in the presence of other inmates, and Red in turn openly treats her as if she were her daughter. 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. Piper Chapman (played by Taylor Schilling) is a woman who was sentenced to 15 months in Litchfield Penitentiary for helping her former girlfriend Alex Vause smuggle drug money in Europe several years before the first episode. Carrie "Big Boo" Black (played by Lea DeLaria) – A prison inmate and lesbian, she has had several "wives" during her incarceration. Daya was concerned about the fate of Armaria during the fourth season, after finding out Cesar was sent to prison and was worried that she would get lost in the foster care system. Ward finds the letter and encourages her to try and use it to get her conviction overturned, but she was not successful. He also attempts to start a group counseling program with Tiffany, but cancels it due to poor attendance, further adding to his emotional exhaustion. She excitedly tells Diablo, and he tells her he will see her the next day. ), and while you might be super busy crushing every episode you can, you should see how much the … 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. Maria becomes enraged and compares the attack to Beth's murder of her children, but she does not retaliate against her and instead leaves the group. She is initially amused by Officer Humphrey's prank on Kasey Sankey but is shocked when he then escalates it into a fight between Suzanne and Maureen Kukudio. When Aydin's remains are found, Alex expresses disappointment that he may not be identifiable. 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. She is initially portrayed as creepy and unpredictable due to her obsession with Piper, stalking her around the prison and submitting a request to bunk together. Meanwhile, Suzanne becomes nervous upon discovering that one of her fans, Maureen Kukudio, is interested in her romantically. She makes numerous attempts to silence her bunk mate, and eventually resorts to taking sleeping pills. As the two get closer, Lorna manipulates Vince into gathering some of his friends and beating Christopher up. 17 of 26 people found this review helpful. Frequently preaching about God, her religious rants are often laced with racism and hostility. 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. "Mr. Healy, did we travel back in time?" Flashbacks from the 80s revealed that prior to her stay in minimum security, she was in max. Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson (played by Danielle Brooks) – Taystee is the black representative on the WAC. She says during a visitation that she is upset that he will not visit her. The two devise a plan to lure Piscatella into the prison during the riot to try and torture information out of him but she is caught and subdued by him and held hostage along with Nicky, Big Boo, Piper, and Alex. After being released from prison, Aleida struggles to find employment, due to her criminal record and lack of qualifications. She is sent to work in the kitchen of the nearby immigration centre, where she begins making simple mistakes and blaming them on others. The bunker is then stormed by the CERT team, and Red is amongst those caught up in it. On her way out, she exchanges brief goodbyes with Lorna and Red, and as the prison van pulls up at the facility, Nicky expresses her satisfaction to Tiffany that she will never be able to hurt them or anyone she cares about again, lamenting that, even after kicking her drug addiction, she may never lose her self-destructive tendencies. Later, it becomes clear that he genuinely seeks to rehabilitate the inmates and run the prison properly and ethically. She actively uses her resources to help some of the inmates overcome drug addictions, although they have only "two strikes" before she abandons them because "Russians don't play baseball." He becomes upset upon learning that they were given authorization to use deadly force to capture the remaining inmates. 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. Caputo is initially portrayed as a sleazy character who believes in keeping the inmates dehumanized and who masturbates in his office immediately after his first encounter with Piper. At the end of the season, she represented the Latina inmates in expressing condolences for Poussey's death to the black inmates. Flashbacks during the second season revealed that she is a military brat and that her father James, who was an officer in the United States Army, was stationed at United States Army Garrison Hohenfels, Germany with her. While working for Millie, she met her boyfriend Diablo, who was working as Millie's gardener. Immediately after Daddy's death, she takes over Daddy's gang and becomes even more ruthless in her methods. Later on, she attempts to speak to Poussey's spirit with some of the other inmates. Dayanara "Daya" Diaz (played by Dascha Polanco) – A Puerto Rican inmate with artistic talents. Throughout most of the fifth season, she teams up with Red to try and take down Piscatella by exposing the details of reports that he murdered an inmate at the male prison he worked at before transferring to Litchfield. Later that night an old classmate of hers, Michael Spence, enters the restaurant and attempts to rob them. She is also somewhat aggressive, getting into a brawl with Taystee over an ice-cream cone. As the trial goes on, she starts to wonder if she made the right decision, and reaches out to Caputo for help. She offers Daya guidance in handling her newfound status, due to her being the one with the gun, but continues to suggest she give it to her. 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. Kasey declined to do so, but an embittered Maureen volunteers to fight Suzanne instead. Red tries to sabotage Gloria's kitchen operations, but fails to discourage her replacement. 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. She runs into Gloria during a recreation period and Gloria attacks her for revenge after her betrayal during the riot. She also begins an affair with him. For her race and mental illness, Suzanne was often shunned by her parents' community and her little sister's friends. 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. Later on, when Piscatella is torturing some of the other inmates, she helps capture him and they hold him hostage until Taystee enters the bunker and grabs Frieda's pistol. 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. Frieda does the same, in order to be sent to the safer B Block. Throughout the first season, Caputo appeared to have romantic feelings for the new recruit to the staff, Susan Fischer. Eventually, after an explosive argument, the two permanently fell out. After joking with Piper about who would give Bayley a handjob in exchange for burgers, the two once again rekindle their relationship. 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. Would recommend to watch minus last pathetic final season. Gloria quits working in the kitchen and later feels guilty because Aleida started spreading rumors about Sophia that caused her to get attacked in her hair salon and put in the SHU allegedly for her own safety. During the first season, Boo is often accompanied by a dog she named "Little Boo." Jill Greenberg for Netflix | Getty Images Danielle Brooks plays Tasha 'Taystee' Jefferson on 'Orange Is The New Black'. Orange Is the New Black, the popular Netflix prison dramedy, may be nearly three months from the June 6th premiere of its second season, but the cast and creator convened Friday night at … 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 works in the electrical shop at the prison and inadvertently takes a screwdriver from the tool crib and loses it. Later, she is revived, and she ends up in Frieda's bunker prior to the riot team breaching the bunker. 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. Her parents tried to provide her with the best care growing up, but, despite their love, Suzanne felt pushed by her mother to accomplish things that she was afraid to do. In the sixth season, with Humphrey now dead, Daya has accepted a plea deal to plead guilty to his murder in return for life imprisonment, thereby avoiding the death penalty. In the fourth season, she is shown working with Sister Jane Ingalls to get Sophia out of SHU. At the end of the season, Alex and Piper attempt to burn the notes in a garbage can, but after they light up the notes, inmates participating in the riot kick over the garbage can, spreading the notes all over the floor, although the notes are not discovered due to the riot. On the day of the exam, however, Tiffany is horrified to learn that Luschek - who assumed responsibility of the course after Elmer quit - failed to put in an application for her extra time, due to his lack of care. 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