Soso gets serious about the hunger strike. Yoga Jones has joined her. Leanne and Angie have also joined but their demands are centered around less serious things, like maple syrup. Sister Jane is a bit dismissive of their cause, at first. Eventually she comes around and joins them.
Vee confronts Poussey in the library. Poussey refuses to back down and questions Vee's ability to lead or deal with adults.
Sister Jane gets the backstory spotlight. She is shown in a couple scenes as a your nun, played by a different actress. She joins a couple other young nuns in playing hooky and going to a protest against the United States' participation in the war in Vietnam. She gets reprimanded for it but it marks the beginning of a career of protesting.
Healy's group therapy has it's second meeting. This time he gets a few people to show up, including Poussey. It starts a bit slow. Doggett tries to play the part of group facilitator but Healy won't let her. Suzanne joins the group with Vee's permission. She is there to keep an eye on things. She gets very into it and seems moved by what Poussey has to say in the group meeting.
Bennett tries talking to Dayanara but she won't give him the time of day. She really feels now as if she has flushed her life down the toilet. Aleida, her mother, has a view that is both more optimistic and more cynical at the same time.
Soso asks Chapman to put the protest group's list of demands in the prison newsletter. She does, expecting that Healy will refuse to print it with the demands. Healy is so focused on his support group and the ad for it in the newsletter that he is oblivious to anything else. He has the paper printed as is with the list of demands and even signs a form allowing Chapman to contact Vause.
Red goes on the hunt for the mole. She starts by accusing Berlin, one of the Golden Girls. She's barking up the wrong tree. Nicky gets her to calm down and then Black Cindy lets her know that Boo is the one who let Vee know about the tunnel.
Larry and Polly let Pete know that they are having an affair. He's a little slow to get it. At first he thinks they want to have a threesome with him. Polly finally comes out and tells him that she's leaving him. Once he does get it he punches Larry and stomps off.
Piper calls Alex. They don't have much time to talk. Piper learns that the dug lord who was on trial in 2.01 (Thirsty Bird) didn't get convicted due to a mistrial. Alex is in the witness protection program but she fears that the drug lord may have people looking for her.
Fig finally gets some contractors to fig the broken showers. This was one of the demands of the hunger strike protesters. They also want Watson released from SHU, which she is. The guards start playing dirty and bring some pizzas round to the hunger strike crew. Leanne and Angie crack and start eating pizza. Soso, Yoga Jones, and Sister Jane do not break and keep up the hunger strike without the other two.
Fig does what she can to shut down the protest. She has the guards confiscate the materials they where using to make signs. The orders the newsletter shut down.
Red and her crew confront Boo about what she did. Boo acts as if she doesn't need anyone. She goes to Vee and tells her what happened but Vee doesn't care. She got what she needed from Boo.
Sister Jane, in flashbacks, continues to be involved in protest movements. She writes a book. All of this brings her into conflict with her superiors within the Catholic Church. In the present becomes the leader of the hunger strike. She sticks with it beyond where Soso and Yoga Jones want to take it. She winds up getting hospitalized. It felt like she was trying to hold on to an image of herself and also take control of her life.
The flashback spotlight didn't add very much of interest to me. I think they have done a better job in other episodes meshing the past with the present. I wanted to like it more than I did.
Piper learns that she will soon be transferred to a prison in Virginia.
The Golden Girls decided that Vee is causing too much trouble. Taslitz volunteers to take her out. She follows Vee from the bathroom and stabs her in the back with a shiv only to discover that it wasn't Vee she stabbed but another prisoner.
Why did Black Cindy spill the beans about Boo?
This episode felt less important than the the last two. I wasn't as reeled in by this one. It was a bit all over the place and not as focused. The backstory spotlight didn't feel as vital as it did in prior episodes. It wasn't a bad episode it just didn't get me like the last two did.
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