Orange Is the New Black 5.13

Storm-y Weather

Correctional officers in riot gear break into Litchfield and start to secure the building and the inmates. Some inmates fight back. Some do not. Some of the inmates in the bunker decide to leave. Berlin, Red, Flores, Chapman, and Vause are the ones who decide to stay put in the bunker.

A few other prisoners eventually join them in the bunker. Mendoza is one of them. She manages to get though to her mother, before she heads to the bunker, who lets her know that her son is going to be all right.

Leanne and Angie set most of the records they find on fire before they are apprehended.

Taystee and Cindy take Suzanne to the pharmacy in the hopes of getting her something that will wake her up. They don't find anything useful but Nichols leads them to the bunker where they use an EpiPen to wake her up.

Orange Is the New Black 5.12

Tattoo You

A video of Piscatella assaulting Vause gets released on YouTube. The governor agrees to the inmates demands, with one exception. The governor will not guarantee that Bailey will get prosecuted. Taystee refuses the offer and sends Figueroa and Caputo out to negotiate with the governor and MCC.

Bailey goes to see Poussey's father. Bailey apologizes but Poussey's father refuses to give him the absolution he seeks. He refuses to help Bailey feel better about himself.

Chapman and Vause experience some rockiness in their relationship. They also get the backstory flashback. Piper gets a tattoo of a dolphin on the back of her neck. Vause gets a tattoo on her arm which reads "love is pain". They break up. Vause betrays Chapman. They don't get back together again until they are behind bars.

Orange Is the New Black 5.11

Breaking the Fiberboard Ceiling

The inmates in the bunker argue about it before finally deciding that something has to be done with Piscatella before he wakes up. They carry him to another room and tie him up. They also tie up Red when she starts to talk about torturing him.

Taystee continues to negotiate with Figueroa. Caputo is the only other one present. 

The inmates guarding the hostages change up their tactics to stay awake. They start slapping each other and snorting coffee grinds. 

Suzanne loses her cool when she realizes that Humphries is dead. Cindy pulls Taystee aside and tries to talk to her about Suzanne. Taystee listens but then tells Cindy she's just going to have to deal with it because she, Taystee, is too busy with negotiations.

Morello tells all the inmates who come for meds for psychiatric reasons that they are free and no longer need them. Cindy goes to the pharmacy to get meds for Suzanne. Morello refuses to give her what she needs so Cindy takes a bottle of Lithium and goes to find Suzanne. Morello reaches for a pregnancy test after Cindy leaves. She takes the test and it comes up positive.

Orange Is the New Black 5.10

The Reverse Midas Touch

One of the Dominican inmates chases Linda. Linda loses her outside and hides in one of the porta-johns. Doggett is in the next porta-john. They talk for a while. They seem to be getting along. Linda suggests that they use the backhor and make a break for it. Doggett is interested until Linda lets her out and Doggett sees with whom she has been talking. She slugs Linda in the face and then runs off. 

Piscatella ties up Red and starts to mess with her in front of the others he has assembled. He cuts off a fair amount of her hair, leaving the top of her head bald. 

Piscatella gets the backstory spotlight. It is all about his time as a CO at a men's maximum security prison. He develops a relationship with one of the inmates. The inmate gets beaten up and raped by other prisoners. Piscatella gets revenge on one of them.

Berlin's friends in the bunker start to get on her nerves. They don't seem to enjoy it as much as she does. The entrance to the bunker is in the room where Piscatella is torturing Red and has the other tied up. They hear screams and investigate.

Orange Is the New Black 5.09

The Tightening

Piscatella stalks the halls of Litchfield. He encounters Flores. She fights him but he overcomes her.

Red gets premonitions that Piscatella is in Litchfield. She tries to tell Nichols but she doesn't believe Red. Nichols goes to get some ice for Red and gets abducted by Piscatella.

Red gets the backstory spotlight. The flashbacks are to a few decades before when she was a factory worker in Russia. She was dating a guard at the factory but pretty soon she leaves him and started dating a guy who sold blue jeans which were illegal in Russia.

Mendoza uses Caputo's phone and presses the button he told her to press. It speed dials the head of MCC. She talks to him and tells him about her son. He says he can't do anything for her unless she frees the hostages. She can't agree to that and hangs up on him abruptly.

Orange Is the New Black 5.08

Tied to the Tracks

Red and Flores continue to try and lure Piscatella into Litchfield using Humps' phone. they have a secret way in. Piscatella, thinking that he is dealing with Humps, tries telling the commander in charge about Humps but he just laughs at him.

Judy King and Aleida Diaz are on Meredith Viera's TV show. The two former inmates do not get along. Judy reveals that there was shooting in Litchfield. She drops enough hints so that Aleida knows that Daya was the shooter. 

Figueroa comes to negotiate on behalf of the governor. She talks to Taystee, the negotiator for the inmates. They make progress until Figueroa learns that one of the guards was shot.

Daya gets the backstory spotlight.

Mendoza finds out that her son is in a coma in the ICU. She wants to get out to help him but she can't. She tries talking to Caputo, who is still locked in one of the port-a-poddies. He tells her that she needs to do something to help end the current situation at Litchfield if she wants his help.

Orange Is the New Black 5.07

Full Bush, Half Snickers

Doggett does community service by pushing a cart around with refreshments that she made herself. She offers Suzanne a drink but she is a little too far gone. She thinks her adoptive parents are there to see her. Cindy and Abdullah see how crazy Suzanne has gotten. They talk to Taystee about it but she is too busy to do anything about it so they come up with a plan to help Suzanne.

Chapman suggests to Taystee that they should do something to honor Poussey. Chapman puts up flyers and tries to get other inmates involved. They aren't very inspired by the inmates who offer to put the memorial together. Soso doesn't have an idea but she criticizes their approach which leads Chapman and Taystee to suggest that Soso should put something together to honor Poussey.

Chapman suggests to Flaca and Ramos that they should use their beauty skills on their fellow inmates. They take her suggestion seriously and get to work.

Berlin and the other inmates in the bunker stay put, for the most part. They just hang out in the bunker. Mendoza eventually leaves when she gets a text indicating that something happened to her son and that he is in a hospital. She tries to contact family but can't get a straight answer about what happened to her son.

Orange Is the New Black 5.06

Flaming Hot Cheetos, Literally

Doggett is put on trial for helping Coates escape from Litchfield. Boo is her defense lawyer. She starts the defense of her friend by trying to make Angie look like a liar. That only gets her so far.

The governor sends Nita, one of his staff, with boxes and boxes full of Takis, Flamin' Hot Cheetos, and tampons. The prisoners live it up for a few hours until they learn that the governor wants something in exchange. He wants the hostages to be released. 

Watson makes peace with Soso. They talk about Poussey. Watson tries to help Soso get over her grief by encouraging to run laps around the yard with her.

Aleida gets to be on TV. She gets all dressed up. They send a car for her. It goes well until she starts cursing on the air.

Taystee gets the backstory spotlight. It revolves around two things. She has just turned 18 and needs to get ready to leave the foster home where she is staying. She meets her mother who wants to re-establish a relationship with Taystee but it isn't as simple as all that. Her mother was 15 when she was pregnant with Taystee. She has a husband and a young daughter now. She can't bring herself to tell them about Taystee. When they meet Taystee her mother says she is the daughter of a friend. 

Orange Is the New Black 5.05

Sing It, White Effie

The second day of the inmate take over of Litchfield begins. The local news is reporting that Judy King is a hostage and being held by Muslim terrorists. The governor decides to send in an elite unit to take over the attempt to retake the prison. Piscatella doesn't like it but he doesn't have much of a choice.

Flaca and Maritza spend time making and posting videos on YouTube. Flaca gets angry when it becomes clear that all the people leaving comments are not interested in her, just Maritza.

Vause develops something of a following. Chapman proposes to her. Vause accepts. Things go well between them until Vause tells Chapman about how she told the others about the murder, without getting specific.

Mendoza tries to make peace with Daya but Daya is still angry at her. Gloria calls Aleida but doesn't tell Aleida about what is going on at Litchfield. Aleida eventually finds out from the TV news. She contacts one of the TV stations. The producer that's she speaks to wants to get her on TV and agrees to send a car for her. 

Judy King becomes a pawn. The White Pride sisters have her. Taystee wants Judy to speak to the press so that they can prove that she has not been mistreated. The Whites want something in return for Judy. They wind up auctioning her off to the highest bidder which winds up being Cindy.

Watson gets the backstory spotlight. She is in her early teens in the spotlight. She goes on a field trip with her class to a private school. She felt good about herself and worked hard before going on the field trip. She sees how much the kids at the private, White school have. She also gets to see a rehearsal of their version of Dream Girls. It is a wake up call for her. She starts to see life differently.

Stratman, one of the guards, who is locked up is going a little nuts. He cannot relieve himself with other people in the room with him. He begs to be allowed to use the bathroom. He tries singing to keep himself from exploding. This goes on for a while before Ruiz takes him to one of the porta-a-johns. She ducktapes him in.

Orange Is the New Black 5.04

Litchfield's Got Talent

The gun reappears. Mendoza had it. It drops out of her pocket. There's a scramble for it. Angie gets her hands on it. Angie and Leanne use their newfound power to hold a talent contest. The guards are forced to perform for the inmates. 

Yoga Jones, DeMarco, and the trio of White Pride sisters,  who were locked in the kitchen with Berlin, tie up Judy King. They want to know where her stash of snacks can be found. She insists that there isn't a stash at first but they don't believe her. Judy King tells them that the food is delivered by helicopter to the roof at night. They spend the rest of the episode walking through the prison looking for the landing spot.

Alison Abdullah gets the backstory spotlight. She has a husband and a 10-year-old daughter. She encouraged her husband to get another wife, so he did.

Daya is present when the gun re-emerges. She knows that Mendoza took it. She feels betrayed. She goes outside to the field where some other inmates are hanging out.

Suzanne, Kukudio, and Soso hold a séance for Poussey in the cafeteria, after they hear a noise in the ceiling. Cindy, Watson, and Taystee join them. They are all into it except Taystee who thinks it is stupid.

Red and Flores continue to look for incriminating evidence on Piscatella. They take energy pills to help them stay awake. They eventually find his records. They find a report in his records that says he once killed an inmate. 

Orange Is the New Black 5.03

Pissters!

Piscatella wants to break into the prison and clean things up but the CEO of MCC, the company that runs Litchfield, says no once he hears that Judy King is still inside. Judy's husband and her boy toy continue to hang around hoping to bring her home but they don't make any progress on that front.

Judy attempts to break out of the prison. She breaks a window and climbs outside but she is still behind the fence and gets caught by some of the White Pride sisters. 

Bayley tries to turn himself in to the police after seeing the video of Caputo and Taystee. Bayley is drunk. The cops don't understand what he is try to confess to doing.

Linda continues to hang out with Chapman and Vause, who wants to ditch her. She meets some of the other prisoners and convinces them that she is really a prisoner. Boo takes an interest in Linda. Vause and Chapman see some of the pictures on Linda's phone and realize that she is Caputo's girlfriend.

Mendoza gets the kitchen up and running while most of the inmates are running around acting crazy. Daya shows up and she puts her to work,

Orange Is the New Black 5.02

Fuck, Marry, Frieda

Daya wakes up. The gun is gone. She tries to pretend like she still has it but eventually she has to tell someone and eventually Ruiz figures out that it's gone.

Ruiz organizes an event in the chapel. They strip search the guards. Vause doesn't like it. Chapman tells her to keep stay put but eventually Vause can't take it anymore and leaves.

Taystee, Black Cindy, Watson, and Abdullah continue to keep an eye of Caputo and Josh. They keep an eye on the internet hoping their video will go viral but it doesn't in the way they hoped it would.

Red puts up Piscatella's pictures all over the prison. Piscatella shows up. He isn't embarrassed of the pictures. He can't get in because the doors are locked.

Humpries is still in the infirmary with Suzanne and Kukudio. He tells them about ways to kill people. Kukudio blows air bubbles into his IV and he has a stroke. Flaca and Maritza take him to the chapel.

Berlin gets the back story spotlight. Her father was convinced that the Russians were getting ready to invade. He prepped her for the big event. She learned her lessons. In the present she uses the skills her father her taught her to trick the two guards who have her and a few other inmates locked in the kitchen. The other inmates take the guards to the chapel. Berlin sneaks down to her secret hideout beneath the prison.

Some of Ruiz's crew talk Taystee into bringing Caputo and Josh to the chapel. The episode ends with a big group picture.

Orange Is the New Black 5.01

Riot FOMO

The riot begins in earnest. Daya has Humphrey's gun and she shoots him in the thigh. It looks like things might get worse, she might kill him, but she doesn't. She does hold on to the gun.

Nichols and Morello go looking for druge. They have to deal with Angie and Leanne who are also jonesing for something. Nichols eventually find a key to the room where the drugs are kept.

Taystee, Black Cindy, Watson, and Abdullah take Caputo and Josh hostage. They force Caputo to read a message that they record on Josh's iPad. They post it on the internet with some help from Josh. The message is a more explicit version of what happened to Poussey. 

Hapakuka hides under bed. Big Boo and Doggett hole up in the commissary. Judy King and Soso wind up in the library. Judy tries to comfort Soso who is still crushed by Poussey's death.

Some of the guards try fighting back. They lock up some of the inmates in the kitchen and then lock themselves in there too when lots more inmate come looking for them.

Beth tries hiding in the bathroom. Chapman and Vause finds her. They take her hostage but they get tired of her and try to lose her. She begs them to look after her. They find her a uniform and tell her to put it on.