Orange Is the New Black 7.13

Here's Where We Get Off

Doggett is dead. The episode opens with her body being taken away. She is mourned by more than one person. Suzanne and Dixon are the two who feel it the most.

Luschek goes to Ward and confesses that he's the one who has been smuggling in the phones. He gets fired but charges are not pressed against him.

Mendoza gets out of Litchfield on time, without having time added to her sentence.

Red is moved to "Florida". Her memory is very spotty. She meets Berlin but doesn't recognize her until someone says something that triggers a memory.

Orange Is the New Black 7.12

The Big House

Taystee meets with her lawyer who has reviewed what Suzanne wrote about what really happened on the night Piscatella was killed. Her lawyer says it won't be taken seriously based on Suzanne's history.

Nichols tries to keep an eye on Morello. She tries taking to Morello but Morello won't listen. Eventually another inmate picks a fight with Morello and they both get dragged away.

Daya sets a trap for Aleida and Hopper. The happy couple gets together in the SHU and are having sex when Ward and a couple other COs walk in to the room where they are going at it. Ward fires Hopper but opts not to press charges.

Cindy resurfaces. She is living on the street, in a tent but is working at the nursing home. 

Orange Is the New Black 7.11

God Bless America

Piper gets invited to a fancy charity fundraising event by Zelda. She runs into Bursett who helps her get her hair ready for the event. Piper's mother helps her with finding a dress to wear.

Ruiz volunteers to work in the ICE kitchen. She tries to make amends with Mendoza but Mendoza is not interested in wiping the slate clean.

There is a surprise inspection of the cell block. All of Daya's drugs are found. Aleida seems to have had something to do with it. None of her stuff is found.

Linda has a court room installed in Litchfield. Carla's hearing is moved up. The judge denies all her reasons for wanting to stay in the United States. Flores gets a second chance but only by asking that her plea deal for her role in the riot be thrown out and that she be put on trial.

Orange Is the New Black 7.10

The Thirteenth

Morello is found in  the chicken coop with a dead chicken. She is sedated and held in the infirmary for a day or two and is then returned to gen pop.

Red cuts her hand and has to go to the infirnary. Nichols tells the doctor that there is something wrong with Red. The doctor exmines her and determines that she is in the early stage of dementia. Red asks that Nichols be trusted with caring for her.

The GED teacher is replaced by Luschek. He is more than willing to help Daya smuggle drugs into Litchfield.

Aleida tries to flex some muscle but gets nowhere.

Caputo has a breakthrough in his restorative justice class but then comes to terms with what he did to Susan Fischer. He tells Ward about it and offers to quite. Ward agrees that he needs to quit.

Orange Is the New Black 7.09

The Hidey Hole

Piper comes clean with her coworkers. She starts to feel much better. She has a talk with her father, who isn't happy (about her telling her coworkers about her past) but accepts it.

Monica, Cindy's daughter, gets the letter that Tastyee sent. She confronts Cindy and her grandmother, who she thought was her mother, about it. They don't know how to respond. Cindy had just talked her way into a job at an old folks home. Cindy can't take it. She packs her things and leaves.

Morello goes around the bend. Her web page for the baby pictures (that were not of Sterling, her baby who died of pneumonia) gets deleted. She later finds out that it was Vinnie who did it. Morello also gets the backstory spotlight. She had problems back then, too. 

Orange Is the New Black 7.08

Baker’s Dozen

Aledia is put in general population. She quickly picks up on the fact that Daya has a crew now. Aleida tries to assert her motherly role within the group. Daya does not take well to her mother's attempts to take over the group.

Nicky is concerned for Red. She tries to look out for her but Red doesn't want to be mothered. She is the mother of their group as far as she is concerned.

Red gets the backstory flashback which focuses on a time when she was trying to get the crime boss (who was using her husband's store as a front) to listen to her. She tries to convince the boss to lay off on one of the younger, softer guys in their organization, whom she mas been mothering. The boss agrees but then kills the young man.

Piper and Neri get some survivalist training at a training session for women. Neri sets Piper up with Zelda, another woman as the training session. Piper thinks that Zelda is in on the set up. It turns out that she isn't. Piper opens up to Zelda after that and tells her about having served time in prison.

Orange Is the New Black 7.07

Me as Well

Cal and Neri get tired of hearing Piper masturbate in her room and encourage her to go out and find someone. She does. First she tries it with a man and then with a woman. It doesn't work for her in either case. She tries calling Alex but Vause is too busy making out with McCullough to notice that her phone is ringing.

Nichols relationship with Shani, one of the ICE detainees, progresses. Red seems to sink further into depression.

Suzanne writes up what she recalls about the night that Piscatella was killed. She gets someone to give what she wrote to Taystee.

Daya gets Taystee to steal a key so that she can retrieve her phone which was taken during an inspection.

Orange Is the New Black 7.06

Trapped in an Elevator

Caputo has the women in his restorative justice class write letters of apology to someone whom they wronged. Ruiz feels as though she doesn't owe anyone an apology. Cindy doesn't know what to write or how to apologize. to Taystee.

Ruiz gets the backstory spotlight. It is about how she wound up in prison and her relationship with Yadriel, her boyfriend, and how she was cheating on him just before she was arrested.

Ward meets with Linda who wants her to answer questions for the press. MCC is panning to shut down the psych ward and use it to house more prisoners. Linda wants Ward to deal with the reporters. Ward goes to Fig for advice on how to handle the interview. Ward feels very unprepared and unsure about it.

Caputo finds out that he needs to get an operation to help the chances of getting Fig pregnant. He refuses at first. After he hears some of the apology letters written by the inmates in his class he changes his mind.

Orange Is the New Black 7.05

Minority Deport

Piper spends a day with Cal, goofing off. They get high together. He tells how to get by the drug testing but it doesn't work. Her parole officer fools her into telling her what she actually did. Piper pleads with the parole officer and get off easy and doesn't go back to prison.

Flores disappears. Ramos doesn't know what happened to her and is freaking out. Menndoza gives her a phone number to call for a lawyer. It works but someone overheard her and asks for the phone number. Ramos takes pity on the woman and decides to give the woman the number. Ramos thinks about it and looks around and decides to give the number out to everyone. The guards see what's going on and pull Ramos aside.

Aleida is having trouble with Eva, her 13-year-od daughter who has a boyfriend who is dealing drugs and is much older than Eva. Aleida tries to talk some sense into Eva but that doesn't work. She tries taking her to see Dayanara, but that doesn't work either.

Orange Is the New Black 7.04

How to Do Life

Red, Mendoza, Flaca, Nochols and Morello start to work in the kitchen in the ICE detention center. The make contact with Flores and Ramos. Flaca and Mendoza try to help them. Flaca calls lots of people trying to find Ramos' mother. She finally does but then learns that Ramos was born in Colombia.

Morello gets an unexpected visit from Vinnie, her husband. He doesn't look good and he's there to deliver the bad news that they lost Sterling, their son. He got pneumonia and died.

Warden Ward introduces some classes to the prison. She offers incentives to prisoners who participate. Doggett tries out a number of classes but walks out of most of them. Caputo teaches one of the classes. The last class Doggett checks out is the GED class.

Orange Is the New Black 7.03

And Brown Is the New Orange

Ward shuts down the SHU. The prisoners that are in the SHU are moved back to the cell blocks where they were before. This includes Red, Mendoza, Badisson, and Taystee, as well as a few more. Hopper objects. He wants to know how they are going to punish the prisoners without the SHU. Ward suggests that they should use positive reinforcement.

Fig is now the ICE Queen. Linda shows her around. Ramos and Flores start hanging out together. Ramos quickly learns that she has even fewer rights as an ICE detainee than she did as a prisoner. She tries various ways to get a message out but nothing seems to work. Everything does not go well between the two of them.

Flores gets the backstory spotlight. The focus is mostly on her relationship with Diablo, her boyfriend. Things go from great to much worse. He comes to see her at the ICE detention center and gets detained by ICE himself.

Orange Is the New Black 7.02

Just Desserts

Ramos is out on parole. She hooks up with an NBA player. He wants her to travel with him. She can’t but she really wants to.

Linda fires Fig. She decides that it is time for someone new to take charge of Litchfield. Hopper applies for the job. He thinks that he’s got it. Linda interviews a bunch of possible replacements for Hopper's current position.

Daya isn’t sure what to do about her current situation. She feels guilty about what happened to Daddy. Adeola approaches her with a plan. Daya and Adeola reach an agreement and start to execute their plan.

McCullough gets the backstory spotlight. She flashes back to her time in the Army. She recalls how she tried to fit in and how she got treated. Her memories of those days impact her actions in the present.

Orange Is the New Black 7.01

Beginning of the End

Piper struggles to adjust to life on the outtside. She is living with her brother Cal and his wife. They have a new born baby. Piper's boss isn't very understanding, nor is her parole officer. Her father is unwilling to help her in any meaningful way. She goes to see Alex, who has problems of her own.

Taystee is back in prison, for life. She was convicted of murdering one of the guards. Suzanne wants to talk to Taystee but Doggett convinces her not to do it. Suzanne does talk to Cindy who still feels guilty about not testafyng on Cindy's behalf. 

Alex gets into an argument with Murphy. She tricks Murphy into getting into a fight with Taystee. Murphy and Taystee get sent to the SHU. Red and Mendoza are still in the SHU. They are in adjoining cells. Mendoza tries to engage Red in conversation but Red doesn't want to speak.