12. Double Trouble

Complete story — includes the ending

Barbara and Carol agree to a truce, then each declare war to their blocks. Caputo tells Taystee that she has a chance if she can win over the jury. McCullough snaps after a kickball bursts. MCC is being rebranded to PolyCon Corrections. Alex asks Badison to leave Piper alone. Instead, Badison hires Hellman to frame Piper. To keep Badison in line, Alex agrees to work for Carol. Hellman gives a fraudulent incident report to Hopper, to whom Piper had promised to inform on drug activities. Deciding that Piper is an unnecessary risk to his drug operation, Hopper destroys the report and puts Piper at the top of Linda's new inmate-ranking system, so that she'll be released at the end of the week. Gloria helps with Flaca's radio show in order to warn Luschek about the impending block war, but Luschek is called away at the last second. Gloria discovers Luschek's fantasy inmate data, and tries to expose it on the radio. She fails, and Alvarez sends her to solitary. Red prepares for her first visitation with her grandchildren, but she ruins it to attack Frieda in the hallway.