Granted a day of furlough, Piper must confront her fractured relationships on the outside. On the inside, no inmate is safe when Pornstache goes on the warpath.
Piper's relationship with Larry faces a real-world test when Piper returns home on furlough. Larry admits to Piper that he slept with someone else. Piper attends her grandmother's funeral, which turns into her brother's wedding. Red's efforts to redeem herself in the eyes of her former posse are finally rewarded.
The history of Red and Vee's relationship at Litchfield is explored through a series of flashbacks: the last flashback revealed that Vee had taken control of the black inmates, intending to usurp Red's kitchen smuggling enterprise, ending with Vee's posse brutally beating Red. Corrections Officer Mendez (a.k.a. Pornstache) returns to Litchfield. Bennett reveals to Caputo that Daya is pregnant, and suggests that Mendez must be the father.
