Piper starts a prison newsletter with the help of Healy and a few other inmates. Vee launches an entrepreneurial enterprise.
Red's plan to reclaim her kitchen fails; the inmates have a Christmas pageant; Piper's plans fall apart when she realizes her life is in jeopardy.
Piper tries to rise above the racial campaign lines as the prisoners compete for positions on the prisoners council.
A mock Job Fair provides Taystee with a chance to show off her business smarts, while Red feels isolated from her prison family.
Caputo's kinder, gentler new regime includes organising a Mother's Day fair for the inmates that brings up a lot of mixed feelings about family.