In season finale Can’t Fix Crazy Red as been ousted as head cook, replaced by Mendoza. Red though has plans to get her position back; Bennett can’t come to terms with the fact that Daya had sex with Mendez; Larry visits Alex to tell her to stay away from Piper and Alex makes it plain that it was Piper who came onto her first making Larry realise he needs to call it quits on his relationship with Piper.
Piper has her own problems though as Pennsatucky has determined to kill her, egged on by Taystee and co Piper thinks she needs to get in first. Things come to a violent crescendo at the Christmas pageant.
A strong final episode to the season with several plot strands coming to a head, especially the Pennsatucky-Piper battle, there is also quite a bit of time spent on the Pageant which injects a bit of humour into the midst of the desperation.
production details
USA / Netflix – Liongate – Tilted / 1×50 minute episode / Release date 11 July 2013
Writer: Michael Trim / Director: Tara Herrmann and Jenji Kohan
Orange Is The New Black Season 1 Episode 13 (season finale)
cast
Taylor Schilling as Piper Chapman
Laura Prepon as Alex Vause
Michael J. Harney as Sam Healy
Kate Mulgrew as Galina ‘Red’ Reznikov
Jason Biggs as Larry Bloom
Danielle Brooks as Tasha ‘Taystee’ Jefferson
Laverne Cox as Sophia Burset
Catherine Curtin as Wanda Bell
Joel Marsh Garland as Scott O’Neill
Annie Golden as Norma Romano
Lauren Lapkus as Susan Fischer
Taryn Manning as Tiffany ‘Pennsatucky’ Doggett
Matt McGorry as John Bennett
Matt Peters as Joel Luschek
Dascha Polanco as Dayanara Diaz
Elizabeth Rodriguez as Aleida Diaz
Nick Sandow as Joe Caputo
Todd Susman as Howard Bloom
Samira Wiley as Poussey Washington
Natasha Lyonne as Nicky Nichols
Pablo Schreiber as George ‘Pornstache’ Mendez
Joanna P. Adler as Chaplain Royce
Uzo Aduba as Suzanne ‘Crazy Eyes’ Warren
Brendan Burke as Wade Donaldson
Lori Tan Chinn as Chang
Jackie Cruz as Marisol ‘Flaca’ Gonzales
Lea DeLaria as Big Boo
Lolita Foster as Eliqua Maxwell
Beth Fowler as Sister Jane Ingalls
Richard Gallagher as Andrew Nance
Diane Guerrero as Maritza Ramos
Vicky Jeudy as Janae Watson
Kathryn Kates as Amy Kanter-Bloom
Farrah Krenek as Farrah the Innkeeper
Julie Lake as Angie Rice
Bryan Langlitz as Stephen
Selenis Leyva as Gloria Mendoza
Adrienne C. Moore as Cindy Hayes
Eric Moreland as C.O. Culliver
Emma Myles as Leanne Taylor
Jessica Pimentel as Maria Ruiz
Alysia Reiner as Natalie Figueroa
Barbara Rosenblat as Miss Rosa Cisneros
Abigail Savage as Gina Murphy
Constance Shulman as Yoga Jones
Yael Stone as Lorna Morello
Tamara Torres as Weeping Woman
Lin Tucci as Anita DeMarco
Elizabeth Clark as Inmate
Shannon Esper as Alana Dwight
