OITNB S4 E13 “Toast Can’t Never Be Bread Again” was about:

* A beautiful flashback to Poussey’s wonderful New York City adventure before she was arrested for possession with intent to distribute. I really enjoyed seeing her out in the world having fun, it helped make my feelings more bittersweet instead of just bitter.

* Caputo’s response to Poussey's death held hostage to MCC’s attempts at PR spin. This results in Poussey’s body being left in the cafeteria sitting on the floor for almost a full day and from Poussey’s family being notified.

* Piscatella being relieved from duty and sent home on suspension for the weekend. Caputo intimates that he knows of a troubling incident in Piscatella’s past (see S5 recaps).

* Bayley trying to come to grips with what he did. He runs into Piper and asks her to explain to the women that he did not intend to kill Poussey.

* Piper dealing with Alex’s ongoing attempts to take responsibility for the death of Ayden.

* Suzanne trying to take responsibility for what she has done by punishing herself. Ultimately, she somehow causes a bookshelf to fall on herself (the books being symbolic of Poussey) and gets sent to medical where she is put right next to Kekudio (who she beat up).

* Norma singing to SoSo (only the second time we have heard this) and SoSo getting drunk and wandering around Litchfield.

* Red trying to distract her family members while preparing for what she sees as a gathering storm.

* All of the remaining CO’s cosigning on the notion that Poussey came at Bayley with a knife, making sense of Daya’s later statement that all CO’s being “Pieces of Sh*t”

* Nicky and Morello working through some of their issues and Morello honestly accounting for her own mental health struggles in regards to jealousy and Vinny.

* Another problematic interaction between Donuts and Doggett. Apparently, Douts is incapable of seeing intimacy as anything other than forced sex although he is fighting his worst instincts. In other news, he is thinking of leaving his job as a correctional officer.

* Taystee and her crew attempting to cope with the death of Poussey. Things start getting dangerous when Jenae punches Sankey and everyone starts to weapon-up but what pushes everything totally over the edge was Caputo exonerating Bayley and, in essence, blaming Poussey’s death on the inmates.

* Humps bringing a gun into Litchfield (so that he can take care of the inmates if they get out of line). This results in him trying to pull the gun during the start of the riot but getting it knocked out of his hand. Daya ends up with the gun and points it at Humps as the season ends.

They Kill People In Here

I just want to remind folks that when Red and Taystee (at separate times) suggest that prisons and jails can be deadly that it is not just hyperbole. The jail I was incarcerated in while I was waiting to go to prison has had eighteen deaths since 2012 and prisons are absurdly dangerous too.

Some folks will say things like “If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime” but I bet most of those people have never done a day of time in their life, don’t realize how over-punitive and regulatory our society has become, and probably haven’t done much honest reflection about the things they have done in their lives that could have resulted in prosecution.