OITNB S3 E12 “Don’t Make Me Come Back There” is about:

* The backstory of Aleida’s history of ruining Daya’s opportunities, even when she set them up herself, because of her fear that she will lose Daya’s unconditional love. Maria explains it as acting like her child needs her when, really, it is the mother’s need for the kid.

This time, Aleida decides to sabotage the arrangement for the mother of George Mendez to take the baby after birth. Aleida tells George’s Mom the baby was a boy and died during childbirth (it was a healthy girl).

* Piper deciding what to do with her Vause vs. Stella situation as well as CO Bayley’s attempted defection from the panty business.

Stella helps Piper convince Bayley to continue to act as a mule for the panty business while Alex wants nothing to do with her illegal enterprise. Eventually, Piper decides to date Stella only to find out that Stella is getting released in a few days.

In other words, we are doomed to be subjected to many more seasons of the Piper/Vause soap opera.

In other Piper news, her brother and his wife are fighting about how to expand the supply of panties from outside of the prison.

* SoSo asking Healy to help her get psych meds for her depression after Berdie was suspended. The psychiatrist who prescribes the meds is disorganized and incompetent which allows SoSo to steal a bunch of meds resulting in an overdose (Poussey finds her).

* Boo convincing Doggett to participate in a revenge scheme on Donuts in which they drug him and are supposed to leave him passed out anally violated with a broom handle. After they miraculously manage to not only drug him but also get him to pass out in an area where nobody would see them, Doggett realizes that she has no desire to brutalize him. As she puts it, she isn’t full or rage, she is just “sad.”

* Caputo seeing the infamous chicken in the yard and also finding out that there is a hole in the fencing (which would have been found almost immediately - they do perimeter checks several times a day). In case people forgot, Chang made the hole to hide her oranges many moons ago.

* Suzanne getting frustrated that other inmates have started to write fan fiction around her "Time-hump chronicles."

* Red deciding to overcome her cooking limitations by holding special dinners where people are chosen to attend by signing up for a blind lottery.

Her intention was to center the meal around some fresh corn from the garden but Cindy steals the corn from under Frieda’s nose and the African American crew eats the corn causing Taystee to negotiate a peace settlement with Red (only to find out that she has become the “Mom” of her crew.

Healy, in one of his better moments, secretly replaces the corn (allowing the dinner to go forward). Red leaves Healy a piece of the Quiche that she makes for the dinner.

* Sophia getting attacked by women multiple times for being Transgender. MCC decides to lock her up in solitary ‘for her own safety’ (but really to prevent her from entering a discrimination lawsuit against them in court).

“I’m The Mom?”

Taystee finds out that she has become the defacto Mom of the African-American women in her unit (replacing Vee).

Pretty sure that I have mentioned this before, but one of the core differences between men’s and women’s prisons is that the social structure in women’s prisons follows a family model. So, if you hang out in a particular social grouping, that group will usually have a Mom, a grandmother, etc.

Researchers call these “Pseudo-Families” and they often operate both as a support structure but can also, in many cases, serve as the structure for coercion and extortion. Red, for instance, is a mostly-benevolent Mom while Vee (Season 2) was more coercive.