Season five covers:

* Red's mythic quest to catch a legendary and very crafty chicken.

Piper (Taylor Schilling) sees a chicken and finds out it is a chicken that Red (Kate Mulgrew) has been obsessed with catching.

Since Red virtually runs Litchfield, this makes "The Chickening" everyone else in the prison's quest as well.

* Larry's quest to face down the myths that he himself created about who Piper is and about the foundations of their relationship.

Once Larry (Jason Biggs) finds out that Piper neglected to tell him about Alex Vause (Laura Prepon) being at Litchfield with her, he starts to compromise some of his own "rules" of his relationship.

* The first part of the backstory between Daya (Dascha Polanco) and her mother Aleida Diaz (Elizabeth Rodriguez).

* The intensification of the romance between Daya and Officer Bennett (Matt McGory).

* Sophia Burset's attempt to feign interest in Christianity in order to procure Hormone tablets from Sister Jane Ingalls (Beth Fowler).

5. The Chickening

Look, I have no idea if it is possible for chickens to circumnavigate the razor wire to visit prison yards.

When I was housed in St. Louis Michigan we saw all kinds of birds including Geese.

When I was housed in Jackson at the Cotton facility, we had hawks that visited occasionally.

But, I will freely admit that I never saw even one chicken.

Prisoners, as a general rule, are really superstitious and prone to story-telling so the obsession part is certainly possible.

Okay, when everyone got in trouble for running, that is a thing. You can run on the track or during sporting events, but you generally are not allowed to run anywhere else on the prison compound.

4. "Todays Order of Services Is"

At the beginning of "The Chickening" episode, you hear a voice announce over the prison PA system that "Today's Order of Services Is" followed by a list of times tied to the different religions represented in the Litchfield population.

Going to Church is a pretty big part of prison life.

A large number of inmates are very religious (while others have different motives for going to church - more on that in a second) and prisons will create space for every religion you could possibly dream of following (I seem to remember that there were even Satanists at one prison that I was incarcerated or other..although I suspect they were just trying to get over on the prison administration).

However, prisons, as a general rule, prevent prisoners from gathering in large groups with only a few exceptions (for instance if there is a concert or special event)

One of those exceptions is Church.

Because the right to go to Church is Constitutionally protected, many prisoners see "Church" as a place where they can communicate with the other members of the large groups that they belong to (yes, some of those groups are called gangs).

So, like most things in prison, Church can be a bit complicated. But, don't get me wrong, lots of prisoners are very religious (while many others use Church as cover for...um...other activities).

By the way, there is no possible way in the world that Tiffany Doggett (Taryn Manning) would have been allowed to build that massive cross (wherever they said she made it) and she certainly would not have been allowed to carry it around the complex (or hang it from the chapel ceiling).

3. "Inmates Aren't Allowed To Barter"

Officer Bennett calls Daya out and yells at her for trying to trade her corn pops for some thread. He tells her that "inmates aren't allowed to barter."

Technically, this is correct but in practice, the entire prison economy runs on barter (I am pretty sure I already explained prison economics in a previous post).

Bennett was using the barter as a ruse to both look tough in front of Mendez and also to pass a note to Daya.

So this is an opportunity to discuss the budding romance between Bennett and Daya.