Piper must trade her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit when her decade-old relationship with a drug runner catches up with her. After insulting the food in front of the prison chef, Piper is starved out by the kitchen staff and struggles to offer up an acceptable apology. Targeted for romance by a fellow prisoner, Piper finds that subtlety is an ineffective approach to letting her suitor down. Piper gets to know her stern new roommate; the prisoners prepare a farewell party for one of their own; a misplaced screwdriver has dire consequences. When her sighting of a legendary feral chicken polarizes the inmates, Larry wonders if Piper is getting too absorbed in the "fishbowl" of prison life. The inmates campaign along racial lines for positions on a prisoners council, but Piper tries to stay above the increasingly raucous competition.