<P> Alex is good at reading people and is perceptive, quite often surmising Piper's true feelings and intentions . During the second season, she double - crosses Piper and gives incriminating evidence at the trial of her former boss Kubra (after advising Piper to lie), earning herself an early release . When Piper calls her on the phone, she reveals that Kubra had walked free, and she is now in fear of her life . To Piper's dismay, when Alex visits, she reveals that she is planning to skip town and go into hiding . Wanting to get her old girlfriend back in prison with her, Piper secretly asks Polly to tip off her probation officer, causing Alex to violate her probation when he turns up to check on her, to find her brandishing a gun . In the third season, she returns to Litchfield, and despite finding out that Piper was the reason she was arrested, she restarts their relationship . This is short - lived, as the two break up again when Piper starts dating Stella . Alex becomes suspicious when Lolly Whitehall, a new inmate originally seen in Chicago, comes to the prison and she assumes that Kubra sent Lolly to kill her . Confronting Lolly in the bathroom, the two fight, and while choking Lolly, Alex discovers that she is just a paranoid prisoner that thinks the NSA is watching her . Alex ends up convincing Lolly that she is an undercover agent with the CIA in order to keep her from reporting their confrontation . </P> <P> At the end of the third season, Alex is confronted in the greenhouse by Aydin Bayat, one of Kubra's enforcers, who has come to kill her . At the beginning of the fourth season, Lolly returns to find Alex and walks in to find Aydin garrotting her with his belt . Instinctively, she storms in, pushes him off of her and stomps him until he is unconscious and presumed dead . Later that night, she finds Aydin still breathing, and smothers him to death before dismembering his body and disposing of his remains in the prison garden the following morning with Lolly and Frieda . She is concerned with Lolly's actions, when she continues to insist that Aydin was a government agent, but she tries to stop Frieda from killing Lolly to silence her . Alex becomes consumed with guilt for killing Aydin, and tells Red about it . When Nicky returns from max, Alex declines a proposition for sex with her, but ends up smoking crack with her and Piper in the garden . While they were high, Piper shows her the swastika brand on her arm, and Alex tells Piper and Nicky that she killed Aydin . She helps Red and Norma turn Piper's brand into a window, while Piper apologized to her for ignoring her concerns about Kubra trying to kill her . After arguing with Piper about who would give Bayley a handjob in exchange for burgers, the two once again rekindle their relationship . When Aydin's remains are found, she expresses disappointment that his remains may not be identified . She attempts to confess to Piscatella, but is prevented from doing so after Healy turns Lolly in for Aydin's death . She starts spreading notes around the prison identifying Aydin, and after Piper discovers her planting a note in the garden, she tells Alex to gather the notes so she isn't implicated . At the end of the season, Alex and Piper attempt to burn the notes in a garbage can, but after they light up the notes, inmates participating in the riot kick over the garbage can, spreading the notes all over the floor . </P> <P> Sam Healy (played by Michael J. Harney)--Healy is an experienced Correction Officer and supervisor at Litchfield Penitentiary who has a Master of Social Work and acts as prison counselor to many of the inmates . He is initially presented as someone who, though rigid, genuinely wants to help the inmates under his care . Due to his preference for avoiding confrontation, Healy is contemptuously referred to as "Samantha" by Caputo, who feels that Healy is not tough enough on the inmates . Healy generally appears weary and often tells the inmates what they want to hear so they will leave him alone - he later admits to his own counselor that he is dissatisfied with his job, having gone into it with such idealistic notions of changing the world, but his experiences have left him cynical . Despite this, he still shows a sense of justice, such as forging evidence to show that Suzanne (who was going to take for the fall for an assault she did not commit) was in fact innocent . Healy has an outspoken personal vendetta against lesbians for unknown reasons, cautioning Piper at the beginning of the series not to be involved with lesbian activity . While early on he appears particularly sympathetic towards Piper and even acts biased in her favor, he increasingly dislikes her as he hears rumors of her alleged lesbian activities . His hatred of lesbians, first presented as a quirk, is later revealed to be a deep - seated pathological problem when he explosively sends Piper to solitary confinement purely because she was dancing closely with Alex . In season four, it is revealed that his hatred of lesbianism was imbued in him by his father, who believed that it was a disease akin to schizophrenia . His increasing disdain of Piper culminates in his acquiescence to Tiffany Doggett's attempt to murder her in the first season finale . During the second season, Healy makes amends with Piper, supporting her idea of a weekly prison newsletter and getting her a furlough to visit her dying grandmother . He also attempts to start a group counseling program with Tiffany, but cancels it due to poor attendance, further adding to his emotional exhaustion . At home, Healy is in a troubled and apparently loveless marriage with a Ukrainian mail - order bride, who speaks little English, and her mother . It is implied that Healy lied about himself to her on the Internet, and she is only staying with him because she has two years left until she gets her green card . In the third season, he enlists the help of Red to mediate between the two and bridge the language gap, however Red ends up lambasting his wife and defending Healy as a "good man ." Following this, Healy and his wife appear to have split, while Healy then forms a closer bond with Red . It is also implied they have mutual romantic feelings for one another; but Red initially flirts with him so that she can be reassigned on her job in the kitchen, much to Sam's dismay . Later on, it seems that Red and Sam may still have hidden feelings for each other, as evidenced on how they shared a look during Lorna Morello's wedding, and Red rejected the idea of developing their relationship, saying "their ships passed too late in the night," despite Sam's attempts to admit their feelings for each other . At times, Healy also finds himself at odds with new counselor Berdie Rogers and her alternative methods, feeling that she is encouraging the prisoners to engage in deviant behavior . In the fourth season, his backstory is further explored . His mother suffered from severe mental illness, causing frequent stress to young Sam . When she began electroconvulsive therapy, her erratic behavior subsided . However, she confided to Sam that she wished to stop the therapy, as they caused her to feel "fuzzy" and forgetful . Sam protested against this, saying that he preferred her medicated . Following this, his mother left the home and never returned, with Healy still uncertain of her fate decades later . This experience causes problems between him and the schizophrenic Lolly, with Healy believing that her confession to murdering a guard is a delusion, although it is completely true . At the end of the fourth season, increasingly dissatisfied with his job and unsure if he is able to be effective, he contemplates suicide by walking into a lake, but returns to shore when he hears his phone . Later, rather than returning to work, he voluntarily checks himself into psychiatric care, and is later seen in the facility while watching Caputo's statement on television . He made no appearance in season 5 . </P> <P> Claudette "Miss Claudette" Pelage (played by Michelle Hurst)--Miss Claudette is a very strict and feared inmate at the prison, she is often grumpy and holds her bunk - mates to very high standards . Her mysterious origins and fearsome reputation bred numerous legends, with some inmates humorously noting they never see her in the bathrooms . When Piper is assigned to share a cubicle with her, she reacts rudely due to her obsession with cleanliness and dislike of the messy situations Piper brings with her, but softens to her over time . It is later shown that Miss Claudette was inducted into forced child labor and sent to the United States from an unknown French - speaking country (possibly Haiti) to pay off a familial debt . She was brought to America by a boy called Jean Baptiste whom she develops a close friendship and later falls in love . Years later she ran her own illegal cleaning service using similar child labor . She kills a customer who beat and abused one of her cleaning girls, which is the basis for the rumor amongst the prisoners that she is in prison for murder . It is not clear if she was convicted for her business, the killing, or both . She also becomes heartbroken after Baptiste marries another woman . </P>

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