<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, one of Kubra's enforcers, Aydin Bayat, confronts Alex in the greenhouse, ready to kill her . At the beginning of the fourth season, Lolly returns to find Aydin garrotting Alex with his belt . Instinctively, Lolly storms in, pushes him off of her and stomps him until he is unconscious and presumed dead . Later that night, Alex 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 joking 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, Alex expresses disappointment that he may not be identifiable . She attempts to confess to Piscatella, but is prevented from doing so after Healy turns Lolly in for Aydin's death . Alex starts spreading notes around the prison identifying Aydin; 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 Corrections 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 . </P> <P> 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 seemingly - 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 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 Healy's dismay . Later, it seems that Red and Healy may still have hidden feelings for each other, as evidenced by a shared a look during Lorna Morello's wedding . Red rejects the idea of developing their relationship, saying "their ships passed too late in the night", despite Healy'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 . </P>

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