Plot summary
After refusing to tell Glynn who raped his daughter following the end of the meeting with Rivera, Alvarez is cast out and attacked by the other Latinos, but he defends himself, killing Ricardo in the process. He then tells Glynn that Ricardo was responsible for Ardith Glynn's rape. After hearing Bellinger's stories about her daughter being possessed by Satan, Sister Pete decides that Bellinger is mentally ill and convinces Governor Devlin to commute her sentence. This infuriates Bellinger, who had stated a desire to be executed. Ryan O'Reily is caught and forced to stop fixing the boxing matches with chloral hydrate, but he still manages to give Cyril an advantage in the final match, manipulating Cyril with thoughts of their abusive father.
Cyril is so enraged that his knockout punch leaves opponent Khan brain dead. Cyril, who feels guilty about what happened, attacks O'Reily but breaks down. Khan's widow wants her husband removed from life support, but they refuse. She then threatens to sue the prison for negligence. On New Year's Eve, Racial tensions escalate amongst inmates and staff; Schillinger attempts to rally the white inmates despite their differences, while Adebisi does the same with the black inmates. Hughes begins to adopt Adebisi's views on race, and when he expresses these views to Glynn, Glynn fires him.
Hill tries to stay out of the racial conflict, but when he is put in solitary confinement for defying Murphy, the inmates become more defiant. As the new millennium arrives, Glynn puts the prison on lockdown, and Adebisi finds a gun in his bed.
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