   Broadcast on Channel 5 (UK) 03 June 1997 Tues 4:40 a.m. Jim and Vera share a kiss. Bea is not in this episode Is there a Torquay in Australia too? Leila mentions it as a place the family had been on holiday before. | Toni confirms the arrangements for the parcel drop with Lizzie with Martha acting as lookout, then discusses it in code on the phone with her lawyer in front of Erica. He also manages to convey the message about Glenys's disappearance by pretending he's talking about her sister. Vera objects to the special treatment Toni seems to be getting but Erica frostily reminds her all prisoners are allowed one three minute phone call a week. Karen lets Melinda know she worked out she has been lying about where she's been for the weekend. After Melinda leaves, Karen is mystified by a phone call from the doctor Melinda contacted about her "tests". Martha asks to go inside when the truck arrives and taps on the pipes in the toilet block  to get a message to the laundry. Lizzie and Kath collect the extra box of tins of fruit salad in the laundry trolley. Meg becomes suspicious but fails to catch them. Toni tries to recruit Monica as muscle, but Monica tells her she's out soon and isn't interested, suggesting she tries Martha instead. Monica warns her that Martha has just got out of the pound after murdering the last person who employed her as a bodyguard. Greg visits Karen as he's been contacted by Melinda's doctor. When Melinda arrives home, Greg confronts her about going ahead with the abortion. Erica is informed by phone that her request for a replacement for Jim has been refused. Karen is disgusted with Melinda and moves out. Vera and Jim find Toni's locker chained and padlocked and break into it to find the contraband, though it seems she has already removed all of the drugs and deliberately left the rest for them to find. Erica sends Toni to solitary until the VJ arrives, but Toni persuades her to distribute the fresh fruit in the consignment to the women. Jim invites Vera out for a drink to apologise for accusing her of spying on him. After their heart to heart, he invites her to dinner and kisses her goodnight at the door  . Toni is released from solitary on the VJ's orders. She has kept back some pot before allowing the contraband to be found and offers it round in the laundry. Toni stands up to Jim in the laundry telling him to "bite yer bum". Erica is annoyed that her recommendation that Jim be denied leave seems to have been countermanded by the department as she assumed that he went over her head to get it. Leila suggests that the whole family goes on holiday together. Toni remarks that she will be surprised if Jim is on duty tomorrow, suggesting that she had somehow influenced the Department's decision to grant him leave. Erica evidently suspects as much and we hear her expressing her displeasure on the phone to a "Mr Hawthorn" from the Department. Vera meets Jim for a drink later but is disappointed to find out that Jim is mending his differences with his wife. |
 Broadcast on Channel 5 (UK) 04 June 1997 Wed 4:40 a.m. Erica resigns. CREDITSMonica ~ Lesley BakerMeg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Erica ~ Patsy King Doreen ~ Colette Mann Greg ~ Barry Quin Vera ~ Fiona Spence Karen ~ Peita Toppano Antonia ~ Pat Bishop Angela ~ Jeanie Drynan  Martha ~ Kate Jason Kathleen ~ Penny Stewart Suzanne ~ Joanna Weir Frank Thompson ~ Tom Lake  Officer Barfield ~ Kate Fell Maura ~ Lena Fishman  Old Codger ~ Bill Bennett  Old Biddy ~ Hannah Govers  Officer ~ Jean Cain | Toni antagonizes Vera with her superior attitude and Meg with her claim to have "fixed" Jim's leave. Vera goes straight to Erica to complain about Toni, but only succeeds in making her angry. Karen gets a job as a waitress in a grotty cafe, despite being up against another woman who has "everything else going for her" as the cafe owner says. Toni involves all the women in the laundry in her next attempt to smuggle in contraband. Lizzie distracts the officers by pretending an interest in a delivery of powdered milk. Erica and Vera watch while Toni is forced to open the tins of powdered milk for contraband while the real stuff comes in via the rubbish bins. Karen's student friend Suzanne tries to get her to attend a meeting of the Prisoners' Reform Group. Toni offers the owmen some pot to celebrate the success of the operation. Monica is annoyed but is caught trying to get to solitary to tell Bea about Toni's drug smuggling. Meanwhile the women are getting stoned out in the garden and continue later in the rec room after attacking their dinner with unaccustomed keenness due to an attack of the munchies. Vera realises what is going on and reports it to Erica, but the women deny any knowledge and Martha claims to have found the joints in the garden. Toni points out that she isn't stoned, which surely she would be if she were responsible. Later, Toni challenges Erica to her face to prove she has been involved in smuggling drugs. Karen's friend Suzanne brings Angela Jeffries to her hotel room to meet her, and Angela manages to persuade her to attend a meeting of the PRG. Vera ropes Meg in to tackling Erica, and she confesses to them that the Department have indeed put her under pressure to go easy on Toni, and that she has already written her letter of resignation in protest. Lizzie protests that the pot had no effect on her at all. Vera gets Monica to tell her where the contraband is hidden by arguing that it would help Bea, though Vera ends up searching through the garbage  while the real contraband is found elsewhere in the prison after a tipoff from an anonymous note pushed under Erica's door. Karen gets the sack for falling for a fake choking attack stage by a sweet old lady to avoid paying her bill. She returns to the hotel to find her bill ( $30 for 3 nights) pinned to her door. Erica suspends all privileges when no-one owns up, and Toni lets Monica know that she's aware who lagged. Angela visits Karen again at her hotel when she is getting drunk and self-pitying, with the offer of accommodation and a job as her secretary. |
  Broadcast on Channel 5 (UK) 05 June 1997 Thurs 4:40 a.m. Martha gives her message to Antonia. CREDITSMonica ~ Lesley BakerMeg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Erica ~ Patsy King Doreen ~ Colette Mann Greg ~ Barry Quin Vera ~ Fiona Spence Karen ~ Peita Toppano Antonia ~ Pat Bishop Angela ~ Jeanie Drynan Glenys ~ Roz French Mansini ~ Burt Cooper Dr Herbert ~ Henry Cuthbertson Bert Lynch ~ Nick Kislinski  Hit Man 1 ~ Gene Van Dam Hit Man 2 ~ Marcel Cugola  Officer Phillip ~ Lise Rodgers Officer Owen ~ Sue Silver Tina ~ Joan Brockenshire  Simon ~ Rob Hewett  Dr Herbert was credited in (50) and (52) to Henry Blake, but the actor here | Karen is impressed by Angela's house (and indeed, a props buyer with unusually good taste seems to have been used). The women start to express doubts about Toni's ability to deliver further goodies, so Toni blames the "lagger". Toni's solicitor tells her that her husband Sean has instructed him that Toni could fend for herself for a while and he shouldn't use up any more "favours" by helping her. An photograph of Glenys appears on news stands, but it is so unconvincing  that the newspaper seller fails to recognise her when she buys a paper from him. Toni returns to the laundry to say she has no goodies as her solicitor was searched on his way in, leaving only Martha in full support of Toni. Karen meets some of Angela's leftie friends, one of whom actually uses the phrase "the day of the revolution" and has been in prison for forgery himself. Toni's solicitor protests at being searched for the second day running, and is taken to see Erica by Officer Owen  . He leaves without seeing Toni rather than allow his briefcase to be opened. Vera takes great delight in telling Toni in front of the other women. Martha urges Toni to take action against Monnie for lagging. Angela tells Karen that the PRG has been given $20,000 for their halfway house project by a businessman, Mr Chilton and fills her in on one of the people they might be able to help, a woman called Pat O'Connell. She also says that there is no chance of getting a replacement for Greg, so she should try to use her influence to get him to go back. Unfortunately, she chooses to phone him at the surgery while Meg is visiting. Glenys Buchanan fails to notice that she is being followed by two men. Martha pours hot soup over Monica in the dining room to provoke her  . Vera turns a blind eye to the incident until Monica retaliates. As Vera takes Monica to the Governor's office, she maliciously "remembers" that Monica is due to be released that same day. Fortunately for Monica, Meg has seen Martha and Toni signalling to each other, which confirms Monica's claim that it was a set-up. Erica tells Meg to take Monica to her cell and stay with her until her release. Martha has a visitor she's never seen before: he gives her a coded message about Glenys to pass on to Toni. Monica is released, declaring it will be her last time inside. Karen and Angela visit Greg in his surgery, but they fail to persuade him to go back to Wentworth, but Angela leaves her card, hinting that he could get Karen on one of the numbers. The men watch outside Glenys's flat to see her come and go. Dr Herbert tells Greg that Angela is a lesbian, or, as he quaintly puts it, "gay". |
There are a couple of obscure references in this episode. When one of Angela's friends is challenged to come up with other famous forgers, he says "Francis Greenway". From http://members.tripod.com/virtaus4/volume6/misc/francis_greenway.htm it appears that he was
Australia's first great architect-the "grand stylist" of early Sydney. Greenway was born in Bristol in 1777 to a building family. In his mid-30s he was found guilty of forging a financial document and sentenced to death (later commuted to 14 years transportation).
Toni's lawyer sarcactically refers to the officer who demands to search him as "dressed in a little brief authority". As you might expect, it's Shakespeare, from "Measure for measure":
But man, proud man,
Dressed in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assured,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As makes the angels weep.
 Broadcast on Channel 5 (UK) 06 June 1997 Fri 4:40 a.m. Bea is released. CREDITSMeg ~ Elspeth BallantyneLizzie ~ Sheila Florance Erica ~ Patsy King Bea ~ Val Lehman Doreen ~ Colette Mann Greg ~ Barry Quin Vera ~ Fiona Spence Karen ~ Peita Toppano Angela Jeffries ~ Jeanie Drynan Antonia McNally ~ Pat Bishop Terry Mansini ~ Burt Cooper Mum ~ Mary Ward Judith-Anne ~ Kim Deacon Martha ~ Kate Jason Glenys Buchanan ~ Roz French Hit Man - Rory ~ Gene Van Dam Hit Man - Brian ~ Marcel Cugola  Estate Agent ~ Bruce Clarkson Mr Douglas ~ Ian Smith Tina Britten ~ Joan Brockenshire Male Guard ~ Brad Lindsay Officer Owen ~ Kate Fell Officer Williams ~ Anne Sutherland Jules ~ Morris Shoueka UNCREDITEDMartha ~ Kate JasonThis | Karen suspects that it is Meg who is influencing Greg to stay away from Wentworth. Meanwhile, Greg is proving her wrong and visiting Erica to tell her he's prepared to return to work at the prison for two days a week. Lizzie warns Doreen not to get too chummy with Toni, as Bea will be out of solitary soon. Vera lets Bea out of solitary and warns her there have been a few changes while she's been away. Greg phones Karen using the number Angela gave him, but Karen hangs up on him. Vera takes Bea from the Governor's office straight to the laundry and introduces her to Toni. Everyone is surprised when Bea appears to defer to Toni and makes no attempt to take over again. Angela and Karen inspect possible premises for the halfway house. Toni is displeased by her solicitor's news that Sean wants to deal with Glenys by buying her off: she says she wants her killed. Bea begins to show annoyance when Toni treats Doreen like her servant. Angela is inspired by a remark of kern's to try to get Erica to be on the committee for the halfway house. Erica interviews Doreen about her forthcoming parole: she admits there is nowhere for her to go when she is released. Karen rings Greg up to apologise and they agree on a dinner date. Meg visits Mum and a heavily pregnant Judith-Anne, and finds that Mum's health is deteriorating. She suggests that Mum should visit Greg's surgery. Mr Douglas arrives at Wentworth in a chauffeur driven limousine  : ironically the Head of Department seems to be the only person ever to observe the "PLEASE RING AND WAIT" sign  . Erica explains her reasons for resigning with reference to the favours given to Toni McNally. Greg and Karen go for dinner ina an expensive restaurant. Erica tells Meg later that she's agreed to take three weeks' leave to reconsider her decision to resign. Meg is surprised to learn from Erica that Greg has returned to work at Wentworth. Greg tries to hint to Karen that she shouldn't get too dependant on Angela, but can't tell her the reason for his concern. Toni makes peace with Bea and clinches her argument by pointing out how much it would irritate Vera to have them working together. When karen reports greg's comments, Angela's friend Tina is about to spill the beans about Angela's sexuality but Angela stops her and tells Karen herself that she's "a homosexual... a lesbian, if you like". Doreen and Martha are both as annoyed as Vera was supposed to be that Toni and Bea seem to be working together. Meg greets Greg frostily when she bumps into him in the corridor at Wentworth and bitterly asks him how Karen is. Glenys at last notices she's being followed and tries to sneak down the back stairs but just ends up walking straight into the arms of the two men following her  , who have now had their instructions. Mum arrives home coughing and spluttering with a huge bag of shopping after working overtime to provide for Judith-Anne and the baby. The two hit men drive Glenys to a wood at night - presumably at least six hours drive away from the previous scene which took place in broad daylight - and drag her to the spot where her grave has already been dug... |
 Broadcast on Channel 5 (UK) 07 June 1997 Sat 4:40 a.m. Glenys is threatened. CREDITSMeg ~ Elspeth BallantyneLizzie ~ Sheila Florance Erica ~ Patsy King Bea ~ Val Lehman Doreen ~ Colette Mann Greg ~ Barry Quin Vera ~ Fiona Spence Karen ~ Peita Toppano Antonia McNally ~ Pat Bishop Angela Jeffries ~ Jeanie Drynan Glenys Buchanan ~ Roz French Judith-Anne ~ Kim Deacon Martha ~ Kate Jason Terry Mansini ~ Burt Cooper Mum ~ Mary Ward Hit Man - Rory ~ Gene Van Dam Hit Man - Brian ~ Marcel Cugola Detective (1) ~ Kevin Summers Detective (2) ~ Bob Ruggiero Officer Morgan ~ Betty Hargrave  Meg should have keep this scarf | ... but she knees one of the hit men in the balls and runs away. Bea wonders aloud to Toni why she killed Jacqui Coulson herself when she could have just got someone to do it for her. This moment of female bonding is interrupted by Vera who sarcastically enquires "Pyjama parties now, Smith?" After apparently wandering through the woods all night and somehow undoing the tape over her mouth while her hands are still tied  , Glenys stumbles upon a road and is saved by a female driver passing by (en route to a casting session for a soft porn movie  it seems). Angela invites Erica to a meeting about the halfway house project, and then drops in at the surgery to persuade Greg to attend also by pointing out that Karen would be involved and thereby would become independant of Angela herself. After a visit at the prison from Judith-Anne, Meg asks Greg to visit Mum. Her invitation to dinner falls on stony ground and he mumbles that he's "already committed". Toni finds out about Glenys' escape from her solicitor. A casual remark from Martha about "stronger smokes" alerts Bea to Toni's drug peddling: she drags Doreen out of the laundry to find out all the details and gives her a smack in the face for going along with it. Bea warns Toni at lunch that she could easily have Martha framed and sent to solitary. Greg tells Erica that Doreen had been to see him after an apparent bashing and advises her that she should only support Doreen's parole application if would get support on the outside, as he suspects she is showing signs of schizophrenia. Doreen lets slip in an interview with Erica that it was Bea who hit her, but she appeals to Erica saying that she wants to be released. Despite being guarded by the same pair of incompetent detectives in a hotel room, Glenys gets a threatening note in her meal  . Karen makes Erica and Greg uncomfortable at the meeting about the halfway house and is told off afterwards by Angela for being childish and putting her own feelings before the interests of the halfway house. Greg tells Meg about Angela's lesbianism to justify his reaction to the meeting. Meg decides that Greg must sort out his feelings for Karen before she will go out with him again. Greg visits Mum and advises her that she has a chest infection, her blood pressure is very low and she needs rest. Doreen has a surprise visitor called "Patrick", but when she reports back it was only another coded message for Toni. Greg asks Karen to move in with Mum to look after her, but she takes the huff and assumes his main concern is to get her away from Angela. Greg's concern proves well-founded when Mum arrives home in distress, gropes in her handbag for her medicine  and collapses. |
 Broadcast on Channel 5 (UK) 08 June 1997 Sun 4:40 a.m. Erica is upset. CREDITSMeg ~ Elspeth BallantyneLizzie ~ Sheila Florance Erica ~ Patsy King Bea ~ Val Lehman Jim ~ Gerard Maguire Doreen ~ Colette Mann Greg ~ Barry Quin Vera ~ Fiona Spence Karen ~ Peita Toppano Antonia McNally ~ Pat Bishop Angela Jeffries ~ Jeanie Drynan Kathleen Leach ~ Penny Stewart Martha Eaves ~ Kate Jason Roslyn Coulson ~ Sigrid Thornton Mum ~ Mary Ward Glenys Buchanan ~ Roz French Terry Mansini ~ Burt Cooper Pearl Price ~ Valerie Thompson  Prosecutor ~ James Wright  Clerk of Court ~ Travis Keyes Judge ~ John Gould  Jury Foreman ~ Bill McLorinan  Officer Barry ~ Joy Westmore Officer Owen ~ Anne Sutherland  Phyllis ~ Reylene Pearce Sean McNally ~ Barry Donnelly  Wendy ~ Helen Noonan Announcer ~ Ivor Bowyer On the walls of Pearl's lurid mauve and crimson bordello, we can see yet another appearance of the reproduction Leonardo Names mentioned during the cell swap are the unseen Gaffney, Higgins, Dwyer, Barton and Armstrong. | Meg calls round in time to find Mum collapsed and phones Greg. Dorreen is there in reception when he takes the call so hears that Mum is sick. Vera's only concern is what Meg was doing at Mum's house. Bea taunts Martha in face of Toni's offer to protect her. Bea offers Doreen the chance to make up, but she can't forgive Bea for hitting her. After examining Mum, Greg diagnoses pleurisy. Despite Meg's assumption that Vera will shop her over visiting Mum, she only tells Erica that Mum is ill and to ask Greg for further details. Meg goes to visit Karen at Angela's to tell her Mum is ill, but largely to try to make her feel guilty about refusing to live in and look after Mum. Erica inspects the laundry as part of her preparations to leave which makes Lizzie suspicious. Angela tells Karen she does not think she is suitable to run the halfway house, as she failed to help Mum. Jacqui Coulson's daughter Ros arrives to visit Toni, claiming to be her niece, and is searched  then has to be interviewed by Erica. Doreen takes the opportunity of delivering Erica's tea tray to say how much all the women like and respect her. Ros tells Toni her real surname and threatens Toni that she has evidence that Toni killed her mother. Toni points out that she only has hearsay evidence from her mother which would not be admissible in court. Doreen carries on with her buttering up campaign but lets it slip that Meg had been visiting Mum. Erica is furious and blames Greg and Vera for not telling her sooner. Ros visits Pearl's where her mother used to work, and finds a gun in a drawer while packing up her mother's things. Erica tells the women she is taking extended leave: Jim will be Acting Governor and Vera Acting Deputy. Jim returns early from holiday to take up the position: Erica tells him about her concerns for Doreen's mental health. Doreen follows Erica to reception to say goodbye to her. Glenys retracts her evidence at Toni's trial, claiming she was shortsighted and only saw the back of the murderer's head. Erica mopes at home  and in desperation phones up an old friend Nancy to invite her to dinner, but is turned down. Doreen makes it up with Lizzie. Jim announces the changes he has ben planning since Erica left: he swaps the cell allocations and tells them they will be moved on a regular basis in future. Bea is shocked when Vera refuses to let the women send flowers to Mum. When Meg tries to reason with her, Vera reminds her that it's not too late for her association with Mum to be reported. Bea organises a protest, which both Martha and Doreen say they will join. Meg goes for a sherry at Erica's and is surprised to find that Erica is planning to get involved with the halfway house. During the cell change the following morning, Bea rushes Vera and grabs her keys  , locking Vera and Jim on the other side of a security gate and threatening to set fire to a pile of mattresses  as a bargaining ploy. The officers find the fire extinguishers have been emptied. Jim is forced to take back the new cell allocations, promising that no-one will be sent to solitary as a result of the protest. Erica relaxes in a new kaftan  and is busy organising her social life over the phone: she airily tells her caller "I can't remember the last time I went to a ball, let alone the Lord Mayor's". The women find the rec room has been stripped and that Jim has put them all on report. When Bea repsonds by calling him a "baarstard", Jim takes away their buyup. Toni is found not guilty of both first and second degree muder, but Sean rejects her and Ros  shoots her  as she leaves the court. |
Storyliners: Dave Worthington; Margaret McClusky
Script Editor: Anne Lucas
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