EPISODE 70Broadcast on Channel 5 (UK) 17 June 1997 Tues 4:40 a.m. Will Chrissie decide to have her abortion? Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Erica ~ Patsy King Bea ~ Val Lehman Jim ~ Gerard Maguire Doreen ~ Colette Mann Greg ~ Barry Quin Vera ~ Fiona Spence Karen ~ Peita Toppano Pat O'Connell ~ Monica Maughan Chrissie Latham ~ Amanda Muggleton Roslyn Coulson ~ Sigrid Thornton Alice Hemmings ~ Anne Haddy Rosie Hudson ~ Anne-Maree McDonald Phyllis ~ Reylene Pearce Joe McDonald ~ Stewart Bates  | Erica removes Chrissie from working in the maternity wing, after she insists on going ahead with the abortion. Vera reports Pat for "consorting" with her own son, but Pat refuses to say how she knew that David was coming to Wentworth. Back in the rec room, Bea is about to land one on Chrissie for lagging on Pat, until Pat stops her. Jim reports that it must have been Doreen who gave the information to Pat, but Erica decides to take no action. She also agrees to Jim's suggestion that Pat should only be given extra work duties and that the incident with David should not be officially reported. Erica inspects the halfway house and tells Karen that Doreen will be released the following afternoon. Vera complains to Jim about Pat being let off so lightly and is surprised when she finds out whose idea it was. Chrissie tells Greg she's changed her mind and doesn't want the abortion after all. Alice visits the halfway house and Karen tells her she should keep out of Doreen's life unless she's prepared to be a proper mother to her. Meg tells Doreen to collect her things as she's to be released in half an hour. During the tearful farewells, Doreen nearly forgets to take Teddy with her. At the halfway house, Doreen finds the freedom difficult to accept and is reluctant to take the key Karen gives her. Greg takes Karen out for a drink and warns her against emotional involvement with people at the halfway house. Alice takes Doreen for a drive: she asks to go and see Miss McBride, but the new owner of her house tells Doreen that Miss McBride died a few months before. Rosie asks Pat to get some extra things from the kitchen for her baby Sam's first birthday party  . Doreen tells Alice she had a baby herself, but gave it up for adoption: when Alice offers to help her trace the child, Doreen tells her she isn't interested. Lizzie explains to Pat that Sam will be taken away from Rosie when he is one year old: Erica gives Vera the job of arranging the foster parents. Alice shares a secret with Karen, which explains why she wanted to see Doreen, but did not want to get too involved - she has terminal cancer. |
EPISODE 73Broadcast on Channel 5 (UK) 20 June 1997 Fri 4:40 a.m. Karen allows Roslyn to stay the night.Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Erica ~ Patsy King Bea ~ Val Lehman Jim ~ Gerard Maguire Doreen ~ Colette Mann Greg ~ Barry Quin Vera ~ Fiona Spence Karen ~ Peita Toppano Pat ~ Monica Maughan Roslyn ~ Sigrid Thornton Chrissie ~ Amanda Muggleton UNCREDITEDFrank Heath ~ Nick Kislinski Doctor ~ Barry Michael  Pearl Price ~ Valerie Thompson  Policeman ~ Bruce Kilpatrick  Old Man ~ Bill Bennett  OTHER CHARACTERSTony Hepworth (the actor could be Peter Paulsen); Sister  ; Henry Paisley (the undertaker)  ; Mrs Haynes  ; Policeman 1 & 2  ; Policeman 3 & 4  ; Woman passerby  | Doreen persuades Karen to to let Ros stay one night and gives Ros some clothes (seeming to disregard the difference in their sizes). Greg tells Meg that Chrissie could lose her baby and Meg responds by being extra nice to Chrissie. The police call at the halfway house next morning before Ros has left, but they are not looking for Ros. They tell Doreen that her mother has been found in a coma by her cleaning woman and is in hospital. Doreen is upset at the thought that her mother was lying ill in the house all the time. Karen tells Ros she must be gone by the time she and Doreen get back from the hospital. Chrissie apologises to Meg for throwing her concern back in her face, saying she finds it hard to cope with people being caring towards her. Doreen and Karen are kept waiting at the hospital but eventually a doctor appears to tell Karen that Alice has just died. Karen has to give Doreen a stern talking to, so that she is prepared to face up toher responsibilities as next of kin. Ros seeks shelter with Pearl at the brothel where her mother worked, but she has to seek approval from Frank Heath, who is now running the place and is an associate of Sean McNally. He wants to make Roslyn pay for her accommodation by prostituting herself. Pat is concerned that she has not had any visitors. After Ros reluctantly agrees to Frank's conditions, Pearl warns her not to get involved too deeply and offers to help her move on. When Bea asks why Rosie's cell is empty, Vera tells Bea that Rosie had been "transferred" and Bea assumes that means she has been sent to a mental hospital. Frank reports Ros to a corupt contact in the police after he finds she has left with $200 from the takings. The police come to the halfway house with a search warrant looking for Ros. Doreen attends her mother's funeral with Karen. Erica also attends to pay her respects and gives them both a lift back to the halfway house. Ros returns knocking on the back door just after Erica has left by the front: Karen tells her to leave as she is going to phone the police, but she is prevented from doing so by the arrival of Doreen's parole officer. Karen makes the excuse for Doreen's disappearance that she was upset after her mothers' funeral. Doreen breaks in at her mother's house to give Ros somewhere to hide out. Ros is worried that she will get Doreen into trouble, so she leaves to catch a bus to leave for Sydney. On the way, Ros stops to help a drunk who collapses in the gutter with a (fake?) heart attack. A woman passerby agrees to go to call an ambulance, but she has recognised Ros and reports her to the police. Ros is arrested. |
EPISODE 74Broadcast on Channel 5 (UK) 21 June 1997 Sat 4:40 a.m. Prison drama.Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Erica ~ Patsy King Bea ~ Val Lehman Jim ~ Gerard Maguire Doreen ~ Colette Mann Greg ~ Barry Quin Vera ~ Fiona Spence Karen ~ Peita Toppano Pat ~ Monica Maughan Roslyn ~ Sigrid Thornton Chrissie ~ Amanda Muggleton Alex ~ Geoff Collins  Kathleen ~ Penelope Stewart UNCREDITEDMrs Devlin ~ Rosie SturgessGate Guard ~ Brad Lindsay Officer ~ Betty Hargreave Officer Barry ~ Joy Westmore Det Sgt Allen ~ Keith Goodlet  Desk Sergeant ~ Telford Jackson  Sally ~ Nanette Wallace When Vera hands out the mail, the prisoner called "White" | Rosie's removal to a psychiatric hospital makes Bea determined to have a showdown with the officers. A reporter walks into a very unconvincing police station set and uses an equally creaky journalistic technique by asking the desk sergeant if he has any good stories for him. He then stays around long enough to overhear the desk sergeant phoning Wenwtorth to report Ros's recapture. Lizzie reminds Bea that they usually put on a Christmas play, which would be a good opportunity to get in a few jibes. Vera recommends to Erica that Bea is put in solitary (even though she admits Bea hasn't actually done anything), but Jim disagrees. Ros is brought back to Wentworth and Erica has to fend off the reporter looking for a human interest story. Jim finds out Lizzie is writing the play, and encourages it as a way of defusing tension (as if!). Ros is interviewed in Wentworth, but doesn't give away to the detectives where she was staying while she was on the run. Meg warns Greg that the police suspect that Karen helped Ros while she was on the run, and if so her parole could be in danger. The reporter, Alex Fraser, visits the halfway house but Karen refuses to talk to him. When she hears about it, Vera wants the Christmas play cancelled. After at first deying it, Karen admits to Greg that Roslyn stayed at the halfway house. Bea and Lizzie sneak off to solitary to speak to Ros. When she hears the old man she helped has died, Ros vows that it will be the last time she helps anyone. Doreen is interviewed by the detectives, and Karen manages to stop her saying anything stupid. Vera tells Erica that Lizzie has received two letters from Doreen, and uses the search for them as a pretext to gather up all the writing paper and pens and have them burnt  . Greg's statement seems to convince the police that Ros had not visited the halfway house, but he is furious with Karen for putting him in a position where he was forced to lie. Lizzie finds her play has disappeared along with the writing paper: this convinces Ros to help her write it again. Pat's mother visits her and tells her that Andrew had run away from home, but is now safe at home again. Chrissie agrees to steal paper for Ros if she will include something particular in the play to upset Vera. Greg calls in to the house to set Karen's mind at rest over the letter Doreen wrote to Liz: Meg gad seen the reference and censored it. Vera confiscates a script from Ros and takes it to Erica, who gives permission for the women to put it on. However, Ros has tricked Vera into finding her with an innocuous version - the real thing is being read by Chrissie. Karen writes about Pat's situation for the reporter to make an article from it. Pat's mother visits her again to tell her that if she's not paroled by next week, she will have to put the kids in a home. |
EPISODE 75Broadcast on Channel 5 (UK) 22 June 1997 Sun 4:40 a.m. Pat is upset.Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Erica ~ Patsy King Bea ~ Val Lehman Jim ~ Gerard Maguire Doreen ~ Colette Mann Greg ~ Barry Quin Vera ~ Fiona Spence Karen ~ Peita Toppano Pat ~ Monica Maughan Roslyn ~ Sigrid Thornton Chrissie ~ Amanda Muggleton David ~ David Letch Mrs Devlin ~ Rosie Sturgess Kathleen ~ Penelope Stewart Singer ~ Di Greentree  UNCREDITEDPhyllis ~ Reylene PearceOfficer Barry ~ Joy Westmore Wendy ~ Helen Noonan Pentridge Guard ~ Terry Trimble  OTHER CHARACTERSPat's children Emma and AndrewPoliceman at the end of the episode  | Bea, Pat and Ros have their coffee making things confiscated after lights out for staying up talking: Ros decides to make her digs at Jim in the play even more harsh. Greg warns Karen not to get her hopes up about the newspaper article, but it is published  and Erica gives Greg a roasting for passing on confidential information. She also points out that the parole board do not like being but under pressure by publicity. Greg is so annoyed by Erica's warning that he must choose between Wentworth and the halfway house that he threatens to resign from his post at Wentworth. Vera tells the women she'll be watching the rehearsals, but Lizzie fakes an attack to get Vera out of the laundry to give them a chance for a quick run through. Vera takes her to the surgery where Lizzie helps herself to some cotton wool from Greg's desk. Doreen makes a Christmas cake for Lizzie and soaks it in port. While she's out in the grounds supposedly recovering from her "attack", Lizzie talks to Vera about what she used to do for Christmas: she says her mother had asthma and so wouldn't have a Christmas tree in the house or allow her to have pets. When Lizzie is left alone, she finds a little conifer in the garden and and smuggles it inside to use as a Christmas tree  . Vera finds Meg miserable in the staff room: she has had a letter from Marty to say he's not coming home for Christmas. Doreen goes to the gates to deliver her presents, and manages to persuade Vera to take them inside for her. Vera then has trouble when Jim checks it in, but Vera has already removed the card so it's not clear who it's from. Vera gives Lizzie the card from Doreen's present and Lizzie wants to know where her cake is: Vera warns her not to complain or she'll get Doreen in trouble. Pat gets her parole, and goes home to a welcome message from her children  . The officers are surprised that so many prisoners have taken up the opportunity to get visitors  under the visitor's scheme, but Bea has told them to do so to keep the officers occupied. Pat visits David in Pentridge: she sees him get punched in a disgreement with one of the guards. The play goes ahead with Bea as Miss Bennett  and Lizzie as "Letch", who faints at the sight of tomato ketchup  . There are also digs at Vera  and Meg and Greg  . The officers make an excuse and leave one by one as it is their turn to be insulted. One of the prisoners sings "Silent Night" as Meg does her rounds and we see the women in their cells. The police come to Pat's house looking for David; they tell Pat he has escaped from prison. |
Storyliners: Dave Worthington, Margaret McClusky
Script Editor: Anne Lucas
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