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EPISODE 136

Broadcast on Channel 5 (UK) Tuesday 16th September 00:00 The prisoners prepare a barbecue and when Kay's guard is down her hamburger is laced with glass. She tries to make peace by offering to lure Vince into the prison. Meanwhile, Doreen announces that she is to have Vince's baby.

Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne
Judy ~ Betty Bobbitt
Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance
Erica ~ Patsy King
Bea ~ Val Lehman
Jim ~ Gerard Maguire
Doreen ~ Colette Mann
Vera ~ Fiona Spence
Kay ~ Sandy Gore
Margo ~ Jane Clifton
Agnes ~ Lois Ramsay
Vince ~ John Larking
Phyllis ~ Reylene Pearce
Dr Weissman ~ Bryon Williams

  • Written by Denise Morgan
  • Directed by Rod Hardy
    		• Jim and Vera catch Kay trying to force Margo to taste her food. Margo vows she'll get back at Kay. Erica admits to Meg that she had been lying about her relationship with Andrew, but declares she knew nothing at all about the fraud. Jim reports the incident with Margo and warns Erica that the women will go to any lengths to pay Kay back for losing the factory work project. Doreen is off her food. Judy defends Kay, pointing out that she helped her escape by getting a dress from the factory. Vera wants to know how Kay can possibly owe Margo money when she's been in isolation the whole time. Judy overhears Vera pressuring Kay and tells Kay that for her own sake she should stay in solitary as long as she can. When Meg announces that the women have been given permission to have a barbecue, Bea seems keen for Kay to attend and tells Judy she should make it up to Kay on behalf of all the women. Vera takes Kay to see Agnes, but she's already gone home. Judy asks Erica to let Kay go the barbecue to let the women show her there's no hard feelings. Margo drops a glass on the floor while working on kitchen duty and puts a few nice long slivers in her pocket for later use. Doreen tells Bea and Lizzie she's pregnant and it can't be Kevin's baby. Dr Weissman sees Kay and explores the roots of her gambling addiction. Meg has a go at Vera for her constant attempts to undermine Erica. The barbecue is held in the rec room and Kay attends, but when she bites into her hamburger, blood spurts from her mouth . Margo gets the blame for putting glass in Kay's food and is confined to her cell. Kay gets a letter from Vince and Vera uses it to try to get Kay to give her more evidence against Erica. Kay refuses to give Vera any information, telling her she's the vilest thing she ever met. Erica works late in the office and suffers an involuntary flashback sequence of the high points of her relationship with Andrew which reduces her to tears . Judy overhears Kay say that she wants to phone Vince and from her reaction Kay realises she has a potential bargaining counter: she demands to be let out of isolation and Erica allows her to move into Judy's cell. Kay offers Bea a deal: she will get Vince into the prison if the women lay off her, and Kay phones Vince pretending to be able to pay back the money she owes him. He arrives as the women are on exercise period. Agnes is present for Vince's meeting with Kay, and is alert enough for once to warn him that she could give evidence of his willingness to change his testimony for payment. As he is leaving, one group of women divert the officers, while Bea, Doreen and a few others knock Vince to the ground and give him a good kicking and clawing . Kay demands to be paid in cash for helping to get Vince inside, but Bea reminds her of the original terms of the deal. Agnes promises to arrange for Lizzie to visit Josie before her operation, but she immediately spills Butchie's milk on the paper with the phone number on and throws it away without looking at it. Kay goes straight to Erica and lags on the women for their attack on Vince.

    The Tuesday night episode this week was deleted from the schedules and replaced by a UEFA cup match.

    EPISODE 137

    Broadcast on Channel 5 (UK) Wednesday 17th September 23:30 Erica punishes the prisoners involved in the attack on Vince; and anti-Agnes feeling is running high after she tells Kevin of Doreen's pregnancy.


    Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne
    Judy ~ Betty Bobbitt
    Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance
    Erica ~ Patsy King
    Bea ~ Val Lehman
    Jim ~ Gerard Maguire
    Doreen ~ Colette Mann
    Vera ~ Fiona Spence
    Kay ~ Sandy Gore
    Margo ~ Jane Clifton
    Agnes ~ Lois Ramsay
    Kevin ~ Ian Gilmour
    UNCREDITED
    Wendy ~ Helen Noonan

  • Written by Sheila Sibley
  • Directed by Leigh Spence

    • Is Kevin's new haircut a baby mullet?

    		Erica tells the women they will all lose seven day's remission as punishment for the attack on Vince. Bea agrees with Margo that it must have been Kay who lagged on them. Judy suggests that the best way to get back at Kay might be to undermine her claim to be cured of her gambling addiction. Bea tells Margo she is going to give Kay credit and takes a collection to give her the funds to do so. Lizzie calls Agnes a lazy bitch when she finds she hasn't done anything about her application to visit Josie in hospital. Margo and Judy try to tempt Kay into laying a bet by discussing forthcoming races in front of her, but she claims not be interested. Erica promises Lizzie she will arrange for her to visit Josie. Vera finds Agnes slumped across her desk in her office and raises the alarm, but when Jim goes to check on her he find she has only fallen asleep. His soft spot for old ladies means he doesn't report the incident, but he doesn't take Agnes up on on her offer to share her lunch of raw vegetables. Bea drops in on Kay to give her a gentle warning and after Meg has sent Kay to lunch, Bea pours a kettle full of water over her bed. When Jim mentions to Agnes that he feels he needs a new start, she points out an advertisement for the Governorship of Barnhurst, and their conversation shows that she has not always been as hopeless at her job as she now is. Bea advises Doreen to go straight to Erica to get permission for an overnight visit with Kevin, but Vera intervenes and redirects her to Agnes, who gets her name wrong and pays very little attention to Doreen's request. Kay is tempted into a game of poker and the others players let her win to trap her into playing for money. Jim tells Meg and Vera about the job at Barnhurst, and they both encourage him to apply, though Vera hardly manages to conceal her delight at the prospect of getting Jim out of her way. Margo gives Kay her poker winnings and takes it back again as a bet on a forthcoming race. Bea goes to Agnes and tells her what she thinks of her for not arranging Doreen's visit, but Erica walks in just as she is in full flood. Erica takes away Bea's buyup for a week as punishment for her insolence towards Agnes, but she ends up agreeing to arrange the visit herself. When she phones Agnes to chase it up, she has to explain to Agnes who she is. Kevin visits Doreen and dismays her by his unwillingness to start a family immediately. Kay loses heavily at cards to Bea and hasn't enough cash to pay up, so Bea demands Kay's buyup instead. Doreen lies awake unsure what to do about her pregnancy but eventually decides she must have an abortion, and goes to see Agnes next day to ask for her to arrange it. Agnes is horrified and tries to talk her out of it. Erica agrees to give Jim a reference for his job application. Meg hands out the buyup forms and Bea snatches Kay's to fill in what she wants herself. Agnes calls Kevin in to Wentworth to discuss with him Doreen's request for an abortion, which is the first he's even heard about her being pregnant.

    EPISODE 138

    Broadcast on Channel 5 (UK) Monday 22nd September 23:45 Kevin discovers he is not the father of Doreen's baby and insists she charge Vince with rape. Kay continues her involvement with gambling and the prisoners boycott Agnes.

    Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne
    Judy ~ Betty Bobbitt
    Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance
    Erica ~ Patsy King
    Bea ~ Val Lehman
    Jim ~ Gerard Maguire
    Doreen ~ Colette Mann
    Vera ~ Fiona Spence
    Kay ~ Sandy Gore
    Margo ~ Jane Clifton
    Agnes ~ Lois Ramsay
    Kevin ~ Ian Gilmour
    Mr Douglas ~ Ian Smith
    Dr Weissman ~ Bryon Williams
    Mr Spenser ~ Brian Moll
    Sgt. Henessey ~ Marni Randall

  • Written by Margaret McClusky
  • Directed by Leigh Spence

    • Mail call includes letters for "Stokes" and "Nagle" (who does not seem to be the same actress as she was during the factory project).

    Judy definitely says "sisters" even though later she only seems to have one.

    		Kevin thinks he is the father of Doreen's baby and is delighted with the news. Meanwhile Bea is advising Doreen to go to Erica if Agnes won't help her arrange the abortion. Erica asks Agnes why she's allowed Doreen a second visit from Kevin and tries to push her into coming up with some ideas to justify her salary. Kevin meets Doreen in the garden: though she hedges at first, she eventually admits that Kevin is not the father of her baby and tells Kevin and Meg that Vince raped her. Kevin insists that she must report it to the police. Kay places a bet with Margo using some money she'd hidden away for emergencies. Doreen tells Bea that Agnes had passed on information about her pregnancy, and Bea approves of Kevin's decision to go the police. Erica has to calm Kevin down, and later at dinner with Meg she admits that she feels personally responsible for Doreen's plight. Kay's solicitor advises her to co-operate with Dr Weissman and make an attempt to give up gambling: Kay pretends she already has. Bea tells the women to boycott Agnes and go direct to Erica will all their problems. Margo gives Kay her winnings but deducts what Kay still owes her from the factory. Doreen is interviewed by a policewoman, who decides that there is insufficient evidence to prosecute Vince. Agnes refuses to let Dr Weissman use her room to interview Kay, as she thinks psychiatrists are a waste of time, so he is forced to see her in the interview room. Agnes fails to turn up for a classification meeting, even though Erica had reminded her of it earlier: both Meg and Vera say they think Agnes should be retired. Judy tells Doreen she thinks Kevin is going to the police only because he wants revenge, not out of concern for her. Vera finds Kay giving Margo a shaking after she loses her last cent. Erica goes to see Ted Douglas to ask for a replacement for Agnes: he asks her opinion of Jim as a potential Governor, and she lets him know she has some reservations. Both Lizzie and Judy ask to see Erica rather than Agnes. Jim goes to warn Agnes of the bad feeling against her from both staff and inmates, and finds her spreading her clutter into the corridor outside her office. Lizzie is told there have been complications with Josie's operation and she will have to stay in hospital a while longer. Judy gets a letter about her father's will: he has left her everything but her sisters are contesting it. Margo provokes Kay into attacking her by calling her a loser: Vera bundles Kay off to see the Governor, but Erica is willing to give her another chance when Kay says she has been set up. Kevin visits Doreen and tells her that he'll go to the factory and tell everyone about Vince. Doreen explains that she had sex with Vince twice and the second time she wasn't really raped.

    EPISODE 139

    Broadcast on Channel 5 (UK) Tuesday 23rd September 23:45 Kevin visits Doreen and tells her that he wants a divorce, causing her to become suicidal.

    Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne
    Judy ~ Betty Bobbitt
    Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance
    Erica ~ Patsy King
    Bea ~ Val Lehman
    Jim ~ Gerard Maguire
    Doreen ~ Colette Mann
    Vera ~ Fiona Spence
    Margo ~ Jane Clifton
    Kevin ~ Ian Gilmour
    Kay ~ Sandy Gore
    Agnes ~ Lois Ramsay

  • Written by Denise Morgan
  • Directed by Michael Pattinson

    • The final credits are played over Doreen in sickbay rather than the usual shots of the lockup officer.

    This episode is the source of an out-take seen on British TV in "It'll be all right on the night" - when Doreen tries to break the mirror the whole cabinet falls off the wall.

    Doreen's second suicide attempt includes dialogue and brief clips from the wedding in (116) - an episode also written by Denise Morgan.

    		Kevin realises that Doreen intended to let him think the baby was his, and he is equally appalled at the thought that she let someone else have sex with her to try to get him a job. Kay tries to make peace with Margo as she hopes not to be returning after her trial. Doreen plans to escape in order to be able to talk to Kevin again, and Judy offers to go with her to look after her. Bea asks Meg to put in a word in support of Doreen getting day release, but Erica tells Meg she won't be able to get approval in time. Kay realises that Judy is not intending to return after her escape, as she has told Bea she would. Lizzie's singing makes the officers leave the shower block to give the women time to finalise the escape plan. Kay offers to give her clothes to be adapted as a disguise, and Bea insists that both Doreen and Judy have to be back by 4 o'clock. Erica tries to persuade Kevin not to give up on Doreen and invites him to talk to Doreen in her office at half past twelve. Lizzie overhears Kay telling Vera about the escape, and manages to get outside to warn Doreen and Judy in time. The escape attempt Vera is expecting fails to take place. Doreen is called to Erica's office: Kevin tells her he's leaving her and wants a divorce. Doreen makes a good show of being noble about it, but afterwards goes to her cell and drafts a note to Bea, Lizzie and Judy. She pretends to be sick when Vera finds her in the cell, and in the shower block, she is about to cut her wrists with a piece of mirror when Meg interrupts and takes her to talk to Agnes. Agnes gets it all wrong and apologises for not arranging the day release yet, and Doreen has to tell her she's too late once again. Agnes accuses Meg of keeping her in the dark deliberately, but Meg tells her she would have been up to date if she'd read the reports on her desk. Doreen pretends she's back with Kevin to stop the other women bothering her with questions. Bea takes a vote on whether to fix it so Kay is imprisoned, and the vote is carried. Lizzie pretends to steal from Vera's handbag in the staff room so she can get caught and give false information about needing something to pay back her debts to Kay for the poker school Kay is supposed to be running. Bea invites Kay to a poker game in the rec room, and even offers her half her buyup back to give her something to bet with. As soon as the poker game starts, Doreen leaves the rec room and goes to the shower block to look for the pieces of broken mirror, but the bin has been emptied. The women set Kay's mind at ease by demonstrating how quickly the poker game can be swept away and hidden if the officers arrive, but when the time comes the winnings are swept up and dumped in Kay's lap, accompanied by a staged argument so that even the stupidest officer could figure out who to blame. Meg notices Doreen is missing and tells Bea about Kevin wanting a divorce. Officers and inmates join forces to search for Doreen, who is ripping up sheets in the laundry to make a rope to hang herself . Vera and Meg arrive just after she has jumped off the folding table and they cut her down and revive her. Erica tells Kay that she will tell Dr Weissman that in her opinion Kay has no intention to reform herself. Kevin tells Doreen he is willing to give their relationship another chance: she insists that he must not do it out of duty or pity, and she feels it is probably already too late.

    EPISODE 140

    Broadcast on Channel 5 (UK) Channel 5 Wednesday 24th September 23:30 Lizzie receives a final visit from Josie and is cheered up by Doreen who has decided to keep her baby and returns from the prison hospital with a new optimism. Agnes resigns; and Kay gets five years after Dr Weissman testifies against her.

    Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne
    Judy ~ Betty Bobbitt
    Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance
    Erica ~ Patsy King
    Bea ~ Val Lehman
    Jim ~ Gerard Maguire
    Doreen ~ Colette Mann
    Vera ~ Fiona Spence
    Josie ~ Michelle Argue
    Margo ~ Jane Clifton
    Linda ~ Elaine Cusick
    Ellen ~ Judith Dick
    Kay ~ Sandy Gore
    Agnes ~ Lois Ramsay
    Mr Spenser ~ Brian Moll
    Mr Douglas ~ Ian Smith
    Dr Weissman ~ Bryon Williams
    UNCREDITED
    Prosecutor (Kay's trial) ~ John Heywood
    Sally ~ Nanette Wallace
    Wendy ~ Helen Noonan
    OTHER CHARACTERS
    Josie's doctor

  • Written by John Wood
  • Directed by Michael Pattinson
    		• Bea blames herself for not noticing anything wrong with Doreen. Meg tells Lizzie that her visit to see Josie has been arranged, but Bea is suspicious that something must be wrong as permission was granted unusually quickly. Judy tells Margo to get lost when she comes to Kay wanting her to place a bet. Ted comes to see Erica, and she repeats her demand that Agnes must go, and threatens to withdraw her from working contact with the prisoners. Ellen comes to collect Lizzie and tells her that the doctors are giving Josie tests for bone marrow disease. A conversation with Jim convinces Agnes she must resign and she phones Erica to tell her so. Jim goes straight to Erica's office accusing her of victimising Agnes, not realising that Ted Douglas is in the office too. Jim is later summoned to see Ted in Erica's office and told he can no longer be considered for the Governorship of Barnhurst after his outburst against Erica. Kay asks Erica if she can be sent back to isolation until her trial as she fears she may be set up again. Margo gets her runner Linda to put pressure on Kay to place a bet when she delivers Kay's meal to isolation, but Kay sends her packing. Erica offers to arrange a transfer for Agnes, but she stands on her dignity and refuses, asking to be left alone, as she still has "a lot of packing to do". Lizzie tries to cheer Josie up, as she is worried by all the tests she's been given. Vera wants the social worker's office to be given over to the senior staff, saying she's sick of writing up reports in reception: Meg wryly comments that maybe she shouldn't write so many. Bea is allowed to visit Doreen in sickbay but she is still in very low spirits and Jim sends her away before she can get much of a reaction from Doreen. Ellen comes to see Lizzie next day to tell her that Josie's tests were positive and she needs urgent treatment in Chicago. At Kay's trial, Dr Weissman says Kay showed no intention to reform herself and used her meetings with him only as a means of establishing the grounds for her defence. Meg tells Doreen she should look on the baby as her own and try to forget who the father is if she intends to keep it. Kay's solicitor points out to her that she only has herself to blame for Dr Weissman's damning evidence. Lizzie says goodbye to Josie and Ellen before they leave for America, and tells Ellen she is happy to pay for Josie's treatment. Agnes tells Jim not to worry about her and thanks him for being the only person who supported her. Bea warns Lizzie to cheer up as they will only depress Doreen more when she gets out of the infirmary. As a result of seeing Agnes trying to be brave about being sacked, Jim reacts strangely when Meg asks him if he's heard anything about the Barnhurst job and tells her bluntly to stop interfering in his life. Kay is brought back to Wentworth on a five year sentence for theft and embezzlement - and hasn't even had her shower before she's offering Vera a deal to join forces to fix Bea.

    Storyliners: Dave Worthington, Alistair Sharp
    Script Editors: Ian Smith (136); Patrick Amer (137); Ian Smith (138)-(139); Patrick Amer (140)

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    Updated ~ 20 October 2001