EPISODE 261Broadcast on Channel 5 Friday 01 May 1998 04:40 Meg puts her marriage before promotion to Deputy Governor, the Department investigates possible fraud in the kitchen and Bea begins to suspect Kate.CREDITSMeg ~ Elspeth BallantyneJudy ~ Betty Bobbitt Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Erica ~ Patsy King Bea ~ Val Lehman Doreen ~ Colette Mann Officer Powell ~ Judith McGrath Kate ~ Olivia Hamnett Steve ~ Wayne Jarratt Sandy ~ Louise Le Nay Marie ~ Maggie Millar Janet ~ Kate Sheil Lori ~ Susannah Fowle Ian ~ Peter Curtin Wally ~ Alan Hopgood Susie ~ Jacqui Gordon Ron ~ Tim Robertson  Desk Sergeant ~ Bernard Barry  Sen. Sgt. Grant ~ Ivor Bowyer  Hazel ~ Belinda Davey Jackie Donahue ~ Kathryn Lynch  The names in italics were missing from the credits broadcast by Channel 5 - looks like a whole screenful went missing somehow! | Doreen asks Bea where Sandy is, having looked in her cell and not found her. She also comments that Marie and her gang also seem to be missing. Bea seems unconcerned and sends Doreen away, but goes after her when she leaves. Doreen hears a commotion in the shower block and rushes to help, giving Marie a wallop in the face with her plaster cast. Bea is right behind Doreen and cuts Sandy down: Doreen is sent to fetch help. Steve and Janet are patrolling the corridors and pass Marie (with a bloody nose) and her supporters just before Doreen fetches them to the shower block. Steve gives Sandy mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Even though they have seen the real culprits, both Janet and Steve assume Doreen and Bea are responsible for the attack. Judy tells Wally she's a bit nervous about talking to the police: she thinks they may remember Wally's address from the last time she escaped. Erica interviews Sandy in the infirmary: Sandy won't identify her attackers, but tells Erica she is wrong to suspect Doreen and Bea. When she questions them later, Erica seems inclined to believe their story that they found Sandy on the floor in the shower block. Erica decides to send Doreen to maternity to get her away from the influence of Bea and Marie. Wally drives Judy to the police station. Marie notices Steve coming along the corridor and provokes Bea to threaten her so he can see it. Sandy writes a note and hides it on the meal tray as it is collected from the infirmary. Steve tries to find out from Sandy what happened, but she won't tell him. Janet wants to take some time off, but Erica tells her she will have to speak to Colleen, who is to be appointed Deputy Governor. The note from Sandy is passed to Bea: Marie wants to know what it says, but Bea tells her it's nothing she doesn't already know. Bea sneaks out of the laundry to speak to Doreen about the note, in which Sandy implicated Kate as the person who set her up: Doreen remembers that Kate left the rec room just after Sandy was taken ill. Erica makes the official announcement of Colleen's promotion, and commiserates with Meg, saying that she hopes that at least her home situation is improved. Meg replies that she is getting a divorce from Bob. Colleen talks to Janet about her family and comments that her own husband is quite different to Meg's, and has no ambition to conflict with her own. Kate is worried that Sandy or Bea will suspect her and calls Marie stupid for messing up her part of the plan. Susie cuts her hand accidentally in the workshop, and Ian takes her off the infirmary: Kate is called to bandage the wound. Hazel talks to Lizzie about her children and her relationship with George, explaining that they never married because his wife is still alive in a mental hospital. Kate asks Colleen to help her and move her to another wing, as someone now knows that she's the one who passed on information about the women to the officers. Colleen tells her she's the wrong person to be depending on someone else's loyalty and refuses to have Kate moved. Erica tells Janet the Department is calling in the police to investigate the fraud in the kitchen, and it looks as if Bea will get the blame, as she's the only one to be caught in possession of the stolen goods. Judy is driving her taxi at night when a prostitute and her customer hire her off the rank to go back to a motel. The man doesn't seem to be able to wait that long and Judy tells him to leave the girl alone while he's in her cab. Janet confesses to Meg that she was very impressed by the way Ian managed to calm Susie down. At the motel, the prostitute changes her mind and says she doesn't want to go inside after all. The man tries to drag her out of the cab, but Judy intervenes, In the scuffle, his wallet falls out of his jacket and the prostitute helps herself to the cash. Judy takes the prostitute to the address she gives as her home, though as soon as Judy is out of sight, she leaves to go back on the street again. The customer goes to a police station to report he has been assaulted and robbed. Judy cleans out her cab at the end of the night, but fails to notice the customer's empty wallet among the rubbish as she throws it all into the bin outside Wally's cottage. |
EPISODE 262Broadcast on Channel 5 Saturday 02 May 1998 04:40 Judy is charged with assaulting Jock Stewart (?) and sent back to Wentworth.CREDITSMeg ~ Elspeth BallantyneJudy ~ Betty Bobbitt Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Erica ~ Patsy King Bea ~ Val Lehman Officer Powell ~ Judith McGrath Kate ~ Olivia Hamnett Steve ~ Wayne Jarratt Sandy ~ Louise Le Nay Marie ~ Maggie Millar Janet ~ Kate Sheil Ian ~ Peter Curtin Wally ~ Alan Hopgood Susie ~ Jacqui Gordon Ron ~ Tim Robertson Det Sgt Ross ~ Bill Garner Sister Franklin ~ Diana Greentree Visiting Justice ~ Howard Priddle  Detective ~ Neil Thompson  Officer Barry ~ Joy Westmore Spotted by David Breeze: "Judy is brought back to Wentworth, she is presented to the Governor with dry hair! No shower?" Continuity corner: the level of liquid in the medicine glass miraculously gets higher between one shot | The man complaining of being robbed seems to cool off a little when the police tell him that Judy was involved in another incident two days earlier that led to a man being hospitalized. Judy tries to get some sleep as someone apparently plays a record of farmyard sound effects outside her window. Sandy is allowed to go back to her cell and Meg warns her not to try to take revenge for the attack on her. Det. Sgt. Ross tells Kate the information she gave him didn't check out: at first she blames Inspector Grace's incompetence, but realises that Sandy had deliberately given her false information. The police arrive to question Judy but search the outside of the house first and find the wallet. Judy denies their allegations, but the detective shows her the wallet and takes her in for questioning. Bea and Sandy sit down with Kate at lunch to wind her up by speculating on how Sandy could have become ill. Det. Sgt. Ross, who also seems to be in charge of the investigation into the kitchen fraud, wants to interview Bea, but tells Erica that he wants her isolated afterwards, as they suspect that drugs are being smuggled into Wentworth. Erica says it's highly unlikely that Bea would be involved, but seems to agree to the isolation. Judy is brought back to Wentworth. Sandy tells Susie that she's only making it worse for herself by trying to escape, but agrees to help her if she can come up with a "safe" way to do it. Det. Sgt. Ross tells Bea she will be charged with fraud, and as she is leaving the interview room asks her how the drug racket with Peterson is coming along. Bea puts him straight on her own attitude to drugs, and tells him he must be wrong about Kate as her appeal is coming up soon and she has a good chance with the new witness coming forward. Det. Sgt. Ross replies that he's the witness and Kate might be in for a big disappointment. Bea wants to know why he's telling her all this: he agrees that he had planned that he and Bea could swap information, but in any case has made sure she won't be able to do anything about it by having her sent to isolation. Bea doubts if he can stop her. Kate tries to confide in Judy about the "change" in Sandy, but Judy has already spoken to Sandy and is able to reel off a long list of things that might account for it, like not getting a certain letter which led to her husband's death. Bea is surprised to have Meg bring her breakfast, but takes the chance to bring up the subject of Colleen's appointment as Deputy Governor, claiming to know how she got the post. Meg says she has her own ideas, but would like to hear Bea's, so Bea tells her about Kate lagging to the police, and therefore probably to Colleen too. Bea is really angling for a visit from Sandy: Meg thanks her for the information but tells her she can't agree to that. Wally comes to visit Judy and tells her he's been trying to trace the prostitute. She says he shouldn't get involved, but at least he could have her mail forwarded so Lori won't know she's back in jail. The visiting justice finds Bea guilty of fraud and sentences her to an additional six months: Det. Sgt. Ross asks that she remain in isolation until "other" enquiries are concluded. Meg asks Kate straight out if she's been informing to the police and prison officers, but gets a blank denial. Bea tries to get Steve to allow her a visit from Sandy, or at least to get a message to her that she was right and not to trust her friends. Susie lifts some bread from Lil's plate to give to Lizzie, and incurs the wrath of Marie who comes over to their table. Sandy responds by stabbing a fork into Marie's hand.  Steve calls Sandy out of the dining room and gives her Bea's message without saying who it's from, though Sandy gets the gist well enough without. Susie is discussing escape techniques in Lizzie's cell when Marie comes to teach her a lesson - Susie brandishes a kettle of boiling water to get her to back off and leave them both alone. Bea writes a note to Sandy and puts it in the pocket of the dressing gown Steve has earlier agreed to take away to be washed. On exercise period, Susie sees Joyce Barry put down her spectacles on the barbecue for a moment to rest her eyes, so she picks them up and pockets them. Joyce is half-blind without them and Steve tells the women they will have to be searched in reception unless they give the glasses back, but the women find the sight of Joyce groping around far too hilarious.  Sandy is checked up by Sister Franklin (assisted by Kate) and complains of a headache. The Sister prepares a painkiller, but Kate adds something to it when her back is turned. However, the sister is called away to deal with an accident, so Kate has to give the medicine to Sandy herself. Sandy notices that Kate's hand is shaking, and says it might be better if she took it herself. Kate protests that she has nerves not a headache, but Sandy forces the glass to her lips and makes her drink.  |
EPISODE 263Broadcast on Channel 5 Sunday 03 May 1998 04:40 Kate's ploy to poison Sandy backfires and Sandy forces her to drink the lethal draught herself.CREDITSMeg ~ Elspeth BallantyneJudy ~ Betty Bobbitt Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Erica ~ Patsy King Officer Powell ~ Judith McGrath Kate ~ Olivia Hamnett Steve ~ Wayne Jarratt Sandy ~ Louise Le Nay Marie ~ Maggie Millar Janet ~ Kate Sheil Hazel ~ Belinda Davey Ian ~ Peter Curtin Det. Sgt. Ross ~ Bill Garner Det. Insp. Grace ~ Terry Gill Susie ~ Jacqui Gordon Sister Franklin ~ Diana Greentree Mr Andrews ~ Alan Madden  Mouse ~ Jentah Sobott  Ted Williams ~ Roy Edmunds The film posters happen to include two for films featuring Prisoner actresses: not only "Picnic at Hanging Rock" | Kate rushes out of the sick room and bumps into Sister Franklin, who has returned already. To give herself time to search the medicine cabinet, she tells the sister she ought to check on Sandy but can't find what she wants. Instead she rushes to the dining room, takes a salt dispenser and goes back to her cell. Marie taunts Judy about being back inside. Kate makes a salt solution and drinks it to make herself sick. Sandy is allowed to leave the infirmary and goes to the dining room: she warns Marie that if she's the lagger, she's as good as dead. After the meal, Sandy goes to see Kate in her cell and notices the empty salt container. Meg tells Erica about Bea's suspicion that Kate may be lagging to Colleen: Erica delicately inquires if this has anything to do with Colleen's promotion. Sandy meets Kate in a corridor and challenges her about the salt: Kate claims she wanted it to remove a stain. Mouse asks Marie if she has any drugs to sell, and this swiftly develops into a face-off between Marie and Judy: Mouse chips in and unthinkingly tells Marie about Judy's pacemaker. Hazel finds Bea's note in the laundry bag. Marie demands to see it, and to stop her Hazel slams the drier door hard into Marie's arm. Meg breaks up the scuffle, but Hazel is unable to prove it was self-defence, as no-one apart from Judy will support her. Erica makes Hazel admit Marie didn't strike the first blow, and sends her to solitary for 24 hours. Kate's new solicitor tells her that her sentence could be reduced to manslaughter and she could be released within six months. Judy tells Sandy about the note but admits she didn't see it, and thinks Hazel must still have it. In solitary, Hazel opens the note, reads it and frowns. Sandy and Judy play with Kate by talking about Bea's note: Kate pushes her plate away so Sandy covers it with salt to improve the taste for her. Kate leaves the dining room and runs into Colleen. She offers Colleen money if she will have Sandy put in isolation, but Colleen firmly refuses. Ian tricks Janet into going to see an old movie with him. Lizzie tries to remember what a visitor's pass looks like, so Susie can fake one for her escape. Erica gives Colleen a tactful warning that a Deputy Governor should be more "reserved" in her dealings with the women. Inspector Grace is planning a major raid on McNally's drug operation and tells Sgt. Ross that afterwards they will have no further use for Kate. Susie collects a bundle from the garden including the fake visitor's pass and the women gather round her while she takes off her uniform to reveal her "disguise" beneath - the dress made from a sheet on the laundry sewing machine. Lizzie distracts Colleen while Susie tries to mingle with a group of visitors who are just leaving, but Colleen spots her in the distance. The gate guard stops Susie and Colleen turns her round to see Joyce's glasses perched on her nose.  Colleen tells Erica she didn't think it was a serious escape attempt and would be inclined to be lenient, so Susie just loses her privileges. As she is sent away, Susie asks Erica why she is in Wentworth. Erica gives her the official explanation, which is that she was charged with vagrancy and was in moral danger living with a known prostitute, but it is clear she doesn't really understand herself either. Colleen strings Kate along by pretending to be willing to be bribed and finds out about Kate's bank accounts in her mother's name. Janet seems to be a convert to old movies after seeing "Now, Voyager" with Ian. When Inspector Grace arrives to see Erica, Colleen nervously asks him to be discreet about the meetings she arranged between him and Kate. Erica is outraged that the Inspector knew about the drug drops in Wentworth, but didn't inform her. He says that they have stopped now anyway and they are ready to charge Marie and Kate. He wants to interview them both individually. When Colleen adds that he can also charge Kate with attempted bribery, Erica is forced to wonder aloud if she'd even be told if Wentworth were on fire. Susie is already planning her next escape attempt. Kate is taken to see a "visitor" in Erica's office. Her reaction when she hears the charges and recognises her "witness" taking notes is a paranoid outburst about being used by everyone. She launches herself at Inspector Grace and tries to throttle him, and is dragged away shrieking to solitary. |
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