EPISODE 391Broadcast on Channel 5 Friday 30 October 1998 04:40 Panic spreads in Wentworth when the true cause of Glynnis's death becomes apparent. Maxine and Tinker-Belle rob a factory, with fatal consequences. Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Judy ~ Betty Bobbitt Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Bea ~ Val Lehman Colleen ~ Judith McGrath Ann ~ Gerda Nicolson Maxine ~ Lisa Crittenden Wally ~ Alan Hopgood Pixie ~ Judy McBurney Helen ~ Caroline Gillmer Petra ~ Penny Maegraith Scott ~ Tim Elston Glynnis Ladd ~ Debbie Cuming Phyllis Hunt ~ Reylene Pearce Tony Maguire ~ David Bradshaw Don Payne ~ Allan Lander Irene Henderson ~ Beverley Dunn Rosemary Kaye ~ Jodie Yemm  Belle Peters (Tinker) ~ Lesley Baker Mrs Beeton ~ Marion Edwards  Rod Miller ~ Chris Waters  Assist. Insp. Hill ~ Robin Anson  Sergeant ~ Derek Williams  [?]Officer Barry ~ Joy Westmore Mr Waters ~ Robin Cuming  Young Man ~ Andrew Buchanan  Waitress ~ Anne Smith  Gate Guard (Trevor) ~ Brad Lindsay Accomplice ~ John Walker Truck Driver ~ Sam Brown  Armed Guard ~ Glen Rueland  | Scott admits he knows very little about the disease, other than that it's spread by saliva and is highly contagious: apparently there has never been a case before in Australia. Scott is called to see Glynnis: he finds Lizzie mopping her brow and tells her to stop and move away from Glynnis. Ann decides the visitors from PASSIVE are to be put in solitary. Meanwhile, Joyce Barry is showing the visitors around the laundry. Meg asks them to go the staff room, whereas all the women are to assemble in the rec room for an important announcement. Ann tells the women about the quarantine: Bea is suspicious that they were not also given details of Glynnis' illness. Meg queries Ann's decision not to give the women all the details, but Ann replies that she didn't want to panic them as they certainly couldn't cope with a riot at that moment. The visitors are annoyed at having to stay inside, especially Don Payne who protests that as a businessman his time is money and he cannot afford to be kept in prison. Medical supplies are delivered outside the gates. Even though the women are to be given an injection, it's only a "gamma globulin" (?) to boost the women's resistance to the disease. Scott tells Ann that there is no vaccine or cure for lassa fever. A girl in a restaurant has her money and suitcase stolen: Wally is in the restaurant and takes her to the police where she makes a statement  then to a boarding house. The State Health Inspector informs Ann that Glynnis hasn't travelled abroad, and that the carrier must be in Australia, so it is important they try to trace her contacts just before coing to Wentworth. Glynnis gives Ann the name "Harry" before she dies. Mrs Henderson comes in search of Ann to complain about the way they are being treated but panics and rushes into the staff room, where Lizzie is having a smoke, and lets out that Glynnis is dead. Judy is turned away at the gates and the guard tells her she will have to phone the Governor if she wants more information. As Ann talks to the women in the laundry, Bea goes to Ann to demand the truth. Helen goes down with the fever. Ann passes on the information that Glynnis had bought drugs in the dock area. Belle and Maxine break into the factory, but Maxine puts her foot through a broken floorboard and twists her ankle. Inspector Hill tells Wally and Judy the information he got from Ann: they decide to play detective down at the docks. Petra, Bea and Lizzie volunteer to nurse the sick, and Pixie follows when Tony offers to help too. The rec room is cleared as a temporary sick bay. Belle helps Maxine out of the factory, but a car draws up outside. Maxine is shot and killed  by an armed security guard. Belle attacks him and makes her escape. |
EPISODE 392Broadcast on Channel 5 Saturday 31 October 1998 04:40 Wentworth mourns the death of a much-loved inmate. Bea falls in love and lassa fever claims more victims.Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Judy ~ Betty Bobbitt Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Bea ~ Val Lehman Colleen ~ Judith McGrath Ann ~ Gerda Nicolson Maxine ~ Lisa Crittenden Wally ~ Alan Hopgood Pixie ~ Judy McBurney Petra ~ Penny Maegraith Scott ~ Tim Elston Helen ~ Caroline Gillmer Phyllis ~ Reylene Pearce Belle Peters (Tinker) ~ Lesley Baker Tony Maguire ~ David Bradshaw Irene Henderson ~ Beverley Dunn Don Payne ~ Allan Lander Rosemary Kaye ~ Jodie Yemm Mrs Beeton ~ Marion Edwards Rod Miller ~ Chris Waters Captain Todd ~ Ed Turley  Betty Daley ~ Suzanne Dudley  Barman ~ Jack Perry  Gate Guard (No. 2) ~ David Bickerstaff Special prize for nonsensical dialogue goes to Scott's lines: "It could be worse. Not much, but it could be a lot worse" Rosemary's letter home | Belle makes it to the hide-out, but the police arrive outside  and she has to evade them again. Meg tells Ann that Maxine is dead, and Ann agrees that in the circumstances it may be better to withhold the news, especially from Lizzie. Tammy is brought to the rec room  as a new lassa fever case. Belle steals a dress from a washing line. Wally gets the all clear on his and Judy's blood tests, and tries to trace Glynnis' contact at the docks. Pixie's babbling irritates both the PASSIVE visitors and Joan, who throws away a plate of cakes Pixie has brought from the kitchen for Tony Maguire. Wally asks around in bars for a sailor called "Harry": a barman suggests he tries a ship just in from Africa. Judy hears about Maxine's death on the radio, just as Belle arrives at Driscoll. Wally talks to the ship's captain, whose disapproval of drug dealers seems to make him more willing to help and he takes Wally's phone number to pass on any information he hears. Belle asks to stay at the halfway house saying a "friend" had mentioned the place to her. When Tony ventures to express cautious admiration of Bea, Joan warns all the visitors that Bea has killed three people. Maxine's letter to Lizzie arrives at Wentworth and Ann decides to hold it back for a while. Scott passes out with exhaustion and is helped to bed. Belle slips up and a casual mention of Maxine makes it clear to Judy that she knew Maxine, and she sends the other women away to have a serious talk with Belle and find out the truth. Babs is taken ill. Judy blames herself for turning Maxine away. Belle leaves the halfway house. Mrs Henderson changes her mind and volunteers to help look after the sick. Lizzie overhears news of Maxine's death on Mr Payne's radio when she brings him some left-over sandwiches in the staff room. Ann gives Lizzie Maxine's letter. Bea reads it out to her, and this crossfades to Maxine's own voice with a sequence of flashbacks representing Lizzie's memories of Maxine. Rosemary starts work at the supermarket and the manager Rod invites her out for a pizza after work. Irene's views start to change when she sees how the wmoen look after each other. Joan starts to feel ill, and Phyllis finds Petra in a sweat, rushing out of the cell shrieking hysterically in case she might have caught the fever too. Colleen finds Scott tending to Petra and realises it is more than just professional concern. Mr Payne takes Joan's keys while she is sleeping and tries to escape. He runs into Meg and Colleen and pretends he was just coming to fetch them to find help for Joan. He manages to get outside, but is stopped in the grounds by a security guard. Joan is put to bed, and Bea refuses to fetch water for her or do anything else to help "that bitch". Lil dies in Colleen's arms with a tasteful trickle of blood coming from the corner of her mouth  . Rod makes a pass at Rosemary as she is getting ready for bed, but she is saved by the intervention of Mrs Beeton, who warns her to lock her bedroom door at night. Lizzie has the fever next morning, prompting Phyllis to another fit of hysterics, as she'd been sharing her cell. Judy finds that Belle has left $20,000 as a going away present - Maxine's share of the proceeds from the robbery. |
EPISODE 393Broadcast on Channel 5 Sunday 01 November 1998 04:40 The deadly fever subsides after taking many lives. Bea and Tony spend a night together. But is it their last?Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Judy ~ Betty Bobbitt Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Bea ~ Val Lehman Colleen ~ Judith McGrath Ann ~ Gerda Nicolson Wally ~ Alan Hopgood Pixie ~ Judy McBurney Helen ~ Caroline Gillmer Petra ~ Penny Maegraith Scott ~ Tim Elston Phyllis ~ Reylene Pearce Tony Maguire ~ David Bradshaw Don Payne ~ Allan Lander Irene Henderson ~ Beverley Dunn Rosemary Kaye ~ Jodie Yemm Rod Miller ~ Chris Waters Hazel Kent ~ Belinda Davey Mrs Daniels ~ Bernadette Gibson  Roger Carter ~ Bruce Kilpatrick Betty Daley ~ Suzanne Dudley Det. Insp. Monopulis ~ Bob Ruggiero  Priest ~ Peter Taylor  Policeman Wilcox ~ John Ramsay  Officer Sharpe ~ Carolyn Quist Freddie de Young ~ Lazar Rodic  Harry (Cockatoo) ~ Diana Rogers (owner) The mugshots change at the start of this episode to include Pixie for the first time. Nurse Pixie | Lizzie and Joan are both still suffering from the fever. Phyllis has hysterics about having shared a cell with Lizzie and gets a slapping from Bea. Scott notices that Petra's fever has subsided. Judy and Wally decide to give the money back to the insurance company, rather than back to the factory it was stolen from, so the owners can't make a fake insurance claim. Helen also revives. The police tell Wally that someone outside Wentworth has died of lassa fever. Officer Sharpe is found dead in the laundry  . Wally gets a lead from Captain Todd: one of his sailors had returned recently from Africa, but his name was Freddie not Harry. Scott anounces that Joan is out of danger - to a complete lack of reaction from everyone. Hazel turns up at the halfway house, seeming a little vague  : Judy suspects she's back on the bottle. The police raid the house of the suspected contact, Freddie, but he's already dead: his parrot is still calling its own name - "Harry". Don Payne complains about still being inside and gets a telling off from Irene Henderson, who tells him he's being selfish and cowardly. Lizzie also starts to recover. Hazel tells Wally she isn't drunk, and it's the pills she's taking for her nerves that are making her woozy. She says the doctor prescibed them after she lost custody of the kids. Tony comforts Bea when she bursts into tears of relief after Lizzie's recovery. Wally decides to help Hazel see her children. Pixie lands Scott in trouble with Colleen by mentioning his relationship with Petra. Hazel refuses to go with Judy to Maxine's funeral. Colleen complains to Ann that she should have been todl about Scott and Petra. Judy talks to Roger at the funeral  , and lays into him when she finds out who he is. A remark of Pixie's leads Tony Maguire to reveal he isn't married, which seems to please Bea. Hazel and Judy borrow Betty's car and take a drive. Rosemary tries to query her payslip with her boss Rod but he replies with a veiled sexual proposition. When she tries to tell him that she won't be taking up his invitation to dinner, he withdraws his offer to give her a lift home and leaves her stranded in the car park. Rosemary goes next day to the halfway house to pay back the money she borrowed from Wally. Lizzie gets a letter from Mick, saying he'll be visiting Australia soon. Tony and Bea spend the night together. |
EPISODE 394Broadcast on Channel 5 Tuesday 03 November 1998 04:40 When Hazel disappears, Judy suspects there is something terribly wrong with her. Rosemary finds herself in serious trouble with the law, while Sonia Stevens' true nature is revealed to the inmates.Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Judy ~ Betty Bobbitt Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Bea ~ Val Lehman Colleen ~ Judith McGrath Ann ~ Gerda Nicolson Wally ~ Alan Hopgood Pixie ~ Judy McBurney Petra ~ Penny Maegraith Scott ~ Tim Elston Helen ~ Caroline Gillmer Phyllis ~ Reylene Pearce Tony Maguire ~ David Bradshaw Irene Henderson ~ Beverley Dunn Don Payne ~ Allan Lander Rosemary Kaye ~ Jodie Yemm Mrs Beeton ~ Marion Edwards Rod Miller ~ Chris Waters Hazel Kent ~ Belinda Davey Sonia Stevens ~ Tina Bursill Arthur Richards ~ Sydney Jackson Randi Goodlove ~ Zoe Bertram  Det. Insp. Stevens ~ Norman Yemm  Sergeant Dennis ~ Ian Cuming  Clarrie Forbes ~ Max Davidson  Mr Dixon ~ John McCallum-Howell Officer Barfield ~ Delva Hunter Gate Guard (Bob) ~ David Bickerstaff Policewoman No. 1 ~ Susan O'Neill Policewoman No. 2 ~ Anne Arnold  | Scott says that Lizzie, Tammy and Babs can go back to their cells but he insists that Joan has to stay in bed. Judy still feels guilty about the halfway house failing Maxine when she needed help. Wally tells her to pull herself together and tells her that he has managed to trace Hazel's family. Scott says that the quarantine can be lifted later the same day. Ann is infuriated by Arthur Richards' attitude over the supposedly lax discipline of the officers eating in the dining room with the prisoners, and goes home, leaving him to field any calls. Tony says goodbye to Bea  and she tells him there's no future in any relationship with a prison inmate, so he shouldn't make promises to visit her. Arthur Richards tells Bea she will get her $10,000, but she insists on seeing it in writing. Colleen warns Ann there may be problems with a new inmate: Sonia Stevens, who has been arrested on drugs charges and whose husband is the police officer who arrested some of the women in Wentworth. Judy finds that Hazel has left Driscoll without taking her pills: these turn out to be morphine rather than the tranquillisers Hazel claimed. Joan returns to work and inducts Sonia  : she is on a 15 year sentence for trafficking in heroin. Sonia lets the women think she's in prison for blackmailing a politician over a love letter. Randi Goodlove is brought to Wentworth on a 14 day sentence for soliciting. Joan hands over the newspapers to the women, censored but still with an article about Sonia. When challenged by the women, she claims she has been framed. Eddie visits Sonia  : she claims that his enemies are trying to get at him by framing her. Randi says she will get married as a cover for prostitution. Sonia begs Petra to believe she is innocent: Petra lets slip that Joan organised the last escape from Wentworth. Rosemary reluctantly accepts a loan from Rod, but he intended it as a down payment for sexual services and comes to Rosemary's room. She pushes him away and knocks him out with an ornament. When Mrs Beeton returns, Rosemary tells her she thinks she's killed Rod and has already called the police. Bea tells Phyllis to lay off Sonia until they all know the facts. Judy finds Hazel at a caravan park in the area where they went for a drive a few weeks earlier. Rosemary is questioned by the police about the attack on Rod, but they turn on her when Rod accuses her of stealing the money. Helen recognizes Sonia and tells the women she's known as the "Snake Lady": she runs a protection racket among prostitutes as well as supplying them with hard drugs. |
EPISODE 395Broadcast on Channel 5 Wednesday 04 November 1998 04:40 The women punish Sonia for her evil deeds on the outside. Hazel tells Judy the terrible truth about herself.Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Judy ~ Betty Bobbitt Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Bea ~ Val Lehman Colleen ~ Judith McGrath Ann ~ Gerda Nicolson Wally ~ Alan Hopgood Pixie ~ Judy McBurney Helen ~ Caroline Gillmer Petra ~ Penny Maegraith Scott ~ Tim Elston Phyllis ~ Reylene Pearce Rosemary Kaye ~ Jodie Yemm Hazel Kent ~ Belinda Davey Sonia Stevens ~ Tina Bursill Randi Goodlove ~ Zoe Bertram Jerry Turner ~ John Bowman  Shirley Mills ~ Lyn Semmler  Mary Adler ~ Bev Hay Frances ~ Wanda Davidson Policewoman ~ Abbie Holmes Frances is actually credited as "Francis" | Bea stops Phyllis going to bash Sonia, and declares a war of nerves instead. Wally asks Ann to help Rosemary, who has refused to let him stand bail for her and will be sent to Wentworth. Judy finds Hazel in a caravan park and manages to get her to open the door and let her in to talk. Sonia tries to recruit Petra to back her up, but she refuses. Judy asks Hazel why she left the halfway house: Hazel tells her she has an inoperable brain tumour. Rosemary is brought to Wentworth in a state of shock and protesting her innocence. Judy wants Hazel to stay at Wentworth rather than go back to hospital, despite Wally's advice that she doesn't have the training or facilities to care for her properly. Ann tells Colleen that there has been a Departmental directive that Sonia is to have unlimited visitors. Scott tells Judy there is no hope for Hazel, and she will deteriorate gradually until she loses her faculties one by one. Sonia's next visitor is her associate (and lover) Jerry Turner  : she tells him she plans to escape and wants to go away with him. Pixie fills Rosemary in on who's who and only manages to alarm her further when she tells her what most of the other inmates are inside for. Bea puts Sonia to work operating the sewing machine, and Phyllis jabs her hand with the needle. Noticing her clenched teeth composure when Colleen sends her to the infirmary, Bea predicts that Sonia won't be a push-over. Bette complains to Judy about Hazel getting favourable treatment, so she has to tell her the reason for Hazel's stay, but this only makes the women exaggeratedly solicitous towards Hazel and she notices the change in their attitude towards her. Randi starts work in reception. Judy asks Ann to let Hazel visit her friends in Wentworth. Joan persecutes Rosemary when she finds her alone in her cell writing to her father. To give Rosemary something more productive to do, she messes up her cell and tells her to tidy it up. Hazel turns on Judy for confiscating her pills  , as she has started to take them above the recommended dosage. Phyllis and Frances trash Sonia's cell: Joan fetches Sonia from the laundry and orders her to clear it up. Bea salts Sonia's food, so she swaps her plate with Rosemary's. Bea leaves it for a moment to see if Rosemary will stand up for herself and when she doesn't, she retaliates by stubbing a cigarette out in Sonia's dinner  . Sonia sees Phyllis in her cell and checks her things, finding her soap spiked with hidden razor blades. |
| (386) to (390) |
