EPISODE 501Broadcast on Channel 5 Saturday 10 April 1999 04:40 The police find Ann suffering from shock at the site of the explosion, but Meg lies unconscious under the rubble. Meanwhile, Joyce weakens under the strain of being Governor.CREDITSMeg ~ Elspeth BallantyneJudy ~ Betty Bobbitt Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Ann ~ Gerda Nicholson Myra ~ Anne Phelan Reb ~ Janet Andrewartha Len ~ Maurie Fields Pixie ~ Judy McBurney Bobbie ~ Maxine Klibingaitis Marlene ~ Genevieve Lemon Joyce ~ Joy Westmore Lou ~ Louise Siversen Det. Insp Rouse ~ Paul Karo Det Masters ~ Peter Sinclair Doctor Barton ~ Merfyn Owen  Mrs Baxter ~ Effie James  Officer Hagen ~ Christine Andrew  Officer Slattery ~ Dorothy Cutts Frances ~ Wanda Davidson Tammy ~ Gloria Ajenstat Lorna ~ Barbara Jungwirth Nurse ~ Christine Anderson  Policeman No. 1 ~ John Ramsay  Policeman No. 2 ~ Dirk Nicholl Ambulanceman ~ Nick Antipas  Ambulanceman No. 2 ~ Actual Patrolman No. 1 ~ John Penman | Inspector Rouse gets the surviving police officer to confirm that they found Brian Lowe, but they did not reach Ann and Meg before the building blew up. Fran comes to the dining room rather the worse for wear, and Myra is forced to admit she bashed her. Reb look suitably smug at the women's horrified reaction: yet another sign that Myra is losing her following. Ambulances and fire engines arrive at the warehouse. Ann is found, having escaped through a window leaving Meg behind. Joyce is told that Bobbie will survive after having her stomach pumped and refuses to act on Joan's suggestion that Bobbie should be sent to solitary. After the other women shun Fran as a killer, Lou offers to sells drugs to her. Meg is found alive among the rubble of the warehouse  . A doctor tells Ann that Meg has only suffered broken ribs and a ruptured spleen and is now in surgery. Inspector Rouse inadvertently lets Ann know that Phillip is dead - saying enigmatically that he assumed Lowe would have told her (by shouting upstairs while impaled on a spike, presumably?). Joan refuses to work an extra shift the following day and tells Joyce that's what she can expect if she's "playing Governor". Lou tells Reb that Camilla Wells is on holiday and suggests she will have to use the reporter who covered the Marathon to leak the news about the men in isolation. Meg has nightmares about squeaky electronic rats. Judy finds Fran stoned in the shower block. The women hear news about the explosion on a radio which is hastily confiscated by Officer Slattery. Myra puts futher nails in her coffin as top dog by snapping at the women when they suggest she should try to do something to help Bobbie. Joan visits Shane in the home and finds out he is to fostered by a family called the Taylors. Judy tells Reb (and not Myra) about Fran and asks her to investigate Lou's drug dealing. Lou tries to make a phone call to the press but fails to trick Offcer Slattery (who for once seems to be conscious during work hours). To her great surprise, the doctor tells Meg they were able to save her baby. Joyce agrees to put the men to work in the garden after Geoff points out they haven't had an exercise period. Ann tells the doctor that Meg is 3 months pregnant, and Ann asks to see her. Frank Burke points out to Geoff that he can afford to be relaxed about things as he doesn't have seven years left to serve, like him. Ann doesn't tell Meg that Phil is dead, especially when Meg asks Ann to tell him to come and see her. Joan asks Shane if he plans to see more of the Taylors. Bobbie returns to the women and offers to help Marlene look for cockroaches, as Tammy has found a prize specimen in the workshop. Reb plans to call the press about the male prisoners from the phone in the visitors' room with Lou's help. Shane goes skating (to a Duran Duran medley?) but Joan is rather more shaky on their feet. Len tells Joyce she is misguided to put the men to work in the garden, but she says she is waiting for Departmental approval. Joyce asks Ann's advice about how to handle Len's opposition to her leadership. Joan tells Shane she might not be seeing him again if the Taylors decide to foster him. Marlene announces that the cockroach races are on. Reb manages to pick the lock on the security gate, but Lou is caught by Officer Slattery and sent back to her cell. After making the phone call to the reporter, Reb finds she has been locked in the visitors' room and can't get back to her cell.As two people (Chris Carter and Gary Scally) have noticed independantly (and Martin commented ages ago in Digest 833), the background music when the women watch the TV in the rec room in an early scene seems to be a rather pathetic solo guitar version of "Tubular Bells". Just before Frances turns the TV off, we can see a tunnel... Rather like the opening of "The Exorcist" in fact, which famously used the same Mike Oldfield theme. Perhaps the text below which seems to read "1.6 metres high. 1.1 metres wide" indicates some advert alluding to "The Exorcist"? |
EPISODE 502Broadcast on Channel 5 Sunday 11 April 1999 04:40 Lou goes to solitary for telling the media about the men. Meg is shattered to hear of Philip's death. The women discover that the men will be joining them for recreation periods.CREDITSMeg ~ Elspeth BallantyneJudy ~ Betty Bobbitt Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Ann ~ Gerda Nicholson Myra ~ Anne Phelan Reb ~ Janet Andrewartha Len ~ Maurie Fields Pixie ~ Judy McBurney Bobbie ~ Maxine Klibingaitis Marlene ~ Genevieve Lemon Joyce ~ Joy Westmore Sam ~ Robyn Gibbes Lou ~ Louise Siversen Ray Proctor ~ Alex Menglet Officer Radcliffe ~ Marion Dimmick Officer Bailey ~ Maureen Edwards Geoff Macrae ~ Les Dayman Frank Burke ~ Trevor Kent Matt Delaney ~ Peter Bensley William Coleby ~ Hu Pryce Norm Barry ~ Bill Johnston Bob Miller ~ Lindsay Edwards Mr Potter ~ Ian Smith  Susie ~ Suzanne Heywood  UNCREDITEDKath ~ Michele SargentAlice ~ Lois Collinder | Pixie suggests idenitying the fastest cockroach with a dab of nail polish on its back. Reb optimistically attacks the security gate lock with her plastic comb. Judy pretends to want drugs to make Lou admit she's got them and warns her to stop dealing or she'll tell Myra. Joyce is phoned at home by the reporter Reb contacted and stupidly confirms to the press that men are held in Wentworth. Lou sneaks away before lights out and lets Reb out. Myra asks Len to be put on kitchen duty next day. Reb manages to get back to her cell just before Len locks it. Sam suggests to Judy that they could try to brighten up the rec room with some "art" from all the women: perhaps they could paint a mural. Bob Miller reports from outside Wentworth and Joyce comes out to tell him Mr Coleby will be arriving shortly  . Myra warns Bobbie not to let her note writing to the men in isolation get out of hand. Under relentless pressure from Bob Miller, Mr Coleby is forced to make a statement and tells Joyce he holds her responsible for the leak to the press. Joyce assumes that it was Lou who contacted the press and puts her in solitary. Lou attacks Joyce physically and has to be pulled off by Officer Radcliffe. Frank taunts Matt for being a "pretty boy". Len gives the men working in the garden a hard time, until Geoff lets him know he remembers what happened to Kevin Wilson in Woodridge and that a second death might be a bit hard for him to explain. Pixie's father visits her and brings along his "friend" Susie to see her: she is affronted and tells them the relationship is "unnatural" and calls him an "adulterer". Myra catches Bobbie about to take some pills and makes her hand them over. While taking out some kitchen rubbish, Myra meets Geoff in the grounds but she assumes he is being fresh (he does after all refer to her as a "female") and gives him the cold shoulder. Mr Coleby visits Ann in hospital and appals her by his concern to get her back to work rather than for her - or Meg's - welfare. Meg asks to see Phil again, so Ann is forced to tell her that he is dead. Reb advises Myra to be even tougher on the women - and promises to stand by her. Joan accuses Len of only being interested in helping Bobbie as an ego trip, or is it perhaps for some other more sinster reason? Marlene's cockroach wins his first race. In a brawl between the male prisoners provoked by Frank Burke, Officer Bailey gets punched and knocked out by accident. The women watch Mr Coleby's interview on television. After finding out that most of the other women already knew that Lou was dealing drugs, Myra resigns as top dog and names Reb  as her successor. |
EPISODE 504Broadcast on Channel 5 Sunday 18 April 1999 04:40 Under threat of Joan becoming governor, Ann finds she must agree to the men and women mixing. And Myra realises that Reb has duped them all.CREDITSMeg ~ Elspeth BallantyneJudy ~ Betty Bobbitt Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Ann ~ Gerda Nicholson Myra ~ Anne Phelan Reb ~ Janet Andrewartha Len ~ Maurie Fields Pixie ~ Judy McBurney Bobbie ~ Maxine Klibingaitis Marlene ~ Genevieve Lemon Joyce ~ Joy Westmore Sam ~ Robyn Gibbes Lou ~ Louise Siversen Matt Delany ~ Peter Bensley Geoff Macrae ~ Les Dayman Frank Burke ~ Trevor Kent Chris Sutton ~ Gregory Ross Jane Doe ~ Maria Mercedes  Pat Slattery ~ Dorothy Cutts Sister Hall ~ Gael Andrews Alison Webb ~ Pat Forbes  Douglas Hopwood ~ Kris Steel  Policewoman ~ Sue Formby  | Bobbie shouts for help for Marlene and wakes Reb and Myra, who join in the shouting too. Len is shown buttoning up after having sex with Lou: by the expression on her face after he leaves  , we assume it was not willingly. Len and Pat Slattery get medical help for Marlene: Len suspects she has been poisoned. Reb has to quash the women's speculation about what happened to Marlene. Lou tells Reb she won't put up with being "mauled" by Len again. Marlene protests she didn't take anything when Ann tells her she had an allergic reaction to a drug. Joan is suspicious when Pat tells her Len took a long time to respond to the noise the night before. Joan deliberately humiliates Reb in front of the women for being made a fool of over the plot to get Len. When Joan pulls her to one side, Reb says that Len will visiting Lou regularly and to watch for him taking extra night shifts. Joan says next time she'll lock Len in the cell with Lou to make certain, and Reb adds she'll have to stop Lou who is going to ask for a transfer. Ann tells Joyce the Sarah Higgins murder enquiry will be dropped without anyone being charged. The Minister's secretary arrives to announce that the Department has given the go-ahead to fraternisation, despite Ann's objections. He openly threatens to appoint Joan if Ann resigns. Chris visits Meg and agrees to his suggestion to see a counsellor. All the officers are opposed to the idea of fraternisation, especially as there will be no extra staff to cope with it. Marlene tells Myra what the doctor thought was the cause of her illness. "Jane Doe" arrives at Wentworth, a woman who refuses to speak or give her name, with only a "prayer book" which she refuses to give up. The accompanying policewoman says they have tried every Middle Eastern "dialect" to try to communicate with her. Ann decides to move the new prisoner in with Pixie and ask Myra to have look after her. Meg seen by a social worker, who tries to help her decide what to do about her pregnancy and tells her she did have an abortion herself when she was made pregnant by a rape. Frank attacks Matt with a hoe while the men are working in the garden and Len sends them back indoors. Myra insists that Reb does something about Marlene and Reb allows her to think it was Lou who gave her the drugs. Joan surprises Len by speaking up against Lou's request for a cell change. Geoff challenges Frank about attacking Matt and punches him in the gut to ram the message home. Pixie asks to feed Matt in the infirmary as his injured hands mean he won't be able to eat his food. The new prisoner is brought to the dining room, and is too terrified to eat. Lou's racist taunts make her run from the rec room. Even though the women are initially quite keen to attend, Chris' group therapy session founders when he is unable to get them to talk openly, apart from to insult him. Myra starts to heavy Lou  to tell her how she doped Marlene, but Lou sneers she should ask Reb how the drugs got in the first place. The men are brought to the rec room for the first joint recreation period: Myra cuts Geoff dead. Myra searches Reb's cell and finds for the drugs: Reb tells her she's no longer top dog and no-one will take any notice of her any more. |
[This was the final episode for 1984 in the original run in Australia. Possibly having pushed the boat out in the cliffhanger department for the landmark 500th episode, it was felt that the year end could be a little more low-key than usual]
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