EPISODE 141Broadcast on Channel 5 Monday 29th September 23:45 Kay returns to Wentworth and offers to sell drugs to the women; and a woman is brought in after being arrested for importing heroin. 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 Linda ~ Elaine Cusick Tracey ~ Sue Devine  Kay ~ Sandy Gore Danny ~ Darren Sole Sheila Hawkins ~ Myra de Groot  Phyllis ~ Reylene Pearce Mouse ~ Jentah Sobott UNCREDITEDSister Franklin ~ Di GreentreeOTHER CHARACTERSMale TV Newsreader (voiceover)The background prisoner threatened by Bea, called Lisanne (?) by Bea and Adams by Vera  | Vera takes Kay to her cell and gives her five minutes to make her bed. Doreen and Lizzie compare the size of their bank balances. Margo holds onto Linda's "commission", as she's obviously not tough enough to be an effective bookie's runner and hasn't made very much. Vera comes back to check on Kay's hospital corners and makes her start all over again, but she is distracted by the sound of Bea threatening one of the background prisoners in the corridor outside for trying to bring drugs in. Vera drops a hint to Kay that she should spy on Bea and find out what's going on. Bea objects when Vera brings Kay to the laundry to work, but Vera assigns Doreen to look after her. Linda wants her money from Margo immediately as she's got a visitor and Bea makes Margo pay up. Linda's visitors are her son Danny  and his aunt Sheila, who seems to be giving the kid a hard time: Linda passes Danny the money. Kay reports to Vera that she'd tried to provoke a fight with Bea and she'd backed off. Danny's aunt takes the money from him as soon as they are through the gates: he runs away from her. Doreen tells Bea she suspects that Kay is working as an informer for Vera. Margo refuses to take Kay's buyup in payment for a bet and demands cash instead. Danny's aunt finds him in her garage, where he has hidden something in a pile of boxes. Kay tries to provoke Bea by mentioning Debbie and drugs: on cue the TV news has a report of a woman arrested for smuggling heroin. Kay seems to have become suddenly very accident prone in the dining room and ends up with porridge all over her  . Erica orders Kay to forget about the incident and tells her she will have to change her attitude or the same thing will happen again. When Kay returns to the laundry, no-one is speaking to her, so she approaches Phyllis later in the corridor and offers to get drugs for her. Bea overhears some of the conversation and reminds Phyllis that Kay has been sent to Coventry. Tracey Morris arrives at Wentworth on remand: she is the drug smuggler the women heard about on TV. When Erica warns her about Bea's attitude to drugs, she panics and tries to run out of Erica's office. Judy explains the reasons for Bea's anti-drugs stance to Tracey, who claims she thought she was bringing in gold and hasn't told the police about her boyfriend's involvement. Kay fakes stomach pains and is taken to the sister, where she helps herself to a few pills while the sister's back is turned. Erica advises Lizzie and Doreen against investing their money in buying a block of flats and suggests they see a stockbroker about buying shares. Kay offers the pills to Mouse. Tracey announces her innocence in the rec room to general disbelief, though Judy stands up for her. Danny finds his aunt has taken his tin and all the money he's saved. Bea helps Mouse out when she is found drugged to the eyeballs  and discovers that it was Kay who sold her the drugs. Bea takes Mouse back to the rec room and tells Tracey to watch carefully as she's about to see how drug dealers are dealt with. Bea goes to Kay's cell and turns it over. Kay plays the innocent and offers to help her look for whatever she's trying to find, so Bea turns to face her preparing to give her a bashing. |
Once again, Channel 5 cut the Tuesday episode at the last minute as the UEFA Cup match went into extra time...
EPISODE 142Broadcast on Channel 5 Wednesday 1st October 23:10 Bea and Margo get in hot water yet again, and Linda has problems with Danny.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 Linda ~ Elaine Cusick Tracey ~ Sue Devine Kay ~ Sandy Gore Det. Insp Grace ~ Terry Gill Danny ~ Darren Sole Hazel ~ Belinda Davey  Mrs Hampshire ~ Betty Benfield  UNCREDITEDWendy ~ Helen NoonanSister Franklin ~ Di Greentree Gate Guard (Ted) ~ Brad Lindsay  Doctor (after Doreen's miscarriage) ~ David Nettheim  Judy does not appear in this episode (thanks Björn Wallgren). | Bea barricades Kay's cell door to ensure that they can have a "private chat". When Kay denies having any drugs, Bea punches her on the nose, followed by an extended grapple on the floor. The fight is broken up by Vera and Meg. Kay's cell is searched but nothing is found. Meg is surprised when Kay asks to go straight back to the women. Bea won't give Erica the full details of Kay's drug dealing, so Erica sends her to solitary to await the VJ. After getting patched up by the sister  , Kay walks back into the rec room, bruised but unbowed. Lizzie finds out from Kay what has happened to Bea, but after that no-one speaks to her. Hazel follows her out of the rec room wanting to buy drugs, but Kay says she needs cash to set up a deal and asks Hazel to place a bet for her with Margo, who earlier refused to deal with Margo directly. Lizzie doubts that Kay had any drugs anyway and suggests it must have been a set-up to get rid of Bea, but Doreen points out that Mouse must have got stoned on something. Doreen asks Meg to get her some Vitamin C tablets with the money left over after buying her the wool to knit baby clothes. Linda makes a phone call to her sister and is told that Danny has run away. Jim reluctantly agrees to find out what has happened. Hazel's horse loses and Margo calls in her credit, but Hazel has to put her off. Sister Franklin reports some methedrine tablets missing from the surgery. Kay tells Hazel she can't give her any money, so Hazel reports sick to avoid having to confront Margo in the laundry, but the sister gives her a few aspirin and sends her back to work. Margo heavies Hazel to pay up, and Vera overhears enough to work out what's going on. Vera turns Danny away when he comes to visit his mother. The newly promoted Inspector Grace comes to interview Tracey, and seems to be working on the assumption that Tracey's father, who's on a business trip in Hong Kong, is involved in the drugs smuggling. As he is leaving, Inspector Grace remembers where he has seen Vera's name before - in the file on George Lucas. He hints that it would be to Vera's benefit to put pressure on Tracey to pump her for information. Danny climbs over the fence into the grounds and runs into Jim, who is about to phone the police when Wendy recognises Danny from earlier on. Jim allows Danny to see his mother, which doesn't please Vera at all when she finds out. Jim overhears Danny tell his mother that his aunt has hit him, and tells Linda she ought to contact child welfare, but she refuses, saying she doesn't want Danny to be put in a home. Jim tells Danny he can visit again the following day. Doreen is taken ill in the night and loses her baby: the doctor suggests her abortion at 18 may have contributed to this. Erica is annoyed that Jim has involved himself with Linda's family against her wishes. Doreen tells Erica about the child she gave up for adoption. Linda is furious when a woman from child welfare arrives to see Danny, though she is reassured that he will only be put in a home as a last resort. Erica gets a phone call later from the child welfare worker that Danny has jumped out of her car and run away again. |
EPISODE 143Broadcast on Channel 5 Monday 6th October 23:45 Jim finds Danny and invites him to stay with him; and Tracey receives money from her boyfriend which she gives to Kay to start a book with.Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Judy ~ Betty Bobbitt Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Erica ~ Patsy King Jim ~ Gerard Maguire Doreen ~ Colette Mann Vera ~ Fiona Spence Linda ~ Elaine Cusick Tracey ~ Sue Devine Kay ~ Sandy Gore Danny ~ Darren Sole Bob ~ Anthony Hawkins  Kathleen ~ Penelope Stewart Phyllis ~ Reylene Pearce Mark ~ Paul Colombani  OTHER CHARACTERSPolicewoman escorting Kath | Vera tells Tracey that covering up for her friend isn't going to do her any good, and drops dark hints about what Bea might do to her, but Tracey continues to protest her innocence. Jim remembers Danny mentioning that he sometimes stayed with a friend and is determined to find the boy, but Meg warns him to be careful. Kay tries to tempt Phyllis to place a bet with her rather than with Margo by offering double the usual pay out to her first five punters. Vera puts Kay to work in the rec room where Tracey is writing a letter to her father, hoping that Kay will be able to get Tracey to reveal her contacts. Kay has her own agenda: she starts off frightening Tracey with what could happen to her and hints that if Tracey can get money in, she will be able to buy protection for both of them. Tracey's father Bob Morris arrives to visit her, but Vera wants to keep him in reception until she has phoned Inspector Grace to get his permission. Bob doesn't have any more success getting Tracey to say who gave her the parcel. Tracey stupidly asks him for money in front of Meg, who has to point out that it is against regulations. Bob Morris goes to Erica and complains that Tracey is obviously terrified of something, but she silences his bluster by pointing out that Tracey might be making up the story about the "friend" and be entirely responsible for the smuggling attempt herself. Doreen is taken out of the rec room on Vera's suggestion, which makes Judy suspicious about what Vera really wants from Tracey. Meg overhears Vera talking tactics on the phone with Inspector Grace, and accuses her of putting pressure on Tracey, and implies that Tracey asked for money to pay off Vera. Lizzie manipulates Meg into putting Doreen back in the rec room, which effectively puts an end to Kay's cosy chats with Tracey. Judy, Lizzie and Phyllis turn over Kay's room and take her remaining cash: Phyllis later provokes Kay by waving the note in the air and claiming to have found it. Jim overhears Linda's phone conversation with her sister and finds out the name of Danny's friend. Kath Leach is brought back to Wentworth on a charge of being drunk and disorderly  and immediately asks after Tracey, who she claims to know from school. Jim finds Mark Noonan, but he claims he hasn't seen Danny, though Jim sees him sneak off on his bike when he thinks the coast is clear. While Kath is taking her regulation shower, she takes out a wad of money she has hidden at the back of her hair. Jim follows Mark in his car, and finds where Danny is hiding, though Danny kicks him in the shins and gets away. Judy introduces Kath to the other women, but pointedly ignores Kay. When she finally meets Tracey, Kath drops the pretence of being an old school friend and tells Tracey she has been put inside by Tracey's boyfriend Joe and his boss to look after her, giving her the money she smuggled in. Kay forces Tracey to hand over some of the money to her, and enlists Linda as her bookie's runner. Vera gets a tip from Kay to search Tracey's cell, and the rest of the cash is found. Jim catches up with Danny and takes him home to clean him up before taking him to visit his mother. Erica agrees to let Bob make extra visits to his daughter to try to persuade her to grass to the police. Jim makes an offer to Linda to let Danny stay with him until she is released. Bob accuses Vera of terrorizing Tracey. Kath warns Tracey to keep her mouth shut, or Joe and his boss won't hesitate to silence her permanently. |
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