- Judy Bryant: [having had Sonia rush out of her cell in front of her] What's up with you this morning Sonia, you got ghosts in there or something?
- Sonia Stevens: No. There's something in my cell; I heard it crawling around all night.
- Judy Bryant: Crawling around? What do you think it was, a baby or a snake?
- [the other women laugh]
- Judy Bryant: You been drinking Hooch have you?
- Bobbie Mitchell: Maybe it was a python in a top hat?
- [they laugh]
- Helen Smart: Could've been a trouser snake?
- Bobbie Mitchell: Ah no! No trouser snake would go near her!
- Phyllis Hunt: What's going on?
- Bobbie Mitchell: Sonia is seeing snakes!
- Helen Smart: No no no, you didn't hear it properly, Bobbie; she's *heeearing* them!
- [they all laugh]
- Phyllis Hunt: Yeah? I didn't know they could talk!
- Sonia Stevens: There is something in there! Now why won't you believe me?
- Helen Smart: Well that's a silly question if you want my opinion.
- Sonia Stevens: You know what I think of your opinion, Smart.
- Helen Smart: Yeah, well, it's mutual, darling.
- Helen Smart: So what's gonna happen to Driscoll, Jude? I thought Myra was your last hope?
- Judy Bryant: Well, I never thought I'd say this, but at the moment I couldn't care less about Driscoll. All I wanna do is see poor Myra and cheer her up a bit; she must be feeling dreadful.
- Helen Smart: I never met her old man but I hear he was a proper mongrel.
- Judy Bryant: Yeah, he was the pits. She did the world a favour by getting rid of that bastard.
- Helen Smart: Well, I don't think they're gonna exactly give her a medal for it.
- Rick Manning: [retrieving a piece of hose from under some sheets in Sonia's cell] Is this what you're scared of?
- Sonia Stevens: Bitches! Those bloody bitches put it there!
- Rick Manning: Pull yourself together Stevens, someone's playing a joke on you, that's all.
- Sonia Stevens: Joke? That is no joke!
- Rick Manning: No, it's a piece of hose.
- Sonia Stevens: Listen, you'd better start protecting me.
- Rick Manning: Just.. just calm down.
- Sonia Stevens: Calm down when somebody is trying to kill me?
- Rick Manning: Pull yourself together, you're getting hysterical!
- Sonia Stevens: [now shouting] Of course I am getting hysterical, you would be too if you spent the night in this cell with something crawling around you all night, and now that!
- Rick Manning: That is a piece of bloody hose!
- Judy Bryant: [rushing into the cell after having heard Helen scream to find she has discovered the snake] Oh my God!
- Helen Smart: It bit me Judy! The bloody thing bit me!
- Cass Parker: Jeez, Jude, you don't look too good.
- Minnie Donovan: Yes Judy, what is it?
- Judy Bryant: Helen is in hospital, so is Mrs Morris...
- Bobbie Mitchell: Why, what's wrong with them?
- Judy Bryant: Helen went into her cell, right? There's a bloody snake in there! It bit her!
- [Judy is interrupted by the manic laughter of Sonia from the table behind her]
- Sonia Stevens: Well, you believe me now, don't you? You see I slept with that thing last night. All night. In the dark.
- [she laughs again]
- Rick Manning: I thought your hubby got that job in Aubrey?
- Colleen Powell: It all fell through. Talk about the kiss of death.
- Judy Bryant: You're the last person I expected to see in here. You okay?
- Myra Desmond: I... killed Bill, Jude.
- Judy Bryant: I know, I know. I'm sorry.
- Myra Desmond: Oh don't feel sorry... not for him, not that bastard, he deserved it.
- [Ann is addressing the women in the laundry in regards to their forthcoming trip to take part in a singing competition]
- Ann Reynolds: It's been quite a fight for department to approve this project so please don't give anyone out there cause for complaint.
- Cass Parker: Oooh, I dunno if we can promise that Mrs Reynolds. I reckon them other choirs are gonna be complaining like mad when we win!
- Ann Reynolds: I bet the women are glad today is over. I don't think I've ever seen them as worked up about anything as this trip, have you?
- Colleen Powell: Oh yeah. Once or twice. Usually it's turned out to be a riot.
- Ann Reynolds: You're quite sure they're going to play up tomorrow, aren't you?
- Colleen Powell: Well, let's look at the facts; there will be two murderers, one robbery with violence, a conwoman, a delinquent... if they only play up I think we should count ourselves very lucky.
- Ann Reynolds: [pause] Perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps you shouldn't go on this trip.
- Colleen Powell: Oh no. I'll go. The department isn't too happy about the project and neither am I. So I would rather be in charge to see that nothing goes wrong.
- Ann Reynolds: Quite frankly Colleen you and the department can go to hell with your negative attitudes. When I came to this place it was like something out of the Dark Ages. Well I am going to *change* that. I would have liked you to help me but if you're going to sulk about this place just because I came back to the job then you can get out.
- [Meg and Rick enter the staff room as Ann is in mid-flow telling Colleen off]
- Ann Reynolds: Because otherwise you'll just get in the way and be a bloody nuisance. Now what is it going to be?
- [Colleen gets up and just walks out]