Prisoner (TV Series)

Episode #6.20 (1984)

Judith McGrath: Colleen Powell

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• Colleen Powell : Help me, Meg. I'm not falling to pieces or anything... I'm having trouble... I don't understand... what's happened. Yesterday I was part of a family. I know I complained about them a lot... but they were... I loved them. You've gotta complain about them a lot, haven't you? You've gotta find some way of talking about them. What am I gonna... talk about now?

• Rick Manning : I didn't realise my being at the funeral would upset you so much. That wasn't why I was there...

  Colleen Powell : Would you please go, Rick? I am just collecting some papers for Pat's dad.

  [pause] 

  Colleen Powell : I don't want to go back there, they're so upset. And I don't know if I'm going to be strong enough to help them.

  [to herself] 

  Colleen Powell : Oh please, let me be strong enough.

  Rick Manning : Look, I'll wait. I can take you there...

  Colleen Powell : [shooting him a look of death]  I don't want you anywhere near them.

  Rick Manning : Yeah. Well I can understand that. Grief is very... Colleen would you please let me help you in some way... I just feel so responsible about it.

  Colleen Powell : Oh... no... no... don't you feel responsible. It's not your fault. Just one of those cruel twists of fate.

  Rick Manning : Now look, I have been there, I do know what you're going through... . so nice, kind, thoughtful... no-one says the wrong thing. No-one pays for what happened. I do know how you feel, Colleen.

  Colleen Powell : Oh, you do, do you? Listen... you put yourself in my shoes for a minute and see your husband and kids put into the ground and then look up and see the bastard that should have been in their places... then tell me how you feel?