- [first lines]
- [Meg is attracting lots of attention as she stands by the door to the dining room, wearing the new issue Khaki-style prison officer's uniform]
- Cass Parker: Oh, Mrs Morris, very smart!
- Helen Smart: [wolf whistling as she enters] Woah!
- Doreen Burns: Mrs M, any chance of me getting to share a cell with somebody? I'm going batty in that single cell by myself.
- Meg Morris: Well I don't see the point. You're not going to be here much longer anyway.
- Doreen Burns: But you never can tell, Mrs M, when I was in here last time I was getting extra sentences all the time.
- Meg Morris: Well, if you stay out of trouble, Doreen, you wont have that worry, will you?
- Doreen Burns: Doesn't seem like I have much option. Love your frock.
- Meg Morris: Thank you. Now just join the queue, will you?
- Doreen Burns: [to Helen as she joins the queue] I'm beginning to think it's easier to stay out of this place than it is to stay in it.
- Bert Gibbs: This just bits and pieces, the rest of the stuff's out in the ute.
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: All your equipment will be itemised and accounted for when you leave.
- Bert Gibbs: Right. Right, Ian?
- Ian Simpson: Right, Bert.
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: Your equipment *and* vehicle will be inspected on arrival and departure, just to make sure nothing is smuggled in or out, is that clear?
- Bert Gibbs: [looking smug] You gonna be the lucky one to inspect my equipment?
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: Save the charm, Mr Gibbs, we've got enough would be clowns in this place.
- Colleen Powell: I'd like to come back... if that's alright with you.
- Ann Reynolds: Well, I don't know...
- Colleen Powell: I know we've had our problems but I'm going mad hanging round Meg's flat with nothing to do. Look if you don't want me working back here, then please won't you say so, 'cause I'll have to look for something else.
- Ann Reynolds: Colleen please! All I'm worried about is whether you're well enough, that's all.
- Ann Reynolds: Alright, Rick... you're late.
- Rick Manning: Yes, I'm sorry about that, Governor, I got held up.
- Ann Reynolds: And I want some answers. I've just had instructions from the department that you're to stay overnight here at Wentworth until further notice. Now just what exactly is going on?
- Mrs. O'Reagan: Lotta good you are! You're supposed to be keeping an eye on these hoodlums!
- Rick Manning: Can't ignore the call of nature, Mrs O.
- Mrs. O'Reagan: You'd been gone so long I thought you'd been called to God!
- Ann Reynolds: His car was found at the bottom of a cliff; he'd been killed instantly. I'm sorry.
- Sonia Stevens: Was he alone?
- Ann Reynolds: Yes.
- Sonia Stevens: Any suspicious circumstances?
- Ann Reynolds: Uh... no. Not that I was told.
- Sonia Stevens: No. There wouldn't be, would there.
- Sarah Webster: I'm up on a murder charge thanks to you!
- Reb Kean: Look, it'll be alright... we can prove it was an accident. I'll tell 'em you didn't know about the money or any of it.
- Sarah Webster: Just stay away, Reb, you've done enough.
- [Sarah walks away. The other women approach Reb]
- Judy Bryant: Well well well... looks like you did a good job on her, too.
- Myra Desmond: I think someone should do a job on you, Reb.
- Reb Kean: Phyllis!
- Phyllis Hunt: Ah forget it! When they've finished with you, I'm gonna punch your head in!
- Sonia Stevens: [to Rick] Eddie was such a good driver, yet suddenly he drives off a cliff. Maybe somebody pushed him? Maybe it was the Fellowes, but why would they want to do that? After all he was working for them. Now it had to be somebody that knew something else...
- Phyllis Hunt: What are you gonna do about Bryant and Parker?
- Reb Kean: They need me. They're too smart to do anything... til I clear 'em.
- Phyllis Hunt: Yeah, and if you do that, I've had it! You're forgetting something though, aren't you? The Freak owes you one. She's not gonna forget what you did to her old man.
- Reb Kean: So?
- Phyllis Hunt: So... I'll handle her for you. I know how the bitch operates.
- Reb Kean: Suddenly you're gonna do me a favour?
- Phyllis Hunt: You tell 'em Bryant had the gun and you can forget about the Freak. I'll fix her.
- Colleen Powell: Wonder if there's any truth of the old story of the hair of the dog to fix a headache?
- Meg Morris: I wouldn't think so.
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: Your name is Gloria Jean Payne, is that correct?
- Gloria Payne: What do you want, a date?
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: Just answer the questions and watch your language!
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: Payne here has just been inducted. I'd like you to show her the ropes.
- Gloria Payne: Don't you leave me with her; she'll kill me.
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: Don't be hysterical.
- Gloria Payne: [grabbing Joan's arm] Listen, she did her old man in, she'll do the same to me!
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: I don't like being clutched, Payne!
- [to Myra]
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: Okay, Desmond, you can take over.
- [she leaves]
- Myra Desmond: [softly] Oh I'll take over.
- Gloria Payne: You leave me alone... or I'll scream!
- Myra Desmond: You wont have time.
- [Myra slaps her and then wraps her arm around Gloria's neck. Gloria gasps]
- Myra Desmond: You bitch!