Frances visits the hospital wing to see Bev who is recovering from her near fatal heroin overdose. Frances wants to know who sold her the drugs, but Bev clams up. Frances is determined to crack down on G-Wing’s dealers and orders every inmate to be urine tested. She also places Phyl on 24 hour surveillance—Phyl is a pretty cool customer, but being handcuffed to Hollamby might be more than she can stand. Later, Phyl goes to use one of her phonecards and is gob-smacked when she discovers that Larkhall has gone over to the new PIN system—her stack of cards are now useless! If anything, this hardens Phyl’s resolve—she’s determined not to crack—even when Bev is moved out of their cell and into the four-bed dorm.
Fenner finds a piece of rotting, maggot infested meat in his locker; evidently, the women are still convinced that he’s responsible for Yvonne’s death. But their taunts and sly remarks may now be the least of his worries—as Julie S is quick to point out—how long before Lauren Atkins orders a hit on him? Frances reassures Fenner that he has nothing to fear from the Atkins gang—after a police raid, they are all now safely locked up. Later, Di and Fenner go to a video shop and he sees Julie S lurking between the shelves with a knife. Di is understandably concerned by his strange behaviour, but her thoughts turn to mush when Fenner proposes marriage out of the blue and then begs her not to leave him. She accepts immediately, blissfully unaware of the fact that Fenner is only acting out of his fear of being alone.
Selena is still determined to get Kris out of prison and works on her plan to get Milly to confess. But things don’t go according to plan when Selena goes to meet Milly at the airport and instead, runs into Mrs Yates, Kris and Milly’s mum. Hearing about Selena’s plan, she has thrown a spanner in the works by discouraging Milly from coming forward. As far as she’s concerned, Kris murdered her husband and deserves to rot in prison. After Milly fails to show, Selena returns to Larkhall and begs Kris to get in contact with her mother—maybe she could be persuaded to testify about her husband’s violent behaviour. Although she knows Selena’s deluding herself, Kris reluctantly agrees.
Darlene doesn’t like tea and is very interested to learn that those inmates of the Mormon faith are allowed a daily cocoa ration instead. Immediately, she makes a formal request to change her religion. However, after an informative chat with Julie J about Darlene’s true motivations, Colin turns the request down. Darlene is furious and goes straight to Frances to accuse Colin of racially abusing her. Frances investigates Darlene’s claims and finds out that she was lying. She clears Colin of any wrong-doing and later, invites him back to her office for a drink and seduces him. Afterwards, she makes a point of telling Colin not to get any ideas, it didn’t mean anything.
Phyl is on the verge of cracking; not only has Frances left the light on in her cell, she’s also ordered the night screws to check on her every fifteen minutes. Meanwhile, Julie J tries to talk Julie S out of her threats to get even with Fenner. Julie S is adamant that Fenner will pay—she’s living with a life sentence already—what has she got to lose? At home, Fenner wakes up after a bad dream that turns into a waking nightmare when he relives the moment Shell stabbed him. He turns to Di and shouts for her help, but when he throws back the covers, he sees Yvonne’s rotting corpse lying in her place.
When Frances places her on a bread and water diet, Phyl finally admits defeat. She offers to confess all to Frances on condition that she and Bev are moved back in together and given red-bands. In the PO’s Office, Di and Fenner announce their engagement. But Fenner’s preoccupied, and the nightmares that have plagued him soon turn into a terrifying reality when Julie S attacks him with a knife. Although he’s gotten away with nothing more than a cut hand, the attack is the final straw for Fenner. No-one can believe their eyes when he walks onto to the wing, completely naked. He holds up his bloody hand as he proclaims his innocence—now everyone can see that he has absolutely nothing to hide!
Memorable Moments
Phyl – “What’s this?”
Hollamby – “PIN system, name of the game in most of Her Majesty’s now. It means that each inmate has their own private code so its chips to your phonecard drug deals…maybe you could recycle them as coasters.”
Julie S – “Lauren Atkins going down don’t mean you’re home free Fenner.”
Fenner – “Eh? Who told you that?”
Julie S – “Plenty of sharps round here ain’t there girls?”
Julie J – “Yeah (picks up knife) got all sorts innit Teen?”
Tina – “That’s right (picks up another knife) we’ve got all sorts round here.”
Julie S – “And plenty of girls round here who could do damage with them, right Jue?”
Julie J – “Serious damage Jue.”
Darlene – “I can’t be drinking that piss…you got any cocoa?”
Julie J – “Only if you’re a Mormon.”
Darlene – “If me a who?”
Julie J – “You know, like the Osmonds. You’ve heard of them yeah? (Pause for Darlene to look vacant) Crazy horses, wah wah.”
Bev – “Why don’t you just come clean and get this over with?”
Phyl – “Because I, unlike you, still have some fighting spirit.”
Bev – “Well I, unlike you, am banged up in the gorm dorm.”
Darlene – “Them screws think Rasta just mean junkie.”
Al – “They think Scottish means smack head.”
Tina – “And Mormon means hot chocolate?”
Darlene – “Don’t be dissing me.”
Colin – “I’m not!”
Darlene – “Yes you do, ‘cause you’re one racist screw.”
