Fenner is back on the wing after recovering from his mental breakdown, but it doesn’t take him long to get his confidence back. He goes to confront Neil and reminds him about a few false promises he once made about the Wing Governor’s job. Neil is confused, especially when Fenner produces a notebook and pen and writes down everything that is said. After his meeting with Neil, Fenner tries to talk the Julies around. He proclaims his innocence, telling them that Colin had the biggest motive for wanting Yvonne dead—she did dump him after all. Julie J confronts Colin with Fenner’s accusations and is shocked when Colin informs that he is leaving Larkhall. He tells her the truth—he tested positive for heroin.
Tanya is determined to put pressure on Darlene to meet with Rick before they both get into serious trouble. But things become complicated when Darlene is carted off to the hospital wing. Tanya pretends to fall ill to gain access to the hospital wing and then allows Dr Nicholson to grope her in exchange for five minutes alone with Darlene. Rick has managed to smuggle in a tape to Tanya, a tape on which Terence is heard screaming and begging for Darlene to help him. After she has listened to the tape, Tanya persuades Darlene to reveal the whereabouts of the bag she stole from Rick—she wants to send someone to pick it up before Rick can get there. Darlene approves of Tanya’s plan and later, gives Rick the information he wants.
Tina is guilt-ridden, convinced that she killed Al by giving her the rhubarb hooch. When she hears this, Natalie goes to confront Phyl and Bev and catches them in the act of flushing the evidence down the loo. Caught red-handed, Phyl and Bev have no choice but to reveal the truth to Natalie—they spiked the PO’s milk with poisonous extract of rhubarb leaves—the last thing they expected was for Julie S to make the inmate’s pancakes with it. Natalie orders Bev to pour the remaining poison into Frances’ coffee. Meanwhile, Phyl plants evidence in Tanya’s hamper.
Someone slips a note under the PO’s Office door, instructing them to look inside Tanya’s hamper for the cause of the mystery virus. Although Neil thinks the note is a hoax, Frances takes it seriously and orders the DST to examine the now confiscated hamper. She sips her coffee as she watches the DST officer at work, unaware that Bev has spiked it with a lethal dose. Later, Frances is lying on her sickbed when Neil phones her to tell her that Al’s post-mortem results are back—she was poisoned with oxalic acid, the most common source of which is rhubarb leaves. When Neil goes on to say that the DST have found evidence of tampering in Tanya’s hamper, Frances becomes suspicious—she fell ill after the hamper was confiscated.
The following morning, Bev overhears Neil informing the POs that Frances is the poisoner’s latest victim and assumes that this means Natalie’s plan has worked and that the Wing Governor is dead. The next phase of their plan now goes into operation. To deflect suspicion, Natalie ingests enough poison to make her ill and she is carted off to the hospital wing, meanwhile, Phyl begins to drop heavy hints about Tanya and the fact that nobody fell ill until she turned up.
The women confront Tanya with their suspicions, but are distracted when Frances walks onto the wing. Contrary to Natalie’s plans, she’s still very much alive and the mere sight of her is enough to sent Bev into a dead faint. Frances has a police detective in tow, and he arrests Tanya for murder.
Memorable Moments
Di – “Let’s hope you’re right ma’am.”
Frances – “Are you sure you don’t mean you hope I’m wrong Di?”
Julie J – “Oi Fenner! Didn’t recognise you with your clothes on!”
Bev – “We never realised that rhubarb leaves were poisonous, I mean, not until Phyl read it in her gardening book.”
Phyl – “Highly toxic for goats and swine, one obviously supposed likewise for screws.”
Bev – “When I saw the screw’s milk heading off to make pancakes for our breakfast I nearly gave birth to my liver.”
Julie S – “A screw is a screw is a lying bastard…no exceptions.”
Bev – “Call me a liar and a thief, but that one is a 24 carat, cold-hearted criminal.”
Phyl – “Well don’t spare any pity for Myers, the merciless way she humiliated me, I hope she’s writhing on the lavatory when she croaks it.”
Dr Nicholson – “It’s rare to have a patient of your type waiting for me.”
Tanya – “And what type’s that Doctor?”
Dr Nicholson – “Pretty, sexy, intelligent.”
Tanya – “That’s right. Far too intelligent to let a fat little pervert like you to try and paw me to death.”
Bev – “News update, Myers is no longer with us.”
Phyl – “Bev! Come on, this is a moment to savour. They’re absolutely certain?”
Bev – “Well, obviously I haven’t seen the death certificate but I know what it’s going to say re cause of.”
Phyl – “I can see the tombstone—here lies Frances Myers, tragically lopped down in her youth by a bunch of rhubarb!”
