Episode 8.5
Written by Roxanne Harvey
Produced by Sharon Houlihan
Directed by Laurence Moody
Joy wants Stella transferred to another prison and out of her life for good, but when it becomes apparent that Stella has been thieving her way around G-Wing, Lou stops the transfer. After she returns Stella to her cell, Lou confronts her, determined to find out exactly what is going on between her and Joy. She is stunned when Stella reveals that she is Joy’s daughter. Realising that Stella is desperate to build some sort of relationship with her mother, Lou reluctantly allows her to remain at Larkhall for the time being.
Julie S is delighted to get a visit from David who announces that his girlfriend is pregnant and they’re about to be married. Julie S is over the moon, but her happiness is tinged with disappointment because she and Julie J won’t be there to share his big day. Across the room, Pat is left reeling when Sheena fails to turn up for the third time in a row. As she languishes miserably in the wallflower seats, her eyes are drawn to Natalie. Pat quickly realises that Natalie’s evil really does know no bounds – she’s using a child to crutch drugs into the prison!
Joy is furious when she hears that Lou has cancelled Stella’s transfer, but is stunned when Lou reveals that she knows the truth. She agrees to keep quiet, but as long as Joy gets the police to drop the charges against Janine. Back on G-Wing, the women are up in arms when the thief returns, but both Joy and Lou step in to defend Stella before things turn nasty. Stella is delighted; perhaps Joy does care for her after all. Her opinion quickly alters when Joy drops a bombshell which shatters her daughter’s view of her forever – she lied about being raped, Stella was in fact the unwanted result of a one-night-stand.
It gets steamy between Janine and Donny when they use an “appointment” to get to know each other a bit more intimately. With Donny distracted by Janine, it is simplicity itself for her to slip away from the laundry room and roam the corridors until she finds Joy. Stella is angry and upset and determined to get answers, but Joy manages to disarm her of the shiv she is carrying. This time, even Lou concedes that Stella must be shipped out, but despite the nonchalant front, she suspects the inmate is deeply hurt when Joy doesn’t even turn up to see her off.
Natalie notices that Pat, Tina, and the Julies are acting suspiciously. Determined to find out what they’re up to, she corners Julie S and beats her until she gets the truth – Pat is planning to escape during David’s wedding blessing by hiding inside a bin-bag to be collected as part of the rubbish. Natalie decides to hijack the idea and forces Julie S to help her. Little does Natalie know that the whole plan is a set-up. Pat and the Julies are determined to make her pay for what she did to the little girl in the visiting room with extra time on her sentence for attempting to escape. Alone in her cell, Pat retrieves a weeding fork from her boot, clearly with an altogether more serious fate in mind for her nemesis.
Lou rethinks her feelings towards Rowan and asks him back to her place for pizza. Perhaps this relationship could have a future – or will the reappearance of Lou’s stripper sister cause problems? Lou is livid, Vicky is obviously off her face on drugs again, but Rowan suspects it’s a lot more serious than that, especially when Vicky collapses in his arms and starts frothing at the mouth… she’s taken an overdose.