Episode 8.7
Written by Liz Lake
Produced by Sharon Houlihan
Directed by Jim Loach
Natalie’s supposed escape from Larkhall has made the National news and the inmates on G-Wing couldn’t be happier – good riddance to her. Meanwhile, Pat is feeling the pressure. She has Natalie’s dead body on her hands and has to do something with it before she is found out. Volunteering to help out in the kitchens gives her the opportunity to move Natalie’s corpse out of the shed and into the G-Wing deep freeze. But when the Julies jump out of their skins upon discovering the grisly truth about Natalie’s ‘escape’, Pat has to confess the truth.
It’s the day of Tina’s court appearance and she is pulling every trick in the book to influence the Judge into giving her an extra long sentence. Disaster strikes when the tough Judge who was scheduled to hear her case is replaced by one who is a lot more liberal. When he grants her release, Tina panics – she doesn’t know how to live on the outside. Worse is to come when she is allocated a place in a hostel – it’s filthy and full of women who could give Natalie lessons in being psychotic. Tina is distraught; it’s a million miles from her comfortable cell on G-Wing.
The Julies help Pat move Natalie’s body from the freezer but she is now beginning to thaw, and smell. With the POs on constant patrol it becomes a game of hide-and-seek as they struggle to find a place to hide the rotting corpse. After another night in the freezer, Natalie is moved again, this time to the laundry room where Pat manoeuvres her frozen corpse into a tumble drier. She sticks an ‘out of order’ notice on the drier and then sets about trying to locate a safer and more permanent place of interment.
Hollamby is thrilled – she has got a date – albeit with one-eyed Ted from her line-dancing class, but beggars really can’t be choosers. However, the date ends in disaster when Tina shows up unexpectedly; she’s binned her hostel and has nowhere to stay. When she notices Tina bedding down by the bins outside her flat, Hollamby relents and agrees that Tina can stay in her spare bedroom for the night.
Phyl and Bev blackmail Rowan for free drugs in return for keeping his covert and very suspicious documentary a secret. However, he has decided enough is enough and comes clean to Lou about the documentary and the fact that the Costa Cons are blackmailing him. Lou decides to give him the benefit of the doubt and orders a search of Phyl and Bev’s cell. There’s a shock in store for Lou when she listens to Dictaphone and hears him having a telephone conversation with his wife, only they don’t sound nearly as estranged as he has made out.
Just when Hollamby thinks she has finally gotten rid of Tina, she pops up again at her line-dancing class. In a last ditch attempt to rid herself of her stalker, Hollamby decides to buy her a train ticket and pack her off to her only relative, her granny in Aberdeen. However, Tina has other ideas – she has stolen a replica gun from Mandy and uses it to stage a hold-up while they’re queuing at the building society! The drama is all too much for one of the hostages and he has a heart attack. Tina is now responsible for the death of an innocent man.