- 19/06/2025
Episode 22 of Prisoner Cell Block H. Pre-advert gate slams, incidental music and the 0-Ten Network logo have been restored as originally broadcast.
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00:00You have the right to call witnesses and cross-examine them if you wish.
00:03The name of the justice is Mr. Goodwin.
00:05That is how you will address him. Any questions?
00:07Everyone seems to have made up their minds about me.
00:09Big, bad barber.
00:10Don't flatter yourself.
00:11Well, I've got news for you. The staff here aren't so lily-white.
00:14What do you mean?
00:15There's a certain officer who was only too willing to help me get staff into this place.
00:19Who?
00:20If you don't mind, I think I'll keep it for Mr. Goodwin.
00:30I don't like the look of this.
00:39I think we share the same opinion on the subject of drugs, Mr. Goodwin.
00:46Davidson, this is Mr. Goodwin, the visiting justice.
00:50You may sit down.
00:54I've been looking at your file here, girlie. I don't like what I see.
00:57You've been sentenced here for a filthy crime, and you go on with it in here.
01:03I'm wondering whether a little more time in solitary mightn't help you sort yourself out.
01:08Well?
01:11I don't know.
01:13Hmm.
01:15What do you have to say for yourself?
01:18Well, perhaps we could begin with how you managed to get your wares into the prison.
01:22That can't have been easy, even for you.
01:24I...
01:25I had them all along, since I came in.
01:30I didn't come down in the last shower, girlie.
01:32Mr. Goodwin, Davidson told me a completely different story.
01:35Yes?
01:36She said she could implicate a member of staff in this.
01:38I assume she meant that someone had turned a blind eye when a parcel arrived.
01:41I never said any such thing.
01:43What?
01:43Oh, yes, you did.
01:44Oh, you must have misunderstood me or something.
01:47I don't know.
01:48Well, I...
01:50I guess I was all mixed up.
01:53That solitary really gets to you, and...
01:55All I meant was I'm terrifically sorry.
01:59Wait outside for a moment, Davidson.
02:07What's going on here?
02:08I don't think we can just disregard this.
02:10Of course not, but if the girl now denies her story...
02:12She must have a supplier.
02:15Could one of the officers, or one of the members of the professional staff, have been involved?
02:19Oh, I very much doubt it.
02:22Well, I have complete confidence in my staff, Mr. Goodwin.
02:25Oh, naturally, naturally.
02:27In any case, she seems to me to have got the message.
02:31She may as well go back to her cell for the time being.
02:36If there's any truth to her story, we're certainly not going to get at it while she's locked away by herself.
02:40She should be watched.
02:41She will be.
02:43We'll have her back now, thank you.
02:45All right.
02:55Well, how are you today, Lynn?
02:57I'm all right.
02:59Anything wrong?
03:01No.
03:02Nothing important.
03:06Well, all right.
03:07I want to run through a few questions with you that I'll be putting at the trial.
03:12Yeah, I'm listening.
03:13You don't seem very interested.
03:15I said I'm listening.
03:17Now, you tell me what to say and I'll say it.
03:19I'm a good little parrot.
03:21Ask anyone.
03:22That isn't quite the idea.
03:24Oh, really?
03:26Anyway, with me you should have a pretty good story to tell.
03:29Should have them all in tears.
03:33I'm finding this hardened criminal routine rather a bore, Lynn.
03:36Are you?
03:37Should talk to my father.
03:38Your father?
03:39Is he in town?
03:40Yeah.
03:41He finally showed up.
03:43Well, that's good.
03:43Why?
03:45Apart from anything else, he would make a rather good character witness.
03:49Don't you think?
03:51You'd have to talk about that with him.
03:54Well, you'd only have to speak about your family background, your home.
03:56Yeah.
03:57Well, he's good at that.
03:58Just leave me alone.
04:02You've got the wrong idea, that's all.
04:04Oh, no, I didn't.
04:05I don't know what you think you gained by making enemies for yourself.
04:07I don't.
04:08Look, I won't cause any more trouble.
04:10I'll be a good-faced little prisoner from now on in.
04:14You don't like me much, do you?
04:16I think you're stupid.
04:18How much money do you think lawyers make?
04:21You ever seen a poor one?
04:22Yeah, they don't have to worry.
04:24It's all the same to them.
04:26So, they let you out.
04:30Obviously.
04:32Obviously.
04:32You get that?
04:34Of course it'd be obviously, with old Davidson for your auntie.
04:37See, Wonk?
04:38It's not what you know, but who you know in this world.
04:41My aunt had nothing to do with it.
04:43Oh, yeah?
04:44Well, other people have tried your racket around here,
04:46and the screws came down on them like a ton of bricks.
04:48I can't help that.
04:50The VJ let me out.
04:51And in any case, Bitch Bennett was playing the show today.
04:55That's because Mrs Davidson took Lizzie off somewhere.
04:58Oh, you'd know.
04:58You'd be right in with the screws, sweet Lenny.
05:01Butter wouldn't melt in your mouth much.
05:04I see.
05:05You call a wonk, you're a dog.
05:07Well, if anyone's a dog around here, it's you.
05:09You don't scare me.
05:11Oh, you're a lot dumber than I thought.
05:12You haven't got a friend in this place, dog,
05:14except your sweet old auntie.
05:17Give it a break.
05:19My aunt put me in solitary, didn't she?
05:20Ah, poor Snookums.
05:24Away from me.
05:27Anyway, it won't always be this way.
05:30Ah, yeah?
05:32Why not?
05:35I wonk.
05:35Thank you, Miss Bennett.
05:43Do we have anyone else to see?
05:45No, there were only three.
05:47If I may say, we got through that very efficiently.
05:50I don't mean to criticise, of course,
05:53but Mrs Davidson does tend to let them ramble on and on.
05:57Mrs Davidson believes in a fair go for the girls.
06:00Oh, yes, as I said.
06:02No need to coddle the girls, eh?
06:03Oh, certainly not.
06:05Now, take that first girl there.
06:06What was her name?
06:08Davidson.
06:10My first impulse was to be a lot harsher with her.
06:13I know that type.
06:14I know what you mean,
06:16but then I think we acted as Mrs Davidson would have wanted.
06:19I don't follow.
06:20Well, you tend to go very carefully
06:23when you're dealing with the governor's niece.
06:26I see.
06:28Do you mean you had special instructions regarding that girl?
06:32Oh, no, no.
06:32Don't misunderstand me, Mr Goodwin.
06:34Mrs Davidson has played it right by the book
06:36from the moment her niece was brought in here.
06:38Same treatment as any other girl.
06:40Hmm.
06:40They had much contact?
06:43Oh, I don't think so.
06:45One or two interviews,
06:46just as you would expect in the circumstances.
06:49It must be terribly embarrassing for her.
06:52Yes.
06:53It would be.
06:57Another biscuit, Mr Goodwin?
06:58Well, this is the address the doctor gave me.
07:11Well, you better lock your car up.
07:13You never know who's about.
07:15No.
07:15Oh, God.
07:30The last time I've seen me brother,
07:32he had his backside out of his tweeds.
07:35Oh, sorry, Mrs Davidson.
07:37Yes, well, shall we go in?
07:40Litney!
07:41Oh.
07:42Oh.
07:42Oh.
07:45I'm coming.
07:51I'm coming.
07:53The bell's off.
07:54They'll go ting-a-ling-a-ling.
07:56Yes?
07:56Good afternoon.
07:57I'm Mrs Davidson,
07:58and this is Mrs Birdsworth.
08:00Yes.
08:01All right.
08:05Disgusting, isn't it?
08:06The whole place is like this.
08:09The doctor's here.
08:10I'll fetch him.
08:11He always was a bit of a magpie.
08:14This table's genuine Chippendale.
08:16Yeah?
08:17That's in Sydney, isn't it?
08:18I think we'd better be careful with that.
08:21It's only all junk in it.
08:22Well, I'm no expert,
08:24but I'd say that little piece is worth about $100.
08:26It's Limoges, China.
08:28Oh.
08:31Limoges, China.
08:33Yeah.
08:34It is quite pretty.
08:35Ah, ladies.
08:38Sorry to keep you.
08:39I'm Dr Crawl.
08:41So good of you, Mrs Davidson,
08:43to open your heart to a dying man's appeal.
08:45Hey, I'm his sister.
08:47Let's get on with it.
08:48Where is he?
08:48He's asleep.
08:50But before you go in,
08:51perhaps you can help us.
08:54So far, he's flatly refused to go to hospital.
08:57But frankly, his condition is such I really must insist.
09:00Now, if you could persuade him to accept it
09:02without any argument,
09:04it would be better for him.
09:05Of course, Doctor.
09:07That's the least I can do.
09:09Perhaps I could sit beside his bed
09:10and hold his dear old hand while he's asleep.
09:13We've been apart so long.
09:15Every moment's precious.
09:19This way, then.
09:29Oh.
09:30Shh.
09:35The only way Doctor can get him off
09:39is to let him have the brandy.
09:41Really?
09:42I'll just park meself here and be as quiet as a mouse.
09:45Very well, Mrs Birdsworth.
09:48Perhaps Sister could make some tea.
09:50Well, if you like.
09:51The last time I seen you,
09:57you borrowed 50 quid, you old fox.
10:01But I'm not even going to mention that.
10:04What's 50 quid?
10:06Ha ha!
10:07What's come over her?
10:09I mean, let's be frank.
10:11She was always pretty wet,
10:13but this pathetic imitation of an old lad
10:15isn't just irritating,
10:16it's so damn stupid.
10:17Can I say something?
10:18Yes, of course.
10:19Well, her father's been...
10:19Look, if she goes into court
10:21looking the way she is,
10:22then she's going to catch
10:23whatever they're throwing.
10:24I do have other clients, you know,
10:26people who are interested in their futures.
10:28Anybody can help her cut her own throat.
10:30Her father's been to see her.
10:32Yes, she mentioned that.
10:33Can I finish?
10:39I should have been exactly what Lynn needed,
10:41but Mr. Warner turned out to be
10:44rural virtue personified.
10:47The mothers had a breakdown because of Lynn.
10:49Farmer Ted was judgmental
10:51and backed up every bad feeling
10:52Lynn's ever had about herself.
10:53He told her that she shamed the family
10:55and that she was silly and that she...
10:57Yes, well, I can see his point of view.
10:59The mother and father have sat on her all her life.
11:02They told her,
11:03you go away from here and you'll be sorry.
11:05She did.
11:07And she is.
11:08And she wants to be forgiven.
11:10Miss Vernon, can't we just skip all that?
11:12Now, I have to exhibit her in court.
11:15Behold, the innocent farm girl
11:17led astray by the forces of urban darkness.
11:20That is her only hope.
11:22And you can make her into an autonomous human being next week.
11:25Well, you're so smart.
11:26You talk to the father then.
11:28All right, I will.
11:29It'll have to be later today, though.
11:31Well, how about four?
11:33All right, that sounds okay.
11:35Mr. Wilson?
11:37Mm-hmm.
11:37Thanks.
11:43A pleasant afternoon's work.
11:46Now, I really must be getting back to my duties.
11:47I won't be keeping you.
11:48Goodbye.
11:49Goodbye.
11:51On your way, Mr. Goodwin?
11:53Yes, we got through things at a fair clip today.
11:56Yes.
11:57Mrs. Jackson,
11:58this business about Mrs. Davidson's niece,
12:02dodgy, hmm?
12:03Did Miss Bennet...
12:04She happened to mention it, yes.
12:06Yeah, just in passing.
12:08I wondered if you'd, well,
12:10noticed anything.
12:12Noticed?
12:13I don't quite know how to put this
12:15without sounding like one of the boys in blue.
12:17Far be it from me to question
12:19Mrs. Davidson's probity, so to speak.
12:22We all know what a personal involvement...
12:24Well, there are a few worrying elements here.
12:29I don't think so.
12:30The second this business came to light,
12:31Mrs. Davidson punished her niece without hesitation,
12:33as she would any other prisoner.
12:34Yes.
12:35She'd have to do that.
12:37Wouldn't she?
12:38I'm sorry, Mr. Goodwin,
12:39but I don't see what else could have been done.
12:40No, no, no, of course.
12:41But then the girl herself
12:43makes this accusation about a member of staff.
12:46Which she then withdrew.
12:48Yes.
12:50Yes.
12:51Well, just a lot of fuss about nothing, huh?
12:53Not to worry?
12:54No.
12:56Rightio, then.
12:57See you next time.
12:58Yes.
13:00Goodbye, Mr. Goodwin.
13:11Oh, not now, sir.
13:25Hello, gasp, me old love.
13:27Ah.
13:29So they let you out to come and see me.
13:32No trouble.
13:34You see her?
13:34She's the boss of the prison,
13:37Mrs. Davidson.
13:38Mr. Cameron.
13:39So you're the boss of the pecky.
13:43Not a bad looker for a cop.
13:46Shh.
13:46Don't shush me.
13:47I can say what I like.
13:49I never done no crimes like some.
13:51None that you were called for.
13:53But let's talk of happier times.
13:56When were they?
13:58Nice of you.
13:59Real nice to have brung the old Liz over.
14:03I've been lying here thinking of her and what I had to say.
14:06Well, now that we've found each other, there's no need to say nothing.
14:10Oh, but I wonder.
14:12The quack here reckons I've had the ratchet.
14:16You think otherwise I would have wanted to see your ugly old dial again?
14:20Tone it down.
14:22I suppose you come here expecting arts and flowers.
14:25I thought we'd make our peace before you faced your maker.
14:28Ah, don't give me that tripe.
14:31Where's your family feeling?
14:33You had any.
14:34You would never have married that birdwood mongrel.
14:38Oh, blimey.
14:40Two-pot screamer.
14:42Should have got round in a dress.
14:43Oh, he could have done you any day.
14:45Oh, I wish he'd tried.
14:50And where is he now?
14:52In the nick, same as you, I reckon.
14:56Only for Ponson, useless bludger.
14:59He never stooped as low as you.
15:01Please, Mr. Cameron.
15:03There's a seat, lady.
15:04I've been wanting to say this for some time.
15:08Us Camerons were a proud line till you disgraced it.
15:13There was never a Cameron in the nick before you.
15:16I was driven to it.
15:18And where were you with your helping hand?
15:20Nowhere near you, that's for sure.
15:22Not until you wanted a quid.
15:24Ah, you was dumb enough to be handed around.
15:27And you was usually half full anyhow.
15:29Showing your knickers to all them blokes.
15:32Stealing.
15:32Stealing?
15:33What about them army trucks in 1944?
15:36I didn't say nothing then.
15:37I'm not saying anything now.
15:39I was amusing the sergeant while you drove up.
15:41Now, where's my share?
15:44You got your share from the sergeant.
15:46You shut your dirty crap.
15:49Mr. Cameron, I warn you.
15:50Take your hands off me, you blood susher.
15:53I didn't bring you help.
15:54I help you.
15:55What in hell, you old bat?
15:57I'll see you there.
16:00You old wit, you darn me.
16:04I bloody well hope so.
16:06Do you think he snuffed it, Mrs. Davids?
16:23I don't know.
16:24Oh, I nearly took a turn in there myself.
16:28As God as me witness, I didn't think it would turn out like this.
16:32Neither did I.
16:36Poor old bagger.
16:41I'm glad we got here in time.
16:44Did he have anything to say before he passed away?
16:47He did manage to say a few words, yes.
16:49Well?
16:49Well, as I recall, Mrs. Birchworth, his exact words were,
16:55tell her she doesn't get a cracker.
16:58I got no sister.
16:59The old bastard.
17:04He can rot.
17:06I might have known it.
17:08Tied as a fish's bum to the grave.
17:11And he got the last word again.
17:20Did you care for a cup of tea?
17:22Hmm.
17:23Oh, no thanks.
17:25What did you say your husband was?
17:26Oh, he's at the office there, rather busy at present.
17:29I trust we're going to see him in court tomorrow.
17:31Of course.
17:33You see, there is something that I wanted to discuss with you both.
17:35Yes.
17:36Well, since you've instructed me that you won't enter a plea of temporary insanity, I...
17:40Oh, not that again, Mr. Wilson, really.
17:43I've already told you that that would be a lie and a weakness.
17:46Mrs. Roberts, speaking frankly, and as your lawyer, now, who cares?
17:54We're talking about the possibility of your having to spend a number of years in a rather unpleasant jail.
17:59And that's why we have you, Mr. Wilson, isn't it?
18:02Now, what did you wish to discuss?
18:07Is your daughter at home?
18:09Sarah, I told you to stay in your room.
18:12I'm in this too, Mom.
18:13I really think that Sarah should stay and listen to this.
18:17I'd like to put her on the witness stand.
18:19Oh, no.
18:21Certainly not.
18:22But, Mom...
18:22No.
18:23Please.
18:24May I explain?
18:26Now, the dead man Warren is not on trial for rape.
18:29Therefore, we've got to establish to the jury that you were acting in defense of your daughter,
18:33believing that this man was waiting for her with the thoughts of attacking her again.
18:38But that's the truth.
18:39Don't make it sound like some cheap lawyer's trick.
18:43We know it's the truth, Mrs. Roberts, but the jury don't.
18:45And all that can be established without Sarah.
18:47But the effect on the jury of a child in a school uniform.
18:52You're a cynic, Mr. Wilson.
18:55Yes.
18:57Probably.
18:57It is an open court.
19:00I don't care, Mom.
19:02Not anymore if it'll help you.
19:04He's our lawyer.
19:06I've already said no.
19:09She doesn't realize what they could do to her.
19:15I wonder who is going to get all that.
19:19If I were you, I'd forget all that.
19:21Well, I'm not you.
19:23I'm a long way from you.
19:30I suppose we've got to go back in the nick now, Mrs. Davidson.
19:33Oh, there's no rush.
19:35Perhaps we could go for a drive somewhere.
19:38Oh, I'd like that.
19:41Is there anywhere you'd particularly like to go?
19:44Christmas.
19:45Do you know a river?
19:47I love a river.
19:50I think so.
19:52Yes, Superintendent.
19:57They've had it soft for too long.
20:00Oh, Mrs. Davidson.
20:01Oh, she's taken the day off.
20:02I'm in charge at present.
20:05Yes, well, thank you.
20:09Yes, her feet do seem about a foot off the ground sometimes.
20:13No, it's no experience.
20:15Oh, look, something's just come up.
20:17I'll have to go.
20:19Goodbye.
20:20What happened to knocking?
20:21Oh, it's only you in here, Vera.
20:23I'll have you know that while I occupy this office, I expect the same respect you'd give
20:26Mrs. Davidson.
20:28Well, what's your problem?
20:29What did you tell Goodwin about Barbara Davidson?
20:31Oh, that.
20:32He's put two and two together and made five, but I guess that was your intention.
20:36You'd love to discredit Mrs. Davidson, wouldn't you?
20:38I don't like your tone, Mick.
20:39Don't get carried away, Vera.
20:41You're only in this office for one afternoon.
20:42I don't understand you.
20:44You're a prison officer like me.
20:45What do you see in her?
20:46She's in charge here.
20:48That could change.
20:49I know that's your idea.
20:50I've never made any secret of it.
20:52And I've told her.
20:53Right to her superior face.
20:55Her and her la-de-da ways.
20:56Her education.
20:57And her famous judge father.
20:59She makes me sick.
21:01So I see.
21:02I see.
21:02I see.
21:02I see.
21:02I see.
21:02I see.
21:02I see.
21:04I see.
21:06I see.
21:06I see.
21:07I see.
21:08I see.
21:08Oh, I suppose I'll miss him.
21:14Like toothache.
21:15It all sounds very colourful.
21:18What a life he must have had.
21:19You might say.
21:21But that Gus was a terrible liar.
21:25Always trying to be hurtful.
21:27Like bringing up my husband.
21:30Birdsworth.
21:32Oh, I know he was a no-hope and no-mistake.
21:35But he was that pretty.
21:40Dimples.
21:42Skin like a peach.
21:45And a touch like an angel.
21:49We lived in this tent by a creek.
21:52He knocked five kids out of me.
21:58Two of them died.
22:02Then he shot through on me with his barmaid.
22:07Blossom Birdsworth, they called him.
22:09The dirty little dingo.
22:10I still had to work.
22:14He never did.
22:16Hard, hard times.
22:19The depression.
22:21Then they took the kids away from me.
22:24Unfit, they said.
22:27After that, I start to slide.
22:29I admit that.
22:31Huh.
22:31I thought I was lucky to get that job with the shearers.
22:37Look at me now, doing all the talking and feeling sorry for myself.
22:42I bet you got a lot of yarns up your sleeve, Mrs Davidson.
22:45All rather tame, I'm afraid, Lucy.
22:47Oh.
22:48Go on.
22:50They say you belong to the cream of society.
22:52They say your father was a judge.
22:53That's what B Smith says.
22:55That's true.
22:56Oh, well.
22:57You don't give much away, do you?
22:59I'm sorry, Lizzie.
23:00Yes, my father was Chief Justice Marne, and my brother was a Member of Parliament.
23:05God.
23:06What's a fine lady like you, nurse-mating us galas?
23:10The way I was brought up, I suppose.
23:12Our family has a long line of do-gooders.
23:15I suppose Mr Davidson was the same, eh?
23:18Not exactly.
23:20Did he run out on you?
23:22Yes, we came to the parting of the ways.
23:24The Davidson family and I don't see much of each other anymore.
23:28Except that bitch Barbara.
23:30Oh, I'm sorry, Mrs Davidson.
23:32Yes.
23:33You could do without her, I'll bet.
23:36I could do without all of them.
23:42It's extremely fortunate that you've turned up, Mr Warner, if I may say so.
23:45It's a damn rotten reason I've got for being here.
23:47Yes, yes, of course.
23:49However, you are in a position to help.
23:51Now, before we go into that, son, I have to say, there's no way I can pay the kind of dough a bloke like you's going to ask.
23:57Oh, Miss Vernon's department is covering my fee.
24:01Oh, I see.
24:03Well, let's get on with it.
24:05Well, that would certainly help Lynn's case considerably if you were to appear in court and speak on her behalf.
24:12I say she's been a good girl up to now, all that kind of palaver, eh?
24:16Yes, you'll appreciate, of course, that there's no chance of her acquittal, but if we could lighten the sentence, I'm sure you'd want that.
24:22Well, I don't know.
24:26Perhaps some time in a place like this might straighten Lynn out.
24:29Well, I doubt that, Mr Warner.
24:32I don't know.
24:34We have now what we call a work release program in which Lynn could leave the prison during the day and work at some ordinary job.
24:44Now, I'm not going to be able to swing that if they throw the book at her.
24:47Oh, yes.
24:50Do some real work for a change, eh?
24:52Get her hands dirty and earn some honest dollars.
24:56Yeah.
24:57I think that's the best bloody thing you've said up to now.
25:01I'll go along with that.
25:03After all, she's still mine.
25:10Not much of a garden after what you've been used to, eh?
25:13No.
25:15Hey, that lawyer they got you, he's a bit of a lounge lizard.
25:20Chloe, though.
25:22Got a lot of hide.
25:25Talks a lot.
25:28Oh.
25:30I, uh...
25:31I rang the hospital back home earlier.
25:34They say your mum's on the mend.
25:35That's good.
25:38Oh, come on.
25:40Give us a smile, love.
25:46Wilson reckons, sir, I ought to turn up in court.
25:49Well?
25:50Yeah, well, I thought I would.
25:54There's no good dwelling on the past.
25:57You've got to look ahead.
25:58To what?
26:00The future.
26:01Yeah, well, you've been carrying on.
26:02I didn't think I had one.
26:03Well, that's the kind of talking I'll get you nowhere.
26:07You've got a lawyer that's costing a state a bloody fortune.
26:10And you've got this Vernon woman doing a bit.
26:12Wake up to yourself, Lynn.
26:16Got a visitor, Wonk.
26:18Doreen, Carol, Ellie.
26:19This is my dad.
26:21How do you do?
26:23I'm all right.
26:24How's yourself?
26:26Cigarette?
26:29Oh, he's not all that polite, girls.
26:32What about you, Wonk?
26:33Thanks, Rain.
26:35Since when are you smoking?
26:36Oh, don't make a song and dance about it, Dad.
26:38You learn all kinds of things in here.
26:40Yeah.
26:41You want to relax, Dad.
26:43She's a big girl now.
26:45You mind her own business.
26:50You scared him away, Dad.
26:52I was talking to my daughter.
26:54And who's stopping you?
26:56You don't mind, do you, Wonk?
26:59No.
27:00I don't care.
27:02Oh.
27:04No, you don't fool me, Lynn.
27:06You trying to act like this one?
27:07She doesn't have to act.
27:09She's part of the gang here.
27:11Now, you listen to me.
27:13I came here because I thought we could get back in step.
27:17Wilson and the Vernon woman said you needed me.
27:19You need someone, you're behaving like a milk bar slut.
27:22But I'm not going to get down my hands and knees to you.
27:24Look, if you want to be in court, okay.
27:26But if you aren't, I'll live.
27:28All right.
27:29If that's the way you want it.
27:34Oh, don't go crawling to him.
27:37What's he ever done for you?
27:39He's my father.
27:41So what?
27:42Maybe she's past helping Miss Vernon.
27:44Oh.
27:44A happy day, Bobby Smith.
28:00The handsome stranger flashes.
28:02A smile.
28:04Showing all his...
28:05Oh, jeez, I can't even read my own writing.
28:07Oh, pearly teeth.
28:08He pulls a Colt 45 from his pocket.
28:12Use this, he says.
28:13You'll like it.
28:14She runs her fingers down the smooth, cool barrel.
28:17Gotta be hot soon.
28:19Quiet.
28:20She feels the weight of the deadly weapon.
28:22Oh.
28:23This is my ticket to freedom, she says.
28:26The evil screw cringes near the walls, shaking with...
28:29Oh, how pathetic.
28:29Oh, I've got a critic amongst us.
28:31Shut up, wonk.
28:32Going bid's getting real interesting.
28:34Childish.
28:35Oh, why don't you go and have a weep, Warner?
28:37That is what you do best.
28:38I can sit here.
28:39Oh, once your buddy slapped.
28:41What's the matter?
28:42Didn't your daddy come to see you today?
28:43Maybe I could do it for you.
28:45Hey, I'm back.
28:46What are we?
28:47Where are our prezzies?
28:48Oh, fair go.
28:49I was with the governor, you know.
28:51Oh, go, if you can't get round to her, who are you?
28:53Let's be fair.
28:54Mrs. Davidson and me got on real well together today.
28:58She's not bad, the old gov.
29:00Oh, she's your best mate now, is she?
29:02We got on all right.
29:04She's a lady.
29:05What about your brother?
29:07Him?
29:08Gone to glory.
29:09Dead as a mackerel.
29:11Mrs. Davidson and me were right there when he went.
29:14Oh, I suppose he left you the estate, Lizzie.
29:16It's all tied up with his solicitor.
29:18You know, these things take time.
29:19But he did give me a little something.
29:21A little keepsake.
29:23Oh.
29:24Mrs. Davidson reckons it's worth a fortune.
29:27Yeah.
29:27Lemon-oge china, you know.
29:29Oh, give us a little bit.
29:30Gee, it's pretty, isn't it?
29:31Yes, it is.
29:32Miss Bennet's first words to me just now were,
29:35birds worth steal anything on her little outing.
29:38Vera always expects the worst.
29:39It constantly disappoints me how often she's right.
29:42Yes.
29:44Ah, I see my niece is out of solitary.
29:47How was it, Meg?
29:48Were you here?
29:48Oh, yes.
29:49It was nothing special.
29:51Ah, Goodwin ticked her off.
29:53Oh, he's still on the job, by the way.
29:55Mr. Bell's on leave.
29:57Vera advised that she go back to her cell.
30:00Vera did?
30:00Oh, I was surprised, too.
30:04This hasn't been very pleasant for you, has it?
30:06No.
30:07I was a little brat.
30:08I could throttle her.
30:10Meg, she's had the best of everything, in material terms.
30:14Everything anyone could want.
30:16You think she's had it too easy?
30:17In a way, except it's no more than I had.
30:22If I wanted to sound very pompous, I'd say it's the difference between being aware of privilege and taking it for granted, if you know what I mean.
30:30Yes, sure.
30:31She's a Davidson.
30:32I mean, from my husband's side of the family.
30:36Oh, yes.
30:40When she was smaller, nine or ten, she used to stay with us.
30:45Meg and I had a beach house bowing heads, and we used to...
30:49Oh, well, never mind.
30:52I'm sure we'd like to go home rather than sit here listening to me reminiscing.
30:56It's been a very long day.
31:02Will you please listen? It's your only chance.
31:10No.
31:10But Wilson made it perfect.
31:12Oh, Wilson may have talked you into it, but he's certainly not talked me into it.
31:15I will not have her on the witness stand.
31:20All right.
31:21All right, all right.
31:22Now, we've all got to keep calm.
31:26Taxi's going to be here.
31:28We're going to court.
31:29We're all going to stay calm.
31:33Why are we going in a taxi?
31:35Because I am not driving through Pica this morning of all mornings.
31:38Oh, you look tired, Ken.
31:40I'm all right.
31:42Oh, it's been awful for you lately.
31:44I'm sorry.
31:45Oh, you've got nothing to be sorry for.
31:47But if you would only listen to reason...
31:49Oh, everything's going to be fine.
31:51I have every faith in Mr. Wilson.
31:53All right.
32:04Let's go.
32:05Have you got a clean handkerchief?
32:14Please go on, Mr. Pryor.
32:17I am listening.
32:18I call Mrs. Valdo Warren, the wife of the deceased.
32:21Objection.
32:22I've failed to see what bearing this woman's testimony might have on the case, Your Honor.
32:28Mr. Pryor?
32:28My learned colleague, Your Honor, has been validly attempting all morning to put the dead man, Mr. Warren, on trial for rape.
32:35Since he insists on this, I think in all fairness, we should hear from the woman who lived with this fiend for 15 years.
32:42Yes, Your Honor, the woman will simply deny that her husband could have committed any crime whatsoever.
32:48You will have the opportunity to cross-examine, Mr. Wilson.
32:52Objection overruled.
32:54Call Mrs. Warren.
32:55Mrs. Warren.
32:56Mrs. Valdo Warren.
33:02Eight years is long enough for your daughter to have seen Mr. Warren, don't you think?
33:07Theoretically, but she didn't.
33:09I'm sure she didn't.
33:10Mr. Wilson, we are to hear the testimony of Sarah Roberts.
33:15On instructions from my client, Your Honor?
33:18No, we're not.
33:19Hmm.
33:20Very well.
33:22Your witness, I think.
33:25I've got a car over there.
33:27Is the girl going on the stand tomorrow?
33:29Nope.
33:29Why not?
33:31No comment.
33:36Up the record, Steve.
33:38Since when are you taking on lame ducks?
33:56What the hell do you mean by that?
33:57What?
33:58Reporter.
33:59Oh, nothing.
34:00Nothing.
34:00Mrs. Catherine Roberts.
34:22The jury has found you guilty of the death of Albert Warren, but finds itself convinced
34:29as am I, up to a point, by your counsel's defense of mitigating circumstances.
34:34Whether this man raped your daughter or not does not alter the fact that you took the law into
34:41your own hands.
34:43The vigilante spirit is a dangerous one, Mrs. Roberts.
34:46The apparatus of the law and the police force exists for our protection.
34:50And your own powerful and understandable sense of right and wrong does not excuse your action.
34:56I sentence you to three years in the Wentworth Detention Center.
35:01We're all to be discussed.
35:03All rise.
35:05This court now stands adjourned.
35:16What about appealing?
35:17Surely there'd be such a...
35:18We've absolutely no doubts.
35:20Let me look at you both.
35:34Mum, I'm sorry.
35:37Sorry.
35:38We're both sorry.
35:41Now, darling, I want you to take care of your father.
35:45You two are going to need each other now.
35:48Oh, let me think.
35:50All the ironing's done.
35:51There's plenty of food in the fridge and...
35:53Kate, Kate, stop it.
35:54Three years isn't forever.
36:20I'll drive you home.
36:30I'll drive you home.
36:38Catherine Angela Roberts.
36:40You were found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to three years' imprisonment.
36:43Correct?
36:44Correct?
36:45Correct.
36:46Yes.
36:47You will be examined by the sister.
36:49You will then meet the reception committee who will explain to you the options open to
36:52you within the prison.
36:53You are permitted one phone call.
36:55You may also see the governor, if necessary, regarding any appeal you may wish to make.
37:00I'd keep an eye on this stuff, Roberts.
37:02Things do tend to disappear.
37:04Right.
37:05The officer will now take you to the showers.
37:06How long have I got to pay, Mr. Wilson?
37:14Whenever you're ready.
37:15There's no real rush.
37:19Soon as I can.
37:21Yes.
37:21Well, I'll be on my way then, Mr. Wilson.
37:24I'll get it.
37:27Sarah.
37:28Oh, Mr. Sutton.
37:29Well, bye, Sarah.
37:35That's your lawyer?
37:37Yeah.
37:38Huh.
37:39How'd you get on?
37:42She got three years.
37:46Yeah.
37:48Oh, Sarah, hop out for a bit, will you?
37:51Frank and I have got a couple of things to talk about.
37:53But, Dad...
37:54Sarah.
37:59I think it's tough, old mate.
38:06Well?
38:07I didn't even think you'd be here.
38:09I saw your car out.
38:10What's the word, Frank?
38:13Well, I've been into the whole thing.
38:14As you know, we've got no cash in hand.
38:18We're going to lose on this around, Shmozzle.
38:23Yeah, well, we'll have to sell off one of the properties.
38:25Now, half a minute.
38:27Look, I need the money.
38:28For personal purposes.
38:30Yeah, so?
38:31You know the terms of our partnership, mate.
38:33It's just not on.
38:34This is different, surely.
38:37I appreciate your position, but...
38:40That's the way it is.
38:44Read the contracts, if you like.
38:46But there is another option, as I see it.
38:50To sell your share.
38:55Yeah, where does that leave me?
38:56Do you need the money, or don't you?
38:59Now, I've got a bloke who'd be interested if you are.
39:03I see.
39:06Some mates you turned out to be.
39:09None of this is doing the business much good.
39:11I suppose not.
39:13Be fair, Ken.
39:15Not my fault if your wife threw a screw loose.
39:17What?
39:18I mean, fancy thinking poor old Bert Warren could duff a flea, let alone rape someone.
39:22But that's enough.
39:24Get out of here.
39:32You want to come down off that high horse?
39:35This family always was a bit too good to be true.
39:37I said, get out!
39:41Come on.
39:44Oh, God, let's have help me.
39:54Catherine Roberts?
39:55Yes.
39:56Roberts?
39:57This is Jean Vernon, the regional services officer.
40:00Oh, yes?
40:01Mind if I sit down?
40:02Well, I'm sure you have that right.
40:07They tell me that you have a husband and daughter outside.
40:10I expect they must be feeling pretty low.
40:13Yes.
40:14I was wondering if you'd like me to go and see them.
40:17You're some sort of social worker, Miss Sir?
40:20Vernon.
40:21More or less.
40:22They shall survive, I think.
40:24I'm sure there must be other, far more deserving cases.
40:27Well, that's not the point.
40:29The point is...
40:30The state has put me in here for defending my daughter,
40:32and now some state charity worker wants to stick her nose into our affairs.
40:38I think you people have done enough.
40:40The state has put me in here for you, Miss Sir.
41:00Dad?
41:03Can I get you something to wait?
41:08Thanks, love.
41:09Dad, are we in trouble?
41:14Mr Sutton's got a kind of loud voice.
41:18Yeah.
41:19My mate Frank Sutton.
41:21Oh, you don't need him, Dad.
41:23I heard you tell Mum once.
41:25Frank's got the gift of the gab, but I've got the know-how.
41:30You hear a lot.
41:33I think you'll have to go back to your Aunty Viv in the morning.
41:37I want to stay with you.
41:38Things are going to get pretty hectic around here, Sarah.
41:42You want to get rid of me?
41:44No, it's only for your own God.
41:46You think it's my fault?
41:48Oh, for God's sake, Sarah.
41:51Not now.
41:57Have you anything to say, Roberts?
41:59You must understand what I did, Mrs Davidson.
42:01I think so, but that doesn't mean I approve.
42:05However, you're going to be with us for some time.
42:08It's not going to be easy for someone such as yourself.
42:10You can at least understand that.
42:13Are you frightened, Roberts?
42:14I don't know if I can cope with being with...
42:18I'm sorry, but there's nothing I can do.
42:21Now, if you would wait outside, please, Roberts.
42:30Poor thing.
42:31She's scared stiff.
42:32Yes.
42:33In any case, there's something else I wanted to ask you.
42:36Just what happened here the other day, when the VJ was here?
42:40I told you.
42:40Oh, for heaven's sake, Meg, don't hide things from me.
42:43I am up to this job.
42:45I thought it was all finished.
42:46Well, it isn't.
42:47I've had this letter from the department.
42:48They want to know whether or not I've been granting special privileges for my niece.
42:52Now, obviously, someone has put in a report or something.
42:56Well?
42:59Well, on the way here to see the VJ, she said she could implicate an officer in a drug business.
43:06Did she?
43:07How interesting.
43:09But then she denied it.
43:11Then it came out she was your niece.
43:14No need to ask how that came out.
43:17So certain inferences were drawn.
43:20Well, what does the department want?
43:23A satisfactory account of these matters, etc., etc.,
43:26or forced to appoint an outside investigation.
43:29What?
43:30I want to see my niece.
43:32Yes, all right.
43:41Mrs. Jackson?
43:43What?
43:43Do you know if Miss Vernon's heard from my father yet?
43:45Well, why didn't you ask yourself?
43:47Well, how's she? I haven't heard anything for two days.
43:49What did you say to him the last time he was here?
43:52Nothing.
43:53Really?
43:54I think you'd better decide what you want, Lynne.
44:00Yeah, well, so should he.
44:03Oh.
44:04No, three years isn't so bad.
44:07I wouldn't know.
44:08But it seems a long time.
44:09It'll be gone in a flash, Kate.
44:10Oh, I hope you don't mind me calling you Kate.
44:12Is it really true that bloke raped you, little one?
44:16Well, she said so.
44:17Yeah, and they put you in there.
44:18It's a bloody scandal.
44:20Now, the law's set up all wrong,
44:22and you wouldn't want to hold your breath waiting for the cops to pick up the one they ought to, either.
44:26Oh, I don't know.
44:27Everyone in here's been done one way or another.
44:29They busy.
44:30We've all been screwed.
44:31But some lawyers get the idea that a retrial is a criticism of their methods,
44:38so just be prepared for an air of heavy scepticism.
44:42What happened to Catherine Roberts?
44:44Well, she got three years.
44:47She should be here now.
44:49What went wrong?
44:50I don't perform miracles.
44:52She ignored my advice.
44:53Had a very thin defence.
44:55Win some, lose some.
44:58If you like.
44:59Maybe you're not as great as you're cracked up to be.
45:01I don't really think this is a very good time for us to argue, Mrs. Travers.
45:04I know it's difficult for you.
45:06It's just taking so long, that's all.
45:08I'm sorry.
45:10What?
45:11It's the day after tomorrow.
45:12Well, all right.
45:20I'm through in here.
45:42I'm through in here.
45:50I'm through in here.
45:58I'm through in here.
46:00I'm through in here.
46:07I'm through in here.
46:09I'm through in here.
46:17I'm through in here.
46:19I'm through in here.
46:27I'm through in here.
46:29I'm through in here.
46:39Amen.
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