Season 8 • Episode 104
LatestRita carries out the robbery but is recaptured and brought back to Wentworth in a bad way. Joan goes to pick up the cash but chickens out. Alice gets Tom to bring in his motorbike for Rita to ride in the grounds as a birthday treat. Ann is told her reforms have been accepted and Dwyer sacked. Rita announces she's standing down as Top Dog and wants Kath to take over. Harry is transferred to Barnhurst. Joan arrives at work next day to hear Rita died during the night. She finally picks up the stolen loot, but the cops are waiting for her and she arrives in Wentworth on remand overnight and is put in Solitary. Joan starts cracking up and is horrified when her meal is brought in by a very much alive Rita. She is taken away to another prison next morning as the women whoop and holler. Rita tells Alice she's ""going to be the oldest biker in the world"".
Prisoner is an Australian soap opera that is set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison.
Acting
Maggie Kirkpatrick's terrifying 'Freak' stare
Costume
Iconic beige prison uniforms, somehow
Writing
Ridiculous storylines played absolutely straight
Creator
Reg Watson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pioneered the 'women in prison' genre template later copied by Orange Is the New Black. The 'Cell Block H' nickname comes from UK broadcasts where 'Prisoner' was already taken.
Maggie Kirkpatrick based Joan Ferguson on a terrifying teacher from her Catholic school. The infamous 'mallet' incident in Season 4 was improvised and became iconic.
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