Prisoner (TV Series)

Episode #5.3 (1983)

Judith McGrath: Colleen Powell

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• Ted Douglas : Ah, Mrs Powell. Have you got good reason for dragging me up here? The department is up to it's neck in this damn fire business, you know.

  Colleen Powell : Yes, well I'm afraid I'm going to make matters worse. I suppose I'd better come straight to the point.

  Ted Douglas : Yes. I suppose you'd better.

  Colleen Powell : The fire. The police think it started when some turps exploded in the storeroom.

  Ted Douglas : Yes.

  Colleen Powell : I put the turps in there.

  Ted Douglas : Do you realise what you're saying, woman? Do you know what your negligence could do to the depatment?

  Colleen Powell : Yes. Anything I can do...

  Ted Douglas : Just a minute. Just a minute. There may be some way out of this. Are the police sure that's where the fire started?

  Colleen Powell : Well, they're waiting on the forensic reports to confirm it. I don't see what difference it'll make. Certainly wont bring back Trapp and Fields.

  Ted Douglas : It could make all the difference in the world. If it can be proved the women themselves were at fault then the department will have no...

  Colleen Powell : The department! My God, it's always the bloody department! Two women are dead; you couldn't care less as long as the department gets off he hook!

  Ted Douglas : I'll put that little outburst down to your overwrought condition, Mrs Powell. The department must be cleared of all blame. If we can clear the deputy governor at the same time so much the better. If not, we would have to regretfully accept your resignation.