Prisoner (TV Series)

Episode #5.28 (1983)

Mary Murphy: Ruth Shaw

Quotes 

• Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson : [grabs Lizzie by the arm]  Don't read any fairy-stories, Birdsworth. You mustn't start confusing things again.

  [Joan slowly exits] 

  Lizzie Birdsworth : Dirty mongrel!

  [to the other women] 

  Lizzie Birdsworth : And a great bloody help you lot were!

  Ruth Shaw : What could we do, Lizzie? She's got a way of looking right through you.

  Lizzie Birdsworth : You could have backed me up, That's what you could've done. Instead of shoving off with your bloody tails between your legs.

  Maxine Daniels : Yeah, well, I did me best, Lizzie.

  Lizzie Birdsworth : Yeah. You did but nobody else did. We had something on her for a change; all we had to do was stand together.

  Nola McKenzie : [interjecting]  You had nothing on her, you stupid old bitch. She's a pro; she didn't even bat an eyelid.

  Lizzie Birdsworth : I reckon she was running scared.

  Nola McKenzie : Bull. She had you. And she knew it. You should have listened to me.

  Lizzie Birdsworth : Oh a fat lot of good that would've done.

  Nola McKenzie : Whatever that bitch Clarke told the screws they couldn't prove a thing against me. But now, thanks to our lagger here, they know for sure that a racket is going on.

  Lizzie Birdsworth : [raising her voice]  Don't you call *me* a lagger!

  Nola McKenzie : Why not? Davo is going to be looking at whoever is running this insurance scheme, isn't she?

  Lizzie Birdsworth : Yeah. The Freak.

  Nola McKenzie : And if she decides it's not the Freak, she's gonna start looking at us. They're gonna tighten up so much around here we wont be able to get so much as a burnt out fag into this joint from now on.