Prisoner (TV Series)

Episode #5.30 (1983)

Judith McGrath: Colleen Powell

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• [Meg is supervising the women as they get ready for the TV crew to arrive, Colleen enters] 

  Colleen Powell : Oh my God! Well I think allowing them to wear make-up was a huge mistake. Look at them! Half of them look like tarts.

  Meg Morris : Half of them are.

• [Meg, Colleen and Joan are on a coffee/cigarette break in the staff room] 

  Meg Morris : And that's it? Alan Farmer never existed. Do they honestly think they are going to get away with this?

  Colleen Powell : Well, there are now no records to show he was in here or that he was arrested.

  Meg Morris : Officially yes, but you know how things get around.

  Colleen Powell : It is up to us to make sure they don't. Otherwise we'd be a complete laughing stock.

  Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson : That's gonna happen anyway, isn't it? When the news gets out about the soft approach to the prisoners. The public wont thank us for turning the place into a hoilday resort.

  Meg Morris : Yeah. Well I don't agree wth that. We've always had far less trouble from the women when they're being treated more humanely.

  Colleen Powell : Well... that's not quite true, Meg. They usually take advantage of the situation and end up spoiling it for themselves.

  Meg Morris : Well not the majority of them. There's only been the odd troublemaker.. And they'd be in troubnle even if they spent their time in chains.

  Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson : Maybe they'll let us give that a try when all this fails? And it's bound to.

  Colleen Powell : Look! It is the department's decison, so it's up to us to make it work. I'd say we have Jill Clarke's report to thank for the change of attitude.

  Meg Morris : I was very dubious about her being in here, but obviusly it's all worked out for the best.

  Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson : Oh for God's sake! Save us from the sweetness and light brigade!

  [Joan exits] 

  Meg Morris : And God save us from a fascist regime.