Prisoner (TV Series)

Episode #5.45 (1983)

Peter Harvey-Wright: Jerry Steele

Quotes 

• [Bea and Lizzie are meeting with Bea's lawyer in the interview room] 

  Jerry Steele : Now the way I see it is this: your best chance is to plead guilty of murder but with extreme provocation.

  Lizzie Birdsworth : Why should she plead guilty? That bitch McKenzie got what was coming to her and more!

  Jerry Steele : That may be so...

  Lizzie Birdsworth : She murdered poor little Paddy. She tried to do the same to Bea, only Bea was too smart for her.

  Jerry Steele : Mrs Birdsworth...

  Lizzie Birdsworth : She and the Freak tried to make poor old Bea think she was going nuts.

  Jerry Steele : Mrs Birdsworth, please...

  Lizzie Birdsworth : It wasn't murder - she deserved it!

  Jerry Steele : Her life was taken unlawfully. That's murder. But if we can prove extreme provocation, the sentence will be lighter.

  Bea Smith : I don't see what difference it's going to make; I'm a lifer already. This time they'll just throw away the key.

  Jerry Steele : Not necessarily. Murder with provocation still makes you eligible for parole earlier.

  Lizzie Birdsworth : Why don't you go temporary insanity, Bea? That should be easy to prove.

  Bea Smith : Oh, thanks Lizzie!