Bad Girls

G-Wing is rehearsing for HMP Larkhall's Spring Fashion Show. It's a huge event—a chance for the women prisoners to glam up and have fun, and for the Governing Governor, Simon Stubberfield, a chance to boost the prison's image. But things go badly wrong when pregnant inmate, Carol Byatt is discovered unconscious in her blood-stained bed. The finger is pointed at negligent Senior Officer Sylvia Hollamby. But new Wing Governor, Helen Stewart comes up against closed ranks when she tries to conduct an investigation.

Helen is determined to tackle the high level of drug abuse on G-Wing. She has learned that the prison s random testing policy is anything but, and she is shocked to learn that her POs test women they know are clean to avoid unnecessary paperwork. Although Fenner and Hollamby are scathing of Helen s naivety, she decides to make it clear to everyone that she means business by introducing a scheme to encourage inmates to report pushers to the much feared Dedicated Search Team.

Rachel is besotted with Fenner and asks him if they will still be able to see each other when she is released from prison. She gives him a love letter but he tears it up and flushes it down the toilet before admonishing her for committing the details of their relationship to paper that's the way that secrets are discovered and Principal Officers are sacked! What Fenner doesn't realise is that the secret is already out Nikki has already tried and failed to warn Rachel off and Shell is also beginning to suspect that something is going on.

Zandra has decided that she wants to abort Robin's baby. Although Helen concedes that she's probably doing the right thing, she remains troubled by the inmate's motives. Handcuffed to Lorna and Dominic, Zandra is escorted to the clinic. As soon as she s installed in an examination room, she plays on Lorna's evident unease with the situation by feigning distress. When Lorna heads off in search of a nurse, Zandra seizes the opportunity to escape.

Whilst Helen is listening to the news of Rachel s suicide on her car radio, Dominic collects together the dead inmate's belongings. He's finding it hard to come to terms with the recent events and chooses to confide in Fenner about his disenchantment with the Prison Service and his decision to hand in his resignation. Fenner meanwhile is all too aware of the part her played in the tragedy. He's desperate to cover his back and so makes it clear to everyone that the buck stops with Helen.

Dominic has his hands full with a new inmate, Jessie Devlin, a chronic alcoholic who has the DTs, voices and visions in her head, the lot. After a period spent drying out, Jessie is moved to G-Wing where she is soon marked out as an easy target for a spot of bullying by Shell. Salvation arrives in the unlikely form of Denny who seems to recognise Jessie from somewhere.