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Wentworth Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2013 - 2013
Episode 1
No Place Like Home
Wed, May 1, 201348 mins
Bea Smith is taken to gaol after attempting to murder her violent, rapist husband and is immediately taken in by the lesbian, drug-dealer, Franky Doyle. Liz Birdsworth and Doreen Anderson also befriend Bea, however a slip of the tongue turns Doreen against her. Governor Meg Jackson is becoming increasingly suspicious about the ladies and their ways of bringing crystal meth into the gaol. Deputy Governor Vera Bennett makes Meg look incompetent towards lawyer, Erica Davidson. Jacs Holt is released from solitary and reignites her rivalry with Franky. After making up, Doreen leaves her daughter Kaiya with Bea during a riot caused by Jacs and Franky. When Kaiya runs off, Bea follows after her. After Matt Fletcher and Will Jackson - Meg's husband - break up the riot, they find a lifeless Meg lying in the hallway, stabbed with a blood-soaked Bea standing over her.
Episode 2
Fly Me Away
43 mins
After Meg's tragic death, Will threatens Doreen saying that if drugs are found, Kaiya will be taken off her. Bea tries to contact Debbie, however Harry keeps picking up and eventually comes to see her. The prisoners try to get information out of Liz, who is working with the officers to discover the identity of Meg's murderer. After threatening to kill Bea, Doreen reveals that Kaiya is actually Toni's daughter and her own died after Doreen crashed her car. Matt and Will have a run in after Will begins to snort cocaine. Kaiya is taken off Doreen permanently. Vera finds the governor job harder than she thought and a new governor is appointed: Erica Davidson.
Episode 3
The Girl Who Waited
45 mins
Franky is confronted by a visit from her father who abandoned her as a young child. He wants to offer Franky a life on the outside when she's released. Franky is torn: although she wants her father, she banishes him from her life. Meanwhile, Bea gets Jacs offside, and when Franky intervenes, Jacs is looking for payback. After a tearful reunion with her daughter Debbie, Bea is in a position of owing Jacs a favour and is manipulated into being part of Franky's painful demonstration of Jacs's power. Mindful of reprisals and the prison's out-dated systems, Erica takes steps to change them, putting the officers offside.
Episode 4
The Things We Do
46 mins
Ronnie forces her young daughter, Amy, to smuggle heroin into the prison, but when Amy goes into cardiac arrest, Ronnie is harassed by the other women. Doreen and Boomer conspire over home brew that has been fermenting for months. Bea begins to doubt whether she can take on Jacs after Jacs threatens the life of Debbie. Liz is told that her parole is being looked over and she organizes an afternoon for the ladies to talk about their problems. We discover that Liz is an alcoholic and after drinking all the home brew, she reveals her story - she killed her mother-in-law. Erica and Vera butt heads over the running of the prison. Will continues his search for Meg's killer and discovers Matt and Meg had a peculiar relationship.
Episode 5
The Velvet Curtain
45 mins
Erica begins to dream about having sex with Franky and begins to wonder whether her fiancé is really the person she wants to be with. Liz begins drinking methylated spirits and collapses when Doreen puts bleach in it. The rivalry between Franky and Jacs escalates. Doreen is offered the peer worker job after Liz is fired. Bea, Boomer, Franky and Liz discuss masturbation.
Episode 6
Captive
44 mins
Vera's (Kate Atkinson) attempt to impress Fletch (played by Aaron Jeffery) backfires and her domineering mother reveals a humiliating secret to her peers. Erica (Leeanna Walsman) betrays Franky (Nicole Da Silva) in order to keep her own secret and protect her position at Wentworth.
Episode 7
Something Dies
44 mins
Erica, Vera, Matt and Will decide it is time to release Franky from solitary. Doreen betrays Franky by siding with Jacs but she was actually helping her. Bea - after learning that Jacs and her gang are planning on ganging Franky - confronts Jacs and gets beaten up. When Franky is released, she is threatened, however the tables turn and she slams Jacs hand in an exercise machine. Will - who is using drugs frequently - discovers that while he and Meg were trying for a baby, Meg did fall pregnant and three weeks before she died, had an abortion. Vera and Matt's romance intensifies.
Episode 8
Mind Games
45 mins
Three weeks after being attacked, Bea is in her element. Erica is wary that the rivalry for top dog now consists of Franky, Jacs and Bea. Jacs is told that she should go into protection for the rest of her stay but refuses. Will is blackmailed by Jacs as she has photos of him with a drug dealer. Vera brings arthritis painkillers into the prison for Jacs after it is revealed Vera began the riot that killed Meg by telling Jacs to start it. As Bea tries to get hold of her daughter, Debbie, Jacs' son Brayden gets her hooked on heroin. Jacs tells Brayden to end things with Debbie and he tells her that it is the last thing he ever does for her. Brayden injects Debbie with heroin, causing her to overdose and die.
Episode 9
To the Moon
46 mins
Bea is grief-stricken over the death of her daughter but just when she starts coming to terms with it, is dealt a further blow by being refused to attend the funeral. In the depths of despair she attempts to end her own life, only to be saved by Liz. The women rally around Bea and organise a memorial where Jacs sees her plan to break Bea has backfired. Vera and Fletch's date comes to a humiliating end.
Episode 10
Checkmate
44 mins
Vera and Matt sleep together but when Vera finds out the shocking truth - Matt and Meg were having an affair, she fell pregnant and had an abortion - Matt tells her to get out of his life. Determined to find out who killed Meg, Will makes a deal with Jacs, however he later discovers Meg's bracelet in Jacs' cell. After threatening to kill her, Will has Jacs charged with Meg's murder. Liz and Franky talk about what really happened the day of Meg's murder: Franky went to find Jacs, and grabbed a knife. When Meg grabbed her arm, Franky thought it was Jacs and stabbed her. Liz took her bracelet and put it in Jacs' cell. Bea discovers the truth behind Debbie's murder and confronts Jacs. After Jacs tries to condone it, Bea takes a pen and shoves it into Jacs' neck and pulls it out, killing her almost instantaneously. She then presses the duress button after Liz had told her to never touch it. The other women stare as a blood-soaked Bea is marched out of the compound by police.
