Prisoner (TV Series)

Episode #4.80 (1982)

Maggie Kirkpatrick: Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson

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• Meg Morris : I don't know why you don't just get a job on a sheep station. You'd be just as happy herding animals.

  Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson : That's what I'm doing now.

  Meg Morris : Believe it or not these women are human beings with a lot more human feeling than you'll ever have.

  Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson : Oh, come off it! Take off your rose coloured glasses. How long have you been in this job? God! You know you can't treat whores and thieves and murderers like a bunch of girls at a finishing school!

  Meg Morris : Sometimes the only diffeence between an officer and a prisoner is a conviction. I think you're on the wrong side of the bars, Joan.

  Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson : Maybe. But you'll have your nervous breakdown long before I have mine.

• Bea Smith : [creeping in behind Joan]  Is this a private party or can anyone join in?

  Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson : [not moving except to take out her leather gloves which she then puts on out of Bea's vision]  Congratulations. Really had me fooled this time, Smith. How did you get Fields to set me up?

  Bea Smith : She didn't take much persuading. She's no friend of yours, Ferguson. Then no-one is. Are you going to turn around and face me? Or haven't you got the guts?

  Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson : I'd thought I'd let you hit me from behind. More your style, isn't it?