- Joyce Barry: [entering Judy and Dot's cell prior to lockup]
- Joyce Barry: Everything alright in here?
- Dot Farrar: I shouldn't think so. Doesn't matter; it's only me.
- Judy Bryant: Oh here we go again!
- Joyce Barry: Alright Dot, what's the matter now?
- Dot Farrar: Nothing much. Don't worry about it. S'pose I'll cope. I have for the past twenty-five years. Mind you, I wouldn't be surprised if this bed finishes me off. Still I'm only a number on the office file aren't I? Delete 1194, found dead during morning patrol.
- [Judy groans]
- Joyce Barry: Don't do that to me, Dot, deaths cause so much paperwork!
- [Judy laughs]
- Dot Farrar: Very amusing. I wonder how many women my age are forced to sleep on a bed like this?
- Joyce Barry: But you've got the best bed; didn't you change it with Judy?
- Judy Bryant: Yes, she certainly did, but I don't know what she's going on about, the beds are exactly the same.
- Dot Farrar: It's alright for you youngsters, you can cope with a thing like this.
- Judy Bryant: So I'm a youngster now, am I?
- Judy Bryant: Oh for God's sake! Did you have to put your denture in my coffee cup?
- Dot Farrar: I didn't know it was your cup. Anyway, what's the fuss about? It's only one little tooth, it wont hurt you. I have it in my mouth all day, and I'm still alive!
- Judy Bryant: [sarcastically] Oh well I didn't think of that did I? I don't know what I'm complaining about anyway, you've got my bed you might as well have my cup.
- Dot Farrar: Oh thanks Jude. But I think I'll have my coffee in the white mug, if you don't mind.
- Bobbie Mitchell: When they took me to hospital I had friends coming out of me bloody ears. Where are they now? Myra's gone over the fence, Pixie is gone. Now they've taken the best mate I've ever had in me whole life and shut her in a nut house. What do I want mates for? Too much trouble.
- Bobbie Mitchell: Rack off Grannie.
- Dot Farrar: Cheeky little bugger. I was only trying to help. Anyway I shouldn't be doing that job.
- [pointing to the dryers]
- Dot Farrar: Those damn things don't do a thing for my lumbago.
- Judy Bryant: Oh lumbago now is it? It was arthritis last night.
- Dot Farrar: Yes and you wouldn't believe what it's like having the two of them together.
- Bobbie Mitchell: Oh, get lost will ya!
- Dot Farrar: Any moisture in the air and off they go! Its anybody's guess which'll carry me off first.
- Bobbie Mitchell: Sit on it will ya?
- Judy Bryant: [to Dot] Just go back to the dryers.
- Marie Winter: Now just a minute! Let's have a bit of respect for the oldies around here.
- Judy Bryant: Well since when were you worried about respect?
- Marie Winter: Yeah, funny isn't it? Still that's what they taught me at the convent so if Dotty wants to swap jobs then that's alright with me. And that's all that matters, isn't it, Bryant?
- Judy Bryant: There is nothing wrong with her back.
- Dot Farrar: Oh I see, so I'm a liar now am I?
- Marie Winter: [to Dot] Oh shut up, ya stupid old bitch!
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: When I'm Governor, you're gonna have to smarten up your ideas, Morris. And you'd better make it soon, because that's not too far off.
- Meg Morris: Ferguson... don't threaten me, it wont work. The day you sit in that chair is the day I leave.
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: Then I'll just have to get by without you, wont I? But don't worry, I'll scrape through somehow.
- Marie Winter: Perhaps now we can get down to the serious business of selling some drugs. Are you interested?
- Reb Kean: [pause] Why not. I'll be here for a long time, may as well make a dollar.
- Meg Morris: I don't believe this. Are you actually telling me that Joan went to the Department...
- Ann Reynolds: I am saying that that... *woman* presented the Department with an official complaints list a mile long accusing yours truly of more departmental indiscretions than I knew existed!
- Meg Morris: She really is after your position.
- Ann Reynolds: She's *applied* for my position.
- Meg Morris: What?
- Ann Reynolds: How did she word it? In the likely event of Reynolds being stood down... Ifeel that my expertise and years of service will be considered before a replacement is...
- [she interrupted by a knock on the door]
- Ann Reynolds: Come in.
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: [entering] You wanted to see me Governor?
- Ann Reynolds: Yes. Close the door,
- Meg Morris: I have to see Mrs O'Reagan so I'll be...
- Ann Reynolds: No. Meg. I want you to witness this. I don't want Miss Ferguson running to the department with any more lies.
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: I didn't lie, Governor. Every item on that report...
- Ann Reynolds: That report was a masterpiece of verbal manipulation, Ferguson, and you know it. Not one charge was substantiated or reported in it's correct context.
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: And was that the Department's opinion?
- Ann Reynolds: [pause] You want a fight, Ferguson? Right, you've got one. It's been a long time since I've put the gloves on, I don't think I've forgotten anything. Now Get out!
- [Joan leaves]
- Meg Morris: Ann, what did the department say?
- Ann Reynolds: If there's another foul up in the next six weeks... I'm out.