Wentworth

Bea Smith goes from housewife to inmate after being charged with attempted murder of her husband and finds out the hard way that retribution in prison has fatal consequences.

In the aftermath of the riot, Officer Will Jackson blackmails Doreen into helping him, threatening the removal of young Kaiya. Struggling with lack of contact with her daughter, Bea has a visit from her husband Harry, who wants to ensure they stick with their story. As Vera struggles as Acting Governor, prison advocate Erica Davidson shines for General Manager Derek Channing.

Bea is caught up in the brutal rivalry between Franky and Jacs, while Erica struggles to gain the support of the officers. Franky is confronted with a visit from her father who abandoned her as a young child.

Franky teaches Bea a tough lesson in loyalty leaving her vulnerable to Jacs. When a young girl has a near death experience in Wentworth, Liz is forced to relive long-buried memories from her own past. Jacs discovers her husband is having an affair in a very public way. Franky stirs up new feelings in Erica.

Unsettled by a dream about Franky, Erica attempts to avoid her, however, they are thrown together when Franky becomes the poster girl for prison reform. Stripped of her peer worker duties, Liz's drinking problem spirals and she alienates the women until a close call gives her much needed perspective. Bea reveals to Liz the truth about her marriage.

Vera's attempt to impress Fletch backfires and her domineering mother reveals a humiliating secret to her peers. Erica betrays Franky in order to keep her own secret and protect her position at Wentworth.

With Franky in the slot, Jacs is ruling the prison and the women are living in fear. When word gets out that Franky is to be released back into the compound, Jacs plans a brutal attack. Will discovers something about Meg that sends him on a downward spiral, pushing him dangerously close to the edge. Bea pays a high price for crossing Jacs while Franky gets her revenge.

The officers and women are on edge, aware of Jacs' downward swing in popularity, while Bea's is on the rise. They are waiting for the next round of reprisals. To Liz's disgust, Franky continues to push Bea to confront Jacs while Jacs scrambles to claw back ground. To gain back control of Wentworth Jacs makes a final play to break Bea.

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.

Bea discovers the link between Debbie's secret boyfriend and Jacs. As Fletch and Vera grow closer a secret threatens to tear them apart. Determined to end Franky's manipulation of Bea, Liz turns to the Governor. The truth behind the riot is finally revealed and Bea confronts a killer leading to deadly consequences.

Joan Ferguson quickly makes an impact, halting Franky’s contraband racket and creating an enemy. Determined to unsettle Franky’s powerbase, Ferguson returns Bea Smith to H Block who is now a shadow of her former self, finding refuge in a haze of prescription medicine. It’s only with the help of her allies that she is able to find something to live for – revenge against her daughter’s killer.

Harry wants a divorce, and Bea agrees only if he takes revenge on Brayden Holt. When he refuses, Bea manipulates him into confronting Debbie’s killer, then takes action herself. Liz struggles to care for a young Korean drug mule, facing life-threatening danger when Franky discovers heroin in her stomach. Pressured by Ferguson, Franky takes ruthless, deadly measures to retrieve it. Meanwhile, Doreen starts a greenhouse project and meets prisoner Nash, sparking instant attraction, while Ferguson uncovers Fletch’s affair with Meg through Vera.

When Brayden Holt’s godmother Simmo returns, Bea sees a chance to lure her daughter’s killer to Wentworth. Simmo stirs old alliances and eyes Jacs’ legacy, seeking a drug supply Ferguson blocks. Meanwhile, Franky secures a secret route through the garden, drawing Doreen closer to Nash, while Liz unexpectedly hinders Bea’s plans for revenge.

Simmo warns Bea of an impending hit against her by the Holt family in retaliation for her attack on Brayden. With the induction of three new prisoners into Wentworth, Bea is jumping at shadows, not sure from which of them the attack will come. But when a first attempt on her life fails, Bea asks Franky to smuggle in a weapon for protection. Convinced the ‘hit person’ is the powerful transgender inmate Maxine, Bea does her best to avoid her. But when the second attack comes, the identity of the would-be assassin is someone totally unexpected.

When Bea hears Simmo’s daughter is working for the Holts, she plants fear in Simmo’s mind and fuels it further for her own plans. Meanwhile, Boomer’s position as Franky’s muscle is under threat. When she goes missing, a search of the prison turns violent for Will and Fletch as secrets from the past finally surface.

Simmo struggles emotionally with the task given to her by Vinnie Holt – but she just can’t bring herself to kill Bea in cold blood. Overwhelmed, she attempts suicide, only to be rescued by Bea herself, who ironically gives her the courage to go through with whatever she has to do to survive. As Simmo prepares for another attempt on Bea’s life, Liz makes the tough decision to snitch to Ferguson about a potentially dangerous stash of drugs Franky has smuggled into the prison. Ferguson seizes the stash of ‘Pink Dragon’ and uses it to administer a fatal dose to Simmo, cleverly disguising her death as suicide.

When Ferguson destroys the garden project, Doreen turns on Franky. Pregnant with Nash’s child, she makes the women promise secrecy. Maxine panics as Gary goes overseas, attempting a bold escape with Martin that Vera stops. Ferguson pressures Vera to investigate the garden, and Franky frames Fletch, causing a rift. Franky confronts Ferguson over Simmo’s death, but Ferguson asserts control with a snitch. Meanwhile, she manipulates Vera into euthanizing her mother, and Bea moves forward with her revenge on Brayden Holt.

Following Ferguson’s shock revelation that she has an informer amongst the inmates, an isolated Franky sets out to expose the snitch. But in growing paranoia it seems just about everyone has motive and opportunity. Franky tries to entrap Bea and then Doreen but they pass the test. When jail-wide drugs tests are instigated following the discovery of Doreen’s discarded pregnancy test, Franky uses the bedlam to force a confession out of Jess. It’s only when Bea is receiving suspicious privileges from Ferguson that Franky again thinks she has got her woman. However, she is blindsided by a shocking confession from Liz.

When lab results reveal Doreen’s pregnancy, Ferguson threatens Nash’s parole if Doreen doesn’t lie that Will is the father. After Harry publicly accuses Will of an inappropriate relationship with Bea, Will suspects Harry and reports it to Ferguson, who uses it against him. When Doreen resists, Ferguson orchestrates a crash involving Will and Rose, framing Harry. Will is arrested despite Bea bailing him out, part of Ferguson’s plan to destroy him. Meanwhile, Bea manipulates Maxine into joining Franky’s crew as her spy, preparing to take down Franky and claim Top Dog.

Liz is released to a halfway house and struggles to reconnect with her estranged children, while Boomer plots revenge beyond Wentworth’s walls. Learning of Boomer’s plan to attack Liz, Bea and Doreen race to stop her. Meanwhile, Channing attempts to use his promotion to the Prison Board to oust Ferguson and install Fletch, but quickly realizes that Ferguson won’t be removed so easily.

As Bea and Franky go to war for control of the prison, Bea makes a daring bid for freedom with only one objective in mind – to get to Brayden Holt. Meanwhile, Fletch is on a downward spiral of self-destructive behaviour as his final day at Wentworth looms. The arrival of a new inmate Kelly provides Fletch with the ammunition he needs to unmask Ferguson for what she is; however Ferguson deftly outmanoeuvres him. Liz is disturbed by what Bea has had delivered to the halfway house and knows if she is implicated in what Bea has planned, she will be returning to Wentworth.

By the time Ferguson realises Bea’s plan, it’s too late, she escapes from the hospital where she is taken for treatment and has only one objective – to avenge Debbie’s death. Meanwhile, Fletch desperately tries to warn Will about Ferguson’s connection to him from the past but he won’t respond to his calls. Liz knows that her time is up on the outside and has one more drink before returning to Wentworth.