No Place Like Home (Wentworth)
| "No Place Like Home" | |
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| Wentworth Prison episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode Episode 1 |
| Directed by | Kevin Carlin |
| Written by | Pete McTighe |
| Original air date | 1 May 2013 (Australia) 28 August 2013 (UK) |
| Running time | 46 minutes |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Georgia Flood as Debbie Smith |
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Georgia Flood as Debbie Smith
Jake Ryan as Harry Smith
Katrina Milosevic as Boomer
Ra Chapman as Kim Chang
"No Place Like Home" is the first episode of Wentworth. The episode primarily centres around Bea Smith. This episode introduced the major characters Bea, Franky, Liz, Doreen, Jacs, Vera, Erica, Will, Boomer, Harry and Debbie. The main plot of the episode centers around Bea trying to fit into prison life while it tells her story of her being regularly abused by her husband. Other storylines feature the rivalry between Jacs and Franky which results in a riot which kills governor Meg Jackson.
The episode begins with Bea being transported to Wentworth Prison. Before arriving at Wentworth Bea witnesses another prisoner in the van giving the guard oral sex for cigarettes. Bea then meets Will who is processing her; when she realises she hasn’t spoken to her daughter Debbie she loses her cool and has to be sedated.
The next day, Bea is being taken to her cell by Vera Bennett. Bea then meets Franky and Kim when they are having sex in her cell. Franky mocks Bea’s name and then shows a form of interest in that Bea is a hairdresser. Bea then meets Liz and Doreen. Bea offends Doreen a little when she notes that she wouldn’t want Debbie seeing the inside of a prison.
Franky plans to use Bea as a drug mule, when Bea is caught by Meg Jackson with drugs in her possession she is slotted for refusing to speak against the other prisoners. When in the slot Bea overhears Jacs Holt singing On the Inside (the theme of the original series Prisoner). Will visits Bea with her breakfast the next morning and tells Bea that her silent approach is the best way to be especially with the women.
Meg releases Jacs from the slot and Franky is scared and gets up support to cause a riot, Liz fails to talk Franky out of the riot. During the riot Franky gets ambushed and Jacs tries to cut around Franky’s tattoos. Bea is chasing Kaiya during the riot and then trips over Meg’s dead body while the other prisoners and staff watch.
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