As this episode of Wentworth begins, Allie Novak (Kate Jenkinson) has a dream about having sex with another woman before waking up. She curses after finding out it was all a dream. Once she gets up, she goes to Ruby’s cell and finds her naked with Zaina Saad (Louisa Mignone). She quickly apologizes and closes the door. We join Marie Winter (Susie Porter) in the shower as she is confronted by Rita (Leah Purcell) who wants to know what she is waiting for since it has been three days. Marie admits she’d like nothing more than to get the entire prison after Rita. When Rita gets rough with her while trying to find out why she hasn’t, Marie confesses she has bigger problems right now. Rita lets her go when she says her bigger problems are Lou Kelly (Kate Box) and Judy Bryant (Vivienne Awosoga). Marie goes on to say Lou has been making threats to kill the governor, senior staff, and others while Judy is helping her carry out those plans.

Marie cares because she wants to help protect Will Jackson (Robbie Magasiva). Rita asks if that is why Marie is sleeping with Lou. Marie admits they haven’t given her anything, but she has been using Zaina’s phone to bug their cells. Both admit they can’t trust one another, but Rita puts Marie in charge of finding out what is going on anyway. Vera (Kate Atkinson) tells Will that she has spoken to Greg’s old employers and all would take him back in a heartbeat so they have nothing on him. They watch as Joan Ferguson (Pamela Rabe) walks past and meets with Greg (David de Lautour). Will tells Vera they’ll have to invent something to do about it. Vera talks to Allie about Grace before both enter Will’s office. They tell Allie about Ferguson’s upcoming trial and the fact she is going to use her amnesia to get sympathy during the trial.

Then, they tell her about Greg and wanting to find a way to discredit him. They ask about Allie’s sessions with Greg, and she says they’re fine. Allie isn’t sure she can help since Greg has been professional. When Greg starts losing his cool, Joan tries to calm him down. He reminds Ferguson she promised two days ago that she had nothing to do with Wilder, but she says she is coming clean now. She believes he should see it as a positive. Greg isn’t sure he can continue working with her if she has had a psychotic break. She tells him about Eve trying to kill Jake before saying they have an arrangement which Greg says she broke. He is worried she can’t restrain herself, but she says otherwise. She pleads with Greg to give her another chance. Then, Rita goes to Will to tell him about Lou’s threats and everything else Marie told her.

Will takes the information to Ann Reynolds (Jane Hall) and the others, but Ann doesn’t seem worried about it. Jake (Bernard Curry) says he’ll get a message to the staff to be more vigilant. Linda Miles (Jacqueline Brennan) immediately confronts Lou Kelly and slams her against the fence while asking who she thinks she is threatening them. Linda threatens Lou before letting her leave. Allie sits down with Greg and admits she is upset because she found out her ex is having sex with someone else. Allie admits it hurts more because she is in a wheelchair now before they talk about her time as a prostitute. She liked having the power of making people want her. Greg listens as she says she hasn’t been touched so much by strangers, but she still feels more alone than ever. That night, Lou confronts Marie and accuses her of lagging to Linda Miles. Marie reminds her they’re sleeping together and says she would never lag to the screws.

Marie calms her down while trying to suggest Judy might be setting her up. Lou apologizes. She admits she needs Marie even though she feels like she is cheating on Reb. Marie promises she won’t leave her and says she can trust her. Meanwhile, Rita tells Boomer (Katrina Milosevic) and the others about what Marie said earlier despite not trusting her. She believes it though since it would explain why Lou is protecting Judy. Allie complains that everyone seems to have a scheme before leaving for bed. The next day, Marie confronts Rita who doesn’t lie about telling Will about it. Marie says she owes it to her to keep her mouth shut and threatens her. Rita encourages her to find out what is going on, but Marie doubts she can now that Lou knows she has a mole.

Next, Allie goes to Greg’s office and lures him out of the room by convincing him to get her blanket for her. She does something while he is away. Gavin arrives and gets to spend an hour with Boomer. She removes and gives him the camera before trying to get him hot by describing some of the things she recorded. She keeps pushing him until he relents and kisses her. As they go at it, the camera drops to the ground. Allie tells Greg she is afraid no one will ever want her again. He suggests otherwise and tells her she is a beautiful person on the inside and out. Greg says it only matters what she thinks. Allie confesses she has never accepted that this is permanent. Boomer and Gavin finish. When they find out that they’re running out of time, Gavin finds the camera and shoves it where the sun doesn’t shine. They kiss a few times before Gavin leaves, and we join Allie in the shower.

Ruby (Rarriwuy Hick) helps Allie out of the shower and dries her. Allie grabs her hand and asks Ruby to touch her, but Ruby won’t because she is with Zaina now. She makes Ruby leave. As Gavin tries to leave, he struggles to hide his displeasure, so Linda wants to take a closer look. They go into the strip search room before there is a code blue in the shower block. Vera learns that Allie has a shiv, and she is demanding Greg Miller. Greg arrives and Allie begins saying she can’t deal with the wheelchair and her legs. As Will arrives, Greg tries to convince Allie to put down the weapon and come to his office, but she refuses. He tells her the chair doesn’t define who she is. She asks who she is before jamming the shiv into her legs several times. Greg rushes in and grabs the shiv. After everything calms down, Will asks Vera if she saw this coming. She did. They step out and approach Greg who says he thinks it is a form of PTSD.

He thinks it is a combination of things including Kaz’s death, the siege, and her attack, and everything is spilling over. Miles gets the camera from Gavin’s butt crack and gives it to Ann while telling her about Gavin’s conjugal with Jenkins. Ann wants the police called so they can charge Gavin and Boomer strapped to a restraint station. When Linda asks about the extra pay, Ann tells her congratulations. While Gavin tries to remove the blame from Boomer, Ann watches the footage and finds the meeting between Lou and Judy in the bathroom. Once the video ends, Ann calls Linda to tell her to cancel the police and toss the offender in a holding cell. She also tells Linda not to mention the camera to Boomer. Once the call ends, Ann calls Tony Cockburn who is a senior intelligence officer. Vera approaches Allie to tell her it didn’t have to go this far, but Allie admits she just lost it. Allie wonders how anyone thought she could seduce Dr. Miller and says Vera was wrong for pinning her hopes on her.

Vera goes to Will to say he called it off. He wonders if they’re the true monster in all this. Ferguson tells Linda she wants to see Dr. Miller only to learn he canceled her appointment. Joan asks her to give him a note for her as Lou watches it all from outside the room. Linda looks at it, says she must be crazy to think she’d want to help her, and rips the letter into pieces. Ann gets a visit from Dale Langdon (Gary Sweet) who has replaced Cockburn. She quickly shows him the video conversation between Lou and Judy. Ann says only she has seen it and they’ll have to put a stop to their escape, but Dale tells her to let him worry about it. He tells her to say and do nothing before saying he is going to have a little chat with Gavin. That night, Lou pulls Kath or Joan out of her cell, apologizes to Lou, and says Kath is the mole. Ferguson begins denying the allegations before Lou shuts her up and says she doesn’t want to hear it.

Lou sends the word that they’re going to have a Kath Maxwell barbeque after breakfast. Allie asks to see Greg and apologizes to him when he arrives. He tells her she is beautiful, and he wants her to see what everyone else sees. She quickly goes for the kiss. He gets up and leaves without saying anything. The next day, Marie follows Rita in the hallway so they can talk about Kath and Lou. Marie has no interest in letting Kath take the blame for it, but Rita thinks they’ll have to. Greg is pulled into Will’s office so Will and Vera can confront him about the kiss with Allie. He learns that Allie has made a formal complaint against him for sexual harassment. She is also claiming they had a sexual relationship, he broke it off, and that is why she stabbed herself. Greg denies it but Will doesn’t listen to him. He is asked about the letter she supposedly wrote. They search his office and find the note Allie hid in there earlier.

He denies everything but Will wants him to resign anyway. Vera chimes in and says they know about Ferguson too. Greg realizes he has been set up. He asks what type of people use a vulnerable woman in a wheelchair to do their dirty work. Then, Joan is pulled into the laundry so she can be punished by Lou who says this should be a lesson. Lou prepares to punish her while Ferguson imagines grabbing her head and slamming it into the steamer. Lou burns her hand for a painfully long time. Rita finds Marie outside and tells her now is not the time to grow a conscience. She believes Lou might open up now that she has dealt with the mole. Lou listens to her and tries to bug Judy’s cell but nearly gets caught. Nurse Shen (Chloe Ng) takes care of Ferguson’s wounds while Greg enters and tells her about Will and Vera knowing everything. He accuses her of pulling the wool over his eyes all this time. She denies it and says she took the punishment although she could’ve stopped it.

She believes that should tell him something. He tells her it is over, but she says she’ll have to kill Jackson and Vera then. Before he leaves, she says she might have a solution but will need two things from him. Lou returns to her cell and sits on the bed before noticing something. She goes outside and confronts Marie for trying to record her. She attacks Marie until Rita and the guards break it up. As she is hauled away, she tells Marie she is a dead woman. Dale tells Ann they’re going to let the escape plan run for a bit so they can catch Judy’s comrade in the process of building a bomb. He promises to keep her in the loop before leaving. Ann asks Jake for a ride home. That night, Marie apologizes to Kath and confesses to being the mole. Ferguson learns that Lou has the cellphone now after asking to use it. Marie is transferred to Rita’s cell block. Rita helps her take her stuff inside as a sign to the others. Ferguson tries to sneak into Lou’s cell and get the cellphone. She gets it and a password to a printer and WiFi. She uses the phone to print pictures of Will and the others burying her.

 

Wentworth Review

The 9th and final season had been pretty good up until this episode.  Unfortunately, the writing was very weak leading to a lot of cheesy, unrealistic moments. It was undoubtedly the weakest episode of the season, and they might not be able to right the ship after this. We can start with the Greg Miller setup. It could’ve been seen from miles away and was too easy for Vera and Will. Why would Allie even stab herself in the legs? Why would she even agree to betray Greg in the first place?

Why has the universe flipped upside-down allowing Rita to become besties with Marie winter after she was warning everyone to stay away from her earlier in the season? Everything was so forced and unbelieve this episode, including Linda finding the camera stuck in Gavin’s butt crack, the camera just happening to film Lou’s conversation with Judy, Lou conveniently finding the cellphone under her mattress, and Ferguson getting the cellphone, Wi-Fi password, and printer password all at once.

These are storylines the writers have been working on for multiple episodes and some for multiple seasons, so it really isn’t good the way they flipped everything on its head in hopes of piecing together the bits at the last minute. More could’ve happened in the previous two or three episodes instead of throwing everything together in episode seven in a halfhearted attempt to cover all the bases. Season 9 has been decent but we’re likely building up to a disappointing finale.

The episode scores a 6.5 out of 10. All recaps of Wentworth will be available at Reel Mockery here.