Wentworth recap: We finally learn how The Freak managed to survive
We know The Freak is alive. But on this week’s Wentworth, all her prison enemies have finally find out she’s not dead. But how did she escape being buried alive? WARNING: Spoilers
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Let’s be honest – last week’s episode of Wentworth was a bit of a dud. If you weren’t invested in new inmate Judy Bryant and her wiki-leakage it was tough going.
But fear not, we are B.A.C.K baby.
Episode four of Wentworth: Redemption provided what fans have been waiting to have explained to them – exactly how Joan ‘The Freak’ Ferguson got out of that coffin she was buried alive in at the end of series five three years ago.
I mean, they had one job …
And who better to explain The Freak’s great escape than the woman whose existence she has made a living hell – Vera Bennett.
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Vera tells us Kath Maxwell, the homeless woman The Freak stole the identity of, was the corpse they saw when they dug up the grave to check Joan was definitely in there. The Freak had done a switcheroo.
RIP Kath Maxwell.
You’ll also remember the extortion attempt when they received anonymous snaps of them at the gravesite.
But how did The Freak get out? Remember bent screw Brenda Murphy? Ferguson got her to follow Will Jackson’s car to the country gravesite and dug her out once he’d racked off.
Cops found Murphy’s finger prints at Freak HQ.
But there’s some memes-in-waiting tonight.
Like when cops tell Vera that The Freak is alive and she says “I’m sorry what?”
And of course when the police need someone to ID Joan Ferguson, lying in a coma in hospital, OF COURSE they ask Vera. Has she not been through enough!
In her hospital bed Joan’s brain trauma lets us peek inside her head – there’s lots of goldfish, pencils and fencing. Classic Freak sh**.
Then she has a battle with herself – The Freak, in gloves, is trying to get ‘Kath Maxwell’ to wake up by screaming something that basically translates to Say My Name Bitch!
Then the prisoners find out, via a TV news flash, that The Freak is also alive. They’re none too happy.
Jake Stewart, Vera’s baby daddy (the same child they don’t realise The Freak plans to kidnap and already has a fake passport for) decides to finish the job, properly this time.
He pockets some Propofol (aka Michael Jackson’s deadly Jesus Juice) from the prison doctor to give The Freak a medical-grade hot shot in her hospital bed.
But The Freak reacts as if it’s a morning heart-starter coffee and suddenly she’s wide awake. And when Will, Jake and Vera are wheeled in by the cops – they’ve become regular hospital visitors by this point – Joan claims she doesn’t recognise them and wants to be called Kath Maxwell.
What else?
Marie Winter is coming out of protection and into the main prison. New prison GM Ann Reynolds wants to save money on special treatment for dangerous inmates – she’s got a Peter Dutton vibe about her; she’d have them sleeping on the floor eating bread and water if she could.
Allie gives Marie a welcome back, noting “When the women come for you I won’t stand in their way, I’ll cheer them on.”
Marie to Vera: “Me going back into general is a death sentence.”
Vera: “You got what you wanted, last week you couldn’t wait to get back into general.”
Marie: “Yeah but that’s when I wanted to die.”
Life moves fast in Wentworth.
Allie tells Marie if she touches Ruby she’ll kill her.
Marie has a death-for-cash pact out on Ruby, telling Lou Kelly she’ll pay her to do the job – she needs the money for BF Reb’s gender-assignment surgery.
However after an epiphany, Marie is OK with Ruby – but hasn’t passed that information onto Lou.
So when Lou sees Ruby alone in the shower block (the deadliest spot on Australian TV since the town they filmed Blue Heelers in) she decides to take her out with a DIY shiv.
Marie and Boomer both try and stop the attack mid shivving – Boomer sees Marie there and thinks she’s tried to kill Ruby and lets Allie know. This won’t end well.
Oh and hacktivist Judy Bryant’s posh Brit politician dad won’t give her money for a lawyer. Turns out having a daughter as a cyber terrorist is a bad look for a Tory in an election year.
More Freaks, less WikiLeaks next week please.
See you next Tuesday.
Originally published as Wentworth recap: We finally learn how The Freak managed to survive