Blackmoor

Marie - I'll leave you two girls to it

Marie leaves the room

Joan stands in shock

Joan -I don't understand this? How can you be alive? You were killed in a bomb blast?

Rita stares at her

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Colleen screams as Frank places a hand over her mouth

Frank - Shut up sweetheart! Don't make me have to knock ya around a bit too

Suddenly the door flies open and Geoff rushes in and drags Frank off of Colleen

Geoff - You filthy bastard Burke!

Geoff lays into Frank

Graham runs into an unknown officer in a corridor

Graham - Paul Reynolds is up on the roof! It looks like he is going to jump!

They rush off

Blackmoor

The men attack Spike who struggles around

Stud - STOP STRUGGLING MARSH! PRESTON WANTS YOU DEAD!

Suddenly gunshots ring out

Neil Murray is standing in the doorway firing a gun

Neil - Ok boys back off, leave the lady alone or I start firing

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Frank is laying on the floor beaten

Frank - You bastard! I'll make sure you lose your job over this!

Geoff hugs Colleen

Geoff - Are you ok?

Colleen - Yes, thank god you got here when you did, he was going to.....well you know

Geoff - Yes I know

Geoff looks down at Frank on the floor

Geoff - You're an animal, Burke!

The unknown officer arrives in the doorway

Officer - Mr Carlson there you are! I've been looking for you everywhere, we have a situation

The officer spots Frank

Officer - What happened to him?

Geoff - That doesn't matter right now....what is the situation?

Officer - Reynolds is on the roof, we think he might jump

Geoff and Colleen look at each other in horror before rushing out

Blackmoor

Neil is alone with a distressed Spike

Neil - It's ok you're safe now

Spike - They were going to kill me

Neil - Yes I know

Spike - Thank you for what you did, I don't even know you

Neil - You don't remember meeting me once before?

Spike shakes her head

Spike - No I don't think so

Neil smiles

Neil - Well I'm not surprised, you were pretty out of it when I met you

Spike looks embarrassed

Spike - Yeah I had a habit in the past...

Neil suddenly grabs a startled Spike by the throat and points the gun to her head

Neil - Typical of dirty whores like you isn't it!

Spike - I'm not a whore!

Neil - Yes you are...I know all about your past. You were a filthy whore using men for money!

Spike - Only to fund my habit! And I haven't done it in many months

Neil - Once a whore always a whore!....whores have to die, Margaret

Roo is with Stud in a dark corridor

Stud - Damn that fool Murray, he always has to interfere where it isn't wanted!

Roo - He sure knows how to rub people up the wrong way doesn't he

Suddenly they hear a gunshot

Stud - What the hell?

They rush back towards the boiler room...

.....Roo and Stud arrive at the boiler room to find Spike and Neil struggling over the gun

Neil - GIVE ME THE GUN YOU DIRTY WHORE!

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Geoff and Colleen arrive on the roof and cautiously approach Paul

Paul - Stay away from me! Come closer and I jump and I mean it

Geoff - Take it, easy son, we only want to talk to you

Paul - You can talk to me but it won't change anything, I'm still going to jump

Geoff - Well that would be very foolish wouldn't it Reynolds, not to mention the cowards way out

Paul - Fine so I'm a coward! I don't pretend to be anything else. I can't cope with 25 years in this place

Colleen - What if we were to tell you that you won't have to? We're working on a plan to get to the truth behind your sister's murder...you could be a free man again in a matter of days

Paul - I'd say you're just talking bull to get me to change my mind about jumping

Geoff - We're not son I promise. Mrs Powell and I have a plan to get to the truth. We're going to help you get out of here son

Colleen - Please Paul you can trust us

Paul shakes his head defiantly

Paul - Can't trust anyone in this lousy stinking world

Colleen - Look your mother is a friend of mine isn't she. So is Mrs Morris. I want Joan Ferguson to pay for what she did to them, to Pippa, to Marty, and to you

Paul looks at Colleen with a doubtful look on his face

Blackmoor

Stud and Roo run in to try and get the gun, the four of them struggle around. Spike and Roo get into a hair-pulling fight while Stud lays into Neil

Stud - You're nothing but trouble Murray

The gun is dropped and flies across the floor and under a boiler

The four of them make a dash for it

Back with Joan and Rita

Rita calmly walks across the room and stands by the window

Joan - Answer me, Connors! How can you be alive?

Spike has the gun, she is panting, out of breath

Spike - All three of you have tried to kill me today

Roo - I didn't...

Spike - You brought me here and stood by and watched doing nothing to help me so shut up!....why shouldn't I shoot the three of you right now?

Neil - If you had any sense of decency you'd turn that gun on yourself right now....it's the best option for you really. Then you'll finally be free from being a whore

Stud looks at Neil with a sneer

Stud - Oh shut up you lunatic! Nows hardly the time for this

Rita stands by the window, staring out at the courtyard

Rita - Rita is dead, I'm her identical twin sister Peta

Joan looks stunned

Joan - Her twin? I never knew she had one

Peta - She didn't even know herself so why would you know?

Joan - What the hell do you mean she didn't know?

Peta - We were separated at birth that's what I mean. I didn't even know myself until a few months ago when my adoptive family finally told me

Joan stands open-mouthed

Peta continues staring out onto the courtyard

Peta -as soon as I found out I had a long-lost twin sister I was determined to find her, I mean it was literally all I could think about, I was obsessed. I just kept imagining what it would feel like to finally meet her, talk to her. How would we get on? What would we say to each other?

Peta turns around to face Joan

Peta - Imagine my heartbreak when I found out she was dead, that she died in prison

Joan - I'm sorry, it must have been tough...

Peta - You're not sorry at all Ferguson! I know all about you, all about the things you did to her. It's your fault, my twin sister is dead, it's your fault I will never get to meet her

Joan - My fault? How exactly do you come to that conclusion? I didn't kill her?

Peta - You as good as killed her. I know all about what you did to her boyfriend. I know all about how you set her up to come here to this prison and a man called Craven killed her brother.....my brother too. Another sibling I will never get to meet. You were great friends with Craven I heard, standing by his side as he ordered mine and Rita's brother dead

Joan - I don't know how you found out all this but the point is none of it had anything to do with Connors's death. She died in a bomb explosion. I wasn't even there when that happened.....as for your brother I'm sorry to seem callous but he was a junkie anyway and would have died sooner or later The woman you want is Roo Morgan, she was behind your sister's death, she was behind the bomb and she was even the one supplying your brother with drugs! Funnily enough, she's here in this prison......

Peta - Oh I know all about her, and believe me she's on my list too. But that doesn't change how I feel about you ''Freak''

Joan - Now look here...

Peta attacks Joan

Spike locks Roo. Stud and Neil into a storeroom

Spike - Hope it's not too cramped in there!

Stud - LET OUT US YOU SLAG!

Spike - Later perhaps, right now there is someone I want to see and can't have you lot interfering

Peta and Joan are fighting as Officer Bruce runs in and splits it up

Bruce - That's enough of that ladies!

Joan - Well tell her that, she started it!

Peta(aggressive) - That's right and I'll finish it too when I get a chance!

Bruce - No I'll finish it right here and now. I think you need to see the governor girly!

Bruce leads Peta out

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Paul - I don't believe you and I'm going to jump, you can't talk me out of it

Paul jumps off the roof

Colleen screams

Colleen -NOOOO!

Geoff and Colleen look horrified

Blackmoor

Peta is with Ann and Meg in the governor's office

Ann - I advised you not to go near her

Peta - I couldn't help myself I had to see her

Ann - I realize how you feel about her but I won't tolerate any trouble between you

Peta - I thought you wanted her fixed?

Ann - I do but not like this

Peta - Yeah well if you don't fix her soon I will and I mean it

Joan is alone in her cell as Spike arrives in the doorway with the gun

Spike - We have things to discuss Ferguson...and this time I mean business. No more crap

Joan looks alarmed

Meg is escorting Peta along a corridor

Meg - I still can't get used to this, it's very surreal. It's like having Rita back but I know it's not really her. You really are the spitting image of her, even the same height

Peta - Did you know Rita well?

Meg - Yes quite well. She was very popular you know

Peta - I wanted to meet her so much. Ok, I know it's silly really since I never even knew her but she was my twin. When I was growing up I always felt like something was missing from my life and now I know what it was. And now it's still missing, I'll never have it! I'll never get to meet my twin sister

Meg - Hey it's understandable you feel this way

Peta - I want Ferguson to pay...and I want Roo bloody Morgan to pay

Meg - Just remember what the governor said, don't do anything foolish Middleton

Peta - Call me Connors, not Middleton. Middleton may be my adoptive second name but Connors is my rightful name.I will change it by deed poll as soon as I can as a tribute to my sister

Spike points the gun at Joan

Spike - I want you to own up Ferguson, own up to everything you have done. Killing Marty, setting me up. It's time we put an end to this. I want my freedom back and you need to pay the price for killing Marty

Joan glares at Spike

Roo, Stud, and Neil are banging loudly at the door as Meg arrives outside the storeroom

Meg - What on earth?

She unlocks the door and stares at them bemused

Meg - How on earth did the three of you get in there?

Roo - That nutcase Marsh locked us in and she's got a gun!

Neil - She's a dirty whore!

Back with Joan and Spike

Joan - And if I refuse?

Spike - If you refuse I pull the trigger

Joan - Then the truth won't come out about you getting set up will it....and you'll do life

Spike shrugs

Spike-It won't exactly do you any goodwill it. You'll be the dead one not me and I reckon I'll get a pretty cushy life in here, worshipped as the hero who killed the ''freak''

Roo arrives in the courtyard

Marie - Where have you been all morning? I was about to send out a search party?

Roo - None of ya business bitch!

Marie - I'm top dog, everything is my business. I just hope you haven't been off causing trouble

Roo - Just bugger off

Roo marches over to a corner and sits down and lights a fag

Meg arrives at the cell

Meg - I think you had better give me the gun don't you Marsh?

Joan - Yes Spike, do what Morris tells you, there's a good girl

Spike - I will shoot you!

Meg - Come on, don't be silly. What will that achieve?

Spike - Don't you want her to pay for killing your son?

Meg - Of course, I do, but not like this!

Spike - Well how then? I keep hearing you and Reynolds say you'll get this put right and nothing seems to happen

Meg - Its a work in progress, it takes time

Joan smirks

Joan - Be honest Morris, you know you can never beat me. I'd say Reynolds has stopped trying now, she did let me out of isolation after all

Meg - And I have no idea why she did that Joan

Joan - I do...she knows when to accept Ferguson's beaten her

Spike - In that case, I should just kill you

Joan - What are you waiting for then? You seem to be taking your time

Spike points the gun at her head, she is trembling

Spike - I'll do it

Joan - No you won't...

Meg - Come on Margaret give me the gun

Meg takes hold of the gun and gently guides it away from Spike

Joan stands grinning

Roo is still sitting smoking as Marie approaches her again

Roo - You again? I told you to get lost

Marie - Someone here asked me to introduce you to her

Roo looks up at the tall figure of Peta

Roo (shocked) - Connors?

Peta pulls Roo to her feet

Peta - That's right!...and you can stand when you talk to me!

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Paul is carried away on a stretcher as Geoff and Colleen talk to a firefighter

Geoff - That was good work getting the safety net out, he'd be dead now if you hadn't done that

Firefighter - That's what we're here for, to save lives. He is far too young to throw his life away

Colleen - He is far too young to rot away in here for 25 years as well

Geoff and Colleen look at each other, Geoff nods his head

Geoff - Thank you again for your help

Colleen - Yes thank you

The firefighter nods at them, they walk-off

Geoff - We'll talk to Lang, lets get this plan into action

GATESLAM

PART 2

Blackmoor

Spike and Meg are in the office with Ann

Ann looks angry

Ann - I thought you had more sense than this Margaret!

Spike - I am sick of sitting around watching while she gets away with this

Ann - Where did you get the gun?

Spike shrugs

Spike - That's Blackmoor for you, always plenty of easy access to guns, to drugs

Ann - Yes well maybe this type of thing was accepted under Craven or Leach but I won't tolerate it

Spike - There isn't very much you can do about it

Ann - I can get to the bottom of how guns get in here and who brings them in and put a stop to it if you'll only cooperate

Spike - You're asking me to lag and I'm not prepared to do that

Ann - Meg tells me you locked three prisoners in a storeroom? Why did you do that?

Spike - I wanted to go after Joan and couldn't have them throwing a spanner in the works could i

Back with Roo and Peta

Roo - How can you be alive? You died in a bomb?

Peta - The bomb that you set off you mean?

Roo - Yeah...I can't believe you're alive. You had a funeral and everything

Peta - I'm Rita's twin and thanks to you I will never get to meet her. Thanks to you and your bomb

Peta punches Roo savagely in the stomach

Meg shows Spike into a solitary cell

Meg - I'm sorry I have to do this but it's only for a few nights

Spike - It's ok I can handle it

Meg locks her in and then unlocks another door and walks into the cell. Bea is in there

Meg - How are you, Bea?

Bea - Bored but otherwise ok. Any news for me?

Meg - Winter took over again as top dog

Bea chuckles

Bea - Tell me something I don't know...what about Ferguson what's she up to?

Meg - Ann let her out of Isolation

Bea - Yeah I thought she would

Meg - Why? Frankly I was shocked that she did that

Bea - I'm not. I think they have made an arrangement together

Meg looks shocked

Meg - No Bea you're wrong. Ann hates her, she'd never make an arrangement with her

Bea - She did. I didn't kill Len, Joan did and Reynolds covered for her. Now, why would she do that?

The women watch as Roo and Peta fight. Peta is too strong for Roo and beats her easily

Peta - This is only the starter! You'll have to wait for the main course!

Peta leaves Roo sprawled out on the floor and walks away

Marie stands over Roo and chuckles

Marie- Made yet another enemy then?

Roo - GET STUFFED!

Meg is with Ann

Meg - Is it true you've got an agreement with Ferguson?

Ann - Who told you that?

Meg - Smith did, she seems to think you covered for Joan killing Len, is that true?

Ann - Of course, it isn't...

Meg - Yes it is, I can tell. Oh I knew there was something fishy when you let her out of isolation

Ann - Look Meg she's going to agree to clear Paul if I help her

Meg - You mean she will confess to her crimes?

Ann - Not exactly

Meg - Not exactly? What does that mean?

Ann looks guilt-stricken

Ann - I'm sorry Meg, she isn't going to confess. She's agreed to set someone else up for Pippa's death to get Paul freed

Meg - Set who up?

Ann - I don't know

Meg looks disgusted

Meg - And you're ok with that are you? Some poor innocent soul taking the blame

Ann - Some poor innocent soul is already taking the blame remember! My son!

Meg - And now you're ok for someone else to go through the hell your son is going through?

Ann - Of course, I'm not ok with it but how else can I get my son out of prison? I have to put him first, I have to Meg

Meg - My god what has happened to you?

Ann - I'm trying to help my son damn it, Meg, you'd do the same!

Meg - No I could never stand by and let her set an innocent person up... And I thought you wanted her to face justice for what she did?

Ann - I did...I do.....but she won't confess Meg let's face it

Meg - And you're happy to help the woman who murdered my son to escape justice?

Ann - Of course, I'm not happy, I already explained

Meg - Save it! I don't want to hear it!

meg turns to storm out in a fury

Ann looks upset

Ann - Meg! Meg wait!

Meg ignores her and storms out of the office, slamming the door behind her

Ann looks close to tears