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TV Equals described this episode as "Things have been changed to suit modern sensibilities, of course, and this updated series has been stripped of the campy sets, dialogue and black humour and populated instead with sex, violence and a heroine with a journey to go on. That’s Bea Smith, a woman who
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Franky, seeing Jacs as too big a threat to leave alone, rallies support to start a riot, despite Liz's objections. A massive fight breaks out in the yard and Doreen leaves Kaiya with Bea while she joins Franky. Jacs avoids the riot and is confronted in her cell by Franky, who is then overpowered by
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