Bad Girls: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Bad Girls Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Series 5 - Episode 1
May 8, 2003
It's 2 weeks after the explosion and we finally learn it's consequences! Jim and other PO's got more than they bargained for in Amsterdam as a face from the past returned. Denny an
Series 5 - Episode 2
May 15, 2003
Shell arrived on G-Wing and got straight back to business...quite leterally...with Fenner! Tensions between Denny and Snowball escalated. Babs regained some hearing but kept it to
Series 5 - Episode 3
May 22, 2003
Snowball's escape continued to go to plan...until she met up with Ritchie - Will Karen get hurt? A grieving Sylvia returned home but revealed that she may lose her home due to Bobb
Series 5 - Episode 4
May 29, 2003
Shell gives birth and threatens to expose Fenner’s pimping scheme after fending off Colin, sparking disaster. Sylvia falls for the Costa Cons, Di manipulates Neil with “Gnasher,” p
Series 5 - Episode 5
Jun 5, 2003
Yvonne tried to find out the truth about what went on between Shell, Colin and Fenner, while Sylvia was rejected by Henry and made homeless. Buki tracked down her son to a care hom
Series 5 - Episode 6
Jun 12, 2003
Di comes up with a bizarre artificial insemination plan when Neil refuses to sleep with her. Phyl and Bev's latest scam is the production of Chateau Larkhall. Neil takes a risk by
Series 5 - Episode 7
Jun 19, 2003
Snowball met up with Ritchie for a final visit, but all doesn't go according to plan! Christopher Biggins was held hostage by the inmates who were protesting about privatisation. N
Series 5 - Episode 8
Jun 26, 2003
Yvonne attended Ritchie's funeral with Colin, who showed her support... but Colin showed less support when Jim 'found' drugs in Yvonne's possessions! Everyone's favourite Doctor, D
Series 5 - Episode 9
Jul 3, 2003
Colin finally tells the truth about Fenner to Karen...who promises not to reveal her source until absolutely neccessary. Julie S begins her cancer treatment, with Julie J by ther s
Series 5 - Episode 10
Jul 10, 2003
Julie S, after having her mastectomy, decided to return to Larkhall for the duration of her recovery so that she could be with her friends. Yvonne sent Lauren to lok around Colin's
Series 5 - Episode 11
Jul 17, 2003
The fallout from Snowball's suicide begins, with both Jim and Karen finding themselves in a precarious position. Jim gives Tina a camera. Neil bribes Di with a wing-governor's job
Series 5 - Episode 12
Jul 24, 2003
Outgoing wing-governor, Karen, does her best to save her job while working out her notice. Jim gets impatient with Tina because she isn't getting his photographic evidence quick en
Series 5 - Episode 13
Jul 31, 2003
Phyl and Bev take the term 'open prison' a bit too far when they decide to leave and go to a posh restaurant! Karen shows all her evidence to Neil, which included Yvonne's photogra
Series 5 - Episode 14
Aug 7, 2003
Fenner got new Wing-Governor, Di, on his side and then proceeded to put Yvonne down the block for no reason. New inmate Kris arrived on G-Wing but new PO Selena did exactly as she
Series 5 - Episode 15
Aug 14, 2003
Di fakes a miscarriage. Denny's planned art exhibition suffers a setback as a result of Phyl and Bev's eye on the bigger picture and the money they will squeeze out of their proteg
Series 5 - Episode 16
Aug 21, 2003
In the series finale, Yvonne decided to cooperate with Kris's escape plan. Colin helped open the entrance to the underground 'old prison' but was blackmailed by Fenner to tell all