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Wentworth: Season 4

12 episodes Premiered May 10, 2016
Previously on Wentworth

Season 4 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 Wentworth Season 3.
  • ⚡ 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.
Season 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 4: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (9): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S4·E1 Mytharc

First Blood

May 10, 2016

The women of H Block return to Wentworth after the rebuild to find a new dynamic in play — Vera is governor, Will is deputy and Kaz Proctor has established a power base. Bea questi

S4·E2 Core

Poking Spiders

May 17, 2016

Feeling betrayed, Vera takes steps to have Bridget dismissed and expose her relationship with Franky, but is forced to backtrack and enlist Bridget s help instead, when Ferguson ma

S4·E3 Core

Prisoner

May 24, 2016

Against Vera's wishes, Ferguson is released into general. The women are out for blood but Vera confines Ferguson to her cell for safety reasons. When Ferguson challenges Vera's dec

S4·E4 Core

Screw Lover

May 31, 2016

Ferguson, having found protection in Kaz's crew, cunningly blames Will for her brutal ganging, a move which only strengthens Kaz's support for her. When Bea defends Will, it backfi

S4·E5 Core

Love And Hate

Jun 7, 2016

With Bea in the slot, Ferguson intensifies her manipulation of Kaz. Seizing on the recent death of her father that sends Kaz into an inexplicable spiral Ferguson realises that Kaz

S4·E6 Core

Divide and Conquer

Jun 14, 2016

Bea is released from the slot and is immediately confronted by Lucy; if Bea doesn't punish Tasha for breaking prison rules, Lucy and her crew will be forced to. Doreen shocks every

S4·E7 Core

Panic Button

Jun 21, 2016

Ferguson is rattled when she discovers that Bea will be supporting Jesper’s evidence in court. Meanwhile, Bea seems to be losing control of the women so she forces a prison-wide vo

S4·E8 Core

Plan Bea

Jun 28, 2016

As Bea and Allie take their illicit affair further, Bea finds herself uncharacteristically tentative and vulnerable. Neither is aware that Ferguson is tracking them carefully, plot

S4·E9 Core

Afterlife

Jul 5, 2016

Bea struggles to recover in the wake of her attack. Ferguson returns from the burns unit and is placed in a medical hold under the supervision of Jake. Maxine is back after surgery

S4·E10 Core

Smitten

Jul 12, 2016

When Bea discovers Allie has fallen back into drug addiction, Bea decides to remove Allie from Kaz’s control once and for all. In the process she exposes herself to Tina and Vera,

S4·E11 Mytharc

Eleventh Hour

Jul 19, 2016

With Bea and Allie finally out as a couple, Kaz forms an alliance with Tina's Asian crew to help take Bea down. But when Jake smuggles a new batch of drugs into the prison for Tina

S4·E12 Mytharc

Seeing Red

Jul 26, 2016

Bea awakes blissfully happy after a night with Allie but it is the eve of Ferguson's trial and the Freak has been relentless in putting the final touches to her scheme for freedom