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A snobby do-gooder, who changed her attitude after being trapped in Wentworth for a few days. By then she would willingly lend her house out to alcoholic criminals with kleptomaniac tendencies.
It was rather unfortunate that, the same day a delegation from an organisation called PASSIVE came for a tour of the prison, a case of Lassa Fever was diagnosed. This was a deadly and infectious disease, causing mainly background extras to lie down and trickle blood from their mouths, meaning an immediate quarantine with nobody allowed to enter or leave the prison.
The three visitors took the news in different ways. Tony Maguire decided to try to help as well as smoulder seductively for anyone with a passion for 1970s porno films. Don Payne moaned about being away from his business. And snobby Irene Henderson stayed wrapped in her fake fur and bad hair, looking down on the inmates and refusing to help.
As a matter of routine, everyone was to be given a jab to help resistance to the disease. But when it was Irene's turn to drop her drawers and lie on a rec room table, she objected, demanding to see the governor. She found Ann in the infirmary, with the body of the first fatality, and almost out-gasped the accompanying Joyce Barry.
Despite her initial hostility, Irene changed her mind about the women faster than you could say "accelerated plotline" when she noticed how much they looked after each other. She eventually volunteered to help, starting off by putting her face mask under her nose, rather than covering it.
In the meantime, there were more patients falling ill, the shocking deaths of Lil (one of the background extras) and Officer Sharpe (a non-speaking officer) and much hysteria from Phyllis.
Don Payne was still grumbling about being kept inside the prison, to which Irene snapped that he was selfish and cowardly. Clearly he needed some of the women's bravery (not to mention acting lessons). Some inmates seemed to be getting better, allowing Scott to announce quick as a flash the quarantine could be lifted later the same day.
At the same time, Lizzie had received a letter from her friend, Mick, who she called "Foxy" (no relation to Irene's coat), saying he was coming to visit from Britain. In her previous letters, Lizzie hadn't told him she was in prison, and rather than have her lies exposed, Bea asked Irene Henderson to let Lizzie use her very grand house for the visit. She agreed. Meg and Colleen came with her and were introduced to Mick as Lizzie's daughter and her secretary, and Lizzie also had the use of Irene's butler. Unfortunately, Mick confessed to Meg and Colleen that he was broke (despite being able to afford the air fare to travel to the other side of the world on a whim, curiously enough), which Lizzie heard while pretending to be asleep. Neither of them had actually been when they'd claimed.
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