Dangerous Women

- Season 1

(1991)

Naive Holly Warner accepts a job as nanny for the wealthy Michael Walker family. Soon after she begins work, Walker rapes her and subsequently frames her for the kidnapping of his son Robbie. Holly is sentenced to the Women's State Prison where she meets her fellow inmates: maternal Cissie Johnson imprisoned for the mercy killing of her husband, Faith Cronin a wealthy socialite whose face was savagely scarred by her vicious husband Ben, tough-but-fair Maria Trent, and the leader of the women, top dog Rita Jones. Shortly after Holly's arrival, former inmate Crystal Fox...

As the police investigate the apparent murder of Faith Cronin, Cissie realizes she must give the police the incriminating cassette tape Faith left with her. Faith returns to Cedar Lake Inn as the glamorous Patricia Meadows and announces her intent to purchase the property from Joe Holland. Maria receives a visit from John Randall, Faith's attorney, who wants to pursue an appeal, but Maria rejects the idea, encouraging him to take Holly's case instead, since she's the only innocent woman in the prison. Randall promises to try to help Holly, but she's later raped in the...

Cissie visits Rita's husband Ray and threatens to report him if he doesn't get Debbie to the prison for a visit with her mother. Faith, now established as Patricia, offers Joe a job as builder for the changes she wants to make to the inn. Rita leads the women in faking a riot as a distraction for Fisher while Crystal and Randy to sneak off to make love. Randy and Crystal agree to not keep secrets from one another, but she fails to tell him she's being blackmailed over a teenage son who thinks she's dead. Ray and Debbie fail to appear for their promised visit to Rita. ...

Cissie fails to recognize Patricia as being Faith. Wanting to be close to her only friend, Patricia offers Cissie a home and job as the inn's chef. Rita learns that Debbie is in the hospital from a drug overdose after Ray threw her out. As payback for interfering with Holly, Fisher refuses Rita's request to visit Debbie, but Warden Grayson later approves it. Realizing how much her daughter needs her, Rita begs Grayson to recommend her for parole. Nominated for parole without her consent, Maria attempts to sabotage her own chances of release and improve Rita's by ...

On the run for shooting Ray, Rita seeks safety at the inn with Cissie. Crystal receives a blackmail threat through the mail regarding her son Ricky. Jerry, the local cop, frightens Rita when he drops in unexpectedly to introduce young handyman Brad Morris to Joe. Brad hires Joe, and Rita persuades Brad to help her find Debbie. Randy gives Crystal the loan she needs, unaware it's to pay a blackmailer. Brad and Joe locate Debbie, who is reunited with Rita. Fisher rifles through Crystal's belongings, finds the blackmail evidence, and lies to fellow officer Nell, who ...

Cissie is stunned then angry to learn the truth about Patricia, but she ultimately forgives her friend. With the sale of the inn still in escrow, Captain Goddard attempts to persuade Joe to sell to him instead of Patricia. Later Goddard meets with a developer planning to build a theme park on the inn property if they can get it away from Joe and Patricia. Patricia fears everything will be ruined if Rita recognizes her, but Cissie swears she won't and convinces her to give Rita a month's trial as housekeeper. Fisher attempts to bust up Crystal and Randy by casually ...

Maria informs Warden Grayson that Holly is pregnant as the result of being raped by Fisher, and Officer Nell corroborates having witnessed Fisher's harassment. However, Fisher denies the charges then diverts suspicion onto Randy. Holly demands an abortion from Dr. Armstrong who refuses but warmly offers to help her through a painful time. Warden Grayson launches an investigation into Holly's pregnancy, and orders Randy to be accompanied by a prison guard at all times. Captain Goddard makes another attempt at getting the inn property by talking to Patricia. Rita and ...

An unlikely Fisher saves Maria from falling to her death from the prison roof. Crystal realizes she was wrong and reconciles with Randy. Brad avoids Debbie's questions about his mother. Randy assures Warden Grayson that he only has eyes for Crystal and attributes rumors otherwise to Fisher. Brad pays a visit to the women's prison and his mother Kath. Ron, Cissie's son-in-law, comes to visit and asks her to move in with the family despite Lorraine's rejection. Rita puts a stop to Brad taking photos of Debbie to advertise the inn and later loses her cool when she ...

The search party finds Andrew. Crystal receives parole and insists to Randy that she get a job to help with expenses. Holly's increasingly erratic behavior culminates in a miscarriage and prompts Warden Grayson to have her shackled to the bed in the infirmary while a transfer to a psychiatric facility is arranged. Maria discovers evidence of Sharon running drugs in the prison and tips off Fisher to settle their debt. Crystal gets a job in a doctor's office. Elderly inmate Minnie assumes Crystal's identity to lure love interests by mail. Kath confronts Maria for ...

Rita and Patricia are each stunned by Holly's arrival and want her gone before the police come after her. Patricia finds herself having the same argument again when Cissie insists they must help Holly. Rita snaps at Brad over the pictures he has taken of her. Later, Rita insists Debbie retrieve the undeveloped film, and when she doesn't understand the gravity of the situation, Rita is forced to confess the details of Ray's shooting. The police inform the Walkers of Holly's escape, but Mrs. Walker ominously vows she'll take care of Holly again. Minnie receives plenty ...

Patricia and Cissie consider who might have stolen the money, with the chief suspect being Rita. Although Cissie refuses to believe Rita would steal, Patricia goes to her room and finds a wad of bills hidden in her mattress. Accusing her directly, she and Rita get into a cat fight only Joe can break up. In private, Rita admits to Cissie where she got the money. The situation forces Patricia to tell Joe about hiding the money in the cellar, but she minimizes the amount to a few thousand dollars. After Rita confesses she was paid off by Captain Goddard to help him get ...

As her meeting with young stud pen pal Will Brown approaches, Minnie worries because he is expecting to see Crystal, whose photo she actually submitted. In the visitors room, she strikes up a conversation with a short, balding old man, who is waiting for another inmate. They find they both enjoy dancing and baseball. After a long talk, reminiscing about their youth in World War II, they finally realize they have been waiting each other. The visitor is Will Brown, and he has also deceived Minnie with a fake photo. She laughs as he departs, certain they'll meet again ...

At Cedar Lake, Crystal narrowly misses running into Patricia and Rita. She pulls every trick she can think of to stall going to bed with an increasingly annoyed Dr. Gardner, and just when she is down to the wire, Cissie arrives with room service. Realizing the situation, Cissie spills oysters on Crystal's dress as a diversion, then drags her off downstairs to face Rita and Patricia, who are angry that she's back on the game and brought a john to their hiding place. Crystal swears she loves Randy and only did it for him, but now accepts she was wrong. She returns to ...

Crystal informs the women of Tony Osorio's death. They go through the secret room to the cellar, where it's determined someone pushed him down the stairs to his death, and when Patricia implies Rita killed him, she suggests any of them could have done it. Rita searches Tony's room and finds several hidden tape cassettes containing conversations he secretly recorded at the inn. However, a tape is missing from the voice activated recorder. Rita fears what incriminating evidence might be on the last tape, which either Osorio hid, or it was stolen by the person who ...

Holly tells Jerry the story of how she was raped by Michael Walker, told his wife who didn't believe her, packed her bags and left their house, and then was arrested when their son Robbie was apparently kidnapped and left for dead in a shack. She understands how much the law means to Jerry and knows he has to turn her in, but she wants him to believe she's telling the truth. He does, and furthermore, he's not going to arrest her. Instead, he's going to investigate the case and prove her innocence. Once he does that, she won't have to go back to prison, and they'll be ...

Joe and Jerry take Tony's body to Goddard's bait shop. Later, Jerry and Chief Carson arrive at the inn to question the staff. Upon going to Osorio's room, Carson remarks it must be jinxed as it was the same room in which Faith Cronin was murdered. Everyone is questioned with each woman giving a statement contradictory to the one given to the other officer by another woman. Carson feels the staff was very cooperative, until he reads and compares his and Jerry's notes. At the prison, Randy attempts to repair the television in the rec room. He points out to Kath that the...

After Ricky says that Gloria didn't tell him anything about his late mother, Crystal pretends they were friends since childhood. She avoids answering any more questions, insisting they talk in the morning. Maria, now a guest at the inn, overhears their conversation and wonders why Crystal won't answer Ricky's questions. In private, Crystal admits Ricky is her son. Maria can't understand how a mother could give up her child. Crystal says she shouldn't judge her and gives an impassioned speech about how she thought she was doing the right thing for her son because she ...

The women encourage Crystal to not give up on Ricky. Ricky reveals to Randy that Crystal has lied to him again. Debbie stops Ricky from leaving and persuades him to listen to Crystal. After Crystal explains the circumstances of his birth, Ricky agrees to let her be his mother for a two-week trial period. Patricia asks Rita to find out from Goddard if the syndicate is still after the inn since Roy Scott was arrested for Osorio's murder. Brad returns to the inn, where Maria recognizes him as Kath's son. She tells him about his mother's heart condition and convinces ...

Patricia declares she and Joe can never be together because she doesn't want to risk him becoming Ben's target as Harry was. Cissie insists Ben would have no reason to ever come back to the inn. John Randall asks Maria if she would consider a career as a correctional officer. Brad shows Debbie a photo he took of her that has been published in a magazine. Cissie learns her son-in-law Ron has been in a terrible accident. After Brad says he can't see becoming serious with her, Debbie decides to take Crystal's advice of becoming interested in someone else to make him ...

Goddard proposes he and Rita assume new identities, take the money, and run away to Rio. Cissie isn't sure if Cronin was telling the truth about causing Ron's accident or was bluffing. She decides to not cave in quickly to his demands. Joe and Brad go in search of Ricky and Debbie. Lorraine phones Cissie with news that Ron is improving. She mentions receiving a bouquet of get well flowers from someone named Ben and speculates he must be a friend. Cissie begs Cronin not to hurt her family, as they're innocent. Warden Grayson refuses to restore Brad's visiting ...

Jerry arrests Rita who returns to the Women's State Prison. After Cissie tells him what he wants to know, Cronin promises not to hurt her family again. Patricia and Cissie learn about Rita's arrest, and Patricia wonders how long Rita knew where the drug money was hidden. Cronin sends his goon Al to guard Osorio's boat and the money, but Al is knocked unconscious by an unseen assailant, and when he awakens, the boat is gone. At the prison, Fisher taunts Rita as he takes her to solitary. An upset Debbie turns to Brad, crying that she needs him more than ever with her ...

Ricky makes Joe's reunion with Karen even worse by pointing out Joe's disheveled appearance and his failure to come home the previous night. Karen stalls telling Noe why she has returned to a place she hated. Patricia and Cissie each thought Joe was divorced, and Patricia wonders why he didn't formally end it. Joe explains why. Karen's leaving him destroyed his ego. He was afraid to love again, so there was no point in pushing for a divorce. He declares his love to Patricia and willingness to risk another rejection. Karen reunites with old friend Jerry and is barely ...

Cissie is released from the hospital suffering extreme stress. Patricia forcefully orders her to bed and won't answer her questions about the origin of her recent loans or the loaded gun in her desk. Feeling like a prisoner, Cissie compares Patricia to Officer Fisher. John agrees to defend Cissie. Patricia hires Brad to run the bait and boat shop. Karen receives dossiers on everyone except Patricia. Holly has an uncomfortable meeting with Frances and Karen, but assures Jerry nothing can hurt her as long as she has him. Karen realizes Cissie is the key to helping her ...

Brad finds Ricky at the bait shop and talks to him about mothers in prison. Fisher breaks up a fight between Kath and Rita vying for top dog status. Rita persuades Nell to tell Warden Grayson about Fisher's last physical assault of Kath. Karen torments Holly to Frances's amusement, and Cissie humorously puts Karen in her place. Karen accuses someone of stealing her engagement ring. Warden Grayson cautions Fisher she'll fire him if there's another incident with Kath. Rita marks Fisher with a "Beware Rapist" sign on his back. Patricia finds Karen's ring. Karen ...

For her first day as a correctional officer, Maria is assigned to work with Fisher at Women's State. Kath swipes a knife and hides it in Rita's mattress. Maria finds it during a cell search but covers for Rita, who says she's being framed. When Brad arrives for a visit, Fisher denies it. He tells Kath he'll only let her see her son when he's completely satisfied that she has gotten Rita out of the way. He gives her back the knife stolen from the kitchen, urging her to kill Rita, but instead, she impulsively stabs him with it. When Rita happens upon them, Kath admits ...

In Phoenix, Karen learns that the real Patricia Meadows is dead and didn't have a brother. Randy returns to the inn to reunite with Crystal, but she insists she's celibate now because she wants to be a real mother to Ricky. Brad pushes Ricky to talk with his mother, and he and Crystal agree to try to be a family. While speaking with Warden Grayson about Faith Cronin, Karen begins to realize just how much Faith and Patricia are alike. After Crystal suggests a jury won't convict Rita now that she's paralyzed, Rita, who has regained feeling in her legs, continues to fake...

Jerry promises to take care of Fisher, and Joe stops him with the same advice Jerry gave him about Ben Cronin and the law. The women force Ray to make a statement to John Randall in order to clear Rita, but when he's told he could now be jailed himself for perjury, he grabs the gun Cissie has hidden in her pocket. He decides to get away by using her as a hostage, though Jerry subdues him in an exchange of gunfire. Maria promises she won't reveal Rita's faked paralysis. Fisher is surprised by how many people associated with the prison are running around the inn. Cissie...

The morning after Fisher's accident, Holly goes to see him. He realizes she hasn't told anyone he's injured and can't move. She walks away without speaking. Randy arrives at the inn early for Holly's engagement party and wants to get together with Crystal. Rita pushes Maria by having her wait on her hand and foot. Michael Torres, Fisher's replacement at the prison, watches as Maria snaps at Rita. They get into an argument, with him suggesting she's worse than the guy he replaced. When Rita continues to push and taunt her, Maria dumps her out of the wheelchair. ...

Fisher doesn't reveal that Holly knew about his accident and didn't get help. Jerry brings news of the strange disappearance of the Finleys, who own the diner. Rita worries as she gets ready to face the judge at her hearing. Torres angers Maria when he accidentally sees her changing into her uniform and stares too long. He offers to take her out for a drink later, but she declines, countering that she doesn't want to be another notch on his belt. Jerry and Joe share their women problems with one another. Joe's worried because Patricia doesn't trust him enough, and he ...

Roxy introduces herself to everyone as Roxy Lawrence, Rita's twin sister. Patricia nearly makes a slip in front of Joe by saying that in all the years she's know her, Rita never mentioned a twin, but she quickly amends years to months. A stunned Cissie phones the prison to check on her story, and speaks with Rita who confirms her sister's identity. Roxy wants to rent a room at the inn, but Patricia gives an emphatic no. She obviously dislikes Roxy even more than Rita. To make the situation worse, Fisher happily offers to rent her a room in his cottage. Cissie goes to ...

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