About me: Prior to Wentworth
Bea was 18 and pregnant when she married Harry Smith. He was an abusive husband who would bash and rape her throughout their marriage.
Bea worked as a hairdresser. She had a very close relationship with her daughter, Debbie.
Sick of Harry's abuse, she eventually tried to kill him by knocking him out, duct taping him up inside the car and using the exhaust to suffocate him. Debbie came home from school, interrupting Bea in the middle of killing Harry. Bea abandoned the plan and told Debbie to call for an ambulance. To Bea's surprise, Debbie covered for Bea by telling the operator it was an attempted suicide. The family agreed to cover it up as a suicide, but police were suspicious and arrested Bea. She was sent to Wentworth, on remand, for attempted murder.
In Prison Edit
Upon Bea's arrival at Wentworth, she lashes out against guards who tell her she can't speak to her daughter and needs to be sedated. When she wakes up in the morning, she is taken to her cell by Vera Bennett, and then shown around the place by Liz Birdsworth.
Bea finds herself in the middle of a power struggle between the competitors for top dog, Frankie Doyle, and Jacs Holt. Frankie wanted to try her out in bed, and Jacs humiliated her in front of everyone in the dining room. Bea quickly became friends with her cellmates, Liz, Doreen, Boomer and Frankie, though her friendship with Frankie was always a little uneasy due to Frankie seeing her as potential competition for top dog.
As a newcomer to prison, Bea defies Jacs on a couple of occasions without fully understanding the consequences. Jacs responds by threatening Bea's daughter Debbie. Without Bea's knowledge, Jacs tells her son Brayden, who was approximately the same age, to seduce Debbie, get her into drugs, and eventually kill her with a deliberate overdose.
Bea confronts Jacs in her cell, wanting to know the truth behind what happened to Debbie and becomes enraged when Jacs justifies taking a hit out on Debbie. Bea stabs Jacs in the neck with a pen, unintentionally killing her. After this, she presses the duress button and is escorted away by two guards as her fellow inmates watch in shock and confusion. In season 2, it is confirmed that Bea had killed Jacs. Though Bea's original charges of Attempted Murder (on her husband) had been dropped and she will now serve a 12 yr. sentence for the manslaughter of Jacs.
The first episode of season 2 shows Bea's incapability to cope with Debbie's death while not under the influence of sedatives. The Governor cuts her supply off, releases her from solitary and removes her from Cell Block H. Bea struggles with images of Debbie, refusing to believe she has died as she dreams of her. Liz comforts Bea, who decides she is going to get revenge by killing Brayden Holt.
Bea is attacked by Boomer under Franky's orders, in an attempt to display dominance over her and solidify her position as the new top dog.
Simone Slater returns to the prison, and eventually forms a friendship with Bea, who is using her to get at Brayden. Simmone informs Bea of an attack the Holts have orchestrated against Bea, who initially suspects the new inmates Jess and trans woman Maxine. It is later discovered that another recent inmate, who had been faking a leg injury, was the attacker. After the inmate comes for Bea in the showers, Maxine saves her and the two become friends.
In the second last episode of the season, Franky uses the knife against Bea during a fight outbreak in the laundry. Bea wins the fight, turning down the opportunity to kill Franky using a box cutter, and instead slices her owns arms and ends up in the hospital.
Bea then escapes from hospital gets a gun from a recently released Liz and shoots Brayden Holt.
As the second season comes to an end, Franky and Bea come face-to-face on Bea's return to H Block, after being arrested for the murder of Brayden Holt, to which Franky tells the onlooking crowd that Bea is the new top dog.
In Season 3, Bea is sententeced to life without parole for the murder of Brayden Holt.
When she returns from her trial we find out that the Governor Joan Ferguson is taking away all the privileges even smoking. Bea gets sloted for ordering a smoke strike. While in the slot she writes a red X which means fire and now on the other side of the tray. Maxine gets the tray and puts Bea's plan into action. The women grab mattresses and liquid that react with fire. Maxine starts the fire. A group of masked inmates take Vera hostage and manage to break Bea out of solitary. Bea heads to the exercise yard where she says to Joan you don't run this prison I do.
Jodie get told by Joan to shiv Bea otherwise she keep torturing her. Jodie shives Bea during a game of Basketball in the exercise yard.
In the episode Evidence, Joan sends Bea to the Psychiatric Ward after Joan hires a goon to attack her in Wentworth. Bea is apparently in the exercise yard saying that a man who was neither a inmate or a screw attacked her near the boiler room.
In the Episode Blood and Fire, Joan Ferguson lights Wentworth on fire and gets trapped with Doreen's baby Joshua, Franky and Bea turn around and go looking for Jess and Joshua, they find them in a rubbish Area, the ceiling starts collapsing with Bea, Joshua, Franky and Ferguson trapped inside. Bea climbs through the vent while holding Joshua and exits the building. Bea gives Doreen Anderson her baby and then runs back inside to save Franky and Will Jackson runs in after her. Will and Bea manage to push the door open and Bea grabs Franky and tells Will to leave Joan there but Will grabs her and brings her out. The place burns down with Jess inside but everybody else gets out.
In season 4, we see Joan return to Wentworth as an inmate, Vera is in charge of Wentworth with Will as second in command, and Kaz, the leader of the Red Right Hand challenges Bea in her position as Top Dog.
End of season 4, Joan stabs Bea, Allie's alive... Bea's current status is unknown until season 5
"It's not a game, Bea!" Allie told her frustrated. "Why are you so blas� about this? You could have been killed! You're barely able to move now. You don't get it, do you? You did this because you didn't want to live without me�but how do you think I'd go, living without you? How long do you think I'd cope? How long before I started using again?" she told her, her voice raising, wavering by the end, full of fear about her lover being killed.
"Addicted to the drugs? Really? That's funny?" she threw in, not looking happy at all. "This better be the medication talking� because this is ridiculous!"
She hated seeing Bea in pain�but seeing her talking like this�like an addiction to codeine was a joke, was like her own stab in the guts. She fought, every day to stay away from drugs, and now her own girlfriend was here, laughing about them, like it was hilarious. As it was, she was in pain because she'd refused her own pain medication, just to stay clean for Bea.
"Not Jackson's fault that you made a really sh*t decision yesterday" she pointed out. "But I'm glad you're alive" she added with a coy smile.�
"I don't know about that, beautiful. I could do without a scare like that from you again, anytime soon" Allie added, pressing her lips softly to her girlfriends forehead. "You're definitely not fine�and even the most comfortable bed in the world, wouldn't help you right now. You'd be sore, no matter where you were. This bed's far better than my mattress in Wentworth. Yours is better though�Top Dog."
"You'll listen to me, if you know what's good for you" she told her firmly. "I'm your girlfriend now, so you have to." She took her hand again when the nurse came in, watching in silence as they tended to Bea's pain, her own breathing still shallow from the intubation. "You should try and get some sleep?" she offered. "The drugs will make you sleepy�"
Reaching out to wipe the tear away, Allie tucked a strand of hair back behind Bea's ear. "I know�I know baby. I know why you did it. I know more than you think." she understood that Bea didn't want to live without her and that it had very much been a suicide mission. Thank god it hadn't worked though. �Unfortunately now Bea had some clearly severe injuries that really would slow her down for some time.
"A good looking pain in my ass�.but still a pain in my ass" she scolded. "You're lucky I love you so much" she reminded her, pressing a soft kiss to Bea's forehead as she cuddled into her. "Do you want me to let go?" she offered. "I don't want to make you any more uncomfortable than you already are."
"I might be bossy, but that's good. You need someone to tell you what to do every now and again to stop you from killing yourself" she reminded her. "I love that you came to see me�but I'm positive you shouldn't have been out of bed.." She kissed her again softly as Bea confirmed that there was no way she'd be able to walk back. Allie was very much aware of that and didn't want her going anywhere. She was confident that the only way that Bea would rest properly was that if Allie was close. And she was hopeful that if she was allowed to hold her for a bit, that Bea might actually drift back to sleep.
"I will always fight for you Bea. ALWAYS! You're the first thing in my life that I'd had that's worth fighting for� and now you're in agony�because you didn't believe that�and you've gotta fight for me now" squeezing her hand hard.� "Cause I can't lose you� and I'm gonna need you. Okay? I need YOU with ME." she told her firmly.
"You're the most stubborn person I know" she confirmed. "A real pain in my ass�.but..I'm glad you're in here." As Bea managed to get up onto the bed, Allie put her arm around her gently. "Rest now" she reassured her. "Just rest and let your body recover. I won't let them move you back next door�they can give you pain relief in here."
(Sorry sorry sorry, life has been crazy busy! I'm normally much better at replying than this!)
"You thought I was dead?" she whispered, shocked at the thought. "So you went and let her stab you? BEA! You could have been killed!" she told her off, one of the few people who truly gave a sh*t about Bea. "God Bea! If I wasn't so relieved that you were okay, I'd stab you myself!" she told her, trying to be mad, but unable to keep it up when she was evidently so concerned.
"She needs a doctor" Allie confirmed, ignoring her protests. "She's probably popped some stitches walking in here�and she'll do it again unless you put us in the same room. It'll save on security�" she argued their case. Allie turning back to Bea. "You're in agony sweetheart. I can tell." reaching her hand out to take Bea's. "They're not going to force you out of here. It's not the best thing for either of us, but you do need some pain relief beautiful. And you need to lay down. Do you think you can move up here?" moving over in the bed for Bea, concerned about how pale she was.�
