prison for her execution. Kat sneaks to the men’s side, finds the escape tunnel, and uses it to get into the sewers, where she meets up with Hal and Carlisle. At the airport, Hal reveals to Kat that he is her father, as she boards her plane to Australia. Hal escapes Bangkok and meets up with Kat in Goa, where they watch as Arkie is arrested and then walk together on the beach as father and daughter. Production The mini series was inspired by the Barlow Chambers Case, which was also turned into a mini series. Terry Hayes felt it would be the basis of a good mini series if the story was changed so the person who went to prison was innocent. He was also inspired by the true story of an Irish woman who had fallen in love with an Arab who smuggled a bomb in her luggage. Terry Hayes was originally meant to write the script but he was exhausted from Dead Calm (also starring Kidman) and Tony Morphett was given the job. However Morphett was too caught up in work on Sweet Talker (1989) and was unable to do it, so Hayes stepped back in. The mini series was specifically written as a vehicle for Nicole Kidman. It was shot over 13 weeks starting in March 1989. Locations The production shot in Australia, Thailand, India and England. The majority of the locations were shot in Sydney. A former convalescent hospital in Concord, Sydney served as the Faulkner family estate. Green-screen technology was used to superimpose this manor-style house into a rural New South Wales setting. Other Sydney locations included Balmain High School, the Water Board (MWB) facility in Waterloo, and the Metro Cinema in Kings Cross. Additional indoor scenes based in Thailand were largely set-based in the Kennedy Miller Studios Sydney, apart from scenes involving escape from the prison hospital in the final episode. This and an earlier minor scenes (before the incarceration) were filmed in a disused section of the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in North Sydney, New South Wales. Non-set based shots required careful acoustic management to ensure uniformity of sound and continuity of light. Overseas locations included Bangkok International Airport, the Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel in Bangkok, the Cidade de Goa Resort Hotel in Goa, Dabolim Airport in Goa, and London, England. Impact It was the highest rating mini series of the year (1989)