Tom thinks Eva is deflecting. Despite Matt’s opinion that they should be looking for fraud, not murder, he wants the coroner to exhume John Paul’s body.
John Paul is given the same promotion as Eva, but he finds it difficult to enjoy his daughter’s life. For instance, he tells her it looks like she’s asking for it when she dances around the house.
Ursula has an unpleasant run-in with John Paul. She’s cheating on her husband, Donal, with a man named Ben, and JP sees the two of them on a stroll. He likely doesn’t believe her story that Ben is her photography teacher. ..
Eva begins to think about the conversation she had with Bibi earlier in the day. She wasn’t joking when she said she wanted John Paul dead. He’s killing Grace, so they should kill him first?
Eva is outraged at the thought, so Bibi outlines her plan to cause a house fire while JP is staying alone in his cabin. Eva still disagrees, if for one reason only–he’s their niece’s father.
John Paul’s underhanded comment about Ursula’s “after hours” photography lessons in front of her husband gets Eva in trouble. JP blows up at Eva for turning the blame onto him- something she didn’t do.
Eva goes to Bibi’s house to execute her plan. Bibi assures her that they’re doing the right thing.
John Paul will head up to his cabin on Saturday so he can participate in a 15k hike. Eva gifts Grace and Blánaid with concert tickets so they will be busy the night she and Bibi try to kill him.
Tom needs the widow’s permission to get a coroner to exhume John Paul’s body, so he and Matt pay Grace a visit. He gives her papers to sign, without informing her what those papers are. She signs them, unthinking. ..
Eva and Bibi sneak into the cabin once they’re sure John Paul has gone to bed. Bibi turns the stove on, but Eva takes her lighter from her. “I need to finish this,” she says, before lighting a candle.
Eva and John Paul run outside to escape the cabin explosion, but John Paul’s phone rings and he quickly silences it. When they hear John Paul’s screams from inside the burning cabin, they assume he’s burning to death. ..
He was outside when the fire started. He saw it consume his property and he is now inside, safe.
The Episode Review
I can see the repeated reinforcement in this series of John Paul’s general repulsiveness getting tiring. At least–even in just a few scenes–we have ample reason to know why Bibi and Eva want the man dead.
The show’s set-up, rather than portraying the two as misguided and crazy, manages to make the sisters antiheroines to root for. The episode’s bringing Blánaid in only helps, by providing a catalyst for Eva getting in on Bibi’s plan. I think she just needed a more “selfless” reason to proceed.
The episode ends with a pretty extraordinary twist. John Paul called Eva. Did he see their car? Did she leave something behind? Or was he simply mad about the concert tickets? Either the sisters are in trouble-or this was simply a hitch on the road to an even bigger plan. ..
