Grace says that on her birthday, her husband got angry with her and left to go to the pub to watch a football match.
Did Ben kill John Paul?
Later, the other Garvey sisters whisper among themselves. They wonder who actually killed John Paul. Then it dawns on Ursula that she left her drugs where Ben could have found them.
Ursula goes to see Ben to ask him where he went the night John Paul died. He laughs at her, disgusted at what she’s implying. It repulsed him that she wanted him to kill JP that night. That’s why he left. That’s why they haven’t spoken since.
How does Grace find out about the Claflin brothers’ investigation?
Matt is still on the case. He already knows the Garvey sisters lied about where they were that night. Next, he interviews Roger, who confesses what John Paul did to him, how he tore apart his life for his own amusement. Roger tells Matt he was at the cabin the night John Paul died. He went there so he could forgive him. ..
Matt then crosses the street to speak to Grace as she’s walking inside. He tells her all the things he’s found out. “He wasn’t a proper man, was he?” He asks of John Paul. Grace ignores him, nervously making her way inside. ..
She goes up to John Paul’s study and logs onto his laptop, discovering that his history of pretending to be Oscar includes pretending to be a Catholic.
Meanwhile, Matt sneaks around to her shed and steals a trash bag, taking a page out of Tom’s book. He then breaks into the cabin. Going through the trash, he finds a newspaper about the football match John Paul supposedly went to watch at the pub. But the match was actually the night after his death. Matt comes to the conclusion that John Paul lied to Grace about where he was going. But why? ..
Grace gets ahold of the postmortem, and finds her signature is on it. She then realizes her sisters knew about the postmortem. Finally, they confess to her what the Claflin brothers have really been up to. They think John Paul was murdered–and that one of the sisters did it.
Who killed John Paul Williams?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confessed to the murder of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, but says that his own security forces were not responsible. In a televised address on Wednesday night, Netanyahu said that he had ordered his security forces to kill Arafat in 2002 in order to prevent him from making peace with Israel. However, he said that they did not actually kill him. Instead, they attempted to poison him with a lethal dose of food but it was unsuccessful. Arafat then fell ill and died two days later. Netanyahu said that he was sorry for the death of Arafat’s wife, Suha, and their four children. ..
Grace remembers the night JP died. That evening, she led John Paul upstairs so they could have sex. When JP couldn’t perform, he was curt with her and caused her to cry. He told Grace that she was nothing. “A fly. A shadow.” ..
He tells her that he can’t have sex with her anymore because Eva trapped and seduced him while he was drunk ten years ago. He thought it was Grace, and he’s been living with that trauma ever since. Eva then had a miscarriage, but he blames her for having been so drunk.
Grace sees through his story and slaps him. He punches her in the stomach, and she starts screaming that everything they have is a lie. She calls him a monster.
Grace takes her pajama pants and strangles him with them. “You blamed me!” she cries.
Eva cries when she tells her story. She says she didn’t do what he said. Eva went to the bathroom and couldn’t lock the door, then passed out. When she looked up, he was there. Eva couldn’t stop him. She didn’t even know she was pregnant at the time. ..
How does Matt discover the truth of John Paul’s death?
Matt watches a clip from the movie that shows a woman being strangled. He then realizes that Grace used the film as inspiration. She used the yarn in the trash bag he stole as part of her murder plan.
The sisters comfort their sister, Grace, who says she was knitting and watching a movie that night when she died. Grace put JP in a red scarf and buried him with his pajamas.
Matt calls Becka to tell her he’s been to the cabin and knows what happened to John Paul. Becka insists to her sisters that she should meet Matt alone.
Does Becka try to drug Matt?
She tells Matt that she killed JP and that she knows who did it. But Matt won’t believe her and won’t let her confession stand.
Eva’s place: Ursula is freaking out. She can’t find her drugs. The sisters realize Becka must have taken them, so they rush to the car. ..
Becka excuses herself to the kitchen and fixes two drinks. In one, she spoons white powder. She then returns to the table, giving one drink to Matt.
Becka tells Matt she loves him, then watches as he drinks from his glass. She asks him to leave, then looks down at her own cup. She didn’t give him the drugged beverage. ..
When Eva bursts inside Becka’s place, Becka is crying over her own glass. Eva knocks it out of her hands and draws her into her arms. Becka says she couldn’t do it. She then cries over her guilt for killing Minna.
Eva tells me that whatever happens next, I have to forgive myself. She’s right. I need to.
When Bibi and Ursula come in, Becka tells them Matt knows Grace killed him, and he thinks that they covered it up.
Does Matt decide to turn in the Garvey sisters to the police?
Matt then returns, just as Bibi exclaims that they only killed JP a few times. He doesn’t look surprised. The sisters wait, wondering what Matt will do.
Matt is alone at the beach. He throws all the evidence against Grace into a fire: the dvd, the yarn, documents.
Matt then finds his brother, now a father, at the hospital. Teresa and the baby are okay. Matt then shares with him the good news that they don’t have to pay out. Grace withdrew the claim. Matt tells Tom it has to remain a secret how he accomplished this, and Tom accepts this. ..
How does ‘Bad Sisters’ end?
Grace and Blánaid move out of their house to live with Eva. But first, Grace talks to Roger. She thanks him for what he did. That night, he helped her move John Paul’s body. She tells him he did a good thing, and he asks her not to forget about him. ..
The sisters enjoy a beach day together, like they used to before John Paul started interfering.
Grace jumps into the water and all of the other children follow.
The Episode Review
Grace Garvey was caught in the act of murder, but the Garvey sisters were able to use their compassion to cover up their own tracks. If it weren’t for the other sisters, Grace would have been caught and could have faced justice. However, sometimes the law can be compassionate and forgive people. Grace was lucky that her conscience won out.
Bad Sisters concludes its threads with a believable ending that ties all its pieces together. Pointing back to some of Grace’s actions in the first episode was a nice touch–such as how she buried John Paul in pajamas, and how she lied about being with her sisters. It would have been easy to read Grace’s nervous actions throughout the series as a timid personality–but the finale reframes everything.
The show is set in a small town in upstate New York, and it follows the lives of four sisters: two married with children, one single, and the other two Bad Sisters. The sisters are all struggling to make ends meet, and they all have their own secrets that they keep from each other. The show is narrated by the eldest sister, who is also the show’s protagonist.
