'Bad Sisters' Season 2, Episode 2 Recap: Penance
Everything that happens in the dark must come to light in the end, and the second episode of Bad Sisters season two lays the groundwork for that very unravelling. 'Can you get over here?' Eva (Eve Hewson) asks on the phone to Bibi (Sarah Greene). 'Ian's gone.' Nothing is ever quite as it seems with these (bad) sisters.
What is woven very cleverly into the opening scenes of the second episode is Grace and John Paul's daughter Blánaid Williams (Saise Quinn), who asks Eva why the police were at their house. 'She was hysterical last night,' Blánaid tells her aunt before storming off, school bag slung over her shoulder. 'It was insane. She's mental.' A true teenager of few words and raging hormones, which marks a noticeable shift in the protagonists this season.
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The episode then shifts to pan to the four sisters (minus Grace, who's still moping) finding Roger at the pub and bartering for his silence. 'I did a bad thing,' Roger protests, before Becka, with perfect comedic acuity, adds: 'We all tried to kill that fucker!' The five accessories to the murder of John Paul then sit, aptly at a round table, convincing one another that their silence will buy their freedom. 'Whatever you're feeling — guilt, anger, regret — you have to be strong now, Roger, for Grace and Blánaid. We can all be quiet together.'
The cleverly teased cloying of Anjelica continues too, when she finds Grace praying at church. 'I know why you pulled away Grace,' she whispers to her in the echoing chill of a church pew. 'I know what you did.' Grace nods bewilderingly, saying 'What I...?' Anjelica nods, and says: 'Roger told me. He told me everything. I know you killed your first husband, Grace.' Grace asks what he said exactly, which Anjelica replies to by saying that she's not there to chastise. But viewer, consider that the cat very much out of the bag. Whether Roger did tell Anjelica or whether she merely surmised from Grace and Roger's hushed conversations and his unwavering loyalty to her that something had happened remains to be seen but in episode two, make no mistake: a nemesis is born.
The mystery thickens when, by the end of the episode, Grace stuffs money into plastic bags and sets about driving. To where, we don't know. But what we do know is that Ursula gave Grace an anti-anxiety tablet when she became frustrated, which you're lead to believe she's taken. And then the unthinkable happens to the tune of Lankum's spine-tingling single 'Go Dig My Grave.' The mystery deepens.
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