Who killed JP in Bad Sisters? Explained

Bad Sisters is another dark comedy-drama part of the Apple TV+ productions, a suspenseful and twisted story about the Garvey sisters who stop at nothing to protect each other. The show is the brainchild of Sharon Horgan, who makes an appearance in it too, with the beats of family loyalty, abuse, and revenge all interwoven with a tone of humor and poignancy.

The series focuses on the actions of the Garvey sisters as they strive to free Grace from her abusive husband, Jean-Paul, better known as "The Prick." Each episode reveals another attempt by the Garvey sisters to kill him, and this creates an electrifying whodunit mystery.

In Bad Sisters, Grace killed JP. With her sisters having tried to kill him multiple times, Grace finally decided to take matters into her own hands. After years of enduring abuse, she reached her breaking point when JP made a shocking revelation about assaulting her sister. In a final act of violence and cruelty, Grace strangled JP at their cabin, ending his reign of terror.

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What were the Garvey Sisters’ attempts to kill JP in Bad Sisters?

The sisters, Eva, Bibi, Ursula, and Becka Garvey, were able to try him out several times as an unwelcome member of their family in Bad Sisters. Every sister had her own way of trying to take him out from poison and drowning to freezing and even blowing up in the air.

All these failed, leaving JP unscathed and resentful of his sisters to the point where he can no longer stand them.

Their attempts were because of concern for the safety of Grace and a fierce need to protect her daughter Blanaid, who was also undergoing JP's oppressive and cruel parenting. With each failed attempt, the sisters became more desperate and determined.

JP's inhuman and manipulative character got both sisters to the point of frustration, continuing his torture emotionally and psychologically.

He beat Bibi up physically, publicly humiliated Ursula with threats of exposing the love affair, and bankrupted Becka when he promised to loan her but went back on his promise.

As they continued to observe JP's abuse, collective hatred emerged; their patience for the same was wearing out, and eventually, it brought together the two sisters towards a common goal to free Grace.

The attempts at killing JP remind them that no extent would be too much on their part in seeking each other, which was underlined by the fierce loyalty that emerged between the sisters in an unbreakable bond.

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How did Grace kill JP in Bad Sisters?

The spark that set Grace on this path was a moment of self-defense and vendetta in Bad Sisters. During a savage argument at the family cabin, JP attacked her physically. He also confessed to s*xually assaulting her sister Eva years prior.

It was the blow that crippled Grace psychologically, as she had experienced the psychological and physical abuse that JP had heaped upon her for years.

In a fit of rage and in a desperate attempt to protect the child that was within her, she wrapped her arms around his pajama bottoms, strangled him, and killed him.

Finally, after years of such subjugation and degradation, Grace had gained enough strength to stop JP, finally freeing herself and her family from his brutality. The death of JP was to appear as an accident.

She drew inspiration from a story that she'd heard about Isadora Duncan, a dancer who died when her scarf got entangled in a car axle. Helping Grace to set up the scene to look like an accident was her neighbor Roger, who had also suffered under JP's abuse.

She placed JP's body on the quad bike and tied a red scarf to his neck, entangling it in the mechanism of the quad bike. Together, they crashed the quad bike onto a tree to conceal the truth about his death.

A secret was shared between them as Grace concealed Roger's involvement from her sisters lest they trigger his consequences.

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What role Did Roger play in JP’s death in Bad Sisters?

Roger, the neighbor of JP was drawn into the turmoil of the Garvey sisters by his own experience at the hands of JP's cruelty in Bad Sisters. JP, being an ungrateful person, resented the friendly relationship Roger had with Grace. He made false allegations of pedophilia against Roger, which led to a police investigation.

Although the allegations were cleared, they destroyed Roger’s good name and reputation.

The role Roger lost during this time really hurt him, but JP's malicious lies caused Roger much suffering. This damage to his social standing could never be rectified because Roger had to move in with his sister and leave the neighborhood where these lies put him.

It is the night when JP died that Roger drives to the family cabin expecting to make him realize the pain that he caused.

Instead, he found Grace fighting off JP and, after JP's death, Roger did not hesitate to assist Grace in staging the "accident" that would free them both from his clutches.

This shared secret bonded Roger and Grace, which could never be said but perhaps underscored the measure of JP's cruelty and how it influenced people around him.

Rogers played the role of an instrument of cover-up for JP's death: an act of solidarity and testifying to his knowledge of Grace, who suffered the abuse meted on her by JP all these years.

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Bad Sisters is currently streaming on Apple TV+.