Episodes 01

“The Prick”

Before John Paul’s death, the Garvey sisters hold a holiday party at Eva’s house, where John Paul insults and angers almost everyone. The next day, he refuses to let Grace meet her sisters at the Forty Foot for the Garvey family’s annual Christmas morning swim. The other sisters lament how much Grace has changed due to “the prick” John Paul. When Ursula says John Paul will die eventually of natural causes, Bibi says they could “give nature a helping hand.” The sisters jokingly suggest ways to kill their brother-in-law. In the present, the sisters gather for John Paul’s funeral. Running late, Becka steps in front of a motorcyclist, Matt, causing him to swerve and crash. Matt and his half-brother Tom, insurance agents for John Paul’s life insurance policy, attend the funeral and talk to Grace and her sisters. Matt later meets Becka again at a bar, not realizing she is Grace’s sister, and she gives him her number. Tom explains to Matt that the family business will go bankrupt if they have to pay out on John Paul’s substantial life insurance policy. The Claffin brothers must prove foul play in order to avoid a payout.

Episodes 02

“Explode a Man”

In flashback, Ursula has sex with her photography instructor Ben. Walking through Dublin afterwards, Ursula and Ben meet John Paul, who regards them with suspicion. Eva takes Blánaid shopping in advance of her confirmation ceremony. John Paul later notices a bra in Blánaid’s bedroom and confronts Grace about buying inappropriate lingerie for a child. Blánaid reveals she asked her aunt Eva to buy her a bra because she couldn’t ask her parents. At the confirmation after-party, John Paul accuses Eva of sexualising and grooming Blánaid, while Grace accuses Eva of stealing her moment by buying her daughter’s first bra. John Paul mocks Eva’s infertility and calls her a “frigid bitch.” Eva and Bibi then plot to blow up John Paul while he is staying at his remote cabin in Wicklow after a hiking trip. Eva buys concert tickets for Grace and Blánaid to see Lizzo on the same night. When they believe John Paul to be asleep, Eva and Bibi sneak into the cabin, turn on the gas, and light a candle. The cabin soon explodes and they hear John Paul screaming. Unable to sleep due to his painfully blistered feet, he went outside to call Grace and was unharmed. In the present time, Matt and Tom interview Eva and suspect that she is hiding something.

Episodes 03

“Chopped Liver”

In the present, Matt and Tom interview Ursula. In flashback scenes, John Paul spies on Ursula as she emerges from a hotel with Ben and kisses him. John Paul confronts her, threatening to tell her husband Donal unless she ends the affair. When Ursula tells Eva and Bibi, they reveal their murder plot, but Ursula declines to become involved. At the family’s Easter gathering, John Paul furtively checks Ursula’s phone and finds a sexting exchange with Ben. After changing Ben’s number in her phone to his own, he tricks Ursula into sending him a nude photo. He forwards the image and her sexting messages to Donal. Ursula races to the hospital where she and Donal work, retrieves his phone from his locker, and deletes the messages before Donal can read them. After this incident, Ursula commits to Eva and Bibi’s plan and acquires poison to make John Paul’s death look like cardiac arrest. Eva switches poisoned liver with the liver in Grace’s fridge, knowing Grace and Blánaid will be unharmed because only John Paul eats it. However, Grace drops the liver on the floor while preparing dinner and feeds it to their dog. The next morning, Grace tearfully calls Eva to tell her the dog has died. In the present, Becka and Matt go on a date and kiss.

Episodes 04

“Baby Becka”

Becka pitches her massage therapy business plan to John Paul and is delighted when he agrees to help her. Resenting their neighbor Roger’s frequent visits, John Paul joins an online forum for Roger’s church group, posing as a 10-year-old boy. Blánaid criticizes Grace for having no job or pursuits outside the home, unlike her friends’ mothers. Minna shows Becka an old photo album containing pictures of John Paul dressed in his sister’s clothes; Becka learns that John Paul used to drown frogs in milk. After Becka puts a non-refundable deposit for a studio rental on her credit card, John Paul sends Grace to tell Becka that he never intended to help her financially. Upset by John Paul’s betrayal, Becka talks to Ursula, who tells Becka about her affair and how John Paul tricked her into sending him a nude photo. After John Paul and Grace lose a pub quiz to Eva and Bibi, John Paul publicly castigates Grace. Becka confronts John Paul about the loan in the pub toilets. After the other sisters learn that John Paul has a nude photo of Ursula, Eva confronts him and breaks his phone. Eva reluctantly agrees that Becka can become involved in the plot to kill John Paul. In the present, Matt and Tom go to meet with the youngest Garvey sister to inquire about John Paul’s death; Becka and Matt are both surprised to see each other.

Episodes 05

“Eye for an Eye”

The Garvey sisters are invited to go paintballing for John Paul’s birthday. Flashing further back, John Paul drives recklessly to terrify Bibi, knowing her parents died in a car accident. John Paul crashes the car, costing Bibi her right eye and leaving him with a hole in the back of his skull. Bibi, a decorated archer, plots to kill John Paul by shooting frozen paintballs through the soft spot in the back of his head. While she is aiming, Becka pushes her. Bibi misses John Paul and blinds another man in one eye. She is devastated to have inflicted the same injury on someone else. Eva goes on dates with her coworker Gabriel. They go back to Gabriel’s houseboat and kiss, but when Eva moves to undress, Gabriel confesses he is gay. In the present, Matt and Tom interview Bibi, whose wife Nora reveals they both hated John Paul. Tom’s wife tells Matt how to access a locked drawer at the Claffin & Sons office, where he discovers his father’s suicide note. Having believed his father died of an accidental overdose, Matt angrily punches Tom for concealing this information and the brothers argue. Tom reveals that their father used his clients’ insurance premiums to fund his lifestyle, without filing their policies. John Paul’s policy, with a death benefit of €875,000, has never been filed.

Episodes 06

“Splash”

John Paul returns home to see Grace dancing in their garden with their single neighbor, Roger. John Paul makes an anonymous complaint that Roger is a pedophile, which leads to Gardai arresting and questioning Roger and seizing his computer. The Garvey sisters come up with a new plan to drug John Paul and have him drown in his bathtub. They sneak into his house and drug his nasal spray; he returns early, which forces them to hide. After he takes the nasal spray, he passes out on his bed. The sisters prepare to move him into the bathtub, when he awakes suddenly. In a drugged state, he urinates in his closet, then gets into his car and drives to the marina. The sisters watch as he gets onto his boat, but falls overboard.

Episodes 07

“Rest in Peace”

The sisters watch as Gabriel, from his nearby houseboat, dives into the water and rescues John Paul, who later awakens in a hospital under suspicion of trying to commit suicide. He insists that someone is trying to kill him. John Paul returns to work, where he and Eva interview for the same promotion. John Paul tells Gerald about Eva’s previous mental health struggles and alcoholism in an attempt to convince him not to give her the promotion. Becka gives a massage to Minna, John Paul’s mother, when she mentions the freezer in their basement that John Paul always goes to. After Minna falls asleep, Becka investigates the walk-in freezer, where she finds the frozen corpse of George, John Paul’s father, hidden beneath taxidermy specimens. In the present, Thomas convinces Inspector Loftus to approve the exhumation of John Paul’s corpse. He tells Matt to stay away from Becka. Matt ignores Becka’s calls and stands her up on their date plans.

Episodes 08

“The Cold Truth”

In a flashback, John Paul visits his father George, who is working in his basement taxidermy studio. John Paul asks for a loan of several thousand euros to meet expenses, but his father refuses. George then begins choking on a glass taxidermy eyeball. John Paul considers performing the Heimlich maneuver, but instead lets George die and hides the body in the walk-in freezer. Becka decides to kill John Paul by locking him in the same freezer. At work, John Paul gets the promotion over Eva, which causes Gabriel to confront John Paul. John Paul, who had observed Gabriel on a date with another man, tells Gabriel that Eva had revealed that he is gay. Upset, Gabriel leaves work and tells Eva he does not wish to speak to her. Becka hides in a closet, and when she sees someone go in the freezer, she locks the door. In the present, Inspector Loftus and a Garda team exhume John Paul’s body. Matt visits Becka, who tells him she sat home the previous night waiting for him. They then share that they have real feelings for each other and initiate sex, but Matt cannot achieve an erection. When he goes to the kitchen for a glass of water, Becka checks his phone and sees a text from Thomas saying that John Paul’s body has been dug up. Becka rushes to the cemetery, where she sees the Garda team around John Paul’s grave. She alerts Eva, Ursula, and Bibi, who panic and worry about going to prison. Eva finds out that Becka has been sleeping with Matt Claffin and quarrels with Becka and her other sisters.

Episodes 09

“Going Rogue”

John Paul arrives at a gathering at Eva’s house, and Becka realizes that she did not lock him in the freezer. She races to Minna’s house, only to find that Minna was frozen to death in the freezer. Becka escapes and watches John Paul discover his mother’s body; he moves it to her bed and calls the police to say that she had died in her sleep. He hides his father’s body in the pond behind their house. Becka is distraught, and believes that she killed Minna. John Paul and Grace go up to their newly-rebuilt cabin and invite the rest of the Garvey sisters to meet up with them the following day. The sisters all go their separate ways, and wake up with suspicious circumstances. They go to the cabin, where they find a crying Grace saying that John Paul is dead.

Episodes 10

“Saving Grace”

John Paul and Grace have a night in. While there, Roger arrives and confronts John Paul, saying that he knows it was him who framed him for pedophilia. Roger says he forgives John Paul and walks away; Grace sees him through the window. Grace and John Paul have dinner and she attempts to have sex with him; when he refuses, he blames his erectile dysfunction on when Eva seduced him. He reveals that he raped Eva but attempted to blame her. Grace grabs his pyjamas and strangles him. She goes downstairs and begins knitting; she watches a movie where a character is killed by their scarf becoming entangled in the axle of their car. She and Roger dress John Paul, put him on an all-terrain-vehicle, and wrap a scarf around his neck and the axle, making it look like that was his cause of death. She admits this to her sisters. Matt, investigating the death, finds the movie and the yarn, and realizes how John Paul’s death was staged. Becka attempts to commit suicide over guilt in Minna’s death, but her sisters stop her. They discuss how Grace killed John Paul, only for Matt to overhear their conversation. He burns the evidence, and they agree to not make a claim on their life insurance policy. Grace and Blánaid move in with Eva.