In an earlier episode, Grieff surmised that something painful must have happened to Janice in the past in order for her to avoid other people as determinedly as she does. When Harry and Mary’s son Ben asked Janice if she was married when both were suffering carbon monoxide poisoning in the vicarage cellar, she’d told him no.

Janice smiles, and it’s the end.Īs this is the first we’ve heard of Janice’s husband, viewers may be tantalised at this point.

Did they not watch Line of Duty?īack to Grieff – who’s fond of Beth Davenport and Janice Fife and no doubt would have also been fond of Harry’s wife Mary because they’re all essentially the same fast-talking, gutsy brainbox character he is, who asks how he can help. Inside Man’s Unanswered Questionsįor the time being, we can put that question, and the one about why – with time at a premium – Janice didn’t video call Grieff from the UK as we’d just seen him do with the recently incarcerated Harry Watling (David Tennant), in the pile of queries that also includes: why Harry and Mary Watling (Lyndsey Marshal) don’t appear to know about the existence of traceable IP addresses, browser search histories, mobile phone mast triangulation, automatic number plate recognition, DNA forensics or digital forensics that could comfortably trace the origin and journey of a thumb drive filled with images of child sexual abuse, for instance. If there is a second series, it may well be revealed to be all part of a fiendishly clever plan that involves a lot of dialogue and characters explaining things rather than feeling or doing them. How Janice might hope to get away with this murder after making such a declaration of intent on camera either makes a mockery of her intelligence, or ours. Words said, incidentally, in a room that we’ve already seen is fully kitted out with CCTV cameras monitored by prison security. She was there for her husband’s murder not to have Grieff to solve it, seeing as her husband is still alive, but for Grieff’s help in committing it because her husband deserves to be dead. After some chit-chat about their mutual acquaintance Beth Davenport, the journalist who brought Janice’s disappearance to Grieff’s notice in the first place, played by Lydia West, Janice defined her purpose.

Istripper credits 4chan