'Joan's Bungled Heist Costs Her Everything in Her Final Hurrah
We head into the Joan finale with the stakes higher than ever. Our titular jewel thief was arrested a few episodes prior for her involvement in stealing a painting from an estate in Sussex. She can either take a deal and rat on the members of the IRA who offered to buy the painting from her and Boisie, risking the terrorist organization killing her in retaliation, or she risks spending ten years in prison. The alternative plan is to go on the run. Boisie is all in on helping Joan rob her former employer and abscond to Spain to live in a villa with a pool. But he doesn't know that Joan plans to take her seven-year-old daughter with them, and the plan to rob Bernard's is more complicated than any heist they've pulled off before.
Lying to Boisie stresses Joan even more than the upcoming job because Albie demands that she tell him the truth before the job. Joan doesn't get to tell Boisie beforehand because Albie's wife, Val, warns Boisie that Albie and Joan are planning something separate. Boisie then finds the suitcase Joan packed for Kelly. Boisie is ready to call the whole job off and rightfully calls Joan selfish for putting them all at risk by adding this unnecessary wrinkle, especially when he's already volunteered to return and get Kelly once they're settled in Spain. Joan counters that she wants to be happy and have a family. Boisie would rather feel safe, but he loves Joan and concedes to doing whatever she needs.
Heist day comes, and Joan has lessened the timings for robbing the shop so she can make it to Kelly's school in time. Bernard takes a call for Joan but only tells her it is "urgent" about "this afternoon." He's close to starting inventory early, which would throw off the whole plan, but Joan manages to convince him to take a break to buy her and the team more time. Boisie shows up at the shop to inform Joan that their third man doesn't trust her and won't be joining them, so Albie has to find a replacement at the last minute. Joan has already cut the security wires, so they have to do the job today, or they won't get another chance.
