When JP calls Eva a “frigid bitch” to her face for not being able to have children and “sexualizing” his daughter instead, Eva commits to Bibi’s plan. For him, it is his daughter flaunting her sexuality, rather than, you know, his daughter buying a garment. He gifts Blánaid “abortion jazz hands,” as Becka awesomely calls them, for her Confirmation, and erupts at the mere idea his daughter has purchased her first bra. By episode’s middle, however, JP has exhibited some of the same controlling behavior he uses on Grace toward Blánaid.
JP is Blánaid’s father, and the sisters know better than anyone what it is like to lose a parent - even one as terrible as JP. Ultimately, Eva has one argument that convinces Bibi to (kind of) stop researching murder: Blánaid. Eva takes time to carefully consider each one, taking into account any negative impact it will have on the people she loves most of all.
(Unlike her sisters, she has to work with the prick, which means his cruelty isn’t just confined to her domestic life.) But she is also a pragmatist, and murder generally comes with consequences - emotional, spiritual (if you’re into that sort of thing), and legal. Eva hasn’t made it this far as the matriarch of the Garvey sisters without carefully considering the potential costs and rewards of each and every action she takes.
It takes a bit longer for Eva to get on board with Bibi’s “accidental” gas leak plan. Shoot for the moon, they say - even if you miss, you might hit your brother-in-law. She’s made good use of the time since then, playing the possibility of JP’s murder “on loop” in her head and doing some thorough research. Okay, to be fair, Bibi got there incredibly quickly and without reservations in episode one, when the sisters spent Christmas Day imagining how they would kill their brother-in-law if they could. Therefore, “Explode a Man” puts a good chunk of its run time into showing how Eva and Bibi get from considering murdering JP to absolutely going for it. Bad Sisters recognizes that the series can’t just take the Garvey protagonists from loving sisters to committed murderers in the space of a single episode without perhaps losing some viewers along the way.
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