'Joan's Night Is Darkest Before the Dawn in "Stuck Between a Rock & a Hard Place"

Jail does not suit our titular heroine in Joan, as we quickly learn in the penultimate episode. Not only is she not allowed to speak to Kelly while on the inside, but the IRA also infiltrated the prison and sent her a message via a bout of severely bruised ribs. The terrorist organization was worried that she'd take a deal and rat on them, but if Joan didn't take the deal, she would face ten years on the inside. That would mean no hope of ever getting her daughter back, which was unacceptable.

Boisie was sympathetic to Joan's plight, or at least the part about her not wanting to be in jail; he's also going through his own stuff. The IRA burned down his storage unit with all the stockpile of paintings and antiques he and Joan had planned to sell off, including the diamonds she stole in the series premiere. When Joan gets out on bail, she is battered, and she and Boisie have less money between them than when they met.

What do two broke con artists do when down on their luck? They plan another job! Joan reconnected with her old boss, Bernard (Alex Blake), from whom she stole the diamonds in the premiere. She convinced him to give her another job, and she immediately devised a plan for her, Boisie, and Albie (Gershwyn Eustache Jr.) to rob the place and get enough money for her and Boisie to escape to Spain. They would get out of England and have a villa with a swimming pool and a baby tiger for a pet. Wouldn't Kelly just LOVE that?!