When last we saw John Stape, he had escaped the clutches of the law outside the hospital where everyone saw him jump off the roof but nobody on the ground went to help or saw him get up and lurch off. Fiz is in prison and charged with the murders John committed or inadvertently caused and literally covered up. We already know he's going to return this fall, kidnap Rosie Webster again, and confess to the murders to free Fiz.
Today, it says here that John is going to get into a car accident after the kidnapping. Fiz will be convicted at her trial but will be taken to the hospital to see her dying husband. John's is a deathbed confession (let's hope there are jail guards in the room with her, then.) after Fiz tells him she forgives him (more fool her!). That, then, will be the last of John Stape and the laws of soap opera will be fulfilled when the accused will be proving innocent and the guilty pays, this time with his life.
Tuesday 13 September 2011
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So Fiz is actually convicted? Okay, I'm a little confused now about how this story is playing out. If there is enough circumstantial evidence to actually convict Fiz (which seems unlikely to me, although I can see why the police believe she was fully involved), I fail to see how a deathbed confession from John is going to help her at all. The authorities already know he was the main player in the deaths. The question is whether or not Fiz was involved with his crimes - and the extent of that involvement. So surely anything John says in extremis could be easily dismissed as him trying to protect her. It isn't actual evidence that can be produced at a court of appeal, especially if he dies leaving only a vague statement that someone claims to have heard, rather than a signed and witnessed confession. They can't just go to a court of appeal and say 'well, I heard John say before he died that he did it all himself, Fiz wasn't involved' - that's hearsay, not evidence. I thought it took something more solid than that to secure an appeal.
I suppose we'll have to wait and see how it plays out, if it makes more sense on-screen than the spoilers suggest.
Then again, Tracy got her conviction quashed on a very flimsy basis, so why shouldn't Fiz...
Wasn't Fiz in labour when Charlotte was killed?
Wasn't Fiz in labour when Charlotte was killed?
No, she was in labour when the life support machine was turned off; she was in the pub when John hit Charlotte, but hadn't actually been there long. But there is no way for the police or prosecutors to know exactly what time Charlotte suffered her head injury. All they know is that it happened quite some time before she received medical attention. From their point of view, Fiz could easily have been in the house with John when Charlotte was hit over the head, and then went to the pub later to establish an alibi.
If we try to forget what we've seen happen on screen and try to imagine the story from the police point of view, trying to piece together what happened based on evidence available to them, it probably seems more than likely that Fiz was involved in John's crimes and knew about everything all along. It seems ridiculous to us because we saw what actually happened, but if this were a police drama rather than a soap, we'd probably just accept the conclusions they reach as logical.
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