It’s sad watching someone who’s outlived his relevance and doesn’t quite seem to be able to recover it among the family who have got on better without him, but it’s hard to feel that sad. And so, Jimmy ultimately seems to make the sound decision to bow out quietly and leave his family to it. In spite of everything, Jimmy has saved the day. It’s still difficult simply to feel for him, though, as much as for everyone who has had to kind of get on with their lives with the constant threat and shadow of his well-meaning and disastrous presence at the forefront of their thoughts. That he might actually, at some point, listen to other people a little bit before bumbling into more mess. But at least it’s through her initiative that she convinces her erstwhile gentleman friend DI Steve to persuade Jimmy to use his position within the criminal ranks to grass on the very naughty men who are selling drugs and laundering money.Īnd he does! It is, one hopes in some little way, a sign that Jimmy, at long last, has learned to stop talking. Jackie (Amanda Redman) is naturally not amused to discover Jimmy’s plans: she’s like one of those friends who, every time she complains of how she’s absolutely done with her partner’s behaviour, you urge her to just dump him, and yet never quite does. Meanwhile, his best friend and brother-in-law Roy suffers a heart attack, which at least prompts Jimmy to give a heartfelt speech about how much Roy means to him, even if Roy isn’t conscious to hear it. Well, it wouldn’t be happy viewing, would it? Nor would we expect it to be: Jimmy (Ray Winstone), in his desperation to keep his granddaughter safe, has offered to descend back into crime in order to pay off her debts. One man’s journey toward some semblance of redemption ends in this final instalment of ITV’s The Trials of Jimmy Rose, and while it’s a conclusion, it ain’t happy by any means.
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