Situation with Bea and co. & also the Knights
The credit card situation really hit me because I had a situation with my son who has mental illness, he genuinely did not mean to cause me harm but opened credit in my name and struggled to keep up with payments, but has helped me for many years financially when I've needed it after my partner died so I chose not to report it and deal with it in-house, he has always been a lovely person and willing to help anyone but the illness has been eating him up inside, prison makes people worse not better because of the state of them.
It does colour my judgement in regards to this story. Its a bit unrealistic that Honey didn't know until the letters she waited to open, I knew before the letters on my credit file within 4 weeks, maybe a lot of people don't check this but being signed up to Clearscore etc. in real life you'd be told if a new credit account was opened in your name.
With what we've seen on-screen with Bea so far, Honey should have reported it to the police as fraud from the get go, because there is a clear pattern of manipulation and secrecy, taking the flat deposit too. The only single discount is that she did genuinely spend it on other people not for self gain, other than her own twisted way of wanting to be loved and appreciated which is what the writers have tried to convey throughout all of this.
If what happens next revolves around identity takeover on a psychological level with her family, the best thing Billy could do is to report it but I think we all know what happens next based on the double dressing, cozy with the kids etc.
As a character, I love Ian, but let's face it; snide so and so. He suddenly became morally and literally aware of Bea but waited until he had the benefit gained before calling it out, of course he didn't know where the money she was spending came from but was happy to let her publish the video (which in fairness she made him agree to first rather than doing it off her own back then taking credit) and then takes the high ground, then backing off calling the police to protect his own seat. Very controversial to say, but if Bea had owned up to what she did to the police, whatever she would have said to them should have made damn sure he loses his seat as councillor in the process, protecting Honey by facing her own fraud charge, if Ian is happy for honesty and justice (offering to be a witness for Honey) he should face the consequences too. What Bea intended to do in the last episode, that tips the scale from giving her a break to needs to be locked up.
As for Eddie in this Knight and co. saga, I agree with Gina and Kojo, but that's without even taking into account what we see as the viewer. Even without the nasty play, he should face his sentence regardless given he got 40 years delay in justice already, that in itself is a mercy, sadly all too late Billy will reconcile on that Teddy disclaimer that she can be wicked, not that she means it as wicked, again we know she genuinely isn't doing it for malice, she's taking the non existent money to stop her son relapsing, but George has already said in script that Nicola was the reason he "saw sense" so when this proposition comes to light, he will disown her for good and Billy will throw his half a pence in for good measure if I had to guess.
Personally, if I was Nicola, I'd have thrown it right back at him at him with telling the probation service the truth, he'd be carted off right back to prison. Less making him sign over the relevant stuff to put action to his word. A tiny, tiny 0.001% of me still felt sorry for him because of the way he grew up into adulthood about ethnic people, not that he deserves that or an excuse in any form but once he brushed the nurses hand off and then threatened Nicola too, any tiny little miniscule bit of humanity was wiped from his ledger, and he was already blessed enough to even get that. I really hope Nicola surprises us and eventually disrupts his peaceful passing.
The episodes have been brilliant so far albeit expected nooks and crannies and look forward to what's coming next.