| “ | -You squandered him! He was wasted on all of you! Like this fat pig, Neil Francis- a new kidney, and still he gave himself diabetes by eating too much. And that waitress, she burnt her skin off in a fire she started herself in some pathetic attempt at attention-seeking. She had a piece of my son, and still she sullied his flesh with self-pitying tattoos.
I don't understand...-
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| ~ Jean explaining her motives for the killings to Maurice. |
Jean Quinn is the main antagonist of the Inside No. 9 episode "Private View".
She is portrayed by Fiona Shaw, who also played Carolyn Martens in Killing Eve, Ramona Linscott in The Black Dahlia, Lena in Super Mario Bros., Mombi in Emerald City, Marnie Stonebrook in True Blood and Father in The Avengers.
Biography[]
Jean is the mother of artist Elliot Quinn, who arranged for all his organs to be donated when he died of a brain tumour. Before his death, he asked Jean to keep tabs on all the recipients of his organs with the intention that they would eventually be invited to his retrospective exhibition Fragments in the basement of the Nine Gallery in East London, where they would serve as a "living exhibition" and a celebration of his life. However, Jean came to believe that the recipients had all squandered their gifts: Neil Francis, who got Elliot's kidneys, developed diabetes from his poor eating habits; waitress Bea, who received a skin graft after being badly burned in a fire she started, tattooed her new skin; Carrie, who got his liver, continued her drinking habits; visually impaired pornographic novelist Patricia used Elliot's eyes to keep writing pornography until they failed again; Kenneth Williams, who received one of Elliot's lungs, kept smoking, although he now used E-Cigarettes; and art lecturer Maurice Wickham, who received Elliot's heart, took good care of it but was resented by Jean anyway for supposedly being a "heartless critic". Jean decided that instead of doing as Elliot wished, she would murder each of the recipients when they came to view Fragments, remove the organs they had received and add them to the exhibition.
"Private View"[]
The episode begins with a scene shot from Jean's perspective in which she ambushes Neil Francis when he arrives early and impales him on one of the artworks, a bladed chair which skewers him through the kidneys.
Jean later "arrives" at the exhibition and mingles with the remaining guests before a holographic message from Elliot Quinn explaining that all of them have been summoned there for one reason which they are supposed to work out for themselves. Kenneth, Carrie and Maurice then go to look around and discover Neil's body; while they are doing this, Jean takes advantage of Patricia's blindness to sneak off and attack Bea, strangle her to death with a telephone cord, shove the phone down her throat and leave her body shut in the lift, ensuring both that the lift is blocked off and that no-one can call for help. Once the news of Neil's death reaches the others, Jean goes to the lift and helps Kenneth to open it, revealing Bea's corpse.
Kenneth and Maurice go to find a way out, with Jean following them and leaving Carrie and Patricia behind. Carrie soon dies after drinking champagne that Jean had previously spiked with acid. Meanwhile, Maurice and Kenneth decide they should split up and find a way to open the locked gates, allowing Jean to double back to get Patricia. Finding that she's run away after realizing what happened to Carrie, she searches to look for her after planting Maurice's heart medication in Carrie's hand to frame him. She eventually finds Patricia hiding in a locked toilet cubicle; forcing her way in, she cuts out Patricia's defective eyes before screaming to draw the attention of Kenneth and Maurice.
Maurice has found wire cutters and leads Kenneth and Jean back to the gates; however, while he's cutting through the chains on the gate Kenneth knocks him out, having found the heart medication and assumed he was responsible. He explains to Jean that Maurice is the killer and that he's worked out they were all invited because they've had organ transplants before lighting up an E-Cigarette while pondering what they've done wrong. Jean remarks "Well, you shouldn't be smoking for a start" before asphyxiating him with a plastic bag.
Several minutes later, Maurice wakes up tied to a chair surrounded by the organs of the other victims, which Jean has cut out and added to the installation. Jean re-plays Elliot's holographic message before explaining about the organ transplants and why she's decided to kill all the recipients; when she gets to Maurice she admits that her justification for targeting him is weak but says she's going to kill him anyway to complete the exhibition. As Jean advances on him with a syringe full of anaesthetic, Maurice begins frantically working himself free of his bindings; the scene cuts to black as one of his hands starts to come free.
In the final scene of the episode, a journalist reports on a new exhibition at the Nines Gallery which contains human kidneys, skin, liver, eyes, right lung and heart. However, when the artist is interviewed he is revealed to be Maurice, not Jean, revealing that he managed to get free, kill her and add her heart to the exhibition. When asked if he "put his heart" into the piece, Maurice replies "Not quite...".
Trivia[]
- "Private View" is an homage to the 1973 horror film Theatre of Blood, in which vengeful actor Edward Lionheart kills a number of theatre critics who gave him bad reviews in ironic ways.
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