Filippa deserves a raise
Look, I love James more than life itself. I would die and/or kill for the man. But Pip being able to put up with his lack of a filter for months following the murder is on a whole other level. She is the only one with the patience and level-headedness to keep the idiot from outing himself.
“’Is it just me,’ Alexander said, ‘or is this the longest day of everyone else’s life?’
‘Well,’ James said. ‘Certainly not Richard’s.’
Alexander gaped at him, eyes wide and glaring.
‘James,’ Meredith said. ‘What the fuck.’
Filippa breathed out in a hiss, rubbing her forehead. ‘We’re not doing this’.”
- If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio (ACT III, Scene 3)
(Can I just ask, by the way, what the actual fuck was he trying to do here? Look, I have my own theories but most of them just fall back to, “James, you utter dumbass”)
And the one time Pip leaves him alone for more than an hour, he gets drunk and unintentionally spills his secrets to the woman most likely to rat him out.
(”You don’t think Wren would have ratted him out???” You think Wren has the mental willpower to go to the cops? She’d go to Filippa first, if anything, and Pip would just say she was overreacting. And she’d believe her. Then Pip would kick James’ ass over it)
I seriously hope James treated her to some fancy ass dinner at least once for the weight she had to help him carry during those months.