What up everybody? Force Season 1 JP was able to obtain Kate’s number after her mother Miriam died. She didn’t have much to say when JP called her, I’m sure she was a bit shocked, but she immediately hit the highway and was on her way to Chicago.
But not to reunite with her long lost son, or at least that wasn’t her top priority. Kate’s top priority was going to Miriam’s old house to start busting down the walls looking for money. After D MAC got shot JP needed paperwork, and sent Tommy to Miriam’s to pick it up, where he bumped into Kate.
Thinking a crackhead broke in, Tommy pulled his gun out, but it was just Kate. Kate told Tommy that Miriam had thousands hidden in the walls, and that it had something to do with her troubles. She also said that Miriam smoked 3 packs of cigarettes a day.
It was at this point that Kate found out she was a grandmother, and wanted to go to the hospital to see her grandson. When we met Miriam Egan she was already in the nursing home, and had some issues.
When Tommy went to visit her she wouldn’t speak, then Tommy showed her a picture, and told her he was her grandson Tommy. Miriam, said, Tommy, and smiled for a brief moment, before going back to her same sad look, and not saying anything else.
Keep in mind that Tommy’s whole life he had been told that his grandmother was dead, and it wasn’t until he showed up in Chicago, that he found out she was still living. So obviously Miriam had secrets, that Kate didn’t want Tommy finding out about.
Obviously JP was one of the secrets. But Miriam obviously had secrets of her own. What were her troubles that she had money hidden in the walls? And why were her nervous so bad that she smoked 3 packs of cigarettes a day?
Like Tariq St. Patrick once said, everyone has secrets. And we could definitely see that money in the walls come into play at some point when Tommy is desperate and has to make a payment deadline.
Coincidentally, JP and his father Herman didn’t come back into the picture until Miriam was already in the nursing home. So JP was not able to discover any of Miriam’s secrets. But I don’t think it was no coincidence at all, I believe this was intentional by Herman, because he has secrets of his own.
When JP told Herman that he contacted Kate, Herman had a worried look in his face, and said what did she say? Worried that Kate might have exposed one of his secrets to JP. JP was told that Kate abandoned JP at the hospital when he was 1 day old, and never returned.
But what if that is not true, but Herman took JP from Kate and fled town. We know they went somewhere because they didn’t come back into the picture until JP was an adult and Miriam was already in the nursing home.
After Herman asked JP what Kate said, he then tried to discourage JP from calling Kate again by telling him that Kate is not gonna have what he is looking for. Then there was the story of JP going to the park.
Herman told Tommy that he stopped taking JP to the park because JP would be staring at the other kids at the park with their mothers. But Herman told JP that he stopped taking him because of the violence.
I think that the real reason why Herman stopped taking JP to the park was because Kate might have started showing up to the same park with Tommy. Keep in mind of the picture that JP discovered of himself with Tommy running in the background.
What was that all about? At one point in time Tommy and JP were at the same place at the same time, but didn’t actually meet each other. Maybe Kate and Herman was having an adult conversation.
Because whatever happened during this conversation caused Kate to leave Chicago for good, and never return. Tommy said he was 4 years old when his mother told him that his grandmother died.
Also similar to how Kate told Tommy that his father was dead, and that his grandma was dead, Herman told JP that Kate was dead. When Kate had JP, Herman was only 17 years old, and said he wouldn’t continue the cycle, but he was going to do right by this baby. Was that making sure Kate, maybe even her family was not apart of JP’s life?
Now fast forwarding to our current timeline. Episode 1, Tommy offered Kate a bag of coke, and for once Kate actually turned it down, and said she was trying to stay off that stuff. Is there a chance that the reason why Kate got hooked on coke in the first place was the depression of being seperated from her son.
Because it seems like from the time she hooked up with JP, and D MAC she has been a completely different person. Kate has been in Chicago for a few weeks now, and JP has had a chance to ask some questions if he wanted to.
We did not see Kate, JP, or D MAC in episode 2. And Herman has gone Ghost since Kate has shown up on the scene. JP was also running his fathers bar, but it seems like he abandoned that because Tommy bought him another bar so he can be debt free.
Also Herman has a medical condition, and JP is supposed to be taking care of him, and I’m sure that Herman would want to see D MAC as well, because he hasn’t seen him since he was a little boy either.
Not to mention that Kate is going to be moving to Chicago sometime soon, she might even be in the process of moving right now, and that may be why we didn’t see her in episode 2. Either way there will only be a matter of time until Herman bumps into Kate, and they have a big family reunion.
And when are these mysteries going to be answered, concerning Miriam, the picture of JP with Tommy in the background, and what really happened to cause KAte not to be a part of JP’s life.
There you have it, leave your thoughts, theories, and predictions in the comments.
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