Jo Grant's home
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According to a duo of accounts wherein Jo Grant's marriage to Clifford Jones ended in divorce, Jo lived in a two-bedroom house in Hackney with her son Matthew (PROSE: Genocide) and Lisa. (PROSE: Once upon a Time Machine)
Appearance
The house had two bedrooms. In Jo's bedroom, as Matthew described as a "throwback to the seventies", there was a double bed, with a lamp positioned on Clifford's side of the bed. Oppostie to the end of the bed, there was a stained-oak wardrobe, a white wicker laundry basket, a "Treasure Island" clothes chest with brass decorations and a large fake lock. The bedroom had purple carpet, sea-blue walls, and a grapefruit yellow ceiling. In the narrow gap between the wardrobe and the wall, there was a pair of white moon boots that Jo hadn't worn in at least 20 years. Jo used a hook on the bedroom door to hang her dressing gown.
Matthew's room had a computer inside.
The roof of the house also was in need of retiling.
The landing was adorned with beige carpet.
In the kitchen, there was a set of double windows, covered with blinds. The kitchen was lit with a neon strip light. there was a kettle.
In the lounge, Jo had a telephone and a telephone notepad. (PROSE: Genocide)
History
1990s
After Clifford left, Jo redecorated the house, except for her bedroom, as she couldn't bear to change it. One school night, at ten-past-one in the morning, Matthew was up playing a computer game depicting an alien invasion. Upon waking up to discover what Matthew was doing, Jo scoled him and told him to go to sleep, without turning off his computer herself so as to give Matthew some dignity. After Jo went downstairs to the kitchen to get a cup of tea, she received a telephone call from Julie Sands.
Later, when Jo held a gun to Jacob Hynes's head, and asked him questions, one of the them was about how she was going to get back home to her son. Hynes replied that Jo couldn't, as home didn't exist anymore. Later, Jo opened fire upon a duo of Tractites, wanting everything to be over so she could go back home. The Doctor later was aghast at Jo's actions, telling her that he thought that she was better than that. Jo responded in such as a way that indicated that she killed the Tractites in order to make sure that her home wasn't destroyed, and Sam began to felt sick at the lengths Jo had gone. (PROSE: Genocide)
The fateful fire
In 2028, Jo Jones died in a house fire in her old age. (PROSE: Carpenter/Butterfly/Baronet) When Newton Calder recalled her "ghost" on Zayin Eight in the distant future, Jo recalled that the last thing she remembered was being at home. (AUDIO: The Mists of Time)
Factual records of Jo's death were retained by the year 2040, and when the Third Doctor and Jo Grant arrived in that year, it was suspected that Jo could've been a particularly malicious terrorist who stole the iris patterns of an old woman. (PROSE: Carpenter/Butterfly/Baronet)
Behind the scenes
While Genocide and Once Upon a Time Machine tell a more unfortunate tale about Jo, other accounts show that she was still happily married to Clifford by 2020, where they lived together in a detatched house.
Jo Grant's death in her home is ambiguous to which version of Jo's later life it takes place in, as, while it was mentioned in the story Carpenter/Butterfly/Baronet which came out around the same time as Genocide, it seems to apply to both, As of 2021[update].
