I love that Rob Lowe is in a car with Pauline Quirke probably two of the least likely characters you'd expect to appear together!
I had the same thought. I didn't rate Pauline Quirke's big scene as highly as a pp. I actually thought it struck of a bum note, more like a soap opera show-down.
I did see the teetering pile of bricks on the scaffolding outside the bank, though, and say to DH I thought one of the characters, probably Mary, was going to be flattened by them.