Last week on Killing Eve, Villanelle had regressed back into her murderous state of being and Eve confronted Helene. This week, we left off with Villanelle being imprisoned and Eve setting up her dessert date and information exchange with Helene.
The show’s large title cards announce the various plotlines for each character in this week’s episode, beginning with Villanelle. She breaks into Eve’s hotel room and tells her that she wants help. Eve essentially tells her to piss off. She then tracks down Martin, the British Intelligence psychiatrist who first appeared in season two, and asks him for therapy. Essentially her hostage, Martin tells Villanelle that her willingness to improve is a sign that perhaps she is able to.
After leaving Villanelle in her hotel room, Eve goes to Yusuf. His role is not entirely clear other than to be a sex interest for Eve and to perform the computer hacking work done by Kenny and Hugo in previous seasons. He helps her track down a car tied to Helene, and she finds Helene’s ex-girlfriend Fernanda. Eve poses as a recently dumped queer woman and befriends Fernanda, getting her excessively wine-drunk at lunch. Fernanda reveals that she was married to a shady, powerful man before meeting Helene, who is revealed later in the episode to be someone named Lars Meier. Eve goes back to her hotel room and finds an iPad with texts between Villanelle and Martin, so she goes over to Martin’s house to find Villanelle holding him hostage.
Carolyn is still fascinated by the graphic killings of members of The Twelve, and she’s teamed up with Vlad to find out who’s responsible. She discovers that there was some moss specific to Scotland at a crime scene. As she informs Vlad at some sort of barbecue he’s hosting, he tells her that another victim, this time of a Russian agent, was tortured in Cuba. This time, though, the victim survived. Despite Vlad’s warnings, Carolyn says she’ll talk to him in a safe house and try to get information out of him, a likely Twelve member.
The “Twelve” associate and weird mortician Pam has gotten sick of her abusive brother Elliot and asks Helene if she can leave and take on a more prominent role in the organization. Helene says that she’s not ready. After Elliot threatens to drown her in a bucket of “arterial solution,” Pam kills him. Helene is not pleased that she has to clean up after her, and threatens to (presumably) have her killed if she disobeys her again.
Freshly elected mayor Konstantin is enjoying his life of public service when he gets a call on one of his many phones. Later, he’s seen meeting with Helene, who wants to give him a new assassin to train and handle.
In one of the final scenes of the episode, Eve and Villanelle sit in Martin’s house, who lies unconscious on the ground having almost been accidentally killed by Villanelle. Eve asks how therapy was, and Villanelle tells her that she’s a little optimistic about it. Eve tells Villanelle about the fable of the scorpion and the frog, in which they both die because the scorpion “can’t change its nature.” After this obvious bit of foreshadowing, Villanelle suggests that Eve might be the “scorpion.” The show recycles its classic motif, where the pair seem like they might finally kiss right before disaster strikes. “I should’ve done this when we first met,” Eve says as she looks into Villanelle’s eyes longingly. We see the police break into the house and arrest Villanelle.
Last time we saw Villanelle in solitary confinement in season one, she went a little crazy. However, the trailer for next week’s episode shows scenes of her in her cell and out and about in the world, so we’ll see how long her imprisonment lasts. Knowing Villanelle, probably not long. However, it seems like Eve and Helene will be teaming up once more to discuss the complicated hierarchy of The Twelve.
It was a fairly traditional episode for Killing Eve, jumping back and forth between characters on separate missions. It even featured a few callback moments through its soundtrack, which featured songs that played during iconic moments in previous seasons. After last week’s boring prologue episodes, this week made it clear that this final season will be dramatic and enticing, if extremely unrealistic (but who cares! It’s a spy show!).
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