Killing Eve
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She drags herself to work for a meeting where shell learn of Villanelle, though not by name.
She meets Carolyn Martens in that meeting, though only glancingly.
In short, those five minutes transformed the shape of Eves entire life.
Now, having killed Lars, shes pressed to change it all again.
What if I dont want to?
Eves not the only character to have drifted off course.
When we first met Villanelle, she had a sunny Parisian apartment and a skincare routine.
Now, she shares a remote Scottish isle with a brutal psychopath.
Villanelle is more intrigued than disturbed, which is in itself disturbing but not unexpected.
Its impossible to trust that Gunns punishment fits Helenes crime because Gunn is prone to disproportionate violence.
For example, the aforementioned fisherman.
Still, Gunn and Villanelle are sort of mutually seduced, each an answer to the others particular loneliness.
Gunn craves life on the cold edge of civilization but doesnt necessarily want to be alone there.
Plus, theyve been drinking moonshine and Eve kissed Helene so hooking up with Gunn makes everything evensies.
Where does her operation end if not right here?
Shes at serious risk of losing the rest of her life to mission creep.
Yusuf volunteers to cruise-direct Eves reintroduction to civilian life.
First port of call: Karaoke.
Nothing cures the maladies of a restless soul quite like karaoke.
Before Berlin, Eve was decisive and mission-driven.
How can she go back to regular life if she cant even make it through the second verse ofChandelier?
Hes an assassin, she supposes.
Before he can finish the job, though, Vlad arrives to black-bag Carolyn back to Moscow.
For me, the moment strains credibility.
Carolyn must have visited that pub untold times and yet shes thinking of it only now?
He agrees because all men are putty in Carolyns hands.
How does he not notice the pizza cutter?
Who comes back from the pizza parlor with a cutter?
They dont just give those out!
Its a particularly gruesome end for one of the series most lovable if incorrigible characters.
Pam slices Konstantin, like, a lot, but between cuts, he manages to share Helenes death.
But Konstantin dies well, to be sure.
Its always stormy in the Hebrides.
Most crucially, though, confining Villanelle to the island means she cant exterminate The Twelve.
Whatever gripes Gunn had with Helene, The Twelve supports her to live in the monastic style she prefers.
Villanelle makes a run for it just as Eve stumbles onto the island to encounter a murderously angry Gunn.
The episode ends with a machete blade kissing Eves neck, but also the promise of rescue.
Despite whats transpired between them of late, shed never allow Eve to be filleted alive.
Im as tempted as anyone to read romance into what might just be desperation.
Eve is shocked to have survived her impossible mission.
She has no roadmap for life after because she never expected an after.
No version of herself that she can bear.
