Killing Eve
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Ultimately, the frog is persuaded to do it anyway.
If he dies, the scorpion will drown too, and surely the scorpion would like to live.
The moral, I guess, is that some people are assholes.
Its not accidental; its not circumstantial.
What the film strip neglected to mention is that most scorpions dont walk around with stingers on their tails.
They look like regular people.
Sometimes they look even brighter and shinier than regular people.
On a related note, Villanelle is back.
Eve is juggling multiple fascinations now.
While season three got bogged down in Eves vendetta, this episode is propelled by it.
She never makes it out of the parking lot.
Its actually a pretty therapeutic session, at least for Eve.
Villanelle can only play her wicked head games with a willing partner.
Alas, shell never be able to ask him.
The shifty mortician is back and shes got a name: Pam.
Pam is understated and baggage-free, particularly in a universe of Eves and Helenes.
Elliot is a scorpion who walks around acting like a scorpion all the time.
He probably deserves to die, but Pam would be content just to escape her cartoonishly awful orphanhood.
Helene insists shes not ready for the field, though, but offers some encouragement to soften the blow.
Elsewhere in Mother Russia, Carolyns apartment literally stinks very, very badly.
She has uncovered a fourth dead member of the Twelve and suspects the assassin is from Scotland.
The target was a Russian spy, and whats more, he survived the assault.
Vlad agrees to let Carolyn lead the investigation in Cuba, but his change of heart is under-explained.
Villanelle makes the most profound breakthroughs in this episode.
Not content to sit around a three-star, she goes to see Martin.
Religion didnt cure her; maybe therapy is worth a shot.
She finds his address on Eves iPad, and why is his house so nice?
Isnt he an NHS doctor?
Villanelle tells a petrified Martin that she feels like shit all of the time.
She doesnt know what she wants; lately she doesnt trust her own thoughts.
But sometimes things get worse before they get better.
Itssucha therapist thing to say.
As is inevitable, their soul-searching tete-a-tete winds its way to the topic of Eve.
Yes, Villanelle relishes the hold she has on Eve, but maybe Eve is more powerful now.
Did Eve ever imagine something so pedestrian for them?
Something so depressingly similar to the life with Niko she chucked away?
When Eve follows Villanelles digital bread crumbs to Martins house, the daylong therapy session ends abruptly.
In fact, shes the one who brings up the story of the scorpion and the frog.
Enough, she says.
Eve is finally free.
Villanelle will face punishment for her terrible crimes.
Its a good outcome, or at least a fair one.
So why isnt it more gratifying?
Maybe the truth is as Villanelle suggests.Shesthe frog; Eve is selfish and controlling.
Villanelle is doing the work, and Eve is the asshole who wont change her ways.
Perhaps shes not thinking of her at all.
Eve didnt reallylikethe messy, conflicted Villanelle of recent episodes.
Shes everything Villanelle once was cold, elusive, distant.
A scorpion, really.
That wouldnt be a bad description for Eve right now either.
She gets Fernanda drunk, rummages through her purse, then abandons her in a bar.
She takes what she can from Yusuf, then does what she wants.
Shes indifferent to the suffering she causes, indifferent even to her own safety.
Maybe thats just her nature.
