Killing Eve
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Thirty seconds later, as the second-season premiere opens, Eves world is upside down and in pieces.
Villanelle is gone, limping into the streets of Paris like a wounded animal.
What did Eve say again, shortly before slipping in the knife?
How did Eve feel when she slipped the blade inside her?
Was it the same?
Tell me everything, she says breathlessly, like a child asking for a bedtime story.
I was fired, so we can go back to just being normal!
Potato Head mustache floating around their apartment.
Sometimes it had seemed like enough, until it wasnt.
Its one things to convince yourself that youre satisfied when you dont know a part of yourself is missing.
Its a great deal harder to talk yourself back into living in black-and-white once youve discovered color.
I realized theres no way out of this, he says in the final moments of the episode.
Any idea where shes gone?
Carolyn asks Eve after a debrief of recent events that notably omits any erotic stabbings.
No, says Eve emphatically, protesting more than a little too much.
No feelings, she insists again.
Is that really what you want?
… Theres no need to play the reluctant ingenue with me.
Save that for your husband.
But shes not out for revenge, and doesnt feel scorned quite the opposite.
She did it to show me how much she cared about me, she tells the boy.
They have never been so alike.
When the boy asks if shes afraid her girlfriend will stab her again, Villanelle shakes her head.
I know her better than anyone.
Better than she knows herself.
