Don’t Get Eaten
Episode 2 of Killing Eve Season 4 starts with Eve undercover, working with Yusuf and tracking down The Twelve. They’ve managed to find Helene’s whereabouts through using a tampon tracker. She’s in Champ de Mars, Paris. ..
Meanwhile, Nelle continues her spiritual journey, finding a butterfly on the bus and marveling at its beauty rather than killing it. The churchgoers are on a big camping trip as it turns out, with tents pitched up and Nelle determined to follow through with her new life.
After seeing her “spiritual guru” and eventually May, Villanelle begins to take time away from killing to try and be good. She points out that she’s trying to be good now, and tries to make May see that not killing her is a big step, given how integral killing has been to her life.
Villanelle is not deterred by May’s attempts to help her. She wants to uncoil herself from the pain and anger she’s experiencing, and that includes screaming, spinning around and letting herself go.
After May confides in Villanelle, she calls out Phil for being a hypocrite. Specifically, May discloses that Phil killed her mum, Mary. Phil was drink driving at the time and when he crashed the car, he killed Mary in the process. So naturally, Villanelle makes a big scene in front of everyone, calling out Phil for Mary’s death and embarrassing him.
However, this doesn’t have the desired effect. Villanelle is ostracized by her fellow group members for her actions.
Carolyn meets with Vlad and hands over the intel she’s collected on a whole group of people – including Hugo. She wants protection for herself and her son, but given she defected originally, it’s not exactly like they’re going to let her in with open arms. Vlad tells her that he can’t help her because he’s not authorized to do so, but he’ll keep an eye out for her and make sure she’s safe.
However, Carolyn makes it to the Moscow Safehouse, where she’s forced to wait for her intel to be verified. So naturally, she finds a dead rat in the kitchen cabinet as a warning. “A rat for a rat.” Carolyn mutters. ..
Eve and Yusuf arrive in Paris. They bring a grocery bag of food with them. Eve shows up at Helene’s door, and she’s been expecting her. She shows the tampon (in a wrapper.) ..
Anyway, the pair eventually talk, where Helene admits that she too wants to kill The Twelve. She’s the one who’s behind the grisly murders, killing the members one by one by having other people torture her victims. ..
Eve wants to know who is at the top of The Twelve, but Helene refuses to tell her until after dessert. Instead, Eve decides to leave when she doesn’t get the information she wants. ..
Villanelle heads back to the campsite that night, turning away from her “pure” roots, and deciding to kill after all. She murders Phil and then chokes out the Villanelle Jesus in her tent. It’s a symbolic act to show she’s up to old tricks, leaving the door wide open for next week’s follow-up. ..
The Episode Review
After killing again, Villanelle is back up to old tricks. She’s on the warpath and presumably going to team up with Eve to find The Twelve. However, May’s logic doesn’t make much sense.
She’s just found out that Villanelle is a psychopath, so she goes out into the woods alone to have a bit of a screaming session. It just feels so odd, especially as Villanelle basically admits to what she’s done and brushes it off as it’s in the past.
The story is slowly moving but it’s not going anywhere fast. I think this series is almost unrecognizable from where it started several seasons ago.
The future of Killing Eve is up in the air after its latest episode. While the drama is okay, this show is far from the lofty heights it once reached. ..
