Killing Eve – Meetings Have Biscuits

By: Kelly Kearney

On this week’s Killing Eve, Villanelle heads back to Lo don for work while Eve leaves her dumpling gig to join the Bitter Pill team. With Carolyn’s contacts across the world, Eve and her new “friends” hope they can uncover any clues about The Twelve as well as a motive for Kenny’s untimely death.  Meanwhile, Konstantin is stuck between keeping his family safe while also counting to work for the very organization that would have them killed. The Russian is stuck between a rock and lethal hard place.

The Baby from Andalusia

We open on Villanelle (Jodie Comer) dressed in overalls and looking like the height of innocence. She’s in Andalusia for job and it seems piano tuner is her new disguise. From inside a mansion we find her with a tuning fork to her ear, diligently pin-pointing the sharp/flat sounds of what the madame (Eulalia Ballart) of the house, a famous pianist, claims is a very expensive instrument. This explanation would ordinarily be benign, but when the woman accuses Villanelle of possibly sullying her piano with her unwashed hands that’s enough to light the assassin’s flame. While the woman’s back is turned, Villanelle expertly spear throws a sharpened tuning fork right into her skull, killing her instantly. That’s when she spots a baby monitor and hears the sounds of a crying infant coming from somewhere in the mansion. As she creeps around the house, she finds the Nanny (Elisabeth Bonjour) tending to the baby and with her bloody hands she doesn’t make the friendliest of entrances. The Nanny panics and Villanelle toys with her by flip flopping between threatening to kill the child or her. She’s amazed the woman cares about a baby that’s not even hers, but empathy is a foreign emotion to the psychopath and she certainly identifies with that. In a flick of the wrist, she kills the nanny with the same blood-soaked tuning fork and then takes the infant with her.

Bath time with the Bitter Pill

Back in London Carolyn (Fiona Shaw) is holding a meeting from her bathtub about the evidence in Kenny’s death and how it links to The Twelve. Poor Mo (Raj Bajaj) hasn’t looked her in the eyes all morning and when Eve shows up she’s just as bothered by their bubble bathed work setting. Carolyn, who never flinches, tells them both to get over it because, “I do all my best thinking in the bath.” While that may be true, the Bitter Pill representative with Eve (Sandra Oh) isn’t used to Carolyn’s lack of normalcy. The group takes the meeting to the dinning room where they discuss Kenny’s thumb drive his mother nabbed from the police. The talk doesn’t reveal anything, literally, especially after the bath incident where everyone is a triggered into an awkward silence. Everyone but Eve who takes the lead and decides that she and the BP team will look into Kenny’s phone while Carolyn digs deep into the mysterious thumb drive. Geraldine (Gemma Whelan), who watches from the corner, is impressed with Eve and her parenting skills, something that’s foreign to the Martens house her whole life.

Speaking of parenting, Villanelle and Dasha (Harriet Walter) are definitely not cut out for the baby life. After swiping the infant, we see the assassin, the baby and the keeper have a vodka lunch in the local town square. The baby’s cries grate on Villanelle’s nerves who is really struggling with keeping a low profile. Once the baby throws food at Dasha the woman plops the kid in the public trash and leaves it there. As chaos unfolds with trashcan baby, Dasha doesn’t miss a step and hands Villanelle her new assignment IN LONDON! After learning that Eve is still alive and living there, Villanelle is not ready to go back. In fact, she struggles to keep her emotions in check but when Dasha makes it clear she doesn’t have a choice Villanelle puts on her big girl panties and agrees to do the job.

PANDA

Back to the Bitter Pill team and Bear (Turlough Convery) uncovers some bank accounts Kenny was looking into. Eve spots one account that stands out from the rest and Bear asks Eve to grab Kenny’s Rubik’s cube from his desk. On the toy are random letters and as Bear turns the cube in accordance to the numbers on the account, he’s left with the word “PANDA.” Eve immediately knows this must be tied to Fat Panda, the Chinese intel officer who was killed in Berlin during season one. Eve spills the entire cup of The Twelve tea to Jamie (Danny Sapani) and Bear, but not before she warns them that this information could get them killed. These accounts are all tied to The Twelve and seem to be moving large sums of money, around six million to be exact, to a secret Geneva account. Eve contacts Mo and asks him to use his MI6 connections to look into this Geneva money switcheroo. He agrees and tells Eve to get some protection, especially after what went down in Rome. She laughs because any protection from MI6 is basically signing her death warrant. Mo has no idea the kind of danger he is in and Eve finds that absolutely hilarious.

Elsewhere in London Konstantin (Kim Bodnia) meets with a fellow Russian friend or foe. It’s hard to tell. Either way the man named Charles (Dominic Mafham) and the two discuss a bank account that seems to be six million short. Konstantin says he will look into it and agrees to loan Charles the siphoned funds until he can find the thief.

The person he should be looking for just landed in London and she’s shopping for expensive perfumes that would make her smell like a “Roman centurion” Villanelle must be getting ready to grab someone’s attention. Much like Carolyn, who is preparing to grab her date’s attention, Geraldine is pleased. Her daughter rambles on about being proud of her mother for putting herself out there on the dating scene, especially after their tragic loss. Unfortunately for her mother the tragedy continues when Carolyn gets stood up! Luckily for her she spots an old friend at the bar and the two go out for some Chinese and little catch up.  Coincidentally, this guy is a Geneva banker and Carolyn fishes around for clues to their bank account case. The following morning Carolyn is hung over, but she tells Eve and Mo that the secret account was set up by a fake beet farmer but its really owned by Konstantin’s accountant friend Charles. Eve thinks Charles could be the Twelve’s accountant and Carolyn agrees.

A Kiss With a Fist

After her perfume shopping Villanelle heads to a toy store to buy her girlfri-enemy a gift. In what seems like a knock off Build-a-Bear, she records a message for Eve. “I can’t stop thinking about you,” she says, which is better than her first recording of, “I should have shot you in the head and watched you die.” It’s always murder and romance with these two. As she builds her little love bear project, Eve goes to the hospital to talk to Niko. Only her husband checked himself out and didn’t leave a forwarding address. It seems Niko fled to Poland and apparently doesn’t want his wife, soon to be ex, following him. In a daze Eve leaves and gets on the bus for home and that’s when the unimaginable happens. Villanelle, dressed in a three-piece suit and probably smelling like the Roman warrior she wants to be, walks on the bus and instantly the two start fighting. Eve flies into a rage as they push, pull and punch each other over the seats. Villanelle gets the upper hand and pushes Eve down on a seat and climbs on top of her. Their faces are inches apart and the whole spinning universe coms to a crashing halt. “Smell me, Eve. What do I smell like to you?” The perfume must have worked because Eve leans up and kisses Villanelle on the lips! The two of them sink into the long-awaited smooch and then Eve snaps out of it and head butts Villanelle in the face! Since she wasn’t there to kill Eve she leaves her bloody and lying on the bus floor and gets off at the next stop. Eve shows up at the Bitter Pill office with a bloody nose and triggered look on her face. “I don’t want to talk about it,” she says to Jamie, who is more than a little concerned about her appearance. Eventually, Eve comes clean about Villanelle and they brainstorm over who she could be there to kill. The Twelve must know Carolyn is getting close to their accountant! She must be in London to kill her!

Of course, Eve was right. When Carolyn and Mo find Charles they convince him to come with them for his own protection. Only Villanelle has been following Carolyn’s car and as she pulls up in her police issued motorbike she opens fire, blasting bullets at Carolyn, Mo and Charles! Somehow she manages to kill Charles while leaving only a scratch on Carolyn and a terrified Mo. The two agents never got to the bottom of the Geneva account but at least they were able to leave this Villanelle reunion with their lives. If cats have nine lives, Carolyn is the Queen of the jungle because nothing can take that woman down. Well, nothing that a shot of Whiskey and a hug from Geraldine can’t fix.

Wakey, Wakey, Konstantin

After a busy day of kissing and killing her enemies, Villanelle sneaks into Konstantin’s bed and waits for him to crawl under the covers. She sufficiently scares him half to death and once the shock is over, he climbs back in uninterested in why she is there. Like the annoying brat she is, she snuggles up to him and plays with his hair and asks him questions about what she must’ve been like as a child. He doesn’t answer but after she tells him she killed his buddy Charles he admits she was an ugly child. He knows because he saw a family photo of her once. She orders him to tell her who was in the photo with her, but he refuses. “Knowledge is power,” she says and since she has no idea who her family is she wants Konstantin to find them. He doesn’t respond but instead grabs a pillow to sleep on the couch. Villanelle is on her own with that search.

Konstantin is not the only one getting a Villanelle surprise. Eve gets home from a long and insane day to find a gift in her bed. She literally lays on it! A talking bear with a glowing heart that says, “Admit it, you wish I was here.” She strokes the bear’s heart, puts it to her ear and plays the message over and over again. Her obsession for Villanelle is back…or it never left her.