This is going to be a tough one. I may have to fast forward through the murder. Villanelle’s target this week is a Chinese colonel enjoys going to a kink clinic in Berlin.He gets more that he bargained for when Villanelle shows up instead of his usual nurse. I do not want to watch! I do want oopsi to tell me what his safeword was. Something like “frustook” what is the English translation? It wasn’t quite as bad as I thought.
Wait. All chickens lay eggs out of their asshole?
I am not googling that.
Back at the MI6 office (pardon the smell) Eve gets the rundown on latest victim. Everyone seems to be acting strangely. That’s because Villanelle gave her name as Eve Polastri. Villanelle has come to play. Speaking of play, she has somehow picked up a female tourist, brought her back to play and is seducing her in an odd psychopathic way. She says she is going to call her Eve and then makes out with her. Then she says in a bone-chilling way, “I’m going to go hide and you are going to come find me.” She’s not hiding her psychopathy at all. Why isn’t this idiot woman running for the door?
Eve and Bill head off to Berlin to investigate the murder and talk to the receptionist who saw Villanelle. As they pull up to the clinic, Villanelle is lurking outside watching them. Villanelle steals Eve’s luggage. As she is unpacking it she eats a sandwich, makes a face and smells it. If you can’t smell would you still fake smell? I don’t know. Then Konstantin comes out of the bathroom and she says “Oh, I thought I smelled something.”
What is up with the constant references to smells?
Konstantin tells her that Eve is in Berlin. She acts surprised even as she is standing there going through her stuff. He asks if she is worried. She says no, she doesn’t even think about her. He wants her to watch her and see who she meets with. She’s ten steps ahead of you there, buddy. The strange tourist lady walks into the hotel suite with a key, surprising Konstantin who leaves. The tourist lady asks if the clothes are for her. She says. “Oh, yeah!”
Bill and Eve go grab a coffee at an outdoor café. He apologizes for not watching her luggage. She says she hates all of her clothes anyway, and then remembers that the green scarf her husband gave her was in the bag. That was the first thing Villanelle put on.
Oh they are at this café because that is where the Chinese official that they want to meet with is. Eve’s computer expert was able to track his location using only his email account. That’s scary. And yet another reason I have no cell phone. The Chinese official says that their autopsy say the colonel died of a heart attack. There seems to be a coverup. He does lure Eve in to agreeing to go to dinner with him that night. Bill says the Chinese official wants to have sex with her.
Dressing Eve
Eve goes shopping for a dress and thinks her outfit is missing something. When she walks out to the mirror, Villanelle has left a belt for her to wear. She is enjoying this cat and mouse game. Later we notice that Villanelle has bugged her room. We find out that Bill has quite the past. He lived in Berlin for eight years and for five of them he “said yes to everything.” This is how he knows so much about the BDSM scene. He’s also mostly gay despite being married to a woman he has a baby with. They have an arrangement.
Bill walks Eve to the train station so she can go on her date with the Chinese official. In the train station he spots Villanelle for the second time. He didn’t mention the first time he saw her to Eve. Perhaps he was unsure. He seems sure now. She is wearing the green scarf. She starts to get on the train that Eve is on but he grabs her as the doors are closing. He asks her where she got the scarf. She says at her mother’s shop in Munich. He says he’s only here for a couple of days and thanks her. She jogs up the stairs and he starts following her but she gives him the slip. Or at least I thought he did. He doesn’t seem to know it is Villanelle. How can he not know?
She goes into a huge club as a VIP and he is forced to wait in line.
Meanwhile, Eve finally finds out that the dead Chinese guy had hacked into an account of a Chinese intelligence agent. They had been paying him large sums of money. A week later the colonel and the Chinese agent turned up dead. Eve bolts immediately after getting this information and heads to the club to meet up with Bill. Bill finally finds Villanelle among the massive amounts of wall to wall bodies. When Villanelle turns around and give Bill an eerie stare, he realizes who she is and tries to flee the club. She pulls out a knife. OMG! Please don’t let Bill die in Berlin! He made a joke about it to his baby girl before leaving. I love Bill!
Fuck. She stabbed him to death in the club. I am crushed. I love Bill! Damn.
Next week, Eve is out for revenge.
The safeword was the German word for breakfast.
Thanks!
NP. I imagined that guy as really looking forward to that meal after his dose of pain.
The whole time Bill thought he was stalking Villanelle, Villanelle was stalking Bill. She knew exactly where she wanted to Kill Bill and that’s where she took him. I’m sad. Bill was so well-written.
Yes! That is what I assumed. I was a big chicken and could not watch it.
Why would she be stalking Bill? And why do it so publicly in front of so many witnesses and possibly cameras?
What was the point of the female tourist dressing in Eve’s clothes?
I’m fixated on the smell situation. I still don’t think Villanelle can smell. I think the poop thing was a joke since he knows she can’t smell. Eve for sure can’t smell.
I’m with you on the smell situation.Each time either attempts to smell food etc its almost like they’re checking to see if the their sense of smell has returned.
If neither has a sense of smell, how did that come about? born that way? Medication? One of your commenters stated that lacking a sense of smell is common in sociopaths, I had never heard of that before so very interesting..
Okay, I read the study and it isn’t that psychopaths can’t smell, they have a poor sense of smell. Basically, they don’t know what they are smelling but they smell something.
Another thing to watch for is yawning. psychopaths are much less to contagious yawning than non psychopaths. So now we should watch for yawning. I think Eve and Villanelle are BOTH psychopaths.
I think she wants to get at Eve, but not hurt her (at least not yet). She bumped into him hard in that one scene and made eye contact with him. She always wanted to get him. When she was in the train station she was acting like she was following Eve, but that was for show, she wanted his attention so he would see her. She was smirking when he was following her. He did exactly what she wanted.
That was such a hard eps. Him and Eve where so good together, I am so bummed.
The kills can be hard to watch but I love this show because I get to be an armchair psychologist and I pretend I have the foggiest clue about the psychopathy I’m watching.
It’s a little eerie how Villanelle is the crazy killer but Eve seems to sorta think like she does except she’s not an assassin.
I noticed this episode they made it a point to show that both Eve and Villanelle can smell. Not sure if that’s supposed to mean anything or if I’m looking too hard for clues.
I hate that she killed Bill! Who the hell is the mole??? How does any one know about this under cover team ? What’s up with Eve’s husband? So many questions which is why I love this show.
I had to stop watching it when I saw him grab her at the train. I felt like she set it up that way. No way she would be so oblivious of Bill. I could not watch. I had to wait and read your recap. OMG. Terrible! Bill is gone too soon. I am so confused why they sent her to there. After she used her name I would think that would be a huge deal. Like she is watching her, her family is endanger.
Yes, the fact that Bill grabbed Villanelle’s arm so roughly when she was getting on the train would normally cause someone to react in anger, but she didn’t. She had him right there. I’m confused why he went into the club after her – a situation so potentially dangerous – wall to wall people, flashing lights, etc. He realized V was following Eve but he didn’t suspect she was the assassin? Why was he so shocked when she turned around and looked right at him? Didn’t he carry a gun? Probably not, since this is a secret branch of MI6, and they aren’t as weaponed up as their American counterparts would be. I hated to see his character killed off so soon – he had a very interesting background and it could have been a great storyline. I’m also confused about the constant references to smell, but don’t have a clue where they’re going with that. There also has to be something significant about all of Eve’s expressions – she looks constantly puzzled at how people react to her – some kind of psychological condition? I’m really enjoying this show and wish we didn’t have to wait a week for new episodes – it’s head and shoulders above a lot of programs on the air.
To me this episode is a study of the predatory behavior of a psychopath (V) over her prey, comparing V’s ecstatic reaction to each killing to the type of sexual frenzee experienced by the victims she choose to prey upon. In this episode the first victim lies in wait for his sexual arousal/gratification only to be chewed up (inside) by V. Later as she lures poor Bill into the throbbing mass of human flesh on the dance floor we have to watch as he panics then attempts retreat. That was bad enough but the look on V’s face as she speeds up her descent on him with the lights flashing faster and brighter, and the dance floor seems to be undulating is very like mastubatory peak, on the part of V.
So well done and sickening at the same time. I think until now Eve has harbored some kind of mistaken admiration for V. I hope and believe that is about to change.
When V was charging across the dance floor towards Bill, the way she moved reminded me of the movie Terminator and the robotic policeman. The look on her face was truly frightening. I still don’t understand the rationale behind killing him off – he was such an interesting character. Anyone who hasn’t watched this show should go to On Demand, or whatever else you want, and watch the first episodes. Then keep watching!! Fabulous acting and enthralling scripts.
The only possible reason I can think of for V to kill Bill is it is my understanding psychopaths have three different types of victims. The kindest, most trusting of people is the lowest, least important victim to them. They’re no threat to others, are easier to fool and don’t offer as much of a chase or threat as the final type, who is far less trusting and have themselves already been hurt by other psychopaths so are more interesting/difficult to fool. I am thinking Bill represents the first type and Eve the latter. The fact V is a paid assassin means those kills aren’t as exciting for her and as choosing her own victims seems to be. Ugh, these psychopaths are somethin’ else to understand.
In the first episode she seems to mimic that toothy smile of the guy in the ice cream shop, then immediately walks over and knocks ice cream into the little girls lap. So the minute she flashed that toothy smile at Bill I knew things would not end well for him.
They alluded to Eve’s lack of smell again with the baby fart. Also, apparently, sociopaths may have an impaired sense of smell, so everyone was right to point out the fact that Eve and Villanelle seem to have problems smelling things.
I was yelling at bill. How could he not have known I also am crushed I really really liked him and I liked their chemistry together. ?
I didn’t understand why Bill didn’t know who she was until the disco. He had seen the artist’s sketch, he KNEW she was wearing Eve’s scarf.She was outside the kink clinic when he saw her the first time. There was only one person it could be. Yet it wasn’t until her killer face came out that he realized it was her?Or was it that is the moment he knew she was going to kill him?
When she turned on the killer face I think Bill knew the end was near.
I know I didn’t get that either! How could he not know??? I have to re-watch it (not the kill part). What was the message he left for Eve. He was following someone who was watching her? So he didn’t understand yet who he was following. Makes Zero sense to me.
I missed something. Why was the Chinese guy so eager to give information? I know he was hot for Eve but that whole part with him was confusing. How does it fit in?
I’m obsessed with this show. I feel like Eve and the killer have some sort of respect/infatuation with each other. I also think the killer is enjoying playing with Eve because she doesn’t really have anyone who challenges her. That’s my impression right now anyway. The smell thing is really interesting. Super easy to dismiss if you don’t know what you’re looking for. I was wondering if the killer just really disliked German food. Lol. I’m dense.