WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Killing Eve Season 4, Episode 2, “Don’t Get Eaten,” now available on BBC America and AMC+.
Killing Eve Season 4 has Eve feeling more confident. She’s working with a surveillance firm and putting MI6 in her rearview mirror (as seen in the trailer), while shaking off emotional cobwebs after letting her marriage with Niko go, and has upgraded her skills as a spy through extra training. She’s even sleeping with her partner Yusuf. All of her actions have proven she’s a new woman intent on felling the Twelve without Carolyn, Eve or the old gang.
Eve’s gone this far because the situation has become very personal after the death of Kenny and Dasha almost killing Niko. However, Eve’s determination has also made her cocky, leaving Yusuf worried she would do something rash in the Season 4 premiere. That’s exactly what happened in Season 4, Episode 2, “Don’t Get Eaten,” with Eve deciding to help an old enemy who has almost every reason to stab her in the back.
Eve opened the episode by following Hélène and her daughter while they toured London. She slipped a tampon with a tracking device into Hélène’s purse while the agent of The Twelve was in an upscale restaurant on a raunchy date. The fact Eve rocked an open-back dress, now proudly displaying the scar from when Villanelle shot her, reiterated she’d shed all insecurities and brazenly felt like the predator instead of the prey. Martin, Villanelle’s ex-therapist, had previously tried to warn Eve not to become a monster. However, she’d shown she had a little Villanelle in her — which is why she might be the villain of the series.
Yusuf got Eve to Paris, but he couldn’t dissuade her from her bold mission. Eve visited Hélène under the pretext of making her dinner, showing she no longer feared her either. Hélène, as distrustful as ever, exerted dominance by forcing Eve’s hand onto the hot oven burner to find out her real purpose. Eve admitted she wanted to take The Twelve down and was there to extract information — but shockingly, Hélène had already turned on the terrorists. She was the one who had members killed and tortured, but she had a problem: she didn’t know who the leader was, forcing her to move through the members one by one.
The enemies formed an uneasy alliance when they realized that their ambitions aligned — but not before Eve left an intimidating note of her own. She read a bedtime story to Hélène’s daughter, implying to the child’s mother that she could be a dangerous princess too. It alluded to her killing Hélène if she ever tried to backstab her… which seems likely and hints that Killing Eve has an interesting chess match set up for the remainder of Season 4 when trust issues and egos get in the way.
But for the time being, these two lethal characters need one another. Eve spending time with Hélène is also likely to anger Villanelle, who will get jealous since she hates that Hélène was favored by The Twelve. Villanelle has been trying to reform but after having just endured another rejection from a potential ally, she has even more reason to be infuriated that Eve rejected her last season — and has now chosen to work with someone else. Could the final showdown take place between Eve and Villanelle after all?
Killing Eve Season 4 is now airing on BBC America, with episodes streaming next-day on AMC+. Seasons 1-3 are currently available to stream on Hulu.
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