Warning: This story contains plot details from Sundays season 2 finale ofKilling Eve.
A settling of the score.
A taste of your own medicine.
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An eye for an eye.
A shooting for a stabbing.
it reminded of the impulsive, murder-ish end to the first season.
Villanelle asked him if hed like to watch; he would.
Before he expired and perhaps for the first time in his life he smiled.
(By the way, did Kim Bodnias Konstantin tell Villanelle that she still has another living relative?
After much handwringing, Eve did some hand-swingingand lodged the blade in his shoulder.
Villanelle led a still-in-shock Eve through the literal underworld of Rome before they resurfaced in ancient ruins.
No consummation; instead, confrontation.
What exactly do you think is going on here?
You love me, Villanelle pleaded.
Retorted Eve: You dont understand what that is.
I do youre mine returned Villanelle, and when Eve rejected that notion, Villanelle turned more petulant.
When there was nothing left to say, Villanelle tried this: I thought you were special.
A tear streaming down her cheek, Eve said, Im sorry to disappoint, and walked away.
But… you dont walk away from Villanelle.
When expectation came face-to-face with reality, there was considerable collateral damage.
But still, questions hover over Eves body.
How gravely is she wounded?
What will this bullet do to their twisted relationship?
EW rang upEves Eve, Sandra Oh, to take you behind the drama of Youre Mine.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: First things first: You okay?
That looked like a nasty bullet.SANDRA OH:Im fine!
Well see if Eve was fine later…. You know what I was thinking when we were doing that?
Im like, Oh, that great shot inFrench Connection, when he shoots the French guy.
Thats what I was working with.
Its not so much the shot that in any form was difficult, it was thescene.
I mean, it was all the leading up to it.
It can be both; obviously, she is trying to kill Eve.
But also whats so heartbreaking to Eve is thatEveis also killing.
Eve enters into that title and that discovery of You wanted me to do it???
is so brutal for Eve.
Its so brutal that she now becomes the killing Eve.
The Eve who kills.
Villanelle doesnt necessarily want her dead or she wouldve shot her multiple times.
How did you interpret that action?Honestly, that interpretation can only be explored in the third season.
I totally understand that question, because even as the third season is forming, that is a question.
What was Villanelle thinking at that moment?
Was she really wanting to kill her?
We have not yet decided.
All that stuff is really being creatively decided right now.
What is the meaning of where she shot her?
I want to answer this question…next year.
I have an idea, but we havent shot it yet.
I think that Emerald [Fennell, head writer for season 2] was always heading toward that point.
When the stabbing came about, it was actually quite spontaneous in the writing of it.
I do think that it was more formulated with Emerald.
Of course she tried to kill me.
It was worth the risk because she was saying no to Villanelle and she was walking away from her.
In that way, that demonstrates growth at least for Eves part.
Because who knows how much of a killer shot Villanelle does, right?
But she walks away from it.
Who knows if anyone ever finds Eve?
She could bleed out.
Shes walking away not knowing.
Villanelle is walking away not knowing the outcome, but obviously being fine about it.
How will she respond to that?
She has a strong relationship with Carolyn and obviously a very deep relationship with Villanelle.
Eve said this line to Villanelle, What do you think this is?
What do you think is going on?
You think we are just going to walk off into the sunset like Bonnie and Clyde?
And by the way, look what happened to them.
Because she does feel a responsibility that she did bring Villanelle in.
Did Eve possibly take a page from him and shes doing the same after being shot?No.
The moments after that, I cant really comment because it would be the next season.
Anything after that shot is really for the next season.
If I were to guess, right now, no, shes not playing dead.
Either she is dead, or shes lying there shot.
And bleeding to death.
How might this act damage Eves psyche?
Where do we find Eve?
I cant even honestly talk to you about that because I cant say whether shes alive or not.
Although if I say Im going back to shoot [laughs], maybe were going to surmise something.
Theres a third season.
I dont know, maybe Sandras in it, maybe not?
Villanelle has lured Eve into deadly territory before.
I very much struggled with the killing of Raymond.
Its trying to be that frenetic its basically like: your life or this other persons life.
And what are you going to do at that moment?
That survival kicks over.
And if she didnt have Villanelle egging her on is not the right word.
Whats a better word?
pleadingfor her to save the both of them, Eve would never have done that.
And hes correct shes not going to do it.
And then it is from that point on, the trauma of what that is.
At the end, Villanelle says to Eve, I thought you were special.
And we want them to be what theyre not.
They are both doing that to each other.
They really need the person to be who they are and also to not be who they are.
To not behave in the way that they want them to, but thats against their nature.
Its against Eves nature toreallybe like Villanelle, to go off on some fantasy.
Thats the brutal lesson; Eve kind of wakes up from this thing.
Its like Oh, this whole time I was really just kind of deluding myself.
Its almost more that it could be an immature disappointment.
It is a deeply immature disappointment when people dont behave the way that you want them to behave.
And that is, again, the beautiful dynamic between the two.
On the other side, Eve has the maturity to walk away.
She has the wisdom to do so.
Even though she gets shot for it.
This gun revelation really snaps Eve out of almost a trance.
How long would that trauma trance go on?Oh!
I think it could just continue on!
Which Villanelle absolutely takes the moment, zips her out of the costume.
Its such a strange reversal in the moment.
Its okay, come in to my arms, I will take care of you.
After the killing of Raymond, you see them going through theyre amazing, these frickin tunnels!
you see them going on and on through these dark tunnels.
Until she sees the gun shes in, like, a trauma dream.
And its almost like these words dinner… Alaska… How long have you had that gun?
And then she can tell that shes lying immediately.
And then it was like, Oh my God, I made a terrible mistake.
How do you think Eve rationalizes working with Villanelle in season 2 up until this moment?
She knows what shes capable of.
Because theres a lot of dramatic license.
All Im trying to do is keep an honest psychological line.
For me, its about Eves ultimately misguided belief that she can control her.
And that Eveisspecial enough to be the one to control Villanelle.Thatswhat she learns is that Im not special.
I believe I am special.
And what she realizes is thatshes not.
And then when she really realizes that, Villanelle tries to kill her!
Is there any coming back from this for them?What youre saying is correct.
How far can you go and still come back?
Its like someone brings chaos into the house, you stop communicating well.
Someone is now thinking that they can find stability outside of the marriage.
Thats what Im so interested in in the relationship between Eve and Nico.
How can you continue being a whole person and remain in partnership?
How can you come back when you really know the truth about someone?
Honestly, Im trying to figure out: how does Eve come back to any of her life?
I dont know yet.
Were going to work that out.
