To paraphrase the dearly departedTom Petty, sometimes the waiting is the hardest part.

Though the action picks up just 30 seconds after last Mays finale in which (10-month-old spoiler alert!)

(Her nominations, lets assume, got lost in the mail.)

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Credit: Aimee Spinks/BBC America

So, here we are.

Villanelle, meanwhile, is lurching through Paris in search of money and medical care.

(Oh is such a master of micro-expressions, even her rigid silence is funny.)

before slitting its throat without a word.

But there are worrisome problems.