There was so much to dig into on the third season of
Killing Eve (Sundays, 10 pET CTV Drama Channel). Mother issues, new characters, a standalone episode that gave fans better insight into how Villanelle became Villanelle—but at the end of the day this series is always at its best when Eve and Villanelle are together, and so the finale gave viewers plenty of that dynamic duo. However, it also left everyone with a ton of questions.
The death toll
Would it really be a finale of
Killing Eve without a bunch of blood? Especially after all of the death that went down during the rest of the season? The difference is that fans know these characters that are being killed off now—they’re not random Villanelle (Jodie Comer) assignments anymore. That makes everything more personal, from Kenny and Mo in earlier episodes to Dasha and even Paul in the finale. The biggest death though? That would have to be the newer assassin fans only just met, Rhian (Alexandra Roach).[video_embed id='1959947']RELATED: Sandra, Maitreyi and Simu are all paying it forward for Asian and South Asian Heritage Month[/video_embed]Villanelle has been trying to break free from killing for a while now, but when she finally realized that The Twelve was never going to just make her a boss, she was facing a bit of an existential crisis. Add in the fact that MI6 also wasn’t willing to hire her on (because, obviously), and she was looking for guidance when she met up with Eve (Sandra Oh). Except that little dance reunion was cut short when Rhian showed up to collect Villanelle and bring her in. Things might have still been fine except Rhian couldn’t help but lose her cool at Villanelle’s antics on that subway platform. So in one of V’s most brutal (and unassigned) kills to date, she threw her rival onto the tracks just as the train was on its way. Guess V has officially parted ways with The Twelve for now, huh?
Switching roles
Meanwhile, another theme that's been pretty big this season is good guys breaking bad and bad guys breaking… good? Or some version of good. Villanelle has struggled to break old habits and even Konstantin (Kim Bodnia) wants out, but his bum ticker kept getting in the way during the finale. Then there was Carolyn (Fiona Shaw), aka Konstantin’s scorned ex-lover who was in full-blown revenge mode when she learned Konstantin was there when Kenny died. Whether her kid did back up too far on the edge of that rooftop or K pushed him is something viewers will never know for sure. But it seems like Carolyn did believe that Paul sent him because in the end she invoked her own killer and shot Paul in the head while telling Konstantin to go. That’s one way to take care of your pesky double-agent boss while sending your ex-lover away. Catch ya in Cuba next season, K. If your heart lets you get there, of course.With Paul gone it seems like Carolyn crossed a line she can’t return from, and she won’t have her daughter around to keep her in check anymore either since she also kicked her out earlier on in the episode. Where this leaves the agent is unclear for now, but it’s definitely a thread that will be fun to pull on in the next season. Especially if she’s given up hope of actually tracking The Twelve like she says she has. (She hasn’t, right?)
They just can’t walk away
With all of the side characters either satiated or dead, that left a final, quiet moment between Eve and Villanelle on that bridge. The pair did a rare thing and let themselves be in their feelings about how they’ve impacted each other’s lives, while both of them admitted they had no idea how to move on. Villanelle realized that Konstantin wasn’t family, which is why she wouldn’t flee with him, but does she feel the same way towards Eve? Is there a world where Villanelle manages to switch sides and help find the company she worked for during all those blood-soaked years? Or will The Twelve try to track her down now and eliminate her in a bid to keep her quiet?And for her part, can Eve go “cold turkey” as Carolyn suggested? Or will some part of her always be drawn towards Villanelle and her dark side? One thing's for sure—these two definitely can’t walk away from each other’s monsters, which they made clear when they physically tried to do so in the episode’s closing moments.Whether you were relieved or terrified that both women stopped and turned around instead of continuing to walk away, it leaves a pretty big unanswered question heading into the already-ordered fourth season: what IS going to happen next? Seems like viewers will have to wait a while to see, since there’s no word just yet on when the action will resume.In the meantime, you can go back to the beginning and re-watch the first two seasons of
Killing Eve,
now on Crave.[video_embed id='1963991']RELATED: What we're watching: Favourite medical dramas[/video_embed]
Sandra Oh as Eve Polastri - Killing Eve _ Season 3, Episode 8 - Photo Credit: Laura Radford/BBCAmerica/Sid Gentle
