The Ghost gives up the secret identity of the person who hired her to murder Peele (a.k.a. After all the buildup about her being Opposite Villanelle and this great rival, we never even get to see them interact Eve waits outside as Villanelle quickly extracts the information from the Ghost instead, and the audience experiences none of it. But it’s all a ruse, and the pills are fake! We get another sexy kitchen scene where Eve and Villanelle almost kiss, and Villanelle agrees to talk to the Ghost, but there’s otherwise very little payoff to either this spectacularly unwise plan or the character of the Ghost.

Villanelle initially refuses to kill Eve when Konstantin gives her the order, but then shows up at her house in a black “mourning” dress and tells her to take poison, just as she once did to Konstantin.

Eve fires him when he refuses to get on board, then heads to the subway, where she briefly considers murdering a stranger! So, no downward spiral here. Not coincidentally, he is also the only other person who knows about the stabbing. Kenny is the only person on the team who seems to recognize how bad and stupid this plan actually is. That is certainly how I felt at certain moments during this episode, but it’s hard to tell who Carolyn imagines is doing useless, thankless work - herself, Eve, or someone else entirely. When Eve asks if this little suicide mission is on the books and officially sanctioned, all Carolyn says is “sisyphean” - the word she won a spelling bee with as a child, and also a reference the Greek myth of Sisypheus, who was damned to push a boulder up a hill forever. Between Carolyn’s chumminess with Konstantin and her increasingly shady enabling of Eve, it’s hard to tell if she’s still a good guy, or which side she’s on. Somehow, the mission proceeds anyway, and as Jess notes, there’s not much of a paper trail around all the super dangerous things Eve is doing. This neither makes sense nor is a good idea, and when Carolyn brings in someone to stealthily evaluate Eve’s psychological fitness - learning in the process that Eve does not have a normal, instinctive aversion to murder - he concludes that Eve is too close, that this plan is a no-go. Her colleagues get a pretty huge red flag when she takes out on a hit on herself, which she decides is the only way to find out who hired the Ghost.

People at home and at work are finally starting to realize that something is very wrong with Eve. She kills people for a living!” says Eve, and it should probably set off more alarm bells than it does that she’s so quick to associate fun and murder.

She’s not the only one who’s a bit bored with her day job Eve is less than impressed with the stoic, silent Ghost sitting in her interrogation room and how little zing the contract killer brings to her work. “I wish she were a bit more fun. Villanelle’s voyage into the pedestrian world of private murder contracts continues, the latest installment of which involves murdering an unremarkable guy in a car wash.

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