Killing Eve (3×04) Still Got It Review

For our review of the last episode of Killing Eve, click here.

Synopsis: Eve is trying to patch things up with Niko; Villanelle receives good news about her upcoming promotion but can’t shake the feeling there’s still something missing from her life; Dasha seeks a solution to Villanelle’s erratic behavior. (IMDb)

This was a different episode of Killing Eve, telling the story through a series of chapters focusing on different characters.

Still Got It began with a glimpse of what Niko was up to, seemingly happy and back home in Poland. Meanwhile, Eve didn’t seem to be doing as well. Niko had finally seen her many texts about wanting to talk and now he was ready to talk. Although, she was busy obsessing as she often did and definitely smelt like it to (it looked like she lived at Bitter Pill). At the Bitter Pill, she took over Bear’s (Turlough Convery) desk. As they were looking into recent hits (she noticed that the Spain one looked like Dasha’s work and believed they were connected), she got a delivery which was a birthday cake (it was her birthday) of a bus that obviously came from Villanelle. Instead of sharing it, Eve threw it off the roof.

Feeling bad for her, Jimmy let Eve stay with her (Eve kept Villanelle’s bear) and they immediately appeared to bond over all that bad stuff from their pasts. Later, she would actually leave work to visit Niko in Poland after receiving a picture from him. Meanwhile, Konstantin visited his daughter in Moscow, taking her out of school though she had clearly grown up and called him out on his life choices. He continued to investigate the missing money which led him to a file sent to Kruger’s widow and then to Villanelle in Barcelona.

Villanelle was unsuccessfully making a cake before Dasha showed up. She heard about Villanelle’s extra-curricular activities in London. The twelve wanted a meeting with Villanelle about a possible promotion. To celebrate, she went on a shopping spree and that was how she ran into Konstantin. They moved to a gondola (where she didn’t take things seriously) to give her news about her family and to ask her for a favor which was to kill Kruger’s widow. Villanelle and Kruger’s widow had some fun together in the latter’s garden as she tried to scare her hiccups away but that did not last long as she got strangled with a garden hose (the hiccups remained).

Carolyn had brunch with Paul who was suddenly on her side (he felt bad for her). She appears to have moved on while Geraldine clearly has not thus was worried about her. They probably didn’t have the best relationship but grief was making it worse as Geraldine felt more alone as Carolyn failed to even acknowledge what was happening (though she couldn’t share her work). Then Carolyn appeared to have a moment.

Dasha was swimming laps in the pool until another woman came to check up on her. She was concerned with how she was handling Villanelle. This woman wanted Dasha to drive a wedge between Villanelle and Eve. Her plan involved posing as an old woman in Niko’s village in Poland (she allegedly fed the woman she replaced to her pigs). The texts and the picture Eve received were sent by Dasha who stole Niko’s phone. Eve arrived just in time to see a pitchfork, with a note tied around it with Villanelle’s ribbon saying “Still Got It”, driven through Niko’s neck (by Dasha).

The episode ended with Villanelle noticing her ribbon was missing as she arrived home.

The episode structure actually worked until the end. It is clear that the series is going in a different direction though the emotional ramifications of this ending will be interesting.

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Keith Noakes

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