Killing Eve's Season 3 Finale Left Us With Some Questions
If you haven't finished watching season three of Killing Eve, proceed with caution; there are spoilers ahead!
Each season of Killing Eve thus far has ended on a cliffhanger. In season one, viewers were left wondering if Villanelle could survive a stab wound to the stomach. And at the end of season two, the assassin left Eve for dead, bleeding out amid Roman ruins. (If you're reading this, you're well aware that both Eve and Villanelle survive these near-death experiences.)
In keeping with tradition, season three also ends on an uncertain note albeit a less bloody one. Here, the questions that remain after "Are You Leading or Am I?"
So, are Eve and Villanelle together now?
Killing Eve has never been short on sapphic energy. The show's very premise centers around Eve and Villanelle having an all-consuming obsession with one another. And the final scene of season three suggests that a relationship between Eve and Villanelle—one that doesn't end in murder—might actually be possible.
The two women part ways on the bridge, but just before the scene cuts, they both stop and turn back and face each other. But the meaning of their final lingering glance is still ambiguous. Is this the start of a (somewhat) normal life together where Villanelle retires from life as a globetrotting assassin to shack up with Eve in London? Or is a look just a look, and season four will continue their cat and mouse chase?
Is Villanelle going to work for Carolyn?
At the start of the episode, Carolyn meets with Villanelle at Royal Albert Hall in London, and questions her: "What do you want?"
After some banter about the MI6 cafeteria, Villanelle says: "I want to accept your job offer." But the former murder-savant isn't so interested in being an assassin anymore. And it seems, if that skill set is off the table, Carolyn equally isn't so interested in hiring her.
So Villanelle clearly isn't going to start at MI6 on Monday, but if she chooses to remain a killing machine, it seems feasible that she could switch sides, and Carolyn could become her new boss.
Is Konstantin Kenny's biological father?
I'm ruling this season-long question still unclear.
I'm also still skeptical of Konstantin's story that Kenny just fell off the roof. After Carolyn's season-long focus on finding her son's murderer, it all feels just a little too convenient that the question of Kenny's death is resolved so quickly, and with Konstantin admitting that it was an accident as Carolyn has a gun tracked on his forehead.
But given that Konstantin is heading out of town, we might never know for sure.
Is Carolyn part of The Twelve?
Carolyn is hardly an open book, and the show continues to hint that she might be hiding something. Given her previous association with Konstantin (and her suggestion that Eve give up the fight against the Twelve), the idea that Carolyn is somehow a double agent isn't out of the question.
Where's Hugo?
Just as Killing Eve has made a habit of ending on a cliffhanger, and of having a new woman at the helm of each season, it's also become something of a tradition on the show for Eve to get a new cast of coworkers at the start of every new chapter.
Kenny and Carolyn remained constants (until Kenny died that is), but Bill and Elena in season one were replaced with Hugo and Jess in season two, who were subsequently replaced with Bear and Jamie in season three.
But Hugo was a larger part of the story than just Eve's colleague, so it seems a bit suspect to essentially write him out of the show, while also confirming that he is not dead. Perhaps he'll return in season four.
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