The spy drama wraps up its four-season run with a murder-filled series finale.
One is that the show is ending.
In some cases, all of the above!
Kim Bodnia as Konstantin.David Emery/BBCA
Do people like this get a happy ending?
And perhaps that’s how it should be; perhaps it’s what they deserve.
This is because Gunn hasboundaries.
Jodie Comer as Villanelle, Marie Sophie Ferdane as Gunn.Anika Molnar/BBCA
Meanwhile, Eve is back in London with a serious case of post-murder ennui.
We see some familiar faces in this moment: Niko.
All of them casualties of Eve’s reckless pursuit of… well, what, exactly?
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She got everything she wanted, yet her life is emptier than ever.
Even Yusuf tells her he can’t help her anymore, that she’s on her own.
What if your best and most authentic self is, in fact, sort of a monster?
Sandra Oh as Eve Polastri, Jodie Comer as Villanelle.David Emery/BBCA
But not everyone is so hard-hearted.
Take Pam, for instance, who gives us both the episode’s title and its most heartbreaking moment.
Konstantin, mortally wounded, tells Pam that she didn’t have to do this since Helene is dead.
Sandra Oh as Eve Polastri.Olly Courtney/BBCA
On the one hand, this is a very sad scene.
On the other, things were always going to end this way for Konstantin.
And it looks like Eve’s adventures might come to a bloody end right here…
Episode 8: “Hello, Losers”
…just kidding.
What do you think this is,Game of Thrones?
And it won’t be right now, either.
Villanelle, hiding amongst the ferns, watches all of this with a zany grin on her face.
But this is Carolyn’s great secret: she doesn’t feel anything!
Emotions, particularly guilt and shame, are “a scourge upon one’s liberties,” she says.
Is that how you know it’s love, by the marks you leave on each other?
We should enjoy this moment, because it’s nice while it lasts.
But eventually, the road trip comes to an end and shortly thereafter, so does this story.
But instead of a cohort of global conspiracists, they find two familiar figures: Carolyn and Pam.
Shewasgoing to do that, she says.
“you’re free to have this one,” she says, “with my blessing.”
It makesnosense for Eve to trust Carolyn.
It isinsanethat this doesn’t make her suspicious.
And so, we come to the end.
And while the handsome grooms say “I do,” Villanelle fulfills a vow of her own.
We never see exactly who’s in the room where the final massacre of the Twelve unfolds.
Instead, the focus stays on Villanelle as she strides in with a greeting “Hello, losers!”
and then goes to town, the blood of her victims spattering her and the camera in equal measure.
Is this really how it all ends?
“Don’t you mean,wedid it?”
Eve says, as they embrace on the deck of the Dixie Queen.
“Yeah, but mostly me,” Villanelle says.
And then the first bullet hits her in the back.
Gunfire rains down as the women run and leap off the boat, plunging into the Thames.
Villanelle shudders and goes still.
But it’s too late.
Villanelle can’t be saved; she never could be.
Somewhere nearby, Carolyn Martens lifts a walkie-talkie to her lips.
“Jolly good,” she says.
