This isn’t really a question, but your analysis on the show feeds my soul. In season 2 episode 2, where Rio states that he’s going to show Beth how to kill... did that actually happen? I feel like that could have been a great moment in GG history to show us a montage of Rio taking Beth to a shooting range and showing her the ropes.
Thank you so much! That’s so nice!
And yes, it did happen! It’s implied by Beth knowing how to use the gun in the next episode, but really doubled down on in 3.07 when Beth teaches Max how to shoot to prepare him for killing Rio and she tells him “Pro tip? Exhale before you pull the trigger ... Most people hold their breath, which increases your pulse and makes your hand shake.” Then this exchange happens:
Afterward, she channels Rio’s energy which I think gives us a bit of context as to what that training looked like, haha:
Then I think it’s once again further emphasized by how “comfortable” and “knowledgable” Beth comes off with the gun in 4.05, despite the fact that we know that she’s actually very uncomfortable with guns in her presence since 2.13, considering the way she freaks out on Dean for buying the shotgun and how she says she doesn’t “want it” when Rio tries to hand her another gun in 3.09:
I read that all as Beth having paid very close attention to Rio’s lessons and absorbing them—which fits into her usual M.O. with how often she tries to mimic him, which she does again in The Banker scene where she warns the girl to “watch [her] back.”
It is sadly one of the fandom’s most yearned for missing scenes, but here are a couple of great fic recs!