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Eve's not playing games. Eve's making plans.

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The Eve of Destruction (commissioned illustration by the illustrious dk_draws) Instagram   Twitter   Tumblr

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Encouragement of the Monster.  (original illustration by prianikin_ke on Twitter)

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“What has happened to you, Eve?” 

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The Evolution of Eve

 Eve Polastri.  A nice lady with a nice husband.  Married for a long time and pretty much just drifting through life.  Her bosses know she’s bright, but she’s dull. A “think bucket” who has nothing much to think about.

Eve is simply an extremely bored woman who is tired of her job, her husband, her clothes, her very life. NOTHING excites Eve. Not until she gets called into work on a Saturday morning and is thrown into the most interesting thing that's happened to her in months.  Maybe years. Almost immediately Eve gets a wild hair up her nose and she's all-in. It’s an assassin.  A different type.  She kills in a way that for Eve is “cool.”

And it excites her. Eve starts skirting the rules and going around behind Bill and Frank's backs. Even before she and Villanelle meet, she's established that when she focuses on something, she is laser focused. So focused she cuts herself to emulate one of the assassin's kills and then nonchalantly tells Niko how she would murder him. In graphic and meticulous detail. The lights are flashing yellow. Eve is not entirely who or what she appears to be. Then she meets Villanelle and with three words---"Wear it down" her entire world hits the Reset button. And we're off to the races. The Evolution of Eve Polastri has begun and it cannot be stopped.

“I think about you all the time. I think about what you’re wearing and what you’re doing and who you’re doing it with. I think about what friends you have. I think about what you eat before you work and what shampoo you use and what happened in your family. I think about your eyes and your mouth and what you feel when you kill someone. I think about what you had for breakfast. I just want to know everything.”

 Fast forward.  Eve and Villanelle are obsessed with each other as the agent pursues the assassin across Europe.  Their paths converge several times and the attraction is palatable.  The sexual tension undeniable.   But they have yet to progress beyond hand holding, face touching, elbow cupping and long, meaningful stares of lust and longing. Until Eve rejects Villanelle in Rome and pays an awful price.  

In Season 3 of Killing Eve the speculation is what it is the terrible event that will set Eve off on a path to really becoming a Kill Commander, Allow me to speculate in six points. 1. Eve post-Rome is pretty much of a mess. Living in a dump. Doing a minimum wage gig. No hubby. No psycho. No nothing but smoking and day drinking. Been down so long it looks like up to Eve.

2. Villanelle is living the life. She's got money, women and all the fools she wants to kill. She's a free agent. Life is SO much better without her ex. She's so much happier without what's her name.

3. Konstantin, either because he was told to or forced to, finds Villanelle and blows her mind by telling her, "SURPRISE! SHE'S ALIVE." Villanelle is first amazed and then she decides dislikes unfinished business because she is kind of a big deal in the assassin biz. It's bad for business to have your ghosts walking around above ground, so V decides to track her down and finished what they started in Rome.

4. But Konstantin being Konstantin puts a bug in Villanelle's ear that it might be fun to play a game with Eve. Mess with her mind. Scare her. Tantalize her. Make her be that someone Villanelle said she wanted to play with. In fact, why not get married and let Eve know that Villanelle is going to put a ring on it with ANOTHER WOMAN.

5. Villanelle decides to bake a cake. A wedding cake. For Eve. A really crappy cake and when Eve gets it...maybe with a picture of Mrs. and Mrs. Villanelle and a note that reads, "Sorry, Baby XXX" THAT is the fuel that sends Eve flying up to the top of the building to THROW THAT #*#@=!$ CAKE RIGHT OFF THE ROOF! Because Eve can’t move on.  She can’t let go.  She thought she was special to Villanelle.  Right up until the moment when Villanelle gunned her down and left her to bleed out.  

6. Something in Eve will click.  That something that almost pushed a man in front of a subway train.  That something that chopped a human being into bloody chunks of meat and bone.  Eve wants her revenge.  Dark Eve Finally Rises.  Outwardly, she looks the same, but inwardly this is an Eve who's not going to be played by Carolyn or Villanelle. She's going to be The Player. And her vengeance will be terrible to behold.

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TONIGHT.

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Eve gettin’ evil.  (illustration by reijing)

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 Wait...wait... Chill.  Don’t Lose It.  Not Yet.

This is a pic from next week’s Killing Eve (I think) and folks on social media are already in their feelings and losing their shit over the possibility of Eve playing slap-and-tickle with someone not named Villanelle---especially with a man. Three reasons I don’t think Jamie is going to be the knob Eve jumps on in S3 like Niko and Hugo before him.   1.  It would subvert ALL the wish fulfillment of the game-changing events of “Meetings Have Biscuits.”  The fandom would view Eve hooking up with Jamie as a sleazy cheat and I hope the KE writers are aware of this.  Suzanne Heathcote said, “You see her orienting herself in a much more independent way. She is the one in charge of the boat. She's not struggling with that as much as we have seen in the past. In the second season, you really saw Eve overcompensating and trying to be in control, and you see what that got her. She was betrayed. She's continuing to become her own woman by being the owner of her decisions. I've really always tried to grow her in this way, in that this is a story of a woman who gains agency over herself, that she really wakes up to it." Trying a last fling to her old het life with someone she has no feelings for doesn’t sound like a woman gaining agency.  That sounds like Eve being sentimental for seven minutes of missionary position sex.   If she’s just awoken to the possibilities of what she could have, why go back to sleep with what she already had.?

2.  Each and every time Eve had sex in Season 2, she was influenced by Villanelle.  Without her soft assassin’s prodding and exciting Eve can’t truly be intimate with anyone else, and especially not a man. 3.  There have been stories for the season that Eve tells someone she is attracted to Villanelle.  The only persons she would likely reveal this to is Carolyn, Niko or Jamie.  No one else would qualify.   Jamie may make a move on Eve and she may even respond (nearly kissing Hugo flashback--ugh), but only briefly. Eve has a severe case of Obsessed with Villanelle. She thinks about her all the time and there’s no room in her head for anybody else.  Especially not a dude.   Before the buss on the bus, Eve might--emphasize--MIGHT have done Jamie just as a revenge fuck against Villanelle, but now?  For whom?  For what?  I spoke the E&V kiss into existence and I’m going to do it again.  Eve + Jamie=Nothing. The only “man” left for Eve Polastri is a woman.