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After all the plotting and scheming, Villanelle showed and Jodie Comer proves she is Villanelle. If Yhe Joker is female, Jodie Comer is perfect for the role. Smell Ya Later

This episode makes absolutely no sense. Worst episode so far as it was the silliest and least well written.

How did they know how to hire Oksana now she's freelance?

Why did they even have to use Oksana to scare a woman who was so scared she was already hyperventilating, from being marched at gunpoint to the middle of the woods and chained to a torture chair?

Why did they turn out the lights to intimidate a blindfolded woman?

Now I think about it, if the 12 are so incredibly all-powerful why aren't Oksana and Beardy Dude dead already?

With the Ghost in custody and under interrogation.

Eve and Jess are having fun with the interrogator's inept attempt to make her talk.

Eve knows that Villanelle could get the Ghost talking.

It does mean Eve having a bonkers idea. Putting a hit out on herself to lure Villanelle to work with MI5. The question is will Villanelle take the bait?

The aim of the episode is to get Eve and Villanelle to meet and talk about the stabbing incident. It also allows Eve to trust Villanelle with her life.

The episode is electric when both of them do meet and you can sense the sexual tension.

This episode made no sense. If Eve would put out a hit on herself to get V to come to her to help get info from the ghost, WHY WOULDN'T SHE HAVE DONE THAT TO CATCH HER??? And why would they have let her go knowing she will continue killing? It was so unrealistic from the moment V showed up at Eve's door, that I kept waiting for a reveal that it was all a dream sequence. WTF.

That just went completely wrong. I'm coming to this show late. So I'm bingeing it on lockdown at the moment. I had a real problem with the tone of the first season, they seemed to get it just about right up until episode 4 and then it went off the rails and now the same thing in this season! Okay, as I understand it, the big attraction of this show is the two leads eventually sharing some screen time and it being electric. Like Dr. Lecter and Agent Starling or Luther and the Ruth Wilson character. So this episode finally brings them together and screws it right up. Everything on the periphery of this show is not interesting. The Mark Zuckerberg type who hired the Ghost. The Fiona Shaw character. The Konstantin guy. The other agents. All fairly one dimensional. I don't care but I want to see the sparks fly when Eve and Villanelle meet again. Villanelle knocks on the door and just breezes in. Okay. Eve takes some random pills, trusting that Villanelle will save her. Nice. Then Villanelle winds her up. Funny. Okay. With you so far. But then Eve says she needs help and Villanelle says you'll do anything I want. It looks like they might kiss... But then it cuts to outside and they get in a car together. What? Did they just have sex? And as the car goes by Fiona Shaw and Konstantin are watching them. Okay, whatever. But then suddenly they're in the Forest of Dean and it's daylight? What?? So they've just been in a car on a 3 or 4 hour journey and we don't get to see any of it? What did they talk about??? This is the entire point of the show. Their relationship. And then Villanelle interrogates the Ghost??? Eve doesn't go in and watch?? Why not? And then Villanelle extracts the information we assume using no obvious violence. And the Ghost just says "Monster". What just happened? And then Villanelle just leaves and is in Oxford talking to Nico. What??? It's so badly staged. That meeting should be absolutely fuelled with tension and it really really isn't. What the hell? The writer and director completely dropped the ball here. This should have been magic. Witty, tense, clever, sexy. Instead it was a mess.

What the hell happened to the storyline??? Eve working with Villanelle makes no sense. And what a weird AF transition from the kitchen scene to leaving the house. The episode reeked of fan fiction. I rather see Eve & Villanelle together work towards finding out who the Twelve are and taking them down than the writers trying to build the romantic relationship of these 2 characters. I personally don't buy the sexual tension of Eve towards Villanelle. It's a one sided tension that Jodie Comer pulls off well. Sandra's lack of dimensional emotions kills it for me. She does dry sarcastic humor well but any other emotion or sexual reference is not her strong suit.

What??? This show used to be good, the previous episode, fantastic, but this episode... what???

What's up with Eve's overtly sexual infatuation with this killer? It's bordering on lame and stupid. Taking random pills given to her by a killer? She seems completely mentally unstable, far more than Villanelle. How can I invest any emotion into someone that is unpredictably unstable and makes horrible self destructive decisions?

But wait, it gets worse. So Eve's idiotic plan gets approved, and wham-bam-thank you-mam the silly trap works. (Why didn't they do this the first time if it was that easy?) They get Villanelle. They have her in their hands and they just let her go? Or worse, they're working with her? After killing some of their own? And so many more? Pure lunacy. This would have made more sense if Eve had done this secretly, like her trip to Paris.

This episode absolutely killed the show for me. Absurd, idiotic, and not funny at all. I don't see how it can recover.

NOT because, as others have noted here, 'why didn't they do this before? I get that this is new, in that Villanelle and Konstantin are now an independent team, no longer working for Russia, and so, 'for hire.'

My issues are:

. WHOAA how did they hire them happen SO FAST?

. Why isn't it funny anymore? Where is that edge? Even Eve's sexual thrall seems boring and ordinary. What's up with that?

Somebody . . . was it the writing, the directing? . . . Somebody lost the edge . . .

Really, You expect us to believe the 'Ghost' knows the details of her client and his motives for hiring her.

Apologies for the late review, binge watching.