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Killing Eve / Recap 2.04 - "Desperate Times"

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Eve: [talked about the cigarette she's holding] God, this is disgusting.
Hugo: Can I have it back, then?
Eve: No. [scoffs] I haven't smoked since college.
Hugo: Desperate times!
Eve: Yeah!

After the discovery of another dead body, Eve and her new team make a break in their case.


Tropes in this episode:

  • Almost Kiss: Between Eve and Hugo. The Moment Killer is when Eve's phone goes off.
  • Ambiguously Bi: Far from the first time, but still—Eve has a thing for Rose Tyler.
    Jess: They sit around on bean bags, talking about which Doctor Who companion they'd most like to spaff off to!
    Eve: [right away] Rose Tyler.
    Jess: [looks sideways at Eve]
    Eve: Come on, she's adorable!
  • Armor-Piercing Question: Hugo asks a few.
    Hugo: What is it? Do you like watching her, or do you like being watched?
    Eve: [honestly] Both.
  • Bondage Is Bad: Villanelle captures, tortures and kills her next victim by bounding him in handcuffs, stringing him up upside down and stabbing him.
  • Creepy Cute: Villanelle dons yet another outfit of this type. With a pink tutu and a pig's mask.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Villanelle is ready to kill a girl who cut in line in the bathroom queue.
  • Drugs Are Bad: Villanelle takes drugs and goes on a bad trip, culminating in her almost killing someone in the girl's bathroom.
  • Easter Egg: The subtitles for the hard-of-hearing actually translate Eve's Korean phone conversation into English. It's completely mundane and has nothing to do with the plot.
  • Everyone Can See It: Hugo takes a pretty accurate read on the Eve/Villanelle situation after observing Eve for not very long.
    Hugo: She fancies you, doesn't she?
  • Forced to Watch: The patrons outside the red light district watch as Villanelle kills a man while his wife watches because she was the one who put a hit out on him for his infidelity.
  • Gas Lighting: Niko accuses Eve of doing this to him during an argument.
  • I Have a Family: A man Villanelle kills pleads that he has a wife—but his wife was the one who hired Villanelle to kill him.
  • Mushroom Samba: Villanelle goes through one in a club after taking some drugs to deal with Eve's ignorance of her.
  • Recurring Camera Shot: The episode ends with Eve standing in front of a mirror and pulling back her hair, just as she did at the end of the pilot.
  • Red Light District: Much of the episode takes place in the red light district of Amsterdam.
  • Take That!: On a meta-level, Villanelle mouthing off to the Instagram influencer who asked for her photo reflects what the writers think of this job and those preoccupied with them.
  • Shout-Out: Hugo references the film Seven when he sees Eve going through lots of evidence.
    Hugo: Find Gwyneth Patrol's head in a box?
    Eve: I'll put your head in a box!
  • Switch to English: Eve speaks both Korean and English to her mother on the phone. Truth in Television—for someone like Eve (raised in America with Korean parents) code-switching is very common.
  • Wham Shot: Villanelle—alone in the bathroom, not pretending for anyone—crying.

Soundtrack

  • As Villanelle kills a man in the red light district of Amsterdam, the song "Een Muis In Een Molen In Mooi Amsterdam" by André van Duin plays.
    • Soundtrack Dissonance: This scene is dark, and the childlike nursery rhyme-style of the song juxtaposes the horror.
  • The episode ends with Willeke Alberti's Dutch version the song "Angel Of The Morning" ("Vlinder Van Een Zomer")
    • Translated Cover Version: In Dutch, in keeping with Villanelle currently being in Amsterdam.
    • Soundtrack Dissonance: It's not cheery exactly, but it has loud, exuberant moments, and it comes across as more cheery than either of our leading ladies are in their final scenes.
      Noem mij maar vlinder van een zomer, Angel!
      Ik was geluk maar een vergissing, BABY!!

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