Villanelle Transcripts: Killing Eve S4E3

Villanelle: Hi.

Eve: Oh. What the... Actually, never mind.

Villanelle: Are you going to slap me again?

Eve: No. What's it this time?

Villanelle: I need help.

Eve: Oh, why don't you ask Jesus?

Villanelle: Where have you been?

Eve: Paris.

Villanelle: Paris. What happened to your hand?

Eve: What happened to your clothes?

Villanelle: Can I stay here? Eve. Just for tonight. Eve, things are bad.

Eve: Uh-huh.

Villanelle: Yeah.

Eve: Um... Take whatever you want. There's money in the bedside table. Can you be gone when I get back?

Martin: What can I help you with?

Villanelle: Aren't you a therapist?

Martin: Yeah, sort of.

Villanelle: Well... I want therapy.

Martin: Um... Therapy requires a situation where we both feel safe but... I don't feel very safe, so... my suggestion is you leave and we make an appointment.

Villanelle: No. No.

Martin: But I work at Broadmoor. If I don't turn up to work today, alarm bells will be raised.

Villanelle: You're going to call in sick.

Martin: Right. What do you want to talk about?

Villanelle: What do you know about me?

Martin: I know that you're an assassin. A highly skilled one.

Villanelle: Are you flattering me?

Martin: No.

Villanelle: No.

Martin: Just the facts. What's bothering you, Villanelle?

Villanelle: I don't like the way I feel.

Martin: Which is what?

Villanelle: Hmm. Like shit. All of the time. I want you to fix that.

Martin: You said that you felt like poo. Is that common for you?

Villanelle: No.

Martin: So, why now?

Villanelle: I don't know. I killed two people last night after I tried really hard not to.

Martin: Okay, well, that's not ideal, but presumably common for you. So, why has this shaken you?

Villanelle: Martin, I'm a rainbow in a world full of beige people like you. No offense.

Martin: No.

Villanelle: I usually know what I want and who I want and how I want it. And now, I don't. I... I don't even trust my own thoughts right now.

Martin: Yeah. Can you say more about that?

Villanelle: Is this what being insecure feels like?

Martin: Okay. Let me put it this way. Change isn't always comfortable. Feeling like poo, it might be a good thing. A sign that you're already mid metamorphosis.

Martin: Sorry. It's all I've got in. It's uh, lunchables.

Villanelle: You have kids?

Martin: No.

Villanelle: Aren't you going to eat?

Martin: My um... My IBS is playing up. Yeah, feeling a bit cramp...

Villanelle: Hmm.

Martin: Crampy. Okay.

Villanelle: Do you think I was born like this?

Martin: What do you mean? A psychopath? Do you think you're born like this?

Villanelle: Being a therapist is easy. Hmm? I ask something and you just repeat it back with a question mark on the end.

Martin: The point is, I don't know you. Because how you feel is more important than what I think. And no, I don't believe you have to be born with psychopathy to behave like one. I mean, look at mercenaries. They're trained into it. Would you rather you weren't? A psychopath? Do you know how many psychopaths have stepped in front of me and said they don't want to be a psychopath? Zero. Psychopaths feel superior. Like a god. And gods don't often think they need to change, so, uh... I'd say that's hopeful. You've done a lot of good work. Okay. That's a good place to end for today.

Villanelle: Did you just say that stuff to try and get rid of me? Did you?

Martin: No.

Villanelle: Don't make fun of me.

Martin: Well... There's an elephant in the room that we haven't addressed yet.

Villanelle: What about her?

Martin: Well, you want to change, and you want to stop killing. You've had plenty of opportunity to kill Eve over the years, and you never have.

Villanelle: Well, I tried.

Martin: If you wanted her dead, she'd be dead, so what sets her apart? Do you enjoy the power you have over her?

Villanelle: Yes.

Martin: In healthy relationships you have to make yourself vulnerable too. Allow someone else to have that sort of power over you.

Villanelle: Well, Eve does.

Martin: Does she?

Villanelle: Yes, she's ruined everything.

Martin: So, why don't you move on then?

Villanelle: Because that would ruin everything.

Martin: So, what do you want from her?

Villanelle: I want to smell her skin. I want to hear the boring stuff she does every day that she wouldn't bother telling anyone else because it's really that boring. But to me, it would be fascinating because... It's Eve. Ah, because in our bones we understand each other.

Martin: Eve's not beige then?

Villanelle: She's a rainbow in beige boots.

Eve: Villanelle! Open the door!

Villanelle: Hi! How can I help you?

Eve: Let me in. Villanelle!

Villanelle: No, he hasn't eaten all day... It was an accident.

Eve: Can you just let me in? Martin? Oh, God. Martin? Martin, can you hear me?

Villanelle: Relax. Concussion at worst.

Eve: What are you even doing here?

Villanelle: Therapy.

Eve: You know, you can just book a therapist. You don't have to take one hostage. Oh... But then you wouldn't be able to get my attention. Right. Give me that.

Villanelle: You didn't have to come.

Eve: I came for Martin. So, did you have any breakthroughs?

Villanelle: Maybe. They trained me to be like this so maybe I can be trained out of it.

Eve: Do you know that fable about the scorpion and the frog?

Villanelle: They hook up?

Eve: No. They both die. Because the scorpion can't change its nature.

Villanelle: Maybe you are the scorpion.

Eve: I should have done this when we first met.

Villanelle: Done what?