Villanelle Transcripts: Killing Eve S4E4

Villanelle: I want my phone call!

Helene: Surprise! I just need a minute, thank you. It's good to see you, Villanelle. You look well, all things considered. So, have you got all this... out of your system?

Villanelle: Yes. Shall we go?

Helene: What should I do? I could try to intimidate you, but that doesn't work. I could stroke your ego, but you know it all, already. Or I could offer you more money, but you don't care about that. So, I'll just go for honesty. No one leaves The Twelve. Not you, not me...

Villanelle: Wrong. I want more money, lots more. Can we go?

Helene: Yeah. This, this is a sensitive one.

Villanelle: Fine.

Carolyn: If you wanted a cigar, you could have just asked for one. Oh, it's you. For future reference, I hate surprises. Is it too late to offer you the job you wanted or... A wrench? Oh, come on! You're more inventive than that. You've always been more inventive. Even when you were a child. I often wonder if you remember the first time we met? You know there was the time in prison, of course, in Russia, but before that too. At your orphanage, when you were 9 years old. I never knew if you remembered that. I liked you instantly.

(Villanelle hits Carolyn.)

Villanelle: Prove it.

Carolyn: That was not pleasant.

Villanelle: I said prove it.

Carolyn: I'll need some painkillers. There's some in the glove box. Oh, good God, Villanelle. What's happened to you? I thought you enjoyed all this, at least...

Villanelle: Talk.

Carolyn: You had a bracelet, a cheap little thing, with a ballet slipper pendant attached to it. I remember it because of what you did with it. There was another girl at the orphanage who, uh, upset you somehow, stole your pudding or something. So, in the middle of the night, while she was sleeping, you took the bracelet off and you tied it tightly around her index finger, so that when she woke up some hours later, her finger was turning black. The staff tried to cut it off, but it was on so tightly they just were slicing flesh. She lost the finger in the end. Do you remember that? When you heard that she had lost the finger... You asked if you could see it.

Villanelle: I was like this at 9?

Carolyn: Hmm, you were gifted from birth.

Villanelle: Evil from birth.

Carolyn: You know, humans are like a mezze board. The best of them have a little bit of everything. And if you think that your... flair for murder, you know, speaks to you a kind of, lack of humanity, wrong. Killing is primal. It's what nature intended. And who are we to quibble with nature? Why waste your time being good when you could just be good at what you're good at? That's what I think anyway. But what do I know, I've just probably got concussion. And I'm ravenous. Fancy a sandwich before you... dash my brains out?

Villanelle: After you.

Carolyn: No, after you, I'd rather keep you where I can see you. Ah, good afternoon, Benita. Be careful, she's not house-trained. Any peep from next door?

Benita: Nothing. I need to clean that.

Carolyn: Good idea.

Benita: Come. Sit. I cooked.

Villanelle: Who's that?

Carolyn: It's Benita. She comes with the house, apparently.

Carolyn: Isn't it refreshing? To eat in silence? So many people are just bags of gas, expelling air when they've nothing of any great worth to say.

Villanelle: Just farting from their mouths.

Carolyn: Yeah, exactly.

Benita: Good girl.

Villanelle: Hmm.

Benita: I like big belly.

Villanelle: It's really good.

Carolyn: Despite being under duress, I meant what I said.

Villanelle: What?

Carolyn: That we'd make a good team. So... Are you going to tell me who sent you?

Villanelle: Don't I get a bribe or something?

Carolyn: Name it, you can have it. But, I think you'll tell me because you like me.

Villanelle: That's presumptuous. Helene.

Carolyn: Helene? Is she behind these attacks on The Twelve? Because I've been tracking attacks on members of The Twelve and if she's not behind these attacks, she'd have been grateful to me for trying to save them from some... torturous murderer.

Villanelle: Torturous?

Carolyn: Yeah. One of them survived. I have the hideous toad, here, next door. You should meet him, it might inspire you.

Villanelle: What happened to him?

Rustem: Him has a name: Rustem.

Carolyn: His toes were severed and inserted into his nostrils.

Villanelle: Wow. Nice! May I? Who did this?

Carolyn: As yet unknown, but a woman.

Rustem: A beast! Not like you, you're a thoroughbred...

Villanelle: Oh, shut up.

Carolyn: Bilious man.

Villanelle: What do you want from him?

Carolyn: Who, why, what, whatever. Who are his contacts, why does Helene want him dead, what's next. Failing that, whatever you can get.

Villanelle: Okay. You can go.

Carolyn: Good.

Rustem: What the hell are you doing?

Villanelle: How many toes did she get in there?

Rustem: Piss off...

Villanelle: It's just impressive. What was her name? Well, it's got me wondering what other... large things can be inserted into small places. Cheese wire. Are you sure you didn't get her name?

Rustem: Slut!

Villanelle: The left one? Or the right one?

Rustem: Just kill me if you're going to do it.

Villanelle: Okay... What did she look like?

Rustem: Tall! She was huge!

Villanelle: And?

Rustem: She was evil!

Villanelle: Who are your Twelve contacts?

Rustem: Please, I'll tell you, just stop.

Villanelle: Quickly.

Rustem: I don't have a name, only a place.

Villanelle: A place? What place?

Rustem: El Hombre De Dos Caras.

Villanelle: It would help if we knew what we were looking for.

Carolyn: I don't know. I hope I know when I know, if you know what I mean?

Villanelle: Let's play truth or dare.

Carolyn: Truth or dare?

Villanelle: Truth!

Carolyn: Are you a born-again Christian?

Villanelle: How do you know everything? God is good. Truth or dare?

Carolyn: Truth.

Villanelle: Was it true your dad was a sexy, gay spy?

Carolyn: It's true, Daddy did have a penchant for the penis.

Villanelle: A penchant...

Carolyn: Truth or dare?

Villanelle: Truth.

Carolyn: What intrigues you about Eve?

Villanelle: Well I just met a therapist, and he said I just like the control I have over her.

Carolyn: Is that true?

Villanelle: It's not not true.

Carolyn: Well, therapists, what do they know? I mean you just pay them to repeat your questions back at you.

Villanelle: That's what I said! Truth or dare?

Carolyn: Dare! Hello? I thought you were dead?

Villanelle: Shall I chase him?

Carolyn: Oh, yes.

Villanelle: So how did you know that man?

Carolyn: He was an old flame.

Villanelle: Is he Twelve?

Carolyn: Problem is I've now given him a chance to go to ground. I think I'd better make tracks. Berlin, if you care to join?

Villanelle: I didn't give you a dare.

Carolyn: Oh, go on then.

Villanelle: Do air guitar.

Carolyn: No, that's pointless.

Villanelle: Well, dares are pointless. The point of them, is to be pointless. Come on. What, you look like you're stroking a tiny gerbil, don't do that. Give me more. I need much more. Yes. That was... That was amazing.

Carolyn: Ridiculous. Goodbye, Villanelle. Be good.

Villanelle: Carolyn, I'm sorry I tried to kill you.