'Killing Eve' Recap: 'Sorry Baby'

Written by John Edward Betancourt

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If there’s one element in storytelling that the spy drama tends to avoid on a regular basis, it’s the gravity of death. Because the loss of a character in any story is often times a big deal, one that has consequences for the characters in every way imaginable. But in the spy drama, it’s business as usual, and the spy or hero in question simply has to deal with loss and move on because hey, that’s the name of the game. Unless of course we are talking about Killing Eve, since it has now become the only spy drama I’ve ever watched that actually took the time to deal with death and everything that comes with it.
 
Because this week’s episode, ‘Sorry Baby’, saw Eve and her friends lay Bill to rest, and well…his passing more or less rattled on Eve on a whole new level. For a fair chunk of this episode, she simply could not deal with his loss, and found herself dejected and distant from the rest of the world and quite frankly, this was a true stroke of genius storytelling wise. To find this kind of humanity in a genre that is usually devoid of it is refreshing to say the least, and seeing Eve mourn like this adds incredible depth to her character and while it was sad to know that Bill is gone and left behind a baby, the monster responsible for this is still out there and she just so happened to piss off Eve rather than frighten her as intended.
 
I mean come on, most people would run and hide in the shadows if they received their missing suitcase back at their home address, filled with new clothes and a note from the person that brutally killed their friend, but Eve Polastri is made of sterner stuff and decided it was high time to finish the mission and that’s when this episode kicked into overdrive. Because shortly after going back to work, Eve came to learn that Frank was the mole all along, thanks to Kenny’s breakdown of the jump drive Eve received in Berlin, and her fine memory and that meant she and Elena were off to the small town where Frank was hanging about, and wouldn’t you know it? Eve’s arch nemesis was headed that way too. 
 
If anything, we shouldn’t be shocked that Villanelle and Eve’s paths were going to cross again, it just didn’t seem as though it would happen this quickly. But Frank was a marked man by the people Villanelle works for and thanks to her indiscretion in the last episode, she was forced to work with a pair of partners in this one, and one of her fellow assassins on this mission just so happened to be an ex-lover named Nadia and well, now we understand why Villanelle likes working alone because their attempt to kill Frank ended in disaster, with his escape and their deaths once our star assassin felt the need to remove them from the equation and well, at this point, I cannot say with confidence as to whether or not Eve was successful in rescuing Frank, since this tale ended with a muzzle flash, resulting in quite the cliffhanger…
 
So, needless to say, I loved this episode, so freaking much. I mean come on, there was depth and meaning to be found in Bill’s death and in roundabout and wild fashion, his passing actually inspired Eve to become quite the badass, and you can’t ask for much more than that when it comes to character growth. And as an added bonus, we got to enjoy some of the most intense spy moments the series has provided us with to date thanks to the extended chase of Frank and well…everything worked in this one, plain and simple and I’m now dying to know if Eve and Elise and Frank escaped Villanelle’s clutches after all. Either way, this was an incredible story through and through, and once again, I will be counting down the minutes until next week’s tale, to see if everyone made it out of this one okay. Until next time.

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