I Have a Thing About Bathrooms

With Frank and Elena (Kirby Howell-Baptiste) in the car, Eve begins to drive away, while Villanelle gives chase and shoots after them. Eve suddenly stops and gets out of the car to talk to Villanelle, ignoring protests from Frank and Elena. Eve and a stunned Villanelle stare at each other wordlessly. Villanelle toys with Eve by faking shooting herself, then fires a warning shot to the ground near Eve's feet, and disappears into the nearby woods.

While stopping at a diner, Eve and Elena question Frank about the assassins. Frank remembers one of the women is called Oksana, which Eve relays to Kenny (Sean Delaney). Kenny informs her the results of the tests on the suitcase, which revealed copious amounts of Villanelle's DNA. Eve and Elena take Frank to a safe house, where Carolyn (Fiona Shaw) is waiting. Elena goes home, and Carolyn and Eve question Frank. Frank reveals he was approached by a group called "The Twelve", who offered to pay for his dying wife's medical treatments in exchange for information, including Eve's investigation. He also says Villanelle's kills follow a pattern, with the aim of destabilising and sowing chaos in the world. Eve asks Kenny to look into The Twelve. Carolyn tells Eve the police found only Diego's body at the scene.

Eve returns to the office and joins Kenny in searching through records of people named Oksana. She identifies Villanelle as Oksana Astankova, who was incarcerated in a Russian prison for killing a man and cutting off his penis. The records also show she supposedly died in prison four years ago.

Eve arrives at her home with the suitcase. She puts on a dress from the suitcase and applies the perfume. She goes to the kitchen to read through the file on Villanelle. She hears a sound and goes to investigate, finding nothing. She turns around to see Villanelle in the house. Eve runs upstairs and locks herself in the bathroom. Villanelle kicks down the door and overpowers her by shoving her into a bathtub and turning on the tap, explaining she just wants to have dinner with her.

Eve warms up some leftover shepherd's pie for Villanelle, and Villanelle helps Eve to change out of the wet dress. While Villanelle eats, Eve asks why she broke into her house. Villanelle begins to sob, saying she is being controlled and she needs help, which Eve doesn't buy. Eve tells Villanelle she is aware of her past, her intelligence, and her psychopathy, and asks her about The Twelve. Villanelle replies that if Eve goes high enough, she'll probably find they both work for the same people. Eve asks her for her reasons for killing Bill; she replies that Bill was slowing Eve down. Eve picks up a knife but Villanelle disarms her and pins her to the fridge with the knife pointed at her throat. At the same time, Niko (Owen McDonnell) and Dom (Billy Matthews) arrive outside. Villanelle takes Eve's phone and dress and leaves through the front door as an unsuspecting Niko and Dom come in.

Eve goes to Carolyn's house, where she discovers that Kenny is Carolyn's son. Eve explains to Carolyn that Villanelle broke into her house and stole her phone, which contained the address to the safe house. Eve and Carolyn go to the safe house with an armed response team, only to find Villanelle had ambushed the security detail and killed Frank, then dressed him in the dress and cut off his penis.

Back at her apartment in Paris, Villanelle tells her version of the events to Konstantin (Kim Bodnia). She tells Konstantin Diego ran over Nadia, so she shot Diego. Konstantin tells her Nadia is still alive and in a prison in Russia, and suggests she pay her a visit before she can talk. Villanelle asks if Konstantin is one of The Twelve, but quickly deduces he is not.

Comer's first audition involved her and Oh, already cast, acting the kitchen scene in this episode, to ensure there was enough chemistry between the characters who have little interaction for the first few episodes. Of this moment, Oh said that "Jodie [Comer] flew from England to LA, we laid it down, and immediately, I felt like we could both feel, 'Oh, this is my dance partner.'"^[2]