'Killing Eve' Season 3, Episode 1 Recap: "Slowly, Slowly Catchy Monkey"

When Killing Eve last left off at the end of Season 2, Eve was lying on the ground in Rome, shot, as Villanelle walked away. It was a direct reversal of the end of Season 1, where Eve left Villanelle lying in a pool of blood after stabbing her.  When Season 2 picked up, it was ten seconds after the stabbing. But for Season 3, things are different. Let's go back to the beginning. Whose beginning? Someone's, in Moscow, 1974. The girl in question is Dasha (Catalina Cazacu), a talented gymnast, though her trainer abusively screams when she fails to stick the landing. Her boyfriend is nicer, bringing flowers and a kiss to the locker room. Dasha is unimpressed, and it's not long before the poor boy is dead on the floor, covered with chalk.

Villanelle: When I met Maria, I thought, "Great shoes."

And now to the present, and a wedding in Spain. The bride is boasting how her love came up to her in the airport and swept her off her feet. But the groom, it turns out, is also a bride: Villanelle. And she's just a little distracted throughout the reception. There's a guest she keeps catching out of the corner of her eye. Is it Eve? Sadly no, it's Dasha (Harriet Walter), now all grown up. In true Villanelle style, she greats her guest with the exact enthusiasm one would expect: A full-body attack trying to murder her. So much for the cutting of the cake, or the bride. Dasha and Villanelle leave in the Just Married car.