'Killing Eve' Showrunner on Season 4's Plot and Eve, Villanelle and Carolyn's Journeys

The long wait for Killing Eve Season 4 is almost over. The final installment in the award-winning series will premiere on Sunday, February 27 on BBC America and AMC+, airing every Sunday thereafter.

Since 2018, audiences have watched the cat-and-mouse chase and the will-they-won't-they relationship between assassin Villanelle (played by Jodie Comer) and former MI5 and MI6 agent Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) play out on screens, alongside the murky business of MI6 boss Carolyn (Fiona Shaw), but how will their stories unravel in the final series? Newsweek spoke to Killing Eve showrunner Laura Neal to find out more.

What Will Happen in Killing Eve Season 4?

Killing Eve Season 4 will pick up from the huge cliffhanger ending of Season 3, which saw Eve and Villanelle seemingly part ways on Tower Bridge in London.

However, as they walked away from one another, they could not help but turn around and face each other once again on the bridge, before the screen faded to black.

Ever since, fans have been eagerly waiting to find out if they opted to walk away (again) or embrace one another.

Elsewhere, Carolyn was devastated over her son Kenny's (Sean Delaney) death, which she believes to be at the hands of The Twelve. Carolyn also shot and killed her MI6 boss Paul (Steve Pemberton), who was working for The Twelve. She was left in a pretty bad place at the end of Season 3, but had one goal in mind—to find who killed her son.

In Killing Eve Season 4, Eve is out to get revenge against The Twelve, for effectively ruining her life. Villanelle is trying her best to change and Carolyn is still obsessed with finding the member of The Twelve who ordered the death of her son, Kenny.

Showrunner, head writer, and executive producer Laura Neal could not give too much away whilst speaking to Newsweek without giving spoilers, but she did tease a little bit of what is to come.

Neal also shared when we first meet the show's three lead women, they are all on individual missions.

She said: "I think we find Eve, Villanelle, and Carolyn in very different emotional places to the places we've seen them in before. I think, Eve is, is very set on her revenge mission, really and it's sort of embracing the dark elements of her soul in pursuing it and getting to know herself.

"Villanelle is set on change, and she wants to be a good person, and she's determined to prove to herself and to Eve that she can be and Carolyn is finding herself in a very different place.

"She's been sort of put out to pasture if you like, by MI6, but she wants back in and she wants to understand who gave the order to kill her son."

There is good news for fans of ex-MI6 boss Carolyn Martens, you can expect to see a lot more of her and hear her hilarious one-liners this season, Neal confirmed.

She shared with Newsweek: "What I love about Carolyn is that she is the type of woman we don't usually see on our TV screens. She is ruthless. She is self-serving in many ways. She is mysterious, she's a hard nut to crack and I love her. I just love writing for Fiona [Shaw] and I love writing Carolyn as a character.

"It felt really important to both preserve her mystery, but also get to know her a little bit more in this season. And I think for her in terms of what she ultimately wants...I just think she's somebody who loves that game. She loves the game that she's in and actually, she's somebody who doesn't really care about the morals of it, as long as she's playing it. And that for me feels really refreshing."

As for Villanelle and Eve's relationship in Killing Eve Season 4, Neal teased both women will be working on themselves, before they could maybe or maybe not, come together.

Neal shared: "I think like, part of the joy of the show is watching these two women come together and the scenes in which those two actors are just alone together feel really sparkling.

"I think what is interesting to me coming off of the bridge [in Season 3] is Villanelle's desire to change. And I think for her, she has to go away from Eve to achieve that change, albeit temporarily so she has to immerse herself in a good community, so that's where she goes, and she sort of inserts herself into the church.

"I think for Eve, like she finally understands, like the grip that Villanelle has over he and she's got this revenge mission and she knows that she can't throw herself into that, while Villanelle is around.

"So I think Eve is trying to keep Villanelle at arm's length while she completes this mission. I think they are in different places to previous seasons because they both know each other's whereabouts like there's no real cat and mouse in terms of that. It's more just like that they're emotionally trying to keep away from each other at the start of the season."

Fans of Killing Eve can also expect to see the return of some old faces as well as some brand new characters with every twist and turn the final season has to offer.

Luckily, you don't have to wait too much longer for the fourth season to arrive on screens.

Killing Eve Season 4 premieres Sunday, February 27 on AMC+ and BBC America and will air every Sunday.