Killing Eve producer insists Villanelle planned emotional bridge twist in season 3 finale

KILLING Eve wrapped its third season in spectacular fashion this week.

The BBC thriller concluded with an episode packed full of double-crossing and death, with Carolyn gunning down a double agent and Constantin brutally murdering Dasha.

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However, it was the final moments of the episode that brought the romance, as Eve (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer) seemed to finally make a go of a relationship together.

Villanelle presented Eve with the chance to walk away from her for good, suggesting they head off towards opposite ends of the bridge without looking back.

However, at the last moment Eve turned around the look back and moments later Villanelle did the same.

Executive producer Sally Woodward Gentle joked that she wanted to take a different path to previous season finales.

"Well, I just think they couldn't get shot again. Or stabbed," she told .

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"Of course, they are on a bridge and there's all sorts of drama that could have happened there.”

She continued: "I think that what was really appealing was for both of them to have an honest conversation, which we rarely see – particularly with the revelation in the earlier scene that they were both complicit in somebody else's death.

“They both did it together, and in a way that's a good jumping-off point for a discussion about where they are.”

However, while the gesture may have been reciprocated, Gentle claimed that Villanelle was all too aware that Eve would succumb.

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"For Eve to say, 'You've got to release me. I can't stop thinking about you,' and for Villanelle to say, 'Well, it's really easy. You just walk away.' They walk away and Eve turns around with Villanelle, and I think what you see in her is she knows that Eve is going to turn around,” she went on.

"She knows that Eve is going to be looking back at her. Is that point-scoring, or is it actually something much more fundamental than that? And that's quite an interesting way to look at it.

"It's just a little bit more introspective than before, but that's quite fun as well, not to do the same thing every time."

Alas, the season finale was not to everyone’s tastes, with some viewers taking to Twitter claimed that they felt let down by the episode.

Killing Eve is available to stream on BBC iPlayer now.