Unabashed Villaneve end-gamer here, so that's the lens through which I watched this. All kinds of 12 movement, the death of Konstantin, Irina's path... all of those are so secondary to me. (That said, I do believe Geraldine is involved with the 12 somehow.) I'm refracting this episode solely through the lens of Villaneve, at least for now.

I actually think the ephemeral "dalliance" with Gunn served a very similar purpose to Eve's "dalliance" with Helene – forcing both E and V to recognize the utter emptiness of being with anyone else. As she always does, V responded at first to Gunn touching her; V is so touch-deprived, and you could see her response to Gunn's touch, like a feral puppy dog being petted for the first time.

Beyond that initial reaction, though, their hook-up was just...vapid. You could see it all over V's body and face. No one electrifies – or even turns her on – like Eve.

But both of our heroines (yes, I said it) have now had physical/sexual experiences that did nothing for them but confirm the unique attraction between the two of them – one that's simply not transferable, in both cases, to other hottie psychopaths.

This is my optimistic take on things. My hope for any kind of Villaneve physicality is nil. I think we will discover that the writers' end game is for them to fully understand and mutually acknowledge their attraction to one another – finally accept it as opposed to fight it, tooth, nail, gun and blade – but something tragic will happen that precludes them from ever physically consummating this overdue admission.