A note: this story is going to feature spoilers – and quite a lot of them – for the second season of Killing Eve. If you don’t want to be spoiled, then click away now. But if you want to know more – read on!

We knew that the second season of Killing Eve would be a major departure for the show, but we didn’t know that it would be this much of a departure.

By now, the second episode of the miniseries has aired on BBC iPlayer and, with it, a drastically different Villanelle to the one we were so well acquainted with in the first series. This Villanelle is grievously wounded and suffering from the injuries inflicted upon her by Eve in the series finale. Desperate to return to Eve’s side, she breaks out of hospital and hitches a ride to the UK with an obliging holidaying family before finding herself in the clutches of a strange doll-collecting man who won’t let her leave the house.

Killing Eve season 2: everything you need to know about the new characters