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Hmmmm.... is Bili setting a trap or are she and Balice setting out for some kind of happily forever after? Maybe we'll find out next week. Poor Valentin, it looks like there's no ever after of any sort for him...

Enjoy your filming, Mr. Jennings. Thank you for posting this section early for all your rabid fans! 😎

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Aug 18Liked by Luke Jennings

Damn. Just gonna drop a couple bombshells and then flee the country, eh?? 🙃 Good luck on your documentary, sir!

Also, really hoping Villanelle doesn’t get too overwhelmed with navigating all these feelings, and pull away or lash out. I believe she is truly learning what (that) things are important to her, but loving Eve and learning to love her properly also makes her vulnerable, which she is famously not good at. Rooting for our gals! 💪 (Will not let any concern gnaw at me for the next 10 days, nope, not at all.)

As for the disarray that is Balice? I’m putting her on a mental time out before I try to process all that. Chaos gremlin!

Safe travels.

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Aug 18Liked by Luke Jennings

DANGER!

WILL ROBINSON!

DANGER!

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What the everloving fuck does Balice think she's doing? I can think of at least a half-dozen ways this is a trap—from Johnny sending Bili to marry Balice to cut her loose from the protection of her husband Charlie over at MI5; to Bili using her feminine wiles on her own to get Balice to spill the tea on what she's up to; to Bili simply using marriage to Balice to get her ILR (the British version of a Green Card)....

Each and any one of these should have Balice's Spidey-Sense blaring alarms at her. Even if she intends to fake her marriage to Bili it'll be a huge mess, and I can't imagine MI6 (007 movies aside) being fans of messes. I can't imagine she'll tell Charlie, "I'm pretending to divorce you and marrying Bili to flip her—so hold tight, darling, and it'll all be great!"

And...doesn't Balice have a boss somewhere? To make a fake marriage look legit she'll need papers that appear realistic, and that will require somebody to sign off on them, I would think.

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Mr. Jennings, do you ever have a sense that Villanelle, Eve, Balice and other characters live their own lives when you write about them? Can they surprise you or do you have a clear idea where they are going with their plans?

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Broadly, yes, I know. But the details are not planned

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Hi luke is bloodline 17 coming today.

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Hi Dawn, sorry events overtook me - 17 is coming out today!

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Oh boy, I have a somewhat bad feeling about this Bili/Balice encounter, but really no offense to Bili’s desperate willingness to be married and get a British citizenship, I mean who among Eastern Europeans wouldn’t? 😅

Eve’s being bitchy. Just told Villanelle how she felt and that there was nothing between her and Valentine and here she goes again, teasing. Can imagine what torture it is for Vil…

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Well Valentin will certainly have a target on his back for starters….arranged marriage and to come out to the world with the big secret who he truly is … i actually feel sorry for him . Balice&Bili I’m really looking forward to how this one plays out ….i literally don’t know what to think is it Bili playing Balice or is it actually something she wants for own purpose gain . I did think when she was disclosing to Johnny about her night with Balice she was alittle closed off . Omg lol 😂 I can just feel it’s about to pop off 💯🔥🎢👏👏👏love it ! Thanks Luke (The mastermind) also good luck with the filming 🍀and hope you have a great time while doing so. Back to counting down the days and hours…..😳 wait that would mean more days to count down ? Lol 😂 I’m gonna go insane

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Thanks Pru

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Aug 18·edited Aug 18

Bili eating the Lemon peel reminds me of Carolyn telling Eve about Dasha eating a lemon. apparently a trait of Psychopaths.

Having looked at Targovishte on google street view I can see why Bili is keen to stay in UK, and will do whatever it takes.

And how does Bili know Balice's husband is fucking his assistant? Is she working for Russian intelligence and playing M16 and The 12.

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Carolyn? Dasha? No idea.

Bill knows about Balice’s husband because Johnny knows. The 12 have people in MI5 who have told him this. And it would have been part of his briefing of Bili when he set her to honeytrap Balice

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Yes, I remember haha. In the series Eve goes to Carolyn's house, and during the conversation discovers that Dasha is a murderer and eats pure lemon. I miss the series 🥺🇧🇷

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Aug 18·edited Aug 18

I guess Bili was trying to say that people of Targovishte are not big on pride parades.

And yes, the lemon peel stinks a bit... I hope Bili is not planning to break Balice's heart. She's just started her transformation from a flat villain to an exiting character full of complexity and contradictions.

I love their dialog. For once, they are not pretending to be anything (or seems like that) - Bili wants her UK passport, MI6 pension plan, also Balice to be happy with her. Probably all equally at this point. It's just a bit.. hm... strange indeed... Bili knows who Balice's husband is fucking, Mrs. Polastri's name and role in this game. Sounds like a lot of information for a one-time freelance project.

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One-time freelance project?

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Aug 19·edited Aug 19

I understand that Balice was Bili's one-time undercover operation. I called it a freelance project because she wasn't 'officially' hired by Johnny. Bili doesn't even know who exactly they are. At least that's what we know so far.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's not what I wrote. There's nothing in Ep 10 to suggest that Bili and Johnny don't have an official working arrangement. Bili was briefed for the entrapment and knows exactly who her target was, and who Villanelle and Eve are. In a public place like Johnny's club, though, she's not actually going to say any names. If I've given a contradictory

impression, and I might have, tell me where! As a writer it's all too easy to contradict yourself when writing in this episodic form, with the story developing as we go along, so grateful for this sort of heads-up - L

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I can't really think of any obvious contradictions here. Probably, it had a lot to do with my personal assumption that led to this conclusion. Bili told Balice that she just wanted her citizenship and British Intelligence/The Twelve offered it as a form of payment. So it could be a temporary project for Bili in a sense that she has no reasons to keep working for Johnny (if she doesn't want to) after getting her passport.

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I get you. Perhaps I should make it clearer that Bili gets drawn in to Johnny's world and that he increasingly confides in her, while witholding the passport. Thanks Gemma!

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Are V and E double-crossing Tikhomirov? It feels like it. Especially since they’re both alive thanks in part to him (in book 3).

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Mr. Jennings, do you believe that one day it would be possible to have this incredible story on TV again as a continuation? Dreaming, one more dream... 🇧🇷💕

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Anything's possible Evelyn, but the whole set-up would have to be very different

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