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Black Doves Recap: Droll for Three A.M.
We can have a little backstory, as a treat.
In case anyone was insufficiently charmed by Helen and Sam’s banter-forward bond and approach to working together in the series premiere, here we get to see that when they first met in 2014, they began as they meant to go on, bickering and jockeying for position, then settling into the early stages of sincere mutual trust and fondness. These beats weave in and out of the main, present-day action of the episode, as the reunited friends and colleagues try to track down and dispatch Elmore Fitch, the very real-sounding former SAS agent whose fingerprints were on the casing Sam just happened to find in the sniper’s perch. Sam’s first murder for hire, a single shot to the head of a guy who Lenny (tiny, ferocious, tracksuit-clad, and played by the extraordinary Kathryn Hunter) says must pay for the unspecific but also unforgivable crime of “breaking the code” of triggermen, leaves him shaken, but basically fine.
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