Geraldine works for the twelve (and might have killed Kenny)
So, everyone agrees that geraldine always felt a bit off and useless, right? She’s always around the house being, as she said, “hyper-empathic” (which by itself could be a personality disorder https://exploringyourmind.com/hyper-empathy-syndrome-much-good-thing/) and overall just a good daughter helping her mom over come grief and blahblahblah — bullshit.
I had this revelation while watching 3.07 so I’m basically going to analise a few scenes of that episode that might have gone unnoticed (while bringing a few dialogues of this season), bare with me.
1. Hélene explaining her concept of monster to Villanelle
During that scene, Hélene says: “monstruous people like you often feel they have to fly solo like they have to keep things bottled up inside them. Thoughts. Feelings. Secrets. And that can affect their ability to be truly monstruous.” and then “whatever it is you can tell me. I dont want us to keep secrets from each other.” and something about that clicks with how Geraldine acts, always sharing, trying to make Carolyn talk and open up. Maybe that’s just her being hyper empathic or maybe that’s just her trying to use her mother’s grief as a way to get information out of her. As Geraldine said in 3x02,
2. Carolyn investigating Paul with Mo.
So, this scene is important for many reasons, one of them is to figure out how Paul hides his work for the twelve while living his life doing “standard white people stuff”
and then, it gets obvious:
- a bottle of chablis, a stir-fry kit and a bath bomb. what does that say to you?
- that he’s planning a lovely evening in?
3. The shrink talking about Irina to Konstantin x Irina mentioning Stanislavsky
Ok, throughout the seasons we had some resemblance between Irina and Villanelle, they’re both very smart, dramatic and as far as psychology goes, we know that psychopaths are born and sociopaths are “made”, sort of, and these lines get kinda blurry during the show.
So, Irina’s shrink describes her as: extremely bright and also manipulative. calculating. almost entirely lacking empathy.
But empathy is a funny thing in this show. Villanelle’s showing some empathy. Hélene could be empathetic with her kid and with Villanelle. So, are they faking all the time? Is it impossible for them to feel things? We know that Villanelle said to Eve. Geraldine’s the opposite of that, right? Anyway.
In their next scene, we see Irina talking about performance, that’s the key word.
- You should read some Stanislavsky
- Exactly. You’re over-acting.
I don’t know much about Stanislavsky but I do know he was really important with the psychological realism in the theater and later created a system that “mobilises the actor’s conscious thought and will in order to activate other, less-controllable psychological processes—such as emotional experience and subconscious behaviour—sympathetically and indirectly.” Meaning that the performer should seem as real as possible, the role and the actor are connected and always showing their authentic emotions in scenes. For an actor to really display emotion, he needs to know how this emotion looks like, what it feels like. As it turns out, Irina was talking about control of emotions, she knows how to read people, she’s calculated.
Geraldine always seems to know what to say to get a type of reaction out of people, she burst and gets on her knees to talk about Kenny, and how Carolyn needs to let her in, she manipulates her mother into giving her something. At first she cries and sobs:
and Carolyn says “I’m doing more for your brother than you could imagine” , then Geraldine’s expression shifts almost into a grin
And Carolyn, once again, shuts her down because obviously she doesn’t share information with someone she does’t trust. Remember that.
So many emotions, right? It almost seems like, i dont know, a performance.
4. Geraldine manipulating Konstantin
Back to the 3x07. She goes to Konstantin and aparently she wants to get away from her mother’s mood and make him a nice and thoughtful dinner because thats who she is. Thoughtful.
So, she gives Konstantin some clue for him to play with:
and then he goes with the bait, of course, because Geraldine shows how manipulative she can be and her expression shifts completely to this:
Carolyn sharing that type of info with Geraldine? I don’t believe it. As I said before, she doesn’t share information with someone she does’t trust.
Then she says that Konstantin would “disappear into the ether” and how would she know?
Then she lose it and makes a scene, which is revitalizing, really. and then Konstantin gives up, so she says “seeking out someone whose brother’s just died, taking advantage of their grief when they’re at their most vulnerable. what kind of person does that?” “a shit”, Konstantin says. and then again, what was Geraldine trying to do this whole time with Carolyn? what did she say when Carolyn said “i’m doing more for your brother than you know”? she asked for more. she’s taking advantage of her mother’s grief.
Konstantin confesses he used Geraldine to spy on Carolyn and then nice and sweet and hyper-emphatic Geraldine says:
Ouch. Would a hyper-emphatic say that?
5. Carolyn arriving at home
ok, this scene is perfect. just look at it.
did the yoga mat ring a bell? anyone?
Carolyn says shes going to run a bath and
Geraldine’s always at home, seemingly a dull life (as carolyn said in the 3x4) but no,
yes, she’s drinking some wine, practicing yoga, relaxing…she’s just doing a painfully standard white people stuff. she’s just planning a lovely evening in, right?
Her yoga mat? Blue. Paul’s yoga mat? Blue. then again, she goes for more info
Carolyn works for the MI6 after all (even though she might as well be a double agent she isn’t stupid)
then Geraldine burst once again calling Carolyn an emotional iceberg and then goes on about finding ways to express her emotions and thats impossible to live life refusing to feel things. All that just to get Carolyn to react and, hopefully, to see Geraldine as trustworthy, maybe share one thing or another. Which doesn’t work because Carolyn says in the trailer for the sf “dear geraldine i think it’s time you left”
a. Geraldine might be a sociopath who works for the twelve.
Sociopaths can be
- “Manipulative and Conning: They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used.”
- “Pathological Lying: Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities. Extremely convincing and even able to pass lie detector tests.” i gave an example before but here’s another:
thats when she kissed Konstantin
- “Shallow Emotions: When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.” and again
Gemma Whelan is doing a fantastic job i just need to point that out
b. She might have something to do with her brother’s death. She either gave info for the twelve or actually got her hands dirty. We know that Kenny was getting somewhere with his investigation. Does she have motives? Could that have been Konstantin all along? I don’t know. But we do see Carolyn at better pills watching a footage that might show who killed Kenny.
c. Carolyn must know Geraldine is onto her or, at least knows she has been lying to her face (she lied about Konstantin’s visit and didn’t tell Carolyn he was spying on her)
d. I believe Geraldine could kill Carolyn in the sf and as Carolyn said:
Konstantin did say “everybody’s mother deserve it” so it wouldn’t shock me that much.
Anyway, that’s my theory. Geraldine works for the twelve and was trying to get info on her mother, either to investigate the MI6 or to see where Carolyn loyalties lies (that if Carolyn does in fact work for the twelve as a double agent). Or maybe Geraldine is just someone who wants to keep no secrets, just like hélene.
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