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Beatrice knows that Ava is keeping something from her. She’s been having hushed conversations with Michael and sought out Vincent, of all people, for a way to stop Adriel. She won’t say anything about her trip to the other side and Mother Superion says she’s acting like Shannon.

Bea is already so stressed out and hurt, and she’s about to walk into a fight with only half the plan. Then Vincent tries to come along and she’s like, “No.”

Hand up and gun on her hip, she’s not playing games today. She bars his path to the van and to Ava.

“Beatrice.”

All Ava has to do is say her name and the hardened, protective girlfriend mask slips. Bea softens at once – turning towards Ava; sitting back in the chair; blinking rapidly, but unable to make eye contact; taking a deep breath.

“No,” she says again, and it’s so soft and full of pain. Full of the tenderness only reserved for Ava.

Beatrice needs to draw a line in the sand, claw back some measure of control.

Her back straightens as she turns to Vincent again. Mask back on.

“Look, I appreciate that you had an epiphany and your help with Ava –”

(Again, emphasis on Ava with a nod in her direction.)

“—but do not take that to mean you’re in our good graces.”

Fool me once, shame on you. But I’ll take on hell itself before I let you anywhere near her.

I’ve got enough going on already without you stabbing us in the back again.

Vincent is polite enough, saying he knows he has no right to think that.

“We need his help,” Ava says, and Beatrice’s frustration returns.

It again becomes a conversation between them only with Vincent as the awkward, hovering interloper.

“I don’t trust him.”

“Neither do I,” Ava says evenly, “but he knows the cathedral. He can get us in through security.”

It’s a palpable role-reversal as Ava uses Beatrice’s own rule against her: duty before feelings. Don’t let your emotions blind you to the mission.

What a maddening pill to swallow when Beatrice doesn’t even know what the end of this mission will bring.

But she relents because she trusts Ava and that’s all that matters.