Bear

Bear turns up on the margins of Killing Eve's shadow world, one more face inside the strange, tightly wound network that surrounds Villanelle. He is watchful and unshowy, the kind of presence who seems to know more than he says, moving through the story's underworld with a quiet, functional menace rather than any obvious agenda.

Killing Eve thrives on people who feel like they've stepped out of a stranger, funnier, crueller universe just offscreen, and Bear is one of those flickers of texture. Turlough Convery plays him with a dry, understated stillness that suggests a whole life happening just outside the frame, which is exactly the show's trick.