When last we left our shrew-taming quartet, the hitmen discovered their lovers were snitches.
And suddenly, they are the most devoted lovers ever
Bison wants to spend his birthday together. Kant calls him by their safeword, Penguin, which feels like a dangerous practice, and looks guilty as he hugs him.
Style’s father wants to be sure Fadel is not leading his annoying but loyal son on. Fadel looks guilty because he’s doing that and worse. But it doesn’t stop him. I’m not sure Style even likes this overly affectionate version of Fadel.
A flashback shows Bison admitted to Fadel that Style seducing him was his idea. So Fadel is also upset with Bison, but not going to kill him. Together, they decided rather than just kill their lovers right away, they’d make them fall in love first.
Bison fantasizes about killing Kant in classic old horror black and white, a la Psycho.
Kant notices the brothers are acting extra loving, but isn’t moved to do anything about it. Style thinks it’s just because they are lovable. Never change Style.
Kant has finally decided he’s had enough of the Captain, and this is his chance to fix things with Bison.
Where better to spend your birthday than the bowling alley?
Kant gives Bison a necklace and back-hugs him. Bison looks genuinely happy.
Style is impressed by Kant’s moves, but Fadel prefers Style’s unique way of doing things. Despite everything, Fadel worries about the man he plans to kill when he sees Evil Mother’s assistant Keen.
Keen chats with Style about how great the bowling alley is over the urinals, then vanishes. Fadel wants to know who Style talked with, and Style thinks he is jealous and suggests bathroom sex. Ew.
Keen listens from a stall and then is about to shoot someone in the bowling alley, but a random abusive boyfriend beats him to it. Fadel and Bison stop him, but Fadel gets shot in the arm and Bison is stabbed.
Kant gets Fadel to let him watch over an unconscious Bison
Kant cries about how amazing he thinks Bison is and how he loves him. He promises to be the real Kant once he wakes up. He steps out for a phone call, and Bison opens his eyes.
Kant tells the Captain he quits, but the Captain is about to arrest Bison. He rushes back to warn Bison but is knocked out and kidnapped by him instead.
Kant wakes up on a boat. Bison throws his birthday necklace into the sea and forces Kant, terrified of water, to jump in. Bison looks surprised.
Fadel chloroforms Style in the bathroom
Style wakes up, hands tied, in his underwear, sitting over an empty pool. Fadel points a gun at his head and demands the truth. Style honestly answers that he was only asked to date Fadel. But telling Fadel he really loves him just makes Fadel want to shoot him.
Fadel doesn’t know where Bison and Kant went, so he’s going to make Style help him find them and then kill him. Their first stop is a love motel. Bison isn’t there, but a nice lady gives them free lube and condoms. They spend the night in a car bed, Style cries about his father, and Fadel almost comforts him, but doesn’t.
Later, Fadel’s car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. They find a farmhouse and a lesson in terrible relationships. The couple there just canceled their wedding because one cheated. Fadel protects Style and interrogates the cheater on why he’d betray his lover, offering to kill him.
Instead of killing them, they marry them. I suspect Style made this happen. It’s kinda sweet and … raunchy… and Fadel smiles.
Meanwhile, on a beach somewhere
Bison keeps a gun on Kant, who remains infuriatingly calm. The calmness is annoying.
Bison thinks he’s lied about everything, including his fear of water. He forces Kant to fish on the shore. Then he makes him start a fire without matches or a lighter. But when Kant hurts himself, he gives him a band-aid.
Tied up, Kant calmly explains why he lied, that he loves him, and what happened between them was real. Kant knows Bison doesn’t trust people, and he let him down. He still wants that future they talked about. All this makes Bison angry enough to shoot him, but Kant uses their safe word “Penguin” and Bison shoots the ground.
Kant breaks free, grabs a big branch, and finds Bison on the beach. Bison says to knock him out and leave, but Kant won’t do it. He gets Bison to point the gun at his chest and says if he wants to do it, just do it, he deserves it.
Bison cries because he doesn’t want to be fooled again. There’s a lot of kissing and crying. Later, Kant and Bison lovingly cuddle and talk about the future.
Style and Fadel are still having the weirder day
They sit on the couch and watch the newlyweds dance to a song about forgiving what is trivial. Style knows what he did isn’t trivial, but he’ll do anything for forgiveness.
The newlyweds attack them and get tied up for the second time. Fadel decides it’s time for a soak in the tub. Style forces him to share, and urges Fadel to quit his job and be with him. Fadel keeps threatening to kill him, but Style feels he deserves it for betraying him.
But Style won’t believe Fadel that he didn’t fall for him. He tries for a kiss, but high-maintenance Fadel won’t be as easy to win back as Bison. Style vows to make him kiss him again.
A painting on the wall makes Fadel realize where he can find Bison
I finally understand Kant and Bison
Cool Kant likes Unpredictable Bison, but his chill also soothes the wild beast. That dynamic is clear here, as Kant remains calm despite Bison’s out-of-control anger.
They could have done more with this earlier, in the writing and production. Kant could get cool music and camera angles, and Bison can’t look away, he’s so awed. Kant could have intercepted Bison before he met his ex and helped him calm down. And realized that he liked kinky sex.
It’s nice to see here, with poor wild Bison breaking down because he’s so hurt, but can’t kill his calm Kant.
The farmhouse scenes are weird, and that’s why I like them. But again, the production style is “fluffy BL” with bright lighting and nothing stylistic in the camera angles and editing. Given different lighting, tense pacing, and close-ups, it could have been much more dramatic. We might have worried about Fadel doing something he’d regret, or that could hurt Style or their relationship. Instead, it was kind of silly.
Dunk, who plays Style, struggles to portray fear or sadness, but for me, it works. He comes off as awkward and hapless, and since Fadel likes Style for being different, it works with their characters. I love Fadel’s intense, insecure, high-maintenance personality with Style’s brash, thoughtless honesty.
Poor Fadel, he’s the only one who was being lied to by everyone. The whole hitman thing is the only way he can protect his soft, tender feelings.
Time for some visuals!
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