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At the end of S3, Beth & Rio are still antagonistic but have come to a kind of truce. They are, of course, still in denial about what they've done to each other & what they are to each other (it's complicated & toxic like them) & they still struggle to talk:
'Beth let him have his few outbursts of hate filled diatribes, because she understood that he could direct his rage at her forever more, she nearly killed him after all. She tried to get someone else to kill him. She had accepted what she'd done. Didn't pretend she was a good person anymore... she would try to imagine what it would be like to not work with him ever again, to imagine him gone, not threatening her, to imagine how great it would be to be the only boss again. And she would think, it would be great! But she would also have to recall Gil screwing her over, threatening her... It always came back to her thinking, but what would Rio do? She had convinced herself she hated him, convinced herself getting rid of him was for the best, but in reality it wasn’t that simple. Love and hate were cut from the same cloth.'