"Her sharp sense of humor emphasizes her strength as well as her charm. She can even crack jokes about the incident, which she believes was caused by brain cancer."
Lower says the show has been planting seeds for this since the first season - and the narrative twist is enhanced by what she believes to be Helena's own quiet radicalization while undercover as Helly at the start of the second season. "She's waging a war inside of herself within the same body," the actor tells me during a recent makeshift art session on a bench at the Pratt Institute Sculpture Park, adding touches of paint and marker to our shared canvas. "It's quite provocative and relatable."