In Prime Video‘s new spy thriller, Citadel: Diana, attractive spy Diana Cavalieri (Matilda De Angelis) struggles consistently with the stress and hazard of dwelling a double life. For over eight years, she has been posing as a loyal Manticore agent in Milan. Her authentic mission was to infiltrate the evil terrorist group to assist the nice guys, worldwide spy company Citadel, take Manticore down.
Sadly for Diana, Manticore beat Citadel to the punch. In a single fell swoop, Manticore takes all of Citadel down, leaving poor Diana caught behind enemy traces, dwelling a life the place she is perennially trapped in a collection of larger and greater lies. It is just when she lastly takes a danger in trusting Edo Zani (Lorenzo Cervasio), the clever and idealistic inheritor to Manticore Italy, does she lastly see a highway ahead. And it is just when she is totally stripped down in Edo’s embrace that Diana finds freedom.
**Spoilers for all of Citadel: Diana, now streaming on Prime Video**
When Decider spoke with Citadel: Diana star Matilda De Angelis final month, she known as the Edo/Diana romance “very unusual.” At the least in the way it evolves.
“Properly, at first, when she approaches him, it’s a matter of, ‘How do I get out of Manticore? How do I do it subtly and simply and safely?’” De Angelis mentioned, establishing the stakes. “As a result of she is aware of it’s not possible to flee Manticore with out being killed the day after, mainly.”
“Then spending time with him, she understands that they’re extra alike than what she thought.”
By Citadel: Diana Episode 5 “Assault,” Diana and Edo have lastly consummated their relationship. The 2 make love instantly after pulling off a daring mission that winds up fully setting them up as de facto leaders of Manticore’s European wing. The one means they each survived the wild plot to take over Manticore France from inside was by trusting and serving to one another.
In a pivotal second through the mission, Diana remembers the day that Citadel fell. As a younger double agent, she managed to drag off one strategic blow towards Manticore; she killed Edo’s older brother, Manticore Italy’s authentic inheritor, Enrico (Carlo Sciaccaluga) and framed the only real surviving Citadel agent for it. She remembers this within the actual second the place she may very simply kill Edo, as nicely. As an alternative of eliminating one other Manticore inheritor, Diana saves his life after which later goes residence with him.
At the same time as Diana bodily succumbs to her attraction to Edo, she withholds the reality about herself. She by no means tells him that she is definitely a Citadel agent working undercover. However, it’s in these moments — throughout, after intercourse in Episode 5 — that Diana is her most free and weak. She admits to Edo her deepest longing isn’t for energy, however freedom. And he guarantees her that freedom.
Citadel: Diana Episode 6 “Jupiter” takes place about three weeks later, after Diana has left Edo’s residence and settled issues together with her sister. She is free, however decides to return to Edo. Their second intercourse scene is much extra revealing, exhibiting the viewers a totally topless Diana within the throes of ecstasy. After this, she lies in Edo’s arms and explains why she left and why she got here again. She confesses that she wished to destroy the weapon they’d labored so arduous to safe and that she is going to by no means cease preventing to make the world a greater place. Diana smiles as she says she feels Edo is the one individual she feels she will change the world with.
In return, Edo lastly reveals the reality about Diana’s mother and father’ demise. He tells her Manticore killed them. (What Diana doesn’t reveal is that she already knew this and it was the truth that set her off on this harmful path virtually a decade prior.) However even with Diana preserving her one large secret caged off, she has been in any other case fully trustworthy with him.
“They constructed this very unusual and romantic relationship as a result of he additionally wants Manticore to vary,” De Angelis mentioned. “In a means, he’s a pure soul greater than Diana, as a result of she’s…she’s difficult. She’s extra harmless.”
“Edo’s trajectory is sort of diametrically against Diana’s within the sense that Diana needs to be free and is slowly satisfied by by Edo that his imaginative and prescient for Manticore, which is similar to what Citadel is all about, truly will make the world a greater place,” Citadel: Diana showrunner Gina Gardini advised Decider. “Edo, to realize his purpose, truly has to very a lot soiled his fingers.”
“It’s attention-grabbing for this character as a result of he’s going via type of a darkish abyss whereas she’s going into the sunshine. And, you recognize, I really like that.”
Citadel: Diana ends with Edo killing his father, Ettore (Maurizio Lombardi). It’s an influence transfer, positive, however Ettore retains placing Diana’s life at risk. And Edo can’t have that. Diana, for her half, survives Ettore’s plotting, solely to find within the ultimate moments of Citadel: Diana Season 1 that Citadel has survived. She’s not alone within the battle.
So what’s subsequent for Diana and Edo? Can their love survive their advanced spy video games? Will Diana ever be freer than she is misplaced in her Manticore man’s arms?
