Industrys Myhala and Marisa Abela break down Harper and Yasmins heart to heart (and that kiss)

“Our interests finally align.”

That’s what Yasmin Kara-Hanani (Marisa Abela) tells Harper Stern (Myha’la) in Industry Season 4, episode 7, “Points of Emphasis.” The statement’s been a long time coming, as Season 4 has done almost everything in its power to keep the show’s two leads apart. Each navigates a different world: Harper reigns over her own fund, while Yasmin leverages the aristocracy and presses. From their respective vantage points, they’ve set their sights on fintech company Tender. Harper is shorting it, hoping for its failure, while Yasmin has tied her and her husband Henry Muck (Kit Harington) to its success.

By episode 7, it’s clear that Harper took the correct position. Tender’s fraudulence is exposed, and Yasmin arranges an exit strategy for herself. With no money, a husband who’s implicated in Tender’s wrongdoings, and an uncertain future, Yasmin turns to Harper for comfort.

The pair meet at a bar and have a cathartic heart to heart. They each unpack their deepest insecurities, and how the other often embodies them. It’s a softened mirror to their blow-up fight in Season 3, and proof that there may just be a path forward for TV’s most complicated frenemies.

“As a person who’s always rooting for Harper and Yasmin, I was so glad for them,” Myha’la told Mashable in a video interview alongside Abela. “I felt like it was one of the first and only times they really said some things to each other that needed to be said, that were really honest and vulnerable and not with any intention of hurting the other person at all. It was the friendliest conversation I think they ever had.”

“They often have these conversations where, in a heightened moment, they say all these unforgivable things to one another, but they’re most painful because they’re so true,” Abela added. “Whereas this is a moment of truthfulness and vulnerability, where they’re really asking for tenderness from the other person, and the other person is able to give it to them. It was a very rewarding scene in the context of the four seasons of the show.”

That sense of giving is best encapsulated by an exchange about the two preparing to go out.

“Will you look after me tonight?” Yasmin asks.

“When the fuck are you gonna look after me?” Harper retorts. (It’s a valid question, as Harper literally helped her cover for her father’s death in Season 3.)

Yasmin’s response? “Tonight.”

“I think genuinely, this is the first time that Harper asks for Yasmin’s help,” Myha’la said. “She might say it with a little bit of attitude, because there’s history, but she genuinely also wants someone to take care of her. She’s also gone through so much loss: her mother, and then Eric [Ken Leung], so it was really rewarding.”

For Abela, that shared history is the reason why Yasmin is able to open up so much to Harper in this moment. While the two were at odds over the Tender situation, Yasmin isn’t upset about anything Harper is done. (She did try to warn her!)

“She doesn’t blame Harper for any of that stuff,” Abela said. “She knows at this point that Harper is one of the only people left that really, truly sees her and understands her. I think we couldn’t have had a conversation like this in Season 2 because they didn’t know each other as well as they know each other now.”

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Harper and Yasmin’s reconciliation ends with a trip to the club, where they dance and share a kiss. It’s a far cry from the kiss they shared back in Season 1, in an attempted threesome with Robert Spearing (Harry Lawtey). Here, it’s just the two of them, the only bodies lit up in a sea of dancing shadows.

“The intimacy is the only thing left at that point,” Abela said of the scene. “‘Where do you end? Where do I begin? How much can I love you, and how much can I let you love me? How much can I let you in, and how much will you let me in?’ All of those questions are being asked in that moment.”

For now, the answer seems to be that yes, Harper and Yasmin are able to love one another and let their guards down.

“We’re here forever, even if we can’t be,” Yasmin tells Harper as they sit outside, smoking and leaning on one another. It’s a sweet snapshot of their new closeness, of what they could have been much earlier had they not met in the competitive pressure cooker of Pierpoint.

Knowing Industry, though, how long will that “forever” truly last?

Industry‘s Season 4 finale premieres Sunday, March 1 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max.