Beef Season 1 Episodes 2-6 Recap – Why Does Amy Keep Taking George’s Gun?

By Jonathon Wilson
Published: April 6, 2023 (Last updated: 4 weeks ago)
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Beef Season 1 Episodes 2-6 Recap
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Summary

The worsening rivalry lends this episode a lot of tension as both Danny and Amy’s circumstances seem to be rapidly worsening.

Episode 2 is, like Beef Season 1 Episode 1, about rapidly escalating obsession. But it inverts the focus of that obsession – Amy is the one now seeking revenge on Danny and trying to find out more about him – while also fleshing out how the conflict is becoming so integral to the lives and headspaces of Danny and Amy both.

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So, Amy, incensed after Danny peeing on her floor, looks up his license plate number and finds some of his personal information online. She calls his number and leaves his business negative Yelp reviews.

When George gets home, she tries to explain the best she can, leaving some key details out, and while he thinks she’s overreacting he agrees to accompany her to Danny’s home address, which she informs him they can acquire for just $80.

The address is the run-down hotel that Danny’s parents used to own, which was shut down due to something illegal being peddled on the premises. This remains a burgeoning subplot, but it’s left mysterious for now.

Nevertheless, Amy’s Yelp reviews are damaging Danny’s already struggling business. Isaac suggests he just starts again under a new name, which is apparently a remarkably easy process. Danny pitches the idea to Paul and offers to set the business up in his name. Their plan is to service the Korean residents of Orange County, but that’s almost certainly a decision informed by the fact Paul’s ex, Veronica, lives there. Her place is where they go first.

Who is Amy catfishing as?

Veronica is now married to a god-fearing man named Edwin and they’re both incredibly active in the local church, which obviously annoys Danny. So, too, does Paul’s general lack of interest in the business, since he spends most of his time on Instagram going back and forth with a woman he thinks he called Kayla.

Kayla is Amy. This isn’t a surprise to the audience, who see her set up the catfish account using pictures of her employee, Mia, who might become even more important down the line since George keeps liking her photos.

Why does Amy keep taking George’s gun?

This is among George’s other favorite activities, which include potentially sabotaging the sale of Amy’s business to Jordan by refusing to sell her a chair made by his artist father. It doesn’t seem like this is intentionally to spite Amy, he’s just so self-centered he doesn’t realize. He is, however, shocked to hear that Amy keeps taking his gun out of his safe because she masturbates with it because George is so “vanilla” in bed.

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All throughout this episode both Danny and Amy’s personal circumstances and relationships worsen, and so too does that petty rivalry, which each periodically calling the other up to threaten them. This comes to a head in a club where Danny and Paul leave with two women to find that Amy has painted insults all over Danny’s truck.

The incident causes a rift between Danny and Paul, who is still focused almost entirely on women – especially Kayla, who he has no idea is really Amy – and can’t see how much his brother is struggling right under his nose. It also pushes Danny to the next level of his resentment towards Amy, as the episode concludes with him driving to her house for purposes as yet unknown.

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Why does Danny go to church?

Beef Season 1 Episodes 2-6 Recap

Beef Season 1 (Credit – Netflix)

The previous episode ended on a bit of a cliffhanger, with Danny heading to Amy’s house with a hammer. It’s unclear what he was planning to do, but he’s scared away by the security light. We see him following Amy’s car and attempting to set it alight. However, he stops at the last minute when he sees Junie in the back seat.

The experience panics Danny, who confides in Paul (“I almost set a baby on fire!”). Paul isn’t overly interested, though, as his “relationship” with “Kayla” is progressing, and he’s trying to clean up his act.

So, Danny heads to Veronica’s church, where he breaks down during the service, and Steven Yeun does an extraordinary job of selling this moment. Both Veronica and Edwin ask if he’ll be coming back, but while Danny makes his excuses, Edwin explains that the church needs a handyman for some repairs, giving him a reason to stick around.

Danny is looking for some meaning in his life. Whether that’s to be found in Veronica, helping the church, or God Himself, is anyone’s guess.

What happens with Paul and “Kayla”?

Things continue to decline between Amy and George, helped along by him dopily sending her a screenshot of Mia’s Instagram that he had saved on his phone.

So, Amy continues to essentially therapize herself by catfishing Paul as Kayla, but they develop what seems like a very authentic connection. The show’s editing makes it pretty clear too. When Paul asks if they can FaceTime Amy obviously declines, but they do talk on the phone, and Amy recognizes the bond forming.

Amy’s attempts at intimacy with George only worsen the situation. It’s a joke, and his openly speculating about what his life might have been like had they never met only rubs salt in the wound.

Toward the end of the episode, Paul arrives at Amy’s store looking for Kayla. She rushes him outside when he spots Mia, whose pictures she has been using to catfish him, but her confession doesn’t dissuade Paul, who kisses Amy.

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Danny has developed a scheme to con Veronica and Edwin’s church into a loan for renovations that he will ultimately pocket and use as a downpayment for a patch of land he’s trying to buy.

In the meantime, Danny “kindly” volunteers to do the repairs on the church pro bono, painting himself as a nice guy to better swindle them.

At the end of the episode, Danny plays guitar at the church and sings, enjoying a new sense of belonging – right before he presumably ruins it all for himself and everyone else.

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“Just Not All At the Same Time” is the most introspective episode of Beef thus far, stripping away a lot of the extraneous stuff to really hone in on the psyche of Amy and even Danny, though admittedly through the prism of Paul.

That’s because most of the episode takes place in Vegas, where Amy is speaking at a conference. After their brief meeting in Episode 3, Amy takes Paul home, tells him she’s married, and explains that she’s going out of town, but once again, he’s not dissuaded.

So, Paul takes matters into his own hands.

With Danny’s plan for the church coming together, he and Isaac steal a bunch of materials necessary for the renovations so that the loan can go straight into Danny’s pocket. They lock it in the back of the truck and go home to celebrate.

Why does Paul steal Danny’s truck?

Paul floats the idea of going to Vegas on a boys’ trip. He claims he and Kayla are seeing each other now, and doesn’t tell the others that it’s really a catfish. Danny offers to pay him handsomely for his help on the big church job, so he can fund his own trip, but time is of the essence, so when everyone passes out from partying a little too hard, Paul steals the truck and heads to Vegas alone – unknowingly taking all the construction materials with him.

Amy is in Vegas alone. Junie didn’t want to leave the house, so George volunteered to stay behind with her. He ends up having a sleepover with his mother like the giant insecure baby that he is.

Amy, meanwhile, spends the evening with Paul. They get high, dance, eat, and discuss their lives. Paul, particularly, opens up about Danny and how he thinks he is depressed. Nothing gets physical, but it’s a close run thing, and Amy is genuinely thankful to Paul for giving her exactly the kind of night she needed.

How do Danny and Isaac find Paul?

Danny and Isaac arrive in Vegas and, still being ghosted by Paul, spend the night in the casino. The next morning at the buffet, they spot Paul leaving, and a hilarious chase scene ensues as they pursue him back up to Amy’s penthouse suite.

Amy just happens to be heading back up to her room at the same time to retrieve her phone, but despite the editing making it seem like they’re going to cross paths, they don’t.

We see a new side to Danny here when he slaps Paul for disrespecting him – and he really means it. Isaac is obviously a bad influence, but the fact Paul can’t see his wrongdoing in this situation (or how much Danny has cared for him over the years) doesn’t say much about his maturity.

But Danny and Isaac leave Paul to it and leave with the truck keys. On the way out, though, they walk past the speech Amy is giving, and can’t help but get involved. Danny asks a question about the road rage incident – which is viral at this point – and Amy has him quickly removed by security.

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Another chase ensues, and this one ends with Danny and Isaac being arrested. Amy arrives just in time to see them being put in cuffs, which only intensifies Danny’s resentment towards her.

All in all, it’s an empowering episode for Amy. She got the night she wanted, she got a great reception during the panel, and she got some revenge on Danny. Empowered, she tells Jordan that she wants to accept her deal to stay on with the company.

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Beef Season 1 (Credit – Netflix)

Every show needs one, so “Such Inward Secret Creatures” is the obligatory morning-after-the-night-before episode.

After the whole Las Vegas debacle in Episode 4, Danny is more obsessed with revenge than ever. His plan ends up going haywire, though, producing even more problems for everyone than they had to begin with. And that’s saying something.

The plan starts with befriending George. Danny invents a persona, calling himself Zane, and strikes up a conversation with George while they’re out cycling. He has figured out that Amy married into art money and that her husband should be an easy mark.

How does Danny plan to rip off George?

And they need one. Isaac is on house arrest for crossing state lines and assaulting a police officer, and he blames Danny – and Paul, to be fair, but he’s basically in hiding at this point – for his potentially imminent return to prison. Isaac and his cronies Bobby and Michael need a score, and George might as well be it.

Danny once again infiltrates George’s house, but this time he’s invited. While he’s there he creates a leak in the bathroom that he tells George about. Danny offers to find him a plumber, and texts Bobby and Michael with a shopping list of things they’ll need to break in and swipe George’s father’s artwork.

However, George’s vulnerability endears him to Danny. He’s just a lonely guy without much of an identity of his own. He has grown up in his father’s shadow and now toils in the long one cast by his wife. His art moves Danny, and he calls the job off.

Is George having an affair?

However, Michael and Bobby won’t take no for an answer, so they try to finesse their way into George’s home by turning up on his doorstep and offering to fix the leak. Even George isn’t stupid enough to fall for that, though, and he sends them on their way. When he fixes the leak himself, he calls someone to gloat, and while it initially seems like Amy, it’s at this point we discover that he’s having an affair (of sorts, more later) with Mia.

Worryingly, they’re on “I love you” terms.

What’s going on with Fumi?

“Such Inward Secret Creatures” also concerns itself with Fumi, who has two problems: She’s broke, and she’s lonely. When Amy takes a rain check on their planned lunch after Fumi catches her taking photos of herself in her underwear, Fumi dines alone, and all of her calls to her friends go unanswered. Her accountant delivers the bad news that she’s in serious financial strife, so she decides to go to George’s house while he’s out of town and select some pieces to sell.

This is poorly timed on multiple levels. For one thing, Amy has invited Paul over while George is out of town, and their assurances of no physical intimacy last all of five seconds before they’re having sex all over the house.

Paul takes the post-coital opportunity to ask her for a loan, though, and when he implies that getting to where she is shouldn’t be too difficult, she throws him out and they end things on bad terms.

Is Fumi alive?

Later, Fumi sneaks in, disabling the alarm system, and while she’s there Michael and Bobby break in to try and rob the place. She chases them off with a gun, but she ends up falling down the stairs. It isn’t even clear if she’s alive or not at the end of the episode.

Assuming she is, some cursory investigation of the security footage isn’t going to do Amy any favors, even if it was disabled – why would she be disabling the security system when she’s home alone?

More to the point, Naomi is continuing to dig into the road rage incident after having started to suspect Amy in Vegas. She’s quickly putting the pieces together with the help of the determined neighbor whose lawn was destroyed in the chase. Things aren’t looking good for anyone as we close out.

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What is Naomi’s theory?

Beef Season 1 (Credit – Netflix)

After the robbery attempt in Episode 5, Fumi is recovering – though clearly knows more than she’s letting on about Amy and George’s relationship – while Naomi continues to investigate the road rage incident with her newly formed Neighbourhood Watch committee.

As if Fumi isn’t high enough on pills, when Amy gets wind of Naomi’s imminent visit to speak with her about the incident, she has Fumi pop another, which seems to knock her out.

Naomi at least comes clean to Amy and lays out all her suspicions. Her amateur detective work has led her to believe that Amy is having an affair with Danny and that the road rage incident was connected to it. Amy literally laughs this off, even though she is having an affair with Danny’s blood relative, which Naomi doesn’t take kindly to.

Amy and Naomi exchange some bitter words and the latter threatens to sink the deal with Jordan by exposing how much “liability” is surrounding Amy and her business.

How do Danny and Amy come to a truce?

Amy, knowing Naomi is close to the truth, meets with Danny and proposes a deal. She’ll pay him $25,000 – it starts at $10K, but he negotiates – to call up Naomi’s tip line and confess to his involvement in the road rage incident, but convince Naomi it was nothing to do with Amy. Strapped for cash since Isaac has taken control of his business, Danny reluctantly agrees.

However, this ends up being unnecessary, meaning that Danny and Amy aren’t able to uphold their uneasy truce. It turns out Fumi wasn’t really asleep when Naomi confronted Amy and she overheard the whole thing. She takes the blame for the road rage fiasco and Naomi believes her. But she still thinks Danny was involved because Michael and Bobby worse Chosen Brothers gear during the robbery and were caught on the Ring doorbell. She’s determined to take Danny down.

Amy, at least, tips Danny off about this when she calls to tell him the deal is no longer necessary. She has no idea that he was in the process of masturbating to the photo of her rear that she sent to Paul, but then again Danny has no idea that “Kayla” is really Amy, so that’s a whole situation that needs to be unpacked at some point.

Nevertheless, Danny is rapidly running out of options. So, he does what any right-minded person would do in the same situation – he takes Isaac out of the picture.

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He does this by calling Naomi’s tip line and blaming everything on Isaac. Given his parole status, he’s immediately facing 5-10 years in prison. And what’s more, Isaac had only recently entrusted Danny with the location of his stash, ill-gotten gains stored in rice cookers that play Kelly Clarkson’s “Since You’ve Been Gone”.

So, Danny ends up betraying his family. The episode ends with him playing dumb to Isaac during visitation, spliced with scenes from the church basketball game where we see another, more unhinged side of Edwin, who’s on the losing side – seemingly in more ways than one.

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