A little context: As I’ve been reviewing You Season 5, I’ve been frustrated by the first few episodes, but it’s starting to pick up the pace midway through the season.
“Well, well, well, how the turn table” – Michael Scott.
We start Episode 6 with a contextual flashback from back in Beck’s day! Beck is walking through the school grounds on the phone to Joe. He is pleading with her to skip class and come to see him.
She explains that she can’t because she’s working as a Teaching Assistant. Beck tells her student to tell Joe that she can’t skip.
After the flashback, Joe is bailed out of jail by Kate’s lawyers.
LOUISE
Louise is being brought in by the police for questioning, which is the meat of this episode. Louise is telling the cop, and us, the entire story of how they believed Dr Nicky to be innocent and Joe to be guilty of Beck’s murder. And here’s how the timeline goes.
In a flashback, we see how much Louise adored and appreciated Beck. Beck gives Louise hope about her writing, but admits that she needs to drop out of school to return home and care for her mum.
Beck is disappointed but understands. During this time, Louise sees on TV about Beck’s death and all the press about how Dr Nicky killed her.
Louise tells us that she became obsessed with Beck’s death. She read her book to hold onto her. Following this, Louise found herself on a subreddit looking for any information she could find on Beck or her death. She meets others who are just as obsessed as she, and they join forces.
Louise finds one primary connection. One person in this group, Clayton, is particularly interested in this case because he is Dr Nicky’s son seeking justice. CRAZY. He tells the group he has Beck’s and “Paul Brown’s” therapy sessions.
Anyway, fast forwarding. Louise tells the detective how the three of them starting devising a plan to “keep an eye on Joe” but Louise had her own plan and decided to start breaking into Mooney’s to snoop – only she gets caught on the second time and from that moment on, she starts to plant herself into Joes life. As Louise plants Joe more and more into her life, she begins to see that he’s real and not just an objective anymore.
But we start to see Louise’s confusion at this point. She’s living in two worlds—one as Louise and one as Bronte. She confesses that she begins to see Joe through rose-tinted glasses.
She sees that he’s a romantic and will protect those he loves. She falls in love with him, despite telling her friends, “I think I can make Joe fall in love with me,” yet she falls in love with him too.
A plan was starting to form against Joe, but Louise tells the others that she can’t go through with it. But Clayton disagrees and devises a plan that lures Joe to the seafront house anyway.
He has Phoenix and Dominique on board. So Clayton goes to the house where Louise and Joe are, and he starts verbally whaling at Louise. “Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, does it, Clayton?” Louise responds.
And boom, Clayton pushes her down, and that’s Joe’s cue to come in and kill him.
After this long explanation of Louise, Clayton, Domiques, and Phoenix’s plan, Louise states at the end that Joe killed Clayton in self-defense because they had made him out to be dangerous to him, and he was protecting her.
She tells the detective this even though her friends told the police that he did it in a fit of rage (which technically is true, but in this scenario, the rage is coming from self-defense).
JOE
While Louise’s questioning and explanation of the timeline are significant components of this episode, Joe also gets his screen time.
After being released from jail, he goes home to find Kate on the phone, demanding that one of her contacts have the footage of Joe removed from social media. As she comes off the phone, they argue. Joe tries a multitude of tactics to diffuse the situation: humility, flattery, and softness, but it doesn’t work, and it doesn’t take a lot for him to snap—it’s pretty funny to watch, actually. IF I GO DOWN, YOU GO DOWN, is what he says.
After they have a very entertaining scrap (definitely worth the binge), Joe asks where Henry is and immediately runs upstairs to find him gone. Kate tells Joe that she knew he would be too caught up in his own shit to read the document he had to sign for his bail.
In that document, he acknowledged that he is not fit enough to look after Henry. AND BOY, does Joe lose his mind about this?
Unfortunately for him, Kate slaps Joe quite forcefully in the chest and tells him that she has bodyguards behind the door, ready to enter at any second, so he better not try anything.
So Joe has lost his marriage, side pieces, and son, so he returns to his bedroom at Mooney’s.
And he spots a camera in his apartment.
Narration: “We’re not done with each other yet.”
Joe: “Hi, Bronte.”
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