The pace has dimmed in Season 5, Episode 7 of You. This episode can be divided into three sections: Henry, Joe and Maddie, and Joe and Louise.
Henry
The beginning of Season 5, Episode 7, is primarily focused on Joe trying to see Henry, which angers Joe the most. We are first introduced to a mad and sinister Joe, who promises Louise that she will pay if he doesn’t get his son back.
The first part of his plan is to insert a location chip in the book they were reading together and deliver it to the school. They kindly obliged and gave the book to Henry because later on, Joe finds out from the chip that Henry is staying with Teddy.
It becomes too easy for Joe to distract the bodyguard outside the house. Everything is too easy for Joe.
Joe is then able to break into Teddy’s house and pleads with him to let him see Henry. He uses Teddy’s childhood against him, but Teddy doesn’t cave.
As Teddy goes to turn away, he gets a knife and threatens Joe – not his wisest move, considering he knows he’s dealing with a killer.
Anyway, as we expected, they get into a fight, and Joe takes Teddy’s knife. However, at that moment, Henry is scared. Joe is startled and runs to Henry to tell him that he is not leaving or abandoning him, that no matter what happens, he loves him.
And then he gets dragged out by the bodyguards, and Henry is left screaming.
Towards the end of the episode, we see Kate telling Henry how Joe has hurt many people, so they won’t see him for a while. Henry asks her where they’re going, and she tells them they’re going to London because she’s done something wrong too.
Joe and Maddie
After this encounter, Joe has an idea about how to fix the whole mess. He repeatedly rings Maddie, but she isn’t answering! So he sends her a video of the footage of her killing Reagan. And suddenly, she comes running over to Mooney’s.
Joe’s idea was to ask Maddie how he could do damage control because she works in PR. The advice she gives is to do a live TikTok interview. It works like a charm—Joe takes the angle that he killed Clayton to protect Louise because he was in love with her. The audience latches onto this and comments on how Joe is innocent until proven guilty and how realistically this was Louise’s fault.
Joe and Louise
This leads me nicely into the Joe and Louise situation. During this interview, Louise texts Joe and tells him that she told the police he saved her, and because of that, he was saved. And then she buys a ticket to go back to Ohio.
Once Joe starts to see the comments about Louise, or Bronte to him, he also notices that people are saying she deserves to be unalived, but also sees that one person in particular has taken a picture of her and is stalking her.
It’s time for Joe to step up as her hero again. He finds her, but just as he does, she’s in the middle of getting kidnapped by a man.
But, Joe, being Joe, kills the man by smashing a rock over his head.
Afterwards, all is well in Joe’s world – the world isn’t convicting him, and he’s got Bronte back. The only problem is that he has her handcuffed to the bed. But she seems to be in a pretty deep sleep, so it’s not all doom and gloom, I suppose?
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