[unsettling music plays]

[eerie sting]

[Joe] You're back in the greatest city in the world. 

We were really excited that we got to do five seasons of the show, and for five, we always said, in a perfect world, we would bring Joe back home to New York.

[crowd clamoring]

[cameras clicking]

[man 1] One of the most fun things about this season is that Joe is famous. All the other seasons, he's been really under the radar and can move from different place to different place because of his anonymity. And now that he's well-known, social media is now on him.

[Joe] Get caught at one Vanity Fair photo shoot holding your wife's purse, and the world idealizes you. 

He is trying to stomach that he is one of the 1%, but he's doing a pretty good job, as he always does.

[woman] We begin, and they're really happy, and it's actually really fun to play them being in a contented and optimistic space. But obviously, that can't last…[laughs] …because that wouldn't be interesting to watch for ten episodes. 

The T.R. Lockwood Corporation will earmark up to a quarter of its annual profits.

[Michael] Joe, this year, is enduring his in-laws. He's very much in a pit of vipers.

[Charlotte] Kate is coming out from being under the shadow of her awful father by trying to turn the reputation of her family and the company around. And quite early on, you see that feathers are really ruffled. 

Couldn't win the board over the proper way. Not so much as a fucking prospectus? 

I play both Reagan and Maddie Lockwood. They're very different. Reagan is the uptight twin. 

Get the fuck out.

[Anna] And Maddie, she's much more flirty. She's wearing these kind of tight little pink outfits, like I'm wearing now. 

I was hoping to meet my next husband tonight, but they're all married or almost dust. [chuckles] 

Then there's Teddy, Kate's half-brother, an illegitimate son of Tom Lockwood.

 If you weren't my brother-in-law, I still wouldn't want you. I'm married. Stop flirting with me. 

Teddy's very smart, and he's actually someone that Joe likes. Joe doesn't like a lot of people, so this is a fun, new dynamic for Joe to have.

[man 2] We talked a lot about Teddy being a different type of calculated. He's been estranged from the family, but he's still got the blood in him.

[Justin] Kate, when she got the company, brought Teddy into the family, and he's very loyal to her because of that. 

I can't perform an exorcism if you don't show me to the girl with the spinning head and foul mouth. 

At the top of this season, Joe has everything he could ever want, and he wants desperately to hold on to it. What he's grappling with is whether he can repress his true nature or not. There's a really great moment in the first episode with Maddie, where we sort of get a hint that things aren't as perfect as they seem.

When I see you two sometimes, I wonder what you really want, Joe Goldberg. 

He's fooling himself, basically. But he believes that this is enough for him.

[Joe] As much as you've tried to leave certain parts of you behind, they're there, like a phantom limb.

[bells jingle]

[Badgley] At the beginning of season five, he owns Mooney's again, but he's planning on selling it because it's just sitting in disrepair, which is depressing for him.

Who are you?

I own the place. Who are you? 

I play a character named Bronte, who we meet in the first episode. She's very intrigued by Joe Goldberg. I think that they have similar interests. They're both enchanted by New York City, enchanted by Mooney's. 

Can you just imagine what this place was like in its heyday? 

Bronte's a catalyst to the awakening of old Joe. And he immediately starts to fall for her. 

Places like this store…

[Joe] It's like she's fighting with the words of a former you. 

This punchy, plucky personality spouting literature and bemoaning the loss of the soul of New York. 

How would you like to work here, Bronte? 

She's basically unwittingly asking Joe, like, "Are you still in there?" "Can you come out to play?" 

You were right about Bob. It's our survival. It's him… or us. 

The fact that Kate has asked Joe to kill is a huge deal. It's going back on their pact that they made in London, a pact that they've stuck to for three years. 

I don't think it sits well with her. She's kind of been groomed, really, to be in a world where people are kind of offed to make way for what you need to happen.

[Michael] What she doesn't realize is that for Joe, it's a validation of what he wants to do to protect their family. This is for Kate.

[man groans]

[Kate] Joe. 

Kate now sees that he's writing murder fiction, and she clocks, I think, for the first time properly, that he actually does enjoy killing people.

[Joe] There are times you miss who you used to be. Felt good to rid the world of assholes.

[Charlotte] I think she felt before it was a protective thing, and it was out of necessity. She's like, "I guess I don't know you." 

For Joe, it's the first major signal that he gets that he needs to kill people.

[man yelps] 

And at that moment, it's a return to form for Joe and for the show. 

And it's gonna be really fun to see where it's going to go.

[Joe] Oh, you missed this.

[dramatic sting]