[unsettling music plays]

[eerie sting]

Do you want one, Mommy?

Oh, sure. I mean, no, that's too many carbs, and don't ask me that again. 

In this episode, Maddie is a bit scared of playing Reagan. She doesn't believe that people will believe her, and so she overcorrects and ends up just being so mean to everybody. You're both such thin-skinned little cunts. 

Eventually, Maddie starts seeing Reagan's ghost, and she has this terrible psychotic breakdown in the bathroom. 

You just said you forgave me. I forgave you for sleeping with my husband, not for the other thing. 

She's playing Reagan, then she's talking to herself as Reagan. You see her really cracking here. 

I had to do it. I had no choice! You wanted to. 

And this was an incredible scene to get to play, 'cause basically I'm playing three characters in this scene. Not only am I playing Maddie having her breakdown, I'm playing Maddie playing Reagan, talking to Kate out the door, trying to not get caught. And then I have to play the ghost of Reagan. [chuckles]

Stop! Please leave me alone!

[door handle rattles]

[Charlotte] There was so much technical stuff happening. And Anna was like… Every take was at, like, 100%. I just kept being like, "Damn, she's so good." [chuckles]

[sobbing] She's dead. And she's haunting me. 

Maddie finally breaks down, and she confesses to the murder, and she needs help.

[Charlotte] It's really a cute example of Joe's manipulation and his ability to find the most vulnerable part of somebody and use it against them. 

The things that I said I didn't want to know about Joe three years ago, I want to know now. 

Kate knew that Joe had done bad things in his past, but I think she was convinced it was always out of extenuating circumstances. They were isolated events. Now she's getting a fuller picture, and she's recognizing that he's a monster. 

I think that you killed your first wife. What the fuck? How could you…

You know what she tried to do to me!

And you're fucking your shopgirl! 

Joe's living this fantasy life with his mistress and constantly feeling shame and guilt with his family. He's believing, as he always is, that it's outside of him. That it's like, "Oh, if I just solve these things with this person, and I do this with my son, and maybe if I do this with Kate…" Like, he's always seeking externally, I think is the point, and his great folly, because it's never external. It's always internal, and that's when people start dying. 

You have killed so many people. 

So have you, Kate. 

Kate is realizing that he doesn't want to get beyond his darker ways. But she's stuck because she's been complicit in Joe's crimes. Not only stuck, she's also scared because he may have murdered his last wife. 

Our sister is dead because of him. 

Teddy sees something in Joe that reminds him of his father. I think Teddy sees it because Teddy has it in his DNA too. 

You don't know what Joe is going to do.

[Griffin] When Teddy starts to suspect Joe, he's like, "I've been here before. I've seen this before. I've lived it." 

I care about your safety. I do. But maybe you should lose everything.

[Griffin] Also, I think Teddy really starts to think about his exit strategy. Is it better for him to just go, or should he dig in and try to pull Kate out of this? 

What if it was you and only you? 

At the beach cottage, I think we truly see that these two people are in love. And then it all becomes incredibly ambiguous.

[woman] Action!

[tense music playing]

[Bronte gasps] Oh my God!

Get the fuck off of me, man! 

By the time Clayton starts throwing punches, Joe has every reason to believe that he's being the hero, he's protecting Bronte.

[grunting]

[Madeline] Joe is seemingly protecting Bronte, and you would think that she's just so grateful. And then in comes her friends. 

Oh my God!

[Michael] As soon as Dom and the others come in the room, Joe is shocked.

[Madeline] And Bronte is standing on their side, it's very confusing. And he's like, "What is all the trust we've established?" "Whose side are you on? And who really… who are you?" 

At the end of episode five, it's like the end of his world in a way. 

Our friend, Clayton, he's dead, and Joe Goldberg fucking killed him. 

So here we have Joe being caught on camera murdering somebody. It's a stunning epiphany for a guy who's always one step ahead. 

We need to leave right now. 

But more than that, Joe, the romantic, cannot fathom that what he shared with Bronte could've been disingenuous. It could've been part of a ruse. 

In some ways, this season is following, to a T, the formula of the first season. But this is where it breaks that. All the twists you think you're waiting for at the end happen. We fucking got him, Louise.

[Joe] Got me? What the fuck is going on?

[dramatic sting]