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Season 5
Marienne will try to free Nadia
There may be a scene where she speaks to her in prison and plead with her to stop Joe, like Forty did with Dr Nicky. Unfortunately, Nadia will be too depressed and/or too terrified to go against Joe and just tell Marienne to keep Juliette safe. Kate will learn that Joe killed her father
Joe will cheat on Kate
Joe tired of Love even before she started murdering again and Kate frankly lacks the pizzaz Love had. His eyes may gravitate to an executive or employee at Kate's company, or even a beautiful reporter or intern. Kate won't take kindly to Joe's adultery, of course.Kate will cheat on Joe
Joe will kill Kate
Kate will kill Joe
Season 5 will be the final season
Confirmed
. The series will end with all of Joe's murders revealed
Kate will be framed for Joe's murders
Phoebe will reappear
She will still adore Joe and if he gets bored of Kate, they may even have an affair. And there’s still the mystery of what Joe said to her at the party. Nadia will die in prison
Possibly in a suicide or getting murdered. This may spur Marienne to take action against Joe to avenge her. If it's the former, she might write a suicide note to expose Joe. If she dies, Nadia (more specifically, Joe's hallucination of her) will haunt him
Joe will end up raping someone
Or attempting to do so. Nadia will be directly involved in Joe's downfall
Joe will actively seek people out to murder
Joe will free Nadia in exchange for her help
Before leaving her to be arrested, Joe says that he wants Nadia to live and grow, that she is gifted and he wants to watch what she does next. If he is being sincere and not just twisting the knife, Joe may arrange for her to escape prison and force her to kill people in return, making her his protégée in the art of murder. Her targets may be random randos, or the Quinns and Sallingers, or other myriad rich people. Paco, Ellie, and/or Ethan will return, and even they won't be safe from Joe's wrath
Joe will be killed with a gunshot to the head
As his hallucination with Love showed. Kate's siblings will be antagonists
- Tom Lockwood has six other children who got absolutely shafted in his will, as Kate got everything. If there is someone in the world deeply motivated to come after Kate and Joe, and unafraid/unaware of what Joe is capable of, it is going to be one or all of them.
Joe will grow his beard out again
The fans and Badgley appear to like that style. Joe's mother will reunite with him
Now that her son is a billionaire, she will try to cash in on him. Once Joe realises that, he will probably react in his signature murderous way. Joe will go down for a crime that he didn't commit
In a scene paralleling his framing of Nadia, the real criminal (possibly Kate, Marienne, Nadia, Ellie or Paco) will explain to Joe that they framed a crime on him and there's nothing he can do to stop them. He will stare at them in shock and his inner monologue will either be horrified silence or, if it's Nadia, Ellie or Paco, a strange sense of pride and Villain Respect. There will be another murder whodunit plot
But Joe will be cleared as a suspect due to seeing the victim get murdered in front of him. Season 5 will be told through the perspective of Joe's new "You"
Joe will use the bookshop he bought as a torture chamber
The bookshop Joe bought is Moony's
Joe will be arrested
Joe will die in his glass cage
Possibly through starving to death after being locked in it. There will be a time-skip at some point in the series
Presumably, when the show is near the end of it's rope, they'll jump forward a few years to show Joe has actually settled down. Maybe as a bonus, they show an Aged Up Henry who has tracked his father down. Someone will investigate Joe
Joe will run for political office
Joe's new You will be a man
Joe will die, but in a completely random and unrelated way, similar to Forty in the book
He’ll spend the season murdering and stalking, get away with it, frame someone else and skip town (again). At his next location he will spot a girl across the street from him and begin walking over to her, his “Hello, you” monologue will start and -bam- halfway through his little speech he’s hit by a random car. End scene. End show.Elliot will return somehow
Tom set contingencies for his death to take revenge on Joe, or at least to make things hard for him and Kate
Joe won't directly kill anyone in this season
Joe will physically attack Kate
Joe will try to have a baby with Kate
Kate will get pregnant
Joe will try to regain custody of Henry
A character will take down Joe in a way where they end up going down with him
Either in a murder-suicide, them fatally wounding or incriminating Joe right as he kills or frames them or killing him and going to jail for it.Joe will be a lot more sexually aggressive and misogynistic, similar to his book counterpart's
An episode will be set in Kate's perspective with a monologue for her
As Beck, Love and Marianne all had.Kate will hallucinate her father
Joe will hallucinate Marianne
Joe will hallucinate Beck and/or Love again
Perhaps during his dying moments. He may even visualise them dealing the final blow.Nadia will hallucinate Edward
Joe will wind up in an Ironic Hell
Joe's new love interest will be younger than his previous ones
Another Gotham actor will appear
A Succession actor will appear
An A-list actor will appear
Phoebe will suffer a Broken Pedestal of Joe
Joe's hallucination of Beck was her actual ghost
In her ghostly form, Beck returned in order to sabotage Joe's relationship with Love and save another poor girl from her fate, but once she learned that Love was as bad as Joe was, she let the two homicidal lunatics torture each other.Love Mercy Killed her first husband.
If his illness progressed to the point where there was no chance of recovery, and he was in great pain, it wouldn't be too out of left field for Love to euthanize him. And, as her actions regarding Joe and Forty show, Love feels killing is morally justified if it's done for someone you love. Of course, whether he asked her to do this or if she just did it without consulting him is a whole other matter...- Confirmed though it was not a mercy kill and was accidental.
Delilah will haunt Joe in the third season.
He's haunted by Beck in the second, and Joe seemed to feel even worse about Delilah's death than hers.- Jossed.
Forty will haunt both Joe and Love in the third season.
Love may be evil, but she did love Forty in her own messed up way, and Forty was one of the main links between Love and Joe.- Jossed, however Love does have a hallucination involving Forty.
Ellie will come back and kill Love.
Even if she mostly blames Joe for what happened to Delilah, Ellie will realize Love was the one who killed her sister, and she will come back for revenge.- Jossed. Ellie does not return and Love is killed by Joe.
Love's baby isn't Joe's.
In fact, she might not have even been pregnant when she told Joe she was. The timing of The Baby Trap is very convenient. It's certainly plausible that it's Joe's, and he doesn't seem to doubt her, but it also wouldn't be too out of left field for Love to claim to be pregnant to keep Joe with her, and then go behind his back and find some other poor schmuck to do the job. If this is the case, and Joe inevitably finds out, that'll get rid of what few qualms he may have had about trying to remove her. Whether he takes it out on the kid remains to be seen (though given his actions towards Paco and Ellie, they have a decent chance of being spared unless he really goes off the deep end next season). Sofia sexually abused Love too.
She was too humiliated and afraid of her to say anything (or tried but was ignored by her parents) until she learned she was also doing it to Forty. Still, she doesn't confide about her own abuse in Joe out of shame of not intervening until Sofia started abusing Forty. Sofia was having an affair with Ray.
Or was possibly being abused or sexually extorted by him, causing her to take it out on his son.Gabe knows every crime Love has committed.
Because, as he says himself, he has a fantastic bullshit detector. It is possible Love's other friends also know about it.After shooting Joe, Forty would have shot himself as well
Love disposed of Candace and Delilah by baking them into pies, a la Sweeney Todd.
What Joe did with his own toes alludes to this, as she told him what she did with the bodies offscreen. Season 4 will be based on the third book You Love Me.
Since the book was released immediately after Season 3 finished filming, it's possible Season 4 will go back to following the materials from the novel where Mary Kay DiMarco will be introduced in that season as Joe's new obsession. However instead of the Pacific Coast, it will take place in Paris, France, where Joe currently is.- Jossed. The first half of Season 4 takes place mainly in London and is a new storyline, outside of Joe once again trying to go straight and borrowing the collegiate setting - although British, not American - from the upcoming For You And You Only.
Joe killed his mom too.
It would explain his habit of killing women who don't live up to the image he creates in his head. Marienne won't be Joe's first Love Interest in Season 4.
Seeing that she thinks he's dead and probably a murderer, Joe will find a nice French girl to settle down with first. Hopefully she gets out alive.- Semi-Jossed. Joe tracks Marienne down in London and kidnaps her, imprisoning her in a cage and preparing to kill her. He's approached by a fixer hired by the Quinn family (who had their suspicions Joe wasn't killed by Love) who offers Joe a chance to start over as Professor Jonathan Moore, in exchange for killing Marienne, but he kidnaps her instead and then falls in love with another woman named Kate.
Love will haunt Joe
And in Mr. Robot fashion, may even take control of him and make him murder some schmuck.- Jossed, though something does take control of Joe and make him murder schmucks.
Joe will run into Beck's or Love's friends in Paris
Annika, Lynn, Blythe, Gabe, Sunrise, Lucy...- Jossed. Joe is only in Paris briefly, and all of the characters save for a briefly returning Marienne are brand new to the London setting.
Joe will be killed off in Season 4
Jossed, unfortunately. In Season 4, a professor would use their position to sexually extort a student
Jossed for Part 1, the university is barely focused on. Though Malcolm is implied to be sleeping with Nadia, whether he coerced her into anything is unknown. And though they never have sex, Joe definitely fucked Nadia at the end. The "Eat the Rich" killer is:
- Ellie
- The Sallinger P.I.
- Joe's half-brother Jacob
- Joe's mother Sandy
- Lynn
Nadia will end up being in cahoots with Rhys
Jossed. Rhys will turn out to be a figment of Joe's imagination
Joe is the only character seen interacting with him. He might be a manifest of Joe's personality, the side that's an uninhibited killer rather than someone who thinks he's desperately trying to do the right thing.- Confirmed. Rhys Montrose is real and does appear in some scenes, but only while giving speeches. Joe imagines Rhys being the killer, blackmailing him and generally being a dick.
Joe’s delusions about Rhys will eventually be what gets him caught.
Building off the above trope, the Rhys that we’ve seen Joe interact with is a figment of his imagination. However, Rhys Montrose is still a real person running for mayor. Joe will attempt to assassinate him, only to realize Rhys had nothing to do with the murders, and Joe committed all of them. At this point, he’ll realize what a monster he is and accept his fate. Or not.- Confirmed.
Joe's murder of Vic will be a major plotline in the second half of Season 4
Rhys didn't kill Gemma
Confirmed. Joe did. Joe raped Marienne while imprisoning her
Marienne relapsed on the Oxycodone while imprisoned
Non fatally. She didn't want Nadia to call the police due to fears that her relapse will be exposed and she will lose custody of Juliette. After sparing Connie, Joe was trying to plant the ear on Blessing or Sophie
Earlier in a friendly chat with Phoebe, she and Joe talk about what absolute bitches they are, especially Blessing. He is seen slinking behind them later, possibly about to plant the ear on them until he finds Dawn a more fitting scapegoat. Ellie was meant to fill in Nadia's role in the 2nd half of Season 4
What Joe said to Phoebe at the party:
- "Phoebe, I sense a deep hurt and insecurity inside you. I know you're a good, kind person, and you are going to do good things in the future."
- "Phoebe, I hate everyone here with a burning passion except for you."
- "Phoebe, I love you."
- "Phoebe, I am secretly Joe Goldberg, the husband of Love Quinn. I've murdered Love, Guinevere Beck, Peach Sallinger, that comedian Henderson and that reporter guy."
- "Phoebe, I've kidnapped a black woman and imprisoned her inside a bomb shelter opposite an Indian restaurant."
- "Phoebe, you are the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in my life."
- "Phoebe, I miss my wife so much."
- "Phoebe, I think I'm being followed by a bald guy in a red tie and black suit."
- "Phoebe, have you ever wondered where we go when we die?"
- "Phoebe, I've been thinking of shaving my head, learning kickboxing and moving to Romania. You know any good pizza brands there?"
- "Phoebe, what are you living for?"
- "Phoebe, you are too good for these people."
- "Phoebe, this absinthe is shit."
- "Phoebe, I hate you, I hate all of your friends and I want all of you here to die."
- "Phoebe, I hate all your friends and I'm going to systematically murder all of them, starting with that prick Malcolm."
- "Phoebe, why couldn't you be my love interest this season?"
- "Phoebe, I'm your son from the future."
- "Phoebe, have you ever heard of the teachings of Baháʼu'lláh?"
- "Phoebe, have you ever thought of the poor kids in Thailand?"
- "Do you know Cardi B, Phoebe?"
- "Why, hello, you."
- "I hope they'll reveal what this mind-blowing shit I said to you, Tilly, or some idiot on TV Tropes is going to make shit up."
- "Serena? Is that you?"
- "I hate this show, I hate this show, I hate this show..."
