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At first, she wasn’t willing to accept that he was a cold, hard killer.
Youseason 5 ultimately revealed that Brontewas an old friend of Guinevere Beck, whom Joe hadkilled back inYouseason 1.
Their showdown was magnificent, butwhen the time came, Bronte let the murderer live.
Maddie Lockwood had set Mooney’s bookstore on fire while Joe and Kate were trapped in the basement.
With renewed clarity,Bronte realized that she could walk away and leave Joe to burn.
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Joe would have escaped ever facing accountability for the dozens of terrible crimes he had committed.
Joe would have escaped ever facing accountability for the dozens of terrible crimes he had committed.
This leads to Bronte’s next opportunity to kill Joe.
Joe even begged her to kill him, but she responded that she would never give him that satisfaction.
Death would have been too convenient anescape forYou’s killer.
However, Bronte was right that such a fate would have been far too easy.
Joe’s defining quality inYouis that he thinks all his murders were committed out of necessity.
He feels no remorse because he has never taken accountability for anything he has done.
Thefinal scene ofYouseason 5demonstrates just how right Bronte was not to kill Joe.
As Joe finishes the book, he thinks about how cruel his punishment is.
It’s clear thatYou’s Joe Goldberg would have preferred death to this.
However, Bronte ensured that he instead got exactly the punishment he deserved.
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