Before You Watch Season 5: The Ultimate You Season 4 Recap

Joe followed Marienne from Paris to London but seeing the fear on Marienne's face, Joe let her go.

Love's father had hired a contract killer named Elliot Tannenberg to find Joe who is more of a fixer.

Elliot agreed to give Joe a new identity, but in return, he would have to kill Marienne because, except for Joe, only Marienne knew everything about this matter.

Then Joe followed Marienne to the train station where instead of killing her, Joe secretly stole Marienne's necklace and by sending the photo of this necklace to Elliot, Joe convinced Elliot that Marienne was no more in this world.

Taking on the new identity of Jonathan Moore from Elliot, Joe started working as an English professor at the university.

Opposite Joe's flat was the flat of his colleague Malcolm Harding.

While watching from the window, Joe fell in love with Malcolm's girlfriend Kate.

One night Joe saved Kate from an attack by some thieves.

Then Malcolm took Joe to a private party to thank him.

Malcolm and Kate's friend circle was full of millionaire spoiled brats. It was here that Joe met novel author Rhys Montrose. Besides being an author, Rhys was also contesting the mayoral election.

Joe drank too much at the party. As soon as he regained consciousness, he saw that someone had picked him up and brought him home from the party and Malcolm's dead body was lying on the dining table in front of him.

The murderer had cut off Malcolm's finger and taken it as a mark.

At first, Joe thought that maybe he had killed Malcolm under the influence of alcohol. Joe quickly disposed of the body and went to Kate's house.

Kate had invited him for dinner to say special thanks to him.

Then Joe started receiving disappearing messages from an unknown number. In the messages, Malcolm's real murderer was thanking Joe for disposing of the body.

Kate used to organize art exhibitions. Impressed by Joe's normal presence, Kate's best friend Phoebe invited Joe to one such exhibition. This art exhibition was also of one of their friends, the son of a billionaire named Simon Soo.

While searching Malcolm's office, Joe found out that he was deeply in debt. It was here that Joe saw that Phoebe's boyfriend, Adam, had a fetish for golden showers.

Golden shower means urine bath in pure language.

Adam's bodyguard Vic saw Joe secretly keeping an eye on this.

Outside of the art exhibition, a different matter was going on. Simon had got that art made by some local artist, and now, by putting this art in Kate's exhibition, he was taking all the credit for it.

The real artist came to the exhibition and started creating a ruckus but he was shown the way out by the guards.

Joe had read in Malcolm's diary that stealing art and taking credit for it was Simon's old habit. Joe thought that maybe Simon had killed Malcolm to keep him quiet, but that very night someone killed Simon in the exhibition hall.

This time the killer cut off Simon's ear as a token and took it away.

Coming home, Joe saw that someone had pasted a list of his past deeds on his wall, which meant that the killer found out Joe's real identity.

This killer became famous in the media as the Eat the Rich killer.

To create a buzz in the news, the killer sent Malcolm's finger to the local media as proof.

Joe found out that his student Nadia had a secret affair with Malcolm.

The killer wants Joe to kill Kate now, but instead of killing Kate, Joe starts following her to keep her safe. At first, she was not giving much importance to Joe at all; I mean, she was not giving him any attention; if you don't understand now, then she was ignoring him.

But as usual, Kate also became a victim of Joe's twisted personality, and then they do IT. Vic was secretly watching all this.

Now Joe was behind Kate and Vic was behind Joe.

Vic caught hold of Joe and started searching him at gunpoint, then he found Malcolm's ring in Joe's pocket. Maybe the real killer must have planted this ring in Joe's pocket.

Joe tried hard to convince Vic but it was of no use. Then in the scuffle between the two, Vic was killed.

Joe decided that instead of going against the real murderer, he would pretend to work with him.

Phoebe called Joe for interrogation, and the police were waiting for him. Joe was able to fool the police very easily.

Slowly Joe and Phoebe were becoming good friends. Phoebe soon added him to her millionaire friend circle.

They all went to Phoebe's family mansion to party on the weekend. Poor Joe got stuck in a different love triangle after coming here.

Joe clearly told Phoebe that he had no interest in having an affair. Joe had recently come to know that Adam was going to propose to Phoebe for marriage.

Adam's financial condition was continuously getting worse. He felt that by marrying Phoebe, he could save his business with the help of her family fund.

It was here that Joe met Kate's childhood friend Roald. Roald was totally infatuated with Kate. During dinner, their friend Gemma accused Joe of being a murderer because all the murders had taken place after Joe's arrival. It was here that Joe noticed that all of them were looking at Joe and Kate as outsiders.

Then Kate told Joe that she had broken all ties with her millionaire father years ago. Her billionaire father had played with the lives of many innocent people for the sake of business, i.e. by ignoring environmental guidelines and giving them cancer etc.

Roald also felt that Joe was the real killer who threw Joe down from the second-floor window.

Luckily, Joe got only minor injuries due to falling in the bushes. As soon as he went inside, he heard Kate screaming. On going upstairs, Joe saw that Kate was standing with a knife near Gemma's dead body.

Afterward, Joe immediately believes that Kate did not commit the murder; there was someone who was trying to frame Kate.

Then Joe, along with Kate, disposed of Gemma's body. Seeing Joe's experience, Kate understood that this was not the first time Joe was disposing of a body.

Here Joe finally told Kate the truth that he was the one who had made Malcolm's body disappear. The real killer wants to frame Joe just like Kate.

Roald came here while chasing Joe and caught him red-handed with the body.

Roald took Joe inside the mansion at gunpoint. Everyone was convinced that Joe was the real murderer but all of them were completely drunk.

Roald was going to take Joe to the jungle and kill him by chasing him, but instead, Joe beat him and made him unconscious. After some time the real murderer came and attacked Joe and imprisoned both of them in a nearby ruin.

As soon as Joe regains consciousness, he sees that the real murderer is Rhys. Rhys wants Joe to kill Roald and put the blame on him. When Joe refuses, Rhys sets the ruins on fire and leaves both of them to die.

Joe quickly frees himself and frees Roald as well. Then Kate arrives in time and saves both of them.

Joe keeps the real murderer's identity hidden from everyone. He will personally take revenge on Rhys.

Rhys had put Simon's ear in Joe's fridge to blackmail him. If Joe doesn't put the blame on someone else in time, Rhys will declare Joe the murderer.

Luckily, during this time, a psycho fan of Phoebe had tied her up in a hotel room. Joe freed Phoebe, put Simon's ear in the psycho's bag, and put the blame for all the murders on this captive.

Nadia was now getting suspicious of Joe after seeing all this. Whenever there is any trouble, Joe is already present there.

Joe and Kate decide to forget their past and move forward with their relationship, but Rhys is not going to let Joe go so easily. Due to this, Rhys will have to do one last thing - murder Rhys' political opponent, Tom Lockwood, aka Kate's father.

Tom had come to London for some work. Kate took Joe to dinner to meet her father, where Tom whispered in Joe's ear that he knew everything about Joe, "I know who you really are, Joe Goldberg."

Phoebe decides to marry Adam due to society, status pressure or Adam's manipulative behaviour but she doesn't want to marry him from the bottom of her heart.

Kate was not happy at all with Phoebe's decision.

Then, to motivate Joe further, Rhys showed him Marienne's passport, indicating that he had found Marienne and kidnapped her somewhere.

If Joe doesn't kill Tom, Rhys will kill Marienne.

Tom ruined Rhys' reputation by publishing an article against him. As soon as this article was published, Rhys hid in a private cottage.

Now Tom wants Joe to kill Rhys on his orders. Tom knew very well that Joe must have killed Love. It means that killing someone and making it look like an accident or a false case was not a big deal for Joe.

By killing Rhys, Joe will get the girl and a lot of money too. If Tom wants, he can get all of Joe's crimes forgiven and give him back his old identity. If you have money, then nothing is impossible, boss.

Then Joe went to the address given by Tom and started to torture Rhys.

Surprisingly, Rhys was reacting very strangely as if he did not know Joe. Joe does not have time for this drama. He needs Marienne's address as soon as possible.

But Rhys really did not know what Joe was talking about. Then Joe got angry and killed Rhys.

And here comes the biggest twist of You Season 4.

Joe and Rhys never met. Joe had created the personality of murderer Rhys in his own mind.

That means this killer Rhys was just Joe's illusion, Joe's alternate personality.

From the beginning, Joe has committed all the murders, so Rhys is never found in reality.

All those conversations, etc., between them, are just a product of Joe's mind.

Meanwhile, Nadia went to Joe's house to search secretly, where she found the key kept in a book.

Joe had recently started visiting an Indian restaurant called Tandoori Tradition quite often. The staff there also started knowing and recognizing him. Naida understood that this key would definitely open a house near this restaurant.

Bingo Naida's suspicion turned out to be absolutely correct.

Joe had built a glass cage in the basement of this deserted house, inside which Marienne was imprisoned.

One of Joe's personalities thought that Joe had let Marienne go that day at the train station, but Joe's alternate personality had made Marienne unconscious and kept her tied in this glass cage. Since then Marienne has been imprisoned here.

By reading Rhys' book, Joe created an alternate personality similar to her in his mind.

Later, Joe gradually forgot about Marianne completely. I don't know how many days she was imprisoned here, hungry and thirsty, and finally, it was understood that he had committed all the murders from the beginning.

Keeping himself busy, Joe himself became a detective or murderer. After thinking a little, Joe remembered where he had imprisoned Marienne.

Nadia was talking to Marienne downstairs at this time. Marienne told Nadia that there was no use in calling the police. Joe always escapes. Then to get rid of Joe, they made two plans. Either kill Joe by making him unconscious or pretend to be dead and run away from here.

Hearing the sound of the door, Nadia hid behind the cage. Joe promised Marienne that he would set her free when the right time came. While bringing Marienne here, his hand was broken but due to his drug problem, she did not take painkillers.

Nadia got Ketamine i.e. anesthesia injection with the help of her friendzone guy Edward.

During Phoebe and Adam's wedding, Phoebe had a massive mental breakdown and their wedding got cancelled. Seeing this, Kate was very angry at Adam.

Kate went to her father and complained about Adam that he was mentally using Phoebe for his own benefit. On hearing this, Tom got Adam killed.

Well, Kate did not want to kill Adam at all. Out of all his children, Tom liked only Kate and he wanted Kate to take over his entire business.

Tom was behind all the progress Kate has made till now. She is not a self-made woman. Everything was indirectly Tom's contribution. And yes, the mistake of giving cancer to innocent children also happened due to Kate's negligence. We cannot put all the blame on Tom. It means Kate's past is also very dark like Joe's.

To cure his illusions, Joe took Phoebe's medicines. After this, he started having visions of Beck or Love.

Joe understood that there was only one way to come out of this madness: he would have to kill himself, but before dying, he went to free Marianne.

On reaching the basement, Joe saw that Marienne took her own life by taking an overdose of painkillers because after being locked in the basement for so many days, Marienne's daughter was taken away by her grandmother. Anyway, what is the use of living alone?

They thought that Marienne might have gone to London and got addicted to drugs again.

Thinking Marienne was dead, Joe put her body on a bench in a public park so that the police would think that Marienne died due to a drug overdose.

But all this was a part of Nadia's plan B. Their main plan to kill Joe failed but following plan B, Marienne took a medicine to lower her heart rate.

Then while chasing Joe, Nadia gave an injection to Marienne and woke her up in time.

As soon as Marienne regained consciousness, she returned to her daughter Juliette – free, alive and a mother again. Nadia had planted the false news that Marienne's mother was taking Juliette away forever. It was this guilt that brought her out… and Nadia, finding an opportunity, saved Marienne.

Kate told Joe that her father, Tom Lockwood, was behind every success of hers from the very beginning. Kate does not think she will ever be able to come out of her father's shadow in life.

On hearing this, Joe got angry and killed Tom, i.e. Kate's father, or made it look like Tom's murder was for a few bucks, but he was still having visions of Rhys.

Then, to save himself from Kate, Joe jumped off the bridge to end his life, but the rescue police rescued Joe by pulling him out of the water in time.

Kate went to the hospital to meet Joe. Tom had handed over his assets to Kate before dying. Kate also knows that Joe was somehow behind Rhys' death. She feels that maybe Joe killed him because of Tom's blackmail. Whatever it was, Kate solved that issue with the power of money.

Just like Kate, Joe also accepted his alternate dark personality.

To bring out the truth about Joe, Nadia or Edward went to collect evidence from his house.

Enough is enough now

Joe killed Edward and put the blame on Nadia. If Nadia wants, she can go and tell everything to the police but no one is going to believe her. But even if they believe her, Joe will still be saved by the powers of money because Kate is with him. And maybe you are forgetting that Kate's father has handed over everything to Kate.

Phoebe came from London to Asia to cure her mental condition and became a teacher in a Charity school.

As soon as he got a millionaire wife, Joe regained his original identity and after making himself the victim of a psycho, abusive ex-wife's Love, he went back to New York.

Now Joe and Kate, a power couple, will together take care of the Lockwood family business.

And this is where Season 4 ends where Joe is now more dangerous than before.