[unsettling music plays]

[eerie sting]

[dark music plays] You should have killed me better, Joe. 

From the beginning, we knew that we wanted to bring back some of Joe's victims. He's had so many victims, most of whom have not survived, and we wanted to give a voice to the ones who had. 

You don't have to be afraid anymore. 

Fuck off. 

We also knew this is not a show where we wanted to see Joe on trial. We didn't wanna be in a courtroom, but there is a trial of sorts. That's why the episode is called "The Trial of the Furies." The furies are the Greek goddesses of revenge. For us, that's Nadia, Marienne, and Kate. 

I knew you couldn't resist following me. God, you're so predictable.

[man] Joe wakes up in the cage with Kate. He's got Nadia there too, which is really nice. He's sort of playing tennis, just looking between the two of them and not really sure what to do.

[woman 1] They give him a real taste of his own medicine, which I think is gonna be really satisfying.

[woman 2] It's great to see him in the cage. And Marienne coming back, revealing to Joe that she didn't die, is so powerful. 

Marienne faked her own death in order to get out of Joe's clutches. She's a fighter. 

No! No!

[Tati] She's one that will never let all of that trauma that she's experienced get the best of her. 

I don't care what brought you here. I'm so glad you're alive.

[scoffs] That's what you're going with? 

I think that it is a ground-shaking moment for both of them.

[Penn] He's very surprised. And she also represents a moment, like the mention of Beck, where there's a skip in the record for him. There's no computing. There's no reconciliation with what's actually happened. What's interesting is that he is happy she's alive because he loved her. She is truly the one who got away. 

You fucking kidnapped me. You drugged me. You… you broke my arm and starved me. You are not a white knight, Joe! 

We've rooted for Joe for so long. We've set aside certain things that he does and found a way to empathize and love him. And the things that these women are saying, you find the shift happening. 

Confess to Rhys' murder so the whole world knows I am fucking innocent.

[Michael] We're finally bursting the bubble and seeing the real of him as we hear Marienne castigate him and Nadia condemn him for the life that he stole from her.

[Nadia] I had dreams before I met you, Joe. And then you took away my voice.

[Justin] And during this trial of sorts, we're trying to see if Joe is actually gonna take in the things that they're saying to him.

And he doesn't really.

No.

No, he's not… he's not built to.

Yeah. Nadia wants to shoot Joe. 

I love when it's the group effort that begins to bring him down, the fact that they're all united by this common enemy. 

But at some point, Kate and Nadia are on the same page. At some point, Marienne and Nadia. At some point, it's the two of them, and Nadia is like, "Let's just kill him." 

If we want Joe to die, it needs to happen now. It's not like we can turn him in. 

Since Kate's decided that he will have to die, there's a level of self-sacrifice she feels that might have to happen.

[Kate] I will kill him. If I get caught, I'll tell the police I acted alone.

[Charlotte] It was fun to play because the scenes felt like it was written like Kate was resigned and had surrendered, so, therefore, was quite liberated and quite free because she's no longer chasing a life that she needs to maintain. She's like, "If this means I have to give everything up for it, I think I'm ready." 

You're Bronte, right? You're alive!

[woman 3] The scene with Marienne is so interesting because I think Marienne so beautifully and so succinctly speaks to Bronte's deepest fears and feelings about Joe.

[Marienne] Men like Joe, they… they really catch you off guard, don't they? 

I don't wanna-- 

Even when you think you have all the facts.

[Madeline] She describes how it feels to be seen by Joe, and then to know what it's like when his eyes turn cold. She's speaking her language like she knows what she's saying.

[Marienne] It's all too good to be true. The way he loves you, even when you don't love yourself.

[Justin] Marienne also wants to release Bronte from the shame of falling for someone like Joe, for thinking that she was too smart to be someone who would do something like that, and to try to tell Bronte that she can still change the narrative, she can still save her own life. 

This is a turning point for Bronte. I feel like how vulnerable and how exhausted Marienne was, Bronte sees how long this fight has been. And it has to stop somewhere. 

Tell me why you framed Harrison. 

Reagan's teeth have been found in Harrison's gym bag. He gets arrested. I get arrested. And I'm floored because Joe promised that he was gonna not tell on us. So it's a real turn of events, and it makes Maddie incredibly angry. 

Burn in hell.

[dark, dramatic music plays] So the final scene, Maddie's fire is about to take Kate and Joe and burn them to a crisp. 

I love their last scene together because they both think they're gonna die. I think they're being honest and practical with themselves. 

All your wives dying in fires. 

There's an openness. There's no attachment to anything when they're talking.

[Joe] No, Love didn't die in a fire. I poisoned her.

[Charlotte] It's recording, and his confession is just, I think, the final cherry on top. I did the final thing I needed to do, and now she kind of can let go. 

You got me.

[Justin] By sending Joe's confession to the police, Kate completes her penance, and she has made the ultimate sacrifice.

[Bronte] I should leave you, run away, and never look back. But then, there'd be no justice. 

It was important to us to let the audience know that Bronte's bubble has fully bust going into the finale. Giving her her own VO makes her a point-of-view character, a hero to Joe's antihero, if you will. 

And now she has to make things right. She's the only person who can.

[Bronte] Turns out you're not the hero of our story. I am.

[dramatic sting]