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Joe

You think you can buy me?

I think I can save you. That's what money can do!

I didn't make the world, Joe. Neither did you. You gonna kill me now? Why? Because I'm a survivor? Because I had what it takes to not get eaten alive? Kathryn gets to say "Daddy's bad" because I bubble-wrapped her entire world!

Joe

Do you think that worked?

Well, what are you doing for her right now, Joe? The same goddamn thing.

Rhys

Don't you let him get in your head.

You don't even see it, do you? You do this for her, you become the problem! You and I are the same, Joe. We do what has to be done, because that's what being a man is.

Rhys

You wage war with your own nature. That's just what you do. You have this notion that you're an especially bad person -- join the bloody club! What do you think everyone else sees in the mirror?

Joe

I think I've killed a lot more people.

Rhys

You are a stellar example of the human condition. Traumatized brain, constantly trying to shame us! That's what you need to fight -- the same.

Joe

I should be ashamed.

Rhys

No! That's why I'm fucking standing here, trying un-twist you before you kill us both!

Rhys

Well, go on! Answer! She probably heard about Tom; she needs you!

Joe

[internally] Goodbye, Kate.

Rhys

I don't understand you. You and Kate have a future.

Joe

No we don't.

Rhys

Of course you do. Why not?

Joe

BECAUSE I WILL... kill her.

Rhys

Will you?

Joe

Every time I try... I made it perfect. It's never enough. There's no amount of loving or supporting or killing the assholes holding them back. I want this time to be different, but now I know, it's not gonna be different with Kate either.

Rhys

No, no, no. Stop, stop. I just helped you. I can help you with this.

Joe

Very sweet of you to offer, Rhys, but I think we both know you're full of shit.

Rhys

It's not about Kate, is it? It's us. Despite all I've ever done for you... You... despise me. All I ever wanted was to make you happy!

Joe

And it ends with a corpse in the trunk of my car over and over. I can't do that again. We did what we did for Kate... I'm done.

Rhys

No. We can figure this out, you and me. You and I, we can do anything together. I'm alive for you. I just-- Why can't you see that? Why can't you see me the way I see you? I love you!

Joe

[internally] Lockwood was right about one thing. We didn't make the world, but it fucked us up deeply. The one thing we can do is decide whether we continue the cycle or break it.

Joe

One more month, and we say goodbye to Reagan. Forever.

Why is she not haunting you?

Joe

[internally] Because I'm glad she's dead.

Do you know what I've come to realize?

Joe

What?

Henry had good dads. And taking him from them is one of the worst things I've ever helped you do. Those men loved him!

Joe

I love him! He's mine!

No! No, no, no! No, you don't! You think you do, but you never have! You don't even see him! To you, he is just an extension of yourself. Same thing my father did to us.

Joe

I am nothing like your father.

Do you know, if you actually cared, you would be begging me to take him from you. You already abandoned him once -- to chase a women that you thought you loved across the ocean, to run from all the people that you killed. And now you've fallen for a new woman, you've killed more people, are you actually trying to tell me that you won't find a reason to abandon him again?!

[in an online video about Joe] Besides his fake name, he was always canceling class early, to do what, kill people?

Joe

I was DISSOCIATING!

One day, your son will know that you're a fucking serial killer.

Joe

Kate… Kate, my conscience is clean. If we're being honest, you have killed way more people. I have never killed any children.

Do you remember when you used to tell me there were no monsters in my room?

Joe

Yeah! Yeah, of course. Yeah, you were so scared...

You were lying.

Joe

What are you saying?

It was you. You're the monster.

Joe

He always was precocious. Y'know, he was... His mother said this would happen. Her dying words. "He'll know what you are." I love him so much. Maybe-- Maybe he deserves--! Better than me! WHY?! HOW?! HOW DID I BECOME THIS PERSON! I try-- I try to love! Every time, it falls apart! It's my son...! It's me. I'm unlovable. Is this what I deserve?

Brontë

I don't know. I don't know what you deserve, Joe. Maybe it's not for me to decide. But this... This is deluded! You're not the fucking victim! I'm-- I'm, I'm calling the cops now. This is over. This has to be over.

Joe

What makes you think this time will be any different? I killed your friend on camera and here I am!

Brontë

Here you are, Joe! Running. Scared! You know how I know it'll be different? Because I've turned on you, Joe. And if I can wake up, so can the world.

Joe

[internally] I have been delusional...

Brontë

Give me the phone.

Joe

[internally] Putting so much faith in love. In the universe. In... her. Fucking. Brontë.

Brontë

It was always gonna end this way, wasn't it?

Joe

NO! No, it didn't have to! But you're ungrateful! You're spiteful! I made you special, Brontë, and you're too selfish to know how good you've had it!

Brontë

There it is. There it is, Joe. That's the real you. You pathetic misogynyst!

Joe

You wanna know how I killed Beck?! I'll show you.

No, I'm done! I am done, Joe. And I have been asking myself over and over: Why? And I finally-- I see it clearly now! The fantasy of a man like you is how we cope with the reality of a man like you!

Joe

[internally] So... in the end, my punishment is even worse than I imagined. The loneliness. Oh. My. God. The loneliness. No hope of being held. Knowing this is forever. It's unfair. Putting all of this on me. Aren't we all just products of our environment? Hurt people hurt people. I never stood a chance.

Goldberg. [slides a letter to Joe]

Joe

[internally] Ah, yes. Another fan. Why am I in a cage when these crazies write me all the depraved things they want me to do to them? Maybe we have a problem as a society. Maybe we should fix what's broken in us. Maybe the problem isn't me. Maybe... it's you.