You Season 4 Part 2 Ending Explained: Is Marienne Really Dead? Did Rhys Montrose Die?
You Season 4 Part 2 has already arrived in the Netflix catalog after a long month of waiting. Bringing many answers, – and doubts, – the fourth year of the series, takes fans by surprise with an endless session of twists. First, the plot of the fourth year of the series follows the move of Joe (Penn Badgley), who now goes by the name of Jonathan Moore, from Paris to London. There, the man begins to live a new life, meet new people and start over as a professor at a London university. However, in the first part of the series, the public could follow that Joe had been pursued and threatened by a new serial killer, the “Eat the Rich” who, at the end of the first part, we know that he was Rhys Montrose or at least a projection of it.
One of the great challenges that series creators and writers face is keeping the plots interesting after several seasons. You may or may not like it, but you have to give credit to the creators of You who in this fourth round has gone to great lengths to give a twist to everything seen previously. Fans of Netflix fiction have had to be patient to reach the great moment in history that has been seen in the chapters that have just landed on the platform. SPOILER alert! If you’re still freaking out about the outcome, here’s our explained ending to You‘ season 4 part 2. Throughout these five chapters we have been speechless at various times and it has even been difficult for us to process some events. Before we get into the plot, do you remember the fan theory that Rhys was a Joe fantasy? Bingo. It’s not that the bookseller made it up, because the guy was real, but he did imagine all that crime scene. The murderer of the rich was always him.
You Season 4 Part 2 Ending Explained: What Happened At The End?
It all starts when Joe ends up not getting rid of Marienne and locks her in a kind of glass cage in a building in the city. Shortly after the episode, the man begins to develop an obsession with Rhys Montrose, which ends up diluting a darker fantasy of the man. It turns out that Joe ends up suffering a psychotic break, which triggers Joe’s hallucinations, making him seem like a different person. At first, Marienne herself comments that the character was changed, somewhat different. The hallucinations began to appear just after Joe arrested the woman. Later, however, it is explained that Eat the Rich is Joe himself. Joe’s imagination that it could be Rhys is explained as a way of blocking the darker side of the protagonist in the first part of the season, but that the serial killer was always Joe and, therefore, he was the one who killed Malcolm, Simon, and Gemma in part 1.
Does Joe Die in You Season 4 Part 2?
First, the twists in the second part of the season do not stop there. Shortly after revealing to the public that Rhys was a darker side to Joe, the man goes on to kill more. Kate’s father and Rhys himself, a candidate for mayor of London, are killed. Then the story begins to unravel when Joe returns to the building and finds Marienne “dead”. The woman hatched a plan with her friend Nadia to fake her death and get her freedom. Therefore, shortly after being left on a park bench by the man, the woman returns to Paris. Joe, on the other hand, is conflicted and decides to take his own life so as not to hurt people. It is then that he decides to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge and drowning. However, death seems not to knock at the door for the man, who is rescued and revived by paramedics and taken to the hospital. Later, Joe ends up waking up and finding Kate in his room, where he confesses everything to the woman. The two then make a pact to help each other. Joe even tries, but he will live for another season.
What Happened to Rhys Montrose?
Joe moves to London and decides to restart his life as a university professor. His first night is disturbing, and when he wakes up the next day, he visualizes a dead body beside him. Then events get even more bizarre when the man is threatened by a person identifying himself as Eat the Rich. The new serial killer starts killing a high society friend of Joe. At the end of the first part, the audience discovers the true identity of the killer: Rhys Montrose. However, the second part arrives with a shocking twist when it reveals that Joe, who seems to have changed and left his murderous side behind, is responsible for the deaths.
In the seventh episode, the man gets Rhys’s address from Tom Lockwood and ends up meeting the London mayoral candidate at his ex-wife’s house. There, Joe ends up holding Rhys as his hostage and proceeds to torture him. Joe begins to question him about Marienne’s whereabouts but to no avail. Rhys claims to be unaware of the person. Angered, Joe begins a more dangerous torture session until he finally kills Rhys. Furious, Joe ends up strangling the man until he takes his last breath. At first, we see that Joe and his past are still lit.
What Happens to Marienne?
In the new episodes of the Netflix series, we discover that Joe kidnaps Marienne and locks her in an apartment in an abandoned building. Every day the man takes food to the woman until a certain point he stops going. Repeatedly, the murderous and disturbed protagonist of the plot listens to Marienne’s pleas to let her go but does not listen. The disappearance of the woman makes Nadia, her friend, suspect Joe and starts to follow him. Thus, the woman ends up discovering the old building and, consequently, the whereabouts of Marienne. However, the prisoner warns of Joe’s murderous personality and how dangerous he can be. Nadia, however, promises to get Marienne out of there, and together they make an escape plan.
Does Marienne Die in You Season 4 Part 2?
First, Marienne does not die in Season 4 of You. The duo’s plan was for Nadia to change Marienne’s medications for beta blockers, causing the woman to have a slowed heartbeat and thus be able to fake her death. Joe finds Marienne’s “dead” body in the apartment and resolves to dispose of the woman’s body in a bunch of parklands. With the plan in action, Nadia follows Joe, who soon abandons Marienne’s “dead” body. So, Nadia approaches and applies adrenaline so that Marienne wakes up. Thus, Marienne’s last moments in season 4 are in Paris, next to her daughter and far away from Joe and fear.
The fourth season of You kicked off a month ago with a change of tone that left many of its fans stunned. Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) seemed to have redeemed himself in London. Corpses were chasing him, yes, but this time he seemed totally out of his control and even his bond with his new love interest Kate (Charlotte Ritchie) was seemingly free of harassment. However, it was all a farce. The second part of this season, signed by Sera Gamble and already available on Netflix, has given a radical twist to the plot, dismantling everything the viewer thought they knew about the rich-eater murderer. In a clever move, the eighth episode, Where Are You Going? Where have you been? showed us the harsh (but much more believable) reality: it was all Joe’s business. Rhys Montrose (Ed Speleers) has turned out to be the macabre and criminal part of Joe, the dark side of him.
Emphasizing more than in any previous installment that the protagonist has a monster inside, despite his initial charisma, the series intelligently separates his faces from our Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Jonathan, with the face of Badgley, is the rational part that resists obsession and murder; while Joe, with the physique of Rhys, encompasses all the psychopathy of the character. Thus, as already explored in Fight Club or Mr. Robot, we discover that Joe has split his personality, projecting his stalker and murderer identity onto Rhys (an author he has read about and knows well). And he doesn’t even remember what he did to him, no matter how hard this other version tries to get to him. We soon discover that Marienne (Tati Gabrielle), whom we believed to be in Paris with her daughter, is starving in the famous glass cell in which the protagonist imprisoned his previous victims.
Likewise, it has been he, with his most macabre personality, the one who has finished off the wealthy friends of Kate and Lady Phoebe (Tilly Keeper). Even his ex-girlfriends and victims, from Beck (Elizabeth Lail) to Love (Victoria Pedretti), visit him subconsciously to remind him who he really is. Luckily, Nadia (Amy-Leigh Hickman), his gifted student in college, discovers Marienne and plots with her to stop Joe. However, everything gets out of control (even more) in the last episode. We analyze it.
The Death of Jonathan Moore?
Episode 8 marks a beastly turnaround. Joe/Jonathan is before the corpse of Marienne who, after losing custody of her daughter, has decided to take her life. The protagonist decides to comply with her last wishes and leaves her body in a park so that someone can find it. The next day, they find the body of Rhys Montrose (the real one), whom Joe had killed on behalf of Tom Lockwood (Greg Kinnear), and the corpse contains DNA samples. Another open front for Joe is his student Nadia and her boyfriend Eddie (Brad Alexander), who intend to sneak into his house and find the necessary evidence to discover and denounce him. Something that does not worry the protagonist at first since he is determined to end his life so as not to harm anyone else.
However, she first has to kill Tom Lockwood, who continues to haunt and control Kate’s life. Posing as her, she meets him at night in a hangar, where she suffocates him with a bag and later blames one of her bodyguards for the crime. Already in the morning, we see Joe accompanied by his alter ego, approaching the Royal Victoria Dock Bridge to commit suicide. He doesn’t want to hurt Kate and hates the sadistic part of her. The two share a hug before Joe gets rid of his worst intentions by throwing Rhys’s body into the Thames, before following him. However, when he is in the water, he remembers Kate and regrets it. Fortunately for him, the police saved him.
Nadia, meanwhile, entrusts Eddie with another twist: Marianne is alive. When they planned to kill Joe, they also thought of an alternative in case things didn’t go as expected. Marienne would take just enough medication to almost completely stop her heartbeat and fool her captor. Once the protagonist abandoned her somewhere, Nadia, who would have followed them, would rescue her. Plan B ends up being a success and Marienne returns to Paris with her daughter while Joe leaves her for dead.
When Kate meets Jonathan/Joe at the hospital, he decides not to lie to her anymore; she tells him that he is Joe Goldberg and confesses her past. She, instead of being shocked, proposes that, now that her father is dead, he help her with her art foundation. Although they are both capable of terrible things, “we got on the right track,” she says. Thus, they decide to protect themselves using the resources that Tom Lockwood has left them. So, Kate has already disposed of Joe’s DNA on Rhys’s corpse. Nadia, for her part, sneaks into Joe’s house and finds the box in which he hides all his secrets. She takes photos and leaves with the evidence, only to run into a menacing Joe on the street. While he deletes the photos from his cell phone, Nadia stumbles across Eddie’s body. Shocked and paralyzed, she is unable to say a word when her teacher tells her that he is going to frame her for the murders of Eddie and the real Rhys.
To the sound of Anti-Hero, by Taylor Swift, we are seeing what has happened to the rest of the characters: Blessing (Ozioma Whenu) and Sophie (Niccy Lin) have bought the Sundry House; Roald (Ben Wiggins) shot a friend while hunting, but his family has covered it up; Connie (Dario Coates) spent nine days in rehab; Lady Phoebe has moved to Thailand to be an English teacher; and Marienne lives in Paris with her daughter Juliette. In the final minutes, we are reunited with Joe, now shaved, and Kate in a luxurious New York apartment. They are being interviewed: the protagonist is treated like a hero after having survived his violent ex-partner, Love, while Kate sells her achievements at the head of her father’s foundation and talks about her philanthropic dreams. How has he managed to get free again? Thanks to Kate, a cybersecurity team, and a publicist squad, deleted searches, hacked files, and bribed the Madre Linda police. Embracing the wicked side of her, Joe ditches: “She’s here to change the world [about Kate].”And he thinks: “Killing is much easier than before. But now I’m honest with myself”. “I’m only here to help,” he concludes, addressing the journalist.
Thus, we say goodbye to the protagonist without a hint of remorse or conscience, embracing his most perverse side and, on top of that, with financial resources and the influence of the Lockwoods to do whatever he wants. Also, he is back home, where he has acquired a bookstore. In the absence of Netflix confirming a fifth season that, being located in New York, could well close the cycle and be the last, the fourth has left several loose ends. Although Joe seems to have achieved complete impunity with the Lockwood legacy, there are still people who could come back into his life and reveal the truth.
It is unlikely that Marienne will risk that family happiness that she has worked so hard to achieve by unmasking Joe, but something tells us Ellie, played by Jenna Ortega in the second season of the series, has it sworn. On the other hand, Nadia, who is currently silent in prison, is smart enough to rebel when the opportunity presents itself. Be that as it may, something tells us that Joe’s story does not end here and that this protagonist will not say goodbye to us with a happy ending. Just now that he can be confident and less meticulous in his atrocities by believing himself invincible because of the protection he has (with the danger that entails), it is also possible that he will take a false step and break his hot streak. New York exposed this stalker to us, and that same city could be his grave.
