Using one of his go-to moves, Joe breaks into Dr. Nicky's laptop and listens to a recording of one of Beck's sessions. He concludes that he was wrong about the affair and realizes that he's not what Beck needs right now. And because Joe believes in his twisted sense of true love, he decides to let Beck go for real.
Severe bruising around her neck revealed that Joe choked her to death. “You hurt me,” her ghost said. “Look at me, Joe,” she continued, as she removed her scarf to expose her scars. Beck's death in the book version of You, written by Caroline Kepnes, is similar to that in the Netflix series.
Joe accuses Beck of cheating on him with Dr. Nicky and she denies it and then breaks up with Joe. Later, Joe discovers that Beck actually did have an affair with Dr. Nicky and he decides to forgive her.
Joe and Beck date on and off for a few months, but after Peach's death, they really connect and seem like they're in a good place (from Joe's perspective). But then he figures out that the whole time they've been together, she's actually been sleeping with her therapist, Dr. Nicky (played by John Stamos).
He tells her that he cant let her out until he knows for sure that he can trust her. Yes, according to the series "You," Beck was cheating on Joe.
Devastated, Joe wrenches the truth out of Beck, who admits she was lying and says she loves him like she's never loved anyone — she got confused because she didn't know what to do with that love. That speaks straight to Joe's heart, and they make up; she's completely forgiven.
He told Dr. Nicky that he was gay and struggling in his relationship, but he was really trying to see if Beck was sleeping with the therapist. Eventually, it was revealed that she was.
Love Quinn
Much like Joe, Love was a serial killer, and her victims included her family's au pair, who had sexually assaulted Love's twin brother Forty when they were children, Candace, Delilah, and Natalie, her neighbor who Joe was becoming obsessed with.
Joe Goldberg stalks his first obsession, Guinevere Beck. He convinces the audience that he simply cannot help himself, though he tries many times to stop his obsessive thought and stalking fixations.
Joe is a loner bookstore manager who becomes infatuated with a woman named Guinevere Beck and begins to stalk her to find out everything about her and hopefully make her fall in love with him. However, his obsession soon becomes out of control when he starts trying to control every aspect of her life.
She attempted to escape, but Joe caught her and the episode ends with the revelation that her book of short stories was published posthumously. But how did Beck die? Her death took place off-screen, and Joe framed Dr. Nicky (Beck's therapist with whom she had an affair) for her murder.
Peach has been in love with Beck for a long time. However, her feelings have been shown to be largely unrequited. Beck loves Peach as her friend and consistently supports her but, for Peach, this is not enough.
What happened to Paco? At the end of You, Paco is seen moving out of New York with his mother.
Joe later escapes the cage with his spare key and strangles Beck to her death before she can escape. After Beck's death, Joe successfully manages to frame Dr. Nicky for all of the murders that he committed, including Beck.
Joe's obsession with Rhys, along with his denial of his own evil, became so bad that he projected his darkness into a hallucination of Rhys' Eat the Rich killer persona.
Beck knows the truth. Or at least some of it. In the final moment's of YOU's penultimate episode, Beck discovered Joe's hiding place — the ceiling above his toilet. There, he'd hidden a box filled with items he'd taken from her — including her phone — and items he'd taken from Peach and Benji, his two victims.
In later seasons, currently being season 4, Joe is a murderer on the run and it was revealed that he has erotomania although it was obvious in the earlier seasons that the character is troubled, more so for his troubled childhood and his need for affection.
The latest season finally gives main character Joe Goldberg's condition a name—erotomania. It's a delusional disorder in which someone has an unfounded belief that a person of a perceived higher social status (like a famous musician or actor) is in love with them.
Scott did say, though, that the closest clinical diagnosis to a "psychopath" or "sociopath" is antisocial personality disorder, and that Goldberg does indeed show some hallmark traits of the disorder. He also demonstrates characteristics of narcissistic personality disorder, experts say.
Realising Love was dangerous, Joe decided to kill her but was stopped in his tracks when Love revealed she was pregnant with his baby. The third season kicked off with Joe and Love (now the Quinn-Goldbergs) settling into married suburban bliss with baby Henry in the picturesque Northern Californian town of Madre Linda.
Though Love seemed a perfect fit on paper, her death at the hands of Joe is vital to prove that in the end, Joe actually isn't looking for anyone. His grand declarations and notions of love are devoid of actual meaning because Joe's psychopathy makes him incapable of loving anyone properly.
That's further complicated by Love's trajectory throughout the season. Seen mostly through Joe's first-person perspective as a lovable, if not a bit naïve, young woman longing for love after experiencing her own trauma, she is revealed to be suffering from severe PTSD.
Love isn't thrilled to see the state of Natalie's face, not just decomposing but sunken, Joe having removed her teeth so that her body, if found, couldn't be identified using dental records.
Throughout the first season she is considered to be missing and mostly appears in flashbacks, hallucinations, and conversation- until she shows up in the final episode. We learn that Candace cheated on Joe and later left him, telling him she never loved him.
He tells her that he can't let her out until he knows for sure that he can trust her. To Beck's devastation, he confirms that he killed Peach and Benji, but he is alarmingly eager to get it all out in the open and tell Beck the truth.