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He writes down everything he knows: the therapist’s full name (Nickolas Pasternak), his office address, his license number. He starts planning. If Beck won’t stop seeing Nicky voluntarily, Joe will have to remove the obstacle. He looks at Benji, whimpering in the cage, and smiles coldly. “You’re not my biggest problem anymore,” he whispers.

On the walk home, Joe interrogates Beck. “Your therapist. He’s a little… familiar, don’t you think?” Beck brushes it off: “He’s just nice, Joe. He helps me.” Joe’s internal monologue rages: Helps you? He wants to sleep with you. I’m the one who saved you. I’m the one who killed for you. you s01e05 aiff

The episode ends with Joe standing outside Dr. Nicky’s office the next morning, pretending to read a newspaper. He watches the therapist arrive, unlock the door, and hang a “Session in Progress” sign. Joe memorizes the layout, the security camera blind spots, the lock type. He writes down everything he knows: the therapist’s

His voiceover closes the episode: “You think you’re helping her, Nicky. But you’re just another man taking advantage. Another man who needs to learn what happens when you get between me and the woman I love. Don’t worry. I’m a patient man. Edmond Dantès waited years. I can wait a few weeks.” He looks at Benji, whimpering in the cage, and smiles coldly

While cleaning, he discovers Beck’s old laptop. A few keystrokes later (Joe has her password—he’s been watching her type it for weeks), he finds a draft email to her estranged, alcoholic father. It’s a raw, vulnerable plea for connection. Joe reads it with a mix of tenderness and possessiveness: She needs me to protect her from him, too.

The central crisis of the episode arrives when Beck gets a call from her professor. Her MFA workshop is meeting at a bar downtown, and she wants Joe to come. Reluctantly, he agrees. At the bar, Beck is vibrant, laughing with her peers—including her ex, the self-absorbed poet Benji (who, unbeknownst to everyone but Joe, is currently locked in a glass cage in the bookstore’s basement).