How did Kate Lockwood survive the fire in You Season 5? Speculations explored

There aren't many women in You Season 5 and the other seasons who become Joe Goldberg's obsessions and end up walking away alive at the end. Somehow, Kate Lockwood survived Joe and a fire in You, all thanks to divine providence. Charlotte Ritchie's Kate Lockwood and Penn Badgley's Joe Goldberg meet in Season 4 of You. Kate dislikes Joe at the start of the season, but by the end, she falls for him so hard that, despite knowing about his true nature—the stalker and murderer—she decides to move to New York and start a new life with him. They agree to keep each other on track, as stated by showrunner Sera Gamble:

"keep each other good. It’s this sense of redemption that binds them, in comparison to the co-dependent chaos that pulled Joe and Love (Victoria Pedretti) apart."

You Season 5 witnessed Joe slipping back into his murderous tendencies, and Kate realizing exactly who she married, and she didn't like what she found out.

She ends up on a journey with some other women from previous seasons to take Joe down and ends up in a fiery showdown in the basement of Mooney's Bookstore. Here's everything that happened with Kate in You Season 5:

What went down in the Mooney's Basement in You Season 5

In You Season 5, Kate asks Marienne Bellany, Joe's love interest in Season 3, and Nadia from Season 4, for their help in bringing Joe down after she sees Joe for the monster that he is. You Season 5 does bring together a lot of loose ends from previous seasons in this manner when Kate finally decides to stop being in denial about Joe's reality. She figures out that for the women to be able to live and be safe in the world, Joe has to die.

In the penultimate episode of You Season 5, "Trial of the Furies," the women trap Joe in his cage, and when they fail to get a confession from him, they decide to kill him. However, Joe had a key to the cage buried in his arm and got himself out of the cage by the time Kate came down to do the deed. They both end up in a physical altercation, where Kate gets shot, and both lie wounded in the basement.

On the other hand, Maddie shows up for revenge and puts the bookstore on fire. As they both lie wounded, surrounded by the fire, thinking that this is their end, Joe admits to having killed Love and Kate's dad. She also reveals that she's recorded him and will be sending it to the authorities, to which Joe replies dryly:

"You got me, You can die happy."

Neither Kate nor Joe dies in the fire in You Season 5, as Bronte comes down to the basement and rescues Joe, partly because she wants him to face the consequences of his actions, and partly because she loves him. When Bronte checked if Kate was alive, her heart had stopped, so she left her.

However, in the final episode, we see Kate well and alive with some battle burn scars. So, help must've arrived for her in the bookstore. We don't know exactly how she survived, except that it was divine providence.

Ironically, Love, Joe's first wife, also burned, so Kate burning in a fire would've been ironic as well. Kate's survival in You Season 5 broke an ongoing deathly streak for Joe's obsessions, as she would now live and take care of Henry, making sure he wouldn't grow up to be like his father.

Ritchie, on the other hand, has complicated feelings about the fact that her character did not die in the fire in You Season 5, which she talked about in a conversation with Business Insider:

"I was so happy because I've grown to really love this character, and I found it was so fun to get to be right in the midst of getting him. But I also felt like if there's ever a poetic justice in death, there was some justice in Kate going down with him. I really don't believe in people dying because they've done bad things, but in the world of the justice of this show, there's such a redemptive element to Kate's demise that it would've been OK. She's (Kate) done some pretty dastardly things and she's got herself into scrapes and been responsible for a lot of people's downfalls. So yeah, I was on the fence as to what should happen to her, but I was obviously really pleased that she comes through."

All 5 seasons of You are now available to stream on Netflix.

Trending

Keep reading Soap Central for more such updates!

×

Was this article helpful?

Thank You for feedback