"You" Season 3 spoilers ahead. There are only three guarantees in life: death, taxes, and Joe Goldberg getting away with murder, and the finale of "You" Season 3 (open in new tab) was an explosive (pun intended) wild ride filled with countless murder attempts, betrayals, and marital discord! Let me explain the many twists and turns of the Netflix finale and how the denizens of Madre Linda (open in new tab) ended up in the end.

Poor, poor, clueless Theo (Dylan Arnold). This curious college student thinks he has discovered evidence that Joe killed his stepfather's wife, Natalie, and will suffer serious trauma at the hands of his married lover and slash neighbor, Rab Quinn. In the finale, however, it turns out that Love did not hit him hard enough. When Joe goes to clean up after Love, he finds Theo alive but seriously injured. Sympathizing with Theo, who reveals that he really loved Love, Joe puts Theo in a cab and carries him to the hospital.

Later, Theo's stepfather Matthew Engler (Scott Speedman) wanders into Joe and Love's house looking for Theo. Matthew finds Joe drugged and knows that Theo is in trouble. Joe tells Matthew that Theo is in the hospital. Flash-forwards show that Theo has survived and has been discharged from the hospital. The traumatic incident seems to have healed and strengthened Theo and Matthew's relationship.

The intolerable couple, who have no patience for swingers, find themselves trapped in a glass cage with Love and Joe later in the season. This is because it was discovered that a jealous Love killed their neighbor Natalie and Joe helped cover it up. In the finale, Shelly (Shalita Grant) and Cary (Travis Van Winkle) accidentally shoot each other and begin to lose hope of escape out of desperation.

After a few tender moments that allow the couple to rediscover each other and why they fell in love in the first place, Shelly finds the inspiration to escape. She realizes that Love and Joe did not trust each other, that each had hidden a key in the cage. She is right, and after much searching (and flour breaking), she finds the key and they escape. We are then shown a flash-forward of the happy couple, who believe that Love and Joe are dead and are profiting from their near-death experience. Classic Shelly and Cary. They are promoting their new marriage counseling method, "Caged," in a TED Talk: Radical Couples Therapy Techniques." It is unclear if they have started feeding their children sugar.

Marienne (Tati Gabriel), Joe's library crush, learns in the finale that her awful ex-boyfriend Ryan (Scott Michael Foster) has been killed in a robbery. She and Joe decide to take the kids and run away together. But Love sniffs out their romance, and when Joe becomes ill, Love texts Marienne to come home. Marienne soon realizes that Love knows about her and Joe's relationship and that she is in danger. Love confides in her about Joe's manipulations and even that it was Joe who actually killed Ryan.

Just before Love attacks Marienne, her daughter Juliette appears at the door and Love turns sympathetic as a fellow mother. Love lets Marienne live, warning her to "disappear" because Joe is not what he seems. Marienne takes her advice and encourages Love to run away from Joe as well, changing her phone number and leaving Madre Linda.

In an interview with Marie Claire, Tati Gabriel, who plays Marienne, said: "When I first read that scene, I loved it: the idea of two women having a conversation about something so subtle that can enhance and save each other. I loved it. After all, you can't love another person properly unless you love yourself. I feel like that is what Marienne was trying to emphasize and remind not only to Lav, but even to herself. "

In a heartbreakingly lucid moment, Joe realizes that it is in his son's best interest (and, yes, his own best interest) to abandon his child, even though he has finally established a meaningful connection with Henry. He entrusts Henry to his library colleague Dante with a farewell letter. Dante and his partner struggle to adopt a child of their own. In his flash-forward, Henry is living happily in his new home with his two doting (and murder-free) fathers. Finally, a happy ending in "You."

One has to give Love a certain amount of credit for trying to outwit Joe. But ultimately Love's story is a jaw-dropping tragedy, despite her best efforts to be cunning and murderous. In the finale, Love, who has just unsuccessfully tried to kill her teenage lover Theo, is blissfully looking at the names of baby girls. (Another baby would solve this whole problem. Then Love finds the smoking gun: Joe's bloody T-shirt in Henry's diaper bag. She realizes that Joe killed Ryan because he is in love with Marienne.

She then cooks an elaborate dinner for Joe, during which she reveals her evil plan. Yes, she killed her ex-husband. Yes, she poisoned Joe. She just wanted him to slow down so she could have time to convince him to love Joe again. She grew the poison in her backyard and stored it with her baking ingredients. She tried to hurt Marienne and invited her home, but ultimately could not. Eventually, Love realizes that she is not a "good enough" wife. Joe is a terrible husband. She decides to kill him with a sharpened knife just before Joe stabs her with a poisoned needle. Love dies, uttering the words, "We are perfect for each other."

"I was very shocked by Love's death," Gabrielle told Marie Claire. 'Just like when I bumped into Love's death. I was like, 'What's going on? Especially when I hurt Theo [Dylan Arnold]. At that point, I knew the kid was no good. He's so innocent."

Best (or Worst. In the Season 3 finale, Joe proved that he is always one step ahead of the other killers in town, namely his wife. First, after watching Joe clean up after Ryan's murder, he realizes that he must help Love hide Theo's body. After saving Theo and making a plan to escape with Marienne - something he has always wanted to do - he pockets Cary's sex drug just in case.

When they get home, Love has prepared a romantic meal of roast chicken. Joe and Love admit their wrongdoings and affairs, and Joe proposes an amicable divorce (that's right). Love reveals that she poisoned her ex-husband (instead of paralyzing him, she had him ingest the poison and accidentally kill him) and that this time she only applied the poison to the handle of the knife she knew Joe would get his hands on to protect himself/kill Love. (She cleverly just touched the knife with the oven mitts on and Joe didn't notice it). Joe succumbs to the effects of the poison and watches as Love meets with Marienne.

When Love decides to end Joe's life and approaches him with the knife, Joe stabs Love with a needle containing the same poison she used on him. It turns out that Joe had tracked down what Love had been growing in her garden all along (wolfsbane) and kept it on hand. He also checked the antidote just in case, and discovered that the adrenaline Joe stole from Callie reversed the effects of the poison. He had preemptively ingested the adrenaline, knowing that Love was going to hurt him.

After Joe watched Love die, he said goodbye to Henry and left him with Dante. Now it's time for his master plan (yes, this is not the end yet): Joe cuts off two toes and bakes them into a pot pie. Then he carefully lays out the evidence that will convict Love of Madre Linda's crimes. He writes a carefully crafted suicide note from Love confessing to all the murders, including Joe's, and emails it to the Madre Linda Community Association. He then lights all the gas stoves, burns his and Love's wedding album, and quickly leaves the house on fire.

As news of this incident spreads, Madre Linda's flash-forward is shown. The incident is called a suicide, and all blame is placed on Love. (The fire burned through enough evidence to fully reconstruct what happened, but the pie toe was enough for the police to believe Joe was brutally murdered.) Although the fire made Love's autopsy impossible, Joe placed Wollsbane's needle in Love's hand.

Finally, Joe moved to Paris to find Marienne. Gabrielle tells Marie Claire: "I don't think she will go back [to him]. At that point, she must have confidence, self-respect, and foresight. She says: "I love him. I wish things could have turned out differently. But you are a psychopath and you are not good for me, my children, or this world."