As the Penn Badgley-led series comes to a close with season five, Michael Foley and Justin W. Lo talk with The Hollywood Reporter about the twists and turns leading to a finale that pivoted from road trip romance to horror film in order to deliver that brutal comeuppance.

Joe spends a good chunk of the finale trying to get in touch with the son he shared with Love. "I need to tell him that whatever he hears, I am not abandoning him," he asserts. With the help of fixer Will ( Robin Lord Taylor ), Joe is able to hack into Henry's gaming headset without anyone knowing.

The actor also explains why he believes it was better that Joe was "captured and revealed as the predator that he is" rather than killed by someone else.