What happened to Forty on Netflix thriller You?
Love's brother Forty is mentioned in the third season of You – but what happened to him in season two?
Netflix's thriller series You takes an interesting twist in the new third season, as it is revealed that murderous Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) is sending texts to her brother Forty's phone.
While Love is now married to lovelorn serial killer Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) and the couple are raising their son Henry in the seemingly suburban bliss of Northern Californian town Madre Linda, it seems Love still needs to tell her deepest secrets to her brother – the only slight problem being that he doesn't reply to her texts because he is, well, dead.
As fans of You will remember, Joe met Love in Los Angeles in season two and became obsessed with her, but was less enamoured with her twin brother Forty (James Scully), an aspiring writer/producer/director with addiction problems who managed the family grocery business Anavrin, where both Love and Joe worked.
Joe and Forty eventually became friends, with Forty even confessing to Joe that when he was a teen he had blacked out and murdered his au pair, who had previously drugged and almost sexually assaulted him. Matters between the pals took a strange turn, however, when Forty treated Joe to a trippy night on LSD, and their friendship was further complicated when Forty began to suspect that Joe may have murdered his New York girlfriend Beck.
What happened to Forty?
At the end of season two, Joe discovered that Love was just as deadly as he was, as she killed both his ex-girlfriend Candace and Joe’s neighbour Delilah.
She also confessed to killing Forty’s au pair Sofia, but Joe stopped himself from murdering Love when she told him she was pregnant with his baby.
However, Forty was now convinced that Joe killed Beck, following a visit to Dr Nicky in prison who was mistakenly sentenced for her murder, so he went to confront Joe at Anavrin, armed with a gun.
He held the gun to Joe’s head, and became angry when Love tried to save Joe, revealing that he had known for years that it was Love who had killed their au pair.
Unfortunately, despite Love’s pleas, Forty didn’t put the gun down and he was shot dead by police officer Fincher when he arrived on the scene.
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Is Forty in season three?
Despite being dead, Forty does make an appearance (of sorts) in season three. First of all, we see Love sending text messages to her dead brother’s phone as a way of coping with the stresses of marriage, motherhood and murder.
Later, when Love goes to a retreat with her mother, Lottie – who has a creepy habit of calling Love’s son Forty instead of Henry – she imagines Forty is with her, giving her advice.
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