Although Joe Goldberg doesn’t meet his maker at the end of “You” Season 5, he is the victim of a devastating shot to the groin, which Penn Badgley said takes away his “worst weapon” in a satisfying ending.

In an interview, Penn Badgley breaks down the series finale of Netflix's You and why Joe Goldberg's downfall had to happen the way it did.

"He needed to be as dangerously close to being witnessed finally as a sexual predator that he was," Badgley tells PEOPLE of his character Joe Goldberg