This *You* Theory Is Great News For People Who Love Peach
Warning: You spoilers ahead.
Peach Salinger (played by Shay Mitchell) was one of the most polarizing characters from the first season of Netflix’s You. Some hated her. Others loved her. I, for one, am a proud member of the latter group. Peach was a true icon who had snappy one-liners, great hair, and, most importantly, knew Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) was a creep before everyone else did.
Notice how I’m using “was” to describe Peach, though. If you recall, Joe attempted to kill Peach once in Central Park, and he ultimately accomplished this in episode six at her Connecticut country house. Or so we think. A You fan named Hayley took to Twitter this week and posed the impossible: that Peach is very much alive.
Well, it’s not that impossible when you consider how we don’t actually see Peach’s dead body and that Joe just shoots her and runs away. It’s possible her gun wound wasn’t fatal!
But the real evidence to support this idea is a detail you might’ve missed from episode six. Remember Peach and Beck’s college friend named Raj (Gerrard Lobo) who stops by the Connecticut house? He hooks up with Peach and presumably stays over, but we never see him leave the next day. If Raj is still in the house, then, it’s not far-fetched to think he heard Joe shoot Peach and called for help.
“The biggest [mystery] is that [Peach] asked her guy friend how medical school was going… but we never saw him leave the house. We saw Beck leave.. So, he must have been inside… Thus, he heard the gunshot,” Hayley writes in her theory. She also points out that Raj is a medical student and could’ve easily helped Peach himself.
Read Hayley’s full theory for yourself, below:
Of course, the biggest rebuttal to this theory is the private detective who’s literally investigating what happened to Peach. However, You has so many twist and turns that it’s best not to rule anything out. Until season two starts and gives us concrete answers, I’m riding high on this #JusticeForPeach train.
Christopher Rosa is an entertainment writer at Glamour. Follow him on Twitter at @chrisrosa92.