The Beast in Me Recap ‘The Beast and Me’: Teddy

The Beast in Me Season 1 Episode 6

During that emotional fight between Aggie and Shelley in the fourth episode, Shelley accused Aggie of just wanting another bestseller. When she pitched the biography to her agent/ editor, Carol also commented how she has not seen that look in Aggie’s eyes in a long time. Aggie was a professional who derived satisfaction from her work. How much of her decision to investigate Nile was about her guilt over the presumed death of Teddy Fenig, and how much was it about a writer stuck on a project for years, finally finding a subject that gave her a jolt of energy and made her feel professionally back and personally alive?

The object of Aggie’s fury found himself in the middle of the dangerous dance between Aggie and Nile. After Nile realised that Aggie had been working with Brian Abbott to bring him down, he went straight to where he had been keeping young Teddy Fenig. Nile did what Aggie wanted with all her heart, Teddy had clearly suffered here. He was bound and gagged, with spotlights trained on him, and his clothes looked filthy. ‘Why?’ Nile had raged, as though he could not believe the betrayal after he went through all this trouble to do something nice for her. When a monster believed himself to be one’s friend, his act of friendship could very well be monstrous.

Aggie had no idea that Nile was the one she was texting with that fateful night. But, with Abbott not returning her calls and not showing up at her house, she was worried. She went to his apartment building and stole his door key from the maintenance guy. Inside, she found bloody bandages and the USB fob that Simone (the underground computer expert) had given him. Before Aggie could see what was inside, Erika arrived.

Erika caught Aggie trying to sneak out. It was of course realistic for a civilian who has been under this much stress to just spill everything she knew, it just felt a little off to me. She didn’t know who Erika was. What she found about Madison’s death was her work product, part of her book for which she has already received advance payment. Aggie had decades of writing experience. It was one thing to give what she knew to Abbott, with whom she had been working, it was quite another to just spill everything  to a virtual stranger, and not even inside an FBI office where her contribution to the investigation could be documented. 

Aggie told Erika she had proof that Nile murdered his wife Madison. She showed her the suicide note and the birding journal from where the page was torn. The entry was dated two years before Madison went missing. The Ingards had told Aggie that Madison tried to commit suicide at around that time, and that it was Nile who found her and saved her life. Nile must have found the note and re-purposed it when he killed Madison. Erika made sure to ask Aggie who else knew, and Aggie just told her no one else did.

Aggie also gave Erika the USB fob that she found, the same one that Simone had given Abbott. Aggie was notably surprised that Erika knew the password to Abbott’s laptop, but whatever she thought of that was forgotten when the live feed of Teddy Fenig, a captive suffering but still alive, came on screen. Aggie now knew that Abbott had lied to her about finding nothing in Nile’s computer. Erika told Aggie to stay away from Nile, and gave her her card. 

Aggie could hardly stay away from her neighbour, not when he was standing outside her house as she drove up. She was on the phone with Carol, and told her to call her back in five minutes. If she did not answer, she instructed Carol to call the police.

Aggie was visibly nervous. Even if Nile had not just found out that Aggie had been betraying him with Abbott, the sharp observer of humanity that he was would have noted that something was wrong. He insisted on showing the jogging path to her (apparently, at some point she signed the easement agreement), though she tried to beg off and mentioned that she was expecting a call from her editor. 

In the woods, Nile was all calm menace. His voice never rose, but there was a steely dangerous edge to it as he spoke. He asked how the book was coming, when he would get to take a peak, if Aggie had figured out had it ended. Nile expertly unraveled Aggie with his casual talk, so that when Carol finally called, Aggie practically ran back to the house, but not before mentioning that she was in the woods with Nile Jarvis.

Inside, Aggie tried to call Erika, then tried to reach her via the FBI. When she walked into her office, she found a printout of her book with Nile’s notes in red ink. He had crossed out the word ‘and’ on the title, and replaced it with ‘in’ – The Beast in Me. All the pages of those first four chapters had his notes in red.  Shaken by the violation and very real threat, Aggie still answered when Nile called.

Nile told her that he really did consider her a friend, which I could believe in part; Nile was not faking his enjoyment of her company or the kinship he must have felt when he realised the darkness that lived within Aggie. He reminded her of that day outside  Eleanor’s when they saw Teddy Fenig. He said he could see all over her face everything she wanted to do to him, but he never thought she had it in him until he went upstairs. With creeping dread, Aggie went up, and found that Cooper’s precious room had been transformed into looking like the cell Teddy had been kept. Except, Teddy was dead. Nile’s vengeance was framing Aggie for Teddy Fenig’s kidnapping and murder.

Rating: B+

Strays

📬Martin Jarvis’s move against Olivia Benitez worked; her rhetoric was being blamed for the violence that happened at her rally. She figured out pretty quickly that this was Martin’s doing, but when he asked her to come so they could discuss his proposal face to face, she went, and this time alone, as Martin insisted. The proposal was the same one Nile offered her, one square block to be donated for affordable housing, but this time, she accepted, and tossed Martin’s mortality at his face before leaving.

📬Nile thought he would have another crack at Benitez, but Martin said he would handle her himself.

📬Nile told Rick they needed to talk alone, and threw at his face his declaration that he would do whatever it took to protect Martin. There was no way Nile could have moved Teddy’s body and staged that scene at Aggie’s house on his own; it was not shown, but Rick must have helped him. 

📬Nina, who thought she could not get pregnant because of her endometriosis, found out that she was pregnant. She told Nile over the phone and said she did not want to get rid of it, fully aware that Nile never wanted children. Nile kept his cool and told her it was fine. His face said otherwise, however.

📬Erika told her husband Frank that years ago, when he was in trouble, she made a  mistake and crossed the line, which she now needed to confess to the FBI. Erika did look like she was going to her boss, but he wasn’t around because of a reported kidnapping in Oyster Bay. Hmm this has to be about Teddy, right?

Episode Title: The Beast and Me

Episode Writer: Ali Liebegott

Episode Director: Lila Neugebauer

Original Air Date: November 13, 2025

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