Mr Mooney

Mr Mooney is a major antagonist in the Netflix show You. He is the owner of a book store named after him called Mooney's. He was the abusive foster father of the show's protagonist Joe Goldberg.

Biography
Mr Mooney adopted Joe and got him to work with him in his book store. He trained Joe to grow up and be the manager of the store once he retired. Mooney would frequently lock Joe in a cage in the basement when annoyed by him and physically beat him many times.

After Joe murders Elijah Thornton he is wracked with guilt and goes to see Mooney for advice. Mooney takes his clothes off of him and questions Joe regarding the murder. Mooney concludes that Joe is in no danger of being arrested so long as he doesn't tell anyone what he did. He is angered by Joe's guilt but then consoles him assuring him that "some people deserve to die" and that he strongly believes Joe must have been justified in his murder.

Mooney is known to have gotten a stroke and have not been able to leave his house due to his fatal condition. Joe would sometimes visit him. He takes Guinevere Beck his girlfriend there to convince her that he did not murder his ex Candace Stone.