Season 5, Episode 10

Just before he flees for his life, Noah Solloway adopts a mantra. What better time is there to adopt a mantra, anyway?

The phrase Noah clings to as he races to escape a wildfire that’s consuming Topanga Canyon is one he hears during an interview with a firefighter on the local news. “Movement is life,” the man says. “If you move, you live. If you stay, you die.”

These are words Noah needs to hear, although it takes him some time to realize it. At that moment, he’s not really in the continuing-to-live business. His career and reputation have already burned to the ground, thanks to multiple accusations of sexual misconduct and misogyny. His daughter Whitney has disinvited him from her wedding after calling him a narcissist and a vampire with no soul, blaming him for the suicide of his ex-wife Alison.

His other ex-wife, Helen, is sticking with him despite it all — despite even the fact that he never told her he almost hit on his own daughter in a hot tub years earlier, a traumatizing event that cost him his relationship with Whitney for much of the intervening time. But instead of gratitude, Noah lashes out, echoing Whitney’s accusations that Helen is codependent and obsessed with him.