Episode Details

It’s Episode 5 of The Beauty, and we finally got the origin story of the world's deadliest makeover. The snark squad is reeling after a flashback revealed Byron Forst—played by a menacing Vincent D’Onofrio—as a ruthless billionaire who literally murdered his competition just to corner the market on a DNA-rewriting drug. Fast forward to the present, and Byron has used his own product to transform into a much younger, sleeker Ashton Kutcher, but he’s still the same monster underneath. He’s currently hunting down Cooper, who has become the world’s most stressed-out bodyguard for Jordan, who is newly "beautiful" and very much infected. Between the corporate homicide and the literal price of vanity, this episode proves that while a DNA swap can fix your face, it clearly does nothing for a billionaire's black heart.