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The Following	comment	The Following is a 2013 TV series created by Kevin Williamson and starring Kevin Bacon.In 2004, Joe Carroll (James Purefoy), a professor of literature at a small Virginia university, murdered 14 female students. He was eventually captured by Ryan Hardy (Bacon), an FBI agent assigned to investigate the murders, who saved the life of Carroll's last victim in the process. However, while doing so, Hardy was stabbed in the heart and forced to leave the bureau due to his injuries. Hardy later wrote a book about the case.Nine years later, while awaiting execution, Carroll escapes from prison and Hardy is brought back as a consultant. Despite Hardy's skills, intuition and best efforts, Carroll manages to finish what he started by killing the one victim whom Hardy managed to save. His immediate surrender to the authorities reveals that the threat he poses has only just begun, as he demonstrates that he has recruited an army of followers for the purpose of finishing his work.On March 4, 2013, the show was renewed for a second season, scheduled to air in 2014 and match the first's 15 episodes. On March 7, 2014, it was renewed for a third season, which was the final one thanks to FOX's cancellation of the show.Not to be confused with the 1998 film directed by Christopher Nolan, Following.
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The Following / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Following / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: This show could end up being the definition of the trope Debra Parker's death was shocking enough in the first season, but Season 2 somehow took it even farther by killing off Claire in the opening minutes, despite the general consensus that she had the thickest and most certain Plot Armor outside of the two male leads. However, Claire was only Faking the Dead and was shown to be alive at the end of "Unmasked." Emma, pivotal to Carroll's character and a major character show, is killed off near the end of the second season. Dr. Strauss, the Big Bad of the entire series, gets garroted by Theo Noble one episode after his exoneration scheme comes to fruition. In one of the most shocking examples, the tenth episode of Season 3 sees Joe Carroll die by lethal injection.
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The Following / int_12b1f5f3	type	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity
The Following / int_12b1f5f3	comment	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: In-Universe. Before he was revealed to be a serial killer, Carroll wrote a novel called The Gothic Sea, an Homage to the works of his hero Edgar Allan Poe. The book was hated by critics and flopped when it was released. After he was caught however, it became a national best seller.
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The Following / int_135d58f9	type	Man of Wealth and Taste
The Following / int_135d58f9	comment	Man of Wealth and Taste: Following his escape from prison, Joe Carroll seems to be enjoying this life style, always having a nice glass of wine of some kind.
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The Following / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
The Following / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: The young woman at the FBI command center repeatedly chants, "Lord, help my poor soul" (Poe's supposed last words). Then she stabs herself in the eye the way Carroll did to his own victims.
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The Following / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Following / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The promos for season 2 pretty much confirm that Carroll is alive.
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The Following / int_1462f0d7	type	Season Finale
The Following / int_1462f0d7	comment	"The Final Chapter": Parker dies before Hardy and Weston can save her. Hardy finally confronts Carroll, and Carroll is killed in an explosion (the FBI appears confident they found at least some of his body). Hardy and Claire return to Hardy's apartment, and are attacked by Molly, who stabs them both, seconds before the screen cuts to black.
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The Following / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The Following / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Carroll's killing of Charlie has some decidedly erotic undertones. The same can be said for the episode "For Joe," where Joe stabs Reverend Glenn with a knife. While his victim's screaming in agony, Carroll's moaning with ecstasy. Pretty much made explicit midway through Season 2, when Carroll is asked directly if killing gives him a sexual release, and his response is a practically moaned affirmative.ŷ
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The Following / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
The Following / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: Joe Carroll vs. Lily Gray.
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The Following / int_167bd2ca	type	All According to Plan
The Following / int_167bd2ca	comment	All According to Plan: This seems to be the case no matter what. The first thing that doesn't go according to plan is them not successfully kidnapping Claire. Nicely averted in "Welcome Home," where pretty much nothing goes according to plan. They do manage to kidnap Mike, but he doesn't tell them where Claire is. And then Hardy kills 5 of the cult members and rescues Mike, making the entire episode a defeat for them. Everything from "Havenport" onward is a series of defeats for Carroll's cult with the exception of Debra's murder.
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The Following / int_187bddc1	type	Religion of Evil
The Following / int_187bddc1	comment	Religion of Evil: Carroll made an entire pseudo religion based off the works of Poe. Parker eventually takes to calling it "Carrollism" or as Weston puts it, Carrollers. The second season brings us a suicide cult even more fucked-up than Carroll's, and one where the members are excited to be chosen as a Human Sacrifice!
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The Following / int_19fc58a2	type	A Lighter Shade of Black
The Following / int_19fc58a2	comment	A Lighter Shade of Black: By season 2, it isn't hard to root for Joe Carroll and whomever's else is helping him. Sure, he may borderline on being both Faux Affably Evil AND Affably Evil to his followers, but by season 2, there are even worse people out there than the mass murdering socio-psychopathic Serial Killer like Joe Carroll.
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The Following / int_1b6f11d2	type	The Cutie
The Following / int_1b6f11d2	comment	The Cutie: Emma used to be this, to ridiculous degree, although, even then, she was a little weird. Then Carroll got hold of her, and she became the above.
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The Following / int_1badfbbb	type	The Heavy
The Following / int_1badfbbb	comment	The Heavy: Emma seems like this during the first few episodes of Season 1, but she is revealed to be one of several followers being led by Roderick on Joe's behalf.
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The Following / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
The Following / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Joe Carroll, of course. Well he thinks he is. Hardy and Claire both think he's just a depraved sociopath with a huge ego, and they're probably right.
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The Following / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
The Following / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: Hardy killing Alex in Season 1 as payback for burying Debra alive. Mike killing Lily Gray in Season 2 as payback for murdering his father.
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The Following / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
The Following / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Senseless Sacrifice: In hindsight, Kingston Tanner killing himself to save his son was pointless, since Joe ended up killing Preston anyway shortly afterwards.
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The Following / int_1dd14f5a	type	I Surrender, Suckers
The Following / int_1dd14f5a	comment	I Surrender, Suckers: Carroll surrenders to the FBI, which they initially interpret solely as a means to keep Hardy from strangling him to death. Only when he is interrogated at the prison he escaped from does he reveal that his capture was part of his plan.
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The Following / int_1decf141	comment	Hot for Teacher: At least some of Carroll's groupies may have experienced this.
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The Following / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
The Following / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: Done several times, but there are a few incidents that stand out. In the series finale, Ryan shoots Theo in the forehead. Theo gets back up and manages to shove him off a bridge. At the end of "A Simple Trade," Mark manages to find Mike and Max, with no help and presumably no way of locating them, and proceeds to attack them both.
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The Following / int_1e6dfea1	type	Ãœbermensch
The Following / int_1e6dfea1	comment	Übermensch: Check out Carroll's flashback lecture in episode three about "making your own morality". Though he's probably just pretending to be this in order to give himself and his followers an excuse for their actions.
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The Following / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
The Following / int_1e8f4221	comment	A non-verbal example; see Fingore above.
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The Following / int_203141e3	type	Cute and Psycho
The Following / int_203141e3	comment	Cute and Psycho: Emma, the nanny, who, despite her shy and sweet appearance, killed her mother and is one of Carroll's followers. There's also Sarah's 'gay' neighbours (also followers) - Jacob, who is actually Emma's boyfriend (warning sign in and of itself) and seemed turned on by her killing her mother, and Paul, who is rebounding from his and Jacob's more-real-than-planned relationship by kidnapping a woman and keeping her in their basement. A lot of Carroll's followers/groupies are this. Most of the female cultists we've met have been these waifish bright-eyed girls with seemingly-bottomless reserves of Crazy to draw upon.
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The Following / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
The Following / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: In Season 2, Lily never really follows through on her "I have many more surprises for you, Ryan" threat. It's possible that she just dropped her vendetta after learning Luke was alive. In Season 3, Dr. Arthur Strauss (and later Theo) tried to find Strauss' students so they could build their own team of serial killers, but neither of them got around to it. This was justified as well; Strauss was killed by Theo and Theo stopped trying after constantly being chased by Ryan Hardy and the FBI. The ending of season 3 has Ryan fake his death to protect his family, while he goes on a quest to take down the people Eliza works for. The show's cancellation means this will never be followed up on.
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The Following / int_26c22470	type	Put Down Your Gun and Step Away
The Following / int_26c22470	comment	Put Down Your Gun and Step Away: Used in "Love Hurts"
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The Following / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
The Following / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: After spending all of "Boxed In" desperately searching for Agent Clarke, the FBI finally finds him in the end. Stuffed inside a metal box.
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The Following / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
The Following / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Lily Gray.
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The Following / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
The Following / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: There's evidence that "serial killer who works through a cult of slasher groupies" is where Kevin Williamson wanted to take the Scream franchise in Scream 3 and again in 4, 5, and 6, before he was replaced each time. The pilot could've easily worked with horror movies instead of Poe and Sidney in place of Maggie Grace's character.
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The Following / int_29e6dc40	type	HypocriticalHumour
The Following / int_29e6dc40	comment	Hypocritical Humour: One of the male followers of Serial Killer Carroll expresses his desire to snap a kidnapped child's neck, then protests two other followers sharing a room due to the bad example it'll set for said child. Granted, his real reason was jealousy, but still, working with a sadistic killer, kidnapping, and wanting to hurt a kid is maybe just a bit worse than an unmarried couple sharing a room while a child is living in the house.
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The Following / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Following / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshaded in "The Reaping":
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The Following / int_2a2d62a0	type	Talking Down the Suicidal
The Following / int_2a2d62a0	comment	Talking Down the Suicidal - Hardy does this to Jordy and tries to do this to the Icepick Lady.
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The Following / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
The Following / int_2a44899	comment	Plot Armor: The closest one can get to an in-universe example, as Joe Carroll is simultaneously writing and enacting a novel about Ryan Hardy. As he wants Hardy to live until the book's climax, he makes sure his plots and his minions hurt him but don't kill him off before that. From time to time, it seems Hardy acknowledges this effect. The armor is solid, as far as Carroll is in full control of events. By Season 3, Joe Carroll loses his armor, whereas Mike, Ryan, Max, and Claire have all managed to survive seemingly perilous odds.
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The Following / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
The Following / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: Paul's death certainly seems to qualify. Subverted with Gina Mendez, who gets violently stabbed by her ex-wife, but survives and safely retires with her new wife in the third season.
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The Following / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
The Following / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: A major theme for both Ryan Hardy and Mike Weston. They may still be the good guys, but they edge closer to the dark side with practically every episode. And in the Season 3 episode "Evermore," Hardy finally admits that he finds satisfaction in killing people.
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The Following / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Following / int_2d4fa515	comment	Jana. That is all.
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The Following / int_2efd276d	type	We Are Everywhere
The Following / int_2efd276d	comment	We Are Everywhere: Though no one in the cult has said this yet, it certainly seems to be the case. David says as much in episode 8 from Season 1. Hardy and Mike both point out he's paraphrasing Bundy. Quite badly too.
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The Following / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
The Following / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Bo, the mercenary employed by the cult in episode 7.
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The Following / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Following / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Taste: Carroll admits that Rick running around setting people on fire while wearing a Poe mask is a bit much. Carroll expresses revulsion upon finding out that Claire went to a Céline Dion concert. For all her... issues, Emma was above hurting Joey (though the fact that he's Carroll's son probably helped with that). In Season 2, both Emma and Joe think Lily and her family are completely nuts. Kyle and Daisy are remorseless killers, and even they are disgusted and terrified by Mark Gray's behavior, only going along with it as part of Strauss's plan.
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The Following / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
The Following / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: As incensed as Carroll seemed to be about his ex-wife's perceived infidelity (or perhaps because of it), he has quite the fixation on Claire filling the role of Hardy's love interest in his story.
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The Following / int_322f6b34	type	Angsty Surviving Twin
The Following / int_322f6b34	comment	Angsty Surviving Twin: Mark, who was already devastated over the death of his mother.
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The Following / int_3297cfbb	type	Evolving Credits
The Following / int_3297cfbb	comment	Evolving Credits: An interesting example. While main cast members who are absent but still alive are still credited, deceased characters are immediately removed from the opening titles when they are killed. Nico Tortorella, for example, is pulled from the credits with just one episode left of the first season after his character dies, while Kyle Catlett is credited for the rest of the season despite his character being absent (but alive) during the last quarter. Once people caught on the practice, however, the show started subverting it to keep viewers guessing. Gregg Henry is listed in the credits for the first eleven episodes despite being killed in the sixth, and Joe and Mark are both still in the credits for the two-part finale, despite both being dead and not present outside of a brief hallucination for the latter.
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The Following / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
The Following / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Carroll to Hardy.
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The Following / int_34f1b472	type	Mad Artist
The Following / int_34f1b472	comment	Mad Artist: Carroll, who considers it all to be a story he's making with Hardy cast as its hero. Also, Rick, in a way, given that he's a busker who recites Poe's works in between his bouts of setting people on fire in broad daylight.
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The Following / int_3548fa0b	type	Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You
The Following / int_3548fa0b	comment	Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You: One of the most evocative scenes of the first season has Charlie Ward begging Joe to kill him for his failures with Claire and allowing his hideout to be found by law enforcement. Joe hesitates, due to his God complex in not wanting to take what turns out to be one of his most trustworthy pawns off the board, but ultimately does what he enjoys doing.
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The Following / int_35499a79	type	Title-Only Opening
The Following / int_35499a79	comment	Title-Only Opening: Just a black card with the title ominously fading in. Also shown again at the end of every episode.
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The Following / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
The Following / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: Jordy Raines.
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The Following / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Following / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: After the FBI cuts the power to the church, and Hardy disarms the bombs, what's left of the Korban cult is slaughtered in a matter of seconds in the Season 2 finale.
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The Following / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
The Following / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Well, not exactly kindness but Carroll, of all people, seemed to have more or less softened up in the year he was supposed to be deceased. Whilst he still maintains his bloodlust, he generally seems more laid back than he was once. That is, until Lily and the twins entice him out of hiding.
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The Following / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
The Following / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: The FBI team have a tendency to kill cultists rather than arrest them (generally in gun battles, but not always). Ryan and Weston take this to an extreme in the season finale, when they very nearly beat a captured cultist to death and put out his eye in order to get Parker's location. When they end up arriving just a few minutes too late to save Parker, Ryan kills him in cold blood
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The Following / int_3e5f74c	type	Take That, Critics!
The Following / int_3e5f74c	comment	Take That, Critics!: Done in-universe in episode three. The murder that starts the episode (which was also the final moment of the previous one) is that of a critic who was especially harsh towards Carroll's novel. Hardy feels that was unusually petty of Carroll.
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The Following / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
The Following / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: The moment Hardy spotted the photo of Sarah's neighbors, he instantly knew something was wrong.
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The Following / int_40217655	type	Faux Action Girl
The Following / int_40217655	comment	Faux Dark Action Girl: Emma. She gets taken out by Roderick, and Claire, of all people, manages to pin her against the wall in a soon-to-be Cat Fight. Getting into a real knock-down, drag-out brawl swiftly results in her death.
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The Following / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
The Following / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: Carroll insists on being called "Joe". A cultured professor and demanding serial killer like him being so informal about his first name? Could it perhaps only be because it's so close to POE. After four episodes of rebuffing Weston's attempts to bond, including a specific attempt to invoke this trope, Hardy finally calls him "Mike" after he defies Parker to help Hardy save his sister and saves his life.
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The Following / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Following / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The series ends with Theo, Mark, Joe, and all of the other threats sans Eliza dead, but Ryan is forced to become a vigilante to track Eliza's group down, and he'll never see his family or friends again.
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The Following / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
The Following / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: A non-verbal example; see Fingore above. As noted in below, Hardy manages to troll Carroll in s01e13, and starts mocking him. When Carroll tries to turn it around and resume a Hannibal Lecture, Hardy just hangs up on him.
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The Following / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
The Following / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Carlos, who's abruptly stabbed in the neck by Luke because "no one liked him anyway." Lily Gray. Mike literally walks behind her, points a gun at her, and then she gets on her knees. A few minutes later, he executes her. Carrie Cooke. She's kidnapped by Kyle and Daisy, Killed Offscreen, and then forgotten about. Arthur Strauss, who's murdered with no foreshadowing by Theo the second he turns his back on him. Justified in that Theo, as Strauss's best student, would know to give absolutely no warning and waste no time.
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The Following / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
The Following / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: In Season 1, the fake gay couple ends up attracted to each other for real.
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The Following / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
The Following / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess: Carroll is a master. Theo Noble is even better at it. Fitting, since he was considered the best student of the man who trained Joe.
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The Following / int_44ba9580	type	The Snark Knight
The Following / int_44ba9580	comment	The Snark Knight: Carroll. A perfect example from episode three:
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The Following / int_45398e01	type	Psycho Knife Nut
The Following / int_45398e01	comment	Psycho Knife Nut: Carroll, naturally. Most of his followers follow suit, such as Emma (well, Paul thinks so, as would her dead mom), Jordy, and even Rick has a moment to suggest a new appreciation for knives...
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The Following / int_4631e81f	type	Badass in Distress
The Following / int_4631e81f	comment	Badass in Distress: When Hardy is captured by Emma, Jacob, and Paul. He's able to get Paul and Jacob too terrified to even get near him, and with quiet observations utterly destroys the bond the three have.
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The Following / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
The Following / int_469e3e2f	comment	An In-Universe example: one shot of the security tape from the subway murder instantly drives home for Ryan that Lily is part of the cult.
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The Following / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
The Following / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: Subverted in "Welcome Home". Carroll doesn't kill Roderick or the others for failing to learn where Claire is. While disappointed that Charlie has now failed him twice, he doesn't kill him either. Charlie, however, insists on being killed as punishment for his failure.
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The Following / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
The Following / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: The Cult's HQ in Season 1. Lily's country estate in Season 2. Lily's other country estate, used as Luke and Mark's hideout in the finale of Season 2. Gina Mendez's safe house in Season 3.
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The Following / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The Following / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Carroll's little speech to Hardy at the end of the first episode is just a little bit meta, don't you think? And then there's this exchange, which sounds like a reaction to a studio note:
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The Following / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Following / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Mike Weston's entire character development revolves around this trope. Introduced as a Nice Guy to contrast with the more violent Ryan Hardy, he gets kidnapped and tortured by cult members, arrives too late to save Debra, and watches Lily Gray slit his father's throat, all while slowly becoming just as dark and violent as Hardy is. He seems fully broken when he ends up killing Lily Gray instead of taking her into custody. It gets even worse for him in the final season. Culminating with him getting stabbed three times and coming within a hair's breadth of death.
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The Following / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
The Following / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: Seems to be Paul's preferred tactic. So far he's killed two people with a hoe. Also, when Megan escapes from the basement and Emma and Paul have to chase her; Emma takes a knife, Paul goes unarmed.
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The Following / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Following / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "Love Hurts" "Havenport" "The End is Near "Kill the Messenger"
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The Following / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
The Following / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: In the Season 2 premiere, the camera follows a bearded man walking in the shadows toward a house. When he gets in the door, it pans to reveal Joe Carroll, revealing that he survived the explosion in the first season finale. An In-Universe example: one shot of the security tape from the subway murder instantly drives home for Ryan that Lily is part of the cult. In "A Simple Trade," just after Mike kisses Max inside her car, Mike veers his head backwards, and we see Mark standing behind him.
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The Following / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Following / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: A huge amount of the cultists are incredibly smug even when caught, as many are Nietzsche wannabes who think of their deaths as part of Joe's ultimate plans. They have a tendency to either commit suicide or be killed in a hail of gunfire.
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The Following / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
The Following / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: What Hardy has been doing after capturing Carroll until the start of the show. He then does it again for a few months between seasons one and two. And again after Joe's execution.
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The Following / int_52a8d3dc	type	Pyromaniac
The Following / int_52a8d3dc	comment	Pyromaniac: Rick prefers fire to knives, though he did use a knife for one of his killings.
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The Following / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
The Following / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: For Season 1, Ryan confronts Joe at a lighthouse. Joe even calls it Bookends. He thinks its a masterful literary technique. Claire thinks its a predictable cliche.
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The Following / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Following / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Carroll himself. It's no wonder he's got himself a gang of groupies. Faux Affably Evil: However, in reality, Carroll isn't friendly at all and quite psychotic. He even taunts Hardy over his heart problem, and plays the dying screams of Sarah Fuller. Hell, after he has escaped from prison, just watch Carroll's phone conversion with Hardy before he murders his lawyer. He basically toys with Hardy and his lawyer.
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The Following / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
The Following / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: Used like crazy throughout the first season, to the point where you'd swear this was a J. J. Abrams production. Becomes much less frequent in Season 2, however. Flashback Within a Flashback: Debra's past is revealed this way in "The Fall."
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The Following / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Following / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Emma at first seems to be Carroll's chief acolyte, but later turns out to just be in charge of her cell of the cult. Episode 6 reveals that the cult is apparently led in Carroll's absence by a person known only as "Roderick". Dragon with an Agenda: Roderick turns into this as it becomes increasingly apparent that Carroll cares more about his personal vendetta with Hardy than the cult's goal (whatever that may be). Roderick ultimately splits from the cult in "Havenport," and Carroll has him killed.
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The Following / int_54163958	type	Shower of Love
The Following / int_54163958	comment	Shower of Love: Defied. Emma tells Paul they won't be having sex in the shower; and they leave their undergarments on anyway. And then it's played straight. They either had sex with Jacob in the shower, or immediately after they got out, judging by how the next episode opens.
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The Following / int_54616909	type	Cavalry Betrayal
The Following / int_54616909	comment	Cavalry Betrayal: During the standoff between the FBI and the cult trio in "The Fall," one of the local cops turns out to be another cultist, and two others kill and impersonate members of a SWAT team to get a drop on the others and rescue Jacob and Paul.
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The Following / int_553c27bb	type	Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness
The Following / int_553c27bb	comment	Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness: Deadly serious, with barely even a hint of comic relief to spare. Indeed, most of the comic relief that does exist comes from Carroll. However, as of some latter episodes of season one, the comic relief switches around from mostly from Weston and Hardy.
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The Following / int_57cfcbdd	type	Meta Twist
The Following / int_57cfcbdd	comment	Meta Twist: Double Subversion. The last few minutes of the Season 2 finale clearly set up a similar cliffhanger to the first season's. However, this time Ryan Hardy isn't attacked by an intruder... That is, until he wakes up in the middle of the night and finds Mark Gray in his room... Except it's just a nightmare, and the real Mark is elsewhere.
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The Following / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
The Following / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: In "Forgive," Ryan and Joe team up in order to rescue Claire from the Gray twins.
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The Following / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Following / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: A stand-out moment being in Episode 6, where the FBI somehow manages to bungle a siege they really have no business screwing up. In the second season, Hardy seems to be convinced of this trope. So much so that he wants nothing to do with FBI while conducting his own independent investigation and goes out of his way not to assist them in any way.
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The Following / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
The Following / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Carroll comes off as this to Ryan in Season 2, even repeatedly calling Ryan his only friend. Ryan doesn't share it.
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The Following / int_5abc8612	type	Unholy Matrimony
The Following / int_5abc8612	comment	Unholy Matrimony: Turns out Rick's scared wife, Maggie, is not only a follower too, but was a serial killer long before Joe started 'making friends'.
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The Following / int_5d19c2f6	type	Dying to Be Replaced
The Following / int_5d19c2f6	comment	Dying to Be Replaced: Dr. Strauss. He was the number one Serial Killer the FBI was after, up until Theo brutally murders him. Now Ryan and the FBI are out looking for him.
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The Following / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
The Following / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: Lily Gray is the leader of another cult.
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The Following / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
The Following / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: Carroll's cult kidnaps the daughter of Carroll's warden in order to coerce him into helping Carroll escape prison. He pulls something similar in Season 2, kidnapping the son of a televangalist who called him out, but it seems Carroll wants him for more than just leverage. He forces him to choose between killing a female Korban member or dying himself, and he chooses the former.
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The Following / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
The Following / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Mark was never sane to begin with, but the death of his mother and his twin brother really drove him off the deep end, to a point where he now suffers from schizophrenia. Hardy starts to suffer this from Debra's death onward. By Season 3, he's suffering from vivid hallucinations and night terrors involving Joe Carroll.
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The Following / int_6363937b	type	Cyanide Pill
The Following / int_6363937b	comment	In episode 8, David pretty much bites off his thumb in order to take the Cyanide Pill sewn into the base of it.
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The Following / int_63b12059	type	Villainous Friendship
The Following / int_63b12059	comment	Villainous Friendship: Carroll and Roderick's relationship. Carroll even took the blame for two people Roderick killed just so that he could stay out of prison and have a chance to make something of himself. This friendship becomes more and more strained as time goes on (see Dragon with an Agenda above).
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The Following / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Following / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Emma and Paul both genuinely loved Jacob, who cared about both of them. Didn't stop Emma from abandoning them, though. Carroll genuinely loved Claire and Joey, as shown by how emotional he got when he and Joey finally met face to face in "Let Me Go". Daisy and Kyle adored each-other immensely, with Kyle's death turning Daisy into "a broken wing bird". All members of the Gray family were ruthless serial killers, but they still loved each other like any normal family would. Neil Perry loved his dementia-stricken father more than anything in the world. Getting discovered as a killer by his father is what drove him to Suicide by Cop. Joe was very affectionate, comforting, and loving to Mandy. Theo Noble loved his sister deeply and went off the deep end after she was murdered.
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The Following / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
The Following / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: Carroll says this word for word when he orders the death of the cult's arms dealer.
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The Following / int_67c30747	type	Fetish Retardant
The Following / int_67c30747	comment	The woman who stabs herself strips down to her panties first - revealing that her whole body has Poe quotes written on almost every inch. Fetish Retardant just doesn't quite cover it. Then she stabs herself in the eye.
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The Following / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
The Following / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: Maggie sure did enjoy hamming it up in "Mad Love." At the end of "Let Me Go", Joe Carroll does so while providing an exposition of his master plan to Hardy in a manner worthy of a cartoon villain. During his Villainous Breakdown in the first season's final episodes, he outright devours the scenery. Jake Weber was clearly having a bit too much fun playing Micah. Jana. That is all.
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The Following / int_6a25c388	type	Mummies at the Dinner Table
The Following / int_6a25c388	comment	Mummies at the Dinner Table: Luke and Mark, though not because of denial but because of their nightmare-inducing sadistic glee, first with a couple they kill and later with Mandy.
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The Following / int_6a2c358d	type	A Death in the Limelight
The Following / int_6a2c358d	comment	A Death in the Limelight: Agent Jeffrey Clarke in "Boxed In." Neil Perry in "Exposed."
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The Following / int_6a47a1e2	type	Knight of Cerebus
The Following / int_6a47a1e2	comment	Knight of Cerebus: Carroll was this in the first season, as whenever he had shown up with a full plan in effect, things would have gone from bad to even worse then before. Come season 2, however, Lily Gray and Micah and his cult of batshit insane people are shaping up to this. Theo Noble is this for the third season, and one of the most dangerous yet. Eliza's organization is a group meant to protect the richest Serial Killers in the world. This group is thought of as untouchable.
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The Following / int_6c71ab1d	type	I Want Them Alive!
The Following / int_6c71ab1d	comment	I Want Them Alive!: Lily has a more reasonable version in "The Reaping." She tells her mercenaries that they can kill all the cultists, she just wants Joe brought to her alive. Ultimately it isn't trying to take Joe alive that makes them fail, but the sheer number of cultists and the actions of Ryan.
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The Following / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Following / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: When Jordy realizes he's been tricked into helping the FBI against the cult, he starts eating his bandages until he chokes to death. The first person to be identified as a follower commits violent suicide in public. Another follower swallows a cyanide capsule after their capture. Jana blows her own brains out after being identified as a mole for Carroll's cult. In a more tragic example, Kingston Tanner chooses to commit suicide rather than kill his son or be killed by him, completely wrecking Joe's endgame in the process.
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The Following / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
The Following / int_6d7026fa	comment	Carrie Cooke is burnt alive in a van by Kyle and Daisy.
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The Following / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
The Following / int_6de71c57	comment	Disc-One Final Boss: Carroll is arrested and put back in prison by the end of the pilot — but there's still his groupies and followers to contend with. And that was part of the plan. Subverted when Carroll breaks out again in "Let Me Go," and gets away for real to take up leadership of the cult directly. Micah. At first it seems like he'll team up with Joe and create a Big Bad Duumvirate for Season 2, but then Joe poisons him and takes over the Korban cult. Dr. Arthur Strauss in Season 3, who is killed shortly after being released from prison and just when it seems like he'll replace Mark Grey as the new Big Bad.
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The Following / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
The Following / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: In the end, Ryan leaves his family for their safety and continues to hunt down serial killers. And he's clearly got his sights set on Eliza.
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The Following / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Following / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Whenever a cultist tries an I Surrender, Suckers on Ryan, or tries to go "what are you going to do, you're an FBI agent and can't torture/kill me", they never seem to remember what kind of character Ryan is or how easy he is to anger. Held often by the FBI. In the episode "Havenport," Weston recognizes Sheriff Nelson as Roderick and, instead of discreetly warning Hardy or Parker, tries to take Nelson down himself...in a building full of deputies who could (and do) misinterpret the situation. Naturally, Nelson gets away. In "Silence," Emma could have succeeded in her plan to kill both Claire and Robert, had she not elected to shoot Robert first, thus allowing Claire to get the drop on her. Tom's favorite sport. He steals Mark's laptop from a raid after he discovers Mike and Max having sex. Then he finds out that Mike executed Lily Gray. Instead of turning the laptop in as evidence, he keeps it for no valuable reason. Later, he destroys the laptop after the FBI starts to track it. Even later, he accidentally kills Erin, an FBI agent, when she thinks he's the mole they were looking for. Finally, he goes along with Mark's blackmail and brings Mike to him—instead of listening to Mike's advice that they can take Mark out together—and is killed as a result. In "A Simple Trade," upon reuniting with Theo after being held prisoner by Ryan, Penny insists on going back immediately and killing Ryan as revenge for torturing her, even though Ryan is pursuing them. She ends up dead because of this.
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The Following / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
The Following / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: Season 2 has this with Joe Carroll and Lily Gray (though the former gets more screentime). Season 3 has Joe, Mark Gray, Arthur Strauss, Theo Noble, and Eliza.
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The Following / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
The Following / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: Carroll, Carroll's followers, Arthur Strauss, Theo Noble, Lily Gray, Mark Gray, Luke Gray, Kyle & Daisy Locke, Andrew Sharp, Neil Perry, and Duncan Banks are all examples from this series, and Ryan Hardy becomes one after he murders Penny, since he also killed the man who shot his father and Alex Lipton.
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The Following / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
The Following / int_73328e84	comment	"A Hostile Witness": Kyle and Daisy kidnap and murder Carrie Cooke. Dr. Arthur Strauss is declared not guilty in trial due to Carrie's death and an e-mail discrediting Ryan's testimony. Kyle, having sustained a gunshot wound, commits Suicide by Cop. At the end, Ryan, Max, and Mike find Mark, Daisy, and Dr. Strauss. Mike leaves Max to go after Mark, which leads to Daisy subduing Max and resulting in her and Strauss getting away. Just when Mike is about to execute Mark, Ryan persuades him not to, giving Mark enough time to escape before they can apprehend him.
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The Following / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
The Following / int_7360a6b6	comment	Noble Demon: Charlie promises Joey that the warden's daughter Dana will be OK. Dana is found in a cage unharmed next to a cell containing the body of the psychotic mercenary working for the cult.
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The Following / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
The Following / int_73733868	comment	Awesomeness by Analysis: In "Mad Love," Mike accurately guesses that Maggie has Ryan's sister and that he's going to Brooklyn to save her just by knowing the name of the caller.
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The Following / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Following / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "I want my life to mean something." "This is my Chapter."
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The Following / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
The Following / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: Emma's first kill was her overbearing mother. Mandy, though it doesn't work out as well for her. Theo has his friend Oleg Vukovich aka "The Madman" murder his mother and all his siblings with the exception of Penny.
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The Following / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The Following / int_7870735b	comment	Carroll was this in the first season, as whenever he had shown up with a full plan in effect, things would have gone from bad to even worse then before.
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The Following / int_7ab81664	type	Kick Them While They Are Down
The Following / int_7ab81664	comment	Kick Them While They Are Down: Carroll does this to Hardy after hitting him with a two-by-four and then proceeding to taunt him with the now-dead Sarah, lowering her body from the ceiling.
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The Following / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Following / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Hardy absolutely burns Carroll with one in the season finale. Pretty much calling him nothing more than a no talent hack groupie of an overrated no talent hack and that if he wasn't a Serial Killer, no one would give a damn about him.
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The Following / int_7e577db	type	Slashed Throat
The Following / int_7e577db	comment	Slashed Throat: How Emma kills Jacob. How Lily and Mark kill Mike's father. How Kingston Tanner kills himself.
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The Following / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
The Following / int_7eb73553	comment	A common problem with Carroll's followers: due to being sadistic and insane, they can't help but gloat and be smug about their murderous plans, and as a consequence they end up making fatal mistakes and trolling people they really shouldn't be trolling. But Alex from the Season 1 finale takes the cake. Let's review: you've been captured by Hardy and Weston, and they would really like you to tell them where Debra Parker is. Hardy's a certified badass not above Jack Bauer-ing suspects if the situation calls for it, and Weston's a recovering torture victim who is looking for some payback. Then, after they fully demonstrate their willingness to beat you to death, by breaking your leg and gouging your frigging eye out, you decide to taunt them when they don't get to Debra in time. At what point in your thought processes did that seem like a good idea?
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The Following / int_80eb641c	type	Straw Nihilist
The Following / int_80eb641c	comment	Straw Nihilist: The central philosophy of Carroll's cult seems to be a twisted reading of Nieztche's philosophy: they talk about creating their own morality and killing those weaker than them simply because they can.
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The Following / int_829aeb5d	type	Mad Love
The Following / int_829aeb5d	comment	Mad Love: Name-dropped as the title of episode four, which focuses on a M-M-F triangle of psychopaths. The trope itself zig-zags all over the place until they all get cozy together at the end.
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The Following / int_83fb6177	type	First-Episode Twist
The Following / int_83fb6177	comment	First-Episode Twist: The existence of Carroll's cult, the fact that he kills Sarah, and that her neighbors are both not gay and part of the cult. In the Season 2 premiere, it's revealed that Joe's still alive.
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The Following / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
The Following / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: Theo survives getting shot in the head and proceeds to tackle Ryan off a bridge. As ridiculous as this sounds, there have been many cases where someone not only survived a gunshot wound to the head, but still remained conscious. Tammy Sexton, in particular, was conscious enough to make herself and some police officers tea.
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The Following / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Following / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: In Season 2, Joe eventually becomes this to the Gray family.
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The Following / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
The Following / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Roderick is a well respected small town sheriff.
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The Following / int_87ede6fc	type	That Man Is Dead
The Following / int_87ede6fc	comment	That Man Is Dead: Jacob tells Emma "The Jacob you loved isn't here anymore." "Mark Drowned: I'm Luke."
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The Following / int_8a58bb81	type	Meta Guy
The Following / int_8a58bb81	comment	Meta Guy: As a result, Carroll ends up taking his trope to borderline Fourth-Wall Observer levels, sounding less like a serial killer and more like a common troper summarizing a work.
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The Following / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
The Following / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of Religion of Evil and the Dark Messiah. The main flaw in Carroll's plan: he is Surrounded by Psychos.
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The Following / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
The Following / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Charlie was assigned to follow Claire everywhere, and has since developed feelings for her. Carroll doesn't seem to care. Carroll for Ryan: From the moment they meet Carroll seems to find Ryan fascinating. When Ryan's stops him in the flashback Carroll's every action from that moment on is to draw Ryan back to him: the cult; the book; even his ex-wife are all bait to bring Ryan to him. He even goes so far as to set up one of his cultist to be Ryan's friend with benefits; has her report to him about Ryan's well being and has her bug EVERY room of Ryan's home so when he escapes he has video of everything Ryan has done that he can watch at his leisure. Including having sex.
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The Following / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Following / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: For all of Joe Carroll's Chessmaster pretensions, his cult didn't take that long to implode, because that's what happens when you try to get a bunch of violent unstable sociopaths on the same page and working together toward a common purpose (a common purpose, mind you, that not even Carroll himself seemed to be clear on). Only a handful of people involved have enough sanity to even know what they're doing. The only reason the cult is still around in any form at all is because the cops are even more incompetent.
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The Following / int_8e04fdd7	type	Dragon with an Agenda
The Following / int_8e04fdd7	comment	This friendship becomes more and more strained as time goes on (see Dragon with an Agenda above).
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The Following / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
The Following / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: "The Siege": Joey makes contact with his mother, tries to escape and nearly succeeds. The FBI manages to find Emma, Jacob, and Paul's hideout. Hardy tries to rescue Joey, only to be captured just as the cult goes into a standoff with law enforcement. "Let Me Go": Carroll escapes (for real this time), and meets with the rest of the cult. It's also finally shown just how large the cult really is. "Havenport": Roderick's cover is blown, which triggers a Villainous Breakdown that causes him to betray the cult and kidnap Joey in order to gain leverage with law enforcement. The FBI finally rescue Joey when Jacob decides to let him go. Roderick gets killed by the cult when they try to retrieve Joey themselves. Claire is able to convince Carroll that she might be on his side, only to stab him; this causes him to finally give up on wooing her, and deciding to kill her instead. "The End is Near": The FBI finds the cult's headquarters, but the cult's already scattered by the time they arrive. Several cultists cause a massacre to provide a diversion so that Carroll can escape with a captive Claire; during the chaos, Parker is kidnapped by a couple of cultists and Buried Alive. Meanwhile, Jacob decides to abandon the cult, but when he tries to get Emma to leave with him, she kills him. "The Final Chapter": Parker dies before Hardy and Weston can save her. Hardy finally confronts Carroll, and Carroll is killed in an explosion (the FBI appears confident they found at least some of his body). Hardy and Claire return to Hardy's apartment, and are attacked by Molly, who stabs them both, seconds before the screen cuts to black. "Sacrifice": We are introduced to a cult of people worse than Joe's following, and they show they mean business by "mock sacrificing" Emma, nearly killing her and pissing off Joe Carroll even more. But then the real sacrifice is revealed as Lily and Mark Gray arrive at the house of Mike Weston's father and kill him over a taped video call in retaliation for Luke, whom they mistakenly believe was killed by Weston. The episode ends with Weston crying while Hardy tries to console him. "The Reaping": Hardy lets himself get captured by Carroll. Carroll successfully convinces Preston to kill someone in exchange for his life. Lily Gray's commandos attack the Korban cult, killing dozens (although Emma, Joe, and several others manage to escape). Hardy frees himself and kills most of Lily's commandos. It all ends with Mike killing Lily Gray while she's on her knees with her hands in the air in front of Hardy and Max, indicating that Mike is broken beyond repair. Oh, and Claire gets Carrie to tell Joe on live TV that she's still alive. "Silence": Joe Carroll and what's left of the Korban Cult break into a church and take everyone hostage. When Kingston Tanner confronts him, Joe tries to force him and his son to kill each other, at which point Kingston chooses to kill himself. Claire flees from FBI custody to try and find Joe, but she runs into Emma and Robert instead. Emma kills Robert, Claire kills Emma, and shortly afterwards, Mark and Luke show up and kidnap Claire. Lastly, Ryan and Mike sneak into the church, but Joe captures Mike, fully prepared to kill him if Ryan doesn't show himself. He doesn't, and then a gunshot goes off... "A Hostile Witness": Kyle and Daisy kidnap and murder Carrie Cooke. Dr. Arthur Strauss is declared not guilty in trial due to Carrie's death and an e-mail discrediting Ryan's testimony. Kyle, having sustained a gunshot wound, commits Suicide by Cop. At the end, Ryan, Max, and Mike find Mark, Daisy, and Dr. Strauss. Mike leaves Max to go after Mark, which leads to Daisy subduing Max and resulting in her and Strauss getting away. Just when Mike is about to execute Mark, Ryan persuades him not to, giving Mark enough time to escape before they can apprehend him. "Reunion": Dr. Strauss is reunited with Theo, his best student, who proceeds to violently strangle him to death for forcing him to come out of hiding. And Tom, who's still spying on Max with the laptop he stole, overhears Max confessing that Mike executed Lily Gray. "Evermore": Joe organizes a hostage situation on the day of his execution, demanding a final confrontation with Ryan. Ryan finally confesses to Joe that he gets satisfaction out of killing the Followers and other killers, and later demonstrates this by killing several prison inmates in ways almost as brutal as Joe's. Then, in the final moments of the episode, Joe gets taken back to his scheduled execution... and dies. No escape plan and no higher scheming: the Big Bad dies slowly and helpless while staring into the eyes of the man he obsessed over. "The Edge": Mark and Daisy find Tom with Theo's help. They force him to hack into the FBI mainframe and deliver Mike Weston to them in exchange for the evidence regarding the laptop he stole and Sloan's murder. Tom follows through with it all—and is promptly murdered. Meanwhile, Ryan finds Theo's sister, Penny, takes her to his apartment, and begins to torture her. Shortly after she gives up information regarding Theo, Theo contacts Ryan, telling him he's willing to trade Mike for Penny. "A Simple Trade": Penny and Mike are both rescued, but Daisy tries to kill Hardy and fails. As Theo and Penny begin to flee, Penny decides to stay behind to try and kill Ryan. She fails and is promptly shot to death. Theo, having no one (besides Daisy) left, decides he's going to kill Ryan once and for all. After the rescue, Mike and Max finally admit their love for each other, only for Mark to ambush Mike and stab him in the back multiple times. As Mark gets ready to kill Max, Mike uses his last ounce of energy to kill Mark, shortly before he passes out.
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The Following / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Following / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Admit it, you wanted Emma to gut her mother after witnessing all the shit she put Emma through. Emma herself, for that matter, at the end of Season 2. Nobody was mourning when Mark finally bit it, especially not after he just crippled and nearly killed Mike. In "The Reaping", Mike coldly executes Lily Gray as revenge for her killing his father. But at this point in the show, Mike barely knows right from wrong anymore, the police have been incompetent when it comes to catching the villains, and he's no longer stable, having been physically and mentally tortured throughout the show. Given his state of mind, and the dozens of times Lily has gotten away with everything she's done, Mike figured he'd be doing the world a favor killing her.
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The Following / int_8f612013	type	Token Good Teammate
The Following / int_8f612013	comment	Token Good Teammate: Jacob is the only cult member who isn't a psychopath and hasn't killed anyone. He even shows signs of a conscience. However, he's ashamed of this and doesn't want to let his friends down, and they resolve to help him get past his hangup.When he finally does kill someone, it's a Mercy Kill of the mortally wounded Paul. Charlie has some shades of this as well. At the very least he has some code of conduct and seems to be a man of his word. Unfortunately, being the only good person in a group of psychos isn't safe...
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The Following / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
The Following / int_90c018ac	comment	In "Let Me Go," as Carroll is about to escape, he has Hardy at gunpoint, but lets him live. Somewhat justified, as Carroll still has plenty planned for Ryan to go through.
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The Following / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Following / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Anyone who aids Carroll and is subsequently killed (usually by the cops, Carroll, or another follower). Olivia comes to mind.
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The Following / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Following / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In "Let Me Go," Charlie kills mercenary Bo after the latter finishes his role in Carroll's escape. Also in "Let Me Go," Carroll kills his lawyer after she helps him escape from prison. In "The Edge," after serving his purpose to Theo and Mark, Tom is promptly rewarded with some acid to the face and a bullet to the head.
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The Following / int_92d7976	type	You Keep Using That Word
The Following / int_92d7976	comment	You Keep Using That Word: Debra, Hardy's new superior, keeps on telling him not use any word relating to the word cult. He later finds out she's the head of the FBI cult note sorry, "Alternative Religions" unit. This also might have something to do with Parker's history and her growing up in a cult.
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The Following / int_9303d6d1	type	Battle Amongst the Flames
The Following / int_9303d6d1	comment	Battle Amongst the Flames: Hardy and Carroll's final fight in the season finale ends up setting the boathouse they're in on fire. While Hardy escapes, Carroll is trapped and killed (or so they think) when the building explodes.
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The Following / int_9438e550	type	The Big Damn Kiss
The Following / int_9438e550	comment	In "A Simple Trade," Max and Mike finally rekindle their relationship and share a Big Damn Kiss...just before Mark Gray comes out of nowhere and stabs Mike.
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The Following / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
The Following / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Double Subverted, Joe abducts televangelist Kingston Tanner and his son Preston, and tries to force one of them to kill the other on a live internet feed. Preston tries to stab Joe only to get pistol-whipped to the ground by a follower. However, Kingston slits his own throat to save his son, symbolically defeating Joe by proving that people are ultimately good, rather than evil as Joe believes.
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The Following / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Following / int_957e5fc2	comment	"Havenport": Roderick's cover is blown, which triggers a Villainous Breakdown that causes him to betray the cult and kidnap Joey in order to gain leverage with law enforcement. The FBI finally rescue Joey when Jacob decides to let him go. Roderick gets killed by the cult when they try to retrieve Joey themselves. Claire is able to convince Carroll that she might be on his side, only to stab him; this causes him to finally give up on wooing her, and deciding to kill her instead.
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The Following / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Following / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: However, in reality, Carroll isn't friendly at all and quite psychotic. He even taunts Hardy over his heart problem, and plays the dying screams of Sarah Fuller. Hell, after he has escaped from prison, just watch Carroll's phone conversion with Hardy before he murders his lawyer. He basically toys with Hardy and his lawyer.
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The Following / int_9600368d	type	Behind the Black
The Following / int_9600368d	comment	Behind the Black: Practically a staple of the show, given all the times a character is ambushed by someone whom they plausibly should have seen coming.
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The Following / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Following / int_970c790a	comment	"Evermore": Joe organizes a hostage situation on the day of his execution, demanding a final confrontation with Ryan. Ryan finally confesses to Joe that he gets satisfaction out of killing the Followers and other killers, and later demonstrates this by killing several prison inmates in ways almost as brutal as Joe's. Then, in the final moments of the episode, Joe gets taken back to his scheduled execution... and dies. No escape plan and no higher scheming: the Big Bad dies slowly and helpless while staring into the eyes of the man he obsessed over.
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The Following / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
The Following / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Agent Riley is the first member of the team killed, in the third episode of Season 1.
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The Following / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
The Following / int_978a82e6	comment	Micah. At first it seems like he'll team up with Joe and create a Big Bad Duumvirate for Season 2, but then Joe poisons him and takes over the Korban cult.
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The Following / int_9ab3da1a	type	Evil Mentor
The Following / int_9ab3da1a	comment	Evil Mentor: Carroll to his followers. Particularly Roderick. It's indicated that Carroll took him as an apprentice before he was originally arrested, making him Carroll's first follower. Dr. Arthur Strauss was this to Joe, Theo Noble, and plenty of other infamous killers.
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The Following / int_9ac6b0c1	type	Sociopathic Hero
The Following / int_9ac6b0c1	comment	Sociopathic Hero: Mike and Ryan are borderline versions of this. While they mostly have very little empathy for the murderers they hunt, they care greatly for civilians and their personal loved ones.
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The Following / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Deconstructed with Weston. Though at first he's little more than a dogged, eager assistant to Hardy, he gets a lot more badass after he's beaten up by Roderick, and moreso after Debra dies. It's clear that the latter severely disturbed him, and he gets so carried away with violence that he manages to worry even ''Hardy.''
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The Following / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Following / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Rick. Carrie Cooke is burnt alive in a van by Kyle and Daisy. Carrie was dead before the fire. They burned her body with the van. Kyle shows Ryan his knife moments later and taunts him with fact its covered with Carrie's blood. Theo Noble kills a business executive with a welding torch during his first moments onscreen.
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The Following / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Following / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Carroll's new cult in Season 2 wears all red. Foreshadowing much?
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The Following / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
The Following / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Mike not only survives getting stabbed in the back four times, but he still managed to pull out his gun and kill Mark Gray before passing out. And then there's Theo, who survives getting shot in the forehead.
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The Following / int_9d4b58ba	type	I Let Gwen Stacy Die
The Following / int_9d4b58ba	comment	I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Though he was able to save her life before, Hardy was unable to save Sarah Fuller from being killed by Carroll the second time around. Repeated to a brutal degree when Debra suffocates before Hardy can find her burial site, and again when he doesn't manage to locate Agent Clarke in time to stop Neil from boxing him up.
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The Following / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
The Following / int_9e943076	comment	Theo Noble is this for the third season, and one of the most dangerous yet.
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The Following / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
The Following / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Jacob still gets along with his mother...although he's not exactly the baddest of bad men.
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The Following / int_a0412c52	type	Gun Nut
The Following / int_a0412c52	comment	Gun Nut: Hank. While only given a little screen time so far, he has been shown to have a fully stocked gun rack, and brings a tote bag full of handguns when he goes to meet Emma, Jacob, and Paul. He also seems to be handy with hedge clippers.
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The Following / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
The Following / int_a1b0c1c2	comment	Revealing Cover-Up: Roderick removed the cult's hideout from county records to keep it hidden. This turns out to be the absolute stupidest thing he could have done, as comparing those records to satellite photos makes it as obvious as a gunshot wound once the FBI started looking for it carefully. ...Too bad he didn't give that more thought; erasing a dozen or so estates from the records would forced the FBI to divide their resources.
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The Following / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
The Following / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: Louise is shot by Hardy, while in the middle of saying she doesn't think he's got the guts to.
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The Following / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Carroll's MO. He's a worshipper of Edgar Allan Poe, and takes the latter's belief that the eyes are the window to the soul a little too seriously. As such, he and his followers tend to remove the eyes of their victims (usually before killing them) The female groupie who has a nice encounter with an ice pick while waiting for questioning. In "The Final Chapter," Hardy gouges out a cultist's eye in order to make him tell them where Parker was buried.
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The Following / int_a5de0ab9	type	Polyamory
The Following / int_a5de0ab9	comment	Polyamory: As of Episode 4, it's looking like the Emma/Jacob/Paul love triangle is resolved.
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The Following / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
The Following / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: Chris Bowlen, the young son and willing collaborator to his Serial Killer father. It's really hard to feel sorry for him when Hardy and Weston decide to Jack Bauer him.
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The Following / int_a63cfe4a	type	Meta Fiction
The Following / int_a63cfe4a	comment	Meta Fiction: Carroll's first book didn't sell too well, which he attributes to it being, "clearly too avant garde". His next one? He spent a lot of time online, and it seems he found TV Tropes... Meta Guy: As a result, Carroll ends up taking his trope to borderline Fourth-Wall Observer levels, sounding less like a serial killer and more like a common troper summarizing a work.
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The Following / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Following / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: At the end of Season 1, Emma and an unknown number of other cultists are still on the loose. By the end of Season 2, however, every known member of Carroll's cult is dead or in prison.
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The Following / int_a8c1433e	type	Dead Star Walking
The Following / int_a8c1433e	comment	Dead Star Walking: Maggie Grace is credited as a main cast member in the pilot episode, making it seem that her character, Sarah Fuller, will play a major role in the season. Sarah doesn't even make it to the second episode.
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The Following / int_abfa92a3	type	Jack the Ripoff
The Following / int_abfa92a3	comment	Jack the Ripoff: Jordy seems to believe that the best way to honor Carroll is to copy his work exactly. The other cultists believe they're meant to find their own way.
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The Following / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Following / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Amusingly, things fall apart for the cult after Carroll escapes and takes over.
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The Following / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Following / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Hardy's team has this reaction in "The End is Near", when they figure out what the references to "The Masque of the Red Death" in Joe's message means: The cult has infiltrated the evacuation center, and they are about to engage in terrifyingly random violence against innocent people...and they have no idea who they are or how many are there.
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The Following / int_ad42c163	type	Alphabet News Network
The Following / int_ad42c163	comment	Alphabet News Network: ANC Cable News and NNC, the two fictional news outlets seen throughout the series.
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The Following / int_ad4c74ed	type	Final Girl
The Following / int_ad4c74ed	comment	Final Girl: Sarah was this in Carroll's original series of killings. Subverted in that he finishes her off after he escapes prison.
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The Following / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
The Following / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: Carroll and his cult basically operate using this M.O., while masking their ideals using Poe's work.
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The Following / int_ae1723af	type	Sanity Has Advantages
The Following / int_ae1723af	comment	Sanity Has Advantages: As noted elsewhere on this page, the problem with Carroll's plans are that he and all of his followers are totally nuts.
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The Following / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Following / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Hoo boy. Parker's mom not only let the leader of her cult rape her daughter (when she was probably 13), but literally forced her back into the bedroom after she ran out screaming. Somehow, she still managed to forgive them, and still loves them. Or so she says. Emma had a psychologically abusive and, in her own words, slutty mother, who would put her down even in front of Carroll and Jacob. Theo's mom would constantly physically beat him.
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The Following / int_b2adf5ad	type	Destructo-Nookie
The Following / int_b2adf5ad	comment	Destructo-Nookie: Louise and Roderick, to the point where it looked like he really would kill her. Then again, she starts by suggesting they go upstairs and break another headboard, so it might be par for the course between them.
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The Following / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Following / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: A common problem with Carroll's followers: due to being sadistic and insane, they can't help but gloat and be smug about their murderous plans, and as a consequence they end up making fatal mistakes and trolling people they really shouldn't be trolling. But Alex from the Season 1 finale takes the cake. Let's review: you've been captured by Hardy and Weston, and they would really like you to tell them where Debra Parker is. Hardy's a certified badass not above Jack Bauer-ing suspects if the situation calls for it, and Weston's a recovering torture victim who is looking for some payback. Then, after they fully demonstrate their willingness to beat you to death, by breaking your leg and gouging your frigging eye out, you decide to taunt them when they don't get to Debra in time. At what point in your thought processes did that seem like a good idea? In Season 3, Penny falls victim to this, due to her refusal to flee the theater until she gets revenge on Ryan for torturing her. It's no surprise when Ryan catches up and shoots her.
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The Following / int_b5c56995	type	Corrupt the Cutie
The Following / int_b5c56995	comment	Corrupt the Cutie: In the first season, Emma and Co. intend to train Joey in the fine art of psychopathic murder. However, this plot point is pretty much dropped entirely.
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The Following / int_b5e62b91	type	Home Porn Movie
The Following / int_b5e62b91	comment	Home Porn Movie: In a sense. Molly, who is Hardy's old flame, next door neighbor, and a planted Follower of Joe's, had taped every sexual encounter she had with Hardy without him knowing. Sometime later, she gives these tapes to Carroll who watches one of the tapes.
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The Following / int_b7b0c10d	comment	Phone-Trace Race
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The Following / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
The Following / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Carroll, Claire and Ryan is a very twisted one. Also Emma, the nanny, and the "gay" neighbours, who are all a part of the cult. Interestingly, it's not the girl who's in the center of the last one. Seems to develop into an OT3 by the end of episode 4.
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The Following / int_ba44639	type	Killed Offscreen
The Following / int_ba44639	comment	Carrie Cooke. She's kidnapped by Kyle and Daisy, Killed Offscreen, and then forgotten about.
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The Following / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
The Following / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: In "Silence," Joe forces Kingston and Preston Tanner to choose between trying to kill each other or being both killed by Joe's men. Kingston eventually takes a third option by killing himself.
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The Following / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Following / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Ryan almost strangles Carroll to death when he reveals Sarah's dead body. Later, he breaks Carroll's fingers and has to be pulled off of him by the rest of the FBI team. Don't ever tell Carroll he's a bad writer. Or insult Poe.
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The Following / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
The Following / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: In "Let Me Go," as Carroll is about to escape, he has Hardy at gunpoint, but lets him live. Somewhat justified, as Carroll still has plenty planned for Ryan to go through. Lampshaded in "The Reaping": Averted in "A Simple Trade." After missing his chance several times, Mark catches Mike inside a parking garage and wastes no time stabbing him in the back..
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The Following / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Following / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Hardy and Weston from Season 2 onwards are not some of the easiest people to get along with, have a less than flattering reputation with the bureau aside from the fact that Ryan caught Carroll, and Ryan is implied to have a drinking problem.
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The Following / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
The Following / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Joe Carroll and Claire Matthews appear to be this in the flashbacks that take place pre-murder spree.
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The Following / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
The Following / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: When Hardy is attacked by the man in the Poe mask in "Chapter Two".
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The Following / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
The Following / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: Carroll is all about it.
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The Following / int_c10d1dcb	type	California Doubling
The Following / int_c10d1dcb	comment	Georgia Doubling: For Virginia.
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The Following / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
The Following / int_c145f69b	comment	Subverted with Gina Mendez, who gets violently stabbed by her ex-wife, but survives and safely retires with her new wife in the third season.
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The Following / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
The Following / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: The twins Mark and Luke favor this and/or strangulation. Since they pose their victims afterwards in re-enactments of scenes from Joe Carroll's book, they're clearly trying to keep the bodies as intact as possible.
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The Following / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
The Following / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Ryan, Mike and Max, as of mid Season 2 onwards. On the villain side, Lily's cult who she considers her children and family.
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The Following / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Following / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: "The Siege" is full of them. They get progressively worse, until Hardy is taken hostage right after finding Joey. In "A Simple Trade," Max and Mike finally rekindle their relationship and share a Big Damn Kiss...just before Mark Gray comes out of nowhere and stabs Mike.
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The Following / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
The Following / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: The end of "A Simple Trade." Penny is dead, Daisy, Theo, and Mark are all on the run, Ryan is going to rehab, Gwen tells Ryan she's pregnant, and Mike and Max tell each other that they love one another. Right before the episode ends, Mark shows up out of nowhere and brutally stabs Mike in the back.
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The Following / int_c547cd6d	type	Bulletproof Vest
The Following / int_c547cd6d	comment	Bulletproof Vest: Weston seems the only character smart enough to wear one, which ends up saving his life when he gets shot by a follower. Contrast with the scores of policemen who die from being shot by cult members!
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The Following / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
The Following / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: The woman who stabs herself strips down to her panties first - revealing that her whole body has Poe quotes written on almost every inch. Fetish Retardant just doesn't quite cover it. Then she stabs herself in the eye. Sarah is taking her clothing off and sees herself in the mirror, then you notice the scar on her chest... and the other scars on her stomach.
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The Following / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
The Following / int_c66cb5a9	comment	The second season brings us a suicide cult even more fucked-up than Carroll's, and one where the members are excited to be chosen as a Human Sacrifice!
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The Following / int_c6b4b048	type	Dropped After the Pilot
The Following / int_c6b4b048	comment	Dropped After the Pilot: Jennifer Mason, who it appeared would be Hardy's main partner, was Put on a Bus back to Quantico after the pilot, being replaced by Debra Parker.
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The Following / int_c6b8d37a	type	Cliffhanger
The Following / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: The first season finale ends with Molly literally stabbing both Ryan and Claire in the back in Ryan's apartment mere seconds from the end title.
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The Following / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Following / int_ccf46587	comment	Red Shirt Army: The police, including SWAT officers, to a ludicrous extent. Carroll's new cult in Season 2 wears all red. Foreshadowing much?
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The Following / int_ce70175b	type	Sociopathic Soldier
The Following / int_ce70175b	comment	Sociopathic Soldier: Cult member Charlie is a former soldier who was discharged for psychological reasons, and has since killed at least four people for no other reason than wanting to. The cult actually seems to have several former soldiers and PMC members among its ranks. It is revealed later than many of the cult members were recruited from a disbanded survivalist group
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The Following / int_cf231d54	type	Cool Teacher
The Following / int_cf231d54	comment	Cool Teacher: Carroll's public image before he was caught.
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The Following / int_d13e0db3	type	Heartbeat Soundtrack
The Following / int_d13e0db3	comment	Heartbeat Soundtrack: Heard anytime Hardy really exerts himself, due to the damage his heart has endured at Carroll's hands.
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The Following / int_d2afe41d	type	PetHomosexual
The Following / int_d2afe41d	comment	Pet Homosexual: Invoked. Sarah Fuller's gay neighbours are Carroll's plants, deliberately pretending to be both gay (a bit too well, but that's another trope) and her friends to put her at ease and make her find them non-threatening.
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The Following / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
The Following / int_d45c0b86	comment	Rick, the guy in the Poe mask in "Chapter Two". Seems like a completely random event at first, but then he reappears right at the end, douses a guy in gasoline, and lights him on fire. In broad daylight in front of a coffee cart. And then he becomes the next episode's killer of the week.
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The Following / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Hardy at times, especially when around Mike. He keeps trying to convince Mike not to be like him, yet he continues to be reckless (and sometimes idiotic) whenever he's around him. He really shouldn't have been surprised when Mike executed Lily Gray after she surrendered and was on her knees, something Hardy himself did to Alex (in front of Mike, no less) back in Season 1. Also Emma. She claims her mother was a slut and would have sex with multiple men, but she's no better. She has sex with Jacob, Jacob and Paul together, a member of Korban, almost with Mark, and even Joe himself, who's old enough to be her father, more than once
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The Following / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Joe Carroll, a notorious serial killer who also founded a cult which believes killing is an art from. Micah, who leads another cult based on willing human sacrifice, has also been implied to be one.
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The Following / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: When you're truly passionate about a subject, you can be enthusiastic about explaining the minutia to others in ways that make them get it so much that they adore your delivery. Joe got it in spades due to his eloquent class discussions, to the point that his love of Poe was, to him, validated so much that, society be damned, he felt it was his inherent right to live in a manner that he felt Poe would approve of. Then he was proud enough to write a novel in the vein of Poe's unfinished work that he truly felt ought to have the same impact on a wide scale that his lectures had for a few hundred students, and when that effort failed he felt justified that those who didn't get it are less than him and deserve to die. Since he has so many young minds already eating up everything he said, it follows that he'd coerce others to also live out what he's gleamed to protect himself from punishment. The director seems to have explicitly made Purefoy lampshade Carroll's ego by making him grin broadly every time his cult members gush over him.
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The Following / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Chances are, if there is a small character introduced within an episode, they'll be back in the next one with a bigger role. There's a reason why, of all the women lining up at the FBI command center, the camera focuses on the one who's gonna commit public suicide... Rick, the guy in the Poe mask in "Chapter Two". Seems like a completely random event at first, but then he reappears right at the end, douses a guy in gasoline, and lights him on fire. In broad daylight in front of a coffee cart. And then he becomes the next episode's killer of the week. Rick's wife ends up being the next follower of the week after being introduced in the previous episode. "Love Hurts" introduces Ryan's neighbor/ex-flame Molly. She turns out to be a member of the cult, but more importantly turns up at Ryan's place after Joe seemingly dies at the lighthouse, and stabs both Ryan and Claire in "The Final Chapter".
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The Following / int_ddb233c1	comment	"Sacrifice": We are introduced to a cult of people worse than Joe's following, and they show they mean business by "mock sacrificing" Emma, nearly killing her and pissing off Joe Carroll even more. But then the real sacrifice is revealed as Lily and Mark Gray arrive at the house of Mike Weston's father and kill him over a taped video call in retaliation for Luke, whom they mistakenly believe was killed by Weston. The episode ends with Weston crying while Hardy tries to console him.
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The Following / int_df04109a	comment	Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All: Carroll, obviously. He even manages to escape thanks to the plan he created in prison.
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The Following / int_dfe687c9	comment	Alone with the Psycho: Hardy, Parker and Mike go to check out a suspect at the same time Carroll and two of his followers go to terminate him for being a liability. Parker and Jacob play this trope straight; Carroll takes Mike hostage (again) and tries to break Hardy with a Hannibal Lecture.
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The Following / int_e11e88b6	comment	Thousand-Yard Stare: David tries one on Hardy in episode 8. He's unimpressed. Mike is similarly unimpressed, and just chuckles and points out how completely nuts the guy is.
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The Following / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: In "The Final Chapter," Hardy does this to a Follower in order to make him tell them where Parker was Buried Alive. It works, but she's dead by the time they get there.
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The Following / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: At the end of "The Reaping," Lily doesn't even try to attack Mike when he sneaks up behind her with a gun on her. She gets on her knees and immediately surrenders. Mike still kills her anyway.
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The Following / int_e1fa333c	comment	As noted in below, Hardy manages to troll Carroll in s01e13, and starts mocking him. When Carroll tries to turn it around and resume a Hannibal Lecture, Hardy just hangs up on him.
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The Following / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: If you thought Joe Carroll died in that fiery explosion at the end of Season 1, think again. Same goes if you thought Claire Matthews really died of her stab wounds at the beginning of Season 2. And again if you thought getting shot and falling off of a freighter was enough to kill Mark Gray. Lastly, there's Ryan, who falls into rushing waters. He survives, although has a limp afterwards..
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The Following / int_e482cfa7	comment	To the Pain: Maggie, Rick's wife. She wants Hardy's sister to watch his death occur after placing electromagnetics around his chest in order to stop his pacemaker. She believe that seeing Hardy's slow and painful death would be the only punishment for her. Of course, she changes her mind when she reminds Hardy that there a lot of knives in Hardy's sister place of business.
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The Following / int_e5411cdf	comment	Cult: The titular "following" Carroll has. Debra was raised in one. The Korban camp/community. Joe Carroll's Season 2 Cult after he murders Micah and manipulates the cult members there into worshiping him instead.
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The Following / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Carroll could be considered a younger, less cannibalistic Hannibal Lecter. Alternatively, he's like Red John, but less camera-shy. Or worse, he could be considered to be a modern Charles Manson. Speaking of Lecter, Hardy is basically Will Graham.
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The Following / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: In 2004, Hardy got stabbed in the heart by Carroll, but was able to shoot him in the back anyway. Even with a pacemaker, that still doesn't stop him.
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The Following / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Hardy saving Mike in "Welcome Home". Max twice in "Forgive".
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The Following / int_edc22fe8	comment	Cartwright Curse: Hardy seems to believe he's under a version of this: after losing several family members, he's taken to pushing away anyone he might love for fear they'll suffer the same fate.
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The Following / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Briefly averted in the episode where one follower starts specifically targeting women with the same full name as Carroll's wife, of whom there turn out to be a fair number.
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The Following / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
The Following / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Jacob decides he can't stand being part of the cult anymore and tries to leave, only for Emma to kill him.
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The Following / int_f180486d	comment	Great Detective: Hardy is an interesting one. He has the makings of being one, but due to the his faults and heart problem, he isn't what he used to be. Carroll, however, is planning for Hardy to return to this.
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The Following / int_f1d7b320	comment	Crazy Survivalist: A militia group calling themselves "Freedom 13" is a main resource for the cult's weaponry and trained personnel.
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The Following / int_f2d29e14	comment	Evil Brit: Who do you think?
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The Following / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Jacob smothering the mortally wounded Paul to death at Paul's request so that he can meet up with Roderick without Paul slowing him down.
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The Following / int_f4cc32ce	comment	Creepy Twins: Luke and Mark.
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The Following / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: Played with. When Carroll is seemingly killed in an explosion in the season finale, they do find partial remains, but Hardy points out that Carroll killed some random civilian earlier, and demands DNA tests to make sure it's not him. By episode's end, it appears it really was Carroll. And then in Season 2, it turns out it wasn't Carroll and that the evidence was manipulated by someone in the FBI. We never see Claire's body after she's stabbed in the first season finale, but Hardy takes Weston's word for it. Turns out she's alive and well. By Season 3, the FBI have gotten wise to this, and Mike refuses to call off the search for Mark Gray after the latter takes a seemingly fatal dive off of a cargo ship with a serious bullet wound. He's right. We never find out whether or not Theo died after falling off the bridge alongside Ryan. But considering he managed to survive a bullet to the head...
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The Following / int_f55a1990	comment	Disc-One Final Dungeon: The Lighthouse Lake B&B, owned by Sarah's neighbors — and also the place where she is taken to die. Lily Gray's first hideout in Season 2. The harbor in Season 3 where the FBI, Strauss, and Mark Gray clash, resulting in the escape of the latter two and the hospitalization of Max.
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The Following / int_f5c505db	comment	The Cracker: Carroll is able to circumvent the restrictions placed on the Law Library computer given to him to research for his appeal in order to access the internet and recruit his followers.
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The Following / int_f5e59782	comment	A Real Man Is a Killer: Jacob never has actually killed anyone. Or has he? As of episode 9, he has; see Mercy Kill.
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The Following / int_f65b8cf3	comment	Flashback Within a Flashback: Debra's past is revealed this way in "The Fall."
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The Following / int_f765e2d3	comment	Dying Alone: Ryan Hardy and his friend Tyson have a conversation about this in which Tyson says that nobody wants to die alone. Hardy replies that everyone dies alone and Tyson says that while this may be true, there's no reason to live that way.
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The Following / int_f88f2449	comment	Downer Beginning: The second-season premiere depicts the aftermath of the Havenport Tragedy: Mike Weston has been suspended from the FBI pending a review of his conduct during the investigation. And at some point during the intervening year, Hardy hit rock-bottom, ending his friendship with Mike and becoming something of a Conspiracy Theorist.
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The Following / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: The other major flaw in Carroll's plan is that he is honestly confused as to why the fact that he has killed a few dozen people would be such a barrier to his attempts to reconcile with his family.
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The Following / int_f8f71b5f	comment	"The End is Near": The FBI finds the cult's headquarters, but the cult's already scattered by the time they arrive. Several cultists cause a massacre to provide a diversion so that Carroll can escape with a captive Claire; during the chaos, Parker is kidnapped by a couple of cultists and Buried Alive. Meanwhile, Jacob decides to abandon the cult, but when he tries to get Emma to leave with him, she kills him.
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The Following / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Carroll and Claire!
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The Following / int_fc148c2c	comment	Weapon Specialization: Carroll told his followers to find their own voice (gimmick) for their killings. Psycho Knife Nut: Carroll, naturally. Most of his followers follow suit, such as Emma (well, Paul thinks so, as would her dead mom), Jordy, and even Rick has a moment to suggest a new appreciation for knives... Pyromaniac: Rick prefers fire to knives, though he did use a knife for one of his killings. To the Pain: Maggie, Rick's wife. She wants Hardy's sister to watch his death occur after placing electromagnetics around his chest in order to stop his pacemaker. She believe that seeing Hardy's slow and painful death would be the only punishment for her. Of course, she changes her mind when she reminds Hardy that there a lot of knives in Hardy's sister place of business. Gun Nut: Hank. While only given a little screen time so far, he has been shown to have a fully stocked gun rack, and brings a tote bag full of handguns when he goes to meet Emma, Jacob, and Paul. He also seems to be handy with hedge clippers. Improvised Weapon: Seems to be Paul's preferred tactic. So far he's killed two people with a hoe. Also, when Megan escapes from the basement and Emma and Paul have to chase her; Emma takes a knife, Paul goes unarmed. Neck Snap: The twins Mark and Luke favor this and/or strangulation. Since they pose their victims afterwards in re-enactments of scenes from Joe Carroll's book, they're clearly trying to keep the bodies as intact as possible. Jack-of-All-Trades: Theo Noble is skilled in many forms of murder. So far we've seen him use razor wire, hatchet, gun, and blowtorch.
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The Following / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: When Erin tries to pull a gun on Tom, Tom rushes towards her and tries to take it away. Then the gun goes off, and we see Erin bleeding profusely from her abdomen.
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