‘The Following’ season 2 finale spoilers: Could Ryan Hardy, Joe Carroll work together?

All season long on “The Following,” we have expected there to be an epic showdown to take place at the end between two of the show’s characters in Ryan Hardy and Joe Carroll. In many ways, they are the Batman and Joker of the series. As much as we want to see Joe be defeated so that Ryan can move on and there can be a new big bad, it probably won’t happen. Without the two of them on the show together, one’s effectiveness could be lessened.

The biggest surprise to us abut the upcoming finale “Forgive” is that instead of it looking like there will be a showdown between Kevin Bacon and James Purefoy’s characters, we are instead going to see the two of them seemingly work together in order to protect Claire, who revealed herself to Joe as being still alive in last night’s episode. Take a look at the synopsis below:

“Mark and Luke (Sam Underwood) turn the tables on both Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon) and Joe Carroll (James Purefoy), forcing the two sworn enemies to come together to save the woman they love.”

The biggest surprise to us is mostly that Claire is even still around. The fact that she’s seemingly captured (maybe by two twins seeking vengeance) is something that is a little less of a shock. As strong as Sam Underwood has been over the past several episodes, we don’t really get the impression that the writers will work as hard to keep his roles around as Ryan and Joe. Somebody has to die in the finale, right? Everyone making through it alive would be the biggest surprise of all.

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