Full name Joseph Carroll

Age

39

Gender

Male

Eyes

Brown

Hair

Black

Next Of Kin

Joey Matthews (son)

William Holston (half-brother; deceased)

Professional status

Profession

A professional serial killer

Professor

Professor Joseph "Joe" Carroll was the main antagonist in The Followers. Joe is a diabolical serial killer responsible for the murders on the University of Virginia campus that killed 10 girls. He also created a cult of serial killers called the Followers. He is extremely smart and resourceful.

Joe Carroll is obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe and has started creating his own art form — eviscerating college students. He gouges out their eyes as a sign of respect for some of his favorite works by Poe: "The Traitor Heart" and "The Black Cat."

During one of his lectures, which was attended by Sarah Fuller, he noted that Poe equates death with beauty, because, as Sarah replied, there is nothing more beautiful than death. the death of a beautiful woman.

FBI Agent Ryan Hardy, who is tracking down the killer, has managed to corner him, but has yet to catch him red-handed. Hardy fell in love with Claire Matthews, Joe's wife.

BIOGRAPHY OF JOE CARROLL

He was born and raised in London, and then moved to the United States, where he received his education and became a professor of literature.

1982

While studying at the Lightford Academy, 17-year-old Joe Carroll attended classes under the guidance of Dr. Arthur Strauss. Carroll, like his other predecessors and followers, became his "student" — and not only in the academic sense. Strauss taught the young man how to carefully remove the eyes of his victims, but at the same time claimed that Joe was far from his "best student." Later, this leads to the fact that Joe begins to persistently demand attention to his murders, although Strauss believed that this should be done quietly, unnoticed.

Strauss takes Joe to the operating room at his house, where a young woman has recently died. He lets Joe touch her if he wants to, and Joe puts his hand on her chest. Strauss says he can feel his own heart beating hard, while hers is not beating at all. He asks Joe what it feels like to be the one to stop that heart, and Joe replies that killing is wrong, even quoting the Bible. His mentor says it's just a way to control the masses, but he and Joe aren't ordinary people...So we see that it was Strauss who told Joe that "it's okay to kill."

2002

He had a relationship with Claire Matthews, another teacher from Winslow, whom he married and with whom he had a son, Joey. In 2002, Claire informed Joe that she was pregnant. ("Pilot")

2003 Is now this year

He taught literature at Winslow University, focusing on the Romantic era, which he was obsessed with. His lectures were dedicated to such writers as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and his favorite writer and idol Edgar Allan Poe. In 2003, he published his first and only novel, The Gothic Sea, inspired by Poe's latest unfinished work, The Lighthouse (according to Claire, he imagined himself as Poe and believed that his novel was an attempt to complete what Poe had begun in his unfinished work). However, the novel failed both commercially and critically (although some of his fans, including Emma, liked it). This angered him, and he started killing female students.

Like Poe, Joe believed in the "madness of art" and that it needed to be "felt" physically and emotionally. He started creating his own kind of art — eviscerating female students. He gouged out their eyes, paying homage to some of his favorite works by Poe: "The Accuser Heart" and "The Black Cat," because Poe believed that eyes are a reflection of personality, a window into the soul. During one of his lectures, attended by Sarah Fuller, he noticed that Po equated death with beauty, because, as Sarah replied, there is nothing more beautiful than the death of a beautiful woman.

OTHER CHARACTERS

Claire Matthews is a professor at Winslow College, where her husband, Joe Carroll, teaches literature. They have a son named Joey Matthews, who was born a year ago. She recently met FBI Agent Ryan Hardy, and they began a relationship.

Ryan Hardy is an FBI special agent and criminologist leading the investigation of murders on a Virginia college campus.

Ryan Hardy's character is complex and far from perfect. He is a smart but very stubborn FBI agent who has several skeletons in his closet, a swarm of crazy thoughts in his head and some weaknesses.

Ryan Hardy is a determined and noble man, always trying to save the innocent from the various murderers he encounters. It's not uncommon for Hardy to offer his life instead of a potential victim, which makes him a selfless hero.

At the same time, he does not shy away from killing murderers and has done so on several occasions to prevent them from harming anyone else.

Tim Nelson, aka "Roderick," is Joe Carroll's right-hand man.

Originally from Crowley, Virginia, Tim attends Winslow University, majoring in gender