FBI Agent Ryan Hardy

Determination and generosity: Ryan is a selfless hero who always strives to save the innocent. He has a \"rescuer complex\" and regularly offers his own life in exchange for the safety of hostages.

Tragic youth: Born in 1966. At the age of 14, his mother died of leukemia, and at 17, in front of Ryan's eyes, a drug-addicted robber shot his policeman father. Young Ryan tracked down his father's killer himself and provoked his fatal overdose by committing his first secret murder. Later, his brother Ray is killed in the September 11 terrorist attack.

The Carroll Case (2003): While working for the FBI, Ryan tracks down serial killer Joe Carroll. During the arrest, Joe inflicts a severe stab wound to Ryan's heart, which is why the agent needs a pacemaker for life. Ryan leaves the service, writes a successful book, \"Poetry of a Murderer,\" and begins an affair with Joe's ex-wife, Claire Matthews, but soon abandons her due to his psychological injuries.

The Hunt for Followers (2013): 10 years later, Carroll escapes, and Hardy is returned to the FBI. He is faced with a massive cult of Joe's followers. During the violent confrontation, many of Ryan's colleagues (including Debra Parker) are killed. In the season finale, Ryan blows up the boathouse with Joe, but at home he is attacked by the cultist Molly. Ryan kills her, but his beloved Claire is seriously injured.

A New Cult and Finale (2014): Ryan quits drinking, becomes a university professor, and secretly searches for traces of the surviving Carroll along with his niece Max. He goes to war with the new cult of Lily Grey and her sons. It turns out that Claire survived under witness protection. To defeat the Grey twins, Ryan has to temporarily team up with the captured Joe Carroll. In the finale, Ryan sends Carroll to prison, Claire leaves him for the safety of her son, and Hardy finds inner peace for the first time in many years.

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Full name Joseph Carroll

Age

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

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