The Following “The Siege”

You mean killers can pass through open doors?  

Around this time every week I get to write 500 words about the horrible ineptitude of every character that comes in the same area-code as the serial killers, but this week I’m going to try really hard not to mention it only because I’m tired of talking about it.  This week Joey gets wise to the cult’s plan and calls his mother, Joe uses leverage on his attorney to put a plan into motion, and Ryan attempts to save Joey. 

Joey finally gets the idea that his mother might not have given his nanny permission to take him to the house in the country.  He sneaks the phone away from his kidnappers while they make a sandwich in bed and calls his mother which gets the FBI closer to the killers in spite of the virus they installed on the FBI’s computer (which I’m being told is impossible.  If you know a way to do this, let me know).  This leads Ryan on a chase to find out where they are. 

Joe Carroll meets with his attorney and uses her as a messenger to pass commands onto his cult.  In one of the best moments so far in this series, his attorney takes his message and has a press conference, giving Carroll’s cult directions on how to move forward with their plot.  The whole episode I was wondering what would drive her to do this.  She could easily say no.  Of course, he hid some threats in their conversation so I understood to an extent, but it always seemed a little ridiculous that she would go along with his plan.  Then, in one of the only really startling twists in this show, it is revealed that he had a couple of her fingers clipped off.  That moment actually made me gasp.

Ryan got closer to finding Joey last episode when they had an idea of the county the cult was hiding out in, but they didn’t make a move.  This week, when Joey calls his mother, Ryan becomes more convinced they were right about the group’s location after they make the connection between Paul and the kidnapping of Meagan.  He takes an officer with him and searches for Joey and finds a slaughtered family that Paul killed.  After finding a bloody bandage, they follow a trail through the woods and find the house where Jacob, Paul, and Emma are keeping Joey.  He calls for other officers, but decides to make a move before they get there.  The officer gets killed (because he’s an idiot, but I said I wouldn’t talk about that), and Ryan goes into the house and finds
Joey, but before he can save the kid he gets caught (because he’s an idiot, but I won’t talk about that.)

And that’s where the episode ends…right there.  It didn’t feel like a full episode and it was even worse because it ended with a cliff hanger only created out of Ryan’s idiotic notion to stand in front of the open front door while he talks to Joey.  Get him someplace safe, then talk!  Come on!