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[[WMG: This series is going to become a {{Deconstruction}} or Evil organizations in general and [[ReligionOfEvil Religions of Evil]] in particular.]]

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[[WMG: This series is going to become a {{Deconstruction}} or Evil of villianous organizations in general and [[ReligionOfEvil Religions of Evil]] in particular.]]
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* This makes a lot of sense. Even the most seemingly competent and level-headed members of Joe's organization are severely damaged people below the surface.
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[[WMG: The season finale shall have Carroll undergo a VillainousBreakdown of epic preportions.]]
And by bad, I am talking [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Azula]] bad.

[[WMG: This series is going to become a {{Deconstruction}} or Evil organizations in general and [[ReligionOfEvil Religions of Evil]] in particular.]]
By showing that such an organization would collapse under the weight of all of its assembled dysfunctional personalities.
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[[WMG: Mike won't survive the season intact, if at all.]]
Face it: He's that lethal combination of competent and cute that makes him the perfect target, both in- and out-of-universe. Plus a recent promo shows him in Joe's clutches while Ryan watches helplessly, which just screams "last-episode shock death".
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* And if you define "winning" as "achieving one's goals", then by definition ''Carroll can't lose''.
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** That's all assuming the entire plot is going according to Joe's plan. There is every indication that it isn't, that things are starting to go wrong.
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[[WMG: Carroll plans on and actually hopes to lose.]]
He said he wanted to make his story more conventional after all. What could be more conventional that the Good Guy winning. He is just stringing things along to make them as dramatic as possible until the climax where is lets Hardy bring down everything he has built in the most dramatic fashion possible.
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* Unless Joe recruited Mike specifically to be Ryan's sidekick - every good hero needs one, and Joe wants to make Hardy's story into an epic one after all. Maybe he's not supposed to have any contact with anyone else from the cult and give them no help until the final act. There was after all Rick, who seemed concerned solely with Claire, so maybe Mike is the same for Ryan, only in even deeper cover. Yeah, I know it's far-fetched.
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* Looks to be Jossed; there'd be no reason for the cult to kidnap and torture him if he was one of them, and neither Carroll nor Roderick gave any indication of it being an act or part of the plan.
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* And another twist: She was part of ''a'' cult as a child, and her parents are still in it.
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* Joe's already having trouble with the fact that Joey didn't immediately warm up to him, so there's probably something to this.
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Maybe in a season or series finale, he will address the audience directly and give them a TheLoserIsYou speech. It will go something like this:

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Maybe in a season or series finale, he will address the audience directly and give them a TheLoserIsYou YouBastard speech. It will go something like this:
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[[WMG: At some point, Carroll is going to break The Fourth Wall.]]
Maybe in a season or series finale, he will address the audience directly and give them a TheLoserIsYou speech. It will go something like this:
-->"Well now, did you enjoy that? I hope you have. And now you've seen the point of my greatest work. These people have died, some of them horribly, for your pleasure. I have killed, and I have made others kill, all for your entertainment. You have enjoyed the drama I have created, you have tuned in faithfully, you have clamored for more...and in so doing, you all have become my accomplices. You have played your part admirably. And now the play is done. Draw the curtain and ponder what you really are. Good night."
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[[WMG: Joey will be the SpannerInTheWorks that brings down Carroll once and for all.]]
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[[WMG: Olivia's Fate]]

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[[WMG: Olivia's Fate]]fate.]]


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* [[spoiler: Partially confirmed -- Carroll ''does'' kill her, but not because of defiance. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness He just didn't need her anymore.]]]]
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* Given what we've seen of her backstory, this seems unlikely. Besides, the FBI may be a bunch of Keystone Kops in this show, but they're not ''that'' clueless.

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* Given what we've seen of her backstory, this seems unlikely. Besides, the FBI may be a bunch of Keystone Kops in this show, but they're not ''that'' clueless.
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* Given what we've seen of her backstory, this seems unlikely. Besides, the FBI may be a bunch of Keystone Kops in this show, but they're not ''that'' clueless.



* She will either be ordered to commit public suicide, suicide on her own terms, or be murdered in defiance against Carrol. It will most likely be the first two, seeing Carrol is practically manipulating into destroying her life.

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* She will either be ordered to commit public suicide, suicide on her own terms, or be murdered in defiance against Carrol. It will most likely be the first two, seeing Carrol is practically manipulating into destroying her life.
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[[WMG: Olivia's Fate]]
* She will either be ordered to commit public suicide, suicide on her own terms, or be murdered in defiance against Carrol. It will most likely be the first two, seeing Carrol is practically manipulating into destroying her life.

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Although they'd probably never admit it.

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Although they'd probably never admit it. it.

[[WMG: Mike is Emma's brother.]]
They look a bit alike. They could be long-lost siblings, or something.
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* Yeah, shocked and stunned because a co-worker and friend just got murdered. But Riley didn't have any blood on his face, just on his neck where he'd been stabbed -- and if Weston had smothered him, either with his blood-covered hands or with the towel he'd been using to staunch the wound, there would definitely be blood on Riley's face.
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- That would be agonizing but really great.
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[[WMG: The show's creators are Tropers.]]
Although they'd probably never admit it.

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* Its already been said that Joey was born before Hardy met Claire and Carroll, so Joey being Hardy's son is impossible.

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* Its already been said that Joey was born before Hardy met Claire and Carroll, so Joey being Hardy's son is impossible. impossible.
** Barring a [[TheReveal sudden twist]], consider this one {{Jossed}}.
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* Its already been said that Joey was born before Hardy met Claire and Carroll, so Joey being Hardy's son is impossible.
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[[WMG: Joey is [[spoiler:Hardy's son]]

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[[WMG: Joey is [[spoiler:Hardy's son]]son]]]]
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[[WMG: Joey is [[spoiler:Hardy's]] son]]

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[[WMG: Joey is [[spoiler:Hardy's]] [[spoiler:Hardy's son]]
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[[WMG: Joey is [[spoiler:Hardy's]] son]]
That's the great secret behind the plot: Carroll knows that [[spoiler:Hardy slept with his wife]], with Joey as the result.
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[[WMG: The great plan involves Carroll turning Hardy into a great detective so that he can twist him into becoming a great villain.]]
Carroll will fill Hardy's team with his followers who's goal is to help Hardy and become his followers. The idea is that Hardy will become this great hero for 'stopping' Carroll and his followers only for Carroll (and his followers) to reveal that Hardy is supposedly the true mastermind (his team revealing themselves as cultists, statements showing how Hardy seemingly figured improbable things out, etc). The end result is that Hardy is both disgraced and perhaps pushed over the edge such that Hardy must become what Carroll wants him to be in order to win and stop Carroll - that is, Hardy is imprisoned and must recruit his own illicit following to fight Carrolls.
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[[WMG: Like above, Mike Weston is the TheMole.]]
Weston, who is the Carroll expert, was there with Agent Riley as he was laid dying from the stabbing. Its possibly that Agent Riley would be able to survive from a wound like that, given how MadeOfIron the characters are. When Hardy left to catch two of Carroll's cultists, Weston smothers Riley, either a rite of passage or as a MercyKill. He even looked shocked when Hardy comes back.
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[[WMG: Parker may be TheMole, and part of Carroll's cult.]]
She's not at all forthcoming about her past as a cult investigator, and, at the end of the second episode, she gives Carroll a copy of Edgar Allan Poe's complete works, but something else definitely passes between them, leaving each with a sly little smile. Time will tell.
* It gets trickier: In the next episode, she appeared genuinely surprised to learn that a cult member's wife was also a member.
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