The Following: Season 1, Episode 13: 'Havenport' Recap

“The Following”, season 1, episode 13, “Havenport”

In the Sheriff’s Stations in Havenport, Maryland, Sheriff Roderick assists Hardy and Parker as much as he can. They ask him for the property records to help locate Joe Carroll, and he leaves to check on them. As he leaves, Weston arrives. Parker sends him to the back to aid, and Weston hears Roderick’s voice, and immediately realizes who Roderick is. Weston draws a gun, but that’s not a wise thing to do in a sheriff’s office, so he’s tackled to the floor while Roderick escapes out the back.

After the misunderstanding is cleared up, the FBI finds that Sheriff Roderick’s real name is Tim Nelson, and that he went to Winslow University and minored in literature. His faculty advisor happened to be Joe Carroll.

Back at the mansion, Carroll asks Emma to watch over Joey and Claire. As they talk, Roderick rushes into the room and tells them that they’re screwed, and that they need to execute their escape plan. Roderick blames Carroll for messing up (by killing Daniel Monroe) and leading the FBI to their town, and while he has the property records covered up, it’s only a matter of time before they find the mansion. Carroll refuses to leave, and Roderick starts to question him. Carroll chokes him.

On the TV, Hardy makes an unofficial press conference, offering safety and immunity for the first follower that steps forward. Carroll turns off the TV, saying that Hardy and the FBI are getting desperate.

Outside the mansion, Claire tells Joey that he can’t trust anyone in the mansion, not even Jacob. He can only trust Claire, and Ryan Hardy. Sheriff Roderick storms outside and walks past them towards his car. He pauses a moment, and then walks back, shoves Claire out of the way and grabs Joey. He throws him into his car and takes off.

Back inside the mansion, Claire runs to Carroll, freaked out that Roderick took Joey. Carroll tells her that he’ll take care of it. He tells two followers to go with Jacob to get Joey back and to kill Roderick. And to make him suffer, if they can.

In town, Roderick (in a semi-disguise) finds one of his old friends, and draws a gun on her. He needs her to drive him out of town. As they drive, they get stopped at a police checkpoint. They ask for IDs, and Roderick hands over a fake one, but the officer doesn’t buy it. They ask him to step out of the car, and he does, but he pulls his gun and shoots the two cops. His friend freaks out, and he has her drive away.

Down the road further, he has her pull over and get out. He is planning on killing her and taking her car. As he draws his gun, she starts to run, and the FBI shows up and takes Sheriff Roderick into custody.

In the sheriff’s station, Roderick tells Hardy that he wants a deal, and that he has Joey Matthews, and if they want to find him, they have to let Roderick go. Hardy doesn’t believe him, and Roderick tells him to call Carroll and ask himself. Hardy has Weston retrieve Roderick’s cellphone from evidence, and has him call Carroll.

After some taunting and teasing and cryptic speaking, Hardy realizes that Joey Matthews is, in fact, missing. Roderick reiterates his request for freedom.

Outside the station, Jacob and two other followers wait for Hardy and Roderick.

Inside, a little later, Hardy rushes into the interrogation room, and disconnects the cameras. He uncuffs Roderick and tells him to lead him to Joey, and then he can be free. He agrees. He leads Roderick outside, and puts him in a cruiser. Roderick tells Hardy to leave his gun and his phone behind, and he does. And they leave, Roderick giving Hardy directions.

Jacob and the followers follow.

In the mansion, Emma tells Carroll that the followers are beginning to panic and that they are having doubts. She tries to kiss him and reassure him that she doesn’t doubt him, but he smacks her. She rushes out of the room, scorned.

Sheriff Roderick leads Hardy to a dark house seemingly in the middle of nowhere. Roderick assures him that Joey is inside. Hardy follows him in. As they leave, Agent Weston climbs out of the truck, and calls Hardy who is standing by  with a squad of police. He says to wait for his call, and that he’s going in.

Inside the house, Hardy hears Joey, and finds him tied up in a closet. He frees him, but Roderick draws a gun (that he had stashed away) on him. Weston sneaks in behind Roderick, and draws a gun on him, so a standoff ensues. From outside, shots are fired, and Roderick collapses to the floor, dead. Weston, Hardy, and Joey all hit the floor, realizing that those must be Carroll’s men outside.

Hardy tells Weston to take Joey somewhere safe and that he’ll cover him. He grabs Roderick’s gun from the corpse, and Hardy takes Joey deeper into the house and stashes him in a bedroom as he secures the rest of the house.

Hardy is attacked by one of the followers, and Weston is attacked by another. They struggle to fight them off, but eventually win, killing them both. Joey, inside the bedroom, finds the corpse of the house’s owner and freaks out. He runs out of the bedroom and into the arms of Jacob.

Weston finds Hardy, and informs him that Joey is missing. They split up and search outside. Hardy eventually spots Jacob and Joey running through the woods. Jacob and Joey hide behind a shed, and Hardy tries to convince Jacob to surrender and let Joey go. He refuses, saying that he can’t let Carroll down. The police begin to arrive, and Joey begs Jacob to let him go.

Hardy approaches the shed carefully, and when he goes to surprise the two, he finds that Jacob is gone, but that he left Joey behind.

Hardy brings Joey to the sheriff’s station, with the media filming the FBI’s triumph.

In the mansion, Claire watches tearfully as her son is finally safe in the arms of Ryan Hardy.

Elsewhere in the mansion, Emma pays Jacob a visit, asking what happened. Jacob doesn’t say much, but he begins to cry, saying that they’re all going to die soon, and that he can feel it.

In Carroll’s office, Claire pays him a visit. He’s a bit angry about the events of the day. Claire came to make him a deal. She says that she will willingly stay with Carroll and even love him again if Carroll agrees to let Joey be free. She kisses him to try and prove that she can love him again, and as she does, she draws a knife and stabs Carroll in the side. He shoves her away and calls for his guards to take Claire away.

Carroll calls Hardy, distraught and hurt, and tells him that their story now needs a complete rewrite, and that Claire is no longer the leading lady, and that it’s now her turn to die.

In the sheriff’s station, a woman comes in and asks to see Hardy, saying she’s one of the followers, and that she wants the immunity and safety he offered. One of the officers patted her down and said she had no weapons, so Hardy, Parker, and Weston meet her at the door and agree to bring her in the back for questioning. As they turn their back on her, she removes one of her hair pins, and stabbed leading officer Donovan in the eye. The other agents open fire on her, killing her. Donovan cries out in pain with a giant hair pin stuck in his eye.