The Price of Love!! The Following Ep9 Recap!!

*WARNING-SPOILERS!!*

Hardy and Parker arrive at the restaurant where a woman is killed. There, he is given the message of “love hurts.” The lady who was killed shares the same name as Claire Matthews. Ryan suspects that Joe is targeting women with his wife’s name. Hardy and Parker coordinate with police authorities to locate and protect women named Claire Matthews. Meanwhile at an apartment, another Claire Matthews meets her end when she is attacked and tossed out the apartment window. Following the incident, Donovan talks to the media about the murder and the suspect Amanda Porter. Jacob’s mother tries to cope and understand her son’s involvement with Carroll. She learns that her son has never killed anyone. At the safe house, Roderick confronts Emma about her relationships with Joe and Jacob, and also the numerous messages left by Jacob. Meanwhile, Parker learns of another Claire Matthews who is a college student. Paul and Jacob reminisce about their early days when they joined Emma and how Paul kept Jacob’s secret of not being able to kill from Emma. Dying from an infection from the wound given to him by Hardy, Paul begs Jacob to kill him in his own way. Jacob tearfully holds a pillow over his face, ending his suffering.

At a college party, FBI agents arrive in search of Claire Matthews. Ryan, spotting both Louise and Amanda, joins the pursuit that leads to a building under construction. Killing Louise, Ryan enters the building and soon catches up with Amanda who has a nail gun pressed against Claire Matthews’ head. To save her, Ryan tells Amanda that he loves Joe’s ex-wife Claire Matthews. Then he pleads with her to kill him instead. Amanda is torn between following her purpose and her better judgment. Ryan uses this moment to snatch the nail gun, allowing agents to arrest Amanda. Afterward, Parker tells Hardy that Amanda will be moved to the main FBI branch in DC. At the safe house, the location of Joe’s ex-wife is found out courtesy of Roderick. She’s in Haverfield, PA. Later, Jacob arrives at the house much to Emma’s surprise.

There were some very interesting perspectives in last night’s episode. First, let’s start with Emma and Joe’s passionate romp last week. Despite all he has done, the guy still loves his wife. He has regrets of sleeping with Emma in his moment of weakness and dutifully rejects her afterward leaving Emma feeling lost. This situation stems to a cult member named Amanda Porter who killed her husband and his mistress when she discovered them together. In her backstory, she met Joe in 2009 where she tells him about how she meted out her husband’s punishment. This leads to her being assigned the mission of targeting women who bear the same name as Joe’s ex-wife Claire Matthews in order to send a message to Ryan Hardy. However, as the episode progressed, it is becomes increasingly clear that Amanda is unstable which leads to Ryan picking up on and exposing it when she has a college student by the name of Claire Matthews held captive. That instability leads to her arrest. Well, we finally get word on Jacob and Paul’s whereabouts. The two retreat to a cabin isolated in the mountains where they are met by Jacob’s mother. Now what’s a mother to do when her son return’s home as a wanted fugitive? You love him despite all he has done…or rather, didn’t do. Jacob’s inability to kill is told through his and Paul’s backstory. Jacob put the pretense that he killed people which may possibly have aided in him getting accepted into the cult. However, his true colors are exposed when he was faced with a situation in 2007 involving a girl in the trunk of the car he and Paul were driving. Jacob tried to but couldn’t bring himself to take the girl’s life. Out of the friendship they developed, Paul kept the secret to himself, which he reminds Jacob of as he is slowly dying from the massive infection. Jacob ends his friend’s life and then kisses him on the forehead, signifying that their pretend love had become a reality.

While we’re on confessions of the heart, Ryan Hardy poured his out to cult member Amanda Porter who’s been assigned the task of killing women sharing the name Claire Matthews. Amanda, who killed her cheating husband, asks him straight out about his affair with Joe Carroll’s wife. Ryan put it simply: “Because I love her.”; which fully explains his adamancy of keeping her safe and working endlessly to find her son. Possibly feeling sentiment for Porter who is confused and in an unstable state, Hardy tries to reason with her, telling her that he is the one who should be punished instead of the other woman named Claire Matthews whose head she has a nail pressed against. Guess being around a college professor like Carroll is starting to pay off. Amanda’s unstable mind eventually grants Ryan the chance for him to save “Claire Matthews” and hand Amanda over to agents. However, later in his office, he is seen looking at a picture of the Claire Matthews he loves on the television in a news report before dropping his head in guilt. Has his interaction with Joe’s ex-wife put her in farther danger than he previously thought? Perhaps the answer will come once he discovers that Joe, thanks to Roderick, has found his beloved in Haverfield, PA.

Loading