User blog comment:Hito7187199/Joe Carroll is possibly not dead./@comment-24.178.204.242-20130530190012

I think you're right. I've seen twisted dramas like The Following, and none of them has the villian just cut off at the end. The villian always comes back until the end. First of all, I have a theory that Joe used a body and touched him everywhere, put him in that building and after fighting with Ryan, right before the explosion, escaped to an underground place, like in the first episode of the Cape. Second of all, if he would die, it should be Ryan to kill him, not some stupid random explosion. Last of all, Joe is not just the villian, HE IS A MAIN CHARACTER, which is also why I do not think Claire should've been wounded, Joey just cut off, and Jacob, Debra and Paul killed. I think Joe still lives.