"Freedom" is the eleventh episode of the second season of the psychological thriller television series The Following, which premiered on March 31, 2014, on Fox.
Mike and Ryan research possible cult connections and information on Lily Gray while briefly discussing each other's personal lives.
She is given a proposition, allowing her to see Ryan on the conditions that her son and mother are moved to an undisclosed location that she will not know unless she returns to witness protection.
Two masked men enter a bakery and begin stabbing customers and employees at random before running out the back door.
Serena takes Terri's identification card and clothes to enter the hospital where the victims from the bakery attack are being treated.
Two men who were stabbed in the attack leave their hospital beds and retrieve the bag, revealing guns inside.
A man, Decklan, wheels his partner on a gurney into the area where Luke is being kept, where they shoot security members dead.
"[3] Starlee Kine of Vulture gave the episode a more negative review, saying "The show has gone so far off the rails that next week I’m pretty sure that Joe and Lily are just going to have their people stab every character to death halfway through and we’ll be watching an empty room for 30 minutes.