She grabs his arm and spins him into a choke hold — totally illegal for good reason — and jams the gun under his chin.

The Followers begin yelling, regrouping after the lightning strike. They are scared and confused, but they are not giving up yet. Buzz Bixby, only a few yards away from her, turns and points his pistol in her direction.

“Jesus, no!” Carl says. “You’ll hit me! Just do as she says! Do whatever she — ”

Carrie shuts him up by pressing the gun into his windpipe. He chokes and begins weeping a little.

“So this is your leader?” she shouts. “If you want him alive, you’d better — ”

Whatever else she was going to say is lost in the sound of a gunshot.

Carl looks stunned as a red stain blossoms on his shirt. Another gunshot, and another red blossom. Carrie drops him.

Buzz stands there, his gun still smoking.

“Shit,” Carrie says, and immediately trains her gun on him.

Buzz looks like he thinks this is all hilarious.

“I’m sure you thought that was a winning move,” he says, “but we were pretty much done with Carl, and this is how we change leadership anyway. So thanks for that.”

Carrie keeps her gun aimed at him.

“Got any other hostages?” he asks. “No? Well, we do.”

Wade Wellman emerges from the crowd, towing Mary Keene along with him.

For a moment, Carrie can’t believe her eyes, even though she thought she was prepared. Wade Wellman. Standing there in front of her.

Mary’s eyes go wide when she sees her daughter. Wade lets her go, and Mary rushes over. “Carrie!” she shrieks. She wraps her arms around Carrie and holds onto her.

Carrie is tangled with her mom. She’s forced to lower her weapon.

Buzz takes the moment to shoot her. In the leg, because he’s a lousy shot and he wasn’t ready for the recoil, but he still manages to hit her.

I have to admit, Carrie thinks, just before the truly astonishing pain begins, I did not see that coming.

On the other side of the crowd, at the same moment that Carrie coughs, Danny starts talking to Sax.

“Edgar,” he says. “I have a question for you. What do you get out of this?”

RANN-D’s arms lift Danny and rotate and flip him like a pancake so that he faces the screen on the robot’s chest. Sax’s image reappears.

“I’m alive, Danny. The Good Man promised me immortality, and he delivered. I am happy to serve him now.”

“Doesn’t seem like much of an afterlife to me, honestly. You don’t have a body. You’re stuck in a tin can. You can be shut off like a TV when there’s nothing to watch. Not what I’d call living.”