Are you ready to read the next chapter?

Fox has released the first teaser for The Following Season 2 - and it may be brief, and it may lack any new footage from the Kevin Bacon-based drama, but it's also rather intriguing.

Watch now and prepare for everything to be changed:

James Purefoy will return in some capacity when The Following comes back to Fox in January, and he'll be joined by a slew of new faces:

• Keith Carradine as a friend of Hardy's.
• Jesssica Stroup as Hardy's niece.
• James McDaniel as a task force leader.
• Valerie Cruz as Detective Gina Mendez.

Fox is yet to release an exact premiere date for The Following Season 2, but look for it in early 2014.

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