Stalked By My Amish Boyfriend Ending Explained & Movie Recap: Did Carly Marry Her Stalker?

With Joe Goldberg running the internet, drawing endless thirst posts and edits, we’re witnessing something darker than just fandom culture. The severity of the problem is easily overlooked in this day and age, and we’ve somehow blurred the line between fictional fascination and dangerous romanticization. Lifetime’s latest thriller, Stalked by My Amish Boyfriend, delivers an unexpectedly gripping take on the stalker genre, though it occasionally leans too heavily on familiar tropes to sustain its tension throughout. In typical Lifetime fashion, the cast looks effortlessly polished even as they attempt to look like everyday people, and while the story rarely strays from formula, it still manages to deliver a fun watch. 

Spoilers Ahead

What happens in the movie?

Carly, a college student coping with the recent loss of her mother, chooses to stay home with her father, Grant, over the summer holidays instead of joining her best friend, Jenna, on a sailing trip. During her holiday, Carly bumps into an Amish guy, Abram. They start talking in the coffee shop, and Abram tells her that he’s on a sabbatical from the community, trying to explore life in the city for a bit. He mentions that he’s on his Rumspringa (where an Amish teenager is allowed to mingle with other teenagers and explore the world before they commit to the church). Carly wonders why he’s having his Rumspringa now, in his early twenties, instead of at sixteen like most Amish teens do. Abram says his tribe follows a different set of Ordnung (a set of rules Amish people live by), and he also delayed his Rumspringa because his mother was sick, and he took care of her until she passed. Carly and Abram quickly grow close, and at one point, Abram even buys her an exact same necklace she lost, a precious keepsake her mother had given her. After they hook up, Carly tries to end it right there, knowing she’s soon going back to college, and she tries to do it in the healthiest possible way. But as you can guess from the title, breaking up with a stalker isn’t as simple, or as safe, as ending a normal relationship.

How does Abram stalk Carly?

On her first day back at college, Carly bumps into Abram once again. She’s confused to see him there, but he convinces her that he enrolled here, unaware it’s the same college she goes to. Even though Amish kids usually only study till 8th grade, Abram tells Carly that he finished high school, convincing his elders that his education would be good for the community. So now Carly believes him, and the only person who suspects something fishy is Jenna, who questions this ‘coincidence.’ While Abram is going around telling any boy who talks to Carly that he’s her boyfriend, Jenna finds out that Abram isn’t enrolled in the college and is only pretending to be a student to be with Carly. When Jenna finally confronts Abram and asks him to leave her alone, he responds by putting a mask over his face and viciously punching her in the women’s washroom. She doesn’t tell the cops about the attacker, but when she reveals it to Carly, she thinks that Jenna is jealous that she’s prioritizing someone else over her. Carly even makes a rude remark about Jenna’s dad, and they drift apart for the time being. But Carly does ask Abram for the truth, and he admits that his high school diploma never arrived. He was too embarrassed to tell her that he’d actually been scammed. Carly forgives him, but now she at least realizes that Abram is not the green flag she thought he was, and she starts to distance herself. 

How does Abram kidnap Carly?

When Carly stops responding to his texts and calls, Abram begins to follow her everywhere, silently lurking in the background of her daily life. One night, he sends her a photo of her father inside their home, a picture that looks like it’s been taken from just outside the window. Carly can’t reach her dad over the phone, and she rushes back home to find him and Abram hanging out together. Grant was showing old pictures of Carly to Abram, and Carly finally sets a firm boundary and confronts Abram, telling him to never force his way into her life again. As Carly screams at him to leave her alone, Abram keeps repeating, “I love you,” desperately begging her to fix him and tell him how he should act. Carly makes it clear that she can’t date at the moment and asks him to leave her alone. Not long after, she finds herself walking to her apartment with Wyatt, a philosophy major she’s gotten to know, but Abram pops up out of nowhere and confronts Carly. When Wyatt tries to intervene, Abram punches him, sending him crashing headfirst into a rock. Carly scrambles to help Wyatt and dials for help, but Abram grabs her before she can finish. The next thing she knows, she’s waking up in a locked bedroom.

Where is Carly?

Her mouth is gagged with a cloth, and her hands and legs are bound. Carly is terrified by the situation she’s trapped in. When she frees herself and tries to get out, none of the windows or the door open. She manages to get the cloth out of her mouth and screams for help, only for Abram to tell her it’s annoying and nobody’s going to answer her cry for help. Abram assures her that Wyatt is alive but in a coma before grabbing her phone to message Jenna and Grant, posing as Carly and telling them she’s safe and staying with him. Abram confesses his love for Carly, insisting that this, holding her captive, is the only way they can truly be together. Meanwhile, Jenna starts to worry about Carly, wondering where she is. Jenna knows the texts don’t seem Carly-like, and she finds Carly’s pillbox outside their apartment, where she was taken from. Carly has a heart condition called arrhythmia, and she needs to take her medication every day to stay okay. When Carly starts to freak out about it, Abram calls over a girl named Mona, who’s also Amish, and you can tell they’re from the same group. Mona has brought a plant called foxglove, which is used to make modern cardiac medication. Mona adds a few drops of the flower extract to Carly’s tea, which is meant to keep her stable. It seems to work, because Carly doesn’t get any worse after she starts drinking it. So Carly now starts to understand her surroundings; she’s in a pretty luxurious farmhouse, surrounded by vast farmlands, stables, and more houses. This place looks to be where this new-age Amish group settled in. The only thing one might ask is, how do they afford this land? 

Can Carly escape from the Amish farm?

Carly tries again and again to escape, but every idea she has feels frustratingly foolish and doomed to fail. This includes her trying to attack Abram with a heavy relic she can’t even lift comfortably and her trying to steal his jeep without having the key beforehand, and her attempts at running finally get on Abram’s nerves. He makes her kneel in front of the community to make an example out of her and puts her in a dark prison-like room for days without food and water. Mona helps her with pieces of bread and water, just enough to keep Carly alive. When Carly goes out to help the community gather food, Mona reveals a few things about Abram, which gives Carly more of an idea about the kind of person he is. This hidden community is made up entirely of Amish men and women who’ve been shunned by their own people for defying the Ordnung in one way or another. In his original community, Abram courted a girl named Rachel, and he grew extremely possessive of her. Rachel liked someone else, and she had to pay the price with her life; in the beginning of the film, we see her getting killed. Carly is the new Rachel, and Mona asks her to find a way out before she ends up dead too.

Does Carly marry her stalker?

To prove her love and regain his trust, Carly does the unthinkable: she asks Abram to marry her, binding herself to the very man she fears. Abram jumps on this prospect, and he arranges for the ceremony to take place that very day. Meanwhile, Jenna has contacted Grant, and after both of them get no help from the cops, Jenna posts about Carly’s disappearance in a few internet sleuthing groups, and to her surprise, a lead comes in almost immediately. It turns out a developer had built a cluster of farmhouses in a remote area, but after going bankrupt, they’d left the entire project abandoned and forgotten. When Jenna uses the Google Street View to check on the location, she finds the farmland well maintained and plowed, which is unusual for an abandoned area. Grant suspects that this must be where Abram’s group is hiding out. Determined to see for himself, he heads there alone, leaving Jenna behind as a backup in case something goes wrong. 

In Stalked by My Amish Boyfriend’s ending, Carly and Abram marry by exchanging traditional Amish verbal oaths, and Carly proves she can put on quite the convincing act. After the wedding, while they dance, Carly mixes a few drops of foxglove in Abram’s drink, which he drinks in a gulp. Then she spills some drink on him, and he decides to go back into the house to change, just as Carly hoped. She seizes the moment and bolts into the woods, but it doesn’t take long for Abram to realize she’s missing. He intimidates Mona to force her to admit the truth and follows his bride. Abram catches up to her without much effort, considering he was driving his jeep and Carly was on foot. To make matters worse, Abram reveals his twisted wedding gift: her father, bound and gagged in the back of his jeep. But he starts to get sick, and the pain takes over him, thanks to the extra foxglove in his system. Carly finally musters the courage to confront him, calling him out for what he truly is: a stalker, a murderer, a sinner, and everything else vile she can think of. The cops arrive at the scene, as Jenna called them after not hearing back from Grant for hours. The movie closes with Abram handcuffed in the back of a police car, while Carly breaks free at last, escaping the outcast Amish cult and reclaiming her life. Mona, too, leaves the group to start a life of her own, and Carly offers her to stay with her and Jenna, making this a perfect ending for the good people. 

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