List of Slasher episodes
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Slasher is a Canadian horror anthology television series created by Aaron Martin which premiered on March 4, 2016, on Chiller. The series' licensing rights were purchased by Netflix in January 2017 and the following seasons were released exclusively via Netflix's web streaming service.[1] The second season was released on October 17, 2017.[2][3] In November 2020, the series was moved to Shudder for a fourth season.[4]
As of May 11, 2023,[update] 40 episodes of Slasher have been released, currently in its fifth season.
Series overview
[edit]Season | Title | Episodes | Originally released | |||
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First released | Last released | Network | ||||
1 | The Executioner | 8 | March 4, 2016 | April 15, 2016 | Chiller | |
2 | Guilty Party | 8 | October 17, 2017 | Netflix | ||
3 | Solstice | 8 | May 23, 2019 | |||
4 | Flesh & Blood | 8 | August 12, 2021 | September 16, 2021 | Shudder | |
5 | Ripper | 8 | April 6, 2023 | May 11, 2023 |
Episodes
[edit]Season 1: The Executioner (2016)
[edit]No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | US viewers (millions) | |
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1 | 1 | "An Eye for an Eye" | Craig David Wallace | Aaron Martin | March 4, 2016 | 0.120[5] | |
Sarah returns to Waterbury with her husband and journalist Dylan Bennett to stay at a house bought from realtor Robin Turner. The house is the same one where Sarah's late parents Bryan and Rachel Ingram were murdered before her birth on Halloween by Tom Winston in 1988. Winston had concealed his identity with a medieval robe costume and a leather hood and had been dubbed "The Executioner". The second Executioner surfaces for the first time, chasing Sarah down her street that night. Following a suggestion from Tom after their first meeting, Sarah discovers a camcorder and illicit sex tapes her parents buried in their house, tapes that her neighbor Verna McBride had discovered and taken to her house. The Executioner ties down and dismembers Verna in her bedroom. During the second visit, Tom reveals to Sarah that the killer is targeting his victims who violated one of the seven deadly sins and that Verna's death of dismemberment was the biblical punishment for wrath. | |||||||
2 | 2 | "Digging Your Grave With Your Teeth" | Craig David Wallace | Aaron Martin | March 4, 2016 | 0.110[5] | |
Sarah's grandmother, Brenda arrives at the house to stay with the couple until the killer is caught. While setting up her art gallery store, Sarah receives a package containing a severed human finger and a note. Following Tom's suggestion that the note contains geographic coordinates, she discovers the remains of Verna's husband Peter in the woods and that his wife murdered him out of anger at his illicit affair with Rachel from one of her tapes. Lured out into an alleyway by a severed power cable, Robin is attacked by the Executioner who injures him before he is rescued by a bystander. While Robin is recovering at the hospital, police deputy Cam Henry realizes that Robin's husband Justin is the killer's next victim. He attempts to report police chief Iain Vaughn at the house party but Justin dies after ingesting cocaine laced with rat poison, serving as the punishment for his gluttony. The police arrest Heather Peterson who made verbal threats against Justin and Robin earlier, under suspicion of the current murders. | |||||||
3 | 3 | "Like as Fire Eateth Up and Burneth Wood" | Craig David Wallace | Aaron Martin | March 11, 2016 | 0.067[6] | |
Robin discovers from a lawyer that Justin had bribed money from his clients, and that he stole their home from a family who died from oxygen toxicity from the house's propane heater after Justin moved them to another house without electricity or heating. As Sarah is driving out of town with Brenda, they swerve off the road to avoid a passing pickup truck and are forced to walk back to town. In the woods, Brenda confesses her role in Ada Pavlovik's accident as a teen when she attempted to drop a cinder block on her former best friend Sonja who was driving in the car after her brief relationship with the town mayor Ronald Edwards. Fearing for her grandmother's safety, Sarah is separated from the latter who attempts to kill the Executioner, but he captures her, ties her to a cinder block and tosses it into the lake at a nearby boathouse. Brenda's drowning death, the punishment for her envy, prompts the police to release Heather from custody. | |||||||
4 | 4 | "As Water is Corrupted Unless It Moves" | Craig David Wallace | Aaron Martin | March 18, 2016 | 0.067[7] | |
The police verify that the truck that ran off Sarah and Brenda belonged to Verna's nephew Trent. However, the latter is chased into a snake pit in the woods where he is killed by the Executioner as punishment for his sloth. Dylan interviews Tom in prison, under request from his boss Alison Sutherland and New York journalist Lisa-Ann Follows. Tom provides evidence to Dylan that suggests he has had a greater interest in Tom than he let on to Sarah. Cam's wife June confides to Sarah that she and Trent had an affair while they were EMT partners; she also explains to Sarah about Trent's encounter with Ariel Peterson, Heather's missing daughter who disappeared five years ago. But when Sarah observes the security camera footage, June was also involved with Trent before Ariel's disappearance. After comforting a hysterical Heather in the street, June is abducted at the church by the Executioner. She awakens in a cornfield naked, paralyzed with lidocaine attached to an IV, and covered in honey which attracts the animals that eat her alive. | |||||||
5 | 5 | "Ill-Gotten Gains" | Craig David Wallace | Aaron Martin | March 25, 2016 | 0.053[8] | |
Cam and Sarah argue over suspicions each other has about the killer. Alison records her requested on-air interview with the Executioner who, in full costume, obliges at an abandoned foundry to publish the footage on live television. At the bar, she confides to Lisa-Ann that she fabricated evidence that tied Benny Peterson to his daughter's disappearance until the town held him responsible for the incident, driving him to suicide. Sarah and Robin believe Cam's father and local pastor Alan is the killer. The next day before heading to New York, Alison is abducted in her limo by the Executioner who takes her back to the foundry and decapitates her for her greed; her head is later found in the local restaurant's deep fryer. After acquiring the digital files of her parents' remaining sex tapes from Ronald, Sarah discovers that one of the videos featured a young Tom Winston. Meanwhile, Vaughn heads home to his basement where he conceals Ariel inside with her son Jake. | |||||||
6 | 6 | "The One Who Sows His Own Flesh" | Craig David Wallace | Aaron Martin | April 1, 2016 | 0.076[9] | |
Five years earlier, Chief Vaughn abducts Ariel after June and Trent left her behind on the road and rapes her. After suspecting Sarah's attempts with Cam to interrogate Marjorie Travers about Ariel's whereabouts, Vaughn kills Marjorie in her apartment. He then captures Sarah in his car, who revealed Alison's fraud of framing Benny for Ariel's disappearance and Marjorie's deception. Vaughn takes her to a junkyard and attempts to kill her and make it appear as the Executioner has killed her for her pride — the punishment being to be "broken on a wheel" — but Sarah manages to escape, exposing Vaughn's sin of lust. Enraged, he attempts to punish himself by self-immolation along with Ariel and Jake but spares them until the police arrive and reunite them with Heather. Tom insists to Sarah that he is her birth father until she demands his reason for murdering Bryan and Rachel. Meanwhile, Vaughn escapes to a secluded lakeside shack where the Executioner knocks him out and traps him in a crematorium where he is burned alive. | |||||||
7 | 7 | "In the Pride of His Face" | Craig David Wallace | Aaron Martin | April 8, 2016 | 0.077[10] | |
Tom's backstory before emerging as the Executioner is unveiled. As a former town pastor, he was tricked by Bryan and Alan into recording his intimacy with Rachel for one of her sex tapes. Enraged by the couple's deceit, Tom murders Bryan and scars Alan. Rachel pleads with him to spare Sarah, saying she is his daughter; he cuts the baby out of her womb and kills Rachel. In the present, Sarah confronts Dylan who has made a website of the Executioner's murder of her parents at his affair with Lisa-Ann. Tom escapes from his prison and takes Sarah with him to protect her as they are the Executioner's next victims—both committed their sins of pride. In the woods, the killer captures both of them where they awake inside a sawmill. The Executioner drags Sarah into a running buzzsaw but Tom pleads with the killer to punish him instead, before plunging himself into the saw to his death. At his house, Cam places a piece of Tom's prison jumpsuit in a box with the other evidence pieces of the victims, revealing him to be the Executioner. | |||||||
8 | 8 | "Soon Your Own Eyes Will See" | Craig David Wallace | Aaron Martin | April 15, 2016 | 0.086[11] | |
When Alan finds Cam's box in his closet, he confronts his son as to him being the killer, but Cam murders him at the church and places the box at Sarah and Dylan's house to frame the latter as the Executioner. Sarah discovers his suspicions while browsing through her summer camp scrapbook and finds the photo of a sketch Cam drew that resembles the killer's drawings before sneaking into his house and finding his Executioner paraphernalia. She uses the knife to lure Cam outside of Robin's Halloween house party and stabs him, but he takes the knife and stabs Robin who has shown up to investigate the commotion. Sarah escapes to her house as Cam pursues her until Dylan, who has been released by his lawyer, arrives and helps her immobilize Cam as compensation for his felony, Sarah stabs him repeatedly before slitting his throat. Four weeks later, a reconciled Sarah and Dylan sell the house and leave Waterbury. Robin shows the property to a family whose young daughter snaps the neck of a stray cat in the yard. |
Season 2: Guilty Party (2017)
[edit]No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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9 | 1 | "Six Feet Under" | Felipe Rodriguez | Aaron Martin | October 17, 2017 | |
Former summer camp counselors Peter Burrow, Andi Criss, Dawn Duguin, Noah Jenkins and Susan Lam return to Camp Motega five years after they murder fellow camp counselor Talvinder Gill. When the group arrives at the camp, now renovated as a ski resort owned by a commune led by Antoine and Renee, it learns that a tennis court is going to be built on the land. When they go to the woods where they concealed the body earlier, they find it has disappeared. Unbeknownst to them and the commune, a figure clad in a hooded parka and a ski mask murders the commune's supply outfitter Gene with a chainsaw inside the sauna. The figure then targets Andi, who finds Talvinder's decomposed corpse suspended from the nearby trees, and knocks her out. Peter hears her screams but arrives too late after the killer ties Andi to the ground and slits her throat before Peter can save her. After he informs the group of her death, the former counselors find a warning written in blood on the wall. | ||||||
10 | 2 | "Between Good and Evil" | Felipe Rodriguez | Jana Sinyor | October 17, 2017 | |
When Antoine and Renee find a snowman decked with Gene's entrails outside the sauna, the two groups decide to drive to his shop to call for help but find all of the gas from their snowmobiles has been siphoned out. At their cabin, the former counselors are horrified after receiving a box containing Gene's clothes. Susan, who attempts to escape the resort with Noah, finds that the phone lines have been cut and informs the commune, who are now suspicious of the counselors. When they discover Dawn brought her gun for protection, a conflict between the two groups ensues, and the commune displays hostility to the counselors before evicting them to their cabin. Dawn blames Susan for getting them into this situation as the instigator of their scheme against Talvinder. Susan leaves the group on her own, but the killer captures her in the woods and gouges her eyes out before snapping her neck. Her corpse is later found outside the resort house by commune members Mark and Keira. | ||||||
11 | 3 | "Saint Sebastian" | Felipe Rodriguez | James Hurst | October 17, 2017 | |
The counselors deny Antoine's accusations about Susan's death until he confronts them about their role in the disappearance of Talvinder. While the others are inside the resort house, Antoine reveals to Renee that he found Talvinder's body the previous summer while foraging for mushrooms in the woods. Renee is furious but decides to help him dismember the body, not wanting him to get involved after he had touched the body, but the ground is frozen and she convinces him to turn over the body to the police when they can. She prepares to hike with Peter back to Gene's shop for help along with Dawn, Mark and the commune's cook Glenn but after arriving, they discover that the vehicles are inoperable including Susan's SUV, and the phone does not work. Back at the camp, when Antoine returns to the shed to dispose of Talvinder's corpse, he is attacked by the killer who eviscerates him with a ground auger. Renee, who had returned to the cabin with the others, sees a chunk of his flesh in the pan that Glenn prepped for his meal in the kitchen. | ||||||
12 | 4 | "Night of Hunters" | Felipe Rodriguez | Story by : Aaron Martin Teleplay by : Naledi Jackson | October 17, 2017 | |
After the remaining members of the groups discover Antoine's death, they tackle a person outside in a brown parka similar to that worn by the killer, but she turns out to be Megan, a hiker who is on a memorial trek for her friend who died of leukemia. The group takes Megan to the resort house to question her. Noah, who is now suspicious of Glenn, confronts him about his identity after finding a different name from one of the prescription labels from his pill bottles he found earlier at the cook's room. When Glenn threatens him, Noah escapes through a window into the storm. He stumbles into a broken-down RV and opens a freezer to find a body but is knocked out by Glenn who turns out to be Benny Ironside, a serial rapist who killed the real Glenn Morgan before joining the commune a year earlier. At the house, the other survivors lay their suspicions on Dawn after she gave the soup she cooked to Megan who dies after ingesting the white baneberries from her bowl. Meanwhile, Benny drags Noah to an abandoned school bus where he rapes him. | ||||||
13 | 5 | "Out of the Frying Pan" | Felipe Rodriguez | Lucie Pagé | October 17, 2017 | |
Peter, Dawn, Mark and Keira search for Noah outside to rescue him after finding out the thug's identity. Noah, after Benny finishes raping him, sets the school bus on fire to escape and reunites with Peter and the others. Benny, who escapes the fire unharmed, attacks Renee and commune member Judith inside the resort house until he is incapacitated after Renee shoots him. The others restrain him in the warehouse to interrogate Benny who pleads his innocence of the attacks beside murdering Glenn. They decide to use Benny to lure the killer, but after they leave the warehouse, a grief-stricken Renee enters to lock herself inside with him and tortures the thug, accusing him of Antoine's murder before slitting his throat when he confesses to her in distress to end the torture. Later, after Keira treats him from the assault, Noah enters the warehouse to see his body, but when he attempts to return to the others, the killer throws a gas can which ignites him on fire. The next morning, Peter and Keira find him outside with Talvinder's body. | ||||||
14 | 6 | "Drone" | Felipe Rodriguez | Floyd Kane | October 17, 2017 | |
Noah, who is still alive from the immolation, is carried back to the resort house by Peter and Keira to treat him while Dawn steps into a bear trap outside, injuring her leg. After the counselors admit their incident to Keira, an enraged Mark accuses each of the other remaining survivors as the killer and demands questions from their respective backstories before arriving at the resort. When Mark tries to interrogate Peter, Mark's indictments escalate his heated dispute among the others as Noah dies after succumbing to his injuries. After the argument, Renee asks for Mark's help to uncover the aftermath of Talvinder's death. They head out to the old counselor cabin as Mark takes guard outside while Renee searches through a box and acquires the file of one of the former camp counselors: Owen Turnbull. Before they can return to the house, the killer arrives and knocks Mark unconscious as Renee runs, but the killer takes Dawn's gun and shoots her down. The killer then takes the file from her before mutilating her with the snowmobile. | ||||||
15 | 7 | "Dawn of the Dead" | Felipe Rodriguez | Amanda Fahey | October 17, 2017 | |
Peter and Keira find Mark who recovers from his unconsciousness after the killer murders Renee. When Mark carries her corpse to the warehouse, he finds Peter's photo in her jacket, suspecting him as the killer. At night, Mark spikes Peter's beer with ketamine, eventually locking him out of the cabin despite Keira's objections. Peter stumbles through the woods and enters a silo to find pieces of the killer's victims and a mannequin hanging from a noose that is reminiscent of the suicide of Owen Turnbull, who was a suspect in Talvinder's death after the former counselors murdered her. Thus, he realizes that the killer is targeting the victims complicit in Owen's death. He rushes back to the resort, but Mark knocks him out before he can explain his story to Dawn. She and Keira try to convince Mark that Peter was telling the truth to reveal the killer's identity. Mark notices that Judith is not in her room, and when he walks out of the house, he is killed after finding her outside. | ||||||
16 | 8 | "The Past is Never Dead" | Felipe Rodriguez | Aaron Martin | October 17, 2017 | |
The survivors doubt Judith's story after she returns to the house, claiming that she killed Mark in self-defense. Dawn is accompanied by Gene's girlfriend Janice as she drives to town to take her to the hospital and call the police. Peter finds Keira unconscious from the propane heater, and when Peter enters Judith's room, he finds the letters received from Owen before his suicide after Dawn framed him for the incident and that Judith, who is Owen's mother, was the real killer. As Peter attempts to escape with Keira, he runs into Judith at the silo after she kills Janice and shoots Dawn in the forest. Peter is forced to hang himself to spare Keira as Judith escapes. Dawn, who survives, is rescued by two hunters. Keira finds the letter Peter wrote to Talvinder's parents to give them closure for their daughter's death. Returning to town, Dawn decides to turn herself in to atone for the crimes. While accompanied by Keira to the police station, Judith watches them in the street, vowing to kill Dawn once she is released. |
Season 3: Solstice (2019)
[edit]No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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17 | 1 | "6am to 9am" | Adam MacDonald | Aaron Martin | May 23, 2019 | |
The residents of the Clayborne apartment building harbor their respective motives of complicity after the death of tenant Kit Jennings, who after attending a summer solstice party was chased by "The Druid" – a figure in a hooded costume wearing a neon-lit mask. The following year during the first anniversary of the incident, the Druid resurfaces and murders one of the remaining residents, Frank Dixon, beheading him outside the building. Police detectives Roberta Hanson and Pujit Singh inspect the murder after Frank was the lone witness to the attack on Kit, which Hanson investigated. The crime scene is publicized online in view of popularity from an exploitive blog website run by resident Violet Lickers, whose inactivity has caused her relationship with her husband Joe to become distant, leading him to secretly have an affair with fellow resident Angel Lopez. At school, another resident, Cassidy Olenski, is killed inside the girls' washroom by the Druid who submerges her head in a toilet with hydrochloric acid, severely corroding her face. | ||||||
18 | 2 | "9am to 12pm" | Adam MacDonald | Lucie Pagé | May 23, 2019 | |
Angel recalls his intentions against Kit, who was his ex-lover a year ago, before his death. At the solstice party, Angel spiked Kit's vodka bottle for him to drink to expose his lecherous actions to Cassidy, whom Kit had cheated on him with. Having recovered in the hospital from a run-in with a vagrant from outside the local coffee shop near the apartment building while leaving his support group, Angel gets into an argument with Violet, berating her for scandalizing the other residents with her exploitive posts from her website online. Upon returning to their respective apartments, Angel discovers that someone ransacked his apartment whilst he was away and, at the same time, Violet receives a video of his earlier recorded private sex video with her husband, much to the chagrin of the latter, who confronts Angel, who denies sending it. Meanwhile, the Druid sneaks into the coffee shop and attacks the owner Xander Lemmon inside the kitchen before shoving a glass coffee bean dispenser into his mouth and pouring boiling water into his throat. | ||||||
19 | 3 | "12pm to 3pm" | Adam MacDonald | Duana Taha | May 23, 2019 | |
Jen Rijkers is informed by her landlord brother Connor about the killer's recent attack from Violet's website, including the suicide of their mother Justine one year earlier after Kit's murder. This happened after Justine posted a scathing rant of Kit's death which was re-posted online and became viral to the public who turned on her, the children, and her wife Amber Ciotti who became mentally unstable following Justine's death. After completing her exams before the semester break, Jen is attacked by the Druid who chases her outside the school parking lot with an axe until the killer leaves after her best friend and tenant Saadia Jalalzai intervenes. Kaili Greenberg's perspective of her initial encounter with Kit divulges her unsuccessful attempts to explain his inactivity to the other tenants at their first meeting. After he left the solstice party, she declines to give him a ride back to the building. The Druid then abducts the teacher inside her car and straps her to a countertop in the school's biology lab, where the killer disembowels her alive. | ||||||
20 | 4 | "3pm to 6pm" | Adam MacDonald | Ian Carpenter | May 23, 2019 | |
Hanson arrives at the Clayborne apartments to interrogate the remaining tenants where Cassidy's father Dan demands his daughter's whereabouts. When Xander's body is found at the gaming hub by his girlfriend Amy Chao, Hanson questions her about his involvement on the night of the first Druid attack—Xander snuck inside Kit's apartment upon discovering Amy's purported intimacy with Kit, who was unable to retreat back to his apartment after Xander took his key as he was chased by the killer in the hallway. Confronting his girlfriend to accuse her of cheating on him, Xander's texting distracted Amy who was driving with her car back to the building to accidentally run over and kill Kit, triggering her childhood trauma that resulted in the deaths of her parents from a car accident 20 years ago. Meanwhile, Hanson finds Cassidy's corpse in an air vent in the girls' washroom at the school. After she attempts to commit suicide inside her apartment, the Druid kills Amy by stabbing her in the head with a power drill. | ||||||
21 | 5 | "6pm to 9pm" | Adam MacDonald | Matt MacLennan | May 23, 2019 | |
Violet has a standoff with Hanson who warns her on her blog website that the killer will target her next as an outcome. Afraid for his wife's safety, Joe convinces Violet to leave town with him while dealing with his affair with Angel. Hanson and Singh investigate the murder of victim Noelle Samuels who was dating Kit at the time of his murder. While looking through the photos before The Druid's first attack, they discover the motives of Noelle's ex-boyfriend Wyatt. He was stalking both Kit and Noelle at the party and was The Druid who attacked the former and killed Noelle. Meanwhile, Angel kicks Joe out of his apartment after Violet records her sex video with her husband and sends it to his email as retaliation. Infuriated, Joe runs back to their apartment to confront his wife where the killer was inside to capture him and Violet as well before both of them are murdered afterwards. At the same time, Hanson and Singh arrive at Wyatt's apartment to arrest him for the crimes after he proudly confesses to being the Druid. | ||||||
22 | 6 | "9pm to 12am" | Adam MacDonald | JP Larocque | May 23, 2019 | |
At the police station, Dan is informed of his daughter's death while Hanson interrogates Wyatt who nonchalantly claims that he didn't murder the other tenants who were complicit in Kit's death. After arriving at the summer solstice party, Saadia becomes anxious and decides to leave afterwards, recounting her past to Connor of being the lone survivor during a civil war in Afghanistan after her grandparents and relatives were executed by the military. Meanwhile, Charlie, a student who constantly bullied Jen and Saadia, is killed by the Druid inside the girls' washroom. While reviewing the previous crime scenes, Hanson deduces that the current murders are devious and done on purpose and may not be connected to Kit's murder. Back at the apartment building, the Druid, who has been manipulating the other residents into their deaths, lures both Dan and Angel into the basement during their confrontation and releases a gas from the vent that knocks them unconscious. Angel and Dan later awaken with their faces glued together. | ||||||
23 | 7 | "Midnight to 3am" | Adam MacDonald | Ian Carpenter | May 23, 2019 | |
In the basement, Dan and Angel break free from each other after Dan rips off the skin of Angel's cheek. Hanson and Singh return to the building to reinvestigate and find the Druid. While trying to evacuate the tenants, Singh is dragged into Xander and Amy's apartment and murdered by the Druid who lacerates his face with an exposed moving blender blade. Meanwhile, Dan manages to pick the lock to a hatch with a nail which leads into the building's boiler room and finds the mutilated corpses of Amy, Joe, Violet and Singh. Deciding to sleep at the Rijkers' apartment, Saadia begins to question the behavior of Jen's family and the siblings' hostility against the other tenants who have died. Unable to contact Singh who was already killed, Hanson finds a blood trail in the hallway leading to the basement with luminol and follows it directly to the boiler room. Before she can enter, she is attacked by the Druid, revealed to be Connor, who bludgeons her to death with his axe as Dan witnesses him dragging her corpse inside. | ||||||
24 | 8 | "3am to 6am" | Adam MacDonald | Ian Carpenter | May 23, 2019 | |
While Connor continues disposing of the corpses in the boiler room, the furnace is pushing its smell through the building until Saadia realizes his motives and that he is the killer. Jen reveals herself as the Druid along with her brother. Both are responsible for the murders to avenge their mother's death out of resentment at the provocation. During the revelation, Jen kills Amber. Meanwhile, Angel and Dan attack Connor in the boiler room, and Angel manages to kill Connor by restraining him into the open furnace, burning him alive. He dies in the process. Saadia fights off Jen in the basement and attempts to escape the building with Dan. Jen catches up and tries to kill them, but Saadia knocks Jen down with a fire extinguisher, fatally stabbing her with her own blade. As Jen dies, Saadia confesses that she instigated the harassment as the first user who reposted Justine's message. Saadia and Dan exit the building the next morning where they're greeted by two guests from the party, who mistake their appearances as costumes. |
Season 4: Flesh & Blood (2021)
[edit]No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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25 | 1 | "Thicker Than Water" | Adam MacDonald | Aaron Martin | August 12, 2021 | |
Every year, the strained members of the Galloway family participate in a lethal competition set by patriarch and business magnate Spencer for his fortune. The contest abruptly ends following the disappearance of Vincent, one of the twin sons of Spencer's daughter Florence. Twenty-five years later, after being diagnosed with stage four lung cancer, Spencer gathers the remainder of the family along with his second wife Grace and their son Jayden for a reunion to recommence the games. Upon their arrival to his manor on a secluded island, the Gentleman, a plague masked murderer, kills the Galloway's boatman Merle inside his boathouse. The inheritance feud within the family reignites after Spencer informs them of his diagnosis at dinner. During his assisted suicide, The Gentleman enters Spencer's bedroom and kills him by injecting hydrofluoric acid into his IV tubing. While the family preps for the first challenge, they find Vincent has returned after his kidnapping years ago. | ||||||
26 | 2 | "The Sins Of The Father" | Adam MacDonald | Ian Carpenter | August 12, 2021 | |
In the aftermath of Spencer's death, the Galloways proceed to their first challenge. During the game, Spencer's eldest son Seamus cheats Jayden into falling to a spike strip, eliminating him from the competition. The recent tension between the half-brothers is revealed; Spencer destroyed their relationship by blackmailing Jayden to leverage Seamus' business position in exchange for adoption funds for his foster daughter Aphra. While treating his wounds, Jayden goes to the Galloway's safe room with his mother and Seamus' wife Christy to gather more medical supplies. The three encounter the Gentleman who chases after them into the woods. Jayden is captured by the killer while Christy runs back to the house to warn the others. Grace finds Jayden at the shed. His limbs are tied with steel cables to four hydraulic winches. The family appears and attempts to help Grace save her son but arrives too late as the winches activate and tear Jayden's limbs apart, killing him. | ||||||
27 | 3 | "In Trust" | Adam MacDonald | J.P. Larocque | August 19, 2021 | |
Spencer's therapist Dr. Persephone Trinh, who is running the competition for his will, insists the Galloways must continue to the next challenge in spite of Jayden's death. Enraged by her father's extortion of his game for the inheritance, Florence chases Trinh through the woods where she is pushed into the wood chipper and mutilated. Despite this, Spencer's tape directs them to the next challenge at the basement, which Seamus eventually loses. His story reveals his father's disapproval of his homosexuality. Spencer manipulates Jayden into exploiting his brother's reputation later on. To win the approval of his father, Seamus impregnates the Galloway's housekeeper Birgit Vogel. When Spencer discovers this, Birgit and Seamus cut ties after he gives her money to raise their daughter Liv. Seamus' loyalty to the family damages his marriage with Christy. Later, The Gentleman sneaks into his bedroom and impales Seamus in the head with a fire poker through the house's secret passageway. | ||||||
28 | 4 | "Upstairs Downstairs" | Adam MacDonald | Ian Carpenter | August 26, 2021 | |
Liv, after having withdrawn from the next challenge, wanders outside to find the Galloway's rowboat broken by the Gentleman who then attacks her. She manages to escape back into the house and inform the other family members. She decides to continue Spencer's competition in his honor. Birgit listens to Florence's discussion with her family through the passageway and finds they still suspect Liv as the Gentleman and plot to kill her. She runs back to their room to warn her daughter and attempt an escape. As Birgit sings a lullaby to Liv, Vincent remembers the song from the day he was taken away and later recognizes Birgit as one of his abductors. Birgit admits she staged the kidnapping to acquire money and escape from Spencer with Liv, as he exploited her using their connection with Seamus. When the rest of his family confront her, Vincent's twin brother Theo intervenes and helps the two escape. As they make it to the dock, the Gentleman abducts Birgit and traps her at the shore the next morning, where the killer buries her alive. | ||||||
29 | 5 | "Family Ties" | Adam MacDonald | Lucie Page | September 2, 2021 | |
Florence's past as a failing artist is shown as she struggles to cope with Vincent's previous disappearance, blaming Theo for the incident and emotionally mistreats him out of anger which disgusted Spencer, who was defensive of his grandson over Vincent at her cruelty and abuse.[clarification needed] In the present, the third challenge instructs the Galloways to compete in a hunting game with the last two players taking shelter in the safe room. Florence and her youngest child O'Keefe succeed, but as they enter the bunker, it is revealed to be a death trap set by Spencer to test one's will to live for his inheritance, sealing the bunker shut as the vents released a gas of asphyxiant throughout the room. With only one breathing mask to share, Florence uses up the last of the oxygen tank for herself and leaves O'Keefe to die of suffocation just before the others arrive. Enraged by his mother's selfish actions, Theo restrains her to one of her crafted art sculptures with Vincent's help. They leave her outside to die as compensation for O'Keefe's death. | ||||||
30 | 6 | "Face Time" | Adam MacDonald | Ian Carpenter | September 9, 2021 | |
Christy finds Aphra torturing Florence, blaming her for killing Seamus until Christy stops her. Before she can free Florence, the Gentleman reappears and chases her and Aphra into the forest after killing Florence, forcing them to hide in the bunker to escape. Christy expresses concerns with Aphra, recalling her mental behavior since her arrival and her attachment to Seamus, which strained their relationship. The next morning as Christy browses through Aphra's phone. She is shocked upon seeing photos Aphra took with all the corpses. Christy finds one of her old video files, revealing that Aphra is an adult prostitute from Moldova posing as a 13-year-old. She realizes Aphra manipulated the entire family to gain access their fortune. When Christy confronts Aphra, the latter viciously attacks her, severely disfiguring her. Traumatized by the revelation, Christy returns to the house and begs the family to kill her out of mercy. Grace obliges, shooting her in the head. Meanwhile, Aphra is found by the Gentleman who takes her into the woods to kill her. | ||||||
31 | 7 | "Goldfinger" | Adam MacDonald | Sabrina Sherif | September 16, 2021 | |
Vincent informs the others of Aphra's death after he finds her bisected corpse suspended from a tree. Spencer's video tells the remaining members that each of them will be locked in a separate chamber in the basement to gain access to his fortune through a series of puzzles. Knowing that every challenge they played meant one of them will be the killer's next target, Liv, Theo and Vincent decide not to participate However, Grace intends to continue the game. She is revealed to have seduced Spencer for his fortune and becomes his wife after euthanizing his cancer-affected wife Annette while working as her personal nurse. Despite completing the challenge herself and winning, the Gentleman appears in the study and kills Grace by burning her alive with molten gold before the others could save her. Theo, Vincent, and Liv use the shortcut to the bunker where they are able to lure the Gentleman into the house and defeat him. They unmask the killer, who turns out to be Dr. Trinh. | ||||||
32 | 8 | "Kindred" | Adam MacDonald | Ian Carpenter | September 16, 2021 | |
Trinh, having faked her woodchipper death using Merle's corpse, reveals she was hired by Spencer to kill anyone in his family as part of his game in favor of finding one sole heir to his inheritance. After Vincent kills Trinh, the trio are forced to complete the last challenge. They have to cut through Spencer's corpse to find the deed to his fortune. Vincent and Theo get into a heated confrontation as the former tries to kill his twin out of anger at his accusations of turning the family against him which motivated Spencer to set up his kidnapping from Birgit. As they fight, Theo uses Trinh's wire saw to behead Vincent. Liv realizes Theo's true colors as he intends to continue Spencer's legacy and admits his recent crime, which was cleared up by his grandfather. In response, Liv snaps his neck and sets up the twins' deaths to Trinh's killings.[clarification needed] Months later, Liv has become the heiress to the Galloway's fortune and property while pregnant with Theo's daughter. |
Season 5: Ripper (2023)
[edit]No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date [12] | |
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33 | 1 | "The Slaughterhouse" | Adam MacDonald | Aaron Martin & Ian Carpenter | April 6, 2023 | |
In 19th century Toronto a murder of an upper-crust at the alleyways of Devil's Elbow, under authority of tycoon Basil Garvey, is investigated by newly appointed police detective Kenneth Rijkers. From his interview with procurer Horatio Dixon and his girlfriend Daisy Zywiecki, the latter ascertains the figure was wearing a widow's funeral clothing in black - hence the killer's name. During the victim's second autopsy with medical examiner Dr. Melanda Israel, Rijkers finds a hidden note from the corpse. He concludes the killer is preying on the targets connected to the murder of Margaret Mehar. With the help of the current victim's wife Regina Simcoe, he discovered pieces of evidence relating to Margaret and the infamous "Jack the Ripper" hoax. At Devil's Elbow, Garvey's henchmen led by Eddie Jacobs assaults Horatio and the other street workers until Jacobs unwittingly kills Daisy in self-defense before they flee. As Horatio mourns her death, the Widow appears in the street and slowly decapitates him. | ||||||
34 | 2 | "The Painful Truth" | Adam MacDonald | Aaron Martin & Ian Carpenter | April 6, 2023 | |
Rijkers arrests Jacobs under suspicion of the murders, who is subsequently released by his boss Isaac Kashtinsky. Isaac pulls Rijkers off the murder investigation. When local newspaper editor Enid Jenkins confronts Garvey who cautions her to discard the article of the Widow's attack, she seeks help from brothel-keeper Terrence Crenshaw to take down Garvey. He refuses fearing involvement but his cabaret performer Salomé provides Enid with evidence containing photos of Garvey's scandal. Before she can publish the paper at her shop, the Widow attacks Jenkins who had falsely identified the father of current town pastor Andrew May Jr. as Margaret's murderer. He was executed twelve years prior, facilitated by Garvey in exchange for a promotion. After Jenkins reveals that Garvey was behind Margaret's death and orchestrated the extortion to conceal his scheme, she is killed after the killer throws her into the printing press that crushes her to death. | ||||||
35 | 3 | "Backbone" | Adam MacDonald | Aaron Martin & Ian Carpenter | April 13, 2023 | |
While observing Jenkins' murder, Rijkers revisits Regina to Alistair's office and uncovers the photos of Garvey and the other remaining targets of the killer from a party the week before Margaret is killed. The other victims are Jacobs, Kashtinsky, Salomé, Israel, the Botticelli sisters, and local magician Georges Rondeau. At the theater after rescuing Jacobs during the latter's earlier confrontation with Rondeau, Rijkers pursues the Widow through the street and is defeated in a fight before sparing his life. Jacobs, feeling guilty about not protecting Margaret from being tortured to death by Garvey and his cohorts, attempts to leave town at night after confronting his employer. En route, the Widow chases him and dislodges his carriage off the road. Jacobs attempts to run away, but the Widow trips him with the carriage's reins and incapacitates him with a sledgehammer before using it to smash his head. | ||||||
36 | 4 | "Left Handed Justice" | Adam MacDonald | Aaron Martin & Ian Carpenter | April 20, 2023 | |
The Widow carves Jacobs' corpse and leaves it in the local butcher shop to be bought by Garvey's housekeeper Gladys. The carved corpse was baked into individual meat pies for service at Garvey's dinner party. Rijkers arrests Rondeau at Regina's residence for the alleged murders. When Rondeau denies the murder allegations, a cocaine-fueled Kashtinsky attempts to coerce a confession with torture until stopped by Terrence. Rijkers dismisses Kashtinsky and releases Rondeau. That night, a drunken Kashtinsky becomes disoriented and sees visions of Margeret. He remembers his first meeting with her at the Botticelli's house party twelve years prior and how she rejected his sexual advances. Wandering into the streets, Kashtinsky is lured into an empty carriage by the Widow who ties him to a runaway horse that violently drags him though the town. | ||||||
37 | 5 | "Everybody's Darling" | Adam MacDonald | Shelley Scarrow | April 27, 2023 | |
Salomé, before being taken into custody by Terrence, had been prostituting under Horatio alongside Margaret. Exploiting Terrence's sympathy, Salomé gains personal leisure as co-worker[clarification needed] of his brothel while Margaret is sent to work as a house servant for the Botticellis. After Margaret humiliates her at a party, Salomé conspires with Garvey and the others to lure her into the bondage room at the brothel. They summon Alistair to rape her, after which Garvey kills her. After being interrogated by Rijkers, Salomé kills Terrence during a heated argument after he learns that Venetia and Viviana Botticelli bribed her into selling their stepsister Verdi into sex slavery earlier. Now alone in a house while attempting to evade imprisonment, a grief-stricken Salomé sees the Widow in the hallways and tries to escape. The killer captures her in the bondage room and sedates her body with anesthetics before dismembering her alive with a bone saw. | ||||||
38 | 6 | "Resurrections" | Adam MacDonald | Lucie Page | May 4, 2023 | |
Afraid of being targeted by the Widow, Israel finally confesses to Rijkers of Garvey's crime and her role in Margaret's murder. Rijkers, who now runs the police station, apprehends Israel, Garvey and Rondeau for interrogation. However, Rijkers knows he lacks sufficient evidence to convict Garvey. The interrogation is interrupted when Regina pleads for Israel to save Andrew after he is stabbed in the street by Garvey's henchman. Following a confrontation with the Widow who then flees the hospital, Israel delivers her blood to Andrew. During the night, she reveals to Rijkers that after Margaret died, Garvey paid her to mutilate the corpse and leave it outside the alleyways so Jenkins could frame Andrew's father. After Rijkers releases Israel and Rondeau from incarceration, the Widow reappears and straps Israel onto her operating table. Israel is pinned with conductors throughout her body and is electrocuted to death. | ||||||
39 | 7 | "Divine Secrets" | Adam MacDonald | Ian Carpenter | May 11, 2023 | |
Verdi, having been freed from the abuse of her stepsisters, is bought from Venetia by Garvey who plans to propose marriage to her. Plagued by guilt for his participation in Garvey's crime and after his assistant Shanika leaves town fearing the Widow, Rondeau preps for his last magic show. Garvey manipulates Verdi into urging Venetia to participate in Rondeau's show and rigging his magic trick during which he unwittingly saws Venetia in half. Viviana is arrested and imprisoned to jail by Rijkers after Verdi frames her sister's murder. This is revealed to be part of Garvey's motive for eliminating one of the Botticellis - to avoid capture and conserve his reputation. Rondeau is then attacked and killed by the Widow who strangles him to death in his tent. Meanwhile, Rijkers spends the night at Regina's house, who is revealed to be the Widow. | ||||||
40 | 8 | "Vengeance" | Adam MacDonald | Ian Carpenter | May 11, 2023 | |
Before transforming into the Widow, Regina is revealed to have been Margaret Mehar's daughter. Both were taken under the abusive care of the Botticellis after Margaret was sent away by Horatio. Upon learning of her mother's murder, Regina was thrown out of the house by the sisters. She was then adopted by one of their house servants. Regina soon learned the truth after her marriage to Alistair, who later became her first victim. Rijkers, now realizing Regina's true identity after a confrontation at her house, demands she leave town. He threatens to imprison her and decides to deliver Garvey to the higher authorities. Rijkers' plans fail, he loses his position in his department, and Gladys is discharged by her employer. Left with no other choice, Rijkers decides to help Regina complete her retribution with the aid of Gladys, Andrew, and Verdi. They lure Garvey to a church where they manage to kill him by crushing his skull. |
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