Synopsis: Emma and her friends are lured into danger in order to rescue Will.
Rating: ★★★★☆
So this episode gets serious points for upping the splatter-movie game, in what was probably the biggest twist ending yet.
And I honestly did not see it coming.
Most of this week’s episode takes place in a super awesome abandoned bowling alley, where the killer leads our heroes in an effort to rescue Will, kidnapped last week.
This also marks Emma’s first physical confrontation with the killer. So far she’s been the playing piece in the killer’s unknowable game. He or she has been manipulating Emma into making unfortunate decisions and losing loved ones as part of some elaborate revenge scheme.
But Emma herself has never been a target. This week though, the killer chased her through the bowling alley and would have killed her if Will hadn’t intervened.
Why now? Why, after all this time dangling bait, and going through increasingly convoluted plans, has the killer finally decided to target Emma directly?
In the original movie, it was heavily implied that Sidney’s father was the killer, so for the show to do it straight up is kind of a nice homage.
As everyone recovers from their night in the bowling alley of doom, Emma goes to visit Will. Walking up to the house, she gets a phone call from him teasing her about being late, when the voice suddenly becomes that of the killer. The game isn’t over. He wants her to be responsible for Will’s death.
Emma runs into the backyard to find Will tied up underneath a whirring chainsaw.
I would also like to know how Jake was apparently stabbed right in the heart (which we didn’t see), left to bleed for at least ten minutes, had the knife yanked out of him, and still walked out of the bowling alley under his own power.
It makes me think of Bill and Stu in the original movie stabbing each other in order to make themselves look innocent when the police arrive.
But the killer attacked while Jake was there. If he is involved, he’s not working alone.
Body Count: 6