Slasher: The Executioner episode review — 1.5 — Ill-Gotten Gains

Original air date: March 25, 2016
Director: Craig David Wallace
Writer: Aaron Martin

Rating: 7/10

Sarah and Robin turn their suspicions towards Alan Henry, Cam’s father and preacher and religious counsel to Tom Winston, in addition to nearly being a victim of his, though spared. They figure that it’s possible that Winston is getting him to do his bidding, and Sarah shares this with Cam some time after his wife has been found dead.

Cam doesn’t take too well to this theory, and neither does his father, who comes to Sarah’s gallery to threaten her.

Later, Sarah and Robin sneak into his office at the church and find some nails and a mallet, seemingly confirming their suspicions.

Dylan and his boss, Alison, are interviewed on live TV, and while Alison flops, Dylan shines. To make up for this, Alison decides to leak illicit text messages from Cam’s dead wife, which gets them a second interview. Alison implores the killer to agree to an interview, and she finds a note on her car telling her where to meet him.

This interview scene is fantastic.

Everything about it is so creepy. The Executioner costume really is fantastic, and this is the first time we hear his voice, which is quite creepy as well. He explains a bit about his motives, and how he only kills people that deserve it. He of course says that Alison doesn’t deserve death, and he does leave her.

Sarah apparently sees Tom Winston in her parents’ weird sex videos, but I’m not quite sure the importance of that all yet. And apparently Alan is off the suspect list when she and Robin find that he uses the nails and mallet for a bizarre sexual self-torture ritual.

Alison is later killed by the Executioner, who leaves her head in a deep fryer at a fast food restaurant. When Dylan tries to get information from the police, he acts weird, and the episode is definitely trying to make him a suspect.

So is he? I don’t know. I’ll be honest. I’m not too sure who the killer’s going to be this season, and this is perhaps the first episode to really make me care about everything, for what that’s worth. If I had to take a guess, I’d say it’s Cam.

But this episode is easily the best of the series so far. The interview scene is really great, as I’ve mentioned. The weird sexual torture detail is quirky and interesting and creepy. I like it.