Netflix'south Slasher
Flavor 2 , Episode 8 : "The Past is Never Dead"
Directed by Felipe Rodriguez
Written by Aaron Martin

* For a epitomize & review of the penultimate Flavour two episode, "Dawn of the Dead" – click here
* For recaps & reviews of Flavour 3, Solstice, click here.
Screen Shot 2017-10-18 at 10.40.55 PMFive years ago. Dawn (Paula Brancati), Peter (Lovell Adams-Grayness) and the remainder of the friends are advisedly enacting their calculated program to become revenge on Talvinder (Melinda Shankar). The poor presently-to-be expressionless daughter is none the wiser, either. The rest of them with their common cold, evil faces lying simply below the exterior. They take her out to that spot in the woods with the lit torches. They've got her "on trial."
She's made to stand in the middle of a circle. They all call her out, starting with Andi (Rebecca Liddiard). Conveniently, Andi doesn't blame Peter, which Tal uses confronting her. Susan (Kaitlyn Leeb) calls her "nothing." Eventually Dawn has her say, feeling utterly betrayed; she'due south the one who really has the near genuine reason. Peter doesn't fustigate her, instead apologising to his girlfriend for what he's done.
Cut to a little later on, when Noah (Jim Watson) almost rapes her on the truck. And then she's rushing off into the forest, the others worried for her. Just Tal won't plough back. She winds up tripping and smashing her head. They find her in a ditch. She seems dead, and then they all react with horror. They drag her off, she'southward even so alive. Andi smashes her head, she still won't die. And Dawn takes the rock, smashing her once more. Noah takes his plow, as well. Laying the killing accident, information technology seems.
Screen Shot 2017-10-18 at 10.45.18 PMWren (Sebastian Pigott) is heading dorsum to the cabin, after killing Marker, and Judith (Leslie Hope) is pleading with him not to do annihilation else terrible. He's aptitude on revenge. They let him have the fall for Talvinder'south disappearance. All she asks is that Keira is left live. Other than that she tells him: "They're all yours."
Back at the cabins, Judith reels off a lie most Mark, that he was going to kill her. And she says she shot him. Taking the blame. Lulling Dawn in. Except the young adult female doesn't believe it, she knows it's lies. Everybody's as well paranoid at present, anyway. So many things happening right below the surface.
V years ago. The friends are reeling in the aftermath of what they've done, people are asking where Tal has gone. They're trying to effigy out the next class of action. Their lives inverse for the worse, and they had to either deal or get to prison for the rest of their lives.
Nowadays solar day, the gang at the retreat hear a snowmobile. A adult female named Janice arrives looking for her boyfriend, Cistron. A bit belatedly, y'know. He's in pieces out in the shed. She thinks We Live Equally One are a "cult," but Peter tries explaining, asking for help. Janice has room for one on her machine; Judith tries desperately to send Keira, only Keira won't have it, wanting information technology to be Dawn, so she might get medical attention.
Simply Wren, he'southward intent on killing more. He wants Judith to assistance and she won't, he starts getting worse. He's a sad, alone, murderous human being. He says she'll "die alone" and she grabs him, throwing him at the mirror. Except nobody's there. Just her. Ohhhh, man. That'southward creepy. Soon, Peter and Keira notice her, bloodied, unconscious. They put her to bed, then decide they've got to find Marker'south corpse, confirm he'southward dead. Peter heads out while she stays to look after Judith.
Screen Shot 2017-10-18 at 11.03.04 PMJudith has worse issues. She continually hears Wren in her head, commanding her: "Kill them!" She speaks to herself every bit herself, and also as him. We jump back five years. Wren a.k.a Owen leaves his cabin at Army camp Motega, and in slips Dawn to drop a piece of Tal'due south jewellery into his things. A frame job. That's nasty.
Present 24-hour interval, Peter comes across Mark's dead body. Nearby he sees the footprints, he tries re-imagining the criminal offence. He knows something'due south not correct. Elsewhere, Dawn and Janice try getting out of the forest, only they terminate a moment across the way from the parka killer, who fires on both women, bleeding Janice out. Dawn makes it away, though she'south soon shot in the river. Who's backside the mask? Judith.
At the cabin, Peter finds Keira unconscious, propane filling the house. Then he sees a bunch of letters in Judith's room. They're from Wren, in jail. To his mother, Judith. WHOOOOOOOOA. That's a seriously twisted relationship, on more than than simply one level, as well.
Peter does the only affair he can, carrying Keira through the woods. Only to encounter Judith. She says one lives, the other dies. A tough choice. We're finally seeing the full extent of things now after a flashback, why the noose was in that shrine Peter constitute – Judith has hallucinated Owen, the unabridged fourth dimension. He hanged himself in jail.
Screen Shot 2017-10-18 at 11.07.35 PM Screen Shot 2017-10-18 at 11.13.10 PM Screen Shot 2017-10-18 at 11.15.34 PMWhat will Peter choose? Life? Expiry? He puts the noose effectually his cervix and steps from the ledge over the shrine, hanging himself equally Judith watches, flashing to images of her son slowly dying. Simply another surprise, also – upwardly the river, Dawn is still alive, on shore, and ii hunters detect her there bleeding profusely.
When Keira wakes up she sees Peter hanging. She also finds a letter Peter wrote to Talvinder's parents, confessing to the crime, trying to give them closure. Admitting that Owen was innocent, they laid the crime on him.
"It's time my friends and I paid for what we did"
Skip ahead a bit. Keira is rubber, back home. She meets with Dawn, who's preparing to turn herself in to the police, to atone for her terrible sins. From a distance, Judith watches them, still followed past the haunting ghost of her son. Neither of them accept forgotten Dawn, they'll expect until she's complimentary. And then, well… you lot know.
Screen Shot 2017-10-18 at 11.29.51 PMFantastic season! God damn. Wish I didn't wing through it— such is the age of Netflix. Plus, it was fifty-fifty improve than Season 1, which I was big time digging correct from the get become. Honestly this season had even meliorate writing. Non to mention the twists were even bigger, wilder. And the gore went up a big notch, from an already grim start flavor.
Truly promise Netflix will do some other flavor. At least one more. C'monday! Please?!