“Rise and shine! Get those eyes open while you still have ’em.”
On the latest episode of The CW’s Killer Camp, the campers are beginning to feel uneasy and how real the game is getting after the deadly events from the previous day that left two of their fellow campers, Feargal and Nurry Lee, dead and they don’t know who’s going to be next.
Eleanor, however, who doesn’t feel too bothered by the Nurry’s absence, uses it to her advantage. Nurry’s pillow isn’t even cold yet, and Eleanor snatches it up to help her sleep.
Rob begins to worry that he may be the next victim since it appears that the killer is targeting the nerds. He feels his entire group is now gone. “I’m gonna have to now start making more friends because I don’t want to die.” With Rob being the introvert that he is, he’s caught a few campers’ attention. Holly shares that people have started looking around for the quiet ones and that Rob is a suspect at the moment.
Eleanor was blindsided to hear that the majority of the campers believe she is the killer and comes up with a plan to try to change that. “I felt really vulnerable,” she says. “People are suspecting me, and I didn’t think they were. “Rather than me trying to change their minds from suspecting me,” she continues, “I’m just gonna have to work on my own connections, so I’ve got more allies.”
While Warren is putting his trust in Carl and even gifting him with immunity last week, and thinks there’s a bromance going on. Carl is not only suspecting Eleanor but Warren as well. “I believe he wasn’t genuine when he gave it to me,” Carl says on receiving the immunity woggle. “He gave it to me so he could get closer to me, Sian and Sam.”
Episode 1 may have been too soon for the killer to make some moves as to sabotaging the competitions, so now on Day 2, everyone is paying close attention to what is going on. For the first competition of the day, “All Tied Up” finds the campers in a mud pit literally all tied up to each other and a couple of large logs.
For each camper that crosses the finish line within the time limit, the camp will receive $250. If they all make it out, the camp gets $750, which means there’s up to $3k available to win. Whatever they fail to earn goes into the killer’s pockets. Out of the whole group, only Jacques, Carl & Sam make it to the finish line banking $1k for the “Innocents.”
“Rob, I don’t know if you did much,” Camp Counselor Bobby observes. “You’re not even wet.” A few of the other campers also noted how they were all soaking wet from the mud, except for Rob. “I’ve been under the log at least five or six times,” Rosie points out, “yet Rob is dry as a bone.”
Eleanor was one of the last to make it untangled up through the finish line, which raises even more suspicions. All of this build-up has been weighing heavily on her to the point where she’s having lots of mixed emotions. She feels like she’s always been doing the best she could during competitions and when it comes to defending herself that she isn’t the killer just makes her look even more guilty.
Sam agrees that it hasn’t been easy for Eleanor, so she understands why she’s emotional. “I’m a really strong person. I wasn’t expecting to get this emotional. Like, I really wasn’t.” She feels like she is being perceived as not giving her all in the game, but Sam reassures her that she put everything out there and did her best. “We all know you smashed it, so don’t worry about that.” Despite the waterworks, however, Sam still has her on her radar.
Carl also still has Eleanor on his radar. “I think it’s Eleanor all the way,” he says. “She just doesn’t seem like she’s participating enough. She’s almost trying to hold everybody else back. Speaking of holding everyone else back, in our previous post, we literally pointed out how it appeared that Eleanor was literally holding Carl back.
Carl and Sian have a sit-down and he opens up and says that he genuinely didn’t think he was going to meet anyone in the show that he was going to like, but he likes Sian. Sian giggles. She can’t say it back. It’s how she processes it. she doesn’t like to express her feelings, but the feeling is mutual.
In “Paddle Brawl” the campers are split into two groups: Jacques, Warren, Rob and Holly in the Blue Team; Carl, Sam Rosie and Eleanor in the Pink Team. Sian is still injured and sitting out the game but chooses to participate with it in spirit. The game is simple: get your ball and score in their opponent’s net. The team with the most goals when the whistle is blown wins the clues.
Not a shocker, Jacques spent more time in the water than on his boat. “Every time I got up, my legs turned into jelly. It was miserable. Not everyone has the strength in things like balance.”
Warren kills it once again. He’s definitely not the killer, right? He carried his whole team to its victory and is rewarded with four clues to the identity of the killer: Jacques: Killer has had sex on a balcony before; Warren: Killer would rate themselves a 5 out of 10; One of the killer’s worst qualities is talking over people. Holly: Killer used to do taxidermy. Group is thinking Sam
Warren and Rob share their clues with Sam and Carl and ask if any of them have had sex on a balcony before. Sam mentions enjoying the view on the balcony while having sex. Could he have been joking around or is that clue and the others really about him, making him the killer?
For immunity, in the final competition “Axe to Grind,” campers take razor-sharp axes and hurl them at the photos of campers who they do not want to win immunity. After several rounds, Rosie won immunity and gifted Sian with immunity woggle.
While Sian and Carl are talking, Warren pulls a Bachelor and asks for some talking time with his former bro. Warren feels betrayed and gutted about the backstabbing that happened in Axe to Grind when Carl quickly chose to eliminate Warren in the game by giving his photo the axe. Carl explained to him that he thought they were bros too until he shared that he fancied Sian as well. These two guys became good friends and then worst enemies over a girl in just two days.
In a shocking “elimination ceremony,” it was oddly enough between the two of them of who would be the next one killed. The story goes, Warren and Carl went into the wood for an “unforgettable camp experience.” Splitting up, one path leads to an enormous statue of a Greek god representing fertility.
He brushed away some moss, revealing the words “Phallus Impallus.” He stared deep into the eye of the statue until something flew off. The ancient deity’s penis shot forward impaling the camper’s head through his eye (they blurred it out). There was blood everywhere.
“I know Warren’s gone, but look on the bright side,” Counselor Bobby said at the campfire to the other campers, “it’s a new pillow for Eleanor!”
Warren, the 27-year-old eyewear designer from Chester says he tried out for “Camp Pleasant” because he was looking to try something different that would challenge him. “I wanted to do the show to bring myself out of my comfort zone and to test myself,” Warren says. “I’ve always believed I’m a good judge of character and the show sounded like the perfect opportunity to test my skills and it did just that.
He did have his suspicions that something didn’t seem right about the show when they were running towards the pedalos to head to camp, but he says that nothing scares him so he faced it head-on. In fact, out of the whole show, it was the games that stood out to him the most. “I’m highly competitive so I found the games most enjoyable.”
In trying to work out who among them was the killer, Warren says, “I was looking for someone who was always justifying everything they were doing and presenting themselves as a team leader in order to gain control over people – those were the red flags for me.”
Ultimately, he didn’t survive, so any tactics he had in trying to do so never worked. His tactic: “Stay close to the enemy – or who I thought was the enemy.”
Now comes the part where we select two campers from the group who are on our radar and why.
ROB, THE FILM NERD | Plain and simple: There’s absolutely no reason why Rob was bone dry in “All Tied Up.” Is he not invested in the show as the others? Either he’s the killer or he’s wanting people to think he is.
SIAN, THE CHEERLEADER | After her bloody injury in the immunity challenge from the series opener, Sian has been exempt from playing in most of the competitions. If she is the killer, her injury would be a perfect excuse for her to sit out the games.
What were your thoughts on the episode and who do you think the killer is so far? Let us know in the comments below!
Killer Camp airs Thursdays at 8pm on The CW.
