The campmates on The CW’s Killer Camp are still reeling from the developments of the night before where it was revealed that not only was Rob the killer but that he was not working alone. “I wanted to rip his mustache right off when I found out,” Jacques said. “I was absolutely fuming. Livid!”
Holly, who was close to Rob at Camp Pleasant and felt bad about suspecting him as the killer and even writing his name on the board, which ultimately lead to his elimination and subsequent death, was also stunned. “Even though we all voted for him,” she starts, “we all just didn’t want it to be true because he’s so sweet and innocent — but clearly not.”
For the day’s lone cash prize competition at Pleasant Meadow, “Box Clever” finds the campmates each trying to figure out the hidden contents of their respective boxes. Inside each box could be anything from toy snakes to real-life scorpions, cockroaches, and even a hornet’s nest.
Each item corresponds to a letter on the board and if all the items are correct, their corresponding letters form an anagram, which when unscrambled, wins the team a $3k cash prize. During the final few seconds left of the game and the anagram SORMENT on the board, Sian quickly deciphers it to MONSTER, putting the $3k into the Innocents cash pot and leaving the killer with $0.
Sian and Carl’s relationship continues to blossom. “I don’t think I could have done [this game] without you,” Carl tells her. “You have been my rock.” A giddy Sian lets him know that she has feelings for him and that it’s real regardless of what the other campers say, and she trusts him 100%. In the previous episode, Rob accused the two of having a “convenient” relationship and didn’t think it was real.
Meanwhile, Eleanor and Holly start to build a friendship, one that Holly never thought would happen. “At first, I did not think we’d get on at all,” Holly says. “I did not think that we would be friends. It’s such an unlikely friendship and I’m so glad we found each other and figure this out.” The pair put their trust in each other and they both promise that if one of them ever won immunity, they’d give the additional one to the other.
As for who Eleanor thinks the killer is, among others, she continues to suspect Sam, which can be complicated at times when interacting with him. “I like Sam a lot,” she says, “but when I think he’s the killer, I’m like, ‘I don’t like you ‘cuz you’re trying to take all my money. I don’t know how to act.” She goes on to say that the killer is playing an amazing game. “I’m in a mix of a number of people, but I just haven’t settled on one.”
In “Blind Luck” campmates try to eliminate each other in the final opportunity to win clues to the killer’s identity. The game is like dodgeball, except it’s one-on-one and blindfolded. One player from each of the two teams is blindfolded, spun around, and must then hit their opponent to win the round.
The first team to successfully hit their targets three times wins. Eleanor, Carl, and Rosie of the Pink team win. Their respective clues of the killer are as follows: Eleanor: Killer is a member of the mile-high club; Carl: This person is an animal lover; Rosie: This person’s favorite quality about themselves is their eyes.
The last challenge and chance to win immunity, “Hold a Grudge,” finds the campers holding a bucket of blood suspended above their heads with a pole. A wheel is spun and whatever forfeit it lands on, a camper must do without disturbing their bucket above.
Eleanor feels betrayed when after twerking for safety and passing that round, she is called upon again to spin around whilst trying not to get drenched in the blood. Holly ultimately wins the challenge for immunity, but will she keep her word with Eleanor and give her an Immunity Woggle as well? Turns out she did! It would’ve been a shocking back-stabbing moment if she had not.
Eleanor and Sian have a chat about how she feels betrayed and doesn’t understand the point of trying to get rid of Eleanor from the competition if the two of them are suspecting Sam as the killer. “Even if we are suspecting our friends, like really, strongly, because you guys have that clique, you guys are still going to save each other? Because if you save the killer, then they’re just going to walk off with your money,” Eleanor says schooling Sian. Sian begins to cry, perhaps realizing the big mistake she has made, and a huge grin crosses Eleanor’s face – and we love it!
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“Once upon a night, two young campers went walking through a wood,” Counselor Bobby starts at the campfire. “Their names were Rosie and Jacques. Shortly into the walk, they came across a signpost that sent them this way and that. Now alone, a sense of dread overcame them. A sense that something wasn’t right. So imagine one of the campers’ surprise when they came upon a beautiful outdoor spa surrounded by fairy lights. It looked like a four-star hotel or a two-star porno.
“They slipped out of their clothes and into the water. To further chill, they put on a Walkman and turned up “Relax” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. An enormous masked figure appeared behind them. The victim was oblivious. Suddenly, Bruce came with a giant boombox. He took aim, he shot, he scored. Within a few seconds, the camper was charred, fried, poached, and fucking boiled. It looked like a tomato beef stew.
“For me, if I speak honestly, I’d like to see Rosie back,” Carl says. You can see the disappointment in his and Sian’s eyes. It was Jacques who made a safe return. “I bet that big dorm room will feel very empty tonight,” quips Bobby. “You’ll have so many pillows, Eleanor.”
With just six campers and one episode left, the finale is sure to be a crazy one.
When Rosie first heard about the show, it was one she was very excited about. “It looked fun and I thought it’d be nice to win something,” she says. “I was excited for the experience.”
She reveals that she did have her suspicions that Camp Pleasant wasn’t going to be what they were saying it would be. “I definitely didn’t think it was going to be all sunshine and rainbows, I knew there’d be an element of surprise in there but I was surprised with the big twist.”
Being on Killer Camp, the healthcare assistant says she was “completely taken out of my comfort zone. We only had each other to talk to, only the show to talk about and no comfort from our outside life so Killer Camp became our entire world.” It wasn’t all doom and gloom during downtime, however. She did have a lot of fun with Sian and Jacques. “We called ourselves Charlie’s Angels.”
Hailing from Peterborough, Rosie says the traits she looked for when trying to work out who the killer was was someone who had to pull on the heartstrings in some ways. “They had to be deceitful and able to lie to people’s faces,” she says, “which I’m just not good at.” As for any tactics she had to try to survive on the show, she admits she had “absolutely none!” It’s no wonder she’s the fourth of 11 to die. (Editor’s Note: Was I the only one mixing up Sian and Rosie?)
Killer Camp airs Thursdays at 8pm on The CW.
