There are only three episodes left, and the next few kills are likely to be painful. The show is almost out of ancillary characters we don’t care that much about and will have to start killing off more central characters soon.
The entire episode was built around casting suspicion on Sheriff Mills as the killer. Someone in a sheriff’s uniform shot and killed the state police officers who were coming to pick up J.D. to charge him with the murders, since all communication with the island had been cut off and no one had been able to inform the incoming officers that the situation had changed dramatically over the course of the last day or so. A person in a sheriff’s uniform opened fire on the remainder of the wedding party at the marina as they tried to escape the island, grazing Henry in the process. The oxygen tank the sheriff had been using at the clinic had been conveniently left on the sabotaged generator for Jimmy and Shane to find when they tried to gas up their boat. Someone later drove the sheriff’s truck up to The Cannery with Jimmy’s unconscious body on the hood and dumped him there in the parking lot. Even Abby’s close friend Nikki said that something had broken inside Sheriff Mills after the Wakefield incident seven years before. All of which would have been very convincing if the sheriff hadn’t been in shock and barely conscious from the puncture wound to his thigh while the killer was running around wreaking havoc a couple of episodes ago.
As it was, Madison eventually confessed that her “new friend” had told her to say that Sheriff Mills had kidnapped her as part of the “game” they were playing on Abby, and when Abby was finally able to confront her father, Sheriff Mills confessed that he’d shot John Wakefield just like he said he had, but he’d never found the body. Somebody else was buried in Wakefield’s grave. Then the sheriff became one of this week’s unfortunate victims via a complex rope and pulley system that had Sheriff Mills on one end and John Wakefield in the sheriff’s truck on the other.
I was actually surprised that the sheriff was killed off this early. Everything that John Wakefield has done on this trip has been in revenge for Wakefield’s previous run-ins with the sheriff. Does anyone really think Wakefield’s killing spree is over? But why continue to kill when the person you’re trying to hurt is too dead to feel your wrath?
The rest of the episode involved the remaining characters trying to escape the island on Jimmy’s boat. It didn’t go well. Wakefield blew up every boat in the marina to keep anyone from leaving the island, then opened fire on the group while they were standing on the dock watching their only means of escape go up in flames. They wound up barricading themselves in The Cannery for safety. Maggie, the manager of the inn, decided that the killer was only after members of the wedding party and not locals (apparently forgetting that locals Kelly Seaver and Reverend Fain were already dead, along with all the other locals Wakefield had killed seven years before), and marched out of The Cannery to distance herself from the other targets. Instead, she became one of this week’s unfortunate victims. I’m pretty sure she was already dead when Wakefield strung her up in front of the windows at The Cannery, but we didn’t actually see her die.
Chloe remembered the sailboat that Cal had taken her out on the day of the wedding rehearsal and suggested escaping in that, since it was docked on the other side of the island, not at the marina, and therefore hadn’t been blown up. It was decided that Cal and Sully would go fetch the boat and bring it back, an interesting pairing considering that Sully has been trying to steal Cal’s almost-fiancée from him since day one. Cal gave Chloe the engagement ring to hold until he got back, saying he had something he was going to ask her. Sully was fuming with jealousy during Cal and Chloe’s good-bye kiss, yet when Cal got shot during their run for Nikki’s car, Sully covered him protectively, then shoved him in the car. When they were safely away from the marina, Sully tried to stop and do some first aid, but Cal wouldn’t let him. Sully eventually carried Cal into the clinic, where Cal started coaching Sully on how to treat the bullet wound. How awesome was that? And a huge difference from Shane and J.D., who would probably have continued to try to kill each other if they were the last two people on earth.
It looks like next week’s episode is going to bring up the possibility that Wakefield has an accomplice. I don’t know about an accomplice, but I’ve always thought there was more than one killer. For the last few episodes, I’ve suspected that one of the remaining characters is John Wakefield’s child, which would make that person prime accomplice material. It also looks like suspicion will fall on Jimmy, which kind of makes sense. Except for Madison, Jimmy is the only person who’s had contact with Wakefield and is still alive. On the other hand, I think the reveal of Wakefield’s child will be more of a surprise, and it may be a surprise plot twist that Wakefield’s offspring isn’t involved in the killings at all. I’m still waiting for an explanation for the gun and satchel of money Uncle Marty brought to the wedding with him.
Meanwhile, if I were Shane, Danny, or Nikki, I’d be watching my back. My money’s on them as the next victim pool.
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