"12pm to 3pm" is the second episode of the third season of Slasher. It aired on May 23rd 2019.
Synopsis
Memories from the past year resurfaced and the aftermath of the first victim's murder recounts the perspectives of Jen and her family while Kaili Greenberg's connection with Kit uncovers her hidden intentions.
Plot
A year ago at the wake of Kit's murder at the building, Connor and Jen's mother Justine, who was hysterical after attempting to aprehend Dan to the police at his racial harassment at their apartment, was berated by Amber who have had enough of her avid attitude and liberal behavior after their neighbors and the public shamed them and their children because of her actions before telling her to get out of their apartment. When the siblings heard the argument at their bedrooms, Jen saw her mother storm out of the building with a gasoline can into the parking lot and runs to the back stairwell with Connor despite Amber's objections who tried talking sense to their mother to stop them. Justine chastised the residents who are inside their apartments and their actions of complicity after Kit's death for humiliating her and her family before pouring the can on her. Connor and Jen arrive outside to intervene but arrived too late as their mother lit the lighter and ingite the gas around her body, burning herself to death as her children scream in grief and anguish. At 12pm in the present year, Det. Hanson interogates the homeless man who denies the incident at the aftermath of Xander's murder at the cafe before leaving. Singh reveals that after Xander was killed, his blood was filled at the coffee carafes before the homeless man drank it when arriving and no body has been found. At school before her final shift at work, Ms. Greenberg sat next to the Math teacher Beth while texting to Kyle at the office while a fellow teacher preps to leave. She explains Cassidy's bullying on Saadia to Beth but she brushes it off after taking her phone to explain her romantic date with Kyle who asked her online to meet for coffee at 3pm. Meanwhile, Jen uses a tracker from her phone to locate Saadia's and was able to find it inside the girls' washroom. As Saadia left, Jen was traumatized after she was informed by her brother on Violet's repost message of the killer's recent attack including the video of their mother's suicide where she receive reposting comments online. Joe threatens to destroy his wife's laptop who spat back, confronting his affair with Angel and threatend to post the video online in return. At the washroom, Saadia arrives to find her phone and she was not aware of Cassidy's death as her body was still hidden in the vents. During the final exam at biology, Saadia arrives at the school's bio lab to Jen who was still mortified of her mother's death. As Ms. Greenberg left the lab to get the frogs to start the exam, Charlie taunts Jen with two gas burners mimicking Justine's suicide causing her to storm off in tears as Saadia glares him in anger. As a result, Ms. Greenberg sent him to the principal's office for his bullying. Jen wants to leave after his insults but Ms. Greenberg motivates her to buy her time to continue the test. At Jen's flashback before her mother's death, she and Justine ran into Kit who peforms a blowjob with a man at the hallway and the latter berates his actions before returning to their apartment while Ms. Greenberg, who was a hopeless romantic and saw the argument, also had her enounter with Kit who met her at the laundry room and tried to seduce him only to be rebuffed in rejection. After final exams finish, Jen is attacked by the Druid who chases her outside the school parking lot with an axe while some students laugh in amusement until Saadia who taps a car alarm to intervene while the kiler flees. Ms. Greenberg drags Charlie, who was wearing his costume similar to the Druid, into thinking he was scaring Jen as a prank but he denies the incident and was forced to apologize Jen when the teacher threatens to send him to summer school as punishment before confiscating his costume to let him go. After Kit's death in a flashback, it is revealed that Justine posted a vulgar message online to mock Kit and his actions and in the next morning, her tweet was reposted which blew up online and the media, causing the public to turn on her, Amber and her children. At her apartment, Amy was still playing her video game as she was visited by Det. Hanson who informs her of the incident at the cafe and Xander's whereabouts. On their way to stay at Amber's apartment, Saadia assures Jen that it was just a prank from one of the students but she insisted that the killer was carrying a real axe. Before leaving the school to attend her date with Kyle, Ms. Greenberg enters her car and saw the Druid inside the backseat, thinking it was a student pulling the prank on her until the killer attacks and chloroforming her until she passed out. The girls arrive at the apartment as Jen greets Amber who sees Saadia and oppose her, blaming her for the harassment and Justine's death. From her flashback before Justine's suicide, Dan had spray painted his vulgar message at her door to embarass her as retaliation while Saadia and her parents, before moving to their apartment, saw the incident. Jen explains to Saadia that Amber was sick after her mother's suicide and cheers her up before returning back to the apartment. Ms. Greenberg's second flashback shows after a breakup in her previous romantic date, she talked to her friend with her phone inside her car to explain the situation until Kit who was drunk from the party ask for a ride back to their apartment but she kindly refuses to do so as she was dealing with her personal problem. Now, Ms. Greenberg awakens inside the school bio lab where she is strapped into a table by the Druid who deeply cuts her torso with a scalpel before using a rongeur to oper her chest cavity and rip it wide with it's bare hands which kills her in the process as her organs are removed each. At his apartment, Dan was visited by Saadia who tries to look for her phone from his daughter but he rudely dismisses her. Meanwhile, Charlie was freed from his detention and prepared to attend the solstice party with his friend. But when they arrive at the bio lab to visit Ms. Greenberg, they are horrified when they find her dissected corpse.
Death(s)
| Victim | Cause of Death | Background |
|---|---|---|
| Justine Rijkers | Self-immolation | After Kit's murder, she posted a scathing remark about his death to mock him. The message became viral online to the media and the public castigates her, inculding her wife Amber and their children. She commits suicide outside the building after reprimanding the residents, despiter her children's pleading to stop. |
| Kaili Greenberg | Body cut open with a scalpel, chest cavity open with rongeur and organs removed | Acquainted with Kit who rebuffed her attempted sexual advances at their first meeting and after he left the party, she refused to give him a ride back to the apartment until his death a year ago |