Main cast: Jenny Seagrove (Meg Kinderly), Patrick Houser (Jonathan), Lisa-Raines Foster (Patty), Roger Alford (Mr Kinderly), Sheila Moore (Mrs Kinderly), and Page Fletcher (The Hitchhiker)
Director: Carl Schenkel

The efforts of The Hitchhiker to re-calibrate itself as a semi-respectable suspense anthology continues in its third season with Killer, which offers only one brief female topless scene and zero sex scene. Then again, Killer opens with a pretty long scene of the camera lingering closely on Lisa-Raines Foster’s rear end in a yellow bikini, so I suppose there is still… compensation, let’s just say, for folks that tune in for that kind of thing.

This one sees Meg Kinderly relaxing at the family pool before getting back onto her wheelchair and going back into the house, only to find most of the staff and her family members dead. Jonathan is still alive… oh no, is he the killer? Why would he do such a thing? Can Meg somehow wheel her chair out of this dangerous cat and mouse game around the big house without getting killed?

Well, here’s a weird choice made by the folks behind this episode: early on, it is shown that the Kinderly folks are about to take off for a while, leaving the reluctant Meg behind. Meg is being sedated too, and her behavior is very odd, suggesting strongly that she is not all there in the head.

So, gee, I can only wonder what the twist of this episode is going to be, snort.

That aside, this episode is much better than the previous efforts at being all suspense-y in this episode so far, so I have to give it some credit. Jenny Seagrove does a pretty decent job as the apparent damsel in distress that manages to find it in her to be plucky and even cunning when faced with what seems like the killer of her family members. It’s really a shame that the twist is telegraphed early on.

Hmm, maybe that’s why there is this long pan-in on the ass in yellow bikini early on—these folks are hoping to distract the audience from noticing the obvious, perhaps.

Is this episode full of surprises? No. Is the twist particularly original? Sadly, no. Still, it acquits itself admirably compared to the embarrassments that came before it, so here are three oogies for the effort.