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However, he is unexpectedly stopped by Doc Halloran, who shoots Leslie in his shoulder. After murdering his father Silas and hanging his mother Molly in their apple orchard, the townspeople mobbed up to drown Leslie. Collinwood explains that Leslie was abused as a boy and forced to till his familyвЂ™s fields with a hand scythe. Collinwood to tell the girl about LeslieвЂ™s origin. Kelly investigates further, inspiring librarian Mrs. Leslie leaves the article for Kelly to find in the library. Leslie doctors a newspaper article to read that Mark Daniel Curtis, KellyвЂ™s great-uncle who doesnвЂ™t actually exist, was questioned in connection with the rape of LeslieвЂ™s mother Molly. Eugene and Jamie give Leslie the idea to kill a librarian as a red herring for sparking his showdown with Kelly. Eugene recalls what it was like to be a slasher in the 1960s and 70s.

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Leslie, Taylor, Doug, and Todd visit LeslieвЂ™s mentor Eugene, a retired serial killer who lives in the woods with his wife Jamie. They then go to a diner where, from afar, Leslie points out teenage waitress Kelly Curtis, whom he has chosen to be the virginal вЂњSurvivor GirlвЂќ in his story. Leslie takes the crew to a local high school and explains his process for stalking targets.

Leslie now mentally and physically trains to take his revenge. Taylor explains that 20 years earlier, a mob of townspeople took Leslie, a boy believed to be possessed by evil, from his farmhouse home and threw him to his death in Ellis Falls. Cameramen Doug and Todd accompany Taylor. Filming an investigative report on how a serial killer becomes a near-mythical slasher, grad school journalism student Taylor Gentry travels to Glen Echo, Maryland to profile Leslie Vernon.