This week’s episode of Scream Queens brought some interesting questions and potential insights to the killer. They’re doing a seriously good job of making it damn near impossible to cross anyone off the potential murderer list, which makes me downright gleeful.

Spoilers ahead!

So Chanel throws the election in an attempt to get Zayday as president so she can take the fall (“I’ve had to develop some serious acting skills to have sex with Chad”)—and maybe ultimately get killed by the Red Devil. I think this plan is pretty flawed because either Zayday is telling the truth and one of the Red Devils is either in love with her, or she is one of the Red Devils.

First order of business is for Zayday to…throw a slumber party. Because of course. There’s some misguided thought that forcing the Kappas to hang out overnight will unearth the killer.

Things, naturally, start to go weird immediately. Apparently Chanel #3 has been having some confusing feelings about Predatory Lez, so she orchestrates Spin the Bottle, then when it’s obvious that she’s totally into Lez (seriously, what is that girl’s real name?), she confesses that everyone who falls in love with her goes sideways in murderous-type ways.

Chanel #3 was ON FIRE this episode. She finally said what we’ve all been thinking about Grace’s dad (why on God’s green earth would Grace think it was normal for her father to lock all the doors and windows to “protect” her? How is that not raising serious red flags, Red Devil or not?). She also, once betrayed by Predatory Lez, sentences her to a truly scary dare (take a nap in the bathtub), and ultimately death.

Side note—the killer revealed him/herself to Predatory Lez, which prompted her to offer to help. Which seems to indicate that it wasn’t Boone doing the murdering, because there’s no reason she’d know him from Adam. So WHO was it in the house? Was it Gigi?

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Chad… *happy sigh* Oh Chad. He was also in rare form. His pledge brothers stage an intervention. Not because he’s screwing everything that isn’t nailed down. No, they’re concerned that he’s having sex with too many old people. So he decides they’re right and since Chanel is hot and rich, he’ll get over what is some pretty obvious disgust and go on a panty raid. Fast forward, the Red Devil herds the Dickie Dollar Scholars into the house…and finishes off the rad bro with no arms in front of them. Is it suspicious that Chad throws Chanel’s satellite phone out the window or just bad luck? HMMMM.

Red Devil outside who just murdered someone? Obviously truth or dare is the answer, under the seriously flawed assumption that anyone who picks Dare must be hiding something because SURELY someone wouldn’t pick Truth and lie. SURELY NOT. The candlewax obsessed pledge, Jennifer, points out that someone could pick truth and lie and Chad like throws the cutest little tantrum over that… Yes, it’s possible I love Chad too much. No, I don’t need my own intervention.

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The Kappas…have a lot of dance parties. One would think that after the disastrous one that ended in the death of Bathtub Baby’s mom, they’d knock that crap off. But of course not, because that would mean they were sorry or, say, not all budding sociopaths.

So Chad’s trying really hard to be all about it with Chanel, and it’s just… Sad. I love him, but I really want her to tell him to take a hike. He makes he really needy and whiny, and I like the cold, mean Chanel better.

During seven minutes in heaven (seriously, are they in junior high?), Chanel #5 and the surviving twin are making out and the Red Devil shows up to shoot him a bunch in the face with a nail gun (not how nail guns work FYI). I’ve belatedly noticed that all his/her weapons are painted a glossy red, which… No words. But the Red Devil once again leaves Chanel #5 alive. Coincidence? If not, what’s her connection?

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Honestly, what I loved most about this episode is that the Kappas are starting to work together. Chanel comes back to save Zayday from the Red Devil (why did one of them try to court her and the—theoretically—other try to kill her?). Chanel #3 tells Chanel #5 that she’s lovable and she’ll be okay in her low moment. Grace gets all starry eyed thinking that the Kappas are finally turning into the sorority her mother claimed it was (though if her mother was a Kappa, chances are she was also a budding sociopath…just saying).

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Katee Robert learned to tell stories at her grandpa’s knee. Her favorites then were the rather epic adventures of The Three Bears, but at age twelve she discovered romance novels and never looked back. Though she dabbled in writing, life got in the way—as it often does—and she spent a few years traveling, living in both Philadelphia and Germany. In between traveling and raising her two wee ones, she had the crazy idea that she’d like to write a book and try to get published. Her first novel was an epic fantasy that, God willing, will never see the light of day. From there, she dabbled in YA and horror, before finally finding speculative romance. Because, really, who wouldn’t want to write entire books about the smoking-hot relationships between two people? She now spends her time—when not lost in Far Reach worlds—playing imaginary games with her wee ones, writing, ogling men, and planning for the inevitable zombie apocalypse. Visit her on her website, Facebook, or Twitter!