The Butcher Game

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death, graphic violence, and mental illness.

Philip Trudeau watches the news and realizes that the Bayou Butcher serial killer from Louisiana is his childhood friend Jeremy Rose. Philip has always wondered if the killer was Jeremy, and now he knows for certain. Philip witnessed Jeremy’s violent tendencies firsthand when they were teenagers, but he keeps this information secret. When Detective Leroux called him to ask about a library card with his name on it that showed up at one of the Butcher’s crime scenes, Philip, now a pastor at Covenant of Grace Church, told him that he didn’t know why the card was there, as he hadn’t been in Louisiana since he was much younger. However, Philip knows that the card is a message from Jeremy, a reminder of the things they did and a heads up that Jeremy is coming his way.

Dr. Wren Muller wakes from a terrible nightmare about the night Jeremy hunted her in the swamp. In this iteration of the dream, she refused to run, so Jeremy stabbed her brutally. She wakes in the arms of her husband,