Hook, Line, and Screamer

'''The campers go through a challenge where they are forced to survive a real horror movie. A "psycho killer" is picking them off one by one. The winner of the challenge is the last one standing. However, the challenge takes a frightening twist when somebody encounters a real killer. In the end, another person leaves the island for fearing someone who wasn't the killer.'''

Plot
The episode opens with the remaining eight campers watching a scary horror movie, which stars an escaped psycho killer carrying a chainsaw and a hook. After the movie, Izzy says she loves scary movies and jumps into Owen's arms, while DJ is mortified by the gruesome scenes in the movie. Duncan and DJ give a thumbs up to Owen for having Izzy in his arms. After the movie ends, Duncan pulls out a hook that frightens an already terrified DJ even more. Gwen and Duncan compare what they like most in the movie. Heather is unimpressed by the 'mindless' movie and wonders aloud what their next challenge will be and Geoff wonders where Chris is. Moments later, the campers see Chris and Chef, with frightened looks on their faces, getting on the Boat of Losers with their luggage and leaving the island. Owen then finds a bag left behind along with a newspaper that has an article about an escaped psycho killer with a chainsaw and a hook. DJ thinks it seems real, but Heather dismisses the whole thing as another stunt by Chris. Owen points out Chris, in his hurry to leave, forgot his hair gel. DJ is terrified by the situation and Duncan just makes it worse for him with the hook again, DJ then has the feeling they are being watched. Moments later, the scene shifts to Chris, who is watching the contestants with the aid of a number of monitor screens. Chris explains that tonight's show will focus on showing the campers struggling to survive a psycho killer with a chainsaw and a hook.

Back on the island, Gwen says they need a game plan to survive, but Heather says she's going off to apply a facial mask. Gwen strongly disagrees with Heather's plan and says the first rule of slasher films is to never go off alone and Heather replies that might be true if she was in a movie, but they are just getting punked by Chris, in her opinion. As Heather leaves, Izzy muses that she is sealing her fate and makes a throat cutting gesture to indicate what she thinks. Gwen gets the others to join her at the bonfire site to talk strategy, but Izzy grabs Owen to one side and the two head out in the woods together. Owen tells Izzy about the time he won a hot dog eating competition when he ate one hundred and ninety eight hot dogs and Izzy is impressed by this story, but Owen tries to remember why they shouldn't be in the woods. Back at the bonfire site, Gwen goes over survival rules such as not going off on their own, not going into the woods alone and never making out in the woods or they will die in there. Gwen asks where Owen and Izzy have gone to and Duncan replies that they are breaking rules one through three.

Back in the woods Owen realizes that the couples who are making out get killed first. Izzy points out though that they are not making out. However in an act of spontaneity, Owen and Izzy jump into some bushes nearby and start making out even as a figure looking like the escaped killer nears the area. Moments later, the two run from the area screaming with the figure running after them. After a short chase, Owen falls off the edge of a cliff and hits a cactus, fire hydrant, goat, a plunger that sets off explosives and a campfire before hitting the bottom. Izzy follows him with the same sounds ringing out as she descends and lands on Owen. Moments later, the killer approaches them and Owen pushes Izzy in the direction of the killer to save himself. Owen runs away and a few moments later, he enters the tent where Chris is monitoring what is going on. Chris explains that the "killer" is actually Chef in disguise and it is the campers challenge to "survive" the challenge. Izzy laughs about it on her way to Owen, saying it was a good one. Owen laughs too trying to make it better by joking about it. Izzy doesn't buy it. Owen realizes it's not working and she's still on the part where he pushed her into the escaped psycho killer with a chainsaw and a hook. Owen asks if he's getting to second base. Izzy shakes her head. "Is he getting to first base?" Izzy shakes her head. He then asks, "Is he getting up to bat?", to which she punches him in the head.

Chris sends Chef out to do more terrorizing and back at the bonfire, Gwen continues to go over the plan for surviving by showing the figures she has drawn on a chart and she notices DJ and Geoff are missing and Duncan says they went to the washroom. At the washroom, DJ begs Geoff not to leave no matter what and Geoff agrees to stay. However, Geoff is lured away by the sound of an ice cream truck (courtesy of Chris) and when DJ sees Heather wearing a lime green facial mask and towels, he runs screaming from the washroom. After running over hills, off a cliff, through the base of the lake, down the Dock of Shame, and into Chris' tent, DJ is brought to his senses when Izzy slaps him across the face. Chris tells DJ the truth about the killer and points out DJ bailed out without even encountering Chef in disguise, but DJ protests that Heather's appearance was scary as well.

Gwen enters the washroom through the hole DJ made earlier when he ran away and asks Heather if she is okay since she heard DJ scream. Heather says she is fine and wants a shower without Gwen around. After Gwen leaves, Heather goes to enter the shower, but is terrified to see the killer standing a few feet away. A short time later, in Chris' tent, Chris lectures a bug eyed Heather that if she had paid attention to the rules of a scary movie about not going off alone, she'd still be in the game.

At the bonfire, Gwen asks where Leshawna has gone and when Duncan says she went to get some food in Chef's kitchen, Gwen sighs and crosses out Leshawna's figure on her chart. In the kitchen, Leshawna grabs a plate of brownies and hears her name being whispered followed by the killer appearing. Leshawna talks tough at first, but ultimately runs off and winds up in the tent with Chris and the other people eliminated. However, she laughs it off, claiming that she didn't see it coming. Chris points out that challenging the killer was crazy, but that she scored points for bringing some brownies to everyone. Outside, Geoff is looking for the ice cream truck he thought he heard earlier and is tapped on the shoulder by the killer. Moments later, Chef deposits a wide eyed Geoff in the tent with Chris and the others and DJ chastises Geoff for leaving him earlier. On the monitor nearby, Gwen is seen at the bonfire citing a scary movie rule; the party guy is a prime target right after the big, lovable jock and DJ is not impressed she waited until now to cite that rule. Gwen crosses out DJ and Geoff's caricatures as being eliminated. Gwen is ticked that no one listened to her and if they did they would still be in the challenge. Talk turns to Duncan's pyromania side, which he sets Gwen's chart on fire. When Gwen goes to get water, she notices Duncan is missing. She gets so mad that she decides to forget about the killer and go get a sandwich.

Hearing his name being whispered, Duncan makes his way down to the dock and encounters the killer. Duncan points out that if it's a solo winner challenge, wait for the fight to be over so one knows they have won. Duncan hurls a chair, a canoe, a life preserver, a surf board and a fish at the killer before watching the chainsaw cut into the dock just in front of him. Duncan grabs the chainsaw from him and prepares to see who's behind the mask.

Elsewhere, Gwen is eating a sandwich at the dining hall when a shadowed figure carrying a chainsaw and a hook approaches her, but Gwen is not frightened. Meanwhile, Duncan, carrying the mask, and Chef enter Chris' tent and everyone notices that Gwen is about to deal with the another killer. But with Chef in the tent, they realize that Gwen is in the kitchen with a real psycho killer. As they run in a hurry to save Gwen, she talks to the killer as if he is an actor and moments later, Chris and the others arrive and yell to Gwen that she's facing a real killer. Gwen screams and kicks the killer in the face several times. Upset by this treatment, the killer leaves muttering that he was treated better in prison and Gwen is congratulated by Duncan for her actions with a high five.

Afterwards, Chris states that it is agreed that Gwen receives invincibility for this challenge due to her actually fighting the real psycho killer. On the other hand, DJ is unanimously chosen to be eliminated by Chris. After a group hug, he walks the Dock of Shame and leaves the island while the killer, watching from nearby, repeatedly whispers "Total Drama Island" before he whines about his sore nose and asks if he's bleeding.

Cast

 * Chef Hatchet appeared, but he had no lines. However, he is heard warning Gwen about the killer together with Chris and the other contestants.

General

 * When Owen and Izzy are walking in the woods, they exclusively refer to themselves in the third person.
 * The order of the campers who got eliminated from the challenge:
 * 1) Owen
 * 2) Izzy
 * DJ
 * 1) Heather
 * 2) Leshawna
 * 3) Geoff
 * Duncan and Gwen were never actually eliminated.
 * Duncan was never eliminated, as he beat Chef Hatchet by unmasking him.
 * Gwen, who faced the real psycho killer, won the challenge.
 * According to Gwen, the rules of surviving a horror movie are:
 * 1) Don't go off alone.
 * 2) If you do go off on your own, never go into the woods.
 * 3) If you do go into the woods, never ever make out or you will die there.
 * 4) Never shower alone.
 * 5) The party guy is a prime target for psycho killers, right after the big, lovable jock.
 * Duncan and Gwen start to bond in this episode.
 * The surfboard that Duncan threw at Chef looks similar to the one Bridgette brought with her to the island.
 * It is revealed in this episode that Leshawna grew up in the projects.
 * Duncan is the only one who faces the "killer," thus making him the second person to fight Chef, after Izzy; though Leshawna tries to face the killer, but ends up running away.

Continuity

 * This is the first episode to take place entirely at night.
 * This is the first time in the series that something happened in the challenge that Chris didn't plan (as he never planned for the real psycho killer to enter the challenge as he thought Chef was going to be the killer).
 * This is the first of five episodes in the series (once per season) to have a horror/serial-killer theme. The others are The Sand Witch Project in Total Drama Action, I See London... in Total Drama World Tour, Finders Creepers in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, and Moon Madness in Total Drama All-Stars.
 * This is the first episode of Total Drama that shows Owen and Izzy together as a couple.
 * As of this episode, all original couples of Total Drama Island have been formed.
 * This is the second time in a row that someone leaves the island without getting voted off.
 * This is the second time Chef Hatchet is seen in a hockey mask. The first is in No Pain, No Game.
 * This is the second time Duncan is seen with his fake hook hand. The first is in The Sucky Outdoors.
 * This is the first episode since The Big Sleep that Heather is not in an alliance.

Goofs

 * When she is placing her finger across her throat like a knife, Izzy has five fingers instead of four.
 * When Duncan confronted the "killer," he cut off Chef's hook with the chainsaw, but when everyone runs to warn Gwen about the real killer on the loose, Chef's hook is restored.
 * Despite the fact that the whole episode takes place at night, when the campers are in the confessional, it is daytime. This is another reference to the theory that the campers talk about their experience after the challenge ends. This, however, creates a plot hole as DJ was in the confessional and yet it was still night when he was eliminated, therefore it should have been night time when he was giving confessions.
 * When Chef is coming towards Duncan in his killer costume, he's wearing his chef hat; however, it disappears in the next shot when Duncan starts throwing things at him.
 * When Izzy and Owen are rushing through the woods, Izzy's wristband is missing, and then when Izzy is watching Owen fall down the cliff, her wristband is on the wrong arm.
 * When Gwen puts out the burning chart, there are still all the X's on the campers. However, when the camera zooms out, none of the pictures are crossed out.
 * Chef's chainsaw is taped to a hockey stick and he uses the stick like a handle, but when his silhouette is shown, he is holding the chainsaw by its regular handle and there is no sign of the hockey stick.
 * When everybody is hugging DJ at the end of the episode, Duncan has five fingers as opposed to four.
 * When Leshawna sees the brownies, they are arranged as if they were in the baking pan. When she approaches the mess hall door, the brownies are stacked. In the next frame, they are back in the pan arrangement.