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Harper's Island Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2009 - 2009
Episode 1
Whap
Thu, Apr 9, 200942 mins
Henry Dunn returns home to Harper's Island, where seven brutal murders were committed seven years ago, with his bride Trish, daughter of tycoon Thomas Wellington, and a large wedding party, stirring memories and emotions before and after arrival. Henry's popular uncle Marty overhears Thomas plot with Trish's irresistibly sexy ex Hunter Jennings to seduce her away, but is brutally murdered while returning trough the woods.
Episode 2
Crackle
Thu, Apr 16, 200940 mins
Henry treats his guests to a scavenger hunt on the island. Sully tricks Cal into switching teams so he can flirt with his fiancée, but tires of her and leaves Cal hanging in a hunter's snare. On early deer hunt, Jimmy is rebuked by partner Shane for gracefully allowing animal lover Abi to mess up their kill, later find a deer on their jeep, marked 'psycho' in its blood. The deer later turns up in Henry's room, which he manages to clean before Trish arrives. Trish catches her father talking to Hunter, whom she refused to dump Henry for, but believes their cover story and Henry hangs around the wedding party's campfire, a wanderer-off falls into a hunter's pit and is burned alive. Reverend Fain is caught in another snare and decapitated. The morning after Kelly celebrates being promised she can stay with Abi in LA wildly in bed with J.D., she's found hanged in her room.
Episode 3
Ka-Blam
Thu, Apr 23, 200940 mins
Henry goes skeet shooting with his future in-laws, while Trish's bridesmaids help her try to get rid of Hunter before Henry finds out. Sully steps up his flirtations with Chloe, but she only has eyes for Cal. Sheriff Mills investigates Kelly's apparent suicide, which causes even more tension between Shane and JD. After Henry confronts Tom over his meddling, Tom pays off Hunter to leave the island.
Episode 4
Bang
Sat, May 2, 200942 mins
For his bachelor party Henry's friends take him fishing where they find more than fish. Katherine hires a psychic for the start of Trish's bachelorette party but the psychic reacts badly to Abby. Malcolm pitches his business plan to Thomas and Richard but it fails to attract interest.
Episode 5
Thwack
Sat, May 9, 200942 mins
Feeling stressed about the wedding Henry encourages Trish and Thomas to take some time out but they encounter a trip wire which knocks them from their bicycles and then they are set upon by an Alsatian. Malcolm is feeling very stressed over Booth's death and makes up excuses to the other guys about his sudden disappearance. Sheriff Mills finds the dismembered body of Reverend Fine in the lake and Abby finds out that her dad is conducting an investigation into mysterious deaths that have happened on Harper's Island since Wakefield was killed.
Episode 6
Sploosh
Sat, May 23, 200960 mins
After the killing of Thomas Wellington the entire wedding party are spooked and are questioned in detail by Sheriff Mills. J.D. and Abby find the mutilated body of Marty Dunn and leads to Abby showing J.D. & Henry's her father's murder board. Believing that John Wakefield didn't die 7 years previously and is responsible for the recent deaths Abby and Henry dig up the grave of John Wakefield but they find his skeleton in the casket. Another wedding guest meets a grizzly end. Meanwhile, Cal and Chloe go to great lengths to get back the engagement ring that Cal lost.
Episode 7
Thrack, Splat, Sizzle
Sat, May 30, 200960 mins
In the wake of more deaths, the wedding party pack their bags to return to Seattle. When the sheriff investigates at the Candlewick, Malcolm feels a sudden need to repack his luggage. Henry tries to comfort Trish, but she rebuffs him after learning that JD is the prime suspect. Abby spends time with Trish, comforting her and reminding her of her love for Henry. A disfigured stranger's identity is revealed. Abby recollects several incidents on the island before the Wakefield murders and learns something she never knew about her mother. Madison is lured away from the others.
Episode 8
Gurgle
Sat, Jun 6, 200960 mins
Evacuation plans are put on hold when Madison turns up missing. In searching the island for her, the friends discover more bodies. Trish smooths over her tense relationship with Henry while his brother stews in jail, but a strange invasion there allows JD to escape. Sheriff Mills is seriously injured while trekking through the woods and is cared for by an old acquaintance, but the help is short lived when a fire breaks out. Abby receives a phone call from the kidnapped Madison, who says she'll be killed if any of them try to flee the island. Sully wants to leave anyway, but Cal talks the others out of it. Abby and Jimmy head for the marina, where Abby witnesses someone else die, with cryptic last words.
Episode 9
Seep
Sat, Jun 13, 200960 mins
While the survivors gather at the Candlewick, Chloe and Abby help Cal to patch up the sheriff. Shane turns up to taunt the group, but Henry arrives in time to stop him. Jimmy gives Henry some critical papers from JD's pocket which lead Abby to question her own paternity. When Beth disappears, the friends search a tunnel network beneath the inn. Henry and Jimmy need Shane's truck to rescue Abby, but the vehicle is swiped by Trish and Shea. The sheriff disappears from Cal's care; Madison's recovery throws new suspicion on someone close to Abby.
Episode 10
Snap
Sat, Jun 20, 200960 mins
Madison's words ostracize Abby from the group, but they all determine to leave the island. Henry and Abby stop to pick up Cal and Chloe but are dismayed to learn that the sheriff is gone. When state troopers arrive for custody of JD, they get an unpleasant surprise. Trish is let in on the secret of the attic. An attack on the marina leaves Henry injured but spells worse for Jimmy. Henry tries to shield Abby from accusations as the group holes up in Cannery Row bar, where the killer mounts a fresh attack and leaves a surprise. Chloe exchanges a tender goodbye with Cal before he and Sully depart on a desperate mission. Sheriff Mills makes a shocking confession to his daughter; Madison admits a lie; a killer is revealed.
Episode 11
Splash
Sat, Jun 27, 200960 mins
Abby's mourning is cut short by shock, but friends prevent her from being lured away by revenge. Madison tells Shea about her new friend; Abby tells Henry and Danny that she is not Wakefield's child. Shane makes a stand during another attack on Cannery Row. Sully and Cal discover a new comradeship; while Abby, Henry, and Danny return to a gruesome scene at the bar. Friends rendezvous at the chapel, where Chloe is kidnapped; they make a plan to flush out the killer in the Candlewick tunnels. Cal risks everything to save the love of his life; Shea finds a terrifying file about a possible Wakefield accomplice - a file which includes a mugshot of one of their friends.
Episode 12
Gasp
Sat, Jul 11, 200960 mins
Sully and Danny flush out a killer; when Abby can't finish him off, he's dragged to jail instead. Feeling safer now, the friends split up. Sully tries his hand at interrogation as well as fixing a radio. Abby retrieves Shea and Madison; Henry goes to fetch Trish, but she has been lured out to the bluffs by Jimmy with talk of a rescue boat. Abby confronts one killer, but Madison soon reveals that her kidnapper had a "friend." Shea shares her discovery with the others; when Jimmy reports back that Trish accidentally slipped down the rocks, suspicion immediately falls on him. The friends again split up to rescue Trish while guarding the prisoner, who uses the moment to escape and take another victim. A tense standoff is diffused when Trish turns up safe; a boathouse radio could finally bring help. Not realizing that the killer is again loose, Trish makes love to Henry in their cabin, but he is lured out by a strange knock at the door. Shea and Madison must run to Sully for help. Alone in the woods, Jimmy tells Abby he has a long-standing confession to make. A second killer is revealed.
Episode 13
Sigh
Sat, Jul 11, 200960 mins
Wakefield is unable to prevent the two Allens escaping by boat. Sully believes to be trapping Wakefield with Henry, but is murdered by father and son himself before he realizes they were in league from the start. When incredulous Abby is told the whole story, Wakefield wants to execute her, but is slain himself as henry chooses his first love over his re-found father. Abby openly refuses and is disgusted to find Henry is setting tied Jimy up as Wakefield's bastard-accomplice, only to have the tables turned a last time.
