Small‑town cheer curdles fast: a Harvest Pageant freezes mid‑hymn, the Mayflower float bleeds feathers, and the turkey‑trot 5K turns into a sprint for exits. The pilgrim mask is back, setting place cards with names only the killer should know.

Set‑pieces snap like wishbones—cranberry‑bog chase with waders sucking ankles, a supermarket “Doorbuster” that locks the doors, a Zamboni carving patterns in an empty ice rink, and a historic reenactment that becomes a ritual with real stakes.

Clues hide in seating charts, recipe cards, and one chair that keeps moving tables. Sound design scrapes porcelain—steel on china, choir to siren—while edits carve on the inhale. The town whispers tradition; Carver hears permission. Final sting: an oven timer dings 00:00, a roasting pan lid lifts, and the carving knife finds the camera before grace is said.