Slay Anything, the latest Legends of Tomorrow episode, takes us to Central City 2004 for a high school reunion worthy of a John Carpenter film. Even though Barry Allen doesn’t make an appearance in this episode, with much of the action taking place at Central City High School, it would have been interesting to see a young Barry. How old, in 2004, would Barry have been? I’m guessing 15-years-old.

The episode, with a teleplay penned by Matthew Maala and Tyron B. Carter, opens with serial killer Freddy Myers (Garrett Quirk) being executed at Iron Heights. The serial killer’s name, Freddy Myers, is an obvious nod to classic 1980s horror film franchises A Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween. Appearing on the cover of The Spectacular Spider-Man #144 (November 1988), even though it is a Marvel Comics publication, we shouldn’t forget supervillain Frederick “Fred” Myers / Boomerang.

Ava Sharpe (Jes Macallan), having covered Freddy Myers for her podcast StabCast, immediately identifies the new Encore as the Prom Night Slasher. Normally, people tend to let the AI Gideon (Amy Louise Pemberton) fill everyone in on the pertinent information, but with Ava not allowing her to complete a sentence, it seems easier to allow the former Time Bureau director to run with it.

With Tiffany Harper (Veronika London) being the girl that got away, not that we need to watch ever slash film ever made to get this point, the reason Freddy would return to his former high school for the coming fifteenth class reunion is readily apparent. When Mick Rory (Dominic Purcell) takes a moment to gauge his surroundings, he realises it’s his own former high school. Ali (Lisa Marie DiGiacinto), one of Mick’s classmates, immediately recognises him.

Freddy, as the Legends soon discover, is apparently a metahuman with telekinetic powers. It’s Central City. What do you expect? After Nate Heywood (Nick Zano) and Ray Palmer (Brandon Routh) find themselves locked out of the school, by using the Waverider to head to 1989, plan ‘B’ is put into motion. It was Ray’s idea to travel back to the Encore’s formative years to prevent him from becoming a serial killer.

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Fairy Godmother Nora Dahrk (Courtney Ford), tired of every kid wanting a pony, pulls off the perfect Cinderella routine and provides Freddy with everything he could need to prevent him from becoming a male Carrie. Even though everyone points to Cinderella, with how we’re talking about about a male teenager, the classic 1960 Frank Tashlin written/directed Cinderfella seems a tad more applicable. This is the film where Jerry Lewis played the title character and Ed Wynn played the Fairy Godfather.

Elsewhere, John Constantine (Matt Ryan) and Gary Green (Adam Tsekhman) are back at the Mysterious House. It is here that they run into Charlie (Maisie Richardson-Sellers) masquerading as Constantine in his own house. Even though he had previously stated he will be looking to solve the Astra problem, it’s more likely that he’s trying to find a rock to crawl under so that he doesn’t have to face it.

Freddy, not actually the serial killer, took the fall for his mother. Kathy Meyers (Beth Riesgraf), who didn’t want her son to leave her, was responsible for the murders. It reminded me of how Pamela Voorhees (Betsy Palmer), in the first Friday the 13th film, was the killer.

The night Freddy was executed, that scene where we see his mother collapse, she had died of a heart attack. She was the Encore. In 1989, we see Freddy, Zari Tomaz (Tala Ashe), Behrad Tarazi (Shayan Sobhian), and half a dozen teenaged girls come face-to-face with Freddy’s mother. Behrad uses the power of his amulet to fight off Kathy. In 2004, because of Behrad’s actions in 1989, the Prom Night Slasher vanishes.

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