History Series / TheConfession

* TakeOurWordForIt: The Confessor tells the priest [[spoiler: (his abusive father) that after he was taken away by protective services to live with foster parents as a small child, he initially thought that anyone and anything would be an improvement over life with his drunken, violent father. The Confessor was wrong - he spares us the details, but it's clear that most of his foster parents were pedophiles]].

* SmugSnake: Sheldon Hoffman, the embezzling stock broker who thinks that his money and influence make him invincible.

* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: The confessor gives a brief one to the priest. After shooting into the confession booth and sparing the priest's life, he says that he can see that the priest really is a changed man who has found love and compassion through faith, implying that he's forgiven him. In fact, the confessor simply spared the priest's life so that he can continue to torment him for the rest of his life by sending him reminders of the murders he's committed, while blaming the priest for making him a murderer.]]

* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:The investment broker, and the mother.]]

* AssholeVictim: The confessor says that most of the people he kills fall into this category and are deserving of death. His first hit certainly fits the description, as does Sheldon Hoffman.

* FreudianExcuse: The Confessor describes a childhood of brutal beatings and later abandonment by his own father, followed by sexual abuse at the hands of foster parents. It's little wonder he grew up to be a remorseless criminal.

* NoNameGiven: The Confessor and the priest don't have names.

* AssholeVictim: The confessor says that most of the people he kills fall into this category and are deserving of death. His first hit certainly fits the description.

* PetTheDog: The confessor has a few moments, such as letting one of his hits say a prayer and make peace with God before dying, and even sparing the life of one of his hits when he decided that nothing the man did deserved death.

* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: The confessor gives a brief one to the priest. After shooting into the confession booth and sparing the priest's life, he says that he can see that the priest really is a changed man who has found love and compassion through faith, implying that he's forgiven him. In fact, he simply spared the priest's life so that he can continue to torment him for the rest of his life by sending him reminders of the murders he's committed, while blaming the priest for making him a murderer.]]

* NoNameGiven: The Confessor and the priest don't have names.

[[spoiler: * LukeIAmYourFather: Inverted when the confessor reveals that he's the son whom the priest had abused and abandoned decades earlier.]]

[[spoiler: LukeIAmYourFather: Inverted when the confessor reveals that he's the son whom the priest had abused and abandoned decades earlier.]]

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* [[spoiler:KarmaHoudini: The Confessor doesn't pay for his crimes, and will continue to kill, with the priest watching from the sideline, helpless to stop him or tell anyone else.]]

* CruelMercy: [[spoiler: Done twice. Once with the corrupt businessman, and the other with the priest at the end.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:The businessman, and the mother.]]

* DarkSecret: Played straight with the priest, [[InvertedTrope inverted]] with the confessor, who is very open to priest about his evil. He does have a secret [[spoiler: but it's about a time he showed mercy to one of his hits.]]

A web series about a hit man ([[Creator/KieferSutherland Kiefer Sutherland]]) who goes into confession, and confesses his sins, but he is unrepentant, and the priest (JohnHurt) can't shake off the feeling that the guy is here for a specific reason, but can't figure it out.

A web series about a hit man (KieferSutherland) who goes into confession, and confesses his sins, but he is unrepentant, and the priest (JohnHurt) can't shake off the feeling that the guy is here for a specific reason, but can't figure it out.

A web series about a hit man who goes into confession, and confesses his sins, but he is unrepentant, and the priest can't shake off the feeling that the guy is here for a specific reason, but can't figure it out.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[The businessman, and the mother.]]

* DarkSecret: Played straight with the priest, [[InvertedTrope inverted]] with the confessor, who is very open to priest about his evil, but he does have a secret [[spoiler: but it's about a time he showed mercy to one of his hits.]]
* [[spoiler:KarmaHoudini: The Confessor doesn't pay.]]

A web series about a contract killer who goes into confession, and confesses his sins, but he is unrepentant, and the priest can't shake off the feeling that the guy is here for a specific reason, but can't figure it out.

A web series

[[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins]]
[[spoiler:KarmaHoudini: The Confessor doesn't pay.]]
NoNameGiven: The Confessor and the priest don't have names.