Line #1 Series/TheConfession


1	A web series about a hit man (Creator/KieferSutherland) who goes into confession, and confesses his sins, but he is unrepentant, and the priest (Creator/JohnHurt) can't shake off the feeling that the guy is here for a specific reason, but can't figure it out.
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3	The series has no connection to the Creator/JohnGrisham novel [[Literature/TheConfession of the same name]].
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6	!!Tropes seen in this film:
7	* AbusiveParents: The priest suggests that a childhood of abuse lead the confessor to be a cold-blooded killer. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that the priest himself was the confessor's sadistic, abusive father.]]
8	* AffablyEvil: The confessor is polite and well-spoken, even when dealing with most of his hits (provided that they don't retaliate verbally or physically).
9	* TheAlcoholic: The priest was one in the past. The confessor comments on the smell of "cheap whiskey" on the priest's breath that mouthwash and cologne can't hide, implying that the priest is still a heavy drinker.
10	* AssholeVictim: The confessor says that most of the people he kills fall into this category and are deserving of death. His first hit - a cocky "Made Man" turned FBI informant - certainly fits the description, as does the crooked and arrogant investment broker Sheldon Hoffman.
11	* TheAtoner: The priest chose his vocation because he was racked with guilt about the kind of man he had been when he was younger.
12	* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins: The confessor will go on killing and knows that the priest is powerless to stop him because he's bound to confidentiality by the rules of Confession.]]
13	* BlackAndGrayMorality: The confessor has no guilt or remorse for the crimes he's committed, [[spoiler: and the priest, while a good man now even by the confessor's own admission, has a very dark past. The fact that the confessor has shown decency and mercy and that he would never have become what he was but for his father's abuse and neglect makes this an arguable case of GreyAndGrayMorality.]]
14	* ConfessInConfidence: Naturally.
15	* CruelMercy: [[spoiler: Done twice. Once with the corrupt investment broker, and the other with the priest at the end.]]
16	* DarkSecret: Played straight with the priest, [[InvertedTrope inverted]] with the confessor, who is very open to the priest about his evil. He does have a secret [[spoiler: but it's about a time he showed mercy to one of his hits.]]
17	* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Two characters. Sheldon Hoffman, the investment broker, is driven to suicide when the confessor forces him to return the money he embezzled at gunpoint. Decades earlier, the priest drove the confessor's mother to kill herself through years of physical and emotional abuse.]]
18	* EvenEvilHasStandards: The confessor says that he has to believe that his hits deserve to be killed. He spares the life of one of his targets because he seems to be a good man guilty of no more than offending the "wrong" person.
19	* HidingBehindReligion: The confessor accuses the priest of doing this.
20	* FreudianExcuse: The Confessor describes a childhood of brutal beatings and later abandonment by his own alcoholic father, followed by sexual abuse at the hands of foster parents. It's little wonder he grew up to be a violent and remorseless criminal.
21	* FromBadToWorse: The confessor's childhood. The confessor says that when he was first sent to foster care by child services after being abandoned by his alcoholic and violent father, he initially thought nothing could be worse than his past home life. He was wrong - his foster parents were pedophiles who raped him and shared him with their friends.
22	* 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 remaining years by sending him reminders of the murders he's committed, while blaming the priest for making him a murderer.]]
23	* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: 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.]]
24	* [[spoiler: LukeIAmYourFather: Inverted when the confessor reveals that he's the son whom the priest had abused and abandoned decades earlier.]]
25	* NoNameGiven: The confessor and the priest don't have names.
26	* 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.

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