The Last Supper

Zack, a Desert Storm veteran and truck driver, helps move Pete's car and is invited to share dinner at the group's house in Iowa. The invitation seems friendly, but Zack's presence foreshadows a clash of ideologies as the liberal students prepare to host him. This marks the beginning of a dangerous encounter.

The conversation reveals Zack's racist, xenophobic and Holocaust-denying views. The five graduate students push back with liberal arguments about equality and civil rights, turning the dinner into a volatile political battleground. The tension foreshadows the violence to come.

In a sudden outburst, Zack grips a knife and menaces Marc, threatening to kill him and assault Paulie. The others watch in shock as he becomes increasingly unhinged and aggressive. The threat dramatically shifts the dinner from debate to danger.

After Zack releases Marc, Marc fatally stabs him in the back, ending the immediate danger. The group immediately discusses and agrees to cover up the murder, setting the stage for their chilling escalation. They begin to consider future dinners as a way to 'make the world a better place' by killing conservatives who disagree with them.

The five students draft a ritual for future murders: guests are given a chance to recant; if they fail by dessert, they are poisoned with blue wine from a blue decanter. The plan includes burying the bodies in the vegetable garden. The group rationalizes their actions as a perverted attempt to 'improve' society.

During a subsequent dinner, the group executes their plan on a conservative guest, the Reverend who openly denounces gay rights. The guest is given a chance to recant, but fails, and the blue wine is offered as the final step. The body is hidden in the garden as the group moves on.

At the next dinner, the group targets a misogynistic figure who defends rape. After he refuses to abandon his beliefs, the blue wine is administered and he dies, buried in the garden. The murder accelerates their moral decay and deepens their mutual complicity.

Another dinner guest espousing white supremacist views is given the opportunity to recant but refuses. He drinks the poisoned wine and dies, as the group continues their grim ritual. The garden becomes a graveyard for the dinner guests.

The guests include a figure who opposes environmental protections. He is confronted with the same coercive choice and ultimately dies from the wine as the group records another execution buried in the garden. The group grows bolder but more unsettled with each murder.

A racist and anti-Semitic fundamentalist from the Nation of Islam is subjected to the murder ritual. He refuses to renounce his beliefs and is killed by the poisoned wine. The group continues burying the bodies and pressing on with their plan.

An anti-abortion activist is offered the chance to recant and chooses not to. The wine seals his fate, and another body is buried in the vegetable garden. The group begins to doubt their actions but continues nonetheless.

A censorship advocate is the next target. Like the others, he is given a chance to abandon his beliefs, but fails, leading to his demise via the tainted wine. The house fills with a heavier sense of guilt among the group.

The guest who openly beats homeless people is the only one who momentarily contemplates recanting, but ultimately drinks the poisoned wine and dies. The others begin to question the morality of their ritual, but keep going. The garden grows more crowded with the bodies.

The final pre-tenure victim is a critic of gay rights. He too fails to recant and drinks the wine, joining the others in the vegetable garden. The group locks themselves into a spiraling moral decay.

With ten murders completed, guilt and infighting threaten the group. Luke fatally shoots Sheriff Alice Stanley, who was investigating Jenny Tyler's disappearance, escalating the danger. Later, Luke and Pete meet conservative pundit Norman Arbuthnot during a school break and invite him to a dinner that will test their resolve. Norman joins the dinner, challenges their rhetoric with measured arguments, and, refusing to drink the soiled wine, foreshadows his own political ascent as the closing shot lingers on a painting and his presence with a blue bottle.