Friday the 13th: The Series Ep. 23 Badge of Honor Review

Badge of Honor originally aired on July 5, 1988. What's interesting is I was so not feeling this episode, but by the end, it had completely won me over. Jack does not appear in this episode for a fourth time. Let's continue with what was done poorly. The cursed antique in this episode is a sheriff's badge that upon touch kills whoever touches it. This antique is stupid and the way people die, jumpy, jump cuts galore, is painful to sit through and not for the right reasons. The secondary villain Has is also extremely boring in this episode. But here's the good parts: the main villain is great and there's a twist that I never saw coming. The main villain is seeking revenge for his wife who was hospitalized because of a car bomb explosion. He talks with his wife and vows revenge on all who caused this event to happen. We realize near the end of the episode that he's been holding a rotted corpse, a decrepit skeleton on the bed and it's nasty. That was a great twist, very Psycho. The other twist involves Mickey's old flame. Mickey by the way is all over her old flame, it's disgusting. She's definitely selling out. Ryan and Mickey find a gun in his bag. The audience knows he's making counterfeit money. He is definitely a villain. In the end you realize he works for the FBI and dies a hero. It was very shocking, but very satisfying all at the same time. It's not a great episode, but it's definitely the best since Quilt of Hathor.