'Hell Motel' Episode 6 Recap & Ending Explained: Is Blake Dead Or Alive?

In the 5th episode of Hell Motel, the survivors—Floyd, Shirley, Adriana, Paige, Andy, Blake, and JP—got into an argument about gender bias because the men were calling the shots and forcing the women to just follow their lead. So, Adriana decided to head off with Shirley and Paige and lock themselves in Shirley’s room so as to avoid getting killed by one of the men. Meanwhile, the men were left in the dining hall to keep discussing what the “right step” should be, given the current circumstances. Things quickly escalated in both camps as Adriana went stir-crazy after she was reminded of her sordid past, causing her to wave a gun at anyone who tried to approach her to calm her down, and Andy and Floyd got into a fight because of the latter’s constant antagonism. And it all came to a boil when the gun in Adriana’s hand went off accidentally and killed JP. This prompted the rest to lock her up in the shed and let her stay there for the foreseeable future. Paige couldn’t stand by that decision, and later at night, she and Andy went to the shed to free her. That’s when they discovered that Baphomet had already gotten to her and killed her. How did that impact the morale of the guests? Let’s find out.

Spoiler Alert

Episode 6 of Hell Motel jumps back and forth in time to paint a vivid picture of Blake, but, for the sake of clarity, I am going to talk about things in a linear fashion. So, Blake has talked a lot about being involved in an altercation with a serial killer and surviving the ordeal, but the details have been hazy. The death of Adriana triggers an extended flashback sequence where we actually see the incident play out. The whole thing happened at some kind of a house party, which was invaded by a masked individual with a knife. We see Blake and his friend hiding and waiting for their opportunity to make a run for the exit. When they did get to the door to the basement, Blake’s friend, for some reason, decided to pause at the staircase and proclaim that he didn’t want to die. It’s such an awkward scene that it seems like the character realized that they had outsmarted the serial killer; hence, he had to let him catch up. Well, he got his prayers answered because the killer did catch up to him and brutally murdered him. 

Instead of fighting the killer, Blake chose to go into the basement and plan his next move. He found out that he wasn’t the first one to choose the basement to hide; his own girlfriend was there too, and she’d taken refuge inside the freezer (which was turned off). Once they were sure that the killer had stopped trying to get into the basement, they ran for the exit door and made it out onto the streets. That’s when Blake’s girlfriend noticed that one of their friends was stuck on the first floor of the house and was crying out for help. Blake wanted to leave, but his girlfriend wanted to go back into the house and save the girl. To be honest, I understand both perspectives in this case, and it says a lot about both of the characters. Yet, I think Blake’s decision was smarter. If any of them were capable enough to stand up to the killer, they would have, regardless of who was calling for help. Since so many people had failed to do so, it was dumb to try it again when they were low on numbers and energy. It would have made more sense to get help and then try and rescue the survivors. That said, maybe I can say all this because I’m talking about a fictional incident from the comfort of my home, I don’t know how I will act if I find myself in a situation like that.

By the time Blake and his girlfriend got to the girl on the first floor of the house, she was already bleeding out; the killer had used her as bait to lure those two back into the house, and they had fallen for it hook, line, and sinker. After the girl died, Blake and his girlfriend decided to hide under the bed. Right when they were about to be discovered by the killer, a sole police officer showed up. Yeah, he didn’t last very long, the killer slashed the officer’s throat and killed him. Since the killer was distracted, Blake and his girlfriend rushed to the officer’s vehicle and tried to drive away to safety. However, they didn’t have the keys to the car and had to watch the killer barge his way in via the windshield. Blake managed to briefly knock out the killer so that he and his girlfriend could escape. Before they could hit the streets and keep running until the killer was nowhere to be seen, the killer blocked their path and forced them to get back into the house. 

Blake’s girlfriend was brave enough to actually try and take the knife away from the killer, while Blake just begged and pleaded for him to let them go. Of course, the killer got the better of both of them (after suffering a stab to the gut though), pinned them to the wall, and revealed his face. Apparently he was a kid who had been bullied and severely humiliated by Blake and his frat house friends. Since the trauma was unavoidable for him, he had no option but to seek revenge. Since his journey had reached its end, he gave Blake a chance to redeem himself by proving that he cared about something other than himself. He gave Blake a choice: Blake could sacrifice himself and save his girlfriend, or let his girlfriend die and run away. Unsurprisingly, Blake chose himself over his girlfriend, who died at the killer’s hands. The killer was never caught, and Blake went on to build a career out of the whole experience. Sure, he was haunted by the image of his dead girlfriend, but that doesn’t make me sympathize with him at all.

In the present day, the guests bring Adriana’s dead body back into the motel. Before they can decide what they should do with it or plan their next move, Blake takes hold of the gun and holds everyone in there hostage because now he is convinced that out of Floyd, Shirley, Andy, and Paige, one is the killer. He even fires the gun in the air just to make sure that everyone knows that, if the need arises, he is willing to kill someone. Then he proceeds to confine each of them to the chairs in the dining hall and demands that they speak the truth. This is a decent enough setup for some interesting discourse, but the issue that the episode runs into is that these characters are as deep as a puddle. Hence, their verbal battle is quite repetitive and boring. The brief moment where the tension is ramped up a bit is when Blake takes a knife, thrusts the tip into Floyd’s back, and urges him to admit that he is guilty. Well, Floyd and Shirley are guilty of killing a lot of people, but they haven’t killed all the inhabitants of the motel. Whether or not that third killer is Andy or Paige is (spoiler alert) not revealed in this episode. 

Anyway, Floyd refuses to budge. So, Blake has no option but to abandon his little torture session and take a breather in the walk-in freezer. Andy uses this opportunity to ask Paige to take out the knife from his back pocket so that they can free themselves. But just when he starts to make some progress, Blake re-enters the dining hall and starts talking about his sad backstory again, where he confronted a serial killer and lived to tell the tale, which, as we all know now, isn’t exactly true. It’s hilarious, though, that he is so committed to sticking to that narrative even though there’s no point in doing so anymore. They are in a do-or-die situation; who is going to care if he actually survived a serial killer attack or not? That said, it does go to show how dedicated hypocrites like Blake are to living a life built on lies; it just makes you question the authenticity of all the people who have gotten famous because they supposedly survived a horrifying situation. 

Andy manages to free himself and slashes Blake across his gut, which mimics the wound sustained by the serial killer who attacked Blake back in the day. Blake unloads the gun on everyone and manages to hit nobody. Then he rushes to the exit door and into the woods. The guests decide not to go after him because they know that he will bleed out, get mauled by a wild animal, or Baphomet will kill him. Well, they are right. Blake doesn’t make it too far, though, and at the end of Hell Motel episode 6, Baphomet gets to him and turns him into a pile of flesh, blood, and bones with the help of a heavy-duty lawnmower (please correct me if I am wrong about the type of instrument that the killer has used). The last person who is seen standing at the front door of the motel right before Blake is killed is Paige. I have said it before, and I’ll say it again: I think she is the killer. We’ve already reached the tail end of this godforsaken show, and I feel that Adam MacDonald is hinting at the fact that Paige is the third perpetrator. 

If it’s someone else entirely, that’ll be a boring creative decision. If it’s the same serial killer that tried to kill Blake at that house party, I guess it’ll make some sense. Yet it’ll be pretty boring. What’ll also be boring is if, after all this talk about summoning Baphomet from the pits of hell, nothing supernatural happens. The show hasn’t done anything to make me rate it really highly, but if it doesn’t have any interesting payoffs whatsoever, I’m going to be really angry. With all that said, I will say that Blake’s death has been the most satisfying one so far. All the previous ones were cruel for the sake of being cruel. The punishment didn’t really suit the “crime.” Blake, though, is a really awful person and has caused real-life harm, thereby pushing an innocent boy to become a serial killer. And instead of paying for his mistakes, he kept on lying about his victimhood till his dying breath. So, yeah, getting diced to death is exactly what he deserved. Anyway, those are just my thoughts on the ending of Hell Motel episode 6. If you have any opinions on the same, feel free to share them in the comments section below.