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Poker Face Recap: Cold Blooded
Now it’s Alex’s turn to go on the run, thanks to an assassin played by Justin Theroux.
As we learn at the end of the episode, the character played by Justin Theroux is the Iguana, an assassin posing as Todd for access to the wedding — I’ll call him by his reptile name throughout to avoid confusion. Director Ti West, the man behind the X trilogy, leans nicely into horror in the opening scene, including the particularly gruesome detail of the Iguana flattening and liquefying Todd’s body to dispose of it. When the Iguana spots an FBI agent monitoring the festivities — it’s our old friend Luca Clark — he tries to call off the job, but his mysterious employer pays him double to stick to the plan and find a patsy to take the fall.
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