Oxygen’s A Plan to Kill returns with an episode that trades the usual ripped-from-the-headlines urgency for something colder and more methodical. “The Business of Murder” opens with a masked assailant ending a businessman’s life in his own home — an execution more than a killing. Right away, the detectives face a puzzle: Who had reason enough to want this man dead? And what kind of meticulous premeditation went into this seemingly professional hit?
Forget the whodunit; A Plan to Kill is more interested in the howdunit. The episode painstakingly retraces the investigators’ steps, a trail littered with dead ends and red herrings. The killer, as the title not-so-subtly suggests, isn’t driven by sudden rage. This was a calculated operation, and the detectives find themselves chasing ghosts across the country, grappling with a level of forethought that borders on the diabolical.
A Plan to Kill has always been more interested in the mechanics of murder than the emotional fallout. “The Business of Murder” delivers on that grim promise, it’s a chilling glimpse into the mind of someone who treats homicide like a business transaction.
A Plan to Kill airs Sunday at 7 p.m. ET on Oxygen True Crime.
