Hitman

"Hitman" is the fourth episode in season three of Adventure Time.

Synopsis
The grounded Ice King hires a fire-manipulating hitman to attack Finn and Jake, without realizing the potentially deadly consequences.

Plot
The story opens with at the Breakfast Kingdom, where the Breakfast Princesses are eating breakfast. Then Ice King comes and tries to put honey on their pancakes. They call Finn and Jake to save them, who ground Ice King from doing anything evil for four weeks. Back at the Ice Kingdom, Ice King is angry at the two, so he goes online and hires a hitman named Scorcher, who he believe will literally hit Finn and Jake. Instead, Scorcher sets Finn and Jake's treehouse on fire while they're making sandwiches with meat from their friend, Meat Man when Ice King bursts in and puts out the fire, ruining their sandwiches. After being scolded by Finn, Ice King flees back to his castle where he reveals to Scorcher that he didn't want him to kill Finn and that he put out the fire. Then Scorcher goes to Finn and Jake's bedroom and turns into smoke that fills the bedroom, but Ice King uses his ice powers to blow the smoke away.

Back in the Ice Kingdom, Ice King unsuccesssfully tries to bribe Scorcher with money, a talking moose head and a pair of nightvision x-ray googles. Then he tries to get Scorcher to change his target to Lumpy Space Princess or Ghost Princess because thay are his least favorite princesses, but that fails too. Finally, he hires Blastronaut, another hitman, to take out Scorcher, but he easily defeats him. Ice King is then able to distract Scorcher and freezes him, then runs to Finn and Jake's treehouse.

Finn and Jake have just woken up and Jake decides not to eat anymore Meat Man meat because he is having dreams about him. Then Ice King comes and reveals that he had hired Scorcher to kill them, then Scorcher comes to finish off Finn and Jake. As they run from him, Ice King puts an ice dome over them and reveals a plan to trick Scorcher by freezing Finn and Jake and lowering their body temperatures to make him think they're dead. The duo is against this but Ice King does it anyway and the plan works. After Scorcher leaves, their is a note left that says,"Echoes of past events, nudge the tiller of my present course.I await its reflection in the future. After that, the Ice King climbs on top of Finn and Jake and mocks them by saying they're grounded under his butt.

Major Characters

 * Ice King
 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Scorcher

Minor Characters

 * Breakfast Princesses
 * Blastronaut
 * Lumpy Space Princess (photo)
 * Ghost Princess (photo)
 * Penguins
 * Snail
 * Meat Man (mentioned numerous times)

Trivia

 * This episode was previously titled "Hitcapades."
 * At first, there were two choices of how the breakfeast princess would look, but in the end it the two possibilities were chosen to be a pair of princesses, with some minor changes.
 * The snail can been found on the stump that Jake trips over during the chase.
 * Upon completion of his hit, Scorcher leaves Ice King a note which reads, "Echoes of past events, nudge the tiller on my present course. I await its reflection in the future."
 * This is the second episode where Ice King is the main character. The first being Loyalty to the King.
 * Ice King states that Lumpy Space Princess and Ghost Princess are his least favorite princesses.
 * There is an animatic where when the Ice King tries to distract Scorcher he says "Someone got hit in the nuts" the network requested they change it so it became "Someone got hit in the boingloins".