Timeline (TV Series)

''This article is for the Timeline only for the TV-Version of Scream, not the films. If you want to see the film timeline, click here.''

''Note: This timeline goes according to the series, it may change as season progresses. Months/Time on some infomation cannot be identified until mentioned in the series. (I.E October; The Dance)''

December 29

 * Atlanta, Georgia is founded

1860

 * College Park Police, as part of Atlanta P.D, in Atlanta, Georgia is founded in 1860 in the town of College Park.

1861-1865

 * The American Civil War starts and takes place on April 12, 1861 and ends (end date debated) on April 9, 1865 after the Union defeats and ultimately overthrows the Confederate States, and General Robert E. Lee from the Confederacy, surrenders to General Ulysses S. Grant from the Union. Georgia was one of seven slave states that was Confederate before it was abolished and returned to normal statehood under the Union.
 * Was mentioned by Kym two centuries later when she confronts a white, racist trucker out in the rural “sticks” outside Atlanta who sported a Confederate flag on his truck and listened to Dixie (song of the Confederacy and the rural areas of the state where part of the war also took place).

February 1

 * Lakewood and the Lakewood Carnival are founded sometime in late January to early February (“Village of the Damned”)

1929

 * Cassie James and Adam James are born to their respective families in Lakewood.
 * (It was stated in the episode “The Dance” that Cassie was 86 years old in 2015, which means she and her husband Adam were most likely born in 1929 to 1930.)

October 31 (Halloween, 1930s)

 * The Shallow Grove Slasher in Shallow Grove Island, based on the murders committed in the 1930s (unspecified year) on Halloween night by Anna Hobbs, who due to her alleged psychopathy, killed her own family during a rainstorm night, in which she goes naked and dons a scarecrow-like mask, murdering the rich Reginald Whitten, the patriarch of the richest family (and owners) in the island in their mansion next door, albeit a large distance between, (due to his affair with her mother, the caretaker, due to her poor mother sleeping with him to pay to send Anna away to a psychiatric facility) then committing suicide at the pier with the Garden Shears, her murder weapon, by decapitating herself and then found.
 * This is officially the first Halloween event in the TV series and the earliest known murders in the overall franchise.
 * Anna’s supposed hysterical breakdowns at school which were a reason people believed she was crazy or her violent rages at home, as well as trying to drown a Whitten child in a well, were all fabricated, due to the fact that Noah states how there was no evidence proving Anna was psychotic.
 * This event also coincided and took place during the Great Depression, explaining Anna’s family and economic situation (due to the false rumor of Anna’s mother supposedly sleeping with Reginald to send Anna off to the psychiatric ward due to being unable to pay the bills)
 * This in return, is due to Noah’s theory 7 decades later, as well as the discovery of an underground tunnel in both the original Anna Hobbs house at 45 Lampkin Lane, connecting to the master bedroom from the mansion which was a few miles away albeit next door (which was the caretaker’s cottage in which she and her younger brother lived with alongside their caretaker mother, Lily, who worked for the said affluent family)
 * This implies that Anna was not the psychopath (or killer) she was thought to be, rather the patriarch next door was, Reginald, due to his affair with her mother Lily, which he kept a photo off in a photo album of scandalous women, noting his obsession which would then grow towards young Anna, which her mother disapproved of and would all come down to head that Halloween night (albeit Lily couldn’t stop from Reginald having an affair with her, due to his status).
 * This, along with the tunnel being built during the Prohibition (according to Audrey), either during or after the 1920s, was how Reginald could travel to his rendezvous/affair without telling his wife and then during the rainstorm, traveled to get with Anna, which Anna’s mother fought off before Reginald, due to always having things his way and never being neglected of his needs, snapped and who grabbed the caretaker’s nearby garden shears to kill Anna’s mother and her brother in front of her before trying to kill her, who only attacks her via her abdomen in her nightgown, before she gets the upper hand and kills him at her house before escaping to the pier, with the garden shears in hand, where she then tried to get a boat off the island, who after seeing it empty, tried to wash off the blood on her gown by stripping naked, before succumbing and dying due to exposure and her wounds, thus how the authorities found her.
 * Accordingly, this led to Whitten’s wife, who supposedly was aware of the tunnel and her husband’s infidelity, to find and move his body (due to the evidence of there not being rainwater had Anna supposedly killed her family at the house, seeing as she didn’t know of the tunnel’s existence) which according to a constable from that time period, also adhered to the theory that Reginald’s body was staged in the master bedroom, after being killed by Anna, although at her house rather than his. This was before the arrival of the police and the end of the rainstorm, seeing as how Mrs. Whitten couldn’t bear for the Whitten family to be shamed, pinned it on Anna, whose story wouldn’t end in her favor.

1950s (approx.)

 * Luther Thompson is born to unknown parents supposedly in Atlanta (earliest he can be born is 1947, or 1948-1949).

November 1

 * The Vietnam War starts

January 2nd

 * Luther Thompson is awarded the Purple Heart Award for his recruitment serving as a Staff Sergeant in the Vietnam War. He’d later go on to serve a dishonorable discharge not long after and be induced with PTSD due to it, seeming crazy to others around him and becoming secluded in the salvage yard and shed were he resided in Atlanta.

April 30

 * The Vietnam War ends.

Early Mid 1970s-1977

 * Clark Hudson is born earlier in the late 70s (1975 or 1976, late 1977) to his parents and unknown grandparents of his future son, Kieran Wilcox. He is also the older brother to his only younger sister, Tina Hudson, and the uncle to her son and his nephew, Eli
 * Troy James is born earlier into the 1970s to Cassie and Adam James, and is the only older brother of his younger serial killer deformed brother, Brandon James, and is the uncle of his niece, Piper Shaw.

1978-1979

 * Maggie Anderson is born in 1978-1979 to her parents and unknown grandparents of her future daughter Emma Duval in Lakewood
 * Kevin Duval is also born during 1978 or 1979, latest being 1977 to unknown grandparents of his future daughter Emma Duval
 * Miguel Acosta is also born during those same years as Maggie to his parents and unknown grandparents of his future son, Gustavo Acosta
 * Brandon James is born to Cassie and Adam James around the same time as Maggie and possibly early on into the 1980s, who is the father of his future illegitimate daughter with Maggie aka Daisy, Piper Shaw.
 * The future victims of Brandon James in the 1994 Lakewood Murders and class of either 1996 or 1997 (whether born in 1978-1979) are born in Lakewood to unknown parents which include: Dara Aldean, Brett Keener, Laura Cossey, Trent Price, and Mike Vinson.
 * Quinn Maddox is born during this time in the late 1970s to early 1980s to his parents and unnamed grandparents of his future daughter, Brooke Maddox
 * Sherry Elliot and Earl Elliot are born (theorized) to their parents and unknown grandparents of their future twin sons Deion and Marcus Elliot, sometime in the late 1970s to early 1980s in Atlanta.
 * Sheriff Carpenter (first name unknown) is born sometime in the late 1970s to 1980s to unknown parents (no relation to Carpenter family in film franchise)
 * Lorraine Brock is born to unnamed parents, who would grow up to become a state police detective before coming down to Lakewood in 2015.
 * Mike Newsome is born to unknown parents.

1980s (approx)

 * Officer Reynolds (first name unknown) born sometime in the 1980s to his parents and the unnamed grandparents of his future daughter, Liv Reynolds.
 * B. Westbrook is born to unnamed parents sometime in the late 1970s to 1980s in Atlanta
 * Mrs. Pell (first name unknown) is born to unnamed parents sometime in the late 1970s to 1980s
 * Tina Hudson is born sometime in the late 1970s to early 1980s (theorized) to her parents and unknown grandparents of her future son, Eli Hudson. She is also the aunt of her nephew and her only older brother Clark Hudson’s son, Kieran Wilcox.

Late 1980s-early 90s

 * Howard Jensen is born in Lakewood in the 1980s (theorized) to his parents and unknown grandparents of his future daughter, Audrey Jensen
 * The unnamed mother of Noah Foster is born (theorized) to her parents and Noah’s unnamed maternal grandparents.
 * Seth Branson is born to unknown parents.
 * Kristen Lang is born to unnamed parents
 * Clifton Roberts is born to unnamed parents.
 * Deputy Haverland is born to unknown parents.
 * Jeremy Blair is born to unknown parents.
 * Deputy Stevens is born to unknown parents.
 * Coach Griffin (first name unknown) is born to unnamed parents in Atlanta.

1984

 * Grindhouse Cafe is established and found in Lakewood.

1991-1992

 * Eddie Hayes is born to unknown parents in Lakewood (seeing as he was 24 at time of his death in Season 2, which took place in 2016, meaning his was born either in late 1991 to early 1992).

1993

 * Becky is born to unnamed parents in Atlanta (given the fact she states when asked by a prank caller posing as a local service provider with a seasonal provider who later uses the voice of Ghostface to ask the traditional “what’s your favorite scary movie?” question, he asks if she’s over 18 and she replies “barely” in the opening scene of the episode “The Deadfast Club”, which was a flashback to Halloween night 2010, means she was likely born in late 1992 to early 1993).

October (Unspecified Date)

 * Piper Shaw is conceived; by Daisy Anderson and Brandon James

Lakewood Murders 1994 begins

 * Brandon James goes to the Halloween Dance at George Washington High School to tell his friend and one-time lover Daisy Anderson that he doesn't believe her boyfriend Kevin Duval is good enough for her. A friend of Daisy's told Kevin this, which led to a confrontation that escalated.
 * James (allegedly) snapped during the ensuing fight, and went on a rampage that resulted in the deaths of five students: Dara Aldean, Brett Keener, Laura Cossey, Trent Price, Mike Vinson. Kevin Duval is savagely attacked, but survives the encounter.
 * Believing Brandon is innocent, Daisy arranges to meet him at the jetty on Wren Lake. The police corner him, and Brandon is shot, his body falling over the side and into the water. Later searches turn up nothing.
 * Maggie enlists the help of Miguel Acosta sometime the night Brandon was shot to move his body away

November - (Unspecified Timeframe)

 * Daisy Anderson's father arranges to keep his daughter's name out of the police records from the night of the murders, due to her being a minor. To escape the media buzz, the Anderson family moves away from Lakewood until things quiet down. In this time, Maggie discovers she is pregnant with Brandon's child.

July (Presumably)

 * Piper Shaw is born to Maggie Anderson. Piper is given up for adoption.

Unspecified date

 * Olivia Finley is born to unknown parents in New Hampshire.

Early Mid to Late 1990s (1990; 1996-1997)

 * Dwayne (first/last name unclear) is born to unnamed parents.
 * Billie Fields is born to unknown parents in Shallow Grove Island.
 * Tom Martin is born to unknown parents in an unknown state whose parents died in a murder case which he was discovered by police when he was 3 years old.
 * Jamal Elliot is conceived by Earl Elliot and unnamed mother and later born in Kentucky (based off dialogue).
 * Gina McLane is born to unknown parents in Lakewood.

Unspecified dates

 * Emma Duval is born to Maggie Anderson and Kevin Duval in late to mid early 1998 in Lakewood.
 * Theorized and unspecified DOB for the majority of characters of Season 1 such as: Noah Foster, Audrey Jensen, Will Belmont, Riley Marra, Jake Fitzgerald, Rachel Murray, Ava Miller, and Grayson Pfeiffer. All are supposedly born in Lakewood
 * Note: The latest each characters birthday could be is either in June-December 1998 in order to count as the George Washington High School or the class of 2017, in general.
 * Tyler O’Neill is born to unnamed parents and taken in by foster parents in Lakewood

September 8th

 * Kieran Wilcox is born to Clark Hudson and unnamed mother in Atlanta.
 * Decoy birthday only: January 28th (in order to be emancipated early on and become of legal age, (no obstacles, age wise ) to carry out completing the second Lakewood Murders initiated in September-October 2015, before reinitiating them after a 2 month hiatus, only from January-February 2016.)

Unspecified dates

 * Year of DOB for majority of characters introduced in Season 2 such as: Zoë Vaughn, Gustavo Acosta, Eli Hudson, and Haley Meyers. Also for other characters of the first two seasons overall. Eli is born in Atlanta while Gustavo was born in Phoenix, Arizona.
 * Nina Patterson is born to Tracy and Craig Patterson in Lakewood

March 28th

 * Brooke Maddox is born to Quinn Maddox and Monica Maddox in Lakewood.

November 4th

 * Avery Collins is born to unknown parents in Atlanta.
 * Continuity Error: Avery was 18 prior to his death, but his birthday confirms he was heading towards 19 (Similar to Tara from Scream (2022); See Continuity Errors), meaning the only reason he was perhaps a “super senior” or high school repeat age, given, is he should’ve graduated either with the Weaver High class of 2018, or the class of 2017 as a junior, retconned regardless, only other valid point being he was enrolled late into school, albeit unlikely.

2000

 * Shane is born to unknown parents whose mother or father is the child of his unnamed grandmother, likely in late 1999 to early or mid 2000, eeing as he is 18 in Season 3.
 * Continuity Error: For Shane to have been the Weaver High School class of 2019 (in general, regardless of his dropping out), his birthday can only be as late from June-October 31, 2000, and for the class of 2018, as early as August-December 1999 or either January-May 2000, and born earlier in 1999 for the class of 2017, the latter graduating class years of 2017-2018 refuted due to being stated to be 18 in Season 3)
 * Latavious is born to unnamed parents in Atlanta (theorized).

Unspecified dates

 * Year in which the majority of characters in Season 3 born in 2001 to 2002 which include: Kym, Liv Reynolds, Amir Ayoub, Manny, Hawkins, Tommy Jenkins, and Beth. Alicia Davis, Brad Ernsky, Darrin Grant, and Erin Mayfield are also born in Atlanta and for other characters from the past two seasons of the TV series.

2002

 * Twin brothers Marcus and Deion Elliot are born to Sherry and Earl Elliot in Atlanta, Georgia.
 * Continuity Error: Despite being born in 2002 and technically having been a junior during the 2018-2019 (and murders) school year and then later, a senior for the class of 2020, Marcus would graduate alongside the Weaver High class of 2019 at 16-17, perhaps due to being an early graduate/early enrolled by his parents, thus retconned (including his twin, Deion before his death as an 8 year old in 4th grade in 2010, as opposed to 3rd grade)

2003-2004

 * The future Lakewood Six and victims of the second Lakewood Murders all start either kindergarten or elementary school, as well as Kieran and Eli in Atlanta and Gustavo in Phoenix.
 * Piper is an orphan at Blessed Sisters Children’s Home and 8-9 years old.

2006

 * Maggie and Kevin divorce due to Kevin having physically assaulted Maggie during an argument. Kevin begins to move away from Lakewood. Emma is about 8 years old.
 * Lakewood and the Lakewood Carnival celebrate its 90th anniversary.
 * Blessed Sisters Children’s Home was rebranded as a group foster home but was mostly known for being an insane asylum. Piper was about 11 (“The Orphanage”).
 * Hawkins and The Deadfast Club (b. 2001) and also future victims, Tommy Jenkins, Avery Collins, and Shane (latter two started later so to be class of 2019), of the 2018 murders are in kindergarten or elementary school in Atlanta.

2007

 * Marcus and Deion Elliot supposedly start kindergarten or elementary school in Atlanta (albeit early, so a year prior back in 2006 to be class of 2019).
 * Kevin Duval officially leaves Lakewood. Emma is 9.

Early to Mid Late 2000s (2005; 2008-2009)

 * Clark Hudson and Lorraine Brock would meet as in-training law enforcement (perhaps in Atlanta, Georgia) and become briefly lovers and drug addicts together, who brought the best out of each other.
 * Kieran Wilcox steals a neighborhood dog and kills the animal and who defends and deflects by raising suspicion on his cousin, Eli Hudson, for his mischievous and evil deeds. Begins to have a contemptuous relationship with his father for his drug addiction, and other family issues as a kid.
 * In Phoenix, Arizona, a young kid at the time, Gustavo Acosta is pulled in a murder case where his childhood friend, Kyle, were playing with his dad, Miguel’s, gun when it went off and killed Kyle which would later cause him to have a obsessive fascination with morbidity and macabre, which he controlled by drawing as well having taken in the reality of what his dad Miguel goes through as a cop, who snoops through his dad’s police files, leading all the way into his adolescence.

October 31st (Halloween 2010)

 * This is the second Halloween event in the TV series timeline, and the first to be in Atlanta. It is preceded by the 1994 Halloween in Lakewood (the first Lakewood Murders), and which occurs almost 5 years prior to the 2015 Halloween (Second Lakewood Murders), before being succeeded by the 8 year anniversary for this Halloween by the College Park, Georgia murders in 2018, also near Atlanta.
 * (“The Deadfast Club”) A young woman, Becky, receives a phone call from a supposed local service provider with a seasonal survey for customers, only to change into the voice of Ghostface and asked the traditional “what’s your favorite scary movie?” question. She hangs up, afraid after seeing a figure around her window, and proceeds to answer the door to an 8-year old Marcus Elliot dressed as Ghostface who stabs her with his fake toy knife and proceeds to take a TWINS (parody of TWIX) candy bar before running off.
 * Marcus is walking and looking for his twin brother, Deion, when in an empty alleyway a young Tommy Jenkins pushes him down and steals his candy. His brother Deion, dressed as a football player, finds him standing over a wired fence where Tommy chucked his bag of candy over. Deion insists on going in but Marcus declines, saying that a scary figure also known as Hook Man lives there (who was told by Tommy). Deion denies it and fearlessly says “I got you” to his twin and in a flashback scene, it’s revealed that the twin brothers had both switched to each other’s costumes, with Marcus taking on Deion’s football gear and Deion wearing Marcus’s Ghostface costume. This was done in order to boost Marcus’s confidence up. The duo then proceed to enter the car dump where Hook Man lives to find and retrieve his candy, with Hook Man coming out and scratching the cars after hearing them come in. Marcus hides, shaking in breath after seeing and hearing Hook Man scratch his way, trying to see and hear them to find them.
 * Unfortunately, Deion finds the candy and calls out for his twin brother, unaware that Hook Man was walking around who after hearing and seeing him, attacks. Marcus takes off the football helmet and shakes his head signaling no but only to see Hook Man attack his twin brother and stands paralyzed in fear as Deion falls after being thrown by Hook Man, the bag of candies also being dropped all over the abandoned garage. He falls on the hood of a car and down to the pavement, trying to get up only to be stabbed by Hook Man’s hook lodging into the back of his head and into his forehead, with the hook pointing out in front, thus making him bleed and seriously injuring him. Marcus shakes and breathes heavily,oceeding to run. Deion would later escape Hook Man and hide into the back trunk of car and unfortunately starving and deprived of oxygen, as well as his head wound, would ultimately be the cause of his death.

April 30th-May 1st (approx.)

 * (“The Man Behind The Mask”) Flashback sequence only: About 6 months after Deion’s attack and the police’s quick closed investigation, and thus the Elliot family not gi any closure (as well as Marcus having unknown to anyone, except Jamal, to have taken over his presumably dead twin brother’s identity) leading to Deion’s disappearance at Hook Man’s junkyard. One night and six months later (unknown whether or not to the exact date of Halloween 2010), Luther was out in his yard notcicing weeds growing out of a car in the dump which he didn’t notice, which was emitting a foul smellom the trunk, which upon further investigation, and off-screen was the decomposing body of Deion, much to Luther’s shock. He gave the former twin boy an impromptu funeral by digging his grave near the car in which he died and putting a cross, which has guilt reddened the former Vietnam War vet who believed he had given him a chance to escape, but due to having attacked, wrongfully but truthfully caused his death.

Mid-2010s (2012-2013)

 * From 2012-2013, the future Lakewood Six (minus Kieran) and victims of the second Lakewood Murders, finish 8th grade at an unnamed middle school before all beginning their freshman year (aka 9th grade) of high school at George Washington High School in 2013-2014.
 * During their freshman year in 2013, Nina (before her death) dared Will to ask out Emma in a She’s all That-type and sleep with her in less than a month, which he agreed and took, according to Brooke, who resented not having told Emma sooner, as their friendship grew (“Exposed”).
 * Marcus, Hawkins, Shane, Avery, Tommy, Beth, Manny, Kym, Amir, Liv, Alisha, Brad, Darrin, and Erin from 2012-2013 were all in 6th grade before going into 7th grade later in 2013-2014 in an unnamed middle school in Atlanta.
 * Piper Shaw graduates from an unknown & unnamed high school supposedly in 2013 and turns 18 the same year in July. She becomes a writer, supposedly, in her interests before committing the murders.
 * Olivia Finley, a college student, sleeps with Seth Branson (formerly Palmer), a college professor, back in New Hampshire and whose wrongful death (either suicide or murdered) causes for Seth to change his last name and move to Lakewood to teach as an 11th grade English teacher (likely taught English in college as well).
 * New Hampshire is referenced and is the second time (and state) in the franchise that a location from the Eastern U.S Coast has been mentioned, the first being New York City (in the state of New York, which located above is New Hampshire)

Before October

 * The future Lakewood Six and victims of the second Lakewood murders finish their freshman year of high school and begin their sophomore year the same year before becoming juniors in the summer of 2015 a year later. Emma and Audrey drift apart during this time.
 * Marcus, the Deadfast Club, Hawkins, and the 3 future victims of the 2018 murders all start their final year (8th grade) of an unnamed middle school in Atlanta in the summer of 2014 before becoming freshmen at Weaver High School a year later in the summer of 2015.
 * Piper turns 19 in July and investigates about her past and which in turn leads her to Lakewood due to (at the time, a sophomore) Audrey Jensen meeting with her online to do a documentary about Brandon James (unbeknownst that it was Piper’s father), which is the defense and main incentive for Piper to premeditate her plans to start the second Lakewood Murders (continuation of the first), which Audrey indirectly caused and perpetrated, albeit unknown to her until Piper’s reveal and was taunted by Kieran for it. Kieran and Piper would meet eventually a year later, around the time before the murders, and become lovers and Kieran as Piper’s accomplice.

October 31 (Halloween 2014, approx.)

 * The 20th anniversary since the first Lakewood Murders committed by Brandon James (or someone in his mask)
 * 1:26 AM: At the Lakewood County Municipal Records office late one night, with one male officer on duty whose distracted reading an adult magazine from the computer monitor of the security surveillance, a disguised in black and supposedly hooded Piper Shaw breaks into and sneaks in past the officer to the evidence room where she gets in after an takes the box of evidence from the 1994 murders, taking police notes as well as the infamous Brandon James mask, which they wear as they look up into the camera before leaving, signaling the murders would restart a year from now. This incident was never reported by county evidence.
 * This statement is based off Piper’s final episode on her podcast in “The Dance”, which would also refer to the date the evidence went missing over a year ago on Halloween night 2014, supposedly, seeing as the podcast she makes is on October 31 or Halloween night, 2015.
 * Continuity Error: The time frame for which the break-in occurs doesn’t accurately match the date and time shown at the security guard’s desktop computer of the surveillance footage of Lakewood Municipal Records office, shown as being 7:43 PM on Monday, July 13, 2015, instead of 1:26 AM on Friday, October 31, 2014; a production error, seeing as if it were the latter, then Piper would’ve officially visited and come to Lakewood (3 months before the murders) the same year of her murder spree, in which case she then would’ve met with Audrey the summer before her junior year, thus retconned. This is due to the fact that Piper, guised as a man, using Kieran to walk in for her, visit and use the alias “Seth” (to frame Branson, thus why Cassie didn’t recognize Piper) visiting Piper’s grandmother, Cassie, just before to also learn about her father, albeit unstated which year, but more so, the year which the murders started, unbeknownst to everyone and who she later used Seth and his arrest as the killer to divert attention off her (failed, since Seth was cleared and her accomplice would be killed a year later)

Before October

 * The future Lakewood Six (later including Gustavo) and OG quartet of it which includes: Emma, Noah, Audrey, and Brooke (excluding Kieran) and other Lakewood soon-to-be-teen victims (Tyler, Nina, Rachel, Riley, Will, Grayson, Jake, Haley, and Zoë) graduate their sophomore year from George Washington High School (Rachel from all girls Catholic private high school, St. Mary’s). Gustavo, Eli, and Kieran pass their sophomore year from their respective high schools in Phoenix (Gustavo) and Atlanta (Kieran and Eli).
 * It’s noted that Tyler, Nina, Jake, Will, and Riley (Brooke to minor extend, due to her inappropriate relationship with Branson, but overall oblivious) knew of malware, especially Jake, Tyler, and Will who all did their shady business connected via Seth Branson’s school homework website app, excluding Riley (who was better friends with Emma and Zoë, despite her knowledge of her friends shady doings, which she overlooked).
 * Audrey, in her frustration from drifting apart from Emma, goes online and unknowingly brings 20 year old Piper Shaw to Lakewood (albeit Piper was always bound to commit the murders, whether or not Audrey hadn’t sent or written the letters) by sending her handwritten letters, venting herself and trying to understand and cope by researching about Brandon James and make a documentary about his up-bringing and Lakewood, not knowing she was talking to his daughter, taking place the summer before her junior year.
 * Shares only the ideas of this project and doesn’t mention Piper with her sidekick and friend, Noah, who helps by researching, as well as Audrey’s secret girlfriend, Rachel, who helps her directly by filming
 * Kieran and Eli both share their mischievous behavior trait and of sneaking around (more so Kieran than Eli, but regardless), although before leaving Atlanta to Lakewood, a then 16-17 year old Kieran becomes obsessed with a teenage girl, leading to him exposing her nude photos online and breaking into her bedroom. This led to a restraining order, which Kieran deflects and placed the blame on Eli for being the culprit, due to him also liking the same girl and convincing the girl’s mother it was Eli (“When a Stranger Calls”).
 * This led for Eli to resent Kieran and try to get back at him by going to Lakewood in October, but stopped himself as well as due to the 2015 murders taking place, which Kieran orchestrated with Piper, which like Audrey with her letters, was made to implicate him as a suspect.
 * It’s highly speculated that the girl mentioned from Atlanta could’ve perhaps been Liv Reynolds, due to the fact that a restraining order was filed (Liv’s father is Officer Reynolds, a cop) almost immediately and whose mother was then informed and misled by Kieran about it being Eli, which may have caused the fallout of Liv’s family (between her dad and mom), although it would contradict the storyline of Season 3 of Liv and her dad having moved into Atlanta during her senior year and her family issues, thus disproved and retconned (excluding Kym or Beth, although it could’ve been another girl that perhaps attended Weaver).
 * Quinn Maddox makes shady dealings as the Lakewood Mayor, with Jake Fitzgerald and Will Belmont for blackmail and money (Nina and Tyler to an extent) as well as the failed Wren Estate developments, whose going through strifes with his wife and his daughter, Brooke’s mother, Monica, over her addiction.
 * Brooke Maddox would later confront her father about this in Season 2.

June 22

 * An online article (such as a Web.MD one, spoof) titled “The Comorbidity of Insomnia and Paranoid Delusion” by Alicia Haverland is posted with 43 comments. Would write more news informational articles from the 2015 Lakewood Murders.
 * This is the article Emma Duval would read 4 months later following her boyfriend, Will Belmont’s, death.
 * The picture in the article shows a sleeping man with his eyes open, whose looks resemble that of Liev Schreiber, the actor who potrays Cotton Weary in the Scream trilogy.
 * Additionally, while it may be an Easter egg to a crew member (as well as character Deputy Haverland’s first name, who may or may not be the author of the articles), the name of the author is perhaps a nod to real actress Alicia Silverstone, who within the Scream franchise and in the Stab franchise, is confirmed to portray Tatum Riley (which was confirmed in the fifth movie).

August 17

 * 2:01 AM: Security footage of Quinn Maddox shows his shady dealings as he supposedly carrying a body bag (his wife Monica’s friend, who had died) to his car in his garage. Used to threaten him prior to the murders.

Week Ending August 22

 * Marcus, Liv, Amir, Kym, Hawkins, Manny, Beth, Shane, Tommy, and Avery all begin their freshman year (9th grade) of high school at Weaver High School as well as Alisha, Brad, Darin, and Erin.
 * Emma, Noah, Audrey, Jake, Brooke, Zoë, Will, Haley, Nina, Tyler, Riley, Grayson, and Ava all start their junior year of high school at George Washington High School, while Eli starts his junior year in an unnamed high school (possibly Weaver) in Atlanta while Gustavo starts his junior year in Phoenix in an unnamed high school.
 * Kieran Wilcox's mother and stepfather die in a car accident. Kieran opts to move in with his biological father, Clark Hudson, in Lakewood, to avoid being moved into foster care. He transfers to George Washington High School his junior year.
 * Kieran turns 17 years old about 2 weeks prior to the Lakewood Murders, whose 18th birthday is actually celebrated 4 months and 3 weeks later on January 28th, during his murder spree after Piper’s ended on Halloween night on October 31, 2015, due to the fact that he was new and nobody knew him (more less his birthday except his father, whom he killed).
 * (this can be a Continuity Error; the most logical explanation in-universe being how Kieran didn’t want anyone to know of his identity and switched his birthday, making it believable to anyone including his own cousin, Eli; that or in order for him to live freely, seeing as he was living emancipated shortly after his dad’s death and to also get away, theoretically, prior to getting caught and his reveal)

September 27-29

 * After a fight with his father, Kieran goes to a local bar where he meets classmate Nina Patterson. The two talk and Nina intends to sleep with him. Kieran offers to give Nina a ride home. Rachel Murray films them leaving the bar. They're filmed walking out by Rachel Murray. Being the gentlemen that he is, Kieran drops Nina off, rejecting her sexual advances due to her being drunk.

September 28
'''Dating Information: Brooke says later in the pilot that Nina died on Monday night. In "Betrayed", Lorraine Brock says Nina died on September 30. However, the show's timeline is more in line with the fact that Nina died on Monday the 28, as otherwise the days of the week don't line up with the events in the show. Lorraine's statement is the continuity error.'''
 * While goofing off in the parking lot at George Washington High School, Nina Patterson, Emma Duval, Brooke Maddox and Riley Marra (alongside using Tyler O'Neill’s camera) film Audrey Jensen and Rachel Murray making out in the backseat of Audrey's truck. The girls agreed to dispose of the video afterward, but Nina had other intentions.
 * At some point this evening, Nina slept with Will Belmont, who was then picked up by his friend Jake Fitzgerald.
 * Nina convinces her ex-boyfriend Tyler O'Neill to post the video on Youtube. It goes viral, traumatizing Rachel. Audrey took Rachel out for a drive to comfort her, but had a meltdown and swore to get revenge on Nina, who she knew at once must be responsible. To calm her down, Rachel filmed Audrey so she could see how she was reacting.
 * Tyler drives Nina back home and hints that he wouldn't mind going inside, but Nina refuses him. Shortly after she enters the house, Tyler is decapitated by either Piper Shaw or Audrey Jensen, who then steal his phone.
 * Posing as Tyler, the killer sends Nina a series of messages, convincing her he is in her house, watching her. Nina brushes this off, and goes out to the hot tub, where Tyler's severed head is thrown into the water. Nina screams and scrambles out of the hot tub.
 * 10:58 PM-11:02 PM: As she runs in panic and hiding behind a tree, she makes a fail attempt to call 9-1-1 by using Siri. Nina is slashed horizontally across the back by one of the killers. As she attempts to run away, she falls and starts crawling away. The killer follows her toward the poolside but grabs her and lifts her up. After begging for her life, Nina's neck is sliced wide open. Her body is thrown into the swimming pool, where the blood drains from Nina's body which causes her death. The killer stares at Nina’s phone as she gets a call from her mother.
 * After the murder, the killer makes a GIF, standing in front of Nina's body in the pool. Tyler's phone and Camaro are removed from the scene, along with his remains.
 * The second Lakewood Murders are officially reinstated and would be committed up until the 21st anniversary and showdown of Halloween 2015, to the exact date since the first one back in 1994.

September 29

 * The video is flagged for content and taken off Youtube.
 * Nina's parents return home and follow a trail of blood to the pooldeck where they discover their daughter's body.
 * Principal Showalter institutes mandatory grief counseling for the entire student body.

September 30

 * Sheriff Clark Hudson gives a public address on the subject of Nina's murder, citing Tyler as the main person of interest, as a neighbor saw Tyler's Camaro parked in front of the Patterson house that night, and the presence of Tyler's fingerprints on a glass in the kitchen.
 * Brooke Maddox plans a 'prayer vigil' for Nina at her house, open for all to attend. In an attempt to patch things up with her old friend, Emma invites Audrey.
 * Will corners Jake in woodshop and tells him to destroy any remaining evidence of the blackmail operation they had been involved in with Tyler and Nina, before the police can find it.
 * Seth Branson tells Brooke that, due to the police investigation, they should end their affair. Brooke ignores him.
 * A package addressed to 'Daisy' containing a pig's heart is delivered, presumably by Piper Shaw, to the Duval's front doorstep. Emma leaves it with her mother, who opens it to find the grisly contents.
 * Audrey brings Noah Foster to Brooke's party. Brooke, for her part, invited transfer student Kieran Wilcox, who she finds attractive.
 * Maggie calls Clark to her house to investigate the pig's heart. She confesses to him that she was Brandon James's 'Daisy'. Clark suspects Maggie's ex-husband Kevin, but Maggie doesn't believe it possible. Maggie tells Clark she believes history is repeating itself.
 * While drinking at her party, Brooke casually reveals that Will has slept with Nina in the past. Emma storms off, realizing that he may have been with Nina as recently as the night of her death. Will claims he only slept with Nina once when he and Emma were on a break.
 * While investigating flickering lights in her garage, Brooke is cornered by Will, who threatens to 'break' her if she ever makes trouble for him and Emma again.
 * Emma and Kieran confide in each other in the greenhouse. It ends with Emma drunkenly kissing Kieran.
 * Noah passes out drunk and, as part of a 'Wren Lake tradition', is placed on a raft and let out into the water by Jake and a few other jocks. He comes to and tries swimming for shore, but his ankle is caught in a length of fishing line. Kieran rescues him, however, bringing him to dry land.
 * After seeing Noah home, Audrey visits Rachel at her house. Knowing that Rachel is deeply effected by the remarks of those who've seen the video, Audrey tells Rachel she';s beautiful, and films her. They are watched by a figure in a Brandon James mask, most likely Piper Shaw.

October 1

 * Piper Shaw makes her first Autopsy of a Crime podcast covering Nina's murder investigation, the manhunt for Tyler, and the echoes of Brandon James' legacy rippling throughout the town.
 * Clark asks Noah to meet with him at the station the following morning, before school, to answer some questions. Noah assumes the Sheriff isn't convinced Tyler is the murderer, and might have some interest in Noah due to his Brandon James fixation.
 * Emma visits Audrey after school and confesses that she was there the day Nina filmed that video. Audrey reacts harshly, accusing Emma of only trying to be nice to her recently because of guilt.
 * As Emma walks down the street from Audrey's house, she receives a phone call from either Audrey or Piper Shaw, where a muffled voice tells her that 'they' intend to get to the truth beneath the 'perfect lives' of Emma and her friends.
 * Noah spray paints 'DOOSH' on Jake's truck, in revenge for the events at Brooke's party. He misspells the word purposefully, to deflect suspicion.
 * Rachel Murray receives a phone call from Audrey's phone, though it is Kieran Wlcox using a voice changer. 'Audrey' purports to be already at the house, luring Rachel out to their spot on the balcony, where a noose has been placed over the railing. When Rachel goes to investigate, she is grabbed by the killer (Kieran) and hanged. It's been confirmed that Kieran Wilcox was Rachel's killer since Audrey was with Piper the night of Rachel's murder.
 * Following the murder, the killer moves Rachel's body into her room and hangs her from the ceiling fan, so she will appear to have killed herself.

October 2

 * Brooke apologies for not telling Emma about Nina and Will's tryst sooner, saying she feared Nina would 'terrorize' her if she said anything. Emma asks Brooke and Riley is they've gotten any odd phone calls, mentioning the call she got yesterday. Riley dismisses it as a prank on Jake's part.
 * In his meeting with Clark, Noah explains the origins of his Brandon James interest coming from a 7th grade report on the nature vs. nurture debate, where Brandon seemed like the perfect subject. He tells Clark that he exchanged emails with Brandon's brother Troy, and attempted to figure out the identity of 'Daisy', to no avail. When Clark asks about Kevin Duval, Noah says he never attempted to contact him, due to potential awkwardness between him and Emma.
 * Kieran goes to the station to collect a house key from Clark. Due to accidental prompting from Noah, Kieran explains the circumstances of his rescue of Noah at Brooke's party. When Clark asks Kieran to name the jocks responsible, Kieran refuses, not wanting to be a snitch.
 * Will gives a hungover Jake a ride to school. Jake tells Will that if he's sincere about getting back together with Emma, he should explain Nina's sexual ruthlessness, and attempt to charm her over. Will asks again if Jake has erased the videos from the blackmail operation, and Jake lies, saying he has.
 * Piper Shaw questions students anf faculty at a memorial to Nina set up on a fence outside the school. She approaches Noah and Audrey, asking for interviews. Piper remarks that she recognizes Audrey, but Audrey brushes it off as Piper having seen the video. Audrey says that Nina was a bitch who got what she deserved, but Noah insists Piper not quote that.
 * Before Noah can give Piper his own opinion on the murder, Jake attacks him, having discovered the graffiti on his truck, and knowing Noah to be the culprit. Piper films the confrontation on her phone.
 * Will approaches Emma at her locker, and tells her he thinks Nina only came onto him because she felt threatened by Emma. Emma doesn't buy it. Kiran approaches, claiming he has the locker next to Emma's, though it's a lie to get Will away from Emma. Emma tries to explain to Kieran that the kiss in the greenhouse was a one-time thing because she was upset.
 * Emma again tries to talk to Audrey about the video, but Audrey doesn't want to hear her, saying Rachel can't move on from the video, and can't brush off people's cruelty the way she can.
 * Piper Shaw sends the GIF from the night of Nina's murder (superimposed with the caption 'PAYBACK'S A BITCH') to the entire GW High student body, using malware that Tyler had covertly installed on the laptop of Seth Branson, at Nina's insistence. The GIF creates a stir throughout the town.
 * The Sheriff's Station hotline is lit-up with Brandon James wannabes. Clark has deputies run background checks on each one, but none seem legitimate. Clark also pulls the Brandon James case files, in an attempt to find a correlation between the events of 1994 and the ongoing case.
 * Clark assigns a tech team to attempt to trace the origins of the GIF.
 * Mayor Quinn Maddox urges Clark to find and capture Tyler as fast as possible, but Clark still isn't entirely sure Tyler could be the murderer.
 * Rachel's mother finds her hanging from her ceiling fan, and calls the death in to the police.
 * During Mr. Branson's class, a friend of Riley's who goes to St. Mary's texts her, telling her about the death of one of her classmates. Fearing the worst, Audrey excuses herself from the room and calls Rachel. Mrs. Murray picks up, and tells her that Rachel has committed suicide.
 * Riley and Brooke urge Emma not to blame herself for Rachel's suicide, just because of the video. Emma insists that she let Nina make the video, and walks off to have some space.
 * Emma meets Piper Shaw while working her after school job as a barista at the Grind House coffeehouse. Piper recognizes her at once, claiming she was doing research on the Brandon James murders for her podcast. Piper mentions Kevin, but Emma is unwilling to talk about it. Piper agrees to respect Emma's privacy.
 * While taking out the garbage after work, Emma is accidentally locked in the back alley. She is frightened by a hooded figure in the road (possibly a homeless man), and seizes a 2x4, running off into the main road. Startled, she almost hits Will over the head.
 * Inside the Grind House, Will says that Emma texted him to meet her, showing her the text as proof. Emma says she never texted him. Will again tries to apologize for what happened with Nina, maintaining it was just once. Emma mentions her kiss with Kieran, which instantly puts Will on edge. Will asks her to go to his game tomorrow, saying he's under a lot of pressure from his father to impress a scout from Duke.
 * Emma brings Maggie coffee at the morgue, while Maggie is examining Rachel's body. Emma tearfully confesses her part in the video, hurrying off in shame.
 * Audrey makes a tribute video for Rachel, putting it on Youtube.
 * Maggie tells Clark that Rachel's neck snapped, meaning she must have fallen from higher than where they found her. Clark suggests the possibility of murder, and Maggie agrees. She tells Clark about Emma's confession, saying she'd rather Rachel have been killed, as then Emma wouldn't need to feel as much to blame.

October 3

 * Emma and Brooke are in the audience at the basketball game between the Lakewood Lancers and the Stanton Bulldogs.
 * Audrey agrees to film the game highlights while Noah meets with Riley for a date ion the football field.
 * Quinn gives an address before the game, on the deaths of Nina and Rachel, calling for a moment of silence.
 * Noah and Riley have a picnic on the football field.
 * Brooke and Branson run into each other at the snack stand. Branson tells Brooke he is no longer able to wait for her, and Brooke gets him to concede for a tryst later.
 * Kieran approaches Emma in the stands. Emma describes the incident at the Grind House, and Kieran suspects Will; may have staged the whole situation to meet with Emma. Since the text was likely sent by Piper as a manipulation, the theory is most probably untrue.
 * Will scores the winning shot for the Lancers, and kisses Emma, though she is not entirely willing. The action may have been just to spite the nearby Kieran.
 * Emma tells Audrey that she takes full responsible for being an inciting factor in Rachel's suicide.
 * While Emma is alone at home, the security alarm for the kitchen door goes off. Emma goes to investigate, but finds nobody. She receives a call from either Piper or Audrey (in this case, likely Piper), claiming to be somebody from GTT Security. The voice tries to calm Emma down, while Emma arms herself with a baseball bat. When Emma becomes suspicious and locks the window, the voice reveals that 'he' may be inside the house. The voice tells her that he is going to uncover the truth about Emma, and all her friends and family, who he calls liars.
 * This scene is an homage to the film franchise, as well as more recently both killers using the guise of their identities to hack into each female protagonists home (Tara in Scream (2022))

October 4

 * Noah submits to an interview with Piper Shaw, saying he believes the killer, Tyler or other, is intent on striking again.
 * Unknowingly he was talking to the killer herself.
 * Emma overhears Clark and Maggie in the morgue, discussing the final autopsy, which proves Rachel was moved to the ceiling fan, and therefore murdered. Clark knows Rachel has her wake today, and decides to give the family time to mourn before opening the murder investigation. Maggie also mentions the pig heart, and Clark says he still can't find any leads on Kevin. Maggie says she hasn't told Emma yet, not wanting to raise uncomfortable questions about her past.
 * As Emma reels from this, she gets a text, ostensibly from Piper, asking if she and her mother have had a 'heart to heart' yet.
 * Brooke and Branson arrange a 'sex' session over Skype, as Branson is still unwilling to have actual sex while Nina's investigation commences. Brooke holds her end of the session in her mother's standing hotel room in town. She tells Branson that she's hidden a picture of herself in his class, as a sort of game.
 * Jake digs up the footlocker where the money from the blackmail operation was kept, finding it empty.
 * At Rachel's wake, a suspicious Audrey attempts to 'test' hanging from the ceiling fan, to see if it's even possible. It is evident at this point, she begins to suspect foul play in Rachel's death. Emma catches her, telling her about what Maggie and Clark discovered, proving the point. Audrey coaxes more of the story from Emma, regarding the phone calls she's been getting. It is likely she already knew Piper had something to do with Rachel's death, and wanted to persuade Emma to tell he things she may already have known.
 * Jake encounters Will at his family farm, telling him he believes Tyler took the blackmail money and ran off with it. Will says that's not the case, and that he took it himself, as he knows Jake hasn't shut down the operation. Will believes he has too much to lose keeping the blackmail going, and tells Jake to shut the operation down if he wants to see the money.
 * Audrey goes with Emma to the Grind House, where Emma explains the details of the calls she's been receiving. Audrey suggests responding to the killer's DM, to figure out what he wants. Emma does so, saying she knows Rachel was murdered.

October 5

 * Will approaches Emma at school and returns his iPod, which he found in his truck, largely as an excuse to talk to her. Emma accepts it, with some wistfulness. Kieran observes this all, from his locker.
 * During class, Branson finds the photo Brooke hid in his room during class. He splits the class up into groups of two to reenact scenes from various pop culture. Emma and Kieran, he assigns books, Will and Audrey get movies, Noah and Riley get TV and Brooke and Jake get popular fiction.
 * While planning their scene, Kieran lets slip that Clark has been poring over the Brandon James case files. Sensing Emma's interest, he decides to bring the files to her that night.
 * To make up for not calling Riley since Saturday, Noah promises to give her a good time.
 * Kieran delivers the files to Emma's house that night. Clark calls Kieran, and he hastily begins clearing away, revealing in passing that he was arrested at some point in his past. He doesn't tell Emma why, and seizes ypon a loose file, where he recognizes Emma's father's name. From this, Emma realizes that Maggie, Kevin's girlfriend at the time, was Daisy.

October 6

 * After school, Emma flat-out asks Maggie why she never told her about her part in the Brandon James murders, saying that whoever is harassing her is probably after Maggie too. Maggie claims she withheld this information to protect Emma, but Emma doesn't believe her
 * Noah brings Riley to the Nightmare Level video game store where he works, where he's arranged a date. Riley is taken with him, and they make out.
 * Piper, as the Voice, calls Emma, saying she'll answer Emma's questions when she's ready, threatening to kill Maggie if Emma goes to the police. Emma says she's finished with these games, and hangs up. In response, Piper DMs Emma, telling her she'll find someone else to play with.
 * As Noah and Riley get more intimate, Riley receives a text from Tyler's phone, begging for help. Brook apparently receives a similar text, but responds, telling Tyler to just turn himself in.
 * Riley, Brooke, Emma, Will and Jake convene at the Grind House to discuss the Tyler situation. Emma suggests that Tyler didn't text them, but it's the same person who's been harassing her. Riley isn't so sure, and refuses to go to the police, not wanting him to end up dead like Brandon James. The others outvote her, and the girls go to the police.
 * To assuage Will's fears about Tyler giving them up to the police, Jake suggests they arrange a meeting with Tyler to give him to money and keep him quiet.
 * At the police station, Clark verifies that the texts were sent from Tyler's phone. He asks Riley to ask Tyler to meet at the park on Route 9, for a sting operation, as Tyler is most likely to trust her.
 * Jake and Will meet in the woods. Will figures out that Jake never contacted Tyler, and wants to collect the money for himself. They part, tensely.
 * Clark and a team of men gather around the park for the sting. A cop, posing as Riley, meets at the rendezvous, but finds nobody. In the parking lot, a car pulls up.
 * Brooke receives a text from an unknown number, purporting to be Branson, telling her to meet at hr mother's room at the hotel. She agrees.
 * The police jump the driver at the park. The man turns out to have been hied by somebody online, and told to give the cops a piece of paper, on which there is a sketch of a Brandon James mask and a caption 'Got Ya!'.
 * Maggie tells Emma and Riley that Tyler set the cops up. Emma notices Brooke is gone, and panics.
 * Emma and Maggie drive around town, looking for Brooke. While Maggie calls Clark, Emma DMs the Lakewood Slasher, who tells her that she must choose who to save, the good gil, or the bad. Emma calls Riley to make sure she's safe at the police station. Sure of Riley's safety, she tells the Lakewood Slasher not to harm Brooke, and the Lakewood Slasher agrees.
 * Riley receives a text from Tyler's phone, asking her why she sent the cops. Riley tells him she trusts him, and arranges to meet in the parking lot.
 * In the parking lot, Riley sees Tyler's Camaro and approaches it. She texts Tyler, wondering where he is, and is jumped by the Lakewood Slasher (in this case, either Piper or Audrey), swats her across the face, chasing her into an alley alongside the station.
 * Desperate, Riley climbs the fire escape ladder to the roof. The Lakewood Slasher slashes open her lower back twice and leg, leaving her to bleed out on the skylight of the station.
 * Still at Nightmare Level, Noah FaceTimes Riley to see how she is. Sobbing, Riley tells him Tyler stabbed her but slowly died from massive blood loss.
 * Brooke figures Branson is never going to show up, and checks her phone, seeing that Emma has been calling her all night.
 * Emma, Maggie and Clark return to the Sheriff's station as Brooke calls Emma. Maggie tells them that Riley is gone, and says Clark and several men are pursuing Tyler's car. Emma dials Riley's number, and realizes her friend is dead right above them.
 * Tyler's car crashes through construction on Kincaid Bridge, and explodes as Clark and his team rush to approach it. Tyler's headless body was in the car, intended to be found by the police, so the murderer would be assumed dead. The diver, likely, Piper, bailed out before the police could arrive.
 * Noah and Audrey arrive at the police station in time to see Riley's body being borne out on a stretcher.
 * Emma pursues Clark and Maggie to the scene o f the crash. Clark tells her that the driver of the Camaro was decapitated just as a deputy uncovers a burned Brandon James mask from the wreck.

October 7

 * Piper Shaw releases on Autopsy of a Crime podcast discussing the murder of Riley Marra, which has hit her particularly hard.
 * School is cancelled for the day in the wake of Riley's murder. Mayor Maddox holds a town hall meeting to discuss the presumed end of Lakewood's murder spree.
 * The town hall meeting begins at 11:30 AM, according to the clock above the town hall doors.
 * Mayor Maddox introduces Clark to speak at the pedestal. Clark explains that Tyler attacked Riley and fled the scene. It is assumed that Tyler also killed Nina, due to the scorched mask found in the car wreck.
 * After the town hall,Audrey corners Clark, asking if Clark believes Tyler also killed Rachel, something Clark isn't willing to discuss, as the investigation has only just been opened. Emma assures Audrey that they will get to the bottom of what happened to Rachel, whether the killer is dead or not.
 * Maggie tells Clark that she isn't sure whether the body they found is Tyler's, as fingerprints are burnt off. Clark suggests dental records, but Maggie says they haven't been able to find Tyler's head.


 * Will visits to Emma at the Grind House to see how she's doing. He comforts her in her grief.
 * A Twitter poll is run, in which participants can vote over which of the two remaining members of Nina's clique should die next. Brooke leads overwhelmingly, a fact which greatly unnerves her.
 * Piper orders a drink at the Grind House, telling Emma she believes Clark is being scapegoated by the media. She heavily implied that she doesn't believe Tyler was the murderer, and there may be more than one scapegoat, possibly hinting at Maggie.
 * Emma returns home to find a package addressed to her on the doorstep. It is the 1994 GW yearbook. The photos of Brandon James' five victims have been cut out, and Kevin's face has been scratched over with pen. Next to his face, there is a message in red ink, 'THE TRUTH LIES WHERE THE MASK WAS MADE'.
 * Emma brings the yearbook to Noah and Audrey at Nightmare Level, hoping Noah may have some answers. Noah explains that the masks were surgical masks developed at Lakewood General, a closed down hospital off the turnpike. Not wanting to involve Noah in any danger, Emma says she doesn't want to go, but Audrey sees through the facade, and insists on accompanying her.
 * The Marra family makes a motion to file a civil suit against the sheriff's department, citing negligence on Clark's part. Maggie assures Clark that she will try to smooth the situation over.
 * Will tells Jake that he's gotten into Duke, but hasn't been rewarded a scholarship, meaning he'll likely be unable to go, as his father refuses to cosign for student loans. Jake suggests they revive the blackmail operation to supply money for Wills's tuition. Jake reveals he has kept amn alternate copy of the video the entire time, and they have nothing to lose.
 * Emma and Audrey break into Laked General. Audrey arms mma with a stun-gun given her by her father, and carries a crowbar to defend herself.
 * Audrey drops an explicit hint that a woman may be Emma's stalker, even showing off the voice app on her phone as evidence that any woman could have placed those phonecalls.
 * Emma and Audrey follow a trail of blood (or, possibly, red paint) to the hospital's O.R entrance, on which a Brandon James mask has been painted in red; leading into a grotesquely elaborate lair.
 * Will Belmont is captured and brought to the Bowling Alley/later killed after somewhere outside of his house. (accidentally; head sliced though his brain, bisected in half due to Emma setting of a trap unbeknownst to her)

October 15

 * Emma’s sex tape with Will gets leaked on accident by Noah after the killer hacked him.
 * Brooke reveals to Emma about the dare and her and Will’s false relationship, also due to Nina.
 * Jake and Will get in a fight before due to having tried to get Quinn Maddox to pay them $100,000

October (unspecified date)

 * Emma researches info while at the hospital and shares a moment with her mother later at night before, earlier having shared one with Piper in the morning
 * This faux hospital visit is reminiscent to the visit of Mickey Altieri visiting Sidney and Derek in the hospital after having attacked Derek the night before in Scream 2, which is used later again in Scream 4 inversely, seeing when Sidney visits her cousin, Jill, after her arm was slashed (just like Derek, albeit Jill was a killer) and in the finale of that movie, is reversed when Jill was hospitalized and revealed of Sidney’s survival as she heads off after revealing herself as the killer before to finish her off, which she fails.
 * Later would be used by her accomplice Kieran Wilcox visiting his surviving victims Kristen, Brooke, and Noah in the hospital in Season 2 as well as Beth visiting Liv (failed potential victim), who’s staying with her attacked dad Officer Reynolds (albeit not Beth’s victim, yet aside, who would then later kill Liv’s security detail and police officer B. Westbrook in the same hospital in private in Season 3 (reverse of Jill failing to kill Judy Hicks in the hospital), which is very similar to Amber killing Deputy Clay in the empty hospital in Scream (2022), the most recent albeit each different. Amber and Richie both visited Tara in the hospital after attacking her and prior to their reveals and setting up a decoy in the same hospital, where Amber would kill the police officer left to guard Tara.
 * In-universe for 2021, it’s about 23 years after Mickey’s visit in 1998, 10 years after Jill’s in 2011, 6 years after Piper’s in 2015, 5 years after Kieran’s in 2016, and 3 years after Beth’s in 2018).
 * Piper is the third killer in the franchise to visit their targets, pre-reveal, in the hospital, preceded by Mickey and Jill in the films and currently succeeded by Kieran, Beth, Amber and Richie, the first two from the TV series and the latter duo from the films.
 * Noah and Audrey are led in information at school by Clark Hudson, whose investigating Seth’s classroom after school
 * Brooke is slashed in the arm by the killer after trying to hook up with Seth Branson after school in the empty auditorium alone, wearing only her bikini, who immediately suspects Seth after he comes to find her.
 * Seth Branson is accused of being the killer and jailed after trying to aide Brooke, as well as interrogated by Sheriff Hudson.

October 31 (Halloween 2015)

 * Clark Hudson finds the Killers suspected hideout/and is later caught by the killer in his home. (Later killed; guts ripped from inside body)
 * The Dance happens at the school/is interrupted by the killer.
 * Seth escapes jail, claimed to have been freed by killer and Deputy Roberts is murdered. (stabbed and chained to cell).
 * Grayson is killed inside the outside bathroom (throat sliced), who is found by Ava Miller, who along with the other partygoers after finding him, leave Brooke’s party who was inside getting wine from the cellar.
 * This is an inverse homage to Tatum Riley’s death from the original Scream, as well as the party scenes in both. (Brooke is almost killed after being trapped in a freezer, similarly to Tatum’s death after being stuck in the garage door).
 * Audrey is found by the killer and sliced on shoulder and briefly knocked out. (left alive)
 * Piper Shaw reveals herself as the infamous Brandon James' daughter. She attempts to kill Emma and her mother, Daisy, only to be shot by Audrey then shot again by Emma. (Piper dies)
 * Audrey burns her "link" to Piper Shaw (copies of her handwritten letters and envelopes to Piper would be used later in Season 2).
 * Sometime after, Noah starts his own podcast following the reveal of Piper and the Lakewood Murders as well as her formerly own Autopsy of a Crime (which was sort of a premeditated record of her real murders), titled (or re-titled) “The Morgue”, in which he also honors his former and late love interest, Riley Marra, and interviews the first five survivors: himself as the host, Audrey, Jake, Brooke, and Jake
 * Excluding Kieran, who would later be revealed to be the second accomplice of Piper and continuing the Lakewood Murders after a 2 month break until Emma’s return from retreating Lakewood, which was one of Noah’s running theories following the Season 1 finale “Revelations”.

January 24-25

 * Three months have passed since Piper’s death and reveal as the killer, as well as the second Lakewood Murders (first being in 1994).
 * 9:00 PM: Just before Emma’s return and on the night of her welcome home party, Audrey is working and closing her late night shift as the only movie theatre usher/concession worker at Zenith Theater (which is screening a parody slasher movie which was released about 3 months after and supposedly, can be inferred to being about the Lakewood Murders, starring Lele Pons in the film within the show as a “dumb blonde” being killed by her friend, Becca, out of costume: a reference to Stab 7) when Audrey then gets sent text messages from the killer, which she believes as someone trying to scare her, who calls and asks Noah if he sent her the “creepy texts”, which he denies as not him, who nods it off. Noah tells her he’ll pass by to pick her up after work to head for the party, which Audrey agrees with, and who then asks her if it’s a good idea to interview Emma for his podcast the night of her welcome party, which she denies, telling him to not interview her or talk to her about the incident, which confuses Noah, who asks her if whether the incident about the murders or the fallout of Emma at school after. Audrey tells him neither and Noah agrees and tells her he’s on his way.
 * Audrey then ushers everyone out of the theatre before locking it and who then goes back inside, placing the keys on the counter, as she gets to pulling a mop cart to begin cleaning up, only to be run into by Haley Meyers, who unbeknownst to her, is doing a prank. She scares Audrey slightly, who she believed had kicked everyone out as Haley entices her, acknowledging Audrey and saying she’s a fan of her shooting Piper, as Audrey denies, and who faux introduces herself as going to the same school with her before asking to get a pic, saying it’s lame but how she really impresses her and how she hates everyone, which Audrey agrees to as Haley takes the pic with her phone reversed (not using the phone screen camera facing them), which as she takes it shows the Lakewood Slasher pass by the counter. Haley takes the pic before Audrey then goes to get the front keys, before she finds them gone, until Audrey states that she can’t find them and tells Haley she’ll walk her out back. They walk through the fully lit movie theatre auditorium. Haley then begins talking to Audrey about it being crazy how nobody suspected Piper as Audrey reluctantly agrees before Haley walks forward before the lights are turned off, which causes Audrey to turn back and call out, asking who did that. Audrey tells Haley that it was probably some moron who snuck in, before turning and seeing Haley gone and hearing the back door supposedly open and Haley leaving.
 * This distracts Audrey before a cartoon begins playing at the theatre from the projector, for a commercial for the theatre about the lobby, showing animated dancing snacks. It plays sinisterly before Audrey then tries to look into the projector booth, and angrily yells at the “idiot” to get out, saying the theatre’s closed. Audrey begins to walk away, before she sees the Lakewood Slasher with a knife from the lobby facing her. Panicking, she begins to run up the aisle, leaving the room and running towards the front lobby to frantically find the keys, looking through the boxes of candy on display at the concession stands as she does. She looks up to see the killer, standing in front of her on the other side of the desk, jingling Audrey’s missing keys and showing a streaming camera on their chest, which is red, signifying it’s live streaming and recording.
 * Audrey notices this who runs back into the theatre, knocking boxes and items towards the killer’s monitor/POV as it does, having 48 viewers watching. Audrey returns back into the same auditorium she was in, still playing the cartoon on the projector. She goes back into the lobby only to ruja into Haley, who acts scared telling Audrey they need to get out before the killer supposedly runs towards Haley and stabs her repeatedly in the gut before Audrey stands back and sees and hears Noah, who she sees as he screams, whose seeing what’s happening on the other side outside on the front and pounds his hands on the door and yells Audrey’s name. The killer after stabbing Haley, turns around only for Audrey to quickly blind him with the fire extinguisher, which she does as she runs while Noah continues to scream for her and pulls his phone to call the police. Audrey then quickly breaks open a glass shelf case of movie theatre prizes and takes out an ice pick before turning around to stab the killer behind her, getting him in the gut, giving him a small puncture wound by the strap where the camera was held. Haley’s friend, Aaron, then unmasks himself and is taken aback by Audrey having stabbed him as Haley then gets off the floor, revealing it a prank to Audrey, whose taken aback by what she’s done as Noah looks on from outside.
 * The new sheriff, Miguel Acosta, arrives and reveals to Noah and Audrey that their prankster will be fine, stating that their done, much to Haley’s anger about Audrey’s “license to kill”, as she begins going off about Acosta, which the sheriff retracts her from, stating how he’s from Lakewood himself originally, as Haley states how if that’s true he should know if someone gets stabbed, they get arrested, which Noah claims is not true as Audrey points out her and Aaron both attacked her. Haley frustratingly claims it was a joke, which Noah refers to less of a crime but more of a “Tosh.0 clip”, which the sheriff agrees with referring to it as “goofball assault” versus a desperate act of self-defense, citing he’s with Audrey and Noah, how they win and pointing out to Haley how she was live streaming meaning Audrey has evidence to win a civil suit against her if she wishes to and gives Haley advice to walk away unless she wants that as Haley does sassily. Noah and Audrey then leave and arrive to Kieran’s house with beer for the party. Brooke and Jake are shown to be there early, with Brooke decorating and spelling out the words “Welcome Home Emma” in red icing on a white cake with colored sprinkles on the side, as well as with Brooke and Audrey both warning Jake not to say a word to Emma about Audrey’s incident, which he refers to as Audrey having broken the internet again and Noah saying he’s brought their “Internet hero”.
 * Haley’s prank occurs prior to Jake’s murder or hers at Emma’s party that Haley throws under her and Audrey’s names later on February 2 at the abandoned Blessed Sisters Children’s Home, which was Piper Shaw’s and Kristen Lang’s former orphanage. However, it’s currently unknown if this was a ploy, seeing as Haley was revealed to have worked with Kieran, the second killer, although Haley herself didn’t kill anyone. This probably suggests why Haley had a friend, Aaron, recording it in order to further scare Audrey (or in case Haley needed to sell him out, although unlikely) and for Kieran to get a layout of the the theatre himself, who would use it later in the Season 2 finale to creep before attacking Brooke. This is because it’s revealed in the premiere, after Noah and Audrey leave to his house after Emma’s party, that Haley and Aaron met and were backed up by “internet trolls” on the comment section of his podcast “The Morgue” online. This is a clue, albeit unknown, as Noah states how the instigator behind Audrey’s prank attack never showed up (due to it being Kieran, unbeknownst to them until the finale, who perhaps used a fake username to do this instead, thus perhaps being him who did this just before continuing to finish the Lakewood Murders after the break and Emma’s return).
 * Jake’s statement of Audrey breaking the Internet refers to her being outed for making out with Rachel in “Pilot”, which blew up on the app “Chipster” as well as YouTube prior to Nina and Tyler’s murders, who had recorded and posted the video, which is reversed for Jake about four months later whose killed not long after stating this in an inverse to Tyler and Nina’s deaths, as the killer taunts him by giving him the first clue with flash cards for words pinned on a baseball bat near the door of the barn where he’s locked in reading “see what you can do with this boy, interrupted” (seeing as he is the only character (male), making him the first in the history of the Scream franchise to be killed off in the opening without a partner)
 * Audrey’s attack in the opening at the movie theatre is an homage overall to Scream 2. The killer jangling the keys in front of Audrey was also a nod to the original Scream.
 * 10:00 PM: Emma returns to Lakewood after a three month retreat. She is held a welcome home party with a cake by Brooke, Audrey, Jake, Noah, and Kieran at Kieran’s house, who Jake refers Emma to as “Girl, Interrupted”, based on Lisa Rowe’s character who he acknowledges as Angelina Jolie being hot from the 1999 film of the same name (a reference, seeing whose real life actress’ first and last name was based on both Angelina Tyler (first) and Jennifer Jolie (last), characters from Scream 3)
 * Emma and Kieran are outside, sitting on an outdoor bench, who talk about Kieran’s brief emancipation, seeing as he is still 17 and his dad having died, living alone. Emma asks Kieran how long they’re (the government) going to let him live on his own, which Kieran tells her how his aunt, Tina, is supposed to check on him once a week, but how she’s “a flake”, stating how he hadn’t seen her in a month. Emma drinks her bottled beer quietly as she listens as they go quiet before Emma thanks him for tonight and for keeping in touch. Kieran nods and claims that they’re still friends and that friends write, referring to their relationship status.
 * Emma tells Kieran how she had told her mom she’d be spending the night at Audrey’s, as the two play and flirt. Kieran tells her he could stay with him after she tells him, and states how they can talk before Noah interrupts as he walks out and announces to them to ignore his “awkward” entrance, as Kieran states it’s a school night before heading inside, with plates in hand, as Noah states he’s the killer of parties as Emma walks up to him and jokes how at least some things are how she left them. Noah tells her that he’ll let that one slide, only if by prompting Emma and asks to interview her on his podcast “The Morgue”, stating how she’s the only one of the Lakewood Six he’s yet to interview. Emma blatantly tells him how she has to let that stuff go, with Noah agreeing but stating how it’s the biggest thing that ever happened to them, with Emma agreeing and stating also the worst. Emma blatantly reveals that she hasn’t listened to his podcast and apologizes before heading inside, much to Noah’s learnt disappointment.
 * Following everyone leaving the party, Emma and Kieran are shown alone in Kieran’s room as Emma and Kieran talk about their relationship, which Emma defends due to her trauma, as Kieran acknowledges and Emma stating, prior to his reveal, that she felt safe with Kieran before they proceed to make out before Emma stops, claiming she couldn’t (due to her scars left from Piper) asking if they could just sleep instead. They would finally have sex the next night in “Vacancy”.
 * Jake comes into contact with the new killer, after leaving Brooke after they had a fight about the future of the relationship (due to Jake’s association with Brooke’s father) after breaking into the high school swimming pool late at night following Emma’s return party. This prompts Jake to go out and retrieve and dig some of his shady stuff to discard at the Wren Lake Estates only to be attacked and be injured after following a pig toy that ultimately gets his foot gets caught in a beat trap set by the Lakewood Slasher aka the second killer or Piper’s accomplice, who knocks him out and kept him imprisoned in a barn/former pig farm (revealed later to be Brandon James’s, aka a pig slaughterhouse near the old stables, where Emma and Audrey would find Noah, and Brooke’s father, Quinn, aka the mayor would also be killed at not long after) until later hanging him and ultimately killing him with a cut from his torso (seeing as he was hung upside down) to his chest via a long scythe, which was recorded via a video camera on the ceiling, prior to his death as well as his escape, (“I Know What You Did Last Summer”), thus becoming the first victim of the continued Lakewood Murders.
 * Noah becomes the pod-caster for a new show called "The Morgue".
 * A new sheriff is called into Lakewood. His name is Miguel Acosta. He brings along his son Gustavo Acosta, similar to Season 1 with Kieran Wilcox and his dad, Clark Hudson, who was the former sheriff. Both male sheriffs seem to be flirtatious towards Maggie Duval, the town coroner, although the latter is more platonic (due to Maggie and Miguel having been friends.)
 * Gustavo Acosta and Eli Hudson transfer to George Washington High in the same month as Emma’s return and Jake’s untimely death, although it’s revealed that Eli was here visiting Lakewood during the massacre of Season 1, who transfers officially in “Vacancy” seeing as how Gustavo was already enrolled, due to having moved earlier since “I Know What You Did Last Summer”.
 * Emma and her mother, Maggie, try to mend their relationship following the reveal of Emma’s half sister and Maggie aka Daisy’s first illegitimate child with Brandon James, as well as the later return of Emma’s father, Kevin, which seemingly overwhelms Emma as the family try to communicate following the events both before and concurrently as the Lakewood Murders return.
 * Audrey, feeling nervous of being exposed (prior to revealing herself to Noah as he and Zoë Vaughn become a couple) due to her partaking the killer’s game to save herself, as well as due to her change following Season 1, does her best to dismantle Noah’s theories and also try to change the topic before she becomes truthful, especially during the finale. The killer sends Audrey a text during her and Noah being at the police telling her in capital letters“I’d shut this down if I were you. I know what you did last summer… get it?”, referring to the Season 2 premiere episode of the same name and Audrey’s secret, albeit she was not the accomplice.
 * Continuity Error: This also shows her in the Season 2 premiere, following her prank by Haley and at school the next day with Noah stopping to the police, as Sheriff Acosta reassures Audrey it’s her decision to file a report with the dates being January 24-25, 2016, which was from a Sunday to Monday that year, which is why the Lakewood Six (minus Jake) are all shown at school the next day. However, Kieran stated when Noah interrupted him and Emma the night before of it being a school night, which would make it a Thursday before Friday, which would’ve been the week before from January 21 to 22, which is thus a mistake on Kieran’s dialogue.
 * Kristen Lang is introduced as Emma, Brooke, Noah, Zoë, and Gustavo’s first period Psychology teacher, whose intro is reminiscent to that of the film college profesor in Scream 2, as well as the Lakewood Six’s former English teacher and Kristen’s boyfriend, Seth Branson, in the Season 1 premiere. Emma then asks Zoë for tutoring help to catch up on her work she’s missed for the last 3 months, the reason being why Emma chose her seeing as how Zoë is one of the few people in school, alongside her friends, to not stare her down and she agrees for tomorrow morning.
 * Emma and Brooke talk about their relationships after school at Emma’s house, with Brooke telling Emma how Jake’s changed following her departure and the events.
 * Emma, after talking with Kieran, finally caved in and gets interviewed by Noah for his podcast. Noah states his podcast and murder board helped him deal with what happened.
 * (“Psycho”) At night, it’s revealed that Emma and Brooke visited Troy Jame’s pig farm and house located on Pikeview Road (not the old stable farmhouse off Route 6, where Jake was held in and eventually murdered) to explain her nightmare. Emma goes inside while Brooke stays outside, only to find pictures of her life, and someone’s there, which she saw draped in a hoodie run off before she screams and runs outside before her and Brooke drive off. Emma and her mother then subsequently investigate after she returns to tell her. Emma’s mom also explains how she was so young and how her and Emma would visit Troy James’s farm house, due to Maggie siding with the family despite becoming outcasts. They return to the house, to find everything gone, much to Emma’s shock.
 * This house is then investigated during the day by Sheriff Acosta in “The Vanishing”, as well as a hidden room only which Miguel finds along with the photos of Emma from the night she saw them on January 25. The hooded figure Emma saw that night is also shown, unseen, watching from below Miguel with his gun, who looks out the window but doesn’t see anyone.

January 26

 * Emma talks to Kieran the next morning at his house about the farmhouse, as she tries to relate to Kieran, questioning her sanity and asking if she returned to soon. She leaves in her car before she is then followed by a light blue Cadillac Buick
 * Later revealed to be Emma’s father, Kevin Duval.
 * Noah and Audrey meet at Audrey’s car in the parking lot the next day at school, with Noah telling Audrey he has a lead on both her internet troll and the supposed accomplice as Noah shows Audrey a comment from Eddie Hayes, a listener of the podcast and night receptionist worker/clerk of the Crescent Palms Motel, where Piper used to stay (as well as supposedly meet with Audrey, who knew where she was staying)
 * Brooke tries to reassure Emma and who doesn’t believe her, even after Kieran asks her about the incident, as the three walk into school with Brooke stating how Emma has hallucinated before and wasn’t making any sense when she came out of the house last night and states to Emma, who asks if she thought she was hallucinating, given everything they’ve been through (also noting Emma has hallucinated Will Belmont and her dad), how it’s not so crazy. Emma agrees before she walks off as Kieran and Brooke look at another. Brooke runs up to her and Kieran walks behind and asks Emma if she sees Jake to warn her so Brooke can avoid him and make him suffer. She agrees before her, Brooke, and Kieran run into Noah and Audrey as Noah calls them out as their group name before retracting and pointing out there’s only 5 of them at the moment.
 * Brooke then tells them all how she probably knows how Jake has probably been “spilling trash” ever since their breakup and how they can all tell her about it. Everyone shakes their head in disagreement, which Brooke asks them, stating how nobody’s talked to him or seen him since Emma’s return party on the 24. Audrey tells her it’s probably his bold plan to make Brooke suffer, which agrees with that being the course of one day without Jake, but two is making it “obnoxious and weird”. Noah tries to reassure Brooke, stating how it’s Jake, stating how he once faked monos to get out of midterms. Kieran guides them by referring to his parents being in Mexico and how perhaps he’s just at home laying low. Emma asks Brooke if perhaps she tried texting him, which Brooke denies, stating how every Cosmo girl knows the guy is supposed to be the one to break the text standoff, which Audrey sarcastically states is so modern.
 * 7:45 AM: Audrey gets a text while she’s talking with the Lakewood Six, except for Jake, (unbeknownst to them except Kieran, is dead) from the killer which reads “Afraid? You should be. Your friends’ll turn on you when they learn the truth!”, foreshadowing Audrey telling the truth to Noah in the following days. Audrey then looks up to see Haley, looking conspicuous texting on her phone before she walks off, which causes Audrey’s look to stern and follow soon after her as Noah stands back and watches her go. Emma, Kieran, and Brook have all left past this point.
 * Perhaps a clue, seeing as how Haley knew Kieran was texting on his behalf and standing close by, seeing as he doesn’t show himself using his phone when Brooke is talking. However, when Audrey confronts Haley alone at the stairwell (where Kristen Lang would be attacked later in “Let The Right One In”) it’s shown that Haley was actually texting Aaron, the other prankster aka her boyfriend. However, it could’ve just been an automated message texted by Kieran sent to Audrey at that time, and Haley standing was just a decoy and perhaps Kieran using the alias “Aaron”.)
 * Zoë is shown waiting at Emma’s locker, as Emma walks up to her and apologizes claiming how she had a really crazy night last night, to which Zoë says she gets and how it’s fine, claiming how Emma has a lot going on and so does she and gets it if she’s not ready. Emma claims she is and how she completely needs her help to catch up, as Zoë turns around just as she’s about to leave. Emma tries to speak before Zoë stops her, relating to her and reassuring, saying how a while back how she was going through some pretty painful stuff similar to her and how she kinda lost her way, claiming that it happens and that she gets it. Emma asks Zoë how she gets past that, to which Zoë replies sarcastically to find someone start and pay attention, referring to them, and that’s what she meant by symbiotic, and how their tutoring helps her as much as Emma, to which she coyly asks if Zoë really thinks she’s as smart as she is. Zoë whispers to Emma how she used to think she was smarter before walking off.
 * In Ms. Lang’s class, Brooke texts Jake and Emma sarcastically whispers and tells her how she’s not a “Cosmo girl” after all, to which Brooke rolls her eyes and playfully tells Emma to shut up. Brooke tells Emma how she even led him on, telling how if Jake quickly responded to her, he’d get a boob pic and how there’s still nothing, as she then turns around to find Gustavo leaning from the back of the classroom from his seat, listening before he pulls back once Brooke notices him. She does and ignores it, telling Emma how she’s officially worried. Ms. Lang noticing the girls talking and distracted, calls for them to answer a question about the adaptation, to which both Noah and Zoë in the front answer “threat simulation theory” much to their flirting.
 * Noah then leads with his own question stating that if prey animals dream of their predators, than what does the predator dream of. Zoë sarcastically answers “girl predators”, which breaks a few laughs from the classroom before Gustavo in the back answers how the predators are themselves as human beings. Ms. Lang points out he’s right and continues her lesson how it’s all about survival and how when that instinct is challenged, the brain goes into overdrive and how they have to meet that challenge and beat it or else. Emma then stays after class as the bell rings and dismisses the class, asking Ms. Lang to talk by handing her back the sticky note she gave her of her phone number the previous day. Her teacher agrees and asks Emma to meet her tonight at the Grindhouse Cafe around 6 PM, to which Emma agrees and states she’ll see her there, sighing as she walks off.
 * Noah walks up to Audrey and jokes with her about her “keeping cool face” to which Audrey replies if that’s obvious, as Noah asks if he shouldn’t discuss about happened in the stairwell earlier referring to Audrey running off towards Haley as “something weird”. Audrey sarcastically replies as just as other charming encounter, to which Noah then asks if it isn’t some grade school crush that Haley’s playing out through tormenting Audrey, to which Audrey replies firstly by grossed out and secondly claiming how she doesn’t think that Haley’s into girls as she heads to her locker (due to having read Haley’s text as well as the fact that Haley claims during the prank, how despite going to the same school, that they don’t know each other, meaning Audrey). Noah agrees and states how he thought maybe he was driving Audrey nuts again, with the whole Piper’s accomplice thing, to which Audrey jokes how “Foster’s gotta foster”, with the question she has for him being what he’s going to do if Noah chases down his big lead. Noah claims how he’s already contacted the tipster, Eddie, and who according to him, seems to check off and how before her death, Piper stayed at the Crescent Palms on and off while she was in Lakewood, claiming how Eddie is saving his big accomplice identity reveal for “The Morgue”.
 * This worries Audrey, seeing as she hasn’t gotten the chance to explain her side and association (albeit she wasn’t the accomplice, Kieran was), who asks Noah logically that if Eddie knew Piper was working with someone, then why wouldn’t he go to the police with that information. Noah tells her how that’s thing, telling her how Lakewood PD claims they have no evidence of an accomplice, to which Audrey then finishes by stating how this is just “conspiracy theories gone wild” as she begins to walk off. Noah catches up to her chooses to take her remark as light ribbing rather than a full on insult to his work. Audrey then tells Noah how she should film the reveal it for the website, much to Noah’s surprise who claims Audrey seems sort of over the “morgue” and overall deal lately. Audrey claims how that was just about not upsetting Emma and claims how she’s fine and that they’re good. This cheers Noah up who smiles as he says yes, claiming out loud how “bi curious (Audrey) and the virgin (Noah)” are officially out of retirement with Audrey weakly laughing and tells him she’ll dust off the costume with Noah joking how she kept it. Audrey then walks off with Noah not too far following as their conversation ends.
 * Meanwhile, at Emma’s locker, she is seen taking stuff out of hers and placing them in her bag before she closes it and turns around and almost runs into Eli Hudson, Kieran’s cousin, as she apologizes and Eli also claiming how he didn’t mean to sneak up on her, officially meeting another for the first time. Eli then tells her how the Lakewood Days seem like a big deal, as it pans over to the school bulletin board advertising for the 2016 Lady of the Lake pageant holding auditions in memoriam to Nina Patterson, who was last years queen as stated in the flier, as well as another poster for the Lakewood Museum presenting a memory lane like event held from February-March 2016. Emma agrees before walking off only for Eli to call her out and make conversation with her by asking if she signed up for the car wash or pancake breakfast. Emma states how she hasn’t signed up for anything yet and that maybe she should before asking Eli if he’s knew, seeing as she’s never seen him before. Eli looks at her asking her what she means as Emma claims that if he goes to school there as Eli proceeds to walk towards and face Emma. Eli denies and claims how he is thinking about it, saying her name which takes her aback, to which Eli claims doesn’t everyone before he walks off from her jingling his car keys as he does.
 * Continuity Error: The Lady of the Lake Paegant is claimed to be on Saturday, February 13, as opposed to the actual day the pageant was held which was on Monday, February 1 in “Village of the Damned”. This is supposedly supported by the Lakewood Museum poster as an indication of the dates being February to March 2016. However, this differentiates from Piper having died on the first day of November 2015 rather than on Halloween night or October 31, 2015; thus another mistake)
 * Brooke and her dad, aka Mayor Quinn Maddox, are shown to be having coffee and meeting at the Grindhouse Cafe, as Quinn states how her and Brooke need to be alert as they head into the mayoral elections for Lakewood. Brooke is seen reading a suggestive text by Jake from the night of Emma’s welcome home party. Her father tells Brooke, whose busy reading, how they need to make the most of Lakewood Days before he asks his daughter if she’s listening to him to which Brooke uninterestingly states yes to. He then tells her how there’s a Lakewood Days photo-op tonight at the Lady of the Lake event, asking Brooke if she’s signed up already. Brooke sighs and says yes, much to her father’s agreement, as Brooke claims sighing that she supposes it wouldn’t kill her as she finally looks up to her father. She then grabs her phone, bookbag and coffee before she kisses her father goodbye and walks off, as Quinn begins reading the texts from the shady deals he had with Jake in Season 1, who proceeds to call Jake only to be directed to his voicemail, much to his facial worry.
 * Kieran arrives home from school and is greeted by Sheriff Acosta waiting inside. They shake hands as Acosta extends his and Acosta telling him firstly how he wants to apologize for his late father and former sheriff and how he had heard was a good man, to which Kieran asks if that’s why he’s there, with the sheriff denying and saying rather how he’s there due to the noise complaint by neighbors and how after his father’s deaths, supposedly threw a lot of parties (whether or not is true or referring to Emma’s welcome home party the night prior). Kieran’s aunt and Clark’s younger sister, Tina, walks in from the kitchen, holding a glass of water and handing it to Acosta. She calls her nephew asking if his ears were burning and how they were just talking about him. The sheriff claims how when he called his legal guardian about the complaints and how discovering Tina doesn’t even live with him in Lakewood, to which Kieran claims she lives close enough.
 * The sheriff states how some would say he’s close enough to 18 to live alone, but how that would be illegal, referring to his age. Tina tells the sheriff by promising and reassuring him how she checks in on Kieran every chance she gets and how he’s really been through it and how this is where he lived with his father, with the Sheriff pointing out he’s sure would’ve wanted his son to live with a legal guardian. Kieran madly claims how Acosta doesn’t know anything about his father to which Tina tries to calm and tells Acosta how they know what he’s talking about. Tina tells the sheriff she’ll resolve the situation, to which the sheriff claims that’s all he wanted to hear before thanking her, walking up to Kieran and patting him on the shoulder before walking off and closing the door as he leaves. Tina then asks her nephew madly that he had promised her not to turn this place into party central, to which Kieran claims he didn’t as he walks towards his aunt and into the kitchen, with his aunt claiming how the trash can was overflowing with beer bottles when the sheriff got there, and claims how she thought he was more responsible than that.
 * Kieran chuckles and apologizes, claiming how it’s weird for her aunt to talk about responsibility, referring to her failure to check up on him after his dad’s and her brother’s death. Tina tells Kieran how he can laugh about it but how that stipend she gets for being his guardian paid her bills, claiming how what was a win-win is now a mess and how she’s going to have to fix this by making Kieran move back to Atlanta with her which he calls Emma about to let her know as she’s doing homework on her kitchen counter, telling her how his aunt told her it has to happen right away much to Emma’s shock.
 * Emmas mother tries to reassure her about Kieran, claiming how she can always Skype or visit him, with Emma retorting, stating how they’re attempt at long distance was already an epic fail, and sighs as she states how she finally thought she had somebody to talk to. Emma apologizes to her with Maggie reassuring her claiming how they’re both having a hard time. Emma then tells her how she doesn’t think that she knows what she’s going through, which Maggie agrees and claims she’s trying to understand. She tells Emma how she knows how important Kieran is to her and asks Emma how she can help to which Emma replies she doesn’t know and how she doesn’t think there’s anything anyone can do to fix this. Emma then walks off and leaves the room.
 * Brooke is shown heading into the Lakewood PD station and walks up to the front desk and and asks that she would like to file a missing person’s report on Jake. The clerk tells her to have a seat as she does and notices Gustavo on the other side working on his homework. They make eye contact and remain silent until Brooke breaks and asks Gustavo what he’s doing as he looks on at her. Gustavo replies homework, smugly smiling, to which Brooke sarcastically replies that’s odd for him to be doing in the police station. Gustavo claims how his dad makes him come there after school and asks Brooke what she’s doing and states how she’s waiting for his dad so she can report her “wayward ex-boyfriend”, referring to Jake, missing. Gustavo then looks down as he tells her how Jake hasn’t responded to his boob pic promise, implying that he was listening when Brooke told Emma during class. He smiles as he looks at her as Brooke scoffs and states how it’s her fault for discussing her life in psych class. Brooke then asks Gustavo if she should be worried, claiming how she has no way of getting in touch with his parents who are currently in Mexico and how she hasn’t spoken to him in two days or seen him.
 * Gustavo then acknowledges how she’s talking about Jake, and refers to him as number six and asks if that’s her boyfriend as he looks at her stating how he knows all of the Lakewood Six, much to Brooke’s minor dismay, sarcastically asking how he numbered them and that’s not at all creepy. He claims how Noah coined the phrase and he just added the ranking. They look away before Brooke then speaks and asks Gustavo what number she is, flirting. Gustavo states that he’d go as high as to rank Brooke number four, as Brooke scoffs and laughs and asks him if he’s kidding and how she’s at least a three, to which Gustavo claims smiling smugly how Noah is number three, claiming the reason being he was the investigative force as he takes out his phone and texts someone.
 * Brooke jokes but tells him how she was stabbed and left in a freezer, pointing to her arm before Gustavo tells her he knows, saying how he thought it would have a bigger impact before Brooke asks him what that’s supposed to mean before the clerk then calls Brooke, telling her how the sheriff will see her now. Brooke is then about to walk into the sheriff’s office before she gets a text message which sounds off from a Jake, responding to her response supposedly.
 * Brooke sighs as she turns around as Gustavo tells her how finally answered and claims sarcastically that Jake must really love her, referring to her offer to him. Brooke chuckles as she seductively almost walks up to Gustavo and tells him how all people and him who think they know everything about the Lakewood Six, or whatever they call them. She looks at him face to face and says that he doesn’t know them whispering to him not really before Brooke then walks off as Gustavo looks as she does and looks smilingly intrigued.
 * Maggie makes her way to Kieran’s house that night, knocking on the door and being greeted by Tina, whom both met at Clark’s funeral back in November 2015, and who tells Maggie she was special to her big brother. Maggie thanks her and asks if they could talk about Kieran as they head and talk accordingly about him.
 * 6:00 PM: At the Grindhouse, Emma meets with Ms. Lang who talks to her about the encounter at Troy James’s house and about the photographs, claiming how they seemed to be there, as real as anything. Her teacher listens, with Kristen telling hoer how it seems illogical that they would be there. Emma agrees, stating that she guesses so, Kristen then reassures her as due to Emma’s PTSD, that hallucinations and paranoia are extremely normal and common and how it’s not something to be worried about and states how Emma will pull through.
 * Emma agrees and who tells Ms. Lang how she sounds just like her therapists at the treatment center where she was at. Kristen asks if that’s a bad thing, to which Emma denies but says how perhaps. The barista then calls for Emma for their orders as she walks up and Kristen is revealed to be secretly recording their conversation (due to her tapes, which are revealed later in the season).
 * Emma is about to return with her and Kristen’s coffees before she’s taken aback by a random brunette woman with glasses sitting at the couch which Piper used to sit, giving Emma flashbacks which begin to scare her as she begins to shake and heavy breathes before dropping the mugs of coffee spilling and breaking as she yells out Piper’s name to the random woman. She walks back, breaking heavily and panting before Kristin runs up to her and reassures her.
 * After calming down, Ms. Lang tells Emma how life doesn’t come with trigger warnings, to which Emma weakly remarks joking it should and that someone should invent an app for that. Emma then tells herself what made her think she set foot in this place, regarding her first time having first met Piper over at the couch and at the cafe where she’s still employed, who tells Ms. Lang it’s connection of her and Piper, who claims she let her become her friend and trusting her before her reveal. Ms. Lang defends Emma claiming she didn’t know any better and how it’s not bad to trust or be vulnerable. Emma jokes and asks if she’s going to have a meltdown every time she sees a brunette drinking a nonfat mocha (which was what Piper used to order and drink).
 * Kristen tells Emma to not let her ruin her life with Emma stating this is what happens, claiming that it all closes in on you and then you can’t get out, saying that it happened to his dad and his trauma as a survivor of her half sister’s Piper’s dad Brandon James’s first Lakewood Murders of 1994. Emma then asks Ms. Lang if that’s going to happen to her and if she’s going to become a screwed-up person for the rest of her life. Kristen states she won’t be and how Emma only has to work to not be, telling her how she’s not a victim but rather a survivor, telling her how Piper has taken so much from her and to not let her take any more. Kristen reminds Emma how that was not her dead sister sitting over there, referring to Emma’s meltdown and how Piper is gone and that whatever she needs to do to prove that to Emma herself is worth doing. Emma then turns around as Ms. Lang says this e before their conversation then ends after this.
 * Brooke is shown leaving a restaurant out in Lakewood with a valet before seeing a bouquet of red roses and a note in an envelope waiting outside on the top of her black Range Rover. This breaks out a smile in Brooke who walks up to read the note which says “I’m sorry” in black, bolded cursive printed letters (later revealed to have been Seth Branson, her former hook up and teacher the next day in “Vacancy”). Brooke then, supposedly believing this was Jake, texts him “Impressive. Game On!”
 * Emma is shown heading to Kieran’s house, knocking on his door before being opened and greeted by Eli, much to Emma’s confusion as she asks him what he’s doing there. Kieran then walks out of his room as he introduces his cousin, Eli, to her as Eli extend his hands and claims how it’s nice to meet her officially, despite indirectly having met at school. Emma shakes his hand and returns the same as Kieran introduces his family to Emma, as his aunt Tina is shown walking out, as Tina points out how she’s Maggie’s daughter. Emma greets her, and asks to talk to Kieran outside for a second, as Kieran shuts the door and walks outside with Emma, who claims his family is interesting, with Kieran telling her that’s one word for it. Emma claims how she can’t believe he’s leaving, with Kieran informing her of her mom coming and having talked to Tina earlier, to which Emma asks if she did, as Kieran affirms, telling her how she gave her a lot to think about, whatever that means.
 * Much to Emma’s surprise, as Kieran states he can’t believe his fate rests in his aunt’s hands. Emma tells Kieran how she knows he doesn’t have much time left but how there’s something she had to do and how she doesn’t want it do with anyone but him and how she doesn’t want to do it alone. Emma laughs as she points out that she has to do it now or never as she then asks Kieran if they can go for a drive to which he agrees as as they both leave, with Tina and Eli watching from the window as Eli hands his mom a glass of water and her pills which she takes.
 * Eli points out to her how this place is nice as Tina tells her son how they just can’t up and move. Eli tells her how they live in a crappy one bedroom apartment with her loser boyfriend, and how it’s not like she has a job. Kieran’s car then begins to pull out of the driveway and how they can stay in the “big house, rent free”. Tina then apologizes to Eli for things not being perfect, to which he agrees and says they’re not and how they’re horrible.
 * Brooke is shown getting ready by applying red lipstick on in her bedroom back at her house, revealing to be heading over to Jake’s house which she texts beforehand to tell her she’s going now and to be there or be sorry. Her bedroom door knocks as Brooke tells them to knock in, as her father opens the door who asks his daughter taken aback by what she’s wearing, to which Brooke implies it’s a dress, which is a suggestive one showing her cleavage. Her father, Quinn, claims how it’s too much and how the photo-op is in 20 minutes and how she’s going to have to change, with Brooke apologizing and telling him how she’s going to have to flake on that. Quinn states how that is unacceptable and how this is a very important moment for their family and how she made a promise and how Maddox's keep their promises. Brooke scoffs and asks her father if he really wants to get into their family’s legacy of the opposite about lying and breaking them.
 * Quinn sits down and claims how he’s going to have to spend the rest of his life apologizing for his mistakes and how he’s trying to make up for them and asks Broke what could possibly be more important, as Brooke asks her father if he really wants to know. Brooke then turns to face her father and tells him how she’s going to see her boyfriend, Jake, claiming “that Jake” as she sees her fathers expression, claiming how they’ve been seeing each other ever since he got arrested and how it’s basically amazing. Quinn tells her how that not hurt them very much, with Brooke retracting and stating he hurt him, claiming how all Quinn does is talk about how much he’s changed and states that Jake has, too, claiming he’s a good person and how she cares about him and that she can’t help it and that this is her life, not some stupid campaign, referring to her father’s insistence of keeping up with appearances. She apologizes to him before she grabs her phone and walks away
 * Noah is shown to have arrived at the Crescent Palms Motel, who is outside, waiting for Audrey who texts her as he reads on their texts before then heading inside.
 * Emma and Kieran then arrive to the dock at the lake where Emma shot Piper after her reveal and killed her, which was the thing she wanted to do. Kieran asks Emma if she doesn’t think it’s too soon to which Emma agrees with and states as she grabs Kieran’s hand as they walk together towards it and on it. Halfway through, Emma asks Kieran to wait and states he won’t move as she walks alone forward towards the edge and kneels down, seeing a scratch mark (giving a flashback to when Piper slashed her gut) as Emma looks at it as well as down to the water where Piper fell after being shot, where Piper had short reemerged from the last time before being shot to the head as Emma stares at the black water down, who sees from the lakes reflection, the Lakewood Slasher from across staring at Emma before it’s revealed to just be a hallucination as Emma then walks off the dock and gets closure before she embraces Kieran and both make out in Kieran’s car, with Kieran asking if it’s ok as he touches Emma’s scar wound on her stomach which Emma claims makes her ugly to which Kieran tells her it makes her more beautiful to him as they continue and proceed to have sex for the first time.
 * Back at the motel, Noah is shown inside the lobby taking with Eddie Hayes, who referred to Piper as “crazy chick” being there all the time and how she was usually alone but how once he saw her arguing with a girl, much to Noah’s surprise calling it a plot twist and asking him if he remembered what she looked like. Eddie agrees, stating Piper’s looks before Noah denies not her looks but the accomplice. Just before he can answer, Eddie is called by the killer who warns him to play it cool or how housekeeping will be scrapping his bone fragments off the ceiling, threatening him with that and referring to exposing Audrey aka the supposed accomplice’s identity. It’s revealed to be Audrey outside making the call posing as the killer in order to keep her safe, who tells Eddie how not to make any weird faces to tip Noah off or how she’ll, as the posing killer, strangle him with his own intestines and tells him as the killer how they can see him. Eddie then agrees and hangs up on the call shortly, and who then tells Noah, lying as Noah looks at him intrigued, chuckling how he was wrong and how he really doesn’t remember anything and how he should get back to work. Noah points out that he’s been talking to him all night as Eddie loudly proclaims that this interview is over and apologizes before Noah leaves, taking his phone which he was recording the interview with as he walks away from the lobby. As Noah leaves, Eddie picks up the phone to hear Audrey as the killer tell him “good boy” before ending the call.
 * Noah then walks out of the lobby and is shown walking in front the motel before Audrey finally catches up, much to Noah’s displeasure and calls her his “tardy sidekick”, before Audrey apologizes and lies swiftly claiming she got tricked into butter pump cleaning duty at the theatre. Noah agrees reluctantly, saying how man cannot live on toppings alone, uninterested and Audrey asks Noah what she missed. Noah states how the clerk, Eddie, was on the verge of spilling his guts and how then he just froze like he’d seen the dark eye of Sauron (a reference to both The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings), to which Audrey refers to as a jackass who probably made the whole thing up. Noah disagrees and claims how he’s clearly onto something and how before his personality split, how Eddie had told him about a storage unit that the motel owns just a few blocks away on Clearview, where they store and keep all the crap guests leave behind, who he thinks there might be stuff in there that belonged to Piper. Audrey sarcastically states that’s probably because the cops would’ve just let that slide before Noah retracts and who tells her based on what Eddie said, how Piper didn’t stay there all the time and how it’s possible the cops didn’t even know about and how he may be the only one onto this, besides Audrey, much to her facial confusion and internal worry of being exposed. Noah tells Audrey how he arranged to check it out first thing in the morning and figured how Audrey would want to be there to film the big reveal, extending his fists knuckled into a bump, which Audrey shares and agrees to, stating she wouldn’t miss it.
 * Emma and Kieran return, as Tina and Eli sit outside on the front porch of his house as Tina calls him for being out late, to which Kieran smiles and states he’s making the most of the time he has left with Emma. Just as they approach the door, Tina then states how she’s been seriously thinking and speaking aside, saying how she has an obligation to her brother, aka Kieran’s dad and how she’s got to do right by him and tells Emma, pointing out how it was her mom who stepped up and had originally offered to take Kieran, much to Emma’s surprise. Tina then tells Kieran how it looks like he won’t be moving to Atlanta after all, as Kieran asks if he’s going to be living with Emma, which Tina laughs at and denies to ever letting that happen, rather she’s come to her senses and that she’s got to step up for her nephew, asking if he knows what that means before Eli blatantly tells him how they’re moving in there with Kieran and who asks Emma if he’ll see her at school.
 * Emma chuckles and leaves with her book bag before Kieran then asks her if she really wants to walk home alone. Emma agrees and kisses Kieran goodbye as Kieran tells Emma to text him when she gets home. Emma then calls her mom to check up and reassure her she’s fine as Emma walks past by the Zenith Theater on Minor Street, and who tells her she’s awesome and how she heard what he did for Kieran, affirming to her doubtful mom that it worked and how Kieran’s staying and how all of them are which she notes is weird, much to Maggie’s pleasure.
 * As Emma walks the empty street and tells her mother how they should have dinner tonight just the two of them, she is soon followed by the the Corvette/Cadillac from earlier, unbeknownst to her, silently behind her and how they should talk and Maggie stating how she’d love that as Emma tells her bye and hangs up, alongside her mom. Emma then soon notices the car, which she shrugs off until the car begins following her and whose headlights blinden her as she then begins to run from, turning onto a street and panting as she runs through a front yard of a house in a neighborhood, panicking as she runs into the middle of the road of the next street only for the Corvette to have followed and turned there as she now faces the vehicle, whose headlights are still on flashing Emma.
 * The tire screeches and comes to a stop before Emma screams at the driver asking why they’re following her, before the driver of the car steps out and it’s revealed to be Emma’s dad, Kevin Duval, returning to Lakewood much to her shock and surprise as Emma asks if he’s real as Kevin states how he was trying to find the best way to approach her, trying not to startle or scare her already as she is, stating to talk to her. Emma agrees that’s done, composing herself, as Kevin talks to his daughter and assures her how there’s no forgiving him for anything and how he finally thought he needed to be there for her and and whatever happened next is her decision.
 * Audrey then sneaks in after talking with Noah that night to go into the storage unit which Noah talked about, using a car carpet to get over the barbed wire. She then gets a call from Noah which she denies to answer as Noah meanwhile re-listens to his interview with Eddie, and records and episode of the Morgue and states he wishes he had an exciting reveal for them tonight but how in his humble opinion, suspense is overrated and how the thing about the truth is how it’s hard to pin down (homage to Noah’s monologues, showing Brooke dressed up and walking towards Jake’s empty house which she notices once she’s at his door, causing her to drop her bag and sit down in visible disbelief as Gustavo from nearby on his bike, notices as does Brooke), stating how it’s both hot and cold, claiming how one hopes it’s one thing but how deep down, one knows it’s something else (shown as Emma returns home as Maggie sets their dinner plates and bread bowl on the table before telling her mom Kevin’s back) stating how he of course wants there to be something amazing when he opens the locker tomorrow but how part of him knows, when he does finally get his big reveal, that he’s not going to like what he find, confirming he suspects Audrey as the second killer (shows Audrey cutting with pliers the lock on a locker storage unit supposedly belonging to Piper before heading into the locker and finding Jake’s body, unbeknownst to him until later)
 * After she follows a clue from the killer leading her into an empty dark garage at a storage space (where Eddie Hayes used to have his stuff) where she is disgusted after using her flashlight to find Jake’s rotting corpse and mutilated body sat down, which have pinned notes across his chest with the words “see how I finished the job for you Audrey?”. The killer then calls her to taunt her about going to the police, with her being more shocked as to why they chose to kill Jake, seeing as he was involved with Brooke. Audrey then gagging at the scent of Jakes’ dead flesh, begins to retrieve and take the pins of his chest and then hide them, and also immediately leave and lock the garage that she had broken into previously afterwards.
 * Emma and Maggie talk about Kevin’s return which confuses Maggie as Emma states how she saw him and they talked him, with Maggie stating if here in Lakewood to which Emma agrees and how they’re having breakfast tomorrow which startles Maggie as she asks her what he said. Emma claims that it wasn’t that much and just that he’s sorry, and how he wants to be there for her now. Maggie walks back to her also taken-aback daughter, telling her how she knows she loves his dad and how he loved them but how he has own difficulties and asks Emma to promise her to be careful to which Emma tells her how she can’t promise her anything and who has no idea what to expect and that she only knows that she has to talk to him and have to hear what he’s going to say and asks her mother if that makes sense to which Emma’s mom agrees with and understands.

January 27

 * Following her having shut the locker and run off after taking the pins off Jake and placing them in a plastic bag, Audrey heads home and who the next morning in her bed as she examines the pins perhaps not being able to sleep, gets an early phone call from Emma, who’s also in bed, and like Audrey, couldn’t sleep and is freaking out. Audrey reassures her but claims Kevin’s return and timing of it all is suspicious which upsets Emma, as well as his past, asking where he was back in 2015. Emma tells her how she gets that but reminds her of how good he used to before he left and how she’s trying to focus on that before Audrey claims she remembers him as being off, to which Emma asks how with Audrey telling Emma how he was damaged and how she wouldn’t have referred to him like that when they were young but refers to her dad having survived Brandon James back in 1994.
 * Emma retorts and tells Audrey how he went through a lot and how both of them should definitely be able understand that, as well as stating how he’s perhaps better now and how people can recover. Audrey reminds her how he had left her without any explanation and asks her about that and tells her to be careful, much to Emma’s scoff, who claims she shouldn’t have called Audrey, as Audrey asks if she’s pissed at her with Emma telling her she’ll see her later and hangs up. Noah then arrives at Audrey’s room, as she hides the bag of pins and asks if she’s ready to go which Audrey agrees (due to her promise) and Noah tells her he’ll wait for her outside.
 * Both Audrey and Noah then proceed to go to the same storage room from last night, only to find it empty, to Audrey’s surprise, only for them to find a camera, much to Noah’s surprise and Audrey’s shock until they then find a camera recording and Noah goes back to his house to review the footage before school starts much to Audrey’s worry who follows him quickly behind.
 * The Lady of the Lake paegant auditions are held at the auditorium that morning at George Washington High School, with a infuriated Brooke trying to get in contact with Jake by leaving him an angry voicemail due to having upgraded from texting to further express her anger of Jake being “so dead”, claiming how she bit the bullet and how after telling her dad about him, that he ghosts and how that is not getting back together and how that is all very stranger and telling him to call her (ironic, considering Jake was dead and revealed to Brooke just 3 days later during her onstage in the naming of contestants for the Lady of the Lake paegant). Zoë who manages to overhear Brooke, joins her on the side of the stage to introduce herself, stating how they both barely know each other, and asking about her being in the paegant, stating it doesn’t seem like her thing, which Brooke claims she’s only doing due to her dad and their “Maddox pride”.
 * The two talk about her escort and Zoë choosing her dad as as her escort in order to avoid high school guy drama, which Brooke laughs and denies making her dad her escort and how she hadn’t thought about it and asks who makes their dad their escort before Zoë tells her. Brooke chuckles and tells her how everybody knows about Zoë’s crush on Noah, practically giving him eye baths in psych class to which Zoë claims she doesn’t as Brooke jokes a little bit. The two hit it off and Zoë acknowledges this as another world in where she thinks Noah is kind of cool, asking if she’s happy before Brooke’s gaze is broken as she turns around and finds Gustavo in the auditorium. Brooke tells Zoë, who also sees him, to hold her thought as Brooke walks away and towards him while Zoë returns to the stage.
 * Brooke blatantly tells Gustavo how this is not a spectator event, which Gustavo jokes how he came in early to get some laps and accidentally discovered “this circus”. Brooke tells him how it’s a traditional scholarship program with a charity component. Gustavo agrees as Brooke and Gustavo share a look as he asks her if she ever found her boyfriend before the paegant coach calls out for Brooke to join them on stage. Brooke tells Gustavo how perhaps she was unclear and tells him to go away, to which Gustavo tells her he’ll talle that as “No” as she walks away, fueling their flirtation.
 * Kevin Duval officially returns back to Lakewood a few days after Emma is back in town. They talk and after Emma feels she is being chased in an empty neighborhood the night before, and in which she sees the bright headlights of an old Corvette car which stop and Kevin heads out of the car. Emma mentions this to Audrey who she calls to inform, only for Audrey to become suspicious of his return and all in timing. Emma hangs up upset, and meets her father for breakfast aka coffee at the coffeehouse where Emma worked in. They talk and try to reconcile with Emma asking him and states how she understands, whose curious about her father and mother’s fallout affecting her, asking why he had to leave her, with her father saying his mother told him not to call her. Kevin doesn’t respond, thus causing Emma to leave and be angered at her mother and just angered in general and leave and calling onto to ask her mother.
 * Emma talks to Kieran about meeting with her dad at his locker, as well as about what Audrey said to her upsetting her and messing up her meeting with her dad. Kieran agrees, stating how it’s hard to tell with Audrey and because of her and her father’s history, and asks if she thinks Kevin will stick around, to which Emma replies she doesn’t have an idea and how he doesn’t have the most reliable track record.
 * Eli, supposedly listening to music on his headphones on his phone on the other side of the hallway, overhears their conversation and chimes in stating how his dad left him and his mom when he was little and that he’d probably punch him in the teeth if he showed up. Kieran tells Eli “not cool” and Emma asks Eli if he was listening to her to which Eli denies as Kieran claims how Eli and his dad have a complicated relationship, similar to his and his dad’s formerly, and how Eli is crazy. Emma after hearing this, responds and agrees with Eli claiming how she “definitely” wanted to hit her dad when he left, despite being young yet so angry. Kieran claims how that doesn’t sound like her, before leaving Emma, telling her how he has to cram for his Lit exam, kissing her before he goes, as Eli tells them sarcastically off about their PDA in the hallway being adorable, noting his jealousy (albeit this was actually Kieran making Eli seem jealous when he was just being sarcastic). Kieran then claps back asking if Eli doesn’t have anything to sign up for, reminding him how it’s his big day and how he’s got a lot to do.
 * Eli acknowledges it being his first day and how he doesn’t know where anything is before Emma steps in to break the tension and to help Eli navigate by voluntarily agreeing to help him and show him around, with Kieran asking if she’s sure and how he’s a pain in the ass which Eli hears and tells him how he’s standing right there. Kieran turns to smugly at Eli and tells Emma to dump him at the main office and how they’ll take care of him before walking off. Emma turns and guides Eli, as she tries to begin a conversation, telling him it must be weird for him to move in the middle of the school year, which Eli claims he and his mom move a lot so he gets used to it. Emma states how living in one place your whole life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. They go quiet before Emma brings up their meeting in the hallway, and asks Eli why he chose to screw with her if he knew who she was, with Eli stating it was more fun than plainly introducing one another. Emma looks at Eli chuckling, agrees and stating how she guesses that it is before Emma claims how Eli is still kind of weird as their flirtation supposedly starts off.
 * Audrey and Noah then are about to review the footage before school starts. Audrey claims how they’re going to be late to school before Noah calls Eddie Hayes prior to his death at work, and begins to go off on him about who else he told about the storage unit, which Eddie claims due to having received a death threat that he hasn’t have anything else to say before hanging up. This takes Noah aback before he then begins to connect the camera to sync to his computer, telling Audrey to wait for it who tells him how he’s spinning the conspiracy theories that just don’t exist with Audrey then grabbing one of Noah’s heavy limited edition dragon’s head bookend with faux onyx finish to knock him out in case as he uploads the camera only to find it as streaming only and erased and find Audrey holding the bookend. Audrey returns it and tells Noah how she’s heading to class and that she’ll see him there. Then, as Audrey walks out of Noah’s house and towards her car, the killer shows Audrey a GIF of her kneeling down Jake’s body, having had recorded it via a security camera in the garage, threatening her even further (“Vacancy”)
 * Kevin arrives at the Duval house during the day and rings the doorbell as Maggie approaches, coming downstairs to open the door as the divorced couple see each other for the first time in over a decade, with quiet tension between the two as Maggie opens the door and signals for Kevin to come in. He does before he begins to speak as Kevin tells her how he knows she told him not to come back. Maggie nods and states that yet there he is. Kevin claims he needed to see Emma, to which Maggie tells him how he did see her and that hopefully he can see that Emma’s a strong girl and how she’s working hard to get her life back. Kevin agrees and states how he doesn’t want to mess any of that up. Maggie scoffs as Kevin tells her how Emma had questions. Maggie then asks if it was any questions regarding why Kevin hadn’t reached out back after Emma tried to communicate via letters and phone calls ever since she was a young girl to now, after almost half her life. Kevin tells Maggie he doesn’t want to fight with Maggie claiming he should’ve respected her wishes as his ex, telling him how she’s trying to protect Emma.
 * Kevin states how when he found out what had happened to both Emma and Maggie, how he knew he needed to connect with Emma, pointing out how the same thing happened to him, referring to surviving a murderer and their spree. Maggie then madly asks Kevin why he’s there, as Kevin defends claiming how Emma’s former friend Riley Marra had been reaching out to her, despite the fact that Piper killed her back in 2015, who had supposedly told Kevin how when Emma came home from Maggie’s mother’s house how she thought Emma needed him. Maggie asks to specify if it’s the same Riley that Piper killed, who she tells Kevin after he shows Maggie the emails sent supposedly by Riley on his phone as Maggie tells him how he’s been getting emails from a dead girl, much to Kevin’s shock.
 * Both Zoë and Brooke back at the auditorium talk about Zoe’s crush on Noah due to her listening to his podcast as Zoë recalls his previous relationship with Riley and how now he’s always with Audrey every time, and mentioning Audrey’s preference since the video from September 2015 which she refers to as “last fall”. Zoë then questions if Brooke saw it and who would post something like it, despite Brooke being one of those behind the scandal, which she tells her as mean people who don’t think, proving she’s past it. Brooke then changes the topic and tells Zoë how she believes there’s something they can do about Zoë’s “situation” much to Zoë’s denial, who then gets interrupted as she talks with Zoë by an unknown number calling revealed to be her former fling, Seth Branson, much to Brooke’s shock and displeasure. She turns away from Zoë to take the call, telling Seth how she has blocked him on all social media, phones, and even the telegraph and how he’s blocked for a reason. Seth states how he misses her and how he heard about her break up with Jake, which Brooke tells him that her and Jake are negotiating and who then asks him how he’d know that and asks him if he’s really opening with a Shakespeare quote, referring to him open with a line from Sonnet 65. Seth agrees that that’s his plan, claiming how it was an old assignment of his and how he’s feeling nostalgic, referring to Brooke’s inappropriate relationship with him, as Seth asks if Brooke doesn’t miss him at all. Brooke denies him and tells him to consider the number he called from blocked too before hanging up, silently upset.
 * Kieran in the hallway at school introduces Eli as his cousin to both Noah and Audrey and to feel free to ignore him. Eli waves as Noah asks him engaging if it’s his first day. Eli agrees and states how school is school before Noah tells him how in this school, people get killed by knife-wielding maniacs every 20 years give or take, referring to the murders (which took a 20 year break since 1994 before returning in 2015). Brooke and Emma then walk and interrupt before Brooke tells them how there’s a girls only moment needed as she pulls Audrey away from the group leaving Kieran, Noah, and Eli behind. Brooke, Emma, and Audrey head into the girls bathroom as they talk in front of the bathroom sink counter with the mirror and nearby the air hand dryers as Brooke tells them about Seth calling her out of nowhere much to the Emma and Audrey’s surprise, telling them how he had heard Jake and her broke up as Emma asks her how he heard that, claiming how anyone barely knew they were together. Audrey agrees and asks what it is it with men from the past mysteriously showing up, causing tension and who’s referring to Emma’s dad. Brooke senses the tension as she asks what that means with Audrey referring to Kevin as Emma’s “deadbeat” dad resurfacing as well.
 * This angers Emma, who tells Audrey how that’s not a cool thing, how it’s a totally different thing referring to Seth with Brooke, who tells Audrey how she wasn’t ready to share that. Brooke asks if Emma wasn’t going to share the news with her before Emma subliminally remarks at Audrey, claiming how the person she told that morning of her news wasn’t exactly supportive. This takes Audrey back as she asks Emma how was her breakfast with Kevin this morning, to which she replies went really well, to which Audrey tells her how she can tell that it’s “100% not true”. Brooke, trying to understand the situation asks if the two of them are legit fighting before Emma denies and states they’re fine and how it’s only Audrey having unflattering opinions about her dad, which Audrey remarks as being memories, which she says how sometimes people are going through big things that have absolutely nothing to do with her, referring to her and Emma’s strained relationship as friends, claiming out loud sarcastically how it’s a big shocker before Audrey walks off from the bathroom.
 * At the sheriffs office, Miguel overlooks the emails from Kevin’s phone and tells both him and Maggie after reporting it that at the most it’s identity theft and how even then what’s the harm. Maggie looks at Miguel sternly and Miguel apologizes to her and telling her he didn’t mean to sound dismissive, as Miguel points and defends himself, claiming how she’s seen the reports of all the hijinks since her unfortunate run in with her daughter, Piper to which Maggie replies as a pretty “damning understatement”. He reminds both Kevin and Maggie how they all grew up there and Maggie then points how both men left, with Miguel defending himself due to his family having to leave due to the whole Brandon James mess, as Maggie tells Miguel that with their particular history, she thinks he should investigate (referring to when he was involved in helping Maggie aka Daisy move Brandon James’s body when they were young after Brandon was shot). Miguel sighs as he looks at her and then over at Kevin, who has kept quiet and looks at him with an eyebrow, which both men share before agreeing to Maggie to just be safe and claims he knows a guy in the Bureau back in Phoenix and how he can try to trace the activity, claiming how it will take a while and tells them both that for now to not tell Emma, claiming that they don’t need the whole student body talking. Maggie disagrees, claiming she doesn’t know whether to withhold from telling Emma, to which Kevin tries to comfort his wife by tapping her shoulder and who sides with Miguel, asking Maggie what if he’s right, claiming how she had told him how she didn’t want to stress Emma out. Maggie goes quiet as Miguel looks back to Kevin and then to Maggie as she looks at him before then telling Miguel muttering to let her know if he finds anything out before she leaves his office, frustrated as she gets up and walks out.
 * Kevin catches up to her and tells her how he trusts Miguel and how the sheriff will get this sorted out. Maggie retorts by saying if deciding not to tell Emma, and noting their glances, calling both Miguel and Kevin as if they were teenage boys getting away with things again. Kevin tells her that’s not what happened. Maggie then turns around angrily as she’s about to leave the station and tells Kevin how she’s raised Emma on her own ever since he left and how she’s made mistakes and notes how she didn’t have any help. Kevin tells her that’s not fair and pointing out to her that she knew he had to leave, with Maggie claiming how now he’s back and thinks how him and Emma sharing the same experience of almost being killed is a good thing to have in common, which Kevin claims it’s just something they share with Maggie angrily telling him off how being attacked by a psychopath is not bonding. Maggie then turns to walk away only for Kevin to grab her hand just as she turns before she slips away and tells Kevin angrily to never touch her as she walks off and leaving Kevin, both visibly upset.
 * Emma heads to the Grindhouse Cafe and asks to get a copy of the schedule for next week to the barista working the front who nods as she walks to do so (next week being the first week of February 1-5). Eli walks up to Emma, unsuspecting, and makes conversation with her by claiming the barista looked at him like he was crazy too. He tells Emma what drink he’s carrying, carrying a black eye iced coffee with two shots of espresso, siginaling his drink in the clear plastic cup. Emma claims that she would never sleep again as Eli tells her right and both chuckle with Eli making a comment about what he had said earlier about the punching comment and apologizing with Emma claiming it was fine as Eli still stands about what he said, claiming he felt kind of bad for interrupting her. The barista arrives and hands Emma the work schedule and tells her about her dad calling to leave a message and tells Emma to let him know that cell phones exist before walking off and how this isn’t an answering service. Emma agrees to and apologizes, claiming that he doesn’t have her number. Eli tries to lighten her mood up by stating anticipation builds and asking what’s the message from her dad, which Emma opens it and reads that he’s at the Crescent Palms and how he’s sorry and that he has an answer about why he left. Eli smiles and asks her if that’s good with Emma stating they’ll see, unknowingly being a trap set by the killer to lure her.
 * Eddie Hayes is murdered at night with a corkscrew and dies at Crescent Palms. He was killed off by Piper's accomplice after having walked into the killers room and finding it all covered in plastic, which Eddie notes before his death as kinky, who had been sent from the lobby with wine and a corkscrew before finding the room door unlocked as well as empty. He is then murdered by the killer, who emerges from a blanket covering them, and gets the bottle and corkscrew as Eddie approached the bathroom to notice his reflection from the mirror, knocking him out with the bottle shattering over his head and turning the old timey music playing on the speaker to drown Eddie’s calls for help who tries to crawl away before being stabbed repeatedly by the killer in the back of his torso before killing Eddie by stabbing him and leaving the corkscrew on his neck, bleeding and gurgling as Eddie dies out, trailing blood as the killer hides his body in the bathtub of the room. His corpse/body would later be found by an injured and dying Seth Branson after being attacked by the killer at his empty hotel room where Brooke Maddox had previously tied him up by handcuffs and who interrogated him and officially broke things over and up between them after learning about his relationship with Kristen Lang as well as his ties with the death of a female student back in his early days before he came to Lakewood.
 * Noah, Gustavo, Brooke, and Zoë all meet up and hang out that night to watch some B-movie action with them going to see the 1988 film “Killers Klown from Outer Space” the Zenith Theatre, as well as for Zoë, due to Brooke’s insistence, to get along. Gustavo asks to talk with Noah about his podcast as both amicably talk it out with Gustavo claiming how Noah’s making real progress with his Piper accomplice theory, which Noah thanks him for and Gustavo tells him he’s welcome, who then asks him what if he did find someone being the accomplice and if he/she or they would be happy it, stating how that means Noah gets hurt or worse. Noah takes it as food for thought. Brooke and Zoë then arrive, who then asks Noah as she sees Gustavo if he invited him, which he denies as his attention focuses on Zoë and asks Brooke where everyone else, referring to Emma or Kieran, which Brooke claims it’s just her and Zoë tonight. Both Zoë and Noah talk and awkwardly flirt about their reading assignment in AP English of reading Of Mice and Men before Brooke speeds it up and tells Noah if he’s smart he’ll ask Zoë out and if he’s lucky she’ll say yes. Brooke then takes her attention to Gustavo and asks him what he’s doing there, to which Gustavo states and implies that he’s just seeing a movie, who looks Brooke up and down and asks if there’s something he can do for her, before Brooke blatantly asks if she could get one “Stavo-free” day (a pun to Stevia) and asks him if he has any of those to which Gustavo answers jokingly how they’re all out.
 * This causes Zoë and Noah to chuckle from the side, as Brooke scoffs and tells them to go as they all make their way inside, as Brooke grabs onto Noah and Zoe’s arm while Gustavo walks behind them. Noah jokes about Brooke being supposedly excited about seeing the 1988 film, to which Brooke asks cringing if that’s what they’re seeing. Noah then asks Brooke that Audrey had told them she was going to sneak them in tonight before Noah notices her not being there and another usher working instead. Noah says how Audrey’s been MIA lately before Brooke and the others see her staring and notice their former teacher and Brooke’s fling, Seth Branson, at the concession stand in line.
 * He also notices a displeased Brooke and her friends, with Gustavo asking who he is as Zoë tells him on Branson being a former teacher at George Washington High School, as Noah snarks how he used to do a lot of things before Brooke walks madly towards him. Seth takes her aside and tells her that this is just a coincidence with Brooke claiming sure, telling him how he unknowingly called her this morning and how just happens to show up there, as if to suspect him. Seth states how he sees Brooke in a lot of places in town and how he avoids her so she doesn’t know with Brooke sarcastically telling him how that’s not a smart thing to say, as she tells him as the killer “I see you but you don’t see me”, pointing the irony. Seth then smiles and asks Brooke if she actually thinks he’s stalking her with Brooke claiming how he’s absolutely misled her before. Seth states how if Brooke doesn’t think what they had was real then there’s nothing that he can do, with Brooke calling him out for his irony reversing stating how neither his name or backstory where, referring to him having dated Olivia Finley when she was in college before she was murdered, which Seth asks if that’s why Brooke locked him out of her house while people were dying, referring to what transpired almost 3 months ago on October 31st, 2015).
 * Brooke scoffs and states how she doesn’t trust him with Seth stating how she never gave him a chance to explain and how she just shut him out and how it wasn’t just sex when it came to their relationship and claims how he still cares for her, who places his hand to caress her face and cheeks which he pushes much to the silent onlooking contempt from Zoë, Noah, and Gustavo. Brooke sighs as she walks away from him and back to the grove as Seth tells her if they can at least finish talking before Noah and Zoë come to her defense with Zoë greeting their former teacher and Noah joking how this is not at all uncomfortable, before digging at Seth and asking him if there’s any new missing girls to report, to which Seth scoffs and tells him how he never liked him.
 * Brooke breaks the tension between the two, telling them there’s no need for that and telling Seth how his sources were correct about Jake, stating that it’s complicated as she states how she’s for the meantime keeping her plate full as she gets Gustavo to play along in her lead as the guise, introducing him to Seth and how he’s the sherif son as Gustavo grabs his arm protectively around Brooke’s waist, and tells Seth to be nice in order to mislead and make Seth believe it. Gustavo then looks sternly at Seth and asks Brooke if the old dude is bothering her, which Seth claiming how Brooke’s not dating him before Brooke then playing along kisses Gustavo in front of him. They finish with Gustavo looking at Brooke and calling her “babe” claiming how if they’re gonna see the movie they should get in there before Gustavo and Seth then stare off sternly at one another.
 * Brooke, slightly taken aback by the kiss, claims how in second thought she’s not stoke about sitting in a dark room with a teacher and tells her group that they’ll just finds something else to do before they all turn around to leave with Seth calling out Brooke and telling her how she’s changed and how she never even thanked him for the flowers. This causes her to stop at the front door, alongside the group as she turns around in disbelief and asks which Seth states he left on her car, with Brooke having believed they were Jake’s. The group then all walk out as Brooke then takes out her phone and madly texts Jake “Thanks for the flowers. NOT. Screw you. We’re DONE”, implying their relationship officially being over before Jake then supposedly texts “K, Babe. Hasta la Vista”, which takes Brooke aback and who texts him and asks if that’s a stupid hint and if he’s in Mexico with his parents
 * 9:00 PM: Audrey is lured during heading to her shift work that night to the Zenith Theater (which explains why Noah, Brooke, Zoë, and Gustavo weren’t able to be sneaked in by Audrey) by the killer of Eddie’s death and about luring her to have some answers waiting back at Crescent Palms. Audrey denies at first before the killer threatens to expose her for the pins she took out of Jake in the comment section of Noah’s podcast telling her it’s her choice before hanging up and Audrey reluctantly agreeing. Meanwhile, Emma was lured into the same motel room, 213, as Emma does (the dates seen on the list as being as January 24-25 as well as the 26, despite it being the 27, referencing the time frame) due to the note she had received earlier at the cafe, unbeknownst that that’s where Eddie had died, which the killer toyed around and showed Audrey who was recording from the motel bathroom, who was more scared about her friends safety as well as being exposed. However, Emma soon leaves the room and walks away after hearing and seeing her dad get into a fight from the bar across the motel, thus prompting Audrey to be relieved.
 * Emma confronts her dad and breaks up his bar fight and asking why he called her to the motel and then got drunk, as well as why he has these news clippings, the ones she picked up from the empty motel room and who asks her father if it was him who was at the farm on Pikeview Road the other night, the latter who has no idea what she’s talking about and that those aren’t his and how he checked out and everything’s in his car, who claims not to have left Emma the message as Emma confronts her father about leaving which upsets her as Kevin tries to relate with her and how he got angry and because of that, became an alcoholic and who tells her how one day when Emma was little and he was trying to take her somewhere, her mother denied before he lost control and hit her across the face, attacking her and fracturing Maggie’s jaw, much to Emma’s distress and Kevin claiming how her mother was so frightened of putting her in danger and how Kevin states how she doesn’t want Emma to see him like this. Emma is taken aback sadly by this revelation to which Kevin thanks Maggie for never telling her and for letting Emma remember him better, as a guilty Kevin tears up, before Emma turns to walk away unbeknownst that Audrey had heard everything, who plays it off as just driving by and stating the reason why she called the police, who then arrive and ask who called them, with Audrey claiming it was her due to the bar fight, as Kevin is seemingly taken by the police for the bar fight and how she didn’t know it was her dad.
 * Emma states how her and her mom were right before Emma apologizes, which Audrey tells her not to saying she was a jerk and how she can’t explain why it and how none of it matters right now as Audrey and Emma walk to her car. Emma tells Audrey what Kevin said about him and her being the same, which she claims she’s doesn’t want to be with Audrey reassuring her they’re not as Emma states how she doesn’t always have to rescue her with Audrey stating how it’s not like she does it on purpose, as the friends share a nice moment before Emma heads into her car as Audrey tells Emma to get home safe as Audrey walks back and gets into her car before sighing until she gets a text to look under her seat before Audrey searches and finds the bloody corkscrew, much to her shock as she drops it before looking at her phone to see a GIF of a dead Eddie Hayes with the corkscrew the killer used which reads “You shouldn’t have called the police. Gotcha :) )” as Audrey drops her phone and begins to hyperventilate.
 * Audrey then finds somewhere in the woods to dig up and bury the corkscrew due to her DNA now having touched it

January 28

 * Emma is revealed to be writing in her dream journal about her nightmares and hallucinations specifically about Kieran being murdered while making out with Emma by the Lakewood Slahser (a decoy, due to Kieran’s reveal at the end)
 * Audrey awakens to the murder corkscrew weapon having been placed on her bed and a call from the killer taunting her about trying to dispose of it, telling her how he knows her better than he thinks as well as her bedroom window left wide open.
 * Emma texts Kieran happy birthday and ignores her parents arguing downstairs and claims how she’s late for school and tells them on their things, claiming how Kevin hit her mom Maggie and that who he is that he’s a bad dad and how Maggie tries to protect her from things by hiding them but how it does the opposite, asking if she had not figured that out, referring to the murders of Piper back in 2015 and her connection with Brandon James. Emma then tells them to stop making it about her when it’s about them both as she walks off.
 * At home before school, Kieran asks Eli where he was with Eli claiming he was out, as Kieran states how Lakewood is a small town and that people watch and claims to not know what he was doing but that he knows Eli with Eli agreeing and also claiming to know him. Kieran tells Eli how the town has been good to him and how he likes it there and to not ruin it for him, with Eli telling him to relax and that he’s not trying to ruin anything and greets him happy birthday and asks Kieran if he’s sure he doesn’t want him to gather his friends and how they can all do something fun tonight for his birthday, to which Kieran claims he is doing something fun tonight alone with Emma before Kieran leaves for school.
 * 7:13 AM: Quinn Maddox brings in the morning his daughter Brooke in her room on her bed texting, a mug of coffee to which she thanks him as Quinn asks if she’s ready about tomorrow, as she catches his act and stating who wouldn’t be excited about a Friday (which is the 29), claiming it’s the announcement of the finalists of the Lady of the Lake paegant, and who has no doubt Brooke will be one of them. Brooke agrees, uninterested and still on her phone as her dad tells her how her chances of winning decrease dramatically if Jake were to be her escort as Brooke states how she should be a sure bet with Quinn asking if they had a fight as Brooke claims you can’t fight someone who isn’t speaking to you and who she thinks fled to Mexico with his parents, which she claims to not care about. Quinn claims how she’ll have the pick of all ur boys who kisses her in the head and tells her to choose wisely as he leaves and Brooke plops down her phone for a while only to pick it up again and continues texting Jake asking how he’s not even texting her and asking “WTF” and if they’re really done. Jake then supposedly begins to reply as Brooke stands up who texts Brooke he’s waiting for her to beg with Brooke texting him how she doesn’t beg and Jake texting how either way, she’ll see him tomorrow (a foreshadowing to his reveal) as Brooke rolls her eyes before getting back to bed.
 * Meanwhile, Emma meets Eli getting her morning coffee at the Cafe, who’s applying to work with Grindhouse as he states how they’re hiring which Emma notices, as Eli asks that it wouldn’t completely suck working together with Emma denying and stating how it would be awesome. Eli then gathers Emma to convince her to do something fun to do something fun by throwing Kieran his birthday party, which Emma claims to them doing a small romantic thing just the two of them due to her believing Kieran’s claims which Eli points out stating how Kieran would never ask that of her even if that is he what he wants, with Emma asking Eli if Kieran told him that’s what he wants. Emma falls for this and agrees to do it and volunteers her house to throw a surprise party seeing since her mom is out filling for a medical examiner in another town in Portsmouth tonight, explaining her absence. Eli agrees and states how he wants to have some fun and offers to help her buy the booze with his fake ID as they joke with Emma claiming if that’s why she has a fake ID, with Eli claiming how he maybe likes to be someone else once in a while.
 * During the school day, Emma, Audrey, and Brooke are shown working silently on school work in their study hall classroom before Audrey gets a text from the killer claiming they have their eye on her which Audrey looks up before suspecting Gustavo who looks down at her as she looks up at him before taking pictures of him who smiles smugly as she does. Emma then stops her work and asks if both Audrey and Brooke can come to Kieran’s party to which both agree. Audrey asks Emma and Brooke about their thought about Gustavo, with him seeming off to her as Brooke claims he’s a weirdo (prior to dating him) and how he has a whole fanboy thing with the Lakewood Six (referring to his comic book drawings of them, not incriminating), as Audrey begins to suspect before Audrey leaves supposedly to head to the restroom as Brooke hands it to Emma for throwing a party behind her moms back before the whole school is evacuated due to the fire alarm going off as it’s revealed Audrey supposedly pulled it to stay back and look at Gustavo’s tablet of the drawings of the Lakewood 6 before landing on Emma’s which she suspects.
 * Quinn enlists Miguel to find Jake and not file a missing persons report due to the mayor threatening him.
 * Noah and Zoë flirt outside at school before class and who invites her to Emma’s surprise birthday party for Kieran and invites her subliminally before Brooke sees them and walks up telling Zoë that he’ll pick her up at 6:30 that night as Zoë laughs
 * Kieran and Emma are seen talking with Emma standing outside of Kieran’s car as he asks her if she wants him at her house by 7:00, with Emma claiming 7:30 PM instead, as Kieran asks if she’s sure she doesn’t want to do something stating how she’s been dealing with a lot before inviting her to chill and celebrate tomorrow, as Emma reminds him how it’s his birthday and she wants to chill and celebrate his birthday with him tonight as they share a kiss before Kieran drives off and Emma is picked up by Eli in his car to pick up the booze and set up the party, supposedly.
 * Miguel arrives at the school front office receptionist who informs him how Jake has been out with strep throat since Monday, and how normally she would’ve contacted his parents to confirm but how she believed he sounded horrible, as Miguel tells her how he had spoken with them this morning and who were texting with Jake last night and how he never mentioned anything about being sick as the receptionist tells him how Jake’s parents are in Mexico and how there’s no way he’s not calling in sick to school. Miguel thanks her and walks off.
 * At his room after school, Noah asks Audrey for fashion advice on his flannel shirts to go with Zoë for the party tonight as Audrey tells him to keep looking. Audrey then asks for Noah’s opinion on Gustavo who he tells her is cool and tells Noah how he draws them, the Lakewood 6, and how he’s obsessed with them due to what Brooke stated and that she’s right, and Noah claims how brooding loners get a bad rap and how Brooke thinks everyone’s obsessed with her as Audrey continues to suspect Gustavo. Noah states how Audrey is sounding paranoid and that maybe she’s seen too many movies much to her annoyance. Noah then asks if he should wear a cardigan or none as Audrey tells him so with him stating that’s a good choice.
 * Miguel arrives to knock on Jake and the Fitzgerald’s home door, announcing himself from the outside before leaving after getting no response
 * 7:00-7:30 PM: A birthday party is held for Kieran Wilcox (“Happy Birthday to Me”) at Emma’s house, with Brooke and Emma conversing about Eli trying to kiss Emma. The partygoers arrives and Eli informs them about a bottle sent by a supposed Jake of añejo tequila that is all well aged and smells old and tastes bad (which later turns out to be ayehuasca, a psychedelic drug in the form of alcohol, according to Gustavo). They drink the shots served by Gustavo and drink as Kieran walks in. The partygoers immediately start getting sick. The Lakewood survivors mainly gather and are all informed that they will start hallucinating, so Emma and Audrey try and gather everyone inside so nothing bad happens.
 * Brooke begins hallucinating as she drinks water, which she then begins to hallucinate is on fire as well as see Gustavo’s eyes change colors as he grabs her right before she falls. Gustavo takes Brooke to bed and tries to relax her, until she begins to hallucinate Jake and leaves Gustavo. Audrey hallucinates her and Rachel and then ends up kissing Noah and Zoe. Emma hallucinates herself in the woods chasing her younger self until she is then proceeded to be chased by the killer, who she feels isn’t real until she is then proceeded to be almost stabbed by the killer, when she is then found by her dad, who saved her.
 * Sheriff Acosta then proceeded to question them about the party and events and being dosed and Emma almost attacked, with Maggie and Kevin fighting with Maggie arguing he was there conveniently to play the savior. Miguel Acosta looks in his sons room to find a Brandon James mask.

January 29

 * At Kieran’s house before school starts, Emma asks Kieran if surely he believed her after her run in the woods last night as Emma states she knows what she saw, as Kieran states how she’s been so stressed out lately about seeing stuff that wasn’t there, such as the problems with her dad and asks her supposedly worried and how perhaps she was right before about not being ready to come back yet. Emma states it wouldn’t make a difference at the psychiatric facility wouldn’t change anything and how he was right and how everything she needs to fix is right there. Eli overheard this from the inside.
 * The next day at school, at the parking lot, Noah meets with Audrey to apologize (due to Audrey having prematurely apologized while on the ayahuasca), with Noah then taking it slow with her as they wouldn’t become an official couple until “Let The Right One In”, and Brooke and Gustavo are shown sharing and talking with one another at the auditorium as Brooke apologizes and tells Gustavo he was a good guide with Gustavo complimenting her and telling her if anyone could do it, it’s her.
 * Emma gets to school and heads to the assembly before Eli catches up with, which she gets mad at Eli again for having thrown a party (after learning the night before as well) when she believed him for saying Kieran wanting something big but rather not, and gets mad about her being chased in the woods and that he knows nothing and with him telling her what he thinks she wants to hear means that he’s not helping and that he doesn’t get it all, despite Eli’s claims that there’s no doubt in his mind and that he’s trying to help stating he believes her even if Kieran doesn’t, referring to her and Kieran’s conversation, when Emma asks him why he’s saying this and telling him how telling her what he overheard. Emma tells Eli that if what she saw last night in the woods is real, then there is a new aka second killer/Piper’s accomplice and how all of that is happening all over again (foreshadowing right before the reveal of Jake’s body)
 * At this point, the disappearance of Jake Fitzgerald is being placed and put into question and later ultimately high alert until the reveal of his death.
 * During the school day assembly and Lady of the Lady pageants finalists namings, after all the 5 young ladies have taken the stage, including Zoë, with Brooke Maddox in a small, white, long sleeved dress front and center, while at the auditorium stage, as a stage crew rolls down the banner, the corpse of Jake Fitzgerald falls down while rolling down the sign of the Lady of the Lake Pageant (where he was rolled in) in front of his former girlfriend Brooke, causing a public meltdown and traumatizing Brooke, who is seen covered after the body fell in his blood, screaming much to Emma’s shock as well as her friends (“Happy Birthday to Me”).
 * This scene is an homage to various others in the Scream franchise, albeit public, such as both Maureen Evans and Randy Meeks in Scream 2, Rebecca Walters in Scream 4 and Avery Collins in Season 3. However, Jake falling albeit dead homages that of Kenny Brown’s death
 * The scene with Brooke being covered in blood while in a white dress on stage in front of an audience is a reference to Carrie, which in turn was then mentioned by Billy Loomis for his fake blood in the original Scream.
 * The police and the Sheriff are called in and order a lockdown, causing a number of concerned parents to be locked outside, but Brooke’s father aka Mayor Quinn Maddox is allowed in as he is informed of the situation. Brooke is held and photographed by Maggie Duval, who attempts to console her as Brooke tries to take on what she now knows about her boyfriend having died days before as she suspected after begging Maggie, asking her after Jake’s in a body bag and her cleaned up
 * Unfortunately, this comes at a price seeing as this information was valuable and sharing it was seen as a threat by Acosta on Duval’s part and how it had to remain private due to overreaction by the town residents, so he fired her for it, respectively.
 * Maggie also states that she thinks it’s been two or 3 days since Jake’s death which would make it take sometime between January 26th or 27th, as opposed to his actual death on January 25.
 * Audrey and Emma arrive while pleading with Kristen to let them get to Brooke before Maggie denies them and tells them that it is an active evidence crime scene before Deputy Dwayne calls for Emma to be interrogated and leaves Audrey to console Brooke after Brooke begs sadly for her friends to stay, as Maggie reassures her they’re doing that to all of Jake’s friends.
 * The sheriff interrogates various students including Noah as he asks whether they were friends as Noah states what they went through with Piper changes them and tries to joke about being used to it before retracting and stating it’s awful. Acosta asks Noah briefly when was the last time he saw Jake, which he states was at a party the other night 5 days ago (Emma’s return which was January 24) and thinking how this was all a prank seeing as nobody had seen him due to having gotten in a fight with Brooke and how he has to understand how Jake went out of his way to be a pain in the ass sometimes, as Brooke thought he’d been playing some sort of elaborate hide and seek game with her and with something as terrible as this happening, people would rather believe anything else is happening. The sheriff then asks Noah what he thinks is happening as Noah tells him how know they know what’s happening and how now that Emma’s home, the second new killer aka Piper’s accomplice is finishing the job.
 * Emma is guided into the library upstairs and left there where many students are being held such as Kieran, Eli, Zoë, Gustavo, and Haley. Kieran hand gestures for Emma as they walk behind an empty aisle by bookshelves behind the crowd as Kieran asks how he’s sorry it’s all happening again (slight foreshadowing) and asks how’s Brooke as Emma states she’s a mess before asking how she is as Emma tears up and Kieran hugs her. Kieran apologizes about last night and how he shouldn’t have doubted her as Emma tells him to not talk about that. They share a kiss and hug
 * Brooke and Audrey are in the locker room where Brooke is getting cleaned up, by showering and afterwards gets out in a white towel, still in distress where Audrey tries to console her, seeing as Brooke is in disbelief, when she thought and believed that she had been texting Jake, which prompts suspicion from Audrey who then states it perhaps wasn’t Jake, making both now believe that a new killer is out, prompting Brooke to state that it’s happening all over again, referencing the first killer spree orchestrated by Piper back in 2015. Brooke then sighing asks what she’s supposed to wear as Audrey tells her they handed her this, which is ironically a cheerleader outfit, as she goes to change Audrey texts on Brookes phone to Jake aka the killer who took his phone how they’re going straight to hell.
 * The students, now including Noah as he walks into the library, Emma, Audrey, Noah, Gustavo, Haley, Zoë, Eli and Kieran are all held at the library upstairs were two police hold them together and others including the Sheriff, interrogate them outside in another room. Noah and Zoë look at one another before Noah makes his way to a distressed Emma to give her a hug. Eli asks Noah what did they ask him with Noah stating the same old usual stuff. Emma’s phone vibrates as she takes her bag and goes into the aisle alone as Kieran, Noah, and Gustavo discuss with Kieran asking Noah if the sheriff told him why they’re being locked down as Noah states none but how he’s sure it’s because they know someone’s out there which Noah states he’s been saying for a long time.
 * Eli peeks to look at Emma through the aisle. Gustavo points out how Noah keeps saying somebody’s out there and if he’s never considered the vintage “locked room” horror scenario, referencing movies such as When a Stranger Calls (ironically, the title of the Season 2 finale before the “Halloween” specials). Noah tells him he thinks how the call is coming from inside the house (reference to Black Christmas) as Gustavo asks him what if the police thinks one of them is the killer, as Kieran states how they didn’t lock the killer out but in, as Eli points out it could be either him or her but claims how he should leave the crazy paranoid talk to the experts (a reference to “Hello, Emma”).
 * Emma is shocked when she then finds Jake’s phone having been planted into her backpack. Emma then calls Kieran to talk for a second as she reveals Jake’s phone planted on her backpack (which Kieran did), as he asks how she got this and states how the only person who could’ve had this is the killer (who she’s talking to which she doesn’t know until the season finale)
 * Brooke stays in Ms. Lang’s room alongside a female officer guarding as the female officer offers her number on a note just like she did to Emma before the Mayor arrives and Ms Lang and the female cop leave the room as a sad Brooke is hugged by her dad
 * Audrey is taken to the library as Haley remarks a sad and recently showered Brooke walking to the Psych room with 2 officers before Deputy Dwayne calls for Haley to be interrogated as Haley then heaving asks Audrey what the sheriff asked her as Audrey states she hasn’t been interviewed yet as Haley scoffs before leaving as Kieran signals for Audrey as Emma reveals her having Jake’s phone as Emma states to go to the cops which Audrey denies. Audrey states how it might not be Jake’s phone and how they planted it on her and wanted her to find it and reminding her that the last time she got played she almost got killed and how now Jake’s dead. Audrey apologizes and tells her how now they know what’s going on now and whoever is doing this to them is trying to control them but for them it’s life or death. Emma breaks down sobbing as Audrey hugs her to console and comfort her.
 * Noah approaches Zoë from the other side of the library, walking up to her and asking her pleadingly to not ignore him as Zoë puts down the book she was reading and apologizes, stating she was trying to ignore the fact that something horrible happened. Noah asks if she’s referring to last night or what happened in the auditorium, referring to Jake. Zoë states both as Noah tries to apologize with Zoë stating how talking about last night is kind of ridiculous and how she’s not sure she’s up for the other conversation and asks Noah to let her try to ignore both as Noah states sadly how they all have their ways of coping before walking off before Zoë stands up and says that if he needs to talk, as Noah turns around, tells him to go ahead. Noah states not if she’s uncomfortable with Zoë stating it’s fine and how it’s probably healthier than to ignore it as Zoë asks Noah if he thinks it’s starting up again. Noah grabs Zoë and leads her aside away from the crowd and agrees and believes that it is. Zoë then asks him why did they do it like “so public” like that with Noah stating it was the killer’s announcement, coming out party, and a classics “end of act one body drop”. Zoë asks if that means the killer’s emboldened now which Noah agreed and how they’re starting act two, which unfortunately means they all have bullseye’s on their backs, referring how they can all be targets now, which they both agreed unless somebody figures out who it is and tries to stop them which Zoë states hopefully, which Noah states how that’s the job of the final girl, referring to Emma, which Zoë states or the hero referring to him.
 * Zoë chuckles and states how she didn’t want to say anything but reveals to Noah her crush as being a huge fan of the Morgue, how she loves his voice and thinks that he makes the morbid beautiful. Noah, taken aback slightly, thanks her, as Zoë states how now she’s had a front row seat, she gets it’s as she gets why Noah makes the podcast, how he’s sublimating his feelings about mortality and turning his former friends’s deaths into a puzzle he can solve without actually having to deal with it. This hurts Noah which Zoë apologizes as he claims how she’s probably right before Zoë reminds him what he said to her about how they all have their ways of coping.
 * Haley, leaving after being interrogated about her prank on Audrey, while on the phone call with a friend, notices the cops searching down lockers as Deputy Dwayne tells her to come on as she stalls and who tells her friend over the phone about it, which gets everyone in the library talking and moving where Audrey, Eli, Emma, Noah, Zoë, and Gustavo are held as Eli informs Audrey about the locker search. This leads Kieran to be also taken aback as Emma notices and asks him what’s going on and how he has something in his locker he’d rather the cops not find which Noah asks if he doesn’t hear himself and how suspicious that sounds as Kieran states he needs help, with Eli asking Kieran how he’s going to do that, referring to them being held in as Kieran looks at Eli with Eli telling him not to look at him. Emma asks what he has before Kieran tells Emma not to worry and states the infamous “Ill be right back” line before Noah volunteers to go with him as lookout, due to him being in disbelief for saying that as Audrey and Zoë ask if he’s sure.
 * Audrey and Zoë fake the guise of Audrey being sick so Noah and Kieran can sneak out, seeing as the female cop leads them. Noah and Kieran hide in the stairwell before heading downstairs as he opens his locker and gets his backpack just as Noah looks from the other side of the door and hides as Deputy Dwayne approaches and tells Kieran how he’s not supposed to be out there before asking to see his bag and revealing the gun, which Noah peeks and sees, much to his astonishment. Kieran having a gun in his locker, which raises him alert by the police.
 * Deputy Dwayne leads Kieran to Sheriff Acosta who displays his weapon in front of him in a box and asks him how he wants to do this as Kieran tells him to cuff him and reminds him how his dad was a cop and he know how this works as the sheriff claims how he knows his homework and how Kieran’s also been arrested before as the sheriff tells Kieran how he knows there’s a lot of ways it can play out as Kieran states there seems to be only obviously one which the sheriff claims not really as the sheriff states how somebody who goes to the trouble to stage the big show like they saw doesn’t make the mistake of leaving the gun in his locker which Kieran defends as it’s his dads guns and that he carries it to protect himself and his friends, which the sheriff supposes it’s understandable given what’s happened and what he’s be been through to which Kieran thanks for acknowledging it.
 * The sheriff claims he doesn’t blame him for needing to feel safe, how he’s going to confiscate the gun and how he’s willing to look over this entire episode on the if the sheriff lets him keeps his eye on him, claiming it’s what his dad would’ve wanted and what he would’ve wanted for Gustavo had it been the other way around, by claiming it’ll be good for Kieran to come down to the station and put him to work and how he doesn’t have to tell Kieran how cops take care of their own. Kieran claims not his dad and appreciates the sheriff for not arresting him but how this whole good cop routine is not planned and asks what he really wants, as Sheriff Acosta smiles claiming he wants in or hell be arrested, put on probation, and kicked out of school and how it’s his choice to inform him on Emma and Jake’s phone, ultimately snitching on her and ratting/selling her out.
 * Eli talks to Emma about her plan about ditching Jake’s phone. Noah then calls Emma, as she walks away from Eli, who stands behind her nonetheless, to tell her about Kieran being busted due to having a gun in his locker much to Emma’s surprise for bringing it to school as Noah tells her how he’s trapped in the hallway and how he has no idea how to make it back into the library aka Learning Center without being caught seeing as there are cops everywhere. He hides just as the Sheriff, Deputy, and Kieran walk by and tells Emma this as she asks if he’s being arrested which he doesn’t know and claims he has to go. After hanging up Eli tells Emma to give him Jake’s phone and how he’ll get rid of it with Emma stating she can’t ask him to do that with Eli saying he wants to and how it’ll be one less miserable thing for her to deal with today and how he’ll do it better than her.
 * Just as Emma heads to get her phone, the Sheriff and Deputy approach her as the Sheriff states how he heard she has something to show him (referring to Jake’s phone and Kieran snitching on her to save his identity, unbeknownst until the season finale). Shyly, and in front of everyone as she takes out Jake’s phone as everyone looks on at her in disbelief and contempt before the Sheriff asks her to come with her as she walks out. Eli picks up on this and as a soon as they leave with her, tells Kieran he ratted her out which Kieran tells him to shut up. As Audrey and Zoë head back in the notice Emma, with both Emma and Audrey looking at one another quietly as both turns their heads around before each go to where their heading. Zoë states once she’s inside how Kieran made it back which Audrey points out not happily. Noah calls Audrey as he hides and notices Emma being taken away as well as he tells her how he and Kieran failed and how they took Kieran away and now Emma and how he ended up trapped out in the hallways. Audrey tells her how Kieran returned but who doesn’t look like he wants to chat as she states who knows and how somebody planted Jake’s phone in Emma’s bag and asks if that’s why they’re taking her. Audrey claims she doesn’t know but how they walked her out of the library like some sort of criminal and who claims that the person they should be questioning is sitting in the library as Noah asks who she’s talking about, before it focuses in on Gustavo drawing a fake picture of Noah being injured.
 * Sheriff Acosta asks Emma how she has no idea how Jake’s phone wound up in her backpack to which she agrees and states that whoever put it in there is the same person who attacked her last night and Jake’s killer with the sheriff asking if she believes she’s being targeted like before as Emma agrees and the sheriff notes her leaving for three months for PTSD treatment and stress issues after the events of the dock as well as being in the psych ward after Will Belmont’s death last year. Emma states how she knows it sounds crazy and how she didn’t come to him right away and how she was scared and didn’t know how to explain this but states how after what happened to Jake how Acosta has to believe her. The sheriff claims he does believe what she believes to be saying to be true and how she’s a victim and not one of the bad guys as he opens the door and motions for her to leave from her statement and how for now that’s it as he instructs a deputy to lead Emma back as Deputy Dwayne comments her as Sheriff Acosta notes Stockholm syndrome and claims it could be one of of the Lakewood Five but won’t narrow it down to them. Deputy Dwayne leaves as Quinn enters the room as Sheriff Acosta sarcastically states that he found Jake just like he asked with the Mayor claiming that is not even remotely funny.
 * Quinn tells Acosta how Brooke is coming home with her as the Sheriff understands his concern but how he still has to ask her a few questions and the Mayor claims not without him present as the Sheriff states how she’ll be more honest if he’s not in the room as Quinn asks Miguel if he thinks he’s a suspect to which he denies and remarks on the freezer in the garage before walking off from the upset mayor.
 * Kieran quietly claims he didn’t try to sell Emma out after she returned and which she denies as now everybody thinks she’s crazy as they argue silently loud yet publicly and tells her how the sheriff asked her about her PTSD and psych ward. Eli chimes in how in times like this you have to be careful around who you trust which Kieran takes as a defense against his cousin, bumping him madly in his shoulder as he walks into the aisle alone to listen to music. The room notices this tension, including Haley and a few onlookers, as Audrey states how they all need and have to calm down. Emma notices this as Haley then loudly begins to remark how she had the dead guys phone (Jake) and how due to her mom being the coroner, the cops just sent her back (clearly jealousy, due to Haley having been in a fling with Emma’s boyfriend Kieran aka the killer unbeknownst at the time to either). Emma noticed this and tries to go at them madly and asks why they’re al staring at her before Audrey and Noah try to pull her back as Eli tells her to ignore it as Emma states she wants to know what they have to say. Audrey tells her she’s not worth it as Emma confronts Haley face to face and asks her politely if Haley has to say.
 * At this point Zoë and Gustavo get up as everyone begins to circle, and also backing off noticing the tension. Emma states how she knows Haley’s scared and that they all are but how they shouldn’t be scared of each other and asks Haley pleadingly to not be scared of her which Haley retorts and claims how she actually is, due to everyone who comes around her dies (reference to Olivia Morris’s comment on Sidney Prescott being the Angel of Death, with people who surround her also dying; albeit this was just a comment, not face to face with Sidney nor hateful) and how her friends should all be scared because they’re all gonna die, referring to Noah, Audrey, Gustavo, Eli and Zoë, the latter two being the ones who do.
 * Emma tells Haley, quietly upset, that she has no idea what she’s been through as Haley begins to loudly remark how Piper butchered eight people but magically didn’t touch a hair on her head, which Emma claims is not true and how Emma then shot her in the face so they only got her side of the story. Audrey tells Haley that’s enough and to leave her alone as Audrey tries to pull Emma away before Hayley loudly remarks how her whole family is crazy and how anytime there’s a killer loose how there’s somehow a crazy Duval left standing (referring to her dad and the 1994 murders)
 * This comment finally pushes Emma to the edge as she turns around to hardly slap Haley across her face, much to the shock and gasping of the crowd. Emma is taken aback before Haley then calls Emma a “dumb bitch” as she tackles Emma to the ground, as her and Haley then proceed to get into a fight (which Haley instigated as the trash talker, and Emma for having the first hit) gathering the students, especially the jocks in their letterman jackets to cheer on, and others to record on their phones as Audrey tries to get Hayley off Emma, alongside Gustavo pulling Hayley off as Ms. Lang and officers entere to calm the situation as Eli helps Emma up and and Ms. Lang leads Emma away, as Noah, Zoë, and Kieran (who had heard it after taking out his headphones try to get back into the crowd).
 * Brooke, as her father stands by her side, is interrogated by Sheriff Acosta who asks Brooke when was the last time she saw Jake which she states was on Sunday night (making it January 24) and it was here at the high school swimming pool, and how they snuck in to have sex much to her fathers silent but expressed shock at this statement. Acosta states this as trespassing and how it’s fun and asks Brooke if there’s anything else she wants to tell him about that night and who tells him how they had a fight which he asks about and states it was about her dad and how he had a problem with Jake and how Jake wanted to go public about their relationship but how she chose her father crying as her dad pays her and claims she knows who did this, naming her former teacher Seth Branson and how he’s been sending her texts, flowers, and showing up everywhere much to her fathers shock and who tells Miguel they have a restraining order as the sheriff asks if he was stalking her as she claims they used to call it something else but overall agrees that he was as Miguel asks Brooke if she thinks he’s capable and why he would do something like that and states he did this because of her and asks to go see Jake alone.
 * After finding her and taking her out of the Learning Center due to her fight, Emma’s psych teacher Kristen Lang, takes her into her office following Emma’s fight with and Haley, as she leaves a shaken Emma alone and who reassures her she’s not going crazy: who would then finds recordings of her and several students, mostly hers and the Lakewood Six, which Emma confronts her about not long after before, due to being worried about her safety and secret, Kristen proceeds to lock Emma inside her office.
 * Meanwhile the killer calls Emma for the first time in in 3 months, asking if she missed him and how they’re coming for her and watches her after she opens the blinds in Ms. Lang’s office, as Emma tells them not this time and gets out by using a chair to break the window and escape and yells out for the killer, scraping her arm in the process. This causes her to use a chair and break the office window so she could escape and yelling that she’s not going to play their games anymore. She then, without being stopped and bleeding, makes her way back to the Learning Center.
 * Sheriff Acosta leads Deputy Dwayne to lead Maggie out after she told Brooke, which he overheard, much to her confusion before taking Jake’s phone and using Jake’s dead hand to open his phone.
 * Audrey tells Noah quietly back in the library on the phone about her suspicion of Gustavo being the killer due to him being the one passing out the doped up shots and drawing up their friends being brutally murdered and how now one of them is, referring to Jake. Noah, sitting outside on the stairwell, tells her and reassures her he’s not the killer and how he’s one of them as a horror fan and friend which Audrey states how that if he’s right and she’s wrong, she’ll apologize but if she’s right what would he say when she’s the one hanging from a banner with her insides on the outside (foreshadowing to Haley’s death, as well as Audrey being incorrect about her guess). Audrey then stumbles on the security door which is disarmed and leads Noah telling him that if he can sneak into the service hallway he can get back in without being caught as Noah seemingly hangs up and gets up from the stairs during down and runs as Audrey hangs up and stares down at Gustavo who’s on his tablet who looks back up to stare at her.
 * Noah arrives via the disarmed door (which Kieran had probably disarmed to sneak into the Slasher costume to taunt and call Emma) and asks Audrey if she’s okay, noting how he was out there and she was in there and how they used to stick together in times of dangerous peril and how he was worried about her. Audrey thanks him as she watches Gustavo, who before Noah arrive does a hand gun signal, as Noah tries to reassure Audrey which Audrey rebuffs and tells him how he can be seriously messed up despite not fitting the accomplice profile of Noah, as Noah joins Audrey in watching Gustavo from the bookshelves behind the aisle they’re in as she tells him how he’s got the same twisted sense of humor as the freak that’s been calling her, which takes Noah aback, before Audrey clarifies that it was the texts as Noah points out her slip up and how she thought they were just pranks before Audrey rectifies she meant texts and how she doesn’t know what they are, when Emma returned and how Gustavo basically has “crazy psychopath” tattooed on his forehead and asks how she’s just supposed to ignore it (callback to the video store scene in the original Scream) stating how people are dying and how she can’t under these circumstances, which Noah also points only Jake having been killed (unbeknownst about Eddie’s death).
 * Noah states how Audrey is his favorite person in the world but how she’s acting weird and how they’re all freaking out about Jake and that he gets it but tells Audrey to trust him in taking a breath as he looks at her.
 * 11:56 AM: Audrey looks scornful at Noah and reminds him how Piper was underneath their noses and neither of them either (despite Audrey having brought without knowing her identity or motives in Season 1) as Noah asks if she’s really going to go over and accuse Gustavo of being a psycho killer as Audrey defends this due to Gustavo having sketched them and how she saw him draw Eli and Kieran in a pool of blood, today of all days, sarcastically which Noah points out as she calls herself how she’s only going to ask him what that’s all about as, stating it’ll be weird if they didn’t. Audrey leaves the aisle and walks up front and loudly asks Stavo what he’s drawing as Gustavo tells her not to worry about it, with Audrey stating how he’s staring at them all the time how she’d love to see what they inspire him before without his consent, quickly snatching his tablet from his hands as Gustavo stands up and asks Audrey to give it back.
 * Audrey loudly reacts to what the hell is wrong with him, as to expose him as she moves further to the other side of the library. Everyone such as Zoë and Eli stand up, alert again as Kieran asks Noah what’s happening with Noah claiming how Audrey was only going to ask Gustavo what he was drawing before other students hold Gustavo back as Stavo tells Audrey it’s not what she thinks it is and claims what it’s not before showing everyone what he’s drawing as he lifts the tablet and shows the students a drawing of Zoe’s decapitated head, causing gasps as Haley calls Stavo a sicko and Stavo claims how it’s just drawings and asks Audrey to give it back, as other male students restrain him as Audrey shows them more of the drawings as Gustavo tells everyone it’s not what they think as Haley tells him the only people to do that are serial killers, with the crowd in unison as Gustavo ducks his head from someone throwing a soda to his head which lands on the wall behind him yelling at him as gross, as a frantic and humiliated Gustavo defends himself claiming it’s only fantasies and not real life.
 * Audrey feels bad as a jock grabs the tablet off Audrey’s hands and breaks it as it goes down to the floor. Audrey picks it up, before a male student punches Gustavo and others surround him as well, with Audrey not purposely, incited a riot against Gustavo. Noah pulls Audrey back and asks what she’s down as Kieran makes his way and tries to pull Gustavo out. Sheriff Acosta is called in by Deputy Dwayne to the right before he goes was reading the texts between Jake and the the Mayor aka Brooke’s dad.
 * After Ms. Lang returns to the library alongside the sheriff and deputy, to break up the fight against Gustavo, is noticed by Noah as well as the police and other students noticing her, turning around as she walks in, bleeding from her cut as she looks on at them.
 * The students are then released to their parents outside, as they come in after the lockdown is lifted and Emma is treated for her cut and keeps her discretion with Ms. Lang’s locking her inside her classroom after being asked by Sheriff Acosta.
 * Kieran apologizes to Emma for snitching on him after Sheriff Acosta releases her and asks if she’s ok. Emma agrees that perhaps he fought that was the best way to handle it and how Audrey’s right and that their choices matter and how she would like to think he trusts her enough to make her own who denies Kieran’s ride home stating she needs to be alone for a little bit.
 * Back in the mostly empty library, Audrey, Noah, and Zoë sit as Gustavo drops his ice pack on the table after being tended to his cute as he picks up his backpack madly and quietly as Audrey looks in shame and her head down and who’s picking up hi broken tablet as Audrey states she has to say say something, giving Noah a window of opportunity seeing as Audrey left her phone, as Audrey walks up to Gustavo and offers to pay to fix or replace his tablet with Gustavo madly and rightfully so telling her to stay the hell away from him and threatens otherwise that he’ll break something she loves. He leaves as Noah snatches her phone in his pocket and hands Audrey her backpack as they all leave.
 * Brooke, silently crying sneaks into the swimming pool now during the day as she goes in silently crying before diving her head underwater crying and screaming, due to her mourning Jake
 * 4:43 PM: In his car before leaving school, Noah hacks into Audrey’s phone before he finds and reads her messages with the killer incriminating her as the killer (seeing the GIF of dead Jake and Audrey pulling the pins) and fueling suspicions that Audrey is involved much to his facial awe.

January 30

 * Noah makes a podcast dedicated to one day since Jake Fitzgerald’s body was found and how the grizzly reality of how he died is settling in and how that sort of grief is tricky and one doesn’t know what to feel whether furious (Brooke shown in her room, madly upset with a pair of scissors as she contemplates cutting her hair before stabbing and ripping her pillows up with it during Noah’s monologue: homage to Billy and Roman ) or frightened or sad; how it can swallow you up or weigh you down, as well as ignite a fire inside oneself and how when murder hits this close to home it makes you see the world in a new way as well as people too and even the ones you trust start to look a little different because when everyone’s a suspect there’s no innocence as Noah looks at the GIF on Audrey’s phone and making her in his own murder board, the prime suspect (panning to Audrey, boxing a punching bag as her contents from her backpack are splattered supposedly after trying to have found her phone which Noah took unbeknownst to her)
 * Emma is in her room and answers her phone that morning, which is the killer who asks if Emma didn’t tell anyone about “their little meeting” yesterday which Emma says not to and apologizes sarcastically to disappoint them. The killer taunts Emma as being poor, sad, and awful that she can’t trust anyone or herself. Emma tells them they’re wrong with the killer claiming she knows they’re right and how they always are as Emma tells him to go to hell as the killer claims to be in her head and she knows it before she grabs her bag and cardigan and heads out.
 * Maggie stalls Kieran at the front door before Emma approaches. Kieran comes in to apologizing and giving a reason to why he sold her out as he was going to be arrested had he not done it (also to hide his identity) and Emma claims how he could told her and how he’s been calling her all morning to apologize and telling him how the killer called again (unbeknownst that she was talking with him till the season finale), how they called her first at the lockdown and this morning, how he was taunting her in the window at school just like her close attack in the window with Kieran asking her why she didn’t tell anyone, as Emma claims who if the sheriff only to ask about her PTSD again and states how Jake’s body dropped from the ceiling and all Sheriff Acosta cared about was her mental health history, as if to imply and suspect her, which she points out is exactly what the killer wants as Kieran states she made up the panic attack as Emma states how the killer is messing with her and it’s personal. Emma states how she has to figure out what’s going on and who she can trust. Kieran grabs her as Emma stats her disbelief at Jake being gone and that this is happening again, with Kieran agreeing (ironic, since he’s the killer and Piper’s accomplice)
 * Noah is shown in his room studying his murder board until he covers it as Emma knocks and comes in as she states right before Piper died how she had one more surprise (accomplice) who she thinks was the one who killed Jake and is now terrorizing all of them and confirming his theory which she’s now ready to see. Noah tries to lead her off before she reassured him and takes it off as she asks him why he thinks it’s Audrey as she sees her picture and what makes him think that it’s her. Noah tells her it’s due to her having said some strange things during lockdown and going full Frankenstein lynch mob on Gustavo and how her temper’s been off the charts lately. Emma asks unconvinced if that’s all he has which Noah states as just a feeling much to Emma’s frustration and who tells Noah it’s not Audrey and how the killer is in his head, messing with him and making them not being able to trust anything or anyone and makes him connect dots that don’t exist as part of his game. Noah agrees that it could all be part of his plan which Emma agrees it has to be before she gets a text from Brooke and who before she leaves turns to tell Noah it’s not Audrey and how unless he has something to back up his claim, he needs to take down her picture before she then leaves (unbeknownst that Noah has Audrey’s phone or the incriminating texts and GIF)
 * Brooke is shown sad at her house as Emma attends and helps her in her room as they both catch up on her as Brooke believes it was Seth who killed Jake due to jealousy which Emma tells her not to do that to herself. Just before she leaves, Emma pleads for Brooke not to go down that spiral and how it doesn’t make sense as Brooke asks Emma how she’s trying to make sense out of any of this and refers back to Piper as Emma’s long lost psycho half sister trying to kill them back in 2015 as not being logical and how it happened and how it can be anyone this time and that she has to find out what happened to Jake and she doesn’t care how ugly it gets. Emma agrees and says bye to Brooke who says she’ll see her later. Emma leaves as Brooke overhears Sheriff Acosta and her dad talking who asks about the tip on Seth or Jake’s phone which the sheriff states (Brooke overhears this shortly from upstairs) he couldn’t due to it being encrypted, despite it not being and making Quinn look like a suspect due to his texts which Acosta reads in his car.
 * Noah follows Audrey to return her phone subliminally by using the guise of trying to buy a bike.
 * Noah and Emma meet up at her house and talk about Eddie, who is the clue to clearing Audrey despite the fact that Eddie’s dead and the killer responds telling Noah and Emma to meet him tonight at the fairgrounds to talk in the funhouse.
 * Tina Hudson and Quinn Maddox talk at a bar and later Quinn gives her a tour of his house before they drink as Tina tries to hook up before Quinn denies this as desperation and who has a job for her instead.
 * Brooke is seen making a coffee and texts Gustavo to meet her at the Grindhouse as Gustavo appears almost scaring her and who he reminds her of his transportation (bike) as he asks her what the emergency was with Brooke telling him how he was really great guide the night of her ayuhuasca nightmare on the 28, about 2 days ago, and who was wondering if he has that same sense of direction around his dad’s office. Gustavo asks what he’s looking for and she states anything weird in Seth Branson’s file, which he remembers as the lurker guy the night of the movies the night she kissed him, which Brooke scoffs that it was him who kissed her and asks if he can help to which Gustavo replies cake walk. He sneaks in while Miguel, aka Stavo’s dad interviews Kieran in his office. He returns to the cafe to inform Brooke how the police believe Jake’s time of death was late Sunday night to early Monday morning (January 24-25) and how Seth Branson’s alibi for the whole night is Kristen Lang, their Psych teacher, much to Brooke’s surprise and disgust and repelled at as Gustavo state it gets weirded with the file states they’re dating which Brooke disagrees and Gustavo states it is how Kristen’s his age and Brooke states she’s going to get to the bottom of it as Gustavo asks Brooke to promise that she’ll take no prisoners and kick ass as needed, smiling as the the two share a moment sitting down at couch of the cafe.
 * Audrey is about to get a new phone before she finds her back in backpack and leaves.
 * Back at the police station, while looking at a plague of his late dad, Kieran is called in by the sheriff who tells him information about using his place to meet up (referring to Brooke and Jake) as Acosta asks for him to talk about Emma as he tells him how he already told him everything, noting to him not to make the same mistakes and who claims had he and Emma and the others had come forward last time, Kieran’s dad might still be alive who tells him how he saw him and to not tell him that hadn’t crossed his mind as Kieran madly states he had to bring him into this before he slams the chair he was sitting on, gets up and leaves, slamming the door.
 * Emma and Noah go over their plan at the fairgrounds before Maggie intervenes and tells Emma not to go anywhere tonight
 * At the Grindhouse Cafe, Gustavo makes Audrey look at his paintings as they reconcile with Gustavo giving a reason to paint his graphic novel to tell a story and how murder can be art and whoever killed Jake had a vision stage their kills and to tell a story as he can tell past Audrey knowing that she suspects him and so does she.
 * Brooke fakes a crying breakdown to meet with Ms. Lang to pretended and she states she was with Branson supposedly slept with on Sunday night the night Jake died before Ms. Lang goes back to her car and calls Seth asking to talk. Afterwards, Brooke calls Seth who’s on the phone with her as Brooke lures Seth to a trap at their old meet up spot and hotel room.
 * Emma is shown heading out that night before her car then blows a a tire and who tries to call Noah who can’t answer due to having no service at the fairgrounds, whose seen drinking from a boba as heads in with a flashlight to the fairgrounds and calls out for Eddie as he heads inside into the funhouse before being scared off and trying to leave in his car before he is faked kidnapped by Audrey in his car, whose dressed as the Lakewood Slasher. This was down, Saw, Eli Roth movie style by Audrey so Noah would believe her how she wasn’t the killer and to reveal the truth to one another as Noah truly believed he was going to die. She unties him as Emma arrives and approaches, which he and Audrey are now aware as a trap for the killer who tells Noah to promise her not to tell Emma until she can.
 * Brooke meets with Seth at his hotel room and who makes out with him before tying him up by handcuffing his hands to the bed and tying his legs with rope and confronting him, slashing his face with a scissor and asking about why he lied about his alibi on Sunday night and Seth claims he was in the hotel room trying to pay for him to leave Lakewood and how he was supposed to come but never came. Brooke asks how much she was worth which Seth states $10,000 and calls him out on his past as Seth claimed it was due to Jake and Brooke’s dad having a deal. After messing with Seth, she believes him and slyly leaves the hotel room before blindfolding and gagging him stating before she leaves how she never wants to see him again (foreshadowing his death)
 * Kieran arrives to change Emma’s tire as he hears her tell Noah’s theory about Audrey being the supposed killer and how she has to go if there’s anything to clear Audrey’s name and Kieran suggests to go to the cops even as Emma told him to not worry and that he’s worried with Emma claiming she won’t until she has something real and that she thought he understood that with Kieran claiming he does and using as a defense what the sheriff told him about Kieran’s dad being alive had it not been for them not going (due to Kieran being the killer unbeknownst to Emma) and asks Emma to promise him to not go and how it’s not safe with Emma agreeing as Kieran drives off and Emma heads off.
 * Back in his room at his house that night, Gustavo is shown listening to music and taking pictures shirtless with the Brandon James mask, having a tattoo of spine bones on his back with Gustavo interrupted shortly by Brooke knocking in his door as he takes the masks off and turning the music off. Brooke enters as Gustavo states she’s early as Brooke tells him to consider a shirt or not and that it’s a good vibe on him, pointing out his muscles and abs, as Gustavo asks how it went with Lang as Brooke tells him how she was right about both her and Branson and how things got a little dark and twisty, referring to Seth and states how she didn’t know she had that in her. Gustavo puts a shirt on as Brooke approaches him and asks if she feels any better to which she states not really and how she didn’t know what she thought was going to happen but how now Jake’s gone and that’s not changing as she hugs him and Gustavo looks at his Vans shoe box with his mask inside which Brooke didn’t notice abut he does as he hugs her and looks on
 * Noah and Audrey escape the funhouse and catch up with Emma, as Emma notices the Lakewood Slasher chasing her through the fairgrounds from a distance as they all convene and Noah, Audrey, and Emma are startled by Kieran before they all escape (even though Kieran lured Noah to kill, not Emma). Kieran and Emma share a moment as Emma goes home.
 * At the sheriffs office, the FBI guy from Phoenix traces the emails from Riley Marra to Emma Duval’s IP address and just before he processes it Kieran arrives and claims he he needs to talk to Acosta about Emma.
 * Noah is about to record a podcast for the Morgue before Audrey interrupts as Noah states he thought she was going home and Audrey tells him how if he doesn’t tell him tonight she may never be able to as Noah tells her to proceed (secretly recording and revering her confession). She closes Noah’s room door and states how she knows why the killer is after her and that he knows what shes done and how she would anything to keep it secret. She briefly looks at her picture on Noah’s murder board before she reveals how she brought Piper to Lakewood and how she was so alone and pissed at the world and how she found Piper and wrote her letters. Audrey begged her to come to come to Lakewood and help her research for a Brandon James documentary, stating how Brandon may have looked different but he wasn’t a monster, stating he was alone, rejected, and angry just like her and how it was Lakewood that turned him into a monster. Back when people were dying, Piper swore to Audrey that it wasn’t here and how she believed here and how she’s now paying for her mistakes and all the blood and how she deserves this, as Noah stands up to tell her if she believes that then Piper and the sicko wins and how she’s a victim, not a monster and hugs her and who tells Noah to promise her not to tell Emma until she can.
 * Audrey reveals her truth about bringing Piper to Lakewood despite not being the killer after fake kidnapping Noah alongside with her,
 * Zoë finds the audio of and saves it, albeit the killer targets her, after Noah secretly recorded Audrey’s confession which gets around to Emma just as Audrey is about to come clean to Emma.
 * The Lakewood Slasher arrives to Seth’s room and amputated his hand before plugging in and carbonizing his amputated hand with a hot clothing iron, knocking him out and later moving his body to the Wren Lake Estates house where Eddie is also held

January 31

 * Emma is getting ready for her shift at the Grindhouse at her house that morning before Maggie and Emma are surprised as Sheriff Acosta states how those old emails from Riley Marra were sent from Emma’s IP address, claiming she’s being targeted as Emma and Maggie informs Acosta about the farm on Pikeview Road.
 * Audrey thanks Noah for crashing at his house before they make their way to the Grindhouse Cafe where Eli is working the morning shift he traded with Emma as Noah meets with Zoë who invites Noah for a study session at Wren Lake at 1PM
 * Emma confronts Kieran at his house outside that morning for having talked to sheriff despite her telling him not to (on top of the emails sent from her computer on top of it all) and without talking to her first and leaves Emma feeling betrayed before she leaves (foreshadowing to his reveal)
 * Brooke goes to the Grindhouse Cafe and enlists Audrey’s help after she explains to her what she did to Branson and Audrey agrees they have to do something.
 * Sheriff Acosta and Deputy Dwayne investigate the supposedly abandoned farmhouse on Pikeview Road before he’s shown calling someone as Dwayne leaves after Acosta tells him to radio the station before he calls someone (supposedly Maggie) and tells them how they have a bigger problem than he thought, as a picture is show of young Emma being held by an unknown man whose face is scribbled out (supposedly Brandon James).
 * Emma arrives to work and tells Eli after he asks if she’s mad at something which she states mostly his cousin, Kieran, for having told the sheriff things behind her back and how she hates him for that despite doing it to supposedly protect her. Eli tells her how the thing is that Kieran likes to keep things deep, and states his problems with his step dad and for causing the crash that killer his step dad and mom. Eli states how Kieran is probably just scared before Eli goes back to work.
 * Zoë and Noah meet at Wren Lake for studying as Zoë states how the reason she wasn’t present during the events of fall 2015 and how she had to go to therapy due to doing something stupid and how it was a date. He gets a call from Audrey which he notices but ignores as Noah and Zoë get into their swimsuits and Noah hits up Zoë with a one line before both officially share a kiss since the party and make out, slowly but surely becoming a couple.
 * 1:37 PM: Audrey and Brooke go into the hotel room where she had Branson, only to find him gone as well as Seth supposedly texting Brooke to meet him later at the school at his old office, which grosses out Audrey as they all go to meet him there in 2 hours before unbeknownst to them, a live camera records them streaming, perhaps having been there since the night before.
 * At the cafe before her attack, Emma is run into by Kristen Lang before her attack as she tries to apologize for locking her in. Eli invites Emma to a dinner at the abandoned Wren Estate houses which Kieran notices that he and Emma are talking and leaving, visibly angry.
 * Noah invites Zoë to his house later tonight due to his parents being alone which Zoë agrees as Noah then heads to buy condoms.
 * Audrey and Brooke convene at Audrey’s house before the killer texts her to come to the school alone or he’ll send Brooke the GIF of Jake
 * Kristen Lang is attacked at George Washington High School alone after the Lakewood Slasher lures her by using Seth as bait before throwing her from the stairs down, causing them to give her a brain injury as she does, who is found by a janitor, her head rushing blood. Later also found by Brooke and Audrey. Just before, Kristen gets a call from the killer in her secret and is lured with the same pig toy Jake was with before the Lakewood Slasher slips into Kristen’s office and vandalized is and who almost attacks her before she gets away only to be attacked in the stairwell.
 * Noah and Zoë are shown at his house creating Zoë an audio in his computer before Zoë notices the audio file on Audrey which she download as she sends Noah away and hears her confession before she emails it supposedly to herself and Emma. Noah and Zoë are also about to have sex before Audrey bursts into the room and interrupts to inform him of the Seth situation as well as Kristen’s attack as they discuss this how the killer made her to go in alone and how the killer wanted to do more before he was interrupted.
 * Miguel and Maggie meet at the farmhouse at night as Maggie claims how they didn’t find anything until he shows her the picture and asks if he called Quinn and how she knows what he’s thinking but how he’s wrong and to notice where they’re standing as well as how Pipers dead implying it’s Brandon James. Maggie claims that they handled the situation with Miguel stating how they thought they did but how this is about Emma and how both know it can be their own fault
 * Seth Branson died by being carbonized as a result of the killer's actions. He was burned in an empty model house on the market by the killer alongside the corpse of Eddie Hayes in a bathtub alongside him. This house is an empty finished model house at the abandoned Wren Lake Estates where Emma and Eli unknowingly had their lunch with Seth and a dead Eddie in the bathroom inside before leaving after the house is set ablaze by Kieran due to jealousy and discovery of them together which Eli and Emma manage to escape from and Eli more so due to his track record with the police,

February 1

 * Lakewood and the Lakewood Carnival celebrates its centennial.
 * Audrey awakens to blood on her ceiling that spells 12 dead ad well as her mirror stating “No one will ever forgive you”, which she gets dressed up and meets Noah to talk about as Noah suggests telling Emma the truth.
 * Noah, Audrey, Gustavo, and Zoë talk about Kristen’s attack as they hear Mayor Maddox’s statements on the speaker as class ends and the group all walk out. Brooke joins them and talks for them to support her speech.
 * The sheriff looks over Lang’s stuff following her attack as well as the sheriff later finding the bodies of Seth and Eddie, burnt up. This leads for Miguel to reenlist her help for the safety of their children.
 * Emma heads to talk to the Sheriff as the sheriff stated how the fire was set intentionally and who prior to the carnival and by the sheriff is how she learnt Eli had a restraining order against him due to having broken into a girls bedroom, Acosta also tells her how Kieran wasn’t trying to rat her out. Miguel also appoints Deputy Dwayne to keep a lookout for Emma. Emma and Eli talk as Emma discards Eli and leaves.
 * Miguel Acosta listens to his son’s tape with Kristen Lang before he tries to find the Brandon James mask he found on January 28, as father and son argue about how what happened in Phoenix and Miguel tells her how how it troubles him about what happened and Miguel scoffs that it’s always about his art. Gustavo express surprise that his father thinks he’s the killer and asks him to prove it before Gustavo walks out.
 * Emma and Kieran meet up at her house with Emma apologizing to Kieran for overreacting about being overprotective as Kieran gets mad when he learns that she learnt from Eli as Emma tries to console as Kieran claims Eli isn’t normal and Emma states this is about them (despite the fact that Kieran was the killer).
 * Audrey is sent a text message by the killer of a video of them caressing Emma’s face while she sleeps and recording as the killer calls and tells Audrey he wants to see what happens when Emma finds out the truth, reminding her that she’s a killer not a victim and how if she calls to cops or confesses to Emma it’s done. The killer hangs up and Audrey yells before she calls to invite Emma to the carnival.
 * The Lakewood Carnival and Lady of the Lake paegant are held as well as Lakewood overall celebrating its centennial.
 * Brooke gets drunk on Zoë’s flask before she’s approached by Gustavo in the dressing room who asks Brooke to leave before Brooke denies stating she’s doing this for her which upsets him as he leaves if he’s not going to understand her reasons
 * Emma and Audrey play games before being interrupted by Eli. Him and Kieran then get into a fight over Emma as Eli tells her he’s not the one she should be afraid of (foreshadowing Kieran’s identity and reveal).
 * Emms reveals to Audrey as they both begin to suspect Eli as the potential killer which she confides in with Audrey at the carnival following Eli and Kieran’s fight, as suspicious and nods to Eli being the possible killer until Kieran’s reveal (this was the also same location where Jake was shown to have been digging up his shady stuff up almost a week ago prior to his death in “I Know What You Did Last Summer”). Audrey confides in Emma about the killer breaking into her room to give her messages as well as Emma relating due to the emails.
 * Meanwhile at the Lady of the Lake Paegant (right before Zoe is kidnapped, whose kidnapped in her Lady of the Lake winning dress and sash), while onstage, Brooke Maddox is distressed and who gets drunk. She gets frustrated and calls out Lakewood for the irony of celebrating while murder occurs and mourning her late boyfriend Jake Fitzgerald and who warns that they’ll end up like Jake as she drops the mic as Emma, Audrey, and Noah watch.
 * Maggie goes over the forensics of the burn victims found from the fire as Sheriff Acosta looks over his sons paintings
 * Later that night at the carnival, Emma is lured to the Funhouse by the killer after seemingly having kidnapped Kieran (a fake out to decoy and to sell himself as being the victim from the killer rather than one prior to his reveal). Prior to this, he kills Deputy Dwayne, who followed Emma following her heading into the killers trap to avoid police attention being drawn, who then sets himself up as a victim, in ordered to avoid suspicion and avoid being caught a few days before he actually is (2 days more to speak)
 * Noah and Zoë almost have sex before they’re interrupted by continuous phone calls from Audrey before Zoë postpones them having sex, stating it’s ok and they’ll know when it’s right
 * Brooke and Gustavo hook up after Gustavo arrives to comfort her via her request and keep her company, as they sleep the night
 * Emma is revealed the truth of the audio just as she was going to tell Emma in person which takes Emma aback who hears this just as Audrey walks in.
 * Emma dream walks the night before about having stabbed her friends before her mom wakes her up and she drops the knife.

February 2

 * Emma and Kieran talk as both go against Audrey and who tells Emma how they can ditch school and who doesn’t have to know or blame, which Emma disagrees and states she has to find Emma to figure how all this happened.
 * Brooke and Gustavo awaken to each other in the morning as they talk about Brooke’s speech from the night before and her being hungover as Brooke smiles and tells Gustavo to leave before her dad finds him. Gustavo gets ready and takes one of Brooke’s lipsticks as a souvenir for him as he does.
 * At school, Brooke is informed by Emma and Kieran about Audrey as they pass Hayley who cat calls them about the fight aka freak show at the carnival which Kieran tells her to give a rest (subliminal since Kieran hooked up with her). The three of them all meet Noah in the hallway to ask him how long he’s known about Audrey’s reveal, which he replies a few days and apologizes for not saying anything which Emma rebukes because he promised to not tell her as Noah states how he thought Audrey should be the one to tell her as Emma states she’s heard everything he recorded from an email she was sent. Noah asks to see it and sends the email to himself via her phone as Noah tries to defend Audrey claiming she’s been destroyed before Emma retorts madly how their friends were being killed and how she didn’t say anything to anyone including him.
 * Audrey approaches as she says this before Kieran and Brooke tell her not to follow as Emma walks away as Audrey pushes past them and tries to explain herself to Emma before Emma angrily and loudly in the school hallway makes a scene as Audrey claims how she didn’t know it was Piper with Emma claiming she did but how she didn’t want people to blame her and Audrey defends and claims that’s not true but Emma states it is true and how everyone should blame her and how she blames her before Emma shoves Audrey angrily into a locker before Kieran guided her away as Emma states he was right to not have come to school today before she opens her locker and finds one of Ms. Lang’s tapes hanging via a strand of hair and a message on her he locker mirror saying “Play Me” (which was Kieran)
 * Noah and Audrey meet in an empty classroom to discuss about Emma’s anger towards her and the reveal of her secret, how he recorded their conversation, as Audrey claims it was Audrey. Noah tells her her to meet after school to prove it’s not her.
 * Emma and Kieran ditch school to listen to her tape which was recorded the day of Lang’s attack as Emma didn’t know Ms. Lang was secretly recording her conversing, with this conversation being from the Grindhouse prior to Lang being attacked by the Lakewood Slasher. Kieran claims that the teacher is obsessed with her, and Emma asks if that’s how people see her as violent and unstable with Kieran claiming she can’t take this stuff seriously but how Lang was stalking her and how the tape came from the killer (himself) but which Emma agrees to the things she did and how she almost shot him as Kieran states she’s been manipulated
 * Audrey and Noah meet to his room as it’s revealed that Zoë sent herself the file but didn’t send it to anyone else, before revealing it was her and how it won’t change anything whether or not who sent it (meaning the killer used Zoë as a clue that she would be one of his next targets unfortunately due to having bugged the camera).
 * After Audrey leaves his room, and since the carnival, Noah Foster and Zoë Vaughn officially start dating prior to her death and who Noah finally loses his virginity to before Noah finally realizes how the killer bugged the camera from the storage unit was bugged to listen, solving how and why the killer knew about the recording in the first place by listening which he angrily breaks it.
 * Maggie identifies the second body as Eddie as she tells Miguel, the sheriff, in his office how he’s worried about his son who reveals to Maggie her son’s reaction after his friend Kyle died in Phoenix via an accident after playing with a gun.
 * Emma and Kieran visit Kristen Lang at the hospital which causes her to panic as Emma and Kieran go outside and look at a vase of daises sent to Kristen’s room which supposedly are from Piper. Kieran steals Lang’s keys so he and Emma can get into her house that night. That night Emma finds a picture of Kristen and Piper from her house and that that they used to be in the same former but now abandoned orphanage, Blessed Sisters Children’s Home which they call Noah to ask about.
 * The Sheriff steps out of the office as Gustavo creeps in his dads office and comes across the text messages from Quinn and h Jake as well as the student incident report from what occurred during the lockdown at the high school as well as finding his drawings along with evidence.
 * Brooke is doing homework that night in her room before Gustavo comes through her window and reveals to inform her about the business between her dad and Jake, who she thought couldn’t stand one another as she looks at the photo Gustavo took and the texts from Quinn to Jake about his deal to burn down one of Quinn’s houses in the failed Wren Estate models (similar to the shady business albeit different from Season 1) and Brooke is taken aback seeing as the message and deal was dealt the night Jake died and the last night they were together before asking Gustavo what else did he find. Brooke sadly and madly confronts her dad about it which she points out his hypocrisy and states that Jake would still be alive had it not been for him and how he drove her mom away and asks what kind of father he is before walking away.
 * Audrey tries to write an apology letter to Emma before getting called by the killer and threatening her by saying how due to Zoë having taken his virginity (which they over he heard due to the bugged camera) and sends her the address to play along which’s is for a party at the abandoned orphanage titled “Face The Mask” which she then goes to alongside Emma, Noah, Zoë, and Kieran. Kieran calls the police to shift down the party down.
 * Noah and Zoë shut the electricity and the music and lights off at the party (unbeknownst of Haley’s murders concurrently taking place as they do) as Kieran (after sneaking off after having kille Haley) then calls for Emma, whose stuck with Audrey as both have to face each other and get a text from the killer threatening to go upstairs before their better half’s rot. They look around and find a bunker room with pictures of Piper as a shrine as well as her corpse (the same room which Emma and Audrey would confront Kieran in the season finale).
 * The cops arrive as Audrey and Emma talk with Audrey claiming how what Emma’s thinking about this being her fault is right and Emma states how the killer wanted both of them to find the grave robbed corpse and body and wants to take it out on both of them. Sheriff Acosta approaches Emma and Audrey as he states how they didn’t throw the party as Emma directs him to Haley who unbeknownst to them is dead until a officer pulls her aside.
 * Haley Meyers died at the hands of the killer while at a party supposedly created by Emma Duval and Audrey Jensen. She died due to the party drowning her screams as she was attacked. She dies because of the seduction of Kieran Wilcox who had orchestrated her to do it. Her body is found hanging following everyone leaving when Zoë and Noah shutting the lights off hanging above on the ceiling from the banner hanging almost crucified-like under the banner that says “Face the Mask”.
 * 11:30 PM: Brooke and Gustavo meet up to talk
 * During Pipers second autopsy which Maggie conducts alongside Miguel, they find an incision on her sternum revealed to be a pigs heart.

February 3

 * Emma and Audrey meet in Audrey’s room and who confronts Audrey about her secret and asks to her explain as Emma asks if Audrey knew Piper was her half sister and when she suspected Piper why Audrey didn’t say anything, to which Audrey claims thought she could be and swore to her that she wasn’t, with Emma claiming that with what she knew that was good enough for for her, which Audrey denies and blanks on before telling Emma how the night Rachel died, she was with Piper, going over Brandon James stuff at Crescent Palms, and states how if she didn’t kill Rachel, how Audrey had overlooked it and thought Piper was her friend. Emma asks how she knows Audrey isn’t lying as Audrey claims she wouldn’t use Rachel in a lie with Emma stating she doesn’t know that after everything that she’s done. Audrey tells her she knows her which Emma claims she knew her and how they used to be best friends and then they drifted apart and how Audrey brought Piper to get back at Emma, which Audrey denies, even if Audrey didn’t know she was a psycho how she was still trying to hurt her. Audrey madly denies this before Emma asks why else would she bring her here, with Audrey claiming she wanted to make a Brandon James documentary and how it wasn’t about her rather Lakewood and hypocrisy, as Emma remarks if she was just collateral damage. Emma asks Audrey one last time to stop lying and how they need to be on the same side and how she’s not, as Audrey tells her she doesn’t know what else to say seeing as she’s confessed as Emma sighs and claims this was a horrible ideas before grabbing her backpack and leaving.
 * The sheriff asks to speak with Maggie and keep a look out for Gustavo, as Miguel claims how their past and current events and refers and implies that Brandon James has returned. Miguel claims how she always saw him differently than the rest of the world before Maggie states she has to go back to work.
 * Noah is lured by the killer to the lake of his and Zoë’s rendezvous spot who has Zoë’s phone and calls him for the first time ever to taunt him about how he’s next on the slasher chopping block due to him having had sex with Zoë (reference to the original rules as stated by the horror expert Randy Meeks in Scream) as Noah tells him they need to update their genre references and how it’s a pretty outdated way of thinking as the killer tells Noah to head into the woods as threatens Noah that Zoë will need a closed casket (foreshadowing to her actual death). He talks down the killer on the phone before the killer hangs up and Noah runs away and tries to call the cops before he drops his phone and is stabbed by the killer in the gut before he is then knocked out by him.
 * Emma and Audrey are at school, as Audrey asks Emma if she’s seen Noah, before both then get a text from the killer at school before the killer threatens them and sends them a livestream video of Noah trapped underneath and buried alive, sending them on a hunt and how he has 5 hours of air left. They find the clue at Noah’s murder board via a leaf and are able to locate him off the old horse stables off Route 6.
 * Zoë Vaughn died at Wren Lake as a result of drowning. The killer toyed with Audrey, Noah and Emma into thinking that they could save her but she died sometime prior to Noah being saved. Noah would be locked in a coffin and buried alive in the old horse stables where he hallucinated Zoë, which prompted the killer to lead Audrey and Emma to try and find him.
 * This ultimatum is similar to Emma having to choose between Brooke and Riley in Season 1.
 * Miguel investigates the farmhouse of Troy James at Pikeview Road alone, having flashbacks as he does as he finds inside a hidden room behind a wall and sees it with signs of someone having been there as he finds images of a young Emma and who looks outside the window, gun in hand, unbeknownst of a hooded figure watching him from the outside (same figure Emma saw).
 * Returning to the police station, Migue calls Maggie and states his theory on how Brandon James is back which Maggie highly refutes but asks if he’s really back what they can do with Maggie stating she has a way to to prove his return. In his office, Acosta gets a call from the killer reporting strange activity off Route 6 before the killer hangs up. Miguel finds the coffin where Noah was held in as well as the gutted pig (referring to the heart him and Maggie found during Piper’s second autopsy).
 * That night, the police shut down the old horse stables as Miguel Acosta calls for Maggie to head to Wren Lake where Noah is transported to the hospital before the killer l calls to taunt Emma on his victory as Maggie approaches and hugs both Emma and Audrey.
 * Emma heads home and is shown home in her bedroom as her mother confronts her as she lays down and looks at her mom and states how Zoë died because of her and Audrey and how the killer is after his “favorite final girls” and who did what he did to get to them. Maggie reminds her it’s not her fault and that she didn’t choose any of this which Emma says maybe but how how if they want it to stop it’s on them but her, which Maggie denies it’s not on her. Maggie caresses her daughter as Emma goes to sleep who has a flashback of her own of Brandon James leaving a note in the tree, which in present time she writes to stay away from her referring to Emma, which Eli notes as he watching from the corner, lurking that night.
 * The Lakewood Slahser is supposedly outside before they make their way into Emma’s house who watches Maggie as she sleeps before heading into Emma’s room and touching her stuff with their buck knife, opening her dream journal and making a noise which awakens her and freaks her out as she notices. She gets out of bed and after hearing noises, arms herself with scissors from her bedroom and head downstairs to find the front door left open with a heart locket-now reading her name as she closes and locks the door and calls for her mother.

February 4

 * 3:30 AM: Kieran awakes at his house house, who is getting ready to head out to supposedly head to Emma who is stunned by Eli awake at the kitchen table, eating cereal and who ask Kieran where he’s going. After replying, he heads out and drives to Emma.
 * Sheriff Acosta investigates the Duval house after their initial report. They leave Emma and Kieran to hug aside as Maggie tells Miguel how she tried communicating with Brandon and who didn’t think anything would come of it (referring to the locket, which is dated as found on February 4) as Miguel asks if that’s the response which Maggie claims she doesn’t know and that she’s terrified. Miguel pats Maggie on the shoulder and how they’ll figure it out. Maggie claims it to not be Brandon and asks if there’s anyone else who has a strong connection to Piper, which he answers as Kristen Lang knowing Piper.
 * Noah is recovering at the hospital watching a news speech given by Quinn Maddox aka the Mayor talking about the recent murders as Audrey stays with him. Emma, Brooke, and Kieran arrive, Emma with coffees, Kieran with balloons, and Brooke with a tablet of a bunch of downloaded movies that are Noah’s favorite, to watch as Emma asks how Noah’s doing who grabbed Audrey a coffee and Noah’s favorite drink which Noah states he can only have clear fluids and how he doesn’t want to watch any of that as Noah laments on Zoë’s words and claims he’s done with his murder obsession and that he’s shutting down the Morgue, claiming how the killer wins every time much to his friends shock and silent agreement.
 * Kieran’s faux visit to the hospital to check on Noah, his victim, would be referenced in-universe, 5 years later in Scream (2022) when Amber and Richie both visited Tara in the hospital, both which had targeted her, much like Kieran did to Noah. This was done just days before each of their reveals as the killers, alike.
 * Gustavo is shown at Brooke’s room drawing a picture of the Mayor bloody (foreshadowing his death) who pushes it away and welcomes Brooke as she returns, whose only wearing a white bathrobe as they share a kiss and he asks her how Noah is to which she states is ruined and how he’s not exactly himself at all which the sad party she claims is how they all know exactly what he’s going through, referring to her, Emma, and Audrey. The couple are quiet before Brooke smiles as she sees Gustavo ordered room service and that he’s good at it as she grabs a waffle and eats on it as Stavo tells her she has some options for lunch before she frowns as she sees the press conference of her dad on TV, which Gustavo muted and states they’ve been running it all morning. He asks if she should turn it off to which Brooke denies as Gustavo turns the volume back to listen which Gustavo claims if the mayor’s talking to her before Brooke turns it off.
 * Emma, Audrey, and Kieran are shown at Noah’s room taking down his murder board as Emma asks Audrey if there’s anything she hasn’t already told her about Piper which she denies as her and Emma look through Noah’s boxes of evidence as Emma finds a picture of a newspaper clipping of Will Belmont’s funeral and Eli is shown in the background as they then suspect him of being in Lakewood and the second killer, further suspecting Eli.
 * 11:17 AM: Audrey visits Noah in the hospital as Noah asks if they got everything down from the board in the boxes and to incinerate and who asks why she’s here only to hand him the picture booth photos he took with Zoë before Audrey gets a text from the killer which reads “What your friend didn’t like my gift? She’s good at cutting people off . But she better watch out… I cut deeper” which she reads silently as Noah states he’ll do a final tribute podcast for Zoë which Audrey agrees and tells Noah she’ll let him get to it as she kisses him and walks off.
 * Back at Emma’s place, with Noah’s evidence plastered on the table as Emma reads the text Audrey shows her as Emma claims it could be Eli which she tells Audrey and Kieran how she ignored his texts the night of the carnival as Kieran angrily states and walks off saying he has to take care of this, as Emma and Audrey tell him to stop, as Kieran states how he has to confront him and that his has to stop. Audrey sides with Emma and telling him not to go as Emma states if it really is Eli who knows and asks what they’re going to do (ironic, since Kieran is the killer)
 * Tina begins packing to leave Lakewood, claiming the mayor offered them $15,000 to do so, as Eli asks why this always happen after his mother makes some big mistake and ruin everything, despite Tina claiming this is payday as she asks Eli what she’s ruined for him as Eli claims that he has things there and things he doesn’t want to run away from, which Tina refers to as Kieran aka his cousin’s girlfriend, Emma and how if he doesn’t understand that if they stay they risk them finding out everything about them as she claims they hav to go. Eli suddenly madly grabs the luggage which Tina was packing things in to throw it on the floor and says they don’t have to until Eli says so, as Tina asks what about the mayor which Eli claims he’ll get rid of that.
 * Quinn calls Brooke in his house before it’s revealed to be Eli sneaking into the mayors office in a hoodie to grab the files of his shady dealings before heirs and leaves writing a note for Quinn stating he’s “so screwed”.
 * Sheriff Acosta interrogates a now awake Kristen Lang at the hospital, who states she was in the Blessed Sisters Children’s Home for a short while for about 3-4 months and how she and Piper weren’t close and that she barely knew her due to Piper being younger than her and states that the fact she’s connected to her by that is not something she’d be proud to share, as the Sheriff claps back by pointing out to either the students she taped without consent as Kristen defends it as being an informal case study on the survivors of last years attacks, and how if they knew she had any link to Piper they wouldn’t have ever talked to her. Acosta then asks if she thought anyone in research had an unhealthy obsession with Piper, which she picks up as the sheriff’s son Gustavo, telling him how his son is very talented with a unique perspective as the sheriff asks if that’s a nice way of saying disturbing which Kristen states maybe and asks Miguel if he knows where it stems from, stating how Gustavo is trying to understand him and how his early fascination with death started when Gustavo snuck into one of Miguel’s files and how he saw a crime scene photo, a dead gang member shot in the head, which she tells him how Gustavo was really struck that day of the reality of what Miguel lives with day in and day out. Miguel states how Gustavo never said anything, with her stating how he doesn’t talk about it but rather draws it. She then tells him who she thinks has the largest obsession with Piper that it’s Emma, claiming she’s already had hallucinations and he knows how the new murders are impacting her. Miguel after walking out texts his son aptly to please come home.
 * Gustavo supposedly heads home in his bike per Brooke’s request as she also head heads home, until it’s revealed he came to visit Noah in the hospital as he tries to make a farewell podcast for Zoë claiming she’s one of the most amazing women he’s ever met and how he has to culminate all his life’s work into a eulogy as Gustavo scoffs and claims he’s not finishing The Morgue, as Gustavo how his podcast does something for people and who reminds him that the death rate is one per person and how somebody needs to talk about that before sending him an email as he leaves of Noah in a comic book to uplift him.
 * Emma and Audrey wait outside of Kieran’s house in the car while Kieran heads and sneaks inside to supposedly find evidence implicating Eli of being the killer, as Kieran enters the house and who overhears Eli tell Tina how what he found on Quinn Maddox imposes him as a fraud who robbed supposedly half of of Lakewood with shady things like insurance scams. Kieran sees this information before Kieran makes a video call to Emma and Audrey, who asks him if he’s found anything and he states not yet as he faces the camera towards him searching while Emma and Audrey watch on in the car before Kieran digs and finds the letters which he shows them which Audrey confirms as being her her letters (which Kieran planted on him).
 * Kieran runs out as he shows Audrey and Emma, as it points to him being the killer. Audrey states how they should go to the police as Emma denies stating they’re going to incriminate her and that they need to find more evidence against Eli as pictures of young Emma are also along with the letters, which Emma are like the ones she saw at the farm and that that they may be the same one as Audrey asks if Eli could be the hooded figure she saw as Kieran claims how perhaps Eli’s been using the pig farm as a hide out which to which Audrey states who knows how long Eli’s been in Lakewood. Emma asks if Eli’s in the house as  he tells them that he’s in the backyard with his mom as Audrey tells him to take the letters backs and that there’s no  telling what he’ll do if he finds they’re missing (despite the fact that Kieran is the killer). Kieran runs back and states he’ll meet Emma at her house as Emma hands him the photos to take. As he leaves, Emma as well as Audrey agree that there’s probably more evidence at the farmhouse and agree to go there while Eli is distracted as Emma states she’ll text Kieran as Audrey takes the wheel and they leave.
 * Kieran returns the letters which Eli notices although he doesn’t see him exactly.
 * Brooke arrives him and and tells her father about her return before her father is texted by the killer to meet out at the farmhouse due to his meetings.
 * Noah makes a supposed final podcast from his hospital bed before his laptop is hacked and a video is posted incriminating Emma and Audrey as the killers, showing the deaths of Zoë, Eddie, Jake, and Haley which upsets everyone, especially Brooke, as the police are alerted due to Kieran’s call (as part of his plan, since he’s the killer)
 * Emma and Audrey arrive to the farmhouse that night to investigate as Emma tells her for Audrey to keep lookout while she heads in to investigate the supposedly haunted house before stumbling into the secrete room as Emma calls Audrey to come upstairs on what she found. Emma keeps her flashlight as she heads in quietly and swiftly before she looks into the mirror and Audrey comes in and notices as well as the killer having Emma’s dream journal.
 * 9:00 PM: They are interrupted when they notices outside, Quinn Maddox, who’s seen heading into the farmhouse to close his potential exposer, who he texts only to get a response and hear the notification sound come from inside. Quinn’s flashlight dies so he uses his phone as he texts the killer to follow the sound of the texts inside alone in the farmhouse and who is about to leave before he finds the phone and is sent a photo by the killer holding a pitchfork before the killer approaches the mayor from behind to stab and impale him with it. This happens quickly as Emma and Audrey arrive to the farmhouse stumble onto the Mayor dying as he pulls out the pitchfork and who hear a noise which was the plan for the killer to frame them.
 * Emma and Audrey are arrested as Lakewood PD arrive before Kieran arrives and pleads with Emma to be let go as Maggie also gets mad at Miguel.
 * After Quinn Maddox’s death, Emma and Audrey are arrested and who are being transported for interrogation when the Lakewood Slasher kills the police officer and leaves the keys to free the girls in front of them, scaring them heavily. They escape as Emma grabs one of the guns of the sheriff.

February 5

 * Kristen Lang describes the events from her hospital bed of Emma and Audrey being the supposed killers as Folie à deux or madness or two to Sheriff Acosta (a reference to the franchise in there always being two killers, despite Emma and Audrey not being them).
 * Emma and Audrey escape and arrive to get a call from the killer when they head in that morning into the Pep N’ Zip gas station to use the landline before the killer calls Emma through the station landline. The attendant hands it to her and the Lakewood Slasher answers, who taunts Emma on her stardom, as Emma tells the killer quietly she knew they let them out for a reason. Audrey keeps a lookout as the killer tells Emma they want to keep playing and threatens them if they turn themselves in or even get caught, they’re going to gut someone they live and tells them to start running. The call ends as Emma and Audrey leave after the attendant sees the news for their wanted posters on TV.
 * Brooke is shown home alone cutting oranges before Gustavo arrives and knocks as she lets him in through the back door. Gustavo apologizes to Brooke about the news of her dad as Brooke asks Gustavo where he was last night and why he didn’t answer any of her texts. Gustavo tells her how he just couldn’t head home and how his phone died which Brooke lightly remarks as pretty terrible timing. Gustavo asks Brooke if she saw what was uploaded online on the Morgue, referring to Emma and Audrey’s framed video, which Brooke agrees stating she couldn’t avoid it. Gustavo states how Audrey looked pretty bad before Brooke states how neither Emma or Audrey killed her dad, Jake, or anyone else. Gustavo asks if Brooke really watched it especially the part with Jake as it was really twisted, before Brooke claims tearful how she does not need this from him right now as Gustavo only claims how Audrey accused him quickly and perhaps this is why before Brooke scoffs, continuing to cut her oranges, and states he’s so wrong as Gustavo asks if he really is and asks how can she be really sure and how the people closest are the ones who keep the biggest secrets before Brooke silently asks Gustavo politely to go as Gustavo remarks before Brooke says loudly for Gustavo to go as Gustavo agrees before he does who notices the security detail at her house.
 * Emma and Audrey, prior to arriving to the theater, make their way to Kieran’s house as Emma heads into Kieran’s room and tells Kieran about what happened with the killer, as Kieran had just gotten out of the shower. Emma asks Kieran if he’s seen Eli to which Kieran states how Tina packed and left and how Eli never came home last night. Emma tells him where they’re going to be hiding at before she leaves. Audrey, outside, notices Eli’s car and goes to warn Emma, unseen, as Eli is inside the house and hears the voices from Kieran’s room before he opens it to find Kieran putting on a shirt alone as Eli asks Kieran what he told the cops on him and how he was at the station being questioned for 3 hours as Kieran claims how he’s obsessed with Emma and to check him out (ironic, since Kieran is the killer) as Kieran also tells him how he found out he was in town last year in October which Eli states he didn’t want to bother a supposedly busy Kieran and how sarcastically he’d heard that Lakewood was nice in the fall and to visit. Kieran, upset and angry at Eli, warns Eli to stay away from Emma as Eli tells him face to face how he’s not scared of him and that’s he going to do whatever he wants and for Kieran to try and stop him. He leaves as do Emma and Audrey who supposedly overheard this from the outside.
 * Emma and Audrey, now outlaws and suspects, find hiding at Audrey’s workplace, the Zenith Theatre where they meet up with Brooke and Gustavo, as well as Eli. Noah is still in the hospital recovering from the aftermath of his being buried alive and the loss of Zoe, causing him to contemplate quitting his podcast. He finds inspiration from Zoes death as well as words from Audrey before becoming and outlaw and Brooke, as well as Gustavo that lead him to keep going forward. Noah also is visited by Brooke who he comforts about the death of her father. Noah gets a call from Emma as he tells both Noah and Brooke about their situation before they head there as Noah is dispatched from the hospital.
 * Maggie asks Miguel as he investigates Emma’s room if he actually believes that Emma and Audrey uncurled themselves and killed the deputy, referring to their escape by the killer. A distressed Maggie goes off on Miguel, who tells her how he gets this isn’t easy for her, claiming how Emma could be kidnapped or worse and how he’s searching her house when she’s obviously not there. Miguel tries to calm her as Maggie yells how she doesn’t suspect her, and he does as Miguel adamantly asks Maggie if she knows about Emma’s nightmares as Maggie asks how he knows about that as Miguel states how he found the dream journal last night who wrote about the barn prior to the mayor’s murder and who wrote supposedly premeditated of her killing her friends and how perhaps Emma doesn’t know it’s real as Maggie claims those are just dreams and how she’s not a murderer as Miguel tells her how right now Emma’s the best lead that he has before he walks off from Maggie.
 * Kieran leads Brooke and Noah inside the theatre. Brooke gets a call from the killer which Emma answers and informs the killer of their location as Audrey arms then with movie prop weapons. The Lakewood survivors all meet as Noah and Brooke defend the front while Emma and Audrey guard the back as Kieran calls Emma to make her doubt whether the killer is coming which Emma denies and claims that’s exactly what the killer wants as Kieran supposedly guards the auditorium, making him the only supposed guard (which is how he snuck away).
 * Brooke and Noah are out front with Noah conspiring how Pipers accomplice had his own accomplice and that there are two killer again which Brooke tells him it’s not comforting as Noah states they should be prepared before they are startled by Gustavo knocking on the front door asking to come in and why Brooke has a hook knife as Brooke asks him what he’s doing there as Gustavo states how she told him to come which Noah asks Brooke if she did which she denies as Gustavo shows her his phone from the outside plopping it face forward as Brooke’s text reads for Gustavo to meet her at theatre which Brooke denies not sending as Gustavo asks if they can let him in which Noah denies much to Gustavo’s shock as he madly asks what he means, with Noah states how they’re trying to lure the killer and he showed up and apologizes stating how it’s a pretty classic “don’t let him in” situation.
 * Gustavo from the outside asks Brooke if she’s buying this as she goes quiet in agreement before Gustavo pounds the door angrily and leaves before Brooke and Noah are diverted by screams coming from the auditorium, as well as Emma and Audrey who states for Audrey to watch the door and tells her the infamous “I’ll right back” line much to Audrey’s upset for her saying that.
 * Noah, Brooke, Kieran, and Emma arrive to the auditorium and watch the murders of the killer from Nina, Zoë, Rachel, Seth, Eddie, Haley, Riley, and Jake being played, as Brooke asks who put it on and Noah states that they’re real. Emma claims someone is inside playing it from the projector room as Kieran asks how they put it in and Emma claims she doesn’t know as Kieran asks where’s Audrey which Emma states in the back guarding as Kieran claims she shouldn’t be alone and tells them to wait there while he supposedly gets Audrey (whom he had kidnapped prior, off-screen).
 * Brooke is disgusted as she turns around to not look when Jake’s death comes on screen and tells it to make it stop as Noah winces as well as Emma states she’ll go and turn it off, leaving both Brooke and Noah to stay as Emma heads to the projector room, gun in hand and arrives to shut off the screening of the murders playing which also turns the lights off at the auditorium, leaving only the faint red light as Noah and Brooke stand in different aisles as Noah talks to Brooke reassuring himself and Brooke that they’re in the dark not alone and how Emma will be back and that Audrey is safe and Gustavo showing us a fluke and Eli is misunderstood and how everything’s OK. (retracting Kieran, their attempted killer). Brooke takes her phone out to turn on the flashlight to look around as they hear a creaking sound and Noah hushes Brooke to listen as she turns around to face the stage before the Lakewood Slahser appears.
 * Brooke screams and tries to run, before the killer grabs her and stabs her in the back as Noah screams, which Emma overhears as she makes her way to the auditorium and shoots at the killer who runs off as Noah tends to Brooke and Emma tells Noah to call the ambulance as she follows the killer in tow to the back of the auditorium. She goes and holds the gun up as she looks for them.
 * Noah and Kieran attend to a wounded Brooke as well as Emma as she states to not leave Brooke even as the ambulance and police are on their way and asks Kieran if she found Audrey and who tells her she wasn’t in the back room and how he doesn’t know where she went when Emma asks and claims how the door was open and perhaps left already. Kieran tells Emma to leave as the sheriff arrives from the front and knocks to be led as Noah goes to open in as Brooke tells Emma to go and hands her her car keys which she takes as she reassures Brooke to see her later before leaving just as the police arrives and Noah leads them in.
 * Brooke is taken to the hospital which Noah and Kieran attend before being separated as Brooke is treated for critical surgery while Kieran gets a call from Emma (using Noah’s phone which he agreed to let Emma borrow for communication). Emma asks how Brooke’s doing as she tears up and calls from the car as Kieran asks if she’s heard from Audrey which Emma denies and claims she shouldn’t have ever told the killer (ironically, Kieran) where she was and that she screwed up as Kieran tries to reassure her as Emma thought nobody else would be put in danger as she cries over Audrey missing and Brooke stabbed as she claims she doesn’t know what to do anymore and asks if she should turn herself in, who tells Kieran the killer would kill someone if she did as Kieran tells Emma none of it is her fault and tells her to hold on.
 * Noah and Gustavo talk outside at the hospital lobby as Gustavo states he heard about Brooke’s attack and asked if she’s ok. Noah states Brooke is a survivor and that she’s tough, mentioning her attack from the year prior about being stabbed and trapped in the freezer and how her surgery is going to be a cakewalk. Gustavo, tearing up with tears, guilts himself and tells Noah how he should’ve stayed and gotten in somehow. Sheriff Acosta arrives to see his tearful son and comforts him silently by sitting down next to him. Noah stays silent before telling the sheriff how he he knows this isn’t the best time but how it’s not Emma or Audrey as the sheriff pulls Noah aside and states how he won’t comment on a case but if he knows where they are to tell him now because he states, off the record, how there’s a lot of evidence which Noah agrees claiming there’s too much evidence but how he already knows that. Miguel claims it all points to them but asks Noah who else it could be.
 * Noah asks to see the sheriffs phone much to Miguel’s confusion and how he needs to show him another suspects. Miguel gives it to him reluctantly as he pulls the photo of Wills funeral and zooming in on Eli, as he tells Miguel how Eli was in Lakewood last October at a funeral for a victim he didn’t even know during the murders and claiming he perhaps knew Piper during the murders. Miguel looks at his son who nods his head in agreement at Noah’s theory as Miguel takes back his phone and walks off.
 * On Milling Avenue, inside Brooke’s black Range Rover car, Emma looks over the photo of her, Audrey, and Brooke and watches for Lakewood patrol cars pass the neighborhood as she hides in the daylight in plain sight before Emma gets a text sent to Noah showing Audrey passed out and tied to her hands which reads “Time to face the mask, come alone or she dies” as Emma heads to the abandoned orphanage where Audrey is being held hostage and goes in with the gun. Kieran calls Emma as Emma denies letting Kieran know where she’s at as Kieran tells her she doesn’t have to do it alone before she gets an incoming call with the killer and hangs up on Kieran before Emma states this ends with her and each give their love statements to another.
 * Emma answers the killer (which was Kieran, switching to his killer phone) who tells Emma how they’ve been waiting a long time for this as they can almost taste it as Emma asks why he’s hiding which the killer claims they’re savoring the final destruction of her and all she loves as Emma asks why they brought her to the orphanages as the killer claims this was Piper’s origin as Emma asks if they love her and if that’s what this is about, which the killer scoffs as how it’s a real bond and how Emma should know because she killed with Audrey and asks what that felt like, referring to killing Piper back on Halloween night 2015, which Emma states they had no choice and had to kill her for their safety and in order to survive. The killer taunts Emma that she thought killing her made her safe and how she’ll never feel safe again before Emma hangs up as she’s about to head upstairs. Emma calls out Audrey’s name before the Lakewood Slasher appears to attack her from whine which she ducks and misses, only getting a slash cit on her arm, before quickly shooting at the killer as they run upstairs with Emma in pursuit.
 * The killer later imprisons both Emma and Audrey at Blessed Sisters Children’s Home, aka the abandoned orphanage from the night of Haley’s party, luring Eli as well and also using Kieran as bait. This causes Emma to try and free Audrey while also call for Kieran and run into Eli, who’s become framed by Kieran after Emma shoots him accidentally only for Kieran to shoot him multiple times and killing him, thus revealing his identity (“When A Stranger Calls”)
 * Emma arrives upstairs to the same shrine room where Piper was held whose pictures are still posted as the lights go on in the room as Emma finds a knocked out Audrey chained in a chair and tells her to stay with her as she tries to unlock her before Kieran arrives as Emma asks Kieran what he’s doing there which he claims to have asked Noah ping his phone and how he got there as fast as he could. He states how she’s cut and who tries to get Audrey off with her help before Eli arrives holding a minute and grabbing onto his stomach, revealing a stab wound. Emma holds the gun up to him and asks what happened as Eli claims he followed Kieran from the hospital and how the second he got in the building, Kieran came behind him and stabbed Eli (presumably out of costume).
 * Eli claims he played dead and who called the police, and told them it was Kieran as Kieran denies this as both Eli and Kieran stand in front of Emma, still pointing the gun at Eli (an homage to Sidney pointing the gun at Randy and Stu in the original Scream). Eli claims how he could’ve run away but how he heard her voice and came back to help her as Kieran thwarts Emma by stating how Eli probably stabbed himself to make him look like a f victim as Eli asks if Emma thinks he did this as Emma states she doesn’t know what to think and asks Eli why he was in Lakewood last October, referring to him having attended Will’s funeral during Piper’s murder spree which Eli states it was because of Kieran and how Kieran was the one who broke into the girls bedroom in Atlanta who blamed Eli and had the restraining order against him due to his obsession with the girl and lied to her mom, defiling Eli’s name by lying about posting the Atlanta girl’s nudes which Kieran denies as Eli states that it was him and that’s why he was in Lakewood to get back at Kieran, thus why he attended Wills funeral and how once he saw the Lakewood Six he couldn’t do it and how that’s the truth and how that’s all there is as Kieran denies this to Emma and claims Eli was obsessed with the girl and Emma and how he’s the killer.
 * Eli heads in to stab Kieran for lying and accusing him before Emma shoots Eli in the gun and who gets scared as Kieran takes the gun and tells Emma it’s over. Audrey awakens as Emma tends to her as Audrey looks over to the shot Eli fallen on the floor, presumably dead before Kieran states to Emma that they’re calling to Emma and tells her she will feel safe again as well as Audrey.
 * However, Emma catches this slip up, seeing as that was what the killer had said and asks Kieran about feeling safe again as Kieran acts dumbfounded before she puts it together and gasps Kieran’s expression changes to a smile as Emma tells Kieran to tell her she’s wrong (making Kieran an inverse to both Billy and Stu). Audrey also hears this revelation and asks Kieran, who begins to grate heavily and a shake as he sighs deeply and smiles to tell Emma she’s not wrong before he shoots Eli dead who got up silently to attack Kieran as Emma is taken aback as Kieran claims how Eli probably really liked him and tells him how he’s a monster was Kieran holds Emma at knife point and how he states she told him she loves him as Emma puts a brave face and said she did but not now. Kieran also holds Audrey at gun point who tries to get out as she rattled her chains. Kieran tells Emma ok as Emma asks Kieran about him and Piper, who he met before Emma, and how it all took was Piper’s abandonment as well as Kieran’s due to his father dumping him in Atlanta who was addicted to pain pills to conspire and commit the murder spree against Emma and her friends in Lakewood, as he claims it made him and Piper sick to see their parents together, referring to Maggie and Clark dating. Kieran holds Emma and Audrey in their places with both the knife and gun
 * Audrey then asks Kieran how all of this for him is just due to some messed up daddy issues which Kieran claims she’s right and sarcastically state how he should’ve seen someone about that but how Piper showed him how killing people was way more fun than therapy and how he made the sheriff and medical examiner look like idiots and how he and Piper tortured them with a killing spree they couldn’t stop as how the last kill was going to be his dad, as well as Emma and her mother before it was thwarted due to Emma and Audrey having killed Piper via gunshot as Emma rectifies how he was Pipers last surprise, as Piper had said, which he states surprise (in an homage to the franchise) and how he was her fake boyfriend “banging” Emma’s crazy half sister (Piper), and who were both about to kill her as Audrey chimes in on how she showed up with a gun which him or Piper weren’t counting on. Kieran turns his attention to Audrey as he tells her how she killed his Piper which Audrey agrees and states is why Kieran tortured Audrey too and whose going to frame Audrey (and Emma) as having lured him supposedly as the last victim but how he turned the tables on them and killer then both in self defense and come out the new hero who stopped the rampage. Emma claims no one will believe him, naming him a psychopath, as Kieran states that will be for him to worry about and how she’ll be dead as he heads towards her with the knife.
 * Audrey states out loud she doesn’t think so as she quickly hurls the chair she was on which spins quickly towards Kieran, briefly knocking him down as she yells at Emma to run as Kieran approaches Audrey to kill her her before Emma tells Kieran at the door how if he lets her get away all of what he did would’ve been for nothing, prompting Kieran to chase after Emma despite Audrey yelling no to her for it. Emma runs from the room as she hides within the halls of the orphanage. Kieran calls for Emma telling her she’s not going to win this and using Audrey as bait as they walk out of the room stating she can make her death easy or hard, as she pulls Audrey in her chains as Audrey, while being held by Kieran, claiming how Emma’s probably already gone. Kieran holds the gun and Audrey as he speaks aloud to Emma how she already lost with Audrey telling a hidden Emma to not give him what he wants and to get out of there as Kieran leads Audrey down stairs to a basement and faces Audrey, threatening to kill her if she doesn’t think he will and how she’s done with her and that she’s trash.
 * Emma, overhearing this, speaks up hidden and tells Kieran how he’ll probably need Audrey until he finds her in the lightly lit dark room of the orphanage. Audrey calls out for Emma to not be stupid and if she leaves at least one of them lives as Kieran pulls her through the room as he tries to find her. Emma hides moving from corner to corner as Audrey tries to catch Kieran off guard which fails as he grabs her in a headlock and her back, grunting. Kieran heads back to where he was last standing at by a shelf of boxes where supposedly Emma’s hiding as she looks to Kieran who slowly leaves Audrey as he tells her to get back before Audrey yanks the chains as her and Emma trap Kieran, with Emma pushing the shelf down on Kieran as Audrey hides off and Emma does too before Kieran gets back up and calls for Emma, standing unguarded by a column, holding his knife as Emma shoots at him twice from standing behind a shelf calling for Kieran and asking him how it feels to be helpless and hunted. Emma exits her hiding spot as Audrey silently walks behind Kieran who’s focused on Emma, distracted as Audrey swings the chains she’s in before he’s trapped ultimately as Audrey chains him by the neck as the chain swings to the column as Emma asks Kieran when it’s going to end, and asks a trapped Kieran how they’re going to end this game, which Audrey holding Kieran chained by his neck tells Emma to shoot him and that he deserves it as Kieran agrees and tells Emma to get it on, telling her how she’s a killer. Emma stands in front of Kieran pointing the barrel of the gun to his forehead as she states how she gets to choose how he’s going to die as Emma pulls back and smiles as she tells him not today and how he’s going to rot in prison because he lost at his own sick game before Sheriff Acosta and the police arrive as Emma and Audrey walk to one another as Kieran is taken away and both friends reconvene as Sheriff Acosta watches on in disbelief, finally clearing Emma and Audrey’s names as the killers and suspects.

May 24-25 (approximately)

 * Noah makes a podcast to “The Morgue”, stating it’s officially been three months (whether or not to the exact date since Kieran started) since Lakewood has survived another mass murderer and how Piper did have an accomplice, which figures due to his theory but how none of them saw Kieran as the killer coming and how it cuts deep and asks after a betrayal like that if one can really ever learn to trust again and how maybe the best way to move forward is to put it all behind them, if they can (referring to the survivors). He also calls back and names the killers of the Lakewood Murders in order: Brandon, Piper, and Kieran, noting how they all wanted revenge and how maybe that’s the end of the chain and how perhaps this was the last dangling thread and how maybe there are no more to pull and how things are actually back to normal, before stating how Lakewood will always be Murderville and how only time will tell.
 * (Cut to a scene showing Miguel out of uniform with Gustavo and Brooke about to have takeout lunch at his house, and panning out showing Gustavo’s tablet with a drawing of the Lakewood Five, standing at the dock which now includes (from left to right): Emma, Noah, Audrey, Gustavo, and Brooke)
 * (Kristen Lang is shown out of the the hospital and back in her classroom, sporting the cut from her previous attack as she’s shown writing, finally inspired, based on what she stated an article titled “The Madness of Two” based and inspired by Emma and Piper, seeing as she types the line “This the tale of two sisters.”
 * (Emma and Audrey are shown at the movie theatre, enjoying themselves as they share a bowl of popcorn which they make a magic mix as Emma adds Whoppers candy to it.
 * (Maggie finds her note, now bloody, where she had left it at the tree of the James house at Pikeview Road with a knife stuck to it.
 * Kieran is now held at the Lakewood County Jail, chained and in an orange jumpsuit as a deputy informs him he has a call supposedly from his lawyer one night as Kieran asks why before the guard stands as Kieran picks up to be greeted by the Third Killer, who asks Kieran who told him he could wear his mask as Kieran looks up, eyes widened.
 * Kieran supposedly makes a promise to keep his word to this killer who helped him escape following his sentencing 5 months later in October, unaware he would be killed afterwards.

June (approximately)

 * Jeremy Blair, an editor, meets with Noah and Gustavo, who become comic book writers (supposedly Noah, seeing as Gustavo is an illustrator) based on the Lakewood Murders titled The Lakewood Six, and who both wrote a comic off the moniker named for the survivors, in order to tell the story of both the deceased and survivors, who have written two volumes, based on Piper Shaw and Kieran Wilcox’s separate but overall tied murder sprees.
 * The Deadfast Club (minus Beth), Marcus, Hawkins, and the future 3 victims of the 2018 murders pass 9th grade and head into 10th grade or sophomore year later in the summer of 2016.

October 24

 * Following the murder trial of a now 18 year old Kieran Wilcox, which is held at an empty Lakewood Courthouse, in which the judge (no jury) indicts him and finds him guilty of murders of over a dozen people (seeing since he was arrested after Piper’s death, as both killed 9 victims individually totaling 18 deaths in the new Lakewood Murders, which spanned over four months with two months back in late 2015 to early 2016, a two month hiatus in between) and sentences him to the maximum penalty by law which is 10 life sentences consecutively
 * Kieran is then held at an empty holding cell at the courthouse, where 2 security guards and officers watch over him before one of them leaves to watch over the media circus outside of the courtroom in which the trial was held, due to the prison transport wanting them to clear out in order to take Kieran to prison, leaving the other officer alone.
 * Above Kieran’s cell, is the Third Killer, in costume, which Kieran aids by talking and distracting the officer alone with him, whose facing away from him outside his cell. This leads to the killer opening the cellar door above in which they’re hiding as it slightly creaks. The other officer outside radios the other, stating how it’s crazy out there and how after the other officer asks, denies how there’s no clear path out to the gate, stating they’ll be stuck for a while. The indoor officer affirms, who then hears the door creak, who turns around just as the Third Killer jumps down and exclaims and before the cop can do anything, the killer twists his neck and head fully, killing him instantly.
 * Kieran Wilcox is incarcerated at Lakewood Courthouse holding cell jail and who is targeted by a new unknown Third Killer who kills the security guard at his cell and frees him, only to kill him immediately afterwards, after being sentenced.
 * The killer then retrieves the keys off the cop, and faces Kieran and opens the lock off his cell door, as he walks out and who tells them how they kept his word and if they’re going to tell him who they are, before the Third Killer slashes his throat and stands over him, who stabs a bleeding out Kieran in the back by his neck on his spine, twisting it, as he tried to crawl to get the gun off the cop, who then turns Kieran around afterwards before watching as Kieran ultimately dies (implying Kieran knew of an existing third killer, whether or not before partnering with Piper, seeing as before he was held for trial 8-9 months later, was called by them in “When a Stranger Calls” finale, to ask him who told him he could wear their mask, implying Brandon James)

October 30th-31st (Halloween 2016)

 * Nine (eight) months have passed since the events of Season 2, as well as a week since Kieran Wilcox’s murder after being sentenced. The Lakewood survivors are now the Lakewood Five which include Emma, Audrey, Noah, Brooke, and Gustavo, who are now aware of the existence of a Third Killer following Kieran’s death.
 * Gina McLane aka Audreys girlfriend is introduced throughout the Halloween episodes and despite not having died, is not included into the Lakewood Five survivors group, despite surviving the island storm and killer attacks alongside them (due to the fact that the events that Tom Martin caused were not based in Lakewood, or by the Lakewood Slasher, thus not meeting the criteria). However, she joins them as a survivor nonetheless, just not of a Lakewood massacre or their group unless she and all of them begin being targeted by the Third Killer, then perhaps. Her character is a nod to Mark Kincaid from Scream 3.
 * Brooke also states how after her and Emma dodge the reporters outside and head into school (callback to Emma dodging her reporters in Season 1), how it’s been 8 months of quiet and “now this”, referring to Kieran’s murder; this suggests that the confrontation at the abandoned warehouse with Kieran, Emma, and Audrey during his reveal and subsequent arrest actually took place in February or at the least, the last two days of January, or either this could just be a mistake.
 * Brooke fears in the island storm, that this was the supposed Third Killer, after the Lakewood Five found Billie’s dead body outside the patio in a chair (callback to Steven Orth in the original Scream). However, Audrey reassured her by asking her why they would kill Billie, also due to the fact of none of them were in Lakewood nor Billie being associated with them, thus making this attack not on them or committed by the Third Killer, due to the rules, perhaps.
 * Further proven after Emma discovers and tricks Tom Martin by feigning her interest for him and who clears his own name when Emma asks if he had anything to do with Kieran’s death, which he denies and only admits to knowing of Emma and the Lakewood murders from TV, thus dispelling the theory of him being the Third Killer.
 * College talk and graduation approach the survivors who are now high school seniors. Emma applies to Lakewood University while Brooke applies to New York University.
 * In chronological order: firstly Alex Whitten, Sid, Billie Fields, Sheriff Carpenter, and lastly Jeremy Blair all become victims to Tom Martin’s individual murder spree in Shallow Grove Island, all due to Jeremy taking Noah and Stavo along with Emma, Brooke, and Audrey to the island to inspire Noah, due to his writer’s block, to write the third volume of the comic book based on the urban legend of Anna Hobbs.
 * This, in part, is a call back to Scream 3 and to the failed production of the film within the film, Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro, which like the trip to murder island, was due to Jeremy, who like Hollywood, was trying to cash in on real life tragic events, but decides to opt meanwhile for a fictional one, in part still based loosely on true events, before actual murders take place within trying to do a fictional story.
 * Prior to their trip, Gustavo calling Noah out for his writer’s block and telling him on is similar to Dewey Riley’s remarks at Gale Weathers in Scream 3, albeit the latter was a couple and the differences for each duo not being on the same page.
 * Afterwards, Noah finds himself and stating how what he figured out a cure to his survivor’s guilt (which gave him writer’s block in the first place, due to Gustavo also stating how he couldn’t write due to the victims being dead and him being alive) and how since the victims can’t tell their own stories, he has to make sure they’re heard as his responsibility and not just retold (seeing as that’s what he sort of did prior to the comics with his podcast, The Morgue), stating how learned and despite Anna Hobbs not surviving her ordeal, due to his theory she lived long enough to take down her bad guy which makes her a final girl (the first in the franchise, overall preceding both Sidney Prescott and Emma Duval), and how that story, due to his theory, deserves to be told and gives a closing on asking how final girls live after becoming them and seeing all that horror, by stating how finding themselves is a good start (this is a nod to Out of Darkness, Sidney’s book which redefines herself not just as a victim but also a final girl by finding herself, similarly)
 * Just like in the third film albeit unstated before Scream 4, Noah states that following the island and the Lakewood Five and Gina all returning to Lakewood, narrating how he feels and theorizes that their story isn’t over and how he theorized that if it wasn’t Tom who murdered Kieran in the courthouse, then who is the Third Killer, asking if it was due to someone Kieran hurt or someone wanting to replace Kieran. (Showing at the end at nightime in Lakewood, a smug Kevin Duval standing over Kieran’s grave at the cemetery, as well an unseen man wearing a cap, signing into the Lakewood Motel, using the alias “Mr. James”, implying that it could perhaps be Brandon James, whose death was never explicitly stated).
 * Events of Halloween take place
 * Events of Halloween II take place
 * This is chronologically, the fourth Halloween event to take place in the TV series timeline and the first to be committed by both a different killer and setting (first in the overall franchise) with the Shallow Grove Slasher in Shallow Grove Island, preceding it being the actual Halloween events: the 1994 Halloween in Lakewood (1st murders), the 2010 Halloween in Atlanta (Deion Elliot’s death, precursor to 2018 murders), and the 2015 Lakewood Halloween (2nd murders). It is also the first to break off Lakewood but to taken place not long after the previous actual Halloween. It is succeeded by the 2018 Halloween or College Park, Georgia murders in Atlanta.

October 29th

 * Marcus Elliot, Kym, Manny, Amir Ayoub, Hawkins, Beth, Shane (had dropped out either during after his junior year in 2017 or senior year in 2018, unstated), Avery Collins, Tommy Jenkins, and Liv Reynolds started their senior year (12th grade) at Weaver, (about 2 months before the murders) as well as Brad Ernsky, Alisha Davis, Darrin Grant, and Erin Mayfield.
 * In College Park, Georgia about almost 8 years after the death of Deion Elliot, a 16 year old Marcus Elliot (posing as Deion) is seen jogging to school and who runs through the neighborhood streets as well as a bridge overlook into Atlanta, Georgia (it’s official debut since it’s mention in Season 2) and makes it all the way to Weaver High School after being challenged by Amir Ayoub (whose riding in the school bus). There, he’s joined by his best friend and football co-star Hawkins waiting in line as they go through metal detectors. He also meets the resident goth Beth and both strike a conversation while in line. He runs late for class with Ms. Pell and meets Liv Reynolds. Also signs petition of his neighborhood friend Kym, talks to Manny at lunch. During the school day, Marcus is confronted by a note on his TWINS bar saying to meet him after school in the parking garage. Ghostface appears and Avery Collins, his racist football co-star’s car goes off as he and Liv approach. Liv denounces Avery and throws his jersey away. Marcus defends Liv and Ms Pell gives both Marcus and Liv detention, where they’re joined by Beth, Kym, Manny, and Amir. Marcus and Liv flirt and strike a conversation only to be hauled off by another text by Ghostface, making him meet in the school locker room bathroom. Soon after he leaves, Shane arrives to invite them all to a party and Beth dismisses them to be back by 4:00 PM so they don’t have to do this again tommorow as Liv, Kym, Manny, and Amir walk out and leave Shane and Beth alone.
 * Prior to the detention and after Deion got the note from Ghostface, it’s shown that a now teenager Tommy Jenkins driving and pulling up during the day to an abandoned warehouse in Atlanta (in a reference to that of the abandoned bowling alley seen in Season 1).
 * Tommy, who’s now working as an Uber-like driver for a company called “Thumbs Out” (logo seen on the hood of his car). Tommy then texts his client “Marcus” (unbeknownst that this is in relation to his association with the events that occurred in Halloween 2010) that he’s outside, who then texts him that he’s in a wheelchair and asks for his help. Only an old Black homeless man is shown outside laying on a mattress. Tommy, with his phone in hand, gets out and walks toward the shady warehouse and approaches the homeless man and asks about Marcus. The man points him towards the entrance of the warehouse, which is seen as dark and off-putting. Tommy walks towards it before he’s then scared off by a raspy voice which calls out his name. He is then seen heading for his car, panicked who texts his client “Sorry dude. Zero stars”, denying them service.
 * He’s about to start his car and who turns around to see, before Ghostface appears, in his official debut, and who quickly gets to work as he stabs Tommy in the neck with their knife. Taken aback by the attack, Tommy grabs his own neck to try and stop the bleeding before Ghostface then suffocates him and his bleeding wound with a white plastic bag, with a yellow emoji face smiling on the bag with the words on the bag reading upside down “Have a terrific day!”. Ghostface continues to choke and suffocate a bleeding and gurgling Tommy with the bag, who tries to fight back in his last moments by pushing his feet and honking his car horn and thrashing his hands and upper body to try and fight his attacker from behind him. He fails and the white plastic bag quickly fills with his blood, due to blood loss and his feet stop trashing, as his shoes are shown also blood stained, as Ghostface still holds the bag and Tommy then tilts his head back in the blood filled bag, confirming his death.

2:46 PM-4:00 PM

 * At approximately this time back at Weaver, Marcus gets a text from a phone in the locker that appears saying “BANG” as Ghostface appears from behind him and shoots at him with a taser twice knocking him out. After an unspecified amount of time, the detention crew which includes Kym, Manny, Amir, Liv and Beth presumably find Marcus (unknown whether he stumbled out, but formerly implied he was found, not stated; due to the fact that Beth had kicked everyone out of the library to be with Shane, making it plausible for any of them to have found him, just unknown how much time it was before and after Marcus was found) and bring him out of the locker room and lay him out on the hallway floor. Amir asks if he’s dead with Manny stating that perhaps he had too many hits to the head (implying he was knocked out by his football team, seeing as he was in the locker room). Marcus then awakes, gasping as the others stand above him and who panicked, asks them if they saw what he saw, which Liv questions him what and he tells them about him being jumped and how it was “some kind of Ghostface”, referring to it by name. Beth and the rest look at him in confusion and disbelief as Beth sarcastically states how she thought she was the freak. He tells them he’s being serious and stands up and tries to convince them and prove it by showing them the texts messages on his phone which are deleted as he opens it. Marcus says how Ghostface must’ve erased the messages to make him seem crazy, referring to it as a him, which Beth then ironically states that he’s doing a “hell of a job”. Marcus then looks up to briefly smolder and stare down around at his classmates as Liv, Manny, and Kym all look at him disbelieving, as he tells them he has to go as he turns his backs and sprints and runs away across the hallway, with Kym reinforcing what Manny said about Marcus having “definitely way too many hits to the head”.
 * Detention assumingely ends for the soon-to be Deadfast Club, just after Marcus left whom will all soon meet at Shane’s party in about 5 hours from now (assuming that Beth’s time frame was correct).

Evening-9:30 PM

 * Marcus is shown sitting on the empty bleachers of the Weaver High School football field, later at night and who’s spectating his team practice when he’s joined by his mother, Sherry Elliot. She walks up and sits down next to him, making a joke about Marcus’s football team and about her hurting feet from her job’s last night shift. Marcus calls for her as he asks her if the school called her about his detention, which Sherry agrees to. He greets her and asks her if she’s mad at him, which she states she’s not happy about him getting detention but that she knows he’s a good boy (referring to him incorrectly as Deion since she doesn’t know or assumes her other son, Marcus, was killed off but she’s actually talking to him and it was Deion who was killed 8 years prior to the Halloween night incident). He then asks her intriguely why she’s here, as Sherry makes note how it’s almost Halloween (meaning the course of the first three episodes in Season 3 take place in the final week of and around October 29-31st, 2018, accordingly). Marcus then tells her how him being put in detention has nothing to do with Halloween, who tells her the reason was simply about a white boy (Avery) saying something he didn’t like and how he only lost his head for a minute. Sherry agrees with him but asks him if he’s sure he doesn’t want to talk about it, and how she could call “that fancy doctor in Sandy Springs”, subtly commenting on Marcus’s mental state. Marcus reassures her and tells her how she’s not hearing him, which his mother tells him it’s no shame in it and how it’s “pulled him through some rough patches before”, implying he used to go when he was younger due to what occurred back in 2010. Marcus tells her how she can tell that to San Diego State and how they have one scholarship left and that they’re only give it to “somebody in their right mind”. Sherry tells him not to put so much pressure on himself and how he could chill some and how he’s having a great football season, which Marcus rebuffs and says he’ll be able to chill when he goes pro. He says how it’ll pay off and how he’ll buy her a house out West, and put her sore feet of hers into the ocean. Sherry appreciates his gesture and tells him it’s sweet but how after she finishes her night classes and her career gets back on track, how she’ll be buying her own house. Marcus chuckles and they share a quiet moment before Sherry asks him to promise her he’s good and that it won’t be like last time. Marcus smiles and tells her that he promises her and that he’s good and he’s not seeing ghosts anymore (referring perhaps to his hallucinations induced or caused by his trauma).
 * At Liv’s house, her police father, Officer Reynolds, knocks on her bedroom door. Liv greets him with Reynolds stating he’s on his way to work and tells her how she seemed “a little quiet” at dinner and asks if there’s anything he should know. Liv laughs it off and tells him that it was a long day at school, as Reynolds sarcastically reveals he knows she had detention and how detention has a way of making the school day longer. Liv tells him that she didn’t know he knew. Her father reassures her and tells her how he knows they’re still settling into Atlanta, how he’s at a new precinct and her at a new school. He asks her that he needs to know she’s on the right track. Liv apologizes and promises she’ll do better and tells him how she promises him that he can trust her. Reynolds remarks how he’s a cop, and how he doesn’t trust anyone. He smiles at her before he goes to work. Liv shuts the door looking thoughtfully as she then makes her way to her bedroom bathroom, walking through as she begins to undress seeing as her bath is running. She takes off her shirt and pants to reveal only her bra and underwear (homage to that of the scene from the 1998 Stab, albeit she’s still clothed). Liv is then thrown off as she hears tapping coming from her bathroom window, which is being condensed due to her hot water running. She approaches the window and wipes away at it looking intriguely before Ghostface appears, scaring her as she screams and is pushed back against the wall. She then looks back to see Ghostface has dissapeared as she pants and looks in fear out towards it.
 * Sometime later, she would make her way after her bath towards Marcus’s house at his apartment complex walking, who is greeted and brought in of the front door by his half brother Jay Elliot, who checks Liv out. She asks if Marcus is home, telling Jay how she tried calling him but he’s not answering her. Jamal tells her that he’s making a big mistake and leads her inside as she walks in to hear rap music playing. Jay introduces himself by his nickname and asks Liv if she’d like something to drink. She plays it off cool and says she wants all the drinks but how currently she needs to find Marcus and asks him if he has any idea where he is as Jay gets a drink for himself as he pops the lid off. He says that if he had taken his advice, he’s probably at the Old Metro Station “blowing off some steam” and how there’s a big party headed out there tonight (referring to Shane’s party). She asks him how he knows Marcus, with Jay stating their brothers, but actually half brothers to be specific, and Liv states that it sounds complicated, which Jay reassures her it’s simple. He walks up to her and tells Liv to let him break down to her that despite seeming like a nice girl and all, the only thing Marcus (posing as Deion) cares about is football. Liv tells him she’s not trying to distract him. Jay tells her it’s not her fault and hits her up with a one liner saying but how she is “distracting as hell”. He faces Liv a few feet away before pulling away and asking her what she needs to talk to Marcus about. Jay guesses it’s complicated as Liv stutters but ultimately agrees. She then looks through a picture of who she guesses is “Deion”, as a child, with Jay stating that it’s not him, rather Marcus (this was before Marcus posing as Deion revealed himself in the season finale). Liv, now intrigued, asks who he is.

9:30 P.M-Nightime

 * Marcus is meanwhile shown bench pressing alone at his high school weight room gym after hours, with rap music playing through a boom box speakers in the background. He walks to get his phone which is vibrating from 4 missed phone calls from 10 minutes ago (which means she must have called at 9:20 PM, or as earliest as 8:50 PM if each call was sent within a 10 minute interval from one another) and a text message from Liv which she sent now reads “I saw it too”, referring to the Ghostface that Marcus encountered alone. His phone then is shown receiving an incoming call from Marcus (seeing as he was posing as Deion, and perhaps Ghostface hacked his dead brothers phone number and likely cloned it to call him, since it appears as a contact already on actual Marcus’s phone). Marcus turns the volume fully low and the music stops as Marcus angrily responds and picks up the call and asks who’s calling. Ghostface answers in his voice in the first call he has now speaking with Marcus (seeing as he previously confronted him via text) and that he thought they were blood seeing as Marcus doesn’t recognize the voice. He tells him to quit playing and how they both know he isn’t Marcus (ironic since Marcus is talking to himself in a sense), as Ghostface menacingly tells how they only thing they both know is him having no idea what’s under their mask, or who.
 * Marcus tells him to quit calling him and how he doesn’t have time to play these games. Ghostface taunts him and asks if he’s not curious about who he’s going to kill, or asks him if he only selfishly cares about himself, telling him how that’s his rep these days, referring to him as D-Day (nickname for Deion). Marcus, as Deion, tells Ghostface he doesn’t care what he thinks about him, as Ghostface threatens him and tells him he’s going to make him care, saying how he’s going to carve away at Deion Elliot “the man, the myth, the legend, bit by bit. Find what lies beneath”. Marcus points out the irony and angrily asks beneath what, since their the ones in a costume.
 * The killer guised as Ghostface defends themselves and says they’re wearing armor, and asks how it’s the only way to survive high school these days to him, menacing Marcus with his secret as Marcus looks alert as they say this. Ghostface then tells an already uneasy Marcus how their going to find the seams, stick their knife in it and cut through his bone and meat, until it’s scrapes against what matters most. Marcus composes himself and asks him what’s that in regards to the threat, which Ghostface tells him the truth, threatening by saying “who you are, who your friends are on the inside”. Ghostface taunts him in regards to the question by saying that the only question is who dies first, as he lists off the names of Marcus’s classmates in order from Kym, Amir, Manny, Beth, and to Liv at the end, which Marcus tells her to stay away from her. Ghostface tell her how it’s too late and how she just got to the party, and asks him if she will make it out (in reference to how Ghostface is seen to taunt victims in the franchise by talking with them on the phone and who is supposedly able to see them).
 * Marcus finally agrees to play to the killers game, with Ghostface directing him to come to the Old Metro Station and how he better hurry or else their going to be blood on both the killers hands and his.
 * The call ends, as Marcus turns his back to face the weight room mirror standing against the wall. Angry, he screams before he makes a fist and punches the middle, cracking the mirror. Then, as he turns to look at the corner of the gym door, he spots Ghostface in costume standing there, who makes a run for it as Marcus chases the fully masked in costume killer, presumably, outside in the school hallways. Marcus manages to catch up to the killer and tackle him from behind as Ghostface falls face front as Marcus then turns them around and unmasked them only to reveal Amir Ayoub. Marcus screams his name in surprise, which also surprises Amir who asks him how he actually knows his name. Marcus angrily tells him to shut up and tells him if he’s the one whose been messing with him. Amir denies this, clamoring he doesn’t know what he’s talking about and swears by it. Marcus then reasonably angry asks him why he’s here, which Amir states how he went to Shane’s party and how it “sounded dead” and so he came back to get his DJ equipment, how he keeps it in his locker so his parents won’t find it. Marcus then asks him about his costume.
 * This, in turn, flashes the scene forward as Marcus and Amir head over to Shane’s party at the Old Metro Station, with Marcus in his normal clothes and Amir in his, out of costume. A long line is shown as Marcus and Amir skip ahead to the front where they are greeted by Shane, who’s collecting payments and letting people in, who’s happy to see Marcus, as he states how now “it’s a party”. Marcus tells him it doesn’t sound like one as he looks over to the inside as Shane states it’s the point, given they don’t want the cops to shut them down, and who hands Marcus a pair of headphones. Amir then makes notice and is relieved, telling Marcus and Shane that it’s a silent disco and that’s the reason why he didn’t hear anything before. Shane looks smugly and smiles at Amir as he asks about the DJ situation, to which Shane replies they have a DJ in there already as they speak. Amir, seemingly upset, tells Shane that he told him he could talk to Fade about it (which is actually Shane himself, ironically), as he plays it off saying he’s around somewhere and Amir, clearly upset, calmly asking him to be specific, which Shane says he can’t and tells Amir smugly how “everybody knows that nobody knows who Fade really is”, comparing him to Banksy and Batman. Marcus looks intrigued as Shane speaks, with Amir retorting angrily that everybody knows who Batman is. Shane chuckles and Marcus then tries to head inside before being stopped by Shane and tells him how he’s got to put it on before heading in and that he’ll love it, as Marcus is handed a black bag which shows the Ghostface costume, both mask and robe, inside. Marcus then stares down at Shane and asks him sternly how he knows about this, to which Shane denies and asks about what, saying all he knows it’s Halloween and that “girls love theme parties” (incorrectly referring to the date, but more so referring to the week seeing as it’s approaching Halloween). Amir then asks Marcus if they’re going inside, with Marcus saying they’re not and that he needs to go home. Amir confusingly out loud asks him why. Marcus tells him that he’s got his reasons and orders Amir to go to his house, lock the door, and keep his head down. Amir refuses, comparing that to every single night of his life and asks him what he’ll do if he doesn’t, with Marcus telling him that he’ll snitch on him to his parents and tell them where he’s at. Amir, looks defeated, simply says that he’ll best be on his way then as Amir walks back away from the party line and Marcus heads inside.
 * The abandoned warehouse party (which is a reference to the party held at the abandoned Lakewood orphanage in the Season 2 episode “The Orphanage”) is shown with partygoers on the stairs and on the dance floor all dressed as Ghostface, who are partying to the music playing on their headphones (thus silently not too audible, only hearing people cheer out and talk amongst themselves and the music), outside with lights flashing from the DJ Whisper booth and around. Marcus, donning the mask and costume makes his way out to the crowd and takes off his mask as he looks around the party, seemingly trying to find Liv but who’s shown concerned for who the actual Ghostface is in the crowd. Beth meanwhile makes out with Shane in the crowd and who asks her if she’s satisfied. Beth tells him that with the party, she is, but with him not yet as they continue to make out.
 * On the floor above them, Manny and Kym, also dressed as Ghostface, watch as Kym bets and tells Manny to pay up for betting on Shane and Beth, giving her $100 for it. Manny and Kym then talk with Manny asking Kym to tell him she didn’t bring him here to watch other people make out. Kym tells him that she brought him there to get in the game, and to pick any dude below on the floor below and ask them to dance with him, and see where it goes from there. Manny looks down and states he hates dancing. Kym asks Manny to name one thing he doesn’t hate which Manny replies “admittedly, better than it should be”, as Kym laughs and they talk about their living and future college talk for Midtown. Manny states to Kym, who told him he’s too good for his own hood, reminding her that they both used a fake address to get into Weaver, saying he’s pretty sure it was her idea. Kym defends herself stating she was thinking about their future and how it’s all about academics for them right now. Kym agrees with Manny about how the romantic stuff can wait. Manny tells her how Midtown is his future in where he can be himself, saying how’s he’s just gotta make it these five months, survive high school, and move a hundred blocks to Georgia Tech, his dream school, stating his plan as “five months and a hundred blocks”. Kym then asks him what his “sad sack-no dancing-self” is going to do if she doesn’t get into Tech, which Manny tells her jokingly to not even but states how he’ll burn the place down if she doesn’t (unfortunately foreshadowing his death). The duo then laugh, and later go off into the party, supposedly.
 * Back down at the dance floor, Liv makes her way through the crowd also masked in the Ghostface costume, before she is then pulled back in the arm, causing her to unmask herself and be revealed to be pulled back by Avery Collins. She tells him what the hell, with Avery apologizing and saying he had to do it saying ever since she walked in how he couldn’t take his eyes off her. Liv angrily tells him to learn and tells him that whatever they’ve been doing, “it’s done.” Avery then asks her if she’s even going to give him a chance to explain himself, which Liv denies, saying he doesn’t need him to explain something she already understands and tells him to understand that she would never be with somebody who would say those kinds of things. Avery then claims he gets it as he tells her how it’s her and Deion. Liv shakes her head and tells him again he doesn’t get it, saying she’s not some trophy for him to win. She then turns around to walk away with Avery calling her back for her to wait, grabbing her arm, as Liv turns around and madly slaps him across the face on his cheek. Liv angrily tells him to not call her babe or touch her ever again. Avery then subtly states that he thought she was different but that she’s just like the rest of them. Liv looks at him in disbelief and tells him to drop dead, as she walks away, foreshadowing his upcoming death, as Avery also walks away.
 * Marcus, walking around the party floor in costume, mask and all, gets a call from Ghostface. He unmasks himself and answers the phone standing in the middle of the floor. He tells the killer he’s there, with Ghostface pointing out he looks scared (in an homage to how Ghostface has told his targets and victims in the films they look scared while on the phone, seemingly watching them). Marcus angrily tells him how they’re the ones who are scared to show their face, with the killer stating they’re right beside him, telling them they brought a real knife with them this time, before swiftly and quickly slicing Marcus on the arm. He tells them he wants him to play a new game this time by confessing his deepest, darkest secret to his “friends”, which Marcus states he barely knows any of them, which Ghostface agrees is good, saying how that’ll make bearing his soul to them all the more humiliating. Marcus meanwhile pans out the floor and looks around through the crowd of others in the Ghostface to find the killer, showing them all dancing and with headphones on. Marcus tells them that he had his reasons for doing what he did, which Ghostface says to let them be the judge of that saying “when they see who you really are, on the inside”. Ghostface tell Marcus if he doesn’t that he’ll be seeing the insides of someone else, or maybe his own, threatening him with that as the call ends. He then stumbles into Liv, unmasked as he turns around, who tells him he’s bleeding. Marcus says he knows and Liv tells him how it’s not and that they need to talk. Marcus also says he knows that, too, and grabs Liv and motions for her to follow him as Marcus takes the DJ booth and asks the DJ if they can hear them through the headphones, as Marcus interrupts the music to broadcast his message, as the masked partygoers boo him and grunt. He says he needs to talk to Breakfast Club and if they know what that means to get themselves on the abandoned city bus outside of the station.
 * Marcus gathers Liv, Kym, Manny, and Beth (except Amir) telling them they have to leave and that they’re all in danger. Kym retorts to him saying he’s crazy as to why they're all supposed to be leaving the best party of the year. Marcus tells her that he’s being serious, and looks around and says how somebody is threatening to kill one of them. Beth guesses Ghostface, as Marcus stays silent in agreement, with Liv looking at him. Manny points out that it doesn’t make any sense, with Marcus agreeing. Manny tells him he doesn’t think he does, stating the fact that not that many people at school even know who the rest of them are, and asks logically why anyone would want to kill them. Liv then tells Deion that it’s about Marcus, as “Deion turns around and looks at her with him asking her how she knows about him, with Kym pointing out she was just about to ask her the same thing. Everyone falls silent before Marcus, posing as Deion, tells them about his twin brother (he doesn’t mention the swapping costumes and how he is actually Marcus and the one who died was Deion, not him, back in Halloween 2010). He tells them the story of them going out trick or treating on Halloween when they were kids and through a flashbacks it shows “Marcus” stabbed through the forehead by Hook Man’s hook as “Deion” stands mere feet away, in shock, as the other attacked twin is unmasked now and calls desperately for his brother to help him, as blood pours down from his head wound, before it’s shown that “Deion” ran away and jumped the fence away from the abandoned junkyard of Hook Man, as a shot shows the Ghostface mask laying on the ground, with the hole wound on the left side of the forehead. He tells them he left his twin brother to die, as Liv, Beth, Manny, and Kym look at him sympathetically. He then tells them how he got ahold as soon as he left of the cops and his mom and says he didn’t run fast enough because by the time they got back, “Marcus” was dead, who then tells them how now somebody is wearing this costume, pointing out how they all are, but how somebody is actually using it to kill them all and threatening them with it. Marcus points out how it could be a sick prank or a joke or whatever, but how he doesn’t want to take the chance of somebody else getting hurt because of him. He then pleads and asks them again to leave. Beth says okay, and is the first to walk out, followed soon by Kym and Manny, as it leaves Marcus and Liv alone. He points out to her how he’s not that person anymore and how he made a bad decision and how it’s going to haunt him for the rest of life. He is interrupted as Liv reassures him and says she understands and knows the feeling before being the last one and leaving, as Marcus is left alone.
 * Beth, back in her normal clothes, throws away the Ghostface mask in a trash can as she makes her way through the floor crowd of the party and receives a call from Avery, which sounds breaking off, as Avery is shown to be on the top floor, alone, watching her. He asks her where she’s going with Beth uninterested listening to him, as Avery states he likes her piercings and that he something else he can stick in her her face. Beth asks him it depends and uninterested, entertains him shortly as she asks whose doing the sticking, with Avery in role play, asking her who she wants him to be. Beth states his name, mentioning him hooking up with her at the blackout legged freshman year and who didn’t call her again, who she says his number she still had on her phone for some reason. Avery looks down, eyeing Beth before he is then suddenly attacked by Ghostface, who grabs him as Beth hears his struggle through the phone and confrontation, whose phone drops below right to Beth’s feet which she picks up. Right before Avery then falls screaming before he is then impaled on a spike in the middle of the dance floor, impaling him through his chest and upper body torso. Beth is then splattered with his blood on impact in her face and who is taken aback, as well as the other partygoers who begin to unmask themselves as they look towards Avery, who impaled is struggling to get out of his impalement. Beth then makes her way forward as Avery is still in his Ghostface costume, mask and all, before she unmasks him as he looks at her, his head tilting up. The crowd screams and begins running away before Avery’s head and body movement falls down, now completely dead as the party is also died down as everyone screams and begins to leave, running for the exits.
 * After everyone gets out, Beth stands and steps back and watches Avery’s body. She is joined by the other members from the detention, unmasked and in their normal clothes, with Amir speaking up asking if he’s dead, for real this time. They all stare in horror and shock, with Beth claiming she doesn’t know and stating it’s so different than the movies. Manny gets disgusted and says he’s going to be sick with Kym motioning for him to puke somewhere away from the body. Marcus then looks suspiciously over at Amir and says he thought he told Amir to home, which he states he slipped in the back, saying he didn’t want to miss the party, not the murder that just occurred. Shane, who is among them, asks him who cares and tells them they’ve all gotta bounce and that the cops will be there any minute. Liv states that her dad is a cop and tells them she doesn’t want to be there when he shows up. The seven of them then hear the police sirens approaching, with Kym sighing and saying how the cops are only around when you don’t want them to be. Shane tells them their all on their own as he leaves. Marcus agrees and says they all have to go and find somewhere and figure this out. Liv asks where, with Beth stating she knows a place as the five others turn to look at her.
 * They then all leave and are shown to have gathered at Beth’s workplace at a tattoo parlor somewhere in Atlanta, not too far but far away from the crime scene. Kym begins to pace stating how if somebody has it out for “Deion”, and asks what it has to do with the rest of them, and also snarkily asks why they’re at Beth’s “janky tattoo shop”. Beth answers the question directed at her but looks at Marcus and says she can’t answer the other one. Everyone then begins to look at Marcus, as he then also retorts saying he doesn’t know how they all got caught up. Manny states that perhaps Marcus was right and that this is just a prank.
 * Amir calls him out, saying that someone (Avery) died, with Manny saying it was one that went too far and how perhaps it’ll all just stop. Then, as if on cue, they all get a text message from each of their phones from Ghostface from an unknown number that reads “Show me your insides… Or you’re next!”, alongside a photo of the impaled Avery (in an homage to the text GIF students at George Washington High School got of Nina’s death in the “Pilot” episode of Season 1). Amir reads aloud the first text and asks, raising his voice, what it means. Beth states that their in a horror movie, with Kym referencing Beth as Edward Scisscorhands, saying that that’s her life, not theirs. Beth states how that’s not even a horror movie in regards to the character she was referred to as, and states how it’s now her life, too, and all of theirs. Beth looks at them all who all look at her, as she asks, upset, if they don’t get that they’re all being hunted by a killer.
 * She states how killers have codes and horror has rules. Marcus then asks how he didn’t know horror had a playbook, to which Beth says it does and that it plays by it. She tells them that she has bad news and how they’re not the type of characters to make it to the end, as a meta reference. Liv then asks Beth what she’s talking about, with Beth telling her to relax “Princess”, and how she has “Final Girl” potential, while she states how the rest of them by their cliques: goth, geek, and gay, don’t have a chance and are the first bodies to drop.
 * Marcus then asks about himself and Kym, as Kym looks back at Marcus. Beth then tells them to not take this the wrong way, but that their Black (which Kym looks at her in disbelief and says smugly “Girl.”) and how in horror that’s pretty much “an insta-kill”, referring to the stereotype of Black characters depicted in horror films being the first to be killed off or die. Kym looks smugly at her, as Amir debates this saying how Avery was white and one of the whitest people he’d ever seen and how he “practically glowed in the dark”, and asks her why he died. Beth is silent before Marcus answers and tells them because he wasn’t who he said he was, on the inside. Amir looks up at him, along with the rest of the crew. Liv agrees with him, saying how Avery pretended to be a nice guy, but how deep down he was a total racist. Kym then asks Beth if that goes accordingly to her “freaky rules”, smugly, with Beth stating she hopes not as she indicts them their group name from detention saying in that case they’re not the Breakfast Club, they’re the Deadfast Club, and how she’s pretty sure they’re all going to die.

9:53 P.M-Nighttime

 * “Devil’s Night”: Kym is shown to have made her way home after meeting with the Deadfast Club and their first informal meeting at Beth’s tattoo parlor and who’s seen renting out horror movies at a Redbox somewhere near her neighborhood as she makes her way to the apartment complex where she lives. She talks for a moment with one of the residents, a young dealer named Latavious, who hits on her smoothly and asks for some company in front of other men outside. She brushes him off and goes inside her apartment and locks the door as she calls out for her mom, who’s currently at the homeless shelter and leaves a note that states where she’s at and for her to do her homework. Kym is then shown watching the 2007 Halloween remake of the original 1978 John Carpenter film which starred Jamie Lee Curtis (as mentioned in the original Scream film and its film franchise). She talks to herself and points out for the female character to get out the house as the killer is in their. Kym sighs and who gets a text from Manny at about 9:53 PM (meaning it was only 23 minutes on what happened before the previous episode, seeing as it’s still the same day). He texts that he’s on his way and bringing popcorn, with Kym texting him that she’s not watching these horror movies for fun but for research. Kym then looks up as Michael Meyers attacks on the screen as she predicted before she is then again interrupted this time by a phone call from Ghostface, shown as “No Caller ID”. Kym answers it blatantly and asks whose calling, as Ghostface asks her the traditional question of “do you like scary movies?”, with Kym stating she doesn’t because everyone in them is “stupid as hell”. Ghostface then asks her if she likes to play games, which Kym shrugs off as a telemarketer calling, and says unless they tell her who they are, she’s hanging up. Ghostface then tells her they want to know who she is, on the inside and says her name. She calls him by his code name, and Ghostface points out how she’s good at games and who says it’s too bad they’re not playing “20 Questions”. (this is an homage to how Ghostface has called his victims or targets in the openings of the Scream films and the franchise).
 * Kym tells the killer they’re not playing “period”, as Kym then stands up and alertly as she makes her way to the kitchen and opens a counter to get out a kitchen knife. Ghostface states that the game started the second Avery’s body hit the ground, and who asks Kym, who arms herself while on the phone, that the only question is which one of them “hypocrites” dies next. She finds the knife by her kitchen sink, and she tells him angrily how they get off on scaring people, and bravely tells them she’s not scared. The killer taunts her and says they’ll see, saying there there not there to scare her but to kill her. Kym tells them to go ahead and how that there’s people where she lives “badder than you”, which the killer comments that she looks alone them in her pink, fuzzy slippers (implying they see her). Kym, now fully alert, then walks outside and says aloud while still on the phone that she’ll introduce them to her people, with the killer commenting on the drug dealers who exploit the community they live in saying they’re the biggest hypocrites of all. Kym says how they may agree on that but how at least they’re strapped. She then runs over to where Latavious was on the couch, who is crouched and who Kym believed was sleeping and calls his name and touches him before it’s revealed that he’s dead and his throat slashed. Kym screams in shock, and who turns around and manages to duck Ghostface and their knife slinging towards her, grunting as she runs back to her apartment and screams for the residents to call 911 and states “White Officer down”, in code for someone who’s just been killed. Ghostface escapes as lights begin to turn on, before she’s then grabbed and startled by Manny who arrives and asks what happened and if she’s okay. Kym states “Hell, no” who is relieved as she hugs Manny and who reassures her it will be all right, as it pans out to show Latavious’s head looking up and his throat slashed
 * The Atlanta P.D arrive to the scene as well as the city coroner who takes Latavious away. Kym is interrogated by a police officer as she tells them the description of the killer wearing a mask and Halloween costume. Kym then asks if the cop is getting this, to which the officer replies blatantly that he is, despite not writing anything down in his note pad which Kym notices and points out to him, asking him why he’s not writing anything she’s saying down. The officer closes his pad and tells Kym they appreciate her cooperation and that they’ll handle it from there. Kym retorts that they’re not handling nothing, as she approaches the officer who tells her to step back and that it’s an active crime scene, which Kym sarcastically replies to not tell her since she lives there. She walks away, upset, joining Manny as well as Jamal who approaches the both of them. He asks Kym what’s going on which she refers to as “just another Tuesday at College Park” (it would be implied that this happened on October 30th, which would be Tuesday, but seeing as how it happened at around 9:53 to 10:00 P.M on October 29th, it’s perhaps meant to be taken as a note, perhaps that the police are barely cleaning up the crime scene and how it’s almost close to midnight and thus, the next day, more so). They all watch as Latavious’s body is dragged out by the coroner in a black body bag, which Jamal asks who it is with Kym informing him it was Latavious. He then asks them if he knows who killer him, which Manny tells him that the cops won’t hear their theories. Kym states that they had it figured out as some sort of “gangland thing” and Jamal chuckles saying how she’s always talking down on the hood. Kym points out to Jay how he’s only been here a few years, and how he’s still fresh off the pack as far as her neighborhood is concerned. Jay tells her how it’s his home now, too, and how he’s going to make his mark. Manny asks him what that’s supposed to mean, with Jay preferring not to get into it right now, as Kym looks at him intrigued. Jamal leaves, and Kym and Manny look at one another.

Morning-Evening

 * The next morning at school, the Deadfast Club (except for Liv) meet up in an empty hallway near a window outside where an impromptu memorial service is shown to Ben held for Avery, with flowers and other gifts laid next to his picture which states his memorial will be held today at the gym. Beth states how they have to get back at the issue, disregarding the departed. Beth states how Kym almost got killed last night. Marcus, wearing his letterman jacket of Weaver, states how they know the killer’s after them but asks why he would kill Latavious. Kym tells them that the killer was trying to kill her, referring to it as a he, and points out that Ghostface said something about LT being a hypocrite, which was true but despite this is in disbelief and sighs as she states he was fine and how she didn’t mind him hollering at her. Beth then states what she had said the night before about killers having codes.
 * Manny states whether code or not, he should’ve gone sooner, which Kym retorts and tells him to do what but have an asthma attack and who apologizes to Manny and states that she loves him but that conflict isn’t his strong suit. Marcus points out that perhaps Beth’s right, saying how if the killer went after Beth then he’s keeping good on his word. Amir suggests they better call the cops, which Beth disagrees saying how in horror movies, they’re totally useless and how they don’t believe the victims until it’s too late. Kym states that it works that way in real life as well and tells them how by the time the police got to her apartment complex last night they had their story about how apparently “dope dealers like masks just as much as psychopaths do”. Marcus then asks Beth that if they’re trapped in a horror movie, with Beth looking over at him along with a startled Kym, asking how do they survive.
 * Kym states by not listening to Beth and who tells them that she researched and that the type of horror movies Beth’s talking about are about “white people in white people places making dumb white people mistakes”. Beth defensively agrees as to that’s exactly what horror is and the two ladies face each other. Marcus then makes his way through the middle and break them apart. Kym points out that there are Black people in horror movies as well, with Beth asking her to name one besides Get Out, which Kym proclaims loudly that she doesn’t have to “because we’re making our own rules, just like Jordan Peele”. (This would be the first unofficial reference to the director who in the film franchise would be mentioned almost 3 years later in Scream (2022)). Amir tells them not to spoil it because he hasn’t seen it with Kym blatantly telling him how it’s not a spoiler when it’s in the title, mentioning how the character of that movie, Chris, gets out. She points out that the character survived by going straight for the killers and she suggests they do the same. The group falls silent as Beth agrees with Kym, as Kym snaps her fingers righteously and Manny smiling. Beth tells them to think about it, mentioning how in most horror movies nobody goes after the killer until almost everybody’s dead. She states how if they were to do that now, they flip the script and how Ghostface won’t see it coming. Marcus points out to Beth that she’s forgetting they have no idea who Ghostface actually is.
 * The school bell rings and Manny states that they have five minutes till Homeroom and how he doesn’t plan on getting detention again, and asks what they’re doing or going to do. Marcus tells them all that their just going to hold tight, and says to do so at least until they figure out whose doing this to them. Amir then asks when they’re going to do that with Marcus replying after school, saying they’ll meet up and talk suspects but until then, asks for nobody to stick their necks out. They all agree, and Beth asks whether they need to flip a coin and see who’s going to call Liv and let her know, with her sarcastically saying “as long as both sides say not me”. Marcus then asks where Liv actually is today.
 * Liv is shown to be at her house, due to her dad Officer Reynolds demanding it, with Liv arguing she can’t be locked like she’s some kind of convict. Her dad states how perhaps if she was maybe she’d listen to him for a change and apologizes to her, claiming he didn’t mean that. He then states how it’s only been two days since “that boy” she was hanging out with died, stating how she’s still in shock (two days ago would mean that Liv and Avery officially met on October 28th, which would have fallen on a Sunday. However her dad perhaps only referenced this through his memory and thus could be a mistake). Liv states that she should be at school with her friends, not alone with her own thoughts. Her father asks her if she’d like to share any of her thoughts with him. Liv, who had been at the party the night of Avery’s death, declines to comment and asks if her dads going to tell her when she can go back to school. Reynolds tells her that tommorow, after Devil’s Night. She sighs and states how it’s just harmless pranks, like egging houses or shaving cream on sidewalks. Her father points out that perhaps where they were from but saying how they’re not there anymore, now that they’re in Atlanta. He begins put on his police utility belt and tells Liv how a drug dealer got stabbed to death in College Park last night (mentioning Latavious and incorrectly, seeing as his throat was slashed, and he was not stabbed). He tells her how he doesn’t want Liv in that kind of chaos, and Liv tells him how she won’t get into any trouble. Her dad scoffs. Liv, knowning about Avery, asks her father intriguely if they know anything about Avery or how he died with her dad telling her that his blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit and how he got drunk and fell and that that’s the end of the story. He tells her it was an accident and not a mystery for her to solve, although Liv knows otherwise. Liv agrees as her dad  makes her way out as she watches him from the hallway as he stands in the corridor and looks at her before making his way outside and to work. Live then returns to the kitchen and logs in to her father’s police laptop and into the database for the College Park Police (established in 1860) and who looks through the background check database and looks up information on Deion Elliot as she sees his police file and newspapers article surrounding him. Liv researches this throughout most of the day.
 * Marcus and Kym are shown to be in the hallway conversing before they’re interrupted by the football coach, Coach Griffin, who asks to speak to him for a minute. Kym tells Marcus that they need to get to the assembly and Marcus tell her he’ll catch up with her. Kym greets the coach and goes off to the assembly in the school gymnasium. The coach informs him how due to Avery’s death, Marcus is going to have to switch his position on the field with him, which is center. Marcus asks why him, seeing as he’s the running back and tells the coach he’s never taken a snap in his life with the coach telling him it doesn’t matter because he’s the best player he’s ever had and how he needs the ball in his hands as much as possible. Marcus hesitates, saying he has to learn a whole new position in a week. The coach understands his struggles riding on this game, but which he defends and says in that Marcus needs to trust that he’s doing the right thing. Marcus says he does trust him, and the coach tells him to go on, saying he got him cleared from last period to get a jump on things before practice. This surprises Marcus who tells him he can’t and says he’s got people waiting on him. The coach reminds him of the SDSU scout sitting at the stands of the game, and gives him a proposal asking which one is more important. Marcus tells him how it’s not that easy. The coach agrees, saying it’s hard just like all the hard work he’s put in to earn his opportunity, saying he doesn’t want to see him screw this up. Marcus hesitantly follows the coach who tells him he’s got plays to learn.
 * Meanwhile, at the gymnasium, a memorial is held for Avery Collins, as a slide show is shown of him in memoriam as Mr. Fitch thanks the AV club for their emotional presentation. As Mr. Fitch gives a speech in regards to Avery, Amir wipes tears not due to Avery but to the song which was playing which Beth asks him about. Mr. Fitch then hands the time over to Officer Reynolds, who speaks to the students, and gives them a cautionary tale of Avery Collins. Kym then joins Beth, Manny and Amir in the school bleachers, as she rebuffs what Reynolds is saying about Avery having died saying the killer who killed him wants to kill them next, speaking quietly. Reynolds asks the students about finding out who organized the event, who uses the alias name “Mr. Fade”. Beth sighs and says the police don’t know anything. However, Kym realizes that that was the moniker for the party Shane had invited them the night prior, who she tells as Manny, Beth, and Amir look at her intrigued.
 * She explains soon after as the assembly ends in the hallway outside, as students are seen making their way by and out. She asks them who was the one in detention that gave them the invitation, and the freaky costumes, and at the door collecting at the door, as she states that Shane is the killer, which Amir points out that Shane is Fade, and Kym points out that his moniker is Ghostface. Manny then asks why Shane would kill Avery, with Beth stating how Avery used to buy from Shane all the time and how maybe it was due to a deal that went bad. Manny then asks about the costumes asking how Shane knew what they meant to Deion, with Amir stating perhaps a bad coincidence. Manny states that’s a lot of “maybes” with Kym saying how they’ll probably want to think about this until Ghostface shows up at their houses and tries to turn them inside out. Kym says how she believes Shane is Ghostface and how they need do something about it before he does any of them. Kym asks for a vote, which Amir asks if they’re not going to wait “Deion”, which Kym states they need to act now with or without him. Kym says that Manny will vote her plan, and that it only leaves Beth and Amir. Beth votes in and Amir asks exactly what her plan is, which she says is to trap him so they can interrogate him. Amir doubts this, seeing as how Shane is “a total badass” with Beth saying she may know a way but all they have to do is trust her.
 * At an empty pharmacy, Ghostface, shown holding a gun to a pharmacist places a list with drugs he needs as the pharmacist obeying, gets for him. He holds him at gun point and motions for him to also give the cash out of the register into the bag where the drugs are. Ghostface is seen checking and just before the pharmacist can press the emergency button, he knocks him with the butt of the gun on his head and makes his way out with the bag. It’s revealed to be Shane, who only used the guise to rob the drugs and texts Beth that he’s got it (this is revealed to be her luring him into the trap).

Evening-Nighttime

 * Marcus is shown later practicing outside at night at the football field at Weaver High, with his helmet and gear and everything, who is giving directions to his football team to “scat right, dive on three” seeing as how Marcus is now the new quarterback filling in for Avery after his death, as the running back position has now fallen onto Hawkins to take, supposedly. He tells Hawkins that means he goes right, with Hawkins telling him how he’s been “riding the pine for four years”, for Marcus calling him “cuz”, and to not give him no lip, much to Marcus’s confusion as to why Hawkins spoke like that. He counts to three and looks up to his teammates as he calls break and they all repeat him, signaling for them to start practice as the practice plays out over a hip hop song playing. Marcus yells “Black 40” and hut as the players practice, the others tackling the offensive team, as Coach Griffin spectates and yells out for Marcus to hold on to the ball and tells them to go again. Marcus yells hut as his team (shown in white, the other team in black) continues practicing, as Marcus stumbles which his coach calls him out by using his last name. Marcus is then seen tackled (he’s wearing orange to signify him as the QB). The whistle blows as Coach Griffin calls off the practice as he yells and tells for all the players to hit the showers because “they stink”, referring to their practice. Griffin then walks up to a helmeted Marcus and who mutters to him, saying this was “a terrible idea” as the Coach walks past by all the players sternly. Marcus then begins to take his helmet, seemingly upset.
 * At Amir’s family donut shop somewhere in Atlanta where he works at, him and Beth are shown taking out $1,000 in cash from Amir’s family safe. Amir is hesitant to take it out as Beth insists for him to. He states how he’s never stolen from his parents before, as Beth tries to convince him it’s not stealing rather “borrowing” and how the money’s just bait, referring to them luring and setting up the trap for Shane. He tells her how a thousand bucks is a lot of cash and asks her if they could take less. Beth denies this saying how less won’t work and how they need Shane to believe this is a legit deal in order for the trap to work. Amir reluctantly agrees but asks Beth that when it’s done that all the money goes back, to which Beth agrees and states “every last dollar”. Amir sighs as the two gaze at one another’s eyes and Amir kneels to get the money out as Beth then grabs a shotgun, hidden underneath the counter by the front of the register and who, playing with it, points it at Amir as he stands up and turns around to look at her. She plays and says shortly “Bang, you’re dead”, with Amir asking if she’s crazy and who upset tells her to put it back as he pushes the hole of the gun away from him. Beth defends herself saying they’re about to confront a psycho killer and says that they need it. Amir puts his foot down and states that the gun will stay and they’ll only take the money. He states how their parents need that to protect themselves and the shop and tells Beth to put it back. Beth rolls her eyes and puts the shotgun back where she found it underneath the front counter by the register. Beth then tries to flirt with Amir, as she looks at him by using a Star Wars reference, and states how “even Luke Skywalker dipped his toe into the dark side once”. (This is a reference more so, to the original ending for Luke in Return of The Jedi; the first Star Wars reference mentioned in the franchise, however, was in Scream 2, which was about sequels and Mickey tells Randy how Empire Strikes Back was the better one, with Randy pointing out that it was not sequel rather a part of a trilogy; ironically, in Scream 3, the real life actress of Princess Leia from Star Wars, plays the role of Bianca Burnette who mentions her resemblance when asked by Gale and Jennifer, in a meta reference). Amir is surprised and asks Beth if she also likes Star Wars too. Beth then drops her gaze from him as Amir imitates Darth Vader and tells Beth how “The Force is strong with this one” (also foreshadowing Beth’s role). Beth then tells him plainly “way to ruin the moment, nerd”, as she walks off upset, much to Amir’s confusion.
 * After hours in their high school chemistry lab, Manny and Kym are shown alone talking with Kym stating how it’d probably be a lot easier if they “hit him over the head with a bat” if he were to ask her (referring to Shane). It shows them working on making knockout gas for the trap, which Kym doubts and asks what would happen if it weren’t to work or “go sideways” and how one of them were to wind up dead. Manny tells her to trust him, seeing as he is an honors chemistry student, and reassures Kym they’re going to be fine. He says that as long as he can find the right delivery system, referring to his makeshift project and asks if he can find it somewhere. Kym sighs and agrees, saying she trusts him, who asks him hypothetically speaking, asks what’s his dream funeral. Manny asks her who even thinks about that, uninterested, which Kym answers herself as an example. Manny smiles warily and looks oddly as Kym states how for her dream funeral, she wants the Boys Choir of Harlem to sing “The End of the Road” by Boyz II Men (which is a song from the soundtrack of the 1992 film Boomerang). She then jokes unless how they get the real Boyz II Men to sing the song instead of the choir, and goes off to state how she wants future president Michelle Obama to deliver her eulogy, as Manny stops working to listen to her. Kym also states how for the finale she wants the entire Black Student Union to read “I Leave You Love”, the final testament by American civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune. She states how except for one student from the BSU, Latrice, saying they’ll bum everyone out. Manny chuckles as Kym tells him its his turn. Manny then states seriously as he looks at her that he’s not playing this game and how one of them is the next target on Ghostface’s hit list. He then asks her pleadingly to just help him find the fog machine. Kym sighs as she retrieves it and places it on top of the counter and states how she had found it ten minutes ago, and says how she wasn’t expecting for their conversation to get so deep. Manny says OK as the two continue to get back to work on the project, supposedly finishing setting it up.
 * Marcus is shown to be leaving practice as he exits from the gate of the football field underneath the bleachers. He bids his team farewell as he dons his Weaver letterman jacket and who makes his way to the parking lot of the football field, where Jay is propped by his red car in a red hoodie outside by the car door, with some of his friends in the inside of the car, both in the back and one in the passenger. Jay asks what’s good as Marcus walks up to him and they shake on it. Jay asks him if he remembers his homies, to which Marcus agrees and says he’s seen them a few times and asks why they’re all there. Jay answers that it’s to give him a ride and states how Marcus knows it’s Devil’s Night and that it’s gonna get crazy. He then says how people are already getting “cut up, left and right” (which is a red herring, and foreshadowing to Jay’s identity). Marcus thinks of this as just Jay saying about LT’s death, which he tells Jay he heard about him. Jay agrees and tells him to hop in and for them to go, which Marcus declines politely, saying how’s he got to learn to play QB by tomorrow and how he ain’t got time to be getting a contact high with him and the “Migos”, referring to Jay’s crew (the next day being October 31st, seeing as it’s still Tuesday). One of Jay’s homies in the back calls out for him, pointing his head out the window, to roll, which Jay declines as he tells them to take the whip and tosses his keys to his homie in the back and who tells them him and his little bro “got some work to do”.
 * Jay’s friends oblige as they start his car and drive off as Marcus looks smug at them, as Jay pats Marcus on his shoulder and they turn around to go back into the field. It shows only him and Jay alone outside on the football field practicing as Jay fills in for Marcus, positioning himself as on his team, as Marcus yells “Black 40, hut”. Jay catches Marcus’s ball throw, which he points out to him and says how there’s nothing wrong with his hands, and how the problem’s all in his head. Jay states how it’s probably because it’s Halloween tomorrow night, as Marcus looks smugly at his half brother, who is referring to the incident that happened in Marcus’s childhood almost 8 years prior. Jay tells him how it’s a rough day for the family, as Marcus sighs and states how they’ll get through it, “just like we always do”. He throws the ball to Jay, who’s staring down his brother smugly, and who asks him if he’s including him in the family, as Marcus had said “we”, as he throws the ball to Marcus, who catches it with ease. Marcus notices his undertone, and tells Jay he doesn’t know and for him to tell him as they play a game of catch with the football. Jay catches it and states how they both lost a lot that night, giving exposition as Marcus, posing as “Deion” walks up to Jay and faces him face to face, standing over him (seeing as he’s taller than Jay) and who blatantly states how “Marcus” (actually Deion) was his brother and more than that, he was his twin. Jay rebuffs and says he’s not trying to replace nobody, as the half brothers stand off, as Jay states that he’s only trying to figure out what they are “to each other”. Marcus looks smug as Jay states how they share the same father, who tells him “it ain’t like he ever around.” Marcus, seemingly upset at Jay’s subliminal snark towards both his and Jay’s father, tells him to lay off Earl. Marcus points out how their father drives as a trucker to take care of them and defends him saying how it’s not his fault he’s always on the road, referring to his absence (this is in reference, loosely similar to Emma’s father Kevin Duval from Season 2, as well as Neil Prescott’s absence in the first Scream).
 * Jay scoffs, as he sneakily states how he does a lot on that road, too, referring to himself as the by-product of Earl and another woman from “being on the road”, seeing as how he is the half brother of Marcus and the late Deion (thus, a subliminal reference and foreshadowing, to both Roman Bridger from Scream 3 and Piper Shaw from Season 1, give their identity and relation to each one of the individual main protagonists’ in their stories of the franchise, respectively). Marcus says calmly to Jay how he knows they ain’t never been tight, and how that’s something that they need to work on, but states how now isn’t the time. Jay sarcastically states it’s because Marcus has tunnel vision and who has his eyes on the prize as both half siblings stare each other off. Marcus then breaks his gaze from Jay to find Liv standing behind the gate in the empty bleachers, thus breaking their tension, as Liv is seen looking at Marcus and who looks down when Marcus takes notice of her. Jay also turns around to notice what broke Marcus’s gaze from him and tells him that that’s not the price he’s talking about. Marcus walks away from Jay, ending their conversation, as he goes slightly jogging towards Liv as Jay turns around and sees him go off, slightly taken back.
 * Marcus then approaches Liv, who asks her where she was at today. Liv then tells him blatantly to not hey her as she speaks seriously and tells “Deion” that he lied, claiming how he was the one who had told “us” (referring to the Deadfast Club) that “Marcus” was dead. Deion states confusingly and agrees that he is, which Liv denied and who tells “Deion” that her brother is alive and how she can prove it. This leads for Marcus (posing as Deion) to look at her in stern confusion.
 * Liv and Marcus are then shown at a diner, where he still poses as “Deion”, as Liv asks him what he thinks of it all, as she shows him evidence from police files she presumably printed out from her dad’s police laptop. He states blatantly that he doesn’t see it and that he’s sorry. Liv, in disbelief of his statement, disagrees and asks him if he doesn’t think that “this person was killed the same day as Avery” (referring to Tommy Jenkins, being the first official target of Ghostface’s killing spree in Atlanta). Marcus tells her how there’s no connection to his story, and shrugs it off as just “another random white dude”. Liv states Tommy Jenkin’s name, as Marcus begins to ask himself why the name sounds familiar. Liv then shows him the account that “Deion” gave police when he was a kid, telling him how he named Tommy as the bully who stole his brother’s candy and tells him how they never found a body in the salvage yard (referring to Hook Man’s lair where the tragedy unfolded and where Tommy had tossed Marcus’s candy over from the fence). Liv states how the case went cold and they declared “Marcus” as a missing person, thus implying to his possible survival, saying how he’s only missing and not dead (despite the fact he died as shown in the next episode). “Deion” states how he saw Hook Man grab ahold of “Marcus” that night and states to her how he can still see it. Liv then asks him if he didn’t see what happened after did he, questioning him as Marcus begins to sigh and Liv reminds him how he had left his twin brother to die. He tells her calmly yet angry to Liv how he doesn’t need to be reminded of what he did and how he lives with that choice “every day of my life”, implying to his identity. Liv calmly tells him how she’s not trying to hurt him, rather asking him to keep an open mind and who asks “Deion” what if “Marcus” didn’t die that night, asking him what if he survived and who was angry at “Deion” for abandoning him and who has come back now for revenge (ironically, since Liv is unaware she is talking to Marcus himself, which is not revealed to her until the season finale). “Deion” looks sternly and away from Liv as she states finally to what if “Marcus” is Ghostface (only besides the fact that young Marcus has dressed up in the costume, not knowing about the meaning and the use for hiding the killer’s identity throughout the franchise). This leads for ”Deion” to slam his hand on the diner table and who startles Liv, as he talks quietly and tells Liv how he doesn’t care what evidence she thinks she has and tells her, point blank, how “Marcus” was both his brother and twin, stating how they had the same features seen in that of twins, going as far as to say they had the same “face, laugh, and heartbeat”. He is seen close to breaking down and tells Liv how she wouldn’t get it or understand but how when “Marcus” died, he felt his heart stop, and felt him go. He tells her that that’s all the proof that he needs to confirm of his late brother’s demise, and who tells Liv that his brother’s not the killer, stating that he’s dead and that so is a part of him (referring to himself and his identity, subliminally). Marcus looks saddened as he walks up and leaves Liv at the diner alone, who’s seen looking intrigued at what she just heard.
 * Back at the high school, Kym, Manny, and Beth are shown setting up the trap for Shane as Manny pours something from a gallon (his makeshift knockout gas) and attaches it to the fog machine as Kym is shown unwinding clear, plastic tubes. Beth sarcastically asks if that “deformed elephant” is actually going to work, referring to the fog machine and makeshift gas. Kym says that it better with Manny assuring her that it will, and asks her if she has the cash, which Beth points to as she states how Amir is on lookout and who she says told him to kill the lights the second Shane comes in. Kym says she’s surprised Amir let her out of his sight, which Beth asks her confusingly what she’s talking about, with Manny agreeing with Kym and telling Beth it’s obvious that Amir’s into her. Beth scoffs, and states how she would “destroy that kid”, also foreshadowing before the lights are cut off, their signal for Shane’s approach. On the other side of a classroom through a window, Shane is seen entering and who calls out for Beth and asks where she’s at. Shane walks by before he looks into the window from the other side, which shows the money laid out on a projector on a desk with a lamp. Shane notices this and makes his way into the other room and who turns to look around and calls out for Beth another time. He sees the money and makes his way into the room, and while he’s collecting it, is shown to be trapped as the door closes and locks him in. Shane stares in confusion as he makes his way towards the door, now locked, and tries to budge it open, shaking the door. He then madly calls out for Beth to quit with her games and to open the door. As if on cue, the knockout gas from the fog machine activates, slowly filling the room much to Shane’s surprise. He then panics and tries to break the window of the room door, banging on it with his hands as he coughs and gasps, breathing heavily as the gas fills the room. He then grabs a stool and lifts it up in an attempt to use it to break the window before the gas overtakes him and knocks Shane out as Beth, Manny, Kym and Amir now watch from outside him getting knocked out, proving Manny right that the gas would work.
 * Liv calls out for “Deion” to wait up (who is actually Marcus) as he walks down an empty street at night towards a bus stop, his hands in his letterman coat. She chases him as he stops to turn around and look at her. Liv tells him how he doesn’t have to take the bus and she offers to give him a ride. Marcus then sternly looks at her and tells her how he thinks she’s done enough for him today. Liv defends herself, claiming she was just trying to help, to which Marcus replies sternly if she wants to help him, to just let it go. Liv says she can’t as she grabs ahold of him and faces him and who tells “Deion” that it’s not just about him but all of them. Then, behind them, a police siren chirps and Officer Reynolds approaches them and arrives with his lights of his patrol car turned on as Liv realizes and calls out for her dad as he steps out. Marcus falls silent as Liv asks her father what he’s doing there, which he replies sternly saying how it’s her that needs to be answering questions. He scolds her in front of Marcus, how he had told her in no uncertain terms, that she was not to leave the house today. Liv then asks suspiciously and surprised, if her father had been following her. Her father states out loud, for her to go home, referring to her by her full first name, Olivia, now. Liv looks back at Marcus and then at her father before she walks away. Marcus proceeds to do the same, before Officer Reynolds asks him loudly where he thinks he’s going. Reynolds tells Marcus that they’re going to have a little chat as Marcus stares sternly at the Officer.
 * Shane is revealed to be awakening, now tied and bound in a chair in the library, coughing as he does so. Tied by his wrists with duck tape, he thrashes to move around before he is faced by the Deadfast Club, except for Marcus and Liv (in an homage to that of Steven Orth’s trap in the first Scream film, as well as Will Belmont in Season 1). Manny, Kym, Beth, and Amir all look down on Shane as Shane asks angrily what is this, as he looks at Beth and tells her he thought they had a deal, to which Beth sarcastically answers she knew and how that was the point and that she lied. Shane claims how that’s messed up and tells her he needs that money, to which Manny asks him hastily if it’s to throw another murder party. Shane, confused, asks him what he’s talking about. Kym then angrily tells Shane that he doesn’t get to ask any questions “pusher man”, and that she does, and asks him how she wants to know why he tried to kill her last night. Shane states how if he wanted to kill Kym, she’d be dead, which Kym looks at him sternly for his response, as Shane states how he still doesn’t see where she’s going with this. Kym then asks for Shane how to explain this, as Manny grabs his backpack and dumps out the insides, revealing a Ghostface mask. Shane points out that they were all at the party and that they have one as Beth looks at him. Kym agrees, only because he gave them out to all of them, telling him how he probably did it to hide his face while he killed Avery. Shane looks at her in disbelief, and asks her if she thinks he had something to do with that. Kym then tells him rhetorically how it was his party. Shane looks towards the others and smugly as he reveals himself to be Mr. Fade only but that he ain’t no killer, and asks them all how Avery’s death was only an accident. Beth then chimes in, saying he’s wrong, as Kym continues interrogating Shane and asks him about the costumes and asks why he’s messing with Deion like that, angrily. Shane asks her back the question, and states that they’re just costumes, and that they go with his whole “Mr. Fade anonymity thing” and asks if she feels him, also upset. Kym asks where he got them, which Shane points out he’s got hookups everywhere and how one of his boys got it for him, saying he doesn’t know which one and who states only that they’re 2 bucks each. Beth than looks at Shane as Kym steps away and asks him if he really expects them to believe that. Shane agrees, retorting and claiming how he’s not a “lying bitch” like she is, as Beth then begins to walk back as Shane claims how she’s the one who lured him here and tied him up and who also states that for all he knows it was one of them that sent him a creepy-ass text, too (referring to the one the Deadfast Club had gotten the day prior). Kym asks him what text and Shane tells her to check his phone. Beth does so as she picks his phone up from the floor below the chair from he’s sitting and turns it on to reveal he had gotten the same text they did from “No Caller ID”. Shane helplessly states how he thought it was a joke but who agrees saying if there’s a killer out there, he’s after him, too. Amir then speaks saying if Shane isn’t Ghostface, before Beth chimes in and asks then “who the hell is”, before they’re interrupted by the school mic ringing feedback, as Ghostface speaks out to Weaver High students and how “Slash is now in session, and it’s time for one of you to die”, as Beth then looks at a smug yet smiling Shane, proving his innocence to them all.
 * Marcus is detained by Officer Reynolds as he sits at the park of the bus stop where he was stopped as Officer Reynolds hands him his ID card, supposedly. He asks him if that means he can go now, with Officer Reynolds telling him he ran his information and that Marcus came back clean, as Marcus asks if that means yes. Reynolds then says that they have to talk about what he can’t do, first, stating about dating his daughter, Liv. Reynolds tells Marcus to give him his word on that and that he’s free to go. Marcus claims that first of all, it wasn’t a date, referring to him and Liv at the diner. He says second, how he ain’t gonna make any promises that he can’t keep as Marcus looks at Officer Reynolds who smiles at him and who he claims to seem like a good kid and how he’s gonna let him off with a warning to stay away from Liv, if he knows what’s good for him, as Marcus stares at him sternly (however, this was for his own good as later revealed). The Officer then walks back to his patrol car and Marcus leaves the bench and also walks off, as Officer Reynolds, who’s about to get in his car, looks at him standing with his front door open. Marcus is stopped walking shortly by his phone ringing as he answers a call from Amir, who calls him D-Day and Marcus, knowing who he is, asks him why he’s whispering, as Amir tells him of their plan backfiring. Marcus, confused asks him what plan and tells him how he told them all to wait, before Amir recaps him how they tried to trap the killer. Marcus then asks him if he knows who Ghostface is. Amir claims how they thought they did but that they got it wrong and how the actual killer turned the tables and trapped them. Marcus, seen alert, asks Amir where he’s at which he tells him that they’re at the school. Marcus tells for him to hold tight and that he’s coming. The call then ends before Marcus then begins running the opposite way, seemingly, headed towards the school.
 * Amir gets off the call and lets the others know that Marcus is on his way. Kym states defensively how she doesn’t plan on being where they’re at until he finally shows up, referring to his tardiness. Beth scoffs and says that it’s a rookie mistake, as she lays out the rule in horror how when the killer’s in their midst, the last thing anyone would do is head off by themselves, or split up alone. Beth states how it’s almost as stupid as saying “I’ll be right back” (this is an homage and reference to the rule stated by Randy Meeks in the original Scream film, which also laid out rules for horror movies, more specifically about how to survive them). Kym looks at her, sighing, as Beth claims how either way they’re dead meat, before Kym again sarcastically defies Beth, now referring to her as Cruella Del Vil and how she’s not in one of her “damn horror movies” (incorrectly referencing her not as a horror movie, but a villain from the Disney film 101 Dalmatians). Kym states how anyone that wants to roll with her is welcome, stating she’s got Mace and that she’s doing whatever it takes to survive, which she replies means vacating, whether or not alone. Kym walks away as Manny stares he’s with her, obviously as well as Shane who asks which one of them “fools” wants to cut him loose. Kym then asks Amir about him, which he states they’ll be right behind her, after they get Shane untied and on his feet, with him sticking with Beth. Kym states blatantly fine but that it’s his funeral (also foreshadowing his death, unfortunately) as she and Manny walk off, as Shane is left and sees them walk out, and Amir taking Beth aside and asking her if he’s not really going to die because his parents will kill him. Beth reassures him and tells him to relax, saying he made the right call, and how now they only need to hear Kym or Manny scream before they bounce. Amir then asks why they would scream, to which Beth replies, nonchalantly because probably “Ghostface stuck a knife in them”. Amir states that that’s messed up as he and Beth proceed to untie Shane, which Shane agrees with Amir saying Beth is messed up and says how that he should follow his lead out the door, as soon as he is fully untied. Beth tells him to trust her that he doesn’t want to go out there alone. Shane claims he ain’t going in it alone, revealing he’s armed with a Smith and Wesson short gun, saying they’ve “got his back” as Beth looks at him, eyes wide as Shane leaves, leaving Beth and Amir alone in the library.
 * Kym and Manny are seen prodding the empty hallways and Manny whispering that their coast is clear and who tells them to go. Kym and Manny fast walk the empty hallway, their footprints slightly heard, as Kym whispering excitedly to Manny that he was right for sticking with her and they’re getting out like Rod and Chris, from Get Out. They are seen approaching the front doors, who celebrate to early as it’s revealed that the doors are locked, meaning they’re locked in, which Kym assumes it was Ghostface who locked them. Manny tells Kym that he’s not dying here and that it’s his worst nightmare, as he begins to have an asthma attack, which Kym tells him to calm down or that he’s going to himself one, which he does. Kym grunts and panicked, asks Manny where’s his inhaler to which Manny in the midst of his attacks, says his locker. Kym tells him to breathe as she approaches his locker and opens it only to find a Ghostface mask, much to her suspicion although Manny states it’s from the party, which Kym calls him by his full name and tells him he’s going to do him a solid and pretend that this isn’t “suspicious as hell” as she retrieves him his inhaler and Manny begins to breathe, as he tells Kym how in the principal’s office there’s a master key by the PA system and who he claims to know because he sees it when he’s reading Kym’s bulletins. Kym agrees, saying how it’ll work but how he’s in no shape to come with. She tells him to get his scrawny ass and wait and who leads him into a room, as Manny tells her to not say it before Kym says confidently that she’ll be right back, before she closes him in as Manny watches her go off from the window of the classroom door.
 * Meanwhile, Amir and Beth are shown to be hiding in a storage closet somewhere in the school (not stated whether in the library or another classroom). Amir asks as to why they’re hiding in there exactly, saying how he knows Beth is the expert. Beth stares because storage closets are a classic hiding horror place, to which Amir asks if that means they’re safe. Beth states how it’s “80-20. Almost always works” which Amir asks what happens when it doesn’t to which Beth tells him that it goes horribly wrong. They whisper and Amir gasp, which Beth puts her hand around his mouth, before they both go quiet as they see Ghostface outside wandering. The killer then walks away as Amir sighs and says that was close. Beth quickly hushed him and places her hand around his mouth as Ghostface now is shown approaching the door, looking sinister as the duo grow silent and Beth whispers “shit” under her breath as they watch tensely for the killer before Ghostface turns around and leaves. Both exhale and Beth tells them that now they’re safe, with Amir asking Beth how she knew he was going to come back with Beth saying as how the killer always comes back, saying how she doesn’t make the rules, calling Amir “donut boy”, and says she only plays by them. Amir asks her if they can please get out of the closet. Beth agrees, saying if that’s what he really wants, as she looks at Amir and both share a tense yet tender moment as Amir replies that he doesn’t know what he wants, and says how all he knows is that Beth smells like Skittles and smoke, saying it’s intoxicating, shooting his shot. Beth then leads him on and asks Amir why doesn’t he taste the rainbow. Beth tells Amir to kiss her and whispers to him seductively that she dares him as Amir claims how Shane was right and that she is crazy, as he leans in to kiss her before they’re interrupted by a fallen object in the storage room, which Beth says they have to go or they’re going to be gutted. She opens the door and walks off, as Amir states back and whispers “Damn it” to himself, about his missed shot.
 * Kym is shown approaching the principal’s office, alone, and who heads to where Manny instructed her only for her to find the master keys missing. She says damn out loud, which leads for her to find the mic for the PA system on as she walks toward it, and finds a pre recorded tape on a player playing, repeating the message she and the others had heard in the library at the beginning. Ghostface is then revealed to have been sitting in the principal’s chair and who turns around as does Kym after she finds this out. She grunts as Ghostface heads for her with the knife before she sprays them with Mace, which ironically doesn’t work, since they’re wearing a mask, which Ghostface toys with her at first until revealing it didn’t work, as Kym upset says “double damn” and defeated begins to run. She then is shown exiting the office running as Ghostface is shown behind her in pursuit, almost catching up to her, who tries to slash and stab her as he swings his knife at her. He’s knocked down temporarily by Kym who swiftly manages to open a classroom door, as Kym yells for the killer “And stay down, bitch!” before Ghostface sits up again.
 * Marcus is shown to have been sprinting and arrives at the school, who tries to get in through one of the doors but is logically locked out. Panicked, he calls out for Kym to open up as he then tries to find another way in.
 * Meanwhile, Kym is shown trapped as she tries to make her way through a locked corner of the dark, school hallway through a fence gate, which can only be opened with the key. She begins to take off her jacket and who tries to sneak through the bottom, managing to get her leg through before Ghostface appears and finds, jingling the keys in front of her (in an homage to how Sidney was taunted by Ghostface jingling the car keys when she was trying to escape through the cop car in the first Scream). Kym gets up and talks to Ghostface and states that their right and how she is scared, as Ghostface walks sinisterly towards her. Kym yells that whoever’s behind that mask that she’s scared, which outside is shown that Marcus could overhear and thus knowing her location. Instinctively, Marcus grabs a rock from outside and uses it to break into the hallway where he and the Deadfast Club had met that morning. Ghostface raises his Bowie knife as he approaches Kym, before Shane is shown to be behind Ghostface as Shane tells Kym to relax and how only one of them is going down in this freak, referring to the killer as Ghostface turns around to face Shane before Shane head butts and knocks him out with the gun, which startles and baffles Kym as she walks towards Shane and yells at him for him to shoot Ghostface, who’s supposedly unconscious laying face forward. Shane says ok, as he hesitantly tries to pull the trigger as Shane appears to shake, with Kym asking him to please tell her he’s not getting cold feet, scared yet angry. Shane tells Kym to shut up, with Kym saying, in despair, how she thought he was hard and asks him what he’s going to do, if he’s going to call the police and have them put this “creep” in the system, rhetorically. She begins to breathe heavily, saying how his face is white and how he’ll be out trying to kill them again (mistakingly assuming the killer’s race and gender, since most of the killers in the Scream franchise have been predominantly white, and mostly males). Shane yells for Kym again to shut up, as Ghostface is seen now getting up, as his head tilts up from them laying on the floor. Kym, angry with Shane’s immobility, tells him as she motions and goes towards him to grab the gun and state that she’ll shoot him herself.
 * This gives Ghostface just enough time to strike as Kym walks towards Shane, and Ghostface slashes Kym’s arm and stabs her, which takes her out back. Ghostface is then shown opening the gate and Kym, injured, laying back and yelling at Shane for him to shoot the killer, grunting as he tries to stop the killer, as Ghostface successfully locks Shane and Kym on the other side of the hallway, extending his arms as in success and taunting Shane with it as he begins to walk away. Kym angrily yells for Shane to shoot as she now tries to pull the gun away, which Shane claims he can until it’s too late and Ghostface gets away.
 * Marcus, now inside, finds himself by the main entrance and notices the security metal panels red and beeping, who makes his way towards the door and finds that they’re locked from the inside, too after hearing a door open. He is then startled as Ghostface appears as Marcus gasps and Ghostface makes him a signal with his two fingers pointing towards his eyes and back to his, which states that the killer knows as Marcus looks at him in shock and eyes widened before Ghostface departs. Marcus slams the door, looking as the killer disappears, before he is then yelled at and found by Kym, asking where the killer went, as she and Shane approach him. Marcus tells her they got away, to which Kym madly tells Shane “thanks to your bitch ass, Mr. Fade”. Marcus, composed and now stern, asks Shane if he’s Mr. Fade which he agrees but states how he’s no killer, obviously, referring to his failure to be able to shoot Ghostface.
 * Manny then approaches them (coming out of the room he was hiding in, looking like a red herring) and finds Kym’s slash wound on her arm and points out she’s bleeding. Amir then asks whose bleeding, as he runs towards them (just like Manny, in a red herring trope homage) and asks Kym if she’s ok. Kym states uninterested and upset that she’s fine and asks where’s Beth to suspect her, to which Amir states he doesn’t know saying they got separated, which Kym scoffs and tells him how convenient, saying how right when the killer was after her, him and “Morticia” make a run for it, a reference to The Addams Family. Beth then is the last to arrive, staring her arrival in one piece, and says how they should quit worrying about her, much to Kym’s already upset mood, as Beth tells Kym how she takes her referencing her as Morticia Addams as a compliment and thanks her. Marcus then tells them how he had told them all not to make a move without him and asks what happened. Kym claps back and points out that her plan worked and that’s what, and how they had Ghostface dead in their sights until Shane couldn’t “man up” and pull the trigger. Kym tells Marcus that it was too bad he wasn’t there, as if to suspect him. Marcus acknowledges this and apologizes this and promises them that he’ll fix this. Kym, now over the edge, tells him no pep talk isn’t gonna work, and how this is not a football game but real life and who asks Marcus, rightfully upset, how they’re going to find out who the man behind the mask is now. Marcus tells Kym again that he said he’ll fix it. Kym tells Manny to go and for them to find a way out of “this damn school”, fed up due to her injury from her attack and for the plan backfiring. Marcus stutters before they leave, as Shane approaches Beth and offers to walk her home, which Beth declines saying she’ll roll with the geek (Amir), saying how at least she knows he’s “a pussy”, referring to Shane’s cowardness and failure to shoot the killer. She walks off as Shane looks upset as Marcus and Amir remain as Shane looks at Amir and bumps into his shoulder and walks away, as Amir shrugs it off and walks towards Beth, leaving Marcus alone as he sees them all depart and stands looking sternly to his sides, thoughtfully.
 * Amir and Beth are shown to have reunited again as Amir returns his parents money into his safe at his family donut shop, as Beth eats a chocolate donut with a red icing lines on top, who compliments Amir’s parents saying they really know their donuts, with Amir joking that jelly is their speciality. Amir charges Beth a buck for the donut and she says to put it on her tab, as Amir hesitantly pulls a dollar out of his pocket to pay for hers. Beth eats half the donut before placing it down and states to Amir “FYI” how she wasn’t talk talking about the donut, and who then tells Amir to look at himself. Beth says how his parents must’ve raised him right, with Amir claiming he really never had another option. Beth debates this, saying he did tonight in that closet, referring to them almost kissing while hiding from the killer. Amir tells her how he actually wanted to talk to Beth about that, to which she asks if he’s having regrets. Amir states how his only regret is that he almost did something he would’ve regretted, which Beth says that that’s “a really confusing sentence”. Amir agrees saying how it’s all very confusing before Beth then places her hand on top of his at the counter and Beth states that it doesn’t have to be as they touch hands before Amir agrees with her, saying she’s right as they grab hands, Amir with his big hand to Beth’s small one. They share a moment as Amir tells Beth, who’s looking at him, that how despite his parents raising him a certain way, that at some point he had to make a choice, saying how their beliefs are his beliefs, too. Amir says he believes how they should just be friends and that this is a bad idea, as Beth looks at him and pulls away her hand, visibly upset now and uninterested, and who tells Amir to relax, referring to him as Skywalker, saying how he’s not her type, anyway. Beth then states how she just thought that maybe he’d want to go out with a bang (foreshadowing) as Amir looks at her before Beth walks away from his donut shop, leaving him alone.
 * Manny tends to Kym’s slashed arm as he wraps white gauze around it, as they’re shown to be in his bedroom at his house, sitting on his bed. Kym point out how Manny’s been awfully quiet, to which Manny answers he’s just been thinking which Kym asks what about, as Manny answers to how he wants his funeral to be, referring to the conversation Kym had with him about that earlier at school. Interested, Kym states how she thought Manny didn’t want to play the game which Manny reassures to trust him that doesn’t, but who states how it’s becoming obvious, given their situation, that death is a real possibility. Kym smiles and looks as Manny sits on his chair near his desk of his bedroom and asks him what he’s got in mind. Manny states nothing big, but that he wants the people he loves to meet up at his favorite spot and to look out over the city lights like he always does and to maybe pour out some kombucha for the homie, chuckling as he looks at Kym, smiling back at him. Manny states how he wants to be remembered for who he is, not for who anyone else wanted him to be. Kym looks at him smiling, understanding, as the friends go quiet and share a moment in silence.
 * Marcus is shown to have left the school and is now meeting Liv in an empty alleyway somewhere in his neighborhood, with Liv claiming how she’s glad he’s ok as Marcus smiles at her and says he wouldn’t go that far. Liv apologizes for earlier and says that’s what she does ,saying how she’s always sticking her nose in places where it doesn’t belong. Marcus reassures her and claims it’s not her fault and states that it’s his for not accepting the truth, sighing, telling Liv how he saw something tonight he hadn’t seen in such a long time, to which Liv asks what. “Deion” then tells her how she might be right, stating how “Marcus” is alive and that he’s trying to ruin his life (ironically, referring to himself, seeing he’s Marcus). Liv tells him how that’s thing about the truth and family, saying how they can be a “real bitch” but says she promises him they’ll deal with it together. Marcus tells her that they won’t and says how if that’s his brother under the mask, that’s his problem and how he’s got to deal with that alone. Liv looks at him sadly as Marcus says he’s sorry before turning to leave and walk away, leaving Liv alone as she stands watching as he goes off.
 * Shane is revealed to have come home, as his bed-ridden grandma asks if somebody’s there, and announces his return. Shane looks at her and asks her how she’s feeling tonight which his grandma states “same as always, like dancing”, as Shane chuckles and reveals the drugs he has for her to resupply her and help alleviate her and to last her a while, in case she pulls a muscle dancing or something. (revealing that the only reason he’s a dealer and robbed the pharmacist was to support her). Shane empties all the pill bottles and tells her how he’s been putting in some overtime and states how he thought it was going to be enough to get them out of this place, referring to the complex in Atlanta where they live in currently. His grandma reassured him and tells him that home is wherever he and her are at, and says they don’t need nothing more.
 * Suddenly, a loud thud outside interrupts their moment as his grandma, taken aback asks what that was, shuddering as Shane approaches the window to find it egged. He tells her it’s this “damned Devil’s Night” and who infamously tells her that he’ll be right back as he leaves the apartment. He is shown walking outside to investigate, seeing the pranks rolled out as he sees the cars in the empty parking lot TP’d and who suddenly gets a phone call, presumably from “No Caller ID” as he answers and asks who’s this, with Ghostface tells him someone looking to score. Shane presuming it’s a client asks what he needs, saying he’s got Oxys and Vikes, to which Ghostface denies and claims he’s looking for something a little bit harder than that, who reassures Shane that he has it running through his veins, referring to his blood. Shane shudders before he takes out his gun, and sees in his building on a door above the word “COWARD” spray painted in white. Shane warns that he isn’t playing with Ghostface correcting and telling him he is, but that he doesn’t know the game and that they’re playing “Chicken”, and states how he already blinked, referring to his failure to kill them when they had them at gun point . Shane states how now his eyes are wide open and how it ain’t gonna happen again to which Ghostface replies and states they’ll see about that and tells him that now they’re playing a new game: Hide-and-seek and tells Shane to come find them.
 * Suddenly, a brick falls from above Shane’s building, hitting him in the head and taking him aback as it’s shown he’s bleeding due to the impact, as he grabs his head. Shane then heads towards the escape ladder and who tries to find a way to pull it down before he’s then pushed back down and his neck caught in the ladder, rendering him stuck from his upper body, as the ladder comes down and so does Ghostface (this is a reverse homage to both Tatum Riley’s death in the first Scream, as well as an inverse to Riley Marra’s death in Season 1). Shane tries to reach for his gun as Ghostface comes down the ladder slowly, and who asks for the killer to let them out of there. Ghostface gets down before it’s shown their holding a needle full of drugs, which Shane notices and panics, tells him to not do this and that he he has stuff. He pleads with Ghostface, who’s seen to be opening his eyelid to inject the needle into his eye as they do so, brutally, injecting it right into his pupil, which bleeds on impact after releasing the contents of the needle and causing for his whole eye to bleed and for Shane to spasm, foaming at his mouth as he overdoes on the fatal drugs injected into his eye, thus connecting it to his brain, while stuck before he quickly dies in the first drug induced death by Ghostface in the entire Scream franchise.

Midnight

 * (“The Man Behind The Mask”) Dream sequence only: Marcus is shown to be walking to his apartment complex, home alone, sometime after meeting with Liv (which was the previous episode, meaning it could have taken place closer to midnight, but still during October 30th) and who’s seen walking through a neighborhood in College Park and who notices a Halloween pumpkin carved with Ghostface’s face on it. This startles him before he’s run into by Liv, who apologizes as Marcus asks her what’s up. Liv states how she didn’t mean to drop a bomb on him about “Marcus” but how maybe she should wait to go after him. He tells her how he’s not going to sit around and watch those other people get hurt by his own brother (ironically, referring to himself). Marcus tells her how he has to handle this now, and tries to walk past Liv as she states how he doesn’t have to do this on his own and pleads for him to let her help. Marcus asks her if that’s the only reason she came after him, to which Liv states that that’s not the only reason before they then share a kiss, which Liv initiates which takes Marcus aback before he reciprocates and kisses her back. This shows a scene flash forward of them at his place in his bedroom, hooking up and about to have sex, undressing and all that night.
 * The next morning, Marcus, wearing his loose shirt and track pants, tells a supposedly sleeping Liv how maybe she’s right and how he doesn’t have to do this by himself, to which Liv doesn’t respond much to Marcus’s confusion. Marcus calls out for her as he sees her draped underneath the covers and calls for her softly two times, facing her while she’s still in the blanket before he finally uncovers her and it’s revealed that she was attacked and stabbed as she calls out for him “Deion”, as blood comes out her mouth and stab wounds are revealed on her torso and body. Marcus begins to panic and tries to Liv to look at him and breathe, as her mutilated and stabbed body begins to die, as expected. Marcus, as Deion, yells and says he’s going to get help, panicking, as he rushes for the exit of his bedroom door before he is then stabbed in the abdomen and lower torso by Ghostface (in an homage to how victims are stabbed in the franchise, usually in the stomach). Marcus, as Deion, sputters as he takes account his wound and walks back as Ghostface, their knife still in him, pushes a stabbed Deion down to the ground and raises their knife in the traditional fashion with both hands before stabbing Deion right in the chest, as he begins to bleed profoundly. Deion unmasks the Ghostface which turns out to be his twin brother “Marcus” (who is actually Deion, who is seen spotting a head wound to where the hook that impaled his head was at) now older and his age, who angrily tells him how he was supposed to come back for him and how now he came back for him instead. It shows him scream in pain as his twin brother stabbing him in his chest, as the other one says for him to now see who he really is on the inside, before beginning to pull apart at his exposed ribcage, muscles and blood and all as Marcus screams in pain. This is revealed to only be a dream as Marcus awakes thrashing and screaming in his bed, panting and gasping as he composes himself, and realizes he’s alone.
 * This dream sequence is a reference to Sidney Prescott’s dream sequence in Scream 3 as well as Emma Duval’s dream sequence in the Season 2 episode “Happy Birthday to Me”, with all the stated instances being warnings about the return of each of the main protagonists killers’, respectively
 * Liv’s dream death by being stabbed in bed (off-screen) pays homage to the death of Olivia Morris from Scream 4, which in turn homages the death of Tina Grey from the 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street, both films (and franchises) helmed and directed by the late Wes Craven (seeing as how all female characters are killed and found in a bed).

Morning

 * That morning, Marcus awakens to see his mother, Sherry, serving breakfast on the table as Marcus is seen already dressed and ready for school. Sherry asks his son if he had a rough night, to which Marcus agrees and tells her he had a bad dream and asks how she slept. She states how he know that it’s Halloween, before Marcus’s father arrives to state how the only good thing about this day is “his mama’ s cooking”, seen in his work clothes carrying a brown paper bag of groceries as well as some flowers for Sherry. Marcus is glad to see his father as Sherry hugs her husband and thanks him for the gifts, and Marcus hugs his dad. The men sit down as Marcus asks his father how long he’s in town, which Earl claims not long enough and states how dispatch got him rolling out in the morning but to not worry that he’ll be back in time for his big game. Sherry tells him that at least he’s there for today before Jamal enters and who sarcastically states to look who’s back. Earl claims to not have seen him as he approaches him for a hug and asks what’s up with him, only for Jay to move past him and grab a bit of breakfast and eats it while he tells his father the “same ol’”. Earl then apologizes for not seeing him the last time he was there, and how he was hoping maybe they can find some time together to catch up. Jay blatantly declines, stating he’s got places to be with Earl telling him that he knows what today is, looking sternly at his first son, and states how there ain’t no place he should be but here with his family. Jay then talks back by saying how the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, calling him by his real name. Sherry, Jay’s stepmother, tries to reach out to him and pleads with him, before Earl tells her to let him go. Marcus is then seen leaving, as he puts on his letterman jacket and goes out after him.
 * Marcus confronts Jay outside in front of the apartment by his red car, asking him why he’s got to talk to their dad like that (Marcus refers to him as Pops), saying all he wanted to do was talk, to which Jay denies telling him not to act like he cares for him, who tells him that the only reason he’s there is because Halloween makes them crazy (referring to him and Sherry). He then madly states how she always sets up “Marcus’s” favorite breakfast, stating “like some eggs supposed to bring him back from the dead” (this is more so, a refrence to the actual holiday in Mexico known as Day of the Deadwhich is celebrated usually after Halloween in November which celebrates the deceased by leaving food that usually the living eat in remembrance to the lost souls to partake).
 * “Deion” gets mad and tells Jay that he knows that’s not what that is, and states how they never got to say goodbye to him, or how to police never gave them a body to bury. Jay states solemnly how it’s been years and for Marcus to wake up and how there ain’t no body left to find (officially 8 years, since the events occurred in 2010). Marcus, as Deion, shakes his head and who bites his lip as he looks saddened and who only says that Jay knows what that night did to them, which Jay retorts and asks about what it had done to his mother, referring to Jay’s biological mother, who states that until Marcus disappeared, she never even knew that they existed, giving exposition to Jay’s life, who claims how Earl (his and Marcus’s dad, similar to how Maureen Prescott chose her legitimate family, her daughter and husband, over her first born and illegitimate son) chose this “little side family”, referring to Marcus and Sherry, over his real one which he claims was his and his mother, stating how that broke her, in a way that he couldn’t fix (implying she killed herself).
 * Marcus tells Jay how he’s not trying to make excuses for that, with Jay telling him that he’s the only brother he’s got whether he likes it or not as he gets into his car and drives off as Marcus stands and watches him drive off.
 * Then, after her leaves, his phone rings in which he gets a call from “Marcus”, code for Ghostface. He answered and then asks if that’s him, as Ghostface answers him saying if he told him now it would spoil the big twist and asks him where’s the fun in that. Marcus states that it wound be fun when he rips the mask off his face and shoves it up his rear. Ghostface answers surprised and tells him to look at him showing some spine with his clap back, and states how it’s too bad Shane didn’t last night, implying his death. Marcus, now serious asks the killer what they’re talking about and Ghostface answers saying after Mr. Fade showed everyone who he really was (who had failed to kill them), who pumped him full of drugs and how now he’s dead and how alll Marcus’s friends will be when he is done. Marcus yells at Ghostface angrily and asks him why the hell he’s even doing this, and says he thought it was him they want. Ghostface angrily responds and says that what they want is to find who “Deion Elliot” really is, and about what happened on that Halloween night. Marcus answers calmly that he does too, with Ghostface telling him to go back to the scene of the crime, the place where he abandoned his brother, tonight. Marcus then asks if he doesn’t, looking worried, as Ghostface only answers “trick or treat”, his choice as the call ends, threatening him with that.
 * At Weaver High School, the school is shown celebrating Halloween as students are seen dressed up in costumes and a giant fake cobweb with a decorative black spider on the ceiling in one of the hallways as banners are shown in black and orange, with other decorations as well. Beth is shown in her normal clothes at her locker, although her hair is now up (whose jacket has a pink scarf now), taking stuff out into her backpack, supposedly before she’s then patted by Amir, who’s shown donning Marcus’s football jersey. Beth states how it’s Halloween and how it’s the one time a year he can dress how he wants to be and who says he chose to dress as some “meathead jock”. Amir points out that not just any jock and how most jocks treat him like crap but not Marcus, going as “Deion”, who he tells her he feels like he has his back, to which Beth replies how in her personal experience, the only people ever look out for is themselves, which Amir states that that’s sad. Which Beth retorts to not as sad as Amir going full on stalker on Marcus, which Amir claims he’s not to which Beth toys at him and says that’s exactly what a stalker would say. She closes her locker and Amir tells her to wait up as they both walk in the crowded hallway and asks Beth if she heard about Shane, to which Beth asks “what about him” as Amir tells her how Liv had just told him and that he’s dead and he says they’re guessing Ghostface got him and who nonchalantly states how she guesses Mr. Fade got faded, pun intended. Amir then apologizes saying how he knew they were but then retorts and states how he actually didn’t know what they were in terms of them together. Beth looks at him and tells him how what she had with Shane was “just sex” and none of his business. Amir states that whatever it was and asks Beth that if she wants to talk about it, to which Beth denies and asks him why he even cares anyways. She reminds Amir how last night she had offered him a no-strings hookup and how he passed and asks him how now he wants to offer a shoulder for her to cry on, who tells him to come on quietly and how nobody’s that nice. Amir defends himself saying how last night he had told Beth that he wanted to be friends and that he meant that. Beth reminds him that they’re in a horror movie, not a rom-com, and tells him not to get any weird ideas (as a meta reference). Beth claims that he barely even knows her, which Amir swiftly claims that not for lack of trying. Beth states how if Amir wants to do something for her is to stop trying before she then walks away from him, as does Amir.