| “ | She stabbed me. She stabbed me! | ” |
–Aaron to Haley Meyers after unmasking himself as a prankster Lakewood Slasher to Audrey Jensen, I Know What You Did Last Summer | ||
Aaron, is a minor character, in Season 2 of Scream. Known as the "special friend" and recent romantic partner, he ultimately reveals himself as the murdered in a Brandon James mask and costume responsible for his then ex-girlfriend, Haley's "demise".
However, this was just a prank done by Aaron and Haley to Second Lakewood Murders survivor Audrey Jensen, in the premiere episode, while she was working the night shift alone at her workplace, the Zenith Theatre, which resulted in them recording it for fun, only for Audrey to use self defense and stab Aaron for coming at her in costume.
He is portrayed by James Bendishaw.
Background[]
Not much is known about Aaron. It can be assumed he was born in or around Lakewood and grew up there. In high school, he would in his junior year date Haley Meyers.
Second Lakewood Murders (2016)[]
On Sunday night, January 24th, 2016, nearly three months after the events of the first half of the Second Lakewood Murders occured in the fall of 2015, a 17-18 year old Aaron, along with his girlfriend Haley Meyers, got the idea of plotting online in the comment section of the podcast of the survivor group Lakewood Six, Noah Foster, to prank unsuspecting survivor Audrey Jensen, while she worked and closed her shift as a solo usher at the Zenith Theatre.
While Aaron and Haley committed to their bit, a third commenter online was the one to incite the prank, but never actually did, making both Haley and Aaron do it themselves (possibly Kieran Wilcox before his reveal, using either a anonymous user). Aaron, if present at the showing of the movie at the beginning of the second season episode, would've slipped off before or after the movie ended, and slipped into the fake Lakewood Slasher costume, per Haley's word.
After Haley distracted Audrey by taking a selfie in the lobby, Aaron as the Lakewood Slasher would swipe Audrey's keys to the building, leading to Audrey taking Haley out the back. Now with access to the keys, he would head into the booth (where the projector plays out the movie), which he then uses to turn on an animated advertisement for anthropomorphic lobby snacks and refreshments, playing menacingly in the empty theatre, as Audrey goes back and shouts angrily, calling him an "idiot", and to get out since the theatre is closed. As Audrey tries to step around the auditorium to see, she sees Aaron as the Lakewood Slasher, fake knife in hand, which prompts Audrey to run back into the lobby, trashing everything in desperate search for the keys, only for Aaron to appear in the lobby, a small video camera strapped on his chest, as he live streams the prank, and dangles the keys in front of Audrey, before he gives chase to a terrified Audrey in the back of the theatre.
After Audrey heads to the front, Haley appears to feign distress, which is a cue as Aaron appears as Audrey steps aback as Aaron seemingly "stabs" Haley to death. Noah, who had promised to pick Audrey up, is now outside the locked theatre, panicking and pounding on the door, calling for Audrey as he has his phone in hand calling 911. Aaron, still in costume, turns around, and before he can head in on Audrey, she quickly uses a fire extinguisher on him, blinding him briefly, and who uses said extinguisher to break into a prop figure display holding a pointed knife, and stabs him in the gut. This then leads to Aaron to unmasking himself as he looks shocked as he looks down on his wound and tells Haley how she had stabbed him, before Haley awakens, much to Audrey's confusion, as Aaron would collapse, due to the wound and the shock as then Haley reveals it was a prank as Haley tried to make Aaron awake and reassuring him he's fine.
Aaron would later be taken to a hospital to recover, and whose girlfriend Haley would later be an actual victim to the Lakewood Slasher.
Trivia[]
- Aaron being a prankster in a costume attributed to an actual killer (Lakewood Slasher, to Piper Shaw), is a reference to Scream (1996).
- To the two Woodsboro High unnamed male students, who dressed up as a prank, running around the hallways of their school, despite the murders taking place, pranking Sidney Prescott when she was in the hallway and later, bathroom.
- Aaron donning the Lakewood Slasher costume, albeit solo, is a reference to Scream 2 and the opening of the movie, which takes place at a crowded movie theatre opening a sneak peek of Stab (1997 limited; 1998 released) which sees moviegoers donning the Ghostface attire (Father Death costume), despite the murders of two Windsor College students, Phil Stevens and Maureen Evans, the latter more due to it being public.
- Albeit Haley, unlike Maureen, was in on her prank with her partner, Aaron, where as Maureen, unbeknownst of Phil's death, believed she was being pranked by her boyfriend, despite it being Mickey Altieri as Ghostface, wearing Phil's sweater to trick her before attacking. Both couples were also alumni, with Haley and Aaron high school juniors while Phil and Maureen were college seniors.
- Difference also being how one couple was legitimately murdered, separately, but in a crowded movie theatre nonetheless, whereas Aaron and Haley's prank took place after the movie theatre closed.
- Aaron being a prankster using a costume attributed to an actual killer is a reference to Scream (1996).