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Atlanta PD is a fictional police department based in Atlanta (which is based on the real police department within the state of Georgia), that appears in the third season of the television series, Scream.
Description[]
The Atlanta Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency in the city of Atlanta. It's main precinct in College Park, Georgia, is where new girl Liv Reynolds's father works as a police officer after they moved to Atlanta sometime in early-mid October 2018.
History[]
During the Atlanta Murders (2018), following Amir Ayoub's murder at the hands of Ghostface while at friend and fling Beth's house on Thursday, November 1st, as well as Liv's father, while off-duty but in uniform, being attacked after taking Liv's boyfriend and 16 year old Marcus Elliot out to Bear Park for questioning that same night after Liv found a gun in his backpack after they had just finished hooking up. Liv, refusing for Marcus to go after the killer by himself and understandably worried for him, called her father in, who confiscated his weapon, before getting into uniform and taking Marcus to Bear Park, where he'd be stabbed in an ambush by Ghostface, and proceed to knock Marcus out, who was trapped in the backseat, before then covering his shirt with the officer's blood off-screen and leaving him unlocked and poised on the ground next to Reynolds, as if to implicate him. Marcus awakens and tries to use the cop radio to call for help (a reverse homage to Sidney Prescott's use of it when she was trapped in Deputy Dewey Riley's car, as Ghostface was outside the car, before attacking her inside, in Scream; reversed as Reynolds was attacked, as was Marcus, and unlike Sidney, he wasn't in the front of the car nor could he lock the killer because of the barrier gate).
After Marcus returns to find Liv, only to find on her computer, the address to Beth's house, and subsequently where Amir was after he went missing, he rushed and arrived before running into Ghostface, who slashed his arm again after he shot the gun his half brother, Jamal, had given him, unaware it was empty. Marcus, after finding Kym, Liv, and Beth, go inside to find Amir dead, much to his shock. The police arrive, and Officer B. Westbrook is suspicious of Marcus, due to his statement of being and finding Reynolds alive but knocked out from his attack, and how the incident wasn't made public knowledge, alleging he was either responsible and adhering to suspect he might've been the killer. As Westbrook asks Marcus to take off his backpack and zipped up jacket, he unzips to reveal his bloody white shirt, causing him to take his gun and point it at him, telling him to get down, before he's then handcuffed and arrested, taken into custody as he's placed in the back of Westbrook's cop car, as Liv, Beth, and Kym watch him being taken, especially Liv, due to her and Marcus's growing romance (reverse and homage to Sidney-Billy relationship in the first film, as it's the boyfriend who's now the protagonist (Sid to Marcus), being taken into jail, after arriving to help, like Billy, despite Marcus being the actual attempted victim, whereas the girlfriend and protagonist's partner (Billy to Liv) wasn't attacked but rather watched, and unlike Sidney who was almost attacked, Liv wasn't).
Marcus is taken in and held for questioning (due to Georgia law allowing police to retain and question a child without parents present), who seemingly spends a night at the jail cell of the College Park precinct of the Atlanta P.D, who uses his only allocated phone call to call Liv and break it off with her, seemingly, due to her calling the police leading to his apprehension and after being acquitted and not found guilty, with his statements not changing (due to not being Ghostface), he's bailed or let go after answering questions regarding Amir, and who is picked up outside by Jamal waiting for him.
Officers[]
- Officer Reynolds
- Officer B. Westbrook (deceased)
Notes[]
- The police department appeared in the third season of the television series, Scream.
- Overall, the fifth out of six police department shown and depicted in the franchise (see next point) in the films and TV series.
- The first being the Woodsboro Police Department, as shown in Scream (1996) and Scream 4 (2011), as well as in a deleted scene between former sheriff Dewey Riley and his successor and former deputy, Sheriff Judy Hicks in Scream (2022).
- These all dealt with the generational Woodsboro Murders, starting with:
- The first and original Woodsboro Murders in September 1996 (first victim and murder of the spree predates to Sept. 1995; in the first film)
- Second Woodsboro Murders in late September 2011 (Scream 4, also known as the Remake Massacre)
- Third Woodsboro Murders, and the most recent, in September 2022 (Scream (2022); originally was set in Sept. 2021, but retconned, see Continuity Errors; also known as the Requel/Legacy Murders).
- These all dealt with the generational Woodsboro Murders, starting with:
- The second being the Stone Ridge Police Department in the college town of Windsor College, Ohio during it's Windsor College Murders, the first copycat spree to the Woodsboro Murders of 1996, in Scream 2.
- The third would be the Lakewood Sheriff's Department in the town of Lakewood, Louisiana (implied state, due to zip codes shown) from Season 1 and Season 2, during the Second Lakewood Murders.
- The first being the Woodsboro Police Department, as shown in Scream (1996) and Scream 4 (2011), as well as in a deleted scene between former sheriff Dewey Riley and his successor and former deputy, Sheriff Judy Hicks in Scream (2022).
- The second out of three real world police departments shown and seen in the Scream franchise.
- The first being the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) precinct in Hollywood, California in Scream 3.
- Third and successor being the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and it's 8th Precinct (fictional) in New York City, New York, in Scream VI.
- The Atlanta P.D having 2 known officers (Officer Reynolds and Officer B. Westbrook), working, one being a parent (Reynolds) to a daughter (Liv) involved of who's boyfriend (Marcus) was suspected, but was later then revealed, to have been the primary target during the Atlanta Murders (2018). Reference to the pattern of two cops in charge of guiding main characters before either attacked and or killed, with only one surviving and or the other not attacked, in the franchise, starting with:
- Deputy Dewey Riley and Sheriff Burke (Scream; Sheriff was unharmed and not attacked whereas Dewey was, due to being in line of duty and assigned to watch Sidney by Burke, his superior).
- Officer Andrews and Officer Richards (Scream 2; both assigned to watch and take Sidney and her friend, Hallie McDaniel into hiding; failed, due to being attacked and killed while doing so at night).
- Both also shared the title Officers (despite being in civilian clothing, both in men's suits) and their first names are unknown, similar to both Reynolds and Westbrook in this season from Atlanta P.D
- Like both Andrews and Richards, mainly the latter, Reynolds is attacked while near his vehicle and the main characters watch in shock of witnessing the attacks, who're locked in the backseat (Sidney/Hallie to both Andrews & Richards, Marcus to Reynolds).
- Unlike the previous officers, Reynolds survives, although his own co-worker, assigned to protect his daughter Liv, and over watch him, doesn't, like the former two tasked with guiding Sidney and Hallie.
- Detectives Mark Kincaid and J. Wallace (Scream 3; assigned to investigate and to check on Sidney, due to Hollywood Murders occurring in relation to production on the cancelled Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro and it's cast being victims).
- Only Kincaid is attacked and fought while on-duty, after Sidney Prescott had left the Hollywood precinct of the LAPD station following Ghostface calling her, threatening to kill the couple and duo, of the Original Trio (Gale and Dewey) if she didn't go to him at the Milton Estate, luring her out and threatening to kill them if she'd alerted the authorities at the station of it.
- Deputies Ross Hoss and Anthony Perkins (Scream 4; assigned to over-watch the Roberts Residence, due to former survivor and author, Sidney Prescott, staying there with Sidney's aunt Kate Roberts and her teenage cousin, Jill Roberts; after the Second Woodsboro Murders (2011), led to her being forced to stay, with her hometown being her last stop of her Out of Darkness book tour; failed, both were killed at night)
- Hoss and Perkins being attacked and killed, with Ross being attacked by Ghostface by being ambushed and surprise attacked by being stabbed in the back, and Perkins being stabbed on the forehead, would be referenced with how Reynolds and Westbrook were attacked, the latter like the former, both murdered, from the third season.
- Ross being attacked by being stabbed in the back is how Reynolds was as Marcus, a teenager, witnessed from the back, due to Reynolds standing and facing the back door window talking to him, just like Ross talking to Perkins, in the front door driver window, of each cop car.
- Difference being Perkins did a fake out prank scare to Hoss after Hoss was doing a perimeter check, and noticed something off, unlike Reynolds investigating movement pointed out by Marcus and finding nothing, as both came back, before they're attacked.
- Perkins being stabbed in his forehead, would be reversed by the attack and murder of Westbrook being stabbed and killed by a stab to the back of his head (seeing as Reynolds was taken to the hospital and the attacks didn't take place at the same time as the former Deputies, as neither were together; also Reynolds survived, after two attacks, while Westbrook didn't).
- Difference being Perkins was killed after doing a prank while Westbrook was killed in an empty hospital room due to taking drugs.
- Ross being attacked by being stabbed in the back is how Reynolds was as Marcus, a teenager, witnessed from the back, due to Reynolds standing and facing the back door window talking to him, just like Ross talking to Perkins, in the front door driver window, of each cop car.
- Hoss and Perkins being attacked and killed, with Ross being attacked by Ghostface by being ambushed and surprise attacked by being stabbed in the back, and Perkins being stabbed on the forehead, would be referenced with how Reynolds and Westbrook were attacked, the latter like the former, both murdered, from the third season.
