The Bodega Clerk was a minor character in Scream VI (2023 film). He worked as a clerk in Abe's Snake Bodega and was killed by Ghostface when he tried to protect Samantha and Tara Carpenter from him.
He was the sixth character to fall victim to the sixth Ghostface killing spree, also known as the New York City Murders.
He was portrayed by Jason Cavalier.
Biography[]
The New York City Murders (2023)[]
The Bodega Clerk was working one Saturday night on October 29th, when Samantha and Tara Carpenter run into his store begging for help. Ghostface (Wayne Bailey in costume) then enters the store and kills two customers who get in his way. The clerk proceeds to grab a shotgun from behind the counter and shoots at Ghostface, who dodges the shot.
He comes out from the counter and looks for Ghostface while telling Sam and Tara to go out from the back. The sisters can't get out as the door is locked. As the clerk tries to take the keys from his pocket, Ghostface comes up behind him and stabs him in the chest. Ghostface punches the clerk to the ground and takes his shotgun, then kills the clerk with a shotgun blast to the head.
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- Scream VI (2023 film)
Trivia[]
- His name could be Morgan Smith, as this name was written as the victim on the evidence bag from the bodega crime scene.
- The Bodega Clerk being the character's name is possibly an intentional reference to the 1994 American film, Clerks, directed by Kevin Smith, which was featured as a poster at the video store Randy Meeks worked at in Scream.
- Interestingly, one of the characters that director Smith played, Silent Bob, in a duo with another character, Jay, makes a cameo alongside him in Scream 3. In the sixth film, the artifacts, Ghostface robe and mask worn by the third film's sole killer, Roman Bridger, are featured including a film reel from the cancelled Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro, from Sunrise Studios, which Jay and Silent Bob visited.
- The clerk's actor's name, Jason Cavailer, shares the same first name and has a similar nomenclature to copycat Ghostface killer, Jason Carvey (portrayed by Tony Revolori).
- He is the first victim of Ghostface to be killed via gunshot while the killer was masked, in the Scream franchise. Overall, if excluding the killers' deaths, he is the fourth character to die via firearm, preceded by Derek Feldman, Trevor Sheldon, and Liv McKenzie (technically fifth if counting Eli Hudson's death from Season 2 in the overall franchise).
- Despite this, his death via shotgun by as Ghostface, was possibly alluded to and referenced via a small joke in Season 3 (subtitled Scream: Resurrection) in the episode "Devil's Night" (a reference for the date of which the episode is set, on Tuesday, October 30th), which sees teenagers Beth and Amir Ayoub at the latter's family donut shop late at night in Atlanta, borrowing money for a lure for their suspected Ghostface to come to them at their school (similar to the plot Tara would devise to hatch by luring Ghostface to her and her friends at the shrine in New York City in the sixth film, approx. 5 years later). As Amir is grabbing money from the register and has his back turned, Beth grabs the shotgun under the register that Amir's family has for protection of the store, who points it at him and tells him jokingly "Bang, you're dead", before Amir gets upset and tells her to put it back as he grabs it from her, albeit foreshadowing due to Beth's reveal in the finale as the killer, and Amir one of her victims.
- This alluded reference would then be applied loosely regarding the Clerk's death in the sixth film during the New York Murders, which occurred (like the joke) at night, during the final week of October, aka Halloween to November 1st, 2023, who in-universe, was preceded by the TV series and in the franchise, 5 years prior by the Atlanta Murders committed in October-November 2018, also each by Ghostface. Both the Bodega Clerk and Amir were close in placement as victims in each's respective murder spree (Clerk was the sixth victim in NYC, while Amir was the seventh in Atlanta).
- Similarly, Detective Wayne Bailey as Ghostface killing two civilians and the Clerk at the bodega despite it being with public witnesses, is also a reference and reverse to when Shane dressed as Ghostface to rob a mom & pop pharmacy which was empty during the day, and despite holding the pharmacist at gunpoint, he didn't stab nor shoot them, due to him not being Ghostface, only knocking him out by pistol whipping the pharmacist when he tried to press the alert button, and leaving also in the second episode of the third season.