Deputy Clifton Roberts was a minor character in Season 1 (2015) of the television series, Scream.
Clifton would become the sixth victim of the Second Lakewood Murders (2015-2016) during the 2015 spree and be the third male victim from it (as well as the first law enforcement death of the TV series), the sixth male victim chronologically of the Lakewood Slasher, and the eleventh victim of the overall Lakewood Murders committed over two decades, from the first and second season.
He is portrayed by Ryan Broussard.
Description[]
Deputy Roberts was a deputy who was dispatched to watch guard, as he was keeping Seth Branson in the jail cell due to his arrest and due to being suspected of murder and attempted murder on Brooke.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Not much is known about Clifton's early life except that he was born approx. sometime in the late 1980s and who would grow up to become a deputy at the Lakewood Sheriff's Department in Lakewood, Louisiana, either before or concurrent to the Second Lakewood Murders (2015-2016), committed nearly 21 years since the first in 1994.
Season 1[]
The Second Lakewood Murders (2015)[]
"The Dance"[]
Deputy Roberts is first seen in the background at the room, where Clark was interrogating Seth.
Deputy Roberts is later seen handcuffed to a prison cell, lying in a large pool of his own blood, and covered with multiple stab wounds. The Lakewood Slasher had killed him to help Branson escape prison.
"Revelations"[]
The police gather evidence to find his killer before having him wheeled away on a stretcher. Maggie stops the people who are taking him away, demanding to see his face. She notices something is in his mouth, and she pulls it out. It's covered in blood, but she recognizes it to be the necklace Brandon James gave her when they were young. He put it in a tree by her house so she could find it after he made it for her. Maggie realizes that's the clue, and that Clark must be tied to the tree where Brandon left gifts for her.
Appearances[]
Season 1 (2/10)[]
Trivia[]
- Deputy Roberts is the first officer in the TV series to die.
- In the Season 2 premiere, "I Know What You Did Last Summer", his full name was revealed in Noah's murder mystery board as Clifton Roberts.
- Despite his surname, he is not related to Jill Roberts (Ghostface #7) or her mother Kate Roberts from Scream 4 (2011).
- Coincidentally, he also shares the same surname as Jill's own actress, Emma Roberts.
- The first Black male law enforcement death out of four and first Black victim death in the TV series, overall.
- Technically, the first Black male death of the TV series, chronologically (see Timeline), would be Deion Elliot from Season 3, and Phil Stevens in the overall franchise.
- Overall of Black male law enforcement deaths, he would be the second out of five, preceded by Deputy Anthony Perkins's death in Scream 4.