Jill Roberts

“	This has never been about killing you. It's about becoming you.	”
–Jill to her cousin, Sidney Prescott

Jill Roberts
General Information
Full Name	Jillian Roberts
Other Names	Ghostface #7 American hero right out of the movies (journalist profile) Survivor (journalist profile) Decoy Final Girl (twist) False protagonist (literary technique)
Age	17 (at the time of her death)
Born	July 29, 1994
Death	Saturday, early AM hours, October 1st ,2011 Cause: Electrocuted in the head with two defibrillator pads using 360 joules of energy, then shot in the heart by Sidney Prescott while being fried at Woodsboro Community Hospital, Woodsboro, California.
Personality	Psychopath Fame-seeking Victim complex
Occupation	Woodsboro High School senior (Class of 2012; failed to graduate) Ghostface #7
Home	Roberts Residence, Woodsboro, California (1994-2011; her death)
Goal	To become the new Sidney Prescott (failed) To have her massacre immortalized on video and in theatres (failed) To appear in a Stab film based on her killing spree (failed)
Weapons	Buck 120 Glock 17
Status	Deceased
Appearances	Scream 4 Scream VI (photograph)
Relationships
Romance	Trevor Sheldon † (ex-boyfriend) (murdered) Charlie Walker † (secret boyfriend/accomplice killer) (betrayed)
Relatives	Kate Roberts † (mother) Unnamed father (unseen/unmentioned) Maureen Prescott † (maternal aunt) Neil Prescott (maternal uncle) Sidney Prescott (cousin) Roman Bridger † (maternal cousin) Tatum Evans (first cousin, once removed) Two unnamed first cousins, once removed Mark Evans (cousin-in-law)
Allies	Charlie Walker †
Enemies	Sidney Prescott (for her fame and heroine status/cousin/primary target; failed to kill) Jenny Randall † (for dating her ex-boyfriend, implied by her classmates and peers/high school rival/possible victim) Trevor Sheldon † (for cheating on her/victim) Gale Weathers (attempted victim) Dewey Riley † (attempted victim) Judy Hicks † (attempted victim) Kirby Reed (ex-best friend/intended victim) Marnie Cooper † (former school acquaintance/indirect victim) Olivia Morris † (ex-second best friend/indirect victim) Robbie Mercer † (ex-friend/indirect victim) Kate Roberts † (mother/indirect victim) Charlie Walker † (ex-boyfriend/accomplice/betrayed) Anthony Perkins † (former police protection/indirect victim) Ross Hoss † (former police protection/indirect victim) Rebecca Walters † (indirect victim) Samantha Carpenter (possibly/former school acquaintance) Tara Carpenter (possibly/former local) Chad Meeks-Martin (possibly/former local) Mindy Meeks-Martin (possibly/former local)
Actors/Actresses
Portrayed by	Emma Roberts

Jill Roberts was the main antagonist of Scream 4 (2011 film) and the seventh revealed Ghostface killer in the franchise. She was the mastermind of the most violent generational Woodsboro Murders, which was also the second Ghostface massacre in the town, which claimed the most casualties than its predecessor and successor, known as the Second Woodsboro Murders (2011).

She is the daughter of Kate Roberts, the younger sister of the original Ghostface victim, Maureen Prescott. Having grown up in Woodsboro, California, she resented the non-stop commentary people made about her estranged celebrity cousin, Sidney Prescott, the face of the original Stab trilogy. Her closest friends were film geek, Kirby Reed and next-door neighbor, Olivia Morris.

The character was a false protagonist, with promotion claiming she would be the new Sidney-esque heroine for a new generation, with both being considered primary targets of a murder spree at age 17. In actuality, she was the mastermind behind the anniversary killings. Despite this, Jill in her masterminded plot, technically stayed true to the original, only killing her framed target, Trevor Sheldon and her own accomplice, Charlie Walker, with both fulfilling millennial Billy and Stu archetypes. In the execution of Jill's plan, her accomplice Charlie was largely almost entirely the muscle to the operation, with the assumption that she would be a millennial Sidney and he would be a millennial Randy. However, Jill betrayed and killed him as she always intended to be the sole survivor, like Sidney herself, and killed Trevor, who she framed.

Jill is also the maternal cousin of serial killer, Roman Bridger, the child Maureen gave up for adoption. It is unknown if Roman's blood lineage was made public.

She was portrayed by Emma Roberts.

Biography

Early Life

Jill Roberts was born to single mother, Kate Roberts on July 29, 1994. She grew up in Woodsboro, California. Just more than a year after her birth, the very first Ghostface killing in Woodsboro occurred; the victim being her aunt, Maureen Prescott (née Roberts).

As a child growing up, Jill was all too familiar with the name of her celebrity cousin, Sidney Prescott, a survivor of the 1996 Woodsboro Murders, and the name and face protagonist of a successful slasher franchise, Stab.

General Background

After she was cheated on by her boyfriend, Trevor Sheldon sometime in their junior year or the summer before senior year, Jill began a secret relationship with Woodsboro High Cinema Club President and horror buff, Charlie Walker, who she sat next to in Mr Baker's English class.

Growing up, her mother was neglectful. Fueled by her cousin's immense stardom and fame, being cheated on, and her cousin's successful book tour of her self-help novel, Out of Darkness (2011, published by Random), the events spiraled Jill over the edge into psychopathy. She conspired with secret boyfriend, Charlie Walker to concoct their own elaborate anniversary killing spree in the town for the 15th anniversary, learning Sidney would be in town as a last stop on her book tour.

Unbeknownst to Charlie, he was simply a tool in her game. Jill convinced him of manifesting his Stab movie dreams to reality in the form a real-life remake. She elaborated on her vision: millennial counterparts to Sidney Prescott and Randy Meeks.

As part of their plan, they desired to remake the original Woodsboro Murders that Billy Loomis and Stu Macher orchestrated, framing her ex-boyfriend, Trevor Sheldon in the process. However, Jill also secretly intended on framing Charlie for the murders as an accomplice, with the pairing serving as a true millennial counterpart to Billy and Stu, while Jill would be left as the sole survivor, like her cousin.

As part of the scheme, she came up with the idea of filming the murders due to Jill's belief that no one reads anymore, which they also intended on uploading onto the internet under Trevor's IP address to further frame him as the Ghostface killer.

The Woodsboro Massacre Remake (2011)

Jill and Charlie began their copycat killings with Jenny Randall and Marnie Cooper. Jill filmed the murders with a film camera, as Charlie killed Marnie by stabbing her in the stomach multiple times. Shortly after, Jill called and taunted Jenny over the phone, shortly before Jill and Charlie threw Marnie's corpse through a nearby window. With Jill outside, Charlie chases Jenny across her house, briefly catching her, and stabs her in the back. Jenny crawls down into her garage (which is undergoing renovations) where she has her back crushed by the garage door and is stabbed again, while it was filmed.

The following day, Jill and her next-door friend, Olivia Morris, are given a ride to Woodsboro High School by their best friend, Kirby Reed. Charlie plants Jenny and Marnie's blood, Sidney's novels and Ghostface merchandise in the trunk of Sidney's rental car while she is inside a bookstore doing a book signing for her newly released novel, Out of Darkness. Jill receives a phone call from Charlie as "Ghostface" using Jenny's phone during the ride, and after Jill hangs up, Olivia reveals she got a call like that from Marnie's phone. On the way to school, Kirby almost gets into an accident, that likely would have killed Jill and injured Olivia, due to not stopping the car and being distracted by Olivia mentioning receiving a call similar to Jill's.

Once Jill, Olivia and Kirby arrive, they are confronted by both Charlie and film geek best friend, Robbie Mercer, who asks them their favorite scary movie in other of the fifteenth anniversary of Massacre Week. Unlike Olivia and Kirby, Jill doesn't seem to be bothered by the camera. Jill is later confronted by her ex-boyfriend, Trevor Sheldon, while she's at her locker. He wants to be given a second chance, but she rejects him. After Sidney's car becomes an official crime scene and the police become aware of the murders of the night before, Jill, Olivia and Kirby are taken to the police station after the police find out Olivia and Jill received phone calls. As they are questioned by Sheriff Dewey Riley, Sidney arrives and Jill acts like she's happy to see her, giving her a hug. No conclusion is drawn from the questioning.

When Jill gets home from the police station, she and Kirby prepare dinner with her mother, Kate Roberts. Later, she sees with surprise that Trevor has snuck into her bedroom when she comes into her room after using the bathroom. She tells Trevor to get away from the window. He starts talking about wanting a second chance again when Sidney walks in and sees Jill with Trevor. After he leaves, she tells Jill she reminds her of herself. This is a homage of the time Billy Loomis snuck in through her window 15 years earlier.

Later on, while watching Shaun of the Dead (2004) with Kirby, Jill makes a fake "Ghostface" call to Olivia. During this conversation, Charlie calls Kirby as Ghostface, claiming to be in the closet. Kirby opens Jill's closet to prove he isn't in there and calls him a liar. He then gives a bone chilling response, "I never said I was in your closet" before immediately leaping out of Olivia's closet. Charlie mutilates her while Kirby and Jill watch horrified from the house next door. Sidney rushes over to the Morris house after hearing the commotion, but does not arrive in time to save Olivia from death.

Charlie then calls Sidney as Ghostface to taunt her. After his call, Jill enters the house and calls Sidney's name to alert Charlie that she's inside. Jill heads upstairs to Olivia's room, but Sidney prevents her from looking at Olivia's corpse. Pretending to be upset, she tells Sidney that Olivia called her "The Angel of Death". Then Charlie, still wearing the Ghostface costume, comes out from behind a door, seemingly trying to attack Jill and manages to slash her arm. Sidney pushes her out of the way and kicks him down the stairs. After fighting him off, Sidney sees Jill sitting down at the top of the stairs, holding her bloodied left arm. Deputies Ross Hoss and Anthony Perkins come in and Sidney tries to show them where Charlie is, but he's no longer there. Kirby and Trevor also arrive at Olivia's house to see if Jill is okay.

Jill's arm is later X-rayed at Woodsboro Community Hospital, where no serious damage appears to have been sustained. During this visit, Charlie calls and taunts Sidney's publicist and personal assistant, Rebecca Walters, as Ghostface and follows her into an empty parking structure. Having disabled Rebecca's car's ability to operate, Charlie taunts her some more before finally stabbing Rebecca in the stomach as she attempts to flee. Charlie makes his way to the roof and throws Rebecca's body off the parking structure. The body lands on a news van during a press conference held by Dewey.

The third annual Stab-A-Thon is the next night, taking place at an abandoned barn on the outskirts of town. However, Jill can't go because Kate wants to keep her safe. Jill and Sidney share a family moment when Sidney states that she knows how Jill feels and is very sorry about Olivia. Jill says she is sorry about Rebecca. Continuing the moment, Jill asks Sidney about being a survivor. Later on, Charlie lets Jill know that Gale Riley has arrived, and to log onto her laptop to watch through the webcam. She does so and sees Gale has discovered the webcam hidden in the haystack. Jill watches as Charlie attacks Gale, but he panics when Dewey begins firing gunshots at him. She sees Charlie stab Gale in the right shoulder, just before fleeing the scene. Gale survives her injuries and is rushed to the hospital as soon as possible. The Stab-A-Thon is canceled as a result of the incident.

Jill meets Charlie outside her house in her own Ghostface costume where he stabs Deputy Hoss in the back and Deputy Perkins directly in the forehead. Charlie drives the cop car with their corpses two blocks down the street and stabs them several more times before taking a gun from one of the dead officers, which he gives to Jill later. In the meantime, after killing the cops, Jill calls Sidney to taunt her about Gale and to tell her a member of her family is going to die while all Sidney can do is watch. When Charlie returns, they attack Sidney and Kate from both sides of the Roberts house. Jill scares Sidney and Kate at the back door forcing them to run to the front door where they are attacked by Charlie. Sidney slams the door on Charlie's arm causing him to groan in pain. Charlie angrily thrusts his knife through the mail slot, stabbing Kate, who was sitting against the door in an attempt to keep it shut. Kate dies after asking Sidney to tell Jill she's sorry.

Jill, while waiting for Kirby to pick her up, sends Trevor a text message telling him to meet her at Kirby's house, 329 Whispering Lane, where she intends on ending the killing spree. Charlie goes to the Reed house where he meets up with Robbie, and soon Kirby and Jill. Just as Charlie is putting on Stab 7, Trevor suddenly appears claiming Jill invited him to come over. Jill denies sending Trevor a text message to further arouse suspicion of him. She goes to Kirby's car to "look" for her cellphone, claiming she doesn't have it on her, and Trevor follows her. Charlie kills a drunken Robbie outside of Kirby's house while Jill abducts Trevor after soon having returned inside, tying him up.

Later, wondering where everyone is, Kirby goes to the front door, where Jill appears, returning downstairs with her phone after erasing the text she sent to Trevor, claiming to Kirby he never sent her a message. Soon, Sidney arrives and asks Jill to come with her when a bleeding Robbie appears at the door and gurgles "Run." He dies in front of them, and they look up to see Charlie in the Ghostface costume. He chases them all back into the house. While Kirby disappears downstairs, Charlie chases Sidney and Jill upstairs where they lock themselves in Kirby's bedroom. Sidney forces Jill to get under the bed while she flees to the balcony to call for help. Jill does so after giving Sidney her cell phone. Sidney, when she's outside on the roof, yells for Jill to run and go get help hoping that Charlie will buy it and not look under the bed. After Charlie goes after Sidney, Jill climb's out of the bed. After an encounter with Charlie on the roof, Sidney soon joins up with Kirby and they escape to a room in Kirby's basement that locks.

Charlie appears at the patio doors, and he is attacked by Jill, now wearing Charlie's Ghostface costume (hence why they found DNA of Charlie and Jill in the mask that was found in the bodega in Scream VI). Jill calls Kirby as Ghostface and Sidney tells her to keep the killer on the phone while she goes to get Jill. They manage to trick Kirby into coming out of the room by asking her several trivial horror movie questions and letting her believe she actually won the game. She goes to untie Charlie, but he stabs her in the stomach twice, blaming her for not returning his affections sooner and leaving her for dead. It was later revealed in Scream (2022) that Kirby survived her stab wounds off-screen. Sidney, back inside, finds Jill is gone and starts to go into the basement, going back for Kirby. She is grabbed from behind by Charlie, who holds her at knife point. After a struggle, she gets free and races for the front door.

Hello, Sidney. Surprised?: Jill reveals herself to Sidney as the main Ghostface mastermind.

Before reaching the front door, Jill stabs Sidney in the stomach just before revealing herself as the main Ghostface killer. Charlie takes Trevor out of the closet while explaining they intend on framing him for the killing spree. Jill shoots Trevor in the groin after telling him that she is not the kind of girl that he should have cheated on, then shoots him in the forehead, killing him. Directly following the reveal of their plans and the killing of her ex-boyfriend, Jill shares a kiss with Charlie, leading him on into thinking that she loves him. Sidney questions Jill how she could do this, to which Jill explains her motives to her quickly and admits to being jealous of the attention that Sidney's trauma has bought her. Afterwards, Jill motions Charlie for the shoulder

What the Media Loves is a Sole Survivor: Jill stabs Charlie in the chest, fatally betraying him.

stabbing, similar to what Billy and Stu did, taking the knife from him. He eagerly goes through with it, wanting her to stab him in the shoulder like they rehearsed. Instead, Jill stabs him in the chest, and claims the media really loves a sole survivor, before stabbing him in the stomach. As Charlie dies, Jill continues her jealous rant to Sidney before stabbing her deeply in the stomach. Sidney falls to the floor, believed to be dead. Thinking she's won, Jill mutilates herself. She pulls part of her hair out and scratches her face using Trevor's hand, stabs herself in the right shoulder on a nearby wall corner, smashes her face through a glass frame and throws her body onto a glass table in order to make herself

Self-Inflicted: Jill injures herself to make her look like a victim, the only Ghostface to do so thus far without a partner.

look like a victim. Also during this, she wipes her fingerprints off the gun and slides it near Charlie's body, and leaves the knife near Trevor's. She drops to the floor, mirroring Sidney's position just as the police arrive. As Jill is being taken into the hospital, she is surrounded by several reporters. She smiles, thinking that she has gotten away with everything and expects worldwide fame, plus media coverage, for being a sole survivor like Sidney.

At the hospital, Dewey talks to Jill, who reveals to know a little more information than she should for somebody who is a victim; Jill mentions to Dewey that she would like to write a book with Gale, with their "matching wounds", referring to them both being stabbed in the shoulder. The details of Charlie's attack on Gale were never released to the public, so Jill could never have known unless she was one of the murderers herself. Dewey does not catch onto this until he speaks with his wife. Furious that Sidney is still alive, Jill goes to the I.C.U. and tries to kill her again. She digs her fingers into Sidney's stitches until Dewey arrives. Jill hides and knocks him out with a metal bedpan when he isn't looking. Gale and Deputy Judy Hicks arrive, but Jill shoots Judy in the chest after she tells Jill not to do anything stupid. As she prepares to shoot Gale, Sidney regains consciousness and puts two defibrillator pads to her skull, shocking her brain. However, Jill is still alive

Clear? Clear: Jill gets electrocuted.

and proceeds to grab a glass shard in a final attempt to kill Sidney for good. Predicting Jill's final attack, Sidney grabs Dewey's gun and shoots her in the chest, killing her.

Outside of the Woodsboro Community Hospital, it is clear the reporters have yet to learn the truth. They are waiting for a statement from the media-proclaimed "heroine" Jill Roberts, who is lying dead in the hospital room. Though, she finally gets the 15 minutes of fame she so desperately craved.

Postmortem

Sidney, Gale, Dewey, and Judy told everyone the truth. The Stab franchise went into development hell for over 10 years until the eighth film, a reboot. But it was not about Jill, and thus her fame-seeking plan to have a movie about her life was not fulfilled after her death.

Legacy

The Woodsboro Legacy Murders (2022)

While in the car going to Woodsboro to check up on her half-sister, Tara Carpenter, after her attack, Samantha Carpenter tells Richie Kirsch about Woodsboro's fatal history and remarks on the massacre that happened in 2011 as she referred to both Jill and Charlie as "some idiot" wanting to kill their friends and get famous as Billy Loomis once did the generation before that in 1996.

The New York Murders (2023)

Jill is mentioned several times during the killing spree alongside her older deceased cousin, Roman Bridger; more notably by Kirby when she speaks to Detective Wayne Bailey regarding the kill patterns and references to the 2011 Woodsboro Remake Massacre. Jill's photo appears on an investigation board detailing past Ghostface killers as well as an old mask she used being left at Abe's Snake Bodega.

While at the shrine created by Richie, Kirby stares with watery eyes at the flannel shirt and pants that were worn by Jill in the final act of Scream 4. Her Ghostface costume and the defibrillator she was shocked in the head by Sidney with are also located here, alongside portraits of her drawn by Richie.

Murders Committed

Confirmed Murders

	Trevor Sheldon	Shot in the groin and head.	Scream 4
	Charlie Walker	Stabbed in the heart and stomach.	Scream 4

Relationships

Family Kate Roberts † - Mother Maureen Prescott † - Aunt Neil Prescott - Uncle Sidney Prescott - Cousin Roman Bridger † - Cousin Three unnamed first cousins, once removed Mark Evans - Cousin-In-Law

Enemies Sidney Prescott - Cousin / Primary Target / Attempted Victim Rebecca Walters † - Indirect Victim Woodsboro High School Charlie Walker † - Boyfriend / Accomplice / Fallboy / Victim Trevor Sheldon † - Ex-Boyfriend / Victim Kirby Reed - Ex-Best Friend / Intended Victim Olivia Morris † - Ex-Best Friend / Indirect Victim Robbie Mercer † - Ex-Friend / Indirect Victim Jenny Randall † - Rival / Indirect Victim Marnie Cooper † - Indirect Victim Woodsboro, California Kate Roberts † - Mother / Indirect Victim Dewey Riley † - Attempted Victim Gale Weathers - Attempted Victim Judy Hicks † - Attempted Victim Ross Hoss † - Police Protection / Indirect Victim Anthony Perkins † - Police Protection / Indirect Victim

Quotes

Pre-reveal

• "When you're done with a phone call, you let someone go, or when you take someone to the airport, you let them go. But when you tell somebody you love them. And she gives you... everything. And then you just go out with someone else, that is not letting her go, that's dumping her. Okay, that's... that's betrayal."
• "You have no right to be here, not anymore..."
• "I don't trust you, Trevor..."
• "What's your favorite scary movie, Olivia?" (Fake "Ghostface" call to Olivia).
• "She said you were the Angel of Death..." (To Sidney, before Ghostface's attack).
• "I could never handle that kind of attention." (Lying to Sidney).
• "You saved my life last night. I mean, I know we're family but, you hardly know me. Makes me wonder, you know, if I'd have been brave enough to do the same thing." (To Sidney).

As Ghostface

• "Not an app."
• "Do I sound like a Trevor to you? Think of me as your director. You're in my movie. You got a fun part so don't blow it."
• "Same one Marnie's in. Only her part got cut way back."
• "You're the dumb blonde with the big tits. We'll have some fun with you before you die."
• "She's on the cutting room floor."
• "This isn't a comedy, it's a horror film. People live, people die and you'd better start running."
• "You're a survivor, aren't you, Sidney? Your one and only skill, you survive."
• "Friends count. But it's the family ties that cut deep. Am I right?"
• "What's closer than family? The bond of blood. You can't save them, all you can do is watch..." (Jill says before laughing, after phone-calling Sidney).
• "Tell Sidney heads are gonna roll tonight, tell Sidney it's all because of her! Or maybe she wants to take his place. I promise to be quick!" (To Kirby on the phone about Charlie).
• "Forget watching Stab, you get to live it."
• "Alright Kirby, then it's time for your last chance question. Name the remake of the groundbreaking horror movie in which the villain..."

About Jill

• "Before we get in the car, you have to promise not to kill me." (Kirby jokingly to Jill in their first scene together).
• "Somebody cares about you over here, ya know. Someone who never should have let you go." (Trevor to Jill).
• "You remind me of me." (Sidney about her cousin).
• "That's the worst imitation I've ever heard, Jill." (Olivia to Jill's Ghostface imitation).
• "Jill is screening her calls from all past relationships." (Kirby to Ghostface/Charlie, believing it is Trevor).
• "I know how you feel." (Sidney to Jill).
• "You go do your good-girl thing, and I will drink for the both of us." (Kirby to Jill).
• "Tell Jill, I'm so sorry." (Kate about her daughter before dying).
• "You were amazing. You're the perfect victim." (Charlie to Jill).
• "Jill, how is it feels to be a hero?" (News reporters to Jill, mirroring the same line Joel said to Sidney, after she survived a murder spree)
• "Yeah, she's a strong kid" (Dewey about Jill).
• "...who single-handedly put a stop in those 21st century Woodsboro killing spree."
• "Jill Roberts of Woodsboro, a girl who's lifted all our spirits tonight. An American hero, right out of the movies." (News reporter about Jill, unaware about Jill being a killer).
• "...And every decade or so, some idiot gets the bright idea to put on the mask, kill his friends and get famous too. The last time it happened was in 2011." (Samantha Carpenter about Jill and Charlie).

Post-reveal

• "You think you had a shitty boyfriend, Sidney? Here's one that fucks you, dumps you and doesn't even make you famous." (To Sidney about Trevor)
• "Shouldn't have killed all those people, Trev, gone and put it on video even. But it means a lot that you did it for me." (To Trevor).
• "I am not the girl you cheat on!" (To Trevor before shooting him in the groin).
• "Oh, yeah. We're perfect." (Before shooting Trevor in the forehead).
• "See, with you, the world just heard about what happened. But with us, they're gonna see it. It's gonna be a worldwide sensation. I mean people gotta see this shit. It's not like anyone reads anymore. We're gonna know fame like you never even dreamed of." (Jill to Sidney talking about recording the murders and posting them).
• "I was so believable today, wasn't I? I mean, I told so many lies today, that I actually started to believe them. I really think that I was born for this."
• "Do you know what it was like growing up in this family? Related to you? I mean, all I ever heard was Sidney this and Sidney that and Sidney, Sidney, Sidney! You were always just so fucking special! Well, now I'm the special one." (To Sidney).
• "What the media loves, baby, is a sole survivor. Just ask you know who." (To Charlie, directing at Sidney).
• "My friends? What world are you living in? I don't need friends. I need fans." (To Sidney after she makes a comment when Jill kills Charlie)
• "I mean for fuck's sake, my own mother had to die, no great loss there, so I could stay true to the original. That's sick, right? Well, sick is the new sane. You had your 15 minutes, now I want mine! I mean, what am I supposed to do? Go to college? Grad school? Work? Look around. We all live in public now, we're all on the Internet. How do you think people become famous anymore? You don't have to achieve anything. You just gotta have fucked-up shit happen to you."
• "There's only room for one lead and, let's face it, your ingenue days, they're over." (To Sidney).
• "Don't tell me you didn't know this day would come." (To Sidney, before "killing" her).
• "Trevor and Charlie, trey tried to kill me. And I heard they killed my mom. And Robbie and Kirby too." (Lying to Dewey).
• "If I ever write a book one day I'd... I'd want her to write it with me. We'd be a good team with her. Matching wounds and all." (To Dewey unknowingly giving herself away).
• "You just won't die, will you? Who are you, Michael fucking Myers?" (To Sidney).
• "Fucking die already!" (To Sidney, while choking her).
• "How're those stitches?" (To Sidney, during their fight)
• "Is this how it's gonna be, Sid? The ending of the movie was supposed to be at the house. I mean, this is just...silly!" (To Sidney).
• "You just had to be the hero, huh? (...) Don't fucking tell me what to do." (To Judy before and after shooting her in the chest.).
• "Now get up, bitch. Come on. Get your skinny ass out here. I'm going to enjoy blowing your head off." (To Gale).
• "Clear?" (Final word).

Trivia

Jill's bibliography give visual clues to her true nature.

Visual Clues and Easter eggs

• Jill's room reveals her true nature. Her book shelf reveals the following books she is in possession of, despite acting innocuous about Stab and its popularity. The bibliography seen on her shelf include:
  • Zodiac by Robert Graysmith (1986)
  • College Terror by Gale Weathers (1998)
  • Ghostface Returns by Gale Weathers (2008)
  • Serial Killers with Deadly Intent, published by Igloo Books (2009)
• In the final act, she wears a white and blue plaid shirt which reveals her true role in the film as the Remake Billy Loomis, as well as symbolizing her role as a chess master. This is similar to Richie Kirsch, who later wore a blue plaid shirt like Billy.
• The literature seen in her English classroom conducted by Mr. Baker also hint towards her role.
• Her surname may be a reference to Emma Roberts, her actress.
• The color scheme of Jill and Sidney as they meet in the police office gives a clue into how the movie will turn out. Scream has a pattern of misusing the color white (which is most often used to symbolize innocence) on characters, mostly Nancy Loomis and in that scene, as Jill wears white and Sidney wears black. But this was done on purpose, as it switches the purpose of said colors (as Scream 4's purpose was the "reversal of standards"). Jill wearing white symbolizes her "innocent" persona, the hope to be the next Sidney, but because Sidney wears black, it hints that Jill is the complete opposite of Sidney, and it gives a early hint that Jill's hope never pans out.
• Dewey's quote at the beginning of the movie, "one generation's tragedy is the next one's joke" gives a clue into the reason and purpose of the Second Woodsboro Murders. While the older generation of Woodsboro, who were affected by the first killings view it as a tragedy, the younger generation view it with fascination and with fandom, which is why Jill and Charlie start their spree to begin with.

The original and her imitator.

Other

• She is the first killer in the franchise who successfully killed another killer, this being Charlie Walker (This is followed by the "Third Killer", Jamal Elliot, Beth and Wayne Bailey).
• Jill is the first Ghostface killer mastermind who spearheaded one of the most brutal Ghostface massacres of the 21st century (second after her own half-cousin and Sidney's half-brother, Roman Bridger), succeeded by:
  • Beth (as her own self-appointed mastermind) in the 2018 Atlanta Murders in Scream: Resurrection (the third season from the TV series).
  • Wayne Bailey in the New York Murders in Scream VI.
• It can be speculated that Jill may have gotten her 15 minutes of fame, as Jill's motivation to be famous only became more realistic as the 2010s wore on. In this way, she'd be seen as a textbook example of people doing anything for fame, and so she might be well known in the Scream universe for this reason. Ironically though, she would never be alive to see it.
• Jill's motivation also echoes that of Mickey's motivation. While Mickey wanted to get caught and blame the movies, both he and Jill wanted fame from the murders.
• It is rumored that Jill's motives, in an early script of Scream 4, were based/inspired by Roman. During the third act, she supposedly stated, "I mean, your brother started this nightmare for you, I totally relate to why he hated your guts and I kind of wish he was here too see this, after all you are the problem in our family." If this was kept, it would confirm that Roman's relation to Sidney was made public.
• Jill's role as the jealous, while fame-seeking family member of Sidney, who killed her own mother, is preceded similarly by Roman Bridger in Scream 3, while her role as a murderous family member with a vendetta, overall, would be preceded in her character by various others such as:
  • Piper Shaw (vendetta against half-sister, Emma Duval) and Kieran Wilcox (killed his own father, Clark Hudson) from Season 1-2.
    • Piper recording the murders is also similar to Jill's plan in the fourth film to broadcast them.
  • Jamal Elliot (vendetta against half-brother, Marcus) in Season 3.
• Her age is stated to be 17 in the extended ending, which was cut. It is possible her age may be different in the final cut, though it is unlikely given it mirrors Sidney being 17 in the original Scream (1996).
• She is the first youngest character to ever portray Ghostface, as well as her actress, Emma Roberts.
  • Succeeded by Jack Champion as Ethan Landry as the youngest overall, and actor in Scream VI.
• Jill did not receive her 15 minutes of fame postmortem either; no Stab film was made about her story.
  • After Stab 7 (2010), the franchise was in development hell for 10 years, until the infamous Rian Johnson-directed eighth Stab film, simply known as Stab (2021) was released. In the Scream universe, this technically means she and Charlie are the least famous Ghostface killers known in comparison to the first three killing sprees.
• Based on Jill's behavior, she is a textbook psychopath.
• Jill is the second relative that was jealous of Sidney's immense fame and popularity. The first was her half-brother, Roman Bridger.
  • Jill's jealousy was rooted in desiring to be her, whereas Roman's issue was about their shared mother's rejection, with Maureen rejecting her birth son and "choosing" Sidney, who would develop a celebrity victim reputation with adoring fans and a film franchise inspired by her life. This would have aggrieved Roman, as he technically sparked the chain of events to convince her mother's killer to do the job. Ultimately, both relatives have very similar motives, but subtle and important differences.
• Jill (and Charlie) filming via webcam the Second Woodsboro Murders/Remake Massacre and planning on distributing their recorded Ghostface murders online, as well as planning to screen the sensationalized "real life" murders as a film in theatres, is a reference to Scream 3.
  • As Jill's own half-cousin, Roman Bridger, the fifth (and only solo) revealed Ghostface killer, as the mastermind of the Hollywood Murders (2000), was also the hired director by Sunrise Studios to direct the fictional sequel to the first two Stab films, Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro, which was cancelled while in production, due to the murders of the cast members in order they would've in the film, meta; with the film being fictional due to no Ghostface murder spree in "real life" occurring to warrant an adaptation, unlike the Woodsboro Murders (1996) inspiring the first Stab and the copycat Windsor College Murders inspiring the sequel. This also occurs for the production and making of this film-within-a-film, the last true story (in the Stab series) in a trilogy, based on Gale's own book of the same name, Stab 3: Hollywood Horror (approx. 2006).
  • The meta reverse being that while Roman was the Ghostface responsible for directing the fictional film, he didn't actually film his murders via the film's production on camera (or reel), or even a video camera (unlike Mickey, who similarly recorded his intended victims beforehand on his camera, but not the murders), whereas Jill would succeed her cousin by actually doing so, of which goes by Gale Weather's (author of the nonfiction books on the "real life" Ghostface murders which the Stab films are based on) statement to her husband and the former Sheriff, Dewey Riley ,after surviving her attack at Stab-a-Thon, by telling him that, "He's recording the murders. This time, he's making the movie."
• As Roman's maternal first cousin, they act similar due to their neglect/abandonment issues related back to Maureen Prescott (for Roman, how Maureen rejected her birth son, and for Jill, how Maureen's sister, Kate Roberts, failed to be a proper caretaker due to her grief and possible attention seeking issues from the fame related to her sister's infamous murder).
• Some fans believe that Jill is the one who actually attacked Gale at Stab-A-Thon, which is later proven because she knew Gale's stabbing position. Incidentally, her remark on this is what exposes her as the killer.
• Samantha from Scream (2022) is familiar with her as she refers to her as “some idiot” that wanted to kill their friends and get famous, even having gone to Woodsboro High School at the same time as her, alongside Kirby (with Sam being a freshman at Woodsboro High in 2011, while both Jill and Kirby were seniors).
• She is the second female Ghostface in the franchise.
  • She is succeeded by Amber Freeman as the third and Quinn Bailey as the fourth.
• The second Ghostface to betray her accomplice (female killer betraying her male accomplice), this being Charlie, just like how Billy Loomis's revenge stricken mother Nancy did to Mickey in Scream 2 (1997), and the first to do so by stabbing them, instead of just shooting her accomplice.
  • Succeeded by Beth betraying Jamal Elliot in Season 3 (2019) of the television series as the third, who like Jill, stabbed her accomplice (with a trash picker instead of the Buck 120, as well as while donning the Ghostface costume, unlike Jill out of costume) as well each woman being a psychopath
  • Although a reverse to both Jill (and Nancy), who's reveal occurred separately and without her accomplice, Beth would homage both Jill in stabbing Charlie (with Jamal) and Nancy shooting Mickey (by instead in her reveal out of the costume, shooting her accomplice's half-brother and main protagonist of the the third season, Marcus Elliot; reverse of Jill, while in-costume, stabbing her cousin and film franchise heroine, Sidney Prescott; both Jill and Beth only did so in a surprise manner, once the protagonists attempted to escape, difference being Sidney was trying to run out of the house, and Marcus was about to call the authorities on his phone).
    • Whereas Jill and Nancy had betrayed their male accomplices in order to get closer to kill the main "final girl" protagonist, Sidney, and both were also the masterminds, Beth arguably wasn't (despite convincing Jamal to murder to avenge his deceased half-brother's twin, Deion, of who's identity Marcus assumed, angry at this discrepancy and hypocrisy being his motive); who didn't intend to solely target her former accomplice's half-brother and the third season's protagonist ("final boy"), Marcus, who instead, after betraying her accomplice and leaving them for dead, after as well revealing herself by shooting the protagonist instead of a secondary character, revealed herself as being a self-entitled mastermind, only using the anniversary and vengeance murders as a ruse to commit her own, who'd instead would target Marcus's girlfriend, Liv Reynolds, who she'd envisioned as the "final girl" of the murders she committed in a delusion of doing a real life horror film.
• Jill is the first main antagonist in the franchise whose ultimate demise does not involve being shot at the head (although she was electrocuted there with a defibrillator); instead she got shot at the heart with Dewey's gun.
• In the movie Lymelife with Rory Culkin and Emma Roberts, Emma's character seduces Rory's character in a confessional and they also had a sex scene. This is apparently what happened between Jill and Charlie: Jill seduced Charlie into doing her bidding and thinking that she loved him, he agreed to help her with her killing spree.
• She is the first Ghostface to achieve her goal and also was able to see her own success, even though for a short time.

Script and Casting

• The casting call for Jill states: "Pretty in an ingenue way. Smart, strong. A little goofy, but she makes it sexy. Full of contradictions, but instantly likeable. Not a mean bone in her body. They’re not close, but Jill is Sidney’s cousin." This description was given to hide the fact she is Ghostface.
• In meta casting, Emma Roberts has an identical surname to her character, and like her character, is also the younger relative to a more famous celebrity, Julia Roberts. Coincidentally, Julia Roberts is mentioned by Steven Stone in the previous Scream film (Scream 3) as someone he was a bodyguard for in his resume.
• Ashley Greene was originally chosen for Jill, but dropped out of production. Her salary demands were rumored as a reason.
• Old drafts for the script indicated Jill would be a Prescott, not a Roberts, and Sidney's father, Neil's biological niece. It was likely changed to tie-in her motive connection to Maureen's abandonment. A casting call indicated Jill's last name was also once Keesler also, but this was changed to Roberts for continuity reasons (Maureen's maiden name is mentioned in Scream 3 by Gale). Fans speculate this is her absent father's surname.
• Emma Roberts was required to dye her short, blonde hair brunette and wear extensions to match Sidney's length and color in the first film. She also had to wear seven-inch-high boots in order to make her height the same as everyone else's, as she was the shortest person on set. The boots can actually be seen at the end of the movie, where Jill attacks herself and falls down next to Sidney and when Sidney instructs her to go under the bed.
• In the movie, Lymelife (2008) with Rory Culkin and Emma Roberts, Emma's character seduces Rory's character in a confessional and they also had a sex scene. This is apparently what happened between Jill and Charlie: Jill seduced Charlie into doing her bidding and thinking that she loved him, he agreed to help her with her killing spree.
• She is like her cousin, Sidney's high school ex-boyfriend, Billy Loomis.
• Her actress Emma Roberts was only 20 years old playing Jill in 2011.

Deleted Scenes

• Extended scene where she and Trevor's fallout argument at school continues; Trevor pleads for Jill's forgiveness and she recalls his infidelity: "Glad it took half the yearbook for you to figure that out".
• Jill, Sidney, and her mother, Kate, are shown being escorted to the hospital by paramedics as Kate reacts to Olivia's demise.
• Trevor visits Jill in the hospital and she asks if she can borrow his phone. He remarks the coincidence because he could not find his phone.
• She and Trevor are outside of Kirby's house looking for her phone.

Gallery

Jill Roberts has a Photo Gallery.

Appearances

• Scream 4 (2011 film)
• Scream VI (photograph)

Character Guide

Ghostface Killers
Scream killers	Billy Loomis • Stu Macher
Scream 2 killers	Mickey Altieri • Nancy Loomis
Scream 3 killers	Roman Bridger
Scream 4 killers	Charlie Walker • Jill Roberts
Scream (2022) killers	Amber Freeman • Richie Kirsch
Scream VI killers	Jason Carvey • Wayne Bailey • Ethan Landry • Quinn Bailey
Scream 7 killers