Sidney-Mark Relationship | |
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General Information | |
Level: | Exes |
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Started Dating: | 2000, broke up before 2011 |
Dating Status: | Exes (Scream 4) Friends (Scream 3) |
The relationship of Scream franchise protagonist, Sidney Prescott and Detective Mark Kincaid begins implicitly in Scream 3 (2000).
Sidney had previously been single in the fourth entry of the series (and possibly broken up with Mark sometime beforehand).
The development of their relationship is almost entirely off-screen in the Scream film series, due to the eleven year release gaps between Scream 3 (2000) to Scream 4 (2011). The two characters in the third film bond over their dark, haunted lives (Sidney as a survivor of serial killing sprees, and Mark a homicide detective). Mark flirts with Sidney, and Detective J. Wallace picks up on this.
Biography[]
Approx. Early-2000[]
In the third film, Sidney and Mark are acquaintances. Sidney is now an almost 22-year-old woman, and Mark is approx. 30. He is assigned to the Cotton Weary murder case and demands to know Sidney's whereabouts due to her mother's photograph being attached to the crime.

Mark and Sidney speak about movies.
Mark shows a very subtle interest in Sidney during the film. Even so that Detective J. Wallace mocks him for it, saying he is going to get her flowers and candy. They share a common thread in leading disturbed lives, as Mark is a homicide detective in Hollywood, describing himself as haunted by it. Sidney asks him a question before he leaves his office saying, "What's your favorite scary movie?" He replies, "My life." She pauses and replies, "...Mine too" after he leaves. Later, when Gale Weathers and Dewey Riley are captured and held captive at John Milton's mansion, she gets a call from the killer and grows suspicious of him thinking he has plotted the whole thing as the killer. It takes Kincaid fighting off the killer at the mansion to restore some belief in his innocence.

Double-date? Sidney and Mark about to watch a movie together with engaged couple, Dewey and Gale.
At the end of the movie, he is at her house in Monterey, California, with the now-engaged couple, Gale and Dewey (who, according to the fourth film, will marry in one year, by 2001). Having survived the ordeal, he invites her to sit down to watch the movie with them, indicated to be a double-date. They are clearly friends as it is, but as later revealed, at the very beginning stages of a new romance.
2000—2011[]
Mark and Sidney dated sometime in this decade-long period, it is unknown how short or how long the relationship lasted, but they had a break-up, at least according to the fourth film revealing Sidney was single.
2011[]

Symbolism: Sidney has processed and moved on from Derek Feldman's death. From left to right: Sidney in Scream 2, 3 and 4.
By the fourth film, the young publicist, Rebecca Walters, complains that Sidney, now 32, "never gets laid", indicating she is abstinent and has not been in a relationship for a while. Sidney also does not have a phone in the film, indicating that she is still somewhat shut-off and disconnected from people naturally, despite the progress she has made to move on in the past eleven years. However, Sidney is also no longer in possession of the Greek letters necklace, belonging to her deceased college boyfriend, Derek Feldman, indicating she is ready to move on. In canon continuity, she and Mark broke up between the events of Scream 3 and Scream 4.
Behind the Scenes[]
- Mark and Sidney were in a relationship in early drafts of Scream 4 (2011), but Patrick Dempsey had scheduling conflicts due to his role in Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), so he did not return.
- Neve Campbell was unaware Mark was Sidney's husband when she spoke the dialogue for the scenes she shot in the fifth film.
- Mark is Sidney's first relationship since Derek, her college boyfriend who was murdered.
- It was originally implied that Sidney's husband was Mark Kincaid (who was indirectly mentioned in Scream (2022) and Scream VI). This was also confirmed by Radio Silence. However, due to the studio's failed talks with Patrick Dempsey to return in Scream 7, the decision was made to replace Kincaid with a new character (Mark Evans), with the role going to Joel McHale.
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