Timeline

For Timeline Inconsistencies, See: Continuity Errors for further details.

This article is for the timeline of the films only, not the TV series. For the TV series timeline, click here.

The timeline in the Scream universe refers to character births, and events depicted in the franchise, which occur before and after events of the original film. Due to several instances of retroactive continuity and continuity errors, there are occasional gaps and assumptions to be made. The first section refers to a general basis of "rules" on what is validated in timeline events, and the subsequent section refers to the series of events in order.

Rules

Resolving Technicalities

The 30th birthday of Roman Bridger potentially conflicts with finding Maureen "four years ago", as it indicates four years have passed since her 1995 murder (when majority of production for the third film occurred, it was the year 1999). When referring to John Milton's Hollywood parties, he states "it was the (19)70s, everything was different", making the logical assumption for it to be a minimum of five years ago. Due to the production of the third film suffering with scripts being written day-by-day during filming, this is one of a few notable continuity errors.

By real-world logic, a pregnancy is 42 weeks, and Maureen would have conceived Roman via rape in 1969. However, it is also possible, given we know it was a two-year period for Maureen to be a Hollywood actress, Milton is referring to the allegations where "no charges were brought", when she came to confront it as early as 1970.

Additionally, Roman's four-year track can be an approximate timeframe, if we consider the film occurs on its release date (February 2000), 5 months after the 4-year anniversary of her murder; it would be an approximate 4 year and a half period prior, where Roman stalked Maureen (as early as one month prior to her murder).

This contradicts the bulletin posts of filming dates indicating the film occurs in the summer (when Sarah Darling goes for a meeting). In this case, background filming dates are generally ignored, as they often contradict on-screen dialogue (such as Himbry's office showing an out-of-focus calendar of April 1996, Scream 2 stating Stab is released in April 1997, etc.).

Assumptions

Other assumptions made are ages fitted to real-world requirement ages, such as the age of a high school graduation senior or the actors matching a relatively similar age range, unless stated or strongly implied otherwise. For example, if the characters are seniors in a film set in late-1996, it is generally assumed they are born between September 1978 and August 1979, the California cut-off age of birth for the time period when the film occurred.

A future film may reinvent this rule, and state Woodsboro High has a unique age-based system that cuts off year-by-year. However, for the purpose of real-world logic, it is generally best to stay consistent.

Other assumptions made include the ages of the Scream 4 characters. Unlike their predecessors and successors, they are not explicitly stated to be seniors in the final cut of the film. An extended ending reveals Jill Roberts is 17. However, a future film may retroactively decide Jill is younger i.e 15 years old. This technically would not violate continuity either, as it is generally assumed, based on script reference and dialogue in a deleted scene, for it to be canon.

Some divergences are made from script references if considerably older actors are cast, such as Anna Paquin and Kristen Bell for much younger described characters in a script, or Richie Kirsch, who was promoted as being around 25, but the film makes several inferences to him being a millennial in the final cut (like actor, Jack Quaid, who shot the film at age 28). As such, Richie is generally regarded as having an early-90s, late-millennial birth instead.

Pre-series timeline

The following documents the timeline of events depicted prior to the events in the Scream film franchise:

1930s

• approx. 1939: Fred, the janitor of Woodsboro High School was born.

1940s—1950s

• approx. 1940s:
  • Mr. Becker is born, husband of Mrs. Becker, father of Casey Becker.
  • Mrs. Tate is born, Woodsboro High English teacher (in absentia since the first film).
• 1940: Gus Gold is born.
• 1941: Sheriff Burke is born.
• 1946: Arthur Himbry is born.
• Late-1950: Maureen Roberts (later Prescott) was born in Woodsboro, California.
• Approx. 1956: Kate Roberts is born.
• December 22—January 19, approx. late-1950s: Officer Richards is born. Sidney Prescott describes him as a Capricorn. (Scream 2)
• approx. unspecified dates, mid-late 1950s:
  • Hank Loomis is born, father of Billy Loomis, cheating husband of Nancy, and grandfather of Samantha Carpenter.
  • Nancy Loomis (nee unknown) is born, mother of Billy Loomis, divorced wife of Hank, and grandmother of Samantha Carpenter.
  • Christopher Stone is born (in sixth film; possibly, yet unstated, father and or relative of Steven Stone).
  • Mrs. Becker (nee unknown) is born, wife of Mr. Becker, mother of Casey Becker.
  • Neil Prescott is born in Woodsboro, California, husband of Maureen, and father of Sidney Prescott.
  • John Milton is born, who would in the future become a producer at Sunrise Studios (who would alongside other shady men, rape Maureen, and who may or may not be the alleged father of Maureen's firstborn son, Roman Bridger).

1960s

• approx. 1960:
  • Mr. Baker is born, Woodsboro High English teacher (unclear if succeeding Mrs. Tate's job).
  • Bianca Burnette is born. She would later become an archivist for Sunrise Studios.
• approx. early-1960s: J. Wallace is born (who would later become a partner as a Homicide Detective in the LAPD to Mark Kincaid).
• Approx. 1964:
  • Gale Weathers is born to Mrs. and Mr. Weathers. In the original film, she is already in her 30s, and notes her age difference with Dewey Riley.
  • Sarah Darling is born.
• approx. 1965: Wayne Bailey is born (possibly also his unnamed wife).
• Approx. mid—1960s:
  • Cotton Weary is born.
  • Steven Stone is born. (Resume as bodyguard includes actress Julia Roberts; possibly son and or relative of Christopher Stone).
  • Kenny Brown is born. (Would become Gale's first cameraman and be brutally murdered, succeeded only by Joel).
• May 21—June 21, approx. late-1960s: Officer Andrews is born. Sidney describes him as a Gemini. (Scream 2)
• approx. late 1960s: Judy Jurgenstern, otherwise known as Jennifer Jolie, is born.
• 1969—1971: After finishing high school, Maureen Roberts moves to Hollywood and tries an acting career under the name Rina Reynolds. She is gang raped and gets pregnant. Amid this and afterwards, she appears in three of John Milton's horror movies.(Maureen was 19-20 in a Hollywood photo taken at the backlight of Sunrise Studios specifically 28-years ago, according to Dewey in Scream 3 (set early-2000).
• approx. 1969: Christine Hamilton is born (third film).

1970s

• February 4, 1970: Roman Bridger is born. Maureen Roberts gives up her only son for adoption.
• Approx. 1970: Mark Kincaid, the husband of Sidney Prescott, is born. Already at least 30 during Scream 3. (Dempsey was 33 in real-life).
• 1970: Danny Orth is born, Steven Orth's older brother (is a doctor during 2011 Woodsboro Murders in Scream 4).
• approx. 1971: Maureen Roberts tries to expose the truth of what happened to her, but she ends up getting blacklisted in Hollywood by Sunrise Studios. After her career is ruined, Maureen decides to return to Woodsboro that same year and meets her future husband, businessman Neil Prescott. (An earlier draft of Ehren Kruger's script places the dates exactly. These fit with the filmed version. Roman turns 30 in the movie's events in Scream 3).
• 1971: Dewey Riley is born to Mrs. Riley and an unknown father, older brother of Tatum Riley.
• 1972—1978: Maureen and Neil Prescott date and marry. They buy 34 Elm Street in Woodsboro, California.
• May 16, 1973: The fictional Scream universe version (who appears in Scream 2) of real-life actress Tori Spelling is born.
• approx. mid-1970s:
  • Mickey Altieri is born. Possibly one of the 95 active serial killers in the country, or "one his way up", as of 1997.
  • Tom Prinze is born (third film, actor replacing David Schwimmer to portray Dewey in third cancelled Stab film).
• 1975-1976:
  • 1975: Phil Stevens and Maureen Evans are born. (Senior students and Windsor College, Ohio Alumni of 1998.)
    • They would've graduated from high school in 1993, just 2-3 years before the first Woodsboro Murders (1995-1996), which occurred during both their freshman and sophomore years of college before their deaths at Windsor, junior to senior years.
  • Ted is born (Cici Cooper's Windsor College boyfriend).
  • Approx. 1976: Cameraman Joel is born.
• approx. 1977: Hallie McDaniel, "twenty at most", is born.
• September 1978—August 1979: The rest of Woodsboro High School Class of 1997 are born. This includes:
  • Tatum Riley, Dewey's younger sister.
  • Randy Meeks, the older brother of Martha and the future posthumous uncle of fraternal twins, Mindy and Chad.
  • Judy Hicks, future sheriff and future mother of Wes Hicks.
  • 1978: Stu Macher is born to Macher family, youngest child, younger brother of Leslie Macher.
  • Steven Orth (approx. August 1978; he is 18 in Scream (1996 film)).
  • September 19, 1978: Billy Loomis is born as the only child and son of Hank and Nancy Loomis in Woodsboro (known simply as "Mrs. Loomis").
  • Casey Becker is born to Mr. and Mrs. Becker.
  • Christina (née unknown, later Carpenter) is born.
  • Mr. Carpenter (first name unknown) is born.
  • Cheerleader in Bathroom is born.
  • Girl in Bathroom is born.
  • Karen Kolchak is born.
• March 14, 1979: Series protagonist Sidney Prescott is born to Neil and Maureen. They reside as a family at 34 Elm Street. (Sidney is 17 in Scream, turns 18 before Woodsboro High Class of 1997 graduation, turns 19 before the events of Scream 2 as a freshman, is one month shy of 22 in Scream 3, 32 in Scream 4, 42 in Scream 5).
• approx. late-1970s: Majority of Windsor College Alumni, Class of 2000-2001 is born including:
  • Lois (nee unknown) is born to unknown parents (later an Omega Beta Zeta)
  • Murphy (nee unknown) is born to unknown parents (later an Omega Beta Zeta).
  • Dawnie (nee unknown) is born (Omega Beta Zeta).
  • Cory Gillis is born (Sidney's first prank caller, despite being off-screen, shown on-screen, shown on caller ID).
  • Paul (no relation to Paul 2.0, unless stated; last name unknown) is born (Randy's roommate at Windsor College).
  • Most of the Windsor College alumni, if freshmen like Sidney and Randy, would've graduated their high schools between 1995-1997 at the latest.
• approx. 1978—1979:
  • Cici Cooper and Derek Feldman are born. (Freshman students and Windsor College, Ohio Alumni of 2001.)
  • 1978: Tyson Fox is born.
  • 1979: Angelina Tyler is born.

1980s

• Mid-late 1982: Martha Meeks, Randy's younger sister, is born. (Martha is a 17-year-old high school senior in Scream 3, which takes place in February 2000).
  • Martha, graduate of the Woodsboro High Class of 2001 (b. 1982-1983), would've been 13-14 during the events of the original Woodsboro Murders (1996) and who would start her freshman year in 1997, after her older brother's graduation, she would've still been in middle school during Maureen Prescott's murder in 1995, aged 12-13, in 7th grade (or 8th).
• Approx. 1984: Publicist Rebecca Walters is born.
• Approx. 1980s: Abe's Snake Bodega's Clerk was born, as well as Deputies Ross Hoss and Anthony Perkins.
• approx. mid-late 1980s: Deputy Vinson is born (theorized; possible successor to Deputy Hoss).

1990s

1990—1996

• approx. late 1980s-mid 1990s: Paul 2.0, one of Quinn Bailey's lovers and future Ghostface victim(s), is born (in sixth film; described as in his 20s-30s).
• 1991: Laura Crane is born (sixth film).
• approx. early mid 1990s: Deputy Farney (first name unknown) is born (possible successor to Deputy Anthony Perkins).
• September 1993—August 1994: The Woodsboro High School Class of 2012 are born. This includes Robbie Mercer, Trevor Sheldon, Kirby Reed, Olivia Morris, Jenny Randall and Marnie Cooper are born.
  • All are between 2-3 years old (toddlers) during the events of the first original Woodsboro Murders (1996), following Maureen's murder in 1995, to preschoolers aged 3-4 to 5 during the Windsor College Murders (1997/1998; Continuity Errors) and finally are young children in elementary, likely kindergarten or in first grade, aged 6-7, during the Hollywood Murders (2000).
• September 1, 1993 - Charlie Walker Is born to his unnamed parents.
• approx. mid-1990s: Danny Brackett is born.
• July 29, 1994: Jill Roberts is born to Maureen's younger sister, Kate Roberts and an unknown man.
• approx. 1994: Richie Kirsch is born to Wayne Bailey and an unnamed mother.
• approx. September 1994: Billy and Sidney start dating as sophomores in high school.
• Approx. September 1995: Roman Bridger (mid-20s) tracks down Maureen Prescott, but she spurns him. He stalks her and records her affairs; one of them being Billy's father. Roman uses the evidence to convince Billy Loomis to murder Maureen.
• 1995: Maureen has had affairs; Hank Loomis and Cotton Weary being definite affairs within the year. Nancy Loomis finds out and leaves Hank, despairing Billy.
• Thursday 28, September 1995: Billy peer pressures Stu Macher, and the two kill 44-year-old housewife, Maureen Prescott and frame Cotton Weary. (One year before the events of Scream).
• Between September 1995 and September 1996:
  • Cotton Weary is arrested for the murder of Maureen and later convicted of first-degree murder.
  • Sidney testifies in court as a key witness, but Gale Weathers is skeptical, writing stories against her.
  • Late-1995 or early-1996: Gale writes her first known book, Wrongly Accused: The Murder of Maureen Prescott.
  • September 1996: Gale is planning to write a soon-scrapped follow-up book to The Murder of Maureen Prescott. (Planned release date "later this year", which would be by the end of 1996).
• Late-1995—June 1996 (Junior year) or late-1996—June 1997 (senior year): Sidney plays Tiger Lily and Judy Hicks plays a Lost Boy in Woodsboro High's theatre production of Peter Pan.
  1. This theatre event could have only taken place in either Sidney's sophomore or senior year, given Judy's commentary that she had "a lot of stuff going on" relates to either Maureen's murder trial pre-Scream (1996) or the Ghostface murders one year after.
  2. Possible (likely) senior production (late 1996—June 1997): Sidney is able to recall Casey Becker clearly despite being a relative stranger who sat beside her in English class. She has a strong friendship circle also.
  3. In the early stages of the original film amid Casey's murder news, Sidney appears functional and simply grieving her mother's loss quietly almost one year on exactly (though her emotional state between this time is unaccounted for).
  4. Additionally, this is during the time she believes Cotton Weary, her mother's alleged killer, has been either brought to justice and awaits death row or arrested and awaiting trial. "a lot" also indicates an accumulation of struggles, referring to the media frenzy of both the Ghostface phenomena, her rise to fame and the Ghostface killing spree of 1996's connection to Maureen's murder).
  5. Possible Junior year production (late-1995—June 1996): Despite this, however, Sidney's adamancy in her testimony against Cotton does not underscore her initial trauma stemming from her mother's murder (including Gale's stories against her); Hicks could have simply been referring to these events alone.
• Approx. August 1996- During the summer after their Junior year, Billy cheats on Sidney with fellow high schooler Christina, who was a sophomore when they met and conceived Samantha.
• Christina (née unknown) is pregnant for approximately 42 weeks. However, it is Billy Loomis' child, not her boyfriend's (unnamed forename, surname Carpenter).
• It's likely that Billy knew about Christina being pregnant, but however decided not to become involved as Sidney would find out, and his plan with Stu would've been over. Which would imply that Christina pretended that Sam was her current boyfriend's baby and went along with it until Sam found out the truth about her real father.
• It's unclear if Christina is the only girl Billy cheated on when he was with Sidney, since there is a scene in the movie where he is flirting with a bunch of girls in the movie store.

Scream (film series) timeline

1996

September 1996 calendar: 261 Turner Lane. The most explicit indicator of the timeframe of the original murders. The fifth film also gives a specific calendar week in support of this.

See Above: Pre-Scream (1996) information on Maureen's murder, Cotton's trial, birth dates, relationships, etc.

The following documents the timeline of events depicted in the Scream film franchise:

• Calendar Week: Sunday, 22 September—Saturday, 28 September (Corresponding with Scream 5).
• 25—28th September 1996: The events of Scream (1996 film). The continuation of the Woodsboro Murders, three calendar days shy of one full year after its first murder in 1995.
  • Begins on a late-Wednesday night after 10pm. (According to Tatum Riley, Casey and Steve didn't "bite it till after 10"). Possible opening sequence aftermath featuring Billy and Sidney is a prelude to the killing.
  • Neil Prescott's flight leaves early Thursday morning. He intended to go on an international business expo until Sunday morning, stating it will last through the whole weekend, meaning he will miss the next
  • Ends on a Saturday morning. Billy Loomis and Stu Macher are killed by Sidney one year after their first murder, killing her mother. She avenges her mother on the exact one-year anniversary of her murder. Billy confirms it has been exactly one year by midnight, and both men die one calendar day after Tatum Riley, Kenny Brown and Arthur Himbry.

September 1996—June 1998

Post-Scream, pre-Scream 2

• September 1996—September 1997:
  • Mr. Carpenter proposes to Christina Carpenter in their senior year of high school.
  • An oblivious new grandmother-to-be, Nancy, grieves the loss of her son, Billy and loses weight and gets plastic surgery. She conspires for a copycat killing spree, set for 1998.
  • May—July 1997 (approx. graduation month timeframes): Senior students at Woodsboro High, Judy, Randy and Sidney are approx. all 18 (or about to in summer 1997) and graduate from Woodsboro High. See more: Woodsboro High Class of 1997.
  • May 19, 1997: Samantha Carpenter, preferably known as Sam, is born to teenage mother, Christina.
  • August—September 1997: Sidney and Randy decide to move to Ohio together and start over. Judy Hicks stays in California.
  • 1997: Gale Weathers publishes a best-selling novel, The Woodsboro Murders based on the six murders occurring between September 1995 and 1996 killings.
  • 1997: Sunrise Studios gives a horror film named Stab, based on the true events of the Woodsboro Murders (1995—1996) and its novelization the greenlight.
  • 1997: Stab begins principal photography. It's casting includes Tori Spelling, Jennifer Jolie among others.
  • 1997: Fake nude images of Gale Weathers leak on the internet. She later claims it was just her head, and Jennifer Aniston's body.
  • Sidney and Randy enroll and begin taking classes at Windsor College, Ohio in their freshman year. She studies Theatre and Randy studies Film.
  • Grieving absent mother, Nancy Loomis begins using an alias, Debbie Salt, and contacts one of the 95 active serial killers in the country, Mickey Altieri. They plan their copycat killing spree now that the film based on her son's murderous rampage Stab is greenlit.

1997

Scream 2 events

April 12, 1997, at 12:00am. The beginning time of Scream 2.

The Windsor College Murders occur, also referred as the Copycat Murders/Second Ghostface Murders.

• Late 1997: Events of Scream 2 (December 12, 1997, released film):
  • Cotton Weary states his exoneration to Sidney was "over a year" ago, in the library scene.
  • Sidney and Randy Meeks, 18, survivors in Scream, are now college freshmen at Windsor College.
  • Following the first two murders, Sidney states it is opening weekend for the multiplex film, indicating it is a Friday morning after the title credits appear for Scream 2. She also states "300 people" watched Maureen die (likely an exaggeration).
    • It appears it was not the only sneak-preview screening earlier that Thursday night, as earlier attendees can be seen exiting an earlier screening of the film as Maureen goes to get popcorn, which occurs minutes into the film.
  • Sidney has a starring role as Cassandra in The Oresteia with no understudy, due to open on Sunday night. She tells Dewey, "We open in two days" on the Friday after the first two killings.
  • Stab (1997) starring Tori Spelling is given a wide-release in theatres on a Friday. A preview clip is viewed by Randy and Dewey in a coffee shop on Saturday, one day after Cici Cooper's Friday night murder at the co-sponsored Acid Rain mixer, observing an interview conducted by Nancy O'Dell speaking to actress Tori Spelling.
    • Maureen Evans, a senior at Windsor College, hears someone say, "those kids got killed in California a couple of years ago".
    • Gale Weathers refers to Cotton and Sidney's tension with the revelation he is innocent in a time frame stating, "given everything that's happened in the last few years".
    • See More in Continuity Errors: Information about the infamous movie mistake "April 12, 1997" at "09:50" production filming date seen at the Stab midnight sneak preview opening screening, and its timeline inconsistency (also later referenced in the fifth film as an Easter egg), see the next section.
  • Maureen Evans and Phil Stevens are 22-year-old Windsor seniors murdered 10-15 minutes after midnight on Friday during a sneak-preview screening. A new Sandra Bullock film is released concurrently with the release of Stab (1998 film).
    • Accidentally Consistent Continuity — The Sandra Bullock movie referenced by Phil Stevens is likely to be Hope Floats, released on May 29, 1998, five months after the official release of Scream 2 (December 1997), and the only film she made that year.
      • In 1997, the only film Sandra Bullock was in was Speed 2: Cruise Control, which was released on June 13, 1997, which is six months before the official release of Scream 2, only film she'd made that year.
    • This would also correspond to Sidney starring as Cassandra in The Oresteia, her first starring role in an end-of-year production.
  • If aligning on June 1998 as is most likely (per Accidental Consistent Continuity), this would mean the Windsor College Murders would've have then begun on the mentioned Thursday night, June 4th-Friday midnight, June 5th, 1998; as per Sidney's statement of it being opening weekend to Randy, with the murders then likely concluding on Sunday, June 7th, the day Sidney was set to star in her play.
  • If reformatting the date of Stab screening shown (see Continuity Errors), which in late 1997, would fall on December 1997, this would mean that the first day of the Windsor College Murders was likely Thursday night, December 4th, leading into midnight Friday, December 5th, 1997; the murders would've then concluded on Sunday, December 7th; correlating to Stab rectified as the film having then given a limited release at the end of 1997 by Sunrise Studios before it's wide release in 1998, if regarding Scream VI and the murder board shown in the film, showing the dates of the massacres committed in-universe by all the then 9 Ghostface killers. (Also per Sidney's statement of starring in her end-of year production, which fits into it being in this timeframe of Dec 4-7, 1997, literally the last month of the year).
  • (Seen in Scream 3 (2000 film) only, first ever interquel-timeline scene, as it takes place between the beginning of Scream 2 and the beginning of Scream 3): Randy records "Scary Movies 101", while locking roommate Paul outside, explaining the Rules to survive the End of a Trilogy. It is indicated to be the same Friday before or after Film Class with Cici and Mickey due to him wearing the same outfit.

1998—2000

Post-Scream 2, pre-Scream 3 (June 1998—February 2000)

• Approx. mid-1998 (post-Scream 2):
  • Sidney, 19, is given an honorary diploma at Windsor College due to the murders.
  • Sidney and Cotton sit down with Diane Sawyer.
  • Cotton Weary parlays his fifteen minutes as a talk show host on his show, 100% Cotton (1998—2000). He develops a bad reputation as a conman with many enemies.
  • Gale writes College Terror / The Windsor College Murders (the latter is the name of book mentioned in Scream 3) as she waits for Dewey to recover from his near-death experience and lives in Woodsboro briefly. It is released by the end of the year.
  • Stab 2 (1999) based on the Windsor College murders is fast-track, green-lit and filmed within this timeframe. It is released sometime in 1999. (Likely encouraged by Cotton to elevate his public image).
  • Possibly 1998: Roman Bridger is a 28-year-old music video director with a brief, failed television acting career stint as a guest star on Dawson's Creek. He portrays Cliff Elliott. (Radio Silence discussed the idea in their January 27 Q&A, though did not confirm it. They enjoyed the premise of it).
• 1998—1999:
  • Sidney relocates to Monterey, California.
  • Sidney adopts a retriever named Cherokee.
  • She takes a job from home as a crisis counselor using a changed legal name, "Laura" to hide her identity. Her father comes to visit her at some points.
  • Frankie is born to unnamed parents (is described as being in his mid-late 20s in the sixth film).
  • Jennifer Jolie dates Brad Pitt. It does not work out.

• 1999:
  • Gale abandons Dewey in Woodsboro for further career opportunities in New York City and later, Los Angeles.
    • She is offered 60 Minutes II (1999—2005), for which she feels could have made her "the next Diane Sawyer". Jennifer later says she was sorry "things didn't work out" (either she was replaced, or the opportunity was given to someone else), leading her to then become an anchorwoman for Total Entertainment, a TMZ-like news, as well as pursue and become a celebrity motivational journalism speaker on the side, due to her fame.
  • Stab 2 (1999) based on the Windsor College murders is released over a year after Stab (1998)'s wide release.
  • Fans are upset over Randy (Christopher Speed)'s death in the Stab sequel. This is Tori Spelling and David Schwimmer's last known appearance as Sidney, not wanting to portray fictional events for the green-lit sequel.
  • Yet another sequel is green lit, but no real-life events encourage a fictional story. A lost cause, the job is given to an unknown music video director, Roman Bridger, who promises something special.
• Approx. May 1999: Vince Schneider is born to Leslie Macher, Stu Macher's older sister (being his nephew), and unnamed father (in fifth film, the script describes Vince as 22).
  • Continuity Error: If Vince's birthday is in 1999, that would mean his age at death would be 23 in September 2022, not 22. In order to rectify this age discrepancy and glaring timeline conflict, it's noted that his birthday would be moved up to May 2000 in order to correlate with his age at death.

2000s

February 2000

The events of Scream 3. Known as the Hollywood Murders, it's the Third Ghostface Murders and the first to not be a copycat killing spree, as well as the first one to take place in a real-world location, as well as the same state of the first murders, in Hollywood, California, paradoxical, which occurred during production of Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro. Sidney is now 21 turning 22.

• Roman Bridger is defeated by Sidney and finished by Dewey at Milton's mansion on his 30th birthday, February 4.
• Martha Meeks is 17.
• It has been approximately four years since Roman tracked Maureen down in late 1995.
• Gale and Dewey get engaged. Mark and Sidney watch a movie together with the engaged couple, an implied double-date.

Post-Scream 3, pre-Scream 4

• Approx. 2000s decade [undetermined timeframe events]:
  • Sidney and Mark date then separate.
  • Cherokee presumably dies.
  • Sheriff Burke retires and/or passes away.
  • Judy Hicks joins the Woodsboro police department.
  • Sidney begins martial arts classes.

• 2000: An engaged Gale writes Hollywood Horror, her fourth Sidney/Maureen Prescott-related Ghostface book (following Wrongly Accused (1996), The Woodsboro Murders (1997) and College Terror (1998). It is based on the cancelled Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro murders at Sunrise Studios committed by Roman Bridger.
• Approx. 2000—2011: Dewey undergoes intense physical therapy.
• 2001: Gale and Dewey get married after one year of engagement. Scream (2022 film) confirms the fourth film is set in 2011, when Gale says they have been married ten years. The Riley's live in Woodsboro together for at least a decade.
• 2002—2005: Development for Stab 3: Hollywood Horror occurs after Gale has written the real-life book on it.
• Approx. 2000—2001: Gale writes her fourth Maureen Prescott-related Ghostface book, based on the murders at Sunrise Studios.
• May 2002: Samantha Carpenter turns five. Her mother is pregnant with her second child during this period.
• December 14, 2002 (timeline conflict, but canonical): Tara Carpenter is born. She is Christina Carpenter's second child and Mr. Carpenter's first.
• Tara was supposed to be born on December 14, 2003.
• Approx. August 2003: Jason Carvey is born to unknown parents in Atlanta, Georgia (in the sixth film).
• approx. November-December 2003: Quinn Bailey is born to Wayne Bailey and unnamed mother, second child, younger sister of Richie (in sixth film).
• Approx. 2003-2004: Greg Bruckner is born to unknown affluent parents in Atlanta (in the sixth film).
• September 2003—August 2004 (timeline conflict, see next section): The teenagers featured in the fifth Scream (2022 film) are born. They would correspondingly be Woodsboro High School Class of 2022 (confirmed by reporter's dialogue; due to the sixth film's retcon, would be the Woodsboro High Class of 2023 instead, which would include September 2004-August 2005, noted).
  • approx. September 30, 2003:
    • Mindy Meeks-Martin and Chad Meeks-Martin are born in Woodsboro, Martha Meeks's twin children. (Martha is 21 after giving birth).
      • Explanation : Due to the Continuity Error of events of Scream (2022) taking place in September of 2022, on the 26th anniversary of the original Woodsboro Murders (1996), not the 25th like reported within dialogue (which would be September 2021), this places the ages of the Meeks-Martin twins to be 18, going on 19 instead of 17, going on 18 in 2022.
      • Seeing as they'd have to have been born in 2004 for their age of 17 to be canonical, unless retconned, which brings a discrepancy in age (as they'd be 16 in 2021, despite being born in in 2003). Also, both their birthdays can only be the last day of September, as they'd have turned older before then and ages wouldn't align with their character wikis.
    • approx. October 2003:
      • Liv McKenzie is born to unnamed parents in Woodsboro (is perhaps the youngest child of the McKenzie family).
        • Continuity Error: If Liv's birthday is in 2003, that would mean her age at death would be 18 in September 2022, not 17. In order to rectify this age discrepancy and glaring timeline conflict, it's noted that her birthday would be moved up a year so as to best correspond and fix said error, to October 2004 instead.
    • approx. November 2003: Guy Throwing Cup is born to his unknown parents.
  • approx. December 2003:
    • Amber Freeman is born to her unnamed parents (unknown if she is the only child or has older/younger siblings and/or cousins).
      • Continuity Error/Explanation: Due to the Continuity Error of events in Scream (2022) taking place in September 2022 on 26th anniversary of the Woodsboro Murders (1996), not the 25th anniversary as said & reported within in-dialogues (which would be September 2021), this is at timeline conflict and major age discrepancy for Amber.
      • Seeing how if kept with her original birthday, would mean she'd have been and died at 18 when she had committed the Third Woodsboro Murders (2022), with her older fan boyfriend, Richie, that would mean she was the age of majority and not "groomed" by him by the time the 2022 murders took place. To rectify this, her birthday being moved a year forward would correspond and correlate to age of death of 17 as stated in her character wiki, to December 2004, instead.
  • approx. August 2004:
    • Wes Hicks (17 in the fifth film) is born, Judy Hicks' first and only child. (Hicks was approx. 25 when she had her only child).
      • Continuity Error: Due to the Third Woodsboro Murders occurring in September 2022 on the 26th anniversary of the original murders, instead of in September 2021, thus not on the 25th anniversary, that means if Wes kept with his original birthday, it would mean his age of death in 2022 would be 18, not 17, in September 2022. In order to rectify this age and timeline error, it's noted that his birthday be moved up a year, to best fix the discrepancy to align with his age at death, to August 2005 instead.
    • Anika Kayoko is born in New York City to unknown parents (in the sixth film).
  • approx. August 2004: Frances is born to her unknown parents.
    • Continuity Error: Due to the Third Woodsboro Murders occurring in September 2022 on the 26th anniversary of the original murders, instead of in September 2021, thus not on the 25th anniversary, that means if Frances kept with her original birthday of 17 as revealed in an early script for Scream (2022), it would mean her age during the 2022 murders would be 18, not 17, in September 2022. In order to rectify this age and timeline error, it's noted that her birthday be moved up a year, to best fix the discrepancy to align with her age during the murders, to August 2005 instead.
      • The older seniors were somehow born in September 2003, and the younger seniors were somehow born on early mid-August 2004 (See Continuity Errors).
      • The Woodsboro High Class of 2022 and 2023, regardless, would've been if for the former class of 2022 (mainly late 2003-mid 2004) aged 7-8 and in third grade during the Second Woodsboro Murders (2011), but in second grade aged 6-7 instead if for the latter class of 2023, only separated by a grade but excluding Tara's group due to their varying ages (Meeks-Martin twins would both be 7 before turning 8, due to Remake Murders ending on Oct 1st, 2011, and their birthday being Sept. 30th) ahead due to the fact of Tara's birthday (December 14, 2002), her being 8, later 9 at the end of 2011 (See 2010s below for more information).
  • approx. November-December 2004: Ethan Landry is born to Wayne Bailey and unknown mother, third/youngest child, younger brother to both older sister Quinn and brother Richie (in sixth film).
• Approx. 2006: Filmed in 2005, Stab 3: Hollywood Horror is eventually remade loosely re-telling a story of true events. It completes the Stab trilogy based on true events. It is possible Tori Spelling returned one final time.
  • In Stab 3, Dewey and Gale's characters are married for 10 years, just like they are in Scream 4 (set in 2011, married in 2001). Given Stab (1998 film-within-a-film) is set in 1996 and released in 1998, it is likely it was released in 2006, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the Woodsboro Murders (the earliest possible timeframe for Dewey and Gale to be a married couple, without a futuristic time jump, which Jenny notes does not occur until Stab 5).
  • Given Gale likely wrote about her romantic relationship with Dewey in The Windsor College Murders book, which included his near-death experience (published late-1998 or early-1999) and Stab 2 was released in 1999, it is possible Stab 2 streamlined their romantic story, and decided they got married right after the events of Stab in 1996. This would make sense, and Stab 3's delayed release would also be affected by the previous production murders six years prior.
  • Given Scream 4's mockery of Stab's 'endless sequels' is a reference to the Saw franchise's consecutively released sequels during this timeframe, it is likely this detail was intentional, as Saw 3 was also released in 2006.
• Approx. 2006—2007:
  • Sunrise Studios attempts and fails to license a real-life inspired Stab film (either a prequel on Maureen or a Stab remake) approaching the tenth anniversary of the original Stab, which would have fit the style of 2000s Hollywood horror remake trends.
  • Sidney blocks this and threatens to sue the studios if they attempt to use real-life events. She appears to have the publishing rights for the original events in media form. (The reason for her desire/threat to sue is implicated differently in the fourth and fifth films).
• Approx. 2007: Stab 4 is the first officially released fictional Stab sequel. It is a fresh story.
  • According to Jenny Randall in Scream 4, it is not based on her true story anymore and is a purely fictional franchise onwards.
  • It appears likely her role shifted from true events-based protagonist to a secondary character in these fictional storylines.
  • Sidney's character continues to appear in this film and its three sequels (Scream 5), according to Richie Kirsch.
  • Note: This differentiates from a deleted fountain scene at Woodsboro High in Scream 4; Kirby states Sidney's character has been gone since Stab 3. (Non-canon). (For more information, see: Next section).
  • Potential new distributor, following Sidney's dispute with Sunrise Studios, unable to create their remake.
  • The role reprisal of Tori Spelling or a recast is unknown.
  • Judy Hicks is a potential character in the film, according to Wes Hicks. (In the original script for Scream 5 dubbed Scream Forever).
  • Despite it being a stretch, it is highly unlikely she was in the most recent two Stab films (7 or 8).
  • It is possible her character as a Woodsboro police officer was used as a general reference to create "realism", now with the franchise becoming fictional.
  • Coincides with the release of Saw IV.
• 2008: Stab 5 (filmed 2007) is the infamous time travel Stab film is released. Time travel's importance would be elevated by the fact that it is released on the decade anniversary of the original Stab. Coincides with the release of Saw V.
• 2009: Stab 6 (filmed and takes place in 2008) is released.
  • Coincides with the release of Saw VI (2008).
  • The character Trudie has a Sidekick 2 (model released in 2005) and saw, Saw IV, a Halloween 2007 release, in theatres. The pair deal with a "Facebook serial killer", confirming its pre-2009 timeframe (filmed in 2008).
  • By the time of its 2009 release, Twitter had become a more relevant platform to include a cyber stalker plot element, likely a plot point criticized by moviegoers after Stab received backlash. Rachel, from the opening of Stab 7 makes note of this.
  • The final Stab film to have a storyline in continuity with the previous 5 films, similar to the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise.
  • First annual Stab-a-thon occurred.

2010s

• 2010: Stab 7 (filmed 2009) is released. The final numbered Stab film, a popular DVD in 2011. In the seventh film, they respond to backlash from the release of Stab 6's dated "Facebook killer" story.
  • Stab 7 appears to be a reference to the seventh A Nightmare on Elm Street, a meta film named Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) that influenced the original Scream (1996). The seventh Nightmare film acknowledged the events of the previous six Nightmares as Hollywood films, and real-life Heather Langenkamp appears again, playing herself.
  • It is possible Tori Spelling appeared as herself here, which would count as "Sidney" appearing.
  • Marnie Cooper (later in September 2011) mistakenly believed that the beginning of Stab 7 being Stab 6 meant the same for Stab 6 with Stab 5. Jenny corrects her, telling her that she is simply overthinking it.
  • Second annual Stab-a-thon occurred.
• Following this, the franchise was at a standstill, especially after Sidney released a more accurate account of her life with the self-help book, Out of Darkness. It is the final appearance in the franchise, though it was likely the actress who portrayed her playing Sidney in a movie-within-a-movie role (Spelling if she returned).
• Between 15—24 December 2010: 13-year-old Sam Carpenter searches for Christmas presents and discovers her family origins and confronts her mother. Her legal father overhears this and abandons his family that night. Tara turned eight on December 14, and Samantha turned 13 in May 19th, 2010
• 15—24 December 2010: Mr. Carpenter abandons his family.
• approx. 2010—2011 (off-screen):
  • Trevor cheats on Jill with someone, possibly Jenny Randall (deleted scenes confirm this idea, though if canon, Jill would be more of an obvious suspect).
  • Jill then begins a secret relationship with Charlie Walker. When they learn, Sidney is returning to Woodsboro as a last stop for her upcoming book tour, they would both conspire for a 15th anniversary remake killing spree, starting approximately on September 29th, taking place within the course of three days.

September-October 2011

• Late September-October 1st, 2011 (on-screen):
  • Calendar Week: Wednesday, 28 September—Saturday, 1 October (corresponding with Scream 4, as Sam states to Richie in Scream 5, corroborating dates of last Woodsboro Murders being in 2011).
  • 28 September- 1st October 2011: Events of Scream 4, the Second Woodsboro Murders, also known as the Woodsboro Massacre Remake, it is the Fourth Ghostface Murders to take place.
  • Third annual Stab-A-Thon. Olivia Morris indicates she is an attendee of a previous Stab-A-Thon.
  • Sidney releases Out of Darkness, a self-help novel about her life. Her publicist Rebecca Walters has not read her book, instead waiting for the movie.
  • Gale and Dewey have been married for 10 years, just like their characters in Stab 3. (According to Rebecca). Proposed in 2000, married in 2001.

Post-Scream 4, pre-Scream 5

• 2011 (off-screen):
  • Shortly after Christmas 2010, Mr. Carpenter leaves the family, including his approx. 8-year-old-that-year daughter, Tara. (Turned 9 in December 2011, almost 2-3 months after Second Woodsboro Murders occurred).
  • Martha Meeks lives outside of Woodsboro, California with her twin children. (She returns later, however).
  • Possible: Sam Carpenter, age 14, is babysitting Wes Hicks, age approx. 7/8, while Judy Hicks is on sheriff's deputy duty. If not, Wes is staying at his father's house.
• Between October-2011—October 2021:
  • Kirby Reed, sole teen survivor, relocates from Woodsboro to Atlanta, Georgia.
• Approx. 2012—2015:
  • Sidney reconciles with and marries Mark Kincaid.
  • Sidney gives birth to 2 daughters (of her known 3 children in Scream 5) between 2013 and 2015. (Grade-school level schoolgirls, required age being 6, mentioned in the fifth film, set in late-2021).
  • Given the timeframe to recover from ICU complications and near-death, and her reconciliation with Mark, it is most likely her elder daughter, if not a twin or adopted, is born in 2013—2015.
  • Her second-born daughter (if not a twin and adopted) is born no later than 2015.
  • An early script for the fifth film indicates the Kincaid daughters' ages as 6 and 8 (thus born 2013 and 2015).
  • Gale relocates back to New York. (It is implied Gale is from New York, she briefly mentions she should be covering the Sharon Stone stalker story there).
  • Dewey splits up from Gale after two months in New York City.
• Approx. 2015: Jason Carvey and Greg Bruckner meet during their time in junior high school and soon develop a friendship.
• 2016 (Scream VI retcon makes this 2017): 18 (19)-year-old Sam Carpenter (turning 20) abandons Woodsboro and her 13 (14 almost 15)-year-old sister. She will not return for another 5 years.
  • Error: Amber Freeman claims Sam left on her exact 18th birthday. (Possible exaggeration for others to generate suspicion against Sam).
  • Though this would be inconsistent with the reference to the reporter and its near-25th anniversary 'to the day'. It is possible Tara refers to the events of her father's abandonment rounded to the year of her eighth birthday in 2011 (with the reference to Christmas gifts being leftover gifts in January), so she was actually much closer to age 7 than age 8.)
• Approx. 2016—2019: Judy Hicks is promoted and becomes Sheriff of Woodsboro. She is preceded by Dewey Riley (approx. 2000s—2016) and Sheriff Burke (until at least 2000). This follows Sam's departure (who knew her as Deputy).
• 2018: Kirby Reed gives a public interview about her survival in her mid-20s, almost 25.
• 2019: Tara, Chad, Mindy, Frances, Liv and Wes start their freshman year of high school. If taking Tara's age in consideration, she'd be a grade above the twins, Wes and Liv as a sophomore instead.
• 2019: Gale and Dewey stop speaking.
  • However, it's revealed in the fifth movie that he still watches her syndicated TV show from his couch in his trailer.
• 2019—2021: Sidney Prescott-Kincaid welcomes an additional child, her most recent (likely her third). (Physically unseen, but her young child is inside a stroller in 2021).

2020s

• 2021: Stab (2021) is released. Directed by "Knives Out guy", Rian Johnson.
• Summer 2021: Liv McKenzie works with Tara Carpenter while dating Vince Schneider the summer before senior year (retcon from sixth film makes this the summer before Liv's junior year, although it correctly applies to Tara heading to her senior year, only to repeat and graduate in 2023 instead).
• Fall 2021: Liv breaks up with Vince Schneider.
  • A video titled "Every Stab (2021) Kill Ranked from Worst to Worst" is shown as being released 10 months ago to 82,000 views.
    • 25th Anniversary Date Error: It is mentioned to have come out "last year" twice, by both Samantha and Mindy, despite being shown as a 2021 release date. This makes the film set in 2022, further backed up by the date of the murders being stated as 2022 in Scream VI. (See Continuity Error).
  • It is the simple, number-dropped title for Stab 8, a reboot to the franchise in developmental hell.
  • Gag/nod to the 2017 fandom backlash of his role as the eighth Star Wars film director and writer.
  • It is clear that post-production aesthetic goofs for the Easter eggs in the fifth film intended to update the film's year close to the release date, which disregards all previous age and time-related continuity established in the scenes shot in 2020, such as Sam/Tara's ages, Sam's age in relation to being Billy's daughter, and the referenced 25th anniversary, causing many timeline issues.
• 2021: Liv begins dating Chad Meeks-Martin in their junior year of high school.
• May 7, 2021: Dead Meat duo (James A. Janisse and his wife Chelsea) post a critical review of Stab 8 on FILM FAILS. It had 122,096 views (12/20/96 is the release date of the original Scream film). FILM FAILS has 821,939, which is Wes Craven's birthday, August (8), 2, 1939.
• March 2021 (sixth film retcon makes this March 2022 instead): Just six months before the events of the fifth film, Sam Carpenter meets Richie Kirsch.
• May 2021: StabHead uploads "Not My Stab! Join the StabHead Army and #RedoStab2021!!!" to 12,000 views (Released 4 months ago; sixth film retcon would make this upload take place a year before, since Third Woodsboro Murders occur in September 2022)

September 23, at 9.27pm. The beginning time of Scream 5. As Scream VI states the murders occur in 2022, this contradicts its 25th anniversary date, possibly rendering its anniversary killing status non-canon.

2022 Legacy Killings

• 3 days in late-September (Sept. 24-27 or Sept. 25-28 ): Events of the fifth film, simply titled Scream (2022):
  • Tara's landline reveals the date to be 09/23 at 9.27pm. As we know the film occurs 25 years after the original, this would make it a Thursday night, on September 23, 2021. However, the sixth film states it is 2022 (and contradicts its anniversary date), which would make it a Friday night instead.
  • The Fifth Ghostface Murders, also known as the Legacy Murders, are the second to be an homage of the first Woodsboro Murders as well as to the Second Woodsboro Murders, of who did it first.
  • A reporter can be heard in Dewey's trailer stating the murder from the previous night (Vince) occurred one day before "an unidentified woman" was attacked (Sam). Sam herself also gives the same timeline when speaking to Dewey, and states her sister was stabbed seven times the night before that.
  • Vince died in the midnight hours leading to Sunday, 25th September, 2022, due to previously facing off at the bar with Chad, and Tara's group Mindy, Wes, Amber, and Liv on Saturday night, the day following Tara's attack (Sam's hospital attack aftermath is corroborated as Judy states how she's got "a body outside a bar on Main")
    • This means the bar scene took place on Saturday night, 24th September as suggested.
  • Sam Carpenter is 25 (In-universe dialogue implicates she is 23 turning 24).
  • Tara Carpenter's hospital wristband reveals she is 18 turning 19 in December 14, 2021, hence why she was a legal adult being left alone during Christina's international business trip. She is 5 years younger than Sam. Due to film and Legacy Murders being in 2022 now, she would be 19 turning 20 instead.
    • Further dialogue in the opening scene indicates Christina has been absent frequently. "Charlie" states an anecdote from "the other day", also inferring her business venture in Europe is extensive. This would also confirm her absence occurs over a two-week calendar period.
  • Like the ending of the original Woodsboro Murders, as it's shown to be sunset, the Legacy Murders end just as dawn is approaching, with the reporter stating it's been almost 25 (26) years to the date of the ending of the original, all which states how both parties started the previous nights/days and ended at midnight and dawning to the next day.
  • Accidentally Consistent Continuity: Most likely the Legacy Murders in 2022, (as well as in original 2021 timeline) ended on Tuesday, September 27th instead, due to the fact the reporter at the ending statement of the Legacy Murders ending "almost to the day" of the end date of the 1996 murders, which was on Saturday, September 28th; with the second party at 261 Turner Lane, formerly both Amber & Stu's house, having now occurred on the 26th instead, which would be logical, as the four murders of the Hicks', Clay, and Dewey took place on the same day, 25th, either in 2021 or 2022. Seeing how the night party and Wes Hicks memorial occuring on Sept. 26th, the next day is very more likely, storyline-wise, for the party/Act 3 to have taken place after Sidney and Gale reunited, as Sam and Tara were then lured to the party by detouring following, as they were to leave town once Tara was discharged from the hospital, unless she was made to stay back another day, unstated.
  • This'd be illogical to make Tara stay one day behind at the hospital before being discharged, from continuity through storytelling, seeing as she's been taken care of by her sister, Sam, and wouldn't fit into the storytelling or pacing, especially the latter; as the visual, subtle devices of Sidney and Gale reuniting, who attempt to recruit Sam's help before Sidney followed her due to planting a tracker in her car, wouldn't allocate as well as to the fact after Dewey's murder, and Gale mourning the next day with Sidney returning, and Sam leaving with Tara that same night, of which the party is taking place, if a day passed, as it'd only fit if murders ended on the 28th, despite the reporter in the finale clearly had said, "almost to the day").
  • See more: Continuity Errors.

Post-Scream (2022), Pre-Scream VI

• October 2022: The Bailey family catches wind of Richie's death and start planning a revenge plan to kill Sam and Tara, as well as any other survivors. Mrs. Bailey refuses and is killed off-screen, supposedly by her husband and youngest and last son (since most deleted scenes, like this one from Scream VI, which didn't show murder but rather Wayne in the reveal/Act 3 tells Sam and Tara, are considered non-canon in the franchise, it's unknown if this took place, although likely, if retconned)
  • Possible: Unless stated, possible that then 19 year old Jason Carvey and his friend, Greg, also catch news of Richie's death due to being Redditors, and fans of his idea to reinvigorate the Stab franchise (following backlash from fans about Stab 8/reboot) by committing but failing to execute the Carpenter sisters, as well as legacy heroine Sidney Prescott, and now deuteragonist, Gale Weathers, in the Third Woodsboro Murders, who after, both most likely decide, whether they're in college or not, to move from where they're from in Atlanta, Georgia, and transfer (either sophomores/juniors) or enroll at Blackmore University after hearing of the Carpenters relocation to New York and Tara attending alongside Chad and Mindy, who also survived the 2022 murders.
  • Unbeknownst to them, Kirby Reed, now an FBI agent, and sole survivor of the Second Woodsboro Murders (2011), monitors their online activity due to their obsession with Ghostface, even after they move to New York City, albeit she states to Wayne she's been doing so "for the last few months".
  • Whether on Reddit was where Richie set out the plans for his "film" (in 5th film, tells Sam it's to give Hollywood ideas when laying out his plans/motives), both Jason and Greg are committed to this plan for an incomplete film to be finished by killing both Tara and Sam. Whether they posted their plans to finish this film of Richie online remains to be seen, although it remains highly likely they didn't, as Kirby was monitoring their online activity even from afar, seeing as she is an FBI agent from their city and any post with conspiracy to commit murder in-vein after the 2022 murders, almost immediately would've alerted Kirby and the agency beforehand.
  • However, in the beginning of Scream VI, after Jason as Ghostface had killed their film professor Laura Crane, and who tells who he thinks Greg (actually Wayne as Ghostface) to not speak of their plans or Laura's death on the phone, before doing so anyway himself and how they're finishing Richie's film, in his words, but to which he deflects by asking him how he knows when Wayne tells him he's right in finishing Richie's film by killing the sisters before he's then killed in a ploy as it's revealed they're copycats to the actual killers, with them all being Richie's family.
• April 2023: Six months prior, Sam, Tara, Chad and Mindy move to New York City for the semester at Blackmore University. Tara, Chad, and Mindy presumably graduated early with honorary diplomas from Woodsboro High School, and assumingly didn't walk with their graduating class of 2023 who would graduate like most American high schools, a month or two later, in May-June.
  • Around this time, Quinn Bailey, a college sophomore/junior, answers Sam and Tara's anonymous roommate and Ethan Landry, a college freshman (or if he graduated early in 2022, a sophomore) gets Chad as a roommate by tampering with the roommate lottery.
  • Around this time, Wayne Bailey takes a job as a detective on the NYPD.
  • Samantha would begin to attend therapy with Dr. Christopher Stone, which she refers to as the counselor insisting her sister attend as well.
• approx. late 2022-early 2023: Quinn Bailey begins to spread the rumor of Samantha being the actual mastermind in the Third Woodsboro Murders instead of Richie and Amber, which unless stated, started the sub-Reddit, "The Woodsboro Truther", turning Sam from the hero of Woodsboro to the villain, and to convince the worst in her rather than the best for people.
  • Also, Sam's bloodline to Billy Loomis is probably most likely also incidentally revealed as public knowledge after the murders and the reason for Sam's scrutiny in the aftermath of the 2022 murders and leading up to the 2023 murders.
• May 19: Sam turns 26 years old. She takes two unknown "shit" jobs to cover for the rent of their apartment, according to Tara.
• June-September 2023: Sometime before Halloween 2023, Sam would go and have a secret fling/love interest in Danny Brackett, a resident in her apartment.
• September 30, 2022-2023: Chad and Mindy turn 19 in 2022, following surviving the 2022 murders and turn 20 before surviving the New York Murders.
• December 14, 2022-2023: Tara turns 20 in 2022 following, and then 21 years old, following surviving both the Legacy Murders and New York Murders.

2023 New York Murders

The New York Murders occur, (Sixth Ghostface Murders), and the second to take place at a college, 25 to 26 years since the Windsor College Murders in Scream 2; also the second Ghostface spree to be a "copycat", and following just a year after the Legacy Murders, in the Requel trend, of which are based on the Woodsboro Murders (1996), which were followed by Windsor, the second Ghostface spree to be set in another state and the first to be on Halloween.

• 3 days during Halloween week, 2023: Events of the sixth film, October 29-October 31, simply titled Scream VI.

Saturday, October 29

October 29, at 9:57pm. The first day of Scream 6 (2023). As Scream VI states the murders occur in 2022, this contradicts its 1 year later date, possibly rendering its anniversary killing status non-canon.

Note: Despite starting date shown, that date actually takes place in October 2022; seeing as in 2023, October 29th falls on a Sunday instead, which would be the correct date (See Continuity Errors for more)

• Sometime in the night, Greg Bruckner is murdered by Wayne Bailey as Ghostface in his and his roommate's apartment off-screen and dismembered, with his head and body being hidden in the apartment refrigerator.
• Film studies teacher Laura Crane is at a restaurant bar called Hasta La Fuego, texting and talking to her date on Flirtr (parody app of Tinder; similar to Chipster being a parody of Twitter from the TV series). She exits the bar to help him find her, who's lured and tricked, much to her anger and fear, but is ambushed and murdered in an alley by her student Jason Carvey, donning the Ghostface costume and mask.
• Due to it being Halloween week and at night, inside the alleyway of Hudson, a busy street in Manhattan within New York City, Jason discards his robe and mask into his backpack, and walks away from the alleyway and to the crowd, of which he blends into. Before arriving home, Jason passes by the Blackmore University campus and talks to Tara, in her pirate costume, who's heading to a party along others, who's a classmate (and who Jason intended to make a victim) as Jason tells her if she's going to the frat party with Sam, to which Tara laughs and retorts she won't as a smiling Jason tries to convince her, which she denies as they depart.
• When Jason arrives home, he places his bloody Ghostface mask in a closet, which contains a mini shrine to the Stab franchise, and looks for Greg and Wayne calls him, using the Ghostface voice while pretending to be Greg, as they talk about finishing Richie's film, by killing the Carpenter sisters, much to Jason's growing suspicion on why Greg isn't home and not answering him, seeing as they're supposed to be talking subtly of their plans, despite Jason disregarding his own advice he gives to Greg and tells him about killing Laura, due to her giving him a failing grade. After a game of Hot and Cold, Wayne as Ghostface and the actual killers, not copycats, murdered Jason in front of his refrigerator.
• Across the street, Sam is at her therapist Christopher Stone's house (of whom she's been visiting for the last 6 months). She opens up to him about the rumors online of her being the mastermind of the 2022 murders and admits to her father being Billy Loomis and how killing her ex, Richie Kirsch; explaining it in detail and how it felt good, to which he throws her out. She goes home and finds Tara to be at a frat party Sam had told her not to go to, from her and Tara's roommate, Quinn.
• At said frat party, Frankie, a drunk frat, tries taking Tara up to his room, to which Mindy's girlfriend Anika Kayoko goes to notify Chad, who's partying with his roommate, Ethan, who attacks Frankie after getting rough with Tara. Sam appears and then tazes Frankie in the groin/penis, making Tara upset, as Halloween partygoers/students record the altercation on their phones, as well as somebody recognizing Sam as she's recorded as she makes her way out, with everybody recording Frankie on the floor (who also, before trying to take on Tara, knew her as the girl from California involved in Stab).
• Sam follows after her sister outside walking across the campus, with Chad, Mindy, Ethan, and Anika behind in tow, as Tara asks why Sam can't let her live her life, as Sam retorts on her bad decision and how she knew he was bad, as Tara exclaims how it's her decision and her life, as the sisters argue, with Tara asking Sam why she's in New York, calling out her working 2 shit jobs to help with rent, while her and the twins attend university, and asks Sam what she's going to do with her life, as Tara plans to study and graduate and live her life, and suggests Sam let her go, following Sam's overprotectiveness of her since the 2022 murders.
• A redhead partygoer girl with her friends then arrives as she then proceeds to dump her soda (Cherry Coke, according to Sam and Danny) on Sam, and call her out loud "Murderer!", much to Sam's anger, as she proceeds to shove the girl, and ask her what her problem is, as Chad and Tara hold her back, with Mindy, Anika, and Ethan facing the partygoer's crowd as she states to ask Sam and how she knows what she did, who's referring to the rumors she mentioned to Stone of her being the killer of Richie and Amber in Woodsboro, as Sam loudly defends herself that she didn't do anything. Following the altercation dispersing, Ethan stays behind as the group begins to walk home and offers Sam his tissues.
• After arguing for a while and cooling down, Tara and her friends go upstairs to her and Sam's apartment. Tara heads into her bedroom and lays on her bed, as Quinn checks up on her and relates to Tara about overprotective family members, referring to her dad and after her brother's death in a car crash, as Chad enters and Quinn leaves, to check in on her before he leaves, as the two share a moment, with romance sparking between them, before they are interrupted from kissing by Quinn leaving her phone in her room on "accident".
• Meanwhile, Sam sits in the foyer of the apartment building. Danny appears and reveals his and Sam's secret relationship. After a while, Chad calls Sam upstairs and Danny follows.
• Upon arriving through the door, a news broadcast reveals that Jason and Greg were murdered and there was a shrine to Ghostface in the apartment. Sam, rationally, freaks out and tells her sister, Tara, to pack a bag and announces they're leaving the state, and Chad kicks Danny out, confused at Sam's statement. Sam asks the twins to back her up, as Tara argues she's being irrational on her former classmate's deaths, due to Jason being in their Film class, as Sam claims it can't be a coincidence, and to Tara's dismay, as the twins agree, with Mindy being it is close to home.
• Tara makes Quinn call her dad, Wayne, who is a NYPD detective, before Sam makes an irrational decision and ruins her college education. Right as Quinn makes the call, Sam's phone rings at the kitchen table, due to everyone being in the living room. The whole room goes quiet as Sam goes to see who's calling, only to see it's Gale, who calls Sam's mobile phone, and it reveals the date to be Saturday, October 29th at 9:57pm. Ethan asks why everyone went quiet when her phone rang, as Anika tells Ethan how he's got to keep up (a meta reference and an homage to the Scream franchise, and the beginning of the films always having a phone call by Ghostface to survivors and/or soon-to-be victims). Wayne tells Sam that she needs to come to the station, due to finding her California state ID card at the scene of the crime, which he'd mention later.
  • Reminder: As stated, the sixth film's events occur 1 year after the fifth's, this would make it a Sunday night, on October 29, 2023. However, the sixth film's October 2023 calendar lists it as a Saturday, corresponding to the October 2022 date in that year's calendar, which contradicts its date in the film as opposed to real-world dates in reality.
• Sam and Tara leave the apartment, despite Sam's hesitance of bringing Tara, and Sam then gets a call from Richie's phone number. Tara tells Sam not to answer but she does. Ghostface taunts Sam on being the one to kill copycats Jason and Greg and threatening to come after her for her and her loved ones, due to her role as the murderer, with Sam telling the killer back to watch their back after Ghostface tells Sam this, and who then appears behind and almost gets Tara attacked by Ghostface. Tara fights back as Sam helps, pushing the killer to the ground, onto a bike rack before they run as Ghostface gives chase, which ensues through the neighborhood streets of New York, and into the city's nearby busy street.
• Sam guides Tara into Abe's Snake, a bodega, around the corner. Tara and Sam enter, cutting in line, and pleading for the Bodega Clerk fearfully for help and to call the police, trying to warn him about the imminent danger, much to the dismay of a Burly Guy of them cutting in line. Just then, Ghostface enters, as Sam and Tara go back, as the man then faces Ghostface and asks if there's a problem, unafraid, where Ghostface then kills him by stabbing him a lot in the gut, as well as another guy by a throat stab. Many civilians in line and at the bodega begin to leave and run away in terror, as Ghostface turns his back on them exiting the front door to face the sisters.
• The clerk then calls for Ghostface, as he now is armed with his shotgun, who turns around and narrowly misses the Clerk's shot, which takes Sam and Tara aback, due to the loud reverberation of the shot, which shoots a rack of products and leaves debris in its wake. The clerk reloads and gets out from behind the counter to find Ghostface has disappeared, and who looks up and tells the sisters to leave out the back and to hurry, to which Sam and Tara comply and thank, only to find the door locked, as the Clerk tries to be on lookout for the Ghostface, as a frantic Tara desperately cries pleading to him that they need his keys.
• Distracted, the Clerk heaves trying to get his keys attached on his belts to give the Carpenter sisters, who then try to warn him to look out, as he looks up to see in a round mirror Ghostface approach from behind him. Before the Clerk can react as he turns around, Ghostface stabs him on his chest and hits him with the knife and disarms him as the injured Clerk falls back down onto the beer refrigerators, as Sam and Tara then hide in an aisle and duck down to the ground, and witness as Ghostface grabs the Clerk's shotgun singlehandedly, with the Clerk pleading "No!" before Ghostface brutally shoots the Clerk dead in his face with a shot, killing him instantly, leaving now 3 victims. The sisters, horrified at what they've witnessed, crawl on the floor on their knees, as the store goes quiet, and try to hide an aisle as Ghostface reloads the shotgun, cocks it and turns around to find the sisters as he faces the aisles, not seeing them, as he holds the shotgun with both hands, and whose walk towards the aisle, with the debris of the destroyed products crunching under their boots.
• Silently, Sam motions for Tara to crawl towards the exit, both on their knees and hands, and just before they begin, Ghostface begins to shoot into the aisles, destroying products on the racks, causing for the sisters to cover their heads and look down on their knees, as debris flies on to the aisles, cluttering it. Trying again to attempt to move, Ghostface shoots in anticipation and breaks the refrigerators, where he had shot, and the sisters duck their heads down again. After the shot, Ghostface reloads and cocks the gun and tries to anticipate the sisters, as he heads into the start of the aisle to see nothing, but suspects they're hiding in the back, to which Sam and Tara sit silently behind a rack at the end of it, just out of the killer's eyesight, due to the mask.
• Tensely, Ghostface begins to approach and walk down the aisle, shotgun in hand, much to a silently crying Tara's fear and quiet whimpers. As Sam sees this, she acts quickly, while the bodega music plays menacingly in the background, she quietly as possible grabs a Coors Beer can of which was destroyed when the fridges were shot, as Tara watches in fear, and as Ghostface nears toward, which drips quietly, despite it being empty, and who then swiftly throws it to the other side of the bodega, distracting Ghostface and throwing him off their path as Ghostface goes to the other side of the bodega to investigate. The sisters take this as their cue, who silently roll and still on their knees, to the adjacent aisle of which is nearer to the exit than the one they were in at the back and who start to crawl, as Ghostface suspects them to be near the aisle by the emergency exit where they attempted to escape prior. They crawl as Ghostface walks, only for the debris and broken glass to make a noise, to which Sam fearfully holds a finger to her mouth as Ghostface then stops before heading over to the exit and cocks his head sideways, as an almost shocked Sam looks through a peek in the rack of the aisle, where a hanging scale is near the killer, who suddenly looks to the side and would try to swing his shotgun to look at them, Anticipating this, the Carpenter sisters both push the entire aisle rack down, with its products, to disable Ghostface, who is held down by the shelf as he shoots the shotgun up to the ceiling, missing his shot. Scrambling and standing up, Samantha and Tara run and proceed to head outside as they exit through the front door, who they push and left open, just as the NYPD close in and arrive to surround the store, as a sweating Sam and Tara turn around, only to their terror, and suspense, find that Ghostface had got out and left through the backdoor, dropping the withered mask he'd been wearing, as both the sisters look at each other in shock and disbelief, having narrowly survived the attacks.
• At the station, following the Bodega murders, Detective Bailey informs Sam and Tara that Richie's mask from the 2022 killings was left at Jason's apartment. He then asks them where they were and if they had any enemies alive. Tara tells him nobody that's still alive and then he's interrupted.

Sunday, October 30

• Kirby introduces herself to Detective Bailey and then reunites with Sam. Just then, someone gives Bailey a mask, from the Bodega which has Charlie Walker and Jill Roberts' DNA on it.
• Outside, now the morning or early mid-afternoon, Sam and Tara get interrogated by the press and then reunite with Gale, who's among the press, trying to interview them. The sisters are mad at her with Sam turns and tries to punch her, but she moves. She says she's done this dance before, but gets punched by Tara, who tells her to stay away from them because of the book she wrote after promising not to write it (a nod to Sid hitting Gale in the first two Scream films), with Gale reverting back to her old ways and writing Requel: Terror Returns to Woodsboro, and writing that Sam was "born killer" in a quote, which Gale tries to claim was taken out of context.
• Sam asks Gale what Dewey would have thought of this, referring to her promise to write a book about him instead of previous murders. Tara insults as she tells Gale she heard how she couldn't sell the film rights, as Gale states how now it's about limited series. As the press is pushed back and the sisters are heading into a taxi to leave and head back to their apartment, Gale informs them that Sidney called, and that she, Mark, and her kids are going into hiding, but that she sends her love as they all agree Sidney deserves her happy ending. Tara states how maybe without Ghostface in her life, Gale would fade away into irrelevancy as the Carpenter sisters leave in the taxi as Gale watches on.
• That day before night, Ghostface appears at Dr. Stone's house and murders him, appearing at the front door, breaking it and grabbing Stone and pushing his head repeatedly against the metal bars at his door, incapacitating him before delivering the fatal blow by stabbing him through his face and nose. Ghostface then breaks and enters, stealing Sam's files in the process.
• Now the next day, on Sunday, October 30 outside the campus at Blackmore University, the "gang": Quinn, Anika, Sam, Chad, Tara and Ethan listen to Mindy explain what "movie" they're in at the moment and to get the rules. She states how Ethan and Quinn are suspects due to them rooming with survivors and Anika is one just because she's a love interest (a callback to Dewey's statement in the fifth film).
• She also states how similar the predicaments they're in, with Sam stating how in the pattern of Stab following their events, the first one had taken place in Woodsboro, and how the sequel was in college, referring to the Windsor College Murders, although Mindy doesn't rule it out as a possibility of the killers following the pattern, claims it's not the case as they're not in a "Stab" movie or sequel, but rather in a franchise, as she explains to them how the Legacy characters are expendable, as well as new survivors, naming pop culture examples from Star Wars to Halloween as examples in the modern-current Requel trend; as well as how everything is bigger now, from shootouts to beheadings, as well as the kill count.
• At the police station, Bailey tells Kirby about Stone's death, while showcasing Roman Bridger's mask, which was left at Stone's house. Kirby and Wayne talk over a board of all previous nine Ghostface killers and their connections with the masks being left at murder scenes, as Kirby assures Wayne to not worry about the Stab movies being connected to this, a meta reference to the canon/in-universe lore. Kirby states how whoever the new Ghostface(s) are, they're counting down to the masks of Billy and Stu, as Mickey and Nancy's masks would be next to be used at the next attacks/murder scene. Bailey grows suspicious of Kirby's knowledge of Ghostface, so he asks someone in the police to look into her background and reasonings of being there (did this to cover himself).
• At Sam, Tara and Quinn's apartment, Tara tells Chad to leave town and he tells her that he's not going anywhere. Chad gives the four of them a nickname, and Anika turns the news up and they get informed that Sam is the man suspect of the recent killings. A recorded video from the soda incident the night prior is shown, from the partygoer's friend group, of Sam being hostile, although missing the context, due to them being the instigators and the redhead having thrown the soda at Sam just before the start of the video.
• Sam sits down at the table and gets emotional saying everyone hates her. Her friends reassure her before they begin eating and conversing.
• Across the alley, Danny sees Ghostface in Quinn's room, while her newest gentleman caller showers. He tries to call Sam at 7:21 pm. After she ignores the call, he shares an image of Quinn being murdered to the Core Four's phones, causing them to get up and stand in the living room.
• Ghostface throws Quinn's body, which lands on Anika. Chad and Tara rush out the door, exiting the apartment as Ghostface attacks, slashing Mindy's arm, who're unaware of the killer holding Sam, Mindy, and Anika at bay. Anika tries to fight him off, but gets choked and thrown against the fireplace, being stabbed in the stomach. Ghostface twists the knife and raises it before Sam grabs the empty knife holder from the kitchen, after heading in to arm herself, only to find nothing, and smacks him in the head, temporarily disabling him, as Mindy and Sam aid Anika and go to hide in Quinn's room.
• Anticipating for Tara and Chad to try to return to distract him and aid, Ghostface closes the door, which locks, due to the various locks in place, as Tara hears Anika's scream as she's almost down the stairs and tells Chad from the stairwell, whose down in the foyer to listen to it and how they're still up there, referring to their sisters and Anika. Tara is unsuccessful as she tries to open the door, as she cries to Chad when asked about her keys, how she left them inside as they pound the door.
• Sam and Mindy help Anika into Quinn's room as Ghostface almost quickly gets back up, before locking the door, bloody, as Ghostface pounds on the door and is kicking at it, to no success. They notice the conjoining bathroom door is open, which Sam whispers to Mindy to lock it and as she heads in just before Mindy finds a deceased and nude Paul 2.0's body, Quinn's lover, gutted and bloody in the bathtub, who alerts the killer due to her reaction being aloud, and is narrowly attacked once more, as Sam approaches from behind as Mindy tries to push and lock the other door but both Sam and Mindy are forced to retreat into Quinn's room as they lock the weak door and who barricade it by pushing a dresser and holding it, as Ghostface kicks the door with brute force trying to open it..
• Danny notifies Sam and reaches a ladder to the window from his adjacent floor apartment across them. Sam crosses first, despite her own hesitance, due to Mindy being injured and not her, as Mindy tells her frantically how one of them needs to hold it down and tells her to go with anger. Sam manages to and calls for Anika to come, but Mindy goes instead, due to Anika insisting, as the fearful and injured sapphic lovers share a final kiss, and she makes it over. When it was Anika's turn, she made it halfway across the ladder before Ghostface finally breaks down the door and the barricade and shows up behind her, much to everyone's terror as Anika falls quiet as she asks what as Mindy frantically pleads for Anika to move faster, as she turns and sobs, and tries to, as Ghostface faces them menacingly, stabbing his buck knife down and begins to lift and shake the ladder beneath her. As Sam reaches for Anika's hand, whose hanging for dear life and her body sliding slowly from the ladder, Ghostface tips it to the side and Anika loses her grip, falling off and hitting her head on the metal trash can before falling to the ground, dying instantaneously due to her head and skull being cracked open, as well as due to the blood loss from being stabbed in her stomach prior, much to Mindy's horror, who sobs in pain as Sam is shocked and stares at Ghostface who looks at them before walking into the apartment and away.

Monday, October 31

• The next morning, now the Core Four is shown to be shaken as they're behind ambulances, with Mindy sitting in one, as Chad stands aside his sister with Tara close to Sam, who's the most visibly distraught, apart from Mindy, smoking a cigarette as she looks at coroners having covered Anika in a body bag, as NYPD and emergency services surround the apartment, and close and tape off the building and street, much to the curiosity of New Yorkers and other civilian onlookers, about the events that occurred in the apartment and its victims the night prior.
• On Halloween, the following morning, Sam and Danny have an interaction in which he tells Sam not to trust anyone, including him. Just then, Ethan arrives and gets bum rushed by Chad who thinks he attacked them last night. He claims he was in an E-Con study group, but Mindy says he's at the top of her suspect list. A tearful Wayne exits the building, as Samantha and Tara console him as Wayne agrees to aid to them, due to how Quinn died, he's been taken off the case by the NYPD.
• Gale arrives to the scene to have a one-on-one with Sam and Tara, which they don't buy, as Gale states off the record, and informs them of finding something, as Wayne tells her to show him. Just then, Kirby arrives as Gale is surprised as they reunite, making note of the fact how Kirby's a child (a teenager when she had known her in Woodsboro in 2011), due to her youth, despite Kirby stating she's 30, and due to her occupation as an FBI agent.
• Gale then leads Kirby, the Core Four, Wayne, and Ethan to the Ghostface Shrine built at an abandoned theatre in New York City, under Jason and Greg's names, despite Kirby saying how she never found it, as the women playfully jab at each other's occupations, as Gale claims how she's just better at her job than she is and that she'll get there, being an investigative journalist.
• At the shrine they find all former evidence and artifacts pertaining to the first seven Ghostface killers and massacres, as well as their victims, including props and weapons and sketches of the first 5 Ghostface murder sprees. Tara asks how it got there as Gale states how corrupt cops can sell it and evidence can get lost. At the center, is the Ghostface robes of all 9 killers, all missing their masks. Mindy is the most fascinated, as she and Chad find their Uncle Randy's work uniform. Gale's bibliography, whose books are the base of the Stab movies, are also featured, with Kirby also tearing up upon seeing both Jill and Charlie's (Trevor's and Olivia's are also shown) outfits on mannequins and the knife she was stabbed with, which she tells Tara.
• Sam hallucinates her father, Billy, as she looks at the glass case containing his robe in the center. Tara is overwhelmed and takes her inhaler, as Sam tries to converse, with Tara saying how she never wanted her life to revolve around this, referring to Sam's lineage to Billy and because of this, by association, Stab, who leaves as Kirby goes after her.
• Kirby shares advice and talks with Tara about being a survivor and how she overcame it (homage to Sidney's Out of Darkness novel and its contents).
• Gale shares a conversation with Sam about her past and Dewey, as each woman comforts in one another's pain endurance and survival, both from Ghostface, and family strife, laughing and sobbing.
• Mindy and Kirby talk about horror movies and their knowledge.
• Gale plans to bring the press here but is blocked by Kirby's authority, alongside Wayne as the NYPD
• Wayne devises a plan to catch Ghostface with the Carpenter sisters, along with Kirby by tracking and monitoring, by making Sam and Tara both walk around Central Park and keep the killer talking if they called, with Wayne in disguise just behind them in case of an event. Kirby traces the call from a van nearby inside with Chad, Mindy, and Ethan, the latter whose eating Cheetos, as Mindy makes a reference of the plan being a bad and the irony of them being in a van, as their uncle and OG horror nerd expert Randy Meeks had died at Windsor exactly 26 years prior by being yanked into a van in broad daylight and killed.
• Kirby manages to trace the caller as being in the Upper East Side, as Sam realizes Gale is next. Sam and Tara head off and drive away in Wayne's black logo less police car, much to his dismay and anger of how they can't do that, as the sisters head off to hurry and warn Gale.
• In Gale's apartment, Ghostface calls Sam and tells her she's not near them, but one step ahead.
• Back at Gale's penthouse, now night, Gale is upset about being discredited and not allowed to bring press, despite discovering the shrine, as she is on her laptop, before her boyfriend, Brooks, gives her the home phone to reveal Ghostface calling, giving Gale her first official phone call with them, since Randy had intercepted the phone call by Nancy as Ghostface meant for her, thus avoiding her fate, nearly 25 years ago, of which the new Ghostface makes note of and how it's time for an interview. Gale asks the killer what their motive is, as Ghostface asks her the same, and notes her writing was made about the suffering and misery off others, profiting her via the Stab series, and how now it's her turn for someone to make a buck writing about and reporting on her death, to which Gale calls out on.
• Off-screen barely visible, Brooks is murdered by Ghostface in a stealthy manner, while Gale is kept on the phone, who tells the killer how they're now the tenth person to try this and how it never works, as Ghostface then taunts her about Dewey's death by Amber and Richie, much to Gale's sadness and anger. She is then shocked as she screams following Ghostface threatening her, and the killer throwing Brooks's body from where he had been killed as Ghostface approaches and gives Gale a chase and attack across her kitchen, where she hits them with a frying pan, avoiding the knife swings (nod to Scream 3 and Steven Stone), as she runs into the living room and balcony outside.
• Gale manages to lock Ghostface out of her bedroom and grabs a gun from an electronic safe, as she shoots the door five times (reference to how many Ghostface murders had happened and films in Scream franchise), as she asks the killer aloud, how that was for nostalgia (reference to Gale having a gun and helping Sidney in killing Billy and Mickey in the first two films).
• Gale is then called by the killer, taunting her about them getting away as Gale angrily states how that's why she's going to shoot them in the "fucking head", before opening the door, phone in one hand, gun drawn on the other, as she finds her penthouse seemingly empty. Ghostface makes meta commentary on the Legacy Trio, and how Gale would've made sense as the infamous killer, unlike Sidney or Dewey, and how she never got to be the leading lady, as Gale claims how she was always the brain and sex appeal. Distracted, Gale tells Ghostface if she could put them on hold, much to the killer's surprise, and before they can say anything, Gale hangs up and redials star and 69 (a reference to the second victim of Windsor, Maureen Evans, was telling Casey Becker during a sneak peek of Stab, about finding the killer by simply hanging up and just redialing, from Scream 2).
• Gale holds her breath as she does this, which works as she hears the phone ring from her front door, who she shoots at, and hears the killer being hit and who approaches it before Ghostface then pops out and stabs Gale in her shoulder (like she was in Scream 4), surprise attacked as she's taken aback. Disarmed, Gale tries with her strength to unmask Ghostface, before failing as Ghostface then stabs her in the leg. She uses all her strength to push Ghostface and manages to stumble and get up, holding her shoulder and leg as she runs before Ghostface corners her into a wall, popping from left to right (reference to Mickey also holding Sidney near a wall while in their fight and chase scene at the theatre in 2) before Gale manages to get an upper hand. Gale also uses a copy of her first book to block hits from the knife, and just before the killer disabled her yet again, manages to flip Ghostface down and break her glass table, seemingly knocking the killer out, as Gale then proceeds to stumble on her knees on top and grab the Buck knife and who heads in to stab the killer, before they awake and stab Gale with a glass shard on the side of her abdomen, seriously injuring her.
• Gale, now in dire condition, is rolled on her back as Ghostface gets back up, and with all remaining strength she can use, grabs the hand which Ghostface is holding and heading in to stab her with, as the knife is dangerously close to her face and eye, as she utters "Fuck you!", just then Sam and Tara enter, as Sam grabs Gale's gun from the floor as Sam shoots at Ghostface, who upon their entrance, got up and ran, missing Sam's shots and disappearing through the penthouse's emergency staircase exit. Sam and Tara then tend to Gale, as Sam pleads forgiveness from Gale, as Gale states how they didn't get her and to tell Sidney they never did.
• Gale then passes out, much to Sam's sadness, even as Tara tries to console her, as medics arrive and make her move aside, who begins to sob. One of the medics detect a weak pulse, and to get her into a stretcher and into medical treatment, right away, as Sam and Tara watch helplessly, adding to the somber mood as Act 3 approaches, much to Sam's losing hope.
• The Core Four, Danny, and Ethan meet up at the lobby of the downstairs lobby of Gale's penthouse, as the group suspects Danny, with a now saddened Sam agreeing to give up and how Ghostface wants her and the victims were just in the way, much to the shock of Chad, Mindy and Tara. Danny tries to comfort her, as Ethan then asks if there's anywhere, they could hide, as Tara says how no matter where they hole up, the killer will find them, which leads her to then come up with an idea of flipping the tables by luring Ghostface to them to a secure location and then executing them upon their arrival, which is the Ghostface Shrine, which she calls Wayne to help aid, alongside informing Kirby, as she would meet them at the Shrine.
• The Core Four, Danny, and Ethan are then heading to the subway on Halloween night and talk about their plan and strategy, with Mindy and Ethan being separated by the large crowd of New Yorkers and civilians in costumes, as the Carpenter sisters, Chad, and Danny make it into one train, and while Chad tries to hold the door for his sister, isn't able due to the congestion of the crowd, as the subway train takes off, leaving Mindy behind with Ethan, of whom she still suspects, who she tells him to get away from her, gesturing her hands up in confusion when Ethan looks at her from afar as they both wait for the next train.
• At around 10:06PM, after being separated, Mindy texts Chad that she and Ethan would meet them at the theater. Due to there being various people in costumes, there's also plenty of civilians dressed in Ghostface costumes, much to the wariness of Sam, Tara, and Chad, as one of the people in a Ghostface costume in their subway train stares menacingly at Sam the closer they approach their destination. As soon as they're onto the next stop, Ghostface approaches menacingly, to which Sam calls out, as Chad also looks up, with Ghostface shoving people, and to which Danny gets in front to protect Sam, before Ghostface leaves the subway and heads upstairs.
• On the other train behind the divided Core Four, Mindy is distanced away from Ethan, whose standing on the other side with the crowd, as Mindy is driven paranoid by also various people in Ghostface costumes, and one in particular sits in silence, which freaks her out. As people hop off stops and New Yorkers enter, it forces Mindy to the back of the subway, much to her dismay. Like Sam on the train ahead of her, Mindy sees Ghostface stand and who as the tunnel heads in the dark and the light appears, sees them getting closer, and after passing a tunnel and it going dark.
• Ghostface doesn't appear until the next light as the subway goes on and off into the darkness of the tunnel, who covers Mindy's mouth as she's stabbed in the abdomen, much to her horror, who tries to scream, but are muffled by the killer, whose stabbed twice, with civilians on the seats near her being either asleep and others just minding their business or unaware. Mindy sobs and writhes in pain, and Ghostface lets her go as they approach the second to last stop and gets off and walks towards the crowd and disappears. Ethan notices Mindy injured and called for her, bringing attention whose sat her back against the subway door on the wall on the floor, who helps her as Mindy cries in pain as she gets up and Ethan walks her out and yells for help and for people to call 911, as NYPD medics and police officers' approach. Ethan reassures her, as Mindy claims she got it wrong and says, "fuck this franchise", and who's then taken to the hospital
• Kirby meets the Carpenter sisters, Danny and Chad at the theatre, as they walk up from the subway as she tells them that she talked to Bailey and has everything set up and who asks about Mindy and Ethan, who Tara assures her will meet them as they'd got separated and is in the next train behind as Sam explained, all of them unaware of Mindy's attack that just took place, who tells Kirby they're five minutes behind them.
• As Kirby leads and tells them to get inside, Sam turns and tells Danny not him, as she remind him of his words of advice to not trust anyone, as she states they don't know him, "not really", to Danny's dismay as he states that she knows him, with Sam saying how he's not from Woodsboro, thus how she can't make a mistake, doing it to protect herself and her sister, as well as Chad and Kirby, who are. Sam apologizes, as Danny is walking up to her and tells her he gets it and gives her a kiss on the cheek, telling her to be safe, with Sam telling him likewise, before she and the others turn around to go inside the theatre Shrine, as Kirby tells Sam it was a good call once they turn around.
• As Kirby uses the key card Gale had used to get in, albeit now the lights are turned on (unlike when they arrived, before Gale had turned on the lights and opened to reveal the Shrine), Kirby tells Sam how she's cleared the whole place before she arrived, and who explains to Sam, Tara, and Chad how the gated door is the only way in and out, and if the killer steps in through the first door, it locks automatically from the inside as well as outside, trapping Ghostface inside, effectively turning it into a "kill box". Sam asks about weapons, as Kirby states they only have one gun, and she holds onto it, due to it being her gun on her holster, as well as due to being the only police figure (albeit FBI), as she states that due to her being the only one with the badge, how that's how it is, much to Sam's dismay, as Kirby reassures them they're safe there, as Sam looks up to her, as well as Tara and Chad, before she says how she's gonna check in on Mindy and see if she's close, as she walks towards the stage and takes off her jacket, as Tara and Chad follow behind, with Tara also taking off her jacket. Kirby watches them leave as she then heads off herself (red Herring trope).
• Sam calls Mindy on her phone, as she walks around the stage of the Ghostface killers costumes in glass cases, as she receives Mindy's voicemail. Sam then turns around to face her father's cases as she hallucinates him again, who tells her how she's not safe and how if anyone says that it means they're not, as Sam tells him not now, with Billy telling her how she's smarter than that and tells her to grab a weapon and to clear the place out herself, as he tells her how she knows he's right, as Sam faces his glass case and sees him before opening it as she takes out his vintage, bloody knife, who turns it as Billy tells his daughter excellent choice, stating it's his favorite, before fading away as Sam turns around, and finds herself alone in the Shrine auditorium as she calls out for Kirby twice, much to her suspicion as she walks towards the Shrine, looking around with her knife in hand, slowly, before being briefly scared as she is called by Wayne, of who tells her to get everyone out of the Shrine, much to Sam's shock after he tells her they're not safe and how he supposedly heard from the FBI Field Office in Atlanta how Kirby's been on a downwards spiral ever since the Third Woodsboro Murders last year, as Sam asks him what he's talking about, as Wayne, who had just left the NYPD Office tells her how Kirby was fired two months ago for being "mentally unstable" and who is no longer with the FBI, much to Sam's horror, as Sam hangs up and tries to get out of the gated door, before the lights go out as the movie theatre projector plays Richie's homemade Stab film, as Sam watches on.
• Outside in the lobby, unaware of the film playing, Tara and Chad flirt as Tara mentions the theatre being old as both then touch hands as they reach for some candy over the counter, with Chad insisting she have them, as Tara states how they're like probably 100 years old. Both laugh briefly and chanter, as Tara looks up at Chad and just before she's about to speak again, Chad intercepts and swoops in for a kiss, as they both do, each taken in by each other, with Chad stating as he steps back, saying how he was embarrassed in that he always wanted to do that, with Tara stating how he should've done that a lot sooner, and how he could do that a lot more times, confirming and also making their romance and feelings for one another, friends to lovers from Woodsboro, known and official.
• However, as they head in for their second kiss, unfortunately, they are suddenly both violently interrupted by Ghostface, who comes from behind Tara and stabs her in her lower back (supposedly her old wound, like how Dewey in 2 was), as Tara screams and is taken aback as she lets out a cry as she falls and is pushed down on her back, much to Chad's shock and horror, who calls for Tara, before facing Ghostface as he dodges & takes on the killer, pushing him towards a glass frame in the lobby of Stab 3, which the killer breaks before stumbling up as Chad faces off, dodging a knife attack swing from above and punches the killer across the face, knocking them down briefly, before who then kicks them on the face, disabling them, who grunts as he does.
• Tara gets up as a loud Chad motions her back and tells her to go, as Tara cries, who then head back into the auditorium, who are met by Sam, who startles them, as Sam looks as she gets Tara by hand as Chad stays behind and tells them to go. Sam tells them Kirby's the killer as Chad says "no shit", and who tells Chad the front door is locked and motions to him as she tells him to follow, as Chad proclaims they're locked, much to his frustration, with Sam stating how Kirby supposedly made the whole theatre a "kill box" for them, as a frantic Tara looks up and asks about the emergency exit up top of the theatre on the second floor, leading to the roof, as Chad agrees and how there's only one way to find out as he tells them to go and come on, as Sam states how Bailey's on the way, before they're nearly ambushed by a Ghostface killer emerging from the stage, as they all are taken aback and scream, with Ghostface swooping and jumping down quickly and in a breeze, missing Tara who falls down as they swing the knife as Sam then ducks down, her knife falling from her hands as a result, with Chad ducking quickly to avoid a swing which the killer then takes out a mannequin's head wearing Randy's work shirt, with Chad calling out beheadings out loud, before tackling the killer down to the floor. Sam grabs Tara up off the floor, with Chad picking up the professional video camera from the display, as he tells the killer to "smile for the camera, motherfucker", before hitting them in the front with it hard, who takes it with him as he follows and runs with Sam and Tara to the stage, as Tara leads them towards the side exit, with Ghostface quickly behind, as Chad throws the killer the camera to slow them.
• Sam, Tara, and Chad arrive back at the lobby. Chad knocks down a popcorn machine which breaks as Ghostface enters, who ducks the killer's swings and is being slowly but quickly taken aback as he's moved to the wall, with Chad pushing and grabbing the killer's knife arm and hand, with the Carpenter sisters assisting as they grab both the killer's arms before the killer walks back and pushes them hard to the counter, who manage to hold him up long enough for Chad to get a punch, knocking down the killer as Tara then heads in for a roundhouse kick to Ghostface on the face angrily, as Chad then tells the sisters to head back and go repeatedly, as Sam grabs Tara's arm as she's hesitant but heads back as Chad grabs a gumball machine from the counter, who just as he's about to break it by dropping it forcefully onto them, a second Ghostface then appears behind him, stabbing him in the back as Chad screams out in pain. Tara would then look back in shock and cry as she screams his name, trying to head back while Sam holds her back, as both watch on in horror as the two Ghostface killers take turns at him and stab Chad, who cries as he bleeds in fear and looks towards them and tells them to run and go, as Chad then falls down, and the two Ghostface(s) look up & who swipe the blood off their knifes with their other hand simultaneously, as Sam leads the sisters back to the theatre, only for them to be cornered by one Ghostface entering by the stage, circling from the exit they had taken a few moments prior, and the other by the theatre entrance from the lobby.
• The Carpenter sisters face the killers, who slowly a few feet away, head to approach them much to Tara's distress as she calls crying to Sam, with each sister's backs to each other, as Sam faces the Ghostface on stage, while Tara faces the one from the lobby entrance. Grabbing some bricks from the bottom of a cart of the display near Nancy Loomis's mannequin, Sam arms herself and Tara, as Tara whimpers and who almost hyperventilates with fear ringing, as Sam tells her bravely to be ready and who asks her sister and tells her fearlessly how she needs her to be ready, as Tara closes her eyes and takes a breath in to compose herself, as Sam faces back and tells her to look at her, as each hold their arm out with their bricks, as Tara's facial expression and her demeanor change, as she says she's ready, before she faces the killers angrily as she yells out "Come on, motherfucker!" to the one facing her.
• Suddenly, the Ghostface facing Tara is being shot at, with the killer facing Sam from the stage also running down and away, as the sisters turn out to see Kirby shooting, who reassures the sisters, with blood being shown on her head and shirt, as Sam yells out to her to "stay the fuck back", much to Kirby's confusion, shock, and fear as Tara tells her how they know it's her as she heads down from the stage, who tells them how one of the Ghostface killers knocked her out. Just then, Wayne arrives gun in hand as he calls for Kirby to stop and get away from the girls, referring to the sisters. Both him and Kirby draw their guns up, as Wayne approaches, with Kirby asking what he's doing here, as Wayne asks Kirby if he killed his daughter, as Sam and Tara look back and forth between him and Kirby, who tells him Jesus Christ, and who tells the sisters that if any of whatever he's been saying to them or talking about to not listen to him, who would correctly suspect him as she states that he's probably the killer. Just then, Ghostface appears behind Wayne which Kirby yells, "Behind you!", before Wayne then shoots her down, revealing himself, much to Sam and Tara's shock, as both Ghostface killers then come side by side to Wayne, as he tells them great job, to both of them, as Tara then is shocked as she asks him. Wayne agrees and says he expected more from them after what they had done to them.

Tuesday, November 1

• It is likely after midnight when the killers are revealed. The killers Ethan, Wayne and Quinn reveal that they are Richie's family.
• Ethan reveals himself after his father, of who he reveals his connection to after he takes his mask off, as he admits to juking the roommate lottery to be paired with Chad, like Mindy had suspected a day prior, and how it felt good to kill him, as Tara watches on. He then tells Sam about his mask being her own grandmother's, much to her own gasp, as he implies the murderous tendencies related to her own inherited mental health, and asks how it really runs in her "fucking family, doesn't it", and admits his name not being Landry, much to Tara's shock at the revelation of Ethan being Wayne's son, as Sam states how if it's just them that only leaves room for one other, who she suspects is Mindy, with sadness, as she calls out loud, before the Ghostface reveals.
• Quinn then reveals herself at last, much to the Carpenter's sisters shock each, as she tells them "Hi, roomies. You didn't see that one coming did you?", as Tara proclaimed that they didn't because she had supposedly died during the Apartment attacks, who then reveals through her father also corroborating, that she kind of didn't but how it was easy for her to get off the suspect list, in order for her to attack Gale Weathers and Mindy on the train, revealing to them why Mindy didn't arrive, as Wayne tells the sisters how he made sure to be first on the scene in order to swap her body with a fresh one & some fake blood and that they'd both be "amazed at what a greifing father can get away with", as both Ethan and Quinn, knife in hand walk towards Sam and Tara from left and right. Quinn tells them how she got Stu Macher's mask and how he was her favorite, as Ethan then hangs Nancy's mask on her mannequin, with Wayne telling the sisters the mask placement, with Nancy being the third, and Stu's second, which then leaves Sam's father, Billy's mask, as #1, who he has in his coat, which he pulls out to show them. Wayne tells Sam how that's what they've been counting down to, referring to the masks of previous killers missing from the shrine being dropped in each of the murders taking place in New York, each differing in quality due to the timeline & how he's gonna need her to put it on. Tara watches as an angry Sam slaps it away from him, telling Wayne "fuck you!".
• Ethan then approaches and swiftly slashes Sam's arm taking her aback, as Wayne is laughing menacingly, as Tara grabs her now injured sister, who tells a taunting Ethan to "stay the fuck away from her", as Quinn walks closer, angrily behind Randy's shirt mannequin. Sam turns around and asks Wayne what this is and if they did this as a family as an angry Quinn approaches her and calls her a "bitch" and how she should know better than anyone, referring to the sister duo, as Ethan laughs stating how they're still not getting it, as they face the sisters, knives in hands, by the stage, while Wayne faces the sisters from the front. Sam tells Ethan and Quinn how she doesn't know what they believe, trying to find their motive, as she then states and explains as she looks at them and turning around to Wayne how she didn't commit the murders in Woodsboro last year (Legacy Murders), as she faces Wayne and states it wasn't her.
• Wayne then says nonchalantly and dismissive how of course they know that, and who then says how if she thinks this is based on some "bullshit conspiracy theory" as he's facing Sam in disbelief, who then asks her on who she thought started the rumors up in the first place, pointing to Quinn who raised her knife hand as she smiles, as Sam is facing her, shocked. Quinn then tells Sam and asks her how if she knew how it easy it was to turn her from the hero of Woodsboro into the villain and how easy it's been to convince the world to believe the worst in people, rather than the best, as Sam looks in hatred, with Ethan then stating how it's not just enough to kill someone these days, and how one has to assassinate their character first, and who states how when Wayne (his dad) then discovers her "horribly, mutilated body", just as Quinn then swings the knife close to Tara, causing her to gasp, referring to Tara, as she's taken aback, as he then continues how with Sam posed in her father's mask, he'll say that Wayne said some "poor, dumb bastard" read on the Internet that Sam's the real "Ghostface" and who took matters into their own, deluded hands. Sam looks out at him, blankly, as Wayne then says exactly and how that's why it's "a perfect alibi", and how all the best lies are based on the truth, as Wayne points to her and tells Sam how she's a killer, just like her father, as Sam cries out "No, I'm not!", with Quinn angrily yelling back at her as she agrees with her father, saying she is, calling her a "motherfucker", and how she'd killed their brother, angrily with tears in her eyes as she points the knife towards her.
• Sam asks her desperately in disbelief what she's talking about, as Tara states how she (Quinn) had said her brother had died in a car crash, stoically, looking at her, as Ethan tells her no, calling her a "sweet, dumb thing", & how their brother died in Woodsboro, at the hands of Tara's "bitch sister", who then faces Sam menacingly as tension fills the room, as Sam then looks in towards a tearful, angry Quinn, as both siblings still are pointing their knives to the sisters, as Tara also makes the connection as she looks to Ethan and Quinn, before Sam turns around and states how they're her ex-boyfriend's Richie Kirsch's family, as a tearful Wayne agrees, before Sam then turns around, who's stabbed in the collarbone quickly by Ethan, who then asks if she thinks she did it now, as Ethan says how they're finally starting to get it.
• Sam is taken aback, as Tara and her move away and run, pushing Nancy's mannequin down, as Wayne states how it wasn't until he saw the photo of what he knew she'd done to him (crime scene of 2022 murders, including Richie), as Tara tries to fend for her sister as each swing their bricks towards Ethan and Quinn, facing their backs again, was when Wayne knew she (Sam) had to die, and be punished, along with anyone else who stood in their way. Quinn as Ghostface holding Sam knife in hand on her throat.
• Sam then looks up, angrily and menacingly to Quinn, as Quinn then tells her as she walks closer to her how there she is, "There's the fucking killer". Tara then sarcastically tells Wayne, "Real great parenting job, by the way", referring to Richie and his two own siblings being killers, facing him as Quinn is behind her angrily, who shoves the sisters back to where they were, and tells Tara to shut her, "whore, fucking mouth", at the insult to her and her brother, as Ethan and Quinn now face the sisters from the lobby entrance, as now Wayne switched with them as he walks towards as he states himself acknowledging if he's been the perfect dad, and denies it by saying no and how if perhaps he had let his son Richie, overindulge in these "little movies", stating maybe, who tells Sam, ironically, how for him they're just a little dark but that he loved them, as the sisters watch as a teary Wayne say how he even made a few of his own, referring to the one playing behind them on the projector, as Wayne turns around and asks Richie if he knew, as the movie plays with a teenage Richie shown in the back, as everyone looks up, as Wayne walks up the stage as he states how there's a very special bond between a father and his first son, as Ethan and Quinn, tearing up point their knives at the sisters watching the film and Wayne, who reveals he had helped Richie build his collection and the Shrine.
• Sam asks if this was all his, to which Wayne agrees how Richie was a very passionate collector, and how he inspired others and how those two wannabe film students, who were Jason and Greg, how they had to kill them who tells Sam because they had to be the ones to kill the sisters first, who put the theatre in Jason and Greg's name, in order to avoid detection, and mentions how in his role as a good, old detective he would've just stumbled upon it, mentioning he didn't have to because of Gale, who he states is one hell of a journalist who had been the one to find it and lead them there to it through her investigative journalism. Wayne states how he built the Shrine as a tribute to his son, which is why that's where Sam had to die there, surrounded by all the things he loved the most
• Sam then asks him what happens next, and what after they're done with them, as Tara looks to her sister, asking if they'll disappear, with Wayne saying no and how they have to hurry to the hospital to make sure Mindy and Gale don't pull through, as he then draws his gun up, as Tara still holds the brick up, while Sam holds her wounded arm, and yells how "Because everybody dies, Sam! Everyone who had anything to do with the death of my son, suffers and dies", as Ethan and Quinn ascent their father's quote.
• Wayne then tells angrily to Sam to put on the mask. As she looks down on it Sam then closes her eyes as she breathes, how her eldest son was so pathetic. Wayne then retorts her, saying that's not true, as Sam states in a whispery, taunting voice how her son was a man baby, who made his girlfriend do all the killing (Amber Freeman), as Wayne, angry, says that he was a "strong, feral young man", with Sam doubling down stating he was a "limp dick, little fuck who cried before I slit his throat", staring at Wayne angry as she says so. An angry Quinn tells for Sam to "Shut the fuck up!", who raises her knife, going in to stab her, before Tara defended her by hitting her across the face with the brick which causes her to fall down, breaking her teeth and bleeding coughs in the process.
• Both Sam and Tara are then briefly assisted as Kirby gets up, alive from behind the lobby entrance and shoots at Ethan and Wayne, knocking Wayne down, as Tara calls for Sam to come on, as Ethan then turns around to knock and pin Kirby down as he picks up the knife belonging to Charlie Walker, as he asks her if she recognizes it with Kirby telling him the traditional "fuck you" as Ethan stabs her in her old stab wound. Sam then runs up behind Ethan and hits him with the brick, taking him off Kirby, as Sam apologizes and states how she needs the knife stuck to her abdomen, which she lets Sam takes as Kirby winces as blood spurts, as she tells Sam to "fuck him up", with Ethan telling Sam as he gets up holding his head with one hand, what she's going to do about it, calling her a "bitch", before Sam pins him down on the auditorium chairs and stabs him five teams on his chest, as Tara calls out for her sister, who's climbing to get upstairs, who goes to get her before she then quickly picks up Kirby's gun and tells her she'll get help, who puts her father's knife on her jeans belt loops as she climbs up.
• Sam follows her sister Tara, managing to climb, despite her slashed arm and stabbed collarbone, up to the cluttered second floor balcony of the theatre, as they climb to over the railings, due to the path being blocked, with Sam managing to get across due to being in front, as she tells Tara careful. Just as Tara is about to climb, she is shot on her left arm by Wayne, laughing as he tells Ethan to get her, causing her to lose her balance and almost fall, as Sam manages to grab one of her arms, who tells her sister to grab on but due to her arm being shot and the blood from Sam's arm leaking and it's viscosity making it hard to grab on and slip, who says she can't. Ethan swings the knife below Tara's feet, as she screams as Sam looks in terror, as Tara makes her feet go up, as Ethan swings close to her shoes, with Ethan stating how he's always wanted to stick something in her, with Tara and Ethan also both yelling "fuck you" to both one another. The sisters try as Sam pulls Tara up with as much strength as she can as Tara tries to avoid getting stabbed on her feet and legs.
• Just then, Quinn arrives upstairs from the other entrance (where Tara had gone up earlier and talked with Kirby), knife in hand smiling, which they both notice, much to their shock, Ethan states how "You're both so fucked now". Quinn spits the blood and other teeth from her attack, as she is waking towards them, scraping the knife on the balcony railing, as Tara tells Sam to let her go, with Sam denying, as Ethan tells her to do it, but Tara tells her to trust her to do it and fall, who motions with her head to her knife on her belt loops, as Quinn scrapes the knife on the railing and is now only a few feet away, smiling, before Tara tells her sister that she has to let her go; as Sam then nods and hands Tara the knife who gives her older sister a dark smile, before she then releases her as she falls feet down, and who then quickly picks up Kirby's gun to face Quinn, raising her knife it just as Tara gets down but is swopped by Ethan, who stabs her in the abdomen, and yells "Gotcha!". Tara then let's out a scream as she would go and surprise stab Ethan through his open mouth through almost his throat (nod to Wes's kill by Richie), much to Quinn's horror as she's looking down, with Sam pointing the gun at her smiling. Tara then twists the knife with both hands Ethan winces in pain, blood dripping, as Tara then tells Ethan to die "a fucking virgin", (referring to what he said outside campus when Mindy explained the rules), as she then releases the knife and takes it out, with with blood spurting as she does so, covering her as she lets out a laugh of relief.
• Sam then taunts by telling Quinn, her knife still raised, "Looks like you're down another brother", who smiles as an angry Quinn screams as she heads towards Sam only to be shot in the head, killing her quickly and instantaneously. Wayne arrives as he had been right behind Quinn, who's shocked as he faces Sam, her gun still raised as Sam states the rule of how you always got to shoot them in the head, as Sam then tries firing her next shot at Wayne, but the clip is empty, due to Kirby using up her bullets earlier, as Sam drops it and says "Fuck", before she then screams as she runs towards Wayne, as he does too, charging towards him, with Wayne a gun in hand, who misses his shot at her as Sam manages to knock both of them off the second theatre balcony floor back to the first floor down below to the auditorium and Shrine. Wayne is knocked out due to falling back first into a wooden glass case display, while Sam only falls to her back on the floor. Sam would then don her father's Ghostface robe before Wayne awoke.
• When Wayne Bailey wakes up again after being knocked out and Sam calls him, the clock reads 4:27am.