Timeline

This article is for the timeline only for the TV version of Scream, not the films. If you want to see the film timeline, click here.

Note: This timeline goes according to the series, it may change as season progresses. Months/Time on some information cannot be identified until mentioned in the series. (I.E October; The Dance)

The timeline in the Scream (TV Series) refers to character births, and events depicted in the television series’ part of the franchise (despite being separate from the Scream universe and each films’ continuity, is still overall a part of), all which occur before and after events of the first, second, and third seasons; with the first two seasons (aired on MTV) having been a part of an ongoing storyline, setting, and characters, before then being rebooted with an entirely new setting, characters, and storyline for the third season (subtitled Resurrection, aired on VH1), making the series an anthology. Just like in the film series, there are several instances of continuity errors and retroactive continuity, making occasional gaps and assumptions to be made, as well as “rules” on a basis of what is validated in timeline events; the subsequent section referring to the series of events in order.

Rules

Resolving Technicalities

The 18th birthday of Kieran Wilcox presents the first of conflicts, in regards to his age in both Season 1 and Season 2, in “Happy Birthday to Me”. Given that it could’ve just perhaps been a slip-up on the screenwriters’ part, Kieran would then go on to have two birthdays: the original, retconned January 28th, and the now-canonical September 8th, both of which take place in 1998 (the latter and official canon birthday wouldn’t be revealed until after his death at the end of/in “Halloween II”).

Kieran’s birthday on September 8th would then make sense, canonically/logically speaking, seeing as he would qualify to graduate with the class of 2017; as opposed to had it been the former, in which he would’ve been and likely graduated amongst the class of 2016, despite his arrest in “When a Stranger Calls” (had Kieran been kept written in with his original birthday, and not have been killed, he would’ve been 18, heading towards 19, as a high school senior, similar to Tara Carpenter in Scream (2022); See Continuity Errors). Given the real-world logic of a pregnancy being exactly 9 months (42 weeks), Kieran would’ve had to have then been conceived by his father, Clark, and unnamed mother (née Wilcox) as early as April of 1997 for his original birthday (since retconned), thus placing his actual conception in December 1997 instead.

The only logical in-universe explanation for Kieran to later on use his original birthday as a faux/decoy, was in order to bypass real-world laws, seeing as due to his canon birthday, he was still 17 years old in the first two seasons (until “Halloween”) and who after both of his biological parents’ deaths in the fall of 2015 in Season 1, was only briefly emancipated, but wasn’t completely, due to not being the U.S age of majority of 18 to live alone (“Psycho”), even with brief visits from his aunt, Tina Hudson. Given Kieran already had a sort of strained relationship with both his aunt and cousin, Eli, as well as the attention he had of being a false protagonist of the Lakewood Six, all but gave him time to change his birthday (in records, etc.) and convince those around him, even his distant family.

Ultimately, the calendar events of September and October 2015 in Season 1 are perhaps the most conflicting, in part due to a statement given by Lorraine Brock, surrounding the death of Nina Patterson, which occurs in “Betrayed”, during which then Brock was interrogating Audrey Jensen in relation to Nina’s murder, who incorrectly claims Nina’s death to have been on Wednesday, September 30th (This also happens with Brooke in “Aftermath”, although it’s most likely a slip up, when stating Riley’s death). This claim would then go to contradict the timeline, as well as Nina’s actual date of death, as stated by Brooke Maddox in “Pilot”, to have been on Monday, September 28th (Note: Five days were skipped in between “Aftermath” and “Exposed”). Brooke’s father, Quinn, and his shady doings are also disputed timeframes which carry into Season 2. Furthermore, the events following “Betrayed”, mainly surrounding the death of Emma Duval’s ex-boyfriend, Will Belmont, and its aftermath are stated to have took place a week before Halloween 2015, between “In The Trenches” and “Ghosts”, all on unspecified dates, with the last two episodes events’, “The Dance” and “Revelations” taking place on Halloween. The timeframes in Season 2 are more consistent, albeit minor inconsistencies (I.E Jake’s death; Lady of the Lake, Gustavo’s transfer, etc.).

Assumptions

Much like in the films, other assumptions are made in order to better fit into real-world requirement ages, such as the ages of high school students (mainly graduating seniors), or to the actors matching a relatively similar age range, unless explicitly stated, implied, or mentioned otherwise. For example, like the original Scream, if the early characters from Season 1 were all sophomores set in late-1994, it is generally assumed that they were born in between August 1978 and June 1979, the Louisiana cut-off age (implied setting for Lakewood, who uses zip codes surrounding the location of the real Southern U.S state), which was set up for that time period, despite only being in flashbacks (corroborated with the fact that the 1994-95 George Washington High yearbook is shown, then proven true that the three survivors would then go on to graduate as the class of 1997, the three later going on to become parents, the first two being both Emma’s parents Maggie and Kevin Duval; the third being Gustavo Acosta’s dad, Miguel Acosta.)

Despite Season 1 and 2 having characters making up the majority of the class of 2017, only a few make the exception for the class of 2016 (ex: Tyler O'Neill), due to both main and minor characters being born on unspecified dates that could make them easily mistaken or viable for another. This also applies to the main characters in Season 3. Either a new season or new reboot/continuation of the original TV series may clarify this age gap or year by year cut-off rule in each setting (Lakewood being a fictional town within a real U.S state for the first two seasons, as Atlanta, Georgia is a real-world location).

Also the characters from Season 1-2 are born in between only earlier in 1998 (Class of 2016), and from September 1998 to June 1999 (Class of 2017, main); while the Season 3 characters were born between either September 2000 until August 2001 (Class of 2019, main), or from August 2001 to July 2002 (Class of 2020), with both the first two seasons and Season 3 each having two graduating classes and part of the same generation: Generation Z (this is also the same generation that applies to the Woodsboro High School Class of 2023, in the films, born from September 2003-August 2004, who were both also separated into two graduating classes, Class of 2022 being the original before retconned in the sixth film, and thus the birth dates would be September 2004- August 2005 instead for the class of 2023).

Finally, some other divergences and assumptions can be made for various characters, like including the ages of both twin brothers, Marcus and Deion Elliot. Unlike other characters whose ages are either stated or strongly implied, Marcus’s birthday is unspecified, and unlike others in the same category, his character could’ve been either part of the class of 2020 or the latest being 2021 (assuming that his birthday is no later than December 2002; similar to Jill Roberts) which technically wouldn’t have violated continuity and which, retroactively, the future TV series or a new season could state this for future reference/characters, or any deleted scenes if they don’t contradict the ages/births of characters. Despite graduating in 2019, Marcus’s case also applies to Avery (whose birthday was explicitly stated and aligned with the class of 2020, as well).

That being said, this applies to actors, who if they’re older than the main cast (who portray teens, yet are actors in their early/mid 20s), may or may not have been diverged off script references, like in the films. For example, Shane was promoted as being 18 in Season 3, labeled “The Dropout” in a promotional teaser, but the season makes an inference of him being older (namely Beth, Amir Ayoub and Kym) in the time he’s on-screen (in reality, actor Tyler Posey was 26 when filming). As such, Shane is regarded as having either a late-1999 to mid-2000 Gen-Z birth instead, which similarly applies to other characters and their births as well in regard to their actors (ex: Clark Hudson, Gina McLane, Jamal Elliot, etc.).

Pre-series timeline

The following documents the timeline of events depicted prior to the events in the Scream (TV Series):

1800s-1920s

• 1806: Shallow Grove Island is founded somewhere off a coast, in Louisiana.
• approx. mid 1914-1923: Anna Hobbs, the daughter of Lily Hobbs and an unknown father is born, and is the older sister of her unnamed younger brother who was born in the mid-1920s
• February 1, 1916: Lakewood and the Lakewood Carnival are founded sometime in late January to early February (“Village of the Damned”)
  • Celebrates each its first decade (10th anniversary) in 1926.
• 1929: Both Cassie James and Adam James are born to their respective families in Lakewood.
  • (It was stated in the episode “The Dance” that Cassie was 86 years old in 2015, which means she and her husband Adam were most likely born in 1929 to 1930.)

1930s

• approx. unknown date, 1930s: Shallow Grove Island is bought by the Whitten family.
• October 31st (Halloween 1930s): The Shallow Grove Slasher in Shallow Grove Island, based on the speculated murders committed in the 1930s (unspecified year) on one Halloween night by Anna Hobbs, who due to her alleged psychopathy, supposedly killed her own family during a rainstorm night, in which she goes naked and dons a scarecrow (burlap bag)-like mask, murdering both her mother and brother; as well as the rich Reginald Whitten, the patriarch of the richest family (and owners) in the island in their mansion next door, albeit a large distance between, who then committed suicide at the pier with the Garden Shears, her murder weapon, by decapitating herself and then found.
  • This is officially the first Halloween event in the TV series and the earliest known murders in the overall franchise.

1940s-1960s

• 1941: Luther Thompson is born to unknown parents supposedly in Atlanta (earliest he can be born in 1941; this is due to the fact he was a Staff Sergeant in the Vietnam War, which is offered to US military ranks at age 27.)
• November 1, 1955: The Vietnam War starts.
• approx. 1960s: The unnamed grandmother of Shane (first/maiden last name is unknown) is born to her parents and unnamed great-grandparents to her future grandson and who is either the mother of Shane's father/mother (unknown), which she gives birth to later on.
• January 2nd, 1968: Luther Thompson is awarded the Purple Heart Award for his recruitment serving as a Staff Sergeant in the Vietnam War. He’d later go on to serve a dishonorable discharge not long after and be induced with PTSD due to it, seeming crazy to others around him and becoming secluded in the salvage yard and shed where he resided in Atlanta.

1970s

• approx. early 1970s-1974: Troy James is born earlier into the 1970s to Cassie and Adam James, and is the only older brother of his younger serial killer (supposedly) deformed brother, Brandon James, and is the uncle of his niece, Piper Shaw.
• April 30th, 1975: The Vietnam War ends.
• approx. mid 1970s-1976/1977: Clark Hudson is born earlier in the late 70's (1975 or 1976, late 1977) to his parents and unknown grandparents of his future son, Kieran Wilcox. He is also the older brother to his only younger sister, Tina Hudson, and the uncle to her son and his nephew, Eli.
• August 1978-June 1979: The George Washington High School Class of 1997 (excluding 1996) is born including:
  • Margaret "Daisy" Anderson (legal first name/last maiden, later Maggie Duval) is born in either 1978-1979 to her parents and unknown grandparents of her future daughter Emma Duval in Lakewood.
  • Kevin Duval is also born during 1978 or 1979, latest being 1977 to unknown grandparents of his future daughter, Emma Duval
  • Miguel Acosta is also born during those same years as Maggie to his parents and unknown grandparents of his future son, Gustavo Acosta (same applies for his unknown wife and Gustavo's mother).
  • Brandon James is born to Cassie and Adam James around the same time as Maggie (approx. 1979), who is the father of his future illegitimate daughter with Maggie aka Daisy, Piper Shaw.
  • The five future victims of Brandon James in the 1994 Lakewood Murders and class of either 1996 or 1997 (whether born in 1978-1979) are each supposedly born in Lakewood to unknown parents which include: Dara Aldean, Brett Keener, Laura Cossey, Trent Price, and Mike Vinson.

1980s

• Quinn Maddox and his wife, Monica (maiden last name unknown) are born during this time in the late 1970s to early 1980s to their parents and unnamed grandparents of their future daughter, Brooke Maddox.
• Sherry Elliot (maiden last name unknown) and Earl Elliot are born (theorized) to their parents and unknown grandparents of their future twin sons Deion and Marcus Elliot, sometime in the late 1970s to early 1980s in Atlanta.
• Sheriff Carpenter (first name unknown) is born sometime in the late 1970s to 1980s to unknown parents (no relation to Carpenter family in film franchise)
• Lorraine Brock is born to unnamed parents, who would grow up to become a state police detective before coming down to Lakewood in 2015.
• Mike Newsome was born to unknown parents.
• Officer Reynolds (first name unknown) and his wife (first/maiden last name unknown) are born sometime in the 1980s to their parents and the unnamed grandparents of their future daughter, Liv Reynolds.
• B. Westbrook is born to unnamed parents sometime in the late 1970s to 1980s in Atlanta
• Lavern Shell is born to unknown parents.
• Coach Fisher (first name unknown, last name nod to Carrie Fisher; latter portrayed Bianca Burnette) is born to his unknown parents, supposedly in San Diego, California.
• Mrs. Pell (first name unknown) is born to unnamed parents sometime in the late 1970s to 1980s.
• Deputy Stevens (first name unknown) is born to unnamed parents in the late 1970s to early 1980s.
• Tina Hudson is born sometime in the late 1970s to early 1980s (theorized) to her parents and unknown grandparents of her future son, Eli Hudson. She is also the aunt of her nephew and her only older brother Clark Hudson’s son, Kieran Wilcox.
• 1984: Grindhouse Cafe is established and found in Lakewood.
• 1985-1989 (unspecified dates):
  • Howard Jensen is born in Lakewood in the 1980s (theorized) to his parents and unknown paternal grandparents of his future daughter, Audrey Jensen (same applies for Audrey's mother, unknown maiden last name, and her parents and Audrey's unknown maternal grandparents).
  • The unnamed mother (nee unknown) of Noah Foster is born (theorized) to her parents and Noah’s unnamed maternal grandparents (Same applies to Noah's unknown father, whose last name is Foster, and his parents and Noah's unknown paternal grandparents).
  • Seth Branson (legal last name Palmer) is born to unknown parents.
  • Kristen Lang is born to unnamed parents
  • Clifton Roberts is born to unnamed parents.
  • Alicia Haverland is born to unknown parents.
  • Jeremy Blair is born to unknown parents.
  • Coach Griffin (first name unknown) is born to unnamed parents in Atlanta

1990s

• approx. 1990: Alex Whitten is born to unnamed parents (children or grandchildren of Reginald and his wife), the heir of the Whitten family.
• approx. 1991-1992: Eddie Hayes is born to unknown parents in Lakewood (seeing as he was 24 at time of his death in Season 2, which took place in 2016, meaning he was born either in late 1991 to early 1992).
  • Supposedly if he was born in Lakewood in the latter year, would mean he was a former alumni of George Washington High and from the class of 2010.
• approx. 1993: Becky is born to unnamed parents in Atlanta (given the fact she states when asked by a prank caller posing as a local service provider with a seasonal provider who later uses the voice of Ghostface to ask the traditional “what’s your favorite scary movie?” question, he asks if she’s over 18 and she replies “barely” in the opening scene of the episode “The Deadfast Club”, which was a flashback to Halloween night 2010, meaning she was likely born in late 1992 to early 1993).
  • More so the latter year and if from Atlanta, supposedly would mean she was a former alumni of Weaver High and from the class of 2011.

• 1994:
  • approx. October, 1994, unspecified date: Piper Shaw is conceived; by both Daisy Anderson and Brandon James hooking up, due to Daisy going on a break from Kevin, with Brandon working at the Bowling Alley to get closer to Daisy.
  • October 31st (Halloween 1994): The 1994 Lakewood Murders begin.
    • Brandon James goes to the Halloween Dance at George Washington High School to tell his friend and one-time lover Daisy Anderson that he doesn't believe her boyfriend Kevin Duval is good enough for her. A friend of Daisy's told Kevin this, which led to a confrontation that escalated.
    • James (allegedly) snapped during the ensuing fight and went on a rampage that resulted in the deaths of five students: Dara Aldean, Brett Keener, Laura Cossey, Trent Price, and Mike Vinson.
    • Kevin Duval is savagely attacked but survives the encounter. Believing Brandon is innocent, Daisy arranges to meet him at the jetty on Wren Lake. The police corner him, and Brandon is shot, his body falling over the side and into the water. Daisy confronts the police on how they'd told her they'd hold off from shooting.
    • Later searches turn up nothing. Maggie enlists the help of Miguel Acosta sometime the night Brandon was shot to move his body away by her and Brandon’s former childhood houses.
  • November 5th, 1994: The Lakewood Sheriff's Department launches a search in the woods for Brandon James (due to his missing body following the shootout, due to his survival), which as a search party in general, is officially abandoned according to the case files of the 1994 attacks.
  • approx. November 1-14th, 1994: Daisy Anderson's father arranges to keep his daughter's name out of the police records from the night of the murders, due to her being a minor. To escape the media buzz, the Anderson family moves away from Lakewood until things quiet down. In this time, Maggie discovers she is pregnant with Brandon's child.
• approx late 1994-early 1995:
  • Kevin Duval begins to attend therapy following his survival from the supposed attack on him by a masked Brandon James, with his own doctor, Dr. Pell, writing down and labeling their sessions "PTSD Project" as Kevin is recorded (via a tape recorder) on accounts of being shaken and later upset of learning upon the rumor which was true of Daisy (Maggie) having slept with Brandon and thus having had a bastard child with him.
    • This use of a secret child between an (alleged, Brandon) killer and his fling (Daisy), albeit Kevin knew of the unborn child's existence after the events, is a reverse of the birth and character Samantha Carpenter being the secret child of an actual killer and his fling, whose existence was unknown of until revealed when Sam was a teenager, to her actual stepfather Mr. Carpenter (unlike Kevin who did know) in Scream (2022).
  • July 8th, 1995: Piper Shaw is born to Maggie Anderson.
    • Piper is given up for adoption.
  • approx. 1995: Olivia Finley is born to unknown parents in New Hampshire.
• 1996-1999 (unspecified dates):
  • Dwayne (first/last name unclear) is born to unnamed parents.
  • Billie Field was born to unknown parents in Shallow Grove Island.
  • Tom Martin is born to unknown parents in an unknown state whose parents died in a murder case which he was discovered by police when he was 3 years old.
  • Gina McLane was born to unknown parents in Lakewood.
  • Jamal Elliot is conceived by Earl Elliot and unnamed mother and later born in Kentucky (based off dialogue, theorized).
• May-June 1997: The George Washington High School class of 1997 graduate, including Maggie, Kevin, and Miguel.
• 1998-1999:
  • June 1998-August 1999: The George Washington High School Class of 2017 (excluding 2016) are all born in Lakewood (excluding three transfer students) which include:
    • approx. 1998: the DOB for the majority of characters of Season 1 such as: Noah Foster, Audrey Jensen, Will Belmont, Riley Marra, Jake Fitzgerald, Rachel Murray, Gustavo Acosta, Ava Miller, and Grayson Pfeiffer.
    • All are supposedly born in Lakewood (minus Gustavo and Riley; Gustavo was born in Phoenix, supposedly. Riley was born in a unknown place, she moved to Lakewood when she was six.).
      • Note: The latest each individual character's birthday can be is from June-December 1998 in order to count as the George Washington High School or the class of 2017, in general. Rachel would've counted as part of St. Mary's Catholic High's Class of 2017, respectfully.
  • approx. unspecified date, mid/late-1998: Nina Patterson is born to Tracy and Craig Patterson in Lakewood.
  • approx.-unspecified date, early mid 1998: Tyler O'Neill is born to unnamed parents and taken in by foster parents in Lakewood
    • Tyler is thus far, throughout the first two seasons, the only character whose birthday correlates with and would make him, per se, the first victim from the Second Lakewood Murders in 2015 that was part of the incoming class of 2016 (the second being Will).
      • However, it's possible that he could've been set for the class of 2017 and was thus a super senior, most likely (this is a nod to Steven Orth, who like Tyler, could've been an intended part of his incoming class, but was perhaps a super senior due to being for the other class which is plausible since Steven should've graduated in 1996, due to being 18 but was perhaps allowed to graduate with the incoming class of 1997 due to being held back; corroborated due to the fact that like Steven, Tyler was dating a younger classmate, albeit an ex, Nina Patterson, who is the parallel/homage of Casey Becker from Scream).
  • September 8th, 1998: Kieran Wilcox is born to Clark Hudson and unnamed mother in Atlanta.
    • Decoy birthday only: January 28th (in order to be emancipated early on and become of legal age, (no obstacles, age wise) to carry out completing the Second Lakewood Murders initiated in September-October 2015, before re-initiating them after a two month hiatus, from January-February 2016.)
  • approx. 1999: DOB for the majority of the new characters introduced in Season 2 such as: Zoë Vaughn, Eli Hudson, and Haley Meyers (like Kieran, Eli was born in Atlanta, implied).
    • Also for other characters from the first two seasons overall, like Aaron (Haley's prankster boyfriend, seen), and Kyle (Gustavo's childhood from Phoenix, died before he reached adolescence, mentioned).
      • Each character born in 1999 is the class of 2017, in general, as well as from August 1999-June 2000.
  • March 28th, 1999: Brooke Maddox is born to Quinn Maddox and Monica Maddox in Lakewood.

2000s

• 2000:
  • approx. June-October 30, 2000: Shane is born to unknown parents, either his mother or father is the child of his unnamed grandmother, likely in late 1999 to early or mid-2000, as he is 18 in Season 3.
    • Continuity Error: In order for Shane to have been part and a student of the Weaver High School class of 2019 (in general, regardless of his dropping out), his birthday can only be only as late from mid-2000 (June) up until October 30, 2000;
    • For the class of 2018, as early as August-December 1999 or either early in the millennium, from January-May 2000, and born earlier in 1999 for the class of 2017; the latter graduating class years of 2017-2018, as well as his birthday being past October 30, 2000, in 2001, are all refuted due to being stated to be 18 in Season 3.
  • approx. 2000: Latavious is born to unnamed parents in Atlanta.
• 2001-2002:
  • August 2001-June 2002: The Weaver High School Class of 2019 (excluding 2020) are all born in Atlanta which includes the DOB for majority of characters in Season 3, including:
    • Kym, Liv Reynolds, Amir Ayoub, Manny, Hawkins, Tommy Jenkins, and Beth.
    • Alicia Davis, Brad Ernsky, Darrin Grant, and Erin Mayfield (homeroom roll call of Mrs. Pell's class, which Marcus and Liv are in) are also born in Atlanta and for any other characters from the past two seasons of the TV series.
      • Note: The latest that any character's birthday could be in this time (or can be), is from either August 2001-July 2002
      • Due to a Continuity Error, with Weaver High School then being split into two main graduating classes, which are viable: the first main one being 2019 (b. September 2000-August 2001) and the latter 2020 (b. August 2001-July 2002), much like the first two seasons, with each depending on the characters (see Shane, Beth, Marcus Elliot, and Avery Collins).
        • A reverse of Tyler from Season 1, this makes Marcus and Avery the only characters in this season and the TV series to have been set to graduate a year after the supposed intended one for 2019, making them in this case, early graduates and juniors, or who were enrolled early on, both plausible.
  • approx. mid/late 2002: Twin brothers Marcus and Deion Elliot are born to Sherry and Earl Elliot in Atlanta, Georgia
    • Continuity Error: Despite being born in 2002 and technically having been a junior during the 2018-2019 school year (and murders) and then later, a senior for the class of 2020 (alongside Avery), Marcus would then graduate alongside the Weaver High School class of 2019 at 16-17, perhaps due to either being an early graduate or early enrolled by his parents, thus retconned (including his late twin, Deion before his death as an 8 year old in 4th grade in 2010, as opposed to 3rd grade).
  • April 24th, 2002: Avery Collins is born to unnamed parents in Atlanta.
• 2003-2006:
  • Fall 2003: Tyler O'Neill as a foster kid, is enrolled and starts kindergarten or elementary school in Lakewood (albeit he would become part of the class of 2017, thus plausible he was held off until or 2004 or started regardless and would be held later on).
  • July 2003-2004: Piper is an orphan at Blessed Sisters Children’s Home and 8-9 years old.
  • approx. fall 2004: The future Lakewood Six and victims (minus Tyler) of the Second Lakewood Murders all start either kindergarten or elementary school, as well as Kieran and Eli in Atlanta and Gustavo in Phoenix.
  • approx. fall 2004-2005: A 6 year-old Riley Marra and her family moved into Lakewood and who in first grade was super tiny and completely silent, which convinced an also 6 year old Emma during their first couple of days of class that she didn’t speak English, who one day, had then approached her and had spoken loudly before Riley turned to her one day and said something.
    • This was part of Emma’s speech and was cut off in “Exposed” after the killer sent her a recording of her speaking in an homage to Scream 2. Noah then stated as Emma left of what she meant, being that Riley eventually got over her shyness, as Emma never finished what she was going to say and or stated whether or not Riley did or didn’t know English as a child.
• 2006:
  • Maggie and Kevin divorce due to Kevin having physically assaulted Maggie during an argument. Kevin begins to move away from Lakewood. Emma is about 8 years old.
  • July 2006: Blessed Sisters Children’s Home was rebranded as a group foster home in Lakewood but was mostly known for being an insane asylum. Piper was about 11 (“The Orphanage”).
• approx. 2006-2007:
  • Hawkins and The Deadfast Club (b. 2001-02) and also future victims, Tommy Jenkins, Avery Collins, and Shane (although Avery should’ve started a year later, alongside the Elliot twins) of the 2018 murders are in kindergarten or elementary school in Atlanta.
  • 2007: Marcus and Deion Elliot supposedly start kindergarten or elementary school in Atlanta (albeit early, so a year prior back in 2006, in order to be in the class of 2019).
  • 2007: Kevin Duval officially leaves Lakewood. Emma is 9.
• 2008-2009 (unspecified dates):
  • Clark Hudson and Lorraine Brock would meet as in-training law enforcement (perhaps in Atlanta, Georgia) and become briefly lovers and drug addicts together, who brought the best out of each other. Would break up heading into the 2010s due to their jobs, as Lorraine becomes a Detective for the state police.
  • Kieran Wilcox steals a neighborhood dog and kills the animal and who defends and deflects by raising suspicion on his cousin, Eli Hudson, for his mischievous and evil deeds. Begins to have a contemptuous relationship with his father for his drug addiction, and other family issues as a kid.
  • In Phoenix, Arizona, a young kid at the time, Gustavo Acosta is pulled into a murder case where him and his childhood friend, Kyle, were playing with his dad Miguel’s gun, when it went off and killed Kyle; this would later cause Gustavo to have an obsessive fascination with morbidity (due to seeing Kyle's dead body) and the macabre, which he controlled by drawing as well having taken in the reality of what his dad Miguel goes through as a cop, who snoops around through his dad’s police files, leading all the way into his adolescence.
  • February 2008-2009: The town of Lakewood celebrates its 92nd and 93rd Lakewood Carnivals in 2008-2009. Audrey and Emma are best friends up until middle school.
    • During this time, the former Lakewood General (Piper’s lair) hospital located near a turnpike in Lakewood where Brandon James’s surgeries and mask were done back in his youth, was closed down
      • Based on Noah’s statement in “Aftermath”.

2010s

• 2010:
  • approx. Summer (May-August) 2010: Earl Elliot arranges for Deion Elliot, under the guise of attending football camp in Kentucky, to also get to meet the twins' older half-brother, Jamal Elliot, of which neither Marcus nor Sherry are aware of, as well as Jamal's mother, with the rendezvous done in order to bond the two due to both being separated half-brothers; who, per their father's instance, had kept it a secret until the time was right to introduce them to their families (as revealed by Jamal following his reveal as Ghostface to Marcus in "Endgame").
  • October 31st (Halloween 2010): (“The Deadfast Club”): A young woman, Becky, receives a phone call from a supposed local service provider with a seasonal survey for customers, only to change into the voice of Ghostface and was asked the traditional “what’s your favorite scary movie?” question. She hangs up, afraid after seeing a figure around her window, and proceeds to answer the door to an 8-year-old Marcus Elliot dressed as Ghostface who stabs her with his fake toy knife and proceeds to take a TWINS (parody of TWIX) candy bar before running off.
  • Marcus is walking and looking for his twin brother, Deion, when in an empty alleyway a young Tommy Jenkins pushes him down and steals his candy. His brother Deion, dressed as a football player, finds him standing over a wired fence where Tommy chucked his bag of candy over. Deion insists on going in but Marcus declines, saying that a scary figure also known as Hook Man lives there (who was told by Tommy). Deion denies it and fearlessly says “I got you” to his twin and in a flashback scene, it’s revealed that the twin brothers had both switched to each other’s costumes, with Marcus taking on Deion’s football gear and Deion wearing Marcus’s Ghostface costume. This was done in order to boost Marcus’s confidence up. The duo then proceeds to enter the car dump where Hook Man lives to find and retrieve his candy, with Hook Man coming out and scratching the cars after hearing them come in. Marcus hides, shaking in breath after seeing and hearing Hook Man scratch his way, trying to see and hear them to find them.
  • Unfortunately, Deion finds the candy and calls out for his twin brother, unaware that Hook Man was walking around who after hearing and seeing him, attacks. Marcus takes off the football helmet and shakes his head signaling no but only to see Hook Man attack his twin brother and stands paralyzed in fear as Deion falls after being thrown by Hook Man, the bag of candies also being dropped all over the abandoned garage. He falls on the hood of a car and down to the pavement, trying to get up only to be stabbed by Hook Man’s hook lodging into the back of his head and into his forehead, with the hook pointing out in front, thus making him bleed and seriously injuring him. Marcus shakes and breathes heavily, proceeding to run. Deion would later escape Hook Man and hide into the back trunk of the car and unfortunately starving and deprived of oxygen, as well as his head wound, would ultimately be the cause of his death.
    • Note: This is the second Halloween event in the TV series timeline, and the first to be in Atlanta. It is preceded by the 1994 Halloween in Lakewood (First Lakewood Murders), and which occurs almost 5 years prior to the 2015 Halloween (Second Lakewood Murders), before being succeeded by the 8 year anniversary for this Halloween by the College Park, Georgia murders in 2018, also near Atlanta
• 2011:
  • approx. April 30th- May 1st, 2011: (“The Man Behind the Mask'') Flashback sequence only: About 6 months after Deion’s attack and the police’s quick closed investigation, and thus the Elliot family is not given any closure (as well as Marcus having unknown to anyone, except Jamal, to have taken over his dead twin brother’s identity) leading to Deion’s disappearance at Hook Man’s junkyard. One night and six months later (unknown whether or not to the exact date of Halloween 2010), Luther was out in his yard noticing weeds growing out of a car in the dump which he didn’t notice, which was emitting a foul smell from the trunk, which upon further investigation, and off-screen was the decomposing body of Deion, much to Luther’s shock. He gave the former twin boy an impromptu funeral by digging his grave near the car in which he died and putting a cross, which has guilt reddened the former Vietnam War vet who believed he had given him a chance to escape, but due to having attacked, wrongfully but truthfully caused his death.
• 2012:
  • approx. 2012-2013: The future Lakewood Six (minus Kieran) and victims of the second Lakewood Murders, finish 8th grade (in 2012-2013) at an unnamed middle school before all beginning their freshman year (aka 9th grade) of high school at George Washington High School in 2013-2014.
    • During their freshman year in 2013, Nina (before her death) dared Will to ask out Emma in a She’s all That-type and sleep with her in less than a month, which he agreed and took, according to Brooke, who resented not having told Emma sooner, as their friendship grew (“Exposed”).
  • Marcus, Hawkins, Shane, Avery, Tommy, Beth, Manny, Kym, Amir, Liv, Alisha, Brad, Darrin, and Erin from 2012-2013 were all in 6th grade before going into 7th grade later in 2013-2014 in an unnamed middle school in Atlanta

• 2013:
  • Summer 2013: Piper Shaw graduates from an unknown and unnamed high school supposedly in 2013 and turns 18 the same year in July. She becomes a writer, supposedly, in her interests before committing the murders.
  • Approx. unspecified date, 2013: Olivia Finley, a college student, sleeps with Seth Branson (formerly Palmer), a liberal arts college professor, back in New Hampshire and whose wrongful death (either suicide or murdered) causes for Seth to change his last name and move to Lakewood to teach as an 11th grade English teacher (likely taught English in college as well).
    • New Hampshire is referenced and is the second time (and state) in the franchise that a location from the Eastern U.S Coast has ever been mentioned, the first being New York City (in the state of New York, which located above is New Hampshire).
• 2014:
  • Before October 2014: The future Lakewood Six and victims of the second Lakewood Murders finish their freshman year of high school and begin their sophomore year the same year before becoming juniors in the summer of 2015 a year later. Emma and Audrey drift apart during this time.
  • approx. early 2014: Marcus, the Deadfast Club (minus Beth), Hawkins, and the 3 future victims of the 2018 murders proceed to finish 7th grade before then heading into their final year (8th grade) of an unnamed middle school in Atlanta in the summer of 2014 before then going onto becoming freshmen at Weaver High School a year later in the summer of 2015.
  • February 1st, 2014: The 98th annual Lakewood Winter Carnival and Lady of the Lake Pageant take place.
  • March 28th, 2014: Brooke Maddox turns 15 years old.
  • April 24th, 2014: Avery Collins turns 12 years old.
  • July 8th, 2014: Piper turns 19 in July and investigates about her past; which in turn leads her to Lakewood due to (at the time, a sophomore) Audrey Jensen meeting with her online to do a documentary about Brandon James (unbeknownst that it was Piper’s father), which is the defense and main incentive for Piper to premeditate her plans to start the second Lakewood Murders (continuation of the first), which Audrey indirectly caused and perpetrated, albeit unknown to her until Piper’s reveal and was taunted by Kieran for it. Kieran and Piper would meet eventually a year later, around the time before the murders, and become lovers and Kieran as Piper’s accomplice.
  • September 8th, 2014: Kieran Wilcox turns 16 years old.
  • October 31st (Halloween 2014), 1:26 AM: At the Lakewood County Municipal Records office late one night, with one male officer on duty whose distracted reading an adult magazine from the computer monitor of the security surveillance, a disguised in black and supposedly hooded Piper Shaw breaks into and sneaks in past the officer to the evidence room where she gets in after an takes the box of evidence from the 1994 murders, taking police notes as well as the infamous Brandon James mask, which they wear as they look up into the camera before leaving, signaling the murders would restart a year from now. This incident was never reported by county evidence.
    • This event takes place on the 20th anniversary since the first Lakewood Murders were committed by Brandon James (or someone in his mask).
    • This statement is based on Piper’s final episode on her podcast in “The Dance”, which would also refer to the date the evidence went missing over a year ago on Halloween night 2014, supposedly, seeing as the podcast she makes is on October 31 or Halloween night, 2015.
    • Continuity Error: The time frame for which the break-in occurs doesn’t accurately match the date and time shown at the security guard’s desktop computer of the surveillance footage of Lakewood Municipal Records office, shown as being 7:43 PM on Monday, July 13, 2015, instead of 1:26 AM on Friday, October 31, 2014; a production error, seeing as if it were the former, then Piper would’ve officially visited and come to Lakewood (three months before the murders) the same year of her murder spree, in which case she then would’ve met with Audrey the summer before her junior year, thus retconned.
      • This is due to the fact that Piper, guised as a man, using Kieran to walk in for her, visited and used the alias “Seth” (to frame Branson, thus why Cassie didn’t recognize Piper), who visited Piper’s grandmother, Cassie, just before to also learn about her father; albeit unstated which year, but more so, the same year which the murders started, unbeknownst to everyone and who she later used Seth and his arrest as the killer to divert attention off her (failed, since Seth was cleared and her accomplice would be killed a year later).

Scream (TV Series) timeline

2015

See Above: Pre-Season(s) 1 (2015), 2 (2016), and 3 (2019) information on the 1994 (first) Lakewood Murders, Brandon James, birth dates, relationships, etc.

The following (except 2017; see Season 3) documents the timeline of events depicted in Scream (TV Series) (despite being separate from the films and their continuities, is still part of the overall Scream franchise):

Before October (Pre-Season 1)

• February 1st, 2015: The 99th annual Lakewood Carnival and Lady of the Lake Pageant take place, which Nina Patterson is the winner of.
• March 28th, 2015: Brooke Maddox turns 16 years old.
• April 24th, 2015: Avery Collins turns 13 years old.
• July 8th, 2015: Piper Shaw turns 20 years old.
• The future Lakewood Six (later including Gustavo) and OG quartet of it which includes: Emma, Noah, Audrey, and Brooke (excluding Kieran) and other Lakewood soon-to-be-teen victims (Tyler, Nina, Rachel, Riley, Will, Grayson, Jake, Haley, and Zoë) finish their sophomore year from George Washington High School (Rachel from all girls Catholic private high school, St. Mary’s). Gustavo, Eli, and Kieran pass their sophomore year from their respective high schools in Phoenix (Gustavo) and Atlanta (Kieran and Eli).
  • It’s noted that Tyler, Nina, Jake, Will, and Riley (Brooke to minor extend, due to her inappropriate relationship with Branson, but overall oblivious) knew of malware, especially Jake, Tyler, and Will who all did their shady business connected via Seth Branson’s school homework website app, excluding Riley (who was better friends with Emma and Zoë, despite her knowledge of her friends shady doings, which she overlooked).
  • At some time, Emma loses her virginity to Will which was secretly recorded unbeknownst to either (perhaps Will did) their junior year.
• Audrey, in her frustration from drifting apart from Emma, goes online and unknowingly brings 20 year old Piper Shaw to Lakewood (albeit Piper was always bound to commit the murders, whether or not Audrey hadn’t sent or written the letters) by sending her handwritten letters, venting herself and trying to understand and cope by researching about Brandon James and make a documentary about his upbringing and Lakewood, not knowing she was talking to his daughter, taking place the summer before her junior year.
  • Shares only the ideas of this project and doesn’t mention Piper with her sidekick and friend, Noah, who helps by researching, as well as Audrey’s secret girlfriend, Rachel, who helps her directly by filming.
• Kieran and Eli both share in common, the trait of trespassing around and into people’s properties, (more so Kieran than Eli, but regardless), although before leaving Atlanta to Lakewood, a then 16-17 year old Kieran becomes obsessed with a teenage girl, leading to him exposing her nude photos online and breaking into her bedroom. This led to a restraining order, which Kieran deflected and placed the blame on Eli for being the culprit, due to him also liking the same girl and convincing the girl’s mother it was Eli (“When a Stranger Calls”).
  • This led for Eli to resent Kieran and try to get back at him by going to Lakewood in October, but stopped himself as well as due to the 2015 murders taking place, which Kieran orchestrated with Piper, which like Audrey with her letters, was made to implicate him as a suspect.
  • It’s highly speculated that the girl mentioned from Atlanta could’ve perhaps been Liv Reynolds, due to the fact that a restraining order was filed (Liv’s father is Officer Reynolds, a cop) almost immediately afterwards and whose mother was then informed and misled by Kieran about it being Eli, which may have caused the fallout of Liv’s family (between her dad and mom), although it would contradict the storyline of Season 3 of Liv and her dad having moved into Atlanta during her senior year and her family issues, thus disproved and retconned (excluding Kym or Beth, although it could’ve been another girl that perhaps attended Weaver).
• Quinn Maddox makes shady dealings as the Lakewood Mayor, with Jake Fitzgerald and Will Belmont for blackmail and money (Nina and Tyler to an extent) as well as the failed Wren Estate developments on Wren Lake, whose going through marital strife(s) with his wife and his daughter, Brooke’s mother, Monica, over her addiction.
  • Quinn would ultimately send his wife and Brooke’s mom, Monica, to a rehab (Pleasant Roads Rehab) in Phoenix, Arizona, and would be the first time the Western state is mentioned until Season 2 when it is used directly (where Miguel Acosta lived and relocated to).
  • Brooke Maddox would later confront her father about this in Season 2.

June

June 22nd

• An online article (such as a WebMD one, spoof) titled “The Comorbidity of Insomnia and Paranoid Delusion” by Alicia Haverland is posted with 43 comments. Would write more news informational articles from the 2015 Lakewood Murders.
  • This is the article Emma Duval would read 4 months later following her boyfriend, Will Belmont’s, death.
    • The picture in the article shows a sleeping man with his eyes open, whose looks resemble that of Liev Schreiber, the actor who portrays Cotton Weary in the Scream trilogy.
    • Additionally, while it may be an Easter egg to a crew member (as well as character Deputy Haverland’s first name, who may or may not be the author of the articles), the name of the author is perhaps a nod to real actress Alicia Silverstone, who in the Scream franchise and in the Stab franchise, is confirmed to portray Tatum Riley (which was confirmed in the fifth movie).

August

August 16th

• Monica Maddox is checked into Pleasant Roads Rehab by her husband Quinn Maddox in Phoenix, Arizona, unbeknownst to her daughter, Brooke Maddox.

August 17th

• 2:01 AM: Security footage of Quinn Maddox shows his shady dealings as he supposedly carrying a body bag (his wife Monica’s friend, who had OD’d and died) to his car in his garage. Used to threaten him prior to the murders.

Week Ending August 22nd

• Marcus, Kym, Amir, Hawkins, Manny, Beth, Shane, Tommy, and Avery all begin their freshman year (9th grade) of high school at Weaver High School as well as Alisha, Brad, Darin, and Erin (Liv attends an unknown high school somewhere else, unstated if near or far from Atlanta, in Georgia).
  • Avery and Beth hook up at a blackout kegger either the summer before or during their freshman year. Beth gets his number and Avery doesn’t ever contact her afterwards until his senior year.
• Emma, Noah, Audrey, Jake, Brooke, Zoë, Will, Haley, Nina, Tyler, Riley, Grayson, and Ava all start their junior year of high school at George Washington High School, while Eli starts his junior year in an unnamed high school (possibly Weaver) in Atlanta while Gustavo starts his junior year in Phoenix in an unnamed high school.
• Kieran Wilcox's mother and stepfather die in a car accident. Kieran opts to move in with his biological father, Clark Hudson, in Lakewood, to avoid being moved into foster care. He transfers to George Washington High School his junior year.

September

September 8th

• Kieran Wilcox turns 17 years old.

September 27th

• After a fight with his father, Kieran goes to a local bar where he meets his classmate, Nina Patterson. The two talk and Nina intends to sleep with him. Kieran offers to give Nina a ride home. Rachel Murray films them leaving the bar. They're filmed walking out by Rachel. Being the gentleman that he is, Kieran drops Nina off, rejecting her sexual advances due to her being drunk.

September 28th

AUDREY face suck extravaganza!!!: The infamous viral YouTube video which would brutally reinitiate and follow up on a murder spree in the town of Lakewood two decades ago, amongst a new generation with someone using the mask of an urban legend killer (first in the franchise since Scream 4 to use modern smartphones into the 21st century).

Dating Information: Brooke says later in "Pilot" that Nina died on Monday night. In "Betrayed", Lorraine Brock says Nina died on September 30. However, the show's timeline is more in line with the fact that Nina died on Monday the 28th, as otherwise the days of the week don't line up with the events in the show. Lorraine's statement is the continuity error.

• Calendar Week: Monday, September 28th-Saturday, October 31st (Corresponding with Season 1, taking place within a month and 3 days).
• While goofing off late at night in the parking lot at George Washington High School, Nina Patterson, Emma Duval, Brooke Maddox and Riley Marra (alongside using Tyler O'Neill’s camera) film both Audrey Jensen and Rachel Murray making out in the backseat of Audrey's car. The girls agreed to dispose of the video afterward, but Nina had other intentions.
• At some point this evening, Nina slept with Emma's (former, ex) boyfriend Will Belmont (thus why Nina denied Tyler later on, and due to being exes) who was then picked up the same night by his friend Jake Fitzgerald, and used the cover of not having his phone charger and stranded on the road of his car after basketball practice at the high school to his then-girlfriend, Emma.
• Nina convinces her ex-boyfriend Tyler O'Neill to post the video on YouTube. It goes viral, traumatizing Rachel. Audrey took Rachel out for a drive to comfort her, but had a meltdown and swore to get revenge on Nina, who she knew at once must be responsible. To calm her down, Rachel filmed Audrey so she could see how she was reacting.
• 10:38 PM: Tyler drives Nina back home and hints that he wouldn't mind going inside, but Nina refuses him after showing him the video blowing up online on her phone via the app Chirpster (parody of Twitter). Shortly after she enters the house, Tyler is then decapitated by either Piper Shaw or Kieran Wilcox off-screen, who then steal his phone.
• Posing as Tyler, the killer sends Nina a series of messages and video clips (taking place for about 20 minutes), convincing her he is in her house, watching her. Nina brushes this off, and goes out to the hot tub, where Tyler's severed head is thrown into the water. Nina screams and scrambles out of the hot tub.
  • Continuity Error: One of the clips Nina is sent shows the time as 11:43 PM, thus a production error, given it is shown to be 10:38 PM on Nina's phone when she is dropped home by Tyler, thus it should be 10:43 PM instead when the video is sent to Nina via her camera on her laptop.
• 10:58 PM-11:02 PM: As she runs in panic and hides behind a tree, she makes a failed attempt to call 9-1-1 by using Siri. Nina is slashed horizontally across the back by one of the killers. As she attempts to run away, she falls and starts crawling away. The killer follows her toward the poolside but grabs her and lifts her up. After begging for her life, Nina's neck is sliced wide open. Her body is thrown into the swimming pool, where the blood drains from Nina's body which causes her death. The killer stares at Nina’s phone as she gets a call from her mother. After the murder, the killer makes a GIF, standing in front of Nina's body in the pool. Tyler's phone and Camaro are removed from the scene, along with his remains, by the killer.
  • 28th September- 31st October 2015: The events of Season 1 (2015). Seen as a continuation of the first, the Second Lakewood Murders are officially reinstated and would be committed up until the 21st anniversary and showdown of Halloween 2015, to the exact date since the first one back in 1994.
  • First two murders are committed 4 weeks shy before date of the 21st anniversary victims (subsequent victims in the first couple of the second murder spree are all killed accordingly throughout October, as well, differentiating from the date of the anniversary victims).
  • Begins on a late-Monday night at around and past 10:00 PM (accordingly to timestamps on Nina's phone). Possible opening sequence prelude of Audrey Jensen watching the video of her and Rachel getting leaked on her laptop, as well as later shown (video recording) her and Rachel meeting up in Audrey's car to confront Nina, occurs before and during Nina's murder.

September 29th

• The video is flagged for content and taken off YouTube.
• Nina's parents return home and follow a trail of blood to the pool deck where they discover their daughter's body.
• Emma, Riley, Jake, Brooke, and Will talk about the video scandal before the reveal of Nina’s death. Noah consoles Audrey for the video as well as Kieran enrolling in George Washington High School.
  • Emma tries to console Audrey, her longtime best friend, following the release of her video by Nina
    • Riley mentions Zoë who in return would mention the viral video to Brooke again in Season 2.
• Principal Showalter institutes mandatory grief counseling for the entire student body, as Emma, Noah, Riley, Jake, and Kieran are shown along with other students at the school's counseling office. Jake states that the press is working the Brandon James angle, much to Emma's displeasure who states he's dead before walking off, upset
• Noah informs Kieran, alongside Riley about the Brandon James backstory, alleging him to be the killer of the 1994 murders, as well as the mystery surrounding his crush, Daisy.
• At evening or nighttime (outside, light is shown as dim), Maggie looks inside a cupboard inside her home, taking out a wooden heart shaped necklace with the word Daisy engraved on it, confirming her as Brandon James' former crush and obsession.

September 30th

• The next morning at school, on Emma's laptop, Emma, Riley, Jake, Brooke, and Will watch as Sheriff Clark Hudson gives a public address on the subject of Nina's murder, citing Tyler as the main person of interest, as a neighbor saw Tyler's Camaro parked in front of the Patterson house that night, and the presence of Tyler's fingerprints on a glass in the kitchen; the latter information of which Emma relays to the group (it is also the next day, due to the group wearing different clothes, and Brooke stating Nina died on Monday night).
• Brooke Maddox plans a 'prayer vigil'/party for Nina at her house, complete with alcohol and kegs, open for all to attend, due to telling Emma how "people in mourning get thirsty". In an attempt to patch things up with her old friend, Emma invites Audrey, stating the party starts at 9:00PM at Wren Lake.
  • Brooke hosting a party/memorial to commemorate Nina's death, as the first victim, despite being a bully, is referenced almost 7 years later in Scream (2022), with Chad hosting also a party/vigil for his friend, albeit not a bully, Wes Hicks, as the 3rd victim, at his friend Amber's house, 261 Turner Lane, which is a callback homage to the party at the second to third act in Scream (1996).
  • Like Nina, Wes is also the first known teenage victim.
  • Brooke and Chad, however, weren't killers that hosted the parties, while Amber was, as was the second Ghostface killer, Stu Macher, of who's house from the 1996 murders she lived in, which Chad had hosted Wes's memorial at, unaware of the fact she was the killer.
  • Each party at each house, although Brooke wouldn't be attacked until she held the Halloween 2015 party in the season finale, would see attacks in each, as well as deaths, albeit after people had left each.
• Will corners Jake in woodshop class and tells him to destroy any remaining evidence of the blackmail operation they had been involved in with Tyler and Nina, before the police can find it.
• Seth Branson tells Brooke that, due to the police investigation, they should end their affair. Brooke ignores him.
• A package addressed to 'Daisy' containing a pig's heart is delivered, presumably by Piper Shaw, to the Duval's front doorstep. Emma leaves it with her mother, who opens it to find the grisly contents.
• 9:00 P.M: Audrey brings Noah Foster to Brooke's party. Brooke, for her part, invited transfer student Kieran Wilcox, who she finds attractive.
• Maggie calls Clark to her house to investigate the pig's heart. She confesses to him that she was Brandon James's 'Daisy'. Clark suspects Maggie's ex-husband Kevin, but Maggie doesn't believe it is possible. Maggie tells Clark she believes history is repeating itself.
• While drinking at her party, Brooke casually reveals that Will has slept with Nina in the past. Emma storms off, realizing that he may have been with Nina as recently as the night of her death. Will claims he only slept with Nina once when he and Emma were on a break.
• While investigating flickering lights in her garage, Brooke is cornered by Will, who threatens to 'break' her if she ever makes trouble for him and Emma again.
• Emma and Kieran confide in each other in the greenhouse. It ends with Emma drunkenly kissing Kieran.
• Noah passes out drunk and, as part of a 'Wren Lake tradition', is placed on a raft and let out into the water by Jake and a few other jocks. He comes to and tries swimming for shore, but his ankle is caught in a length of fishing line. Kieran rescues him, however, bringing him to dry land.
• After seeing Noah home, Audrey visits Rachel at her house. Knowing that Rachel is deeply affected by the remarks of those who've seen the video, Audrey tells Rachel she's beautiful, and films her. They are watched by a figure in a Brandon James mask, most likely Piper Shaw.
  • At the party, Audrey tells Emma that she met Rachel on a film geek website. This is a loose reference to how Mickey Altieri and Nancy Loomis would both meet in Scream 2, and whom were succeeded by both Richie Kirsch and Amber Freeman in Scream (2022) albeit for different reasons, only similarity is how they all met online (however, Audrey and Rachel were implied to but weren’t killers, while Mickey, Nancy, Richie and Amber were.
    • It is implied later in Season 2 that Piper Shaw and Kieran Wilcox also met online but it’s only theorized.

October

October 1st

• The next morning Clark asks Noah to meet with him at the station the following morning (October 2nd), before school, to answer some questions. Noah assumes the Sheriff isn't convinced Tyler is the murderer and might have some interest in Noah due to his Brandon James fixation.
• Audrey oversees this and as her and Noah walk into school, asks Noah what that was about, of which Noah informs her, before going off on, in a meta reference, on their stereotypes in a horror movie situation, given the brutal murder of Nina (unaware until a few days later that Tyler was also a victim), with Noah stating due to him believing the sheriff doesn't think it could be Tyler, despite being Nina's ex and the last person she was with, due to Noah being singled out as the horror movie nerd.
• Riley overhears Noah talking as Noah walks with her as Audrey leaves and points out their stereotypes as high school students and how you have to be worried if 1 of them is targeted or killed (as Brooke and Seth are shown in a classroom, as Emma closes her locker and walks off from Will), because it hurts.
• Emma visits Audrey after school and confesses that she was there the day Nina filmed that video. Audrey reacts harshly, accusing Emma of only trying to be nice to her recently because of guilt.
• 6:23 PM: As Emma walks down the street from Audrey's house, she receives a phone call from either Kieran or Piper Shaw, where a muffled voice tells her that 'they' intend to get to the truth beneath the 'perfect lives' of Emma and her friends.
• Rachel Murray receives a phone call from Audrey's phone, though it is Kieran Wilcox using a voice changer. 'Audrey' purports to be already at the house, luring Rachel out to their spot on the balcony, where a noose has been placed over the railing. When Rachel goes to investigate, she is grabbed by the killer (Kieran) and hanged. It's been confirmed that Kieran Wilcox was Rachel's killer since Audrey was with Piper the night of Rachel's murder.
• Following the murder, the killer moves Rachel's body into her room and hangs her from the ceiling fan, so she will appear to have killed herself.
  • Note: It's unstated whether the Lakewood Slasher watching Rachel and Audrey on the former's bedroom balcony after Audrey left Brooke's party on Wednesday, September 30th, in the "Pilot", would then kill Rachel heading into midnight and early morning on October 1st, or if she would then be killed later on October 1st, heading into October 2nd. Despite this being alluded and her death shown in the opening of "Hello, Emma", it's possible the latter given she's wearing different clothes.

October 2nd

• Piper Shaw makes her first Autopsy of a Crime podcast covering Nina's murder investigation, the manhunt for Tyler, and the echoes of Brandon James' legacy rippling throughout the town (states that it's been four days since her murder, on September 28th).
• Emma, Riley, and Brooke walk to school as Emma listens to Piper's podcast on her phone. Brooke apologies for not telling Emma about Nina and Will's tryst sooner, saying she feared Nina would 'terrorize' her if she said anything. Emma asks Brooke and Riley if they've gotten any odd phone calls, mentioning the call she got yesterday. Riley dismisses it as a prank on Jake's part.
• In his meeting with Clark at the police station, Noah explains the origins of his Brandon James interest coming from a 7th grade class report on the nature vs. nurture debate, where Brandon seemed like the perfect subject. He tells Clark that he had then exchanged emails with Brandon's brother Troy and attempted to figure out the identity of 'Daisy', to no avail. When Clark asks about Kevin Duval, Noah says he never attempted to contact him, due to potential awkwardness between him and Emma.
• Kieran goes to the station to collect a house key from Clark. Due to accidental prompting from Noah, Kieran explains the circumstances of his rescue of Noah at Brooke's party. When Clark asks Kieran to name the jocks responsible, Kieran refuses, not wanting to be a snitch.
• Will gives a now-hungover Jake a ride to school. Jake tells Will that if he's sincere about getting back together with Emma, he should explain Nina's sexual ruthlessness, and attempt to charm her over. Will asks again if Jake has erased the videos from the blackmail operation, and Jake lies, saying he has.
• Noah spray paints 'DOOSH' (misspelling of douche) on Jake's truck, in revenge for the events at Brooke's party. He misspells the word purposefully, to deflect suspicion (either when he arrived, just after he had left the station).
• Piper Shaw questions students and faculty at a memorial to Nina set up on a fence outside the school. She approaches Noah and Audrey, asking for interviews. Piper remarks that she recognizes Audrey, but Audrey brushes it off as Piper just having recently seen the video. Audrey says that Nina was a bitch who got what she deserved, but Noah insists Piper not quote that.
• Before Noah can give Piper his own opinion on the murder, Jake attacks him, having discovered the graffiti on his truck, and knowing Noah to be the culprit. Piper films the confrontation on her phone.
• Will approaches Emma at her locker and tells her he thinks Nina only came onto him because she felt threatened by Emma. Emma doesn't buy it. Kiran approaches, claiming he has the locker next to Emma's, though it's a lie to get Will away from Emma. Emma tries to explain to Kieran that the kiss in the greenhouse was a one-time thing because she was upset.
• Emma again tries to talk to Audrey about the video, but Audrey doesn't want to hear her, saying Rachel can't move on from the video, and can't brush off people's cruelty the way she can.
• Piper Shaw sends the GIF from the night of Nina's murder (superimposed with the caption 'PAYBACK'S A BITCH') to the entire GW High student body, using malware that Tyler had covertly installed on the laptop of Seth Branson, at Nina's insistence. The GIF creates a stir throughout the town.
• The Lakewood Sheriff's Station hotline is lit-up with Brandon James wannabes. Clark has deputies run background checks on each one, but none seem legitimate. Clark also pulls the Brandon James case files, in an attempt to find a correlation between the events of 1994 and the ongoing case.
• Clark assigns a tech team to attempt to trace the origins of the GIF.
• Mayor Quinn Maddox urges Clark to find and capture Tyler as fast as possible, but Clark still isn't entirely sure Tyler could be the murderer. Maggie is present to witness the mayor tell off the sheriff, with Clark reassuring Maggie that he'll keep her safe.
• Riley and Noah talk outside of class and briefly discuss the GIF, and who asks her about her project for their computer science, as Riley flirts with Noah and suggests they go on a date and stargaze, much to Noah's awkwardness as Riley then leaves and says she'll see him in class, as Noah tells himself he's got "zero game", referring to his ineptitude to flirt back.
• Rachel's mother finds her hanging from her ceiling fan and calls the death in to the police, with Maggie being the coroner present to photograph Rachel at the crime scene in her bedroom.
• Noah gives another monologue in Branson's English class, suggesting how the killer possibly has an accomplice. During Mr. Branson's class, a friend of Riley's who goes to St. Mary's texts her, telling her about the death of one of her classmates. Fearing the worst, Audrey excuses herself from the room and calls Rachel. Mrs. Murray picks up and tells her that Rachel has committed suicide.
• Riley and Brooke urge Emma not to blame herself for Rachel's suicide, just because of the video. Emma insists that she let Nina make the video and walks off to have some space.
  • Emma heads into the bathroom at the door, sobbing, only to overhear two girls talking down about the video Nina posted but regarding as someone else having posted it and calling Emma indirectly the new Nina. This is an homage to the bathroom scene of Sidney in the first Scream.
• Emma meets Piper Shaw while working her after school job as a barista at the Grindhouse Cafe. Piper recognizes her at once, claiming she was doing research on the Brandon James murders for her podcast. Piper mentions Kevin, but Emma is unwilling to talk about it. Piper agrees to respect Emma's privacy.
• While taking out the garbage after work, Emma is accidentally locked in the back alley. She is frightened by a hooded figure in the road (possibly a homeless man), and seizes a 2x4 wooden plank, running off into the main road. Startled, she almost hits Will over the head.
• Inside the café, Will says that Emma texted him to meet her, showing her the text as proof. Emma says she never texted him. Will again tries to apologize for what happened with Nina, maintaining it was just once. Emma mentions her kiss with Kieran, which instantly puts Will on edge. Will asks her to go to his game tomorrow, saying he's under a lot of pressure from his father to impress a scout from Duke.
• Emma brings Maggie coffee at the morgue, while Maggie is examining Rachel's body. Emma tearfully confesses her part in the video, hurrying off in shame, much to her mother's disappointment in her involvement.
• Audrey makes a tribute video for Rachel, putting it on YouTube.
• Maggie tells Clark that Rachel's neck snapped, meaning she must have fallen from higher than where they found her. Clark suggests the possibility of murder, and Maggie agrees. She tells Clark about Emma's confession, saying she'd rather Rachel have been killed, as then Emma wouldn't need to feel as much to blame.

October 3rd

• Emma and Brooke are in the audience at the basketball game between the Lakewood Lancers and the Stanton Bulldogs.
• Audrey agrees to film the game highlights while Noah meets with Riley for a date on the football field.
• Quinn gives an address before the game, on the deaths of Nina and Rachel, calling for a moment of silence.
• Noah and Riley have a picnic on the football field, where they share a moment and discuss horror before making out.
• Brooke and Branson run into each other at the snack stand. Branson tells Brooke he is no longer able to wait for her, and Brooke gets him to concede for a tryst later.
• Kieran approaches Emma in the stands. Emma describes the incident at the Grindhouse, and Kieran suspects Will may have staged the whole situation to meet with Emma. Since the text was likely sent by Piper as a manipulation, the theory is most probably untrue.
• Will scores the winning shot for the Lancers, and kisses Emma, though she is not entirely willing. The action may have been just to spite the nearby Kieran.
• Emma tells Audrey that she takes full responsibility for being an inciting factor in Rachel's suicide.
• While Emma is alone at home, the security alarm for the kitchen door goes off. Emma goes to investigate but finds nobody. She receives a call from either Piper or Kieran (in this case, likely Piper), claiming to be somebody from GPP Security. The voice tries to calm Emma down, while Emma arms herself with a baseball bat. When Emma becomes suspicious and locks the window, the voice reveals that 'he' may be inside the house. The voice tells her that he is going to uncover the truth about Emma, and all her friends and family, who he calls liars.
  • This scene is an homage to the film franchise, as well as more recently both killers using the guise of their identities to hack into each female protagonist's home (Tara in Scream (2022))

October 4th

• Noah submits to an interview with Piper Shaw, saying he believes the killer, Tyler or other, is intent on striking again.
  • Unknowingly he was talking to the killer herself, an homage to the killers in the film franchise.
• Emma overhears Clark and Maggie in the morgue, discussing the final autopsy, which proves Rachel was moved to the ceiling fan, and therefore murdered. Clark knows Rachel has her wake today and decides to give the family time to mourn before opening the murder investigation. Maggie also mentions the pig heart, and Clark says he still can't find any leads on Kevin. Maggie says she hasn't told Emma yet, not wanting to raise uncomfortable questions about her past.
• As Emma reels from this, she gets a text, ostensibly from Piper, asking if she and her mother have had a 'heart to heart' yet.
• Brooke and Branson arrange a 'sex' session over Skype, as Branson is still unwilling to have actual sex while Nina's investigation commences. Brooke holds her end of the session in her mother's standing hotel room in town. She tells Branson that she's hidden a picture of herself in his class, as a sort of game.
• Jake digs up the footlocker where the money from the blackmail operation was kept, finding it empty.
• At Rachel's wake, a suspicious Audrey attempts to 'test' hanging from the ceiling fan, to see if it's even possible. It is evident at this point; she begins to suspect foul play in Rachel's death. Emma catches her, telling her about what Maggie and Clark discovered, proving the point. Audrey coaxes more of the story from Emma, regarding the phone calls she's been getting. It is likely she already knew Piper had something to do with Rachel's death, and wanted to persuade Emma to tell her things she may already have known.
• Jake encounters Will at his family farm, telling him he believes Tyler took the blackmail money and ran off with it. Will says that's not the case, and that he took it himself, as he knows Jake hasn't shut down the operation. Will believes he has too much to lose keeping the blackmail going and tells Jake to shut the operation down if he wants to see the money.
• Audrey goes with Emma to the Grind House, where Emma explains the details of the calls she's been receiving. Audrey suggests responding to the killer's DM, to figure out what he wants. Emma does so, saying she knows Rachel was murdered.

October 5th

• Riley and Brooke talk in the bathroom before class about Riley’s night with Noah, and Brooke using the lipstick Nina once wore. Emma is confronted for her introversion by Brooke and Riley as they console her that it’s not her fault for the video Nina posted prior to her murder and Rachel’s death due to it.
• Will approaches Emma at school and returns his iPod, which he found in his truck, largely as an excuse to talk to her. Emma accepts it, with some wistfulness. Kieran observes this all, from his locker.
• During class, Branson finds the photo Brooke hid in his room during class. He splits the class up into groups of two to reenact scenes from various pop cultures. Emma and Kieran, he assigns books, Will and Audrey get movies, Noah and Riley get TV and Brooke and Jake get popular fiction.
  • Audrey threatens Will when assigned with her in class to not mention the pool scene from the 1998 film Wild Things, a nod to Canadian actress Neve Campbell's role in the aforementioned film, whom in the Scream franchise (only in the films and their continuities), portrays the titular franchise's heroine, Sidney Prescott.
• While planning their scene, Kieran lets slip that Clark has been poring over the Brandon James case files. Sensing Emma's interest, he decides to bring the files to her that night.
• To make up for not calling Riley since Saturday, Noah promises to give her a good time.
• Kieran delivers the files to Emma's house that night. Clark calls Kieran, and he hastily begins clearing away, revealing in passing that he was arrested at some point in his past. He doesn't tell Emma why, and seizes upon a loose file, where he recognizes Emma's father's name. From this, Emma realizes that Maggie, Kevin's girlfriend at the time, was Daisy.

October 6th

• The next day, outside of school, as Brooke sits down on a bench, Jake sneaks up on Brooke and places his hand over her eyes as a prank and states how Christian Grey's red room of paints awaits her (from Fifty Shades of Grey), as Brooke then dismisses his joke and states how that'll be like doing her brother, as Jake sits next to her and references Game of Thrones.
• Brooke tells Jake that she'll pick the scene for their English project and email him the lines and to run off and find Will, before she notices him upset as Jake talks to her about his rule of not abiding by people he can't trust.
• Brooke gives him advice as she gives him the cat and mouse analogy in life, as Jake then asks if that's how it works with her and Branson, who knows of their affair due to paying attention. Jake then asks her how she know if she's the cat or mouse, and gives his analogy via the viral video of the bobcat dragging the shark out of the ocean, and states how the shark, up until that point that the shark thought it was the predator. Brooke asks about his point and Jake states how maybe she's not at top of the food chain, and that Branson's got her thinking bobcat, but she's the shark, in a predator or prey analogy.
• After school, Emma flat-out asks Maggie why she never told her about her part in the Brandon James murders, saying that whoever is harassing her is probably after Maggie too. Maggie claims she withheld this information to protect Emma, but Emma doesn't believe her
• Noah brings Riley to the Nightmare Level video game store where he works, where he's arranged a date, and references how since they couldn't decide on a movie, he realized how she hasn't seen that video games have some of the best drama out there, equal to films, referencing the cutscene opening of The Last of Us. Riley is taken with him, and they make out.
• Evening: Piper, as the Voice, calls Emma, saying she'll answer Emma's questions when she's ready, threatening to kill Maggie if Emma goes to the police. Emma says she's finished with these games and hangs up. In response, Piper DMs Emma, telling her she'll find someone else to play with.
• As Noah and Riley get more intimate, Riley receives a text from Tyler's phone, begging for help. Brook apparently receives a similar text, but responds, telling Tyler to just turn himself in.
• Night: Riley, Brooke, Emma, Will and Jake convene at the Grind House to discuss the Tyler situation. Emma suggests that Tyler didn't text them, but it's the same person who's been harassing her, as Will asks her if that what happened in the alley outside of her work the other night (October 2nd), and cites how the text Will got on someone pretending to be Emma, much to Brooke's confusion.
• Emma states it's hard to explain, but promises that they shouldn't trust whoever's fronting as Tyler. Riley isn't so sure and says how she doesn't know who's screwing with her (referring to the killer) and believes Tyler isn't responsible and refuses to go to the police, not wanting him to end up dead like Brandon James. The others outvote her, and the girls go to the police. Riley states if they hurt him, it's on Emma, before Emma calls for her as the girls leave (subtle foreshadowing and ironic juxtaposition to her death, considering the killer makes an ultimatum for Emma that ends up targeting Riley).
• To assuage Will's fears about Tyler giving them up to the police, Jake suggests they arrange a meeting with Tyler to give him the blackmail money and keep him quiet.
• At the police station, Clark verifies that the texts were sent from Tyler's phone. He asks Riley to ask Tyler to meet at the park on Route 9, for a sting operation, as Tyler is most likely to trust her. The girls assure Riley, with Riley asking Emma if she's just trying to convince herself or her.
• Will and Jake meet in the woods, with Jake holding a shovel. Will figures out that Jake never contacted Tyler and wants to collect the money for himself. Jake then figures that Will never buried the money where they're at, and states how Nina is dead, and that she's still pitting them against one another.
• Will states how he told Jake how to get out of it, stating he won't risk losing everything he worked for because Jake is caught up in her "blackmail drama" as Jake states how Will doesn't understand that they can't just get out of their blackmail scheme, and how they can either help each other or not, implying that if the latter, it's every man for himself, suggesting he would reveal Will's involvement, regardless, if apprehended. They part, tensely, with Will letting go of the knife he had clutched behind his back pocket.
• Clark and a team of men gather around the park for the sting. A cop, posing as Riley, meets at the rendezvous, but finds nobody. In the parking lot, a car pulls up.
• Emma and Brooke wait with Riley at the station, as Riley stands up to get a water. Emma tells Brooke how if anything goes wrong, Riley will never forgive them as Brooke tries to reassure her that it won't, and if it did she would, but that it won't.
• 7:30 PM: Brooke then receives a text from an unknown number, purporting to be Branson, telling her that she wins and to meet at her mother's room at the hotel. She agrees and then leaves Emma and Riley behind at the station.
• The police jump the driver at the park. The man turns out to have been hired by somebody online and told to give the cops a piece of paper, on which there is a sketch of a Brandon James mask and a caption 'Got Ya!'.
• Emma tries to console Riley at the secluded station, as Riley states that besides the Tyler operation, she's been thinking of Noah and how they were having a great time before she bailed and blew him off and reveals her feelings for him to Emma, who reassures her that he'll give her a second chance. Maggie arrives and tells Emma and Riley that Tyler set the cops up. Emma notices Brooke is gone, and panics.
• Brooke arrives to her mother's hotel room and calls out for Branson, only to find a Victoria's Secret sleep mask and a black lingerie dress with a pair of black high heels at the bed, as Brooke then leaves for the restroom to change, unaware and who misses Emma's call in that moment.
• 8:15-8:25 PM: Emma and Maggie drive around town, looking for Brooke. While Maggie calls Clark, Emma DMs the Lakewood Slasher, who tells her that she must choose who to save, the good girl, or the bad. Emma texts the killer that they can't do that and how either she chooses or they will. Emma calls Riley to make sure she's safe at the police station. Being sure of Riley's safety, she tells the Lakewood Slasher not to harm Brooke, and the Lakewood Slasher agrees, before Maggie states to Emma that they should head back to the station.
• Riley receives a text from Tyler's phone, asking her why she sent the cops. Riley tells him she trusts him and arranges to meet in the parking lot of the Sherriff's station, upon receiving a text asking to meet out back. Wearily, Riley agrees and does so.
• Concurrent to the hotel rendezvous, Brooke arrives from the restroom, now changed in the lingerie dress and who sees a pair of pink, fluffy handcuffs hanging from the room's lamp and decides to put them on, as she awaits him laying in the bed with the mask and dress, wearing a lingerie bathrobe, and with one of her hands tied with the handcuff to the head bedpost.
• In the parking lot, Riley sees Tyler's Camaro and approaches it confused, unaware of the killer behind her, pulling out their buck knife. She texts Tyler, wondering where he is, and is jumped by the Lakewood Slasher (Piper), swats her across the face, much to Riley's horror, as she begins to scream and call out for help to the empty street block, slowly chasing her into an alley alongside the station. Riley screams out for help, upon reaching a fence closing the alley, who is terrified as the killer appears walking from the other end just feet away, who runs their knife across the steel tubular fence.
  • Piper as the Lakewood Slasher, in-costume, approaching to attack and kill Riley as she climbed the ladder up to the roof, before by running the knife alongside the fence before doing so, is referenced by Quinn Bailey as Ghostface in Scream VI, who mask-less, would also approach upstairs in the Ghostface Shrine in order to attack and kill Sam or Tara (with Sam trying to help Tara up, grabbing onto her arm, due to Tara hanging onto her after she was shot from below and lost her footing), also runs her knife alongside the metal railing of the balcony of abandoned movie theatre from the other side, slowly walking to her targets as well.
• Desperate, Riley climbs the fire escape ladder to the roof. The Lakewood Slasher slashes open her lower back twice and leg, leaving her to bleed out on the skylight of the station.
• Still at Nightmare Level, Noah then places a FaceTime call to Riley to see how she is. Sobbing, Riley tells him Tyler stabbed her but slowly died from massive blood loss.
  • Riley's tragically brutal death via climbing a ladder, would be referenced almost 3 years later in-universe during Shane's death, different yet similar in how he was trapped in a ladder, in the Atlanta Murders (2018) in Season 3, also known as Scream: Resurrection (2019).
  • Riley's death as the first Asian (female) victim in the franchise and of the TV series, would be referenced directly yet loosely almost 8 years later, in-universe, with the death of Anika Kayoko in Scream VI, and her death via climbing a ladder as well. Both were the love interests of their horror experts (Noah to Riley, Mindy to Anika), and were being followed and attacked and killed while accessing the ladder.
    • Difference being the direction of the ladder (Riley climbed a building ladder going upwards, horizontal, whereas Anika climbed a ladder going across two buildings windows, vertical; unlike Riley, Anika was then killed due to Ghostface moving the ladder from other apartment of which she had escaped, causing her to fall and die via injuries blood loss and skull cracked from fall. In a reverse, Riley would die despite after climbing the ladder, due to attacks on her leg while on the ladder, slashing her femoral artery, dying due to blood loss.
  • Riley being deceived into thinking she was texting her friend Tyler and lured to his car, before being attacked by the Lakewood Slasher and chased after and killed, is a reference and inverse to Chad Meeks-Martin's own attack being setup in Scream (2022), who was also texting and trying to find his girlfriend, Liv, albeit with a GPS-share app, being lured before stopping. Both are surprised attacked and stabbed in the leg.
    • However, Chad survived his attack, unlike Riley, and how the people they were trying to find wounded up being set up as suspects to be killers only to be victims (Tyler being killed in "Pilot", whereas Liv would find Chad unconscious in fifth film after attack and head inside to get help before being killed by Amber in reveal, a reverse).
• Brooke figures Branson is never going to show up, who takes the mask off as well as unchains the handcuffs she was on, and checks her phone, seeing that Emma has been calling and texting her all night, having 15 missed calls and 6 missed texts, with the calls stemming from 8:00 PM to 8:25 PM.
• Emma, Maggie and Clark return to the Sheriff's station as Brooke calls Emma, assuring her safety. Maggie tells them that Riley is gone and says Clark and several men are pursuing Tyler's car. Emma dials Riley's number, and realizes her friend is dead right above them, due to hearing her ringtone.
• Tyler's car crashes through construction on Kincaid Bridge and explodes as Clark and his team rush to approach it before the car explodes. Tyler's headless body was in the car, intended to be found by the police, so the murderer would be assumed dead. The driver (likely Piper), bailed out before the police could arrive.
• Emma approaches the rooftop and is horrified upon seeing Riley's body on the rooftop windows and cries in horror, and apologizes and states she didn't mean to choose her.
  • Emma being traumatized upon seeing Riley's body, is a reference to Sidney also being horrified upon discovering Tatum Riley's body in Scream (1996)
• Noah and Audrey arrive at the police station in time to see Riley's body being borne out on a stretcher, much to Noah's anger at the police being gone while they pursued Tyler, as Audrey consoles him and grabs him as Emma tells him to stop, with both agreeing they need to know who was responsible. Piper is shown at the scene, recording the station on her phone.
• Emma pursues Clark and Maggie to the scene of the crash. Clark tells her that the driver of the Camaro was decapitated just as a deputy uncovers a burned Brandon James mask from the wreck.

October 7th

• Piper Shaw releases on Autopsy of a Crime podcast discussing the murder of Riley Marra, which has hit her particularly hard, as Emma and Brooke tearfully hang out in Emma's bedroom and mourn Riley (with Will at his home, and Jake shown in his car), all listening to Piper's episode.
  • This is only a façade since Piper was the killer, thus feeling no remorse.
• Audrey visits Noah at the Nightmare Level, bringing him coffee from the Grindhouse, and tries to console a grieving Noah as they read his text history with Riley, with Audrey assuring him he has memories, as Noah states had he and Riley had sex, he would've died in place of her, as Audrey states that's not how it works, and who names their duo and tells him to come with her to the town hall, which Noah declines (a reference to Randy Meeks from the original Scream trilogy).
• School is cancelled for the day in the wake of Riley's murder. Mayor Maddox holds a town hall meeting to discuss the presumed end of Lakewood's murder spree.
• Jake shows Will the video footage of Tyler's burned car and how now they don't have to worry about him or Nina hurting them. Will states that Riley is gone too, and that she shouldn't be dead, and refers to their rendezvous last night, as Jake states that they have to trust each other. Behind their row of seats, Piper notices their interaction, curiously.
• Audrey asks Emma how she's doing, as she states she's been better, as Audrey sits behind the front row where Emma and Brooke are seated.
• 11:30 AM: The town hall meeting begins at 11:30 AM, according to the clock above the town hall doors. Audrey records the hall meeting.
• Mayor Quinn Maddox introduces Clark to speak at the pedestal. Clark then explains that Tyler attacked Riley and fled the scene, and how Riley died of her injuries before paramedics could arrive. It is assumed that Tyler also killed Nina, due to the scorched mask found in the car wreck, and states to the press how he's confident they've got their suspect, and states how the murders are over in regards to this.
• After the town hall, Audrey corners Clark, asking if Clark believes Tyler also killed Rachel, something Clark isn't willing to discuss, as the investigation has only just been opened (excluding Rachel, due to her sexuality and the video leaked), as Audrey asks him if he's gonna investigate it and not just pin it all on Tyler and close the case. Piper is nearby and overhears the discussion.
• Clark tells Audrey that no one is pinning anything on anyone, before he calls for Emma, who appears behind Audrey, and tells her to take her friend to see a grief counselor, before he walks off and stares sternly at Audrey. Emma assures Audrey that they will get to the bottom of what happened to Rachel, whether the killer is dead or not.
• Audrey states how crazily enough, she wants it to be Tyler, and for it to be over, as Emma agrees but states that's what she's worried about, suggesting that the killing spree still isn't over. Audrey tells her how Emma still believes that the killer is out there, which Emma claims to not know and hopes not, and how if Tyler had killed Nina and Riley, states her confusion on why he would've been the one harassing her and that it doesn't make sense as Audrey agrees (the two unaware of Tyler's death the same night as Nina). A
• Maggie tells Clark that she isn't sure whether the body they found is Tyler's at the morgue, as fingerprints are burnt off. Clark suggests dental records, but Maggie says they haven't been able to find Tyler's head.
• Will visits Emma at the Grindhouse to see how she's doing and briefly comforts her in her grief. Emma then receives a call from Brooke, as the two talk about Brooke grief shopping online for funeral nail polish and asks her for advice and to come help, with Emma declining, due to being at work, and states she'll call her later.
• A Twitter (Chipster) poll is run, in which participants can vote over which of the two remaining members of Nina's clique should die next. Brooke leads overwhelmingly (346 votes to Emma who only has two), a fact which greatly unnerves her.
• Piper orders a drink to go at the Grindhouse, telling Emma she believes Clark is being scapegoated by the media. She heavily implied that she doesn't believe Tyler was the murderer, and that there may be more than one scapegoat, possibly hinting at Maggie, before leaving.
• Emma returns home to find a package addressed to her on the doorstep. It is the 1994 GWHS yearbook. The photos of Brandon James' five victims have been cut out, and Kevin's face has been scratched over with a pen. Next to his face, there is a message in red ink, 'THE TRUTH LIES WHERE THE MASK WAS MADE'.
• Audrey tries to stop Noah from drinking, due to being at work, as Noah states they can't fire him and how he's the only one who knows how to reset the router. Emma brings the yearbook to Noah and Audrey at Nightmare Level, hoping Noah may have some answers. Noah explains that the masks were surgical masks developed at Lakewood General, a closed down hospital off the turnpike. Not wanting to involve Noah in any danger, Emma says she doesn't want to go, but Audrey sees through the façade, and insists on accompanying her. As they leave, Noah turns around, possibly having overheard them despite wearing headphones.
• The Marra family makes a motion to file a civil suit against the sheriff's department, citing negligence on Clark's part. Maggie assures Clark that she will try to smooth the situation over.
• Quinn is shown at home pouring a glass of lemonade to Brooke and asks how she's doing as she states her friends are dead and everyone hates her. Brooke asks about her mother of who she tried calling to no avail, unaware of everything going on in Lakewood, with Quinn stating that her mother's perfected the art of avoidance, as Quinn states he has to deal with the town grieving and tells Brooke to confide with him, which Brooke declines.
• Will tells Jake that he's gotten into Duke, but hasn't been awarded a scholarship, meaning he'll likely be unable to go, as his father refuses to cosign for student loans. Jake suggests they revive the blackmail operation to supply money for Will's tuition. Jake reveals he has kept an alternate copy of the video the entire time, and they have nothing to lose (who is referring to Quinn's home security footage).
• Emma and Audrey break into Lakewood General. Audrey arms Emma with a stun-gun given to her by her father and carries a crowbar to defend herself.
• Audrey drops an explicit hint that a woman may be Emma's stalker, even showing off the voice app on her phone as evidence that any woman could have placed those phone calls.
  • This would be later used as Audrey’s link to Piper, not as an accomplice but as having brought her, in Season 2.
  • This is a nod to Tatum Riley’s line of the killer being a woman in the original Scream, which Nancy Loomis succeeded in becoming in Scream 2.
• Emma and Audrey follow a trail of dried up blood (or, possibly, red paint) to the hospital's O.R entrance, on which a Brandon James mask has been painted in red, leading into a grotesquely elaborate lair. They also find the corpse of a pig, which has been skinned and is missing the head and heart, leading Emma to deduce that it's where the pig's heart Maggie received in the mail on September 30th was from.
• Noah follows Emma and Audrey into the abandoned hospital before he scares them for entering and is slightly ambushed, due to Emma and Audrey hearing a sound when he came in, much to their surprise at his arrival.
• Afterwards, they find the cryptic clues from the 1994 GWHS yearbook Emma received as well as the killer's storage room of souvenirs from his three victims, before finding Nina’s laptop which Emma uses Audrey’s SD card from her camcorder to grab Nina’s info from her private suspicious files. The trio hear someone approaching and decide to leave as well as see the mask on display before they knock it down to reveal Tyler’s head, thus disproving him as the killer and rather, a victim, much to their shock.
  • After Noah stands up and discovers the lair (which he states looks staged), he discusses the meta reference to Emma and Audrey of killer lairs in TV shows, mentioning Pretty Little Liars as an example, which in turn, starred Lucy Hale (played Aria Montgomery in the PLL show), whom within the franchise in the Stab franchise, played Sherrie in Stab 6.
• Sheriff Hudson finds the trio as they try to leave the hospital and are interrogated by him at his office as Emma’s mom Maggie attends, with Clark claiming how possibly the evidence at the hospital is inadmissible due to their tampering.
• The Twitter (Chirpster poll favoring Brooke over Emma as the next murder of the Popular Crowd is still trending, with Brooke now at 524 votes (up 178 votes), while Emma still remains with two.
• Brooke and her father, Quinn, talk about Monica (Brooke’s mom and Quinn’s wife) as Brooke is tanning poolside in a bikini swimsuit. He tries to console and comfort her about Riley’s death and reassure her about her being tough and a survivor before he’s interrupted by presumably Jake texting him to meet for blackmail, which Brooke takes as ignorance to him not understanding her and leaves.
• Brooke sits by a lake (near Wren Lake Estates, supposedly) and meets up with Jake who she texted as they talk about the poll, which Brooke takes as everyone hates her and asks if he voted for her which he denies as he playfully flirts with her. Both mourn Riley as the two go silent as Brooke laments having left Riley alone and being selfish which Jake states being her charm as Brooke states, she doesn’t want to be that person as he wraps his arm around her and thanks him.
  • Continuity Error: Brooke states she left her friend alone last night, referring to Riley’s death being on October 7, rather than October 6, thus a mistake on her dialogue. Although it's possible this occurred before the interrogation of Emma, Noah, and Audrey (See Note Below).
• At the interrogation at the station Emma then asks how he knew they were there as Clark replies that he got an anonymous tip and saw them break in, as he claims how they swept the abandoned hospital a week ago to look for Tyler, and it was empty.
• Emma reveals about the yearbook arriving to her home, and who upsettingly disproves of having approached the sheriff with this and then claims otherwise, seeing as how no one believed her until Tyler was now proven to be a victim. Audrey holds the SD card but turns in her camera at the Sheriff's demand before the trio all leave.
  • Note: It is still daytime outside when Emma and Audrey broke in to the abandoned hospital, and afterwards when Clark takes Emma, Noah, and Audrey to the station, the lamps being turned on suggests it's nighttime. However, given that Brooke states in the following scenes when talking to Jake Fitzgerald by the lake, how she left Riley alone "last night", it is possible that it is still Wednesday, October 7th, with the interrogation scene taking place sometime after Brooke is talking with her father poolside and Jake at the lake.
    • This then causes an error (see next section), seeing as when Audrey and Noah then arrive back to Nightmare Level after the interrogation, it's still shown as light outside and are wearing the same clothes when trying to find the contents from the SD card from Nina's laptop, implying it is still October 7th.
  • Continuity Error: However, Piper, when talking to Emma at the Grindhouse Café as she arrived for work, either after school or before (all in the same episode, "Aftermath"; although possible school was cancelled for an additional day on the 8th, given Riley's death on the 6th) and states that she shouldn't leave, then asks Emma if this request had something to do with what happened at the hospital "yesterday", stating how the sheriff didn't share anything, implying that it is now Thursday, October 8th, before the sex tape is then leaked inadvertently by Audrey and Noah to Lakewood residents, which happens simultaneously as Emma also receives it while working and Piper being present.
    • Possible: To rectify this error, it is possible that Noah and Audrey did this in the early morning of October 8th, so to speak, and it's possible that while wearing the same clothes, it is justified given how early on October 7th that Audrey points out Noah slept at his workplace and was wearing the same clothes, and possible that the duo then would redon them regardless, possibly if they hadn't slept and wanted to meet to get to the SD cards contents.

October 8th

• Emma arrives to work as she approaches Piper (before her reveal as the killer) and asks her to talk as Piper states she’s done and how she’s only going to grab some man on the street reactions, interviews from police, and then rinse and repeat but how she is (false statement) done and Emma tells her she shouldn’t and stay as Piper states if it was what happened at the hospital (only the killer would know, but covers by stating the sheriff didn't share).
• Audrey and Noah hack the SD card from the files off Nina’s laptop and scramble a video showing Will and Emma’s first time and afterwards, try to turn it off and accidentally leak and upload it to the server online.
• In real time back at the Grindhouse, the video is shared online as Emma serves Piper her coffee and who is shocked as Emma opens it and Piper then asks her cluelessly what it is, before Emma states how it's her first time.
  • Audrey calls Noah a Jedi which is the one of many Star Wars references in the franchise, since Scream 2.
  • This is the only hack in which neither Piper or Kieran committed, although it’s unclear whether they knew about this file beforehand. After the leak, Piper toys with the hack by sending a GIF of it.

October 9th

• Three days have passed since Riley’s death and a day since Emma’s leaked video and school then resumes.
• 6:23 AM: Emma faces the same treatment of exposure as Audrey does, which she meets in the morning to comfort her. Will approaches Emma and who angrily confronts him about it before he leaves and she opens her locker and gets a call from the killer taunting her about being the star of the show (meta) and who finds a picture inside her locker above taped with a picture of her and Will from the video which in red marker is written “JUST LIKE YOUR MOTHER”
  • Continuity Error: The time Emma gets the call is 6:23 PM which is inconsistent, thus a production error, seeing as it is the morning and should be 6:23 AM instead, despite most American high schools not starting until 7:30 or 8:00 AM.
• Sheriff Clark Hudson meets with the police at Lakewood General and is temporarily placed on a leave of absence due to Mayor Quinn Maddox having brought on Detective Lorraine Brock from the State Police, working the Special Task Force to cooperate with the case and investigation for damage control. Both law enforcement officers reunite after a while as Lorraine states how the Governor wants the case resolved quickly. The officers both share passive aggressive comments before Clark leaves.
• In third period English, class is getting settled as Brooke gets mad at a girl who leaves after having sat in Riley’s former seat.
• Noah apologizes to Emma for the leak, which she accepts saying he didn’t know. Seth addresses his class about the death of Riley and scene work as Noah sits the project out, with permission, and goes on to lecture the class about “The Scarlet Letter. Jake blatantly states how with everything going on, asks who cares as Seth tells the class it’s relevant to the book.
• A GIF is sent around of both Will and Emma’s video and Will gets mad as a student jokes about it which causes Seth to tell an upset Will to sit down and Emma announces despite her exposure, that a candlelight vigil is being held downtown tonight at 7:00 PM in light of tragedy.
• After class, Kieran consoles with Emma in the hallway, as she asks and he denies about having seen the video and apologizes to her about Riley, with Emma stating it’s been a rough couple of days (three, to be exact) and asks Kieran where he went stating he disappeared as Kieran claims he had to drive up north to Bloomington to deal with insurance stuff of his mom’s accident and asks her about what ensued at the hospital after the files lead her there, which Emma claims was the killer.
  • Note: It is possible that the Bloomington of which Kieran is referring to is possibly Bloomington, Indiana or in Illinois, given that no town with that name exists in Louisiana (since some locations in the season, such as Nina's home, are actually from California; if originally implying that Lakewood was in California, given there is a real city with the same name in the state then the location Kieran referred to with the same name being Bloomington), or that it's could also possibly be either Bloomington from Missouri or Ohio, given that each is a state "up north", depending how far Kieran drove there, which is unstated.
  • However, it's more likely the former in Indiana, given that the latter in Missouri is an unincorporated area, as well as in Ohio, with OH being more northeast (if in Ohio, would be the first time the TV series due to Scream 2's setting in the state with the fictional Windsor College town, Stone Ridge), whereas Bloomington, Illinois (which is close to Chicago, which was also referenced in the second film) is a few minutes farther than Bloomington in Indiana depending on the route from Lakewood (if in Louisiana). If in Indiana, this would be the first time the TV series had indirectly referenced the state, due to the upcoming Scream 7 being set in the fictional town of Pine Grove, IN.
• Emma tells him how the video leak was planned and how she thought she was doing the right thing but how the killer was putting her humiliation on her own hands. Kieran tries to reassure Emma which she denies claiming she’s scared every time she gets a phone call or text and how everything she’s doing is backfiring and how she’s done and she’s going to let the cops deal with it. Kieran reminds Emma she doesn’t have to be afraid
  • Red herring since Kieran is the killer, thus not feeling remorse; also wasn’t his kill, rather Piper’s.
• Jake and Will discuss the leak of his videotape in the hallway as well as Jake stating if he told Emma the truth and who reminds him of the blackmail tomorrow which upsets an already upset Will who claims he can’t believe he led him into this.
  • Continuity Error: Contradicts the text message that Jake sent the previous episode of meeting the mayor at 8:00 PM on Friday, October 9th, since it now states it’s on for tomorrow on Saturday, October 10. Due to the mayor having to address the vigil in Lakewood.
• 7:00 PM: The candlelight vigil for the late victims Riley, Nina, and Tyler (except Rachel)  is held in downtown Lakewood with Emma, Audrey, Noah, Jake, Will, Kieran and Brooke in attendance as well as Quinn, Maggie, Clark and Lorraine.
• Emma apologizes to Audrey who places a photo of Audrey amongst the vigil and states she should be up there as Audrey claims she deserved a life before walking away from Emma and going to hug Noah.
• Clark and Lorraine talk about their past before both depart.
• Piper (in a façade) approaches Emma and asks her about Audrey and Rachel’s relationship (hinting at Pipers link to Audrey), and trying to implicate her as a suspect based on Rachel’s parents words on Audrey intimating Rachel and make their daughter to do things she wouldn’t normally do as Emma madly claims that her parents justified Rachel liking Audrey which Piper states how it’s hard to know the truth unless one has the whole story (hint to her identity, unbeknownst to Emma at the time).
• Brooke places a red rose down as Emma approaches and asks if she’s ready as they take out the candles before Lorraine approaches Emma and asks to speak to her early tomorrow at 7:30 AM which she agrees to before the Detective apologizes about her friends and walks off.
• Maggie approaches Emma and asks her if everything’s okay as Emma agrees slightly.
• Emma makes a speech about Riley before she is interrupted by being getting sent a 5 second video of her being recorded in the crowd as well as a threatening text from the killer, seemingly Piper Shaw, as she lets Noah make his speech, which warns that if she tells the cop (Brock) about her that she’ll get her mom's heart in a box, referring to the gift Maggie received in Pilot as Emma pans the crowd (minus Audrey, Noah, or Brooke, the latter two on stage with her) and looks out towards Clark, Jake, Will, Quinn, and Kieran.
  • Leaving out Piper from the panned suspects.
• As Emma and her friends light the candles in the crowd, Emma hallucinates the Lakewood Slasher in the crowd as she silently walks past them and turns in shock.

October 10th

• 7:30 AM: Maggie waits outside the Sheriff's office which Detective Brock now occupies as she questions Emma about the case and tells her how she read the incident reports and knowing of someone calling her. Brock reminds her of how Emma doubted Tyler was the killer and how she was right and asks what the person had to say.
• Emma turns to look at her mom outside and back at Brock and shrugs it off (due to the text) as just a crank posing as Brandon James trying to scare her. Lorraine asks Emma if she knew Rachel, which Emma denies and states only sharing Audrey as a mutual friend, which Brock points out and claims how three of the victims were related and how Rachel’s staged death was anomaly and how the killer wanted to send a message only the medical examiner would get; which Emma claims she’d have to talk to her mom about that as Brock reminds her how her dad is the only surviving victim of Brandon James and how Emma’s photo was found at the hospital and how they’re not all coincidences.
• Brock releases Emma as Maggie tells Emma how that was fast and Emma claims she told her everything she could and retorts by using her moms statement of things she couldn’t tell her because she wanted to protect her and Maggie claims she’s regretting it but Emma claims how it’s too late and how it goes both ways before Emma leaves with her backpack as her mother looks at her walk off.
• Jake and Brooke talk at the Grind House as Brooke is close to breaking downtown and seems tense and Jake asks her what’s wrong as Brooke claims how someone’s got to tell Emma about the truth of their freshman year which Jake claims she can’t do that to Will and how he’s at a breaking point. Brooke disregards this as Jake claims one has to warn a brother and who loudly claims she can’t keep lying to Emma, who overheard this as she serves a booth next to them which Jake agrees and tells her to do what she’s got to do as he leaves.
• Noah continues hacking at the Nightmare Level store and Audrey arrives as he reveals the malware to Audrey from the language arts sever from their school (by making Audrey download it, to corroborate, which shows a spy webcam as well, as Audrey refers to Noah as the NSA, short for the National Security Agency) and Noah states how Emma’s sex tape looked strange and how he found this as they then begin to suspect Branson as the killer and Nina as his pawn
• Brooke reveals to Emma about the dare and her and Will’s false relationship, also due to Nina being manipulative which she laments not having told her sooner due to becoming a part of the group and accepts if Emma wants to hit her she understands as Emma states how she couldn’t be friends with her but states how after losing both Riley and Nina but states how the killers words are true, as she leaves Brooke, who doesn’t know she’s referring to the killer.
• Jake and Will lead Quinn Maddox into an abandoned garage with Will being guard and Jake in the car, each masked with skull masks, blackmailing him with his home security footage as Jake breaks Quinn’s nose. Will refuses to take the money after stating no harm and foul, much to Jake’s confusion and upsetting.
• Piper and Emma run into each other and asks Emma how she’s doing as Emma leaves work as Emma dons she doesn’t know and Piper offers her some of her flask secretly in daylight as Emma agrees and thanks her and tells Piper how she just wants to believe in something that doesn’t turn to be false, upsetting, which Piper agrees as Emma claims if Piper isn’t supposed to tell her to hang in there and that it’ll get better which Piper agrees she can but how it’d be a lie.
• Piper makes a life meaning connotation to Charlie Brown and his football as well as Lucy as Emma asks Piper what got away from her which Piper claims would sound like a “angsty Southern playwright BS” as Emma tells Piper to tell her as Piper reveals how her father was murdered (Brandon James) and how she was too young to remember him but how the police never solved it which she claims they didn’t try and Emma apologizes and asks Piper if that’s why she does this which Piper agrees and claims she started to ask questions as soon as she could talk and how kind of never stopped and how she guesses they both have “dark, daddy issues”.
• The duo go silent as Piper gets up to leave before Emma tells her how she knows how despite her dad, Kevin (Piper’s enemy) and tries to relate how he’s been gone most of her life and knows how hard it is. Piper claims how they all have their demons and in the end tells Emma to hang in there before walking off.
  • Unknowingly had been talking to her sister the entire time, wouldn’t be revealed to Emma until “Revelations”.
• Will arrives to the plaza downtown and tries to talk to a visibly upset Emma who tries to walk away from him before he asks her if she was all right and slaps him across the face and asks him if she was a bet as Will is taken aback and tries to apologize and tells her she has every right to be mad.
  • This slap scene is an homage to Sidney punching Gale in the first two films, and would be referenced later again, similarly, by Liv Reynolds slapping Avery Collins in the premiere episode of Season 3. It would be succeeded by Sam Carpenter almost slapping Gale, before Tara does so herself, in the sixth film.
• Emma sarcastically thanks him for his permission and how she is humiliated as she points out to Will how yesterday he was swearing to her how he didn’t have any idea how anything happened and how she finds out now that everything was a lie and asks him how that’s all she was to him.
• Emma tells him how the worst part is how he never had the courage to tell her in all of the time they were together and how she hand to find out from Brooke as Will tries to explain Nina’s dare and how he loved her which Emma sarcastically states how he sounds like a bad romantic comedy and how they didn’t even meet cute, rather sick-twisted.
• Will grabs Emma’s hand as she turns around to leave as Emma tells Will to not touch her as Will asks to talk and Emma disagrees, claiming how they’re not friends or together anymore and that they’re done as she walks off as Piper looks on, unseen, from an inside as Emma walks off.
• Brooke fearfully confronts her father (who's to talking to his secretary about needing funds for tomorrow) about her mother about not being checked into the Four Seasons at Milan about being on her retreat and would ask Quinn about his nose as well as revealing to Brooke about checking her into rehab as Brooke asks why he didn’t tell her as she walks off upset despite her father trying to reassure her.

October 15th

• Five days have passed since Emma's break up with Will following the truth revealed to her by Brooke, and since the falling out in the blackmail deal between Jake and Will. It's been about a week since Riley's death and the candlelight vigil for the victims (minus Rachel), as well as the discovery of Tyler being a victim after the break in at Lakewood General by Emma, Noah, and Audrey.
• Jake and Will get in a fight before due to having tried to get Quinn Maddox to pay them $100,000 (secretly), as well as Will confronting Brooke for having told Emma the truth which she claims has been eating at her for over a year and Jake defends her beforehand. Jake instigates it as the trash talker and Will with the first punch before their teacher Mr. Branson pulls them apart as Will leaves and Seth guides Jake to the nurse, with Jake smiling as Brooke takes his bag and follows him.
• In gym class, Audrey and Will then perform a self-defense practice with Audrey easily pinning Will down in front of their coach and students as she asks him whispering how it feels to take it, referring to her acknowledging Will’s disgrace with Emma, as Emma watches on and Noah claps.
• After class is over, Emma runs into Kieran who claims how their esteemed mayors self-defense classes are a hit as Emma asks if he’s too cool for self-defense as Kieran states he’s not, but how he’s sure they’re very effective if they’re attacked in a well lit gym as Emma laughs but tells Emma as he backs her into the wall and grabs and slowly yet smoothly pushes her against the wall and tells her how what if her first warning is a knife to her throat.
• Emma asks Kieran what he’s doing as he responds by attacking her, playfully, with Emma claiming she thought he was supposed to make her feel less afraid, as he asks Emma if she’s afraid now which Emma denies. He asks her what’s changed with his hands grabbing her waist as Emma states how yesterday she was so embarrassed and how it just kept getting worse and worse but how she realized she’s there, alive and breathing, and that she makes her own choices as she makes out with Kieran in front of Will
  • This would the most obvious yet oblivious clue that Kieran was the killer from Season 1.
• Noah and Audrey look into Seth Branson’s laptop to his language arts homework website to see the malware and they see the student IDs, which are of Nina, Tyler, and Riley. Audrey forgets to lookout and they manage to avoid suspicion just as Seth returns to his classroom and Audrey and Noah play it as Noah trying to do a scene, as Seth looks at them intimidating and suggest they could do a dramatic threesome (red herring, not the killer) as Seth faces Noah and the duo then leave.
• 6:23 PM: Back home, Emma reads in her room an article online about Brandon James and gets a call from the killer, threatening and taunting her about her breakup with Will.
• Maggie confronts Clark about his past relationship with Lorraine at her house as they flirt before Clark takes Maggie’s glasses off and the two kiss and make out, later going on to spend the night together and starting a brief relationship.
• Jake visits Brooke’s house late at night, bringing her a pineapple pizza as they talk about Brooke owing up to herself and self-improvement as Brooke thanks him for defending her and how perhaps he can learn from her, too, which is the reason why he’s there and states how her family is her family as Brooke states sounds sketch as Jake states how he has to get something off his chest and confesses how Nina and Tyler had a video of her dad doing shady stuff, and who claims Will has the video and is now blackmailing his dad, despite him also being involved, which he doesn’t state to her as Quinn watching the kitchen feed, lists Wills name down. They watch the video in her bedroom, in privacy, much to Brooke’s shock.
• Kieran takes Emma out to the open woods of Lakewood, alone and late at night, and tries to help Emma conquer her fears by showing her how to and letting her fire his short pistol gun on some cups for target practice and tells Emma she’ll need to protect herself if he’s not there and she claims she cant. Emma is taken aback but thanks Kieran for the offer as they make out and Kieran reminds Emma he’s not going to win, referring to the killer and mentioning how they’re alive, despite Emma stating the killer could be watching. Kieran tease her with this both then make out and proceed to have sex with each other in the field for the first time.

October 16th

• 6:26 AM: Nightmare sequence only: (“Betrayed”) Emma and Kieran arrive at Brandon James’s former house at dawn after their date and Kieran asks Emma if she’s sure as they enter anyways as Emma uses a flashlight to guide her around with Kieran behind her. However as the more they investigate, they get separated and Emma gets a phone call from the killer as she pleads with the killer to not hurt Kieran as Emma tries to leave the house before being stabbed by the Lakewood Slasher who she unmasks as herself before Emma awakened in her bed.
  • This would later be used as a sequence for Marcus Elliot in “The Man Behind the Mask” in Season 3.
• The next morning, Will visits the Grind House and finds Piper there, and they talk as Piper convinces him to talk to her to redeem himself.
• Noah and Audrey talk about Seth Branson as they walk outside in the school hallways, and how Seth didn’t exist before moving to Lakewood and theorize how Nina may have found out and  been blackmailing him and planted the malware as a threat and suspect everyone.
• Everyone works their scenes in English class, as Brooke can’t concentrate due to finding out about her father which Jake reassured her as Noah joins Audrey and Will’s project, as Kieran and Emma talk about their parents.
• Lorraine asks to speak to Maggie privately in the sheriff's office and asks to speak to her about questions she had on the Rachel Murray case and how she could help, stating how it took a week for them to determine the former teens death was suspicious and asks why.
• Maggie states how she was staged as a suicide but how her injuries didn’t correspond to where she was found as Brock states how by the time Clark opened a murder investigation, 2 other kids died (Tyler and Riley). Lorraine states how she knows Maggie wants to defend Clark but how they both know her opinion is biased.
• Maggie scoffs and asks Lorraine if she’s accusing her of something as Lorraine states how evidence was missed and how someone has to be held accountable as Maggie asks what evidence and how they found hair fibers and skin cells and how DNA tests came in and asks her to confirm the results as Maggie asks who it is which Lorraine claims someone with clear motive and opportunity that was a suspect in front of her and Clark this entire time.
• The police then arrive at Branson's class as Audrey is taken out, much to the confusion and staring down of all her classmates.
• Noah and Emma talk after class in an empty band room, as Noah tells Emma about the malware inside an empty music room and the theory of Branson before they’re interrupted by Branson, unaware they’re talking about him.
• Lorraine interrogates Audrey at the police station before Clark arrives to warn Lorraine how Audrey is a minor and she can’t interrogate her without her guardian present, due to Audrey's father calling about her being pulled from class. She presses Audrey on her relationship with Rachel and Nina’s video of her exposing them and the video project she was making of Brandon James all of which she denies.
• Lorraine presses Audrey about finding her DNA in the Brandon James mask the day she, Emma, and Noah broke into Lakewood General. Her father asks if they're sure it's his daughter's DNA. Clark leaves after Brock tells him to as Lorraine asks to see the footage of the night, which she denies. Audrey’s father denies for Lorraine to interrogate Audrey without an attorney present, which Lorraine agrees to, and who asks for Audrey's footage from her camera on the night of her murder. Audrey denies having it, as her dad asks to speak to the detective outside which she agrees which gives Audrey just a few minutes to call Emma and Noah to get rid of it, seeing as it would incriminate her.
• Will tries to talk to Brooke after class outside but Brooke denies and claims how Jake told her everything about him blackmailing her father as Will claims how Jake’s the one who dragged him into this as Brooke states he better make this right as he messed with the wrong family.
• In the school hallway, Emma is shown standing by her locker waiting outside for Noah, who’s in Branson’s class, who leaves as Noah explains how he theorizes Branson is innocent (before his relationship with Brooke is revealed and his past) and the malware Tyler and Nina had on him was like any other but how he got his fingerprints and phone number through an app he programmed to find out his past.
• 4:16 PM: Just then, Emma gets a call from an unknown caller, supposedly the killer which turns out to be Audrey calling from her dad's phone and telling her and Noah to retrieve the SD card from the night of Nina’s murder (claiming it incorrectly as September 30th) and to destroy it before the police arrive and asks them to not watch it. She leaves as soon as Lorraine and Audrey’s dad return, with Lorraine immediately knowing she had been on the phone, and asks who she called, as Mr. Jensen defends his daughter, telling her not to answer, and states how if Brock thinks she has enough evidence substantial to charge her, with Brock stating how due to a judge issuing a search warrant, she has enough to search their home, with Audrey being made to stay at the station for a while the search is issued.
• Brooke and Jake meet up at her house in her garage’s workshop and look into the freezer to confirm the shady video isn’t what it is as Jake reassured her there is.
• Noah and Emma break into Audrey’s house through the back door and head into her room to retrieve her SD card before Emma finds it as Noah and Emma then escape through the window before the detective and the police can find them.
• Back at Noah’s job, both Emma and Noah contemplate destroying the SD card and whether or not to watch it.
• Lorraine interrogates Emma a second time as Emma defends Audrey conversely and Maggie states how if she says she doesn’t know, she doesn’t with her mom asking after Lorraine leaves if she’s sure with Emma reassuring it’s someone else wanting it to look this way.
• After school in the high school locker room showers and weight room, Jake confronts Will after he gets out of the shower and can’t find his blackmail phone and money, who gets dressed and confronts Will about it who’s lifting and benching on the press alone as Jake threatens him and pushes the weight down as Will pushes it off as he leaves.
  • The secluded locker room and confrontation, albeit in the weight room for Will and Jake's, would later be used for Marcus Elliot during his run-in (locker) and taunting (weight) by Ghostface in "The Deadfast Club".
• Will meets Piper after school as Piper asks if he took up her offer as they leave and both supposedly talk about it, with Will then helping her set up a secret recording at the abandoned garage of exposing the mayor for his shady security home footage.
• After leaving the station, Emma returns to Noah’s work and both watch the incriminating video of Audrey getting mad at Rachel for Nina leaking the video as Emma reassures him it can’t be her as Noah states he can’t I see that and asks to take it away
• Back home, Emma re-watches the video of Audrey’s anger and who begins having second thoughts as she and her mom talk as Maggie then takes Emma to their Nana’s old house, aka Daisy’s childhood home which she states so they wouldn’t figure out and how this is it where it began and how Brandon was innocent, which she used to convince Emma on deciding whether or not Audrey is innocent and what to say.
• Emma returns to the station to confess her involvement and how Audrey didn’t kill Nina or Rachel as Clark asks her to sign an affidavit as the Lakewood PD come to the conclusion, due to the DA, that the evidence may have been tampered.
• Night: Audrey and Emma talk outside of the station about the video and how Audrey claims Rachel stopped her from doing what she could’ve done and in a heartfelt moment, both friends hug as Emma returns her the SD card.
• Quinn arrives at the same garage from days earlier for his blackmail to meet with Will, unaware of Piper’s presence to cover this story as Will hands him the video on the spare phone and the money he was extorted with. Quinn asks if he watched it which Will denies as the mayor grabs the evidence and who’s about to pull his gun before Will claims he doesn’t want to die and tells him not a word to anyone and leaves.
• Piper then emerges after Will calls her out after Quinn leaves and who converses him, unaware that the Lakewood Slasher aka Kieran (Piper's accomplice) is with them and who in a ploy, makes it look like a random attack as Piper is knocked out and Will is taken into the Abandoned Bowling Alley, where he is held up until his release.

Week Before October 31

Dating Information: During “In The Trenches” when Emma and her friends try to locate Will, after he’d been kidnapped, the timeframes become inconsistent, seeing as Will’s attack took place on Friday, October 16, despite the fact that Emma, Noah, Audrey, Brooke, and Jake are all at school on Saturday, October 17. The attack should’ve taken place on Thursday, October 15 and the search on Friday, October 16. Thus, any concurrent or subsequent events that are afterwards shown would've occurred during the week before the events of October 31, 2015.

In The Trenches (October 17th-October 18th)

• Emma and her mom, Maggie, both talk about Maggie’s relationship and hers, seeing as they’re dating a two men father-son duo, seeing as they’re on a double date despite Emma claiming her and Kieran are just friends as Emma is driven to school by Kieran and invites him to the dinner.
• Audrey and Noah talk at school as Audrey has to catch up on her midterms after being released from her temporary arrest as the friends catch up on the Branson theory, who isn’t in school seeing as he has a sun and how the malware on his website was scrubbed.
• Jake and Brooke talk about Brooke’s dad and the evidence of which they found in the freezer which Jake states he knows as Emma approaches them about Will as Brooke reveals to Emma about the blackmail of her dad, as she asked them previously stating she doesn’t know. Piper arrives and states she needs to talk to Emma.
• Piper takes Emma, Brooke, and Jake to the garage as she lied about why Will was brought there, using her guise, and how they were attacked by the killer and how Will “saved” her as she suffered a concussion. Jake knows the garage as they all find it as Piper leads them to a graffitied sign inside the wall which reads “NO COPS EMMA” directed towards her (spray painted by either her or Kieran). The killer calls Emma using Will as bait.
• Brooke confronts her father the mayor Quinn in his office about meeting with Will the night he went missing and the blackmail, as well as her mother’s disappearance. Quinn defends her worry about her mother and denies all of the accusations against Will, claiming he doesn’t know where he is or if he met him. Jake arrives and he and Brooke leave her fathers office together.
• Emma enlists the help of Noah at his job to track Will’s location through his phone and GPS, which they find a location around the crossroads as Noah asks if she’s going alone, which Emma claims before Brooke and Jake volunteer to go with her, as well as Noah.
• The four of them arrive at the abandoned Bowling Alley and try to make their way in, as well as splitting up with Jake and Brooke finding another way in as well as Emma and Noah. Emma calls Kieran to cover for her at her and her moms house for dinner, which he agrees to.
• Emma talks to Noah about why the killer would be doing this and he discusses that he’s making Emma responsible and to think she has power.
• Jake and Brooke talk suspects as they make their way inside and who playfully flirt.
• Kieran covers for Emma and Clark informs him and Maggie over dinner that Detective Brock is off the case.
• The four make their way inside the dark abandoned Bowling Alley and meet up in the bowling aisles, and split up yet again to try and find Will, sticking in the same pairs. Emma and Noah look through a storage room as Jake and Brooke look through a game machine room.
• Just as Jake suspects Noah, Noah suspects him and tells Emma about how he thinks he is as they look through a closet of bowling balls while Jake and Brooke talk as they make their way through the main lobby as Brooke dismisses Jake’s act and tells him to drop the “frat-boy” thing in order to make women like him. Jake then goes to the bathroom.
• Emma and Noah make their way through the back of the bowling alley as Brooke waits for Jake outside, and is surprised by the killer behind her who screams as she runs through the bowling alley. Emma and Noah find a locked door and make their way to find Will tied up hanging up as Noah cuts him down and both try to wake him up. Brooke runs through the back escaping the killer and finds Emma and Noah and informs them of the killer being out there as well as Jake.
• Just then, Noah gets a signal and call from Audrey who’s leaving school, and who informs them about their location and having found Will before the signal cuts out. Will awakens much to everyone’s relief. Audrey arrives at Emma's house to tell Maggie about the situation, as Maggie states how Kieran went to get her and how she was with her which Audrey claims she doesn’t know but who tells them as Clark Hudson calls for backup.
• Emma tends to Will’s cut across his stomach by placing duct tape on it as Noah and Brooke go to guard the door as Brooke makes a makeshift spear and Noah then suspects Jake as Brooke does as well. Emma finds “B4” carved on the back of Will as a clue as Emma finds Brandon James’s stamp card from when he worked there as Emma finds a tape about her dad, Kevin with Dr. Pell , titled “PTSD Project” and which on the back reads “Play Me” in uppercase letters, and who tells everyone how she’ll be right back as she goes off much to everyone's shock. The song “Daisy” begins playing in the speakerphone
• Emma heads into the main lobby and changes the tape playing off the disc player radio and speakerphone and takes the tape of the “Daisy” song off to listen to the tape, taking it off the speakerphone as soon as the tape plays, as Kevin recounts his trauma and how Maggie slept with Brandon James, much to her shock.
  • The use of playing a tape over a speakerphone (albeit as more clues for Emma in the Alley) would be later referenced and used in a similar format in "Devil's Night".
• Brooke, Noah, and Will try to head out to find Emma and Jake before the killer appears as Noah opens the front door. Will and Noah hold and try to barricade the door as much as they can before Will tells Brooke and Noah to run off. Brooke finds Jake and takes the knife Impaled on his upper chest on his pec, screaming in pain as he does. Emma makes her way out of the lobby as she gets called by Brooke and who’s almost grabbed by the killer before being tackled down by Will. Deputy Newsome arrives with the police and Kieran as well who consoles her who all unite as Noah arrives and leads them outside and takes them to Clark, Maggie, an Audrey waiting. Jake is taken to the hospital with Brooke as Will is treated for his cuts
• The next morning, Emma defends herself at her house as Clark suggests giving her a security detail, which Maggie agrees to before she and Kieran talk upstairs, and who talk about her being hung up on Will. Kieran leaves to give her time before he leaves and Will calls Emma, to come over which she agrees to.
• Noah and Audrey talk about Noah’s time at the Bowling Alley before Noah tells Audrey how perhaps the killer had other intentions.
• Emma arrives at Will's house and farm and gets a call from him, before revealing it to be the killer, much to Emma’s shock and anger. The killer tells her to run as Emma does and who stumbles after running through a horse stable to find Will tied to a chair with a large trencher machine turned on behind him who runs to him.
• Emma accidentally trips on a hidden tripwire which was attached to a lever of the machine and which pulls the lever of the machine down, which triggered by Emma’s foot before the saw-like machine heads into a downward motion with the blade then sending it right down through Will’s skull and later body down, killing him thru as he’s bisected in half, and fully mid-sagittal (off-screen), completely splattering Emma who watches in horror as she’s splattered in his blood.
• Will Belmont is captured and brought to the Bowling Alley/later killed after somewhere outside of his house. (accidentally; head sliced through his brain, bisected in half due to Emma setting of a trap unbeknownst to her). Emma begins walking away in silence just as Will's mother, Adelaide, with a paper bag of groceries arrives home, who would scream in horror upon discovering her son's corpse.

Ghosts (unspecified dates-October 30th)

• Emma becomes silent and traumatized following witnessing the death of Will, as she’s interrogated by Clark and Maggie. as well as replaying the same tape she heard back in the Bowling Alley alone in her room, as she’s then prescribed antidepressants and who misses school because of it (unstated how many days of school but approximately a week and 4 days).
• Brooke is shown with Jake in his hospital room and Noah comes to visit as he asks how he’s doing as Brooke tells him how he’s sleeping off his pain meds and how the doctors said it’s some kind of miracle the killer missed his major organs and tells him how he should be up and leaves and tells him she’s going to get some answers as Noah talks to unconscious Jake and confesses he was the one who graffitied his truck as Jake awakens to hear this.
• Jake awakens and asks if they made it, with Noah agreeing and asks if Emma went all “Florence Nightingale” with Will and if they’re back together as Noah claims not exactly as Brooke then arrives and greets him as Jake asks what happened as Brooke whispers and the both cry as Noah stands over them, with Jake crying into Brooke’s shoulder.
  • Florence Nightingale would be referenced again as a Halloween costume for episodic character, Becky, in “The Deadfast Club”.
• Emma prepares to head to school as she talks with her mom in the kitchen, who’s surprised she’s going to school as Emma drinks her coffee as her mom tells her the school will understand and if the meds helped her sleep. Emma tells her how she doesn’t need to be questioned and how she needs to go back to normal life and Maggie tells her how what she went through was horrific and how going back to normal is going to take time.
• Emma states how Will’s dead and that time doesn’t change that, and Maggie gives Emma her meds as the deputy outside her house drives her to school.
• Clark Hudson looks over the board in his office at the station as Piper arrives to hand information regarding the night of Will’s attack and hands him what seemingly looks like Audrey’s SD card (reads Sept. 30) but it’s the shady footage of Quinn Maddox’s security footage from back in August which Nina, Tyler, and Will used to blackmail him as if to implicate him as a suspect, as Clark asks why she’s not podcasting as Piper claims she doesn’t want to until she has the full truth.
• Emma arrives at school and is consoled by both Noah and Audrey, as they try to relate and reassure her with Emma claiming she’s fine and who feels grief as she looks on Will's locker having been placed with gifts.
• Brooke and Piper talk just as Piper is about to leave as Brooke was to one who seemingly came to Piper about this since it regards her dad. Noah and Audrey talk in class about Branson still being the killer.
• Quinn is interrogated for the blackmail video and Brooke denies telling Clark to talk to her dad and who talks to her mom, crying as she hears her. Quinn is held at the sheriff's office in the jail cell.
• After class, at her locker, Emma is hugged by Kieran as he tries to comfort her before she dismisses him as she goes to work. She heads to the bathroom to take her pills and who spills them down on the sink who goes to pick them up before hallucinating Will being split apart and which startled her, before she leaves.
• Clark and Maggie talk about Quinn being a suspect as well as Kevin Duval and Emma’s condition and perhaps this being a distraction, which Emma overhears them talking about trying to tackle which she warns them before leaving, stating she's worried about them.
• Noah and Audrey meet Emma reading a psychology article online at the school library and who talk to her as Audrey reassures her they’re her friends as Emma tells both Noah and Audrey about replaying and her being insomniac, which Noah claims is normal and it’s her survival before Emma leaves.
• As Emma walks the school hallways, she begins to hallucinate the lights flickering off and the dead Will coming towards her and handing her a heart. She snaps out of it once she runs into Kieran. Both talk outside and Kieran tries to relate and states it’s self-perseverance and says he wants to help, which Emma disagrees.
• Piper makes a podcast for “Autopsy of a Crime” dedicated to Will Belmont. She pauses as she talks to Emma working at the GrindHouse picking up cups as Piper tries to reassure her by asking if she heard about the mayor being the suspected killer, which Emma doubts. Emma drops cups as Piper says she wants to help but Emma claims how everyone wants to, but nobody can.
• Emma and Piper sit down to talk as Piper reassures her, she’s going to survive as Emma claims it’s better which she doesn’t as Piper tries to convince her to keep pushing, as Piper reminds her, she comes from a family of survivors and to not let them win as Emma claims she doesn’t know what to believe anymore as Piper tells her to find the answers herself.
• Clark and Maggie discuss Maggie’s ex husband and father of Emma, Kevin Duval, to be one of the main suspects as the killer back at the coroner's office which Maggie disagrees with.
• Emma hallucinates at work yet again dead Will handing her this time the bloody wooden heart locket of Daisy aka Emma’s mom, Maggie, before she snaps out of it while the Deputy comes to her aid as she shakes and gasps.
• Emma is then taken to the hospital that night as Maggie checks up on her before leaving and her homie visited by her father Kevin Duval, who claims how Clark called his boss and how he came as dons a she heard and apologizes as Emma is visibly upset and in her undertone, asks about the missed letters with Kevin defending it due to his marital strife(s) with her mother. He apologizes for this happening to her as Emma tells him about the tape and defends his reason for leaving as Emma claims he can’t come back to be the hero and asks him to leave as she turns away from him, upsettingly as he does so.
  • Would visit yet again in Season 2 in “Vacancy”.
• Emma goes and researches info while at the hospital and shares a moment with her mother later and father the night before, earlier having shared one with Piper in the morning. Emma mentions to Piper if she wanted to check how “Girl, interrupted”, she was, as both talk about events as Piper talks with Emma to not give up and stay strong before leaving.
  • The 1999 film reference which would be used later again in the Season 2 premiere “I Know What You Did Last Summer”, and the second time Angelina Jolie was mentioned since Scream 3, albeit unnamed.
  • Piper is the third killer in the franchise to visit their targets, pre-reveal, in the hospital, preceded by Mickey and Jill in the films and currently succeeded by Kieran, Beth, Amber and Richie, the first two from the TV series and the latter duo from the films.
• Noah and Audrey talk at Nightmare Level about the reasons as to why Seth would be the killer regarding the murders and malware and his identity, which Noah claims is due to the archetypes, which Audrey points out that if he’s killing members of The Breakfast Club, only she’s left. Noah stacks magazines as he talks and who tells her to reassure how perhaps he’s hiding stuff in his classroom.
  • This reference would later be more directly used in Season 3 and for its premiere episode “The Deadfast Club” and the group of the same name.
• Brooke visits her father, Quinn, alone in his jail cell to her contempt as she questions his truth and asks him to confess who was in the trunk after reassuring her mother was fine, as Quinn admits it was a friend of her mothers with no ID or pulse in the guestroom of their house and how he did this to protect their family.
• Brooke claims he did it selfishly and how she’d be left to pick up the pieces. Quinn apologizes and claims they’re going to survive and to stay with the Fitzgerald(s) and be strong until they can be together and Brooke claims they shouldn’t before she leaves, both father and daughter teary eyed.
• Emma begins to have nightmares while at the hospital, about the Lakewood General and encountering dead Will at school as well as going back to when her and her mom fought her and her mom. Emma awakens and goes to talk about her father, supposedly, who claims the night he left wasn’t about her and to look around and she’ll find the truth. She awakens standing at the Obstetrics and Pediatrics Ward of the hospital she’s in.
• Emma then wakes up back in her hospital room the next morning and texts Audrey via her Mac laptop and asks her for the video from the night of the hospital, and who finds a sonogram from the video.
• After school, Noah and Audrey are looking in Seth’s room and are led to finding evidence, a knife and phone in a plastic bag hidden in the speakers of the classroom. They give Hudson all of this information at school, who is investigating Seth’s classroom after school, and after Noah finally gets a check, confirming Branson as Seth Palmer, and give them their theory about the malware and how Seth wasn’t in town during the bowling alley incident and Will’s death.
• Seth meets with Brooke after school in the dimly lit auditorium, since Seth was finishing up rehearsal with the drama club. Brooke goes to be comforted as Seth tries to deny before they both begin to make out.
• Emma calls her mom to the hospital and confronts her mom about the ultrasound saying they murdered Will in front of her because of it. Maggie admits to Emma how she was 16 and who gave it up for adoption and how it was closed and how she never knew the sex of the baby. Emma asks if the child she had is back as the killer.
• She came back to Lakewood to reconnect with her father before she found out Kevin had cheated at the bowling alley, prior to her pregnancy, and who was consoled by Brandon James who she had sex with, due to his kindness.
• Brooke and Seth make out and undress behind the closed curtains on stage in the couch before Seth hears something and leaves and dresses to go check it out. Brooke is left alone, only in her bikini top, as the curtains open and calls for Seth and the lights turn out leaving pink headlights before the white spotlight is placed on her and who calls on a figure, she sees in the auditorium aisle before walking up and retreating and seeing it as the killer. She runs away behind the stage.
  • This is an homage to the Windsor College theater stage in Scream 2.
• Brooke is slashed in the arm by the killer after trying to hook up with Seth Branson after school in the empty auditorium alone, wearing only her bikini, who immediately suspects Seth after he comes to find her.
• Seth Branson is then accused of being the killer and jailed after trying to aid Brooke, as well as interrogated by Sheriff Hudson.

October 31st (Halloween 2015)

The Dance

• Seth Palmer is interrogated for his past by Sheriff Clark Hudson as well as being the suspected killer due to the evidence found in his classroom.
• Brooke and Emma drive around as Emma comforts her about her situation and who drives Brooke to stay with the Fitzgeralds, as she’s greeted and taken in by Jake who consoles her and reminds her that she had him when he asks her why he went back to Seth and how if he ever caught him hurting her, Seth would be dead.
• At the coroner’s office, Emma meets with her mom who's getting a maternity and DNA test with her and Seth and claims she needs to see him if in fact he’s the killer.
• Seth and Emma meet in an interrogation room, with Seth handcuffed and watched over by an officer, and Seth denies having killed Will as Emma claims he knows why her friends are dead and her family being targeted. Seth denies this and says loudly that if they’re trying to break down as Maggie and Clark watch over a monitor. Emma uses the killer's words in order for Seth to answer, which he claims he doesn’t know and how she’ll find out herself. Emma then leaves.
• Back in her room at the Fitzgerald’s house, Brooke is in her black bikini top and heads to shower and who heads back into her room and sees her laptops light on recording her which she closes and gets mad, covering herself with a bathrobe.
• Emma meets with Noah and Audrey at the Grindhouse to show them the sonogram of Emma’s mom and the possibility of Seth being her family as Noah asks intrigued, of what happened in the interrogation room. Audrey reminds her it’s a lot to take in and how Emma was hallucinating Will and that there’s no connection between Seth or Rachel.
• Audrey states how the news reports don’t even list her name when they talk about the victims due to her suicide as Emma agrees and asks her to find the truth as Audrey states to only prove it beyond a doubt. Noah agrees happily and leaves with Audrey as Piper arrives.
• Piper talks to Emma about finding Cassie James aka Brandon James’s mother (Piper's very own grandmother) and how Emma claims they can help each other as they visit her together. Cassie then breaks down about Maggie getting Brandon killed (mentioned her to Emma, since they look alike) before Emma tries to leave as Piper asks him as Cassie mentions Brandon’s son having visited her and that his name was Seth.
  • Was a ploy by Piper, who used Kieran using Seth’s name to frame him before Pipers reveal, thus why Cassie recognized Kieran.
• Both Piper and Emma leave and talk about the info they’ve learned before Piper drops Emma off at her house as Kieran watches as Piper drops her and drives off and Emma heads inside.
• Kieran heads inside Emma’s house, sitting in her house stairs by the front door and reading about the articles online regarding the news of Seth’s arrest and being “caught” as well as his affair. They talk about their relationship status and with Kieran and Emma deciding to both head to the Halloween dance and who each have a dinner date with their parents and each other that night.
• At Nightmare Level, Noah asks Audrey if she’s had any luck looking through the raw footage of Rachel in order to confirm the theory of whether or not Branson killed Rachel.
• Back at Jake’s house, Jake returns to Brooke’s room who confirms he picked up her Porsche from her house and who points out her corset and Brooke then states and confronts him of recording her on her webcam on her laptop, which she claims wasn’t Seth.
• Jake angrily asks why she’s defending him and Brooke claims that they’re making him out to be some sort of monster which Jake claims he is and Brooke states he isn’t as Jake tells her how she knows and tells her she still thinks she’s the apex predator and Brooke states how sometimes one has to have to have faith in people.
• Jake sarcastically replies and how that’s working out for her family as Brooke claims that it was a mistake as she takes her laptop and gets her bag, walking up to take her clothes out of the drawers as Jake asks where she’s going which Brooke replies home, as she takes her keys and leaves the room and Jake’s house.
• Clark and Maggie meet at the sheriff's office as he goes over the call logs and records from Seth’s phone to Emma’s phone and the cell towers, which originated away from the south of Wren Lake and away from Seth’s house or town and who goes to investigate this privately himself.
• Noah and Audrey watch Rachel’s footage from the bar and see a video of Nina before her death with Kieran before heading to the Dance, as Jake tries to look for Brooke through her house security. Emma meets with her mom at the Dance as well as Emma and Jake talking about what he did to Brooke for half a day and who's having an after party.
• Many of the characters at the Dance are dressed as known Halloween costumes such as
  • Emma and Kieran are dressed as both Mia Wallace (Emma) and Vincent Vega (Kieran) from the 1994 film Pulp Fiction.
  • Audrey is dressed as a Steampunk lady.
  • Noah is dressed as a vampire, likely Dracula.
    • Tells Audrey how he originally was going to go as the Babadook, the titular monster from the 2014 film of the same name. In the franchise, the film would be mentioned almost 6 years later in Scream (2022), as Tara’s favorite horror movie, due to it being “elevated horror”.
  • Jake is dressed as Robin Hood or an elf.
• Emma and Audrey get into an argument after Kieran leaves after Emma tells him about why Audrey seemed upset and about him meeting with Nina which he claims doesn't know her. Emma claims she can’t believe him as the killer no more than she believes Audrey killed Nina as Audrey leaves angrily and states she’s going to Brooke’s to get drunk.
  • Would later be false since Kieran was indeed the killer.
• Jake and Ava Miller hook up as Jake takes her as his eye candy to Brooke’s after party.
• Clark Hudson finds the Killers' suspected hideout/lair during the day and is later caught by the killer in his home. (Later killed; guts ripped from inside body)

Revelations

• The Dance happens at the school/Piper meets with Emma to frame Kieran, before the dance is then interrupted by the killer with a livestream of Clark pinned and bleeding, tied up against a tree.
  • Most likely Kieran who did the livestream on Piper’s cue and command, seeing as he is her accomplice.
• Seth escapes jail, claimed to have been freed by killer and Deputy Roberts is murdered. (stabbed and chained to a jail cell).
• Brooke’s after party is held at her house with various partygoers outside by her pool, as the cell towers are hacked and thus neither Emma or Noah can contact Brooke, Audrey, or Jake. Emma and Noah then leave the Dance and go their split ways
• Maggie takes pictures and investigates the corpse of Deputy Clifton Roberts at Emma’s insistence at the police station and finds a clue of the carved locket inside the dead deputy whose body looked staged and finds a clue leading to the sheriff's location at the tree behind Maggie’s old house.
• Brooke is scared by Grayson with a fake Brandon James mask as well as talking with Audrey at the party as both console and find bonding on one another before Jake interrupts with Ava and crashes the party
• Emma and Maggie find Clark tied up, unknown of the trap set for her, similar to Emma’s trap with Will and who after consoling in one another, as Piper “fake” consoles Emma and agrees to help her by checking Brooke’s house and party.
  • The tree where Clark is tied up is the same tree Maggie in her childhood would write to Brandon and would use it to prove to Miguel whether or not Brandon was back in Season 2.
• Emma meets with her mom back at the station and leaves her at the police station, since she has to help, before getting called by Noah, who then investigates from his work what the malware and hacking is doing, causing to turn off phone ringers and notifications and how he got a signal of the killer at Brooke’s house and tells her to call the cops . Emma then gets a text from the killer threatening to kill if the cops are called; tells him to pick her up and explains how they can’t as Noah goes over the tropes but Emma reassures him they’ll survive.
• Brooke and Jake talk inside her house in the wine cellar with Jake trying to apologize and explaining how the webcams and malware was set up and he was trying to figure it out but couldn’t.
• Grayson Pfeiffer is killed inside the outside bathroom (throat sliced), who is found by Ava Miller, who along with the other partygoers after finding him, leave Brooke’s party who was inside getting wine from the cellar.
  • This is an inverse homage to Tatum Riley’s death from the original Scream, as well as the party scenes in both. (Brooke is almost killed after being trapped in a freezer, similarly to Tatum’s death after being stuck in the garage door)
  • Unlike the partygoers leaving in the original due to being interested in seeing a murdered body, the partygoers in this scene leave in an inverse due to having found one.
• Audrey is found by the killer and sliced on the shoulder and briefly knocked out. (left alive)
  • Inverse to how Chad Meeks-Martin was attacked in Scream (2022), almost 7 years later. Both are attacked while at a party, albeit Audrey is attacked due to party leaving after finding Grayson's body, whereas Chad is attacked while party is ongoing before people leave, similarity in how both are attacked solo, outside, difference in that Liv finds Chad after people left party, whereas Audrey was only knocked out and not seriously injured.
  • Whereas Audrey was outside to investigate why the party was leaving, Chad was misled due to him thinking he was supposedly texting and meeting Liv, thus the differences on why each was outside, although similar in that both were outside to find out something.
  • Audrey and Chad surviving their outdoor attacks is a vengeful homage to the attack/death of Kenny Brown in Scream (1996), also being outside.
  • Chad and Audrey's attacks are reversed and inferences in the roles of Mindy and Brooke's attacks in each film and season, as the horror adjacent characters (Mindy and Audrey) aren't attacked too seriously, whereas the popular jock/girl (Chad and Brooke) are attacked and left for dead until found.
  • Similarity in how each duo, of Brooke and Audrey, to Meeks-Martin twins, shared a conversation before splitting up and being attacked separately.
• Brooke comes outside to see everyone gone and who heads inside after hearing a rustling  and then Seth appears, talking to her from the outside as Brooke locks her doors and who tries to tell her about what happened and being set up, before he leaves and her outdoor lights turn off.
• Seth disappears as Brooke who looks out the door once the lights turn on to now see the Lakewood Slasher who tries to get in. Brooke runs off and heads into her garage and then into her workshop where she hides inside the unplugged freezer just as the killer heads in and who is then locked in and stabbed from the outside and left to freeze as Brooke begins pounding and slowly fainting, trying to get out.
  • Brooke's attack and near death inside the freezer of her house's garage, is an homage to Tatum Riley's attack and eventual death in Scream (1996), seeing the fridge used by Tatum to knock Ghostface down and the beer bottles thrown, whereas Brooke before hiding, had been looking for wine in her house's wine cellar but wasn't attacked while there, noting the use of each appliance, as Brooke hid in her garage's unplugged freezer, and was left for dead when attacked, from outside her freezer before being locked in and the freezer turned on; whereas Tatum was only slashed in arm and killed when trying to escape out of garage pet door as Ghostface activated the garage door going up and led the garage kill her via crushing her neck.
  • Inverse to how Mindy Meeks-Martin was attacked in-universe 7 years later in Scream (2022). Both are attacked while alone, inside a house where a party just ended, difference being in what each are doing, as Brooke is locking the back doors and in doing so, talking to an escaped Seth Branson, albeit Mindy is drunk and on the couch, watching Stab (1998), and talking to a character in the movie based on her uncle, who's distracted. Similarity in how each character notices the appearance of their killer from a reflection. Difference in that unlike Brooke being given chase by her killer and later trapped and almost seriously wounded, Mindy wasn't.
  • Mindy and Brooke's attacks are reversed and inferences in the roles of Chad and Audrey's attacks in each film and season, as the popular characters (Brooke and Chad) are attacked seriously (Chad 1st in fifth film, Brooke 2nd in "Revelations) whereas the horror adjacent characters (Audrey and Mindy; Audrey first in "Revelations", Mindy second in the fifth film) aren't. Reversed are the locations where each attack took place (Unlike Chad, Brooke wasn't attacked outside; whereas Audrey wasn't attacked inside, unlike Mindy who was)
    • Brooke and Chad's attack have more in common than Mindy and Audrey's, due to killer giving chase to each before leaving each for dead, whereas the latter duos attacks are more quick in nature.
• Noah and Emma arrive to the party to see Piper’s (staged) car with blood and who head to the front door and are confronted by Kieran from the side who approaches with his gun and claims to not know what’s happening before Emma and Noah accused him until revealing the death of her father as they console a “grieving” Kieran.
• Kieran, Emma, and Noah investigate the house and separate as Noah heads outside while Kieran and Emma look inside and who each stumble into something: Kieran and Emma find Jake, who then with Jake’s help, finds and saves Brooke from the freezer after Jake hears her pounding and locates her.
• Meanwhile, Noah stumbles and finds Grayson’s body before also finding Audrey. Emma, Jake, Brooke, Audrey, Noah, and Kieran all reunite outside as Emma then heads back inside to call her mom and Kieran leaves to find a first aid kit and hands Noah his gun before Audrey takes it from him.
• Emma heads inside and the killer calls her from the landline and gives her cryptic clues as to where the killer is holding her mom, which she’s able to identify as the dock at Wren Lake and leaves by herself, after the killer warns her that others will die. Audrey noticed her absent and seemingly follows her afterwards
• Due to the fact that Audrey knew Piper who could’ve told Emma about her then having known Audrey, wouldn’t be revealed until Season 2.
• Piper Shaw reveals herself as the infamous Brandon James' daughter and the second (yet first of two, due to being a mastermind) new Lakewood Slasher. She attempts to kill Emma and her mother, Daisy, only to be shot by Audrey then shot again by Emma. (Piper dies)
  • Ends on a Saturday night. Piper Shaw is killed by Audrey (caused) and Emma (fatal) 21 years to the date of the death of supposed serial killer Brandon James of the 1994 murders on the same Wren Lake dock, set up and caused by the Lakewood PD. Emma avenges her father's attack from her half sister Piper's alleged serial killer father, and her mother who was also set to die; due to indirectly killing Brandon (Piper's father) via the rendezvous set back in 1994, despite Maggie also on Brandon's side, believing his innocence. Piper confirms it's been exactly 21 years (referred to as a decade, unnamed) at approximately midnight, and she is the only female who dies on the same calendar day after Clifton Roberts, Clark Hudson, and Grayson Pfeiffer but one calendar day before her father Brandon's (survives).
  • Piper dies by a headshot and is the first killer in the TV series to be killed and the fourth overall in the franchise to be killed in this manner, preceded by both Billy and Nancy Loomis in Scream and Scream 2, Roman Bridger in Scream 3 (Piper's character is an homage of Roman's, and gender swap of), who'd be succeeded by Amber Freeman in Scream (2022) and Quinn Bailey in Scream VI.

November 2015-January 2016

Post-Season 1, Pre-Season 2

• November 1st (approx.): The emergency authorities and ambulances arrive at dawn to Wren Lake, where Emma is tended to as well as Maggie being sent off to the hospital. Noah and Audrey also convene as Noah praises Audrey for being heroic, despite not knowing she did it to hide her secret of having known Piper was Emma's half-sister, and having brought her to Lakewood during her trying to do a Brandon James documentary (revealed 2 months later, prior to Noah's suspicion of Audrey).
  • It's plausible Audrey learned of this during the making of the documentary, but who initially denied it (due to the death of Rachel), but perhaps realized Piper was in fact the killer leading up to the finale, due to Piper having shaded Audrey to Emma prior at the vigil on October 9, and just instinctively, due to Piper always targeting Emma and her friend group and the origins tied around Brandon James, although was unaware until Piper's reveal that she was the illegitimate child of him and Maggie, or perhaps did when Emma showed her and Noah the sonogram which she took a screenshot when the trio investigated.
  • It's possible that even early on that Audrey perhaps dug herself and learned of this or Piper revealed it to her prior, but didn't mention that she would initiate a killing spree or had an accomplice to her; although unlikely the latter, of which Audrey was taunted and tried to be implicated for 3 months later, who wasn't aware of the existence of such until Noah's theory, podcast, and Murder Board in the following months began and who didn't suspect Kieran initially until later (but regardless, had suspected him clearly due to video footage of Rachel showing Kieran with Nina a bar a day prior to Nina's death back in Halloween 2015, and his disappearance after Emma told him of this and before the live-stream, having seen it with Noah and Emma; but was taken off track like everyone else due to Piper's reveal and her trying to maintain her anonymity, despite its consequences, as well as Noah and Emma due to Kieran's supposed oblivion when told of his father's death).
• Seth Palmer is cleared off as the suspected killer (after being found perhaps gagged and tied in the back trunk of Piper's car, due to Piper as the Lakewood Slasher having captured him when he was at Brooke's house) and released from the Lakewood PD/County Jail, due to his lawyer, as well as the mayor Quinn Maddox, despite their shady doings.
• Audrey burns her "link" to Piper Shaw
  • Copies of her handwritten letters and envelopes to Piper would be used later in Season 2.

• approx. November 1-7th, 2015: The funeral memorial services for the victims (minus the perpetrator, Piper Shaw) of Lakewood due to the Lakewood Murders are held. Both Eli and Tina Hudson (unseen) both attend the services (for Clark Hudson, Eli's uncle and Tina's brother) as well as the Lakewood Six (excluding Kieran, despite his attendance due to the fact he was the killer).
  • Would be used as a clue and faux-shadowing for Eli to be implicated by Kieran and suspected by everyone else as the killer in Season 2.
• approx. November 24th, 2015: Emma, accordingly due to her mother's possible suggestion, as well as her psychiatrist who treated her after Will's death, is sent to a rehabilitation retreat program away from Lakewood for approx. 3 months (disregarding Halloween 2015, from November-December 2015 up until January 2016) in response to her mental health being deteriorated by the reveal of Piper Shaw, who's existence as her half-sister, as well as her family's secrets in connection to the James' family, and having been tortured by the death of her friends and Piper's victims.
• approx. mid-November-December 2015: Noah starts his own podcast following the reveal of Piper and the Lakewood Murders as well as her formerly own Autopsy of a Crime (which was sort of a premeditated record of her real murders) , titled (or re-titled) “The Morgue”, in which he also honors his former and late love interest, Riley Marra, and interviews the first five survivors: himself as the host, Audrey, Jake, and Brooke, and ultimately Emma in Season 2.
  • Excluding Kieran as an interviewee, who would later be revealed to be the second accomplice of Piper Shaw and who would continue the Second Lakewood Murders after a 2 month break (November and December 2015) until Emma’s return from retreating Lakewood, which was one of Noah’s running theories following the Season 1 finale “Revelations”.
• approx. late-November/mid-December 2015, the search for a new Lakewood Sheriff commenced, perhaps immediately after the death of Clark Hudson, in the Lakewood Sheriff's Department and the town. It's unclear but most likely Maggie's attack (or who reached out during her hospitalization, unclear; same goes to Kevin Duval on whether or not he had informed Miguel, unlikely) and the news of the reinstated Second Lakewood Murders perhaps got around to Miguel Acosta who was then living in Phoenix, Arizona or was instead reached out by the Lakewood P.D, due to his law enforcement experience (being a police officer) and thus, his ability to deal with crime (due to being a former Lakewood resident during 1994 murders, unlike Clark).
  • This led to a single dad (or divorced/widowed, unstated) Miguel to move out to Lakewood, perhaps around (theorized) Christmas 2015, alongside with his teenage son, Gustavo (leading to enroll Gustavo sometime prior to January 2016, thus explaining why only Brooke knew aside from being the mayor's daughter, due to the holiday break and the town reeling from the murders).
• During this time, Kieran Wilcox is emancipated briefly by the court of law after the death of both his parents (his father, Clark, unstated if committed; indirectly killed his mother and stepfather months prior) in Lakewood and lives alone at his father's house but who is court-mandated visits by his legal guardian/aunt Tina Hudson, whose visits are infrequent and only passes by to be paid the state stipends, who only visited once or twice, as well as on Christmas 2015.
  • Kieran, now alone following the death of his secret lover, Piper, and angry due to Emma causing her death and Audrey for being secretive of her knowing Piper and Emma's half-sister connection, conspires to commit a murder spree in early 2016, oblivious to the fact that a Third Killer was overseeing him (although possible he knew, whether before or after Piper's death).

2016

January 2016 report: An incident report given by the Lakewood PD in the premiere episode of Season 2; the most explicit timeframe in the TV series timeline (for the first two seasons) for the continuation of the Second Lakewood Murders (excluding both Halloween specials which take place 8-9 months after; excluding Season 3 which takes place almost 2 years after/later).

Mid to late-January (Season 2 events)

January 24th

• Calendar Week: Sunday, 24th January (night)-Friday, 5th February (evening) in January-February 2016, not February-March 2016: Events of Season 2 occur within two weeks (May 30, 2016 released season):
  • Three months (technically two and a half) have passed since Piper’s death and reveal as the killer, as well as the second Lakewood Murders (first being in 1994), although only 4 days shy of the week from the deaths of Nina and Tyler.
• 9:00 PM: Just before Emma’s return and on the night of her welcome home party, Audrey is working and closing her late night shift as the only solo theatre usher & concession worker at the small town movie theatre, the Zenith Theater when Audrey then gets sent text messages from the killer, which she believes as someone trying to scare her, who calls and asks Noah if he sent her the “creepy texts”, which he denies as not him, who nods it off.
• Noah tells her he’ll pass by to pick her up after work to head for the party, which Audrey agrees with, and who then asks her if it’s a good idea to interview Emma for his podcast the night of her welcome party, which she denies, telling him to not interview her or talk to her about the incident, which confuses Noah, who asks her if whether the incident about the murders or the fallout of Emma at school after. Audrey tells him neither and Noah agrees and tells her he’s on his way.
  • In the opening, a movie is shown playing, which its unstated but is perhaps screening a parody slasher movie which was released about three months after and supposedly, can be inferred to being about the Second Lakewood Murders, starring Lele Pons in the film within the show as a “dumb blonde” being killed by her friend, Becca, out of costume: a reference to Stab 7; the opening is overall an homage to Scream 2, due to the setting.
• Audrey then ushers everyone out of the theater before locking it and who then goes back inside, placing the keys on the counter, as she gets to pulling a mop cart to begin cleaning up, only to be run into by Haley Meyers, who unbeknownst to her, is doing a prank.
• Haley scares Audrey slightly, who she believed had kicked everyone out as Haley entices her, acknowledging Audrey and saying she’s a fan of her shooting Piper, as Audrey denies, and who faux introduces herself as going to the same school with her before asking to get a pic, saying it’s lame but how she really impresses her and how she hates everyone, which Audrey agrees to as Haley takes the pic with her phone reversed (not using the phone screen camera facing them), which as she takes it shows the Lakewood Slasher pass by the counter.
• Haley takes the pic before Audrey then goes to get the front keys, before she finds them gone, until Audrey states that she can’t find them and tells Haley she’ll walk her out back.
• They walk through the fully lit movie theater auditorium. Haley then begins talking to Audrey about it being crazy how nobody suspected Piper as Audrey reluctantly agrees before Haley walks forward before the lights are turned off, which causes Audrey to turn back and call out, asking who did that. Audrey tells Haley that it was probably some moron who snuck in, before turning and seeing Haley gone and hearing the back door supposedly open and Haley leaving.
• This distracts Audrey before a cartoon begins playing at the theater from the projector, for a commercial for the theater about the lobby, showing animated dancing snacks. It plays sinisterly before Audrey then tries to look into the projector booth, and angrily yells at the “idiot” to get out, saying the theater’s closed. Audrey begins to walk away, before she sees the Lakewood Slasher with a knife from the lobby facing her.
• Panicking, she begins to run up the aisle, leaving the room and running towards the front lobby to frantically find the keys, looking through the boxes of candy on display at the concession stands as she does. She looks up to see the killer, standing in front of her on the other side of the desk, jingling Audrey’s missing keys and showing a streaming camera on their chest, which is red, signifying it’s live streaming and recording.
• Audrey notices this, who runs back into the theater, knocking boxes and items towards the killer’s monitor/POV as it does, having 48 viewers watching. Audrey returns back into the same auditorium she was in, still playing the cartoon on the projector.
• Audrey goes back into the lobby only to run into Haley, who acts scared telling Audrey they need to get out before the killer supposedly runs towards Haley and stabs her repeatedly in the gut before Audrey stands back and sees and hears Noah, who she sees as he screams, whose seeing what’s happening on the other side outside on the front and pounds his hands on the door and yells Audrey’s name.
• The killer, after stabbing Haley, turns around only for Audrey to quickly blind him with the fire extinguisher, which she does as she runs while Noah continues to scream for her and pulls his phone to call the police.
• Audrey then quickly breaks open a glass shelf case of movie theater prizes and takes out an ice pick before turning around to stab the killer behind her, getting him in the gut, giving him a small puncture wound by the strap where the camera was held. Haley’s friend, Aaron, then unmasks himself and is taken aback by Audrey having stabbed him as Haley then gets off the floor, revealing it a prank to Audrey, who is taken aback by what she’s done as Noah looks on from outside.
• The new sheriff, Miguel Acosta, arrives and reveals to Noah and Audrey that their prankster will be fine, stating that their done, much to Haley’s anger about Audrey’s “license to kill”, as she begins going off about Acosta, which the sheriff retracts her from, stating how he’s from Lakewood himself originally (corroborated with flashbacks in the following episodes).
• Haley states how if that’s true he should know if someone gets stabbed, they get arrested, which Noah claims is not true as Audrey points out her and Aaron both attacked her. Haley frustratingly claims it was a joke, which Noah refers to less of a crime but more of a “Tosh.0 clip”, which the sheriff agrees with referring to it as “goofball assault” versus a desperate act of self-defense, citing he’s with Audrey and Noah.
  • Miguel as the new sheriff is called into Lakewood, who would bring along his son Gustavo Acosta, parallel to Season 1 with Kieran Wilcox and his dad, Clark Hudson, who was the former sheriff. Both male sheriffs seem to be flirtatious towards Maggie Duval, the town coroner, although the latter is more platonic (due to Maggie and Miguel having been friends.)
• Miguel states they win and pointing out to Haley how she was live streaming meaning Audrey has evidence to win a civil suit against her if she wishes to and gives Haley advice to walk away unless she wants that as Haley does sassily. Noah and Audrey then leave and arrive at Kieran's house with beer for the party.
• Brooke and Jake are shown to be there early, with Brooke decorating and spelling out the words “Welcome Home Emma” in red icing on a white cake with colored sprinkles on the side, as well as with Brooke and Audrey both warning Jake not to say a word to Emma about Audrey’s incident, which he refers to as Audrey having broken the internet again and Noah saying he’s brought their “Internet hero”.
  • Pre-Season 2 (2016 season) (November 2015-October 2016)
    • Note: The movie playing at Zenith Theatre, specifically in the opening, is inferred to but is not directly referred to being about the 2015 murders, thus is a subliminal nod to the Stab film series (1997-2021, released; none were released during either after the first or the Second Lakewood Murders, due to it being a different killer and town, as well as separate); See more: Scream (films) Universe.
      • approx. Pre-Season 1-January 24th, 2016: Haley’s prank occurs prior to Jake’s murder or hers at Emma’s party that Haley throws under her and Audrey’s names later on February 2nd at the abandoned Blessed Sisters Children’s Home, which was Piper Shaw’s and Kristen Lang’s former orphanage.
        • However, it’s currently unknown if this was a ploy, seeing as Haley was revealed to have worked with Kieran, the second killer, although Haley herself didn’t kill anyone.
      • This probably suggests why Haley had a friend, Aaron, recording it in order to further scare Audrey (or in case Haley needed to sell him out, although unlikely) and for Kieran to get a layout of the theater himself, who would use it later in the Season 2 finale to creep before attacking Brooke.
      • This is because it’s revealed in the premiere, after Noah and Audrey leave to his house after Emma’s party, that Haley and Aaron met and were backed up by “internet trolls” on the comment section of his podcast “The Morgue” online.
    • This is a clue, albeit unknown, as Noah states how the instigator behind Audrey’s prank attack never showed up (due to it being Kieran, unbeknownst to them until the finale, who perhaps used a fake username to do this instead, thus perhaps being him who did this just before continuing to finish the Lakewood Murders after the break and Emma’s return).

• Jake’s statement of Audrey breaking the Internet refers to her being outed for making out with Rachel in “Pilot”, which blew up on the app “Chirpster” as well as YouTube prior to Nina and Tyler’s murders, who had recorded and posted the video, which is reversed for Jake about four months later whose killed not long after stating this in an inverse to Tyler and Nina’s deaths, as the killer taunts him by giving him the first clue with flash cards for words pinned on a baseball bat near the door of the barn where he’s locked in reading “see what you can do with this boy, interrupted”.
  • Seeing as he is the only one from the Lakewood Five, thus being the only main character (male), making him the first in the history of the Scream franchise to be killed off in the opening without a partner).
    • Jake is succeeded in-universe 7 years, 9 months, and 4 days later in his death only by minor character (female) Laura Crane’s death in Scream VI.
    • Technically, the second character to be killed solo after him would be Tommy Jenkins in Season 3, as well as Vince Schneider in Scream (2022) as the third, but neither of the latter two had a poster in their respective media's promotional marketing, whereas Jake did in Season 2 as did Laura in the sixth film, despite their deaths early on, thus disregarding Tommy or Vince.
• Audrey’s chase/“attack” in the opening at the movie theater is an homage overall to Scream 2. The killer jangling the keys in front of Audrey was also a nod to the original Scream. The theater would be used again when the Lakewood Five used it by trying to lure the real killer almost 2 weeks later in the finale.
  • This would be referenced and loosely reformatted by the real attacks in the abandoned theatre turned Ghostface Shrine in-universe (and reality) 7 years later in Scream VI.

• 10:00 PM: Emma returns to Lakewood after a three month retreat. She is held a welcome home party with a cake by Brooke, Audrey, Jake, Noah, and Kieran at Kieran’s house, who Jake refers Emma to as “Girl, Interrupted”, based on Lisa Rowe’s character who he then acknowledges as Angelina Jolie being hot from the 1999 film of the same name
  • A meta reference, seeing whose real life actress’ first and last name was based on both Angelina Tyler (first) and Jennifer Jolie (last), from Scream 3).
• Emma and Kieran are outside, sitting on an outdoor bench, who talk about Kieran’s brief emancipation, seeing as he is still 17 and his dad having died, living alone. Emma asks Kieran how long they’re (the government) going to let him live on his own, which Kieran tells her how his aunt, Tina, is supposed to check on him once a week, but how she’s “a flake”, stating how he hadn’t seen her in a month.
• Emma drinks her bottled beer quietly as she listens as they go quiet before Emma thanks him for tonight and for keeping in touch. Kieran nods and claims that they’re still friends and that friends write, referring to their relationship status.
• Emma tells Kieran how she had told her mom she’d be spending the night at Audrey’s, as the two play and flirt. Kieran tells her he could stay with him after she tells him, and states how they can talk before Noah interrupts as he walks out and announces to them to ignore his “awkward” entrance, as Kieran states it’s a school night before heading inside, with plates in hand, as Noah states he’s the killer of parties as Emma walks up to him and jokes how at least some things are how she left them.
• Noah tells her that he’ll let that one slide, only if by prompting Emma and asks to interview her on his podcast “The Morgue”, stating how she’s the only one of the Lakewood Six he’s yet to interview. Emma blatantly tells him how she has to let that stuff go, with Noah agreeing but stating how it’s the biggest thing that ever happened to them, with Emma agreeing and stating also the worst. Emma blatantly reveals that she hasn’t listened to his podcast and apologizes before heading inside, much to Noah’s learnt disappointment.
• Following everyone leaving the party, Emma and Kieran are shown alone in Kieran’s room as Emma and Kieran talk about their relationship, which Emma defends due to her trauma, as Kieran acknowledges and Emma stating, prior to his reveal, that she felt safe with Kieran before they proceed to make out before Emma stops, claiming she couldn’t (due to her scars left from Piper) asking if they could just sleep instead.
  • They would finally have sex the next night in “Vacancy”.
• Jake comes into contact with the new killer, after leaving Brooke after they had a fight about the future of the relationship (due to Jake’s association with Brooke’s father) after breaking into the high school swimming pool late at night following Emma’s return party. This prompts Jake to go out and retrieve and dig some of his shady stuff to discard at the Wren Lake Estates only to be attacked and be injured after following a pig toy that ultimately gets his foot gets caught in a beat trap set by the Lakewood Slasher aka the second killer or Piper’s accomplice, who knocks him out and kept him imprisoned.
• Emma and her mother, Maggie, try to mend their relationship following the reveal of Emma’s half sister and Maggie aka Daisy’s first illegitimate child with Brandon James, as well as the later return of Emma’s father, Kevin, which seemingly overwhelms Emma as the family trio each try to communicate following the events both before and concurrently as the Lakewood Murders returns.

January 25th

• The next day at school and later at Noah's insistence at the police station, Audrey, who feeling nervous of being exposed (prior to revealing herself to Noah as he and Zoë Vaughn become a couple) due to her partaking the killer’s game to save herself, as well as due to her change following Season 1, does her best to dismantle Noah’s theories and also try to change the topic before she becomes truthful, especially during the finale.
• The killer sends Audrey a text during her and Noah being at the police telling her in capital letters, “I’d shut this down if I were you. I know what you did last summer… get it?”, (referring to the Season 2 premiere episode of the same name and Audrey’s secret, albeit she was not the accomplice).
  • Continuity Error: This also shows her in the Season 2 premiere, following her prank by Haley and at school the next day with Noah stopping to the police, as Sheriff Acosta reassures Audrey it’s her decision to file a report with the dates being January 24-25, 2016, the 25th being the day of the date, which was from a Sunday to Monday that year, which is why the Lakewood Six (minus Jake) are all shown at school the next day.
    • However, Kieran stated when Noah interrupted him and Emma the night before of it being a school night, which would make it a Thursday before Friday, which would’ve been the week before from January 21 to 22, which is thus a mistake on Kieran’s dialogue.
• Gustavo Acosta and Eli Hudson transfer to George Washington High in the same month as Emma’s return and Jake’s untimely death, although it’s revealed that Eli was here visiting Lakewood during the massacre of Season 1, who transfers officially in “Vacancy” seeing as how Gustavo was already enrolled, due to having moved earlier since “I Know What You Did Last Summer”.
• Kristen Lang is introduced as Emma, Brooke, Noah, Zoë, and Gustavo’s first period Psychology teacher, (whose intro is reminiscent of that of the film college professor in Scream 2), as well as the Lakewood Six’s former English teacher and Kristen’s boyfriend, Seth Branson, in the Season 1 premiere.
• Emma then asks Zoë for tutoring help to catch up on her work she’s missed for the last 3 months, the reason being why Emma chose her, seeing as how Zoë is one of the few people in school, alongside her friends, to not stare her down and she agrees for tomorrow morning.
• Emma and Brooke talk about their relationships after school at Emma’s house, with Brooke telling Emma how Jake’s changed following her departure and the events.
• Emma, after talking with Kieran, finally caves in and gets interviewed by Noah for his podcast. Noah states his podcast and murder board helped him deal with what happened.
• Jake tries to escape via a clue set by the killer and a sickle where he's held in a barn/former pig farm (revealed later to be Brandon James’s, aka a pig slaughterhouse near the old stables, where Emma and Audrey would later find Noah, and Brooke’s father, Quinn, aka the mayor would also be killed at not long after), which he works on during the day.
• Jake ultimately succeeds and breaks the lock at nighttime (until its revealed the killer was monitoring/recording Jake via a hidden camera), before trapping him yet again after Jake manages to break the lock-padded door of the barn, before hanging him and ultimately killing him with a deep cut from his torso (seeing as he was hung upside down) to his chest via a long scythe, which was recorded via the hidden video camera on the ceiling, prior to his death as well as his escape, (“I Know What You Did Last Summer”), thus becoming the first victim of the continued Lakewood Murders.
  • Begins on a late-Monday night (according to Brooke Maddox, her and Jake broke up after sneaking into the school late on Sunday night and was missing from school the next day). His death would take place the following night as the premiere episode takes place across two days, similar to the previous season.
• (“Psycho”) At night, it’s revealed that Emma and Brooke visited Troy James's pig farm and house located on Pikeview Road (not the old stable farmhouse off Route 6, where Jake was held in and eventually murdered) to explain her nightmare.
• Emma goes inside while Brooke stays outside, only to find pictures of her life, and someone’s there, which she saw draped in a hoodie run off before she screams and runs outside before her, and Brooke drive off.
• Emma and her mother then subsequently investigate after she returns to tell her. Emma’s mom also explains how she was so young and how her and Emma would visit Troy James’s farmhouse, due to Maggie siding with the family despite becoming outcasts. They return to the house, to find everything gone, much to Emma’s shock.
  • This house is then investigated during the day by Sheriff Acosta in “The Vanishing", as well as a hidden room only which Miguel finds along with the photos of Emma from the night she saw them on January 25. The hooded figure Emma saw that night is also shown, unseen, watching from below Miguel with his gun, who looks out the window but doesn’t see anyone.

January 26th

• Emma talks to Kieran the next morning at his house about the farmhouse, as she tries to relate to Kieran, questioning her sanity and asking if she returned too soon. She leaves in her car before she is then followed by a light blue Cadillac Buick
  • Later revealed to be Emma’s father, Kevin Duval.
• Noah and Audrey meet at Audrey’s car in the parking lot the next day at school, with Noah telling Audrey he has a lead on both her internet troll and the supposed accomplice as Noah shows Audrey a comment from Eddie Hayes, a listener of the podcast and night receptionist worker/clerk of the Crescent Palms Motel, where Piper used to stay (as well as supposedly meet with Audrey, who knew where she was staying)
• Brooke tries to reassure Emma and who doesn’t believe her, even after Kieran asks her about the incident, as the three walk into school with Brooke stating how Emma has hallucinated before and wasn’t making any sense when she came out of the house last night and states to Emma, who asks if she thought she was hallucinating, given everything they’ve been through (also noting Emma has hallucinated Will Belmont and her dad), how it’s not so crazy.
• Emma agrees before she walks off as Kieran and Brooke look at another. Brooke runs up to her and Kieran walks behind and asks Emma if she sees Jake to warn her so Brooke can avoid him and make him suffer. She agrees before Brooke, and Kieran run into Noah and Audrey as Noah calls them out as their group name before retracting and pointing out there’s only 5 of them at the moment.
• Brooke then tells them all how she probably knows how Jake has probably been “spilling trash” ever since their breakup and how they can all tell her about it. Everyone shakes their head in disagreement, which Brooke asks them, stating how nobody’s talked to him or seen him since Emma’s return party on the 24th.
• Audrey tells her it’s probably his bold plan to make Brooke suffer, which agrees with that being the course of one day without Jake, but two is making it “obnoxious and weird”. Noah tries to reassure Brooke, stating how it’s Jake, stating how he once faked mono to get out of midterms. Kieran guides them by referring to his parents being in Mexico and how perhaps he’s just at home laying low. Emma asks Brooke if perhaps she tried texting him, which Brooke denies, stating how every Cosmo girl knows the guy is supposed to be the one to break the text standoff, which Audrey sarcastically states is so modern.
• 7:45 AM: Audrey gets a text while she’s talking with the Lakewood Six, except for Jake, (unbeknownst to them except Kieran, is dead) from the killer which reads “Afraid? You should be. Your friends will turn on you when they learn the truth!”, foreshadowing Audrey telling the truth to Noah in the following days. Audrey then looks up to see Haley, looking conspicuous texting on her phone before she walks off, which causes Audrey’s look to stern and follow soon after her as Noah stands back and watches her go. Emma, Kieran, and Brooke have all left past this point.
  • Perhaps a clue, seeing as how Haley knew Kieran was texting on his behalf and standing close by, seeing as he doesn’t show himself using his phone when Brooke is talking.
  • However, when Audrey confronts Haley alone at the stairwell (where Kristen Lang would be attacked later in “Let The Right One In”) it’s shown that Haley was actually texting Aaron, the other prankster aka her boyfriend. However, it could’ve just been an automated message texted by Kieran sent to Audrey at that time, and Haley standing was just a decoy and perhaps Kieran using the alias “Aaron”.)
• Zoë is shown waiting at Emma’s locker, as Emma walks up to her and apologizes claiming how she had a really crazy night last night, to which Zoë says she gets and how it’s fine, claiming how Emma has a lot going on and so does she and gets it if she’s not ready. Emma claims she is and how she completely needs her help to catch up, as Zoë turns around just as she’s about to leave.
• Emma tries to speak before Zoë stops her, relating to her and reassuring, saying how a while back how she was going through some pretty painful stuff similar to her and how she kind of lost her way, claiming that it happens and that she gets it. Emma asks Zoë how she gets past that, to which Zoë replies sarcastically to find someone start and pay attention, referring to them, and that’s what she meant by symbiotic, and how their tutoring helps her as much as Emma, to which she coyly asks if Zoë really thinks she’s as smart as she is. Zoë whispers to Emma how she used to think she was smarter before walking off.
• In Ms. Lang’s class, Brooke texts Jake and Emma sarcastically whispers and tells her how she’s not a “Cosmo girl” after all, to which Brooke rolls her eyes and playfully tells Emma to shut up. Brooke tells Emma how she even led him on, telling how if Jake quickly responded to her, he’d get a boob pic and how there’s still nothing, as she then turns around to find Gustavo leaning from the back of the classroom from his seat, listening before he pulls back once Brooke notices him. She does and ignores it, telling Emma how she’s officially worried.
• Ms. Lang, noticing the girls talking and distracted, calls for them to answer a question about the adaptation, to which both Noah and Zoë in the front answer “threat simulation theory” much to their flirting.
• Noah then leads with his own question stating that if prey animals dream of their predators, then what does the predator dream of, to which Zoë sarcastically answers, “girl predators”, which breaks a few laughs from the classroom before Gustavo in the back answers how the predators are themselves as human beings. Ms. Lang points out he’s right and continues her lesson about how it’s all about survival and how when that instinct is challenged, the brain goes into overdrive and how they have to meet that challenge and beat it or else.
• Emma then stays after class as the bell rings and dismisses the class, asking Ms. Lang to talk by handing her back the sticky note she gave her of her phone number the previous day. Her teacher agrees and asks Emma to meet her tonight at the Grindhouse Cafe around 6 PM, to which Emma agrees and states she’ll see her there, sighing as she walks off.
• Noah walks up to Audrey and jokes with her about her “keeping cool face” to which Audrey replies if that’s obvious, as Noah asks if he shouldn’t discuss what happened in the stairwell earlier referring to Audrey running off towards Haley as “something weird”.
• Audrey sarcastically replies as just as other charming encounter, to which Noah then asks if it isn’t some grade school crush that Haley’s playing out through tormenting Audrey, to which Audrey replies firstly by grossed out and secondly claiming how she doesn’t think that Haley’s into girls as she heads to her locker (due to having read Haley’s text as well as the fact that Haley claims during the prank, how despite going to the same school, that they don’t know each other, meaning Audrey).
• Noah agrees and states how he thought maybe he was driving Audrey nuts again, with the whole Piper’s accomplice thing, to which Audrey jokes how “Foster’s gotta foster”, with the question she has for him being what he’s going to do if Noah chases down his big lead.
• Noah claims how he’s already contacted the tipster, Eddie, and who according to him, seems to check off and how before her death, Piper stayed at the Crescent Palms on and off while she was in Lakewood, claiming how Eddie is saving his big accomplice identity reveal for “The Morgue”.
• This worries Audrey, seeing as she hasn’t gotten the chance to explain her side and association (albeit she wasn’t the accomplice, Kieran was), who asks Noah logically that if Eddie knew Piper was working with someone, then why wouldn’t he go to the police with that information.
• Noah tells her how that's a thing, telling her how Lakewood PD claims they have no evidence of an accomplice, to which Audrey then finishes by stating how this is just “conspiracy theories gone wild” as she begins to walk off. Noah catches up to her and chooses to take her remark as light ribbing rather than a full-on insult to his work.
• Audrey then tells Noah how she should film the reveal for the website, much to Noah’s surprise who claims Audrey seems sort of over the “morgue” and overall deal lately. Audrey claims how that was just about not upsetting Emma and claims how she’s fine and that they’re good. This cheers Noah up who smiles as he says yes, claiming out loud how “bi curious (Audrey) and the virgin (Noah)” are officially out of retirement with Audrey weakly laughing and tells him she’ll dust off the costume with Noah joking how she kept it. Audrey then walks off with Noah not too far following as their conversation ends.
• Meanwhile, at Emma’s locker, she is seen taking stuff out of hers and placing them in her bag before she closes it and turns around and almost runs into Eli Hudson, Kieran’s cousin, as she apologizes and Eli also claiming how he didn’t mean to sneak up on her, officially meeting another for the first time.
• Eli then tells her how the Lakewood Days seem like a big deal, as it pans over to the school bulletin board advertising for the 2016 Lady of the Lake pageant holding auditions in memoriam to Nina Patterson, who was last year's queen as stated in the flier, as well as another poster for the Lakewood Museum presenting a memory lane-like event held from February-March 2016.
• Emma agrees before walking off only for Eli to call her out and make conversation with her by asking if she signed up for the car wash or pancake breakfast.
• Emma states how she hasn’t signed up for anything yet and that maybe she should, before asking Eli if she’s known him, seeing as she’s never seen him before. Eli looks at her asking her what she means as Emma claims that if he goes to school there as Eli proceeds to walk towards and face Emma.
• Eli denies and claims how he is thinking about it, saying her name which takes her aback, to which Eli claims not everyone before he walks off from her jingling his car keys as he does.
  • Continuity Error: The Lady of the Lake Pageant is claimed to be on Saturday, February 13, as opposed to the actual day the pageant was held which was on Monday, February 1 in “Village of the Damned”. This is supposedly supported by the Lakewood Museum poster as an indication of the dates being February to March 2016.
    • However, this differentiates from Piper having died on the first day of November 2015 rather than on Halloween night or October 31, 2015; thus, another mistake.
• Brooke and her dad, aka Lakewood Mayor Quinn Maddox, are shown to be having coffee and meeting at the Grindhouse Cafe, as Quinn states how her and Brooke need to be alert as they head into the mayoral elections for Lakewood. Brooke is seen reading a suggestive text by Jake from the night of Emma’s welcome home party.
• Quinn tells Brooke, who's busy reading, how they need to make the most of Lakewood Days before he asks his daughter if she’s listening to him to which Brooke uninteresting states yes to. He then tells her how there’s a Lakewood Days photo-op tonight at the Lady of the Lake event, asking Brooke if she’s signed up already.
• Brooke sighs and says yes, much to her father’s agreement, as Brooke claims, sighing that she supposes it wouldn’t kill her as she finally looks up to her father. She then grabs her phone, bookbag and coffee before she kisses her father goodbye and walks off, as Quinn begins reading the texts from the shady deals he had with Jake (from Season 1), who proceeds to call Jake only to be directed to his voicemail, much to his facial worry.
• Kieran arrives home from school and is greeted by Sheriff Acosta waiting inside. They shake hands as Acosta extends his and Acosta telling him firstly how he wants to apologize for his late father and former sheriff and how he had heard was a good man, to which Kieran asks if that’s why he’s there, with the sheriff denying and saying rather how he’s there due to the noise complaint by neighbors and how after his father’s deaths, supposedly threw a lot of parties (whether or not is true or referring to Emma’s welcome home party the night prior).
• Kieran’s aunt and Clark’s younger sister, Tina, walks in from the kitchen, holding a glass of water and handing it to Acosta. She calls her nephew asking if his ears were burning and how they were just talking about him. The sheriff claims how when he called his legal guardian about the complaints and how discovering Tina doesn’t even live with him in Lakewood, to which Kieran claims she lives close enough.
• The sheriff states how some would say he’s close enough to 18 to live alone, but how that would be illegal, referring to his age. Tina tells the sheriff by promising and reassuring him how she checks in on Kieran every chance she gets and how he’s really been through it and how this is where he lived with his father, with the Sheriff pointing out he’s sure would’ve wanted his son to live with a legal guardian.
• Kieran madly claims how Acosta doesn’t know anything about his father to which Tina tries to calm and tells Acosta how they know what he’s talking about.
• Tina tells the sheriff she’ll resolve the situation, to which the sheriff claims that’s all he wanted to hear before thanking her, walking up to Kieran and patting him on the shoulder before walking off and closing the door as he leaves.
• Tina then asks her nephew madly that he had promised her not to turn this place into party central, to which Kieran claims he didn’t as he walks towards his aunt and into the kitchen, with his aunt claiming how the trash can was overflowing with beer bottles when the sheriff got there, and claims how she thought he was more responsible than that.
• Kieran chuckles and apologizes, claiming how it’s weird for her aunt to talk about responsibility, referring to her failure to check up on him after his dad’s and her brother’s death. Tina tells Kieran how he can laugh about it but how that stipend she gets for being his guardian paid her bills, claiming how what was a win-win is now a mess and how she’s going to have to fix this by making Kieran move back to Atlanta with her which he calls Emma about to let her know as she’s doing homework on her kitchen counter, telling her how his aunt told her it has to happen right away much to Emma’s shock.
• Emma's mother tries to reassure her about Kieran, claiming how she can always Skype or visit him, with Emma retorting, stating how they’re attempt at long distance was already an epic fail, and sighs as she states how she finally thought she had somebody to talk to.
• Emma apologizes to her with Maggie reassuring her, claiming how they’re both having a hard time. Emma then tells her how she doesn’t think that she knows what she’s going through, which Maggie agrees and claims she’s trying to understand. She tells Emma how she knows how important Kieran is to her and asks Emma how she can help to which Emma replies she doesn’t know and how she doesn’t think there’s anything anyone can do to fix this. Emma then walks off and leaves the room.
• Brooke is shown heading into the Lakewood PD station and walks up to the front desk and asks the clerk that she would like to file a missing person’s report on Jake. The clerk tells her to have a seat as she does and notices Gustavo on the other side working on his homework. They make eye contact and remain silent until Brooke breaks and asks Gustavo what he’s doing as he looks on at her.
• Gustavo replies homework, smugly smiling, to which Brooke sarcastically replies how  it's odd for him to be doing it in the police station. Gustavo claims how his dad makes him come there after school and asks Brooke what she’s doing and states how she’s waiting for his dad so she can report her “wayward ex-boyfriend”, referring to Jake, missing.
• Gustavo then looks down as he tells her how Jake hasn’t responded to his boob pic promise, implying that he was listening when Brooke told Emma during class. He smiles as he looks at her as Brooke scoffs and states how it’s her fault for discussing her life in psych class. Brooke then asks Gustavo if she should be worried, claiming how she has no way of getting in touch with his parents who are currently in Mexico and how she hasn’t spoken to him in two days or seen him.
• Gustavo then acknowledges how she’s talking about Jake, and refers to him as number six and asks if that’s her boyfriend as he looks at her stating how he knows all of the Lakewood Six, much to Brooke’s minor dismay, sarcastically asking how he numbered them and that’s not at all creepy. He claims how Noah coined the phrase and he just added the ranking.
• They look away before Brooke then speaks and asks Gustavo what number she is, flirting. Gustavo states that he’d go as high as to rank Brooke number four, as Brooke scoffs and laughs and asks him if he’s kidding and how she’s at least a three, to which Gustavo claims smiling smugly how Noah is number three, claiming the reason being he was the investigative force as he takes out his phone and texts someone.
• Brooke jokes but tells him how she was stabbed and left in a freezer, pointing to her arm before Gustavo tells her he knows, saying how he thought it would have a bigger impact before Brooke asks him what that’s supposed to mean before the clerk then calls Brooke, telling her how the sheriff will see her now. Brooke is then about to walk into the sheriff’s office before she gets a text message which sounds off from Jake, responding to her response supposedly.
• Brooke sighs as she turns around as Gustavo tells her how finally answered and claims sarcastically that Jake must really love her, referring to her offer to him. Brooke chuckles as she seductively almost walks up to Gustavo and tells him how all people and him who think they know everything about the Lakewood Six, or whatever they call them. She looks at him face to face and says that he doesn’t know them, whispering to him not really before Brooke then walks off as Gustavo looks as she does and looks smilingly intrigued.
  • Brooke's line that she says to her soon-to-be boyfriend later on in the season, Gustav, being "You don't know us. Not really" is interpolated and reversed by Samantha Carpenter which she says to her own love interest, Danny Brackett almost 7 years later in Scream VI, when he tries to head inside with the Core Four (minus Mindy) to the shrine, when she tells him "We don't know you. Not really".
• Maggie makes her way to Kieran’s house that night, knocking on the door and being greeted by Tina, whom both met at Clark’s funeral back in November 2015, and who tells Maggie she was special to her big brother. Maggie thanks her and asks if they could talk about Kieran as they head and talk accordingly about him.
• 6:00 PM: At the Grindhouse, Emma meets with Ms. Lang who talks to her about the encounter at Troy James’s house and about the photographs, claiming how they seemed to be there, as real as anything. Her teacher listens, with Kristen telling her how it seems illogical that they would be there. Emma agrees, stating that she guesses so, Kristen then reassures her as due to Emma’s PTSD, that hallucinations and paranoia are extremely normal and common and how it’s not something to be worried about and states how Emma will pull through.
• Emma agrees and tells Ms. Lang how she sounds just like her therapists at the treatment center where she was at. Kristen asks if that’s a bad thing, to which Emma denies but says how perhaps. The barista then calls for Emma for their orders as she walks up and Kristen is revealed to be secretly recording their conversation (due to her tapes, which are revealed later in the season).
• Emma is about to return with her and Kristen’s coffees before she’s taken aback by a random brunette woman with glasses sitting at the couch which Piper used to sit, giving Emma flashbacks which begin to scare her as she begins to shake and heavy breathes before dropping the mugs of coffee spilling and breaking as she yells out Piper’s name to the random woman. She walks back, breaking heavily and panting before Kristin runs up to her and reassures her.
• After calming down, Ms. Lang tells Emma how life doesn’t come with trigger warnings, to which Emma weakly remarks joking it should and that someone should invent an app for that.
• Emma then tells herself what made her think she set foot in this place, regarding her first time having first met Piper over at the couch and at the café where she’s still employed, who tells Ms. Lang it’s connection of her and Piper, who claims she let her become her friend and trusting her before her reveal. Ms. Lang defends Emma claiming she didn’t know any better and how it’s not bad to trust or be vulnerable. Emma jokes and asks if she’s going to have a meltdown every time she sees a brunette drinking a nonfat mocha (which was what Piper used to order and drink).
• Kristen tells Emma to not let her ruin her life with Emma stating this is what happens, claiming that it all closes in on you and then you can’t get out, saying that it happened to his dad and his trauma as a survivor of her half sister’s Piper’s dad Brandon James’s first Lakewood Murders of 1994. Emma then asks Ms. Lang if that’s going to happen to her and if she’s going to become a screwed-up person for the rest of her life.
• Kristen states she won’t be and how Emma only has to work to not be, telling her how she’s not a victim but rather a survivor, telling her how Piper has taken so much from her and to not let her take any more. Kristen reminds Emma how that was not her dead sister sitting over there, referring to Emma’s meltdown and how Piper is gone and that whatever she needs to do to prove that to Emma herself is worth doing. Emma then turns around as Ms. Lang says this before their conversation then ends after this.
• Brooke is shown leaving a restaurant out in Lakewood with a valet before seeing a bouquet of red roses and a note in an envelope waiting outside on the top of her black Range Rover. This breaks out a smile in Brooke who walks up to read the note which says “I’m sorry” in black, bolded cursive printed letters (later revealed to have been Seth Branson, her former hook up and teacher the next day in “Vacancy”). Brooke then, supposedly believing this was Jake, texts him “Impressive. Game On!”
• Emma is shown heading to Kieran’s house, knocking on his door before being opened and greeted by Eli, much to Emma’s confusion as she asks him what he’s doing there. Kieran then walks out of his room as he introduces his cousin, Eli, to her as Eli extends his hands and claims how it’s nice to meet her officially to shake hers, despite indirectly having met at school.
• Emma shakes his hand and returns the same as Kieran introduces his family to Emma, as his aunt Tina is shown walking out, as Tina points out how she’s Maggie’s daughter. Emma greets her, and asks to talk to Kieran outside for a second, as Kieran shuts the door and walks outside with Emma, who claims his family is interesting, with Kieran telling her that’s one word for it.
• Emma claims how she can’t believe he’s leaving, with Kieran informing her of her mom coming and having talked to Tina earlier, to which Emma asks if she did, as Kieran affirms, telling her how she gave her a lot to think about, whatever that means.
• Much to Emma’s surprise, as Kieran states he can’t believe his fate rests in his aunt’s hands. Emma tells Kieran how she knows he doesn’t have much time left but how there’s something she then had to do and how she doesn’t want to do it with anyone but him and how she doesn’t want to do it alone. Emma laughs as she points out that she has to do it now or never as she then asks Kieran if they can go for a drive to which he agrees as they both leave, with Tina and Eli watching from the window as Eli hands his mom a glass of water and her pills which she takes.
• Eli points out to her how this place is nice as Tina tells her son how they just can't get up and move. Eli tells her how they live in a crappy one bedroom apartment with her loser boyfriend, and how it’s not like she has a job. Kieran’s car then begins to pull out of the driveway and how they can stay in the “big house, rent free”. Tina then apologizes to Eli for things not being perfect, to which he agrees and says they’re not and how they’re horrible.
• Brooke is shown getting ready by applying red lipstick on in her bedroom back at her house, revealing to be heading over to Jake’s house which she texts beforehand to tell her she’s going now and to be there or be sorry. Her bedroom door knocks as Brooke tells them to knock in, as her father opens the door who asks his daughter, taken aback by what she’s wearing, to which Brooke implies it’s a dress, which is a suggestive one showing her cleavage.
• Her father, Quinn, claims how it’s too much and how the photo-op is in 20 minutes and how she’s going to have to change, with Brooke apologizing and telling him how she’s going to have to flake on that. Quinn states how that is unacceptable and how this is a very important moment for their family and how she made a promise and how Maddox's “keep their promises”. Brooke scoffs and asks her father if he really wants to get into their family’s legacy of the opposite about lying and breaking them.
• Quinn sits down and claims how he’s going to have to spend the rest of his life apologizing for his mistakes and how he’s trying to make up for them and asks Broke what could possibly be more important, as Brooke asks her father if he really wants to know. Brooke then turns to face her father and tells him how she’s going to see her boyfriend, Jake, claiming “that Jake '', as she sees her father's expression, claiming how they’ve been seeing each other ever since he got arrested and how it’s basically amazing.
• Quinn tells her how that not hurt them very much, with Brooke retracting and stating he hurt him, claiming how all Quinn does is talk about how much he’s changed and states that Jake has, too, claiming he’s a good person and how she cares about him and that she can’t help it and that this is her life, not some stupid campaign, referring to her father’s insistence of keeping up with appearances. She apologizes to him before she grabs her phone and walks away
• Noah is shown to have arrived at the Crescent Palms Motel, who is outside, waiting for Audrey who texts her as he reads on their texts before then heading inside.
• Emma and Kieran then arrive at the dock at the lake where Emma shot Piper after her reveal and killed her, which was the thing she wanted to do. Kieran asks Emma if she doesn’t think it’s too soon to which Emma agrees with and states as she grabs Kieran’s hand as they walk together towards it and on it.
• Halfway through, Emma asks Kieran to wait and states he won’t move as she walks alone forward towards the edge and kneels down, seeing a scratch mark (giving a flashback to when Piper slashed her gut) as Emma looks at it as well as down to the water where Piper fell after being shot, where Piper had shortly re-emerged from the last time before being shot to the head as Emma stares at the black water down, who sees from the lakes reflection, the Lakewood Slasher from across, staring at Emma before it’s revealed to just be a hallucination.
• Emma then walks off the dock and gets closure before she embraces Kieran and both make out in Kieran’s car, with Kieran asking if it’s ok as he touches Emma’s scar wound on her stomach which Emma claims makes her ugly to which Kieran tells her it makes her more beautiful to him as they continue and proceed to have sex for the first time since “Exposed”.
• Back at the motel, Noah is shown inside the lobby taking with Eddie Hayes, who referred to Piper as “crazy chick” being there all the time and how she was usually alone but how once he saw her arguing with a girl, much to Noah’s surprise calling it a plot twist and asking him if he remembered what she looked like. Eddie agrees, stating Piper’s looks before Noah denies not her looks but the accomplice.
• Just before he can answer, Eddie is called by the killer who warns him to play it cool or how housekeeping will be scraping his bone fragments off the ceiling, threatening him with that and referring to exposing Audrey aka the supposed accomplice’s identity.
• It’s revealed to be Audrey outside making the call posing as the killer in order to keep her safe, who tells Eddie how not to make any weird faces to tip Noah off or how she’ll, as the posing killer, strangle him with his own intestines and tells him as the killer how they can see him.
• Eddie then agrees and hangs up on the call shortly, and who then tells Noah, lying as Noah looks at him intrigued, chuckling how he was wrong and how he really doesn’t remember anything and how he should get back to work.
• Noah points out that he’s been talking to him all night as Eddie loudly proclaims that this interview is over and apologizes before Noah leaves, taking his phone which he was recording the interview with as he walks away from the lobby. As Noah leaves, Eddie picks up the phone to hear Audrey as the killer tells him “good boy” before ending the call.
• Noah then walks out of the lobby and is shown walking in front of the motel before Audrey finally catches up, much to Noah’s displeasure and calls her his “tardy sidekick”, before Audrey apologizes and lies swiftly claiming she got tricked into butter pump cleaning duty at the theater.
• Noah agrees reluctantly, saying how man cannot live on toppings alone, uninterested and Audrey asks Noah what she missed. Noah states how the clerk, Eddie, was on the verge of spilling his guts and how then he just froze like he’d seen the dark eye of Sauron (a reference to both The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings), to which Audrey refers to as a jackass who probably made the whole thing up.
• Noah disagrees and claims how he’s clearly onto something and how before his personality split, how Eddie had told him about a storage unit that the motel owns just a few blocks away on Clearview, where they store and keep all the crap guests leave behind, who he thinks there might be stuff in there that belonged to Piper.
• Audrey sarcastically states that’s probably because the cops would’ve just let that slide before Noah retracts and who tells her based on what Eddie said, how Piper didn’t stay there all the time and how it’s possible the cops didn’t even know about and how he may be the only one onto this, besides Audrey, much to her facial confusion and internal worry of being exposed. Noah tells Audrey how he arranged to check it out first thing in the morning and figured how Audrey would want to be there to film the big reveal, extending his fists knuckled into a bump, which Audrey shares and agrees to, stating she wouldn’t miss it.
• Emma and Kieran return, as Tina and Eli sit outside on the front porch of his house as Tina calls him for being out late, to which Kieran smiles and states he’s making the most of the time he has left with Emma.
• Just as they approach the door, Tina then states how she’s been seriously thinking and speaking aside, saying how she has an obligation to her brother, aka Kieran’s dad and how she’s got to do right by him and tells Emma, pointing out how it was her mom who stepped up and had originally offered to take Kieran, much to Emma’s surprise.
• Tina then tells Kieran how it looks like he won’t be moving to Atlanta after all, as Kieran asks if he’s going to be living with Emma, which Tina laughs at and denies to ever letting that happen, rather she’s come to her senses and that she’s got to step up for her nephew, asking if he knows what that means before Eli blatantly tells him how they’re moving in there with Kieran and who asks Emma if he’ll see her at school.
• Emma chuckles and leaves with her book bag before Kieran then asks her if she really wants to walk home alone. Emma agrees and kisses Kieran goodbye as Kieran tells Emma to text him when she gets home. Emma then calls her mom to check up and reassure her she’s fine as Emma walks past by the Zenith Theater on Minor Street, and who tells her she’s awesome and how she heard what he did for Kieran, affirming to her doubtful mom that it worked and how Kieran’s staying and how all of them are which she notes is weird, much to Maggie’s pleasure.
• As Emma walks the empty street and tells her mother how they should have dinner tonight just the two of them, she is soon followed by the the Corvette/Cadillac from earlier, unbeknownst to her, silently behind her and how they should talk and Maggie stating how she’d love that as Emma tells her bye and hangs up, alongside her mom.
• Emma then soon notices the car, which she shrugs off until the car begins following her and whose headlights blinded her as she then begins to run from, turning onto a street and panting as she runs through a front yard of a house in a neighborhood, panicking as she runs into the middle of the road of the next street only for the Corvette to have followed and turned there as she now faces the vehicle, whose headlights are still on flashing Emma.
• The tire screeches and comes to a stop before Emma screams at the driver asking why they’re following her, before the driver of the car steps out and it’s revealed to be Emma’s dad, Kevin Duval, returning to Lakewood much to her shock and surprise as Emma asks if he’s real as Kevin states how he was trying to find the best way to approach her, trying not to startle or scare her already as she is, as he starts to talk to her. Emma agrees that’s done, composing herself, as Kevin talks to his daughter and assures her how there’s no forgiving him for anything and how he finally thought he needed to be there for her and whatever happened next is her decision.
• 6:23 PM: Audrey then sneaks in, after talking with Noah that night to go into the storage unit which Noah talked about (who ignores a phone call as she hopped the fence, as Noah's shown back in his room at home; approximately 23 minutes since Emma's meeting with Ms. Lang), using a car carpet to get over the barbed wire.
• Audrey then gets a call from Noah which she denies to answer as Noah meanwhile re-listens to his interview with Eddie, and records and episode of the Morgue and states he wishes he had an exciting reveal for them tonight but how in his humble opinion, suspense is overrated and how the thing about the truth is how it’s hard to pin down (homage to Noah’s monologues, showing Brooke dressed up and walking towards Jake’s empty house which she notices once she’s at his door, causing her to drop her bag and sit down in visible disbelief as Gustavo from nearby on his bike, notices as does Brooke), stating how it’s both hot and cold, claiming how one hopes it’s one thing but how deep down, one knows it’s something else (shown as Emma returns home as Maggie sets their dinner plates and bread bowl on the table before telling her mom Kevin’s back) stating how he of course wants there to be something amazing when he opens the locker tomorrow but how part of him knows, when he does finally get his big reveal, that he’s not going to like what he finds.
• Noah is shown confirming he suspects Audrey as the second killer (shows Audrey cutting with pliers the lock on a locker storage unit supposedly belonging to Piper before heading into the locker and finding Jake’s body, unbeknownst to him until later)
• Audrey follows a clue from the killer leading her into an empty dark garage at a storage space (where Eddie Hayes used to have his stuff) where she is disgusted after using her flashlight to find Jake’s rotting corpse and mutilated body sat down, which have pinned notes across his chest with the words “see how I finished the job for you Audrey?”.
• The killer then calls her to taunt her about going to the police, with her being more shocked as to why they chose to kill Jake, seeing as he was involved with Brooke. Audrey then gagging at the scent of Jakes’ dead flesh, begins to retrieve and take the pins of his chest and then hide them, and also immediately leave and lock the garage that she had broken into previously afterwards.
• Emma and Maggie talk about Kevin’s return which confuses Maggie as Emma states how she saw him and they talked to him, with Maggie stating if here in Lakewood to which Emma agrees and how they’re having breakfast tomorrow which startles Maggie as she asks her what he said. Emma claims that it wasn’t that much and just that he’s sorry, and how he wants to be there for her now.
• Maggie walks back to her also taken-aback daughter, telling her how she knows she loves his dad and how he loved them but how he has own difficulties and asks Emma to promise her to be careful to which Emma tells her how she can’t promise her anything and who has no idea what to expect and that she only knows that she has to talk to him and have to hear what he’s going to say and asks her mother if that makes sense to which Emma’s mom agrees with and understands.

January 27th

• Following her having shut the locker and run off after taking the pins off Jake and placing them in a plastic bag, Audrey heads home and who the next morning in her bed as she examines the pins perhaps not being able to sleep, gets an early phone call from Emma, who’s also in bed, and like Audrey, couldn’t sleep and is freaking out. Audrey reassures her but claims Kevin’s return and timing of it all is suspicious which upsets Emma, as well as his past, asking where he was back in 2015.
• Emma tells her how she gets that but reminds her of how good he used to before he left and how she’s trying to focus on that before Audrey claims she remembers him as being off, to which Emma asks how with Audrey telling Emma how he was damaged and how she wouldn’t have referred to him like that when they were young but refers to her dad having survived Brandon James back in 1994.
• Emma retorts and tells Audrey how he went through a lot and how both of them should definitely be able understand that, as well as stating how he’s perhaps better now and how people can recover. Audrey reminds her how he had left her without any explanation and asks her about that and tells her to be careful, much to Emma’s scoff, who claims she shouldn’t have called Audrey.
• Audrey asks if she’s pissed at her with Emma telling her she’ll see her later and hangs up. Noah then arrives at Audrey’s room, as she hides the bag of pins and asks if she’s ready to go, which Audrey agrees (due to her promise) and Noah tells her he’ll wait for her outside.
• Both Audrey and Noah then proceed to go to the same storage room from last night, only to find it empty, to Audrey’s surprise, only for them to find a camera, much to Noah’s surprise and Audrey’s shock until they then find a camera recording and Noah goes back to his house to review the footage before school starts much to Audrey’s worry who follows him quickly behind.
• The Lady of the Lake pageant auditions are held at the auditorium that morning at George Washington High School, with a infuriated Brooke trying to get in contact with Jake by leaving him an angry voicemail due to having upgraded from texting to further express her anger of Jake being “so dead”, claiming how she bit the bullet and how after telling her dad about him, that he ghosts and how that is not getting back together and how that is all very stranger and telling him to call her (ironic, considering Jake was dead and revealed to Brooke just 3 days later during her onstage in the naming of contestants for the Lady of the Lake pageant).
• Zoë who manages to overhear Brooke, joins her on the side of the stage to introduce herself, stating how they both barely know each other, and asking about her being in the pageant, stating it doesn’t seem like her thing, which Brooke claims she’s only doing due to her dad and their “Maddox pride”.
• The two talk about her escort and Zoë choosing her dad as her escort in order to avoid high school guy drama, which Brooke laughs and denies making her dad her escort and how she hadn’t thought about it and asks who makes their dad their escort before Zoë tells her.
• Brooke chuckles and tells her how everybody knows about Zoë’s crush on Noah, practically giving him eye baths in psych class to which Zoë claims she doesn’t as Brooke jokes a little bit. The two hit it off and Zoë acknowledges this as another world in which she thinks Noah is kind of cool, asking if she’s happy before Brooke’s gaze is broken as she turns around and finds Gustavo in the auditorium.
• Brooke tells Zoë, who also sees him, to hold her thought as Brooke walks away and towards him while Zoë returns to the stage.
• Brooke blatantly tells Gustavo how this is not a spectator event, to which Gustavo jokes how he came in early to get some laps and accidentally discovered “this circus”.
• Brooke tells him how it’s a traditional scholarship program with a charity component. Gustavo agrees as Brooke and Gustavo share a look as he asks her if she ever found her boyfriend before the pageant coach calls out for Brooke to join them on stage.
• Brooke tells Gustavo how perhaps she was unclear and tells him to go away, to which Gustavo tells her he’ll take that as “No” as she walks away, fueling their flirtation.
• Kevin Duval officially returns back to Lakewood a few days after Emma is back in town. They talk and after Emma feels she is being chased in an empty neighborhood the night before, and in which she sees the bright headlights of an old Corvette car which stop and Kevin heads out of the car. Emma mentions this to Audrey who she calls to inform, only for Audrey to become suspicious of his return and all in timing.
• Emma hangs up upset, and meets her father for breakfast aka coffee at the coffeehouse where Emma worked. They talk and try to reconcile with Emma asking him and states how she understands, who's curious about her father and mother’s fallout affecting her, asking why he had to leave her, with her father saying his mother told him not to call her.
• Kevin doesn’t respond, thus causing Emma to leave and be angered at her mother and just angered in general and leave and calling on to ask her mother.
• Emma talks to Kieran about meeting with her dad at his locker, as well as about what Audrey said to her upsetting her and messing up her meeting with her dad. Kieran agrees, stating how it’s hard to tell with Audrey and because of her and her father’s history, and asks if she thinks Kevin will stick around, to which Emma replies she doesn’t have an idea and how he doesn’t have the most reliable track record.
• Eli, supposedly listening to music on his headphones on his phone on the other side of the hallway, overhears their conversation and chimes in stating how his dad left him and his mom when he was little and that he’d probably punch him in the teeth if he showed up. Kieran tells Eli “not cool” and Emma asks Eli if he was listening to her to which Eli denies as Kieran claims how Eli and his dad have a complicated relationship, similar to his and his dad’s formerly, and how Eli is crazy.
• Emma, after hearing this, responds and agrees with Eli claiming how she “definitely” wanted to hit her dad when he left, despite being young yet so angry. Kieran claims how that doesn’t sound like her, before leaving Emma, telling her how he has to cram for his Lit exam, kissing her before he goes, as Eli tells them sarcastically off about their PDA in the hallway being adorable, noting his jealousy (albeit this was actually Kieran making Eli seem jealous when he was just being sarcastic). Kieran then claps back asking if Eli doesn’t have anything to sign up for, reminding him how it’s his big day and how he’s got a lot to do.
• Eli acknowledges it being his first day and how he doesn’t know where anything is before Emma steps in to break the tension and to help Eli navigate by voluntarily agreeing to help him and show him around, with Kieran asking if she’s sure and how he’s a pain in the ass which Eli hears and tells him how he’s standing right there.
• Kieran turns to smugly at Eli and tells Emma to dump him at the main office and how they’ll take care of him before walking off. Emma turns and guides Eli, as she tries to begin a conversation, telling him it must be weird for him to move in the middle of the school year, which Eli claims he and his mom move a lot so he gets used to it. Emma states how living in one place your whole life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. They go quiet before Emma brings up their meeting in the hallway, and asks Eli why he chose to screw with her if he knew who she was, with Eli stating it was more fun than plainly introducing one another. Emma looks at Eli chuckling, agrees and states how she guesses that it is before Emma claims how Eli is still kind of weird as their flirtation supposedly starts off.
• Audrey and Noah then are about to review the footage before school starts. Audrey claims how they’re going to be late to school before Noah calls Eddie Hayes (prior to his death) at work, and begins to go off on him about who else he told about the storage unit, which Eddie claims due to having received a death threat that he hasn’t had anything else to say before hanging up.
• This takes Noah aback before he then begins to connect the camera to sync to his computer, telling Audrey to wait for it who tells him how he’s spinning the conspiracy theories that just don’t exist with Audrey then grabbing one of Noah’s heavy limited edition dragon’s head bookend with faux onyx finish to knock him out in case as he uploads the camera only to find it as streaming only and erased and find Audrey holding the bookend. Audrey returns it and tells Noah how she’s heading to class and that she’ll see him there. Then, as Audrey walks out of Noah’s house and towards her car, the killer shows Audrey a GIF of her kneeling down Jake’s body, having had recorded it via a security camera in the garage, threatening her even further (“Vacancy”)
• Kevin arrives at the Duval house during the day and rings the doorbell as Maggie approaches, coming downstairs to open the door as the divorced couple see each other for the first time in over a decade, with quiet tension between the two as Maggie opens the door and signals for Kevin to come in. He does before he begins to speak as Kevin tells her how he knows she told him not to come back.
• Maggie nods and states that yet there he is. Kevin claims he needed to see Emma, to which Maggie tells him how he did see her and that hopefully he can see that Emma’s a strong girl and how she’s working hard to get her life back. Kevin agrees and states how he doesn’t want to mess any of that up.
• Maggie scoffs as Kevin tells her how Emma had questions. Maggie then asks if there were any questions regarding why Kevin hadn’t reached out back after Emma tried to communicate via letters and phone calls ever since she was a young girl to now, after almost half her life. Kevin tells Maggie he doesn’t want to fight with Maggie claiming he should’ve respected her wishes as his ex, telling him how she’s trying to protect Emma.
• Kevin states how when he found out what had happened to both Emma and Maggie, how he knew he needed to connect with Emma, pointing out how the same thing happened to him, referring to surviving a murderer and their spree.
• Maggie then madly asks Kevin why he’s there, as Kevin defends claiming how Emma’s former friend Riley Marra had been reaching out to her (despite the fact that Piper killed her back in 2015), who had supposedly told Kevin how when Emma came home from Maggie’s mother’s house how she thought Emma needed him. Maggie asks to specify if it’s the same Riley that Piper killed, who she tells Kevin after he shows Maggie the emails sent supposedly by Riley on his phone as Maggie tells him how he’s been getting emails from a dead girl, much to Kevin’s shock.
• Both Zoë and Brooke back at the auditorium talk about Zoe’s crush on Noah due to her listening to his podcast as Zoë recalls his previous relationship with Riley and how now he’s always with Audrey every time, and mentioning Audrey’s preference since the video from September 2015 which she refers to as “last fall”.
• Zoë then questions if Brooke saw it and who would post something like it, despite Brooke being one of those behind the scandal, which she tells her as mean people who don’t think, proving she’s past it. Brooke then changes the topic and tells Zoë how she believes there’s something they can do about Zoë’s “situation” much to Zoë’s denial, who then gets interrupted as she talks with Zoë by an unknown number calling revealed to be her former fling, Seth Branson, much to Brooke’s shock and displeasure.
• She turns away from Zoë to take the call, telling Seth how she has blocked him on all social media, phones, and even the telegraph and how he’s blocked for a reason. Seth states how he misses her and how he heard about her break up with Jake, which Brooke tells him that her and Jake are negotiating and who then asks him how he’d know that and asks him if he’s really opening with a Shakespeare quote, referring to him open with a line from Sonnet 65. Seth agrees that that’s his plan, claiming how it was an old assignment of his and how he’s feeling nostalgic, referring to Brooke’s inappropriate relationship with him, as Seth asks if Brooke doesn’t miss him at all. Brooke denies him and tells him to consider the number he called from blocked too before hanging up, silently upset.
• Kieran in the hallway at school introduces Eli as his cousin to both Noah and Audrey and to feel free to ignore him. Eli waves as Noah asks him if it’s his first day. Eli agrees and states how school is school before Noah tells him how in this school, people get killed by knife-wielding maniacs every 20 years give or take, referring to the murders (which took a 20 year break since 1994 before returning in 2015).
• Brooke and Emma then walk and interrupt before Brooke tells them how there’s a girl's only moment needed as she pulls Audrey away from the group leaving Kieran, Noah, and Eli behind. Brooke, Emma, and Audrey head into the girls bathroom as they talk in front of the bathroom sink counter with the mirror and nearby the air hand dryers as Brooke tells them about Seth calling her out of nowhere much to the Emma and Audrey’s surprise, telling them how he had heard Jake and her broke up as Emma asks her how he heard that, claiming how anyone barely knew they were together.
• Audrey agrees and asks what it is with men from the past mysteriously showing up, causing tension and who’s referring to Emma’s dad. Brooke senses the tension as she asks what that means with Audrey referring to Kevin as Emma’s “deadbeat” dad resurfacing as well.
• This angers Emma, who tells Audrey how that’s not a cool thing, how it’s a totally different thing referring to Seth with Brooke, who tells Audrey how she wasn’t ready to share that. Brooke asks if Emma wasn’t going to share the news with her before Emma subliminally remarks at Audrey, claiming how the person she told that morning of her news wasn’t exactly supportive.
• This takes Audrey back as she asks Emma how was her breakfast with Kevin this morning, to which she replies went really well, to which Audrey tells her how she can tell that it’s “100% not true”. Brooke, trying to understand the situation asks if the two of them are legit fighting before Emma denies and states they’re fine and how it’s only Audrey having unflattering opinions about her dad, which Audrey remarks as being memories, which she says how sometimes people are going through big things that have absolutely nothing to do with her, referring to her and Emma’s strained relationship as friends, claiming out loud sarcastically how it’s a big shocker before Audrey walks off from the bathroom.
• At the sheriff's office, Miguel overlooks the emails from Kevin’s phone and tells both him and Maggie after reporting it that at the most it’s identity theft and how even then what’s the harm. Maggie looks at Miguel sternly and Miguel apologizes to her and telling her he didn’t mean to sound dismissive, as Miguel points and defends himself, claiming how she’s seen the reports of all the hijinks since her unfortunate run in with her daughter, Piper to which Maggie replies as a pretty “damning understatement”.
• Miguel reminds both Kevin and Maggie how they all grew up there and Maggie then points how both men left, with Miguel defending himself due to his family having to leave due to the whole Brandon James mess, as Maggie tells Miguel that with their particular history, she thinks he should investigate (referring to when he was involved in helping Maggie aka Daisy move Brandon James’s body when they were young after Brandon was shot).
• Miguel sighs as he looks at her and then over at Kevin, who has kept quiet and looks at him with an eyebrow, which both men share before agreeing to Maggie to just be safe and claims he knows a guy in the Bureau back in Phoenix and how he can try to trace the activity, claiming how it will take a while and tells them both that for now to not tell Emma, claiming that they don’t need the whole student body talking.
• Maggie disagrees, claiming she doesn’t know whether to withhold from telling Emma, to which Kevin tries to comfort his wife by tapping her shoulder and who sides with Miguel, asking Maggie what if he’s right, claiming how she had told him how she didn’t want to stress Emma out. Maggie goes quiet as Miguel looks back to Kevin and then to Maggie as she looks at him before then telling Miguel muttering to let her know if he finds anything out before she leaves his office, frustrated as she gets up and walks out.
• Kevin catches up to her and tells her how he trusts Miguel and how the sheriff will get this sorted out. Maggie retorts by saying if deciding not to tell Emma, and noting their glances, calling both Miguel and Kevin as if they were teenage boys getting away with things again.
• Kevin tells her that’s not what happened. Maggie then turns around angrily as she’s about to leave the station and tells Kevin how she’s raised Emma on her own ever since he left and how she’s made mistakes and notes how she didn’t have any help.
• Kevin tells her that’s not fair and pointing out to her that she knew he had to leave, with Maggie claiming how now he’s back and thinks how him and Emma sharing the same experience of almost being killed is a good thing to have in common, which Kevin claims it’s just something they share with Maggie angrily telling him off how being attacked by a psychopath is not bonding.
• Maggie then turns to walk away only for Kevin to grab her hand just as she turns before she slips away and tells Kevin angrily to never touch her as she walks off and leaves Kevin, both visibly upset.
• Emma heads to the Grindhouse Café and asks to get a copy of the schedule for next week to the barista working the front who nods as she walks to do so (next week being the first week of February 1-5). Eli walks up to Emma, unsuspecting, and makes conversation with her by claiming the barista looked at him like he was crazy too. He tells Emma what drink he’s carrying, carrying a black eye iced coffee with two shots of espresso, signaling his drink in the clear plastic cup.
• Emma claims that she would never sleep again as Eli tells her right and both chuckle with Eli making a comment about what he had said earlier about the punching comment and apologizing with Emma claiming it was fine as Eli still stands about what he said, claiming he felt kind of bad for interrupting her. The barista arrives and hands Emma the work schedule and tells her about her dad calling to leave a message and tells Emma to let him know that cell phones exist before walking off and how this isn’t an answering service. Emma agrees to and apologizes, claiming that he doesn’t have her number. Eli tries to lighten her mood up by stating anticipation builds and asking what’s the message from her dad, which Emma opens it and reads that he’s at the Crescent Palms and how he’s sorry and that he has an answer about why he left. Eli smiles and asks her if that’s good with Emma stating they’ll see, unknowingly being a trap set by the killer to lure her.
• Eddie Hayes is murdered at night with a corkscrew and dies at Crescent Palms. He was killed off by Piper's accomplice after having walked into the killer's room and finding it all covered in plastic, which Eddie notes before his death as kinky, who had been sent from the lobby with wine and a corkscrew before finding the room door unlocked as well as empty. He is then murdered by the killer, who emerges from a blanket covering them, and gets the bottle and corkscrew as Eddie approached the bathroom to notice his reflection from the mirror, knocking him out with the bottle shattering over his head and turning the old timey music playing on the speaker to drown Eddie’s calls for help who tries to crawl away before being stabbed repeatedly by the killer in the back of his torso before killing Eddie by stabbing him and leaving the corkscrew on his neck, bleeding and gurgling as Eddie dies out, trailing blood as the killer hides his body in the bathtub of the room.
  • His corpse/body would later be found by an injured and dying Seth Branson 4 days later (January 31) after being attacked by the killer at his empty hotel room where Brooke Maddox had previously tied him up by handcuffs and who interrogated him and officially broke things over and up between them after learning about his relationship with Kristen Lang as well as his ties with the death of a female student back in his early days before he came to Lakewood.
  • Eddie's corpse being bloody and in a bathtub would be referenced in universe 7 years later by the death of Paul 2.0 off-screen in Scream VI, who was also found in a bathtub by Mindy, a reverse to Emma almost finding his body before being distracted.
• Noah, Gustavo, Brooke, and Zoë all meet up and hang out that night to watch some B-movie action with them going to see the 1988 American horror film, "Killer Klowns from Outer Space”, at the Zenith Theatre, as well as for Zoë, due to Brooke’s insistence, to get along. Gustavo asks to talk with Noah about his podcast as both amicably talk it out with Gustavo claiming how Noah’s making real progress with his Piper accomplice theory, which Noah thanks him for and Gustavo tells him he’s welcome, who then asks him what if he did find someone being the accomplice and if he/she or they would be happy it, stating how that means Noah gets hurt or worse.
• Noah takes it as food for thought. Brooke and Zoë then arrive, who then asks Noah as she sees Gustavo if he invited him, which he denies as his attention focuses on Zoë and asks Brooke where everyone else is, referring to Emma or Kieran, which Brooke claims it’s just her and Zoë tonight. Both Zoë and Noah talk and awkwardly flirt about their reading assignment in AP English of reading Of Mice and Men before Brooke speeds it up and tells Noah if he’s smart he’ll ask Zoë out and if he’s lucky she’ll say yes. Brooke then takes her attention to Gustavo and asks him what he’s doing there, to which Gustavo states and implies that he’s just seeing a movie, who looks Brooke up and down and asks if there’s something he can do for her, before Brooke blatantly asks if she could get one “Stavo-free” day (a pun to Stevia) and asks him if he has any of those to which Gustavo answers jokingly how they’re all out.
• This causes Zoë and Noah to chuckle from the side, as Brooke scoffs and tells them to go as they all make their way inside, as Brooke grabs onto Noah and Zoe’s arm while Gustavo walks behind them. Noah jokes about Brooke being supposedly excited about seeing the 1988 film, to which Brooke asks cringing if that’s what they’re seeing. Noah then asks Brooke that Audrey had told them she was going to sneak them in tonight before Noah notices her not being there and another usher working instead. Noah says how Audrey’s been MIA lately before Brooke and the others see her staring and notice their former teacher and Brooke’s fling, Seth Branson, at the concession stand in line.
• He also notices a displeased Brooke and her friends, with Gustavo asking who he is as Zoë tells him of Branson being a former teacher at George Washington High School, as Noah snarks how he used to do a lot of things before Brooke walks madly towards him.
• Seth takes her aside and tells her that this is just a coincidence with Brooke claiming to be sure, telling him how he unknowingly called her this morning and how just happens to show up there, as if to suspect him. Seth states how he sees Brooke in a lot of places in town and how he avoids her so she doesn’t know, with Brooke sarcastically telling him how that’s not a smart thing to say, as she tells him as the killer “I see you but you don’t see me”, pointing the irony.
• Seth then smiles and asks Brooke if she actually thinks he’s stalking her with Brooke claiming how he’s absolutely misled her before. Seth states how if Brooke doesn’t think what they had was real then there’s nothing that he can do, with Brooke calling him out for his irony reversing stating how neither his name or backstory where, referring to him having dated Olivia Finley when she was in college before she was murdered, which Seth asks if that’s why Brooke locked him out of her house while people were dying (referring to what had transpired almost 3 months ago on October 31st, 2015).
• Brooke scoffs and states how she doesn’t trust him with Seth stating how she never gave him a chance to explain and how she just shut him out and how it wasn’t just sex when it came to their relationship and claims how he still cares for her, who places his hand to caress her face and cheeks which he pushes much to the silent onlooking contempt from Zoë, Noah, and Gustavo. Brooke sighs as she walks away from him and back to the grove as Seth tells her if they can at least finish talking before Noah and Zoë come to her defense with Zoë greeting their former teacher and Noah joking how this is not at all uncomfortable, before digging at Seth and asking him if there’s any new missing girls to report, to which Seth scoffs and tells him how he never liked him.
• Brooke breaks the tension between the two, telling them there’s no need for that and telling Seth how his sources were correct about Jake, stating that it’s complicated as she states how she’s for the meantime keeping her plate full as she gets Gustavo to play along in her lead as the guise, introducing him to Seth and how he’s the sheriff’s son as Gustavo grabs his arm protectively around Brooke’s waist, and tells Seth to be nice in order to mislead and make Seth believe it. Gustavo then looks sternly at Seth and asks Brooke if the old dude is bothering her, which Seth claiming how Brooke’s not dating him before Brooke then playing along kisses Gustavo in front of him. They finish with Gustavo looking at Brooke and calling her “babe” claiming how if they’re gonna see the movie they should get in there before Gustavo and Seth then stare off sternly at one another.
• Brooke, slightly taken aback by the kiss, claims how in second thought she’s not stoke about sitting in a dark room with a teacher and tells her group that they’ll just finds something else to do before they all turn around to leave with Seth calling out Brooke and telling her how she’s changed and how she never even thanked him for the flowers. This causes her to stop at the front door, alongside the group as she turns around in disbelief and asks which Seth states he left on top of her car, with Brooke having believed they were Jake’s. The group then all walk out as Brooke then takes out her phone and madly texts Jake “Thanks for the flowers. NOT. Screw you. We’re DONE”, implying their relationship officially being over before Jake then supposedly texts “K, Babe. Hasta la Vista”, which takes Brooke aback and who texts him and asks if that’s a stupid hint and if he’s in Mexico with his parents
• 9:00 PM: Audrey is lured during heading to her shift work that night to the Zenith Theater (which explains why Noah, Brooke, Zoë, and Gustavo weren’t able to be sneaked in by Audrey) by the killer of Eddie’s death and about luring her to have some answers waiting back at Crescent Palms. Audrey denies at first before the killer threatens to expose her for the pins she took out of Jake in the comment section of Noah’s podcast telling her it’s her choice before hanging up and Audrey reluctantly agreeing.
• Meanwhile, Emma was lured into the same motel room, 213, as Emma does (the dates seen on the list as being as January 24-25 as well as the 26, despite it being the 27, referencing the time frame) due to the note she had received earlier at the café, unbeknownst that that’s where Eddie had died, which the killer toyed around and showed Audrey who was recording from the motel bathroom, who was more scared about her friends safety as well as being exposed. However, Emma soon leaves the room and walks away after hearing and seeing her dad get into a fight from the bar across the motel, thus prompting Audrey to be relieved.
• Emma confronts her dad and breaks up his bar fight and asking why he called her to the motel and then got drunk, as well as why he has these news clippings, the ones she picked up from the empty motel room and who asks her father if it was him who was at the farm on Pikeview Road the other night, the latter who has no idea what she’s talking about and that those aren’t his and how he checked out and everything’s in his car, who claims not to have left Emma the message as Emma confronts her father about leaving which upsets her.
• Kevin tries to relate with her and how he got angry and because of that, became an alcoholic and who tells her how one day when Emma was little and he was trying to take her somewhere, her mother denied before he lost control and hit her across the face, attacking her and fracturing Maggie’s jaw, much to Emma’s distress and Kevin claiming how her mother was so frightened of putting her in danger and how Kevin states how she doesn’t want Emma to see him like this.
• Emma is taken aback sadly by this revelation to which Kevin thanks Maggie for never telling her and for letting Emma remember him better, as a guilty Kevin tears up, before Emma turns to walk away unbeknownst that Audrey had heard everything, who plays it off as just driving by and stating the reason why she called the police, who then arrive and ask who called them, with Audrey claiming it was her due to the bar fight, as Kevin is seemingly taken by the police for the bar fight and how she didn’t know it was her dad.
• Emma states how her and her mom were right before Emma apologizes, which Audrey tells her not to say she was a jerk and how she can’t explain why it and how none of it matters right now as Audrey and Emma walk to her car.
• Emma tells Audrey what Kevin said about him and her being the same, which she claims she’s doesn’t want to be with Audrey reassuring her they’re not as Emma states how she doesn’t always have to rescue her with Audrey stating how it’s not like she does it on purpose, as the friends share a nice moment before Emma heads into her car as Audrey tells Emma to get home safe.
• Audrey walks back and gets into her car before sighing until she gets a text to look under her seat before Audrey searches and finds the bloody corkscrew, much to her shock as she drops it before looking at her phone to see a GIF of a dead Eddie Hayes with the corkscrew the killer used which reads “You shouldn’t have called the police. Gotcha:)” as Audrey drops her phone and begins to hyperventilate.
• Audrey then finds somewhere in the woods to dig up and bury the corkscrew due to her DNA now having touched it.

January 28th

• Emma is revealed to be writing in her dream journal about her nightmares and hallucinations specifically about Kieran being murdered while making out with Emma by the Lakewood Slahser (a decoy, due to Kieran’s reveal at the end).
• Audrey awakens to the murder corkscrew weapon having been placed on her bed and a call from the killer taunting her about trying to dispose of it, telling her how he knows her better than he thinks as well as her bedroom window left wide open.
• Emma texts Kieran happy birthday and ignores her parents arguing downstairs and claims how she’s late for school and tells them on their things, claiming how Kevin hit her mom Maggie and that who he is that he’s a bad dad and how Maggie tries to protect her from things by hiding them but how it does the opposite, asking if she had not figured that out, referring to the murders of Piper back in 2015 and her connection with Brandon James. Emma then tells them to stop making it about her when it’s about them both as she walks off.
• At home before school, Kieran asks Eli where he was with Eli claiming he was out, as Kieran states how Lakewood is a small town and that people watch and claims to not know what he was doing but that he knows Eli with Eli agreeing and also claiming to know him.
• Kieran tells Eli how the town has been good to him and how he likes it there and to not ruin it for him, with Eli telling him to relax and that he’s not trying to ruin anything and greets him happy birthday and asks Kieran if he’s sure he doesn’t want him to gather his friends and how they can all do something fun tonight for his birthday, to which Kieran claims he is doing something fun tonight alone with Emma before Kieran leaves for school.
• 7:13 AM: Quinn Maddox brings in the morning his daughter Brooke in her room on her bed texting, a mug of coffee to which she thanks him as Quinn asks if she’s ready about tomorrow, as she catches his act and stating who wouldn’t be excited about a Friday (which is the 29), claiming it’s the announcement of the finalists of the Lady of the Lake pageant, and who has no doubt Brooke will be one of them.
• Brooke agrees, uninterested and still on her phone as her dad tells her how her chances of winning decrease dramatically if Jake were to be her escort as Brooke states how she should be a sure bet with Quinn asking if they had a fight as Brooke claims you can’t fight someone who isn’t speaking to you and who she thinks fled to Mexico with his parents, which she claims to not care about. Quinn claims how she’ll have the pick of all the boys who kisses her in the head and tells her to choose wisely as he leaves and Brooke plops down her phone for a while only to pick it up again and continues texting Jake asking how he’s not even texting her and asking “WTF” and if they’re really done.
• Jake then supposedly begins to reply as Brooke stands up who texts Brooke he’s waiting for her to beg with Brooke texting him how she doesn’t beg and Jake texting how either way, she’ll see him tomorrow (a foreshadowing to his reveal) as Brooke rolls her eyes before getting back to bed.
• Meanwhile, Emma meets Eli getting her morning coffee at the Café, who’s applying to work with Grindhouse as he states how they’re hiring which Emma notices, as Eli asks that it wouldn’t completely suck working together with Emma denying and stating how it would be awesome.
• Eli then gathers Emma to convince her to do something fun to do something fun by throwing Kieran his birthday party, which Emma claims to them doing a small romantic thing just the two of them due to her believing Kieran’s claims which Eli points out stating how Kieran would never ask that of her even if that is he what he wants, with Emma asking Eli if Kieran told him that’s what he wants.
• Emma falls for this and agrees to do it and volunteers her house to throw a surprise party seeing since her mom is out filling for a medical examiner in another town in Portsmouth tonight, explaining her absence. Eli agrees and states how he wants to have some fun and offers to help her buy the booze with his fake ID as they joke with Emma claiming if that’s why she has a fake ID, with Eli claiming how he maybe likes to be someone else once in a while.
• During the school day, Emma, Audrey, and Brooke are shown working silently on school work in their study hall classroom before Audrey gets a text from the killer claiming they have their eye on her which Audrey looks up before suspecting Gustavo who looks down at her as she looks up at him before taking pictures of him who smiles smugly as she does.
• Emma then stops her work and asks if both Audrey and Brooke can come to Kieran’s party to which both agree. Audrey asks Emma and Brooke about their thought about Gustavo, with him seeming off to her as Brooke claims he’s a weirdo (prior to dating him) and how he has a whole fanboy thing with the Lakewood Six (referring to his comic book drawings of them, not incriminating), as Audrey begins to suspect before Audrey leaves supposedly to head to the restroom as Brooke hands it to Emma for throwing a party behind her moms back before the whole school is evacuated due to the fire alarm going off as it’s revealed Audrey supposedly pulled it to stay back and look at Gustavo’s tablet of the drawings of the Lakewood 6 before landing on Emma’s which she suspects.
• Quinn enlists Miguel to find Jake and not file a missing persons report due to the mayor threatening him.
• Noah and Zoë flirt outside at school before class and who invites her to Emma’s surprise birthday party for Kieran and invites her subliminally before Brooke sees them and walks up telling Zoë that he’ll pick her up at 6:30 P.M that night as Zoë laughs before each depart.
• Kieran and Emma are seen talking with Emma standing outside of Kieran’s car as he asks her if she wants him at her house by 7:00, with Emma claiming 7:30 PM instead, as Kieran asks if she’s sure she doesn’t want to do something stating how she’s been dealing with a lot before inviting her to chill and celebrate tomorrow, as Emma reminds him how it’s his birthday and she wants to chill and celebrate his birthday with him tonight as they share a kiss before Kieran drives off and Emma is picked up by Eli in his car to pick up the booze and set up the party, supposedly.
• Miguel arrives at the school front office receptionist who informs him how Jake has been out with strep throat since Monday, and how normally she would’ve contacted his parents to confirm but how she believed he sounded horrible, as Miguel tells her how he had spoken with them this morning and who were texting with Jake last night and how he never mentioned anything about being sick as the receptionist tells him how Jake’s parents are in Mexico and how there’s no way he’s not calling in sick to school. Miguel thanks her and walks off.
• At his room after school, Noah asks Audrey for fashion advice on his flannel shirts to go with Zoë for the party tonight as Audrey tells him to keep looking. Audrey then asks for Noah’s opinion on Gustavo who he tells her is cool and tells Noah how he draws them, the Lakewood 6, and how he’s obsessed with them due to what Brooke stated and that she’s right, and Noah claims how brooding loners get a bad rap and how Brooke thinks everyone’s obsessed with her as Audrey continues to suspect Gustavo. Noah states how Audrey is sounding paranoid and that maybe she’s seen too many movies much to her annoyance. Noah then asks if he should wear a cardigan or none as Audrey tells him so with him stating that’s a good choice.
• Miguel arrives to knock on Jake and the Fitzgerald’s home door, announcing himself from the outside before leaving after getting no response.
• 6:30 PM: Noah picks up Zoe to attend the party.
• 7:00-7:30 PM: A birthday party is held for Kieran Wilcox (“Happy Birthday to Me”) at Emma’s house, with Brooke and Emma conversing about Eli trying to kiss Emma (prior to Kieran's arrival, when hanging up the birthday banner sign). The partygoers arrive and Eli informs them about a bottle sent by a supposed Jake of añejo tequila that is all well aged and smells old and tastes bad (which later turns out to be ayahuasca, a psychedelic drug in the form of alcohol, according to Gustavo). They drink the shots served by Gustavo and drink as Kieran walks in. The partygoers all then immediately start getting sick. The Lakewood survivors mainly gather and are all informed that they will start hallucinating, so Emma and Audrey try to gather everyone inside so nothing bad happens.
• Brooke begins hallucinating as she drinks water, which she then begins to hallucinate on fire as well as see Gustavo’s eyes change colors as he grabs her right before she falls. Gustavo takes Brooke to bed and tries to relax her, until she begins to hallucinate Jake and leaves Gustavo. Audrey hallucinates her and Rachel and then ends up kissing Noah and Zoe. Emma hallucinates herself in the woods chasing her younger self until she is then proceeded to be chased by the killer, who she feels isn’t real until she is then proceeded to be almost stabbed by the killer, when she is then found by her dad, who saved her.
• Sheriff Acosta then proceeded to question them about the party and events and being dosed and Emma almost attacked, with Maggie and Kevin fighting with Maggie arguing he was there conveniently to play the savior. Miguel Acosta looks in his son's room to find a Brandon James mask.

January 29th

• At Kieran’s house before school starts, Emma asks Kieran if surely he believed her after her run in the woods last night as Emma states she knows what she saw, as Kieran states how she’s been so stressed out lately about seeing stuff that wasn’t there, such as the problems with her dad and asks her supposedly worried and how perhaps she was right before about not being ready to come back yet. Emma states it wouldn’t make a difference at the psychiatric facility wouldn’t change anything and how he was right and how everything she needs to fix is right there. Eli overheard this from the inside.
• The next day at school, at the parking lot, Noah meets with Audrey to apologize (due to Audrey having prematurely apologized while on the ayahuasca), with Noah then taking it slow with her as they wouldn’t become an official couple until “Let The Right One In”, and Brooke and Gustavo are shown sharing and talking with one another at the auditorium as Brooke apologizes and tells Gustavo he was a good guide with Gustavo complimenting her and telling her if anyone could do it, it’s her.
• Emma gets to school and heads to the assembly before Eli catches up with, which she gets mad at Eli again for having thrown a party (after learning the night before as well) when she believed him for saying Kieran wanting something big but rather not, and gets mad about her being chased in the woods and that he knows nothing and with him telling her what he thinks she wants to hear means that he’s not helping and that he doesn’t get it all, despite Eli’s claims that there’s no doubt in his mind and that he’s trying to help stating he believes her even if Kieran doesn’t, referring to her and Kieran’s conversation, when Emma asks him why he’s saying this and telling him how telling her what he overheard. Emma tells Eli that if what she saw last night in the woods is real, then there is a new aka second killer/Piper’s accomplice and how all of that is happening all over again (foreshadowing right before the reveal of Jake’s body)
• At this point, the disappearance of Jake Fitzgerald is being placed and put into question and later ultimately high alert until the reveal of his death.
• During the school day assembly and Lady of the Lady pageants finalists naming list, after all the 5 young ladies have taken the stage, including Zoë, with Brooke Maddox in a small, white, long sleeved dress front and center, while at the auditorium stage, as a stage crew rolls down the banner, the corpse of Jake Fitzgerald falls down while rolling down the sign of the Lady of the Lake Pageant (where he was rolled in) in front of his former girlfriend Brooke, causing a public meltdown and traumatizing Brooke, who is seen covered after the body fell in his blood, screaming much to Emma’s shock as well as her friends (“Happy Birthday to Me”).
  • This scene is an homage to various others in the Scream franchise, albeit public like both Maureen Evans and Randy Meeks in Scream 2, Rebecca Walters in Scream 4 and Avery Collins in Season 3. However, Jake falling albeit dead homages that of Kenny Brown’s death and inverses that of Derek Feldman’s death as well.
  • Jake, despite being dead, was thrown down from being rolled in the banner is also an homage to Cici Cooper's death in Scream 2, and to Tyson Fox and Jennifer Jolie's deaths in Scream 3, albeit more so the latter (like Jake in the banner, Jennifer was killed after Dewey shot the final glass window in the closet due to dying in a secret room and fell dead, much to Gale's shock, like Brooke's).
  • His death in the films via falling dead is succeeded 7 years later by Anika Kayoko's death in Scream VI. Like her, both characters were brutally injured, albeit unlike Jake, Anika was still alive before falling and cracking her skull and dying via her injuries.
    • Like with Jake's death, it was witnessed by the survivor groups in each (Lakewood Five: Emma, Audrey, Noah, and Gustavo to Jake's; Core Four: Sam and Mindy to Anika's) and devastated each victims lovers (Brooke to Jake, Mindy to Anika).
  • The scene with Brooke being covered in blood while in a white dress on stage in front of an audience is a reference to Carrie, which in turn was then mentioned by Billy Loomis for his fake blood in the original Scream.
• The police and the Sheriff are called in and order a lockdown, causing a number of concerned parents to be locked outside, but Brooke’s father aka Mayor Quinn Maddox is allowed in as he is informed of the situation. Brooke is held and photographed by Maggie Duval, who attempts to console her as Brooke tries to take on what she now knows about her boyfriend having died days before as she suspected after begging Maggie, asking her after Jake’s in a body bag and herself cleaned up.
  • Unfortunately, this comes at a price seeing as this information was valuable and sharing it was seen as a threat by Acosta on Duval’s part and how it had to remain private due to overreaction by the town residents, so he fired her for it, respectively.
  • Maggie also states that she thinks it’s been two or 3 days since Jake’s death which would make it take some time between January 26th or 27th, as opposed to his actual death on January 25.
• Audrey and Emma arrive while pleading with Kristen to let them get to Brooke before Maggie denies them and tells them that it is an active evidence crime scene before Deputy Dwayne calls for Emma to be interrogated and leaves Audrey to console Brooke after Brooke begs sadly for her friends to stay, as Maggie reassures her, they’re doing that to all of Jake’s friends.
• The sheriff interrogates various students including Noah as he asks whether they were friends as Noah states what they went through with Piper changes them and tries to joke about being used to it before retracting and stating it’s awful. Acosta asks Noah briefly when was the last time he saw Jake, which he states was at a party the other night 5 days ago (Emma’s return which was January 24) and thinking how this was all a prank seeing as nobody had seen him due to having gotten in a fight with Brooke and how he has to understand how Jake went out of his way to be a pain in the ass sometimes, as Brooke thought he’d been playing some sort of elaborate hide and seek game with her and with something as terrible as this happening, people would rather believe anything else is happening. The sheriff then asks Noah what he thinks is happening as Noah tells him how they know what’s happening and how now that Emma’s home, the second new killer aka Piper’s accomplice is finishing the job.
• Emma is guided into the library upstairs and left there where many students are being held such as Kieran, Eli, Zoë, Gustavo, and Haley. Kieran hand gestures for Emma as they walk behind an empty aisle by bookshelves behind the crowd as Kieran asks how he’s sorry it’s all happening again (slight foreshadowing) and asks how’s Brooke as Emma states she’s a mess before asking how she is as Emma tears up and Kieran hugs her. Kieran apologizes about last night and how he shouldn’t have doubted her as Emma tells him to not talk about that. They share a kiss and hug
• Brooke and Audrey are in the locker room where Brooke is getting cleaned up, by showering and afterwards gets out in a white towel, still in distress where Audrey tries to console her, seeing as Brooke is in disbelief, when she thought and believed that she had been texting Jake, which prompts suspicion from Audrey who then states it perhaps wasn’t Jake, making both now believe that a new killer is out, prompting Brooke to state that it’s happening all over again, referencing the first killer spree orchestrated by Piper back in 2015. Brooke then sighs and asks what she’s supposed to wear as Audrey tells her they handed her this, which is ironically a cheerleader outfit, as she goes to change Audrey texts on Brooke's phone to Jake aka the killer who took his phone how they’re going straight to hell.
• The students, now including Noah as he walks into the library, Emma, Audrey, Noah, Gustavo, Haley, Zoë, Eli and Kieran are all held at the library upstairs where two police hold them together and others including the Sheriff, interrogate them outside in another room. Noah and Zoë look at one another before Noah makes his way to a distressed Emma to give her a hug. Eli asks Noah what they asked him with Noah stating the same old usual stuff. Emma’s phone vibrates as she takes her bag and goes into the aisle alone as Kieran, Noah, and Gustavo discuss with Kieran asking Noah if the sheriff told him why they’re being locked down as Noah states none but how he’s sure it’s because they know someone’s out there which Noah states he’s been saying for a long time.
• Eli peeks to look at Emma through the aisle. Gustavo points out how Noah keeps saying somebody’s out there and if he’s never considered the vintage “locked room” horror scenario, referencing movies such as When a Stranger Calls (ironically, the title of the Season 2 finale before the “Halloween” specials). Noah tells him he thinks how the call is coming from inside the house (reference to Black Christmas) as Gustavo asks him what if the police thinks one of them is the killer, as Kieran states how they didn’t lock the killer out but in, as Eli points out it could be either him or her but claims how he should leave the crazy paranoid talk to the experts (a reference to “Hello, Emma”).
• Emma is shocked when she then finds Jake’s phone having been planted into her backpack. Emma then calls Kieran to talk for a second as she reveals Jake’s phone planted on her backpack (which Kieran did), as he asks how she got this and states how the only person who could’ve had this is the killer (who she’s talking to which she doesn’t know until the season finale)
• Brooke stays in Ms. Lang’s room alongside a female officer guarding as Ms. Lang then offers Brooke her number on a note just like she did to Emma before the Mayor arrives and Ms. Lang and the female cop leave the room as a sad Brooke is hugged by her dad
• Audrey is taken to the library as Haley remarks a sad and recently showered Brooke walking to the Psych room with 2 officers before Deputy Dwayne calls for Haley to be interrogated as Haley then heaving asks Audrey what the sheriff asked her as Audrey states she hasn’t been interviewed yet as Haley scoffs before leaving as Kieran signals for Audrey as Emma reveals her having Jake’s phone as Emma states to go to the cops which Audrey denies.
• Audrey states how it might not be Jake’s phone and how they planted it on her and wanted her to find it and reminding her that the last time she got played she almost got killed and now Jake’s dead. Audrey apologizes and tells her how now they know what’s going on now and whoever is doing this to them is trying to control them but for them it’s life or death. Emma breaks down sobbing as Audrey hugs her to console and comfort her.
• Noah approaches Zoë from the other side of the library, walking up to her and asking her pleadingly to not ignore him as Zoë puts down the book she was reading and apologizes, stating she was trying to ignore the fact that something horrible happened. Noah asks if she’s referring to last night or what happened in the auditorium, referring to Jake.
• Zoë states both as Noah tries to apologize with Zoë stating how talking about last night is kind of ridiculous and how she’s not sure she’s up for the other conversation and asks Noah to let her try to ignore both as Noah states sadly how they all have their ways of coping before walking off before Zoë stands up and says that if he needs to talk, as Noah turns around, tells him to go ahead. Noah states not if she’s uncomfortable with Zoë stating it’s fine and how it’s probably healthier than to ignore it as Zoë asks Noah if he thinks it’s starting up again.
• Noah grabs Zoë and leads her aside away from the crowd and agrees and believes that it is. Zoë then asks him why they did it like “so public” like that with Noah stating it was the killer’s announcement, coming out party, and a classic “end of act one body drop”. Zoë asks if that means the killer’s emboldened now which Noah agreed and how they’re starting act two, which unfortunately means they all have bullseye’s on their backs, referring how they can all be targets now, which they both agreed unless somebody figures out who it is and tries to stop them which Zoë states hopefully, which Noah states how that’s the job of the final girl, referring to Emma, which Zoë states or the hero referring to him.
• Zoë chuckles and states how she didn’t want to say anything but reveals to Noah her crush as being a huge fan of the Morgue, how she loves his voice and thinks that he makes the morbid beautiful. Noah, taken aback slightly, thanks her, as Zoë states how now she’s had a front row seat, she gets it’s as she gets why Noah makes the podcast, how he’s sublimating his feelings about mortality and turning his former friend's deaths into a puzzle he can solve without actually having to deal with it. This hurts Noah, which Zoë apologizes as he claims how she’s probably right before Zoë reminds him what he said to her about how they all have their ways of coping.
• Haley, leaving after being interrogated about her prank on Audrey, while on the phone call with a friend, notices the cops searching down lockers in the hallway as Deputy Dwayne tells her to come on as she stalls and who tells her friend over the phone about it, which gets everyone in the library talking and moving where Audrey, Eli, Emma, Noah, Zoë, and Gustavo are held as Eli informs Audrey about the locker search.
• This leads Kieran to be also taken aback as Emma notices and asks him what’s going on and how he has something in his locker he’d rather the cops not find which Noah asks if he doesn’t hear himself and how suspicious that sounds as Kieran states he needs help, with Eli asking Kieran how he’s going to do that, referring to them being held in as Kieran looks at Eli with Eli telling him not to look at him. Emma asks what he has before Kieran tells Emma not to worry and states the infamous “I'll be right back” line before Noah volunteers to go with him as lookout, due to him being in disbelief for saying that as Audrey and Zoë ask him, if he’s sure.
• Audrey and Zoë fake the guise of Audrey being sick so Noah and Kieran can sneak out, seeing as the female cop leads them. Noah and Kieran hide in the stairwell before heading downstairs as he opens his locker and gets his backpack just as Noah looks from the other side of the door and hides as Deputy Dwayne approaches and tells Kieran how he’s not supposed to be out there before asking to see his bag and revealing the gun, which Noah peeks and sees, much to his astonishment. Kieran has a gun in his locker, which raises him alert by the police.
• Deputy Dwayne leads Kieran to Sheriff Acosta who displays his weapon in front of him in a box and asks him how he wants to do this as Kieran tells him to cuff him and reminds him how his dad was a cop and he know how this works as the sheriff claims how he knows his homework and how Kieran’s also been arrested before as the sheriff tells Kieran how he knows there’s a lot of ways it can play out as Kieran states there seems to be only obviously one which the sheriff claims not really as the sheriff states how somebody who goes to the trouble to stage the big show like they saw doesn’t make the mistake of leaving the gun in his locker which Kieran defends as it’s his dads guns and that he carries it to protect himself and his friends, which the sheriff supposes it’s understandable given what’s happened and what he’s be been through to which Kieran thanks for acknowledging it.
• The sheriff claims he doesn’t blame him for needing to feel safe, how he’s going to confiscate the gun and how he’s willing to look over this entire episode on the if the sheriff lets him keeps his eye on him, claiming it’s what his dad would’ve wanted and what he would’ve wanted for Gustavo had it been the other way around, by claiming it’ll be good for Kieran to come down to the station and put him to work and how he doesn’t have to tell Kieran how cops take care of their own. Kieran claims not his dad and appreciates the sheriff for not arresting him but how this whole good cop routine is not planned and asks what he really wants, as Sheriff Acosta smiles claiming he wants in or hell be arrested, put on probation, and kicked out of school and how it’s his choice to inform him on Emma and Jake’s phone, ultimately snitching on her and ratting/selling her out.
• Eli talks to Emma about her plan about ditching Jake’s phone. Noah then calls Emma, as she walks away from Eli, who stands behind her nonetheless, to tell her about Kieran being busted due to having a gun in his locker much to Emma’s surprise for bringing it to school as Noah tells her how he’s trapped in the hallway and how he has no idea how to make it back into the library aka Learning Center without being caught seeing as there are cops everywhere. He hides just as the Sheriff, Deputy, and Kieran, walk by and tells Emma this as she asks if he’s being arrested which he doesn’t know and claims he has to go. After hanging up Eli tells Emma to give him Jake’s phone and how he’ll get rid of it with Emma stating she can’t ask him to do that with Eli saying he wants to and how it’ll be one less miserable thing for her to deal with today and how he’ll do it better than her.
• Just as Emma heads to get her phone, the Sheriff and Deputy approach her as the Sheriff states how he heard she has something to show him (referring to Jake’s phone and Kieran snitching on her to save his identity, unbeknownst until the season finale). Shyly, and in front of everyone as she takes out Jake’s phone as everyone looks on at her in disbelief and contempt before the Sheriff asks her to come with her as she walks out. Eli picks up on this and as soon as they leave with her, tells Kieran he ratted her out which Kieran tells him to shut up.
• As Audrey and Zoë head back in the notice Emma, with both Emma and Audrey looking at one another quietly as both turn their heads around before each goes to where they’re heading. Zoë states once she’s inside how Kieran made it back which Audrey points out not happily. Noah calls Audrey as he hides and notices Emma being taken away as well as he tells her how he and Kieran failed and how they took Kieran away and now Emma and how he ended up trapped out in the hallways.
• Audrey states how Kieran returned but who doesn’t look like he wants to chat as she states who knows and how somebody planted Jake’s phone in Emma’s bag and asks if that’s why they’re taking her. Audrey claims she doesn’t know but how they walked her out of the library like some sort of criminal and who claims that the person they should be questioning is sitting in the library as Noah asks who she’s talking about, before it focuses in on Gustavo drawing a fake picture of Noah being injured.
• Sheriff Acosta asks Emma how she has no idea how Jake’s phone wound up in her backpack to which she agrees and states that whoever put it in there is the same person who attacked her last night and Jake’s killer with the sheriff asking if she believes she’s being targeted like before as Emma agrees and the sheriff notes her leaving for three months for PTSD treatment and stress issues after the events of the dock as well as being in the psych ward after Will Belmont’s death last year.
• Emma states how she knows it sounds crazy and how she didn’t come to him right away and how she was scared and didn’t know how to explain this but states how after what happened to Jake how Acosta has to believe her.
• The sheriff claims he does believe what she believes to be saying to be true and how she’s a victim and not one of the bad guys as he opens the door and motions for her to leave from her statement and how for now that’s it as he instructs a deputy to lead Emma back as Deputy Dwayne comments her as Sheriff Acosta notes Stockholm syndrome and claims it could be one of of the Lakewood Five but won’t narrow it down to them.
• Deputy Dwayne leaves as Quinn enters the room as Sheriff Acosta sarcastically states that he found Jake just like he asked with the Mayor claiming that is not even remotely funny.
• Quinn tells Acosta how Brooke is coming home with her as the Sheriff understands his concern but how he still has to ask her a few questions and the Mayor claims not without him present as the Sheriff states how she’ll be more honest if he’s not in the room as Quinn asks Miguel if he thinks he’s a suspect to which he denies and remarks on the freezer in the garage before walking off from the upset mayor.
• Kieran quietly claims he didn’t try to sell Emma out after she returned to the Learning Center and which she denies as now everybody thinks she’s crazy as they argue silently and publicly and who tells her how the sheriff asked her about her PTSD and psych ward.
• Eli chimes in how in times like this you have to be careful around who you trust which Kieran takes as a defense against his cousin, bumping him madly in his shoulder as he walks into the aisle alone to listen to music. The room notices this tension, including Haley and a few onlookers, as Audrey states how they all need and have to calm down.
• Emma notices this as Haley then loudly begins to remark how she had the dead guys phone (Jake) and how due to her mom being the coroner, the cops just sent her back (clearly jealousy, due to Haley having been in a fling with Emma’s boyfriend Kieran aka the killer unbeknownst at the time to either). Emma notices this and tries to go at them madly and asks why they’re all staring at her before Audrey and Noah try to pull her back as Eli tells her to ignore it as Emma states she wants to know what they have to say. Audrey tells her she’s not worth it as Emma confronts Haley face to face and asks her politely if Haley has to say.
• At this point Zoë and Gustavo get up as everyone begins to circle, and also back off noticing the tension. Emma states how she knows Haley’s scared and that they all are but how they shouldn’t be scared of each other and asks Haley pleadingly to not be scared of her which Haley retorts and claims how she actually is, due to everyone who comes around her dies (reference to Olivia Morris’s comment on Sidney Prescott being the Angel of Death, with people who surround her also dying; albeit this was just a comment, not face to face with Sidney nor hateful) and how her friends should all be scared because they’re all gonna die, referring to Noah, Audrey, Gustavo, Eli and Zoë, the latter two being the ones who do.
• Emma tells Haley, quietly upset, that she has no idea what she’s been through as Haley begins to loudly remark how Piper butchered eight people but magically didn’t touch a hair on her head, which Emma claims is not true and how Emma then shot her in the face so they only got her side of the story. Audrey tells Haley that’s enough and to leave her alone as Audrey tries to pull Emma away before Hayley loudly remarks how her whole family is crazy and how anytime there’s a killer loose how there’s somehow a crazy Duval left standing (referring to her dad and the 1994 murders)
• This comment finally pushes Emma to the edge as she turns around to hardly slap Haley across her face, much to the shock and gasping of the crowd. Emma is taken aback before Haley then calls Emma a “dumb bitch” as she tackles Emma to the ground, as her and Haley then proceed to get into a fight (which Haley instigated as the trash talker, and Emma for having the first hit) gathering the students, especially the jocks in their letterman jackets to cheer on, and others to record on their phones as Audrey tries to get Hayley off Emma, alongside Gustavo pulling Haley off as Ms. Lang and officers enter to calm the situation as Eli helps Emma up and and Ms. Lang leads Emma away, as Noah, Zoë, and Kieran (who had heard it after taking out his headphones try to get back into the crowd).
• Brooke, as her father stands by her side, is interrogated by Sheriff Acosta who asks Brooke when was the last time she saw Jake which she states was on Sunday night (making it January 24) and it was here at the high school swimming pool, and how they snuck in to have sex much to her fathers silent but expressed shock at this statement.
• Acosta states this as trespassing and how it’s fun and asks Brooke if there’s anything else she wants to tell him about that night and who tells him how they had a fight which he asks about and states it was about her dad and how he had a problem with Jake and how Jake wanted to go public about their relationship but how she chose her father crying as her dad pays her and claims she knows who did this, naming her former teacher Seth Branson and how he’s been sending her texts, flowers, and showing up everywhere much to her fathers shock and who tells Miguel they have a restraining order as the sheriff asks if he was stalking her as she claims they used to call it something else but overall agrees that he was.
• Miguel asks Brooke if she thinks he’s capable and why he would do something like that and states he did this because of her and asks to go see Jake alone.
• After finding her and taking her out of the Learning Center due to her fight, Emma’s psych teacher Kristen Lang, takes her into her office following Emma’s fight with and Haley, as she leaves a shaken Emma alone and who reassures her she’s not going crazy: who would then finds recordings of her and several students, mostly hers and the Lakewood Six, which Emma confronts her about not long after before, due to being worried about her safety and secret, Kristen proceeds to lock Emma inside her office.
• Meanwhile the killer calls Emma for the first time in in 3 months, asking if she missed him and how they’re coming for her and watches her after she opens the blinds in Ms. Lang’s office, as Emma tells them not this time and gets out by using a chair to break the window and escape and yells out for the killer, scraping her arm in the process.
• This causes her to use a chair and break the office window so she could escape and yells at him that she’s not going to play their games anymore. She then, without being stopped and bleeding, makes her way back to the Learning Center.
• Sheriff Acosta leads Deputy Dwayne to lead Maggie out after she told Brooke, which he overheard, much to her confusion before taking Jake’s phone and using Jake’s dead hand to open his phone.
• Audrey tells Noah quietly back in the library on the phone about her suspicion of Gustavo being the killer due to him being the one passing out the doped up shots and drawing up their friends being brutally murdered and how now one of them is, referring to Jake. Noah, sitting outside on the stairwell, tells her and reassures her he’s not the killer and how he’s one of them as a horror fan and friend which Audrey states how that if he’s right and she’s wrong, she’ll apologize but if she’s right what would he say when she’s the one hanging from a banner with her insides on the outside (foreshadowing to Haley’s death, as well as Audrey being incorrect about her guess).
• Audrey then stumbles on the security door which is disarmed and leads Noah telling him that if he can sneak into the service hallway he can get back in without being caught as Noah seemingly hangs up and gets up from the stairs during down and runs as Audrey hangs up and stares down at Gustavo who’s on his tablet who looks back up to stare at her.
• Noah arrives via the disarmed door (which Kieran had probably disarmed to sneak into the Slasher costume to taunt and call Emma) and asks Audrey if she’s okay, noting how he was out there and she was in there and how they used to stick together in times of dangerous peril and how he was worried about her. Audrey thanks him as she watches Gustavo, who before Noah arrives, does a handgun signal, as Noah tries to reassure Audrey which Audrey rebuffs and tells him how he can be seriously messed up despite not fitting the accomplice profile of Noah, as Noah joins Audrey in watching Gustavo from the bookshelves behind the aisle they’re in as she tells him how he’s got the same twisted sense of humor as the freak that’s been calling her, which takes Noah aback, before Audrey clarifies that it was the texts as Noah points out her slip up and how she thought they were just pranks before Audrey rectifies she meant texts and how she doesn’t know what they are, when Emma returned and how Gustavo basically has “crazy psychopath” tattooed on his forehead and asks how she’s just supposed to ignore it (callback to the video store scene in the original Scream) stating how people are dying and how she can’t under these circumstances, which Noah also points only Jake having been killed (unbeknownst about Eddie’s death).
• Noah states how Audrey is his favorite person in the world but how she’s acting weird and how they’re all freaking out about Jake and that he gets it but tells Audrey to trust him in taking a breath as he looks at her.
• 11:56 AM: Audrey looks scornful at Noah and reminds him how Piper was underneath their noses and neither of them either (despite Audrey having brought without knowing her identity or motives in Season 1) as Noah asks if she’s really going to go over and accuse Gustavo of being a psycho killer as Audrey defends this due to Gustavo having sketched them and how she saw him draw Eli and Kieran in a pool of blood, today of all days, sarcastically which Noah points out as she calls herself how she’s only going to ask him what that’s all about as, stating it’ll be weird if they didn’t. Audrey leaves the aisle and walks up front and loudly asks Gustavo what he’s drawing as Gustavo tells her not to worry about it, with Audrey stating how he’s staring at them all the time how she’d love to see what they inspire him before without his consent, quickly snatching his tablet from his hands as Gustavo stands up and asks Audrey to give it back.
• Audrey loudly reacts to what the hell is wrong with him, as if to expose him as she moves further to the other side of the library. Everyone such as Zoë and Eli stand up, alert again as Kieran asks Noah what’s happening with Noah claiming how Audrey was only going to ask Gustavo what he was drawing before other students hold Gustavo back as Stavo tells Audrey it’s not what she thinks it is and claims what it’s not before showing everyone what he’s drawing as he lifts the tablet and shows the students a drawing of Zoe’s decapitated head, causing gasps as Haley calls Gustavo a sicko.
• Gustavo defending himself, claims how it’s just drawings and asks Audrey to give it back, as other male students restrain him as Audrey shows them more of the drawings as Gustavo tells everyone it’s not what they think as Haley tells him the only people to do that are serial killers, with the crowd in unison as Gustavo ducks his head from someone throwing a soda to his head which lands on the wall behind him yelling at him as gross, as a frantic and humiliated Gustavo defends himself claiming it’s only fantasies and not real life.
• Audrey feels bad as a jock grabs the tablet off Audrey’s hands and breaks it as it goes down to the floor. Audrey picks it up, before a male student punches Gustavo and others surround him as well, with Audrey not purposely inciting a riot against Gustavo. Noah pulls Audrey back and asks what she’s down as Kieran makes his way and tries to pull Gustavo out. Sheriff Acosta is called in by Deputy Dwayne to the right before he goes reading the texts between Jake and the Mayor aka Brooke’s dad.
• After Ms. Lang returns to the library alongside the sheriff and deputy, to break up the fight against Gustavo, Emma arrives and is noticed by Noah as well as the police and other students noticing her, turning around as she walks in, bleeding from her cut as she looks on at them.
• The students are then released to their parents outside, as they come in after the lockdown is lifted and Emma is treated for her cut and keeps her discretion with Ms. Lang’s locking her inside her classroom after being asked by Sheriff Acosta.
• Kieran apologizes to Emma for snitching on him after Sheriff Acosta releases her and asks if she’s ok. Emma agrees that perhaps he fought that was the best way to handle it and how Audrey’s right and that their choices matter and how she would like to think he trusts her enough to make her own who denies Kieran’s ride home stating she needs to be alone for a little bit.
• Back in the mostly empty library, Audrey, Noah, and Zoë sit as Gustavo drops his ice pack on the table after being tended to his cute as he picks up his backpack madly and quietly as Audrey looks in shame and her head down and who’s picking up hi broken tablet as Audrey states she has to say say something, giving Noah a window of opportunity seeing as Audrey left her phone, as Audrey walks up to Gustavo and offers to pay to fix or replace his tablet with Gustavo madly and rightfully so telling her to stay the hell away from him and threatens otherwise that he’ll break something she loves. He leaves as Noah snatches her phone in his pocket and hands Audrey her backpack as they all leave.
• Brooke, silently crying sneaks into the swimming pool now during the day as she goes in silently crying before diving her head underwater crying and screaming, due to her mourning Jake
• 4:43 PM: In his car before leaving school, Noah hacks into Audrey’s phone before he finds and reads her messages with the killer incriminating her as the killer (seeing the GIF of dead Jake and Audrey pulling the pins) and fueling suspicions that Audrey is involved much to his facial awe.

January 30th

• Noah makes a podcast dedicated to one day since Jake Fitzgerald’s body was found and how the grizzly reality of how he died is settling in and how that sort of grief is tricky and one doesn’t know what to feel whether furious (Brooke shown in her room, madly upset with a pair of scissors as she contemplates cutting her hair before stabbing and ripping her pillows up with it during Noah’s monologue: homage to Billy and Roman ) or frightened or sad; how it can swallow you up or weigh you down, as well as ignite a fire inside oneself and how when murder hits this close to home it makes you see the world in a new way as well as people too and even the ones you trust start to look a little different because when everyone’s a suspect there’s no innocence as Noah looks at the GIF on Audrey’s phone and making her in his own murder board, the prime suspect (panning to Audrey, boxing a punching bag as her contents from her backpack are splattered supposedly after trying to have found her phone which Noah took unbeknownst to her).
  • Despite it being shown at night in the opening, it's possibly he recorded the message and podcast the night prior before releasing it the next day.
• Emma is in her room and answers her phone that morning, which is the killer who asks if Emma didn’t tell anyone about “their little meeting” yesterday which Emma says not to and apologizes sarcastically to disappoint them.
• The killer taunts Emma as being poor, sad, and awful that she can’t trust anyone or herself. Emma tells them they’re wrong with the killer claiming she knows they’re right and how they always are as Emma tells him to go to hell as the killer claims to be in her head and she knows it before she grabs her bag and cardigan and heads out.
• Maggie stalls Kieran at the front door before Emma approaches. Kieran comes in to apologizing and giving a reason to why he sold her out as he was going to be arrested had he not done it (also to hide his identity) and Emma claims how he could told her and how he’s been calling her all morning to apologize and telling him how the killer called again (unbeknownst that she was talking with him till the season finale), how they called her first at the lockdown and this morning, how he was taunting her in the window at school just like her close attack in the window with Kieran asking her why she didn’t tell anyone, as Emma claims who if the sheriff only to ask about her PTSD again and states how Jake’s body dropped from the ceiling and all Sheriff Acosta cared about was her mental health history, as if to imply and suspect her, which she points out is exactly what the killer wants as Kieran states she made up the panic attack as Emma states how the killer is messing with her and it’s personal.
• Emma states how she has to figure out what’s going on and who she can trust. Kieran grabs her as Emma stats her disbelief at Jake being gone and that this is happening again, with Kieran agreeing (ironic, since he’s the killer and Piper’s accomplice)
• Noah is shown in his room studying his murder board until he covers it as Emma knocks and comes in as she states right before Piper died how she had one more surprise (accomplice) who she thinks was the one who killed Jake and is now terrorizing all of them and confirming his theory which she’s now ready to see. Noah tries to lead her off before she reassures him and takes it off as she asks him why he thinks it’s Audrey as she sees her picture and what makes him think that it’s her.
• Noah tells her it’s due to her having said some strange things during lockdown and going full Frankenstein lynch mob on Gustavo and how her temper’s been off the charts lately. Emma asks unconvinced if that’s all he has which Noah states as just a feeling much to Emma’s frustration and who tells Noah it’s not Audrey and how the killer is in his head, messing with him and making them not being able to trust anything or anyone and makes him connect dots that don’t exist as part of his game.
• Noah agrees that it could all be part of his plan which Emma agrees it has to be before she gets a text from Brooke and who before she leaves turns to tell Noah it’s not Audrey and how unless he has something to back up his claim, he needs to take down her picture before she then leaves (unbeknownst that Noah has Audrey’s phone or the incriminating texts and GIF)
• Brooke is shown sad at her house as Emma attends and helps her in her room as they both catch up on her as Brooke believes it was Seth who killed Jake due to jealousy which Emma tells her not to do that to herself.
• Just before she leaves, Emma pleads for Brooke not to go down that spiral and how it doesn’t make sense as Brooke asks Emma how she’s trying to make sense out of any of this and refers back to Piper as Emma’s long lost psycho half-sister trying to kill them back in 2015 as not being logical and how it happened and how it can be anyone this time and that she has to find out what happened to Jake and she doesn’t care how ugly it gets.
• Emma agrees and says bye to Brooke who says she’ll see her later. Emma leaves as Brooke overhears Sheriff Acosta and her dad talking who asks about the tip on Seth or Jake’s phone which the sheriff states (Brooke overhears this shortly from upstairs) he couldn’t, due to it being encrypted, despite it not being and making Quinn look like a suspect due to his texts which Acosta reads in his car.
• Noah follows Audrey to return her phone subliminally by using the guise of trying to buy a bike.
• Noah and Emma meet up at her house and talk about Eddie, who is the clue to clearing Audrey despite the fact that Eddie’s dead and the killer responds telling Noah and Emma to meet him tonight at the fairgrounds to talk in the funhouse.
• Tina Hudson and Quinn Maddox talk at a bar and later Quinn gives her a tour of his house before they drink as Tina tries to hook up before Quinn denies this as desperation and who has a job for her instead.
• Brooke is seen making a coffee and texts Gustavo to meet her at the Grindhouse as Gustavo appears almost scaring her and who he reminds her of his transportation (bike) as he asks her what the emergency was with Brooke telling him how he was really great guide the night of her ayahuasca nightmare (on the 28, about 2 days ago), and who was wondering if he has that same sense of direction around his dad’s office. Gustavo asks what he’s looking for and she states anything weird in Seth Branson’s file, which he remembers as the lurker guy the night of the movies the night she kissed him, which Brooke scoffs that it was him who kissed her and asks if he can help to which Gustavo replies cake walk. He sneaks in while Miguel interviews Kieran in his office.
• Gustavo returns to the café to inform Brooke how the police believe Jake’s time of death was late Sunday night to early Monday morning (being January 24-25th) and how Seth Branson’s alibi for the whole night is Kristen Lang, their Psych teacher, much to Brooke’s surprise and disgust and repelled at as Gustavo state it gets weirded with the file states they’re dating which Brooke disagrees and Gustavo states it is how Kristen’s his age and Brooke states she’s going to get to the bottom of it as Gustavo asks Brooke to promise that she’ll take no prisoners and kick ass as needed, smiling as the two share a moment sitting down at couch of the café.
• Audrey is about to get a new phone at a local phone carrier before she finds hers back in backpack and leaves.
• Back at the police station, while looking at a plague of his late dad, Kieran is called in by the sheriff who tells him information about using his place to meet up (referring to Brooke and Jake) as Acosta asks for him to talk about Emma as he tells him how he already told him everything, telling him not to make the same mistakes and who claims had he and Emma and the others had come forward last time, Kieran’s dad might still be alive who tells him how he saw him and to not tell him that hadn’t crossed his mind as Kieran madly states he had to bring him into this before he slams the chair he was sitting on, gets up and leaves, slamming the door.
• Emma and Noah go over their plan at the fairgrounds before Maggie intervenes and tells Emma not to go anywhere tonight
• At the Grindhouse Café, Gustavo makes Audrey look at his paintings as they reconcile with Gustavo giving a reason to paint his graphic novel to tell a story and how murder can be art and whoever killed Jake had a vision stage their kills and to tell a story as he can tell past Audrey knowing that she suspects him and so does she.
• Brooke fakes a crying breakdown to meet with Ms. Lang to pretend and she states she was with Branson supposedly slept with on Sunday night the night Jake died before Ms. Lang goes back to her car and calls Seth asking to talk. Afterwards, Brooke calls Seth who’s on the phone with her as Brooke lures Seth to a trap at their old meet up spot and hotel room.
• Emma is shown heading out that night before her car then blows a tire and who tries to call Noah who can’t answer due to having no service at the fairgrounds, who's seen drinking from a Boba as heads in with a flashlight to the fairgrounds and calls out for Eddie as he heads inside into the funhouse before being scared off and trying to leave in his car before he is faked kidnapped by Audrey in his car, whose dressed as the Lakewood Slasher. This was done, Saw, Eli Roth-movie style by Audrey so Noah would believe her how she wasn’t the killer and to reveal the truth to one another as Noah truly believed he was going to die. She unties him as Emma arrives and approaches, which he and Audrey are now aware as a trap for the killer who tells Noah to promise her not to tell Emma until she can.
  • This is the second time in the franchise that the Saw movies have been mentioned, since the scene in Stab 6 by Sherrie (specifically Saw IV) in the movie-within the movie in Scream 4. The American horror film director Eli Roth is also mentioned, who is known for making a parallel film series similar yet different to that of Saw, known as Hostel.
• Brooke meets with Seth at his hotel room (callback to her failed meeting at the hotel room with him during Riley's death in "Wanna Play a Game?") and who makes out with him before tying him up by handcuffing his hands to the bed and tying his legs with rope and confronting him, slashing his face with a scissor and asking about why he lied about his alibi on Sunday night and Seth claims he was in the hotel room trying to pay for him to leave Lakewood and how he was supposed to come but never came. Brooke asks how much she was worth which Seth states $10,000 and calls him out on his past as Seth claimed it was due to Jake and Brooke’s dad having a deal. After messing with Seth, she believes him and slyly leaves the hotel room before blindfolding and gagging him stating before she leaves how she never wants to see him again (foreshadowing his death)
  • Continuity Error: Seth claims to have not murdered his last girlfriend, Caitlyn, who would then kill herself as Seth would them move and change his name. This is possibly a retcon and reference error of Olivia Finley, from Season 1, or possibly had a second girlfriend at the time of both their deaths.
• Kieran arrives to change Emma’s tire as he hears her tell Noah’s theory about Audrey being the supposed killer and how she has to go if there’s anything to clear Audrey’s name and Kieran suggests to go to the cops even as Emma told him to not worry and that he’s worried with Emma claiming she won’t until she has something real and that she thought he understood that with Kieran claiming he does and using as a defense what the sheriff told him about Kieran’s dad being alive had it not been for them not going (due to Kieran being the killer unbeknownst to Emma) and asks Emma to promise him to not go and how it’s not safe with Emma agreeing as Kieran drives off and Emma heads off.
• Back in his room at his house that night, Gustavo is shown listening to music and taking pictures shirtless with the Brandon James mask, having a tattoo of spine bones on his back with Gustavo interrupted shortly by Brooke knocking on his door as he takes the masks off and turns the music off. Brooke enters as Gustavo states she’s early as Brooke tells him to consider a shirt or not and that it’s a good vibe on him, pointing out his muscles and abs, as Gustavo asks how it went with Lang as Brooke tells him how she was right about both her and Branson and how things got a little dark and twisty, referring to Seth and states how she didn’t know she had that in her.
• Gustavo puts a shirt on as Brooke approaches him and asks if she feels any better to which she states not really and how she didn’t know what she thought was going to happen but how now Jake’s gone and that’s not changing as she hugs him, and Gustavo looks at his Vans shoe box with his mask inside which Brooke didn’t notice about he does as he hugs her and looks on
• Noah and Audrey escape the funhouse and catch up with Emma, as Emma notices the Lakewood Slasher chasing her through the fairgrounds from a distance as they all convene and Noah, Audrey, and Emma are startled by Kieran before they all escape (even though Kieran lured Noah to kill, not Emma). Kieran and Emma share a moment as Emma goes home.
• At the sheriff's office, the FBI guy from Phoenix traces the emails from Riley Marra to Emma Duval’s IP address and just before he processes it Kieran arrives and claims he needs to talk to Acosta about Emma.
• Noah is about to record a podcast for the Morgue before Audrey interrupts as Noah states he thought she was going home and Audrey tells him how if he doesn’t tell him tonight, she may never be able to as Noah tells her to proceed (secretly recording and revering her confession).
• Audrey closes Noah’s room door and states how she knows why the killer is after her and that he knows what she's done and how she would do anything to keep it secret. She briefly looks at her picture on Noah’s murder board before she reveals how she brought Piper to Lakewood and how she was so alone and pissed at the world and how she found Piper and wrote her letters.
• Audrey begged her to come to Lakewood and help her research for a Brandon James documentary, stating how Brandon may have looked different, but he wasn’t a monster, stating he was alone, rejected, and angry just like her and how it was Lakewood that turned him into a monster. Back when people were dying, Piper swore to Audrey that it wasn’t her and how she believed here and how she’s now paying for her mistakes and all the blood and how she deserves this, as Noah stands up to tell her if she believes that then Piper and the sicko wins and how she’s a victim, not a monster and hugs her and who tells Noah to promise her not to tell Emma until she can.
  • Audrey reveals her truth about bringing Piper to Lakewood despite not being the killer after fake kidnapping Noah alongside with her,
  • Zoë finds the audio of and saves it, albeit the killer targets her, after Noah secretly recorded Audrey’s confession which gets around to Emma just as Audrey is about to come clean to Emma.
• The Lakewood Slasher arrives to Seth’s room and amputated his hand before plugging in and carbonizing his amputated hand with a hot clothing iron, knocking him out and later moving his body to the Wren Lake Estates house where Eddie is also held.

January 31st

• Emma is getting ready for her shift at the Grindhouse at her house that morning before Maggie and Emma are surprised as Sheriff Acosta states how those old emails from Riley Marra were sent from Emma’s IP address, claiming she’s being targeted as Emma and Maggie informs Acosta about the farm on Pikeview Road.
• Audrey thanks Noah for crashing at his house before they make their way to the Grindhouse Café where Eli is working the morning shift, he traded with Emma as Noah meets with Zoë who invites Noah for a study session at Wren Lake at 1PM.
• Emma confronts Kieran at his house outside that morning for having talked to sheriff despite her telling him not to (on top of the emails sent from her computer on top of it all) and without talking to her first and leaves Emma feeling betrayed before she leaves (foreshadowing to his reveal)
• Brooke goes to the Grindhouse Café and enlists Audrey’s help after she explains to her what she did to Branson and Audrey agrees they have to do something.
• Sheriff Acosta and Deputy Dwayne investigate the supposedly abandoned farmhouse on Pikeview Road before he’s shown calling someone as Dwayne leaves after Acosta tells him to radio the station before he calls someone (supposedly Maggie) and tells them how they have a bigger problem than he thought, as a picture is show of young Emma being held by an unknown man whose face is scribbled out (supposedly Brandon James).
• Emma arrives at work and tells Eli after he asks if she’s mad at something which she states mostly his cousin, Kieran, for having told the sheriff things behind her back and how she hates him for that despite doing it to supposedly protect her. Eli tells her how the thing is that Kieran likes to keep things deep and states his problems with his stepdad and for causing the crash that killed his stepdad and mom. Eli states how Kieran is probably just scared before Eli goes back to work.
• 1:00 PM: Zoë and Noah meet at Wren Lake for studying as Zoë states how the reason she wasn’t present during the events of fall 2015 and how she had to go to therapy due to doing something stupid and how it was a date. He gets a call from Audrey which he notices but ignores as Noah and Zoë get into their swimsuits and Noah hits up Zoë with a one line before both officially share a kiss since the party and make out, slowly but surely becoming a couple.
• 1:37 PM: Audrey and Brooke go into the hotel room where she had Branson, only to find him gone as well as Seth supposedly texting Brooke to meet him later at the school at his old office, which grosses out Audrey as they all go to meet him there in 2 hours before unbeknownst to them, a live camera records them streaming, perhaps having been there since the night before.
• At the café before her attack, Emma is run into by Kristen Lang before her attack as she tries to apologize for locking her in. Eli invites Emma to a dinner at the abandoned Wren Estate houses which Kieran notices that he and Emma are talking and leaving, visibly angry.
• Noah invites Zoë to his house later tonight due to his parents being alone which Zoë agrees as Noah then heads to buy condoms.
• Audrey and Brooke convene at Audrey’s house before the killer texts her to come to the school alone or he’ll send Brooke the GIF of Jake
• Kristen Lang is attacked at George Washington High School alone after the Lakewood Slasher lures her by using Seth as bait before throwing her from the stairs down, causing them to give her a brain injury as she does, who is found by a janitor, her head rushing blood. Later also found by Brooke and Audrey. The killer would also steal the secret, confidential recordings and notes she had made on her students (despite it also being against law and doctor-patient confidentiality, nod to Kevin Duval's PTSD tape in 1995/6 by Dr. Pell back in Season 1), especially the tape she had made on Emma's instability, which would be used to taunt Emma.
  • Kristen's attack, and her survival, as a psychologist and certified mental health professional, would be referenced 7 years later in-universe by the attack on Dr. Christopher Stone in Scream VI, who unlike Kristen, didn't survive and whose lead up to his death being attacked at his own home/work office via the front door is a parallel to Emma being stalked in "Dawn of the Dead" in school. Like after Kristen's attack, the killer would trash the office to steal and access a tape, similar to how when Christopher was killed, Ghostface would take away the file for his target. (Lakewood Slasher to Emma, Ghostface to Sam).
  • Difference being how Kristen was at school and her work office, whereas Christopher's attack happened at his home which happened to be his work office. Also both happened after hours and during the day, thus being isolated and not witnessed by anyone.
    • Unlike the Lakewood Slasher who had access to the school and was creeping around before attacking Kristen, Ghostface would simply break and enter as soon as Christopher stepped towards the front door unaware and kill him by breaking the door and smashing his head in before stabbing him through the door and then entering to steal Sam's file.
• Just before, Kristen gets a call from the killer in her secret and is lured with the same pig toy Jake was with before the Lakewood Slasher slips into Kristen’s office and vandalizes it and who almost attacks her before she gets away only to be attacked in the stairwell.
• Noah and Zoë are shown at his house creating Zoë an audio in his computer before Zoë notices the audio file on Audrey which she downloads as she sends Noah away and hears her confession before she emails it supposedly to herself and Emma. Noah and Zoë are also about to have sex before Audrey bursts into the room and interrupts to inform him of the Seth situation as well as Kristen’s attack as they discuss this how the killer made her to go in alone and how the killer wanted to do more, before he was interrupted.
• Miguel and Maggie meet at the farmhouse at night as Maggie claims how they didn’t find anything until he shows her the picture and asks if he called Quinn and how she knows what he’s thinking but how he’s wrong and to notice where they’re standing as well as how Pipers dead implying it’s Brandon James. Maggie claims that they handled the situation with Miguel stating how they thought they did but how this is about Emma and how both know it can be their own fault
• Seth Branson died by being carbonized as a result of the killer's actions. He was burned in an empty model house on the market by the killer alongside the corpse of Eddie Hayes in a bathtub alongside him. This house is an empty finished model house at the abandoned Wren Lake Estates where Emma and Eli unknowingly had their lunch with Seth and a dead Eddie in the bathroom inside before leaving after the house is set ablaze by Kieran due to jealousy and discovery of them together which Eli and Emma manage to escape from and Eli more so due to his track record with the police,

February

February 1st

• Lakewood and the Lakewood Carnival celebrates its centennial.
• Audrey awakens to blood on her ceiling that spells 12 dead (counting the deaths from Season 1, combining them with the new ones as well) as well as her mirror stating, “No one will ever forgive you”, which she gets dressed up and meets Noah to talk about as Noah suggests telling Emma the truth.
• Noah, Audrey, Gustavo, and Zoë talk about Kristen’s attack as they hear Mayor Maddox’s statements on the speaker as class ends and the group all walk out. Brooke joins them and talks for them to support her speech.
• The sheriff looks over Lang’s stuff following her attack as well as the sheriff later finding the bodies of Seth and Eddie, burnt up. This leads to Miguel reenlisting her help for the safety of their children.
• Emma heads to talk to the Sheriff as the sheriff stated how the fire was set intentionally and who prior to the carnival and by the sheriff is how she learnt Eli had a restraining order against him due to having broken into a girl's bedroom, Acosta also tells her how Kieran wasn’t trying to rat her out. Miguel also appoints Deputy Dwayne to keep a lookout for Emma. Emma and Eli talk as Emma discards Eli and leaves.
• Miguel Acosta listens to his son’s tape with Kristen Lang before he tries to find the Brandon James mask he found on January 28, as father and son argue about what happened in Phoenix and Miguel tells her how it troubles him about what happened and Miguel scoffs that it’s always about his art. Gustavo expresses surprise that his father thinks he’s the killer and asks him to prove it before Gustavo walks out.
• Emma and Kieran meet up at her house with Emma apologizing to Kieran for overreacting about being overprotective as Kieran gets mad when he learns that she learnt from Eli as Emma tries to console as Kieran claims Eli isn’t normal and Emma states this is about them (despite the fact that Kieran was the killer).
• Audrey is sent a text message by the killer of a video of them caressing Emma’s face while she sleeps and recording as the killer calls and tells Audrey he wants to see what happens when Emma finds out the truth, reminding her that she’s a killer not a victim and how if she calls to cops or confesses to Emma it’s done. The killer hangs up and Audrey yells before she calls to invite Emma to the carnival.
• The Lakewood Carnival and Lady of the Lake Pageant are held as well as Lakewood overall celebrating its centennial.
• Brooke gets drunk on Zoë’s flask before she’s approached by Gustavo in the dressing room who asks Brooke to leave before Brooke denies stating she’s doing this for her which upsets him as he leaves if he’s not going to understand her reasons
• Emma and Audrey play games at the fair before being interrupted by Eli. Him and Kieran then get into a fight over Emma as Eli tells her he’s not the one she should be afraid of (foreshadowing Kieran’s identity and reveal).
• Emma reveals to Audrey as they both begin to suspect Eli as the potential killer which she confides in with Audrey at the carnival following Eli and Kieran’s fight, as suspicious and nods to Eli being the possible killer until Kieran’s reveal as well as the Wren Estates fire (this was the also same location where Jake was shown to have been digging up his shady stuff up almost a week ago prior to his death in “I Know What You Did Last Summer”). Audrey confides in Emma about the killer breaking into her room to give her messages as well as Emma relating due to the emails.
• Meanwhile at the Lady of the Lake Pageant (right before Zoe is kidnapped, who is kidnapped in her Lady of the Lake winning dress and sash), while onstage, Brooke Maddox is distressed and gets drunk. She gets frustrated and calls out Lakewood for the irony of celebrating while murder occurs and mourning her late boyfriend Jake Fitzgerald and who warns that they’ll end up like Jake as she drops the mic as Emma, Audrey, and Noah watch.
• Maggie goes over the forensics of the burn victims found from the fire as Sheriff Acosta looks over his son's paintings
• Later that night at the carnival, Emma is lured to the Funhouse by the killer after seemingly having kidnapped Kieran (a fake out to decoy and to sell himself as being the victim from the killer rather than one prior to his reveal). Prior to this, he kills Deputy Dwayne, who followed Emma following her heading into the killer's trap to avoid police attention being drawn, who then sets himself up as a victim, in ordered to avoid suspicion and avoid being caught a few days before he actually is (2 days more to speak)
• Noah and Zoë almost have sex before they’re interrupted by continuous phone calls from Audrey before Zoë postpones them having sex, stating it’s ok and they’ll know when it’s right
• Brooke and Gustavo hook up after Gustavo arrives to comfort her via her request and keep her company, as they sleep the night
• Emma is revealed the truth of the audio just as she was going to tell Emma in person which takes Emma aback who hears this just as Audrey walks in.
• Emma dreams the night before about having stabbed her friends before her mom wakes her up and she drops the knife.

February 2nd

• Emma and Kieran talk as both go against Audrey and who tells Emma how they can ditch school and who doesn’t have to know or blame, which Emma disagrees with and states she has to find Emma to figure out how all this happened.
• Brooke and Gustavo awaken to each other in the morning as they talk about Brooke’s speech from the night before and her being hungover as Brooke smiles and tells Gustavo to leave before her dad finds him. Gustavo gets ready and takes one of Brooke’s lipsticks as a souvenir for him as he does.
• At school, Brooke is informed by Emma and Kieran about Audrey as they pass Hayley, whose cat calling them out about the fight aka freak show at the carnival (between Eli and Kieran) which Kieran tells her to give a rest (subliminal since Kieran hooked up with her). The three of them all meet Noah in the hallway to ask him how long he’s known about Audrey’s reveal, which he replies a few days and apologizes for not saying anything which Emma rebukes because he promised to not tell her as Noah states how he thought Audrey should be the one to tell her as Emma states she’s heard everything he recorded from an email she was sent. Noah asks to see it and sends the email to himself via her phone as Noah tries to defend Audrey claiming she’s been destroyed before Emma retorts madly how their friends were being killed and how she didn’t say anything to anyone including him.
• Audrey approaches as she says this before Kieran and Brooke tell her not to follow as Emma walks away as Audrey pushes past them and tries to explain herself to Emma before Emma angrily and loudly in the school hallway makes a scene as Audrey claims how she didn’t know it was Piper with Emma claiming she did but how she didn’t want people to blame her and Audrey defends and claims that’s not true but Emma states it is true and how everyone should blame her and how she blames her before Emma shoves Audrey angrily into a locker before Kieran guided her away as Emma states he was right to not have come to school today before she opens her locker and finds one of Ms. Lang’s tapes hanging via a strand of hair and a message on her he locker mirror saying “Play Me” (which was Kieran)
• Noah and Audrey meet in an empty classroom to discuss Emma's anger towards her and the reveal of her secret, how he recorded their conversation, as Audrey claims it was Zoë. Noah tells her to meet after school to prove it’s not her.
• Emma and Kieran ditch school to listen to her tape which was recorded the day of Lang’s attack as Emma didn’t know Ms. Lang was secretly recording her conversing, with this conversation being from the Grindhouse prior to Lang being attacked by the Lakewood Slasher. Kieran claims that the teacher is obsessed with her, and Emma asks if that’s how people see her as violent and unstable with Kieran claiming she can’t take this stuff seriously but how Ms. Lang was stalking her and how the tape came from the killer (himself) but which Emma agrees to the things she did and how she almost shot him as Kieran states she’s been manipulated
• Audrey and Noah meet to his room as it’s revealed that Zoë sent herself the file but didn’t send it to anyone else, before revealing it was her and how it won’t change anything whether or not who sent it (meaning the killer used Zoë as a clue that she would be one of his next targets unfortunately due to having bugged the camera).
• After Audrey leaves his room, and since the carnival, Noah Foster and Zoë Vaughn officially start dating prior to her death and who Noah finally loses his virginity to before Noah finally realizes how the killer bugged the camera from the storage unit was bugged to listen, solving how and why the killer knew about the recording in the first place by listening which he angrily breaks it.
• Maggie identifies the second body as Eddie as she tells Miguel, the sheriff, in his office how he’s worried about his son who reveals to Maggie her son’s reaction after his friend Kyle died in Phoenix via an accident after playing with a gun.
• Emma and Kieran visit Kristen Lang at the hospital which causes her to panic as Emma and Kieran go outside and look at a vase of daisies sent to Kristen’s room which supposedly are from Piper. Kieran steals Lang’s keys so he and Emma can get into her house that night. That night Emma finds a picture of Kristen and Piper from her house and that they used to be in the same former but now abandoned orphanage, Blessed Sisters Children’s Home which they call Noah to ask about.
• The Sheriff steps out of the office as Gustavo creeps in his dad's office and comes across the text messages from Quinn and Jake as well as the student incident report from what occurred during the lockdown at the high school as well as finding his drawings along with evidence.
• Brooke is doing homework that night in her room before Gustavo comes through her window and reveals to inform her about the business between her dad and Jake, who she thought couldn’t stand one another as she looks at the photo Gustavo took and the texts from Quinn to Jake about his deal to burn down one of Quinn’s houses in the failed Wren Estate models (similar to the shady business albeit different from Season 1) and Brooke is taken aback seeing as the message and deal was dealt the night Jake died and the last night they were together before asking Gustavo what else did he find.
• Brooke sadly and madly confronts her dad about it in which she points out his hypocrisy and states that Jake would still be alive had it not been for him and how he drove her mom away and asks what kind of father he is before walking away.
• Audrey tries to write an apology letter to Emma before getting called by the killer and threatening her by saying how due to Zoë having taken his virginity (which they over he heard due to the bugged camera) and sends her the address to play along which is for a party at the abandoned orphanage titled “Face the Mask” which she then goes to alongside Emma, Noah, Zoë, and Kieran. Kieran calls the police to shut the party down.
• Noah and Zoë shut the electricity and the music and lights off at the party (unbeknownst of Haley’s murders concurrently taking place as they do) as Kieran (after sneaking off after having killed Haley) then calls for Emma, who's stuck with Audrey as both have to face each other and get a text from the killer threatening to go upstairs before their better half’s rot. They look around and find a bunker room with pictures of Piper as a shrine as well as her corpse (the same room which Emma and Audrey would confront Kieran in the season finale).
• The cops arrive as Audrey and Emma talk with Audrey claiming how what Emma’s thinking about this being her fault is right and Emma states how the killer wanted both of them to find the grave robbed corpse and body and wants to take it out on both of them.
• Sheriff Acosta approaches Emma and Audrey as he states how they didn’t throw the party as Emma directs him to Haley who unbeknownst to them is dead until an officer pulls her aside.
• Haley Meyers died at the hands of the killer while at a party supposedly created by Emma Duval and Audrey Jensen. She died due to the party drowning her screams as she was attacked. She dies because of the seduction of Kieran Wilcox who had orchestrated her to do it. Her body is found hanging following everyone leaving when Zoë and Noah shut the lights off hanging above on the ceiling from the banner hanging almost crucified-like under the banner that says “Face the Mask”.
• 11:30 PM: Brooke and Gustavo meet up to talk at Brooke's room in her house.
• During Piper's second autopsy which Maggie conducts alongside Miguel, they find an incision on her sternum revealed to be a pig's heart.

February 3rd

• Emma and Audrey meet in Audrey’s room and who confronts Audrey about her secret and asks to her explain as Emma asks if Audrey knew Piper was her half sister and when she suspected Piper why Audrey didn’t say anything, to which Audrey claims thought she could be and swore to her that she wasn’t, with Emma claiming that with what she knew that was good enough for for her, which Audrey denies and blanks on before telling Emma how the night Rachel died, she was with Piper, going over Brandon James stuff at Crescent Palms, and states how if she didn’t kill Rachel, how Audrey had overlooked it and thought Piper was her friend. Emma asks how she knows Audrey isn’t lying as Audrey claims she wouldn’t use Rachel in a lie with Emma stating she doesn’t know that after everything that she’s done. Audrey tells her she knows what Emma claims she knew and how they used to be best friends and then they drifted apart and how Audrey brought Piper to get back at Emma, which Audrey denies, even if Audrey didn’t know she was a psycho how she was still trying to hurt her. Audrey madly denies this before Emma asks why else would she bring her here, with Audrey claiming she wanted to make a Brandon James documentary and how it wasn’t about her rather Lakewood and hypocrisy, as Emma remarks if she was just collateral damage. Emma asks Audrey one last time to stop lying and how they need to be on the same side and how she’s not, as Audrey tells her she doesn’t know what else to say seeing as she’s confessed as Emma sighs and claims this was a horrible idea before grabbing her backpack and leaving.
• The sheriff asks to speak with Maggie and keep a look out for Gustavo, as Miguel claims their past and current events and refers/ implies that Brandon James has returned. Miguel claims how she always saw him differently than the rest of the world before Maggie states she has to go back to work.
• Noah is lured by the killer to the lake of his and Zoë’s rendezvous spot who has Zoë’s phone and calls him for the first time ever to taunt him about how he’s next on the slasher chopping block due to him having had sex with Zoë (reference to the original rules as stated by the horror expert Randy Meeks in Scream) as Noah tells him they need to update their genre references and how it’s a pretty outdated way of thinking as the killer tells Noah to head into the woods as threatens Noah that Zoë will need a closed casket (foreshadowing to her actual death). He talks down the killer on the phone before the killer hangs up and Noah runs away and tries to call the cops before he drops his phone and is stabbed by the killer in the gut before he is then knocked out by him.
• Emma and Audrey are at school, as Audrey asks Emma if she’s seen Noah, before both then get a text from the killer at school before the killer threatens them and sends them a livestream video of Noah trapped underneath and buried alive, sending them on a hunt and how he has 5 hours of air left. They find the clue at Noah’s murder board via a leaf and are able to locate him off the old horse stables off Route 6.
• Zoë Vaughn died at Wren Lake as a result of drowning. The killer toyed with Audrey, Noah and Emma into thinking that they could save her but she died sometime prior to Noah being saved. Noah would be locked in a coffin and buried alive in the old horse stables where he hallucinated Zoë, which prompted the killer to lead Audrey and Emma to try and find him.
  • This ultimatum is similar to Emma having to choose between Brooke and Riley in Season 1.
  • With Noah surviving his attempted murder while his second girlfriend, Zoë, was killed in hers due to the trap, Noah becomes the first of the Lakewood Five to be attacked and wounded this season following his survival uninjured in Season 1.
  • Him surviving his isolated attack in the woods and being buried alive while his girlfriend didn't is referenced and reversed with Mindy Meeks-Martin's attack in the subway in Scream VI, reversed seeing how Mindy's partner Anika was killed first and how Mindy, like Noah, both survived the stabs to their stomachs by their killers in each's scenario, and hospitalized as a result after being found (Mindy by her later confirmed and suspected Ghostface, Ethan; Noah by Emma and Audrey, who the killer, Kieran, as part of his plan tried to implicate them and later his cousin Eli, to make Noah and others to suspect).
  • Both Noah and Mindy became the first in their respective survivor groups to be attacked and targeted/wounded in their sequels (Noah once in the forest, Mindy in the apartment via slash in her arm and being stabbed in the subway), as well as being the horror experts.
    • Both survive, succeeding/avenging the original and first horror expert in the franchise, Randy Meeks's death in Scream 2 (directly Mindy).
• Miguel investigates the farmhouse of Troy James at Pikeview Road alone, having flashbacks as he does as he finds inside a hidden room behind a wall and sees it with signs of someone having been there as he finds images of a young Emma and who looks outside the window, gun in hand, unbeknownst of a hooded figure watching him from the outside (same figure Emma saw).
• Returning to the police station, Miguel calls Maggie and states his theory on how Brandon James is back which Maggie highly refutes but asks if he’s really back what they can do with Maggie stating she has a way to to prove his return. In his office, Acosta gets a call from the killer reporting strange activity off Route 6 before the killer hangs up. Miguel finds the coffin where Noah was held in as well as the gutted pig (referring to the heart he and Maggie found during Piper’s second autopsy).
• That night, the police shut down the old horse stables as Miguel Acosta calls for Maggie to head to Wren Lake where Noah is transported to the hospital before the killer l calls to taunt Emma on his victory as Maggie approaches and hugs both Emma and Audrey.
• Emma heads home and is shown home in her bedroom as her mother confronts her as she lays down and looks at her mom and states how Zoë died because of her and Audrey and how the killer is after his “favorite final girls” and who did what he did to get to them.
• Maggie reminds her it’s not her fault and that she didn’t choose any of this which Emma says maybe but how if they want it to stop it’s on them but her, which Maggie denies it’s not on her. Maggie caresses her daughter as Emma goes to sleep who has a flashback of her own of Brandon James leaving a note in the tree, which in present time she writes to stay away from her referring to Emma, which Eli notes as he watches from the corner, lurking that night.
• The Lakewood Slasher is supposedly outside before they make their way into Emma’s house who watches Maggie as she sleeps before heading into Emma’s room and touching her stuff with their buck knife, opening her dream journal and making a noise which awakens her and freaks her out as she notices. She gets out of bed and after hearing noises, arms herself with scissors from her bedroom and heads downstairs to find the front door left open with a heart locket-now reading her name as she closes and locks the door and calls for her mother.

February 4th

• 3:30 AM: Kieran awakes at his house, who is getting ready to head out to supposedly head to Emma who is stunned by Eli awake at the kitchen table, eating cereal and who asks Kieran where he’s going. After replying, he heads out and drives to Emma.
• Sheriff Acosta investigates the Duval house after their initial report. They leave Emma and Kieran to hug aside as Maggie tells Miguel how she tried communicating with Brandon and who didn’t think anything would come of it (referring to the locket, which is dated as found on February 4) as Miguel asks if that’s the response which Maggie claims she doesn’t know and that she’s terrified. Miguel pats Maggie on the shoulder and how they’ll figure it out. Maggie claims it to not be Brandon and asks if there’s anyone else who has a strong connection to Piper, which he answers as Kristen Lang knowing Piper.
• Noah is recovering at the hospital watching a news speech given by Quinn Maddox aka the Mayor talking about the recent murders as Audrey stays with him. Emma, Brooke, and Kieran arrive, Emma with coffees, Kieran with balloons, and Brooke with a tablet of a bunch of downloaded movies that are Noah’s favorite, to watch as Emma asks how Noah’s doing who grabbed Audrey a coffee and Noah’s favorite drink which Noah states he can only have clear fluids and how he doesn’t want to watch any of that as Noah laments on Zoë’s words and claims he’s done with his murder obsession and that he’s shutting down the Morgue, claiming how the killer wins every time much to his friends shock and silent agreement.
  • Kieran’s faux visit to the hospital to check on Noah, his victim, would be referenced in-universe, 5 years later in Scream (2022) when Amber and Richie both visited Tara in the hospital, both which had targeted her, much like Kieran did to Noah. This was done just days before each of their reveals as the killers, alike.
• Gustavo is shown at Brooke’s room drawing a picture of the Mayor bloody (foreshadowing his death) who pushes it away and welcomes Brooke as she returns, whose only wearing a white bathrobe as they share a kiss and he asks her how Noah is to which she states is ruined and how he’s not exactly himself at all which the sad party she claims is how they all know exactly what he’s going through, referring to her, Emma, and Audrey.
• The couple are quiet before Brooke smiles as she sees Gustavo ordered room service and that he’s good at it as she grabs a waffle and eats on it as Stavo tells her she has some options for lunch before she frowns as she sees the press conference of her dad on TV, which Gustavo muted and states they’ve been running it all morning. He asks if she should turn it off to which Brooke denies as Gustavo turns the volume back to listen which Gustavo claims if the mayor’s talking to her before Brooke turns it off.
• Emma, Audrey, and Kieran are shown at Noah’s room taking down his murder board as Emma asks Audrey if there’s anything she hasn’t already told her about Piper which she denies as her and Emma look through Noah’s boxes of evidence as Emma finds a picture of a newspaper clipping of Will Belmont’s funeral and Eli is shown in the background as they then suspect him of being in Lakewood and the second killer, further suspecting Eli.
• 11:17 AM: Audrey visits Noah in the hospital as Noah asks if they got everything down from the board in the boxes and to incinerate and who asks why she’s here only to hand him the picture booth photos he took with Zoë before Audrey gets a text from the killer which reads “What your friend didn’t like my gift? She’s good at cutting people off . But she better watch out… I cut deeper” which she reads silently as Noah states he’ll do a final tribute podcast for Zoë which Audrey agrees and tells Noah she’ll let him get to it as she kisses him and walks off.
• Back at Emma’s place, with Noah’s evidence plastered on the table as Emma reads the text Audrey shows her as Emma claims it could be Eli which she tells Audrey and Kieran how she ignored his texts the night of the carnival as Kieran angrily states and walks off saying he has to take care of this, as Emma and Audrey tell him to stop, as Kieran states how he has to confront him and that his has to stop. Audrey sides with Emma and telling him not to go as Emma states if it really is Eli who knows and asks what they’re going to do (ironic, since Kieran is the killer)
• Tina begins packing to leave Lakewood, claiming the mayor offered them $15,000 to do so, as Eli asks why this always happen after his mother makes some big mistake and ruin everything, despite Tina claiming this is payday as she asks Eli what she’s ruined for him as Eli claims that he has things there and things he doesn’t want to run away from, which Tina refers to as Kieran aka his cousin’s girlfriend, Emma and how if he doesn’t understand that if they stay they risk them finding out everything about them as she claims they have to go.
• Eli suddenly madly grabs the luggage which Tina was packing things in to throw it on the floor and says they don’t have to until Eli says so, as Tina asks what about the mayor which Eli claims he’ll get rid of.
• Quinn calls Brooke in his house before it’s revealed to be Eli sneaking into the mayor's office in a hoodie to grab the files of his shady dealings before heirs and leaves writing a note for Quinn stating he’s “so screwed”.
• Sheriff Acosta interrogates a now awake Kristen Lang at the hospital, who states she was in the Blessed Sisters Children’s Home for a short while for about 3-4 months and how she and Piper weren’t close and that she barely knew her due to Piper being younger than her and states that the fact she’s connected to her by that is not something she’d be proud to share, as the Sheriff claps back by pointing out to either the students she taped without consent as Kristen defends it as being an informal case study on the survivors of last years attacks, and how if they knew she had any link to Piper they wouldn’t have ever talked to her.
• Acosta then asks if she thought anyone in research had an unhealthy obsession with Piper, which she picks up as the sheriff’s son Gustavo, telling him how his son is very talented with a unique perspective as the sheriff asks if that’s a nice way of saying disturbing which Kristen states maybe and asks Miguel if he knows where it stems from, stating how Gustavo is trying to understand him and how his early fascination with death started when Gustavo snuck into one of Miguel’s files and how he saw a crime scene photo, a dead gang member shot in the head, which she tells him how Gustavo was really struck that day of the reality of what Miguel lives with day in and day out.
• Miguel states how Gustavo never said anything, with her stating how he doesn’t talk about it but rather draws it. She then tells him who she thinks has the largest obsession with Piper that it’s Emma, claiming she’s already had hallucinations and he knows how the new murders are impacting her. Miguel after walking out texts his son aptly to please come home.
• Gustavo supposedly heads home in his bike per Brooke’s request as she also head heads home, until it’s revealed he came to visit Noah in the hospital as he tries to make a farewell podcast for Zoë claiming she’s one of the most amazing women he’s ever met and how he has to culminate all his life’s work into a eulogy as Gustavo scoffs and claims he’s not finishing The Morgue, as Gustavo how his podcast does something for people and who reminds him that the death rate is one per person and how somebody needs to talk about that before sending him an email as he leaves of Noah in a comic book to uplift him.
• Emma and Audrey wait outside of Kieran’s house in the car while Kieran heads and sneaks inside to supposedly find evidence implicating Eli of being the killer, as Kieran enters the house and who overhears Eli tell Tina how what he found on Quinn Maddox imposes him as a fraud who robbed supposedly half of of Lakewood with shady things like insurance scams.
• Kieran sees this information before he makes a video call to Emma and Audrey, who asks him if he’s found anything, and he states not yet as he faces the camera towards him searching while Emma and Audrey watch on in the car before Kieran digs and finds the letters which he shows them which Audrey confirms as being her letters (which Kieran planted on him).
• Kieran runs out as he shows Audrey and Emma, as it points to him being the killer. Audrey states how they should go to the police as Emma denies stating they’re going to incriminate her and that they need to find more evidence against Eli as pictures of young Emma are also along with the letters, which Emma are like the ones she saw at the farm and that that they may be the same one as Audrey asks if Eli could be the hooded figure she saw as Kieran claims how perhaps Eli’s been using the pig farm as a hideout which to which Audrey states who knows how long Eli’s been in Lakewood.
• Emma asks if Eli’s in the house as Kieran tells them that he’s in the backyard with his mom as Audrey tells him to take the letters back and that there’s no telling what he’ll do if he finds they’re missing (despite the fact that Kieran is the killer). Kieran runs back and states he’ll meet Emma at her house as Emma hands him the photos to take. As he leaves, Emma as well as Audrey, agrees that there’s probably more evidence at the farmhouse and agree to go there while Eli is distracted as Emma states, she’ll text Kieran as Audrey takes the wheel, and they leave.
• Kieran returns the letters which Eli notices although he doesn’t see him exactly.
• Brooke arrives and tells her father about her return before her father is texted by the killer to meet out at the farmhouse due to his meetings.
• Noah makes a supposed final podcast from his hospital bed before his laptop is hacked and a video is posted incriminating Emma and Audrey as the killers, showing the deaths of Zoë, Eddie, Jake, and Haley which upsets everyone, especially Brooke, as the police are alerted due to Kieran’s call (as part of his plan, since he’s the killer)
• Emma and Audrey arrive at the farmhouse that night to investigate as Emma tells her for Audrey to keep lookout while she heads in to investigate the supposedly haunted house before stumbling into the secret room as Emma calls Audrey to come upstairs on what she found. Emma keeps her flashlight as she heads in quietly and swiftly before she looks into the mirror and Audrey comes in and notices as well as the killer having Emma’s dream journal.
• 9:00 PM: They are interrupted when they notice Quinn Maddox arrive outside, getting out of his car, who’s seen heading into the farmhouse to close his blackmailer and potential exposure, who he texts only to get a response and hear the notification sound come from inside.
• Quinn’s flashlight dies so he uses his phone as he texts the killer to follow the sound of the texts inside alone in the farmhouse and who is about to leave before he finds the phone and is sent a photo by the killer holding a pitchfork before the killer approaches the mayor from behind to stab and impale him with it.
• This happens quickly as Emma and Audrey arrive at the farmhouse and stumble onto the mayor dying as he pulls out the pitchfork and who hears a noise which was the plan for the killer to frame them.
• Emma and Audrey are arrested as Lakewood PD arrive before Kieran arrives and pleads with Emma to be let go as Maggie also gets mad at Miguel.
• After Quinn Maddox’s death, Emma and Audrey are arrested and are being transported for interrogation when the Lakewood Slasher kills the police officer, revealed to be Deputy Stevens, and leaves the keys to free the girls in front of them, scaring them heavily. They escape as Emma grabs one of the guns of the sheriff.
  • Despite being separate from the films, the events of this episode coincide with both the birthday and date of death of Roman Bridger from Scream 3 (February 4th, 1970-February 4th, 2000; See Timeline), in-universe, exactly 16 years later after Roman’s death.

February 5th

• Kristen Lang describes the events from her hospital bed of Emma and Audrey being the supposed killers as Folie à deux or madness or two to Sheriff Acosta (a reference to the franchise in there always being two killers, despite Emma and Audrey not being them).
• Emma and Audrey escape and arrive to get a call from the killer when they head in that morning into the Pep N’ Zip gas station to use the landline before the killer calls Emma through the station landline. The attendant hands it to her and the Lakewood Slasher answers, who taunts Emma on her stardom, as Emma tells the killer quietly, she knew they let them out for a reason.
• Audrey keeps a lookout as the killer tells Emma they want to keep playing and threatens them that if they turn themselves in or even get caught, they’re going to gut someone they love and who tells them to start running. The call ends as Emma and Audrey leave after the attendant sees the news for their wanted posters on TV.
  • After being arrested (for being falsely accused of Quinn Maddox's murder) and witnessing the death of Deputy Stevens the night prior while being driven away and being called by the killer while inside the gas station convenience store who killed Stevens and gave them the keys to escape, the pursuit by the killer towards the main characters would be referenced 7 years later in Scream VI, when:
    • Sam and Tara, albeit more Sam, were called to the police station due to Jason's murder, as well as escaping after the killer appears, reversed in that Ghostface calls Sam before appearing behind Tara, who Tara fights off, unlike how when the Lakewood Slasher ambushed Deputy Stevens after stopping the car, meaning Audrey and Emma saw the killer before and who afterwards called Emma at the gas station on the outskirts of the town and in the morning following escaping being pursued the night prior.
    • However, unlike Kieran as the Lakewood Slasher letting his targets go as part of his plan to target them later on the next day, Ghostface (Wayne) doesn't and gives pursuit to a fleeing Sam and Tara also that same night to a nearby convenience store in New York City, where they would hide after witnessing Ghostface murder 3 civilians in front of them, like Audrey and Emma seeing their killer kill Stevens (albeit in a deserted road), before escaping after hiding in the store and tricking Ghostface by pushing a shelf on him, although the killer would escape just as police arrived
    • Reversed seeing as how Emma and Audrey left the store after escaping the killer due to being wanted as fugitives per the killer implicating them, whereas Sam and Tara, mostly Sam, is being made to be a killer due to the killer implicating her slowly and who both her and Tara are then interrogated by the police and let out the next morning, a reverse to Audrey and Emma being led astray from their interrogation, thus reversed.
    • This is due to the difference in each killer's association with the police (Kieran as the Lakewood Slasher was weary of them due to his late father being the sheriff and who killed him after he almost discovered his and his mastermind's identity, whereas Wayne and his younger son and daughter assisted due to Wayne being Ghostface from within the NYPD, and who like Kieran, Wayne with the help of his son, Ethan, killed his wife and his own children's' mother, due to her not wanting to avenge their late son/brother, Richie, a reverse to Kieran and his father, although similarly yet differently to Ethan, inadvertently caused the death of his own mother and stepfather in a car crash; this is referenced in the reveal of the sixth film's Act III, when Quinn states Sam killed their brother which Tara states how she had told them he had died in a car crash, before Ethan reveals it was in Woodsboro and Sam makes the realization).
• Brooke is shown home alone cutting oranges before Gustavo arrives and knocks as she lets him in through the back door. Gustavo apologizes to Brooke about the news of her dad as Brooke asks Gustavo where he was last night and why he didn’t answer any of her texts. Gustavo tells her how he just couldn’t head home and how his phone died which Brooke lightly remarks as pretty terrible timing.
• Gustavo asks Brooke if she saw what was uploaded online on the Morgue, referring to Emma and Audrey’s framed video, which Brooke agrees stating she couldn’t avoid it. Gustavo states how Audrey looked pretty bad before Brooke states how neither Emma or Audrey killed her dad, Jake, or anyone else.
• Gustavo asks if Brooke really watched it especially the part with Jake as it was really twisted, before Brooke claims tearful how she does not need this from him right now as Gustavo only claims how Audrey accused him quickly and perhaps this is why before Brooke scoffs, continuing to cut her oranges, and states he’s so wrong as Gustavo asks if he really is and asks how can she be really sure and how the people closest are the ones who keep the biggest secrets before Brooke silently asks Gustavo politely to go as Gustavo remarks before Brooke says loudly for Gustavo to go as Gustavo agrees before he does who notices the security detail at her house.
• Emma and Audrey, prior to arriving at the theater, make their way to Kieran’s house as Emma heads into Kieran’s room and tells Kieran about what happened with the killer, as Kieran had just gotten out of the shower. Emma asks Kieran if he’s seen Eli to which Kieran states how Tina packed and left and how Eli never came home last night. Emma tells him where they’re going to be hiding before she leaves.
• Audrey, outside, notices Eli’s car and goes to warn Emma, unseen, as Eli is inside the house and hears the voices from Kieran’s room before he opens it to find Kieran putting on a shirt alone as Eli asks Kieran what he told the cops on him and how he was at the station being questioned for 3 hours as Kieran claims how he’s obsessed with Emma and to check him out (ironic, since Kieran is the killer) as Kieran also tells him how he found out he was in town last year in October which Eli states he didn’t want to bother a supposedly busy Kieran and how sarcastically he’d heard that Lakewood was nice in the fall and to visit.
• Kieran, upset and angry at Eli, warns Eli to stay away from Emma as Eli tells him face to face how he’s not scared of him and that he's going to do whatever he wants and for Kieran to try and stop him. He leaves as do Emma and Audrey who supposedly overheard this from the outside.
• Emma and Audrey, now outlaws and suspects, find hiding at Audrey’s workplace, the Zenith Theatre where they meet up with Brooke and Gustavo, as well as Eli. Noah is still in the hospital recovering from the aftermath of his being buried alive and the loss of Zoe, causing him to contemplate quitting his podcast.
• Noah finds inspiration from Zoe's death as well as words from Audrey before becoming an outlaw and Brooke, as well as Gustavo that led him to keep going forward. Noah also is visited by Brooke who he comforts about the death of her father. Noah gets a call from Emma as he tells both Noah and Brooke about their situation before they head there as Noah is dispatched from the hospital.
• Maggie asks Miguel as he investigates Emma’s room if he actually believes that Emma and Audrey uncurled themselves and killed the deputy, referring to their escape by the killer. A distressed Maggie goes off on Miguel, who tells her how he gets this isn’t easy for her, claiming how Emma could be kidnapped or worse and how he’s searching her house when she’s obviously not there. Miguel tries to calm her as Maggie yells how she doesn’t suspect her, and he does as Miguel adamantly asks Maggie if she knows about Emma’s nightmares as Maggie asks how he knows about that as Miguel states how he found the dream journal last night who wrote about the barn prior to the mayor’s murder and who wrote supposedly premeditated of her killing her friends and how perhaps Emma doesn’t know it’s real as Maggie claims those are just dreams and how she’s not a murderer as Miguel tells her how right now Emma’s the best lead that he has before he walks off from Maggie.
• Kieran leads Brooke and Noah inside the theater. Brooke gets a call from the killer which Emma answers and informs the killer of their location as Audrey arms them with movie prop weapons. The Lakewood survivors all meet as Noah and Brooke defend the front while Emma and Audrey guard the back as Kieran calls Emma to make her doubt whether the killer is coming which Emma denies and claims that’s exactly what the killer wants as Kieran supposedly guards the auditorium, making him the only supposed guard (which is how he snuck away).
  • The Lakewood Five's plan of staking out the movie theatre to lure the killer towards the survivors, mainly Emma and Audrey, per Emma's plan to Kieran (before his reveal later that day/in finale) with the survivors arming themselves and keeping lookout for the killer, would later be referenced in more detail almost 7 years later in Scream VI, with Tara Carpenter proposing the idea of how instead of running away and hiding and figuring that's what the killer would do, that instead they (Core Four) don't run but lead the killer to them and be prepared for it, while at the hospital/apartment lobby after Gale Weathers' attack at her penthouse, in a reverse, while after making a call to Detective Wayne Bailey to propose the idea to luring the killer to a secure hideout location and make the Shrine a "kill box" and to execute them upon arriving.
    • Like with Tara and Emma, this was a ploy for both their killers to be made aware of their plans to then be made aware of and target them later in climax/reveal by first going after their friends (Emma to Kieran, Tara/Sam to Wayne/Ethan).
  • While the Zenith Theatre was used to execute this idea in Season 2, the real location and showdown in the finale would be at the abandoned Blessed Sisters orphanage, in which a party was held a few days back in "The Orphanage", which unbeknownst till the finale, that it was the killer's lair, very much similar to how the Ghostface Shrine was used, due to both locations being abandoned and made shrines by other killers for other killers and which the main characters had/would later visit (the orphanage made by Kieran as a shrine for Piper and his obsession for her; the theatre turned Ghostface Shrine museum having been made by previous killer, Richie, and his avenging father, Wayne, as it show Richie's own obsession for previous Ghostface's events/artifacts, which would later include his robe, due to father and family indulging his said unhealthy obsessions).
    • Both killers intended for the abandoned locations to be the final stop after their reveals, with the intention of killing the protagonists after their reveals in a shrine surrounding the protagonists previous enemy and victim, and avenge their fallen one (Piper as Kieran's lover: Richie as Wayne's first/eldest son, and both Ethan and Quinn's older brother) in a place the protagonist had to face the reminder of their attempted killer(s) (Emma with her half-sister who tried to kill her and their mother; Sam with her ex, who tried to kill her and her already wounded/previously attacked younger half-sister), but who all ultimately failed to do so.
• Brooke and Noah are out front with Noah conspiring how Piper's accomplice had his own accomplice and that there are two killer again which Brooke tells him it’s not comforting as Noah states they should be prepared before they are startled by Gustavo knocking on the front door asking to come in and why Brooke has a hook knife as Brooke asks him what he’s doing there as Gustavo states how she told him to come which Noah asks Brooke if she did which she denies as Gustavo shows her his phone from the outside plopping it face forward as Brooke’s text reads for Gustavo to meet her at theater which Brooke denies not sending (having been Kieran, hacking her) as Gustavo asks if they can let him in which Noah denies much to Gustavo’s shock as he madly asks what he means, with Noah states how they’re trying to lure the killer and he showed up and apologizes stating how it’s a pretty classic “don’t let him in” situation.
• Gustavo from the outside asks Brooke if she’s buying this as she goes quiet in agreement before Gustavo pounds the door angrily and leaves before Brooke and Noah are diverted by screams coming from the auditorium, as well as Emma and Audrey who states for Audrey to watch the door and tells her the infamous “I’ll right back” line much to Audrey’s upset for her saying that.
  • Brooke not letting Gustavo in the theatre during the day despite his pleas (per the plan and due to Noah) and wanting is loosely similar to how Samantha denied Danny following them (Chad and Tara, due to their plan) into the Ghostface Shrine in Scream VI, albeit reversed (Sam denied Danny while both were outside at night, while Brooke was inside the locked theatre in the day, denying Gustavo entry, who was outside).
• Noah, Brooke, Kieran, and Emma arrive to the auditorium and watch the murders of the killer from Nina, Zoë, Rachel, Seth, Eddie, Haley, Riley, and Jake being played, as Brooke asks who put it on and Noah states that they’re real. Emma claims someone is inside playing it from the projector room as Kieran asks how they put it in and Emma claims she doesn’t know as Kieran asks where’s Audrey which Emma states in the back guarding as Kieran claims she shouldn’t be alone and tells them to wait there while he supposedly gets Audrey (whom he had kidnapped prior, off-screen).
• Brooke is disgusted as she turns around to not look when Jake’s death comes on screen and tells it to make it stop as Noah winces as well as Emma states she’ll go and turn it off, leaving both Brooke and Noah to stay as Emma heads to the projector room, gun in hand and arrives to shut off the screening of the murders playing which also turns the lights off at the auditorium, leaving only the faint red light as Noah and Brooke stand in different aisles as Noah talks to Brooke reassuring himself and Brooke that they’re in the dark not alone and how Emma will be back and that Audrey is safe and Gustavo showing us a fluke and Eli is misunderstood and how everything’s OK. (retracting Kieran, their attempted killer).
• Brooke takes her phone out to turn on the flashlight to look around as they hear a creaking sound and Noah hushes Brooke to listen as she turns around to face the stage before the Lakewood Slasher appears.
• Brooke screams and tries to run, before the killer grabs her and stabs her in the back as Noah screams, which Emma overhears as she makes her way to the auditorium and shoots at the killer who runs off as Noah tends to Brooke and Emma tells Noah to call the ambulance as she follows the killer in tow to the back of the auditorium. She goes and holds the gun up as she looks for them.
  • Brooke is the second person to be wounded in the theatre, after Aaron in the opening episode almost 2 weeks back.
  • Pertaining to the storyline, she would be the first of the Lakewood Five to be wounded inside the theatre by the killer, as well as the second of the group (like the Core Four, the OG Lakewood quartet includes Brooke, Audrey, Noah, and Emma) to be targeted and wounded after Noah.
  • In the sixth film, like Brooke in this season, Chad Meeks-Martin would be the second of the Core Four to be wounded and attacked after Mindy, like Noah before Brooke. Similar to how her and Audrey were attacked in Season 1 (referenced also by Chad and Mindy's attacks in the fifth film, see "Halloween 2015" above for more) Like the Meeks-Martin twins to her and Noah this season, the most "popular/hot" character was targeted second after the horror experts.
  • Difference being how unlike Mindy not being present due to being hospitalized unbeknownst to the group before Chad's attack, Noah was at the theatre when Brooke was, and the Lakewood Five had been at his bedside while he recovered before returning, due to each's different timing/plots, but is still reversed and loosely reformatted, albeit similarly yet slightly referenced.
  • Like Brooke, who was attacked/stabbed from behind, so was Chad, with the difference being that Brooke was only attacked by a single killer, which the others could attest to, whereas Chad was attacked due to their being two killers, who was distracted due to defending Sam and Tara from a single killer in front of them, who had been chasing them, unlike Brooke, who Chad and Tara managed to knock down, as Chad is tells the sisters to get back and is shown going to go for the final knockdown, before being surprised attacked by the other, catching the Carpenter sisters off-guard, as both killers then began stabbing at Chad.
  • Unlike Brooke, who was rushed to the hospital immediately after her attack, Chad wasn't, but both survived regardless, with Chad being pulled out in a stretcher at the finale of the sixth film. Like Gustavo with Brooke when she came to the hospital, Tara was devastated when watching helplessly the killers stab Chad, with both lovers (Gustavo and Tara) after surviving, later being relieved with the survival of them (Brooke and Chad).
• Noah and Kieran attend to a wounded Brooke as well as Emma as she states to not leave Brooke even as the ambulance and police are on their way and asks Kieran if she found Audrey and who tells her she wasn’t in the back room and how he doesn’t know where she went when Emma asks and claims how the door was open and perhaps left already. Kieran tells Emma to leave as the sheriff arrives from the front and knocks to be led as Noah goes to open in as Brooke tells Emma to go and hands her her car keys which she takes as she reassures Brooke to see her later before leaving just as the police arrive and Noah leads them in.
• Brooke is taken to the hospital which Noah and Kieran attend before being separated as Brooke is treated for critical surgery while Kieran gets a call from Emma (using Noah’s phone which he agreed to let Emma borrow for communication).
  • Gustavo walking alongside Brooke as she's carried on the stretcher is a reference to when the late Dewey Riley walked alongside his ex-wife Gale, after her attack at Stab-A-Thon in Scream 4.
• Emma asks how Brooke’s doing as she tears up and calls from the car as Kieran asks if she’s heard from Audrey which Emma denies and claims she shouldn’t have ever told the killer (ironically, Kieran) where she was and that she screwed up as Kieran tries to reassure her as Emma thought nobody else would be put in danger as she cries over Audrey missing and Brooke stabbed as she claims she doesn’t know what to do anymore and asks if she should turn herself in, who tells Kieran the killer would kill someone if she did as Kieran tells Emma none of it is her fault and tells her to hold on.
• Noah and Gustavo talk outside at the hospital lobby as Gustavo states he heard about Brooke’s attack and asks if she’s ok. Noah states Brooke is a survivor and that she’s tough, mentioning her attack from the year prior about being stabbed and trapped in the freezer and how her surgery is going to be a cakewalk.
• Gustavo, tearing up with tears, guilts himself and tells Noah how he should’ve stayed and gotten in somehow.
• Sheriff Acosta arrives to see his tearful son and comforts him silently by sitting down next to him.
• Noah stays silent before telling the sheriff how he he knows this isn’t the best time but how it’s not Emma or Audrey as the sheriff pulls Noah aside and states how he won’t comment on a case but if he knows where they are to tell him now because he states, off the record, how there’s a lot of evidence which Noah agrees claiming there’s too much evidence but how he already knows that. Miguel claims it all points to them but asks Noah who else it could be.
• Noah asks to see the sheriff's phone much to Miguel’s confusion and how he needs to show him other suspects. Miguel gives it to him reluctantly as he pulls the photo of Wills funeral and zooming in on Eli, as he tells Miguel how Eli was in Lakewood last October at a funeral for a victim he didn’t even know during the murders and claiming he perhaps knew Piper during the murders.
• Miguel looks at his son who nods his head in agreement at Noah’s theory as Miguel takes back his phone and walks off.
• On Milling Avenue, inside Brooke’s black Range Rover car, Emma looks over the photo of her, Audrey, and Brooke and watches for Lakewood patrol cars pass the neighborhood as she hides in the daylight in plain sight before Emma gets a text sent to Noah showing Audrey passed out and tied to her hands which reads “Time to face the mask, come alone or she dies” as Emma heads to the abandoned orphanage where Audrey is being held hostage and goes in with the gun.
• Kieran calls Emma as Emma denies letting Kieran know where she’s at as Kieran tells her she doesn’t have to do it alone before she gets an incoming call with the killer and hangs up on Kieran before Emma states this ends with her and each give their love statements to another.
• Emma answers the killer (which was Kieran, switching to his killer phone) who tells Emma how they’ve been waiting a long time for this as they can almost taste it as Emma asks why he’s hiding which the killer claims they’re savoring the final destruction of her and all she loves as Emma asks why they brought her to the orphanages as the killer claims this was Piper’s origin as Emma asks if they love her and if that’s what this is about, which the killer scoffs as how it’s a real bond and how Emma should know because she killed with Audrey and asks what that felt like, referring to killing Piper back on Halloween night 2015, which Emma states they had no choice and had to kill her for their safety and in order to survive.
• The killer taunts Emma that she thought killing her made her safe and how she’ll never feel safe again before Emma hangs up as she’s about to head upstairs. Emma calls out Audrey’s name before the Lakewood Slasher appears to attack her from whine which she ducks and misses, only getting a slash cut on her arm, before quickly shooting at the killer as they run upstairs with Emma in pursuit.
  • The killer later imprisons both Emma and Audrey at Blessed Sisters Children’s Home, aka the abandoned orphanage from the night of Haley’s party, luring Eli as well and also using Kieran as bait. This causes Emma to try and free Audrey while also call for Kieran and run into Eli, who’s become framed by Kieran after Emma shoots him accidentally only for Kieran to shoot him multiple times and killing him, thus revealing his identity (“When A Stranger Calls”).
  • Eli being set up as a suspect of being the killer by Kieran after following him into the orphanage only to be knocked out by his cousin before reawakening and then rushing to Emma to inform her, is loosely reformatted with FBI Agent Kirby Reed being knocked out by either Wayne, Ethan, or Quinn as Ghostface while in the Ghostface Shrine and who Wayne called Sam after to set up Kirby as a suspect in Scream VI, with the only difference being how due to Kirby being a special agent and was in on the Core Four's plans along with Wayne before his reveal as Ghostface, Eli wasn't and who was unaware of the Lakewood Five's plan of staking out the theatre due to Kieran acting as a barrier, being aware of Eli's growing suspicion of him and snooping around, but who before his reveal, slipped and allowed Eli to follow him while then knocking him out.
    • Initially, before being shot, both Eli and Kirby had survived their attacks (Eli being stabbed/knocked out, Kirby only knocked out and later stabbed in her old wound), and who headed to warn the survivors about what happened to them and who did it, which the killers covertly denied as they implicated them easily and smoothly convinced the survivors it was them, until they ultimately revealed themselves.
  • Kieran had made Eli a suspect due to his attendance in the funerals of the 2015 victims back in November-December, to which Noah had seen through a picture on Sheriff Acosta's phone to warn Emma, which is similar to how when Wayne called Sam to suspect Kirby by stating how he had someone at the NYPD look into Kirby and falsely frame of her of not being in the Bureau and being let go and she left/was fired 3 months prior over "mental health concerns", similar to how Eli was framed for him being a trespasser, loosely.
  • Both Eli and Kirby were armed as they headed to warn the survivors in front of the killers, before being shot by them, albeit the Carpenter sisters were armed with bricks and not guns and did not attack Kirby due to her not going closer to them, and who had a gun (reverse of Eli having a knife and Emma a gun), whereas Eli was shot by Emma due to trying to attack Kieran.
    • Unlike Eli heading to stab Kieran only to be shot by Emma and later fully shot to death by Kieran in his reveal, Kirby wasn't attacked by Sam or Tara and who told them correctly how to not to listen to Wayne who was "probably the killer" as they both held their guns at one another after Kirby shot at it to scare the two Ghostface(s) cornering Sam and Tara before Wayne arrived and started implicating Kirby.
      • However, unlike with Emma and later Kieran shooting Eli to death, Kirby warned Wayne of the returning Ghostface killers behind him before Wayne shot Kirby down to reveal himself, and who survives, unlike Eli.
      • The reveal of Wayne being a killer with two accomplices is loosely referenced by Kieran being the killer in Season 2 and the red herring being his taunt and torment game to Audrey, who prior to the finale, revealed her involvement and therefore being an indirect loose accomplice with him and Piper, due to bringing the latter to Lakewood in Season 1 by writing letters, despite Audrey not being a killer.
• Emma arrives upstairs to the same shrine room where Piper was held whose pictures are still posted as the lights go on in the room as Emma finds a knocked out Audrey chained in a chair and tells her to stay with her as she tries to unlock her before Kieran arrives as Emma asks Kieran what he’s doing there which he claims to have asked Noah ping his phone and how he got there as fast as he could.
• Kieran states how she’s cut and who tries to get Audrey off with her help before Eli arrives holding a minute and grabbing onto his stomach, revealing a stab wound. Emma holds the gun up to him and asks what happened as Eli claims he followed Kieran from the hospital and how the second he got in the building, Kieran came behind him and stabbed Eli (presumably out of costume).
• Eli claims he played dead and who called the police, and told them it was Kieran as Kieran denies this as both Eli and Kieran stand in front of Emma, still pointing the gun at Eli (an homage to Sidney pointing the gun at Randy and Stu in the original Scream).
• Eli claims how he could’ve run away but how he heard her voice and came back to help her as Kieran thwarts Emma by stating how Eli probably stabbed himself to make him look like a f victim as Eli asks if Emma thinks he did this as Emma states she doesn’t know what to think and asks Eli why he was in Lakewood last October, referring to him having attended Will’s funeral during Piper’s murder spree which Eli states it was because of Kieran and how Kieran was the one who broke into the girls bedroom in Atlanta who blamed Eli and had the restraining order against him due to his obsession with the girl and lied to her mom, defiling Eli’s name by lying about posting the Atlanta girl’s nudes which Kieran denies as Eli states that it was him and that’s why he was in Lakewood to get back at Kieran, thus why he attended Wills funeral and how once he saw the Lakewood Six he couldn’t do it and how that’s the truth and how that’s all there is as Kieran denies this to Emma and claims Eli was obsessed with the girl and Emma and how he’s the killer.
• Eli heads in to stab Kieran for lying and accusing him before Emma shoots Eli in the gun and who gets scared as Kieran takes the gun and tells Emma it’s over. Audrey awakens as Emma tends to her as Audrey looks over to the shot Eli fallen on the floor, presumably dead before Kieran states to Emma that they’re calling to Emma and tells her she will feel safe again as well as Audrey.
• However, Emma catches this slip up, seeing as that was what the killer had said and asks Kieran about feeling safe again as Kieran acts dumbfounded before she puts it together and gasps as Kieran’s expression changes to a smile as Emma tells Kieran to tell her she’s wrong (making Kieran an inverse to both Billy and Stu).
• Audrey also hears this revelation and asks Kieran, who begins to grate heavily and a shake as he sighs deeply and smiles to tell Emma she’s not wrong before he shoots Eli dead who got up silently to attack Kieran as Emma is taken aback as Kieran claims how Eli probably really liked him and tells him how he’s a monster was Kieran holds Emma at knife point and how he states she told him she loves him as Emma puts a brave face and said she did but not now. Kieran also holds Audrey at gunpoint who tries to get out as she rattled her chains.
• Kieran tells Emma "OK", nonchalantly, as Emma asks Kieran about him and Piper, who he met before Emma, and how it all took was both his and Piper’s parental abandonment (Kieran’s due to his father dumping him in Atlanta who was addicted to pain pills) to conspire and to commit the murder spree against Emma and her friends in Lakewood, as he claims it made him and Piper sick to see their parents together, referring to Maggie and Clark dating. Kieran holds Emma and Audrey in their places with both the knife and gun.
• Audrey then asks Kieran how all of this for him is just due to some messed up daddy issues which Kieran claims she’s right and sarcastically state how he should’ve seen someone about that but how Piper showed him how killing people was way more fun than therapy and how he made the sheriff and medical examiner look like idiots and how he and Piper tortured them with a killing spree they couldn’t stop as how the last kill was going to be his dad, as well as Emma and her mother before it was thwarted due to Emma and Audrey having killed Piper via gunshot as Emma rectifies how he was Piper’s last surprise, as Piper had said, which he states surprise (in an homage to the franchise) and how he was her fake boyfriend “banging” Emma’s crazy half-sister (Piper), and who were both about to kill her as Audrey chimes in on how she showed up with a gun which him or Piper weren’t counting on.
• Kieran turns his attention to Audrey as he tells her how she killed his Piper which Audrey agrees and states is why Kieran tortured Audrey too and who's going to frame Audrey (and Emma) as having lured him supposedly as the last victim but how he turned the tables on them and killer then both in self-defense and come out the new hero who stopped the rampage. Emma claims no one will believe him, naming him a psychopath, as Kieran states that will be for him to worry about and how she’ll be dead as he heads towards her with the knife.
• Audrey states out loud she doesn’t think so as she quickly hurls the chair she was on which spins quickly towards Kieran, briefly knocking him down as she yells at Emma to run as Kieran approaches Audrey to kill her before Emma tells Kieran at the door how if he lets her get away all of what he did would’ve been for nothing, prompting Kieran to chase after Emma despite Audrey yelling no to her for it.
• Emma runs from the room as she hides within the halls of the orphanage. Kieran calls for Emma telling her she’s not going to win this and using Audrey as bait as they walk out of the room stating she can make her death easy or hard, as she pulls Audrey in her chains as Audrey, while being held by Kieran, claiming how Emma’s probably already gone.
• Kieran holds the gun and Audrey as he speaks aloud to Emma how she already lost with Audrey telling a hidden Emma to not give him what he wants and to get out of there as Kieran leads Audrey downstairs to a basement and faces Audrey, threatening to kill her if she doesn’t think he will and how she’s done with her and that she’s trash.
• Emma, overhearing this, speaks up hidden and tells Kieran how he’ll probably need Audrey until he finds her in the lightly lit dark room of the orphanage.
• Audrey calls out for Emma to not be stupid and if she leaves at least one of them lives as Kieran pulls her through the room as he tries to find her. Emma hides moving from corner to corner as Audrey tries to catch Kieran off guard which fails as he grabs her in a headlock and her back, grunting.
• Kieran heads back to where he was last standing at by a shelf of boxes where supposedly Emma’s hiding as she looks to Kieran who slowly leaves Audrey as he tells her to get back before Audrey yanks the chains as her and Emma trap Kieran, with Emma pushing the shelf down on Kieran as Audrey hides off and Emma does too before Kieran gets back up and calls for Emma, standing unguarded by a column, holding his knife as Emma shoots at him twice from standing behind a shelf calling for Kieran and asking him how it feels to be helpless and hunted.
• Emma exits her hiding spot as Audrey silently walks behind Kieran who’s focused on Emma, distracted as Audrey swings the chains she’s in before he’s trapped ultimately as Audrey chains him by the neck as the chain swings to the column as Emma asks Kieran when it’s going to end, and asks a trapped Kieran how they’re going to end this game, which Audrey holding Kieran chained by his neck tells Emma to shoot him and that he deserves it as Kieran agrees and tells Emma to get it on, telling her how she’s a killer.
• Emma stands in front of Kieran pointing the barrel of the gun to his forehead as she states how she gets to choose how he’s going to die as Emma pulls back and smiles as she tells him not today and how he’s going to rot in prison because he lost at his own sick game before Sheriff Acosta and the police arrive as Emma and Audrey walk to one another as Kieran is taken away and both friends reconvene as Sheriff Acosta watches on in disbelief, finally clearing Emma and Audrey’s names as the killers and suspects.
  • Ends on a Friday evening. Kieran Wilcox is trapped by Emma Duval and Audrey Jensen, and incarcerated and apprehended for his crimes as Piper Shaw's accomplice and the 2016 murders. Emma traps Kieran less than a day before the date of the anniversary of Riley Marra's death a year prior. Kieran is then jailed the same day after his cousin Eli Hudson's death at his hands.

March

March 28th

• Brooke Maddox turns 17 years old.

April

April 24th

• Avery Collins turns 14 years old.

May

May 24th-25th (approximately)

• Noah makes a podcast to “The Morgue”, stating it’s officially been three months (whether or not to the exact date since Kieran started) since Lakewood has survived another mass murderer and how Piper did have an accomplice, which figures due to his theory but how none of them saw Kieran as the killer coming and how it cuts deep and asks after a betrayal like that if one can really ever learn to trust again and how maybe the best way to move forward is to put it all behind them, if they can (referring to the survivors).
• Noah calls back and names the killers of the Lakewood Murders in order (excluding the 94 Killer who framed Brandon, who was innocent): Brandon (false), Piper, and Kieran, noting how they all wanted revenge and how maybe that’s the end of the chain and how perhaps this was the last dangling thread and how maybe there are no more to pull and how things are actually back to normal, before stating how Lakewood will always be "Murderville" and how only time will tell.
  • Cut to a scene showing Miguel out of uniform with Gustavo and Brooke about to have takeout lunch at his house, and panning out showing Gustavo’s tablet with a drawing of the Lakewood Five, standing at the dock which now includes (from left to right: Emma, Noah, Audrey, Gustavo, and Brooke)
  • Kristen Lang is shown out of the hospital and back in her classroom, sporting the cut from her previous attack as she’s shown writing, finally inspired, based on what she stated an article titled “The Madness of Two” based and inspired by Emma and Piper, seeing as she types the line “This the tale of two sisters.”
  • Emma and Audrey are shown at the movie theater, enjoying themselves as they share a bowl of popcorn which they make a magic mix as Emma adds Whoppers candy to it.
  • Maggie finds her note, now bloody, where she had left it at the tree of the James house at Pikeview Road with a knife stuck to it.
• Kieran is now held at the Lakewood County Jail, chained and in an orange jumpsuit as a deputy informs him, he has a call supposedly from his lawyer one night as Kieran asks why before the guard stands as Kieran picks up to be greeted by the Third Killer, who asks Kieran who told him he could wear his mask as Kieran looks up, eyes widened.
  • Kieran supposedly makes a promise to keep his word to this killer who helped him escape following his sentencing 5 months later in October, unaware he would be killed afterwards.

June-August (approx.)

• Jeremy Blair, an editor, meets with Noah and Gustavo, who become comic book writers (supposedly Noah, seeing as Gustavo is an illustrator) based on the Lakewood Murders titled The Lakewood Six, and who both wrote a comic off the moniker named for the survivors, in order to tell the story of both the deceased and survivors, who have written two volumes, based on Piper Shaw and Kieran Wilcox’s separate but overall tied murder sprees.
• August 2016: The Deadfast Club (minus Beth), Marcus, Liv, Hawkins, Erin, Darrin, Alisha, Brad and the future 3 victims of the 2018 murders pass 9th grade and head into 10th grade as their sophomore year later in the summer of 2016.

September

September 8th

• Kieran Wilcox turns 18 years old.

October

October 24th

• Following the murder trial of a now 18 year old Kieran Wilcox, which is held at an empty Lakewood Courthouse, in which the judge (no jury) indicts him and finds him guilty of murders of over a dozen people (seeing since he was arrested after Piper’s death, as both killed 9 victims individually totaling 18 deaths in the new Lakewood Murders, which spanned over four months with two months back in late 2015 to early 2016, a two month hiatus in between) and sentences him to the maximum penalty by law which is 10 life sentences consecutively
• Kieran is then held at an empty holding cell at the courthouse, where 2 security guards and officers watch over him before one of them leaves to watch over the media circus outside of the courtroom in which the trial was held, due to the prison transport wanting them to clear out in order to take Kieran to prison, leaving the other officer alone.
• Above Kieran’s cell, is the Third Killer, in costume, which Kieran aids by talking and distracting the officer alone with him, who is facing away from him outside his cell. This leads to the killer opening the cellar door above in which they’re hiding as it slightly creaks. The other officer outside radios the other, stating how it’s crazy out there and how after the other officer asks, denies how there’s no clear path out to the gate, stating they’ll be stuck for a while. The indoor officer affirms, who then hears the door creak, who turns around just as the Third Killer jumps down and exclaims and before the cop can do anything, the killer twists his neck and head fully, killing him instantly.
• The killer then retrieves the keys off the cop, and faces Kieran and opens the lock off his cell door, as he walks out and who tells them how they kept his word and if they’re going to tell him who they are, before the Third Killer slashes his throat and stands over him, who stabs a bleeding out Kieran in the back by his neck on his spine, twisting it, as he tried to crawl to get the gun off the cop, who then turns Kieran around afterwards before watching as Kieran ultimately dies (implying Kieran knew of an existing third killer, whether or not before partnering with Piper, seeing as before he was held for trial 8-9 months later, was called by them in “When a Stranger Calls” finale, to ask him who told him he could wear their mask, implying Brandon James)
  • Kieran Wilcox is incarcerated at Lakewood Courthouse holding cell jail and who is targeted by a new unknown Third Killer who kills the security guard at his cell and frees him, only to kill him immediately afterwards, after being sentenced.
  • It's unclear whether Kieran's death signified the start of the Third Killer or their third killing spree in the Second Lakewood Murders, due to the timeline with the rebooted Season 3. It's safer to assume (unless announced or retconned), that the Lakewood Five may or may not have in a capacity, dealt with said killings or killer, but were able to survive altogether and graduate from high school in 2017.

October 30th-31st (Halloween 2016)

• Sunday evening-Monday night: On Halloween Eve and Halloween 2016, the events of both Season 2 special episodes ("Halloween" and "Halloween II") take place (October 18, 2016, released):
  • Nine to eight months have passed since the events of Season 2, as well as a week since Kieran Wilcox’s murder after being sentenced. The Lakewood survivors are now the Lakewood Five which include Emma, Audrey, Noah, Brooke, and Gustavo, who are now aware of the existence of a Third Killer following Kieran’s death.
    • Gina McLane aka Audrey's girlfriend is introduced throughout the Halloween episodes and despite not having died, is not included into the Lakewood Five survivors' group, despite surviving the island storm and killer attacks alongside them (due to the fact that the events that Tom Martin caused were not based in Lakewood, or by the Lakewood Slasher, thus not meeting the criteria). However, she joins them as a survivor nonetheless, just not of a Lakewood massacre or their group unless she and all of them begin being targeted by the Third Killer, then perhaps.
      • Her character is a nod to Mark Kincaid from Scream 3, as well as Judy Hicks in Scream 4, and is succeeded by Hawkins in Season 3, Frances in Scream (2022), and Danny Brackett in Scream VI.
    • Brooke also states how after her and Emma dodge the reporters outside and head into school (callback to Emma dodging her reporters in Season 1), how it’s been 8 months of quiet and “now this”, referring to Kieran’s murder; confirming that the confrontation at the abandoned warehouse with Kieran, Emma, and Audrey during his reveal and subsequent arrest actually took place in February.
    • Brooke fears in the island storm that this was the supposed Third Killer, after the Lakewood Five found Billie’s dead body outside the patio in a chair (callback to Steven Orth in the original Scream). However, Audrey reassured her by asking her why they would kill Billie, also due to the fact that none of them were in Lakewood nor Billie being associated with them, thus making this attack not on them or committed by the Third Killer, due to the rules, perhaps.
    • Further proven after Emma discovers and tricks Tom Martin by feigning her interest for him and who clears his own name when Emma asks if he had anything to do with Kieran’s death, which he denies and only admits to knowing of Emma and the Lakewood murders from TV, thus dispelling the theory of him being the Third Killer.
• College talk and graduation approach the survivors who are now high school seniors. Emma applies to Lakewood University, in Lakewood. Brooke applies to New York University in New York City.
• In chronological order: Alex Whitten, Sid, Billie Field, Sheriff Carpenter, and Jeremy Blair all become victims to Tom Martin’s individual murder spree in Shallow Grove Island, all due to Jeremy taking Noah and Gustavo along with Emma, Brooke, and Audrey to the island to inspire Noah, due to his writer’s block, to write the third volume of the comic book based on the urban legend of Anna Hobbs, known as the urban legend of the Shallow Grove Slasher, who used Garden Shears as their murder weapon. Tom takes the legend and dons the costume to murder and taunt his victims, mainly Emma's friends before revealing himself and being killed quickly after being deceived by Emma.
• Events of Halloween take place (Monday, October 30th, 2016)
• Events of Halloween II take place (Tuesday, October 31st, 2016)
  • This is chronologically, the fourth Halloween event to take place in the TV series timeline and the first to be committed by both a different killer and setting (first in the overall franchise) with both the killer and island in Shallow Grove, preceding it being the actual Halloween events: the 1994 Halloween in Lakewood (1st murders), the 2010 Halloween in Atlanta (Deion Elliot’s death, precursor to 2018 murders), and the 2015 Lakewood Halloween (2nd murders). It is also the first to break off from Lakewood but to take place not long after the previous actual Halloween. It is succeeded by the 2018 Halloween or College Park, Georgia murders in Atlanta.

2016-2018

Post-Season 2, Pre-Season 3 (October 2016-October 2018)

• approx. mid 2017- mid 2018 (post-Season 2 and Halloween specials, excluding the latter)
  • May-June 2017 (approx. graduation timeframes) Senior students at George Washington High, Gustavo, Emma, Noah, Audrey, and Brooke are approx. all 18 or already (or about to be in summer 2017) and graduate from George Washington High (due to cliffhanger, perhaps retconned/non-canon, for accuracy's sake, TBA).
  • August 2017: Emma attends Lakewood University, staying in Lakewood while Brooke attends New York University in New York City.
  • The future Deadfast Club (before Liv), Beth, Hawkins, Tommy, and Shane graduate from their sophomore year (August 2016-June 2017) at Weaver High School and begin their junior year in August 2017.
  • Shane would drop out of high school either after his sophomore year or junior year (August 2017-June 2018) or perhaps before or during the latter to take care of his ill grandmother, who resorts to drug dealing and party promoting in Atlanta and adopting the alias Mr. Fade. It's unclear whether Shane or Jamal, but likely the latter, gave the idea to rob pharmacies around Atlanta and College Park, Georgia while disguised in a Halloween costume, eponymous and collectively referred to as Ghostface.
  • Jamal Elliot, honing in on his anger and about to conspire to commit the 2018 murder spree against his half-brother Marcus, due to lack of opportunity, would then meet with 17-year old Beth, a classmate of Marcus and incoming high school senior at Weaver (who was secretly looking for her origin story as an aspiring killer due to her sociopathy and ulterior motive), with who he found his motivation and opportunity to finally do it, after meeting up with her after hours at her workplace at an unnamed tattoo shop in Atlanta where she was a tattoo artist, and Jamal was her frequent customer. They would also begin an inappropriate relationship with each another as a result, sometime before/or in September 2018.

2018

The events of Season 3, also known as the Atlanta Murders, occur, which features the return of Ghostface on-screen (first in TV series-version only) eight years after Scream 4, second and only time throughout the 2010s in film/TV (excluding the video game version, who debuted a month before the TV version of Ghostface, in June 2019).

Before October

• February 1st, 2018: Lakewood and the Lakewood Carnival celebrate its 102nd anniversary.
• March 28th, 2018: Brooke Maddox (if alive) turns 19 years old.
• April 24th, 2018: Avery Collins turns 16 years old.
• August-September 2018: Marcus, Kym, Manny, Amir, Hawkins, Beth, Avery, and Tommy Jenkins all finish their junior year before then starting their senior year at Weaver High School, with Brad Ernsky, Alisha Davis, Darrin Grant, and Erin Mayfield, 1-2 months before the murders.
• Liv Reynolds catches her unnamed mother and her father Officer Reynolds’s wife, cheating on her dad, which causes marital and family strifes, leading Liv to then rebel and to be psychologically affected by it, much to her father’s concern. Liv’s parents divorce, and Liv and her father then relocate to Atlanta, where Liv would then transfer her senior year to Weaver High School, approximately the week before Halloween 2018, so from October 22-26 (due to statements by Marcus of Liv being the new girl, and by Officer Reynolds in regards to them settling in, and mentions her fling with Avery as having been 2 days they met before his death from the premiere episode, which would’ve been either the weekend of October 27-28). Before this, Liv was given a small flip phone by her mother before Liv moved, in secret, in order to stay in touch, due to fears by Liv’s mom of her dad’s anger or him refusing to give her contact to her.

October

October 29th

Morning-2:46 PM

• Calendar Week: Monday, October 29th- Saturday, November 3rd (Corresponding with Season 3, taking place in less than week, within 6 days)
• In College Park, Georgia about almost 8 years after the death of Deion Elliot, a 16 year old Marcus Elliot (posing as Deion) is seen jogging to school and listening to music on his headphones (his phone on an arm phone holder) and who runs through the neighborhood streets as well as a bridge overlook into Atlanta, Georgia (it’s official debut since it’s mention in Season 2) and makes it all the way jogging to Weaver High School after being challenged by Amir Ayoub (whose riding in the school bus).
• There, he’s joined by his best friend and football co-star Hawkins waiting in line as they go through metal detectors. He also meets the resident goth Beth and both strike a conversation while in line. He runs late for class with Mrs. Pell and meets Liv Reynolds. Also signs the petition of his neighborhood friend Kym, talks to Manny at lunch. During the school day, Marcus is confronted by a note on his TWINS bar saying to meet him after school in the parking garage.
• In the parking garage, Ghostface appears then disappears, and Avery Collins, Marcus’s racist football co-star’s car, goes off as he and Liv approach. Liv denounces Avery and throws his jersey away.
• Marcus defends Liv and Mrs. Pell gives both Marcus and Liv detention, where they’re joined by Beth, Kym, Manny, and Amir Ayoub.
• Once Marcus and Liv arrive, they're also greeted and given a brief lecture sarcastically by Mr. Fitch, with himself and the students in detention an homage to the 1985 film The Breakfast Club (based on the group's eventual name, a portmanteau) much to Kym's confusion, which Amir clarifies to the crew later on in detention, which Beth sarcastically claims as her favorite film.
• Marcus and Liv flirt and strike a conversation in the secluded library aisle away from the detention crew only to be hauled off by another text by Ghostface, making him meet in the school locker room bathroom.
• Soon after Marcus leaves, former student and local dropout/drug dealer/promoter Shane arrives to invite them all to a party and Beth dismisses them to be back by 4:00 PM so they don’t have to do this again tomorrow as Liv, Kym, Manny, and Amir walk out and leave Shane and Beth alone.
• Prior to the detention and after Deion got the note from Ghostface, it’s shown that a now teenager Tommy Jenkins, who’s shown driving and pulling up during the day to an abandoned warehouse in Atlanta (in a reference to that of the abandoned bowling alley seen in Season 1).
• Tommy, who’s now working as an Uber-like driver for a company called “Thumbs Out” (logo seen on the hood of his car). Tommy then texts his client “Marcus” (unbeknownst that this is in relation to his association with the events that occurred in Halloween 2010) that he’s outside, who then texts him that he’s in a wheelchair and asks for his help. Only an old Black homeless man is shown outside laying on a mattress.
• Tommy, with his phone in hand, gets out and walks toward the shady warehouse and approaches the homeless man and asks about Marcus. The man points him towards the entrance of the warehouse, which is seen as dark and off-putting. Tommy walks towards it before he’s then scared off by a raspy voice which calls out his name.
• Tommy is then seen heading for his car, panicked, who texts his client “Sorry dude. Zero stars”, denying them service.
• Tommy is about to start his car and who turns around to see, before Ghostface appears, (in the actual, official debut from the Halloween 2010 flashback), and who quickly gets to work as he stabs Tommy in the neck with their knife.
• Taken aback by the attack, Tommy grabs his own neck to try and stop the bleeding before Ghostface then suffocates him and his bleeding wound with a white plastic bag, with a yellow emoji face smiling on the bag with the words on the bag reading upside down “Have a terrific day!”.
  • Tommy's death via texting and being lured by the killer, despite his attempt to leave, due to being an Uber-like driver before being killed by his Ghostface killer inside his car, would be referenced in-universe almost 5 years later by the death of Laura Crane in Scream VI, seeing how she is also lured out to an empty alleyway in NYC, difference being she's a professor waiting for her date at a bar, albeit similar in that each victim was supposed to meet someone; Laura was killed at night, whereas Tommy was killed in the day either in the morning-mid afternoon.
• Ghostface continues to choke and suffocate a bleeding and gurgling Tommy with the bag, who tries to fight back in his last moments by pushing his feet and honking his car horn and thrashing his hands and upper body to try and fight his attacker from behind him.
• Tommy fails and the white plastic bag quickly fills with his blood, due to blood loss and his feet stop trashing, as his shoes are shown also blood stained, as Ghostface still holds the bag and Tommy then tilts his head back in the blood filled bag, confirming his death and making him the first victim in the 2018 Atlanta Murders.

2:46 P.M-4:00 P.M

• At approximately this time back at Weaver, Marcus gets a text from a phone in the locker that appears saying “BANG” as Ghostface appears from behind him and shoots at him with a taser twice knocking him out. After an unspecified amount of time, the detention crew which includes Kym, Manny, Amir, Liv and Beth presumably find Marcus (unknown whether he stumbled out, but formerly implied he was found, not stated; due to the fact that Beth had kicked everyone out of the library to be with Shane, making it plausible for any of them to have found him, just unknown how much time it was before and after Marcus was found) and bring him out of the locker room and lay him out on the hallway floor.
• Amir asks if he’s dead with Manny stating that perhaps he had too many hits to the head (implying he was knocked out by his football team, seeing as he was in the locker room). Marcus then awakes, gasping as the others stand above him and who panicked, asks them if they saw what he saw, which Liv questions him what and he tells them about him being jumped and how it was “some kind of Ghostface”, referring to it by name. Beth and the rest look at him in confusion and disbelief as Beth sarcastically states how she thought she was the freak.
• Marcus tells them he’s being serious and stands up and tries to convince them and prove it by showing them the text messages on his phone which are deleted as he opens it. Marcus says how Ghostface must’ve erased the messages to make him seem crazy, referring to it as a him, which Beth then ironically states that he’s doing a “hell of a job”. Marcus then looks up to briefly smolder and stare down around at his classmates as Liv, Manny, and Kym all look at him disbelieving, as he tells them he has to go as he turns his backs and sprints and runs away across the hallway, with Kym reinforcing what Manny said about Marcus having “definitely way too many hits to the head”.
• Detention seemingly ends for the soon-to-be Deadfast Club, just after Marcus left who will all soon meet at Shane’s party in about 5 hours from now (assuming that Beth’s time frame was correct).

Evening-9:30 P.M

• Marcus is shown sitting on the empty bleachers of the Weaver High School football field, later at night and who’s spectating his team practice when he’s joined by his mother, Sherry Elliot. She walks up and sits down next to him, making a joke about Marcus’s football team and about her hurting feet from her job’s last night shift. Marcus calls for her as he asks her if the school called her about his detention, which Sherry agrees to. He greets her and asks her if she’s mad at him, which she states she’s not happy about him getting detention but that she knows he’s a good boy (referring to him incorrectly as Deion since she doesn’t know or assumes her other son, Marcus, was killed off but she’s actually talking to him and it was Deion who was killed 8 years prior to the Halloween night incident).
• Marcus then asks her why she’s here, as Sherry makes note how it’s almost Halloween (meaning the course of the first three episodes in Season 3 take place in the final week of and around October 29-31st, 2018, accordingly). Marcus then tells her how him being put in detention has nothing to do with Halloween, who tells her the reason was simply about a white boy (Avery) saying something he didn’t like and how he only lost his head for a minute.
• Sherry agrees with him but asks him if he’s sure he doesn’t want to talk about it, and how she could call “that fancy doctor in Sandy Springs”, subtly commenting on Marcus’s mental state (perhaps referring to a psychiatrist).
• Marcus reassures her and tells her how she’s not hearing him, which his mother tells him it’s no shame in and how it’s “pulled him through some rough patches before”, implying he used to go when he was younger due to what occurred back in 2010. Marcus tells her how she can tell that to San Diego State and how they have one scholarship left and that they’re only giving it to “somebody in their right mind”.
• Sherry tells him not to put so much pressure on himself and how he could chill some and how he’s having a great football season, which Marcus rebuffs and says he’ll be able to chill when he goes pro. He says how it’ll pay off and how he’ll buy her a house out West, and put her sore feet of hers into the ocean. Sherry appreciates his gesture and tells him it’s sweet but how after she finishes her night classes and her career gets back on track, how she’ll be buying her own house.
• Marcus chuckles and they share a quiet moment before Sherry asks him to promise her he’s good and that it won’t be like last time. Marcus smiles and tells her that he promises her that he’s good and he’s not seeing ghosts anymore (referring perhaps to his hallucinations induced or caused by his trauma).
• At Liv’s house, her police father, Officer Reynolds, knocks on her bedroom door. Liv greets him with Reynolds stating he’s on his way to work and tells her how she seemed “a little quiet” at dinner and asks if there’s anything he should know. Liv laughs it off and tells him that it was a long day at school, as Reynolds sarcastically reveals he knows she had detention and how detention has a way of making the school day longer.
• Liv tells him that she didn’t know he knew. Her father reassures her and tells her how he knows they’re still settling into Atlanta, how he’s at a new precinct and her at a new school. He asks her if he needs to know she’s on the right track.
• Liv apologizes and promises she’ll do better and tells him how she promises him that he can trust her. Reynolds remarks how he’s a cop, and how he doesn’t trust anyone. He smiles at her before he goes to work. Liv shuts the door looking thoughtfully as she then makes her way to her bedroom bathroom, walking through as she begins to undress seeing as her bath is running.
• She takes off her shirt and pants to reveal only her bra and underwear (homage to that of the scene from the 1998 Stab, albeit she’s still clothed). Liv is then thrown off as she hears tapping coming from her bathroom window, which is being condensed due to her hot water running.
• Liv approaches the window and wipes away at it looking intrigued, before Ghostface appears, scaring her as she screams and is pushed back against the wall. She then looks back to see Ghostface has disappeared as she pants and looks in fear out towards it.
• Sometime later, she would make her way after her bath towards Marcus’s house at his apartment complex walking, who is greeted and brought in of the front door by his older half brother and a local party promoter in Atlanta, 20-something Jamal "Jay" Elliot, who checks Liv out.
• Unfazed, Liv asks if Marcus is home, telling Jay how she tried calling him but he’s not answering her. Jamal tells her that he’s making a big mistake and leads her inside as she walks in to hear rap music playing.
• Jay introduces himself by his nickname and asks Liv if she’d like something to drink. She plays it off cool and says she wants all the drinks but how currently she needs to find Marcus and asks him if he has any idea where he is as Jay gets a drink for himself as he pops the lid off. He says that if he had taken his advice, he’s probably at the Old Metro Station “blowing off some steam” and how there’s a big party headed out there tonight (referring to Shane’s party). She asks him how he knows Marcus, with Jay stating their brothers, but actually half brothers to be specific, and Liv states that it sounds complicated, which Jay reassures her it’s simple.
• Jay then walks up to her and tells Liv to let him break down to her that despite seeming like a nice girl and all, the only thing Marcus (posing as Deion) cares about is football. Liv tells him she’s not trying to distract him. Jay tells her it’s not her fault and hits her up with a one liner saying how she is “distracting as hell”.
• Jamal faces Liv a few feet away before pulling away and asking her what she needs to talk to Marcus about. Jay guesses it’s complicated as Liv stutters but ultimately agrees. She then looks through a picture of who she guesses is “Deion” , as a child, with Jay stating that it’s not him, rather Marcus (this was before Marcus posing as Deion revealed himself in the season finale). Liv, now intrigued, asks who he is.

9:30 P.M-9:53 P.M

• Marcus is meanwhile shown bench pressing alone at his high school weight room gym after hours, with rap music playing through boombox speakers in the background. He walks to get his phone which is vibrating from 4 missed phone calls from 10 minutes ago (which means she must have called at 9:20 PM, or as earliest as 8:50 PM if each call was sent within a 10-minute interval from one another) and a text message from Liv which she sent now reads “I saw it too”, referring to the Ghostface that Marcus encountered alone. His phone then is shown receiving an incoming call from Marcus (seeing as he was posing as Deion, and perhaps Ghostface hacked his dead brother's phone number and likely cloned it to call him, since it appears as a contact already on real Marcus's phone).
• Marcus turns the volume fully low, and the music stops as Marcus angrily responds and picks up the call and asks who’s calling. Ghostface answers in his voice in the first call he has now speaking with Marcus (seeing as he previously confronted him via text) and that he thought they were blood seeing as Marcus doesn’t recognize the voice. He tells him to quit playing and how they both know he isn’t Marcus (ironic since Marcus is talking to himself in a sense), as Ghostface menacingly tells how the only thing they both know is him having no idea what’s under their mask, or who.
• Marcus tells him to quit calling him and how he doesn’t have time to play these games. Ghostface taunts him and asks if he’s not curious about who he’s going to kill or asks him if he only selfishly cares about himself, telling him how that’s his rep these days, referring to him as D-Day (nickname for Deion). Marcus, as Deion, tells Ghostface he doesn’t care what he thinks about him, as Ghostface threatens him and tells him he’s going to make him care, saying how he’s going to carve away at Deion Elliot “the man, the myth, the legend, bit by bit. Find what lies beneath”. Marcus points out the irony and angrily asks beneath what, since they're the ones in a costume.
• The killer guised as Ghostface defends himself and says they’re wearing armor and asks how it’s the only way to survive high school these days to him, menacing Marcus with his secret as Marcus looks alert as they say this. Ghostface then tells an already uneasy Marcus how they're going to find the seams, stick their knife in it and cut through his bone and meat, until it scrapes against what matters most.
• Marcus composes himself and asks him what’s that in regard to the threat, which Ghostface tells him the truth, threatening by saying “who you are, who your friends are on the inside ''. Ghostface taunts him in regard to the question by saying that the only question is who dies first, as he lists off the names of Marcus’s classmates in order from Kym, Amir, Manny, Beth, and looms on Liv’s name at the end, which Marcus tells them to stay away from her. Ghostface tells him how it’s too late and how she just got to the party and asks him if she will make it out (in reference to how Ghostface is seen to taunt victims in the franchise by talking with them on the phone and who is supposedly able to see them).
• Marcus finally agrees to play the killer's game, with Ghostface directing him to come to the Old Metro Station and how he better hurry or else there's going to be blood on both the killer's hands and his.
• The call ends, as Marcus turns his back to face the weight room mirror standing against the wall. Angry, he screams before he makes a fist and punches the middle, cracking the mirror. Then, as he turns to look at the corner of the gym door, he spots Ghostface in costume standing there, who makes a run for it as Marcus chases the fully masked in costume killer, presumably, outside in the school hallways.
• Marcus manages to catch up to the killer and tackle him from behind as Ghostface falls face front as Marcus then turns them around and unmasks them only to reveal Amir Ayoub (a red-herring, homage to Sidney Prescott finding Angelina Tyler in a bathroom stall, who dropped a Ghostface costume and mask, in Scream 3).
• Marcus screams his name in surprise, which also surprises Amir who asks him how he actually knows his name. Marcus angrily tells him to shut up and tells him if he’s the one who's been messing with him. Amir denies this, claiming he doesn’t know what he’s talking about and swears by it. Marcus then reasonably angry asks him why he’s here, which Amir states how he went to Shane’s party and how it “sounded dead” and so he came back to get his DJ equipment, how he keeps it in his locker, so his parents won’t find it. Marcus then asks him about his costume.
• This, in turn, flashes the scene forward as Marcus and Amir head over to Shane’s party at the Old Metro Station, with Marcus in his normal clothes and Amir in his, out of costume. A long line is shown as Marcus and Amir skip ahead to the front where they are greeted by Shane, who’s collecting payments and letting people in, who’s happy to see Marcus, as he states how now “it’s a party”.
• Marcus tells him it doesn’t sound like one as he looks over to the inside as Shane states it’s the point, given they don’t want the cops to shut them down, and who hands Marcus a pair of headphones. Amir then makes notice and is relieved, telling Marcus and Shane that it’s a silent disco and that’s the reason why he didn’t hear anything before. Shane looks smugly and smiles at Amir as he asks about the DJ situation, to which Shane replies they have a DJ in there already as they speak.
• Amir, seemingly upset, tells Shane that he told him he could talk to Fade about it (which is actually Shane himself, ironically), as he plays it off saying he’s around somewhere and Amir, clearly upset, calmly asking him to be specific, which Shane says he can’t and tells Amir smugly how “everybody knows that nobody knows who Fade really is”, comparing him to Banksy and Batman. Marcus looks intrigued as Shane speaks, with Amir retorting angrily that everybody knows who Batman is.
• Shane chuckles and Marcus then tries to head inside before being stopped by Shane and tells him how he’s got to put it on before heading in and that he’ll love it, as Marcus is handed a black bag which shows the Ghostface costume, both mask and robe, inside. Marcus then stares down at Shane and asks him sternly how he knows about this, to which Shane denies and asks about what, saying all he knows it’s Halloween and that “girls love theme parties” (incorrectly referring to the date, but more so referring to the week seeing as it’s approaching Halloween).
• Amir then asks Marcus if they’re going inside, with Marcus saying they’re not and that he needs to go home. Amir confusingly out loud asks him why. Marcus tells him that he’s got his reasons and orders Amir to go to his house, lock the door, and keep his head down.
• Amir refuses, comparing that to every single night of his life and asks him what he’ll do if he doesn’t, with Marcus telling him that he’ll snitch on him to his parents and tell them where he’s at. Amir, looking defeated, simply says that he’ll best be on his way then as Amir walks back away from the party line and Marcus heads inside.
• The abandoned warehouse party (which is a reference to the party held at the abandoned Lakewood orphanage in the Season 2 episode “The Orphanage”) is shown with partygoers on the stairs and on the dance floor all dressed as Ghostface, who are partying to the music playing on their headphones (thus silently not too audible, only hearing people cheer out and talk amongst themselves and the music), outside with lights flashing from the DJ Whisper booth and around.
• Marcus, donning the mask and costume (homage to when he wore it as a child), makes his way out to the crowd and takes off his mask as he looks around the party, seemingly trying to find Liv but who’s shown concerned for who the actual Ghostface is in the crowd.
• Beth meanwhile makes out with Shane in the crowd and who asks her if she’s satisfied. Beth tells him that with the party, she is, but with him not yet as they continue to make out.
• On the floor above them, Manny and Kym, also dressed as Ghostface, watch as Kym bets and tells Manny to pay up for betting on Shane and Beth, giving her $100 for it. Manny and Kym then talk with Manny asking Kym to tell him she didn’t bring him here to watch other people make out. Kym tells him that she brought him there to get in the game, and to pick any dude below on the floor below and ask them to dance with him and see where it goes from there. Manny looks down and states he hates dancing. Kym asks Manny to name one thing he doesn’t hate which Manny replies “admittedly, better than it should be”, as Kym laughs, and they talk about their living and future college talk for Midtown.
• Manny states to Kym, who told him he’s too good for his own hood, reminding her that they both used a fake address to get into Weaver, saying he’s pretty sure it was her idea. Kym defends herself stating she was thinking about their future and how it’s all about academics for them right now. Kym agrees with Manny about how the romantic stuff can wait. Manny tells her how Midtown is his future in where he can be himself, saying how he's just got to make it these five months, survive high school, and move a hundred blocks to Georgia Tech, his dream school, stating his plan as “five months and a hundred blocks” (which flash-forward would be March 2019, despite most American high school graduations taking place in May or June, more so an allocated reference to when most high school seniors receive acceptance letters from the colleges they've applied to, as well as the same time high school juniors take their ACT/SAT tests as mandated by law/state).
• Kym then asks him what his “sad sack-no dancing-self” is going to do if she doesn’t get into Tech, which Manny tells her jokingly to not even but states how he’ll burn the place down if she doesn’t (unfortunately foreshadowing his death). The duo then laughs, and later go off into the party, supposedly.
• Back down at the dance floor, Liv makes her way through the crowd also masked in the Ghostface costume, before she is then pulled back in the arm, causing her to unmask herself and be revealed to be pulled back by Avery Collins, as Liv is taken aback and angrily tells him what the hell, with Avery apologizing and saying he had to do it saying ever since she walked in how he couldn’t take his eyes off her.
• Liv angrily tells him to learn and tells him that whatever they’ve been doing, “it’s done.” Avery then asks her if she’s even going to give him a chance to explain himself, which Liv denies, saying he doesn’t need him to explain something she already understands and tells him to understand that she would never be with somebody who would say those kinds of things.
• Avery then claims he gets it as he tells her how it’s her and Deion. Liv shakes her head and tells him again he doesn’t get it, saying she’s not some trophy for him to win. She then turns around to walk away with Avery calling her back for her to wait, grabbing her arm, as Liv turns around and madly slaps him across the face on his cheek.
• Liv angrily tells him to not call her babe or touch her ever again. Avery then subtly states that he thought she was different but that she’s just like the rest of them. Liv looks at him in disbelief and tells him to drop dead, as she walks away, foreshadowing his upcoming death, as Avery also walks away.
• Marcus, walking around the party floor in costume, mask and all, gets a call from Ghostface. He unmasks himself and answers the phone standing in the middle of the floor. He tells the killer he’s there, with Ghostface pointing out he looks scared (in an homage to how Ghostface has told his targets and victims in the films they look scared while on the phone, seemingly watching them).
• Marcus angrily tells him how they’re the ones who are scared to show their face, with the killer stating they’re right beside him, telling them they brought a real knife with them this time, before swiftly and quickly slicing Marcus on the arm. The killer tells them he wants him to play a new game this time by confessing his deepest, darkest secret to his “friends”, which Marcus states he barely knows any of them, which Ghostface agrees is good, saying how that’ll make bearing his soul to them all the more humiliating.
• Marcus meanwhile pans out the floor and looks around through the crowd of others in the Ghostface to find the killer, showing them, all dancing and with headphones on. Marcus tells them that he had his reasons for doing what he did, which Ghostface says to let them be the judge of that saying, “when they see who you really are, on the inside”. Ghostface tell Marcus if he doesn’t, that he’ll be seeing the insides of someone else, or maybe his own, threatening him with that as the call ends.
• Marcus then stumbles into Liv, unmasked as he turns around, who tells him he’s bleeding.
• Marcus says he knows, and Liv tells him how it’s not and that they need to talk. Marcus also says he knows that, too, and grabs Liv and motions for her to follow him as Marcus takes the DJ booth and asks the DJ if they can hear them through the headphones, as Marcus interrupts the party and music to broadcast his message, as the masked partygoers boo him and grunt. He says he needs to talk to Breakfast Club and if they know what that means to get themselves on the abandoned city bus outside of the station.
• Marcus gathers Liv, Kym, Manny, and Beth (except Amir) telling them they have to leave and that they’re all in danger. Kym retorts to him saying he’s crazy as to why they're all supposed to be leaving the best party of the year. Marcus tells her that he’s being serious and looks around and says how somebody is threatening to kill one of them. Beth guesses Ghostface, as Marcus stays silent in agreement, with Liv looking at him. Manny points out that it doesn’t make any sense, with Marcus agreeing.
• Manny tells him he doesn’t think he does, stating the fact that not that many people at school even know who the rest of them are, and asks logically why anyone would want to kill them.
• Liv then tells Deion that it’s about Marcus, as “Deion turns around and looks at her with him asking her how she knows about him, with Kym pointing out she was just about to ask her the same thing. Everyone falls silent before Marcus, posing as Deion, tells them about his twin brother (he doesn’t mention the swapping costumes and how he is actually Marcus and the one who died was Deion, not him, back in Halloween 2010).
• Marcus (as Deion) tells them the story of them going out trick or treating on Halloween when they were kids and through a flashbacks it shows “Marcus” stabbed through the forehead by Hook Man’s hook as “Deion” stands mere feet away, in shock, as the other attacked twin is unmasked now and calls desperately for his brother to help him, as blood pours down from his head wound, before it’s shown that “Deion” ran away and jumped the fence away from the abandoned junkyard of Hook Man, as a shot shows the Ghostface mask laying on the ground, with the hole wound on the left side of the forehead.
• Marcus tells them he left his twin brother to die, as Liv, Beth, Manny, and Kym look at him sympathetically. He then tells them how he got ahold as soon as he left of the cops and his mom and says he didn’t run fast enough because by the time they got back, “Marcus” was dead, who then tells them how now somebody is wearing this costume, pointing out how they all are, but how somebody is actually using it to kill them all and threatening them with it.
• Marcus points out how it could be a sick prank or a joke or whatever, but how he doesn’t want to take the chance of somebody else getting hurt because of him. He then pleads and asks them again to leave.
• Beth says okay nonchalantly, and is the first to walk out, followed soon by Kym and Manny, as it leaves Marcus and Liv alone. He points out to her how he’s not that person anymore and how he made a bad decision and how it’s going to haunt him for the rest of life. He is interrupted as Liv reassures him and says she understands and knows the feeling before being the last one and leaving, as Marcus is left alone.
• Beth, back in her normal clothes, throws away the Ghostface mask in a trash can as she makes her way through the floor crowd of the party and receives a call from Avery, which sounds like it’s breaking off, as Avery is shown to be on the top floor, alone, watching her. He asks her where she’s going with Beth uninterested in listening to him, as Avery states he likes her piercings and that he has something else he can stick in her face.
• Beth asks him it depends and uninterested, entertains him shortly as she asks who's doing the sticking, with Avery in role play, asking her who she wants him to be. Beth states his name, mentioning him hooking up with her at the blackout legged freshman year and who didn’t call her again, who she says his number she still had on her phone for some reason.
• Avery looks down, eyeing Beth before he is then suddenly attacked by Ghostface, who grabs him as Beth hears his struggle through the phone and confrontation, whose phone drops below right to Beth’s feet which she picks up. Right before Avery then falls screaming before he is then impaled on a spike in the middle of the dance floor, impaling him through his chest and upper body torso.
• Beth is then splattered with his blood on impact in her face and who is taken aback, as well as the other partygoers who begin to unmask themselves as they look towards Avery, who is struggling to get out of his impalement.
• Beth then makes her way forward as Avery is still in his Ghostface costume, mask and all, before she unmasks him as he looks at her, his head tilting up and croaking once she does.
• After unmasking Avery and witnessing his death, the crowd screams and begins running away before Avery’s head and body movement falls down, now completely dead as the party is also dead down as everyone screams and begins to leave, running for the exits.
  • Continuity Error: In “Ports in the Storm”, as Amir hid from Ghostface at Beth’s house morgue, Avery’s unseen cadaver was seen with a tag on his toe which read his personal information including his date of death being on Saturday, October 27th, rather than on Monday, October 29th. This is an error presented within the timeline seeing as how the events of the first three episodes all accordingly, take place during the week of October 29-31, as well as the final 3 episodes, are still on the same week as November 1-3. This is a production error as it would contradict the timeframes of the episodes themselves.
• After everyone gets out, Beth stands and steps back and watches Avery’s body. She is joined by the other members from the detention, unmasked and in their normal clothes, with Amir speaking up asking if he’s dead, for real this time.
• They all stare in horror and shock, with Beth claiming she doesn’t know and stating it’s so different from the movies. Manny gets disgusted and says he’s going to be sick with Kym motioning for him to puke somewhere away from the body.
• Marcus then looks suspiciously over at Amir and says he thought he told Amir to home, which he states he slipped in the back, saying he didn’t want to miss the party, not the murder that just occurred. Shane, who is among them, asks him who cares and tells them they’ve all got to bounce and that the cops will be there any minute.
• Liv states that her dad is a cop and tells them she doesn’t want to be there when he shows up. The seven of them then hear the police sirens approaching, with Kym sighing and saying how the cops are only around when you don’t want them to be.
• Shane tells them all on their own as he leaves. Marcus agrees and says they all have to go and find somewhere and figure this out. Liv asks where, with Beth stating she knows a place as the five others turn to look at her.
• The six of them then all leave and are shown to have gathered at Beth’s workplace at a tattoo parlor somewhere in Atlanta, not too far but far away from the crime scene. Kym begins to pace stating how if somebody has it out for “Deion”, and asks what it has to do with the rest of them, and also snarky, asks why they’re at Beth’s “janky tattoo shop”. Beth answers the question directed at her but looks at Marcus and says she can’t answer the other one. Everyone then begins to look at Marcus, as he then also retorts saying he doesn’t know how they all got caught up.
• Manny states that perhaps Marcus was right and that this is just a prank. Amir calls him out, saying that someone (Avery) died, with Manny saying it was one that went too far and how perhaps it’ll all just stop. Then, as if on cue, they all get a text message from each of their phones from Ghostface from an unknown number that reads “Show me your insides… Or you’re next!”, alongside a photo of the impaled Avery (in an homage to the text GIF students at George Washington High School got of Nina’s death in the “Pilot” episode of Season 1).
• Amir reads aloud the first text and asks, raising his voice, what it means. Beth states that they're in a horror movie, with Kym referencing Beth as Edward Scissorhands, saying that that’s her life, not theirs. Beth states how that’s not even a horror movie in regards to the character she was referred to as, and states how it’s now her life, too, and all of theirs. Beth looks at them all who all look at her, as she asks, upset, if they don’t get that they’re all being hunted by a killer.
• Beth states how killers have codes and horror has rules. Marcus then asks how he didn’t know horror had a playbook, to which Beth says it does and that it plays by it. She tells them that she has bad news and how they’re not the type of characters to make it to the end, as a meta reference. Liv then asks Beth what she’s talking about, with Beth telling her to relax “Princess”, and how she has “Final Girl” potential, while she states how the rest of them by their cliques: goth, geek, and gay, don’t have a chance and are the first bodies to drop.
• Marcus then asks about himself and Kym, as Kym looks back at Marcus. Beth then tells them to not take this the wrong way, but that their Black (which Kym looks at her in disbelief and says smugly “Girl.”) and how in horror that’s pretty much “an insta-kill”, referring to the stereotype of Black characters depicted in horror films being the first to be killed off or die. Kym looks smugly at her, as Amir debates this saying how Avery was white and one of the whitest people he’d ever seen and how he “practically glowed in the dark”, and asks her why he died.
• Beth is silent before Marcus answers and tells them because he wasn’t who he said he was, on the inside. Amir looks up at him, along with the rest of the crew. Liv agrees with him, saying how Avery pretended to be a nice guy, but how deep down he was a total racist.
• Kym then asks Beth if that goes accordingly to her “freaky rules”, smugly, with Beth stating she hopes not as she indicts them their group name from detention saying in that case they’re not the Breakfast Club, they’re the Deadfast Club, and how she’s pretty sure they’re all going to die.

9:53 P.M-Nighttime

• (“Devil’s Night”): Kym is shown to have made her way home after meeting with the Deadfast Club and their first informal meeting at Beth’s tattoo parlor and who’s seen renting out horror movies at a Redbox somewhere near her neighborhood as she makes her way to the apartment complex where she lives. She talks for a moment with one of the residents, a young dealer named Latavious, who hits on her smoothly and asks for some company in front of other men outside.
• Kym brushes him off and goes inside her apartment and locks the door as she calls out for her mom, who’s currently at the homeless shelter and leaves a note that states where she’s at and for her to do her homework. Kym is then shown watching the 2007 Halloween remake of the original 1978 John Carpenter film which starred Jamie Lee Curtis (as mentioned in the original Scream film and its film franchise). Kym then talks to herself and points out for the female character to get out of the house as the killer is in there.
• Kym sighs and gets a text from Manny at about 9:53 PM (meaning it was only 23 minutes on what happened before the previous episode, seeing as it’s still the same day). He texts that he’s on his way and bringing popcorn, with Kym texting him that she’s not watching these horror movies for fun but for research. Kym then looks up as Michael Meyers attacks on the screen as she predicted before she is then again interrupted this time by a phone call from Ghostface, shown as “No Caller ID”.
• Kym answers it blatantly and asks whose calling, as Ghostface asks her the traditional question of “do you like scary movies?”, with Kym stating she doesn’t because everyone in them is “stupid as hell”. Ghostface then asks her if she likes to play games, which Kym shrugs off as a telemarketer calling, and says unless they tell her who they are, she’s hanging up.
• Ghostface then tells her they want to know who she is, on the inside and says her name. She calls him by his code name, and Ghostface points out how she’s good at games and who says it’s too bad they’re not playing “20 Questions”. (this is an homage to how Ghostface has called his victims or targets in the openings of the Scream films and the franchise).
• Kym tells the killer they’re not playing “period”, as Kym then stands up and alertly as she makes her way to the kitchen and opens a counter to get out a kitchen knife. Ghostface states that the game started the second Avery’s body hit the ground, and who asks Kym, who arms herself while on the phone, that the only question is which one of them “hypocrites' ' dies next.
• Kym finds the knife by her kitchen sink, and she tells him angrily how they get off on scaring people, and bravely tells them she’s not scared.
• The killer taunts her and says they’ll see, saying they're not there to scare her but to kill her. Kym tells them to go ahead and show, and that there’s people where she lives “badder than you”, while the killer comments that she looks alone in her pink, fuzzy slippers (implying they see her).
• Kym, now fully alert, then walks outside and says aloud while still on the phone that she’ll introduce them to her people, with the killer commenting on the drug dealers who exploit the community they live in saying they’re the biggest hypocrites of all.
• Kym says how they may agree on that but how at least they’re strapped. She then runs over to where Latavious was on the couch, who is crouched and who Kym believed was sleeping and calls his name and touches him before it’s revealed that he’s dead and his throat slashed.
• Kym screams in shock, and who turns around and manages to duck Ghostface and their knife slinging towards her, grunting as she runs back to her apartment and screams for the residents to call 911 and states “White Officer down”, in code for someone who’s just been killed.
• Ghostface escapes as lights begin to turn on in the apartments nearby, before she’s then grabbed and startled by Manny who arrives and asks what happened and if she’s okay. Kym states “Hell, no” who is relieved as she hugs Manny and who reassures her it will be alright, as it pans out to show Latavious’s head looking up and his throat slashed.
  • Kym being attacked outside her home, after leaving a party which claimed a victim and meeting up with her group from detention, who after had went to a nearby convenience store to rent movies from a Redbox, prior to her close attack by Ghostface, who had called her and lured her outside, is a reverse to Sam and Tara almost being attacked in Scream VI as they headed out also after leaving a party and who would be made aware of the deaths of Jason and Greg on the news (like the Deadfast Club watching Avery's body at the party) and meeting with their friends, and who were called by Ghostface as well and how they were chased to a bodega, unlike Kym, although similar.
  • Seeing how Kym was at home and wasn't heading out, where as the Carpenter sisters were doing the opposite, and similar in how each Ghostface appeared from the back to attack. Unlike Wayne as Ghostface giving chase and hunt to Sam and Tara in New York City, due to the size of the city and noise, not alerting any indifferent resident, who each ran to hide in a bodega, Beth as Ghostface couldn't due to Kym alerting her neighborhood which was away from her city of Atlanta.
• The Atlanta P.D arrive to the scene as well as the city coroner who takes Latavious away. Kym is interrogated by a police officer as she tells them the description of the killer wearing a mask and Halloween costume. Kym then asks if the cop is getting this, to which the officer replies blatantly that he is, despite not writing anything down in his notepad which Kym notices and points out to him, asking him why he’s not writing anything she’s saying down.
• The officer closes his pad and tells Kym they appreciate her cooperation and that they’ll handle it from there.
• Kym retorts that they’re not handling nothing, as she approaches the officer who tells her to step back and that it’s an active crime scene, which Kym sarcastically replies to not tell her since she lives there.
• Kym walks away, upset, joining Manny as well as Jamal who approaches the both of them. He asks Kym what’s going on which she refers to as “just another Tuesday at College Park” (it would be implied that this happened on October 30th, which would be Tuesday, but seeing as how it happened at around 9:53 to 10:00 P.M on October 29th, it’s perhaps meant to be taken as a note, perhaps that the police are barely cleaning up the crime scene and how it’s almost close to midnight and thus, the next day, more so).
• They all watch as Latavious’s body is dragged out by the coroner in a black body bag, which Jamal asks who it is with Kym informing him it was Latavious. He then asks them if he knows who killed him, to which Manny tells him that the cops won’t hear their theories.
• Kym states that they had it figured out as some sort of “gangland thing” and Jamal chuckles saying how she’s always talking down on the hood. Kym points out to Jay how he’s only been here a few years (unstated), and how he’s still fresh off the pack as far as her neighborhood is concerned.
• Jay tells her how it’s his home now, too, and how he’s going to make his mark. Manny asks him what that’s supposed to mean, with Jay preferring not to get into it right now, as Kym looks at him intrigued. Jamal leaves, and Kym and Manny look at one another.
  • 29th October- 3rd November 2018: The events of Scream: Ressurection, aka Season 3 (2019). An anniversary and the first of a kind vengeful spree, is set in Atlanta to avenge the death of Deion Elliot in Halloween week 8 years prior.
  • While unrelated, takes place three years following the 2015 showdown of the Second Lakewood Murders, and its events; as well as the 2016 Shallow Grove Island Murders in the Halloween specials in Season 2.
    • The 2018 spree also started 2 years to the date of the town Lakewood finally being aware and emerged to the murders following a hiatus (3 months) when Jake Fitzgerald's dead body (died 4 days prior on January 25th, 2016) dropped from a pageant banner at a school assembly at the auditorium George Washington High School (despite 2 murders occurring prior in 2016) almost 10 months and 2 years to the date in "Happy Birthday to Me" (Friday, January 29th, 2016).
    • The start date of the 2018 murders is succeeded in-universe 5 years later by the New York Murders in Scream VI, which also sees the 1st day having 3 victims, albeit reversed on times it happened (seeing as all NYC victims were killed at night, whereas 1 victim is killed in the day, and the other 2 at night in Atlanta). Also, both have 2 on-screen victims (Tommy and Avery, Laura and Jason) and 1 off-screen killed (Latavious and Greg). However, the sixth film has another 3 additional victims on the first night of its murder spree during the Bodega Murders, triple that of the third season, which features three victims, and the sixth film with six, on the first day and same date, 5 years apart (Monday, October 29th, 2018; Sunday, October 29th, 2023)
      • Similar in that a Halloween-themed party is attended in both spree's first days by survivors, albeit no attacks by Ghostface on the main characters occur at the party in the sixth film, and how there's music playing in the sixth film's party, whereas the third season opted for a silent disco, thus the partygoers' wearing headphones. Like the third season's party having partygoers wear the Ghostface mask and robe, partygoers in the sixth film's party are seen wearing Father Death costumes.

October 30th (Devil’s Night)

Morning-Evening

• The next morning at school, the Deadfast Club (except for Liv) meet up in an empty hallway near a window outside where an impromptu memorial service is shown to have been held for Avery, with flowers and other gifts laid next to his picture which states his memorial will be held today at the gym. Beth states how they have to get back at the issue, disregarding the departed (due to being a sociopath).
• Beth states how Kym almost got killed last night. Marcus, wearing his letterman jacket of Weaver, states how they know the killers after them but asks why he would kill Latavious.
• Kym tells them that the killer was trying to kill her, referring to it as a he, and points out that Ghostface said something about LT (Latavious's initials) being a hypocrite, which was true but despite this is in disbelief and sighs as she states he was fine and how she didn’t mind him hollering at her. Beth then states what she had said the night before about killers having codes.
• Manny states whether code or not, he should’ve gone sooner, which Kym retorts and tells him to do what but have an asthma attack and who apologizes to Manny and states that she loves him, but that conflict isn’t his strong suit. Marcus points out that perhaps Beth’s right, saying how if the killer went after Beth, then he’s keeping good on his word.
• Amir suggests they better call the cops, which Beth disagrees saying how in horror movies, they’re totally useless and how they don’t believe the victims until it’s too late. Kym states that it works that way in real life as well and tells them how by the time the police got to her apartment complex last night, they had their story about how apparently “dope dealers like masks just as much as psychopaths do”.
• Marcus then asks Beth if they’re trapped in a horror movie, with Beth looking over at him along with a startled Kym, asking how they'd survive.
• Kym states by not listening to Beth and who tells them that she researched and that the type of horror movies Beth’s talking about are about “white people in white people places making dumb white people mistakes”. Beth defensively agrees as to “that’s exactly what horror is” and the two ladies face each other. Marcus then makes his way through the middle and goes to break them apart.
• Kym points out that there are Black people in horror movies as well, with Beth asking her to name one besides Get Out, which Kym proclaims loudly that she doesn’t have to “because we’re making our own rules, just like Jordan Peele”. Amir tells them not to spoil it because he hasn’t seen it with Kym blatantly telling him how it’s not a spoiler when it’s in the title, mentioning how the character of that movie, Chris, gets out.
• Kym points out that the character survived by going straight for the killers and she suggests they do the same.
• The group falls silent as Beth agrees with Kym, as Kym snaps her fingers righteously and Manny smiles.
• Beth tells them to think about it, mentioning how in most horror movies nobody goes after the killer until almost everybody’s dead. She states how if they were to do that now, they flip the script and how Ghostface won’t see it coming. Marcus points out to Beth that she’s forgetting they have no idea who Ghostface actually is (ironically, is talking to her just 4 days before her reveal).
  • This would be the first unofficial reference to the director who in the film franchise would be mentioned almost three to four years later in Scream (2022).
• The school bell rings and Manny states that they have five minutes till Homeroom and how he doesn’t plan on getting detention again and asks what they’re doing or going to do. Marcus tells them all that they're just going to hold tight and says to do so at least until they figure out who's doing this to them. Amir then asks when they’re going to do that with Marcus replying after school, saying they’ll meet up and talk suspects but until then, asks for nobody to stick their necks out.
• They all agree, and Beth asks whether they need to flip a coin and see who’s going to call Liv and let her know, with her sarcastically saying “as long as both sides say not me”. Marcus then asks where Liv actually is today.
• Liv is shown to be at her house, due to her dad Officer Reynolds demanding it, with Liv arguing she can’t be locked like she’s some kind of convict. Her dad states how perhaps if she was maybe she’d listen to him for a change and apologizes to her, claiming he didn’t mean that. He then states how it’s only been two days since “that boy” she was hanging out with died, stating how she’s still in shock (two days ago would mean that Liv and Avery officially met on October 28th, which would have fallen on a Sunday. However, her dad perhaps only referenced this through his memory and thus could be a mistake).
• Liv states that she should be at school with her friends, not alone with her own thoughts. Her father asks her if she’d like to share any of her thoughts with him. Liv, who had been at the party the night of Avery’s death, declines to comment and asks if her dads going to tell her when she can go back to school.
• Reynolds tells her that tomorrow, after Devil’s Night. She sighs and states how it’s just harmless pranks, like egging houses or shaving cream on sidewalks. Her father points out that perhaps where they were from but saying how they’re not there anymore, now that they’re in Atlanta.
• Officer Reynolds puts on his police utility belt and tells Liv how a drug dealer got stabbed to death in College Park last night (mentioning Latavious and incorrectly, seeing as his throat was slashed, and he was not stabbed). He tells her how he doesn’t want Liv in that kind of chaos, and Liv tells him how she won’t get into any trouble.
• Her dad (Reynolds) scoffs. Liv, knowing about Avery, asks her father intrigued, if they know anything about Avery or how he died with her dad telling her that his blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit and how he got drunk and fell and that that’s the end of the story. He tells her it was an accident and not a mystery for her to solve, although Liv knows otherwise.
• Liv agrees as her dad makes her way out as she watches him from the hallway as he stands in the corridor and looks at her before making his way outside and to work. Live then returns to the kitchen and logs in to her father’s police laptop and into the database for the College Park Police (established in 1860) and who looks through the background check database and looks up information on Deion Elliot as she sees his police file and newspapers article surrounding him. Liv then researches this throughout most of the day.
• Marcus and Kym are shown to be in the hallway conversing before they’re interrupted by the football coach, Coach Griffin, who asks to speak to him for a minute. Kym tells Marcus that they need to get to the assembly and Marcus tells her he’ll catch up with her. Kym greets the coach and goes off to the assembly in the school gymnasium.
• The coach informs him how due to Avery’s death, that Marcus is going to have to switch his position on the field with him, which is center. Marcus asks why him, seeing as he’s the running back and tells the coach he’s never taken a snap in his life with the coach telling him it doesn’t matter because he’s the best player he’s ever had and how he needs the ball in his hands as much as possible.
• Marcus hesitates, saying he has to learn a whole new position in a week. The coach understands his struggles riding on this game, but he defends and says that Marcus needs to trust that he’s doing the right thing. Marcus says he does trust him, and the coach tells him to go on, saying he got him cleared from last period to get a jump on things before practice.
• This surprises Marcus who tells him he can’t and says he’s got people waiting on him. The coach reminds him of the SDSU scout sitting at the stands of the game and gives him a proposal asking which one is more important. Marcus tells him how it’s not that easy. The coach agrees, saying it’s hard just like all the hard work he’s put in to earn his opportunity, saying he doesn’t want to see him screw this up. Marcus hesitantly follows the coach who tells him he’s got plays to learn.
• Meanwhile, at the gymnasium, a memorial is held for Avery Collins, as a slide show is shown of him in memoriam as Mr. Fitch thanks the AV club for their emotional presentation. As Mr. Fitch gives a speech in regard to Avery, Amir wipes tears not due to Avery but to the song which was playing which Beth asks him about.
• Mr. Fitch then hands the time over to Officer Reynolds, who speaks to the students, and gives them a cautionary tale of Avery Collins. Kym then joins Beth, Manny and Amir in the school bleachers, as she rebuffs what Reynolds is saying about Avery having died saying the killer who killed him wants to kill them next, speaking quietly.
• Reynolds asks the students about finding out who organized the event, who uses the alias name “Mr. Fade”. Beth sighs and says the police don’t know anything. However, Kym realizes that that was the moniker for the party Shane had invited them the night prior, who she tells as Manny, Beth, and Amir look at her intrigued.
• Kym explains soon after as the assembly ends in the hallway outside, as students are seen making their way by and out. She asks them who was the one in detention that gave them the invitation, and the freaky costumes, and at the door collecting at the door, as she states that Shane is the killer, which Amir points out that Shane is Fade, and Kym points out that his moniker is Ghostface.
• Manny then asks why Shane would kill Avery, with Beth stating how Avery used to buy from Shane all the time and how maybe it was due to a deal that went bad (covertly covering due to her being a killer).
• Manny then asks about the costumes asking how Shane knew what they meant to Deion, with Amir stating perhaps a bad coincidence. Manny states that’s a lot of “maybes” with Kym saying how they’ll probably want to think about this until Ghostface shows up at their houses and tries to turn them inside out.
• Kym says how she believes Shane is Ghostface and how they need do something about it before he does any of them. Kym asks for a vote, which Amir asks if they’re not going to wait “Deion”, which Kym states they need to act now with or without him. Kym then states Manny will vote for her plan, and that it only leaves Beth and Amir. Beth votes in and Amir asks exactly what her plan is, which she says is to trap him so they can interrogate him.
• Amir doubts this, seeing as how Shane is “a total badass” with Beth saying she may know a way but all they have to do is trust her.
• At an empty pharmacy, Ghostface, shown holding a gun to a pharmacist, places a list with drugs he needs as the pharmacist obeying, gets for him. He holds him at gunpoint and motions for him to also give the cash out of the register into the bag where the drugs are.
• Ghostface is seen checking the contents of the bag and just before the pharmacist can press the emergency button, he knocks him with the butt of the gun on his head and makes his way out with the bag.
• It’s revealed to be Shane, who only used the guise to rob the drugs and texts Beth that he’s got it (this is revealed to be her luring him into the trap).

Evening-Nighttime

• Marcus is shown later practicing outside at night at the football field at Weaver High, with his helmet and gear and everything, who is giving directions to his football team to “scat right, dive on three” seeing as how Marcus is now the new quarterback filling in for Avery after his death, as the running back position has now fallen onto Hawkins to take, supposedly.
• Marcus tells Hawkins that means he goes right, with Hawkins telling him how he’s been “riding the pine for four years”, for Marcus calling him “cuz/cuh” (informal, short for cousin; slang for friend), and to not give him no lip, much to Marcus’s confusion as to why Hawkins spoke like that. He counts to three and looks up to his teammates as he calls break and they all repeat him, signaling for them to start practice as the practice plays out over a hip hop song playing.
• Marcus yells “Black 40” and hut as the players practice, the others tackling the offensive team, as Coach Griffin spectates and yells out for Marcus to hold on to the ball and tells them to go again. Marcus yells hut as his team (shown in white, the other team in black) continues practicing, as Marcus stumbles when his coach calls him out by using his last name. Marcus is then seen tackled (he’s wearing orange to signify him as the QB).
• The whistle blows as Coach Griffin calls off the practice as he yells and tells all the players to hit the showers because “they stink”, referring to their practice. Griffin then walks up to a helmeted Marcus and mutters to him, saying this was “a terrible idea” as the Coach walks past all the players sternly. Marcus then begins to take his helmet, seemingly upset.
• At Amir’s family donut shop somewhere in Atlanta where he works at, he and Beth are shown taking out $1,000 in cash from Amir’s family safe. Amir is hesitant to take it out as Beth insists for him to. He states how he’s never stolen from his parents before, as Beth tries to convince him it’s not stealing rather “borrowing” and how the money’s just bait, referring to them luring and setting up the trap for Shane.
• Amir tells her how a thousand bucks is a lot of cash and asks her if they could take less. Beth denies this saying how less won’t work and how they need Shane to believe this is a legit deal in order for the trap to work.
• Amir reluctantly agrees but asks Beth that when it’s done that all the money goes back, to which Beth agrees and states “every last dollar”. Amir sighs as the two gaze at one another’s eyes and Amir kneels to get the money out as Beth then grabs a shotgun, hidden underneath the counter by the front of the register and who, playing with it, points it at Amir as he stands up and turns around to look at her. She plays and says shortly “Bang, you’re dead”, with Amir asking if she’s crazy and who is upset tells her to put it back as he pushes the hole of the gun away from him.
• Beth defends herself saying they’re about to confront a psycho killer and says that they need it. Amir puts his foot down and states that the gun will stay, and they’ll only take the money. He states how their parents need that to protect themselves and the shop and tells Beth to put it back. Beth rolls her eyes and puts the shotgun back where she found it underneath the front counter by the register.
  • This reference of Beth as a subliminal Ghostface holding a shotgun at night at Amir's donut shop and jokingly pointing the gun at him and saying "Bang, you're dead", would actually be used applied in the franchise almost 4 years later (in-universe 5) and implemented with the Bodega Attack scene also at night in Scream VI, carried out by Wayne Bailey as Ghostface, claiming one victim, the Bodega Clerk, with his own shotgun to defend his store, much like Amir's explaining to Beth why it's at his family's donut shop.
• Beth then tries to flirt with Amir, as she looks at him by using a Star Wars reference, and states how “even Luke Skywalker dipped his toe into the dark side once”. Amir is surprised and asks Beth if she also likes Star Wars too.
• Beth then drops her gaze from him as Amir imitates Darth Vader and tells Beth how “The Force is strong with this one” (also foreshadowing Beth’s role). Beth then tells him plainly “way to ruin the moment, nerd”, as she walks off upset, much to Amir’s confusion.
  • This is a reference more so, to the original ending for Luke in Return of The Jedi; the first Star Wars reference explicitly mentioned in the franchise, however, was in Scream 2, which was about sequels and Mickey tells Randy how Empire Strikes Back was the better one, with Randy pointing out that it was not sequel rather a part of a trilogy; ironically, in Scream 3, the real life actress of Princess Leia from Star Wars, plays the role of Bianca Burnette who mentions her resemblance when asked by Gale and Jennifer, in a meta reference)
• After hours in their high school chemistry lab, Manny and Kym are shown alone talking with Kym stating how it’d probably be a lot easier if they “hit him over the head with a bat” if he were to ask her (referring to Shane). It shows them working on making knockout gas for the trap, which Kym doubts and asks what would happen if it weren’t to work or “go sideways” and how one of them were to wind up dead.
• Manny tells her to trust him, seeing as he is an honors chemistry student, and reassures Kym they’re going to be fine. He says that as long as he can find the right delivery system, referring to his makeshift project and asks if he can find it somewhere.
• Kym sighs and agrees, saying she trusts him, who asks him hypothetically speaking, asks what his dream funeral is. Manny asks her who even thinks about that, uninterested, to which Kym answers herself as an example. Manny smiles warily and looks oddly as Kym states how for her dream funeral, she wants the Boys Choir of Harlem to sing “The End of the Road” by Boyz II Men (which is a song from the soundtrack of the 1992 film Boomerang).
• Kym then jokes about unless they get the real Boyz II Men to sing the song instead of the choir and goes off to state how she wants future president Michelle Obama to deliver her eulogy, as Manny stops working to listen to her. Kym also states how for the finale she wants the entire Black Student Union to read “I Leave You Love”, the final testament by American civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune.
• Kym states how except for one student from the BSU, Latrice, saying they’ll bum everyone out. Manny chuckles as Kym tells him it's his turn. Manny then states seriously as he looks at her that he’s not playing this game and how one of them is the next target on Ghostface’s hit list. He then asks her pleadingly to just help him find the fog machine. Kym sighs as she retrieves it and places it on top of the counter and states how she had found it ten minutes ago and says how she wasn’t expecting for their conversation to get so deep. Manny says OK as the two continue to get back to work on the project, supposedly finishing setting it up.
• Marcus is shown to be leaving practice as he exits from the gate of the football field underneath the bleachers. He bids his team farewell as he dons his Weaver letterman jacket and who makes his way to the parking lot of the football field, where Jay is propped by his red car in a red hoodie outside by the car door, with some of his friends in the inside of the car, both in the back and one in the passenger. Jay asks what’s good as Marcus walks up to him and they shake on it. Jay asks him if he remembers his homies, to which Marcus agrees and says he’s seen them a few times and asks why they’re all there. Jay answers that it’s to give him a ride and states how Marcus knows it’s Devil’s Night and that it’s gonna get crazy. He then says how people are already getting “cut up, left and right” (which is a red herring, and foreshadowing to Jay’s identity).
• Marcus thinks of this as just Jay saying about LT’s death, which he tells Jay he heard about him. Jay agrees and tells him to hop in and for them to go, which Marcus declines politely, saying how’s he got to learn to play QB by tomorrow and how he "ain’t got time to be getting a contact high with him and the “Migos”, referring to Jay’s crew (the next day being October 31st, seeing as it’s still Tuesday). One of Jay’s homies in the back calls out for him, pointing his head out the window, to roll, which Jay declines as he tells them to take the whip and tosses his keys to his homie in the back and who tells them him and his little bro “got some work to do”.
• Jay’s friends oblige as they start his car and drive off as Marcus looks smug at them, as Jay pats Marcus on his shoulder and they turn around to go back into the field. It shows only him and Jay alone outside on the football field practicing as Jay fills in for Marcus, positioning himself as on his team, as Marcus yells “Black 40, hut”.
• Jay catches Marcus’s ball throw, which he points out to him and says how there’s nothing wrong with his hands, and how the problem’s all in his head. Jay states how it’s probably because it’s Halloween tomorrow night, as Marcus looks smugly at his half-brother, who is referring to the incident that happened in Marcus’s childhood almost 8 years prior. Jay tells him how it’s a rough day for the family, as Marcus sighs and states how they’ll get through it, “just like we always do”.
• Marcus throws the ball to Jay, who’s staring down his brother smugly, and who asks him if he’s including him in the family, as Marcus had said “we”, as he throws the ball to Marcus, who catches it with ease. Marcus notices his undertone and tells Jay he doesn’t know and for him to tell him as they play a game of catch with the football.
• While playing, Jay states how they both lost a lot that night, giving exposition as Marcus, posing as “Deion” walks up to Jay and faces him face to face, standing over him (seeing as he’s taller than Jay) and who blatantly states how “Marcus” (actually Deion) was his brother and more than that, he was his twin. Jay rebuffs and says he’s not trying to replace nobody, as the half-brothers both standoff, as Jay states that he’s only trying to figure out what they are “to each other”.
• Marcus looks smug as Jay states how they share the same father, who tells him, “It ain’t like he's ever around.” Marcus, seemingly upset at Jay’s subliminal snark towards both his and Jay’s father, tells him to lay off Earl. Marcus points out how their father drives as a trucker to take care of them and defends him saying how it’s not his fault he’s always on the road, referring to his absence (this is in reference, loosely similar to Emma’s father Kevin Duval from Season 2, as well as Neil Prescott’s absence in the first Scream).
• Jay scoffs, as he sneakily states how he does a lot on that road, too, referring to himself as the by-product of Earl and another woman from “being on the road”, seeing as how he is the half-brother of Marcus and the late Deion (thus, a hint and subliminal reference and foreshadowing, to both Roman Bridger from Scream 3 and Piper Shaw from Season 1, given each of their identities and relation to each one of the individual main protagonists’ in their stories of the franchise, respectively).
• Marcus says calmly to Jay how he knows they ain’t never been tight, and how that’s something that they need to work on, but states how now isn’t the time. Jay sarcastically states it’s because Marcus has tunnel vision and who has his eyes on the prize as both half siblings stare each other off.
• Marcus then breaks his gaze from Jay to find Liv standing behind the gate in the empty bleachers, thus breaking their tension, as Liv is seen looking at Marcus and who looks down when Marcus takes notice of her. Jay also turns around to notice what broke Marcus’s gaze from him and tells him that that’s not the price he’s talking about. Marcus walks away from Jay, ending their conversation, as he goes slightly jogging towards Liv as Jay turns around and sees him go off, slightly taken back.
• Marcus then approaches Liv, who asks her where she was at today. Liv then tells him blatantly to not “hey her'' as she speaks seriously and tells “Deion” that he lied, claiming how he was the one who had told “us” (referring to the Deadfast Club) that “Marcus” was dead. Deion states confusingly and agrees that he is, which Liv denies and who tells “Deion” that her brother is alive and how she can prove it. This leads Marcus (posing as Deion) to look at her in stern confusion.
• Liv and Marcus are then shown at a diner, where he still poses as “Deion”, as Liv asks him what he thinks of it all, as she shows him evidence from police files, of which she presumably printed out from her dad’s police laptop. He states blatantly that he doesn’t see it and that he’s sorry. Liv, in disbelief of his statement, disagrees and asks him if he doesn’t think that “this person was killed the same day as Avery” (referring to Tommy Jenkins, being the first official target of Ghostface’s killing spree in Atlanta). Marcus tells her how there’s no connection to his story and shrugs it off as just “another random white dude”. Liv states Tommy Jenkin’s name, as Marcus begins to ask himself why the name sounds familiar.
• Liv then shows him the account that “Deion” gave police when he was a kid, telling him how he named Tommy as the bully who stole his brother’s candy and tells him how they never found a body in the salvage yard (referring to Hook Man’s lair where the tragedy unfolded and where Tommy had tossed Marcus’s candy over from the fence).
• Liv states how the case went cold, and they declared “Marcus” as a missing person, thus implying his possible survival, saying how he’s only missing and not dead (despite the fact he died as shown in the next episode). “Deion” states how he saw Hook Man grab ahold of “Marcus” that night and states to her how he can still see it. Liv then asks him if he didn’t see what happened after he did, questioning him as Marcus begins to sigh and Liv reminds him how he had left his twin brother to die.
• Marcus tells her calmly yet angry to Liv how he doesn’t need to be reminded of what he did and how he lives with that choice “every day of my life”, implying his identity. Liv calmly tells him how she’s not trying to hurt him, rather asking him to keep an open mind and who asks “Deion” what if “Marcus” didn’t die that night, asking him what if he survived and who was angry at “Deion” for abandoning him and who has come back now for revenge (ironically, since Liv is unaware she is talking to Marcus himself, which is not revealed to her until the season finale). “Deion” looks sternly and away from Liv as she states finally to what if “Marcus” is Ghostface (only besides the fact that young Marcus has dressed up in the costume, not knowing about the meaning and the use for hiding the killer’s identity throughout the franchise).
• This leads for ”Deion” to slam his hand on the table of the booth at the diner, and who startles Liv, as he talks quietly and tells Liv how he doesn’t care what evidence she thinks she has and tells her, point blank, how “Marcus” was both his brother and twin, stating how they had the same features seen in that of twins, going as far as to say they had the same “face, laugh, and heartbeat”.
• Marcus is seen close to breaking down and tells Liv how she wouldn’t get it or understand but how when “Marcus” died, he felt his heart stop, and felt him go. He tells her that that’s all the proof that he needs to confirm of his late brother’s demise, and who tells Liv that his brother’s not the killer, stating that he’s dead and that so is a part of him (referring to himself and his identity, subliminally). Marcus looks saddened as he walks up and leaves Liv at the diner alone, who’s seen looking intrigued at what she just heard.
• Back at the high school, Kym, Manny, and Beth are shown setting up the trap for Shane as Manny pours something from a gallon (his makeshift knockout gas) and attaches it to the fog machine as Kym is shown unwinding clear, plastic tubes. Beth sarcastically asks if that “deformed elephant” is actually going to work, referring to the fog machine and makeshift gas. Kym says that “it better”, with Manny assuring her that it will, and asks her if she has the cash, which Beth points to as she states how Amir is on lookout and who she says told him to kill the lights the second Shane comes in.
• Kym says she’s surprised Amir let her out of his sight, which Beth asks her confusingly what she’s talking about, with Manny agreeing with Kym and telling Beth it’s obvious that Amir’s into her.
• Beth scoffs, stating how she would “destroy that kid”, (foreshadowing) before the lights are cut off, their signal for Shane’s approach.
• On the other side of a classroom through a window, Shane is seen entering and who calls out for Beth and asks where she’s at. Shane walks by before he looks into the window from the other side, which shows the money laid out on a projector on a desk with a lamp. Shane notices this and makes his way into the other room and who turns to look around and calls out for Beth another time. He sees the money and makes his way into the room, and while he’s collecting it, is shown to be trapped as the door closes and locks him in.
• Shane stares in confusion as he makes his way towards the door, now locked, and tries to budge it open, shaking the door. He then madly calls out for Beth to quit with her games and to open the door.
• As if on cue, the knockout gas from the fog machine activates, slowly filling the room much to Shane’s surprise. He then panics and tries to break the window of the room door, banging on it with his hands as he coughs and gasps, breathing heavily as the gas fills the room. He then grabs a stool and lifts it up in an attempt to use it to break the window before the gas overtakes him and knocks Shane out as Beth, Manny, Kym and Amir now watch from outside him getting knocked out, proving Manny right that the gas would work, and would later before he awoke, tie him to a chair in the library.
• Liv calls out for “Deion” to wait up (who is actually Marcus) as he walks down an empty street at night towards a bus stop, his hands in his letterman coat. She chases him as he stops to turn around and look at her.
• Liv tells him how he doesn’t have to take the bus and she offers to give him a ride. Marcus then sternly looks at her and tells her how he thinks she’s done enough for him today. Liv defends herself, claiming she was just trying to help, to which Marcus replies sternly if she wants to help him, to just let it go. Liv says she can’t as she grabs hold of him and faces him and tells “Deion” that it’s not just about him but all of them.
• Then, behind them, a police siren chirps and Officer Reynolds approaches them and arrives with the lights of his patrol car turned on as Liv realizes and calls out for her dad as he steps out. Marcus falls silent as Liv asks her father what he’s doing there, to which he replies sternly saying how it’s her that needs to be answering questions.
• Reynolds scolds her in front of Marcus, how he had told her in no uncertain terms, that she was not to leave the house today. Liv then asks suspiciously and surprised, if her father had been following her. Her father states out loud, for her to go home, referring to her by her full first name, Olivia, now. Liv looks back at Marcus and then at her father before she walks away.
• Marcus proceeds to do the same, before Officer Reynolds asks him loudly where he thinks he’s going. Reynolds tells Marcus that they’re going to have a little chat as Marcus stares sternly at the Officer.
• Shane is revealed to be awakening, now tied and bound in a chair in the library, coughing as he does so. Tied by his wrists with duct tape, he thrashes to move around before he is faced by the Deadfast Club, except for Marcus and Liv (in an homage to that of Steven Orth’s trap in the first Scream film, as well as Will Belmont in Season 1).
• Manny, Kym, Beth, and Amir all look down on Shane as Shane asks angrily what this is, as he looks at Beth and tells her he thought they had a deal, to which Beth sarcastically answers she knew and how that was the point and that she lied. Shane claims how that’s messed up and tells her he needs that money, to which Manny asks him hastily if it’s to throw another murder party.
• Shane, confused, asks him what he’s talking about.
• Kym then angrily tells Shane that he doesn’t get to ask any questions “pusher man”, and that she does, and asks him how she wants to know why he tried to kill her last night. Shane states how if he wanted to kill Kym, she’d be dead, which Kym looks at him sternly for his response, as Shane states how he still doesn’t see where she’s going with this (ironic, since he couldn't kill the actual Ghostface when he had the opportunity).
• Kym then asks Shane how to explain this, as Manny grabs his backpack and dumps out the insides, revealing a Ghostface mask (although neither a weapon nor voice changer drops).
• Shane points out that they were all at the party and that they have one as Beth looks at him. Kym agrees, only because he gave them out to all of them, telling him how he probably did it to hide his face while he killed Avery.
• Shane looks at her and the group in disbelief, and asks her if she, or the group overall, thinks he had something to do with that. Kym then tells him rhetorically how it was his party. Shane looks towards the others and smugly as he reveals himself to be Mr. Fade only but that he ain’t no killer, and asks them all how Avery’s death was only an accident.
• Beth then chimes in, saying he’s wrong, as Kym continues interrogating Shane and asks him about the costumes and asks why he’s messing with Deion like that, angrily. Shane asks her back the question, and states that they’re just costumes, and that they go with his whole “Mr. Fade anonymity thing” and asks if she feels him, also upset.
• Kym asks where he got them, which Shane points out he’s got hookups everywhere and how one of his boys got it for him, saying he doesn’t know which one and who states only that they’re 2 bucks each. Beth then looks at Shane as Kym steps away and asks him if he really expects them to believe that. Shane agrees, retorting and claiming how he’s not a “lying bitch” like she is, as Beth then begins to walk back as Shane claims how she’s the one who lured him here and tied him up and who also states that for all he knows it was one of them that sent him a creepy-ass text, too (referring to the one the Deadfast Club had gotten the day prior). Kym asks him what text and Shane tells her to check his phone.
• Beth does so as she picks his phone up from the floor below the chair from where he's sitting and turns it on to reveal he had gotten the same text they did from “No Caller ID”. Shane helplessly states how he thought it was a joke but who agrees saying if there’s a killer out there, he’s after him, too. Amir then speaks saying if Shane isn’t Ghostface, before Beth chimes in and asks then “who the hell is”, before they’re interrupted by the school mic ringing feedback, as Ghostface speaks out to Weaver High students and how “Slash is now in session, and it’s time for one of you to die”, as Beth then looks at a smug yet smiling Shane, proving his innocence to them all.
• Marcus is detained by Officer Reynolds as he sits at the park of the bus stop where he was stopped as Officer Reynolds hands him his ID card, supposedly. He asks him if that means he can go now, with Officer Reynolds telling him he ran his information and that Marcus came back clean, as Marcus asks if that means yes.
• Reynolds then says that they have to talk about what he can’t do, first, stating about dating his daughter, Liv. Reynolds tells Marcus to give him his word on that and that he’s free to go. Marcus claims that first of all, it wasn’t a date, referring to him and Liv at the diner. He says second, how he ain’t gonna make any promises that he can’t keep as Marcus looks at Officer Reynolds who smiles at him and who he claims to seem like a good kid and how he’s gonna let him off with a warning to stay away from Liv, if he knows what’s good for him, as Marcus stares at him sternly (however, this was for his own good as later revealed).
• Reynolds then walks back to his patrol car and Marcus leaves the bench and also walks off, as Officer Reynolds, who’s about to get in his car, looks at him standing with his front door open. Marcus is stopped walking shortly by his phone ringing as he answers a call from Amir, who calls him D-Day and Marcus, knowing who he is, asks him why he’s whispering, as Amir tells him of their plan backfiring.
• Marcus, confused, asks him what plan and tells him how he told them all to wait, before Amir recaps to him how they tried to trap the killer. Marcus then asks him if he knows who Ghostface is. Amir claims how they thought they did but that they got it wrong and how the actual killer turned the tables and trapped them. Marcus, seen alert, asks Amir where he’s at which he tells him that they’re at the school.
• Marcus tells him to hold tight and that he’s coming. The call then ends before Marcus then begins running the opposite way, seemingly, headed towards the school, jogging like he did the day prior (albeit is not listening to music).
• Amir gets off the call and lets the others know that Marcus is on his way. Kym states defensively how she doesn’t plan on being where they’re at until he finally shows up, referring to his tardiness.
• Beth scoffs and says that it’s a rookie mistake, as she lays out the rule in horror how when the killer’s in their midst, the last thing anyone would do is head off by themselves, or split up alone. Beth states how it’s almost as stupid as saying “I’ll be right back” (this is an homage and reference to the rule stated by Randy Meeks in the original Scream film, which also laid out rules for horror movies, more specifically about how to survive them).
• Kym looks at her, sighing, as Beth claims how either way they’re dead meat, before Kym again sarcastically defies Beth, now referring to her as Cruella De Vil and how she’s not in one of her “damn horror movies'' (incorrectly referencing her not as a horror movie, but a villain from the Disney film 101 Dalmatians).
• Kym states how anyone that wants to roll with her is welcome, stating she’s got Mace and that she’s doing whatever it takes to survive, which she replies means vacating, whether or not alone.
• Kym walks away as Manny stares he’s with her, obviously as well as Shane who asks which one of them “fools” wants to cut him loose. Kym then asks Amir about him, which he states they’ll be right behind her, after they get Shane untied and on his feet, with him sticking with Beth. Kym states blatantly fine but that it’s his funeral (also foreshadowing his death, unfortunately) as she and Manny walk off, as Shane is left and sees them walk out, and Amir taking Beth aside and asking her if he’s not really going to die because his parents will kill him.
• Beth reassures him and tells him to relax, saying he made the right call, and how now they only need to hear Kym or Manny scream before they bounce. Amir then asks why they would scream, to which Beth replies, nonchalantly because probably “Ghostface stuck a knife in them”.
• Amir states that that’s messed up as he and Beth proceed to untie Shane, which Shane agrees with Amir saying Beth is messed up and says that he should follow his lead out the door, as soon as he is fully untied. Beth tells him to trust her that he doesn’t want to go out there alone. Shane claims he ain’t going in it alone, revealing he’s armed with a Smith and Wesson shotgun, saying they’ve “got his back” as Beth looks at him, eyes wide as Shane leaves, leaving Beth and Amir alone in the library.
• Kym and Manny are seen prodding the empty hallways and Manny whispering that their coast is clear and who tells them to go. Kym and Manny fast walk the empty hallway, their footprints slightly heard, as Kym whispers excitedly to Manny that he was right for sticking with her and they’re getting out like Rod and Chris, from Get Out.
• They are seen approaching the front doors, who celebrate too early as it’s revealed that the doors are locked, meaning they’re locked in, which Kym assumes it was Ghostface who locked them. Manny tells Kym that he’s not dying here and that it’s his worst nightmare, as he begins to have an asthma attack, which Kym tells him to calm down or that he’s going to himself one, which he does. Kym grunts and panics, asks Manny where’s his inhaler to which Manny in the midst of his attacks, says his locker.
• Kym tells him to breathe as she approaches his locker and opens it only to find a Ghostface mask, much to her suspicion although Manny states it’s from the party, which Kym calls him by his full name and tells him he’s going to do him a solid and pretend that this isn’t “suspicious as hell” as she retrieves him his inhaler and Manny begins to breathe, as he tells Kym how in the principal’s office there’s a master key by the PA system and who he claims to know because he sees it when he’s reading Kym’s bulletins.
• Kym agrees, saying how it’ll work but how he’s in no shape to come with. She tells him to get his scrawny ass and wait and who leads him into a room, as Manny tells her to not say it before Kym says confidently that she’ll be right back, before she closes him in as Manny watches her go off from the window of the classroom door.
• Meanwhile, Amir and Beth are shown to be hiding in a storage closet somewhere in the school (not stated whether in the library or another classroom). Amir asks as to why they’re hiding in there exactly, saying how he knows Beth is the expert. Beth stares because storage closets are a classic hiding horror place, to which Amir asks if that means they’re safe.
• Beth states how it’s “80-20. Almost always works” which Amir asks what happens when it doesn’t to which Beth tells him that it goes horribly wrong. They whisper and Amir gasps, which Beth puts her hand around his mouth, before they both go quiet as they see Ghostface outside wandering. The killer then walks away as Amir sighs and says that was close.
• Beth quickly hushes him and places her hand around his mouth as Ghostface now is shown approaching the door, looking sinister as the duo grow silent and Beth whispers “shit” under her breath as they watch tensely for the killer before Ghostface turns around and leaves.
• Both exhale and Beth tells them that now they’re safe, with Amir asking Beth how she knew he was going to come back with Beth saying how the killer always comes back, saying how she doesn’t make the rules, calling Amir “donut boy”, and says she only plays by them.
• Amir asks her if they can please get out of the closet. Beth agrees, saying if that’s what he really wants, as she looks at Amir and both share a tense yet tender moment as Amir replies that he doesn’t know what he wants, and says how all he knows is that Beth smells like Skittles and smoke, saying it’s intoxicating, shooting his shot.
• Beth then leads him on and asks Amir why he doesn't taste the rainbow. Beth tells Amir to kiss her and whispers to him seductively that she dares him as Amir claims how Shane was right and that she is crazy, as he leans in to kiss her before they’re interrupted by a fallen object in the storage room, which Beth says they have to go or they’re going to be gutted. She opens the door and walks off, as Amir states back and whispers “Damn it” to himself, about his missed shot.
• Kym is shown approaching the principal’s office, alone, and who heads to where Manny instructed her only for her to find the master keys missing. She says damn out loud, which leads her to find the mic for the PA system on as she walks toward it, and finds a pre-recorded tape on a player playing, repeating the message she and the others had heard in the library at the beginning.
• Ghostface is then revealed to have been sitting in the principal’s chair and who turns around as does Kym after she finds this out. She grunts as Ghostface then heads for her with the knife before she sprays them with Mace, which ironically doesn’t work, since they’re wearing a mask, which Ghostface toys with her at first until revealing it didn’t work, as Kym upset says “double damn” and defeated begins to run.
• Kym is then shown exiting the office running as Ghostface is shown behind her in pursuit, almost catching up to her, who tries to slash and stab her as he swings his knife at her. He’s knocked down temporarily by Kym who swiftly manages to open a classroom door, as Kym yells for the killer “And stay down, bitch!” before Ghostface sits up again.
• Marcus is shown to have been sprinting and arrives at the school, who tries to get in through one of the doors but is logically locked out. Panicked, he calls out for Kym to open up as he then tries to find another way in.
• Meanwhile, Kym is shown trapped as she tries to make her way through a locked corner of the dark, school hallway through a fence gate, which can only be opened with the key. She begins to take off her jacket and who tries to sneak through the bottom, managing to get her leg through before Ghostface appears and finds, jingling the keys in front of her (in an homage to how Sidney was taunted by Ghostface jingling the car keys when she was trying to escape through the cop car in the first Scream).
• Kym gets up and talks to Ghostface and states that they are right and how she is scared, as Ghostface walks sinisterly towards her. Kym yells that whoever’s behind that mask that she’s scared, which outside is shown that Marcus could overhear and thus knowing her location. Instinctively, Marcus grabs a rock from outside and uses it to break into the hallway where he and the Deadfast Club had met that morning.
• Ghostface raises his Bowie knife as he approaches Kym, before Shane is shown to be behind Ghostface as Shane tells Kym to relax and how only one of them is going down in this freak, referring to the killer as Ghostface turns around to face Shane before Shane head butts and knocks him out with the gun, which startles and baffles Kym as she walks towards Shane and yells at him for him to shoot Ghostface, who’s supposedly unconscious laying face forward.
• Shane says ok, as he hesitantly tries to pull the trigger as Shane appears to shake, with Kym asking him to please tell her he’s not getting cold feet, scared yet angry. Shane tells Kym to shut up, with Kym saying, in despair, how she thought he was hard and asks him what he’s going to do, if he’s going to call the police and have them put this “creep” in the system, rhetorically.
• Kym begins to breathe heavily, saying how his face is white and how he’ll be out trying to kill them again (mistakenly assuming the killer’s race and gender, since most of the killers in the Scream franchise have been predominantly white, and mostly males).
• Shane yells for Kym again to shut up, as Ghostface is seen now getting up, as his head tilts up from them laying on the floor. Kym, angry with Shane’s immobility, tells him as she motions and goes towards him to grab the gun and state that she’ll shoot him herself.
• This gives Ghostface just enough time to strike as Kym walks towards Shane, and Ghostface slashes Kym’s arm, which takes her back. Ghostface is then shown opening the gate and Kym, injured, laying back and yelling at Shane for him to shoot the killer, grunting as he tries to stop the killer, as Ghostface successfully locks Shane and Kym on the other side of the hallway, extending his arms as in success and taunting Shane with it as he begins to walk away.
• Kym angrily yells for Shane to shoot as she now tries to pull the gun away, which Shane claims he can until it’s too late and Ghostface gets away.
• Marcus, now inside, finds himself by the main entrance and notices the security metal panels red and beeping, who makes his way towards the door and finds that they’re locked from the inside, too after hearing a door open. He is then startled as Ghostface appears as Marcus gasps and Ghostface makes a signal with his two fingers pointing towards his eyes and back to his, which states that the killer knows as Marcus looks at him in shock and eyes widened before Ghostface departs.
• Marcus slams the door, looking as the killer disappears, before he is then yelled at and found by Kym, asking where the killer went, as she and Shane approach him. Marcus tells her they got away, to which Kym madly tells Shane “thanks to your bitch ass, Mr. Fade”. Marcus, composed and now stern, asks Shane if he’s Mr. Fade, to which he agrees but states how he’s no killer, obviously, referring to his own failure to be able to shoot Ghostface.
• Manny then approaches them (coming out of the room he was hiding in, looking like a red herring) and finds Kym’s slash wound on her arm and points out she’s bleeding. Amir then asks whose bleeding, as he runs towards them (just like Manny, in a red herring trope homage) and asks Kym if she’s ok. Kym states uninterested and upset that she’s fine and asks where’s Beth to suspect her, to which Amir states he doesn’t know saying they got separated, which Kym scoffs and tells him how convenient, saying how right when the killer was after her, him and “Morticia” make a run for it, a reference to The Addams Family. Beth then is the last to arrive, staring her arrival in one piece, and says how they should quit worrying about her, much to Kym’s already upset mood, as Beth tells Kym how she takes her reference as Morticia Addams as a compliment and thanks her.
  • Ironically, Jenna Ortega, the actress who portrays Tara Carpenter in the volume of a new Scream trilogy following Scream (2022) (due to the original idea for a trilogy following Scream 4 scrapped) portrays the titular daughter of Morticia, also known as Wednesday Addams, in the 2022 Netflix series of the same name.
• Marcus then tells them how he had told them all not to make a move without him and asks what happened. Kym claps back and points out that her plan worked and that’s what, and how they had Ghostface dead in their sights until Shane couldn’t “man up” and pull the trigger. Kym tells Marcus that it was too bad he wasn’t there, as if to suspect him. Marcus acknowledges this and apologizes and promises them that he’ll fix this.
• Kym, now over the edge, tells him no pep talk isn’t gonna work, and how this is not a football game but real life and who asks Marcus, rightfully upset, how they’re going to find out who the man behind the mask is now. Marcus tells Kym again that he said he’ll fix it. Kym tells Manny to go and for them to find a way out of “this damn school”, fed up due to her injury from her attack and for the plan backfiring.
• Marcus stutters before they leave, as Shane approaches Beth and offers to walk her home, which Beth declines saying she’ll roll with the geek (Amir), saying how at least she knows he’s “a pussy”, referring to Shane’s cowardice and failure to shoot the killer. She walks off as Shane looks upset as Marcus and Amir remain as Shane looks at Amir and bumps into his shoulder and walks away, as Amir shrugs it off and walks towards Beth, leaving Marcus alone as he sees them all depart and stands looking sternly to his sides, thoughtfully.
• Amir and Beth are shown to have reunited again as Amir returns his parents money into his safe at his family donut shop, as Beth eats a chocolate donut with a red icing lines on top, who compliments Amir’s parents saying they really know their donuts, with Amir joking that jelly is their specialty. Amir charges Beth a buck for the donut and she says to put it on her tab, as Amir hesitantly pulls a dollar out of his pocket to pay for hers. Beth eats half the donut before placing it down and states to Amir ``FYI” how she wasn't talking about the donut, and who then tells Amir to look at himself.
• Beth says how his parents must’ve raised him right, with Amir claiming he really never had another option. Beth debates this, saying he did tonight in that closet, referring to them almost kissing while hiding from the killer. Amir tells her how he actually wanted to talk to Beth about that, to which she asks if he’s having regrets. Amir states how his only regret is that he almost did something he would have regretted, which Beth says that that’s “a really confusing sentence”.
• Amir agrees saying how it’s all very confusing before Beth then places her hand on top of his at the counter and Beth states that it doesn’t have to be as they touch hands before Amir agrees with her, saying she’s right as they grab hands, Amir with his big hand to Beth’s small one. They share a moment as Amir tells Beth, who’s looking at him, that despite his parents raising him a certain way, that at some point he had to make a choice, saying how their beliefs are his beliefs, too. Amir says he believes they should just be friends and that this is a bad idea, as Beth looks at him and pulls away her hand, visibly upset now and uninterested, and who tells Amir to relax, referring to him as Skywalker, saying how he’s not her type, anyway. Beth then states how she just thought that maybe he’d want to go out with a bang (foreshadowing) as Amir looks at her before Beth walks away from his donut shop, leaving him alone.
• Manny tends to Kym’s slashed arm as he wraps white gauze around it, as they’re shown to be in his bedroom at his house, sitting on his bed. Kym points out how Manny’s been awfully quiet, to which Manny answers he’s just been thinking which Kym asks what about, as Manny answers to how he wants his funeral to be, referring to the conversation Kym had with him about that earlier at school.
• Interested, Kym states how she thought Manny didn’t want to play the game which Manny reassures to trust him that doesn’t, but who states how it’s becoming obvious, given their situation, that death is a real possibility. Kym smiles and looks as Manny sits on his chair near his desk in his bedroom and asks him what he’s got in mind. Manny states nothing big, but that he wants the people he loves to meet up at his favorite spot and to look out over the city lights like he always does and to maybe pour out some kombucha for the homie, chuckling as he looks at Kym, smiling back at him.
• Manny states how he wants to be remembered for who he is, not for who anyone else wanted him to be. Kym looks at him smiling, understanding, as the friends go quiet and share a moment in silence.
• Marcus is shown to have left the school and is now meeting Liv in an empty alleyway somewhere in his neighborhood, with Liv claiming how she’s glad he’s ok as Marcus smiles at her and says he wouldn’t go that far.
• Liv apologizes for earlier and says that’s what she does ,saying how she’s always sticking her nose in places where it doesn’t belong. Marcus reassures her and claims it’s not her fault and states that it’s his for not accepting the truth, sighing, telling Liv how he saw something tonight he hadn’t seen in such a long time, to which Liv asks what. “Deion” then tells her how she might be right, stating how “Marcus” is alive and that he’s trying to ruin his life (ironically, referring to himself, seeing he’s Marcus).
• Liv tells him how that's the thing about the truth and family, saying how they can be a “real bitch” but says she promises him they’ll deal with it together. Marcus tells her that they won’t and says how if that’s his brother under the mask, that’s his problem and how he’s got to deal with that alone.
• Liv looks at him sadly as Marcus says he’s sorry before turning to leave and walk away, leaving Liv alone as she stands watching as he goes off.
• Shane is revealed to have come home, as his bed-ridden grandma asks if somebody’s there, and announces his return. Shane looks at her and asks her how she’s feeling tonight which his grandma states “same as always, like dancing”, as Shane chuckles and reveals the drugs he has for her to resupply her and help alleviate her and to last her a while, in case she pulls a muscle dancing or something. (revealing that the only reason he’s a dealer and robbed the pharmacist was to support her).
• Shane empties all the pill bottles and tells her how he’s been putting in some overtime and states how he thought it was going to be enough to get them out of this place, referring to the complex in Atlanta where they live currently. His grandma reassures him and tells him that home is wherever he and she are at, and says they don’t need anything more.
• Suddenly, a loud thud outside interrupts their moment as his grandma, taken aback asks what that was, shuddering as Shane approaches the window to find it egged. He tells her it’s this “damned Devil’s Night” and who infamously tells her that he’ll be right back as he leaves the apartment.
• Shane is shown walking outside to investigate, seeing the pranks rolled out as he sees the cars in the empty parking lot TP’d and who suddenly gets a phone call, presumably from “No Caller ID” as he answers and asks who’s this, with Ghostface telling him someone looking to score. Shane, presuming it’s a client, asks what he needs, saying he’s got Oxys and Vikes, to which Ghostface denies and claims he’s looking for something a little bit harder than that, who reassures Shane that he has it running through his veins, referring to his blood.
• Shane shudders before he takes out his gun, and sees in his building on a door above the word “COWARD” spray painted in white.
• Shane warns that he isn’t playing with Ghostface correcting and telling him he is, but that he doesn’t know the game and that they’re playing “Chicken”, and states how he already blinked, referring to his failure to kill them when they had them at gunpoint.
• Shane states how now his eyes are wide open and how it ain’t gonna happen again to which Ghostface replies and states they’ll see about that and tells him that now they’re playing a new game: Hide-and-seek and tells Shane to come find them.
• Suddenly, a brick falls from above Shane’s building, hitting him in the head and taking him aback as it’s shown he’s bleeding due to the impact, as he grabs his head. Shane then heads towards the escape ladder and who tries to find a way to pull it down before he’s then pushed back down and his neck caught in the ladder, rendering him stuck from his upper body, as the ladder comes down and so does Ghostface (this is a reverse homage to both Tatum Riley’s death in the first Scream, as well as an inverse to Riley Marra’s death in Season 1).
• Shane tries to reach for his gun as Ghostface comes down the ladder slowly, and who asks for the killer to let them out of there. Ghostface gets down before it’s shown that the killer is holding a needle full of drugs, which Shane notices and panics, tells him to not do this and that he has stuff.
• Shane then pleads with Ghostface, who’s seen to be opening his eyelid to inject the needle into his eye as they do so, brutally, injecting it right into his pupil, which bleeds on impact after releasing the contents of the needle and causing for his whole eye to bleed and for Shane to then spasm, foaming at his mouth as he overdoes on the fatal drugs injected into his eye, thus connecting it to his brain, while stuck before he quickly dies in the first drug induced death by Ghostface in the entire Scream franchise.

October 31st (Halloween 2018)

Midnight

• (“The Man Behind the Mask”) Dream sequence only: Marcus is shown to be walking to his apartment complex, home alone, sometime after meeting with Liv (which was the previous episode, meaning it could have taken place closer to midnight, but still during October 30th) and who’s seen walking through a neighborhood in College Park and who notices a Halloween pumpkin carved with Ghostface’s face on it.
• This startles Marcus before he’s run into by Liv, who apologizes as Marcus asks her what’s up. Liv states how she didn’t mean to drop a bomb on him about “Marcus” but how maybe she should wait to go after him. He tells her how he’s not going to sit around and watch those other people get hurt by his own brother (ironically, referring to himself). Marcus tells her how he has to handle this now, and tries to walk past Liv as she states how he doesn’t have to do this on his own and pleads for him to let her help.
• Marcus asks her if that’s the only reason she came after him, to which Liv states that that’s not the only reason before they then share a kiss, which Liv initiates which takes Marcus aback before he reciprocates and kisses her back. This shows a scene flash forward of them at his place in his bedroom, hooking up and about to have sex, undressing and all that night.
• The next morning, Marcus, wearing his loose shirt and track pants, tells a supposedly sleeping Liv how maybe she’s right and how he doesn’t have to do this by himself, to which Liv doesn’t respond much to Marcus’s confusion. Marcus calls out for her as he sees her draped underneath the covers and calls for her softly two times, facing her while she’s still in the blanket before he finally uncovers her and it’s revealed that she was attacked and stabbed as she calls out for him “Deion”, as blood comes out her mouth and stab wounds are revealed on her torso and body.
• Marcus begins to panic and tries to Liv to look at him and breathe, as her mutilated and stabbed body begins to die, as expected. Marcus, as Deion, yells and says he’s going to get help, panicking, as he rushes for the exit of his bedroom door before he is then stabbed in the abdomen and lower torso by Ghostface (in an homage to how victims are stabbed in the franchise, usually in the stomach).
• Marcus, as Deion, sputters as he takes account his wound and walks back as Ghostface, their knife still in him, pushes a stabbed Deion down to the ground and raises their knife in the traditional fashion with both hands before stabbing Deion right in the chest, as he begins to bleed profoundly.
• Deion unmasks the Ghostface which turns out to be his twin brother “Marcus” (who is actually Deion, who is seen spotting a head wound to where the hook that impaled his head was at) now older and his age, who angrily tells him how he was supposed to come back for him and how now he came back for him instead.
• It shows him scream in pain as his twin brother stabbing him in his chest, as the other one says for him to now see who he really is on the inside, before beginning to pull apart at his exposed ribcage, muscles and blood and all as Marcus screams in pain. This is revealed to only be a dream as Marcus awakes thrashing and screaming in his bed, panting and gasping as he composes himself, and realizes he’s alone.
  • This dream sequence is a reference to Sidney Prescott’s dream sequence in Scream 3 as well as Emma Duval’s dream sequence in the Season 2 episode “Happy Birthday to Me”, with all the stated instances being warnings about the return of each of the main protagonists killers’, respectively.
    • This scene of revealing the killers is also a reference and homage to Emma Duval's nightmare reveal in Season 1 in "Betrayed".
  • Liv’s dream death by being stabbed in bed (off-screen) pays homage to the death of Olivia Morris from Scream 4, which in turn homages the death of Tina Grey from the 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street, both films (and franchises) helmed and directed by the late Wes Craven (seeing as how all female characters are killed and found in a bed).

Morning

• That morning, Marcus awakens to see his mother, Sherry, serving breakfast on the table as Marcus is seen already dressed and ready for school. Sherry asks his son if he had a rough night, to which Marcus agrees and tells her he had a bad dream and asks how she slept. She states how he knows that it’s Halloween, before Marcus’s father, Earl Elliot, arrives to state how the only good thing about this day is “his mama’ s cooking”, seen in his work clothes carrying a brown paper bag of groceries as well as some flowers for Sherry.
• Marcus is glad to see his father as Sherry hugs her husband and thanks him for the gifts, and Marcus hugs his dad. The men sit down as Marcus asks his father how long he’s in town, which Earl claims not long enough and states how dispatch got him rolling out in the morning but to not worry that he’ll be back in time for his big game. Sherry tells him that at least he’s there for today before Jamal enters and who sarcastically states to look who’s back, referring to his stepfather.
• Earl claims to not have seen him as he approaches him for a hug and asks what’s up with him, only for Jay to move past him and grab a bit of breakfast and who eats it while he tells his father the “same ol’”.
• Earl then apologizes for not seeing him the last time he was there, and how he was hoping maybe they can find some time together to catch up. Jay blatantly declines, stating he’s got places to be with Earl telling him that he knows what today is, looking sternly at his first son, and states how there ain’t no place he should be but here with his family.
• Jay then talks back by saying how the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, calling him by his real name. Sherry, aka Jay’s stepmother, tries to reach out to him and pleads with him, before Earl tells her to let him go. Marcus is then seen leaving, as he puts on his letterman jacket and goes out after him.
• Marcus confronts Jay outside in front of the apartment by his red car, asking him why he’s got to talk to their dad like that (Marcus refers to him as Pops), saying all he wanted to do was talk, to which Jay denies telling him not to act like he cares for him, who tells him that the only reason he’s there is because Halloween makes them crazy (referring to him and Sherry).
• Jamal then madly states how she always sets up “Marcus’s” favorite breakfast, stating “like some (damn) eggs supposed to bring him back from the dead'' (this is more so, a reference to the actual holiday in Mexico known as Day of the Dead, which is celebrated usually after Halloween in November which celebrates the deceased by leaving food that usually the living eat in remembrance to the lost souls to partake).
• “Deion” (actually Marcus) gets mad and tells Jay that he knows that’s not what that is, and states how they never got to say goodbye to him, or how the police never gave them a body to bury. Jay states solemnly how it’s been years and for Marcus to wake up and how there ain’t nobody left to find (officially 8 years, since the events occurred in 2010).
• Marcus, as Deion, shakes his head and who bites his lip as he looks saddened and who only says that Jay knows what that night did to them, which Jay retorts and asks about what it had done to his mother, referring to Jay’s biological mother, who states that until Marcus had gone and disappeared, she never even knew that they existed, giving exposition to Jay’s life, who claims how Earl (his and Marcus’s dad, similar to how Maureen Prescott chose her legitimate family, her daughter and husband, over her first born and illegitimate son) chose this “little side family”, referring to Marcus and Sherry, over his real one which he claims was his and his mother, stating how that broke her, in a way that he couldn’t fix (implying she killed herself).
• Marcus tells Jay how he’s not trying to make excuses for that, with Jay telling him that he’s the only brother he’s got whether he likes it or not as he gets into his car and drives off as Marcus stands and watches him drive off.
• Then, after he leaves, his phone rings in which he gets a call from “Marcus”, code for Ghostface. He answers and then asks if that’s him, as Ghostface answers him saying if he told him now, it would spoil the big twist and asks him where’s the fun in that.
• Marcus states that it would be fun when he rips the mask off his face and shoves it up his rear. Ghostface answers surprised and tells him to look at him showing some spine with his clap back, and states how it’s too bad Shane didn’t last night, implying his death. Marcus, now seriously asks the killer what they’re talking about and Ghostface answers saying after Mr. Fade showed everyone who he really was (who had failed to kill them), who pumped him full of drugs and how now he’s dead and how all Marcus’s friends will be when he is done.
• Marcus yells at Ghostface on the phone and angrily and asks him why the hell he’s even doing this, and says he thought it was him they wanted. Ghostface angrily responds and says that what they want is to find who “Deion Elliot” really is, and about what happened on that Halloween night.
• Marcus answers calmly that he does too, with Ghostface telling him to go back to the scene of the crime, the place where he abandoned his brother, tonight. Marcus then asks if he doesn’t, looking worried, as Ghostface only answers “trick or treat”, his choice as the call ends, threatening him with that.
• At Weaver High School, the school is shown celebrating Halloween as students are seen dressed up in costumes and a giant fake cobweb with a decorative black spider on the ceiling in one of the hallways as banners are shown in black and orange, with other decorations as well.
• Beth is shown in her normal clothes at her locker, although her hair is now up (whose jacket has a pink scarf now), taking stuff out into her backpack, supposedly before she’s then patted by Amir, who’s shown donning Marcus’s football jersey.
• Beth states how it’s Halloween and how it’s the one time a year where he can dress how he wants to be and who says he chose to dress as some “meathead jock”.
• Amir points out that not just any jock and how most jocks treat him like crap but not Marcus, going as “Deion”, who he tells her he feels like he has his back, to which Beth replies how in her personal experience, the only people ever look out for is themselves, which Amir states that that’s sad. Which Beth retorts to not be as sad as Amir going full on stalker on Marcus, which Amir claims he’s not to which Beth toys at him and says that’s exactly what a stalker would say.
• Beth closes her locker and Amir tells her to wait up as they both walk in the crowded hallway and asks Beth if she heard about Shane, to which Beth asks “what about him” as Amir tells her how Liv had just told him and that he’s dead and he says they’re guessing Ghostface got him and who nonchalantly states how she guesses Mr. Fade got faded, pun intended. Amir then apologizes saying how he knew they were but then retorts and states how he actually didn’t know what they were in terms of them together.
• Beth looks at him and tells him how what she had with Shane was “just sex” and none of his business. Amir states that whatever it was and asks Beth if she wants to talk about it, to which Beth denies and asks him why he even cares anyways.
• Beth reminds Amir how last night she had offered him a no-strings hookup and how he passed and asks him how now he wants to offer a shoulder for her to cry on, who tells him to come on quietly and how nobody’s that nice.
• Amir defends himself saying how last night he had told Beth that he wanted to be friends and that he meant that. Beth reminds him that they’re in a horror movie, not a rom-com (short for romantic comedy), and tells him not to get any weird ideas (as a meta reference).
• Beth claims that he barely even knows her, which Amir swiftly claims that not for lack of trying. Beth states how if Amir wants to do something for her is to stop trying before she then walks away from him, as does Amir.
• Liv is shown walking in the hallways to class in her cheerleader outfit before Marcus runs up to her in the hallways, telling her to wait up and if she’s got a second. They both talk about Shane’s death as Liv tells him how it’s horrible and her dad told her the details, but how they both know it’s Ghostface, or who Liv thinks is “Marcus” (since Deion is Marcus) as “Deion” says nobody wants to know if they’re still alive more than him (ironically talking to himself).
• Marcus points out how they still don’t know who's behind the mask, as Liv tells him how, if they shouldn't try to find out before he kills another one of them. Marcus does agree before using the excuse of having to do a “family” thing after school (half-truth) and asks to borrow Liv’s car.
• The school bell rings and Marcus walks away after getting no response and thanks her as he walks off and apologizes, before Liv tells him to wait and tells him how her dad will hate her if anything happens to it and how he’s a cop and has a gun. Marcus agrees and promises no scratches as Liv tosses him her car keys as Marcus leaves and Liv heads to class.
• Manny and Kym talk in the library, hanging ghost decorations with Manny dressed as Prince while Kym is dressed as Michelle Obama, with Manny asking her if it’s really a good idea to be hosting a party tonight after what happened to Shane, with Kym pointing out to Manny how it’s Halloween, asking him when else they’re supposed to have it as Manny states when they’re not being stalked by a homicidal maniac. Kym reminds how she had to fight to convince Principal Wilson that it’d be safer for parents to bring their kids to trick or treat at the school rather than out on the streets and how the killer would be a fool to come at them with “half the hood” there.
• Manny reminds her how that didn’t stop them at Shane’s party, or Kym’s apartment or last night as Kym tells him to call it what it is and how he’s just trying to avoid a fight as usual, as Manny states what he’s trying to do is to avoid the two of them ending up dead.
• Kym reminds him how they’re a ride or die team and how as long as they both have each other’s back, nothing can tear them apart, which uplifts Manny who states not even Ghostface, as they fist bump.
• In Mrs. Pell’s class taking attendance, Liv checks her phone GPS app and who sees and tracks Marcus’s (Deion) location from her car, which her dad installed a GPS tracker on to monitor and keep tabs on her, which she explains to the Deadfast Club at lunch when Kym asks what she meant when she said Marcus lied, stating how he left and is making his way out of town, showing them.
• Beth asks Liv where she thinks he’s going, as Liv states how looking for “Marcus” as Kym chimes in how that doesn’t make sense since his brother’s been dead for years and how Liv tells them how she may have convinced him how he’s still alive and that he’s Ghostface.
• Kym then sarcastically states how unless the other twin brother came back as a zombie, there’s no way he’s Ghostface with Beth stating how if perhaps it is true then Marcus is doomed.
• Amir and Manny look at her intrigued as Beth explains to them how in horror the killer often tries to take out the main character by luring them to a place of significance on the night of their origin. Kym states how they’re only then taken out by the hero instead and referring to Beth as Elvira (Gothic hostess), claims how she’s seen the movies and how she knows how they work and repeats what she said about how they’re in a reboot, claiming how reboots don’t play by her rules as Beth states how reboots suck.
• Liv tells them how they’re not in a movie, and how for all they know Marcus could be walking into a real trap and how they have to get to him before Ghostface does.
• Manny tells Liv how no offense, she wasn’t at the school last night and how the rest of them all crossed paths with that psycho and how it didn’t go well. Kym states it would’ve gone better had Marcus not waited until the last minute to show but Amir points out how he did eventually show up right when they needed him.
• Liv points out how now Marcus needs them to back him up, with Beth agreeing to join stating they’re at least better odds. Liv asks who else is in as Kym tries to defend Marcus but how she made a promise to stay at school tonight but that they can go ahead and do what they want, but how she and Manny vote no.
• Manny, however, disagrees, claiming how he doesn’t think any of them should be alone and how he’s in as Kym reluctantly agrees she has to go to watch after his dumbass (foreshadowing to his death, unfortunately). Liv states that Kym’s driving, much to her dismay, telling them how if any of them spill anything on her seat, joking yet serious how she’ll kill them herself. They leave school early during the early evening, due to it being a holiday and all of them being seniors.
  • Beth’s horror reference of killers luring the main character to said characters place of significance on the night of their origin to take them out, as well as Kym’s statement of only to be taken out by the hero instead and Kym’s statement of how they’re in a reboot (thus not abiding to Beth’s rules) are loose elements used in Scream (2022).
    • Referring to how in the fifth film, the once original main character, Sidney Prescott, is lured to her place of significance, which is 261 Turner Lane or Stu’s old house on the night of her origin which was the 1996 Woodsboro Murders almost 25 years later in 2021 and who manages to take out one of her attempted killers, Amber, since the fifth movie is a reboot sequel or “requel”, which applies both Beth’s and Kym’s statements
      • The layout for requel rules would later be explained by Mindy Meeks-Martin in the fifth movie as well.
    • Furthermore, Liv’s statement to stop Beth and Kym from arguing about them not being in a movie, is a reference to Sidney’s line in the original Scream and Scream 4, as well as Samantha Carpenter’s line in reference to Sidney’s, in Scream (2022).

Evening

• Outside Atlanta and in the rural sticks, parked at a gas station is Marcus who gets out as he tries to fix the engine trouble on the car, which isn’t starting. He’s briefly distracted by a trio of racist truckers, who carry a Confederate flag on the back of their pickup truck and who all head inside the gas station, playing “Dixieland” as they park and head in.
• Kym drives her small blue Honda car as Liv gets out from the backseat and tells him how her car has remote ignition control and it comes in handy when somebody tries to steal the car, thus having turned it off, saying it turns on and off. Noting her upset, Marcus asks if that’s not the reason she followed him out into the sticks.
• The group gets out of the car and stand behind Liv, as Beth states how Liv aka “Princess” got it in her head how he was about to do something stupid which she agrees he clearly is. Amir then states only because he thinks his dead, long-lost brother is trying to kill them, as Manny chimes in how they all decided to back him up. “Deion” then asks why Liv told them about “Marcus”, as Liv states to not start and how this is the second time in the same week that he’s lied to her.
• Manny tells Kym how they should give them some space as Kym sarcastically replies how they should all vote on it first and who heads to the bathroom, as Manny follows behind.
• Beth and Amir then head inside the gas station, leaving Liv and Marcus as Liv angrily tells him what the hell he was thinking as Marcus tells her how it’s none of her business and pleads with her to head back to the city as Liv asks where he’s going as he reveals to the salvage yard where he left “Marcus” behind. Liv states how it’s been (8) years and asks him what makes him think he’s going to find anything out there as Marcus states how Ghostface said he would as Liv asks how he talked to him, asking him what else the killer said.
• Marcus states that he’d just find the truth as Liv scoffs if he believed him and how doesn’t he know he’s not planning on murdering him.
• Marcus claims he doesn’t and that's the reason he didn’t want anyone else to arrive, and who apologizes for lying to her but how he states if something bad were to happen to her he’d never forgive himself. Liv states how that’s sweet but totally pointless because she’s going with him anyway, despite Marcus’s pleas, and who states how she’s not going to let himself killer before he takes her on a halfway decent first date, as the duo share a flirting moment, with Marcus finally agreeing and who asks about everyone else, as Liv off screen slashes Kym’s tire on her car.
• Kym pounds at the door of the outdoor bathroom for the occupant to hurry up, as the leader of the trio of truckers comes out as she sarcastically says sorry as she refers to him as “General Lee”, but reminds him how his side lost (Confederacy), as the trucker claims she has a mouth on her, as Kym tells him she’s not afraid to use it as the trucker gives her a friendly warning and how she should watch herself around these parts because it gets her into trouble, which is racially motivated and which Kym recognizes and who tries to talk her way in before a Manny jumps in between both and how he tells they don’t need any trouble and states how Kym just has to go as the trucker stares on at them before walking off as Kym goes in and Manny stands guard.
• Beth is short on change as she tries to buy a pack of cigarettes before Amir covers for her. They begin to walk out as Beth tells him how she thought she told him to stop trying as Amir asks her to try to do what, as Beth states how they both know what he really wants from her, with Amir asking if it’s really that hard for her to believe he just wants to be her friend.
• Beth states how everyone has an angle, even him, as Amir states how he doesn’t live his life that way and thinks it’s sad that she does. Beth claims how maybe he should start because the last time she checked he doesn’t have that many friends either, and how she’s at least making a choice with Amir stating he can too and how he doesn’t want to be her stupid friend as he leaves the gas station and goes into the back of Liv’s car and tells Marcus and Liv how he’s hitching a ride with them, after Marcus asks him what he’s doing and Liv asks if he wouldn’t rather be in Kym’s car with Beth as he claims no, and how the girls got issues, as Marcus ironically points out how he’s wearing his jersey as dressing like him and talking to him. Marcus then gets a text from the killer asking where he is, as he texts him “OMW. Be there asap”, as Liv starts the car and the trio drive off.
• Beth, Kym, and Manny come outside and who watch as they drive off with Manny asking if they just ditched them as Beth states how that’s messed up with Manny claiming how they don’t even know where they’re going as Kym states how they better follow them as Beth states how that’s not happening.
• Kym’s surprised as she finds the knife slashed onto her tire, which Beth takes out and claims how that’s really bad as Manny states how obviously and who’d even do that, as Kym states how she has her suspicions as Beth looks over to the trio of truckers, referring to them (meta) as "randoms" and glorified extras.
• Beth then states how the knife is a classic plot point as Kym reminds her how for the last time “reboot, bitch” and states how the “good ol’ boys” are about to pay for what they did as she walks towards them. Beth calls out how for her how reboot or not, it doesn’t matter and who tells Manny how they’re the secondary characters (comic relief, sidekick, know it all) and how now that they’re stranded, they’re a bunch of sitting ducks and how that’s usually when things go wrong for people like them as Manny asks how wrong.
• Beth states how the longer the longer they’re stuck out there, cut off from the others, the slowly they’ll start to unravel before one of them inevitably goes off and does something stupid and how they both know how that ends as Beth uses the knife and does a slash motion on her throat with it, and how long story short one of them is going to die.

Nighttime

• Kym angrily approaches the truckers and asks them who slashed her tire and how one of them is going to pay for it in cash, which they have no idea what she’s talking about. The leader, which she confronted earlier, claims she’s got them confused for someone else and walks up to her and tells her how he suggests she go looking elsewhere before it’s too late as Kym tells him how she’s not afraid of him.
• Manny runs up to her and tells Kym how they don’t need this kind of drama and to go, as Kym tells him how they started with them first and why he’s trying to get her to roll over, as the leader tells her how she should listen to her “frilly” friend if she knows what’s good for him as Kym and the trucker stare at another before the trucker chuckles and leaves with his crew, as Manny and Kym watch as they do so.
• Marcus, Liv and Amir arrive at the salvage yard and his childhood neighborhood, now nighttime, who get out as Amir states they should perhaps wait for the others which Marcus claims how there’s no reason and how they aren’t coming. Amir asks how he knows that as Liv states how she slashed Kym’s tire as Amir asks surprises why as Marcus defends her, claiming how they didn’t want anyone else getting hurt, including him.
• Amir states how maybe one of them should stay by the car in case they need to make a quick getaway as Liv and Marcus look at one another before Liv hands her keys to Marcus and who hands them to Amir.
• Liv tells Amir how if he sees anything suspicious, to honk and Amir claims he’ll honk twice as Liv and Marcus leave as he watches them head off. They make their way inside the shed of Hook Man using their cell phone flashlights and Liv directs Marcus to a display of awards, of Hook Man’s, who they identify as Luther Thompson, being a military veteran, specifically from the Vietnam War. The two look at one another as they look more into the bulletin board which shows newspapers of the events of Halloween 2010, which Liv claims keeping tabs on Marcus, as if to implicate him.
• Amir gets a text from Beth while standing guard which she states they’re stranded and if he could come get them. He heads to and drops the keys of the car as he tries to open the door before Luther appears behind Amir, who scares him as Amir screams his name for help, which he and Liv overhear from inside.
• Luther drags Amir to the salvage yard outside and pushes him in a couch and accuses him of wearing a getup, referring to his Halloween costume, as Amir claims he doesn’t know and that he’ll leave if he lets him go as Luther claims he’s not going anywhere, angrily. Marcus then tackles him as Amir gets up and Luther recognizes Marcus (incorrectly referring to him as Deion).
• Luther then claims how he has a lot of balls coming out there, especially tonight (the anniversary) which Marcus claims is the whole reason he’s there and how he wants to know the truth about what happened on Halloween night.
• Luther proclaims how he didn’t do anything to his brother and asks if they hear them, which Liv agrees but why they should believe him. Luther tells her he doesn’t give a damn what she believes and tells them how they’re all trespassing on his property and tells them to get the hell off. “Deion” asks Luther if he killed “Marcus” as Luther asks why he’s asking him that now as he claims how he may be alive, and that Luther may know where to find him.
• Luther is taken aback and asks if it’s some kind of sick joke as Marcus claims how a fool in a mask is running around killing people because of decisions both of them made, denying it being a joke. Luther looks at them, teary eyed, as he tells them all to follow him and that he’ll take them to him.
• Back at the gas station, Kym tries to fix her tire and take it out as Beth lights a cigarette and tells Kym how the bolts are stripped as Kym tries to use a lug wrench, annoyed by Beth’s statement as she blames Manny for this being his fault, which he’s taken aback by, as Kym angrily tells him how they’re supposed to be a ride or die team and how he just left her hanging with the rednecks.
• Manny tells her how he’s sorry for trying to avoid getting their asses kicked, as both friends begin having a fight. Beth sarcastically comments by referring if they’re arguing about not getting Deliverance'd.
• Kym states how that’s the problem, as Manny never wants to fight anybody over nothing and how she’s left doing all the heavy lifting while he sits back and takes advantage. Manny angrily defends himself asking Kym how many lunch periods he’s sacrificed passing fliers for her and how many classes he’s skipped going to marches with her and for what, asking Kym what her little social justice war has actually accomplished as Kym breaks down, stating how she’s at least trying to do something and how all he wants to do is “GTFO”, claiming to him as if leaving the hood is going to solve his problems as Manny states it will do one, getting him away from her. Kym claps back that it won’t be soon enough.
• Manny tells Kym face forward that he’s warning her and to not push her as Kym states how why not, claiming like it’s not like he’ll push back. Kym then pushes Manny, shoving him on his chest with both her hands before Manny gets mad and silently begins to kick on Kym’s front driver car door, as Beth says how this is exactly what she was talking about before Manny manages to kick off Kym’s door handle, as Kym is taken aback by it and heads into her car by getting in through the passenger door as Manny apologizes and claims Beth was right.
• Manny asks Kym where she’s going as Kym claims how she promised kids back home a safe Halloween and how she’s not going back on her word unlike him. Beth states how this is a bad idea as Kym claims how it was a bad idea coming out there in the first place as she drives and Manny calls for her stop as Kym drives off, despite her slashed tire.
• Luther leads Marcus, Liv, and Amir to the inside of the salvage yard by a red car with overgrown weeds around it as Liv asks what it is, as Luther claims the last place he saw “‘Marcus” (Deion) as “Deion” (Marcus) claims how he was going to take them and asks where is he as Luther gets down and takes a tarp off from the ground who tells them he’s right there to reveal a makeshift grave with the Ghostface mask on top of the cross where Luther buried him, with the hole in the forehead of the mask. He apologizes to “Deion” and how “Marcus” is dead.
• Liv then apologizes to Marcus as Amir states he is too, who looks on his phone reading Beth’s text message and claims how it’s been a while since they heard from the others and how he’s going to check in, leaving both Liv and Marcus alone with Luther. Marcus claims how Luther had never answered his question about whether or not he killed his brother as Luther states how he knows him, and everyone thinks that he’s a monster but how the truth being what happened to his brother (Deion) that night was an accident as Marcus claims he attacked them.
• Luther defends himself as having come back from the war and being in a hard place, and how due to his drinking and saw them in the shadows on his lane how his mind took him back to a bad place, referring to the war, claiming he didn’t know what he was seeing until the mask came off. Luther states how after Marcus hopped the fence, his brother broke away and ran off and faster than he could keep up, stating he turned the salvage yard upside down looking for him and thought he ran back home, until the cops showed up and states how they weren’t going to look that hard for a missing black kid anyways and that they were there and gone in less than a day.
• Luther then states how it wasn’t until 6 months later how “Marcus” had never left after finding his body in the trunk of the car with the overgrown weeds and states how that’s not what he wanted to hear but that he’s sorry but how it’s the truth and tells both Liv and Marcus they can find their way out. He walks off as Liv asks if he’s ok as Marcus states how he needs a moment with his brother, as Liv agrees and states that when he needs her, she’ll be there as she also walks off as Marcus stands above his brother's grave.
• Manny tries to call Kym back at the gas station, receiving her voicemail as Beth smokes and states how Manny’s really dead to her as Manny tells her how she may have noticed how Kym doesn’t like when people stand up to her.
• Beth tells Manny how if Kym only wants him around when he’s doing exactly what she wants and claims she’s some friend.
• Manny states how she’s more like a sister and who pushes his buttons like no other, referring to him and her as siblings, but claims to Beth how siblings fight to which Beth replies sarcastically how they also smash each other’s cars, stating she didn’t see that one coming.
• Manny leans next to Beth on the wall and claims how he has anger issues and how he usually keeps it under control but how sometimes all the rage builds up and he loses it, and how he wants to hurt someone, as Beth looks at him and claims how she can see that, as if to suspect him.
• The racist truckers then drive past them and head towards where Kym left as Beth points it out and Manny states how they’re heading towards Kym and takes his inhaler and begins to run towards them as Beth tells Manny to wait up as she also follows him from behind.
• Marcus picks up the Ghostface mask, with the hole in the forehead of which he wore, and which Deion was killed in and who then proceeds to break it as the old mask slowly crumbles in his hands as it falls down. Suddenly, Marcus is taken aback as he hears Luther scream from the other side of the salvage yard and finds him stabbed in the gut and asks him what happened as Luther tells him to run and that Ghostface is coming for him after Marcus asks who.
• Kym tries driving farther in a desolate road, despite her slashed tire preventing her car from driving faster before she then looks through her rearview mirror to find the trio of truckers from before, honking their horn and identifying them. They ram behind Kym’s car hitting her rear and push her off the road, as Kym drives off into a cornfield just as her car goes off, and who’s now stuck.
• Manny and Beth run towards Kym through the road as Manny tells Beth to hurry up and how she’s trying but how her boots aren’t made for running which Manny claims look awful, which upsets Beth who then supposedly twists her foot.
• Manny approaches to help and Beth claims she’s fine and for him to go ahead and that she’ll be right behind him as Manny runs off and Beth supposedly unties her boots, perhaps changing to another pair.
  • Would be proven true since she turns out to be Ghostface.
• Luther calls out, despite being wounded, with his hook, for Ghostface to come out, calling them a freak and to show themselves. Luther then turns around to find Ghostface, holding his buck knife towards him as Luther takes off his jacket and tells him to dance as he holds up his hook as both begin to slash, as they make their way and both their melee weapons touch.
• Luther then manages to knee Ghostface and who tells him to come in as they battle, sword fighting style as Luther manages to swerve the knife with his hook a few times and grunts as Ghostface manages to get an upper hand. He would later trap Luther in a car crusher, chaining him down and who would activate it once Marcus encounters him.
• Manny arrives at the cornfield and encounters the truckers looking on who turn around as he approaches them and who takes his jacket off and grabs the black wrench off their truck as he asks where Kym is to them.
• The leader faces Manny and tells him how his friend had some sort of accident and Manny claims he’s lying and that he did this, who looks at Manny holding the wrench and asks what he’s going to do with that and states how if they knew how to switch a tire they wouldn’t be in their mess in the first place. Manny then angrily hits the leader with it and breaks his arm, bones cracking as he does as the leader screams in pain that he broke his arm. Manny tells them all how he’s just getting started and asks the others which one of them is next before they all retreat and leave, claiming he’s crazy as Manny runs off towards the cornfield to find Kym.
• Marcus runs and tries to search for Liv at the salvage yard, calling out her name before he hears Luther scream for help and who directs himself towards the direction of his call. He would then find Luther trapped on the car crusher as the machine begins to come down on him.
• Marcus asks him how to help as Luther tells how there’s a control panel on the other side, who tries to get to it before it breaks and sparks from the board fly, busting it as Marcus asks him how to stop it as Luther claims he can’t and that he can’t, that there’s no time and cries as he apologizes in his final moments to Marcus as Deion as the machine crushes him and he is crushed and bled to death as Marcus look on, the blood spilling.
• Back at the cornfield, Manny calls out for Kym and looks for her with the flashlight on his phone and asks where she is and apologizes. Manny then stumbles upon her car and then finds a bloody handprint on her car window and who hears a rustling in the field and calls out to Kym if that’s her as he looks and runs towards the sound.
• Manny looks through the field as the rustling continues and calls her name before seeing someone pass him behind, startling and scaring him as Manny asks if that’s her and who then pushes past the dried-up crops only to find Ghostface standing there, with a wrench in hand.
• Ghostface hits Manny with it on his knee, which knocks him down and injures him. Ghostface is then about to further attack him with the wrench before Manny then kicks the killer with his other foot on their chest before Manny gets up and begins running, limping as heads into Kym’s car and locking the doors and who tries to turn on the car to escape, as he begins to breathe heavily and sweating, in fear, as the car fails to start.
  • The bloody handprint on Kym's car window which Manny finds is a callback to Emma and Noah finding a bloody handprint on Piper Shaw's car window (before her reveal as a killer) in "Revelations".
• Ghostface then shows up at the driver's door and who disappears behind him as Manny tries to look on before trying to restart the car again and who sees that through the rearview mirror, Ghostface lighting a match and set a plant on fire and who would then drop it towards the trail of gasoline towards the car as Manny calls no and pleads with them.
• Manny tries to get out of the car only for Ghostface to have barricaded it with the wrench as Manny screams and has an asthma attack as the car begins to get set on fire, slowly killing him before the car then explodes.
• Beth supposedly arrives to the cornfield and who is run into by Amir, who startled her as he hands Beth her boots which he said scared her (she took off) as Beth asks how if he ran all the way there to which he states only the first mile and how it was a painful jog (unclear if distance was close to salvage yard).
• Beth asks why he’d do that as Amir reveals how Liv slashed Kym’s tire, which takes her aback as Amir claims how it doesn’t matter and all that does is that she’s OK. Beth claims how perhaps he is that nice and that perhaps she was wrong with Amir claiming she was right and how perhaps he does have an angle and that he does want something from her, something more than just friends.
• Both flirt as Beth asks him if he’s ever even kissed a girl before as Amir asks if that matters which Beth claims not to her as both lean in to share a kiss before being interrupted and ran into by Kym, who startled them as Beth asks her what happened.
• Kym claims how the last thing she remembers was being run off the road and how everything after that was just a blur and asks where’s Manny. Beth states how she thought he was with her as she tells him how he saw the rednecks after her and ran off to save her before they hear and see the car exploding from the distance as Kym cries no (due to Manny) as they all head towards the explosion.
• Marcus runs away from the salvage yard and into the road and who’s almost hit by Liv in her car as she gets out as Marcus tells her how Ghostface was there and he killed Luther and asks her where she was as Liv claims how she came back to the car worried and looking for Amir and how he wasn’t there and so she’s been driving looking for him.
• Marcus then gets a call from Amir as he asks him where he’s at as Amir tells him how he’s at the cornfield with Kym and Beth as Liv asks about Manny which Amir claims how he tried to help but how it’s bad, really bad. Kym then tries to approach the burning car as she cries and Amir holds her back as Marcus and Liv hear her cries over the phone and Beth looks at the car,  supposedly in shock .
• Afterwards, Marcus aka “Deion” heads back home as Jay sits outside and states how his mom’s been tripping all night and asks where he’s been at as he tells him how went to the salvage yard as Jay asks where “Marcus” died and asks him why’d he do that as he claims for proof which Jay asks how he already told him as “Deion” agrees and how “Marcus” is gone and how it’s like he lost him all over again. The brothers go silent as Marcus tells Jamal how he knows Jay doesn’t feel like he isn’t a part of the family or blood but how he’s the only brother he’s got and how he sees that now as both talk outside before Marcus heads inside and who greets her mother and father, with Sherry looking over a photo book of her long lost dead son as Marcus states to her how they have to let him go as much ad it hurts as she cries and claims she can’t as Marcus hugs her and comforts her, unaware that she’s talking to Marcus and not Deion (which he never reveals to her)
• Marcus is in bed before getting a call from Liv, how they both can’t sleep as Liv states how she can’t stop thinking about Manny as Marcus states how that’s not her fault but rather the person who killed him and how they figure out who that is before it happens again which Liv claims she’s been racking her brain all night trying to do that. Marcus asks if she has another theory as Liv tells him how ever since Ghostface started targeting them, they’ve been one step ahead of them as Marcus agrees stating how he knows all their plays before they even make them.
• Liv states how she hopes she’s not right because they’re screwed as Marcus asks her who she thinks is killing them as Liv tells him how it’s always been someone who's been hiding in plain sight and it’s been someone under their noses and how that Ghostface is one of them as she hangs up and tells Marcus to try and sleep. Liv then gets up and heads to her drawer to pull back on a hidden drawer underneath her dresser, revealing phones as she takes out a lighter and turns it on to hood it over her arm, smiling as she does to ease her.
  • Red herring trope as to suspect Liv, which is debunked since she’s not the killer.

November

November 1st

5:50 PM- 7:00 PM

• A Catholic mass and funeral memorial service, and wake is held for Manny at his apartment, with everyone in black, which Kym, Beth, Marcus, Amir, and Liv attend in the evening. Kym then consoles Manny's aunt and the others, as she overlooks and helps the family. She then goes to take out the trash and who then outside finds a vase of white lily flowers with a note directed towards them as she reads it stating: “To the Deadfast Club: Friends don’t matter if you’re dead. So pick one of them to die instead. You have until 7pm. No cops. Snitches die”, which was sent by Ghostface (presumably Beth, who only placed the note there since Liv is shown to be the one who had bought them, to implicate her; also states and sets the timeframe for events that occur later in the episode, as well).
• Marcus asks Kym how she’s holding up as Kym states how it’s all wrong as she slowly cries and how Manny's been a latchkey kid since grade school but how now his family is there for him as Marcus states how everybody grieves in their own way and how she has to let them do this the way that they want as Kym asks what about Manny and what he would’ve wanted as she leaves.
• Liv smells the flowers sent in as Marcus comes up to her and tells them how they’re pretty which Liv agrees with until they wither and die and how then they’re just gone. Marcus comforts her and tells her everything will be ok as Liv tells him how he doesn’t know that as Marcus states he’ll do whatever it takes to keep her safe he’ll do it as Liv asks him from who as she states how she believes it has to be one of them who’s doing it and Marcus states how it’s just a theory. He then reminds her how they have to head back soon to Weaver or they’ll both be late to practice.
• Kym thanks the others as the Deadfast Club walks out of Manny's apartment for coming and how it would’ve meant a lot to Manny and how she needed it too. Marcus assures Kym how Manny was one of them and how they’re not going to forget him.
• Amir stated how he was expecting the killer to show up and try to scare them as Liv agrees that perhaps they did and pans out her theory as how they’re probably watching them and enjoying it, telling the Club discreetly how they’re probably closer than they think.
• Marcus tells Liv how now’s not the time as Kym states how she’s right as she shows the Club the note who hands it to Amir after he asks what it is, who reads it aloud to them. Beth asks how long she’s had it as she tells them how it came with the white lily flowers as Marcus asks Kym why didn’t tell them earlier as Kym states how today is Manny’s day and who didn’t want to ruin that.
• Amir asks if the killer wants them to choose who dies as Marcus states how the killer is trying to turn them against each other and how they can’t let that happen and how they have to stick together. Liv states how not unless one of them is doing it as Amir questions her with Kym stating how Liv can’t be suggesting she killed her best friend. Liv states it’s just a theory and Beth claims how Liv’s had a lot of theories lately, and asks if she thinks the killer could’ve done things like slashed Kym’s tire who tells her how Amir told her that, which takes Kym aback as she learns this. Liv defends herself as stating she was trying to protect them and how she and Marcus didn’t want anyone following them and apologizes to Kym. Kym states how Liv could’ve just told them to hang back and how instead she left them stranded like a bunch of sitting ducks for the killer and how now her best friend is dead because of her and points out the irony of Liv’s claim for protection.
• Marcus states how fighting isn’t going to bring Manny back and how Liv didn’t know what the killer was planning as Beth states how she knew well enough to leave right before Hook Man got killed, as if to suspect her, telling Marcus how he couldn’t find her, which Liv notices as she defends herself and how she was looking for Amir and how he disappeared. Amir defends himself about trying to find and help Beth, Kym, and Manny and to not pin it on him and how Ghostface almost got him and Beth at school two days prior.
• Beth then points out how Liv wasn’t conveniently there that night, further suspecting her, as Liv reminds her how she was grounded and couldn’t leave that night as Beth states how her cop dad doesn’t know his “baby girl” is being stalked by a serial killer, or had he known how the whole police department would be on the case and caught the killer by now. Liv defends herself by saying if any of their parents know and reminding them how Kym went to the police and how it didn’t get them anywhere.
• Marcus agrees and how until the police get themselves in gear, they’re going to have to handle this themselves and who can’t see any other way to put it without risking their lives, so he tells the Club to text his name as the crew goes silent, which Liv opposes and tells him no.
• Marcus reminds her how Ghostface has been after him since the jump and it’s between him and him, as Amir claims it could also be her, who asks as Beth agrees, saying totally. Kym, over the edge, states she’s over this and how she’s got more important things to worry about, like Manny and how they can do what they want and how she’s not playing the stupid game as she walks away as Marcus calls for her.
• Liv agrees with her, claiming perhaps they shouldn’t play, stating how if Ghostface is trying to split them up then this is how they fight back, telling them to not text anything as Marcus asks if everyone agrees, which Amir and Beth agree to as Marcus states that’s how they’re going to beat him as they all leave.
• As Marcus and Liv walk the neighborhood streets of Atlanta, Liv states she can’t believe that the Club thinks it’s her as Marcus tells her how she’s not and how they’re just scared.
• Liv agrees she is too and who states how she’s pretty sure any one of them would sell her out to save themselves. Marcus states how perhaps she should talk to her dad about this as Liv states she can’t as Marcus asks why not as they stop walking and Liv states how even if he did believe her, they wouldn’t have as much evidence than Kym did and how the only thing that would happen is preventing Liv from seeing him or them again.
• Marcus looks at her as Liv asks him if he doesn’t think she’s doing this which he denies as he tells her how he doesn’t think that she is, about her or anyone else in their group (minus Beth) at all, no matter how much Ghostface wants him to think that and that he trusts her, as both embrace.
• Back at Amir’s donut shop, where he is seen glazing a dozen donuts on a sheet, asks Beth, who’s with him if she thinks they can trust the others which she out right denies and asks if he does. Amir claims he doesn’t know, and how he wants to. Amir takes the donuts on the tray up to the counter where it’s just him and Beth as he fills the donuts with glazing and asks Beth if nobody texts a name, if the killer would be pissed, which she states how she doesn’t know as she’s still trying to figure out the killers plan.
• Beth states if either he or she thinks one of them is going to give up a name, then perhaps there is something to it. Amir promises Beth to not sell her out as Beth tells him how he’s never going to survive (foreshadowing) by looking out for her and that he has to worry about himself.
• Amir states how he’s into her and thought he made that clear when they were out in the boonies as Beth states he’s not the worst person in the world, either, but how this “mushy stuff” is a perfect distraction for a killer for them to drop their guard. Beth takes some icing filling that he’s glazing and licks her finger and how perhaps it’s better if Amir stays away until all of this is over before leaving the store.

7:00 PM-Nighttime

• At the football field at Weaver that night, Marcus is shown continuing to practice as QB, while the cheerleaders (Liv being among them) practice on the sidelines. Coach Griffin cheers on Marcus as Hawkins makes a snarky comment about him showing up which the Coach notices and tells him to run again.
• Marcus huddles and discusses with the football team what their game strategy is and coordinates as Hawkins also joins, who asks what’s up with him as Hawkins then denies not wanting his pity play. Hawkins reminds him how he skipped practices while they were all out working as Marcus apologizes and claims how he had to deal with and take care of personal stuff but how he’s here now and that they’re a team and Hawkins is, too, giving them a pep talk. They join hands on 3 and chant their mascot and just as they’re about to practice again, Marcus and the rest notice the scoreboard being hanged to a 30 second countdown, as Marcus looks over to the press box as he sees Ghostface in there.
• Reacting, Marcus stops practice and takes his helmet off and hops the fence and runs past the bleachers, much to the confusion of both his own teammates and coach, as Griffin calls out for him to comeback, referring how no one cares about the scoreboard. Livthen watches from below on the sidelines as Marcus arrives up to the press box and who finds it to only be a mask but who finds a notes with a knife stuck, reading in all caps “VOTES IN SOMEONE ABOUT TO GET SACKED” as the scoreboard below counts down to 1 (meaning he got up there in approximately 26 seconds; also the note Ghostface had sent earlier stated the timeframe as the group had until 7PM, meaning Amir texted while at Beth’s or on his way to her house).
• After practice, Marcus is in Liv’s car and who is called by Kym as he asks her if she got his text and who agrees as Marcus asks if she was the one who picked which she denies, claiming how she wasn’t playing as Marcus states he’s just trying to figure out what happened as Kym states trying to figure out if she texted Liv’s name, and asks if she made him call her to ask, which he denies as Kym states if he should be asking anybody questions it’s his girl and who asks him what he really knows about her, since she did transfer and a new student, besides the fact Kym states how he wants to get up on her, hinting at their relationship.
• Marcus states how that has nothing to do with, as Kym states there’s no judgment but how perhaps Liv is clouding his. Marcus then asks where she’s at and if it is somewhere safe, as it shows Kym alone outside as she lies being with Manny’s family and asks about him as he replies he’s keeping his head down for now as Kym agrees that’s good as long as he’s staying far away from Kym, unaware that Liv is in the car and who overheard this.
• Marcus tells Kym to hit him up if anything happens as they hang up the call and Kym walks off and Liv asking Marcus if it was her, which Marcus states how Kym said she didn’t do it as Liv asks if he believes her, which he agrees, as Liv states how that only leaves 2 people (Beth and Amir).
• Liv tells Marcus how she doesn’t know about him but how she’d feel safer if she was with someone she trusted as Marcus states he would but how he has to do stuff as Liv reminds him that he knows where she’s at. Marcus thanks her for the ride and kisses Liv on the cheek and who tells her to text him when she gets home, as he gets out and is shown to be dropped off at the tattoo parlor where Beth works, as he goes in.
• Elsewhere, Amir is shown approaching Beth’s house and who knocks on her door and who asks for Beth as she slowly opens the door and then fully to reveal her without any makeup as Amir compliments her as Beth states how she just got out of the shower and asks him how she normally looks, with Amir stating different but also awesome, continuing his compliment.
• Amir then tells her that there’s a hearse in her driveway as Beth reveals how she lives there but how it’s also a funeral home, which Amir claims explains a lot. Beth asks him what he’s doing there as Amir tells her how somebody got picked, which she claims she saw as Amir states how he was thinking they could look out for each other as Beth sighs and asks him if what she said went right through his “donut hole” and out the other, reminding him it’s not a good idea.
• Amir states how neither is going home, work or school and how nowhere is safe and how if it’s all the same he’d rather take his chances with her as Beth invites him inside.
• At the tattoo parlor Marcus finds Jay being tattooed by Rick, as he asks to talk in private with him, which Jay denies and asks what he needs and tells Marcus why doesn’t he tell him what’s going on so he can handle it. Marcus states he doesn’t want him to get mixed up in it as Jay states how if Marcus is mixed up in it, then he is too and reminds Marcus of what he said about being the only brother he has and who tells him how he can keep struggling by himself or he can let him help.
• Beth invites and leads Amir into her living room as Amir notices her watching Hellraiser (1987) and asks if she’s really watching horror movies at a time like this. They both sit down as Beth states how she’s looking for clues and patterns and how they have to figure out what’s next so they can find the next plot twist so they can stay one step ahead. Amir takes her words and says if it involves him staying away from her, Beth can forget it as she tells him how she doesn’t anything bad to happen to him because of her and how they all have roles to play in this, and states how he may be the nice guy but how she’s the bitch, claiming she’s only good for a few quips, a boob flash, and how she’s the one everybody wants to see die and how they cheer when it happen, referencing Franklin Hardesty (as dude in the wheelchair) from the 1974 film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (meta reference).
• Amir claims how that won’t happen to him since Beth won’t let it and how she knows everything about this stuff which she disagrees and claims how she doesn’t and acts like she does and trying to be cool and collected like watching horror movies means she knows exactly what’s going to happen and claims how this is real life and how the truth is she’s just as lost and terrified as he is.
• Amir then approaches to console Beth before he finds a kitchen knife inside her couch as Beth defends how despite not knowing what’s coming next doesn’t mean she’s not going to fight back. Amir asks if she has an extra one for him, as Beth tells him to keep it and how he’s right that nowhere is safe and how Ghostface could’ve gotten him working alone on his shift as Amir states he got ahead on that one.
• Beth states or could be waiting for Kym outside Manny's place. Amir asks about Liv as Beth states how she’s the new girl and obsessed with Marcus and how she’s been MIA anytime she’s supposedly seen the killer, implicating her suggesting as Amir asks if she really thinks she’s Ghostface as Beth says, asks how she wouldn’t hurt Marcus as she seems so into him.
• Beth states how that makes him the easiest target of all as she narrates while Liv is shown at home texting and how Beth says how Marcus thinks he’s the hero of the story so all she has to do is tug at his heartstrings.
• Liv’s secret old phone inside her drawer then begins to ring as she takes it out to see an incoming call from an unknown person.
• Beth continues how a damsel in distress who needs his help or so he thinks as it shows Marcus entering and knocking on Liv’s window, as Liv asks what he’s doing there as she hides the secret phone back in the drawer as Marcus states taking her advice and how he decided he’d feel much safer if he was with someone that he trusted.
• Beth states how she’d lull Marcus into a false sense of security with some “woe is me” sob story, as Liv tells Marcus about how her dad’s always been an intense guy but how it got so much worse since he and his mom split.
• Beth continues on how she’d then compliment him and feed his ego and make him feel wanted, as Liv then tells Marcus she’s glad he came and how she knows she said how they can’t trust anyone but how she’s always felt safer with him as Marcus agrees and states it’s good and how he wants him to feel safe with her as both sit on her bed and face closer towards one another.
• Beth then finishes by saying how when his guard is down, Amir chimes that she’d stab him in the heart as Beth suggests and never finishes before it shows Liv and Marcus about to make out, as Marcus asks if she’s sure she wants to this now as Liv agrees and states she’s tired of being scared and just wants to feel normal as both begin making out and have sex (reverse of Marcus's nightmare) for the first time .
  • Beth’s narration is a reverse telling and foreshadowing since what Beth lists and states as what Liv’s doing to Marcus is exactly what she does to Amir, seeing as she’s the killer, not Liv.
  • This narration is an homage to Noah Foster's narrations from the first two seasons, as well as the duo of her and Amir being a nod to Noah's relationships with both Riley Marra (Season 1 until Wanna Play a Game?, nod to the narration and conversation between the two in "Hello, Emma") and Zoë Vaughn (Season 2, until "The Vanishing").
• Amir back at Beth’s house asks her if that’s it as Beth claims how it’s just sex and claims how she has to get him when he’s at his most vulnerable before she can go in for the kill as Beth states how if he wants to know the worst part about it all  is how he never sees it coming. Liv is shown standing over Marcus who’s sleeping on her bed following their session with his gun which she found.
• Marcus awakens and finds himself alone in Liv’s room. He puts on his pants and still shirtless, makes his way to Liv’s drawer where she was seen stashing and hiding her secret phone when he arrived.
• Marcus opens and finds it, as well as a receipt from the florist for the Lily bouquet, the same one which Kym found the note in, which cost her $48.68. After finding this, he takes it and hears his phone chime and who reads it as he starts to get dressed placing his shirt on and hoodie and who goes to his backpack to look for his gun as Liv returns and silently asks if he’s looking for this as she points to his magnum gun.
  • The receipt states how Liv bought the china lily bouquet at approximately 5:50 PM, thus giving a timeframe of when the events took place, opening the episode in the evening rather than in the morning.
• Beth listens on headphones to Amir’s music on his phone as well as his sampled audio horror movies mix of which Beth mentioned as Beth asks if he made this, after stating how it sounds like it’s from a soundtrack.
• Amir states how he made it just for her and that calls it “Beth metal” (pun on death metal). Beth compliments his music, saying if people know he makes music which he denies and states how he was afraid of what people would think until Ghostface showed up and how then suddenly what people thought of him wasn’t scary anymore, not when he could die at any time, with Beth stating how that was always technically true.
• Amir states how if this is all the life he has left to live, then why not go out with a bang, as he takes the headlines off Beth’s head and who plays his music out loud on his phone and asks Beth to dance with her as she does.
• Kym approaches Manny's apartment and makes her way up to the roof and who is alone as she looks over the cityscape of Atlanta at night, saying aloud how 5 months and a hundred blocks, which was Manny's goal, talking to herself as she tears up and states how she used to clown him for not thinking big enough and how now it seems so far away as she states that she didn’t forget what they talked about.
• Kym takes out of her backpack and says how she hangs out at his spot and pouring out kombucha for the homie, taking out a picture of him and a bottle as well as a candle which she lights as she says how he deserves something bigger and better than this as she tears up and almost breaks down by saying mostly a better friend than her as she cries, as she laments and how she was supposed to have his back and they were ride or die and states how she shouldn’t have left him and how he shouldn’t have come after him and if she could change what she did she would, but how he wouldn’t because that was the kind of friend he was and how he never turned his back on his friends no matter what she or they did.
• Kym says how even now, he’d be telling her to give those fools (Club) another chance instead of hiding up there.
• Suddenly, the rooftop door is slammed as Kym takes her backpack and hides as it opens and someone approaches, later revealed after being scared to be Hawkins.
• Amir and Beth continue to dance in her living room as he laughs, which Beth notices and asks him, as Amir tells her to come to him and to relax as Beth states how he got her and how she can’t dance, and a point for him as the nerd. Amir then smoothly asks Beth how many more points until he levels up as they hold hands as she looks at him and tells him how she feels he’s already there as Beth then unbuttons and takes his shirt off and she takes off her shirt to reveal a bra.
• Beth then states how maybe they shouldn’t do this as Amir begins to apologize as Beth claims how it’s just they’re having sex with a killer on the loose as Amir asks her if they’re going to, which Beth agrees to and jokes how she doesn’t want to get busy and get an arrow to the neck before they finally kiss and Amir claims how she’ll be safe tonight and promises her as Beth states she hopes he’s this weird in bed as they kiss and then proceed to have sex.
• Back at Liv’s house, Liv asks Marcus why he’d bring the gun there which he defends as bringing it to protect them and asks her what she’s doing going over his bag as Liv states how she nearly tripped over it and broke her foot and that’s when she found it. Marcus defends himself as well, claiming he found the receipt as he claims it’s suddenly not cool when people look through her stuff.
• Liv states how it was the vigil so she sent flowers, which Marcus points out were white lilies, as Marcus states how Kym told him that the note Ghostface sent came with those flowers. Liv states how she’d never sent that note and how he can’t think she’s the killer which Marcus states he doesn’t know what to think as he says how he knows somebody backstabbed him as he shows her the text he read from earlier which is from the killer which reads “Congratulations, Deion. You’ve been chosen to DIE!”
• Back at the rooftop of Manny's apartment and who goes out to attack before it reveals Hawkins, which startles both Kym and him as she asks him if he’s Ghostface as he asks what that is, as she says never mind. Kym asks him what he’s doing there as Hawkins states the same thing as her he’s guessing as she tells him how she didn’t know they were cool like that, which Hawkins replied how nobody did which Kym is startled to learn and pick up on.
• Hawkins states how they kept it between them as Kym states that’s how they’ll keep it as Hawkins states he was a good dude as Kym agrees, stating the best. Hawkins then offers her a cup seeing as he also brought a bottle which Kym states she’s good and tells him how she won’t be for a while and Hawkins agrees before Kym is then texted by the killer the same text as Marcus  as “No Caller ID”.
• Kym asks him if he’s good and how she’d stay but how she has some friends to deal with. Kym begins to leave before Hawkins calls her back and tells her how Manny really did love her as she smiles silently and then proceeds to leave.
• Liv asks why somebody would pick him as Marcus states he doesn’t know and tells Liv to hand her the gun so he can go, which she denies, as she states how Ghostface is out there looking for him and how he’s safer there as Marcus states how he doesn’t know about that as he grabs the gun back from her and tells Liv how neither of them is safe if he’s there and how he’s just going to go.
• Liv stutters and states how she can’t let him do that as Marcus asks what she’s going to do to stop him as Liv then in a second, opens her bedroom door and calls out for her father, Officer Reynolds, to come to her as Marcus tells her to not and to let him go before Reynolds arrives, out of his uniform, as he asks Liv what’s going on as Liv sells him out for his good and tells him Marcus has a gun as Reynolds tells him to put his hands on her desk as Marcus tells him how he has no idea what’s going on as the Officer frisks him, who tells Marcus to shut up, and who tells Liv to please tell him before Reynolds finds the gun.
• In uniform and in his patrol car, Reynolds takes Marcus in the back on a ride along as Marcus asks the officer how long it’s going to take and how he left his bag at his place which has his personal stuff. Reynolds tells him how he won’t need that stuff where they’re going as Marcus notices Reynolds pass the directions of the precinct which worries him.
• Amir awakens in Beth’s bed alone and who finds Beth come back from the bathroom as she tells him how somebody texted Marcus’s name as he asks if it said who it was, which Beth denies and asks him if he thinks it was Kym or Liv as Amir claims he doesn’t know as Beth states how whoever it was, it was cowardly to do it behind everyone’s back as Amir states how perhaps it was just self-preservation. Beth notices his tone and figures out it was him as she tells him, supposedly shocked.
• Officer Reynolds parks his car and takes Marcus out to Bear Park after Reynolds asks him where they’re at. Reynolds tells Marcus how he’s young and how he may not see it yet but how a lot of people only act like they are who they say they are and how nobody wants to show one their dark side and how sometimes you don’t see it until it’s too late as Marcus, slightly trembling, asks him what he’s going to do as Reynolds states he should write him up for having that gun but how he’s only trying to look out for him, as Marcus asks why they're there as Reynolds tells him how he wants to talk to him about Liv as Marcus says how he thought he was going to kill him.
• Reynolds asks him if for messing around with his daughter as Marcus reminds him how he told him to stay away from her as Reynolds claims was not for her sake but for his as Marcus asks what he means as Reynolds tells him how when he and Liv’s mom got divorced earlier this year, how Liv took it pretty hard.
• Marcus asks hard like how as he states how she was acting out in destructive ways which made him think she was a little unstable and asks Marcus if he’s seen anything like that from her. Marcus then sees Ghostface standing in the road in the mist before he disappears and states maybe as he asks if they can head back now.
• Reynolds notices his eyesight and asks him if he saw something as he turns around and grabs a flashlight out of his car to go investigate and who tells Marcus to stay there as Marcus tells him to trust him as he doesn’t want to do that as Reynolds states the infamous “I'll be right back”.
• Marcus calls for him telling him he wouldn’t do that if he was him as Marcus sits in the back of the patrol car as Reynolds goes to search the bushes and who seemingly is attacked (only tripped).
• Marcus sees someone run back with the flashlight and who tries to get out of the back as he fumbles with the car door as Reynolds returns, chuckling saying he tripped and how it’s dark out. Marcus asks if he didn’t see anybody which Reynolds agreed with as seeing nothing before Ghostface appears and stabs Reynolds in the back as he’s taken out as Marcus yells for him to let him go as Ghostface tries to slash the knife through the window to get Marcus who fails before then getting down to get Officer Reynolds’s keys which he shows Marcus as he heads inside before presumably attacking Marcus, only to knock him out instead.
• Marcus then awakens sometime later (unspecified, prior to Amir's murder or during) outside laying next to Reynolds, who’s hurt yet alive and pinned sitting down by the side of the car, as if to frame him. Further proven as  Marcus heads inside the car to radio the police about Reynolds being down as the dispatcher claims how they received the call from someone else about this incident (most likely Jamal) as the dispatcher asks Marcus who he is before Marcus then takes his gun and leaves running, with Reynolds blood on his shirt.
• Amir gets dressed and calls for Beth as she heads downstairs, saying he can explain as Beth states angrily how she doesn’t get why he’d text Marcus’s name and then lie about it and say that he didn’t. Amir claims he was scared for the both of them as Beth asks if he did this for her and how he was trying to protect her and how if he texted someone’s name, how they’d both be safe and how he only texted Marcus because he had earlier said they should ignoring how he and Liv said earlier they shouldn’t text at all.
• Beth states how this is exactly why nobody needs to have her back. Amir then gets a text from the killer which reads “SNITCHES DIE!!!”, as he asks Beth if she got the text as well. Beth states how they got it all wrong and how Ghostface said they had to pick someone to die but how they never said they were gonna kill whoever was chosen as Amir realizes his fatal error.
• Beth then assures him how nobody knows he’s there before Amir gets a call from Liv as Beth tells him not to pick it up, which he does regardless as Liv states they need to talk.
• Marcus returns back to Liv’s house and her room and calls out her name, asking where she’s at. He takes his blue backpack after hearing nothing and is about to leave before he sees her laptop open with a GPS map to Beth’s house. Marcus then opens her drawer to hear a call from Liv’s secret old phone which Marcus takes and who leaves the laptop as he exits where he came from, which was the windowsill.
• Liv tells Amir to tell her where he’s at which he tells her over the phone, lying that he’s at his house as Liv had just checked his house and whose parents had told him that he was at the library, which is closed. Amir asks Liv what she was doing at her house as Liv tells him how she thinks Beth texted Marcus’s name to the killer, which is false.
• Amir tells her how Beth wouldn’t do that and how she didn’t and confesses how it was him when Liv asks him how he’d know. Amir then tells her how he thinks Marcus is fine since he got another text from the killer. Liv realizes what happened and asks Amir where he’s at as Amir denies telling her as Liv asks if he doesn’t seriously think she’s the killer.
• Amir claims he doesn’t know as Liv states she can call her dad’s precinct for help and asks if he’s with Beth and who leaves her as she asks him before hanging up. Beth tells him how they need to go now as they go towards the front door before both Beth and Amir overhear a sound from outside as Beth looks to supposedly see Ghostface as Amir looks out to see nobody. Beth claims she saw him as Amir tells her to calm down as Beth tells him how they’re in serious trouble there.
• As if on cue, Ghostface runs and breaks through the back window of Beth’s house by running into it, startling Beth as she screams, along with Amir as Beth motions for him to follow her as they run as Ghostface pursues in the hallways. They both manage to lure him out and try to close him out, as Beth and Amir both pin their backs and push on the door to lock him out. Ghostface pushes against trying to get in.
• Amir tells Beth how this is his fault and that Beth should go get help, which she says she’s not leaving him as Amir reassures her is fine to go quickly while he’s distracted, as Beth does so leaving Amir who barricades the door just a few more moments before Ghostface stops as Amir then slowly opens the back door to see the killer gone.
• Amir closes it and calls for Beth to wait up, running to the front door and who opens it only for Ghostface to appear in front and who Amir tries to shut out until Ghostface slings their knife in the opening as Amir abandons the door and runs back into the hallways. He gets into a freight elevator just before Ghostface reaches him and watches him head down as Amir watches them.
• Amir arrives downstairs and leaves the elevator as he tries to find a place to hide, trying to open locked doors before heading into the Morgue which is open just as Ghostface then arrives downstairs, having taken the stairs and who heads inside with their buck knife in hand as they look in the morgue as Amir hides in one of the holding drawers for the bodies and who comes across Avery Collin’s body, which startled him as he makes his way back and knocks over a metal pan of tools, which Ghostface overheard right as (she) was about to leave and who busts down the door open.
• Amir, before Ghostface knocked the door down, manages to hide in one of the corpse drawers right above as Ghostface then opens the drawers and stabs the body of Avery to make sure and checks on one above before Amir gets out and slams the drawer door to Ghostface, hitting the killers heads as he hops down and gets into the freight elevator.
• Amir closes the elevator as Ghostface then picks up a bone saw from the spilled tools and who, as Amir leans his back on the door sighing with relief, thinking that he’s in the clear, would then get pierced through the door with the bone saw in the midsagittal region of his chest, just as the killer then started the elevator as Amir is impaled and as the killer moves the saw and the elevator, bisecting and slicing through his entire torso and stomach.
• The elevator opens to the upper floor as Amir stumbles out and down to the floor, dying as his guts are out and who then sees Ghostface appear and who in his dying moments, unmasks the killer before dying with shock in his face (revealed to be Beth in flashback).
• Marcus arrives at Beth's house and who’s about to head to the front door just as the Ghostface who killed Amir seemingly tumbles out as well through the front and who Marcus then has at gunpoint before the gun gets jammed before Ghostface then slashed Marcus’s forearm and left without further attacking him. Marcus cries out and grunts as he runs and rips the gun and who makes his way to the driveway to find a dropped Ghostface mask before turning around and seeing Kym, who is glad he’s ok and to see him and who tells him how when she saw the text she didn’t know what to think.
• Marcus asks startled what she’s doing there as Kym states how she came to see if anybody knew what the hell was going on and how she called him, as well as Liv, Beth, and Amir and how none of them answered her as well.
• Kym tells him how Beth’s house was on the way and Marcus tells her how Ghostface was just there and that she has to go as Kym states she’s done leaving her friends when they need her and how he’s stuck with her now as Marcus agrees and tells her to stay close as they run around the house to retrieve the gun which fell in the bushes. Marcus can’t find it, much to his agitation, as Kym asks what gun.
• Liv then arrives and calls Marcus, asking him how she thought he was with his dad as Marcus claims he needs to talk to her about that. Beth then arrives seemingly from across the street and asks them what they’re all doing there.
• Kym tells her how the killer was there which Beth states she knows and how Amir sent her to get help so she ran to her neighbors and got them to call the cops and asked them where he’s at. Beth then calls Amir’s name as Marcus tells her to wait as Beth then heads into the house and, who then seemingly screams and cries as she kneels down on Amir’s dead body as Marcus, Liv, and Kym arrive behind her and stand and find his dead body.
• The Atlanta PD arrive at Beth's house as Marcus, Liv, Kym, and Beth stand outside, as Officer B. Westbrook tells them to stay right there as they stand on the driveway and that he’ll be right back to get their statements.
• Kym states how finally the police are on the case and how it’s about time things came to light as Marcus agrees before he states how Liv can shine some light on this, as he takes out her secret old phone as Liv asks Marcus where he got that. Beth states how it’s the same as Ghostface as Liv defends herself, claiming how same as anybody with a private number. Liv asks Marcus if he told her father about this, which he denies as Marcus states how he’d told him how she’d been acting crazy right before Ghostface jumped him.
• Liv is taken aback by this and asks Marcus why he didn’t tell her that dad was attacked. Marcus claims he tried to and how he came back to her house and how she wasn’t there. Liv states she has to go as Kym asks Marcus if the killer got to Liv’s dad as well as Beth pointing out how Reynolds said Liv was crazy, as he also shows Kym and tells them about the receipt for the white flowers where Kym got the note.
• Beth deflects and implies how that's exactly what the killer would say to throw them off their trail as Kym asks if he really thinks Liv would do her dad like that as Marcus tells Kym how her and her dad weren’t getting along and how Liv was the only one who knew he was with her dad before his father was attacked .
• Marcus looks over to see Liv then talking to Officer Westbrook as he talks to Kym, as the officer turns around as the conversation stops as the officer calls his name and asks where’s Liv as he tells them how she’s being transported to the hospital to go see Officer Reynolds and what he needs him to do is drop his bag and unzip his jacket as Marcus asks what’s up as he does. Westbrook tells him how Liv told him how he knew about her father being attacked at Bear Park tonight as Kym asks so.
• Westbrook claims how that incident wasn’t made public knowledge as Marcus unzips his jacket to find the blood on his shirt, prompting Westbrook to take out his handgun and tell Marcus to get down as Beth and Kym watch on as other officers arrive to assist as Marcus claims it’s not what it looks like as Kym asks if he’s under arrest before Officer B. Westbrook handcuffs him and throws Marcus in the back of his patrol car.
• The San Diego State scout, Coach Fisher, arrives to Atlanta late this night, according to Griffin (“Blindspots”)

November 2nd

Morning

• Liv is shown at the hospital, trying to buy a TWINS bar for 50 cents, with other candies around it (subliminal reference to rapper 50 Cent and his 2005 song "Candy Shop" featuring Olivia, which for short is Liv) at a vending machine before the machine fails to dispense her the candy, which annoys her as she pounds on the glass before she gets a call from “No Caller ID” which is Marcus calling her from where he’s being held, at the Atlanta Police Department (at the College Park precinct).
• Marcus tells her how he can’t believe Amir is gone, which Liv agrees and how she can’t, either, but it’s not like she’s had any time to process it, not with everything that’s going on with her dad. Marcus asks her about him and if he’s okay as Liv states how the doctors stopped his bleeding but how he’s still unconscious (comatose) as Marcus asks her if he’s going to make it, as Liv states how they don’t know yet.
• Marcus tells Liv where he’s at after she asks him and how they finally let him make a call, as Liv tells Marcus how he can’t say anything to the police and reminds him of what Ghostface told them about snitches dying. Marcus then asks Liv what she told the cops to get him caught up like this, as Liv claims how she said how her dad was hurt and that he was the one who told her, claiming she didn’t try to get him in trouble.
• Marcus then asks her if she doesn’t think he had anything to do with what happened to her dad, as Liv asks what about him and points out the irony and how he didn’t come right out and say it but how he believes she’s the killer Marcus states how he had almost died last night because of her and having been arrested because of her.
• Marcus tells Liv how he’s being grilled about something he had nothing to do because of her and claims how killer or not, it doesn’t matter and that he needs her to do one thing for him as Marcus seemingly ends things with her as he tells her quietly to never talk to her again, and hangs up as Liv looks on just before approaching Westbrook who tells her how as long as he’s there no one comes into Reynolds room without his say so and who tells Liv to keep her chin up and how they’re pulling for him.
• Liv visits her father in his hospital room as she grabs onto his arm and tells him how this is all her fault and that she’s sorry for this and everything as Liv touches his shoulder.
• Suddenly, her dad awakens choking on his breathing tube which startled Liv as the hospital staff come in to check on him.
• Back at the station, a detective lets Marcus off as Officer Reynolds came through long enough to clear him of any involvement, stating he wasn’t the one who attacked him. Marcus asks if this means he can go as Marcus is handed back his backpack and the officer motions for him to go, adding unless he has something to add before he leaves or knows about who killed the Muslim kid (who’s referring to Amir Ayoub).
• Marcus, upset, claims he has a name and was his friend and how he had just spent the last 7 hours talking to them and about how he had nothing to do with that and asking him if he wants to listen now. Marcus tells the officer to do his damn job and how there are people are dying out there, good people, as he leaves.
• Outside the station waiting for Marcus as he exits, perched on his car is Jay, who greets him as a “gangster” as Marcus heads into his car and throws him a fresh jacket as Jay drives Marcus out and back to school.
• During the car ride, Jamal asks Marcus why he’s acting like a “sad, little bitch” and tells him how he’s out, as Marcus states how his friend died last night, referring to Amir, as Jay asks why he’s trying to go to school and to take a day off as Marcus claims he can’t as the game is tomorrow. Jamal then states how if that’s all that’s on his mind because since Marcus got into Jay's car, he hasn't even looked at Jay once.
• Marcus annoyingly points out how the gun Jamal gave him yesterday was unloaded after talking to him at the tattoo parlor which Jay defends as how had he popped (shot) somebody, that’s not a night of questioning but how that’s a mandatory minimum in the state penitentiary and asks then what happens to Marcus’s little football dreams.
• Jay claims how he thought Marcus only cared about that and the pretty cheerleader (Liv) were the only things he cared about as Marcus states not anymore and how he and Liv are done as Jay states how either way he did him a favor with the gun.
• Marcus goes silent as Jay states it’s whatever and how either way he’s got his own stuff to deal, pointing to the back as Marcus asks what as he looks in the backseat to see orange fliers which Marcus asks if it’s for party, as Jamal agrees and states he does a little promoting on the side and it’s something he’d probably know if he ever thought about anybody but himself. Jay drops Marcus off at school as Marcus opens the back door to get some fliers and tells Jay that it’s a “favor for a favor” before he leaves as Jay tells him to wait and who says how that doesn’t mean they’re even as Jay drives off.
• In the school library, Beth is shown listening to music and drawing red headphones, in memory of Amir before she’s then interrupted by Kym who walks up to her. Beth takes her music off and asks Kym what she wants as Kym asks her if the cops also talked to her about Amir which she claims only all night.
• Kym states how if Beth wants to talk about it, she understands what she’s going through. Beth sarcastically asks Kym to tell her what she’s going through as Kym states grief and pain, and how she lost her dude similar to how she lost Manny, which Beth states was a different relationship, as Kym and Manny were best friends and how she didn’t even know Amir. Kym states how either way, the killer took a lot from them both and speaking of, tells her of how she was thinking a lot about what Marcus said last night about Liv.
• Beth states how Liv’s Ghostface (to divert attention off Beth) which Kym agrees with and who states how maybe they should find out for sure and for them to investigate her together. Beth asks if she means teaming up, which she states is a terrible idea as Kym excitedly states how they’re Riggs and Murtaugh, the cops from Lethal Weapon, as Kym states, in a meta reference, to Beth how they just left the world of horror (by Kym’s words: good riddance) and how now they’re buddy cops.
• Beth looks at her confusingly as Kym states how they’re like two police officers each from different cultures and perspectives and how they’re forced to be partners.
• Beth states this is not her genre, as Kym claims it’s hers as she lists 48 Hrs., Rush Hour, and Turner and Hooch, the last one as a joke and who tells Beth how she knows they’re supposed be hurled up in a corner, each crying somewhere but how Kym’s done enough of that and tells Beth she doesn’t know about her but how she could use some company while she tries to figure out who killed their friends (hers) as Beth agrees and asks whether she’s Jackie Chan or Chris Tucker as Kym states “bitch, I’m both” and Beth states “sounds like a plan, partner” and who makes a finger gun motion with her hand as she says boom as Kym smugly says “Girl.”
• Back at the hospital, Liv waits outside the ICU unit as a female doctor tells her how her dad is stable but how he’s not out of the woods yet, giving her a diagnosis of his injuries, stating how both his lungs were punctured during the attack as Liv asks if he’s going to be ok. The doctor states how with surgery most likely, but how they tend not to make guarantees and tells Liv that they’ll do everything they can and promises her.
• Marcus is called into Coach Griffin's office as he asks his coach if this is about last night which his coach agrees with as Marcus states how he got caught up but he was cleared and how he didn’t do anything wrong and now the Atlanta PD know that now. Coach asks Marcus if he’s heard about the phrase “perception is reality” as Griffin then explains how whatever people think is true might as well be and how the San Diego State’s coach got in late last night and what he read, as he hands Marcus a newspaper from Atlanta Beacon with the headline of Reynolds ambushed.
• Griffin states how the coach now thinks Marcus had something to do with that. Griffin tells Marcus how whether or not he did it is beside the point and Marcus states how they have to tell him the truth and Griffin states how he’s not coming to the game and how he’s not interested anymore in recruiting Marcus anymore, as Marcus states how he’s already here and asks his Coach if he could do something about it.
• Coach tells Marcus how they talked about this and how this was his shot, and he blew it and how it’s over. Saddened and angered, Marcus leaves school and who then throws his bag down and the fliers as well as kicking a garbage can down before he picks up the flier and reads the party being held at the rooftop and by Mr. Fade, aka Shane, who’s dead.

Evening

• Liv is shown using her old phone before Officer B. Westbrook arrives and tells Liv how her dad was able to talk a bit before the surgery and tells her how they were able to get a sketch, and asks Liv if it means anything to her as she’s shown a sketch of Ghostface’s mask as Liv looks up to Westbrook and blatantly and expressionless, tells him how she’s never seen anything like it as the officer leaves, her eyebrows raised.
• Liv leaves a voicemail for her mother telling her how if her dad dies, blood will be on both their hands and tells her to call her back or better yet show up or else, hanging up just as Kym and Beth arrive and approach to overhear her say this as Beth states how that was harsh, even for her.
• Liv sarcastically replies if they’re there to monitor how polite she is on the phone and asks what they want with Kym asking her who she was talking to for starters as Beth points on the old phone. Liv recognizes and tells them how she sees what it is and how they came to interrogate her as Kym cuts to the chase and asks Liv why she’s always MIA when people wind up dead, as Beth lists Manny and Amir.
• Liv states angrily how her dad is fighting for his life and how they have the nerve to bring it up there at the hospital, as Beth states how all they want is some answers, and if she’s not the killer. Liv states “if” and tells both Kym and Beth to screw themselves and their questions and for them to think what they want and how she doesn’t have time for this as she walks off from them.
• Beth turns to Kym and smiles stating how that went well as Kym states how they just came at it wrong and whenever an investigation hits a snag in a detective movie, Kym states how it’s time for a little “good cop, bad cop" as Beth looks at her.
• Jay picks up Marcus and who drives him as he asks him that the whole reason of which he had called him is because he wants to work for Mr. Fade (Shane) as Marcus agrees and how his last party he went to was lit until Avery died. Jay asks Marcus since when he was interested in promoting and how he didn’t even know he was messing with it until today as Marcus states how he also didn’t know football also wasn’t an option for him either until today as Jay asks him to explain as Marcus tells him how San Diego State had blown him off that morning and how he guesses his time for dreams and fantasies are over, and now it’s time for him to deal with what’s real.
• Marcus states how the promotion seems like a good way to make him money and how Jay can introduce Marcus to Fade and he can hook him up as Jamal denies this, as Marcus then asks why not as Jay lies, claiming how he’s partnered with a dude and how he’s never met Fade (ironic, due to like Deion with Marcus, the alias is actually Jamal, to cover him as Ghostface).
• Marcus then states how the party is tonight and for Jay to let him help him out and how if he does a good job, Jamal sends his name up the ladder and how maybe Jay’s boys can get paid to holler at him as Jamal expresses worry stating how he’s not a choirboy and that Marcus can’t handle the things he’s getting into. Marcus tells him how he isn’t either and how he isn’t who he thinks he is and to trust him and for him to prove it (ironically, since he stole his twin's identity and Jay was the killer). Jay looks at him and smiles and states how they’ll see if Marcus can walk the walk but to not say he didn’t warn him.
• Liv is then approached alone in the hospital by Kym as she asks her sarcastically if she’s back for another round of questioning. Kym states to her how neither she or Beth should’ve come to her as hard as they and genuinely apologizes to her.
• Liv states she gets it and how she’s the new girl and who throws out wild theories and who’s coincidentally absent at all the wrong times, as she asks Kym what she wants her to say, her voice breaking as she states how she’s not the killer. Kym asks her how Liv has to explain her burner phone as Liv explains how her mom gave it to her so she could always reach her as Kym states how that doesn’t make any sense.
• Liv states how long story short, her mom cheated on her dad and how her dad was so mad so before she left, she gave her the phone since Liv’s mom worried, she would be stopped from talking to Liv. Liv states how now she’s not answering when she needs her and how she blames herself for her parents' divorce, which Kym points out is common, but how adults will split-up all the time but Liv states how she doesn’t get it and how it is her fault since she caught her mom cheating and in the act.
• Liv explains how she didn’t take it too well and who she states perhaps acted out, as Kym asks her what she means, as Liv states how she went crazy for one second, and how the next thing she remembers her parents and her were all mad at each other, her parents divorced, and then she and her dad were moving to Atlanta, all due to Liv’s snooping. Liv states how now her dad is in the hospital and Marcus isn’t even talking to her as Kym is taken aback and asks what she means, as Liv wipes her tears and claims she doesn’t blame him as he thinks she’s responsible for getting him locked up and how he’s right. Liv states it still hurts especially after they hooked up which Kym asks.
• Back in Atlanta, Jay pulls up with Marcus to a house and tells Marcus how this is the spot and how Marcus is going to walk in there and ask for Dro and how he’s going to have something for him. Marcus asks if he’s not coming as Jay states how he’s trying to see what this life is about, and tells him to go see, supposedly referring to drugs and dealing. Jamal tells Marcus to not come back without the package as Marcus goes and makes his way inside. Marcus goes silent as he’s looked on by men outside smoking by the house as he heads to the front door and knocks as Dro opens, as Marcus states Jay sent him.
• Dro lets him in as he toys with Marcus as he then leads him into the kitchen, walking past other people, with some playing cards on the kitchen table and others are shown sitting on the couch. Dro licks a joint as Marcus asks him about the package as Dro states how he doesn’t really think he should be putting the package in anybody’s hands except for Jay, who states he dropped a lot of money on this.
• Marcus states how he’s his brother and that he can trust him as Dro states how he’s the little football dude and how he heard about his arrest from last night. Marcus shrugs it off as just having to talk to him as Dro asks him if he talked as Marcus then states how he didn’t see nothing and how he has nothing to talk about.
• Dro states how it’s really crazy as he infers how Atlanta PD just walk out of their stations unless they had cooperated, as if to say he snitched, and asks Marcus if he’s no snitch. He faces Marcus, face to face and smoothly asks him if he’s no snitch, as Marcus denies claiming he isn’t as Dro takes a drink off his cup before staring him down and telling him to stay right there as he turns around to get the package, as Marcus looks over to see Dro head into a room and someone preparing the “package”, before Dro closes the door.
• Beth states back at the hospital, leaning against the wall, talking to Kym and telling her how she must be out of her mind and how she doesn't want to stay there. Kym states to her how she’s got to and how she has to find Marcus, since he’s not picking up his phone, as Beth asks if she’s just going to leave her alone with a serial killer, (Liv), as Kym states how that’s the thing and who tells her how Liv’s cleared and who she doesn’t think is the killer anymore. Beth asks her why and who asks her if Liv told Kym a sob story about her parents’ divorce, as well as Marcus using her for sex, who claims how nowadays they call that sophomore year.
• Kym states how she calls it a gut feeling as Beth states how she’s taking the “good cop” thing way too far as how her gut feeling tells her Liv is still the prime suspect, as it to implicate her (since Beth’s the killer), which Kym resonates as Beth being the “bad cop” and the reason why she should stay there and keep an eye on her. Beth states how she thought they were in this together, which Kym agrees but how this is the part in all of the detective movies where the partners split up, just for a few scenes, and who then reunite to solve the case, as Kym extends her fist bump to Beth, which Beth looks and doesn’t take.
• Kym states how she doesn’t know how bad it’s hitting Liv and how she’s a mess, and tells her how if she’s not the killer, they need to be sticking together, and how Kym trying to talk sense to Marcus might actually help and asks Beth to have a heart, as Kym states how she knows she has a heart in her. Beth reluctantly agrees, saying she can’t stand the “family boy sex drama”, referring to both Marcus and Liv and that she’s not equipped as Kym tells Beth to just be there for her and asks if she can do that, with Beth rolling her eyes.
• Jay calls out for Marcus as he finally leaves Dro’s house and tells him to hurry up and how they’re late and to put the package in the trunk and to bouncers as Marcus takes the package from his hoodie and places it away as he opens the back trunk and who’s about to close it before Marcus notices a black robe sticking out of underneath the trunk compartment and who pulls it out to reveal a Ghostface costume.
• Jay comes out of the car and asks Marcus what he’s doing and how he told him they’re late. Marcus confronts Jay about this as Jamal claims what it looks like and how it’s just a Halloween costume as Marcus places both his hand on Jay's unbuttoned shirt collar and states how he’s being serious and how he needs to answer him as Jay plays it off and tells Marcus why he’s tripping. “Deion” (Marcus) states how it’s the same costume “Marcus” (Deion) had on when he died back in Halloween 2010 as Marcus looks sternly at Jamal as he shakes off his shirt as he tells Marcus to come with him and how he promises him he’ll give him the answers he needs, as Marcus looks at him (foreshadowing before Jay’s reveal).

Nighttime

• At night at the rooftop cookout party in Atlanta, Marcus then makes his way through the crowd alongside Jay as he asks his step brother why they’re there as Jay had told him he’d give him his answers as Jamal states he will and for him to chill before they arrive to a table as Jamal then takes and hangs a Ghostface mask on a pole before then taking out a hunting/Bowie knife from his pant side as he opens the package, revealing it to be a package of catfish breading as Marcus asks Jay if he was messing with him (unclear whether it's his same weapon; this goes past Marcus as well).
• Jay asks if he really thought he’d sent Marcus in there to get drugs and how Dro went to culinary school and who texted him before Marcus went in to mess with him as Marcus, annoyed, asks him why. Jay plays it off as a joke and claims it was hilarious and how he should’ve seen the look on his face, as they walk back to the crowd as Jay then pats Marcus on the back.
• Marcus claims how Jamal can laugh all he wants but how that doesn’t still explain the Ghostface costume, which Jay claims it does and how he does deliveries for Fade, who picks up at one place and drops off at another, who tells Marcus how a few days ago he was supposed to take the costumes to the Old Metro Station for the party (October 29) but how the one Marcus found had probably fell off the trunk. “Deion” then asks Jay who would then choose that costume, “Marcus’s” costume as Jay states how anyone can get that at any dollar store and how it’s probably just a coincidence.
• Marcus then presses him asking who chose it. Jay states how it was Fade’s party as Marcus asks to talk to Fade as Jay claims he doesn’t know the man and asks Marcus why this is so important to him, asking him if this has got anything to do with why he got locked up or had asked him for a loaded gun. Jay claims how now maybe he should start giving him some answers, as Marcus claims he can’t as Jay subtly angry tells him how then he should get off his face as both brothers stare down at each other as Jay tells Marcus for real and to bounce, as Marcus does and heads back into the crowd as Jay leaves.
• As Marcus is heading out, he’s run into by Kym who calls him out and that they need to talk as Marcus asks how Kym found him anyways as Kym shows him her phone and a post on the app “Chipster” (first time seen since Season 1) and who tells Marcus why he’s trying to play with Liv, and states how she knows he hit.
• Marcus tells her how it’s not even like that and claims that she had set him up and how he had to spend the night at the police station because of her. Kym tells him how she just left the hospital with both her and Beth and tells Marcus how Liv knows she screwed up but how she really likes him, and how he’d know that if he stopped partying and picked up his phone.
• Marcus asks Kym if it really looks like he’s kicking it right now, which she says not really and asks him why he’s there as Marcus then unfolds the flier and shows it to Kym, as he tells her he’s looking for Mr. Fade, as Kym tells him how Shane was Fade and how he’s dead.
• Marcus states how someone is throwing the party under his name, as Kym asks if she thinks Fade could be there and how he could be but how all he knows is that Jay’s working for him and that he knows more than what he’s telling him as Kym looks over to see Jay by the drinks table to see Jamal talking to two women dancing next to him.
• Kym states how if he can get Jay to give up Fade then Marcus claims how Fade can lead him to Ghostface, despite Shane being the one stated to be Fade and how now he’s dead. Kym states how perhaps she could get it out of him as Marcus asks her how as Kym applies her lip gloss and states “enhanced interrogation techniques”, as she tells Marcus to watch her work as Kym flings her hair and makes her way towards Jamal as Marcus stands and watches on.
• Kym dances on with Jamal in the crowd, each facing forward as Jamal dances as Kym thwarts her hips and dances seductively with Jamal who grabs on her waist as Kym grinds on his lower body with her behind. She then turns forward as she tells Jay how she always knew he was the Elliot with all the right moves as Jay claims how if that’s so, as they dance face to face.
• Kym agrees how she knows she grew up with Marcus but how she’s always had her eyes on him, as she toys with her interest in him, and how she knows she’s pretty sure she caught him catching sneak peeks of her as well. Jay agrees and says how Kym’s official.
• Kym then tries to talk to him as she states how Fade knows how to throw a good party which Jay agrees as Kym states how she was going to throw a benefit for the kids down at the Y (short for YMCA), and how she thought it could use Fade’s magic touch and asks Jay if she can then introduce him to him as Jamal scoffs as he then realizes what’s going on and asks Kym if Marcus had put him up to this.
• Kym puts her arms off Jay as she claims he didn’t, as Jay asks if he told her he’s working with Fade as Kym then states how with everything Marcus and they have going on, she claims it would help a lot if Jay could then introduce them to him as Jamal scoffs before he leaves her as Kym tells him to not be like that as Jay walks off.
• Marcus is sitting down by a bonfire as Jamal then approaches him and tells him how Marcus can’t be putting out Jay’s business like that. Marcus asks him what he means as Jay confronts him and asks him if he’s trying to play her telling him if he sent Kym out to get info out of him and if he’s really that desperate.
• Marcus states how he actually is as Jay states alright then and to get himself up as Marcus asks why as Jamal states how he’s about to meet Mr. Fade as Jay walks off and Marcus looks at him, despite Kym’s reveal to  him about it being Shane who’s now dead.
• Jay leads Marcus downstairs off the rooftop as Marcus asks Jay where’s Fade at as Jay claims how he told him he’s going to make the intro but how he has to tell him what’s going on with him first as they head to Jay’s car, as Jamal claims how he’s done a lot for Marcus recently and how he knows he was holding secrets but how he still didn’t press him (foreshadowing) but how Kym knows what’s up before him, his own brother as Marcus tells him about the serial killer on the loose and how he’s after him, referring to Ghostface. Jamal scoffs, claiming he thought he was telling him the truth.
• Marcus states he’s not playing, and lists the victims as Latavious and four others from his school (Tommy, Avery, Manny, Amir) and who he claims were all his friends, and how they’re actually after him, as Marcus states how he knows it sounds crazy to which Jay agrees and how they live in a rough place but claims that doesn’t mean as Marcus interrupts and says how it is exactly what it means and how it’s a serial killer, as he asks Jamal if he’s trying to hear about it as Jay claims he’s listening.
• Beth finds a sobbing Liv back at the hospital as she reluctantly heads to approach and comfort her as Beth asks if she’s OK.
• Liv states to her sarcastically how obviously,  as Beth states how if she wants to talk about it as Liv looks at her, wiping but with tears in her eyes, as she asks if with her as Liv states how Beth wouldn’t even be here if she didn’t think she was Ghostface.
• Beth states how that’s technically true as Liv says to Beth to just leave her alone as Beth, who then awkwardly pats Liv on her back and states how she here for her before Liv walks off afterwards as she thwarts her off as Beth stares off at her.
• Jay claims how Marcus clearly has been clearing with some things and who shrugs it off as he asks Marcus what it’s got to do with Fade as Marcus tells him how perhaps maybe Fade would know who the killer is or perhaps the killer himself.
• Jay laughs it off as Marcus reaching as Marcus claims he’s not and tells him how there’s no other way around the costumes as Jay tries to tell him how that’s probably a coincidence as Marcus isn’t convinced and tells Jay to tell him where he’s at as Jamal reveals himself to be using the alias and that Marcus just did as, as just then Marcus asks Jay what he said, as Jay claims he’s Fade for now, recalling how he was working with Shane and how this party was already on the books and how Jay recorded to step himself up following Shane’s death.
• Jay claims how he’s out there hustling and unlike Marcus he’s not waiting on no magic fairy, coach, or college to come and save him and how he saw a chance to get money, as simple as that, and how it’s the truth as he asks Marcus why he’s still looking at him like that.
• Marcus smiles as he asks Jay how he gave him an unloaded gun, just in case he had to shoot the killer, how he wouldn’t shoot him and who early on identifies Jay as the killer before his reveal. Jay tries to talk him out of it and pat him as Marcus tells him to not touch him and how that’s what it is and how the killer then had to be somebody close to him and that knows his past, personal life, and where he’s at, when he’s near, and where to hit him and where it hurt the most.
• Jay (obviously) denies this and not being him, as they’ve never even been close like that as Marcus how they are blood, and asks Jamal if that’s right and if they’re brothers and if that means anything tells him to tell him where he was at last night as Jamal scoffs and claims he doesn't have to answer to him as both face each other face to face.
• Jay begins to walk off before Marcus grabs his shirt and jacket collar as Jay asks him what he’s doing as the two scuffle before pushing him off as Marcus tells him to do this, as Marcus stands over, who despite being younger is taller than Jay, who looks at Marcus smugly as he states Marcus doesn’t deserve a brother before Jay gets into his car as Marcus asks where he’s going and slams his car hood with his fist and asks him, claiming he’s not done talking to him.
• Jamal starts the engine, and who plays with Marcus how if he’s the killer to ask himself what would he do next, as he states as if to perhaps visit Liv and her dad back at the hospital and like how Marcus said, hit him where it hurts the most as Jamal makes the two eye to finger motion, further confirming Jay to be the killer as Jamal drives off and who pushes Marcus off as he begins to run back upstairs to the rooftop.
• Marcus gets back to the rooftop party and who then frantically yells out for Kym’s name, to locate her.
• Back at the hospital front door lobby, Beth is shown staring at the TWINS candy bar from the vending machine which failed to dispense for Liv that morning, before she then gets a call from Marcus which she answers as Marcus asks Beth where’s Liv at as Beth states how she doesn’t know, claiming she had a hissy fit and bailed.
• Marcus tells her how Kym told him that she was with her and how now Liv’s not answering any of his calls, as Beth states how she doesn’t blame her and how he pumped and dumped and asks what’s going on as Marcus tells her loudly to find her and to get out of the hospital and how Jay’s the killer and how he’s coming for Liv right now before Beth hangs up and says twist (despite her being his accomplice).
• Officer B. Westbrook helps a nurse with a cart of drugs as he opens the padded locked door as she thanks him and asks him to watch over the cart as the phone rings at ICU reception, stating how the hospital is short staffed and how she needs to answer that as he does and the nurse runs and answers. Westbrook then stares at the drugs, with a bottle of 30 mg Oxycodone pills being shown, which he picks up and sneaks and who heads into an empty room to take as he begins to before he accidentally then spills the bottle and who then tries to pick up all the pills one by one.
• Ghostface appears silently behind him from behind the curtain and who walks towards a kneeling Westbrook, who’s unaware of the killer behind, before Ghostface then stabs the Bowie knife into his skull as Westbrook screams on impact before slowly dying as he begins to bleed out and who grunts as he does as Ghostface then takes the knife lodged inside his skull as he then retrieved the padded key lock from Westbrooks front pocket, who's dying and his head bleeding out after the knife is taken, laying face front on the floor before Ghostface then takes rubbing alcohol and spills it on the dying Officer and who then sets him on fire as Ghostface watches Westbrook’s body burn, who would leave once the fire alarm detected the burning.
• Marcus arrives at the hospital at the front lobby and asks for Reynolds in the ICU as the guard upfront tells him how unless he’s family, how visiting hours are over as Marcus claims how he doesn’t understand and that he really needs to see him. Before the guard can say anything, the fire alarm at the hospital goes off as the guard radios the dispatch, Marcus runs as the guard is doing this.
• Marcus makes his way through and hides as emergency services and staff make their way out to evacuate and towards the smoke. Marcus waits for the coast to clear as he further makes his way in. Marcus is at the ICU lobby, which is now empty, and who then tries to leave and get in through another door which is locked before he is then startled as Ghostface appears on the other side.
• Thinking it’s Jay, Marcus calls for him to not do this as he tries to get into the room and the locked door and finds Ghostface heading towards the room of Officer Reynolds, who’s still in the ICU and in his coma.
• Marcus sees this as he finds the window to his room and pleads with Ghostface to not do this and to listen to him and how he’s right there as Ghostface turns to stare at Marcus claims how he’s the one he wants as he calls for Jay and pounds on the window.
• Ignoring him, Ghostface then proceeds to take out the breathing tube and other equipment off Reynolds, which is currently supporting his respiration as Reynolds begins to choke and the machinery to start beeping; as Marcus yells for him to not do this as he angrily pleads with him how he’s right there as Ghostface makes a motion to his wrist, signaling he has no time as Reynolds begins to slowly convulse before Ghostface then leaves.
• In desperation, Marcus quickly grabs an empty IV pole and uses it to break into Reynolds’s room, by slamming it against the glass window, and then who makes his way in and who finds one of the windows open, where Ghostface escaped.
• Marcus quickly then tends to Reynolds by using a bag valve mask to get Reynolds breathing again as he uses it and pleads for Reynolds to breathe and to not die on him as Reynolds then comes back and gasps as he holds Marcus’s hand and begins to breathe before hospital staff arrive to tend to him as Marcus stands back, panting.
• Outside the hospital and oblivious to what happened (perhaps due to the ICU being on another side of the hospital), Liv sits on a bench before being approached by Beth, who claims she found her and how she’s been looking for her her whole life as she then hands Liv a TWINS chocolate bar, claiming how the machine spit out two as Liv takes it and eats it quietly.
• The two sit in silence before Liv claims how she’s not mad that they would think it was her as she states how it only hurts that Marcus thinks that as well and how he didn’t give her a chance to explain herself the way her and Kym did.
• Beth states that’s how it is and sarcastically welcomes her into dating dudes, 2018 (confirming the year). Liv then states how after they hooked up, she had thought they were closer than that. Beth goes quiet as she then reveals how before Amir’s death, Amir and her also had sex, as Liv looks at her surprised. Beth states how she doesn’t know if it brought them closer together or if it even meant anything or whatever but how she was really rooting for him, and how she wished it didn’t end like that.
• Liv agrees and states how endings are rough as Beth tells her to not let this be the end of her and Marcus.
• The duo go silent again before Liv smiles and offers Beth to go get Starbucks with her as an offer, as Beth states it’s a hard pass for her, as she claims how Liv’s not as lame as she thought she was but how they can’t be friends. Liv asks why not as Beth states how friends are blind spots (referencing the episode of the same name of which the events take place), and how once one let’s somebody get too close they start to miss things, referring to both Marcus and Jay as an example. Liv asks what about them as Beth tells him how when she ghosted, Marcus called her and reveals to her how Jay’s the killer as Liv looks at her silently.
• At a bar in Atlanta, Coach Griffin, out of uniform, is then seen playing pool with the San Diego State coach scout, Coach Fisher, who beats Griffin in a game of 5 rounds. Griffin pays up and states how since he won he should consider heading to see the game tomorrow night.
• The scout denies, claiming his AD would have a fit if he were to recruit a felon, referring to Marcus. Griffin states how they talked over this and how Marcus wasn’t even arrested as Fisher asks why he’s putting himself on the line for him as Griffin claims he’s a good kid and how he needs another chance. Griffin then bets double or nothing on him for another game of pool and how if he wins, Fisher has to come to the game tomorrow night which he agrees to as Griffin breaks and lands the balls in.
  • The bar scene would be briefly used and referenced in a different manner in Scream (2022), as well.
• As Marcus leaves the hospital, he’s approached by Liv, who then calls him and tells him how she doesn’t know if he’s still mad at her or whatever but how she just wanted to thank him for saving her dad as she was informed by the hospital staff which Marcus tells her it’s all good and to not mention it. Liv asks if he’s ok, as she tells him how Beth told her what’s going on and asks if Marcus really thinks Jay is Ghostface, which he agrees and states he’s his half-brother and how he just can’t see it being anyone else, who says how the least of all Liv, who’s he claims has been with him since the jump and whose had his back and how he kept her at an arm’s distance and how he should’ve just trusted her and apologizes to her.
• Liv apologizes as well as she states how she got Marcus thrown in jail as both face each other as Liv tells him how perhaps when this is all over, they could find a way to start fresh as Marcus states there’s no need to wait as he heads in and Liv reciprocates and both share a kiss. Marcus claims how he first has to find Jay and who had to end this as he walks off and leaves running, as Liv watches him go on.
• Inside the hospital lobby, the police are shown talking as Beth and Kym stand aside as Beth asks Kym to name one horror movie in where the kids go to the cops and the same cops actually catching the killer (meta), as Kym claims how Beth hasn’t been listening to her (detective) and states how they’re not in a horror movie right now and how this was a detective story and that they just cracked the case.
• Beth then asks Kym what if Marcus is wrong about Jay, as Kym reviews the evidence with her, of Marcus having found the mask in Jay’s car earlier and how then Marcus called Beth to inform her of Jay and how he was on his way to the hospital, and how now they’re there and Ghostface was over there attacking fools, and asks Beth what more proof does she need.
• Beth states how going to the cops seemed drastic (due to her being a killer and betraying Jamal), as Kym states how drastic times calls for “bitches to grow a pair”, referring to Beth as she states how snitches die, asking if she remembers.
• Kym looks at her and tells her how everybody’s died already, as Beth states for her to go ahead to the cops. Kym disagrees and pulls Beth with her, saying she needs a white girl to add credibility, as Beth scoffs and both heads towards the cops and announces loudly and sarcastically to the cops how she’s completely unarmed as Beth then tells them how they know who’s behind the mask as a cop looks at the sketch of Ghostface and back at her as Beth states Jay’s name.
• Back at the now empty rooftop party, Jay is alone and shown picking up trash with a sharp trash picker pin and putting it into a black garbage bag before the lights of the roof shut off, leaving only the bonfires.
• Jay then turns the flashlight on his phone, and startled, drops what he’s doing as he goes to looks around before being supposedly scared by the mask he hung up earlier before he hears running footsteps around him and gasps as he then gets a call from “No Caller ID” as he answers to be greeted by Ghostface.
• Jay acts like he doesn’t know and states he has a new phone and asks who’s this, as Ghostface claims he knows exactly who it is and how he made a big mess tonight and who perhaps can help him clean it up. Jay asks them why they’re playing as Ghostface then states how he’s unfairly taken some undeserved credit and that they can’t have that and how the charade now comes to an end tonight.
• Jay hangs up, before hearing behind him objects latter and a glass bottle breaking which he ignores as he scoffs and throws the Ghostface mask over the bonfire to burn who watches it before Jay then turns around to find Ghostface who stabs him with the trash picker on his torso as he falls down and tries to stop the killer who proceeds to stab him three more times on his upper chest as Jamal bleeds and who falls unconscious as Ghostface watches on.
• (“Endgame”): At the empty Weaver football field, Marcus heads into the bleachers as he sits down and watches out as he turns around to see a flier on the press box read in all caps, “Deion Elliot, #21, All-Time Weaver Rushing Leader!”. Marcus smiles as he reads it before receiving a phone call from “No Caller ID”, which Marcus answers angrily and asks what they want as Ghostface states he already knows, the same thing they’ve always wanted. Believing it’s Jay, Marcus tells him to screw himself and that  how he owes him nothing, as Ghostface tells him how it’s ironic that Marcus is so sure he figured out who they are when all the killer ever asked is for Marcus to do the same and to own up to who he really is, on the inside, referring to his secret.
• Marcus states how he knows he’s a coward, and how he’s been one since the night he let his brother Halloween night and how he’s a coward tonight. Ghostface states he’s going to have to go deeper than that or they will. Marcus asks if he’s his brother to please stop doing this, as Ghostface tells him how it’s too late for that and how had he treated (Jay) like blood then they wouldn’t be having this conversation, but how they are and Marcus can’t change the past. Marcus then replies to the killer, calling them a “bitch” and asking if they don’t think that he knows that as Ghostface tells him to focus on the present and how he has a big game to play and who threatens him, questioning him if whether he will be playing football tomorrow night or their game and who promises him how he can only win one as Marcus hangs up.

November 3rd

Morning

• Marcus looks on silently at the crowd of his classmates at the gym as he and the football team, in their sports jackets and jerseys, are all lined up on the court of the gym inside for the Homecoming at Weaver High School. Griffin then snaps Marcus out of it as he tells them how he’s certain that the people want to hear something from him, as they chant “Deion”. Marcus claims how he doesn’t know what to say as Griffin tells him to figure out and tells him how Fisher flew in from San Diego to hear whatever, as Marcus then looks silently surprised to see scout Fisher sitting in front of the bleachers. Marcus claims how he told him that he wasn’t coming as Griffin states how he also told him that his word goes a long way with him and tells him to get up, being assured as well by his teammates and also the cheerleaders.
• Marcus then begins to speak into the podium microphone as he thanks the crowd for coming out, who among are Beth and Kym who look at him. Marcus then says how he really appreciates them but how he does not deserve this and how he’s not who they think he is. Beth and Kym look at one another as he says this as Marcus says how it’s just a fancy way of saying he’s been living a lie and how he just can’t do it anymore and just before he reveals his identity, is cut off by Coach Griffin as the coach concludes the homecoming pep rally, as Marcus then leaves the gym  as Griffin then announces how due to recent safety concerns, the principal announces that tomorrow's Homecoming dance will only be for current students only. Kym tells Beth to come on as both leave as they see Marcus walk out.
• Kym asks Marcus as she and Beth find him in the hallway and tells her to explain to them what that was all about, as Marcus states how he’s tired of playing Jay’s games, referring to his phone call last night. Kym states how he doesn’t have to worry about Jay anymore and how the cops are on the case, as this news takes Marcus aback as he asks her what she’s talking about, as Beth tells Marcus how both her and Kym went to the police last night and told them everything and how Ghostface attacked one of their own, subtly referring to Reynolds and Westbrook, now they’re finally willing to listen and how they’re looking for him right now. Kym states how it’s a fancy way of saying “screw him” and tells Marcus to focus on himself and what he wants, mentioning for him to win the football scholarship. Suddenly, Marcus then gets a text from his father, Earl, which reads “Cops are after your brother. What’s going on???”.
• Marcus tells them he has to go as he leaves running as Kym and Beth watch on as they talk as Kym states how as long as she’s known him, how his dream was to play college ball, and how it’d be a shame to see him throw it all away when it’s so close. Beth agrees and states how that’s the problems with dreams, is that they’re fleeting, as Kym states how it used to be had you asked her before what her dream was before was to help people, but how now, with everything they’re going through, Kym says how the only thing what she wants is to live.
• Beth says to Kym to face it and how both of them are not final girls, as Kym asks what that is, as Beth states the horror movie trope of the girl of the slasher movies Kym’s been watching for her research who makes it to the end, survives, and saves her friends as Beth asks Kym if she’s saved anybody lately as if to make her doubt herself, as Beth states how she hasn’t either as Kym states they’ll save themselves and how both will stick together and watch each other’s backs, tonight at the football game, claiming how due to the people and security that Jay would be a fool to show up as Beth states that’s not who she’s scared of but his mask (despite Beth being the second killer).

Evening

• At the hospital, Liv is looking over the sketch of Ghostface and over her sleeping father, as now Officer Reynolds is out of the ICU, who awakes and tells Liv as she sees him how he had not expected to see her face so soon as he states how he’s out of the woods. Liv smiles and says how perhaps she should finally go, standing up and then apologizes to him for everything as Reynolds grabs Liv’s hand and tells her to wait. Liv sits back down as Reynolds states how this wasn’t her fault as Liv claims he doesn’t know what she’s apologizing for as she states how the truth is he doesn’t know who she really is as her dad tells her to please tell him.
• Liv says how she has been lying to him for a while now and also pretending everything is ok with her and how she’s the perfect daughter, cheerleader, and straight-A student but how really, truthfully, she’s messed up inside and how she claims how it’s almost like wearing a mask (red herring trope). Reynolds tells Liv to take off the mask and states he promises her that he’ll love her or whoever is underneath.
• At Marcus’s apartment complex, he arrives to see the Atlanta PD parked outside and who heads to his apartment to find the police to investigate and take boxes of evidence from Jay’s room. Marcus meets with Earl as his dad apologizes and claims he doesn’t know what to tell him as Marcus then assures him he heard and doesn’t have to even apologize for anything.
• Earl states how Jay was raised under his roof and what the police said is true, then he’s killing kids at his school as Marcus states how that’s on Jay and not on Earl, as his dad states how he doesn’t know how he could raise a son and not know him or what’s inside him, as Marcus assures him how he knows.
• Earl claims how he can’t believe this happened and on his big day as Marcus states how he isn’t playing in the game, which takes Earl aback, as he asks him why not. Marcus says how it’s just a game and how the sacrifices they made to get there aren’t worth it, as Earl reminds him how he earned that (referring to him as “Deion”) and how he doesn’t want him to make a decision he might regret one day and how he’s an expert on that subject.
• Earl states how he raised Marcus to be his own man so it’s his decision and how he trusts his son will make better decisions than he has as Earl heads back inside.
• Inside the locker room as the football players, all ready In their gear, Coach Griffin, and Hawkins wait as Marcus then arrives and who gives them a pep talk as he states how he’s been to enough funerals lately and how he’d be damned if he has to go to another one. Hawkins agrees and who claims how this is a funeral, referring to the game against Gregson, who they’re about to bury as the football players all begin to cheer loudly and huddle and scream as Marcus joins them as well, who then gets into his football gear as well.
• In an undisclosed location (later revealed to be the back of Earl’s trailer truck in an empty container in a truck lane in Atlanta), Jamal is bound to a chair and tied in it, who’s barely alive due to his injuries (an homage to Steven Orth from Scream) as the hatch door of the back trailer opens as Jamal tries to see who and reveals Ghostface, who he tells to quit playing games and get over there as the killer approaches him as Jay says their real face and how he deserves that much, as he tries to play himself off as the victim and who asks why they’re doing this to him and to say something before Ghostface then presses a phone up on his face (Liv’s old phone, or another) and who records him as the flash glares on his eyes.

8:11 PM- Nighttime

• The Weaver Reapers (football team) make their way out into the field as they run across a large poster that reads “Reap Gregson” as they run into the field and huddle on their side as they approach the field to play against the other schools team. Marcus takes his helmet off to look into the crowd as the bleachers on Weaver's side, including Marcus’s parents, Sherry and Earl, all begin to chant the team name, and who sees Liv standing by the fence on the bleachers up front, wearing his football jersey.
• Marcus then approaches her as Liv asks what he thinks as he compliments it and asks about hers as Liv states how she has a confession and how she hates cheerleading and couldn’t stand or lie about it anymore, quitting as he states how he knows the feeling and claims how he didn’t know either if he was going to play today, but who states how he didn’t want to let everybody down.
• Liv states how Jay’s taken enough from them already and to not let him take his game as well which he agrees as he’s about to head back to the game as it’s about to start and who gets his helmet and is about to leave as he turns around as Liv calls him and tells him how there’s one more thing before they both share a kiss as she tells him to go out there and to show everyone who he really is.
• Outside the football field at the entrance gates, Kym joins Beth in line as she asks what’s up with it as she remarks sarcastically it’s “like the new Yeezy's dropping” (reference to Kanye West's shoes based on his nickname from Adidas) as Beth reminds her how they’re the ones who put the cops on high alert as an off infer is shown using a hand held metal detector on people trying to enter at front.
• Kym states while they wait, that she’s been bothered by what Beth had said to her earlier and asks her why she doesn’t think neither of them have what it takes to be the last woman standing, as Beth states how it’s final girl, which Kym states to her and how she finds it a little sexist and regressive.
• Beth claims to Kym whatever she wants to call her and how in horror, she’s everything and the moral compass of the film and no matter how progressive horror gets, how the final girl stereotype is almost as hard to kill off as the actual killer which Beth states she respects that about her. Kym states it’s because the killer didn’t take her seriously and he had underestimated her, which Beth claims every time.
• 8:11 PM: Beth gets a text sent to her from “No Caller ID” as she acts shocked (due to automated messaging and to hide her identity) as Kym notices her becoming pale as Beth shows her the video as Kym tells her to play it.
• Marcus, back in the field and who puts on his helmet, huddles with his team as he tells them how they’re expecting them to run the ball down their throats, and goes over their strategy and who tells Hawkins that means to go right this time as Hawkins assures him, showing the gloves on his hand being written the directions and his sides, as Marcus laughs and tells the team to go.
• The football game then starts after Marcus yells hut as they play and Marcus runs and touches a score down as Weaver loudly cheers with every win and Liv joins the crowd in chanting “Deion” as the game starts at 14:24, and continues up until the end. Sherry smiles and makes the same two eye finger motion at Marcus who sees her through his helmet as his team carries him following his score and who does it back.
• Still in line, Kym and Beth watch the video play out from Beth’s phone as it shows Jay’s wounds and him tied on the chair as well as his face as Jay speaks to the camera and says that this  message is for “Deion” and how if he wants to save him, he’s at Earl’s house but how he has to come alone before the video pans to Ghostface who turns it on to them by flipping the phone and makes a hush motion as the video ends.
• Beth acts and states how Jay’s not the killer as Kym states how he is and is just trying to lure Marcus into a trap as Beth says how if she either had a brother or feelings (foreshadow) that he’d want to see the message and asks if she wouldn’t.
• Kym turns to see the officer at the front of the line and asks Beth to give her her car keys as Beth asks why as Kym states they need a distraction so she can give that message to Liv and Marcus and how she’s going to have to pull a fast getaway after the stunt she’s about to pull.
• Beth states, arrogantly, if this is what having friends is like as she gives it to her as Kym takes it and who approaches the front of the line and asks a white girl, a student, if she wouldn’t mind her borrowing her phone to make a quick phone call as the girl claims no offense but how she doesn’t even know her as Kym states none taken as Kym then swipes her phone off her hand as the girl is taken aback and tells how she just took her phone as the cops then signal and run in pursuit of Kym, as Beth sneaks into the game and stadium.
• With the game going 14:14 and 39 seconds in the game before halftime, Marcus huddles and tells his football team how they have to score before it to win and send the other guys back home to the suburbs, and how the wing left option on the silent count, as Hawkins states again how that means he goes right which Marcus agrees and holds his left hand up and reminds him just as long as he goes left.
• The football game then resumes as Marcus takes the ball, per his directions to Hawkins, as he swerves and dodges, as Marcus takes the ball and runs by it, swerving and passing the "opps" (short for opposing team and oppositions) and who manages to run across and score the touchdown, the crowd cheering on. Inside the bleachers and down by the fence, Beth stands aside Liv as Liv watches the video of Jay on Beth’s phone.
• As the football players head inside their locker room following their win, Liv calls for Marcus aka “Deion” to wait so she can talk to him, as all the football team head inside and leave them alone as Liv hands him Beth’s phone and shows him the video of Jay and his message, which Liv asks him about as “Deion” claims it’s not but how he can’t say what it is right now and that he has to go as Liv tells him to let her come with, which he denies and tells her she can’t and there’s things she won’t understand as Liv asks him like what.
• Marcus states how Ghostface’s victims weren’t dying not because of what he did on Halloween 2010, but rather because of what he had done afterwards, which is his secret as Liv asks “Deion” what he means and what secret as “Deion” claims how she has no idea who he really is as she claims how she does but he says she doesn’t and to trust him as she smiles and states if he’s not “Deion Elliot” then who the hell is he, as he tells her to think and how she know his story and how he’s let her closer than anybody else and for her to tell him who’s the only other person he can be before Liv then realizes and states his real name: Marcus.
• Liv states how this whole time he hasn’t been who he told her he was and how she’s been falling for someone she doesn’t even know. Marcus apologizes as Liv states how she wants to know how Deion died and how he became him as Marcus recounts the costume switch between him and Deion back in Halloween 2010, which a young Deion did so Marcus wouldn’t be scared anymore and how all he needed was armor, to boost his confidence.
• Marcus says how their mom was so upset that night, that she never realized that they switched costumes and how when she found she hugged him and called him Deion and how he just went with it ever since and states how he thought he’d for sure be busted and how somebody would figure it out but how nobody ever did and so he kept living Deion’s life, who took advantage of his opportunities and who claims how he was troubled as a kid, with Marcus stating how when he became Deion, the people around him treated him differently and who they assumed the best instead of the worst (who never distinguished since they were twins and Deion dying in Marcus’s costume).
• Marcus asks Liv how if she doesn’t see it, claiming he failed Deion for taking his identity, but how he can at least save Jay and how this is his opportunity and how he’s got to take it.
• Liv claims how he could die taking it, referring to their situation, as she asks him if he ever thinks about that as Marcus claims how everyday since the mess started and like how she said, he can’t keep doing this, and how the whole reason he wanted to get the football scholarship so bad was so he could get a fresh start but how he’d rather die being himself then keep pretending to be somebody he’s not.
• Liv looks sadly into Marcus’s eyes as he apologizes again to her for lying to her but how this mistake is just as big as all his others before he then kisses her and both look longingly at another before Marcus picks up his helmet and leaves Liv behind who watches him take off.
• At the school parking lot outside, Marcus is shown with only his long sleeve white athletic shirt on and pants as he sprints towards the Weaver school bus for the football team. Kym notices him and calls out for him to wait before Marcus gets in with the keys, starting the bus and drives off. Kym uses Beth’s key to locate her car, which is the hearse much to her annoyance as Kym takes it. As she gets and later would get a text from Ghostface giving her a chance to get out which she seemingly takes.
• Beth is shown inside the field hallways off by the school walking alone and who calls out hello in the back as if she were being followed before Liv runs into her in the front which seemingly scared Beth as she states “jump scare” as Beth asks where “Deion” is as Liv states he left to go after Jay as Beth states how she let him go alone as Liv states she needed to find her to return her phone and who hands it back to her, saying the killer sent her another message.
• Beth states how she snooped like the one she is and how she already knows what it says, as Liv states how Ghostface wants them to all meet at the high school as Beth states how there’s no way she’s doing that or Liv states how “Deion” dies if they don’t.
• Marcus arrives to a truck lot with parked semi trailers in their containers somewhere in Atlanta as Marcus finds his dad Earl’s freight truck, which he does as he makes his way to the back and opens the back hatch of the trailer and finds Jay tied to the chair and heads towards him, as he is panicked and startled once Jay awakens as he calls “Deion” which Marcus claims he’s there and to take it easy and how he’s going to be okay as he begins to untie him from his straps. Jay claims how he can’t believe he came for him and states there’s something he needs to say to him before as Marcus states how he’s not dying and that he’s going to get him out of there as he begins to pull the straps off his hands.
• Beth and Liv arrive at Weaver, trying to enter the school only to find it locked as Liv asks Beth if she had any luck with Kym as Beth claims how her phone’s off and how she thinks she stole her car. Liv states how maybe she’s already here, due to Beth’s implication of stating her, as Beth asks if she doesn’t think Kym is Ghostface and how that’s crazy. Liv states how “is it” and how Kym’s known “Deion” the longest right and that she knew his history and Marcus and how if Ghostface has a problem with hypocrites, then Kym’s the most sanctimonious of them all.
• Beth corroborates this, stating she saw her and Manny get in a big fight the night before his death, but how she never thought of it as much as just them normally bickering. Liv states how perhaps the killer didn’t want them to think about it and how whoever this is has evaded detection at every turn, stating how like Kym has avoided any ounce of suspicion as Beth agrees, stating how she would’ve never pegged Kym for her to be the Norman Bates type (reference to Psycho, which has been referenced throughout the Scream franchise).
• Liv then states how one never really knows who someone is on the inside, with Beth looking at her as she states this as Liv then says how she doesn’t know why Ghostface brought them there if they can’t get in. Beth states how it’s a classic origin story, how it ends where it all started and how Weaver High School is their Crystal Lake (reference to Jason Vorhees from Friday the 13th). Liv states how that’s it as they all met in detention as Beth finishes her sentence, as they then head to the library.
  • The Friday the 13th reference is one of many spread throughout the franchise since the original Scream, as well as when Jill as Ghostface asked Kirby Reed a trivia question on the film killers weapon in Scream 4.
  • The referencing would continue, later being succeeded after Jill and Beth's, by Richie when discussing (and hinting to his identity) to Sam in Scream (2022) about the Third Woodsboro Murders about someone watching the movie and getting ideas from it (similar to Mickey's motive from Scream 2 and Beth's in Season 3, albeit each of the differences in both).
    • Due to the fact how Mickey used the idea of watching horror movies as reason for murdering, while subsequently, Beth, unlike either Jill or Charlie from the fourth film, as well as Richie or Amber from the fifth, wanted to directly become the said killers from the films).
• Marcus pulls and drags a bleeding Jamal out of the trailer after untying him, who tells him to put him down and stop so that he can hear what he has to say while he can still say it. Marcus then plops Jamal down, who falls as Marcus pins him sitting down against the side of the truck by the wheel as he kneels on the ground as Marcus tells him to hold on and how he’s got him.
• Jay states how if he has him like he had Deion on that Halloween night as Marcus stands up and asks Jamal how he knows about that as Jamal states how he's not the only one that’s been keeping a secret, and how he knows he’s Marcus on the inside. Marcus looks at him smugly as he says how he’s Ghostface, revealing himself officially.
• Liv and Beth head inside the library after getting in through an open window, conveniently, as Beth states how there’s no sign of the killer which Liv states “yet” as she doubts how the window was left open by accident. Beth then tells her joking how patriotism isn’t going to stop Ghostface, as Liv takes the flag off the indoor flag pole and splits it in two and hands Beth the other part as a weapon. Beth sarcastically remarks to her how generous as she asks Liv what now as she says  how they have to find the killer (ironically, talking to her moments before her reveal).
• Marcus states standing up how if Jay’s the killer then he must be an idiot, stating how he came there to save him prior to his reveal, as he had correctly identified him the day before.
• Jamal states how it’s way too late for that now, calling him “baby boy” but how there’s still time for him to own up to who he really is. Marcus then angrily states how he did and how admitted it and how  he told Liv he was living a lie. Jamal denies him and states he wants everyone to know the truth, to see Marcus suffer like Deion did, as Marcus tells him to keep his brother’s name out of his mouth, claiming he didn’t know him as Jamal states that’s where he’s wrong.
• Marcus claims how it’s impossible and how Deion died before Earl even introduced Jamal to the family as Jay then reveals to him if he remembers the summer that Earl had taken Deion out to football camp in Kentucky, revealing how Earl wanted them to know that they were blood and brothers, as Marcus states how Deion never told him about Jamal, who says he figures how perhaps he must’ve kept that their secret.
• Jamal states how once he moved to Atlanta with him, that Marcus treated him like a total stranger as Marcus asks if that’s why he’s killing people because he didn’t treat him like a brother. Jamal claims how he didn’t even treat Deion like a brother, as Marcus had abandoned him and stole his whole life after all Deion did was watch out for Marcus’s “punk ass” and how he’s the reason it all went bad.
• Jamal states how after what happened that Halloween night, Earl chose his family over his, and which led Jamal’s mother to lock herself in a garage and kill herself with the car running as Marcus claims he didn’t know which Jamal says of course he didn't and all he gave a damn about was keeping up with his stupid lie. Marcus asks Jay why not just expose him or better yet having killed him straight up, as Jamal states how killing its quick and how Marcus took everything from him and how he wanted to take everything from Marcus, which he claims he didn’t know how until the right opportunity came along.
• Marcus asks what he means by that, as Jamal says he’ll get to that, but starts with Tommy Jenkins, his first victim. Jamal claims how taking a man’s life is a hell of a thing and how he had to prove that he could go through with it, it wasn’t nearly as hard to keep going, as Avery Collins was to show them all he meant business, his second victim; his third victim, aka Hook Man or Luther Thompson was just payback and how Officer Reynolds was just at the wrong place at the wrong time, referring to when he had headed to Liv’s house the night of November 1.
• Marcus then tells him to not stop there and tells him how this is his big moment, as Jamal begins to slowly die as Marcus kneels down and grabs on Jamal’s collar and tells him how he doesn’t get to die until he tells him everything about Shane, Manny, and Amir and yells for Jamal to say something as Jamal denies having killed them and how Marcus isn’t the only one who’s been wearing a mask and how neither was him, referring to his accomplice which Marcus picks up on.
• Marcus who he’d been working with as Jamal claims up they were until last night when they stabbed them in the back, or rather he says how in the front, as Jamal claims how either way they’re all screwed (him, Kym, and Liv) and how they won’t stop until all of them are dead.
• Marcus asks who it is Jay as Jamal coughs and asks him if he’s really going to tell him that and how the whole point of this was to destroy him and to trust him that she will, revealing their gender. Jamal then slowly coughs and gasps as he begins to die as he starts to succumb to all of his injuries.
• Marcus then asks who is she and pleads with him as Jay then states before dying how at least they figured something out and how this is who they really are as Jay then grabs with all the strength how has left to strangle Marcus with his hand as Marcus looks at him madly with tears as Jamal’s hand falters and drops before Marcus then pushes Jamal down to the ground after holding him down, and who stands back up, officially confirming Jamal’s death.
• Back in the empty library, Liv walks behind Beth and asks her as they each hold their weapons how she’s the horror encyclopedia and asks her how the killer is going to finish them off as Beth states it’s hard to say as she lists the deaths of Tommy, Latavious, Avery, Shane, and Manny (despite neither Tommy or Avery not being her victims).
• Liv reminds her how she forgot about Amir, as Beth turns to look at her sternly yet sadly, stating how she’ll never forget Amir. Liv then apologizes to Beth and tells her how she’s only trying to get to the bottom of this which Beth claims how she doesn’t understand how Beth telling her the one person who ever liked her for who she even was, getting run through with a bone-saw, is going to help as Liv states that it does (discreetly having gotten her confession) and thanks her as Liv then gets a message on her phone as she reads it by herself from Marcus which reads “Jay’s Dead. He was Ghostface. But he’s NOT the only killer. Where are you?”.
• Beth asks who it is as Liv then plays it off as it being her dad as Liv texts Marcus her location and asks him if Jay told him who the other killer is which Marcus texts in reply that no. Liv states he’s keeping tabs on her even from his hospital bed as Beth jokes and turns around as she states “TTYL, dad. About to get attacked by a serial killer”, as Liv then uses the stick to then hit Beth on the head and knock her out as Liv states “something like that” as she drags and locks Beth in another room.
• Marcus arrives at the library through the window that Liv and Beth got through as he calls out for Liv as he approaches her and then asks what happens and asks if that’s blood as Liv assures him that it’s not his as Marcus asks whose it is.
• Beth then awakens with her hand bloody as she slams it on the window of the other room and tells him it’s hers and how his psycho girlfriend brained her when her back was turned as Liv then states (and correctly identifies) Beth as being the other Ghostface as Liv tells Marcus how he has to believe her as he states how he wants to. Marcus looks up to both Liv and Beth and states how that’s the problem due to what Jay said, and who tells them to just talk about it as Liv claims how Beth knew Amir was stabbed with a bone saw and asks how else would she had known that if she wasn’t there or the one who had done it.
• Beth states how she was there, calling Liv a bitch and who claims how Amir died in her house and after “Deion” got hauled off by the cops because of Liv, how Beth then had to sit there all night listening to every grisly detail about how the one person who cared about her, had been murdered and claims how it’s details she shouldn’t know as Liv states how she read the police report and tells Marcus how it’s a perfectly logical explanation as Beth states how so is hers and states how the ball is in his court.
• Marcus looks at Liv and Beth before he then states how he should call the cops and let them get to the bottom of this before he’s shot through the phone and his lower abdomen by Beth as Marcus looks up silently in tears as Liv turns around to see Beth having shot him through the door as she blows the gun smoke off the gun and claims how she can’t let him to that as Marcus falls to the ground as Liv kneels down to him, as Beth then reveals herself to them and also knowing his real name.
• Beth opens the door she was held in and walks towards them as Marcus asks Beth why she’s doing this and what she wants from them as Beth states besides exposing them all as total hypocrites, how he’s right and that this isn’t about him but rather her, pointing the gun to Liv.
• Beth states how it’s like she said since day one and how Liv is the final girl as Liv grabs the spear as she tells Beth to stay away from them, pointing it at her as well. Beth states how she has a gun, calling Liv an idiot, and how it’s Jay’s gun to be specific and how she got to it before the cops did, and who tells her to drop the weapon before she puts another bullet in Marcus’s head.
• A seemingly dying Marcus tells her to run, to which Beth tells her how it’s solid advice from her soon to be boyfriend and how a horror flick should never end without an epic chase. Liv then tells Beth to screw herself and how she’s not going to leave him, as Marcus then looks into Liv’s eyes pleadingly and tells her as well to go as he seemingly passes out as Liv cries before she then does so, gasping as Beth tells her how that’s the spirit as she drops her gun and takes her Bowie knife out from her skirt.
• Liv runs outs as she heads into the locked gated hallway and who then pulls the fire alarm as Beth then appears out of the library donning her own Ghostface costume as she runs towards to Liv before Liv then slams a locker door open in her face as Beth grunts and takes off the mask, as she’s shown having gotten her nose broke and bleeding who tells Liv sarcastically how she has no idea how hard it is to see in that damn thing.
• Liv then punches Beth again in her face as Beth is taken aback and who laughs as she gets blood off her mouth and states how this will be fun as she then slashes her knife into Liv’s arm which takes her aback. Liv grunts as she then grabs Beth’s arm and the one hand in which she has then knife as she heads in to stab her, which Liv manages to block this as she pushes Beth back into the lockers onto her back.
• Liv then runs off before Beth then manages to throw the knife and lodge it in her leg, which causes Liv to then fall and scream after being stabbed by it after then having successfully targeted and landed it in as Beth gets up and makes her way towards injured Liv on the floor, as she kneels down as she then begins to take the knife out of Liv’s leg, twisting it as she does as Liv screams in pain.
• Beth then manages to take it out, Liv’s wound squirts some blood from the puncture. Beth then picks Liv up and throws her into the glass cabinet of awards at the school as it shatters as Liv then grabs a wooden plaque and quickly slams Beth on the head with it, temporarily working as it then knocks her down. Liv then gets up staggering and limping as she heads into the gymnasium.
• Liv then barricades the door with a mop stick, before Beth appears with an axe as she breaks through the door with it as Liv then screams and begins to hide within the red carpet and stage set for the Homecoming dance tomorrow night, as she hides behind the projector. Beth enters as she also makes her way in, wielding and holding the axe which she carries ostentatiously on her shoulder, as Liv asks her why she’s doing this.
• Beth then gives her monologue and reasons into being Ghostface after Liv the. asks her why she’s doing this, stating how she was born bad, who claims how unlike Liv or the Deadfast Club, she doesn’t lie to herself about it.
• Liv then turns on the projector which blinds Beth momentarily as she then asks her why she's been wearing a mask, as Beth states how the difference is when she takes hers off, nothing changes, and how she always knew she was a sociopath, as she asks Liv why she thinks she loves horror movies so much. Beth claims how she watched every one of them she could get her hands on, until she realized it just wasn’t quite enough, as she asks why Michael Myers should get to have all the fun when she could be a better monster because she’s not just some actor behind a mask and how this is who she really is on the inside. Beth slashes the axe towards the projector but finds nobody there, much to her annoyance as she then continues looking for Beth, who is then guided by the sound of a door slamming.
• Beth enters a storage room and finds nobody before she’s then slightly splattered with blood as she finds Liv perched on the ladder case going up who sees her as Beth opens and heads to the roof. Liv opens the metal door off the roof and staggers her way out. Beth then appears and states how no wonder Jason runs after all the stupid counselors and states how it’s exhausting as Liv tells her how she can now stop this and how Jamal’s dead. Beth denies, stating how not when she’s so close to finishing what she started, revealing her to be the actual mastermind, as Liv asks if this was her idea as Beth states like she said of her being a sociopath.
• Beth states how she was a wannabe killer in search of her own origin story until one night it walked right through her door as she states how the moment she met and Jay sat on the tattoo parlor chair, she could tell they were kindred spirits.
• Beth states how Jay asked her to do his demons justice, which she did and how every time he’d come in, her needle would go deeper and so wound his darkness; until one night Jamal tells Beth about Marcus and the whole switched/stolen identity of Deion, and how much he hated him for the lie he had been living, and how Jay wanted revenge as Beth states how she realized this was fate and claims how it was perfect, from the mask and all, and how all Beth had to do was give him the tiniest, little push and manipulate him to commit murder and how it was on.
• Beth claims how getting detention with them was just the icing on the cake, as how just like Jay, she got to exorcise all her demons as well. Beth states how when she had to cover when she was with the Deadfast Club, how then Jay would wear the iconic costume, but how besides that, she got to be what she was born to be, as it’s revealed she killed the other victims she listed earlier. Beth then recounts how her final moment with Amir was everything.
• Liv states how he had trusted her as Beth states how he broke the rules and how she knew if she could kill him, she could kill anybody, and states that she may have even cared about him and that’s why he let him see her for who he truly was during his death as Liv claims “a cold-blooded murderer”, which Beth states how she warned Amir to stay away from her and how some people just don’t want to be helped. Liv says if Beth was just helping Jay as well, which Beth states how killing him was also always part of her plan, but Kym had just forced Beth’s hand by going to the cops, but she knew how if they got to him before she did, she’d be screwed and claims she had to put Jamal down.
• Beth states how she had to pin all the murders down on somebody, as Liv claims how the cops will never believe her as Beth sarcastically asks who will they believe as she plays on her race and background card: stating Jay as the tatted thug or her as the pretty little white girl, as Liv tells her that she’ll tell them the truth as Beth states she’ll be dead as Liv tells her how she’s forgetting about Kym, but states how she’s not and how at the end of the day, she’s all talk as Beth states how she called her and have her a chance to get out and how Kym had abandoned both of them without thinking twice and how Kym might be the biggest hypocrite of them all.
• Beth then disregards everyone else because this is about her and Liv, as Beth is about to attack Liv and swing her axe as Liv tells her to wait and asks Beth how if she’s her final girl, that means she survives as Beth states how she used to think that, but how she realized that horror isn’t about the victims and asks Liv why she thinks the franchise(s) lasts so long, claiming how the body drops change but the killer always comes back for more and how the killer is the real hero of the story. Liv then sobs and pleads with Beth as Beth asks her if she forgot her lines before ensuring how this is the part which she screams.
• As Beth screams just as she lifts the ax, Marcus arrives sneakily, to knock Beth out, hitting her with the back of his football helmet and who tells her to shut up. Beth claims how this isn’t fair before Liv then takes the helmet which Marcus hands her as Liv then tells her how he said shut up, angrily, slamming it across her head and face, which causes her to push Beth off the roof and down below into the gym from the school skylight, as she’s knocked out as Liv drops the helmet down, with some blood on it, as both her and Marcus make their way down to the gym.
  • This creep up is an homage to Sidney knocking down Jill, similarly, with a defibrillator, while being talked down by Gale beforehand, in Scream 4.
  • Beth falling after being knocked down to the skylight and gymnasium floor, would be referenced in-universe 5 years later almost a few days close to the date and anniversary of the Atlanta Murders (2018), by Wayne Bailey being knocked down by Samantha Carpenter from the balcony of the second floor of the Ghostface Shrine, hitting a glass display case, during the finale of the New York Murders.
• Liv and Marcus stand and look over Beth, as Liv claims she got what she deserved, as Marcus states how nobody deserves none of this and how this is his fault as Liv tells him to not try to take responsibility for what she did. Marcus then states how either way he has to tell everybody the truth as Liv claims just so Beth and Jay can win and states she’s sorry but how she can’t let him do that and how they’ve taken enough from them already.
• Marcus states how he can’t keep pretending to be somebody he’s not, which Liv states as that’s what high school is, and how none of them actually have any idea about who they really are and how that’s something they get to figure out later if they make it through in one piece as Liv states both Marcus and Deion’s names and how he found out who he really is when he risked everything to save his brother and how he can call himself whatever he wants but how to Liv, that’s all that matters to her.
• As both Marcus and Liv head in for a kiss, Kym arrives with the loaded gun and tells them to stand back, startling them as Kym states how she’s about to put a bullet in Beth’s jacked up brainpan.
• Liv claims how Beth said Kym bailed on them and how Kym claims she could’ve and how Ghostface offered her the chance to get out before Kym then put it all together, stating how Beth knew she was the only one of them shaken enough to bounce, but states how that’s not how a final girl rolls.
• Kym then states how she came back for them instead and who heard the fire alarm go off and found Beth aka Jay’s gun on the ground at the library and how she then knew that there was some realness going down. Marcus states how there’s no need for it anymore and how Kym can drop it as Kym disagrees, stating how it doesn’t matter whether it’s a classic horror, prequel, sequel, pre-boot, or a reboot (requel), how everybody knows of the fact of how the killer always comes back for one last scare.
• Beth then awakens and screams as she heads to attack before Kym shoots her point blank three times as Beth scoffs and states in her final moments how it was her the whole time and how Kym was right and that they’re partners before dropping down, dead.
• Kym then states how that’s a final girl and to underestimate at one’s risk. The trio then hear the police sirens approaching as Kym states how that looks bad, noting Marcus’s gunshot and asks Marcus, still referring to him as Deion since she’s unaware of his secret, and asks if he’s going to be alright.
• Marcus looks at Liv and then back at Kym as he states how she knows him and how nothing stops D-Day Elliot as he almost stumbles down as Kym comes to his shoulder alongside Liv and tells him to put his hands up as they make their way out and how it’d suck for them to have gone thru all this and the get popped by the cops as the trio walk out of the school as Beth’s lifeless body is shown on the floor, with the murders being officially over
  • Beth's death by being shot point blank by Kym (without a head shot) is a reference to both Mickey Altieri and Jill Robert's deaths in Scream 2 and Scream 4, both carried out by Sidney Prescott in the films. Like the aforementioned characters, each were obsessive and in their true natures, sociopaths and psychopaths (which Sidney points Mickey was a psycho, while Beth proclaims herself as a sociopath).
  • Ends on a Saturday night. Jamal Elliot and Beth are killed (the former by the latter), with Beth being shot by Kym, both exactly 3 days after the 8-year anniversary of Deion Elliot, Marcus's twin, which Jay tried to avenge (unlike Beth, who used it as a ruse to pursue her own killing spree). Both are the only Ghostface killers to die separately in the franchise, and to not do their reveals together.

2019

Post-Season 3, Pre-TBA

• February 1st, 2019: Lakewood and the Lakewood Carnival celebrate its 103rd anniversary.
• March 2019: The Weaver High School class of 2019 are accepted into their colleges of choice prior to their high school graduation (per Manny's statement) as Kym is accepted into hers (and Manny's honor) which is Georgia Tech, while Marcus (in Deion's honor) would be awarded the scholarship (following the scout's visit to his past football game on November 3, 2018) and accepted into San Diego State (unclear whether Liv also applied to San Diego early on or just enrolled alongside Marcus to move in with him, in the finale).
• March 28th, 2019: Brooke Maddox (if alive), turns 20 years old.
• approx. unspecified date, August 2019 (“Endgame”) only: About 9-10 months have passed since the 2018 murders in Atlanta.
  • Marcus Elliot, Liv Reynolds, Kym and Hawkins have all by now graduated from Weaver High School, and Marcus had won the scholarship under and in memory of Deion, and who had now relocated to San Diego, California, where he was set to attend college at the San Diego State for the summer. He’s shown at the beach and who looks over the ocean as he is then called by Kym, who then video chats with him, revealing how she had been accepted into Georgia Tech and how she’s just moving into her dorm as she asks him if he made it to California as he then shows her over the video chat. Kym states how some good stuff did come through with what they went through.
  • A U-Haul truck comes near the parking lot off by the side, to reveal Marcus’s mom, Sherry, and his official girlfriend, Liv, come out who waves at them as he tells Kym how Liv says hi as Hawkins then shows up on the video call with Kym, as Kym tells him to not crowd her phone. Hawkins greets Marcus (who also still thinks he’s Deion) and asks him what’s good as Marcus tells him everything and asks him what he’s doing at GT, and how he couldn’t get into that school if he had the map or all the keys.
  • Hawkins states how he just came to check what the Midtown thing was all about and how Kym’s going to let him crash with her for a little while as Kym states how she said they’d talk about it and to not get any ideas as she takes her phone back and talks to Marcus as how that’s what they’ve been doing down in the dirty, referring to Atlanta, keeping Manny’s dream alive the best way they can as Marcus states how he expects regular updates as he finishes the call and tells Kym they’ll take soon as Kym tells him bye and love to his mom.
  • Sherry then heads to Marcus and tells him how they should get a move on and how they don’t want to be late for his orientation, as Marcus states how they’re not going anywhere until they get her feet of hers in the ocean, referring to his promise, as he tells her to come on as he takes her hands and Sherry giggles as Marcus places his arm over his mom's back.
  • Sherry tells him how he really did it and Marcus claims that they did it and how he’ll never forget all she did for him as Sherry states how all she ever wanted was to see his dreams come true and how now that they are, it’s like her own are as well.
  • Sherry states how nothing will ever be able to take that away from them as Marcus claims how not anymore as the mother and son share a moment.
  • Liv approaches the beach as Sherry states for Marcus and her to take a moment and how he’s earned it as she leaves as Liv goes to join him as Marcus asks her what’s up, calling her his baby, confirming their relationship.
  • Liv states how new coast and new life and asks Marcus if he’s sure he’s ready for this, as Marcus states he guesses they’ll figure it out together as Liv plays with him and asks him who he is and what he’s done with Deion Elliot as he claims how that’s a really long story.
  • Marcus and Liv look into one another's eyes and just as they head in for a kiss, Marcus then gets a call from “No Caller ID” from his Samsung phone which he and Liv look at before Marcus decides to decline it and they kiss as he and Liv would walk off the beach as the sun sets.
    • This ending is a reference and homage to the ending of Scream 3, seeing as each of the characters are residing in the state of California.
    • Continuity Statement: It’s stated that Kym is now enrolled at Georgia Tech and Marcus and Liv are at San Diego State. If in fact they are all freshmen in college, then they had to have graduated in either May-June 2019 since most American colleges and/or universities start in the summer month of August for recently graduated high school seniors.