Friends I Dont Have - a "Scream" reboot

"Friends I Don't Have" is an intended reboot of the cinematic franchise. The basic assumption is that we need to get out of fixations such as the old actors and doing the same thing all over again. Of course the good parts will stay, but as every respected reboot, there will be changes, some for new blood and some for improving the canon. I don't know if i'll be able to write the complete fanfic, so this time, i'll write it down. Pictures of the characters, main points, victims lists and so on. Just in case.

Friends I Don't Have - The Wake

Plot and Setting

A year has passed since Maureen Prescott's coldblooded murder. The killers are still free and came back for a second killing spree. Turns out Maureen was only the opening shot... And Sidney, Neil and everyone in Woodsboro are the next targets.

Characters

Sidney Prescott (Hayley Orrantia): The eternal final girl of the franchise. She'll be mostly like the original. However, the reboot version will be different in the following ways - Her wardrobe will be based on green to symbolize the growth despite her toxic life, she'll start the first movie as more naïve and will hit Gale for another reason.

Dewey Riley (Rafe Spall): The naïve and admirable cop we all came to know and love. I'm not Craven, and therefore Dewey won't have the unnatural luck he had in the original. He'll survive part 1, but no one can promise anything about part 2. His romance will Gale will be harder, because his reason to initially distain from Gale is the same reason Sidney attacked her. His picture is taken from a character named Luke, who was the final guy in "The Ritual". In the context of the story, Dewey is seen being worried about Sidney after Ghostface stabbed him in the back.

Gale Weathers (Carrie Russell): The snarky reporter who evolved into a better person. Start out as Sidney's bitter rival, and end up as Dewey's lover. This time, her rivalry with Sidney is because Gale suspected Tatum. That was Sidney's reason to assault her. Gale talked poorly on Tatum in front of the cameras, saying "the killers might be the people you'd least expect. Maybe even your friend here". Sidney's respond was simple: "Calling me a liar is one thing, but touching Tatum is off-line!".

Neil Prescott (Lance Barber): Sidney's devoted, albeit confused, father. He did some serious mistakes which costed him in Maureen's life, and he'll die before he'll repeat the same mistakes with his beloved daughter. In FIDH, he will cheat on Maureen, not the other way around. As always with the Prescott family, the past will come back to stab him in the back. His picture is taken from George Cooper Senior, who's Sheldon's father in "The Big Band Theory" and "Young Sheldon". In the context of the story, Neil suspects that something bad happens in Sidney's room after Billy came to visit through the window and left.

Randy Meeks (Montana Jordan): The lovable movie geek who loved Sidney like many men love Neve Campbell, but got only a super-devoted sisterly love in return. The canon Randy was the most impactful victim in the franchise, and he'll keep every bit of his canon qualities. The only changes will be his Texan origins and strange connection with Neil Prescott.

Tatum Riley (Isabel May): Sidney's best friend, well known as a feisty girl who always encourage Sidney to connect her inner German shepherd, or "super bitch" in Tatum's language. In this version, the reason she enjoyed seeing Sidney attacking Gale will be darker than just friendly support. Her picture is taken from Veronica Duncan, who's a friendly character from "Young Sheldon". In the context of the story, Tatum is glaring at Stu because he treats her like the beer fairy.

Zoe Riley (Zoe Perry): Dewey and Tatum's loving mother. Ever since Maureen Prescott was murdered, Mrs. Riley became Sidney's second motherly figure. She's also connected to Sidney's family in ways she would rather never know.

Casey Becker (Paris Jackson): The same adorable blonde who'll be murdered at the first scene. Her only change will be slightly more sassy approach. Instead of "talk to someone else", she'll be more prone to "if you want to get into my pants, you'll have to go through my heart first. You're going the wrong way".

Billy Loomis (Robert Pattinson): Sidney's troubled boyfriend. He'll never confess that, not even to his best friend Stu, but he's terrified from the possibility Sidney will leave him. He'll do anything to keep her, or at least having one quality time before she'll leave.

Stu Macher (Tyler Posey): Billy's best friend and Tatum's boyfriend. He isn't the sharpest knife out there, not particularly equal in his relationship with Tatum, not sane by any measure, and he knows it. His picture is taken from MTV video music awards and was original uploaded to the internet on August 27, 2017. In the context of the story, Stu is having fun during the party at his house.

Arthur Himbry (Jeff Goldblum): The strict but fair principal of Woodsboro high school. In this version, he'll have many traits of Ian Malcolm from "Jurassic Park" universe, namely his snarky tendencies and analytical approach to every situation. It won't save him, but the killers will have a harder time killing him.

Maureen Prescott (Monica Bellucci): Sidney's late mother. Her whole life were one big misery, and the killers definitely didn't help the situation. Unlike the canon, FIDH's Maureen will be completely loyal to Neil, and will never cheat on him.

Kenny Jones (Dan Fogler): Gale's hardworking, if overweight, camera man. Since Folger played Jacob Kowalski in "Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them" and Luke in "The Walking Dead", Kenny will be very interested in fantasy and sci-fi. You can say he's an adult Randy of modern times. As such, he'll play a more active part at searching for the killers, even if it will kill him.

Steve Omar (David Ajala): Casey's jock boyfriend and Stu's archenemy. The main change from the canon will be obvious. Steve Orth was white, and Steve Omar is a black Muslim. One of the killers will become black and blue after killing him.

Killers

Tatum Riley/Blondeface - The main antagonist and the character who'll replace Billy in every vile deed. Neil used to cheat on Maureen with her, but when he had enough and decided to man up and return to his wife, Tatum lost it completely. She recruited her boyfriend Stu, and both went to murder Maureen. The next main targets would be Neil and Sidney ("your father lied to my face, Sid. He said he love me. He took my love for granted, and now i'll take the thing he loves the most"). She enjoyed to see Sidney attacking Gale for the same reason the canon Jill and Beth love horror movies. Because she's a major sadist. It's also important to say that even though she was close to Sidney age, meaning Neil slept with someone who could be his daughter, Tatum was old enough to prevent Neil from being a statutory rapist and a full-blown villain.

Body count: 4 (Casey Becker, Arthur Himbry, Billy Loomis and Stu Macher).

Stu Macher/Stupidface - The secondary antagonist who'll be practically the exact psychotic idiot from the canon. The only different thing about him is the way he'll die. Again, he had no motive. Unless "you're a genius, Tatum! Everyone dies but us. Every dies. But us. We're gonna carry on and plan the sequel. Cause let's face it, baby, these days you gotta have a sequel" indicates about any motive.

Body count: 4 (Maureen Prescott, Steve Omar, Kenny Jones and Neil Prescott).

The mystery man - A one-shot mysterious killer who'll come back in "Friends I Don't Have 2".

Body count: None. Yet.

Detailed deaths

Maureen Prescott - gutted and raped by Stupidface. The rape part was Tatum's idea. She ordered Stupidface to do so.

Steve Omar - wrestled to the ground and got his neck broken after a serious fight by Stupidface. As Stu was half dead, he had to lick his wounds elsewhere after the fight.

Casey Becker - Strangled with a rope, stabbed in her chest and gutted by Blondeface.

Arthur Himbry - Stabbed multiple times after a serious fight and gutted by Blondeface.

Tatum's fake death - Just what I said. Tatum faked her death and used it to go unnoticed until the reveal.

Kenny Jones - Smashed into his news van and got his throat slashed by Stupidface. In his last moments, Kenny gave Sidney the keys for the van, and she was in such hurry to save everyone that she forgot to run over Stu.

Dewey's attempted murder - Blondeface was presumed deceased, and used it to almost kill her own brother.

Billy Loomis - Stabbed in the back and got his neck snapped by Blondeface. Tatum took his gun, shot Randy and then shot Sidney's leg.

Neil Prescott - He was found tied up, just like in the canon, except this time he got shot in the head by Stupidface. Tatum said "and then he kills you and shoot himself in the head", which Stu was quick to demonstrate.

Stu Macher - After Tatum stabbed Sidney for the second time and let her fall to the floor, she slashed her own arm to fool Stu into sense of security. But when he got excited and drooled like in the canon, she butchered him like Charlie butchered Olivia, minus the gutting.

Tatum Riley - Gale came into the house and engaged a gunfight with Tatum. They shot at each other, each one could get killed any moment, until Sidney came from the floor and stabbed Tatum in the back twice. Tatum turned around to shoot Sidney, but then Gale shot Tatum's back and leg. Sidney stabbed Tatum one more time, this time in her chest. Then, she asked Gale for her gun, and shot the already dead Tatum's head. "For the best friend i never had".

Zoe Riley - Committed suicide via hanging, because knowing one of her children tried to kill the other one was too much for her to bear. Originally she was supposed to be murdered by the mystery man, until i realized it won't serve the character as well as i hoped.

Key quotes

"What's your favorite scary movie?" (Tatum using Ghostface's voice when playing with Casey's mind).

"if you want to get into my pants, you'll have to go through my heart first. You're going the wrong way". (Casey to her anonymous caller, AKA Tatum).

"It could easily be a woman. Considering this option should be everyone's basic instinct." (Tatum foreshadowing her true nature).

"This is the most brutal murder in the history of Woodsboro since... Don't look at me as if i'm my brother! You know what I meant." (Tatum to Sidney, pretending she's shocked from Casey and Steve's deaths).

"The killers might be the people you'd least expect. Maybe even your friend here". (Gale suspect Tatum, which piss Sidney off).

"Bam! The reporter became yesterday news. Sidney, super bitch". (Tatum encourage Sidney after hitting Gale, which is later revealed as being driven by sadism vs geniune friendly support).

"Both of us did mistakes. I shouldn't have break your face, and you shouldn't have break my reputation. I can deal with you and eventually learn to respect you, but please stay away from Tatum". (Sidney to Gale after assaulting her for suspecting Tatum).

"Do you think she's saving herself for you? She doesn't, but I share your hope." (Neil to Randy after Sidney keeps her distance from Billy, referring his wish that his daughter could date someone he actually like. It's a meta joke, because Lance Barber and Montana Jordan are playing a father and son in "Young Sheldon").

"You need love and I need information. Maybe we can sort it out." (Gale try to seduce Randy for information).

"There are certain rules that one must abide by... in order to successfully survive a horror movie. For instance, number one: You can never have sex. Big no, no! Sex equals death. Okay? Rule number two: You can never drink or do drugs. No, the sin factor. It's a sin. It's an extension of number one. And rule number three: Never, ever, ever... under any circumstances say, "l'll be right back," 'cause you won't be back." (Randy's rules about surviving a horror movie).

"We all get a little mad sometimes." (Tatum to Sidney after killing Billy).

"The pig's blood in "Carrie" was corn syrup. This pig's blood is real" (Tatum twisting the knife in regard to murdering Billy).

"your father lied to my face, Sid. He said he loves me. He took my love for granted, and now i'll take the thing he loves the most". (Tatum talks about her motive).

"Say hello to my brother!" (Tatum mocking Gale during the shootout).

"For the best friend i never had." (Sidney's comment after killing Tatum).

Friends I don't Have - University Of Lies

Plot and Setting

A year have passed since the Woodsboro killing spree. Sidney is now is college, healing one day at a time with Randy and her new friends. However, a new killer throws her back to her dark days, and won't stop until Sidney will join her parents.

Characters

Sidney Prescott (Hayley Orrantia): Everything in college will be new for her. New friends, new boyfriend, new challenges, and as always with final girls, new enemies too. Unlike the canon Sidney, who knew Debbie Loomis is one of the killers and suspected Gale, our Sidney won't suspect anyone she knows. Just keep her eyes open and let things fold while losing as less friends as possible. She'll apologize to Gale, because Gale was right about Tatum, and will assault one of her fellow female students instead after the latter provoked her.

Dewey Riley (Rafe Spall): Conflicted by his sister's death, but not for the reasons one might think. He'll be closer to Sidney and Gale, but will have serious doubts about his and Tatum's father, to a degree he won't refer him as a father. "I'm not blaming Scott for corrupting Tatum. I blame him for doing nothing".

Gale Weathers (Carrie Russell): Ever since Sidney apologized to her, Gale became her close friend and improved as a human being faster. Her temporary fox-dog relationship with Sidney will be replaced with a rude female student who'll provoke Sidney.

Randy Meeks (Montana Jordan): Pretty much the same as the canon version, except for the obvious changes caused by Tatum replacing Billy, and for his Texan origins. In the absence of Mickey, Randy will be Hallie's new boyfriend, Derek's new co-pilot and Debbie's second child figure instead of her canon version's second archenemy.

Debbie Loomis (Kelly Clarkson): Billy Loomis' devoted mother. In this version, she'll fund Sidney's college expenses as a gratitude for killing the woman who killed her son. She'll still be a reporter, but this time she'll be one of Gale's friends.

Hallie McDaniel (Nathalie Emmanuel): Sidney's best friend and roommate, Randy's girlfriend and Miguel's female bestie. She'll be slightly less sassy than her canon version, an acting student instead of psychology student and be at odds with Omega Beta Zeta sorority for being a tomboy. She'll be the one who breaks up Sidney's fight with the sadistic student. She'll also replace Derek as the serenade performer, declaring her love to Randy just like the canon Derek declared love to Sidney. Her picture is taken from Missandei, who was Daenerys Targaryen's trusted advisor and handmaiden in "Game Of Thrones". In the context of the story, Hallie is upset to hear that Sidney suspects her because of her bad history with best friends and promises Sidney that she won't disappoint her.

Miguel Trejo (Giullian Yao Gioiello): Sidney and Hallie's gay bestie, and a movie geek from the friendly and charismatic kind. He'll replace Mickey at some subtle points, such as comforting Sidney after being attacked by the mystery man, being intrigued about the murders and raising the audience during the love serenade scene.

Derek Feldman (Amadeus Serafini): Sidney's boyfriend and the most desired male student of Windsor college. This version cheated on Sidney a couple of months before the beginning of "University Of Lies", but mended the fences by then, even thought some students are still picking up on Sidney for that. He'll be the main fall guy for the killers, even referred by one of them as "the idea man". Hallie will replace him as the serenade performer and he'll replace Hallie as the man who'll try to escape with Sidney, only to be murdered before Sidney could make it through. His picture is taken from Kieran Wilcox, who was the main antagonist in the canon second season of "Scream". In the context of the story, Derek is seen giving Miguel a death glare after the latter mentioned the specific number of stabs Felipe Estefan and Maureen Evans recieved.

Felipe Estefan (Santiago Segura): The opening victim who was killed mainly because his name is similar to Steve Omar. He'll be smarter than Phil Stevens, both because he won't be stupid enough to put his ear on a toilet cell wall just because he heard some funny noises and for being less unsensitive to his girlfriend's needs. His picture is taken from Gustavo Acosta, who was one of the main characters in the canon second season of "Scream". In the context of the story, Felipe seems amused by Maureen's joke.

Maureen Evans (Kiana Lede): Felipe's girlfriend. She'll be less black pride girl than the canon Maureen was, and feisty with actions rather than just words.

Scott Riley (Graham McTavish): Dewey and Tatum's father, who was out of town when Tatum committed her killing spree, and now wants to reconcile with Dewey. Built like a tiger and just as vicious, he won't let anyone hurt his children.

Sister Elizabeth Murphy (Giorgia Whigham): A diagnosed sociopath who took over Omega Beta Zeta sorority and pick on fights with guys, counting on her gender to save her. When she slap Sidney while accusing her of being a bad daughter and a bad friend, it works just as well as you can expect. She hate Hallie dearly and do her best for dehumanizing her. Her picture is taken from Beth, who was the main antagonist in the canon season 3 of "Scream". In the context of the story, Elizabeth is seen picking up a fight with Sidney.

Sister Lois Mosley (Keke Palmer): A key member of Omega Beta Zeta. While not very fond of Hallie and not attentive to Sidney's needs, she'll be the nicest member of her sorority. She'll know how to be sassy and polite at the same time due to her social activist nature. Kinda like Kym Palmer from the canon season 3, except not needing Manny's death to leave her shortcomings.

Cici Cooper (Bonnie Wriight): The beta wolf of Omega Beta Zeta. Despite being a high-ranked member of a sorority, she'll find common ground with movie geeks such as Randy and Miguel. Her responsible drinking philosophy is the main reason why the students are less potheads than in some other universities.

Ted Prince (Daniel Radcliffe): Cici's alcoholic boyfriend, who basically spends more time in drinking than learning. Technically he never abused Cici, neither physically nor emotionally, but even the sociopathic and unhinged Elizabeth isn't reckless enough to do as much as dreaming to provoke him. He'll encounter Sidney and her friends mostly on the party scene, obsessively looking for Cici and drinking like an animal.

Cotton Weary (Brian Thomas Smith): The late Maureen Prescott's close male friend, who was found innocent after Tatum and Stu were killed. The canon Cotton was a hero on his own right, but "University Of Lies"' Cotton will be truly noble and won't care at all about Diane Sawyer's interview. His canon motives, which are saving Sidney and kill the main antagonist, will remain. His heroic sacrifice might make him even more impactful than the canon Randy's death.

Joel Jones (Tracy Morgan): Gale's second cameraman. Given he'll be portrayed by Tracy Morgan, Joel will have his snarky moments. Unlike the canon Joel, "University Of Lies"' Joel will continue to part 3. He'll be there when Sidney and Gale will reconcile, wish Cotton the best and having an interesting bond with Hallie because she reminds him of his daughter.

Officer Andrew Richards (Jon Hamm): One of Sidney's temporary bodyguard. Divorced with two children. His canon version's death was the best kill in the canon "Scream 2", and FIDH will keep it that way.

Officer Richard Andrews (Jesse Tyler Ferguson): One of Sidney's temporary bodyguards. The canon Andrews was believed by Sidney to be gay, but this version will be gay for real, and be Miguel's one night stand.

Killers

Scott Riley/Tigerface - The main antagonist and the first sane and remotely relatable killer in "Friends I Don't Have" franchise. Will be revealed as the mystery man from "The Wake". Unlike the canon Debbie Loomis, Scott never abandoned his daughter. Just was out of town at the time of the murder, and therefore have no part in Tatum's death. He also had no part in his wife's suicide. On the contrary. He was devastated to see her hanged corpse, which did nothing good to his mental health to say the least. His main motive ("you killed my daughter!") is simple and powerful. His secondary motive, which is silencing his conscience about his inability to prevent his daughter and wife's death, is powerful too.

Body count: 5 (Felipe Estevan, Debbie Loomis, Randy Meeks, Ted Prince and Cotton Weary).

Ted Prince/Beerface - The secondary antagonist who'll be more realistic and menacing than Mickey. He have no crazy idea of becoming famous as a victim of cinema violence. He just want funding for his serious alcoholism.

Body count: 7 (Maureen Evans, Cici Cooper, Elizabeth Murphy, Officer Andrews, Officer Richards, Derek Feldman and Hallie McDaniel).

Vultureface - a third and independent killer, completely unknown to Scott and Ted, who tracked down Sidney for his own agenda, and used the ensuing chaos to murder someone and get away with it. He/she will return in future installments.

Body count: 1 (Dewey Riley). For now.

Detailed deaths

Felipe Estevan - Stabbed with a hunting knife when he got out of his booth by Tigerface. By the time people saw Felipe's body, Scott was already far away.

Maureen Evans - Drugged and stabbed 4 times in the stomach while she was unconscious by Beerface. Unlike the canon Maureen, "University Of Lies"' Maureen will be too feisty to be assaulted when she's in full consciousness. Ted was stronger, but the effort that her death requires would've attracted an unwanted attention, and part of a successful kill is escaping after killing the victim.

Cici Cooper - Stabbed in the back three time, got her head smashed on the stairs and thrown from the balcony by Beerface.

Elizabeth Murphy - The tensed party was over, everyone left and purposely forgot the drunk Elizabeth behind. Elizabeth finished her third bottle and heard someone moving in the bushes. "Sidney? Is that you? Come out so I can kill you. Lois? Cici? I get it. You're angry with me. But come on! Are you going to kill me?". No one answered. She broke her bottle, ready to slash the killer. The killer charged out of the bushes. Elizabeth saw his relatively short frame and realized it's Ted. "Cici dumped you, so you decided to kill girls in the middle of the night? Well, now the night ends". Ted attacked. Both engaged a serious scuffle, where Ted ended up bleeding and Elizabeth was soaked with beer. Elizabeth threw her broken bottle to Ted's face, but missed. Ted lit a burning match and threw it on the alcohol-soaked Elizabeth. He drew his phone and filmed her while she was burning. For Ted, the multiple injuries Elizabeth inflicted him were worth it just to see her burn. She was the first character who realized Ted is Beerface, but no one listened even when she screamed her lungs out.

Debbie Loomis - Debbie and Gale were talking at a quiet place. Tigerface assaulted them. Gale got away, but Debbie was beheaded with the machete.

Randy Meeks - A lot like the canon version, except for the obvious changes caused by Tatum replacing Billy. Abducted into a van, stabbed at least 10 times, strangled, got his neck snapped and was beheaded with the machete for good measure by Tigerface.

Dewey Riley - Just like the canon scene where Debbie stabs Dewey in the back and smash his bloody victim at the glass, except this time Dewey dies for real at the hand of Vultureface. Gale escaped with her bare skin and was taken to a safe place by Miguel. Therefore, she won't be at the showdown. Originally Dewey was supposed to be murdered by Scott, which was meant to show that Scott's grief about Tatum's death led him to think that dewey chose his sister'a murderer over his own family, until i realized it would just make Scott come out as ruthless.

Officer Andrews - His throat was slashed by Beerface.

Officer Richards - After his partner was murdered by Ted right in front of him, Officer Richards decided he had enough and attempted to run the killer over. Ted saw it coming and lured Richards to a construction site. Ted was ready for him, holding a metal pipe, and jumped on the front side of the car, spearing Richards' head upon the impact. Unlike the canon Mickey, Ted doesn't lose conscious.

Derek Feldman - Derek took the police gun and shot at Ted. It didn't work as well as Derek hoped, because Ted was drunk like a clinically depressed pirate, and therefore felt no significant pain. Sidney shouted "head, Derek! Shoot him in the head!", but Ted broke Derek's arm with his metal pipe before Derek could follow Sidney's instructions. Ted began strangling Derek and stabbed the daylight out of him, but lost his focus for a second, which enabled Sidney to throw him away from Derek by stealing his metal pipe. Ted was unconscious and Sidney called an ambulance, but it was too late for Derek. Ted stabbed him dozens of times and smashed his head with a metal pipe until Derek's brain was visible through his skull. Unknown to Sidney, the ambulance's driver was Tigerface, and therefore unintentionally revealed her current location to him.

Hallie McDaniel - Sidney found her tied up to a wooden cross, stripped to her underclothing, like the canon Derek was. Sidney rushed to untie her, until she fell to the ground after Ted shot her in the back. Ted decided to torment Sidney a little longer and mock-berated her about trusting her best friend. Sidney realized she won't do any good by charging at Ted at this very moment, not being able to save Hallie or herself either, and decided to take a dive and play dead. Ted kicked Sidney in order to make sure she really is dead. Hallie became enraged and shouted a series of death threats towards Ted. Ted took a step backward and shot her in the heart. Originally Hallie's death was supposed to be much more brutal, but i changed my mind.

Ted Prince - Scott crushed the door with a powerful kick and stormed into the dark theater. Sidney was on the ground, fooling Ted she's dead, and Scott gave Ted a sharp suspecting look. He realized Ted wanted to kill him all along and drew out his machete. Ted drew his gun and shot at Scott, but his bullets were no use. Scott blocked all of Ted's shots using his machete. Ted's gun was dry, and then Scott drew his. Unlike the canon Mickey, Ted only had to be killed once. 3 bullets to his torso did their charm.

Scott Riley - When Scott was accupied at killing Ted, Sidney got up and tried to use the opportunity to get away unnoticed and call the cops, but Scott spotted her and shot her in the hind shoulder. Sidney stopped in pain and Scott used it to catch up to her and black her way. An intense exchange of words ensued. Sidney accused Scott at being oblivious at best and uncaring at worst ("I'm glad that Dewey doesn't hear you right now"), which Scott took as an insult for Dewey instead of for himself ("What did you just say? Was that a negative, disparaging remark about my son? About my Dewey?"). When Sidney corrected him ("No, Dewey is a good boy. Dewey is perfect. You and Tatum did a bang up job, Mr. Riley!"), Scott admitted that he was the one who killed Randy just to spite her, and admitted that even though he will never accept the fact that this his little daughter is at bigger fault at her and her mother's death than Sidney is, he still understands Sidney's need to protect herself and would've made peace with Sidney instead of trying to kill her if only she sent Tatum to jail instead of killing her ("She was my little angel. You know what makes me sick? I'm sick to death of people saying that it's all Tatum's faults, that she's some kind of monster. If you want to blame someone, why won't you blame your father? He was the one who cheated on your mother and took my daughter's innocence. And then you took her life! You could've just sent her to jail, and i could visit her, teach her and guide her!"). Sidney asked if he cares about Dewey that much too ("and if it was Dewey? Would you visit him?"), and afterwards she tried to pull the "isn't Ted supposed to be dead?" trick, except Ted wasn't as tough as the canon Mickey. Scott knew it, and therefore never bothered to look behind him. He drew out his machete and stabbed Sidney in her side. He attempted to do it again, until Cotton braked into the already broken door and shot a couple of bullets at Scott. "Ted is dead, but my revenge is alive" . Scott blocked Cotton's bullets, just like with Ted moments earlier, except this time Sidney guided Cotton to not wasting bullets. The pissed off Scott turned around for beheading Sidney. Cotton used the distraction to shot Scott in the back, and kept shooting until his gun was dry. Scott fell to the ground, and Sidney tried to take his machete to off with his head. Unfortunately for her, Scott grabbed her hand while she tried to do so, broke her index finger and sent her flying into a glass window. The tiger-man turned his attention to Cotton and charged toward him with a drawn and shining machete. When Scott got close enough, Cotton jumped on him against his better judgement and used his husky bare hands the best way he could. Both big combatants were heavily bruised, but Scott's machete was just more powerful than Cotton's powerful fists and kicks, and therefore Cotton bled faster. Scott smashed Cotton to the wall and attempted to stab Cotton, but before the final blow was struck, Sidney came back to the scene holding a fire axe. The handle stunned Scott for a couple of precious seconds, which enabled Cotton to crawl away. The axe's blade was blocked by the machete, and Scott and Sidney resumed their fight. The axe and the machete clashed, again and again. Scott took a step back, let Sidney swing the axe toward him. He kicked her soring hand, the one with the broken index finger, and forced her to drop the axe. A failed attempt to cut Sidney's head led Scott to pin her to the ground and break her other fingers. Conquering her unbearable pain, Sidney used her free hand to silently get a hold on her dropped axe. Scott was all invested at dislocating Sidney thumb. He saw the axe too late, when Sidney dislocated his eye with the handle. Her thumb was dislocated, but her fighting spirit was not, and neither did the axe's blade, which was dropped on Scott's hand. Scott no longer had any grip over the broken fingers. Sidney took her semi-broken hand out of Scott's grasp, tightened her grip on the axe with both hands and took a couple of steps backwards. Scott jumped on her from bellow, attempting to stab Sidney one more time. Sidney sent her axe down on Scott's head, screaming her soul out from pain and rage. Technically Scott was dead after the second axe hit to his head, but his hulking body was still crushing Sidney. The mortally wounded Cotton rushed to Sidney's aid and removed Scott's body of her.

Cotton Weary - The critically injured Cotton and Sidney ran to the exit as fast as their legs could carry them. They stopped on their tracks when Scott got up on his feet silently and threw his machete toward Sidney. He collapsed again, this time for real, and never lived to see that he missed Sidney and hit Cotton's lung instead. By the time the brave survivors of Scott's brutal assault came out of the theater and got on the ambulance, Cotton died in Sidney's arms. Cotton was gone, but Sidney made sure that the press won't ever let him to be forgotten.

Key quotes

"You wish it was Ted". (Ted plays dumb at the night he killed his own girlfriend).

"How do you know i'm just a baby-faced cop? Maybe I could suffocate my own grandfather with a pillow and you'll never know. Forgive me while I go oozing someplace else." (Dewey is upset with Gale's underestimation to his intellect. The part with the possible suffocation is a reference to "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom", where Rafe Spall played a homicidal psychopath who killed his old and sick boss).

"I'm a friend you do have, and i'll die before i'll let you down." (Hallie to Sidney, replacing Derek as the beloved one who suffers from Sidney's emotional scars and foreshadows her own murder).

"I love you, Randy. And if it's quite alright, I need you, baby. To be my movie star, show me your business. Oh baby, let me love you, oh baby" (Hallie declaring her love to Randy with "Can't Take My Eyes Of Off You" music).

"I don't know, Dewey. Tatum is someone only a mother can love, but her mother is dead :-(. I can't imagine who might go in her way". (Sidney to Dewey, unaware that a psychopath who only a mother can love might be avenged not necessarily by the said mother).

"Our survival will be the death of someone else, so we should all get going before someone else will die". (Miguel to Gale, referring to the nature of slashers).

"Well, mister originality, tell me more about your decision to imitate two high school idiots. At least Tatum and Stu were more original. But be real. Stu was just a lapdog. He was such a pussy. And Tatum Riley? Tatum Riley?! What the f@#k? Just a cat-looking Electra-repressed daddy's girl." (Randy's slightly altered famous death speech).

"Do you really want to trust your best friend, Sid? Don't you know history repeats itself?" (Ted revealing himself right before killing Hallie).

Sidney died that easily? Do you expect to buy it for a second? Conspiring against me with the psychopath who killed my daughter! Boy, you're completely out of your mind and out of your league." (Scott decides to kill Ted, realizing the latter wanted to kill him all along. Sidney and Ted weren't working together, but Scott was right about the rest).

"I don't care about your stupid parents, personal issues, Ted's alcoholism or your family's habit of ruining people's lives. I care about good old fashioned revenge. You killed my daughter!" (Scott talks about his motive).

“	Sidney: Can't you think of anything more rational? Scott: My daughter and wife are dead, and my son hates me. I've got no time for that. But soon enough, you'll be 6 foot under, those who don't need to know won't know and Dewey will embrace me again like before Sidney: I'm glad that Dewey doesn't hear you right now Scott: What did you just say? Was that a negative, disparaging remark about my son? About my Dewey? Sidney: No, Dewey is a good boy. Dewey is perfect. You and Tatum did a bang up job, Mr. Riley!	”
–Sidney calling Scott out for his flaws as a father. While Scott loves both of his children equally, never wanted to corrupt any of them and never claimed to be a good father, he's far from being a saint.

"Randy talked poorly on Tatum and I got a little machete happy". (Scott confesses he killed Randy).

"She was my little angel. You know what makes me sick? I'm sick to death of people saying that it's all Tatum's faults, that she's some kind of monster. If you want to blame someone, why won't you blame your father? He was the one who cheated on your mother and took my daughter's innocence. And then you took her life! You could've just sent her to jail, and i could visit her, teach her and guide her!" (Scott admits that even though he will never accept the fact that Tatum was a monster, he respects Sidney's right to defend herself, and would've tried to rekindle his relationship with her instead of trying to kill her if only she sent Tatum to Jail instead of killing her. That's actually sympathetic and human of him, because many parents sugarcoat their children, no matter how horrible they are).

"Ted is dead, but my revenge is alive." (Cotton saving Sidney and briefly mention the fact Tatum framed him at the death of his female close friend).

"Cotton is the real hero. I wish I could know him more deeply. People like Scott Riley are fading away. People like Cotton Weary are here to stay." (Sidney eulogize Cotton).

Friends I Don't Have - The Most Dangerous Movie

Plot and Setting

After surviving 2 killing sprees and ending the blood cycle, Sidney had enough of slasher movies based on her life, and refused to be connected to any future "Stab" movie. Sunrise Studios compromised on staying faithful to Sidney's bloody history, but write a fictional girl named Natalia Gosling as the new protagonist. However, unlike Sunrise Studios, the new killers are bloodthirsty rather than greedy, and won't settle for Natalia Gosling.

Characters

Sidney Prescott (Hayley Orrantia): Years of physiotherapy returned her fingers back to place, but not Randy, Dewey and most of her friends. She'll still work as a crisis counselor, but not as the almost broken and agoraphobic woman she was in the canon. She won't be sad and frighten to see Milton get killed. Just repulsed by the killers' sadism.

Gale Weathers (Carrie Russell): Without Dewey on her side, Gale will replace Sidney in her agoraphobic phase. Her loneliness found a temporary relief in the shape of John Milton. Their common son, which Gale wants to call Dewey, and Milton will pressure on her to call Russell, will appear in "Going Fourth".

Miguel Trejo (Giullian Yao Gioiello): After surviving the Windsor college murders and saved Gale, all Miguel want is to create a new social cycle for him and Sidney, and not being threatened ever again. However, his wish won't be granted. Not as long as there are more killers.

Joel Jones (Tracy Morgan): Formerly Gale's photographer, now the host of the tv series reviews show "To Joel Jones' Locker". He and Gale never exchanged a single word since "University Of Lies", and if it's up to him, things will stay that way.

Lara Jones (Jessica Sula): Joel's ambitious daughter. Dreaming to be an actress, but for now she's working as Hollywood dresser. She'll have all of the good qualities that the canon Liv Reynolds have, including being great at bonding with people like Sidney and a knack for dealing with psychopaths.

Dennis Carroll (Jake Lacy): Portraying Dewey Riley lookalike in "Stab 3". Used to date with Angelina, but ended their relationship after she cheated on him with Milton. Dennis is replacing Tom Prinz, because I want to avoid any confusion between Tom Prinz and Ted Prince.

Tyson Fox (Justice Smith): Portraying the fictional character Jeffrey Gibbs, who's just like a black version of the canon Noah Foster. A funny and quirky man both in real-life and in character. Unlike some of his cast members, Tyson have no wish to bring the real people to the big screen, and not a big ego either.

Jennifer Jolie (Lacey Chabert): Portraying Gale Weathers ever since the first "Stab" movie. She'll be Roman's ex, just like in canon, except this version will stay friends for real. Since Dewey was murdered in "University Of Lies", Jennifer's love interest would be Milton, and therefore she'll see Gale like the canon Judy see her.

Christine Hamilton (Grace Byers): Joel's girlfriend. A lovely singer who's the lust interest of many stalkers not just because she's beautiful.

Karen Kolcheck (Stephanie Katherine Grant): A girl who dated Randy for a month or so, before he met Hallie. Unlike the canon "Scream 3", the postmortem Randy won't blabber about how his relationship with Karen removed his immunity. Instead of being a nice goth, she'll be a nice and timid cinema student.

Angelina Tyler (Emma Roberts): Portraying Natalia Gosling in "Stab 3". The distance between playing the fictional Natalia Gosling and being the real Sidney Prescott is scorching her soul like a bubbling flammable acid. Able to perfectly imitate any woman she ever heard her voice, without any voice changer.

Steven Stone (Callan Mulvey): Jennifer's bodyguard and a frustrated former cop. Less dense and crude than the canon version.

Sarah Darling (Kristen Bell): A not particularly bright actress who's upset for being casted for role of younger women. Upset with Roman and his constant script changes, even dying believing he killed her.

John Milton (Robbie Coltrane): Roman's birthfather, a powerful producer and the man who led the gang rape Maureen Prescott went through. He's the reason that the late Maureen was so kept to herself and reluctant to engage any intercourse with Neil for most of their marriage. This cruel man is very similar to Harvey Weinstein in personality, and I want him to be similar to Weinstein in body frame too. Even the killers, including the selected few who are more heinous than him, will be repulsed by his actions. Gale won't be aware of his actions until a late stage of the story.

Martha Meeks (Anna Kendrick): Randy's sister. Along with Sidney and Miguel, Martha is the closest thing Gale have to a true friend. Came to "Stab 3" set both for auditioning for future movies and for delivering the postmortem video of Randy, who wrote down a list of survival tips for Sidney, Gale, Dewey and Miguel.

Gaston Roberts (Luke Evans): Sidney's eldest maternal cousin, Jill's older brother and Kate Roberts' eldest son. A social Darwinist who believes in the survival of the fittest. By the time of "The Most Dangerous Movie", Gaston was in touch with Sidney for 3 continuous years. Unlike his sister, Gaston was never jealous toward Sidney, and never felt like his mother love Sidney better.

Roman Bridger (Taron Egerton): Sidney's maternal half-brother who was abandoned by their common mother. Unlike the canon Roman, he won't be a psychopath, and try to bond with Sidney instead of killing her. Years of tracking down Maureen, followed by Maureen's refusal to be his mother, led him to realize that the man who destroyed his mother's innocence is also his birthfather. He won't kill any civilian target, but plan to imitate the already exist killers and kill Milton.

Bianca Brunette (Annie Potts): A former actress who ended up working as Sunrise Studios' archive manager. Not aware to the identities of the killers, but is witty enough to figure out each and every gang rape Milton ever orchestrated. Occationally mentions her genius grandchild Sheldon.

Joshua Wallace (Simon Helberg): A detective who came to solve the Hollywood murders. Kincaid's inferior partner. Despite his numerous shortcomings and ill temper, Wallace turns out to be a hero after all, comforting Gale at one of her breakdowns, and even scarifying himself for the heroes' sake.

Mark Kincaid (Tyrese Gibson): A cop who came to solve the Hollywood murders. Wallace's superior partner. After finding out about Milton's actions, Gale will choose Kincaid as her new love interest. The canon "Scream 3" isn't specific about Kincaid's family life, but this version will be a great father, or at least show a significant fatherhood.

Killers

Gaston Roberts/Hunterface - The main antagonist and Sidney's eldest maternal cousin. Ever since he heard about Sidney's survival of 2 different killing sprees, Gaston decided to kill her because he see her as the ultimate prey. No jealousy involved. He just want to kill her for his own sense of greatness. He'll also be a postmortem antagonist in "Going Fourth", because Jill's motive will be avenging his death. Angelina won't have any sexual relationship with him.

Body count: 6 (Kate Roberts, Sarah Darling, Steven Stone, Joshua Wallace, Karen Kolcheck and Roman Bridger).

Angelina Tyler/Angelface - The secondary antagonist who'll wish to prove she's a better Sidney than the original. The canon Angelina just portrayed Sidney in the semi-autobiographic movie "Stab 3". "The Most Dangerous Movie" Angelina will wish to become the one true Sidney. Gaston won't have any sexual relationship with her.

Body count: 7 (Christine Hamilton, Joel Jones, Dennis Carroll, Bianca Brunette, Tyson Fox, Jennifer Jolie and John Milton).

John Milton - Technically not one of the killers, but being the leader of a gang rape and creating a situation where a mother cannot love her own son marks him as the only civilian who's worse than many of the killers. The canon Roman was pure evil, and so is "The Most Dangerous Movie" Angelina, but killing Milton was still the one good thing these bad people did.

Detailed deaths

Kate Roberts - Her throat was slashed with a kitchen knife when she was asleep by Hunterface, AKA her own son, before the story even began.

Christine Hamilton - Got strangled in the shower with her own shower tosh by Angelface. Before committing the murder, Angelina sneaked into Christine's house, listened to her singing in the shower, and attacked the poor girl as soon as she got out of the shower.

Joel Jones - Lured into Christine's house, got smacked in the head with a golf bat, slammed into a bookshelf, his hand was severed and got stabbed in his chest by Angelface.

Sarah Darling - She talked with Roman on the phone about the new changes in the script, went to the dressing room and never got out alive. Hunterface waited her there, shoved her to the wall and strangled her.

Steven Stone - Got shot in his face with a shotgun, stabbed in the back and slammed in the head with a frying pan by Hunterface.

Dennis Carroll - Came to the set to save Angelina, who called him with her natural voice and pretended she's kidnapped. Gale, Jennifer and Kincaid accompanied him, just in case the killer is out there. Jennifer saved Gale and Kincaid, but Dennis was burned at an explosion. Angelface sabotaged the gas in advance and filmed the explosion for future watching.

Angelina's fake death - Hunterface pretended he killed her, which enabled her to work under the radar.

Joshua Wallace - Jumped in front of a bullet shot by Hunterface in order to give his friends time to escape. A pissed off Gaston stabbed the already dead body a couple more times.

Bianca Brunette - Bianca finished working on Milton's files and went called Kincaid to retrieve him the information. She also uploaded the information to the internet, just in case she won't survive long enough to inform the others on herself. Unfortunately for her, her fears turned out to be right when Angelface cut the power and constantly smashed Bianca's head with a heavy Oscar award sculpture under the cover of darkness.

Karen Kolcheck - Abducted by Hunterface, alongside Karen and Gale. Gaston's plan was to lure Sidney, similar to Roman's plan in the canon. Karen shouted Sidney to not letting the killer have his way, asking her to think about Randy, until Gaston had enough of her and stabbed her in the neck with a hunting knife. Originally it was supposed to be Martha, until i realized that Chad and Mindy Meeks-Martin (Martha's twin son and daughter, respectively) would be impossible to write because they need their mother to be born in the first place.

Tyson Fox - Stabbed in the stomach with a cue stick, got literally thrown under the rag and ending up breaking his jaw, got thrown from the balcony, and lastly got melted with acid for good measure by Angelface. The fight between Tyson and his killer is very similar to the canon. The main differences is that Angelina will kill him more brutally than the canon Roman, and that she'll fight Tyson, Jennifer, Kincaid and Miguel at the same time.

Jennifer Jolie - Stabbed in her stomach and back by Angelface. Miguel and Kincaid came to her rescue, but got there too late.

John Milton - Very similar to the way the canon Roman killed the canon Milton. The main difference is that in "The Most Dangerous Movie", Angelface dissolved Milton's face with her favorite acid.

Angelina Tyler - Milton's death and Angelina's statement about Sidney being obsolete led to an epic fight. Angelina's only regret was that Gaston isn't there to help her. She doesn't live to know that, but Gaston locked both her and Sidney inside in order to kill Sidney and frame Angelina at everything. Angelina had plans of her own, which were to kill Sidney (she was on the process of killing her until Roman came into the room), framing Gaston and emerge as the new and true Sidney. She and Sidney trashed each other the same way the canon Roman did, but took the upper hand after kicking Sidney in the knee while the latter tried to smash a chair on her, and then proceeded to strangling Sidney. She stopped on her tracks only when Roman entered the room holding a flamethrower. He found Sidney and threw the flamethrower so she could catch it. Angelina surprised Roman from behind, knocked him out with a chair, and then came to finish the job, only to be burned at the hand of Sidney's flamethrower.

Roman Bridger - Sidney helped Roman to get up. He told her that Lara and the rest are on their way. Martha and Gale came, but turned out to be held at gun point by Gaston. Miguel and Kincaid weren't there because they got lost thanks to the late Angelina's manipulations. Gaston threatened Sidney to give up, or else he'll blow Martha and Gale's heads with his rifle. Roman stood up, walked toward Gaston and convinced him that killing both Sidney and her lost brother would be more satisfying than just force her to surrender. Gaston knocked Martha and Gale out, and then shot Roman multiple times. Roman didn't backdown, and kept charging at Gaston until his rifle was dry. Roman survived the whole magazine and even stabbed Gaston with the last of his strength before finally succumb to his grievous wounds.

Gaston Roberts - A seriously pissed off Gaston drew his hunting knife and charged at Sidney. After Roman emptied his rifle, Gaston forgot the thrill of the hunt and just wanted Sidney dead out of pure spite. Sidney was ready for him. However, Sidney and Gaston didn't got the chance to fight, thanks to Lara coming out of the shadows and shooting Gaston in the back of his head.

Key quotes

"It was a simple game, Joel. You should've told me i'm special. Now, you lose" (Angelina to Joel, talking to him in Gale's voice when she killed him).

"This movie looks like my troubles, which is funny, because your movie is my troubles" (Sarah talks about "Stab 3").

"I learned this much: If you want to be a star, you should be prepared for war" (Bianca to Gale and Jennifer about the nature of Hollywood).

"For once, just once, I would like to be asked what's my favorite happy movie" (Sidney to Kincaid).

"Let me introduce myself: Roman Bridger. Director and brother" (Roman introducing himself to Sidney).

"she slammed the door in my face, Sid. She said i was Rina's Child and Rina was dead. And it struck me. A great idea. So i watched her. When i found out Maureen has a second daughter, i wanted to meet her and do a little family film. That would be you. And i'm glad to meet you. I just wish Maureen, mom, would be glad to meet me. I'm not mad, because i know it's not her fault. It's John Milton. I know what he did to our mother, and with your help, we're gonna make him pay" (Roman talks with Sidney about his intention to imitate the killers and kill Milton).

"I want to kill him, but I won't enjoy it". (Sidney talks about Milton).

"I'm saying things got out of hand. Maybe they did take advantage of her. Maybe the sad truth is, this is not the city for innocence. No charges were brought. And the bottom line is, Rena Reynolds wouldn't play by the rules. You wanna get ahead in Hollywood, you gotta play the game, or go home" (John Milton about his cruelty towards Maureen when being confronted by Jennifer about his dark past. Gale couldn't believe it until later stages in this installment. In her defense, being the mother of his child is a good reason for her to know the truth about him later than in the canon, as knowing your spouse led gang rapes isn't easy).

"I did not f@#k that pig, Milton, to get a leading role just to die here with second rate celebrities like you!" (Angelina to Gale and Jennifer before faking her death, also implies she wanted to kill Milton with or without her and Gaston's killing spree).

"Don't do it, Sid! Think about Randy" (Karen's last words).

"Here he is, the man who gave away your mother's innocence! Huh, what he did to her made her an iceberg, didn't it, huh? She never recovered from that night, right here in this room! They f@#ked her three ways from Sunday, ruined her life. Ruined our lives too. Do you hate him, Sid? Come one, I know you do. I'm sure you do!" (Angelina reveals the tied-up Milton to Sidney and scares her a little before killing Milton).

"I'm melting! I'm f@#king melting!" (Milton's last words).

"There's only room for one star in the sky, and let's face it, fake Sidney, your ingenue days are over" (Angelina to Sidney, moments before assaulting her).

"You forgot the first rule about stars, Angie: Don't f@#k with the sun". (Sidney to Angelina while burning the psychopath with a flamethrower).

"Sidney is alive, and there's nothing you can do about it" (Roman's final words after emptying Gaston's rifle).

"The hunt is off" (Lara to Gaston when she shoot him in the back of his head).

Friends I Don't Have - Going Fourth

Plot and Setting

15 years after the original killing spree in Woodsboro, Sidney is drown to yet another killing spree in the town that used to be her home. Between becoming a mature woman with a life of her own to writing a self-help book called "Out of Darkness", Sidney thought that she would never have to clean the blood after anyone ever again. However, someone who strongly disagrees wants to plunge Sidney back into the darkness...

Characters

Sidney Prescott (Sarah Silverman): The iconic final girl is now older, wrote a self-help book and doing her best to keep anyone else from going through what she did. She decided to come to Woodsboro one last time in order to see Jill, who's her last kin she left. Unlike the canon Sidney, our Sidney knows Jill doesn't care about her, but forcing herself to keep her safe. In this version, Sidney is a single mother, and the husband she doesn't have won't be mentioned, or even hinted.

Gale Weathers-Kincaid (Michelle Pfeiffer): Kincaid's devoted unmarried significant other for the past 10 years. "Going Fourth" Gale will leave her reporter days behind and become one of Disney's scriptwriters. Her two sons, David "Dewey Junior" and Lucas "Blue", are considered by her as her biggest achievement, and she'll burn America to the ground before she'll let the killer put a finger on them.

Miguel Trejo (Enrique Iglesias): 3 killing sprees behind him, and he's still the most cheerful main survivor. However, as the killers will learn the hard way, cheerful isn't soft, as Miguel is as protective and badass as ever.

Judy Hicks (Brie Larson): The new sheriff of Woodsboro and what Gale could become if Dewey wasn't murdered. Without Dewey, Judy will be jealous toward Gale because Gale has children, while she has problems with getting pregnant. She'll be nicer and smarter than the canon version. Her love to comic books and horror films will bond her with Kirby. "Going Fourth" Judy will also be a former final girl from a killing spree of her own, killing her assailant with her bare hands. More details about her time as a former final girls can be found on the prequel to "Going Fourth". It's called "Goldilocks and the Bear", and it's more serious than you would think.

Lara Jones (Damaris Lewis): Older, smarter and just as fit to the final girl role as ever. I cant tell how Liv would turn out to be when she'll grow up, but Lara can give a good indication for that. A smart woman who killed a super-strong psychopath before he even laid a finger on Sidney, as well as capable to break a wood pole with her knee, isn't to be taken lightly.

Mark Kincaid (Tyrese Gibson): Gale's devoted husband and the only male competent cop in Woodsboro. He and Judy will bond over their near-death experiences and over the fact they are the only competent cops in all of Woodsboro. He's Gale's husband, but not her children's biological father, hence why they keep their mother's last name.

Charlie Walker (Ansel Elgort): A sexually frustrated movie geek who harassed at least 4 girls in his class. He'll be slightly more sympathetic than the canon Charlie, but still a serial killer who has a thing for Sid and is willing to kill his best friend for a girl. Plot-wise, Charlie will make some real-life people's wishes come true, such as killing Gale like Courtney Cox wanted.

Anthony Perkins (Texas Battle): Ross Hoss's partner, Olivia's secret admirer and a perpetual source of frustration for sheriff Hicks. He have sewer water for a brain, just like the canon version, yet being knowledgeable about horror films despite his stupidity. His "Going Fourth" version will attend the Stabathon.

Rebecca Matters (Lia M. Mortensen): Sidney's antisocial PR manager. She read Sidney's book, but all she understood was that "bleeding is leading". Originally I wanted to cast Lea Remini for her role, until a pen-mate gave me the idea of using M. Mortensen. Thanks, bro.

Kirby Reed (Emma Heesters): Jill and Olivia's close friend, one of Charlie's harassment and lust interests, and Sidney's follower and eventual successor. She's basically what Sidney could become if her life were easier. in "Going Fourth", Kirby will be somewhat more serious and won't mock Charlie and Robbie about their stabathon, at least as long as Charlie won't harass her like he always do. Her artistic side will be both expertise in horror films and singing.

Robbie Mercer (Ty Simpkins): Charlie's best friend and vice-president of the cinema club. The Stabathon is his life work, and whenever he doesn't think/talk about girls (namely Olivia), his thoughts are always drifting to the next stabathon. In his final moments, he'll know who killed him and why he did it.

Olivia Morris (Cait Pool): Jill and Kirby's close friend, Charlie and Robbie's common shared interest and a cheerleader in Woodsboro High. The most admired girl in her class, which make Jill extremely jealous ever since both were 13.

Jenny Randall (Kristen Stewart): Trevor's other girlfriend, Jill's mortal enemy, Marnie's close friend and one of Charlie's harassment and lust interests. Personally, I used to hate Kristen's guts after playing Bella in "Twilights". She might or might not became a better person and actress, but the time she cheated on Pattinson with the married director is similar to the canon Jenny's behavior. Jenny isn't a bad person. Just suicidal.

Jill Roberts (Emilia Clarke): Sidney's uncaring cousin, Kirby and Olivia's close friend, Trevor's bitter ex, Charlie's secret lover and Gaston's little sister. Hated her mother and Sidney ever since she was 2, and after Gaston released her from her mother, she became a happier person. She'll hate Sidney just as much as her canon version, but this time she'll have a better motive. She'll be tragic, insecure and protective. Her picture is taken from Qi'ra, who's a character form "Solo: A Star Wars Story". In the context of the story, She's being visited by Trevor and smiles in fake politeness while telling him off.

Marnie Cooper (Evanna Lynch): Jenny's close friend and first victim. Ever since she caught Charlie peaking on her while taking a shower, she's very specific about not mentioning him. Unlike most of her classmates, she isn't into horror films.

Lucas "Blue" Weathers (Iain Armitage): One of Gale's sons, David "Dewey Junior"'s brother and a possible future final boy. A smart and perceptive kid who'll figure out that one of the killers have a thing for his mother. I know Iain Armitage is 11 or something, but I just couldn't think about anyone who'll play Blue better.

Ross Hoss (Rodger Corser): Anthony Perkins' partner. Well-known as an absentminded individual, and sheriff Hicks doesn't even bother to be frustrated with him anymore. He'll be just as dumb as Perkins, and even less knowledgeable. He won't come with Perkins to the Stabathon.

Jinn Griff (Elaine Handrix): Jill's legal guardian for the past 10 years. Kate and Gaston Roberts are dead for a long time, and Jinn stayed the only one who take care of Jill. Deep down, Jill never cared about Jinn, and unlike Sidney, Jinn will never know about Jill's real emotional structure. The canon Kate knew that Jill killed her, but Jinn won't know a thing.

Ian Mercer (Michael Keaton): Robbie's father who was divorced from his mother, and now works on his bond with his cinema-enthusiastic son. People know him as a cheerful family guy who shares his son's interest in cinema. However, his true self is a professional killer who finds a disturbing satisfaction in his job. The sad part is that we live in a society that doesn't ask enough questions when it comes to major sums of money. He's named after Ian Mercer from "Pirates of the Caribbean". His picture is taken from Adrian "Vulture" Toomes from Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the context of the story, he's seen making a statement during the Stab-A-Thone that if the killers will do as much as insulting his son, they'll rest in pieces by the end of the week. He even took a knife to make the threat more tangible. Originally i planned to write Walter Birkin, who used to be Woodsboro mayor, as one of the antagonists, but it ended up less sensible than i wanted.

Trevor Sheldon (Dylan Sprouse): Jill's sucidal ex who cheated on her with Jenny. The canon Trevor was the classic jerk jock who were actually a human being at the end of the day, and "Going Fourth" Trevor will be more like the surf guy who overuse words like "Dude" and "Radical". His long hair in this version is because Jenny asked him to.

David "Dewey Junior" Weathers (KJ Apa): One of Gale's sons, Lucas "Blue"'s brother and an insecure guy who always wanted to be worthy of the legacy of his father. Being named after the original Dewey made Dewey Junior looking for troubles for emerging as a hero. I know KJ Apa is much older than Iain Armitage, but i wanted a surprising cast, someone not everybody know.

Brian Prescott (Casey Cott): Sidney's son and a possible future final boy. Growing up on legendary people such as Randy Meeks, Dewey Riley, Cotton Weary and Roman Bridger (yep. I said "Roman Bridger" and legendary at the same sentence. Scott Foley is cracking up right now lol) gave Brian some serious education to go by. His mother's history with men makes him very cautious about anyone who'll look at her at not so casual way. As someone who wrote a fanfic where Sidney has a daughter, i'm morally obligated to make Brian as fleshed-out as possible.

Killers

Jill Roberts/Babyface - The main antagonist, Charlie's secret girlfriend and Gaston's successor. She lived the past 15 years of her life feeling that her mother love Sidney better, and therefore came to worship Gaston after he released her from her mother.

Body count: 6 (Rebecca Matters, Ross Hoss, Jinn Griff, Trevor Sheldon, Charlie Walker and Lara Jones).

Charlie Walker/Geekface - The secondary antagonist and Jill's secret boyfriend. While retain his brutal tendencies, he'll be more likeable and less stupid than the canon version. He'll be the first killer so far who'll show clear sighs of conscience and wish to be redeemed.

Body Count: 5 (Marnie Cooper, Jenny Randall, Olivia Morris, Gale Weathers and Robbie Mercer).

Ian Mercer/Vultureface - a major antagonist who works independently from Jill and Charlie. They won't know he's one of the killers, neither in life nor in death. He'll have a bigger appearance in "The Fifth Symphony".

Body Count: undetermined on-screen (Dewey Riley, Anthony Perkins, Lucas Weathers, and more will come soon), dozens to hundreds off-screen.

Detailed deaths

Marnie Cooper - As soon as the lights were out, Marnie was snatched, stabbed in her upper abdomen 4 times and thrown from the window into the house by Geekface.

Jenny Randall - Got stabbed in the back, pushed down the stairs, smashed against her own car in her garage, forced to drink motor oil and gutted by Geekface.

Olivia Morris - Stabbed in her hand, thrown all over her room and gutted by Geekface. It's the same death from the canon. The only difference will be Olivia's cloths and having her bloodstained cloths scattered all over her room.

Rebecca Matters - Stabbed in the stomach during her failed attempt to escape from the parking garage and get into the elevator, and later thrown 10 stories off structure by Babyface.

Ross Hoss - Stabbed in the back by Babyface, and later his dead body got stabbed multiple times by Geekface for deathcheck.

Gale Weathers-Kincaid - Stabbed in the shoulder and heart, got her head smashed with a camera and was strangled with a cable by Geekface. Perkins scared Charlie away and was at Gale's side until the ambulance came, but she died at the hospital.

Anthony Perkins - When he tried to catch the Ghostface who critically injured Gale, unaware to the fact that it was Charlie, he failed thanks to Vultureface's intervention. Charlie ran away and left Ian to finish the job by shooting Perkins multiple time, and lastly stabbing him in the forehead. After he killed Perkins, Ian exploited the fact that he's badly injured to ditch his costume and pretend to be attacked by Ghostface, and alluded to Charlie while doing so. He had copies of Jill and Charlie's fingerprints just in case, and he used it to put Charlie's fake fingerprints on Perkins' gun in order to make it look as if he had to take the gun that Charlie took from Perkins.

Lucas Wheathers - Gale's two sons came to visit their mother at the hospital. They sat next to her in her final moments. Vultureface was at the same hospital as an injured man, and Geekface tracked down the dead Gale in order to mutilate her dead body out of sheer spite. One Ghostface stalked Dewey Junior and Blue close to the hospital's doorstep, and the other one attacked them. David threw the attacker to the closet in order to protect his brother, but got a nasty cut in his eyebrow. David came to remove and mask and call the police, while Lucas ran away and cried for help. David came to remove the mask, but stopped in his tracks when Ian smacked him in the head from behind. Ian helped Charlie get up, stabbed him in the shoulder just to remind him not to mess with him or ask too many questions and sent him on his way with a gun aimed to his back. After Charlie escaped with his bare skin, Ian left the hospital and tracked down Lucas befor the latter could get far from the hospital. Upon tracking the kid down, Ian jumped at him as soon as he laid a foot out of the door, injected him a neuromuscular-blocking drug with an intentionally dirty niddle and kicked him to the floor. When Lucas became completely paralyzed, Ian stood above him and shot him in the head with the gun he took from Perkins. By the time the police came, all that could be found was Gale's sons, one unconcious and one being dead.

Jinn Griff - Stabbed in the back of the neck through the mail slot of the front door by Babyface. Her last words to Sidney were "tell Jill I'm so sorry". Her sorrow came from believing she couldn't be the mother Jill deserved, which is sad, because Jill loves the man who murdered her mother because he murdered her mother.

Robbie Mercer - Stabbed in back, chest and stomach by Geekface.

Kirby's attempted murder - Jill pretended to attack Charlie and tied him to a chair as part of their scheme. Ghostface (Jill) called Kirby and threatened her to answer some trivia questions about horror, or else Charlie will die. Kirby answered and rushed to save Charlie. Unfortunately for her, Charlie revealed himself to be one of the killers by stabbing her in the gut and ranting about his sense of entitlement about her. Charlie's stab was painful, but not very deep, because deep down Charlie didn't completely want Kirby dead. After his half-hearted stab, he left Jill dressed as Ghostface to chase Sidney and took Kirby's cellphone for calling the cops and inform them about his actions. He didn't tell them about Jill's involvement, but some of the cops came to consider the possibility that Jill was involved on their own.

Trevor Sheldon - After Kirby stabbed by Charlie, Sidney tried to escape, only to get caught by Charlie and be held at a knife point. Sidney escaped from Charlie by jump him into the wall, but was stabbed by the second Ghostface on her way out. The Ghostface removed their mask and revealed themselves as Jill. Charlie grabbed Sidney by the hair and took her to the kitchen. In the kitchen, Charlie bragged about murdering his best friend for a girl, until Jill sent him to bring poor Trevor, who was tied-up and gagged with a masking tape. Jill removed the masking tape from Trevor's mouth just so he could scream louder when she'll finally kill him. Charlie gave Jill his gun, mocking the late cops that they'll want her to have the gun for protection. Jill held Sidney in place at knife's point while telling Trevor in great details about how she's going to frame him as the killer. The angry killer proceeded to shoot her cheating ex in the groin, and only then shot him in the head. Sidney could only look away in horror.

Charlie Walker - After killing Trevor, Jill decided that now it's a good time that she and Charlie will stab each other to make themselves look like victims. However, to Charlie's surprise and Sidney's foregone conclusion, Jill stabbed Charlie in the heart, and not in the shoulder like she told him she would.

Sidney's attempted murder - Sidney called Jill out for her cruelty and self-pitty. Jill stabbed her in the abdomen for the second time as a response, and proceeded to faking the evidences and injuring herself in order to look like a victim. The part where she layed in front of Sidney and tried to copy her posture wasn't part of the plan. She just wanted to become similar to Sidney in Sidney's (intended) dying moments because she thought it would make her more loved.

Sidney's second attempted murder at the hospital - After learning from Kincaid that Charlie accidentally spilled the beans on her and that Sidney is still alive, Jill got out of her hospital bad as soon as Kincaid left the hospital and went straight to Sidney's room. The half-dead Sidney saw her murderous cousin's menacing shadow coming, but failed to call for help after Jill unplugged the button that patients use for calling the nurse. Jill jumped on Sidney and strangled her, only failing because Sidney came very close to gouge her eyes out. Both fell from the hospital bed, but Jill came up faster and brought Sidney back on her feet only to keep trashing her in a very brutal way. The near-deadly beating ended only when Jill heard someone coming. She went to hide in the closet and got a hold on a metal bedpan. The surprising guest turned out to be no other than the sheriff of Woodsboro, whose experience as a former final girl made her observant enough to know that serial killers such as Charlie often have a superficially unexpected accomplice, and Jill seemed to her as unexpected enough, which was something she figured out that should be at least considered. When Judy came in, she already figured out that Jill is one of the killers, but she couldn't find her. Sidney tried to warn Judy, but Jill pounced on Judy from the closet before Sidney could warn Judy properly and bashed the cop's head with a benpan until her head began to bleed. She took Judy's gun and was about to shoot Sidney, until she was interrupted by other unexpected guests, this time Brian and Lara. Brian had a gun of his own and aimed to Jill, and Jill aimed her own gun to Judy. She threatened Brian and Lara that she'll blow up Judy's head if they won't give her the gun. Brian fell to it and threw his gun to Jill, who kicked it closer to Sidney than she intended.

Lara Jones - Jill shot Lara in the chest. With an unconcious Judy and dead Lara, Brian figured out his mother is strong enough to come for a second (or one hundred and second in her case) round if given enough time and distracted Jill until Sidney came back and electrocuted her antisocial cousin with the defibrillator.

Jill Roberts - Jill knew she's a goner at this point, but she still took a glass shard and sneaked from behind in order to stab Sidney out of sheer spite. Sidney was experienced enough to figure out a Ghostface would sneak up on her and took the gun. Sidney would never tell that to her son, but the moment where she shot Jill in the chest was more cathartic than sad.

Key quotes

"Do i sound like a Trevor to you?". (Jill to Jenny while using the Ghostface's voice).

"Bambi" (Kirby to Charlie and Robbie when she was asked what's her favorite scary movie).

"Maybe i was too hard on the little geek. But why is he too hard because of me?" (Kirby to Jill about her complicated relationship with Charlie).

"You could've done a lot worse. Trust me" (Jill to Kirby about Kirby's complicated relationship with Charlie, also foreshadowing her true nature).

"The unexpected is the new cliché" (Charlie to the cinema club about the new killer spree).

"After three killing sprees that ended with the killers' deaths, you would think people will be smarter than just start killing again. Well, sadly there are still morons in this town. But nevermind. If the killers hear me right now, i want them to know that their days are numbers. Lay a finger on anyone in this town, especially my son, and you'll be rest in pieces by the end of the week. I swear to this knife that even the vultures wouldn't touch you!" (Ian's speech on the Stab-A-Thone, doubles as a threat for the killers. Jill and Charlie still don't know he's one of the killers though).

"f@#k Bruce Willis!" (Anthony Perkins' last words before falling dead).

"You don't know who i am. Not really. Now get out of here before i'll give you a demonstration of what curiousity does to cats" (Ian helping Charlie up and sending him away).

"My adoptive mother is making me crazy" (Jill to Kirby about Jinn, shortly before murdering her own adoptive mother in cold blood).

"Wait, you can't do this, there's rules! I'm...I'm gay, I'm gay...if it helps!" (Robbie tried to pretend he's gay because he thought that being gay means he has no sexual relationship in a horror movie, and therefore the rules won't allow him to be killed. Poor soul. He actually thought that pretending to be gay would help. It didn't).

"I should find better friends" (Robbie's last words to himself after Charlie murdered him).

"Halloween, uh, Texas Chainsaw, Dawn of the Dead, The Hills Have Eyes, Amityville Horror, uh, Last House on the Left, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare On Elm Street, My Bloody Valentine, When A Stranger Calls, Prom Night, Black Christmas, House of Wax, The Fog, Piranha. It's one of those, right? Right?" (Kirby guessing all the trivia questions that Jill forced her to answer in order to save Charlie).

"Four years of class together, and you notice me now? You stupid bitch! It's too late!" (Charlie to Kirby, revealing himself to be one of the killers in a moment of self-pitty).

"You think she's going to get away? You think anyone gets away?" (Charlie holds Sidney at knife point and implies that Jill is actually one of the killers).

"Hello, Sidney. Surprised? Watch this. This is the part, my dear cousin, where the cameras are off" (Jill stabbing Sidney in the stomach and reveals herself to be the main killer).

"Man, I got great footage of my Robbie kill. Better than Jenny and Marnie or Olivia even.." (Charlie takes pride at killing his best friend for a girl).

"I'm not the girl you cheat on!" (Jill to Trevor before killing him).

"Do you know what it was like growing up in this family? Related to you? I mean, all I ever heard was Sidney this, Sidney that! Sidney, Sidney, Sidney! You were always so f-cking special! Now I'm the special one!" (Jill revealing her first motive, which is being very envious because she grew up feeling as if her mother loved Sidney better. Her second motive is avenging her brother Gaston, who never cared about it in the slightest).

"The heart?! That's not the way we rehersed that!" (Charlie is being surprised that Jill stabbed him in the heart. What we have here is a young man who's surprised that killing anyone who ever loved Jill, including a woman who raised her ever since her brother murdered her mother, also means killing him. His death could've been sympathetic if he wasn't so stupid).

“	Sidney: Even your friends?! Jill: My friends? You're the one to talk. Anyone who ever loved you is either dead or dying. You don't want friends. You want fans. You've created a world where sick is the new sane. You're going to pay for the life you stole from me, Sid! For the brother and for the family and for the stardom, and... Goddamit everything you had and should've been mine! Sidney: God! Why won't you stop your whining and get on with it? I've heard that s#!t before! Jill: That's what my mother always said when i told her how i feel. If i can't be loved, at least i can stay true to the original Sidney: You know why you kill people, Jill? Do you? Jill: Don't lecture me, Michael Myers!" Sidney: Because you choose too! There is no one else to blame! Jill: Give me my brother back, you f@#king Voldemort! Sidney: Why won't you take some f@#king responsibility?!" Jill: I'll take you first	”
–Sidney calls Jill out for her self-pitty before Jill stabs her for the second time, mauls her nearly to death and fake the evidences to make herself look like a victim. She didn't make sure Sidney is dead after trashing her, but to be fair, Sidney looked dead enough and indeed would've died if she wasn't so tough

"Charlie told me you were one of the killers. He must've lied. Why am i surprised that serial killers lie?" (Mark Kincaid visits Jill at the hospital and reveals that Charlie spilled the beans on her on the phone, but her very convincing way of playing the victim made Charlie's attempted redemption moot).

"You just won't die, will you? Who are you, Michael f@#king Myers?" (Jill to Sidney when she comes to try to kill SIdney for the second time, this time at the hospital and without anyone to help her).

"That's for denying me the second best moment of my life" (Jill shoots Lara after forcing her to give her Judy's gun as a punishment for killing Gaston and averting what could've been Sidney's gory death. Sadly, unlike the canon Judy, Lara didn't wear any bullet-proof west).

“	Jill:Now get up, mudblood. Come on. Get your pretty ass out here. I'm going to enjoy blowing your head off.! Brian: But could I just have one final word?" Jill: What, please? Brian: No.. Clear Jill: Clear?! Sidney: Clear!	”
–Brian distracts Jill and Sidney electrocutes her at what could've been a heartwarming mother and son moment if it wasn't for the grave danger they were at

"When will remakes learn not to f@#k with the original?" (Sidney about Jill after electrocuting her with the defibrillator. It's similar to the meta comment for the canon Jill and this version of Angelina. It also serves as black comedy, because in this version, Sidney said it in an annoyed tone instead of the angry tone of the canon.).

"I don't know about you, but i feel a whole lot better" (Sidney to Jill after shooting her in the heart and killing her for good).

Friends I Don't Have - The Fifth Symphony

Plot and Setting

10 years have passed since the second Woodsboro killing spree, and Sidney has already created the best life for herself and her family as possible. She has a solid work as a writer and criminologist, a loving husband, 3 young adorable kids in addition to her son Brian, and is overall the happiest she ever was. Her post-traumatic syndrome disorder became manageable and she came to believe that she's too old for this s#!t. However, turns out that this s#!t isn't too old for her...

Characters

Returning Characters

Sidney Prescott (Sarah Silverman), David Weathers (KJ Apa), Judy Hicks (Bri Larson), Ian Mercer (Michael Keaton), Miguel Trejo (Enrique Iglesias), Mark Kincaid (Tyrese Gibson) and Martha Meeks (Anna Kendrick).

New Characters

Samantha Carpenter (Melissa Barerra): Tara Carpenter's older and overprotective sister, Christina Carpenter's older daughter and Derek Feldman's illegitimate child after Derek cheated on Sidney with Christina. After the man who she knew as her father discovered he isn't the true father, Mr. Carpenter abandoned his family, Christina has descended to alcoholism and Sam had to step up as the only responsible adult in her family. She doesn't love Tara like in the canon, because she feels like Tara was thrown at her, but she also knows it's not Tara's fault, and will still take care of her like their shared mother should've. In addition to her other troubles, she also needs to take anti-psychotic medications because she occasionally hallucinates Derek. Originally she was meant to be portrayed by Ashley Greene, but i changed my mind both because Melissa Bererra is still better for this role and because Ashley Greene doesn't have a good photo to visualize the character. Spoiler alert: The specific picture that i used here comes from "Scream 6" where Samantha killed Wayne while wearing the Ghostface costume because i feel like it fits better for this version of this character.

Tara Carpenter (Jenna Ortega): Samantha Carpenter's younger sister, Christina Carpenter's tounger daughter, Mr. Carpenter's daughter and close friend with Mindy, Chad, Liv and Wes. Before she joined the friends group, she used to be mocked by her peers because she looks like Wednesday Addams. Tara's life isn't always peachy to say the least, but unlike her wrathful and struggling sister, Tara bears no ill will for their parents, and is overall more sad than angry. She and Amber aren't close friends, but she still enjoys talking to her from time to time because both like horror movies.

Mindy Meeks-Martin (Jasmine Savoy-Brown): Martha Meeks' daughter, Randy Meeks' niece, Chad's twin sister, and a close friend with Tara and Liv. She seems to inherite her late uncle's enthusiasm and meta understanding about horror movies. A feminine lesbian who conbimes an extroverted personality and friendly demeanor.

Chad Meeks-Martin (Mason Gooding): Martha Meeks' son, Randy Meeks' nephew, Mindy's twin brother, Liv McKenzie's boyfriend, a close friend with Wes and Tara, and also Vince Schneider's sworn enemy. Unlike his sister and some others in his peer group, he doesn't like horror movies very much. Often serves as the voice of reason among his peers.

Liv Mckenzie (Sonia Ben Ammar): Chad's girlfriend, Tara and Mindy's friend, Wes's female friend, and also Vince Schneider's ex, who's harassed by him after ever since she left him because he was unbearable.

Wes Hicks (Dylan Minnette): Judy Hicks' fraternal nephew, Chad and Tara's close friend, and also one of Vince Schneider's mortal enemies. He's named after Wes Craven in meta-level, and after a man named Wesley Romero in-universe. In this version he'll be judy's nephew instead of her son, because in this version she's infertile. The rest of Wes' family won't appear in this installment.

Vince Schneider (Kyle Gallner): Stu Macher's sororal nephew, Liv's aggressive-possessive ex, and Chad and Wes' mortal enemy. Liv left him after he became unbearable, and he took it only slightly better than how Stu took Casey leaving him. While not as evil as his uncle, he's still willing to kill or be killed at a whim's notice, as shown when he takes his knife everywhere and always looks for conflicts with people his size or bigger to hide his insecurities. He also used to laugh at Tara for looking like Wednesday Addams.

Richie Kirsch (Jack Quaid): Samantha's horror-obssessed boyfriend. His life-long dream is to direct his very own horror movie. After "Stab 8" became worse than he hoped, he decided that directing "Stab 9" is his devine duty. Kincaid suspects him at first sight.

Amber Freeman (Mikey Madison): Tara's on & off friend, who's known among in her friends group as the friend nobody likes. She enjoys horror movies like Tara, and they often have friendly(ish) bickering about whether or not "Babadock" is better than classic slashers.

'Deputy Clay (Rob Fortunato): One of the cops in Woodsborom who's often referred to by Judy as "Ross Hoss' more competent brother". A hard-working man who means well. Ironically, despite being a cameo character who was murdered off-screen in a rather brutal way, he'll be one of the firsts (if not the first) to realize that Samantha is one of the killers.

Norman Shelby (Josh Hartnett): An introverted cop on the verge of early retirement due to personal issues who was sent away from NYPD to Woodsboro as his last chance to prove himself and regain his career. He seems to be fascinated by Sidney, but at the same time weirded out by people who like the "Stab" franchise, especially the 8th installment. He's named after Norman Bates and Scott Shelby, who are the main antagonists in "Psycho" and "Heavy Rain", respectively. Norman is a late addition to the story, and he was created within less than 24 hours in order to close an unexpected plot hole. His picture is taken from a character named Dave "Boy Sweat" Hancock, who's a Fortico guard in a movie called "Wrath of Man". In the context of the story, Norman is seen almost shooting someone who passed by, until he realized it's only Sidney.

Diclaimer: The new characters appearing in "The Fifth Symphony" are portrayed by their canon actors and actresses because currently to writing these lines, it's been less than two years between the canon "Scream 5" and this fanfic, so i don't think a completely new cast for canon characters would be necessary right now. I could try to come up with a new cast, but this time i felt like using the original.

Killers

Ian Mercer/Vultureface - The main antagonist in "The Fifth Symphony", who'll also reveal himself to be the man who murdered Dewey in "University of Lies". After Robbie was murdered during the events of "Going Fourth", Ian decided to take a break from his professional killer "career" and target Sidney and her friends because he's insulted that they are alive and his son isn't. It's not an error. I specifically said insulted and not devastated because he takes Robbie's death as an insult rather than loss. The second killer (see below) was just what Ian needed for having his selfish revenge and sick idea of fun at the same time.

Body Count: 6 on-screen (Dewey Riley, Anthony Perkins, Lucas Weathers, Wes Hicks, Deputy Clay and Frances), dozens to hundreds off-screen.

Samantha Carpenter/Daughterface - The secondary and more personal antagonist in "The Fifth Symphony", who'll also be the second remotely relatable Ghostface in the franchise, predated by Scott. After years of her sister being bullied by her peers for looking like Wednesday Addams, being abandoned by the man she knew as her father, dealing with hallucinations of her biological father and realizing she doesn't love her sister as much as a sister should because their shared mother was too alcoholic to do what mothers should, Samantha finally snapped. She hates Sidney more than anything in the world because she's resentful towards her for "making her lose two fathers", in her words. She'll be devoted to Tara just like in the canon, but in this version, her devotion will be more similar to a mother who takes a good care of her daughter despite not loving her instead of a healthy sisterly bond. It's also important to note that in this version, Samantha isn't a hero. She's a sympathetic villain. That's different.

Body Count: Undetermined on her own (Vince Schneider, Judy Hicks, Richie Kirsch, Amber Freeman and others will come soon), 1 in collaboration with David Wheaters (Norman Shelby).

Vince Schneider - The opening antagonist in "The Fifth Symphony". In this version, he'll have a plan to kill one of Liv's friends and frame her as the killer as a revenge for dumping him. Technically he isn't one of the killers because he didn't kill anyone, but it's not for lack of trying. It's mostly due to a combination of his opponents (such as Tara and Chad) being resourceful and tough, competent cops and his own impulsiveness and lack of long-term planning.

Norman Shelby/Necroface - A dirty cop who secretly worked by Ian during the events of and the final antagonist of "The Fifth Symphony". He was used to work as an NYPD cop, until he was kicked out after he was discovered to be a necrophile, and a necrophile who ruins investigations by unlawfully taking possession of dead bodies from the female gender on tope of that. People like him should be in prison, or worse, but a friend on the force (more on that in "The Sixth Sense") pulled some strings to send him far from New-York as a substitute and insufficient punishment. He's also not really introverted and insecure like his cover story suggests. His true self is an extroverted and cocky man who joined Ian for a lot of money and for getting any woman who'll be killed during the killing spree. He never wore the costume at any point during the story, but he's still a proper Ghostface both because of his involvement in Vultureface's scheme and because he symbolizes .

Body Count: 1 on-screen (Liv McKenzie), several off-screen.

Detailed deaths

Tara Carpenter's attack during the opening - stabbed 7 times in her upper body and later left to bleed due to the police coming earlier than the attacker intended by Vince Schneider. Neither Samantha nor Ian were involved in this attack in any way. Samantha didn't want it to happen and Ian was pragmatic enough to not hurt his accomplice's sister for now. The key word is for now.

Vince Schneider - Stabbed in the neck by Daughterface as a revenge for almost killing Tara. In the canon version, Samantha was at the hospital with Tara when that happened. In "The Fifth Symphony", she left Tara under Richie's care.

Judy Hicks - Multiple stab wounds to the abdomen inflicted by Daughterface. Judy's untimely death helped to convince Sidney, Dewey Junior and Miguel to come back to Woodsboro after all these years. Brian didn't come, because he has younger siblings, and someone has to watch over them while Sidney is forced to help the new generation against the new Ghostfaces.

Wes Hicks - Vultureface injected him a neuromuscular-blocking drug, ordered Sam to put Judy's dead body next to the paralyzed Wes so the boy could see his dead mother, and lastly stabbed Wes through the neck.

Deputy Clay - Throat slit after a major struggle off-screen by Vultureface. When Samantha, Tara and Richie saw the mutilated corpse, Richie was panicked and pushed Tara to the floor in an attempt to ditch her and give more time for himself and for Samantha. Samantha realized that her revenge spree might end in Tara's death, and since Richie revealed himself to be untrustworthy, and she decided to ditch Richie behind and take Tara out of Woodsboro. She called Chad to come pick Tara with his own car in case she won't be able to bail Tara out herself, and the two sisters made a run for it soon after.

Richie Kirsch - After Samantha rejected Richie's idea to leave Tara behind and helped her sister getting back on her feet, Richie yelled at her in anger and hypocrisy that if he knew that Sam is going to leave him behind, he would've put an explosive charge under her car and killed both her and Tara (in his words: "if i knew you're going to do a u-turn on me, i would've burned your car with Tara inside!"). Samantha gave Tara a knife and ordered her to keep running to the car without looking back. When she thought Tara is out of ear and eye shot, Sam took out a second knife and proceeded to Stab her former boyfriend multiple times and slit his throat. When Sam was sure that Richie is indeed as good as dead, she whiped her knife with her index finger and thumb like Stu used to do. After doing so, she had a visit from her Derek's hallucination, who berated her for betraying everything she taught her sister and leaving her alone.

Chad's attempted murder - The hallucination of Derek berated Sam for betraying her own teaching and leaving her sister alone, but it wasn't entirely true. Calling Chad prior to her attempt to escape the hospital helped to calm down Samantha's motherly guilt. Like Samantha predicted in advance, Tara didn't make it to the car, because Vultureface already catched the poor Tara before she could touch the car's door. He injuected her a neuromuscular-blocking drug and was about to stab her where Vince already stabbed her before, until Chad and Mindy came in the nick of time and stopped him. Chad tackled Ian to the ground and Mindy took Tara with her to Chad's car. Chad beated up Ian like a professional boxer, and Ian hit him quite painfully as well. As soon as Mindy and Tara went out of site, Ian turned around and ran to murder Chad's friends. Chad kept chasing the killer. When Ian felt like it's the right time, he turned around to Chad and slashed his face with his hunting knife in a swift movement. Chad was caught by surprise, and Ian proceeded to stab Chad in femoral artery. After Chad was throwned to the ground, critically injured, Ian cut off the chords of Sam's car so she won't be able to stop him in case of change of heart, and proceeded to killing everyone who was in the memorial celebration party in honor of Wes. Sam didn't want Chad to be critically injured, but for her it was either someone she doesn't care about or her sister.

Saving Chad - Now with her sister being out of Woodsboro, and believed by Sam to be out of harm's way, Sam felt no restrainments in her quest for revenge. She rushed to the place where her car used to be. Her original intent was taking her car and drive to 261 Turner Lane and kill everyone inside, but the sight of the suffering Chad made her stop for a short second. As vengeful and bitter as she was, she would never leave anyone who sacrificed himself for her sister to die, and therefore she called an ambulance and applied pressure on Chad's wounds. Sam thanked Chad for helping with Tara and promised that she'll take good care of Liv.

Amber Freeman - In the house, Liv and Amber got paranoid and blamed other at being the killer. All while the real killer (Vultureface) entered the house from the basement and smothered Frances with a pillow (off-screen). Samantha entered the house from the front door, still covered with Chad's blood. Liv didn't know Samantha is the killer at that point, but she knew that Samantha was there when Chad was critically injured ("Where is Chad? What happened to him?"). Samantha pulled a gun and aimed it Amber. She gave Liv a positive affirmation about Chad's situation that doubled as a surprisingly affable Ghostface reveal ("i've got good news and bad news: The good news is that Chad will be alright. You'll meet him soon enough. The bad news is that Amber won't. i would rather tell you the rest of the story when Sidney will be here. Liv, please be a darling and call Sidney. Amber. Kitchen. Now!"). Amber laughed maniacally and imitated the noises from the shower scene in "Psycho". Liv was about to jump at Sam, but was taken back when Sam took out a knife and aimed the blade at her ("please go before someone way worse than me will force you to go"). Amber kept laughting, stopping only when Sam shot her in the leg. Liv realized she can't help Amber, and therefore ran away before Sam will change her mind. After Liv got out of sight, Sam held Amber at gun point and took her to the kitchen. Upon arriving at the kitchen, Samantha forced Amber to stand in front of the stove. Sam shot at Amber, which threw her onto the stove, and was quick to light up the fire. The last thing Amber heard when she was burning to death was Samantha berating her for her treatment to Tara ("you never cared about Tara! You only ever hung up with her because she reminds you of Wednesday Addams! Burn in hell, you careless Reddit dweller!"). The hallucination of Derek appeared in Samantha's mind and expressed deep sorrow about her behavior in regard to Amber.

Liv McKenzie's abduction - While Sam took Amber to the kitchen and killer her there, Vultureface followed Liv and injected her a neuromuscular-blocking drug. He called a mysterious costumer and offered him his "newest goods" (Liv). After closing the deal with the costumer and stuffing Liv somewhere in the basement that only him and his contact know where, he called Sidney with his Ghostface voice and informed her that her presence is required, or else more people will die. Samantha knew nothing about what Ian did to Liv, and would've shot Liv in the head herself before letting her being sold to human trafficers. Ian knew the cops will probably arive at the scene soon, but he wasn't worried, because he knew that one of them is secretly working with him and his mysterious costumer.

Ian and Sam's reveals - When Sidney arrived, accompanied by David and Miguel, Samantha greeted them with a hostile expression and pointed a gun at her ("hello, Sidney. I would've said i'm glad to see you and your two friends here, but i always told my sister not to lie. Anyway, the time has come for you to know the truth"). Sidney was already through with all those killers who talk about themselves before attacking her, and she rushed towards Sam by the force of an old habit, but was stopped in her track when the lights were off. Before any of the heroes could take their phones and turn on the flashlight, Sidney found herself on the floor, getting beat up by a rival she can't see. David and Miguel rushed to help Sidney following the sounds of her struggle, but were stopped when Samantha shot them. It wasn't lethal, but it was painful enough to prevent them from helping Sidney. After the boys fell to the ground after being shot, Vultureface smacked them in the head and ordered Samantha to drag them to the basement. When the lights were back on again, Sidney found herself tied up on the basement's floor, and David and Miguel were tied up to each other. Vultureface approached them and removed his mask slowly. The heroes were very surprise to see it was Ian Mercer, the father of the late Robbie Mercer (Miguel: "Robbie's father? Was Robbie one of the killers and i didn't know?". Sidney: "Oh boy. The fourth generation of Scott Riley"). Unlike most killers, Ian's motive rant was short ("my son is dead is you three are alive. It's insulting"). Sidney was surprised by how short the motive rant was ("that was... Short"), David was furious that the man who murdered his little brother and helped his mother's murderer dares to patronize him ("my mother and little brother were murdered too, but you don't see me going around and killing people"), and Miguel was horrified by the fact that anyone can percive the death of his own son as merely an insult ("you're insulted? Hombre, it's your son! Why am i more upset about the death of your son than you are?").

Sam's motive rant and attempted murder - Ian locked the basement's door. He took a satisfied look at his impending victims and gave Sam the permission to speak about her own motive ("your turn, Sam"). Sam aimed a knife towards Sidney and a gun toward David and Miguel. She saw Ian going to the other entrance, from which he came into the basement when he entered the house shortly before Act 3, but ignored that in favor of explaining her motive ("You will suffer tonight. You can count on that. But it's not because of something you did. It's because of something you should've done. I actually like you on a personal level. You're smart, brave, resourceful, you saved Woodsboro twice, and i'm sure Billy and Derek thought you're pretty. The thing is that Derek thought my mother is also pretty, and when the man i grew up believing to be my father found out, The situation has become a lot less pretty. The idiot left me and my mother. And worst of all, he left Tara. My sister. His own daughter. Me and Tara could have a functioning family by now. My mother could've been happy, and not just drinking all day. Derek could've been married to a woman who doesn't risk his life just by being exist. All you had to do for that to happen was to kick him out, and he would've left you for a less stressful life. But you forgave him when you should've kicked him out. And now my true father is dead, Tara's father is away and our mother cares more about her Wine O'clock than about us. You could've been a true hero, and not just Woodsboro's poster girl for heroism, but instead, you chose to doom our family and Derek because you didn't want to give up on your personal happiness. Do you realize the severity of what you haven't done?!"). Miguel was surprised by Samantha's twist motive and commented on how Randy would probably know just what to say if he was here ("i wish Randy was here. He would've definitely came up with an interesting explanation for the crooked way of how copycatting Scott makes Samantha feel like a good person and a good sister"). Sidney theorized that Samantha follows an unwritten rule about similarities between characters ("if it was a fanfic, i guess she and Ian would be decomposite characters of Scott. Samantha embodies his sympathetic side, while Ian embodies his villainous side"), and David lampshaded the severity of the situation ("is no one going to talk about the fact that a psychopath who doesn't give a damn even about his own son is preying on a mentally disturbed girl's insecurities and encouraged her to take her helplessness about her parents' marriage on us instead of doing self-reflection and improve herself?"). Ian shot David's shoulder because he was irritated by him and warned him to stay quite while also revealing that he was the one who killed Dewey all those years ago ("Dewey Senior died like a hero. The knife in his back was sharp then, and it's still sharp now. Be quiet and die like a hero too, or be loud and die like a stuffed pig. Your call, Dewey Junior"). Samantha thanked Ian with a nod and answered to David's statement about responsibility ("No one can judge me. Not even you, Sidney. The s#!t you ate is brownies compared to what i've been through. Sidney lost one father. I lost two. Your mothers loved you. My mother way drunk. Sidney has several children in her own terms. The closest thing to a child i'll ever have is a sister i came to love only as time went by. It's easy to take care of people you love. That's what mankind was made for. But it takes a lot of courage and will power to have a child figure you haven't been prepared to raise, and yet still taking good care of them and learn to love them along the way. As much as i'll do anything for Tara and kill anyone who implies otherwise, i don't think she would've been capable to do any major sacrifice even if i let her. Sidney had a great brothers, and i guess you guys had great siblings too at one point or anything. Mine is like a child i never meant to raise"). When Sidney asked why Samantha wants to kill her and not the father who left her and Tara, Samantha revealed that she has other plans for the abandoning father figure ("he's on my list. I'm saving him for the sequel"). Whether Ian planned a sequel or not, he wasn't planning to include Samantha, which he revealed by taunting and shooting her ("Poor, poor Sam. You're not going to be in the sequel"). After shooting Sam, Ian threw a smoke grenade and ran away, locking the back exit of the basement behind him.

Ian Mercer being delayed for investigation by the cops - Ian was getting ready to escape Woodsboro and kill more people as a professional killer, but he neglected to consider the fact that the cops in Woodsboro are far more competent than they used to be when Sidney was younger. He discovered it the hard way when Kincaid and some other cops stopped him on his way out and took him to investigation. However, even thought the cops became far better, Ian wasn't a sucker either, and he made sure that his associate in the police force would go to the basement and take Liv as a hostage as a plan B.

Escaping the basement - While Ian was investigated by the cops, Sidney struggled not to lose consciousness. She stood up and ran to Samantha in order to take her knife. She took Samantha's knife and cut off the rope, and later cut off the ropes from David and Miguel's hands. Sidney: "We have to break the windows somehow, or else we're going to die here". David: "Good thinking. I'll break through the door in the meanwhile". Miguel: "We also have to help Samantha. Don't look at me... like that. Even a Ghostface... doesn't deserve to die like that". Sidney nodded begrudgingly and signed Miguel to join David in his quest to break the windows. When she was left alone with Sam, Sidney slapped her. Samantha didn't wake up. The only thing Samantha could see through her closed eyes was Derek's hallucination. He reached out for her with a confident smile. Derek's hallucination: "You don't have to die a villain. You can live long enough to see yourself become a hero". Sidney kept slapping Samantha, only keep doing it for Miguel's sake, until Samantha finally woke up. When Samantha woke up, Sidney helped on her feet as an act of honor, and then slapped her with all her might as an act of anger. Samantha knew better than fighting back, because Sidney's non-slapping hand was holding a knife. After the boys finished breaking the windows and avert the risk of suffocation, Miguel went to break through the door, and David came to Samantha with a big and sharp piece of glass. Samantha looked at David and his glass shard, then at Sidney and her knife, and finally on the floor. She started to cry. Sidney and David were surprised. At that moment, Samantha didn't seem to them like a cold-blooded killer. She was more akin to an insecure little girl in an adult woman's body who was so busy being bad that shw forgot how to be good. Samantha: "He lied to me! He said he could help me bring justice! I joined Ian because he promised me that if i'll help him killing Sidney, he would help me killing The son of a Jill who left me and Tara. William Carpenter was the only person other than you, Sidney, that i ever wanted to kill. Well, Vince almost killed Tara, so he had what's coming for him. And Richie wanted me to leave Tara for dead, so naturally i've got a little knife happy. But Ian? He doesn't have killing lists. He drinks blood like my mother drinks a Chardonnay. The slap Sidney gave me was well-deserved. I should've known that a man who kills complete strangers for money can't be trusted". Samantha stopped talking and cried a bit more. Sidney and David didn't know what to say, until Miguel hit the door and threw the broken lock to their direction. Miguel: "You might want to tell that to the cops, or else that Ian Mercer guy will never stop. Now, on my count, we make a run for it. I'll tell you the rest of my plan on the way out. 1... 2... We're going out".

Ian's contact's reveal and Liv's death - Miguel was the first to step out of the basement, and also the first to lose his consciousness since the smoke lost its effect after a big man wearing a gas mask hit him the head with a police club. Samantha realized something is wrong outside and whispered Sidney to play dead. The two girls took a dive and stopped their breathe in the most convincing way they could. The man who assaulted Miguel wiped Miguel's blood from the club, entered the basement through the broken door and looked from side to side. When the man realized there is no smoke and he can breathe freely, he removed his mask and revealed himself as Norman Shelby. David saw him entering, but he didn't know yet that Norman is one of the bad guys, much less that he was the one who hit Miguel in the head. He ran towards Norman and thanked him for coming ("thanks for coming, Officer. Ian Mercer and Samantha Carpenter are the killers. Ian escaped and tried to frame Samantha as the only killer. He left us for dead with a smoke grenade, and now Samantha had a change of heart and wants to be a state witness or something. Ian may look like a grieving father, but he's actually a monster"). Norman replied by shooting David in the knee with a stone-cold expression. David fell to the ground in pain and shock. Norman revealed himself to David as a dirty cop who was working with Ian all along ("I know. He told me"). David used the F word against Norman ("f@#ker!"), and Norman replied by beating David up ("How dare you insulting a cop while on duty, you little turd?!"). He stopped the beating only when David was bloody and on an inch for his life. After finishing the beating, Norman dragged David to the secret corner of the basement where Ian hid Liv. Norman took the barely conscious Liv out, making sure that David will see it happening, held Liv to the ground and broke her neck. He then took David's hand and put his finger prints over Liv's Neck. David was too weak and injured to fight back, and all he could do at this point was throwing up. Norman gloated about his past abuse of power back in New-York ("see that, boy? That's why i left you alive. I wanted you to see what happened to the daughter of the last man who insulted me. It's a shame that you had to throw up on such a beautiful body. Nevermind. Women are like coins. They have two sides").

Norman Shelby - While Norman was busy at flipping the dead Liv on her stomach and raping her from behind, Samantha and Sidney crawled towards him in order to stab him in the back. Sadly for them, Norman ended his thing faster than both him and them intended, and turned around so quickly that they had to take a dive again. Norman hardly saw them when he entered the basement, and he wasn't confused by the fact that they weren't at the same place they were earlier. He just did an "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" between them before deciding to commit necrophile acts on Samantha first. He flipped Samantha on her back and began taking of her clothes slowly to savor the moment. He took her shirt off while mocking Ian ("Ian made a wise decision when he chose you as his accomplice. You're an effective killer and the perfect fall girl. The rest of his plan was dumb. I mean, how many contacts did he think he can have before one of them will turn on him? And in Woodsboro of all places? Everyone here knows everything about Ghostfaces and how to defeat them, and Sidney Prescott is basically what would happen if someone would write a composite character of Laurie Strode and Majin Boo. But what do i care? He paid me tones of cash to deliver someone alive, but now she's dead, so he basically paid me for slacking around"). Norman sent his hand to Samantha's bra, but before he could do a very undignified thing, he stopped on his tracks after being stabbed in the back. Upon falling on the floor for a short moment, he saw it was Sidney. He used the moment where she helped Samantha to get up to jump at her and tackle her to the floor, but Sidney shook him off with an elbow to the chin. Norman: "I liked you and Samantha better when you were dead". Sidney: "Sorry to disappoint you". Sidney and Norman jumped at each other and exchanged blows. Sidney slashed his arm and almost stabbed him in the forehead, until he rammed her in the lower ribs with his club and pushed her away. Samantha put on her shirt and went to help Miguel, but Sidney and Norman were too busy at going at each other'a throat to notice. When Sidney charged at Norman again, he hit her again with the club, but this time she saw it coming and stabbed the hand that held the club. Norman dropped the club in pain, but at the same time surprised Sidney by grabbing her by the hair and kneeing her in the face. He hit her with a second knee to a lower place, and then held her to the floor and started to strangle her. His face was stone-cold in sharp contrast to the angry expression that is usually more appropriate to trying to strangling someone. Norman: "When i was a kid, i always liked the story about "Sleeping Beauty". I liked how peaceful and undemanding she was. I also liked how pale and peaceful Snow White was after eating the apple. I hated the part where the princes woke them up though, so my mom always killed the princes off-screen for me. God bless her". Upon mentioning his mother, he smiled in a genuine and almost human way instead. In addition to reminiscing the loving memory of his mother, he became so focused in strangling Sidney that he didn't notice how Sidney sent her hand to the club and pushed it into his open mouth. The sudden loss of air caused him to lose his grip on Sidney's neck. Sidney got up, took the club out of Norman's mouth and bashed his head. When she believed he got enough beating, she proceeded to a finisher in the shape of stabbing him in the forehead. The knife was very close, yet remained too far after Norman grabbed her arm. In his free arm he took out a walkie talkie and addressed to his fellow cops ("Officer Norman Shelby is in 261 Turner Lane. Sidney Prescott was working with Ian Mercer and Samantha Carpenter this whole time, and she's trying to kill me. I need backup. Pronto!"). Sidney hit Norman's groin with the club, but it caused a different effect from what she hoped. Instead of filling his body in pain, it only filled him with anger. Norman broke her nose with the walkie talkie and threw her off him. It's been a while since the last time Sidney had to fight for her life, and she forgot how painful a broken nose can be, but she still hasn't lost her spirit, and she leaned on the club and got up also as soon as she fell back from the impact. Norman reached out for his gun, but Sidney saw it coming and hit the hand holding the gun, causing him to drop it. A pissed-off Norman responded by taking out his electric shocker faster than Sidney could see and surprised her with an electric shock to her chest. Another shock to her face threw her back to the time where Jill almost killed her at the hospital. The third shock was blocked by a well-timed club swing. The two combatants engaged and exchange of club hits, electrocutions and blocking. Norman: "When i look at you, i realize the depths of the muck that our world has descended to. When you kill your best friend, a grieving father, your biggest fan and your cousins, you become a national hero. But when i make love with a couple of dead ladies, i get kicked off the force. It's not like i raped anybody. They were already dead when i got there. Well, most of them. But that doesn't matter anymore. All that matters now is that you were the ultimate Ghostface all along, and you know what happens to Ghostfaces. They die". Both Sidney and Norman became increasingly exhausted, yet none of them was planning on giving up. They stopped fighting only when a knife was thrown towards Norman and pierced his temple. A sharp pain crossed Norman's head from side to side and he collapsed. Sidney was surprised to see Samamtha and Miguel standing there. Miguel was still injured, but he was angry and determined to fight rather than suffering, and he believed that now Norman is at greater suffering then he is, regardless to how much he deserves it. Samantha smiled like Cheshire Cat, which made it clear that she was the one who threw the knife. Samantha: "I know you managed it just fine, Sidney. I just couldn't stand hearing all those nonsense about zombie porn". Before Norman could come back to a final scare, David surprised everyone with a strong cough. He was still critically injured, but he regained enough of his energy to limp toward the gang and aim a gun to Norman's head. Miguel: "Well, David, you know what they do to bad cops like Officer Shelby in jail. We are not animals, so...". David wanted the worst fate possible for Norman, but he decided to follow Miguel's advice and shot the dirty cop instead. David: "Great. He's dead. But what about Ian?". Sidney smiled. Samantha and Miguel looked at each other in confusion. David believed that Sidney's smile is a good sign, and let himself faint. Sidney reached out to her pocket and took out her phone. She entered the tape recorder application and pressed the stop button, revealing she was recording everything that happened ever since she got into Ian and Sam's trap this whole time.

Samantha's imprisonment - Sheriff Kincaid and most of the other cops came to 261 Turner Lane and found the 4 survivors standing (or lying on the floor in David's case) close to Norman's dead body. Sidney: "Before you arrest any of us for killing a cop, i want you to hear something". Kincaid: "Tell me more on the ambulance. you four look as if Candy Man beat you up". On the ambulance, when David was taken to the emergency room and the rest came with him, SIdney rewinded the recording to the beginning and let Kincaid hear everything from the beginning. Samantha: "Damn, Sid. You're good". Kincaid: "Yeah. She is. You too, Samamtha. I'll still have to arrest you though". Samantha: "I guess so. I won't lie. I know what i did is wrong, but it feels right. But before you arrest me, can i call my sister and have my goodbye before going behind bars?". Kincaid allowed it. Derek's hallucination put his imaginary hand on Sam's shoulder and smiled like a proud father.

Ian's public execution - Tomorrow morning, after taking her little kids to their educational institution, Sidney took a minute to herself and watched the morning news. There was a live trial where Ian Mercer appeared in front of judges and jury. The jury declared unanimously that Ian is guilty. One judge elaborated about Ian's rap sheet as a professional killer whose body count is somewhere among the dozens (if not hundreds) and bribed several people all over the world, including the recently deceased crooked cop formerly known as Norman Shelby. Another judge expressed his shock and horror about how horrendous Ian was, and also said that even though death sentence isn't usually practiced in the USA, Ian will be an exception. Ian was sentenced to lethal injection. When the security came to take Ian to the execution room, Ian wasted the last moments of his life to gloat against the people whom he conned and betrayed. Sidney turned off the tv with a smile. She wasn't overjoyed by Ian and Norman's deaths, and neither was she ecstatic about Samamtha being in jail, but she was glad that her kids will grow up in a slightly better world.

Key quotes

“	Vince Schneider (using Ghostface's voice): Who was the killer in "Stab one"? Tara: Oh i know this one. It's Tatum Riley. It's Tatum Riley and she was Sidney's best friend and she was played by Rose McGowan and i got you good. I got it. I got it right. Vince: oh i'm sorry, Tara, but that's just not correct. Tara: What?! No no no no. It is. That is right Vince: The correct answer is Tatum Riley and Stu Macher. There are two killers in the original "Stab". I'm afraid someone's gotta die now.	”
–Vince terrorizes Tara as part of his plan to kill her and frame Liv, which thankfully fails due to Tara's toughness and the cops' timely arrival

"Is that you, pretty boy? Huh?! Get out of my f@#king car!" (Vince to Ghostface. Also his last words).

"I'm too old for this s#!t. Why can't this s#!t be too old for me?" (Sidney when being called to stop yet another killing spree featuring Ghostface).

"Unless everything happened in the past 25 is a dream and we are all figments of somebody else's imagination, the killer is trying to make a requel. It's a lazy plot choice for people who want to make a reboot and a sequel at the same time instead of actually putting an effort in writing. Now, the rules that make the most sense to me are: Never trust your best friend, the killer always has something with the past and the first victim always has a circle of friends which the killer is a part of." (Mindy gives her rules to survive a requel. The thing is that the rules aren't completely true, because those are rules to survive a requel, and this is a reboot fanfic. That's different, and also in line of the meta commentary of "Scream").

"The first two rules make sense. The third one is weird though. Tara was meant to be the first victim, but the actual first victim was someone nobody likes. Which leads me to a rule of my own: As long as we are good to one another and follow our common sense, we can get through just about anything and anyone. Even if we can't save everyone, we should save as many as we can. That's what separates us from Ghostface" (Chad pondering about Mindy's rules and adds a rule of his own, which is a rule for life rather than for stories).

"For Wes!" (Chad's iconic line that serves both as raising a toast in the memory of Wes Hicks, who was murdered by Ian Mercer, and giving the honor to the late Wes Craven, who used to be the director of the first far movies and Kevin Williamson's mentor before passing out in 2015).

"We can have a fresh start. No Ghostfaces, no one to hold us down, no "Stab" movies that betray the fandom. Just us against the world. The requel version of Bonnie and Clyde" (Richie suggests to leave Tara behind).

"if i knew you're going to do a u-turn on me, i would've burned your car with Tara inside!" (Richie's spiteful under the belt insult to Samantha after she rejected his suggestion to abandon Tara. Also his last words. Even though killing him the way Samantha did was an overkill, he really should've watched his mouth).

"i've got good news and bad news: The good news is that Chad will be alright. You'll meet him soon enough. The bad news is that Amber won't. i would rather tell you the rest of the story when Sidney will be here. Liv, please be a darling and call Sidney. Amber. Kitchen. Now!" (Samantha reveals herself to Liv and Amber as the killer, moments before sending Liv away and killing Amber).

"you never cared about Tara! You only ever hung up with her because she reminds you of Wednesday Addams! Burn in hell, you careless Reddit dweller!" (Samantha burning Amber alive. Just goes to show you what self-righteousness can do to a person).

"My son is dead is you three are alive. It's insulting" (Ian's very short Motive rant. He said insulting on purpose. He never loved Robbie. He just saw his son as an extension of himself. kinda like how someone might feel about a prized possession).

"You're insulted? Hombre, it's your son! Why am i more upset about the death of your son than you are?" (Miguel is horrified to hear that Ian takes his own son's death as a personal insult rather than loss, not to mention that the people he wanted to kill were nicer to his son than he was despite his bombastic statements, because he let his son's murderer roam freely during the killing spree and let it happen just so he could imitate the killers and have his sick fun).

"You will suffer tonight. You can count on that. But it's not because of something you did. It's because of something you should've done. I actually like you on a personal level. You're smart, brave, resourceful, you saved Woodsboro twice, and i'm sure Billy and Derek thought you're pretty. The thing is that Derek thought my mother is also pretty, and when the man i grew up believing to be my father found out, The situation has become a lot less pretty. The idiot left me and my mother. And worst of all, he left Tara. My sister. His own daughter. Me and Tara could have a functioning family by now. My mother could've been happy, and not just drinking all day. Derek could've been married to a woman who doesn't risk his life just by being exist. All you had to do for that to happen was to kick him out, and he would've left you for a less stressful life. But you forgave him when you should've kicked him out. And now my true father is dead, Tara's father is away and our mother cares more about her Wine O'clock than about us. You could've been a true hero, and not just Woodsboro's poster girl for heroism, but instead, you chose to doom our family and Derek because you didn't want to give up on your personal happiness. Do you realize the severity of what you haven't done?!" (Samantha talks about her motive).

"Is no one going to talk about the fact that a psychopath who doesn't give a damn even about his own son is preying on a mentally disturbed girl's insecurities and encouraged her to take her helplessness about her parents' marriage on us instead of doing self-reflection and improve herself?" (When Sidney and Miguel expressed their longing to Randy and discussed some meta insights about this fanfic, David talked about the severity of their situation and unintentionally served as the straight man).

"Dewey Senior died like a hero. The knife in his back was sharp then, and it's still sharp now. Be quiet and die like a hero too, or be loud and die like a stuffed pig. Your call, Dewey Junior" (Ian threatens David and admits that he was the one who murdered Dewey during the Windsor Murders).

"We also have to help Samantha. Don't look at me... like that. Even a Ghostface... doesn't deserve to die like that" (Miguel tries to convince the others to take Samamtha to prison while they escape rather than letting her being suffocated to death by a smoke grenade in a godforsaken basement. He didn't think she would join them at the time. He just thought that letting her die the way Sidney and David were content with letting her die was below him).

"You don't have to die a villain. You can live long enough to see yourself become a hero" (Derek's hallucination encourages Samantha to get back to consciousness and help the heroes. Not a full-fledged redemption, but it's better than what most Ghostfaces would do).

"He lied to me! He said he could help me bring justice! I joined Ian because he promised me that if i'll help him killing Sidney, he would help me killing The son of a Jill who left me and Tara. William Carpenter was the only person other than you, Sidney, that i ever wanted to kill. Well, Vince almost killed Tara, so he had what's coming for him. And Richie wanted me to leave Tara for dead, so naturally i've got a little knife happy. But Ian? He doesn't have killing lists. He drinks blood like my mother drinks a Chardonnay. The slap Sidney gave me was well-deserved. I should've known that a man who kills complete strangers for money can't be trusted" (Samantha's villainous breakdown/BSOD after narrowly surviving Ian's lethally-intended betrayal).

"See that, boy? That's why i left you alive. I wanted you to see what happened to the daughter of the last man who insulted me. It's a shame that you had to throw up on such a beautiful body. Nevermind. Women are like coins. They have two sides" (Norman gloats to David, which whom he gave a major beating for quite rightful name calling, about his past abuse of power in New-York. He basically confessed that he murdered and rape someone's daughter, in that order, because of an insult. Even though it happened off-screen, the fact that he recreated the scene by murdering and raping Liv on-screen just to spite David and screw over his no longer secret boss is quite telling about what kind of person our heroes had to deal with).

"When i was a kid, i always liked the story about "Sleeping Beauty". I liked how peaceful and undemanding she was. I also liked how pale and peaceful Snow White was after eating the apple. I hated the part where the princes woke the princesses up though, so my mom always killed the princes off-screen for me. God bless her" (Norman talks about the root of his necrophilic tendencies, and also mentions his beloved mother as the only known exception to his cruelty).

"When i look at you, i realize the depths of the muck that our world has descended to. When you kill your best friend, a grieving father, your biggest fan and your cousins, you become a national hero. But when i make love with a couple of dead ladies, i get kicked off the force. It's not like i raped anybody. They were already dead when i got there. Well, most of them. But that doesn't matter anymore. All that matters now is that you were the ultimate Ghostface all along, and you know what happens to Ghostfaces. They die" (Norman accuses Sidney at being a bad person. That's rich coming from a man who was expelled from the New-York Police Department because he was such a necrophile that he was disrupting investigations for his perversions, among other stuff).

"Well, David, you know what they do to bad cops like Officer Shelby in jail. We are not animals, so..." (Miguel being merciful and pragmatic at the same time in regard to Norman. The merciful part is because he knows that prisoners are often very cruel to cops who get in jail, which is often worse than anything he wishes even to his enemies, and the pragmatic part is because past experience gives them no reason to believe the killer is dead just because someone threw a knife to his temple).

“	Samantha: Hello, Tara. How's my favorite sister? Tara: Oh it's you. Thanks for bailing me out of Woodsboro, but it wasn't necessary. I would've killed at least one of the killers before they would've touch you. Samantha: Listen, sweety. I did something very stupid which i don't regret, but i shouldn't have done, and i want you to hear it from me before anyone else. There were three killers. I was one of them. Tara: What?! No no no no. You can't be. That isn't right. Samantha: I never wanted to hurt you. That's why i told Mindy and Chad to take you away. Tara: So... Now you're going to be in jail and leave me like father. Samantha: No. I would never. Please don't cry, love. You can visit me in jail, and then you can cry in my arms as much as you want. Tara: Great. My father left us, our mother is drunk and my sister is a serial killer. What am i supposed to do now? Samantha: For starters, don't be a Ghostface. Remember all those time when i told you to do as i say, not as i do? So that's what i was talking about. I'm no saint. I'm only slightly better than the people i've killed. But you don't have to be that way. Sidney was the hero that Woodsboro needed. I'm the hero that Woodsboro deserves. Maybe you can be the hero that Woodsboro always wanted. Tara: ... Samantha: If you can still hear me, i have a mission for you. You go to college, learn things that will help you live in the adults world, meet new people, nurter the friends you have, be ready to fight or flight against the friends you don't have, and when someone talks to you, you don't have to take their advice, but always listen. See you (hopefully) soon. Love you.	”
–Samantha informs Tara that she's going to jail and gives her advices about the future

"I am struck by the sheer inhumanity of what one human being is capable of inflicting upon not just one, but over a dozen other human beings. USA is a land of limitless possibilities, freedom and sanctity of life, and therefore Ian Mercer has to die" (one of the judges is horrified by Ian's cruelty and recommends to execute him despite the fact that capital punishment on the USA isn't as common as it used to be).

"Note to myself: Life can be crummy, but if we'll learn from our past and work for our future, the present will be worth it" (Sidney writes herself an optimistic reminder about life after watching the news and continuing her day).

Friends I Dont Have - The Sixth Sense

Returning characters

Samantha Carpenter (Melissa Barrera), Tara Carpenter (Jenna Ortega), Chad Meeks-Martin (Mason Gooding), Mindy Meeks-Martin (Jasmine Savoy-Brown), Sidney Prescott (Sarah Silverman), Miguel Trejo (Enrique Iglesias), Kirby Reed (Emma Heesters) and Tod Foxxwell (Tom Holland).

New characters

Christina Carpenter (Charisma Carpenter): Sam and Tara's mother, Derek Feldman's former one-time stand and William Carpenter's ex-wife. After it was discovered that Samantha is Derek's daughter and not William's, the patriarch became speechless and abandoned the family in a fit on anger. Christina didn't cope properly and descended to drinking. She was too drunk to raise her daughters properly, and the only reason that Tara wasn't sent to a foster family was because Samantha raised her for more than a decade. However, as soon as Christina heard that Samantha became a Ghostface and went to jail, Christina went to a rehab off-screen and became determine to become a better person and a better mother. Her picture is taken from a guest character named Heather, who appeared in "Dynasty" as a former babysitter than came to as a witness in a murder case. In the context of the story, Christina is seen visiting Samantha in jail.

Danny Brackett (Josh Segarra): Tara's neighbor, Quinn's most frequent friend with benefits (see more in Quinn's section) and seemingly the most normal person in Tara and her friends' enviorment (even if not necessarily her close cycle), including Tara and her friends themselves (in Chad's words, "it's nice to have someone more normal than us around. We should meet him more often") despite his scary appearance. However, his main downside is disliking Ethan, and unlike Anika, he's specific about it despite his otherwise polite and layed-back demeanor. In Mindy's words, "he's normal, but not too normal. That's the way i like my neighbors". So far he's similar to his canon self. Will this version be the same? Read and find out.

Dr. Christopher Stone (Henry Czerny): Samantha's prison counsellor, who also works as Tara and the gang's therapist. He's terrified of Samantha and sympathizes her less than the audience, even though she's arguably the least scary thing in her jail, and frequently mentions Tara in hope to redeem Sam eventually. He often tells the authorities to increase the dose of Samantha's medications. When Tara and her friends meet him, without Sam in the room, he's very jovial and almost feels like in a vacation compared to the criminals and/or psychos he has to deal with during his job.

Brooks (Thomas Cadrot): Miguel's new boyfriend. At a certain point between the events of "The Fifth Symphony" and "The Sixth Sense", Brooks and Miguel met and formed a romantic relationship with each other, with Miguel eventually moving into Brooks' penthouse. Miguel used to mention Dewey and Gale a lot at the beginning of their relationship, until Brooks said he doesn't like speak about dead people too often, and Miguel respected it. He's a minor character, but he still deserves to be mentioned here.

Ethan Landry (Jack Chamption): Chad's new close friend and the newest member in Tara's cycle in Blackmore university. Going out with girls isn't his forte, but Chad believes in him, Tara and Quinn find him as nice, Mindy, Anika is a bit annoyed by him without being a jerk about it, and Mindy suspects him to be one of the killers while at the same time really hopes she's wrong. In this version, he's neither Wayne's son nor Quinn's brother. Despite being the group's resident geek, he's brave against bullies just as much as Chad, and it's hard to insult him because he often takes insults more literally than some bullies intended.

Jason Carvey (Tony Revolori): Greg Bruckner's roomate on Blackmore University, the late Richie Kirsch's friend and Tara's acquaintance. He's a "Stab" fanatic who hated "Stab 8" just as much as Richie. Unlike the canon version, this version seems to favor Gaston above all Ghostfaces, and surprisingly enough, he's not the only one.

Wayne Bailey (Dermot Mulroney): A detective who works on the latest Ghostface killing spree. In this version, Richie is his only biological son that will be mentioned. Quinn and Ethan aren't actually his children. Ethan is someone else's son and mostly a friendly acquaintance, and Quinn is just payed to be his daughter for reasons that fit both of them. A combination of Kirby's record of surviving a Ghostface killing spree in the past (for more details, see "Mid-Murder Crisis") and looking similar to his payed daughter made him having a quick bond with her. And unlike Quinn, Kirby serves as Wayne's partner and daughter figure for free.

Quinn Bailey (Liana Liberato): Wayne's daughter and Tara's roommate in Blackmore university. She claims to believe that diversity is the key in life, especially sex, but in reality it's just an excuse to get around without being judged by our misogynistic society. In this version, she's neither Wayne's biological daughter nor Ethan's sister. She's just payed to be his daughter for reasons that fit both of them. Even though being Wayne's daughter is beneficial for her, she came to care for Wayne for real as the time went by, and she's a bit jealous of Kirby because she bonded with her employer/father figure faster than she did.

Penny Wise (Kaley Cuoco): An unpleasant reporter who was sent to investigate the latest Ghostface killing spree. Unlike Gale Weathers before her, who worked with the final girls of each installment and saw stopping the killers as a commitment, Penny mainly wants to prove that being the infamous Tim Wise's daughter doesn't make her a criminal like him. Since Gale was killed in "Going Fourth" in my version, Penny will replace her in several moments, including writing the book that eventually became "Stab 9" (or 9tab as the fans call it) in an unsensitive way and insulting Kirby for being 1.53 meters tall (in her words, "you look like a zygote". In Kirby's words, "and your father looks like Tim Curry. What about it?"), but she can still be nice and compassionate toward the victims even when the investigation doesn't call for it. She's suspected by many to be bribed by people of interest, and solving the case can be the difference between keeping her place and an early retirement. I know most of us won't trust a journalist named Penny Wise (say it many times and fast, and you'll get what i mean), but who knows. Maybe she's just a red herring. You'll have to read and see for yourself. Her picture is taken from Cassandra "Cassie" Bowden, who's an alcoholic flight attendant with self-destructive tendencies from a series called "The Flight Attendant". In the context of the story, Penny is seen getting a text message from one of the killers during a tensed talk with Tara, Kirby and Ethan. What did Ethan have to do there after being suspected as one of the killers? Well, Sam is in jail, and i felt like he could work as someone who separates between Tara and Penny in order to keep the situation from escelate, but still yells at Penny after she insults him too ("i won't raise my hand on a woman, but i will raise my voice!").

Anika Kayoko (Devyn Nekoda): Mindy's new girlfriend, Tara and Quinn's friend from Blackmore university, Chad's female friend and Ethan's sitcom arch-nemesis. While Wayne and Kirby will take her as she is and be nice to her as long as she's nice to them, Penny will suspect her because she's the estranged daughter of the late and unlamented Yakuza boss Hatori Kayoko. The same Penny who struggled with prejudgement for being Tim Wise's daughter. Even if Anika will be one of the killers and Penny will be a red herring, Penny's hypocrisy means she literally made a clown out of herself.

Greg Bruckner (Thom Newell): Jason Carvey's roomate on Blackmore University and Tara's acquaintance. In this version, he hasn't even met Richie, but he heard good things about him from Jason. Nevermind that Richie is a prime example for a trope called "Jerks Are Worse Than Villains". Jason has his own perspective and Greg is very impressionable. He favors Gaston above all Ghostfaces, like Jason, and morbidly enough, he hopes that the fact that Lara shot Gaston in the back of his head and not in his forehead means that he could survive something like that too.

Laura Crane (Samara Weaving): The cinema teacher in Blackmore university. She's sensitive and insperational, even toward Jason Carvey and his lame grades. She'll stay the opening victim. There isn't much to say about her, because i feel like she's perfect (as a character) as she is.

Walter Birkin (Timothy Olyphant): Nebraska's former governor who used to be financially supported by the National Rifle Association, and now wants to be New-York's new mayor in order to promote republican and NRA values. His vision for New-York is to decreasing the violence and stop idolizing serial killers by normalizing Ghostface and make the costume so abundant that using it won't be appealing anymore, as well as making firearms cheap and being so common than many victims would be more armed than any would be Ghostface. Walter believes that what the way to decrease violence is making it less appealing by making weapons and Ghostfaces costumes easier to obtain, thus having a gun/costume won't be special and be less appealing to any psycho wannabe, and he has many people behind him who want his values to be the new law. His picture is taken from U.S. Marshal Seth Bullock, who appears as a major character in "Deadwood: The Movie". In the context of the story, Walter is seen claiming that violence doesn't come from weapons and costume for serial killers, but rather from human nature and not letting people the right to protect themselves. In his words, "Ghostface doesn't kill people. People kill people". Originally he was supposed to be the main antagonist in "Going Fourth" and being Woodsboro's former mayor, but it turned out less sensible than i thought, and i decided to stick with Jill and Charlie being the killers.

Robin Eapson (Melanie Lynskey): New-York's democrat and new lead candidate to be mayor. Her vision for New-York is decreasing the violence and stop idolizing serial killers by imposing heavy taxes on anyone who'll create and sell Ghostface costumes, as well as increasing the education budget. She has a big crowd, because many people want to see the violence decreasing, including people who like Ghostfaces as villains, but she also has some people who want to take her down. I've got the idea to cast Melanie to this role after she was casted to the TV version of "the Last of Us" as Kathleen Coghlan, who leads a revolutionary movement. I also want make a point that a female mayor doesn't have to be beautiful like, say, Robin Wright and Kate Winslet. Many people associate beauty with power, Whether power makes someone beautiful or beauty makes someone powerful, but it's way more complicated than that in real-life. Some women look average, and i want to give a proper representation to women who look like most people, and not just beautiful ones. Her name is a shared idea of me and a user named Eaprobinson2001.

Mickey Altieri (Timothy Olyphant): A handsome guy from Blackmore university who also happens to be Walter Birkin's wild-spirited and fun-loving son. Mickey wasn't exist in this fanfic up until this point, and now is a good time to bring him. He's not one of Tara's close friends, but Chad and Ethan hang out with him from time to time. Will he be a killer like in the canon, or will he be more similar to "Scream 2"'s original cut, where he was an actual nice guy and Derek and Hallie were the killers? Well, you'll have to read and see for yourself. Plus, i haven't decided yet.

Killers

Jason Carvey -The opening antagonist of The Sixth Sense. He'll dress like a Ghostface and kill people like Ghostface, but he isn't a proper Ghostface due to being unrelated to the plot and the real Ghostfaces. His major plan is to do a blood cult that will bring Gaston back from the dead. His stupid idea is partly Stabs fault, because they made Gaston way more entertaining and comedic than he was in real-life. If i was Greg, i wouldn't trust him so much...

Body Count: 2 (Laura Crane and Greg Bruckner).

Walter Birkin/Mayorface - The main antagonist of "The Sixth Sense". As a die hard republican who will do whatever it takes to be New-York's new mayor, he recruited 3 Ghostfaces and convinced them to go on a killing spree as a distraction to his planned assassination on Robin. At this point, whether he'll be an extremist or just delusional is up for debate.

Body Count: Undetermined.

Undetermined Ghostface #1

Undetermined Ghostface #2

Undetermined Ghostface #3

Detailed Deaths

Laura Crane -

Greg Bruckner -

Jason Carvey -

Bodega Customer #1 -

Bodega Costumer #2 -

Bodega Clerk -

Christopher Stone -

Quinn Bailey(?) -

Paul 2.0 -

Anika Kayako -

Brooks -

Penny Wise(?) -