Scream VI_2023
<script>
  <scene>
    <character>BLACKMORE</character>
    <dialogue>Written by</dialogue>
    <scene_description>James Vanderbilt &amp; Guy Busick WHITE PRODUCTION DRAFT - April 27, 2022 BLUE REVISIONS - May 18,2022 PINK REVISIONS - June 7,2022 © 2022 SPYGLASS MEDIA GROUP LLC. All rights reserved. This material is the exclusive property of Spyglass Media Group LLC, and is intended solely for the use of its personnel. Distribution to unauthorized persons or reproduction, in whole or in part, without the written consent of Spyglass Media Group LLC is strictly prohibited. OVER BLACK: A PHONE RINGS Piercing our soundtrack. Once. Twice. Three times. We know what this means. We know what's coming next... SMASH IN ON: A WALL PHONE, ringing its head off. In a RESTAURANT. A harried HOSTESS snatches it up and</scene_description>
    <character>HOSTESS</character>
    <dialogue>Hasta Fuego, please hold.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She puts the call on hold and turns back to the LINE OF PEOPLE waiting by her check stand as we track back through</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. CROWDED MANHATTAN RESTAURANT - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>A chic New York eatery, PACKED WITH PEOPLE. A far cry from home alone in Suburbia. We land on LAURA (30s). Sitting alone at the bar. Make up and a nice dress. Waiting for a first date. She scans the crowd. Nothing. Checks her watch. 7:10 pm. He's late. She sighs. Her phone VIBRATES. A message through Tinder. It's him. Hi. Then another: This is embarrassing. Then another: I'm lost. She exhales. Not being stood up. Sends the crying laughing emoji back. He texts back: Can I call? She shoots him a thumbs up. The phone RINGS. She ANSWERS.</scene_description>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>Hi, Richie?</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Laura, hi. So nice to phone-meet you in this incredibly embarrassing way.</dialogue>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <parenthetical>(laughing)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>It's fine.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>This is what I get for picking a trendy place with no sign out front.</dialogue>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>Why do they do that here?</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know, I've only been in the city for a few months.</dialogue>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>Me too.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(looks around)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>It's a nice restaurant.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Is it on Hudson?</dialogue>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>Yes.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Am I on Hudson?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(pause)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I am not on Hudson. Shit.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Laura laughs. He's got a nice way about him.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>I am now walking towards Hudson. Sorry, this is not the first impression I wanted to make on a college professor.</dialogue>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>Associate Professor, and it's just Film Studies, so you're safe.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Film studies, really? That's cool.</dialogue>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>You say that, but try teaching a class on 20th Century Slashers to hungover 19-year-olds.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Slashers, huh? "What's your favorite scary movie?"</dialogue>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <parenthetical>(laughs)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Not that one. Besides, does anyone have an absolute favorite movie?</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Some people. Why 20th Century Slashers?</dialogue>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>You can examine the culture of the moment by looking at the tropes of the time. The masked killer, the final girl, the rules. Don't split up, don't have sex-</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Don't answer the phone-</dialogue>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>Exactly, it's all cliche, but out of those cliches comes an opportunity for outsider art. A voice for the voiceless.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>I'm more of a rom-com guy.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Laura laughs. Is this date actually going well?</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Okay, I think I'm on Hudson. What color is the outside of the restaurant?</dialogue>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>I think red?</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>I don't see anything red.</dialogue>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>I might be wrong, hang on a second.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She rises and walks to the front of the restaurant, passing the check-stand, pushing the front door to</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. HUDSON STREET - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Laura steps outside. October chilly. Cars fly past. She squints up at the converted storefront the restaurant is in.</scene_description>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, it's definitely red.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not seeing anything red here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She looks up and down the block. A few pedestrians.</scene_description>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>Are you sure you're on Hudson?</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>...crap. I'm still a block over. Do you want to cancel? I feel like I've embarrassed myself enough.</dialogue>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <parenthetical>(chuckles)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>This is actually one of the more interesting first dates I've ever had.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>It looks like there's an alley I can cut through, is the restaurant near an alley?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She looks. There is an alley next to the restaurant.</scene_description>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>Yes.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Okay, I'm coming down the alley.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She walks to the MOUTH OF THE ALLEY. Looks down it. Dark and foreboding. No one in it.</scene_description>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>I don't see you.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Really? There are some dumpsters about halfway down.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>There are.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>4A EXT. ALLEY OFF HUDSON ST - NIGHT 4A</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>She takes a few steps into the alley.</scene_description>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>I see them, but I don't see you.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>I don't see you either.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(pause)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>This is creepy, right?</dialogue>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>A little bit.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <parenthetical>(nervous laugh)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>20th Century Slashers, huh?</dialogue>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>You sure you're walking towards Hudson?</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>I'm sure. Wait, I think I see you. Can you wave?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Laura takes a few more steps into the alley. She waves.</scene_description>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>Can you see me?</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>The person I'm looking at isn't waving. They're just staring at me. This is weird.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Laura waves again.</scene_description>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>Are you sure?</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Now they're moving towards me.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Panic in his voice. Laura begins moving further into the alley. Maybe he's past the dumpsters?</scene_description>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>Are you okay?</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>He's following me!</dialogue>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>I don't see anyone-</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Oh shit! Oh shit! He's after me!</dialogue>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>Where are you?</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>He's got a knife!</dialogue>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>What?!</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>He's got a knife and that's not the worst part! The worst part is you teach a class about slashers and you still walked into a dark alley.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Laura STOPS IN HER TRACKS. About 20 feet into the alley. There's an OFF-SHOOT to her right.</scene_description>
    <character>LAURA</character>
    <dialogue>That's not funny.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>No. It's not.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>And GHOSTFACE emerges from the darkness of the off-shoot. We see him before Laura does. She turns just as he raises a knife and STABS HER IN THE CHEST! Once, twice, three times! Her screams emerge as gurgles. Through the voice-changer:</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE</character>
    <dialogue>Now I see something red. \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She stumbles back against the bricks. He keeps stabbing, like an overeager schoolboy. No cat and mouse, no chase. It's a slaughter. Her legs collapse. He raises the knife and stabs right at camera... But we don't cut to the title screen. Ghostface wipes the blood off against her cheeks. First one, then the other. She gurgles once more... and goes still. Then Ghostface rises and takes off his mask. He's a college- aged kid. Wild eyes. High on adrenaline. This is JASON (19). He quickly removes his cloak, wraps the knife in it. Grabs a pre-placed backpack behind the dumpster. Stuffs everything in. Efficient. On the clock. Videos Laura's body with his phone.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. HUDSON STREET - MOMENTS LATER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Jason exits the alley and falls into pedestrian traffic. Not too slow, not too fast. Just another New Yorker. Many people are wearing HALLOWEEN COSTUMES. Jason dials his phone. It goes to voicemail.</scene_description>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>Hey man, so... don't be mad. But I just did a practice run. Little Miss You Know Who from film studies. I know I jumped the gun, I just got excited. I'm heading back to the apartment now. See you in a few.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. NEW YORK CITY UNIVERSITY - QUAD- NIGHT 6 \*</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Jason walks across a college campus. Passing other students, \* including --</scene_description>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, Tara!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>It's TARA CARPENTER. Wearing a pirate costume. Full of life. Not a hint of trauma on her face as she shoots Jason a million-watt smile. Oh, fuck. He's already infiltrated the friend group.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Hi, Jason. Are you and Greg coming to the OKB party?</dialogue>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, if he ever finishes his Spanish project. Is your sister gonna be there?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara laughs at the very thought.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>You wish. Sam wouldn't be caught dead at a Frat party.</dialogue>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>There's a first time for everything.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A twinkle in his eye. Tara laughs and moves on. He watches her go, smile still on his face. \*</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. JASON &amp; GREG'S APARTMENT - VARIOUS - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Jason enters his two-bedroom walk-up and shuts the door.</scene_description>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>Honey, I'm hoooooome!</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(off the silence)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Greg! Where the fuck are you?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Nothing. Jason furrows his brow. Opens the CLOSET. It is head to toe COVERED IN PLASTIC. A mannequin in the back. He takes off his boots, dumps the contents of his bag. Puts the Ghostface Mask onto the mannequin. Place of honor. Heads into the kitchen. Uses a wire brush and lava soap to scrubs his hands. Finishes. Turns to the fridge to grab a beer. Before he can, his phone buzzes. Incoming call. "Greg."</scene_description>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <parenthetical>(answering)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I'm sorry, okay. I was getting blue balls, and I wanted the practice. How pissed are you?</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, I'm not mad, Jason.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>It's the Ghostface voice. Jason rolls his eyes.</scene_description>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>Dude, we said we weren't going to use the voice on each other.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>We said a lot of things.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jason frowns.</scene_description>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>Greg?</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Hm?</dialogue>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>This is Greg, right?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Long pause. Then a laugh.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Who else would it be?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jason relaxes. Enters the living room.</scene_description>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>Where are you? I want to tell you about it.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>I'm here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jason does a 360-degree turn. Nobody there. He sighs, getting irritated.</scene_description>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>Stop fucking around and come home. We should get to that frat party. Tara's there.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jason goes to a sideboard and pours a shot of Jaegermeister.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>I thought you were going to tell me about it. What was it like?</dialogue>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>Not on the phone. And seriously, man - turn off the fuckin' voice modulator.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>I'm just trying to get the voice right. You got to have your practice, I get mine.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jason does his shot, pours another.</scene_description>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>Whatever.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Just tell me what it felt like. Then maybe I'll come out.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jason snorts a laugh.</scene_description>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>Dude, I know you're not here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>But he glances around the apartment again. Just to be safe.</scene_description>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>It was better than we ever thought it would be. When the knife went in, it was like she wasn't human anymore. Just an animal.</dialogue>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>Every time it went in, she was less and less human. And then she was just meat.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>But she wasn't just meat, Jason. She was a person. Our film professor.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jason drains his second shot.</scene_description>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck her, she gave me a C minus on my giallo paper. She shoulda been teaching a class on the MCU at a community college. Trust me, film academia is better off without her.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Is that why you killed her? Because of the C minus? Who's next, your grade school vice principal?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jason stops mid-pour and sets the bottle down. Tensing.</scene_description>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>You know who's next. Why are you being like this?</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Come on, Jason. How long have we known each other?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jason, about to blow past the rhetorical question, stops.</scene_description>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>Why don't you tell me?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Long pause.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Six years. We met in Junior High. In Atlanta.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jason visibly relaxes. Right answer.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>I just want you to tell me why you think we're doing this. In your words.</dialogue>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>We're finishing Richie's movie.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Why are you fucking with me? Why won't you tell me where you are?</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Why do you keep asking me that? I already told you. I'm here.</dialogue>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <parenthetical>(sick of it)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Then prove it.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Okay. Let's play a game. Do you know "Warmer Colder?"</dialogue>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>What are you, fucking five?</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Come on. It'll be fun.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jason eyes the SECURITY CAMERAS positioned on the ceiling.</scene_description>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>Are you using the cameras?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Beat.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah. The cameras. And at the moment you're very, very cold.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jason moves towards Greg's bedroom.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Colder.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Moves towards his own bedroom.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Colder.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Towards the entryway.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>North pole.</dialogue>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>Dude--</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Do you want to find me or not, Jason? I'm starting to think you're not a team player.</dialogue>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>All right! Jesus.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jason moves back into the living room.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Getting warmer.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Back into the small kitchen.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Warmer.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jason flips open the lower cabinet doors, the only conceivable hiding place. Nothing but pots and pans.</scene_description>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>This is fucking stupid. I'm hanging up.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>But you're getting warmer.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jason steps out of the kitchen.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Colder.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Pissed off now, Jason steps back into the kitchen.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Warmer.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>JASON'S POV - The refrigerator at the far end of the kitchen. He steps towards it.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Warmer. Warmer.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jason arrives at the fridge.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>You're burning up.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He reaches a tentative hand out and grips the handle.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>You're on fire.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He slowly opens the door...</scene_description>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>OH, FUCK!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>And finds GREG (19) with his throat slit. Bones broken, body folded inside the fridge next to the eggs. SHUNK. A knife goes into Jason's back. He drops his phone. Turns to see... GHOSTFACE. But different than we've ever seen before. This mask is aged. Worn and cracked. Graying. Over 25 years old. THIS CRACKED MASK WILL BE WORN BY GHOSTFACE THROUGHOUT THE MOVIE UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.</scene_description>
    <character>GHOSTFACE</character>
    <dialogue>Do you feel like an animal, Jason?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He stabs him in the stomach, over and over.</scene_description>
    <character>GHOSTFACE</character>
    <dialogue>Like meat?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jason slumps to the floor against the open fridge. Trying to hold his innards in with his hands. Mouth wet with blood.</scene_description>
    <character>JASON</character>
    <dialogue>But... we have to finish the movie.</dialogue>
    <character>GHOSTFACE</character>
    <dialogue>Who gives a fuck about movies?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jason looks up, uncomprehending, as THE KNIFE SLASHES DOWN towards camera as we SLICE TO OUR TITLE SCREEN</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. THERAPIST'S HOME OFFICE - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The front room of a brownstone. Low lit. Plug-in water feature trickles. The desk calendar reads October 29.</scene_description>
    <character>DR. STONE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Family. What does that word mean to you?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>How do you mean?</dialogue>
    <character>DR. STONE</character>
    <dialogue>I've noticed that you tend to define yourself by family. Who's in your life, who's left you.</dialogue>
    <dialogue>We pan past Halloween decor cluttering the room. Among the trinkets, we land on a desperately cute collection of scary movie FUNKO POPS, GHOSTFACE amongst them.</dialogue>
    <character>DR. STONE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>What I'd like to get to is your purpose. Your identity.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>SAM CARPENTER eyes the Funko Pops, dubious. Our hero. She sits across from DR. STONE (50s), the best therapist bad insurance can buy. He notices her distaste.</scene_description>
    <character>DR. STONE</character>
    <dialogue>Sorry. Some patients like the 'festive decor'.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>It's... a little dark.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He leans forward, as if confessing something.</scene_description>
    <character>DR. STONE</character>
    <dialogue>I'm kind of a "Horror Hound". This is my favorite time of year. You?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Not so much.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>As if to punctuate her point, POLICE SIRENS whizz by outside.</scene_description>
    <character>DR. STONE</character>
    <dialogue>So how are the new meds treating \* you? \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He flips open his notebook, pen at the ready.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Okay, I think. Still not seeing \* anyone I shouldn't be. What I'm really worried about is Tara-</dialogue>
    <character>DR. STONE</character>
    <dialogue>What I'm really worried about is you. You've been coming here for six months now and all we've really spoken about is how your sister isn't dealing with whatever happened to you both a year ago. Which you still haven't told me.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I just-</dialogue>
    <character>DR. STONE</character>
    <dialogue>You've alluded to an abusive relationship, and issues with your father, but every time I push for specifics, you shut down.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I'm sorry, I have some trust issues-</dialogue>
    <character>DR. STONE</character>
    <dialogue>If I'm going to help you, you have to let me. It's why you're here, right?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam shifts in her seat. Decides to open up, just a little.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I had a secret that I kept from everyone, about who my father was. And since it got out, a lot of people think I did something terrible last year that I didn't do. Because of who he was.</dialogue>
    <character>DR. STONE</character>
    <dialogue>I'm assuming he was... not a good person?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>He was not. And they think I'm like him.</dialogue>
    <character>DR. STONE</character>
    <dialogue>What do you think?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I think they're not completely wrong. There's a darkness inside of me. I ran away from it for years. But in the end, accepting it saved my life.</dialogue>
    <character>DR. STONE</character>
    <dialogue>How so?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(off Sam's reluctance)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Sam, for this to work, I'm going to need you to give me details.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam takes a deep breath.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Okay. My father was Billy Loomis. He was a famous serial killer. They made a movie about him.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <parenthetical>(nods to the Funko Pop)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Last year I found out my boyfriend was also a serial killer and only dating me because he idolized my father. He and his friend killed a bunch of people, and when it got out that I'm Billy's daughter, this crazy rumor started online that I masterminded the whole thing and framed them.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She holds up her phone which shows a #WoodsboroTruther subreddit. Thousands of posts (and some fan art!) about Sam being the Ghostface of our previous movie. Dr. Stone looks at Sam with new, terrified eyes.</scene_description>
    <character>DR. STONE</character>
    <dialogue>But you... didn't.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Of course not. He almost killed my sister and me before I stopped him.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Dr. Stone now staring at her, open-mouthed.</scene_description>
    <character>DR. STONE</character>
    <dialogue>And... how did you stop him?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam takes a sip of her soda and considers, matter-of-fact.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I stabbed him twenty-two times and slit his throat. But that's not why I'm here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Dr. Stone swallows. Afraid to ask...</scene_description>
    <character>DR. STONE</character>
    <dialogue>Why are you here?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Because it felt right.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He rises, pale.</scene_description>
    <character>DR. STONE</character>
    <dialogue>I- I- okay, I think we're done-</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>You said to give you details.</dialogue>
    <character>DR. STONE</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not really equipped to deal with this kind of thing-</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <parenthetical>(earnest)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Please. I'm asking for your help.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Dr. Stone swallows.</scene_description>
    <character>DR. STONE</character>
    <dialogue>I actually have to report this to the authorities, by law-</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Report what? I didn't say I was going to do anything!</dialogue>
    <character>DR. STONE</character>
    <dialogue>Not explicitly, but-</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Forget it. Enjoy your dolls.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam is out the door.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. NEW YORK STREET - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam walks home, passing GREG &amp; JASON'S APARTMENT BUILDING. A fresh crime scene. Police tape across the door. A cop standing sentry. Cop car at the curb, cherries flashing. Sam shudders as she passes it. Dials Tara. Gets voicemail:</scene_description>
    <character>TARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>You've reached Tara, why aren't you texting me?</dialogue>
    <character>BEEP!</character>
    <dialogue>SAM</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hey, you know you're supposed to pick up when I call. I'm out of therapy early so we can cook dinner tonight if you want. See you soon!</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>A10 INT. STAIRWELL - NIGHT A10 \*</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Fourth floor walk-up. Sam unlocks the door to her apartment \* with janitor keys. Four deadbolts. Overkill? Absolutely. \*</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SAM &amp; TARA'S APARTMENT - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam enters. \*</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Tara?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>No response. But BANGING on the wall. Some low moaning. Sam smiles, despite herself.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Quinn?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The banging stops. A beat.</scene_description>
    <character>QUINN (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Are we being too loud?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Not at all. Have you seen Tara?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>We hear a low discussion and then QUINN (19, Sam and Tara's roommate) emerges from a bedroom, wrapped in a robe. Sweaty.</scene_description>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>Don't be mad.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Why would I be mad?</dialogue>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>Because you get mad.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Is that Paul?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Quinn makes the "cut it out" symbol across her throat.</scene_description>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>Life, I have found, is all about variety-</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Where's Tara?</dialogue>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>She went to the Omega Kappa Beta party.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I begged her not to go to that!</dialogue>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>We have now arrived at mad.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Did she at least take her taser?</dialogue>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>I cannot speak to how heavily armed Tara is at this fraternity party.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>From the bedroom we hear:</scene_description>
    <character>PAUL 2.0 (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Babe, are you coming back?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam looks at Quinn and mouths "Babe"? Quinn shrugs. Sam sees Tara's taser on the table grabs it, catching a glimpse of a HANDSOME SHIRTLESS MAN (20s) in the adjacent apartment. This is DANNY BRACKETT. Sam can't help but stare...</scene_description>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>Oooh, is Cute Boy shirtless again?</dialogue>
    <character>PAUL 2.0 (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Who's Cute Boy, babe?</dialogue>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <parenthetical>(rolls her eyes)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Always you, sweetie!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Danny looks up. Sam looks away, embarrassed, caught.</scene_description>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>You've been checking each other out for months, you should at least talk to him.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>This is about all the romantic interaction I'm ready for. I'm gonna go get Tara.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. FRAT HOUSE - ESTABLISHING - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Thumping bass. Drunken bros. In other words, a Frat House.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. FRAT HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>We track through the party. Dancing. Beer pong. Bong rips. \* A couple obnoxiously making out. \* We find MINDY MEEKS-MARTIN and her girlfriend ANIKA MAEDA \* (20) sitting on a ratty couch in the living room. \*</scene_description>
    <character>ANIKA</character>
    <dialogue>It doesn't bother you? Being at a house party after you were almost brutally murdered at a house party?</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>I think of it like being struck by lightning. The odds of it happening to the same person twice are extremely low.</dialogue>
    <character>ANIKA</character>
    <dialogue>Guess I should stay close to you then.</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Real close.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Anika scoots closer to Mindy, smiling. Mindy looks up to see Tara walking past, heading for the keg.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>How you doing, T?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara's glassy eyes broadcast her drink intake. She shoots Mindy a thumbs-up and weaves to the keg station where FRANKIE (21) is placing a red cup upside-down on the pump.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>You're kidding, right?</dialogue>
    <character>FRANKIE</character>
    <dialogue>Nah, last one's kicked. We got hard stuff in the kitchen, though.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(extends hand)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Frankie.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Tara. Lead the way.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>As they walk, Frankie notes Tara's every stumble and slurred word with the scrutiny of a measured anthropologist.</scene_description>
    <character>FRANKIE</character>
    <dialogue>You Omega Beta Zeta?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Not yet. Might rush it.</dialogue>
    <character>FRANKIE</character>
    <dialogue>Freshman, right on. Where from?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <parenthetical>(beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Michigan.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. FRAT HOUSE - TRASHED KITCHEN - CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>They arrive at the kitchen. The bar is down to the dregs.</scene_description>
    <character>FRANKIE</character>
    <dialogue>Shit, strike two.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>("remembering")</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You know what? I got a bottle of Fireball up in my room.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara's alarm bells are screaming, but...</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck it, let's go.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. FRAT HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Tara and Frankie head towards the stairs, passing</scene_description>
    <character>ANIKA</character>
    <dialogue>I don't love that...</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Go.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Anika goes after them. A PREPPY GUY flops down by Mindy.</scene_description>
    <character>PREPPY GUY</character>
    <dialogue>Hey. Nice costume.</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Thank you. I'm dressed as a straight person.</dialogue>
    <character>PREPPY GUY</character>
    <parenthetical>(not listening)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You're cute. Wanna get out of here?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>After a beat, Mindy bursts out CACKLING. Laughing so hard she can't breathe. Shaking her head and mouthing "no." Mortified, the Preppy Guy slinks away. ACROSS THE ROOM - Anika intercepts Tara and Frankie.</scene_description>
    <character>ANIKA</character>
    <dialogue>Hey... wanna call it a night?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>I think I'm gonna hang. But you guys don't have to wait for me.</dialogue>
    <character>FRANKIE</character>
    <dialogue>Don't worry, I'll take care of her. I'm Frankie-</dialogue>
    <character>ANIKA</character>
    <dialogue>And I'm spectacularly uninterested in knowing anything about you. You've had too much, Tara.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not that bad, I swear. Thanks for checking on me.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Frankie smiles smugly at Anika and leads Tara away...</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. FRAT HOUSE - GAME ROOM - SAME TIME</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>CHAD MEEKS-MARTIN, dressed as a shirtless cowboy with a boa, clinks shot glasses with his roommate ETHAN LANDRY (19, shy, geeky) dressed as the knight from Murder Party.</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>To the dynamic duo of Hortense Tower, third floor, room 315.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They drink. Ethan makes a face. Chad takes in the party.</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>You gotta get out there, bud. Start making some moves.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(nods at a girl)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What about her?</dialogue>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>She's gorgeous, but I can't just go up and-</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Ask her out, ask her out, ask her out-</dialogue>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <parenthetical>(overlapping)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Shut up, shut up, shut up-</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Chicks dig confidence and you're a snack.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(loud, to girl)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Excuse me, hi - my boy here's a snack, right?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ethan, horrified. The girl looks him up and down. Makes a "so-so" expression. Turns back to her friends.</scene_description>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>What did that mean?</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>It was good, it was good.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(off Ethan's look)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>It wasn't bad.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Anika approaches Chad.</scene_description>
    <character>ANIKA</character>
    <dialogue>Big guy. You're needed.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. FRAT HOUSE - FOYER - MOMENTS LATER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Frankie, now leading Tara up the stairway up to the rooms.</scene_description>
    <character>FRANKIE</character>
    <dialogue>I knew you looked familiar! Aren't you that girl involved in that Stab shit in California last year?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Nope. Different pirate.</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, pal. No private tours for this one, 'kay?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara and Frankie turn to see Chad and Ethan.</scene_description>
    <character>FRANKIE</character>
    <dialogue>Sorry, Bro, I didn't catch that.</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, bro, you did. Tara's good down here.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>It's fine, Chad. I want to.</dialogue>
    <character>FRANKIE</character>
    <dialogue>See, Chad? She wants to.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Frankie YANKS Tara by the arm. Chad grabs him by the shirt and pulls back his fist-- As Frankie is tapped on the shoulder. He turns to see Sam \* standing there, smile on her face. \*</scene_description>
    <character>SAM \*</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, sorry to interrupt, I'm just \* gonna tase you in the balls real \* quick. \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>ZZZZ! Frankie's balls are thoroughly tased by Sam! He \* crumples to the floor, moaning. Partygoers react. Some pull out their phones to record Frankie's agony.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM (CONT'D) \*</character>
    <dialogue>Don't you ever put hands on my sister!</dialogue>
    <character>FRAT DUDE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Oh shit, it's that psycho girl!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara storms past her out of the house, mortified. Chad and \* Mindy both give Sam a twins-style thumbs-up. \*</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. NEW YORK CITY UNIVERSITY - QUAD - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Tara, fuming, storming across campus. Sam, Chad, Ethan, Anika, and Mindy following.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Tara, will you stop--?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara whirls on her.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>I cannot believe you did that! You embarrassed me-</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>That guy was an asshole and he was gonna take advantage of you-</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>So? I'm in college. If I want to hook up with an asshole, guess what? My decision. You were out of my life for five years, now you won't leave me alone for five minutes!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Behind them, Mindy whispers to Anika --</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>See why I don't live with them? I love 'em, but my God the drama.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Tara)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You're not dealing with what happened to us. Have you even gone to that counselor?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>No, and I'm not going to. Unlike you, I'm not interested in living in the past-</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>And what's that supposed to mean?</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, guys, come on-</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>It means I'm not gonna let what happened to us for three days define the rest of my life.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>You're pretending it didn't happen at all-</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>What are you doing here, Sam? In New York?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>You're working two shitty jobs just to help with rent, but for what? What's your plan?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I- I don't-</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Because I know what mine is - I'm going to get my degree, become a lawyer, and live my life, my life. You just followed me here and won't let me out of your sight.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I'm just trying to look out for you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara takes a breath.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>I get that, I do. But you can't do it for the rest of my life.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(looks at her)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You have to let me go.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Suddenly, an ANGRY WOMAN with a small group of friends marches up to Sam and throws soda right in her face!</scene_description>
    <character>ANGRY WOMAN</character>
    <dialogue>Murderer! You people should stay away from her! She knows what she did!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>In the background we see a few costumed students filming the scene with their phones.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM \*</character>
    <dialogue>I didn't do anything! \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The woman storms off. Anika turns back to Mindy.</scene_description>
    <character>ANIKA</character>
    <dialogue>I'm getting it now, yeah.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I'm so sick of this shit!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The others give her sympathetic looks. Ethan digs in his pocket.</scene_description>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>I think I have some tissues, do you want some tissues?</dialogue>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <parenthetical>(pulling them out; frowns)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I have like three tissues.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam takes the tissues and tries to dab up the soda.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SAM &amp; TARA'S APARTMENT - TARA'S ROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Posters on the wall. One for "We Hate Movies" (this is non- negotiable). Quinn sits with Tara, peace offering.</scene_description>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>I'm sorry I told Sam you went.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>It's fine, she's just all the way up my ass as usual.</dialogue>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>I know what it's like when they hold on too tight. After we lost my brother, my Dad wouldn't leave me alone. He even transferred to the NYPD when I got into college. Stalker much?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara nods, relating. Chad knocks on the open bedroom door and enters with a glass of water and Advil for Tara.</scene_description>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>I'll leave you two to... chat.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She goes, shutting the door behind her.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>You can go back to your dorm, I'm pretty sure the fighting's done for the day.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Chad sits next to her and playfully shadow boxes.</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Too bad. I was hoping to get some shots in.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Oh yeah? Bring it.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Chad chuckles, then looks at her. Their faces, surprisingly close together...</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Thanks for stopping me from going upstairs. I was more messed up than I realized.</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Survivors stick together, right?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(off her smile)</parenthetical>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>You can do a lot better than Date Rape Frankie. You're really special.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The energy in the room has changed. Their body language makes it pretty obvious what they're thinking...</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not messed up anymore. Just so you know.</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Oh. Okay. Good.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Lips are about to touch... when Quinn bursts into the room.</scene_description>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>Sorry, I forgot my phone-</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(reads the room)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Did I just cock-block you? I cock- blocked you, didn't I?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>No-</dialogue>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>I totally cock-blocked you-</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>I am begging you to stop saying the word cock.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>I strongly agree with Chad.</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <parenthetical>(rising; to Tara)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I'm gonna go. Get rest, get sober, don't kill your sister.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He heads for the door. Quinn mouths "I'm sorry!" to her. Tara collapses on the bed, frustrated.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SAM AND TARA'S BUILDING - LOBBY - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam sits on the stairs in the lobby, taking a moment. Someone is getting mail. She looks. It's the Cute Boy, Danny. He smiles at her. Walks up to her... and KISSES HER. And she kisses back! Then she pushes him off.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Careful, someone might see!</dialogue>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>You say the most romantic things.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam smiles as she pushes Danny away.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Danny-</dialogue>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, can I help it if my kink is "woman who is ashamed be seen with me"?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She laughs - this is a Sam we haven't seen much of - happy.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>You know it's not that. I'm just not ready for...</dialogue>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>For your sister and friends to know you enjoy physical contact with another human being, I get it. Your secret is safe with me.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He's sweet. He sits down next to her, breaks off half the granola bar he's eating and hands it to her. As they munch:</scene_description>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>So I can't help but notice you're covered in Cherry Coke.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Pretty sure it's Diet Cherry Coke.</dialogue>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>Ah.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>What, you don't like it?</dialogue>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>No, I love it, it's a very sensual aromatic choice.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She laughs and punches him the arm.</scene_description>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>Was it another conspiracy nut?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Being famous isn't all it's cracked up to be. And Tara's pissed at me. Again.</dialogue>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>Family can be rough.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>You have no idea.</dialogue>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>You coming over later?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She looks at him. He makes her smile.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, I think I am.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Interrupted by Chad, leaning out the railing from the top of the stairwell shouting:</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Sam, get up here, now!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam moves to the stairs and Danny follows - concerned...</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SAM &amp; TARA'S APARTMENT - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam and Danny enter to find Chad and Tara gathered around the TV with Ethan, Anika, Mindy and Quinn. Quinn notices Danny.</scene_description>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>Cute Boy! Nice!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>ON TV - A REPORTER is at the Jason and Greg CRIME SCENE.</scene_description>
    <character>REPORTER</character>
    <dialogue>...the mutilated bodies of two New York City University students...</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Holy shit, that's that chode from our film studies class! The one obsessed with Argento.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Jason Carvey.</dialogue>
    <character>REPORTER</character>
    <dialogue>Also found were weapons and various Ghostface costumes, a character popularized by the Stab movie franchise...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The Ghostface survivors react. Sam looks to Tara.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Pack a bag, we're leaving in ten minutes.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>But Sam's already moving, gathering things.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>We're getting out of the city.</dialogue>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Chad takes Danny and protectively marches him to the door.</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Thanks for coming, suspicious new guy, but we'll take it from here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He slams the door on Danny as Sam pulls a STEAK KNIFE from the knife block. Not big enough. Pulls a BUTCHER'S KNIFE. Better.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>This might not have anything to do with us! It's a big city, it's Halloween, everyone's wearing masks-</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>This isn't a coincidence, you knew him. Chad, Mindy, back me up.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The twins, suddenly caught in the middle as both Carpenter sisters stare at them. They lock eyes, reading each other.</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>I mean, it's a little...</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>...close to home?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara stares daggers at Chad.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>See?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Quinn's Dad's a cop - can we call him and find out what's going on before you make the unilateral decision to abandon my college education and flee the state?</dialogue>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>Calling him now.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I need to call Sidney-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>As she pulls out her phone, SAM'S PHONE RINGS. The room FREEZES. Slowly turn and stare at it. Sam looks, caller ID - Gale Weathers. Sam grimaces and sends it to voicemail.</scene_description>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>Why did everyone just freak out when her phone rang?</dialogue>
    <character>ANIKA</character>
    <dialogue>You gotta keep up, my dude.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Quinn comes back and hands Sam her phone.</scene_description>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>My Dad wants to talk to you.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <parenthetical>(takes Quinn's phone)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Mr. Bailey?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A Midwestern voice, home-spun and steady.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Hi, Sam. I was actually just about to reach out to you.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>My sister thinks I'm probably overreacting-</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Unfortunately, you're not.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. JASON AND GREG'S APARTRMENT - KITCHEN - SAME TIME</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>DETECTIVE WAYNE BAILEY (40s). A small town cop in the big city. Might remind us of another recently deceased policeman. Standing in the CRIME SCENE. In a pool of blood, a DRIVER'S LICENSE. California. The name on it - Samantha Carpenter.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>I'm afraid I need you to come down to the station.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Deliberately placed next to the license - a discarded GHOSTFACE MASK. Not the cracked one the killer was wearing.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. SAM &amp; TARA'S APARTMENT - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam emerges from her building with Tara hot on her heels. Eyeing passersby as she goes, a guy in a hoodie, someone in a wolfman mask. Anyone could be dangerous.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>You should go back upstairs and lock the door-</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Oh now we shouldn't stick together?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam looks for a cab, rounds the corner. Tara follows.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET - CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam, about to hail a cab when her PHONE RINGS. She looks at it STOPS. The caller ID and picture - Richie Kirsch.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>What the fuck...?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I never deleted his contact info. This is coming from his number...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The phone keeps ringing. Sam gets that determined look.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Sam, don't-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam answers.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Who is this?</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Hello, Samantha. Did you miss me? Sam's face is like steel. She eyes a creepy-looking guy on \* the phone heading towards them. \*</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I want you to think long and hard about whether you really want to do this. Because the last two people who fucked with us ended up dead.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>You should be thanking me, Sam. Jason and Greg were going to kill you and your sister; I gutted them before they had the chance.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The man passes. Sam drifts to the railing of a stairwell to \* a basement apartment. Tara stays by her side.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>So, what, you're protecting us?</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Not quite. I'm going to show the \* world who you really are. A liar. And a killer. I'm going to punish \* you, Sam. \*</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Don't believe everything you read on the Internet, asshole.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Don't be cute. You're going to pay for what you did. I'm going to butcher you and everyone you love.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>You're just another psycho like all the others-</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, there's never been one like me, Sam. I'm something... different. You and Tara better watch your backs.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>You better watch yours-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>As GHOSTFACE with the aged mask suddenly springs up from the stairwell and YANKS TARA OVER THE RAILING! Raises his knife to drive it into her stomach, Casey Becker-style-</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>TARA!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara elbows him in the gut and he stumbles back, winded. She scrambles up the stairs and she and Sam run up the sidewalk.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Help! Somebody help us!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>There aren't many people around on the quiet street, and no one close enough to help. Ghostface vaults the railing and sprints after them! Sam and Tara round a corner and fly into</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. CORNER BODEGA - CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam and Tara run up to the CLERK at the counter. Lots of customers around. The MAN at the head of the line bristles.</scene_description>
    <character>MAN</character>
    <dialogue>Whoa, there's a fuckin' line!</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Please, someone just attacked us, call the police-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The door swings open... and Ghostface comes inside.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>It's him!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A BURLY GUY steps in front of Ghostface.</scene_description>
    <character>BURLY GUY</character>
    <dialogue>We got a problem here, guy?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ghostface stabs him in the chest. Wipes the blood off his knife and keeps coming. Fearless and unstoppable. He wasn't lying. There's never been one like him before. The Burly Guy drops dead. Ghostface slashes at everyone else in his path as he moves up the aisle towards the sisters. Takes out another WOULD-BE HERO with a slice to the jugular!</scene_description>
    <character>CLERK (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>DOWN!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam and Tara drop and the clerk aims a SHOTGUN at Ghostface! The killer ducks behind a rack - BLAM! The blast takes out the chip display. A moment passes and Ghostface doesn't emerge. Where is he?</scene_description>
    <character>CLERK</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Sam and Tara)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>There's a door in the back!</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Thank you!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam and Tara race towards the back of the store, quickly locate the door to the street, run to it -- But it's locked.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck! Sir, we need the keys!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Our heroic clerk steps out from behind the counter, shotgun raised. He heads past the chip display. No sign of Ghostface. Has the killer fled? That's when the clerk glances up to the circular mirror in the ceiling corner and sees Ghostface creeping up behind him!</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Look out!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He spins-- Ghostface grabs the shotgun, they wrestle for control-- Sam and Tara run to help when-- WHAM! Ghostface headbutts the clerk, who falls back against a shelf. Ghostface racks the shotgun with one hand--</scene_description>
    <character>CLERK</character>
    <dialogue>No no no NO--!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>BLAM! No more Heroic Store Clerk head. His body slumps as Ghostface turns to where the sisters were-- Gone. Hiding somewhere, they couldn't have gotten past him. Ghostface racks the shotgun. Begins stalking the aisles... ON SAM AND TARA. On their hands and knees, trying to slip from aisle to aisle, making no noise. BOOM! A shotgun blast takes out a freezer full of ice cream. The sisters stifle their screams. They hear the shotgun rack again. Footsteps in broken glass. He's getting closer... Sam looks to the shelf between them...</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Help me-!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara grabs the other side and they strain to tip it over! It tumbles into Ghostface, pushing him off his feet. He pulls the trigger as he falls, the blast going wide- BOOM!</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Go!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The sisters run for the front door! And we hear the sweetest sound in the world: Police sirens. Sam and Tara make it outside, bathed in blue and red. They look back into the bodega. Ghostface is gone. Lying on the messy floor - another Ghostface mask.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. POLICE STATION - INTERROGATION ROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam and Tara sit across from Detective BAILEY, both with steaming mugs of coffee. Crime scene photos of Jason and Greg's apartment and the bodega. Through the window, a pair of COPS passing by give Sam the side-eye. Sam glares back at them until they look away.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>We found this next to the body at the apartment crime scene.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Bailey holds up an evidence bag with the BLOODY GHOSTFACE MASK we saw next to Sam's license.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>DNA says it belonged to someone named Richie Kirsch. Ring a bell?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam and Tara stare at the mask.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>We're familiar with him.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>The one who attacked us had a different kind of mask. Older, beat-up.</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>I have to ask - do you have alibis for earlier tonight?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>I was at a party with friends.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I was at my therapist's, I can write his information down. Then I met Tara at the party. Where I tased someone. Unrelated.</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Is that before or after this happened?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He holds up his phone - a YouTube clip of Sam getting soda thrown on her. In the video:</scene_description>
    <character>ANGRY WOMAN</character>
    <dialogue>Murderer!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam and Tara watch as Sam goes after the woman in the clip.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Before.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to herself)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>That's not gonna help me get more shifts...</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>The point is, we were with people all night.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>So our roommate's father just happened to pull our case, huh?</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, no - that would have been a crazy coincidence, huh? The detective that did offered it to me because it involves Quinn. But I can totally give it back if you're not comfortable. Up to you!</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>It's fine.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Bailey holds up Sam's bloody license.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Look, if the man who attacked you did steal your license and plant it at the crime scene, it's probably someone you're close to. How long have you known your friends?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>We moved here six months ago with Chad and Mindy for summer semester. We've known Anika, Ethan and Quinn since then.</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>I think I can vouch for my daughter, so that's one less person to worry about.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam and Tara exchange a look at this - "or is it?"</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Can you think of anyone who would want to target either of you?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>No one who's still alive.</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Yikes.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>He said he was going to punish me for what I did. He's one of those conspiracy nutjobs.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The door opens and a COP pokes his head in.</scene_description>
    <character>COP</character>
    <dialogue>FBI's here, claiming jurisdiction.</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Oh boy! That's- Where are they?</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. POLICE STATION - BULLPEN - DAWN 26 \*</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Low angle of a pair of heeled lace-up ankle boots confidently striding through the cop shop. Bailey emerges from the Interrogation Room, approaching</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Can I help you?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The woman turns, flashing her badge, and we reveal</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>Special Agent Kirby Reed, FBI. I work out of the Atlanta office.</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Are you... lost?</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <parenthetical>(hands him a file)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Your two vics were residents of my city before they moved here for college. I've been investigating their online activity for the past few months.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Bailey peruses the file - good work in here.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Why?</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>I take a special interest in Ghostface attacks.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Kirby?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Kirby turns to see Sam and Tara standing in the doorway. She smiles and goes in for a hug.</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>Hi, Sam. Tara.</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>You know each other?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I was a freshman at Woodsboro High when she was a senior.</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>We share a certain history, yeah. I'm not looking to get into a jurisdictional pissing contest here, I just want to help.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(taps the file)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I'll show you mine, et cetera.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Another cop comes over with an evidence bag with a SECOND GHOSTFACE MASK and a report. Bailey glances at it.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>He left this mask at the bodega. DNA traces of two individuals, Charlie Walker and Jill Roberts. Both deceased.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>On Kirby as the names land. Sam and Tara know what they mean too. Bailey looks at her, questioning.</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>The Ghostface Killers of 2011. Charlie Walker gave me this.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Kirby raises her shirt to display a scar along her stomach. Bailey blushes, looks away.</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>Like I said, I take a special interest. Is this the mask he was wearing when he attacked you?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam and Tara shake their heads.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>So he's leaving them on purpose.</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>Which means whoever's doing this is a student of the killers who came before. Maybe he believes Sam is the latest in a long line?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, good luck to both of you, but we're getting out of the city.</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Actually, that's not possible.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(apologetic)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You're persons of interest in a double homicide, so... you're not allowed to leave town. Sorry.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Are you kidding me?</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>He's right. But if we work together-</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not working with anybody. I don't trust anybody. Because the killer could be anybody.</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>Sam-</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Do you have anything to hold us on? No? Then we're going.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She takes Tara's hand and is out the door.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. POLICE STATION - LOBBY - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The sun has risen. Sam and Tara, pushing through the front \* door out to</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. POLICE STATION - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Where a SWARM OF REPORTERS is waiting, shouting questions! Sam and Tara, disoriented by the lights and flashbulbs.</scene_description>
    <character>REPORTER</character>
    <dialogue>Sam, do you have an alibi for tonight's murders!</dialogue>
    <character>REPORTER 2</character>
    <dialogue>Tara, do you feel safe around your sister?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>But one familiar voice cuts through-</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Gale Weathers, Channel 4! Do you ladies think you're the reason the Ghostface Killer has come to the Big Apple?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam stares at Gale, standing there, mic outstretched... and SWINGS at her! Gale ducks the punch easily.</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Nice try, sweetie, but I've done this dance before-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>-as WHAM! Tara catches her with right cross!</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Stay away from us.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam and Tara stalk away. Gale rubs her jaw and signals for her cameraman to stand down, and then she follows.</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>You're really still mad at me?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>You said you wouldn't write a book about what happened, and then you wrote a book about what happened!</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Oh come on! Someone was going to write about it! It's what I do!</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>I heard you couldn't sell the movie rights.</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>That's not- you know, it's really all about true crime limited series these days-</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>After everything we went through together. What would Dewey think?</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <parenthetical>(quiet)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>That's a low blow.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>So was the book. You called me "unstable" and"a born killer." \*</dialogue>
    <character>GALE \*</character>
    <dialogue>You're taking that out of context-</dialogue>
    <character>SAM \*</character>
    <dialogue>That was literally a quote! \*</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>You don't think what you wrote has \* something to do with what's happening to us right now? \*</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>I talked to Sidney.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>That stops the sisters and they turn back to her.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>She's not coming here, right?</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>No. She sends her love, but she's taking Mark and the kids someplace safe. She deserves to have her happy ending.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>On that much, we agree.</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Look, I want to catch this fucker as much as you do, okay?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam hails a cab.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Maybe. Or maybe you're afraid that without Ghostface in your life, you'd just fade away.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Gale doesn't respond as the sisters get in and pull away...</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. THERAPIST'S HOME OFFICE - BROWNSTONE - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Dr. Stone, feet on the desk, eating cereal, watching Stab (2021). Chromeface reigns supreme. His Funko Pops with him. ON TV:</scene_description>
    <character>CHROMEFACE</character>
    <dialogue>This shit is lit!</dialogue>
    <character>DR. STONE</character>
    <parenthetical>(chuckling)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hahahaha... "lit".</dialogue>
    <scene_description>His DOOEBELL rings, startles him. He mutes the TV.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. THERAPIST'S HOME OFFICE - FRONT HALL - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Dr. Stone comes down the stairs and looks to the door, suspicious. We see a SHAPE through the frosted glass.</scene_description>
    <character>DR. STONE</character>
    <dialogue>Who is it?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>No response. ANOTHER RING. Dr. Stone goes to the door. ANOTHER RING. More insistent. Dr. Stone squints to see through the glass.</scene_description>
    <character>DR. STONE</character>
    <dialogue>You're a couple days early for trick or treating, you know-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>BOOSH! A fist punches through the glass and grabs Stone, slamming his face repeatedly against the metalwork, then jamming a KNIFE INTO HIS NASAL CARTILAGE. \* Dr. Stone dies instantly. He falls backwards to the floor. \* WHAM! Ghostface kicks open the door, admires his kill, then \* closes the door. His work here isn't finished just yet... \* Back in Dr. Stone's office a hand pulls a file marked \* Samantha Carpenter.......As we SMASH TO -- \*</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. NEW YORK CITY UNIVERSITY - QUAD - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mindy holds court in a large seating area on the quad. Sam, Tara, Chad, Ethan, Anika, and Quinn watch.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Okay, nerds. As terrifying as this all is, I'm actually glad I get a chance to redeem myself for not calling the killers last time.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(deep breath)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>The way I see it, someone's out to make a sequel to the requel.</dialogue>
    <character>ANIKA</character>
    <dialogue>What's a requel?</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>You're beautiful, sweetie, but let's hold questions to the end.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Stab 1 took place in Woodsboro, but Stab 2 took place in college...</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>So you think the killer's copying the second movie?</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Like an homage!</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(off their looks)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What? You all I know took French, it should not be a surprise that I know that word.</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>That's one possibility. Heroes now in college? Check. Suspicious new characters brought in to round out the suspect list and/or body count?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(looks to Quinn, Ethan, and Anika)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Check, check, and check.</dialogue>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>I don't like this.</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>But it can't only be about Stab 2.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Why not?</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>It would make sense if this were just a sequel. But we're not in a sequel, because nobody just makes sequels anymore.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(pause)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>We're in a franchise. And there are certain rules to a continuing franchise.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I had a feeling.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mindy, pacing now, doing her thing.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Rule One, everything is bigger than last time. Bigger budget, bigger cast, bigger body count; longer \* chases, shoot-outs, beheadings - \* you gotta top what came before to keep people coming back.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>On Chad, taking notes. He looks up.</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>"Beheadings?"</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Rule Two, whatever happened before, expect the opposite. Franchises only survive by subverting expectations; if the killers last time were whiny snowflake film nerds with Letterboxd accounts instead of personalities, you can bet the opposite will be true here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>On Sam and Tara, absorbing this.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>And Rule Three, no one is safe. Legacy characters are cannon fodder at this point, usually brought back only to be killed off in some cheap bid for nostalgia. Sidney's smart to sit this one out, but it's not looking too good for Gale and Kirby. And that's not even the worst part.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Chad looks to the others.</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>This is when she tells us the worst part.</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>The worst part is franchises are just continuing episodic installments designed to boost an IP, which means main characters are completely expendable now too. Laurie Strode, Nancy Thompson, Ellen Ripley, Sally Hardesty, Jigsaw, Tony Stark, James Bond, even Luke Skywalker all died so their franchises could live on. That means it's not just the friend group, any of us could go at any time, especially Sam and Tara.</dialogue>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <parenthetical>(escalating panic)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Wait, any of us? Am I in the friend group? Am I one of the targets? Am I gonna die a virgin?</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Weird overshare, but that brings us to our current suspects.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(looking at Ethan)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Ethan. The shy dorky guy who no one suspects, because he's so shy and dorky.</dialogue>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>Why am I on the list? Because I'm randomly Chad's roommate?</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Roommate lotteries can be juked, you could have fixed it to get next to us.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(looking at Quinn)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Quinn. The slutty roommate. A horror movie classic.</dialogue>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>"Sex positive," but thank you!</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>And how did you come to live with Sam and Tara?</dialogue>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>I answered their ad online-</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Say no more, you've already implicated yourself enough.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(chuckling to herself)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>"Ad online." Good lord.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Mindy, it was an anonymous ad, and \* you know we vetted her, plus her Dad's a cop-</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Which makes it more likely she's the killer because having a Cop Dad is a great cover; do you not remember how these movies work? And finally, Anika.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Anika blows her a kiss. Mindy smiles, but</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Never trust the love interest.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Anika's face falls.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Okay. So we've got our rules, and we've got our suspects-</dialogue>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>Wait- what about the rest of you?</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>I mean, I think it's safe to rule out the four of us who went through this last year in Woodsboro-</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Agreed-</dialogue>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>Um, not agreed. Maybe the trauma of what you went through caused one or more of you to snap-</dialogue>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>Or the fame you got from the killings made you thirsty for more! And, let's be honest, some of those theories online about Sam are-</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Don't you fucking dare.</dialogue>
    <character>ANIKA</character>
    <dialogue>She's right, though. Face facts. If we're all suspects? You're all suspects.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Everyone looks at each other suspiciously with new eyes...</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. POLICE STATION - AFTERNOON</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Kirby noshes on a hot dog at a desk. Bailey enters, shaken. \*</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Remember Samantha Carpenter's alibi, the therapist? He got \* stabbed to death through the nose. \* Through the nose. Do you know how \* messed up that is? \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He throws the CRIME SCENE PHOTOS on the table. Kirby glances \* at them, still chewing. \*</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY \*</character>
    <dialogue>Pretty messed up. \*</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY \*</character>
    <dialogue>Yes! He reported her for making \*</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY (CONT'D) \*</character>
    <dialogue>threatening remarks and then he ended up dead. And guess which patient's notes were stolen?</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>So Sam kills her own alibi and steals her own session notes?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He holds up a bagged GHOSTFACE MASK. \*</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Maybe? There was another mask left \* at the scene. DNA matches to a Roman Bridger.</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>The Ghostface who was directing Stab 3. It's like he's leaving us real life franchise Easter eggs - dropping the killers' masks in reverse. Almost like he's counting down to something.</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>What happens when he gets to one?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They stare at each other as we TIMECUT TO...</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>32A INT. POLICE STATION - AFTERNOON 32A</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Kirby now stands in front of an EXPOSITION WHITEBOARD containing photos and dates of ALL PREVIOUS GHOSTFACES.</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>There have been nine Ghostface killers so far.</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Nine? But I thought in the movies-</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>Forget the movies, the movies don't matter.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(pointing to each)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Last year was Amber Freeman and Richie Kirsch, whose mask we found at the first crime scene. Then Jill Roberts and Charlie Walker, their mask at the bodega. Roman Bridger was the only single Ghostface, kudos to him for the ambition, his mask was at the shrink's-</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Which leaves Mickey Altieri, Nancy Loomis, Stu Macher...</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>...and Billy Loomis. Number one. And father of our chief suspect.</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Whoever's doing this is leading us right back to Sam.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He fingers his wedding ring as they contemplate all this for a beat. Kirby sees.</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>How long you been married?</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Oh. Sometimes I forget I'm still wearing it. We lost our son awhile back. She said looking at me just reminded her of him, so she left. I decided to move here for a fresh start and to be closer to Quinn. What about you? Ever been married?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Kirby takes a bite of her hot dog and holds up a finger.</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <parenthetical>(mouth full)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>One and done.</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Well, I'm sure there's someone special out there for you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Kirby stares at him in disbelief.</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>Seriously, what planet are you from?</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <parenthetical>(smiles)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>The Midwest.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Kirby gets a text and rises.</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>I'll check in later. And tell your daughter to stay sharp, proximity to the Carpenters is proximity to Ghostface.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Bailey watches her leave. Blinks. Suspicious.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, Jack? Do me a favor, call the Atlanta Field Office, see what you can dig up on Agent Reed.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SAM AND TARA'S APARTMENT - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam is making up the couch for Mindy and Anika as Tara and Chad cook dinner. In the kitchenette --</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>You should get out of the city. I mean, after what happened to you last time... I'd understand if you want to get away from this.</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Hey. I'm not going anywhere.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>You can cut the attraction with a knife. Mindy rolls her eyes, over it.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Uggggggh, will you two just make out already?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>What are you talking about?</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Mindy, that is completely inappropriate-</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Whatever. Sam, we don't have to \* stay here- \*</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I insist. Safety in numbers, \* right?</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>This is gonna be great. Slumber Party with the Core Four!</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>"The Core Four"?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>You gave us a nickname?</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, we lived through some crazy shit! Plus it's a great name-</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>That's debatable-</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Not debatable-</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Extremely debatable-</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>You can't give yourself a nickname, dingus-</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Yes you can, dingus, cause I just did! Core Four!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He pumps his fist proudly. Chad looks from one of their cringing faces to the next. No one's into it.</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Gotta be honest, I was expecting more support from my fellow members of The Core Four. Heartbreaking.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara laughs. Sam, smiling. Anika looks past them to the TV.</scene_description>
    <character>ANIKA</character>
    <dialogue>What the hell...?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She unmutes the TV, which shows the same reporter as before in front of Jason's building. The sound crashing in --</scene_description>
    <character>REPORTER</character>
    <dialogue>...that the prime suspect is none other than Samantha Carpenter, one of the survivors of the Woodsboro killings in 2022, seen here attacking a woman on the street last night.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>CUT TO the clip Sam getting soda thrown on her again:</scene_description>
    <character>ANGRY WOMAN (ON TV)</character>
    <dialogue>Murderer!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam turns off the TV. The mood ruined. She goes to the kitchen, takes over the meal prep from Chad. He joins the others in the living room in awkward silence. Tara comes over to Sam.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Hey. I know you don't think I'm dealing with what happened in the right way.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>But I get that none of us are dealing with what you are. I'm sorry this is happening.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I know I shouldn't care what people think. But it's hard to be this hated.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>This brings Chad and Mindy over.</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Hey hey hey - just to remind you, you're not hated in this room. We're all fucked up about what happened and we're coping in different ways. But there's a reason we all moved out here together. We're a team.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mindy leans her head on his shoulder.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah. Core Fucking Four.</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>See now that's what I'm talking about.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam smiles, grateful for her actual and found family. Then she blurts:</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I've been sleeping with Cute Boy, by the way.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A massive "WHOA!" from the other three. Sam's surprised.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Yes! Yay to promiscuity!</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Tara)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You're not mad I kept it a secret?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>NO! I'm just glad you haven't been alone! Is this a high-five moment?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara holds up her hand. Sam laughs. Reluctantly smacks it. Everyone cheers.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. DANNY'S APARTMENT - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>DANNY, shirtless again (God bless him), folding laundry. He \* looks up at the newscast on his own TV at the mention of Sam. \* Something catches his eye - Someone in a BLACK ROBE in Quinn's bedroom. GHOSTFACE. In Sam and Tara's apartment.</scene_description>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>Hey! Hey!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Danny bangs on the window! Shouts, trying to get Quinn's \* attention, but...</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. QUINN'S BEDROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>MUSIC PLAYS. Quinn, lying in bed, post-coital. On the phone with her father, while her Boy Toy is in the SHOWER.</scene_description>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>I can't make her call you, Dad.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A SHAPE, moving behind her. Ghostface. He studies her, lying there.</scene_description>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>I know she's my roommate. But you're, like, the police.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. DANNY'S APARTMENT - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Danny pounds on his window, watching Ghostface behind Quinn.</scene_description>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>Hey! Look out!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He looks to the next window, sees Sam and company in the \* kitchen. Reaches for his phone. \*</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. QUINN'S BEDROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Quinn, still unaware of Ghostface.</scene_description>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>She's really freaked out and paranoid.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>From the shower:</scene_description>
    <character>PAUL 2.0 (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>You want to come join me, babe?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ghostface turns at this. Starts towards the bathroom...</scene_description>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>No! And don't use all my good face wash, it's PH balanced for women!</dialogue>
    <character>PAUL 2.0 (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>That's hella sexist, babe- \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Quinn looks up at a THUD from the bathroom. \*</scene_description>
    <character>QUINN \*</character>
    <dialogue>Babe? \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>No response. She rises. The door is a little bit ajar. She \* steps towards it. She hears the shower TURN OFF. \*</scene_description>
    <character>QUINN (CONT'D) \*</character>
    <dialogue>You better not be fucking with me. \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She reaches for the doorknob... \* 38 OMITTED 38 \* 39 OMITTED 39 \*</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SAM AND TARA'S APARTMENT - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam's phone buzzes with a call from Danny. She declines it. \* THUD! Sam turns as we hear banging coming from Quinn's room. \* Chad frowns, almost sounds like struggle but-</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>I believe Quinn is entertaining a gentleman caller.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The banging and screaming gets louder. Mindy, impressed.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Get it, girl....</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Suddenly, everyone's phones buzz as they receive the same \* AIRDROPPED FILE - a photo from Danny of Ghostface attacking Quinn. Oh fuck. Everyone in the room slowly turns back towards Quinn's room, as the banging stops. They stare at the door. Frozen. On Anika. The suspense is killing her. She has to know. She takes a step towards it... Mindy GRABS her arm.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Run.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The door opens inward and QUINN'S BLOODY BODY flies into the room! Launched by Ghostface!</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Quinn!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The body slams into Anika, knocking her back onto the couch-</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Come on!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He grabs Tara's hand, dragging her towards the front door. Sam lunges into the kitchen, going for the knife block -- -- but all the knives are gone. Anika, screaming, pushes Quinn's dead body off her, Mindy going to help her as - GHOSTFACE FILLS THE BEDROOM DOORWAY in front of her. Mindy looks up at him...</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Oh fuck.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ghostface SLASHES at her, OPENING HER BICEP, as she falls back screaming! Blood sprays!</scene_description>
    <character>ANIKA</character>
    <dialogue>Mindy!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Anika tackles Ghostface, but he spins and BURIES HIS KNIFE in her stomach! Tearing it upwards as she SCREAMS!</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>NO!</dialogue>
    <character>SAM (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Hey!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ghostface turns as WHAM! Sam clocks him with the EMPTY KNIFE BLOCK itself! He staggers back, cutting off their escape route to the front door! Slashing at them!</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>This way!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam and Mindy grab the bleeding Anika and drag her to</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. QUINN'S BEDROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam slams the door and locks it as WHAM! Ghostface hurls \* himself into it! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! \*</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. STAIRWELL - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Tara and Chad, bounding down the stairs when they realize that no one is behind them.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>They're still up there, we have to go back!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Chad gamely reverses course, and they sprint back up the stairs! Arriving at the now LOCKED APARTMENT DOOR.</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Shit!</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Tara)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Keys?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara turns out her pockets, but-</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>They're still inside!</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. QUINN'S BEDROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam and Mindy with their backs to the door as Ghostface tries \* to break it down!</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>It's not gonna hold!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The banging stops. Mindy looks around for a weapon. Spins to the bathroom where she sees DEAD PAUL 2.0! She SCREAMS!</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Oh fuck, that guy's dead! \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Just past the shower, the other door of the Jack-and-Jill bathroom flies open, revealing GHOSTFACE in Tara's room! He charges into the bathroom at them, knife raised! Mindy dives forward, slams Quinn's bathroom door, locks it-- WHAM! Ghostface slams his body into the door! Sam shoves Quinn's vanity in front it. It won't hold for long. She looks for a weapon. Nothing. Runs to the window. No fire escape. Danny, across the way on his balcony. Twenty feet between them. Danny, looking around desperately. Getting an idea:</scene_description>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>I'll be right back!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He disappears into his apartment!</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Where are you going?!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mindy holds the door. Anika, hurt bad. WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Sam, she's losing a lot of blood!</dialogue>
    <character>ANIKA</character>
    <parenthetical>(gasping)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Say something more positive!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Danny reappears, holding a UTILITY LADDER. He begins to stretch it between the sill of his window and hers...</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Are you kidding me?!</dialogue>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>Do you have a better idea?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>No! Fuck!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam takes the edge of the ladder and places it on the sill. It's barely long enough. She looks down. FOUR STORIES UP. WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! The wood by the hinges, splintering...</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Go, Sam!</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>You're hurt, you go first-</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Someone has to hold the door! I'll send Anika next! Go!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Their eyes meet. Mindy - Do it. Sam puts her weight on the ladder. It seems to hold. She shimmies out onto it...</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. AIRSHAFT BETWEEN APARTMENTS - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam crawls across the ladder, which CREAKS under her weight. She balks. Not sure she can do this.</scene_description>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>Keep your eyes on me.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam does. She forces herself to grab the next rung. Brings a knee forward. She's doing it -- Oh fuck, she looked down. She's so high up.</scene_description>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>Eyes on me, Sam.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <parenthetical>(under her breath)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Shut the fuck up...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She keeps going. It's agonizing. But she finally reaches the middle... the ladder BOWS a little... Sam whines involuntarily. Keeps going. Only six feet to Danny. Then four. Two... She grabs his hands and Danny pulls her into safety. Sam almost passes out from relief. Then yells:</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Mindy, come on!</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. QUINN'S BEDROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>WHAM! The door, almost off its hinges! Mindy, to Anika:</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>You're next. Go.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Anika hauls herself to the window. Can barely stand...</scene_description>
    <character>ANIKA</character>
    <dialogue>I can't...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mindy looks from the door to Anika. Fuck.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Okay, we go together. I go first, you stay right behind me.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mindy abandons the door and pulls Anika to the window. Anika, scared to death and losing blood. But Mindy's calming her.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>We can do this. I promise.</dialogue>
    <character>ANIKA</character>
    <dialogue>Okay. Okay.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>WHAM! The door comes off its hinges. The vanity barely holding it in place.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. AIRSHAFT BETWEEN APARTMENTS - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mindy climbs onto the ladder. Somehow holding back the terror. Shimmies forward -- \*</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY \*</character>
    <dialogue>Come on- \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Anika, about to climb out when the ladder GROANS. SAGGING. \*</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Oh shit...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Danny, trying hard to keep himself and everyone else calm.</scene_description>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>It can't hold you both. You have to come one at a time.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Anika, momentarily relived. Until she sees Ghostface \* SMASHING THROUGH THE DOOR. Nearly inside...</scene_description>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>He's coming!</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Move, Mindy, move!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mindy hauls ass across the ladder. Reaching the other side, Sam and Danny pull her in.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Anika, come on!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Weeping, Anika puts her hands back on the ladder. CRAWLING OUT. Dizzy from the blood loss. Each rung is an effort. The wind howls around her... She looks like she may faint.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>You're doin great, baby! Keep coming!</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>46A INT. QUINN'S BEDROOM - NIGHT 46A</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Ghostface throws the vanity aside and enters the room.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>46B EXT. AIRSHAFT BETWEEN APARTMENTS - NIGHT 46B</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Anika is halfway across when Ghostface appears IN THE WINDOW. Everyone sees him. Their expressions terrify Anika.</scene_description>
    <character>ANIKA</character>
    <dialogue>What? What's happening?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ghostface places his hands on the end of the ladder. Everyone tenses. Mindy locks eyes with Anika, trying like hell to keep the panic from her voice.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Anika. You have to get over here right now.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>SCRRRRRRCH! Ghostface nudges the ladder closer to the edge.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Leave her alone, you fuck!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Anika realizes what's happening. But she's frozen in fear. Ghostface glares directly at Sam and PICKS UP the end of the ladder. Anika suddenly tilting forward, staring at the ground-- SCREAMS and barely holds on--</scene_description>
    <character>ANIKA</character>
    <dialogue>Stop it, please!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ghostface SLAMS the ladder up and down again! And again! Anika just whimpering, trembling. Mindy turns to Sam and Danny.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>I have to go get her.</dialogue>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>It can't hold you both. You'll die.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mindy goes to move past him... but Sam is already leaning out \* as far as she can, dangling dangerously out of the window- \*</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Sam, no- \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam, arms outstretched. Anika remains frozen in place. She \* looks catatonic. The ladder GROANS. NOT GONNA HOLD... Sam and Anika lock eyes... Anika's still too far away for \* Sam to grab... \*</scene_description>
    <character>ANIKA</character>
    <parenthetical>(weeping)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I don't want to die, Sam!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ghostface looks directly at Sam... and in one swift move TILTS THE LADDER ONTO ITS SIDE, DUMPING ANIKA. \* Sam nearly topples out of the window, Danny pulls her back in- \* But Anika plummets four stories, screaming all the way down.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>ANIKA!!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>WHANG! Her head kerrangs off a dumpster below as her body impacts on the concrete. Impossibly twisted. Sam collapses. Looks back across the airshaft to her bedroom \* window. Ghostface is gone.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SAM &amp; TARA'S APARTMENT - DAWN</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Empty, save for Bailey, staring down at the DEAD BODY of his daughter. Another GHOSTFACE MASK lies next to her. A forensics team appears at the door.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <parenthetical>(quietly)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Go back downstairs.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The techs look at each other.</scene_description>
    <character>TECH</character>
    <dialogue>Sir, we have to take the body-</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Nobody touches her but me!</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. SAM AND TARA'S BUILDING - DAWN</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Police cars. Mindy is being tended to in an ambulance. Chad and Tara comfort her.</scene_description>
    <character>NEAR BUILDING</character>
    <dialogue>Sam stands at the edge of the building. Watching the coroner zip Anika into a bodybag. Danny approaches.</dialogue>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>Are you okay?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>No. I'm really not.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She looks up at him, eyes wet.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>You should stay away from me.</dialogue>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>What if I don't want to?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Then you're probably going to die. That's what happens to people around me.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She wipes a tear away, looking toward Anika's bodybag.</scene_description>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>This isn't your fault.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Actually, it kind of is.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She looks at her friends, scattered among the emergency vehicles. Camera pans from Tara, to Mindy, to Chad as...</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Someone took the knives.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(off his look)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>In our kitchen. Someone removed all the knives before we were attacked so we couldn't fight back.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(looks at him)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I don't know who I can trust.</dialogue>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>Then don't trust anyone. Not your friends. Not me. Not anyone.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>AT AMBULANCE As Ethan comes walking up the street with his backpack, staring at the commotion. Chad hops off the back of the ambulance and slams him up against the wall!</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Where were you?</dialogue>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>I had Econ, you know this-</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Bullshit! You disappear and then my sister almost gets killed?!</dialogue>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>I was in a lecture hall with a hundred other people, ask any of them!</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(sees the bodybag)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Oh my God. Who...?</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Anika.</dialogue>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>Oh God. Mindy, I'm so sorry-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He moves to her, but she holds up her hand.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Step the fuck back. You are at the top of my list.</dialogue>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>I had Econ!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>NEAR BUILDING Sam sees Bailey exit the building through a side door. Sheet white. A changed man. Tara joins Sam as Bailey nears.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>We're so sorry about Quinn.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Bailey looks at her.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Both my kids are gone. My family's gone.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He can't hold it back. He crumbles, wracked with sobs. Sam holds him, crying herself. Tara puts a hand on his back. The three of them, bonded by tragedy. Bailey pulls himself together.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>They took me off the case. But I'm not gonna stop until I find him.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(looks at Sam)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You fuck with my family, you die.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Agreed.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Bailey nods. A moment of solidarity between them. Broken as Sam sees GALE approaching.</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Are you okay? I came as soon as I heard-</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Gale, I swear to God-</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Truce, okay? I'm here for whatever you need.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(off their looks)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>No, really, I am!</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(off even worse looks)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Fine, off the record, okay?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Thanks, Gale. Sorry I punched you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Gale studies her. Smiles at what she sees.</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>No, you're not.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <parenthetical>(smiles)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>No, I'm not.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She turns back to Bailey.</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>You're the cop, right?</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>You're from TV.</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Yes, I'm "from TV". I did some \* digging on your first two victims and found something. I know where the masks are coming from.</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Show me. \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A screech of tires. A car has pulled up. KIRBY. She takes in the assembled group.</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>Ladies.</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Kirby?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>She's with the FBI.</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>She's a child. They let children into the FBI now?</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>I'm 30.</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>You look like a zygote.</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>I have a gun, Gale.</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Fine. You're going to want to see this too...</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Gale leads Sam, Tara, Mindy, Chad, Kirby, Ethan and Bailey to a heavy security door at the back entrance of a rundown building. She slides a KEYCARD through the swipelock and we \* hear a BUZZ as the door unlocks and she opens it.</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Jason and Greg were little Atlanta rich boys, they apparently used false names to rent this space.</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>How'd you find it?</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>It's called "investigative journalism" for a reason.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(eyes her)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>How didn't you find it? Weren't you tracking them?</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>I went through their financial records dozens of times. This place wasn't in any of them. It doesn't make sense.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam and Tara exchange a look. Suspicious.</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Don't take it too hard. It's called experience. You'll get there.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Gale goes through the door. Kirby makes a face behind her back.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - VESTIBULE - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Gale leads them through the door into an airlock-like vestibule. Double security doors, another swipe-lock. \*</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Why all the security? What is this place?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Gale BUZZES IN through a second set of SECURITY DOORS. Turns \* on a flashlight and walks to the breaker box. With a KA- \* CHUNK, overhead fluorescents BLAST ON. Revealing we're in the back lobby of some kind of theater.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>A movie theater?</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Not just a movie theater.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - MAIN FLOOR - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>They step through the curtains into the main theater. Push in on our heroes as they see...</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>A shrine.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She presses a button and the tattered movie screen above the \* stage rises to reveal NINE GHOSTFACE CLOAKS. \*</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, God...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The main floor is a museum honoring Ghostface. The seats on the side have been removed and display cases installed. More sit up on the stage itself. Some lit from above. Reverent displays of objects from every Ghostface attack. The Survivors, each drawn to a different "exhibit." Creepy \* as fuck. \*</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>It's the whole goddamn franchise... \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>We TRACK with Mindy as she walks through the whole macabre \* collection. Finally landing on... \*</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY (CONT'D) \*</character>
    <dialogue>Chad...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She points to Randy Meeks's Bradley Video employee shirt.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>This was uncle Randy's.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(looks ahead)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>They've got everything.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>So many displays. Monuments to cruelty. Among them:</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Mickey Altieri's Windsor College Class schedule...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Kirby looks up from a 35 mm film canister.</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>Roman's unfinished cut of Stab 3.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Kirby pauses at an enlarged, framed screenshot of an Evite to "Stabathon". Next to it: crime scene photos of KIRBY'S HOUSE. Bloodstains on the back patio, where Charlie stabbed her. In another case, the knife he used. Tara comes over.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Is that...?</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>The knife I was stabbed with.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Kirby does her best to look stoic. She doesn't pull it off. Bailey approaches, overwhelmed by all the artifacts.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>You've all been through so much...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Gale goes to the final display. DEWEY'S GUN and BADGE. Gale absently touches the glass, holding back tears.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>How did they get all this stuff? Isn't it evidence?</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Cops like money and evidence can "get lost" pretty easily, especially in closed cases.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(off Kirby and Bailey's looks)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Present company excluded, of course.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ethan looks around, extremely uncomfortable.</scene_description>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>Why am I here, exactly? My alibi checked out.</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>So I can keep an eye on you. Roomie.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mindy gives Ethan the "I'm watching you" gesture. Nearby, \* Sam ascends the stairs to the stage. \*</scene_description>
    <character>GALE \*</character>
    <dialogue>The killer must have found this \* place before they murdered Jason \* and Greg, then they took all the \* masks. \*</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>51A INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - STAGE - CONTINUOUS 51A \*</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam wanders to the stage's centerpiece - a display of ALL THE \* KILLERS' GHOSTFACE COSTUMES. And all the masks are missing. \* Under the first, a placard "BILLY LOOMIS'S ORIGINAL COSTUME." Sam, mesmerized by her Dad's display. Somehow drawn to it.</scene_description>
    <character>BILLY (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Hot damn - how fucking cool is this place?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam blinks and there he is - BILLY LOOMIS is there in the reflection of the glass. Uh oh.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM \*</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, no... \*</dialogue>
    <character>BILLY \*</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, yes! Come on, Sam, you gotta \* be excited to get our murder on together again! Get ready to slice up some more motherfuckers! Billy and Sam! TEAM LOOMIS!</dialogue>
    <character>TARA (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Sam. What are you doing?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam looks down and realizes she was reaching for the cloak. \* She pulls back as if she's snapped out of a trance. Tara, watching. Sam, legitimately upset by her own actions.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I- I don't know.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara studies her. Her eyes full of concern. But not just for Sam's well being, for everyone else's. \* While Sam was entranced by the cloak, the others have \* ascended to the stage. Looking at the other costumes. \*</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>So somebody killed these chucklefucks and just took over?</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Someone who believes Sam masterminded Woodsboro.</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>If this were a normal Stab movie, this would be the killer's lair...</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>Which means this isn't a normal Stab movie.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara abruptly heads towards a side door. Too much for her. Sam watches her go. Mindy sits on the edge of the stage. Her eyes drawn to a \* particular display on the main floor: the TV that killed Stu \* Macher. \* Kirby takes notice and joins her. \*</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>I hear you're a horror fan.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mindy eyes her. Gets that Kirby's trying to cheer her up.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>It's been said.</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>What's the best Nightmare on Elm Street?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mindy answers automatically:</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY &amp; KIRBY</character>
    <parenthetical>(together)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>The original.</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>Best Friday the 13th?</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Part 2.</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>The Final Chapter.</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <parenthetical>(off Mindy's look)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Had a crush on Corey Feldman.</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Respect. Psycho II is...</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY &amp; KIRBY</character>
    <parenthetical>(together)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Underrated.</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>Candyman: original or requel?</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY &amp; KIRBY</character>
    <parenthetical>(together)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Both.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They nod at each other in mutual respect.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Okay. Okay. Game recognize game.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - LOBBY - MOMENTS LATER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Tara takes deep breaths. Nauseous. Notices, the walls are plastered with framed posters from the Stab movie franchise. That doesn't help. Sam comes out. Gently:</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Are you okay?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>No. None of this is okay.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(breaking)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>When do I get to be a normal person?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam, her heart breaking as she answers truthfully:</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>I don't want to be a part of this! I don't want to be a part of this stupid legacy just because-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She chokes off her words. Sam, realizing what she means:</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Because of me. You can say it. What happened to you last year and now this. I know it's all my \* fault.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara's gaze betrays her.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Just leave it, Sam.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She runs up the stairs near the concession stand, wanting to \* be alone. Gale and Kirby emerge. Sharing a look. Kirby goes after Tara. Gale stays.</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>That looked... intense. You okay?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Not really. Ever since I came back into her life, I've made a mess of it.</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Life's messy.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam looks up at Gale.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Back when Sidney survived, everyone \* embraced her. When I survived, they hated me. Because I'm not the good girl. I'm not Sidney Prescott. People prefer me as the villain.</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Sam, I know this from experience - comparing yourself to Sidney is not a good use of your time. And besides, you're more like me anyway.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>And that's a good thing?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Gale smiles at the jab.</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck yeah, it is! We may be the loners, but it's made us tough.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>That's the thing about loners, though. They get lonely.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Gale studies her.</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Where's your mother in all this?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>She cut me off after I told Tara about Billy. Then Tara cut her off because she wouldn't talk to me, so now neither of us has a Mom.</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Well then, I'm sorry to say it, but fuck her. My parents sucked too.</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>But you can still find your own family. Even if it's just one person.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam, remembering Dewey.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>And if you lose that person?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Gale takes a deep breath. Still in pain over her loss.</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>You keep going. And maybe you find another loner and look after each other.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She takes Sam's hand. Sam looks at her and squeezes it. Two loners, finding each other.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>52A INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - BALCONY - SAME TIME 52A \*</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Upstairs, Tara stands with Kirby. \*</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>How did you get past what happened to you?</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>I almost died after I was stabbed. Technically, I did die, for four minutes. When I recovered, I got mad.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(looks at her)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I didn't want to spend my life being afraid of monsters. I wanted the monsters to be afraid of me.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara nods.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>I like that.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Bailey, Sam and Gale approach. \*</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Sorry to interrupt, but I think I might have an idea about how turn the tables on this creep. \*</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Yep, and we're in. \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Bailey and Kirby exchange a look. A silent consensus. \*</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>Sorry, Gale. No press allowed.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. NEW YORK - VARIOUS - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The sun blazes over the Hudson. It's Halloween Day. The streets are overrun with people in costumes...</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. PARK- DAY 54 \*</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam and Tara walk across campus. Eyeing everyone they pass, suspicious.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>You should have stayed with the others.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Not gonna happen.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM \*</character>
    <dialogue>There's no point in both of us \* putting ourselves at risk. \*</dialogue>
    <character>TARA \*</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not. I'm your back-up. \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam smiles despite her nerves. \* RACK FOCUS to a nondescript WHITE VAN parked nearby.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SURVEILANCE VAN - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Kirby climbs from the front seat into the back of an FBI \* surveillance van where Chad, Mindy, and Ethan sit. \*</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>We're really doing the phone \* tracing thing that never works in the movies? It'll be all, "keep him talking, Sam, two more minutes, we've almost got him," and then he hangs up just before you can get a lock.</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>I can trace a call in fifteen seconds.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mindy blinks. Then pivots.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Well, but you've got them out there as bait-</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>Because the killer usually calls from somewhere nearby-</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>And you think they're safe because it's broad daylight in a public place-</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>I'm right here, and so is Bailey-</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>This is exactly how our Uncle Randy died. College campus. Broad daylight. Yanked into a van. Stab- stab-stab. No more Randy.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Now Kirby blinks. It's a solid point. She radios Sam.</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>Hey Sam - stay frosty out there.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>55A EXT. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CAMPUS - QUAD - SAME TIME 55A</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam hears Kirby over an EARPIECE. They pass an undercover Bailey on a bench.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>We're good-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Her phone buzzes. Caller ID - Richie Kirsch. Sam braces herself and answers.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>You're gonna die, you know-</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>No YOU'RE going to die, Samantha. Choking on your own blood while I hack up your sister.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam, thrown by the intensity. Re-centers.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Unless we find you first.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>For a mastermind, you're not very bright. Waiting for me to call, desperately hoping I'm nearby so the police can grab me.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam stops in her tracks. Spins around. Lots of places for a killer to hide. Some students wearing COSTUMES.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>But I'm not nearby. I'm about to visit an old friend of yours. Be seeing you, Samantha.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>CLICK. Ghostface ends the call. Bailey races over to Sam, hand on his weapon.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <parenthetical>(into earpiece)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Did you get him?</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Yes! Geolocation coming through right now!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>IN THE VAN</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <parenthetical>(confused)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>He's on the Upper West Side. He's \* not even outside, he's in an apartment...</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>On West 96th? \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>In the van, Kirby blinks.</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>How did you know that?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam, her stomach dropping as she realizes:</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Gale.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. GALE'S APARTMENT - SUNSET 56 \*</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Gale, lounging on her couch in her lavish high-rise. A view \* to die for. Her boyfriend/trainer BROOKS (30s super hunky) \* brings her a cocktail. \*</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>"No press," Kirby said. Bitch, last time I saw you, you were in glee club. Forgive me if I don't trust you to keep them safe.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. NEW YORK CITY UNIVERSITY- QUAD - DUSK 57 \*</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam sprints towards the surveillance van, dialing her phone, Tara, and Bailey close behind.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>My friend Danny works on the Upper West Side, he can get there \* quicker!</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Or he can finish her off. Is it possible he's the killer?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>We need to go now!</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>It's fifty blocks away and we don't even know if this is real, we need to take a minute-</dialogue>
    <character>SAM \*</character>
    <dialogue>We don't have a minute! \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Interrupted by Bailey's car STARTING. Tara in the driver's seat, revving the engine.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Get in!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam hops in.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Should we use the sirens?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>If we're stealing a police car, why not embrace the full experience?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The sirens blare as they peel out, leaving Bailey gaping.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>I'm a police officer which means you're not allowed to steal my car!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>57A OMITTED 57A \*</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. GALE'S APARTMENT - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Gale and Brooks, on the couch as the LANDLINE rings. \*</scene_description>
    <character>BROOKS</character>
    <dialogue>This'll be the food. \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>(answering) \* Hello? \* (listens; then) Not the food. It's for you.</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Who is it?</dialogue>
    <character>BROOKS</character>
    <dialogue>Who may I ask is calling?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(listens)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>He says it's the killer?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Gale snatches the phone from him.</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Hello?</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Hello, Gale. Strange that you and I have never spoken on the phone. This is long overdue.</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>I agree.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Gale mouths "Police" to Brooks, who dials 911 on his phone. Gale, rising, going for her iPhone. Pressing RECORD. She sees an incoming call from Samantha Carpenter. Ignores it. We track with Gale as she paces through her apartment.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>I figured after all these years you'd want an interview.</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>You figured right. So what's your motive this time? You angry at the movies? Or just trying to stay relevant?</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>I could ask you the same. Don't you know the legacy characters are disposable now? Nobody cares about last century's heroes.</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Then why bother with me at all?</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Call it nostalgia. Or maybe you deserve to be punished for all that money you made off the misery of others. Maybe it's time someone made a buck reporting your death.</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>You know you're like the tenth guy to try this, right? And spoiler alert - it never works out for the dipshit in the mask.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>IN THE DEEP BACKGROUND - we see GHOSTFACE emerge behind Brooks and drag him off behind a glass partition, hand over his mouth as he stabs! Gale hears nothing, still focused on the call.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>But they certainly leave a mark before they go, don't they? Richie and Amber managed to butcher Dewey. Carved him up like a Christmas goose. How does it feel to lose the only man who ever loved you?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Gale has gone still at Dewey's name.</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck you.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>How does it feel to know that you weren't there for him at the end? Not there to give him comfort as he died screaming in his own guts?</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>You're the one who's going to die screaming.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Maybe. But you won't be around to see it. You couldn't stop what happened to Dewey, just like you're not going to be able to stop this.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>BOOM! The glass partition EXPLODES as BROOKS' BODY is hurled through it onto the couch! DEAD. Revealing Ghostface! He wipes the knife. Gale SCREAMS and bolts for the kitchen! Running around the island, Ghostface hot on her heels, she grabs a pot off the burner and smashes him with it! He goes down flailing! As he comes up, Gale sprints away, out the door to her</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. GALE'S BALCONY - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>A HUGE PENTHOUSE BALCONY. 80 feet long and 20 feet wide, Gale sprints out the far door. Ghostface bursts out the door seconds later. Gale throws patio furniture in his way as she goes - he trips over a chaise! Gale reaches the other door and re-enters</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. GALE'S APARTMENT - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>She spins, trying to lock the door behind her, but he's too close, so she races toward the bedrooms...</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. GALE'S BEDROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>She slams the door and locks it- WHAM! Ghostface hits it! Trying to break it down as -- Gale rips open her bedside drawer. Gun safe. Can she get the gun out before the door cracks open? Gale enters the code. Fucks up. Entering it again- WHAM! The door splinters. She opens the safe. Grabs the gun, racks the slide, and -- BLAM-BLAM! She puts two bullets through the door! Then silence. Gale, breathing hard.</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>How's that for nostalgia, fucker?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>No response. Gale doesn't move. Waiting. Her phone rings. She answers, keeping her gun on the door.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>You missed.</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Sure I did.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>You win, I'm in the elevator, heading for the ground floor.</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Sure you are.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>BLAM-BLAM! She puts two more bullets through the door. Listens. Still silence.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>Maybe you did hit me. Maybe I'm wounded. Or maybe I'm wearing a bulletproof vest.</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>That's why I'm going to shoot you in the fucking head.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She moves to the door and opens it... Nothing.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. GALE'S APARTMENT - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Silence. Gale steps out of her room, gun up. Hunting.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>You would have made a good killer, Gale. Sidney never would have made sense and Dewey was the fan favorite, but you? Cracking under the pressure and turning into Ghostface? Would've been a great twist.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Glass crunches under Gale's feet as she walks. Taking corners, clearing rooms.</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Keep talking, asshole.</dialogue>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>You never got to be the leading lady, did you? It was always all about poor sweet Sidney, sucking up all the oxygen. What did that leave you to be?</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>The brains and the sex appeal.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She enters the living room. Tries not to look at Brooks.</scene_description>
    <character>VOICE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Sorry about your boyfriend. All those muscles didn't help much.</dialogue>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Hang on a second, I want to try something.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She HANGS UP, then calls him back. Behind the doors to the entryway, a PHONE RINGS. Gale pivots and SHOOTS THROUGH THE ENTRY DOORS! Did she get him? She stares. Inching closer... Closer... WHAM! Ghostface RAMS through the doors! Tackling her and STABBING HER THROUGH THE ARM! She screams as the gun clatters to the floor! Blood gouts! He rips the knife out and then stabs it down into her thigh! She howls. Pulls it upwards, tearing through the muscle! Somehow, she throws him off and stumbles back. Barely on her feet with the bum leg. Her hand's not working. Severed tendon. And SO MUCH BLOOD... Ghostface stands across from her. Does the KNIFE WIPE. Staring her down. Gale pale from blood loss, wheezing.</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>You've been in my life so fucking long. I made you. And you made me.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ghostface just stares.</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>You want to try and finish this? Go ahead if you've got the guts.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ghostface grips the knife. Gale makes a fist with her good hand. They stare at each other... and then both CHARGE. They SLAM INTO EACH OTHER and then crash to the floor! Kicking, punching, slashing. A fight to the death. Ghostface stabs Gale again. She screams in anger and bites his arm. Drawing blood. Now he screams! She punches him! He punches her! She gets on top. Smashes his head with a lamp! And then he slips the knife in between her ribs. We see the fight go out of her. He throws her to the ground. Straddles her. Raises the knife, plunges it down... She CATCHES HIS WRIST. Holding it with both hands. He pushes harder. The knife, descending towards her face. Toward her eyeball. She spits blood.</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck... you...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>But he's got her. The tip of the blade, brushing her eyelashes. We're not gonna want to see this...</scene_description>
    <character>SAM (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Hey!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam and Tara race in! Sam sees the gun and dives for it! Ghostface rolls off Gale as Sam comes up with the weapon! FIRING! Bullets tear through things! Ghostface barrels through the fire door to the EMERGENCY STAIRS, as the gun clicks dry. Sam, about to go after him when</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Sam!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She turns back, sees Gale, Oh fuck. She and Tara run to her.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Gale...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Gale manages to focus on them. Tears in Sam's eyes, at her \* breaking point seeing Gale this messed up. \*</scene_description>
    <character>SAM \*</character>
    <dialogue>I'm so sorry, I- I should have \* known he'd come after you- \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Gale SCREAMS as Sam presses on her wounds. \*</scene_description>
    <character>GALE</character>
    <dialogue>He didn't get me... Tell Sidney... He never got me...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Her eyes, dipping closed...</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Hey. Stay with us! Hey!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam slaps her. But Gale doesn't move. \*</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Gale!</dialogue>
    <character>EMT (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Out of the way!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A pair of EMTs rush in, followed quickly by Mindy, Chad and Ethan, who freeze when they see Gale's condition. Sam and Tara give the medics room to work.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Is she...?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She shakes her head, eyes wet. Ethan looks stunned. Chad kicks the wall.</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Everyone stares in agonizing silence as the EMTs check Gale's vitals --</scene_description>
    <character>EMT</character>
    <dialogue>I've got a weak pulse- get the back board! We need to move now. One- two-three!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>As they hoist Gale we CUT TO: OMITTED OMITTED</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. GALE'S BUILDING - LOBBY - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Our crew, now huddled together in the lobby of Gale's building. Processing the aftermath. Cops come and go. Danny enters, out of breath.</scene_description>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>I got here as soon as I could.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <parenthetical>(suspicious)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Did you?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam eyes Danny. Why did it take him so long?</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>I'm scared. I don't want to get hurt again.</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Neither do I.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Sam)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What do we do?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam looks at her friends. All of them scared. Softly:</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Maybe he gets to win this time.</dialogue>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>I'm sorry, what?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>He wants to punish me... Me. Maybe I let him.</dialogue>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>You want to give up?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Everyone thinks I'm this terrible person. Maybe they're right.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(looks at Tara)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You said it. It's not like I have a plan for my life anyway. If this is what I need to do to keep you all safe... then it's worth it.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Sam, no. Fuck that.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara moves to her suddenly, taking her hands.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>You came back to Woodsboro to protect me. And you've been \* protecting me ever since. We're \* all still alive because of you. \*</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(deep breath)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>So maybe it's time you let us \* protect you. We're a team, remember?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mindy nods in solidarity, wiping her eyes.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>No. We're a family.</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Hell yeah. Core Four.</dialogue>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>Core what?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>He's going to keep coming for us.</dialogue>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>Can't we just hole up somewhere safe?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>There is nowhere safe. Like Sam said, he'll find us...</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Which we can use. I have an idea. Chad, give me your phone.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. POLICE STATION - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Bailey, on the phone, whispering:</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>I'm getting my ass chewed out for not dropping the case and now you want to do what?</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. GALE'S BUILDING - HALLWAY - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Our crew huddled around Chad's phone, Bailey on speaker. INTERCUT:</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Trap him. We need to lure him into a secure location and trap him inside like a killbox.</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>And then what?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>And then we execute him.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She looks to Sam, who nods with a new fire and determination.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Are you gonna help us?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Bailey swallows, looks at the cops around him. Voice low:</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Yes. Let's kill the sonofabitch.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Relieved looks between the gang.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>I'm stuck here, but Gale gave us the keycards to the theater; it has \* heavy security and surveillance cameras, we can use that against him. I'll get Kirby to meet you there and join you as soon as I can.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Got it.</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Travel in public. Remember, the more people around you, the less of a chance he can take a shot at you before you get here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>As we PRE-LAP the ROAR of SUBWAY TRAIN BRAKES...</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. NARROW SUBWAY PLATFORM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam, Tara, Mindy, Chad, Ethan and Danny navigate a narrow subway platform, where the train has just pulled in. They move toward it as the doors open...</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>You guys don't have to come with us.</dialogue>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>We peel off and the killer takes us out one-by-one? No thank you.</dialogue>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>Safety in numbers, right?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Let's just get to the theater.</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Yes, it'll be much less scary at the serial killer movie theater.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>But the FLOW OF PASSENGERS getting off the train SEPARATES THE GROUP. Ethan and Mindy are pushed back by people...</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Hey!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>As the others board, Mindy fights against the flow of people. She spots her brother standing half in/half out in the doorway of a train car, looking for her.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>CHAD!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The warning buzzer sounds. The doors start to close. They bump on Chad and re-open. And then he's YANKED inside the car by someone! Oh shit!</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>CHAD!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mindy runs, but can't make it onto the train in time. A hand grabs her shoulder. Ethan.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Get your Ghostface ass away from me, Ghostface. \*</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SUBWAY CAR - SAME TIME</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Chad sees Mindy distancing herself from Ethan on the platform as the train pulls out of the station.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Where's Mindy?</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>She missed the train. I would've waited with her but Cute Boy pulled me inside.</dialogue>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>I was trying to keep us together.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>By splitting us up?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Chad's phone buzzes with a text from Mindy: I'll get the next one. Don't wait for me, I'll meet you at the theater.</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>She'll meet us there-</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(looking past the others)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Oh... shit.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The car is packed to the max with Halloween revelers dressed as every goddamn horror movie ghoul you can imagine. Freddy. Jason. Pinhead. Michael Myers. Leatherface. And more than a few Ghostfaces. Most in the traditional mask. A couple in the chrome mask from Stab 8. One's even wearing the mask from the Scream TV series. Everyone seems to be staring at them. They don't feel like kids out to party in NYC. They feel like real monsters.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>How many stops?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam checks the map. Darkens.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Ten.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Cold fear takes hold of the group.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. OTHER SUBWAY CAR - LATER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Ethan and Mindy on opposite ends of a car on the next train. Ghostfaces are peppered throughout their car as well. And there's very little room to move. Mindy sizes up the Ghostfaces, one by one. Nobody in that cracked mask. Also keeping an eye on Ethan.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SUBWAY CAR - SAME TIME</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The train stops at the next station. Passengers get off, more get on. SAM'S POV - A Ghostface stares at Sam until he is obscured by embarking passengers. When there's a break in the crowd, he's not there anymore. She scans the car. Where is he? The train lurches forward again.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. OTHER SUBWAY CAR - SAME TIME</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mindy's phone buzzes with Chad's text: U on the next train? Mindy responds: Yes w Ethan aka GF Mindy glances at Ethan. He's moved a little closer to her. Looks back to her phone - the text won't go through. A Ghostface sidles up beside her, gripping the same pole. Staring at her. She moves to the opposite pole... Now she's right next to a Ghostface slumped over on the nearest seat, head bobbing over his knees. Passed out? Playing possum? Caught between two Ghostfaces. She looks at Ethan, whose expression is unreadable.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SUBWAY CAR - SAME TIME</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Chad anxiously checks his phone. No response from Mindy. The train pulls into the next station. Very few people get out, and a whole lot more get on. All pressed together. The Ghostface that was staring at Sam is suddenly visible again, pushing through the mass of bodies towards Sam -- Oh fuck - coming right at her. She eyes the doors...</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Guys-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The others see the charging Ghostface... Danny steps in front of Sam-- The doors start closing and Ghostface SHOVES people out of his way... Before leaping through the doors just before they shut. The train starts moving again. Everyone exhales.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>73A INT. OTHER SUBWAY CAR - SAME TIME 73A</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mindy is forced into a corner by a new throng of passengers that just boarded. Stiff as a board. Watching everyone...</scene_description>
    <character>THE LIGHTS GO OUT.</character>
    <dialogue>Then strobe on and off without pattern. Periods of darkness, then flickering lights. Darkness, light. And the roaring screech of the train making a turn.</dialogue>
    <dialogue>MINDY'S POV - She zeroes in on the slumped-over Ghostface. He sits up. As the lights strobe...</dialogue>
    <dialogue>He slowly turns to face her. \*</dialogue>
    <dialogue>Then, blackness again. When the lights strobe on again --</dialogue>
    <dialogue>He's standing. BLACKNESS AGAIN -- THEN LIGHT --</dialogue>
    <dialogue>Now he's right fucking next to her.</dialogue>
    <dialogue>THE KNIFE slides between Mindy's ribs. He folds a hand over her mouth to silence her screams--</dialogue>
    <dialogue>The lights blast on as the train exits the tunnel. Ethan sees Mindy fall to the floor, bleeding--</dialogue>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>Mindy!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He pushes through the crowd as the train jerks to a stop. \* The doors open and Ghostface blends in with his brethren as the passengers disembark. Ethan reaches Mindy. She's barely \* conscious. \*</scene_description>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>Mindy... oh fuck. Oh, fuck. We have to get off. HELP!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Passengers finally notice what's happening and SCREAM. Ethan picks Mindy up, carries her towards the doors... OMITTED</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SUBWAY PLATFORM - SAME TIME</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Ethan hauls Mindy off the train and lays her on the ground.</scene_description>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>Somebody call 911!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mindy gazes up at him, confusion and frustration in her eyes.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>Goddamn it... I got it wrong again...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>76 OMITTED 76 \* 77 OMITTED 77 \*</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam, Tara, Danny, and Chad emerge from the subway across from \* the front entrance of the theater. \* Kirby, waiting outside, hand on her gun, as they approach. \*</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY \*</character>
    <dialogue>Go around to the back entrance, \* we'll get set up. Where's Mindy \* and Ethan? \*</dialogue>
    <character>TARA \*</character>
    <dialogue>Five minutes behind us. \*</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY \*</character>
    <dialogue>Let's get you inside. \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They're about to head around the corner, but Sam stops. \* Frowns. Hates to do it, but turns to Danny and puts up her \* hand.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Not you.</dialogue>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>"Don't trust anyone", remember?</dialogue>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>Sam-</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>We don't know you, not really.</dialogue>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>You know me.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>You're not Woodsboro.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(off his pained look)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>We have to finish this and I can't be looking over my shoulder while I do. I'm sorry.</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>You heard the lady.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She taps the gun on her hip. Danny exhales. Softens.</scene_description>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>I get it. Be safe, okay?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>You too.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He turns and goes.</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>That was the smart play.</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <parenthetical>(unsure)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>But like I'm still cool to come inside, though, right-</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Get in the theater, Chad.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Kirby leads the way around the corner. \* OMITTED</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - VESTIBULE - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The group clears the second set of doors. The curtains are \* open and the movie screen is up. Kirby turns to the others. \*</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>I cleared the whole place before you got here. This is the only way in or out.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She gestures to a BANK OF MONITORS showing the street view outside from multiple angles.</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>There are cameras covering all angles of the exterior so we can see him coming. I've set it up so \* he steps through the first door, \* both doors automatically lock, trapping him inside...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam stares at the AIRLOCK...</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>And then we turn it into a killbox.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Weapons?</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>One gun and I hold onto it.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(before they can argue)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I'm the only one with a badge, that's how it's gonna be. We're safe in here.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>So what now?</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>I'll hold position here. There's a coffee maker in the lobby.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara and Chad head for the lobby. Sam peels off as well.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I'll check in with Mindy, see if they're close. \*</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>80A INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - STAGE - MOMENTS LATER 80A</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Pacing the stage, Sam gets Mindy's voicemail. Worried, she surveys the theater.</scene_description>
    <character>BILLY (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>You know you're not safe here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam spins to see Billy in the reflection of a glass case housing the bloody shirt Billy died in.</scene_description>
    <character>BILLY</character>
    <dialogue>Whenever someone says "We're safe here," it means you're not.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I can't deal with you right now-</dialogue>
    <character>BILLY</character>
    <dialogue>You're smarter than this, Sam. Grab a weapon and clear this place yourself. You know I'm right.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Fuck. She does. Sam goes to the next exhibit. BILLY'S \* BLOOD-ENCRUSTED KNIFE. Picks it up. Hefts it.</scene_description>
    <character>BILLY</character>
    <dialogue>Excellent choice.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam turns back towards the vestibule. Kirby is gone.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <parenthetical>(calling out)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Kirby?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam drops down to the auditorium floor.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>80B INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - MAIN FLOOR - CONTINUOUS 80B</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>She threads her way through the museum. Each corner she turns should scare us. We're waiting for the jump scare... Sam's PHONE RINGS and she jumps about a foot. Caller ID - Bailey. She answers-</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Hello?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam's eyes narrow, suspicious.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, why?</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Bailey running towards his parked car on the phone with Sam.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Get everyone out of there, Sam! You're not safe!</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>81A INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - NIGHT 81A</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam, on the phone. INTERCUT:</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>I heard back from the Atlanta field office, they say Agent Reed's been in a downward spiral ever since the Woodsboro murders last year-</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>What are you talking about-</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>They fired Kirby two months ago for being mentally unstable! She's no longer with the FBI!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>On Sam as this crashes in on her! She sprints into the vestibule --</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - VESTIBULE - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Reaches the back door where they all came in. No sign of Kirby. She tries the SECURITY DOOR - It's LOCKED! They're trapped! On Sam as this crashes in on her! And that's when the tattered movie screen lowers over the stage and THE PROJECTOR cranks to life. Shooting flickering images onto the old movie screen. Some kind of homemade Stab movies. Fan fucking fiction.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Oh shit...</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - LOBBY - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>There is no way out to the street from this side lobby. Chad, behind the concessions stand. They both eye the candy, dubiously. Tara and Chad reach for the same box of Milk Duds at the same time. Hands touch.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>You can have them.</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>We'll share.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>I don't have much of an appetite, and they're probably about a hundred years old. You should take them if you-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Chad suddenly steps forward and KISSES HER. Finally. Music swells. When they finally break:</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>I can't tell you how long I've wanted to do that.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>You should have done it sooner.</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>I know.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>You should also do it again. Like, a lot more times-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ghostface steps out of an alcove and STABS TARA IN THE BACK!</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>No!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara screams as Ghostface pulls the knife out! Chad pushes her out of the way and tackles Ghostface into the Stab Movie Posters wall! (This Ghostface has a slightly less yellow and cracked mask then our Ghostface Prime)</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Run!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ghostface slashes at Chad, who ducks it and hits him with a right cross! Ghostface goes reeling as Chad and Tara turn and run right into -- SAM! Tara screams in surprise and falls into her arms! Sam, seeing the blood:</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Tara! \*</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Come on!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The trio runs back into</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - MAIN FLOOR - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>It's Kirby! She's the killer!</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>No shit!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Chad starts to the back of the theater where they came in-</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>No, that door's locked!</dialogue>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>We're trapped?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>She made the whole theater the killbox. For us.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>What about up there...? Might be a door to the roof?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They all LOOK UP. The balcony above them. Some scaffolding on stage right they can climb up.</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Only one way to find out.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They creep down an aisle, past exhibits, towards the scaffolding. Listening for any movement. Ghostface is out there.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Bailey's on the way, but maybe-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ghostface runs out from behind the movie screen and LEAPS OFF the stage in front of them! Cutting off their path to the scaffolding! Sam staggers back against a display and drops her knife. It slides away, out of reach. Ghostface, slashing at Chad! Oh fuck! He ducks the blade and it takes the head off the mannequin displaying Randy's work shirt!</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>"Beheadings!"</dialogue>
    <scene_description>WHAM! He's slammed up against another display! He notices what's on the pedestal - Kenny's TV camera from Scream '96. Chad hefts it above his head, slams it onto Ghostface's!</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Not into movies, huh motherfucker? How 'bout TV? Goddamn, I sounded cool saying that!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ghostface rises, springs back into action, but Chad holds him off, protecting his body with the bulky camera.</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Run!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The sisters duck into the narrow hallway stage left! Chad follows into</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>84A INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - NARROW HALLWAY - NIGHT 84A</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam and Tara run down it, Chad behind them, swinging the camera and holding Ghostface at bay! They sprint to the end of it, emerging</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>84B INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - LOBBY 84B</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Back in the lobby! Ghostface swipes at Chad with the knife, not even close! Chad swings the camera again and connects! Ghostface drops the knife!</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck yeah!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Chad's going to win this thing! Moving in to finish the job when behind him -- -- A SECOND GHOSTFACE (in a similar cracked mask) emerges and STABS CHAD IN THE BACK.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>NO!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Chad screams as the first Ghostface rises, retrieves his knife, and stabs Chad in the stomach! Sam and Tara, watching in horror as the two Ghostfaces butcher Chad. The knives flashing as they are pulled out and plunged in again and again. A human pin cushion. Chad gurgles. His eyes, finding Tara's...</scene_description>
    <character>CHAD</character>
    <dialogue>Go...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara weeps. He gives her one last smile. At peace as he collapses. Meat. Both Ghostfaces turn back to the Carpenter sisters. Each do a bloody knife wipe in unison. Sam and Tara turn and run back into</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>84C INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - MAIN FLOOR - NIGHT 84C</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Heading for the scaffolding again. One Ghostface emerges from the narrow hallway by the stage. The second emerges from the lobby behind them. The sisters, in the middle of the main floor. Ghostfaces advancing on them from both side. They're trapped. Sam and Tara look at each other. Flight turns to fight. Sam picks up TWO BRICKS from the crumbling place. Hands one to Tara.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Ready?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Ready.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>One Ghostface for each. Tara eyes hers like a wounded animal. The Ghostfaces close in. Knives up. This is it.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Come on, motherfucker!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>BLAM BLAM BLAM! Gunfire sends the killers disappearing in opposite directions, revealing the shooter... KIRBY. Stumbling out from behind the movie screen. Bleeding from a gash in her temple, unsteady on her feet. Faking? Sam and Tara eye her warily as she approaches.</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>It's okay now-</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>The fuck it is!</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Stay back!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Kirby stops. Sam and Tara back up to the wall.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>We know it's you!</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>One- one of them knocked me out, dragged me in here!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She takes a step forward and the girls raise the bricks...</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Get away from the girls!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Everyone turns to see Bailey rushing into the auditorium from the back security door. Gun trained on Kirby, rage in his eyes. She aims at him as he comes down the aisle.</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>What are you doing-</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Did you kill Quinn? Did you kill my daughter?</dialogue>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>Jesus Christ!</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to the Carpenters)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Whatever he told you, don't believe him! He's probably the killer-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>One of the Ghostfaces suddenly darts out of the shadows! Knife raised, running at Bailey! Kirby shifts her aim-</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>Behind you!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>But Bailey doesn't turn. Instead, he shoots Kirby twice in the chest. Sam and Tara SCREAM as she goes down! The first Ghostface steps beside Bailey, who lowers his gun. The second Ghostface comes out of hiding and joins them. Bailey, laughing, hugs them both!</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Great work, both of you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>And the three of them turn to face a stunned Sam and Tara.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>You?</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Of course me. Frankly I expected more from you two, after what you did to us.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Us?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The Ghostface on Bailey's left removes his mask... Ethan.</scene_description>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>Mindy was right, it was easy to juke the roommate lottery. All I had to do to meet you was room with a conceited, condescending alpha - literally named Chad. Fuck, it felt good to kill him.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara's eyes flare with rage. Ethan grins and holds up his mask.</scene_description>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>This one was your grandmother's, Sam. Nancy Loomis. Really runs in your fucking family, doesn't it? And speaking of family, my name's not Ethan Landry, is it, Dad?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Dad?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Bailey smiles approvingly at his son. Sam stares at the Second Ghostface in growing horror, doing the math.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>But if you're Ethan, that just leaves... Mindy?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>As Second Ghostface pulls off his mask to reveal... Quinn.</scene_description>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, roomies. Didn't see that one coming, did you?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>On Sam and Tara, stunned.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>But you... died...</dialogue>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, kinda didn't though. It was a good way to get off the suspect list, stab Gale Weathers, that sort of thing.</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>I made sure I was first on the scene so I could switch her out with a fresh body. You'd be surprised what a grieving father can get away with.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The others react - that's fucked up. Quinn holds up her mask.</scene_description>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>I got Stu Macher's mask. He was my favorite.</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <parenthetical>(points to their masks)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Number three and number two. Which just leaves...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He pulls the most cracked Ghostface mask of all from his pocket. Billy's. He holds it out to Sam.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Your father's. This is what we were counting down to, Sam.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(smiles)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I'm gonna need you to put it on.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam slaps it away and Ethan lunges at her! Misses her with \* the knife on purpose. Laughs. \* The sisters, back to back to as the killers begin to circle \* them like lions, playing with their food. \*</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>You did all this as a family?</dialogue>
    <character>QUINN \*</character>
    <dialogue>Hell yeah, bitch! You should know why better than anyone!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ethan laughs at their confusion.</scene_description>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>They still haven't figured it out! Maybe we overestimated them.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know what you believe, but I didn't commit the murders in Woodsboro-</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Of course you didn't! You think this is about that conspiracy theory bullshit?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(laughs)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Who do you think started those rumors about you?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Quinn raises her hand proudly.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>You?</dialogue>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>It's amazing what spamming the right forums can do. Do you know how easy it was to turn Sam from the hero of Woodsboro to the villain? How easy it is to convince the world to believe the worst in people rather than the best?</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>But why?</dialogue>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>Because it's not enough to just \* kill someone these days. You have to assassinate their character \* first. So when Dad here "discovers" your horribly mutilated bodies posed with Sam wearing her father's mask? He'll say some poor dumb bastard must have read on the Internet that you're the real Ghostface and took matters into their own deluded hands!</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>It's the perfect alibi! Because like all the best lies, it's based on a truth - you're a killer, just like your father was.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not-</dialogue>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>Yes, you are, you motherfucker! You killed our brother!</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Your- your brother died in a car accident-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ethan cackles at this.</scene_description>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>Oh no, no, no, you sweet dumb thing! He died in Woodsboro, at the hands of your bitch sister.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam blinks at this. Staring at them, realizing:</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Richie?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(pause)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You're Richie's family?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ethan lunges again, this time he slashes Sam's arm, drawing \* blood! Cackling as she clutches her wound. \*</scene_description>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>Ding-ding-ding, now she's finally getting it!</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Once I saw the photos of what you did to my son, I knew... I knew you had to die like a fucking animal. You had to be punished, and so did anyone who got in our way. But my wife... disagreed.</dialogue>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <parenthetical>(proudly)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I took care of her myself!</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>You killed your own mother?</dialogue>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>What kind of mother doesn't want to avenge her dead son? Abandoning your kid is just plain evil!</dialogue>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Sam)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Bet you wish you could kill yours...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam's eyes narrow, dangerous.</scene_description>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>There she is. There's the fucking killer.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Great job with the parenting...</dialogue>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>You shut your whore mouth!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Bailey shrugs, introspective.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Am I a perfect father? No. Did I indulge Richard's fascination with these silly movies a little too much? Maybe. They're just too dark for me. And they don't make sense - they're murder mysteries where the hero never ends up solving the mystery! The killers just announce themselves! What kind of ending is that? But my son loved them.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(smiles)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>He even made a few of his own.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He nods to the movie screen. These are Richie's fan films.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>And I loved my son. So I helped him build this collection.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He gestures to the museum around them.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>All of this is Richie's?</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Oh yes. He was a very passionate fan. And he inspired others - we had to kill those two wannabes from your film class because we had to be the ones to kill you. For Richie. Once they were dead, I put the theater in their name so we could lead you back here. That's why it wasn't in the records Kirby had. Good Ol' Detective Bailey would have stumbled upon it, but it turned out I didn't have to. Gotta say, Gale really is a damn good journalist.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(nods to an exhibit)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>We brought his collection here and built this tribute to my son. Because this is where you have to die - surrounded by the things he loved most.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>And then what? When you're done with us, you just disappear?</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>No, then we go to the hospital to make sure Mindy and Gale don't pull through. Then we're going to fly to Seattle and pay Sidney a visit.</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Carve her little girls up in front of her. Because everyone dies, Sam. Everyone who had anything to do with the death of my son suffers and dies.</dialogue>
    <character>QUINN</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck yeah, they do!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Bailey raises his gun. This is it. Sam gets Tara's attention with a look. Softly:</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>He was pathetic, you know.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Bailey blinks. Direct hit. Tara understands. Sam's provoking them, drawing them in. Her grip on her brick tightens.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>That's not true-</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>He was a man-baby who made his girlfriend do almost all the killing-</dialogue>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>He was a strong virile young man!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam smiles, twinkle in her eye.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>He was a weak little bitch who cried before I cut his fucking throat.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Quinn lunges at Sam, screaming bloody murder- only to be CLOCKED in the face by Tara's brick! Teeth fly as Quinn collapses to the floor! BLAM BLAM BLAM! Kirby's alive! One of her shots nails Bailey in the chest! He goes down! But Ethan's on Kirby in an instant. He knocks the gun away and raises his knife--</scene_description>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>Recognize this?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Kirby's eyes go wide. It's Charlie's knife.</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck you-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He stabs her in the stomach, over and over!</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>No!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam barrels into Ethan, who tumbles off Kirby and disappears through the door to the lobby! Sam looks down at the bloody Kirby- \*</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Sorry, but I need this.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>And pulls the knife out of Kirby. She howls in pain, but-</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck 'em up.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ethan rises and comes at Sam. \*</scene_description>
    <character>ETHAN \*</character>
    <dialogue>What're you gonna do, bitch-? \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Before he can even finish his sentence, STAB-STAB-STAB- Sam \* is stabbing him in the upper chest over and over. Ethan \* shrieks, shocked! He keels over. \*</scene_description>
    <character>TARA (O.S.) \*</character>
    <dialogue>Sam! Come on! \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam turns to see Tara, halfway up the scaffolding. She \* pauses to pick up Kirby's gun where it fell. Fires shots at \* Bailey and runs for the scaffolding, stage right...</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>84D INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - BALCONY 84D</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam and Tara rush across the balcony towards an EXIT DOOR just ahead when -- A bullet fired by Bailey grazes Tara's arm-- She loses her \* balance and falls off the edge of the balcony!</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>TARA!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam drops Kirby's gun and grabs Tara's hand with both of hers just before she plummets to the ground! Holding on tight. \* Bailey smiles. It's over. He holsters his gun and heads for \* the stairs to the balcony. \* TARA DANGLES a story above the theater floor. Below her, an \* injured but very much alive Ethan's right there, just waiting \* for her to fall. He brandishes his knife. If Tara survives the fall, she won't survive him.</scene_description>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>Always wanted to stick something in you, Tara! Chad was right, I'm feeling real confident now!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam tries to pull Tara up with her wounded arm. But she \* can't get the leverage! The blood, flowing down her arm, \* making the grip slippery... \* Quinn emerges from the stairs on the other side of the balcony. Twirls her knife as she swaggers towards Sam. \* Smiles, showing the bloody gaps in her teeth. Doesn't see \* Kirby's gun near Sam's feet. \* Sam, trying and failing to haul Tara up. She can either keep \* holding on and die by Quinn's hand, or drop Tara and save herself. Tara looks up at her.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Sam. You gotta let me go.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <parenthetical>(tears in her eyes)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>No!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Quinn's almost to Sam. Below, Ethan's practically \* drooling...</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Trust me. Let me go.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara nods to the knife Sam pulled out of Kirby in Sam's waistband. Sam gets it. She hands Tara the knife, lets her fall and rolls for the gun... TARA DROPS! Ethan holds his knife straight up, hers is out too. She falls onto his blade stomach first-</scene_description>
    <character>ETHAN</character>
    <dialogue>GOTCHA!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>But Tara drives her own knife through his open mouth and down his throat. Ethan falls to his knees and Tara twists the knife in his throat.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Now... die a fucking virgin.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Simultaneously - Sam gets the gun and raises it! Quinn freezes, just a few feet away. Sam smiles at her, mean.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Looks like you're down another brother.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Quinn howls and charges anyway and BLAM! Sam fires and hits Quinn, whose head snaps back in a spray of blood!</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <parenthetical>(to herself)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Always gotta shoot 'em in the head...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Bailey has just arrived at the top of the stairs and seen both of his remaining children die.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>NO!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam aims at Bailey and pulls the trigger, but her gun's empty \* too. They face each other. Bailey pulls his gun -- \* Before he can fire, Sam runs at him and spears him in the \* midsection! Momentum carries them OVER THE BALCONY'S EDGE AND THEY PLUMMET TO THE MAIN FLOOR. OMIT</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - MAIN FLOOR - MOMENTS LATER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>BAILEY'S POV - Blinks awake. Broken glass from a display all around him. He looks around. No sign of Sam. Pulls himself up, coughing. Goes for his gun. Gone. But he retrieves a smaller pistol from an ankle holster -- And that's when his phone rings. He STOPS. Silence, save for the ringing. He answers. Through the phone:</scene_description>
    <character>SAM (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>I've got one question for you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He climbs up to the stage, desperately trying to find her...</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>86A INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - STAGE 86A</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Bailey walks through the torn movie screen.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Oh yeah, what's that?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>What's your favorite scary movie?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Bailey hears a noise - whips around and sees the silhouettes of the GHOSTFACE COSTUMES! On instinct, he shoots two maskless mannequins in the head! Then notices... Billy's cloak is gone. He checks his pocket, Billy's mask is gone too.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>You put on your true face, huh? Your birthright. Poetic that you're going to die in it-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A CREAK. Bailey whips around, fires again! Shatters more display cases. But there's no sign of Sam.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>You know the truth now. Murder's in your blood.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The movie plays large and in reverse on the screen behind him. CLINK! A sound to his left. He spins again- BLAM BLAM BLAM! Sam's toying with him. He reloads, growing angrier:</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Stop fucking around and show yourself!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Nothing but silence.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>I'm a fucking police officer! What are you gonna do, huh? Who do you think they're gonna believe?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Probably the one that's still alive.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Bailey roars and throws the phone away. Behind him, he doesn't see... The silhouette of GHOSTFACE on the other side of the screen. Right behind him. Sam steps through the screen, wearing the Billy mask and cloak. Bailey turns at the last second -- Sam stabs him in the arms, the neck, everywhere his vest doesn't cover! Like she's taken her rightful place. Her father's mantle. Bailey's overwhelmed by her onslaught. The gun falls from his hand. He drops to his knees, trying to cover himself. Ghostface/Sam towers over him. A force of nature. He cowers before her. Beaten. Tara limps onto the stage, \* sees what's about to go down. Her sister as Ghostface. But then she removes the mask. Our Sam once more.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>My father was a murderer. But I'm not. No matter what you say. I'm better than that.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She lowers the knife. Showing mercy. Tara, relieved. Bailey weeps. Spared.</scene_description>
    <character>BAILEY</character>
    <dialogue>Thank you... Oh thank you...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam looks down at him.</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>But you did fuck with my family, so...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She rams the knife into his left eye socket up to the hilt! Right into the brain. Body seizing. She rips the knife out \* as he collapses. His legs do a dance as his brain DIES. \* Finally he lies still. Sam stares down at him. Cold. Tara, disturbed. Sam sees her. They walk through the screen and come down from the \* stage.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>86B INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - MAIN FLOOR - CONTINUOUS 86B</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam approaches her sister.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Thank you for letting go.</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>I knew you could take care of yourself.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(looks at her)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I want to be in your life, but only as much as you want me to be-</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>I want you to be. And I promise, I'm going to get so much fucking therapy after this. We'll both deal with this. Together.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam laughs. Squeezes her hand. Tara looks at her. The tears start to come. For Chad. For everything-</scene_description>
    <character>ETHAN (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>AAAAHHHHHHH!!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Ethan leaps from the darkness, gurgling through his horrible mouth and neck wounds, gun in his hand-- He's too close to miss-- the sisters don't even have time to duck--</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Heads up!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>And that's when Kirby shoves the TV that killed Stu Macher from its shelf onto Ethan's head, smashing it to pieces! An absolutely brutal and definitive kill! Sam and Tara gape at Kirby, who smiles.</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>Saw that in a scary movie once.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam and Tara smile up at her, grateful.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - STAGE - MINUTES LATER 87 \*</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Sam, Tara and Kirby sit on the stage. We hear sirens, \* growing closer, then stopping. The fan film playing on the \* back of the screen suddenly shuts off and the screen raises. \* After a moment, POLICE and EMTs spill into the theater, led by DANNY. He rushes to Sam and the others as the cops fan out to clear the building.</scene_description>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>Are you okay?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>You didn't leave us.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She says it almost in disbelief.</scene_description>
    <character>DANNY</character>
    <dialogue>Just went for reinforcements. And I called Mount Sinai, Mindy and Gale are going to be okay.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Not bad, Cute Boy, not bad at all.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Danny smiles.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Police vehicles and ambulances. Kirby in a gurney, wheeled out as Sam and Tara walk next to her.</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>What do you think you'll do now?</dialogue>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Like Tara said, make a plan... start living again. Start dealing with the future.</dialogue>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>And I'm gonna start dealing with the past.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Kirby nods. Looks at both of them.</scene_description>
    <character>KIRBY</character>
    <dialogue>If you ever need me, call. We're \* all part of the same fucked up \* family now. And legacy doesn't \* always have to be a bad thing. Okay?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>This lands with Sam. Tears in her eyes. Softly:</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Okay.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The three women embrace. Survivors. Found family. On Tara. The tears come again. Softly:</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>I only got to kiss him once...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Kirby's face falls. Remembering all they've lost. Sam holds her sister as she's wracked with sobs.</scene_description>
    <character>PARAMDEIC (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, we got one more in here!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam and Tara turn to see another gurney being wheeled out. CHAD. Somehow, someway, he's alive. Tara shrieks as the sisters run to him!</scene_description>
    <character>SAM</character>
    <dialogue>Are you kidding me? How are you alive?!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Chad can't speak with the oxygen mask on. Holds up FOUR FINGERS.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Core Four!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tara covers him with kisses - a second, a third... He groans in pain as the paramedics have to keep her off him.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Oh my God, is he okay?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Everyone turns to see a patched-up Mindy bursting from the back of a police car.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>I know who the killer is! It's Ethan and Bailey!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She takes in the scene. Clearly the aftermath.</scene_description>
    <character>MINDY</character>
    <dialogue>You got them, didn't you? Fuck, did I miss the monologue again?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>As Chad and Kirby are hustled to the ambulance, Mindy and \* Tara follow. \* Sam stays where she is. She takes a deep breath. Exhales. She pulls something from her pocket. BILLY'S OLD MASK. Looks at it...</scene_description>
    <character>TARA (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Sam?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam looks up. Tara stands by the ambulance door, the sun behind her. Smiling at her. Mindy, Chad and Kirby as well. Home. Family.</scene_description>
    <character>TARA</character>
    <dialogue>Are you coming?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Sam looks at her sister. Then at Danny, who's emerging from the theater. Then back down to Billy's Ghostface mask. A beat... And then she crumples the old mask up and tosses it into the wet gutter. Tara and Danny both smile. Sam joins Danny and follows her sister into the light. ROLL CREDITS FADE OUT \*</scene_description>
    <character>\*</character>
  </scene>
</script>
One year after the Woodsboro killings orchestrated by Richie Kirsch and Amber Freeman, Blackmore University professor Laura Crane is catfished and murdered by her student Jason Carvey wearing a Ghostface costume because of him blaming her for failing. Jason plots with his boyfriend Greg to kill sisters Sam and Tara Carpenter to finish the "movie" that Richie (a classmate of theirs) and Amber wanted to make. However, Jason receives a call from a different Ghostface, who has killed Greg and subsequently stabs Jason to death. Sam and Tara now live in New York City, with Tara attending Blackmore University alongside fellow survivors Chad and Mindy Meeks-Martin, their roommate Quinn Bailey, Mindy's girlfriend Anika Kayoko, and Chad's roommate Ethan Landry. Sam attends therapy with Dr. Christopher Stone and has become a public pariah because of an online conspiracy theory that she was the true mastermind of the recent killings. Quinn's father, Detective Wayne Bailey, calls Sam in for questioning as her ID was found at the scene of Jason's murder, along with a Ghostface mask worn by Richie and Amber. On the way to the station, Ghostface calls Sam from Richie's phone, who then attacks Tara and kills multiple bystanders in a bodega, and leaves behind another Ghostface mask worn in the 2011 Woodsboro killings. At the NYPD police station, the sisters meet with FBI special agent Kirby Reed, a survivor of the 2011 killings, and reporter Gale Weathers, who has since written a new book on the previous Woodsboro killings despite promising the Carpenter sisters that she would not. She tells them she spoke to Sidney Prescott and that she has gone into hiding to protect her family. Dr. Stone is murdered by Ghostface, who steals Sam's file and leaves behind a mask worn in the Hollywood killings. Mindy theorizes that the killer is following the rules of film franchises, specifically the rule that anyone can die while the franchise will still continue. From his window, Sam's boyfriend Danny witnesses Ghostface stabbing Quinn in Sam and Tara's apartment before attacking the group and killing Anika, leaving behind a mask worn in the Windsor College killings. Gale takes the group to an abandoned theater she found while investigating, which has been set up as a shrine to the Ghostface killers, featuring many items of evidence related to previous massacres now displayed like film props. Ghostface calls Gale at her apartment and torments her about the death of Dewey Riley before killing her boyfriend and attacking her. Sam and Tara arrive just in time to stop Ghostface from killing Gale, who is taken to the hospital. The group agrees to meet Kirby at the theater to trap Ghostface. Mindy is stabbed by Ghostface on the train. At the theater, Sam sees a hallucination of her father, original Ghostface killer Billy Loomis. Taking his knife from the original murders, she realizes they have been locked inside. Two Ghostfaces appear and attack Chad. Wayne and Kirby both arrive with guns drawn and he shoots her, revealing himself as a third Ghostface and the mastermind. His accomplices are his children, revealed to be Ethan and a still-alive Quinn, who faked her death to ease suspicion. They reveal their motive is to take revenge on Sam for killing Richie, who was their brother and Wayne's first-born son. They defamed Sam online and infiltrated her life with the intent of killing her. Sam and Tara ultimately gain the upper hand and fight them off, with Tara stabbing Ethan and Sam killing Quinn while briefly rendering Wayne unconscious. Sam then dons her father's Ghostface costume, taunts Wayne with a phone call, and stabs him to death. Ethan resurfaces, but Kirby smashes a television set over his head, killing him. Sam agrees to let Tara live her life more independently, and Tara agrees to go to therapy. As Mindy, Chad, and Kirby are taken to the hospital, Sam stares at her father's Ghostface mask before discarding it and following Tara and Danny into the city.