Scream VI

BLACKMORE
Written by
James Vanderbilt & Guy Busick
WHITE PRODUCTION DRAFT - April 27, 2022

BLUE REVISIONS - May 18,2022
PINK REVISIONS - June 7,2022
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OVER BLACK:
1 A PHONE RINGS 1
Piercing our soundtrack. Once. Twice. Three times. We

know what this means. We know what’s coming next...
2 SMASH IN ON: 2
A WALL PHONE, ringing its head off. In a RESTAURANT. A

harried HOSTESS snatches it up and
HOSTESS
Hasta Fuego, please hold.
She puts the call on hold and turns back to the LINE OF
PEOPLE waiting by her check stand as we track back through
3 INT. CROWDED MANHATTAN RESTAURANT - NIGHT 3
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.
LAURA
Hi, Richie?
VOICE (O.S.)
Laura, hi. So nice to phone-meet
you in this incredibly embarrassing
way.
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LAURA
(laughing)
It’s fine.
VOICE (O.S.)
This is what I get for picking a
trendy place with no sign out
front.
LAURA
Why do they do that here?
VOICE (O.S.)
I don’t know, I’ve only been in the
city for a few months.
LAURA
Me too.
(looks around)
It’s a nice restaurant.
VOICE (O.S.)
Is it on Hudson?
LAURA
Yes.
VOICE (O.S.)
Am I on Hudson?
(pause)
I am not on Hudson. Shit.
Laura laughs. He’s got a nice way about him.
VOICE (O.S.) (CONT’D)

I am now walking towards Hudson.
Sorry, this is not the first
impression I wanted to make on a
college professor.
LAURA
Associate Professor, and it’s just
Film Studies, so you’re safe.
VOICE (O.S.)
Film studies, really? That’s cool.
LAURA
You say that, but try teaching a
class on 20th Century Slashers to
hungover 19-year-olds.
VOICE (O.S.)
Slashers, huh? “What’s your
favorite scary movie?”
LAURA
(laughs)
Not that one. Besides, does anyone
have an absolute favorite movie?
VOICE (O.S.)
Some people. Why 20th Century
Slashers?
LAURA
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-
VOICE (O.S.)
Don’t answer the phone-
LAURA
Exactly, it’s all cliche, but out
of those cliches comes an
opportunity for outsider art. A
voice for the voiceless.
VOICE (O.S.)
I’m more of a rom-com guy.
Laura laughs. Is this date actually going well?

Okay, I think I’m on Hudson. What
color is the outside of the
restaurant?
LAURA
I think red?
VOICE (O.S.)
I don’t see anything red.
LAURA
I might be wrong, hang on a second.
She rises and walks to the front of the restaurant, passing

the check-stand, pushing the front door to
4 EXT. HUDSON STREET - NIGHT 4
Laura steps outside. October chilly. Cars fly past. She

squints up at the converted storefront the restaurant is in.
LAURA
Yeah, it’s definitely red.
VOICE (O.S.)
I’m not seeing anything red here.
She looks up and down the block. A few pedestrians.
LAURA
Are you sure you’re on Hudson?
VOICE (O.S.)
...crap. I’m still a block over.
Do you want to cancel? I feel like
I’ve embarrassed myself enough.
LAURA
(chuckles)
This is actually one of the more
interesting first dates I’ve ever
had.
VOICE (O.S.)
It looks like there’s an alley I
can cut through, is the restaurant
near an alley?
She looks. There is an alley next to the restaurant.
LAURA
Yes.
VOICE (O.S.)
Okay, I’m coming down the alley.
She walks to the MOUTH OF THE ALLEY. Looks down it. Dark
and foreboding. No one in it.
LAURA
I don’t see you.
VOICE (O.S.)
Really? There are some dumpsters
about halfway down.
There are.
White Production Draft (04/27/22) 4A.
4A EXT. ALLEY OFF HUDSON ST - NIGHT 4A
She takes a few steps into the alley.
LAURA
I see them, but I don’t see you.
VOICE (O.S.)
I don’t see you either.
(pause)
This is creepy, right?
LAURA
A little bit.
VOICE (O.S.)
(nervous laugh)
20th Century Slashers, huh?
LAURA
You sure you’re walking towards
Hudson?
VOICE (O.S.)
I’m sure. Wait, I think I see you.
Can you wave?
Laura takes a few more steps into the alley. She waves.
LAURA
Can you see me?
VOICE (O.S.)
The person I’m looking at isn’t
waving. They’re just staring at
me. This is weird.
Laura waves again.
LAURA
Are you sure?
VOICE (O.S.)
Now they’re moving towards me.
Panic in his voice. Laura begins moving further into the

alley. Maybe he’s past the dumpsters?
LAURA
Are you okay?
VOICE (O.S.)
He’s following me!
LAURA
I don’t see anyone-
VOICE (O.S.)
Oh shit! Oh shit! He’s after me!
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 6.
LAURA
Where are you?
VOICE (O.S.)
He’s got a knife!
LAURA
What?!
VOICE (O.S.)
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.
Laura STOPS IN HER TRACKS. About 20 feet into the alley.

There’s an OFF-SHOOT to her right.
LAURA
That’s not funny.
VOICE (O.S.)
No. It’s not.
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:
VOICE (CONT’D)
Now I see something red. *
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.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 7.
5 EXT. HUDSON STREET - MOMENTS LATER 5
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.
JASON
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.
6 EXT. NEW YORK CITY UNIVERSITY - QUAD- NIGHT 6 *
Jason walks across a college campus. Passing other students, *

including --
JASON
Hey, Tara!
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.
TARA
Hi, Jason. Are you and Greg coming
to the OKB party?
JASON
Yeah, if he ever finishes his
Spanish project. Is your sister
gonna be there?
Tara laughs at the very thought.
TARA
You wish. Sam wouldn’t be caught
dead at a Frat party.
JASON
There’s a first time for
everything.
A twinkle in his eye. Tara laughs and moves on. He watches

her go, smile still on his face. *
7 INT. JASON & GREG’S APARTMENT - VARIOUS - NIGHT 7
Jason enters his two-bedroom walk-up and shuts the door.
JASON
Honey, I’m hoooooome!
(off the silence)
Greg! Where the fuck are you?
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.”
JASON (CONT’D)
(answering)
I’m sorry, okay. I was getting
blue balls, and I wanted the
practice. How pissed are you?
VOICE (O.S.)
Oh, I’m not mad, Jason.
It’s the Ghostface voice. Jason rolls his eyes.
JASON
Dude, we said we weren’t going to
use the voice on each other.
VOICE (O.S.)
We said a lot of things.
Jason frowns.
JASON
Greg?
VOICE (O.S.)
Hm?
JASON
This is Greg, right?
Long pause. Then a laugh.
VOICE (O.S.)
Who else would it be?
Jason relaxes. Enters the living room.

JASON
Where are you? I want to tell you
about it.
VOICE (O.S.)
I’m here.
Jason does a 360-degree turn. Nobody there. He sighs,

getting irritated.
JASON
Stop fucking around and come home.
We should get to that frat party.
Tara’s there.
Jason goes to a sideboard and pours a shot of Jaegermeister.
VOICE (O.S.)
I thought you were going to tell me
about it. What was it like?
JASON
Not on the phone. And seriously,
man - turn off the fuckin’ voice
modulator.
VOICE (O.S.)
I’m just trying to get the voice
right. You got to have your
practice, I get mine.
Jason does his shot, pours another.
JASON
Whatever.
VOICE (O.S.)
Just tell me what it felt like.
Then maybe I’ll come out.
Jason snorts a laugh.
JASON
Dude, I know you’re not here.
But he glances around the apartment again. Just to be safe.
JASON (CONT’D)
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.
(MORE)
JASON (CONT’D)
Every time it went in, she was less
and less human. And then she was
just meat.
VOICE (O.S.)
But she wasn’t just meat, Jason.
She was a person. Our film
professor.
Jason drains his second shot.
JASON
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.
VOICE (O.S.)
Is that why you killed her?
Because of the C minus? Who’s
next, your grade school vice
principal?
Jason stops mid-pour and sets the bottle down. Tensing.
JASON
You know who’s next. Why are you
being like this?
VOICE (O.S.)
Come on, Jason. How long have we
known each other?
Jason, about to blow past the rhetorical question, stops.
JASON
Why don’t you tell me?
Long pause.
VOICE (O.S.)
Six years. We met in Junior High.
In Atlanta.
Jason visibly relaxes. Right answer.

I just want you to tell me why you
think we’re doing this. In your
words.
JASON
We’re finishing Richie’s movie.
(beat)
Why are you fucking with me? Why
won’t you tell me where you are?
VOICE (O.S.)
Why do you keep asking me that? I
already told you. I’m here.
JASON
(sick of it)
Then prove it.
VOICE (O.S.)
Okay. Let’s play a game. Do you
know “Warmer Colder?”
JASON
What are you, fucking five?
VOICE (O.S.)
Come on. It’ll be fun.
Jason eyes the SECURITY CAMERAS positioned on the ceiling.
JASON
Are you using the cameras?
Beat.
VOICE (O.S.)
Yeah. The cameras. And at the
moment you’re very, very cold.
Jason moves towards Greg’s bedroom.

Colder.
Moves towards his own bedroom.

Colder.
Towards the entryway.

North pole.
JASON
Dude--
VOICE (O.S.)
Do you want to find me or not,
Jason? I’m starting to think
you’re not a team player.
JASON
All right! Jesus.
Jason moves back into the living room.
VOICE (O.S.)
Getting warmer.
Back into the small kitchen.

Warmer.
Jason flips open the lower cabinet doors, the only

conceivable hiding place. Nothing but pots and pans.
JASON
This is fucking stupid. I’m
hanging up.
VOICE (O.S.)
But you’re getting warmer.
Jason steps out of the kitchen.

Colder.
Pissed off now, Jason steps back into the kitchen.

Warmer.
JASON’S POV - The refrigerator at the far end of the kitchen.

He steps towards it.

Warmer. Warmer.
Jason arrives at the fridge.

You’re burning up.
He reaches a tentative hand out and grips the handle.

You’re on fire.
He slowly opens the door...
JASON
OH, FUCK!
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.
GHOSTFACE
Do you feel like an animal, Jason?
He stabs him in the stomach, over and over.
GHOSTFACE (CONT’D)
Like meat?
Jason slumps to the floor against the open fridge. Trying to

hold his innards in with his hands. Mouth wet with blood.
JASON
But... we have to finish the
movie.
GHOSTFACE
Who gives a fuck about movies?
Jason looks up, uncomprehending, as THE KNIFE SLASHES DOWN

towards camera as we SLICE TO OUR
TITLE SCREEN
8 INT. THERAPIST’S HOME OFFICE - NIGHT 8
The front room of a brownstone. Low lit. Plug-in water

feature trickles. The desk calendar reads October 29.
DR. STONE (O.S.)

Family. What does that word mean
to you?
SAM (O.S.)
How do you mean?
DR. STONE
I’ve noticed that you tend to
define yourself by family. Who’s
in your life, who’s left you.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 14.
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.
DR. STONE (O.S.) (CONT’D)

What I’d like to get to is your
purpose. Your identity.
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.
DR. STONE (CONT’D)

Sorry. Some patients like the
‘festive decor’.
SAM
It’s... a little dark.
He leans forward, as if confessing something.
DR. STONE
I’m kind of a “Horror Hound”. This
is my favorite time of year. You?
SAM
Not so much.
As if to punctuate her point, POLICE SIRENS whizz by outside.
DR. STONE
So how are the new meds treating *
you? *
He flips open his notebook, pen at the ready.
SAM
Okay, I think. Still not seeing *
anyone I shouldn’t be. What I’m
really worried about is Tara-
DR. STONE
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.
SAM
I just-
DR. STONE
You’ve alluded to an abusive
relationship, and issues with your
father, but every time I push for
specifics, you shut down.
SAM
I’m sorry, I have some trust issues-
DR. STONE
If I’m going to help you, you have
to let me. It’s why you’re here,
right?
Sam shifts in her seat. Decides to open up, just a little.
SAM
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.
DR. STONE
I’m assuming he was... not a good
person?
SAM
He was not. And they think I’m
like him.
DR. STONE
What do you think?
SAM
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.
DR. STONE
How so?
(off Sam’s reluctance)
Sam, for this to work, I’m going to
need you to give me details.
Sam takes a deep breath.
SAM
Okay. My father was Billy Loomis.
He was a famous serial killer.
They made a movie about him.
(MORE)
SAM (CONT’D)
(nods to the Funko Pop)
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.
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.
DR. STONE
But you... didn’t.
SAM
Of course not. He almost killed my
sister and me before I stopped him.
Dr. Stone now staring at her, open-mouthed.
DR. STONE
And... how did you stop him?
Sam takes a sip of her soda and considers, matter-of-fact.
SAM
I stabbed him twenty-two times and
slit his throat. But that’s not
why I’m here.
Dr. Stone swallows. Afraid to ask...
DR. STONE
Why are you here?
SAM
Because it felt right.
He rises, pale.
DR. STONE
I- I- okay, I think we’re done-
SAM
You said to give you details.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 17.
DR. STONE
I’m not really equipped to deal
with this kind of thing-
SAM
(earnest)
Please. I’m asking for your help.
Dr. Stone swallows.
DR. STONE
I actually have to report this to
the authorities, by law-
SAM
Report what? I didn’t say I was
going to do anything!
DR. STONE
Not explicitly, but-
SAM
Forget it. Enjoy your dolls.
Sam is out the door.

9 EXT. NEW YORK STREET - NIGHT 9
Sam walks home, passing GREG & 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:
TARA (V.O.)
You’ve reached Tara, why aren’t you
texting me?
BEEP!
SAM
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!
A10 INT. STAIRWELL - NIGHT A10 *
Fourth floor walk-up. Sam unlocks the door to her apartment *

with janitor keys. Four deadbolts. Overkill? Absolutely. *
10 INT. SAM & TARA’S APARTMENT - NIGHT 10
Sam enters. *
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 17A.
SAM
Tara?
No response. But BANGING on the wall. Some low moaning.

Sam smiles, despite herself.
SAM (CONT’D)
Quinn?
The banging stops. A beat.
QUINN (O.S.)
Are we being too loud?
SAM
Not at all. Have you seen Tara?
We hear a low discussion and then QUINN (19, Sam and Tara’s
roommate) emerges from a bedroom, wrapped in a robe. Sweaty.
QUINN
Don’t be mad.
SAM
Why would I be mad?
QUINN
Because you get mad.
SAM
Is that Paul?
Quinn makes the “cut it out” symbol across her throat.
QUINN
Life, I have found, is all about
variety-
SAM
Where’s Tara?
QUINN
She went to the Omega Kappa Beta
party.
SAM
I begged her not to go to that!
QUINN
We have now arrived at mad.
SAM
Did she at least take her taser?
QUINN
I cannot speak to how heavily armed
Tara is at this fraternity party.
From the bedroom we hear:

Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 19.
PAUL 2.0 (O.S.)

Babe, are you coming back?
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...
QUINN
Oooh, is Cute Boy shirtless again?
PAUL 2.0 (O.S.)

Who’s Cute Boy, babe?
QUINN
(rolls her eyes)
Always you, sweetie!
Danny looks up. Sam looks away, embarrassed, caught.
QUINN (CONT’D)
You’ve been checking each other out
for months, you should at least
talk to him.
SAM
This is about all the romantic
interaction I’m ready for. I’m
gonna go get Tara.
11 EXT. FRAT HOUSE - ESTABLISHING - NIGHT 11
Thumping bass. Drunken bros. In other words, a Frat House.

12 INT. FRAT HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT 12
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. *
ANIKA
It doesn’t bother you? Being at a
house party after you were almost
brutally murdered at a house party?
MINDY
I think of it like being struck by
lightning. The odds of it
happening to the same person twice
are extremely low.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 19A.
ANIKA
Guess I should stay close to you
then.
MINDY
Real close.
Anika scoots closer to Mindy, smiling. Mindy looks up to see

Tara walking past, heading for the keg.
MINDY (CONT’D)
How you doing, T?
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.
TARA
You’re kidding, right?
FRANKIE
Nah, last one’s kicked. We got
hard stuff in the kitchen, though.
(extends hand)
Frankie.
TARA
Tara. Lead the way.
As they walk, Frankie notes Tara’s every stumble and slurred

word with the scrutiny of a measured anthropologist.
FRANKIE
You Omega Beta Zeta?
TARA
Not yet. Might rush it.
FRANKIE
Freshman, right on. Where from?
TARA
(beat)
Michigan.
13 INT. FRAT HOUSE - TRASHED KITCHEN - CONTINUOUS 13
They arrive at the kitchen. The bar is down to the dregs.
FRANKIE
Shit, strike two.
(”remembering”)
You know what? I got a bottle of
Fireball up in my room.
Tara’s alarm bells are screaming, but...

TARA
Fuck it, let’s go.
14 INT. FRAT HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT 14
Tara and Frankie head towards the stairs, passing
ANIKA
I don’t love that...
MINDY
Go.
Anika goes after them. A PREPPY GUY flops down by Mindy.
PREPPY GUY
Hey. Nice costume.
MINDY
Thank you. I’m dressed as a
straight person.
PREPPY GUY
(not listening)
You’re cute. Wanna get out of
here?
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.
ANIKA
Hey... wanna call it a night?
TARA
I think I’m gonna hang. But you
guys don’t have to wait for me.
FRANKIE
Don’t worry, I’ll take care of her.
I’m Frankie-
ANIKA
And I’m spectacularly uninterested
in knowing anything about you.
You’ve had too much, Tara.
TARA
I’m not that bad, I swear. Thanks
for checking on me.
Frankie smiles smugly at Anika and leads Tara away...

15 INT. FRAT HOUSE - GAME ROOM - SAME TIME 15
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.
CHAD
To the dynamic duo of Hortense
Tower, third floor, room 315.
They drink. Ethan makes a face. Chad takes in the party.
CHAD (CONT’D)
You gotta get out there, bud.
Start making some moves.
(nods at a girl)
What about her?
ETHAN
She’s gorgeous, but I can’t just go
up and-
CHAD
Ask her out, ask her out, ask her
out-
ETHAN
(overlapping)
Shut up, shut up, shut up-
CHAD
Chicks dig confidence and you’re a
snack.
(loud, to girl)
Excuse me, hi - my boy here’s a
snack, right?
Ethan, horrified. The girl looks him up and down. Makes a

“so-so” expression. Turns back to her friends.
ETHAN
What did that mean?
CHAD
It was good, it was good.
(off Ethan’s look)
It wasn’t bad.
Anika approaches Chad.
ANIKA
Big guy. You’re needed.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 23.
16 INT. FRAT HOUSE - FOYER - MOMENTS LATER 16
Frankie, now leading Tara up the stairway up to the rooms.
FRANKIE
I knew you looked familiar! Aren’t
you that girl involved in that Stab
shit in California last year?
TARA
Nope. Different pirate.
CHAD (O.S.)
Hey, pal. No private tours for
this one, ‘kay?
Tara and Frankie turn to see Chad and Ethan.
FRANKIE
Sorry, Bro, I didn’t catch that.
CHAD
Yeah, bro, you did. Tara’s good
down here.
TARA
It’s fine, Chad. I want to.
FRANKIE
See, Chad? She wants to.
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. *
SAM *
Hey, sorry to interrupt, I’m just *
gonna tase you in the balls real *
quick. *
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.
SAM (CONT’D) *
Don’t you ever put hands on my
sister!
FRAT DUDE (O.S.)

Oh shit, it’s that psycho girl!
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 23A.
Tara storms past her out of the house, mortified. Chad and *
Mindy both give Sam a twins-style thumbs-up. *
17 EXT. NEW YORK CITY UNIVERSITY - QUAD - NIGHT 17
Tara, fuming, storming across campus. Sam, Chad, Ethan,

Anika, and Mindy following.
SAM
Tara, will you stop--?
Tara whirls on her.
TARA
I cannot believe you did that! You
embarrassed me-
SAM
That guy was an asshole and he was
gonna take advantage of you-
TARA
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!
Behind them, Mindy whispers to Anika --
MINDY
See why I don’t live with them? I
love ‘em, but my God the drama.
SAM
(to Tara)
You’re not dealing with what
happened to us. Have you even gone
to that counselor?
TARA
No, and I’m not going to. Unlike
you, I’m not interested in living
in the past-
SAM
And what’s that supposed to mean?
CHAD
Hey, guys, come on-
TARA
It means I’m not gonna let what
happened to us for three days
define the rest of my life.
SAM
You’re pretending it didn’t happen
at all-
TARA
What are you doing here, Sam? In
New York?
(MORE)
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 25.
TARA (CONT’D)
You’re working two shitty jobs just
to help with rent, but for what?
What’s your plan?
SAM
I- I don’t-
TARA
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.
SAM
I’m just trying to look out for
you.
Tara takes a breath.
TARA
I get that, I do. But you can’t do
it for the rest of my life.
(looks at her)
You have to let me go.
Suddenly, an ANGRY WOMAN with a small group of friends

marches up to Sam and throws soda right in her face!
ANGRY WOMAN
Murderer! You people should stay
away from her! She knows what she
did!
In the background we see a few costumed students filming the

scene with their phones.
SAM *
I didn’t do anything! *
The woman storms off. Anika turns back to Mindy.
ANIKA
I’m getting it now, yeah.
SAM
I’m so sick of this shit!
The others give her sympathetic looks. Ethan digs in his

pocket.
ETHAN
I think I have some tissues, do you
want some tissues?
(MORE)
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 25A.
ETHAN (CONT’D)
(pulling them out; frowns)
I have like three tissues.
Sam takes the tissues and tries to dab up the soda.

18 INT. SAM & TARA’S APARTMENT - TARA’S ROOM - NIGHT 18
Posters on the wall. One for “We Hate Movies” (this is non-
negotiable). Quinn sits with Tara, peace offering.
QUINN
I’m sorry I told Sam you went.
TARA
It’s fine, she’s just all the way
up my ass as usual.
QUINN
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?
Tara nods, relating. Chad knocks on the open bedroom door

and enters with a glass of water and Advil for Tara.
QUINN (CONT’D)
I’ll leave you two to... chat.
She goes, shutting the door behind her.
TARA
You can go back to your dorm, I’m
pretty sure the fighting’s done for
the day.
Chad sits next to her and playfully shadow boxes.
CHAD
Too bad. I was hoping to get some
shots in.
TARA
Oh yeah? Bring it.
Chad chuckles, then looks at her. Their faces, surprisingly

close together...
TARA (CONT’D)
Thanks for stopping me from going
upstairs. I was more messed up
than I realized.
CHAD
Survivors stick together, right?
(off her smile)
(MORE)
CHAD (CONT’D)
You can do a lot better than Date
Rape Frankie. You’re really
special.
The energy in the room has changed. Their body language

makes it pretty obvious what they’re thinking...
TARA
I’m not messed up anymore. Just so
you know.
CHAD
Oh. Okay. Good.
Lips are about to touch... when Quinn bursts into the room.
QUINN
Sorry, I forgot my phone-
(reads the room)
Did I just cock-block you? I cock-
blocked you, didn’t I?
TARA
No-
QUINN
I totally cock-blocked you-
CHAD
I am begging you to stop saying the
word cock.
TARA
I strongly agree with Chad.
CHAD
(rising; to Tara)
I’m gonna go. Get rest, get sober,
don’t kill your sister.
He heads for the door. Quinn mouths “I’m sorry!” to her.

Tara collapses on the bed, frustrated.
19 INT. SAM AND TARA’S BUILDING - LOBBY - NIGHT 19
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.
SAM
Careful, someone might see!
DANNY
You say the most romantic things.
Sam smiles as she pushes Danny away.
SAM
Danny-
DANNY
Hey, can I help it if my kink is
“woman who is ashamed be seen with
me”?
She laughs - this is a Sam we haven’t seen much of - happy.
SAM
You know it’s not that. I’m just
not ready for...
DANNY
For your sister and friends to know
you enjoy physical contact with
another human being, I get it.
Your secret is safe with me.
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:
DANNY (CONT’D)
So I can’t help but notice you’re
covered in Cherry Coke.
SAM
Pretty sure it’s Diet Cherry Coke.
DANNY
Ah.
SAM
What, you don’t like it?
DANNY
No, I love it, it’s a very sensual
aromatic choice.
She laughs and punches him the arm.
DANNY (CONT’D)
Was it another conspiracy nut?
SAM
Being famous isn’t all it’s cracked
up to be. And Tara’s pissed at me.
Again.
DANNY
Family can be rough.
SAM
You have no idea.
DANNY
You coming over later?
She looks at him. He makes her smile.
SAM
Yeah, I think I am.
Interrupted by Chad, leaning out the railing from the top of

the stairwell shouting:
CHAD
Sam, get up here, now!
Sam moves to the stairs and Danny follows - concerned...

20 INT. SAM & TARA'S APARTMENT - NIGHT 20
Sam and Danny enter to find Chad and Tara gathered around the
TV with Ethan, Anika, Mindy and Quinn. Quinn notices Danny.
QUINN
Cute Boy! Nice!
ON TV - A REPORTER is at the Jason and Greg CRIME SCENE.

REPORTER
...the mutilated bodies of two New
York City University students...
MINDY
Holy shit, that’s that chode from
our film studies class! The one
obsessed with Argento.
TARA
Jason Carvey.
REPORTER
Also found were weapons and various
Ghostface costumes, a character
popularized by the Stab movie
franchise...
The Ghostface survivors react. Sam looks to Tara.
SAM
Pack a bag, we’re leaving in ten
minutes.
TARA
What?
But Sam’s already moving, gathering things.
SAM
We’re getting out of the city.
DANNY
What?
Chad takes Danny and protectively marches him to the door.
CHAD
Thanks for coming, suspicious new
guy, but we’ll take it from here.
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.
TARA
This might not have anything to do
with us! It’s a big city, it’s
Halloween, everyone’s wearing masks-
SAM
This isn’t a coincidence, you knew
him. Chad, Mindy, back me up.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 31.
The twins, suddenly caught in the middle as both Carpenter

sisters stare at them. They lock eyes, reading each other.
CHAD MINDY
I mean, it’s a little... ...close to home? *
Tara stares daggers at Chad.
SAM
See?
TARA
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?
QUINN
Calling him now.
SAM
I need to call Sidney-
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.
ETHAN
Why did everyone just freak out
when her phone rang?
ANIKA
You gotta keep up, my dude.
Quinn comes back and hands Sam her phone.
QUINN
My Dad wants to talk to you.
SAM
(takes Quinn’s phone)
Mr. Bailey?
A Midwestern voice, home-spun and steady.
BAILEY (O.S.)
Hi, Sam. I was actually just about
to reach out to you.
SAM
My sister thinks I’m probably
overreacting-
BAILEY (O.S.)
Unfortunately, you’re not.
21 INT. JASON AND GREG’S APARTRMENT - KITCHEN - SAME TIME 21
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.
BAILEY
I’m afraid I need you to come down
to the station.
Deliberately placed next to the license - a discarded

GHOSTFACE MASK. Not the cracked one the killer was wearing.
22 EXT. SAM & TARA’S APARTMENT - NIGHT 22
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.
SAM
You should go back upstairs and
lock the door-
TARA
Oh now we shouldn’t stick together?
Sam looks for a cab, rounds the corner. Tara follows.

23 EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET - CONTINUOUS 23
Sam, about to hail a cab when her PHONE RINGS. She looks at
it STOPS. The caller ID and picture - Richie Kirsch.
TARA
What the fuck...?
SAM
I never deleted his contact info.
This is coming from his number...
The phone keeps ringing. Sam gets that determined look.
TARA
Sam, don’t-
Sam answers.
SAM
Who is this?
VOICE (O.S.)
Hello, Samantha. Did you miss me?
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 33.
Sam’s face is like steel. She eyes a creepy-looking guy on *

the phone heading towards them. *
SAM
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.
VOICE (O.S.)
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.
The man passes. Sam drifts to the railing of a stairwell to *

a basement apartment. Tara stays by her side.
SAM
So, what, you’re protecting us?
VOICE (O.S.)
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. *
SAM
Don’t believe everything you read
on the Internet, asshole.
VOICE (O.S.)
Don’t be cute. You’re going to pay
for what you did. I’m going to
butcher you and everyone you love.
SAM
You’re just another psycho like all
the others-
VOICE (O.S.)
Oh, there’s never been one like me,
Sam. I’m something... different.
You and Tara better watch your
backs.
SAM
You better watch yours-
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-
SAM (CONT’D)
TARA!
Tara elbows him in the gut and he stumbles back, winded. She
scrambles up the stairs and she and Sam run up the sidewalk.
TARA
Help! Somebody help us!
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
24 INT. CORNER BODEGA - CONTINUOUS 24
Sam and Tara run up to the CLERK at the counter. Lots of

customers around. The MAN at the head of the line bristles.
MAN
Whoa, there’s a fuckin’ line!
SAM
Please, someone just attacked us,
call the police-
The door swings open... and Ghostface comes inside.
TARA
It’s him!
A BURLY GUY steps in front of Ghostface.
BURLY GUY
We got a problem here, guy?
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!
CLERK (O.S.)
DOWN!
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?
CLERK (CONT’D)
(to Sam and Tara)
There’s a door in the back!
SAM
Thank you!
Sam and Tara race towards the back of the store, quickly
locate the door to the street, run to it --
But it’s locked.
TARA
Fuck! Sir, we need the keys!
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!
SAM
Look out!
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--
CLERK
No no no NO--!
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...
SAM
Help me-!
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!
TARA
Go!
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.

25 INT. POLICE STATION - INTERROGATION ROOM - NIGHT 25
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.
BAILEY
We found this next to the body at
the apartment crime scene.
Bailey holds up an evidence bag with the BLOODY GHOSTFACE

MASK we saw next to Sam’s license.
BAILEY (CONT’D)
DNA says it belonged to someone
named Richie Kirsch. Ring a bell?
Sam and Tara stare at the mask.
SAM
We’re familiar with him.
TARA
The one who attacked us had a
different kind of mask. Older,
beat-up.
BAILEY
I have to ask - do you have alibis
for earlier tonight?
TARA
I was at a party with friends.
SAM
I was at my therapist’s, I can
write his information down. Then I
met Tara at the party. Where I
tased someone. Unrelated.
BAILEY
Is that before or after this
happened?
He holds up his phone - a YouTube clip of Sam getting soda

thrown on her. In the video:
ANGRY WOMAN
Murderer!
Sam and Tara watch as Sam goes after the woman in the clip.
SAM
Before.
(to herself)
That’s not gonna help me get more
shifts...
TARA
The point is, we were with people
all night.
SAM
So our roommate’s father just
happened to pull our case, huh?
BAILEY
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!
SAM
It’s fine.
Bailey holds up Sam’s bloody license.
BAILEY
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?
TARA
We moved here six months ago with
Chad and Mindy for summer semester.
We’ve known Anika, Ethan and Quinn
since then.
BAILEY
I think I can vouch for my
daughter, so that’s one less person
to worry about.
Sam and Tara exchange a look at this - “or is it?”
BAILEY (CONT’D)
Can you think of anyone who would
want to target either of you?
TARA
No one who’s still alive.
BAILEY
Yikes.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 38.
SAM
He said he was going to punish me
for what I did. He’s one of those
conspiracy nutjobs.
The door opens and a COP pokes his head in.
COP
FBI’s here, claiming jurisdiction.
BAILEY
Oh boy! That’s- Where are they?
26 INT. POLICE STATION - BULLPEN - DAWN 26 *
Low angle of a pair of heeled lace-up ankle boots confidently

striding through the cop shop. Bailey emerges from the
Interrogation Room, approaching
BAILEY
Can I help you?
The woman turns, flashing her badge, and we reveal
KIRBY
Special Agent Kirby Reed, FBI. I
work out of the Atlanta office.
BAILEY
Are you... lost?
KIRBY
(hands him a file)
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.
Bailey peruses the file - good work in here.
BAILEY
Why?
KIRBY
I take a special interest in
Ghostface attacks.
SAM (O.S.)
Kirby?
Kirby turns to see Sam and Tara standing in the doorway. She
smiles and goes in for a hug.
KIRBY
Hi, Sam. Tara.
BAILEY
You know each other?
SAM
I was a freshman at Woodsboro High
when she was a senior.
KIRBY
We share a certain history, yeah.
I’m not looking to get into a
jurisdictional pissing contest
here, I just want to help.
(taps the file)
I’ll show you mine, et cetera.
Another cop comes over with an evidence bag with a SECOND

GHOSTFACE MASK and a report. Bailey glances at it.
BAILEY
He left this mask at the bodega.
DNA traces of two individuals,
Charlie Walker and Jill Roberts.
Both deceased.
On Kirby as the names land. Sam and Tara know what they mean
too. Bailey looks at her, questioning.
KIRBY
The Ghostface Killers of 2011.
Charlie Walker gave me this.
Kirby raises her shirt to display a scar along her stomach.

Bailey blushes, looks away.
KIRBY (CONT’D)
Like I said, I take a special
interest. Is this the mask he was
wearing when he attacked you?
Sam and Tara shake their heads.
BAILEY
So he’s leaving them on purpose.
KIRBY
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?
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 40.
SAM
Yeah, good luck to both of you, but
we’re getting out of the city.
BAILEY
Actually, that’s not possible.
(apologetic)
You’re persons of interest in a
double homicide, so... you’re not
allowed to leave town. Sorry.
TARA
Are you kidding me?
KIRBY
He’s right. But if we work
together-
SAM
I’m not working with anybody. I
don’t trust anybody. Because the
killer could be anybody.
KIRBY
Sam-
SAM
Do you have anything to hold us on?
No? Then we’re going.
She takes Tara’s hand and is out the door.

27 INT. POLICE STATION - LOBBY - MORNING 27
The sun has risen. Sam and Tara, pushing through the front *
door out to
28 EXT. POLICE STATION - MORNING 28
Where a SWARM OF REPORTERS is waiting, shouting questions!

Sam and Tara, disoriented by the lights and flashbulbs.
REPORTER REPORTER 2
Sam, do you have an alibi for Tara, do you feel safe around
tonight’s murders! your sister? *
But one familiar voice cuts through-

Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 41.
GALE
Gale Weathers, Channel 4! Do you
ladies think you’re the reason the
Ghostface Killer has come to the
Big Apple?
Sam stares at Gale, standing there, mic outstretched... and

SWINGS at her! Gale ducks the punch easily.
GALE (CONT’D)
Nice try, sweetie, but I’ve done
this dance before-
-as WHAM! Tara catches her with right cross!
TARA
Stay away from us.
Sam and Tara stalk away. Gale rubs her jaw and signals for
her cameraman to stand down, and then she follows.
GALE
You’re really still mad at me?
SAM
You said you wouldn’t write a book
about what happened, and then you
wrote a book about what happened!
GALE
Oh come on! Someone was going to
write about it! It’s what I do!
TARA
I heard you couldn’t sell the movie
rights.
GALE
That’s not- you know, it’s really
all about true crime limited series
these days-
SAM
After everything we went through
together. What would Dewey think?
GALE
(quiet)
That’s a low blow.
SAM
So was the book. You called me
“unstable” and“a born killer.” *
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 42.
GALE *
You’re taking that out of context-
SAM *
That was literally a quote! *
TARA
You don’t think what you wrote has *
something to do with what’s
happening to us right now? *
GALE
I talked to Sidney.
That stops the sisters and they turn back to her.
TARA
She’s not coming here, right?
GALE
No. She sends her love, but she’s
taking Mark and the kids someplace
safe. She deserves to have her
happy ending.
SAM
On that much, we agree.
GALE
Look, I want to catch this fucker
as much as you do, okay?
Sam hails a cab.
TARA
Maybe. Or maybe you’re afraid that
without Ghostface in your life,
you’d just fade away.
Gale doesn’t respond as the sisters get in and pull away...

29 INT. THERAPIST'S HOME OFFICE - BROWNSTONE - MORNING 29
Dr. Stone, feet on the desk, eating cereal, watching Stab

(2021). Chromeface reigns supreme. His Funko Pops with him.
ON TV:
CHROMEFACE
This shit is lit!
DR. STONE
(chuckling)
Hahahaha... “lit”.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 42A.
His DOOEBELL rings, startles him. He mutes the TV.

30 INT. THERAPIST'S HOME OFFICE - FRONT HALL - MORNING 30
Dr. Stone comes down the stairs and looks to the door,
suspicious. We see a SHAPE through the frosted glass.
DR. STONE
Who is it?
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 43.
No response. ANOTHER RING. Dr. Stone goes to the door.

ANOTHER RING. More insistent. Dr. Stone squints to see
through the glass.
DR. STONE (CONT’D)

You’re a couple days early for
trick or treating, you know-
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 -- *
31 EXT. NEW YORK CITY UNIVERSITY - QUAD - MORNING 31
Mindy holds court in a large seating area on the quad. Sam,

Tara, Chad, Ethan, Anika, and Quinn watch.
MINDY
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.
(deep breath)
The way I see it, someone’s out to
make a sequel to the requel.
ANIKA
What’s a requel?
MINDY
You’re beautiful, sweetie, but
let’s hold questions to the end.
TARA
Stab 1 took place in Woodsboro, but
Stab 2 took place in college...
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 44.
SAM
So you think the killer’s copying
the second movie?
CHAD
Like an homage!
(off their looks)
What? You all I know took French,
it should not be a surprise that I
know that word.
MINDY
That’s one possibility. Heroes now
in college? Check. Suspicious new
characters brought in to round out
the suspect list and/or body count?
(looks to Quinn, Ethan,
and Anika)
Check, check, and check.
ETHAN
I don’t like this.
MINDY
But it can’t only be about Stab 2.
TARA
Why not?
MINDY
It would make sense if this were
just a sequel. But we’re not in a
sequel, because nobody just makes
sequels anymore.
(pause)
We’re in a franchise. And there
are certain rules to a continuing
franchise.
SAM
I had a feeling.
Mindy, pacing now, doing her thing.
MINDY
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.
On Chad, taking notes. He looks up.

CHAD
“Beheadings?”
MINDY
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.
On Sam and Tara, absorbing this.
MINDY (CONT’D)
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.
Chad looks to the others.
CHAD
This is when she tells us the worst
part.
MINDY
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.
ETHAN
(escalating panic)
Wait, any of us? Am I in the
friend group? Am I one of the
targets? Am I gonna die a virgin?
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 46.
MINDY
Weird overshare, but that brings us
to our current suspects.
(looking at Ethan)
Ethan. The shy dorky guy who no
one suspects, because he’s so shy
and dorky.
ETHAN
Why am I on the list? Because I’m
randomly Chad’s roommate?
MINDY
Roommate lotteries can be juked,
you could have fixed it to get next
to us.
(looking at Quinn)
Quinn. The slutty roommate. A
horror movie classic.
QUINN
“Sex positive,” but thank you!
MINDY
And how did you come to live with
Sam and Tara?
QUINN
I answered their ad online-
MINDY
Say no more, you’ve already
implicated yourself enough.
(chuckling to herself)
“Ad online.” Good lord.
TARA
Mindy, it was an anonymous ad, and *
you know we vetted her, plus her
Dad’s a cop-
MINDY
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.
Anika blows her a kiss. Mindy smiles, but
MINDY (CONT’D)
Never trust the love interest.
Anika’s face falls.

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SAM
Okay. So we’ve got our rules, and
we’ve got our suspects-
ETHAN
Wait- what about the rest of you?
MINDY
I mean, I think it’s safe to rule
out the four of us who went through
this last year in Woodsboro-
CHAD
Agreed-
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 47.
QUINN
Um, not agreed. Maybe the trauma
of what you went through caused one
or more of you to snap-
ETHAN
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-
TARA
Don’t you fucking dare.
ANIKA
She’s right, though. Face facts.
If we’re all suspects? You’re all
suspects.
Everyone looks at each other suspiciously with new eyes...

32 INT. POLICE STATION - AFTERNOON 32
Kirby noshes on a hot dog at a desk. Bailey enters, shaken. *
BAILEY
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? *
He throws the CRIME SCENE PHOTOS on the table. Kirby glances *

at them, still chewing. *
KIRBY *
Pretty messed up. *
BAILEY *
Yes! He reported her for making *
BAILEY (CONT’D) *
threatening remarks and then he
ended up dead. And guess which
patient’s notes were stolen?
KIRBY
So Sam kills her own alibi and
steals her own session notes?
He holds up a bagged GHOSTFACE MASK. *

Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 47A.
BAILEY
Maybe? There was another mask left *
at the scene. DNA matches to a
Roman Bridger.
KIRBY
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.
BAILEY
What happens when he gets to one?
They stare at each other as we TIMECUT TO...

32A INT. POLICE STATION - AFTERNOON 32A
Kirby now stands in front of an EXPOSITION WHITEBOARD

containing photos and dates of ALL PREVIOUS GHOSTFACES.
KIRBY
There have been nine Ghostface
killers so far.
BAILEY
Nine? But I thought in the movies-
KIRBY
Forget the movies, the movies don’t
matter.
(pointing to each)
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-
BAILEY
Which leaves Mickey Altieri, Nancy
Loomis, Stu Macher...
KIRBY
...and Billy Loomis. Number one.
And father of our chief suspect.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 47B.
BAILEY
Whoever’s doing this is leading us
right back to Sam.
He fingers his wedding ring as they contemplate all this for

a beat. Kirby sees.
KIRBY
How long you been married?
BAILEY
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?
Kirby takes a bite of her hot dog and holds up a finger.
KIRBY
(mouth full)
One and done.
BAILEY
Well, I’m sure there’s someone
special out there for you.
Kirby stares at him in disbelief.
KIRBY
Seriously, what planet are you
from?
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 49.
BAILEY
(smiles)
The Midwest.
Kirby gets a text and rises.
KIRBY
I’ll check in later. And tell your
daughter to stay sharp, proximity
to the Carpenters is proximity to
Ghostface.
Bailey watches her leave. Blinks. Suspicious.
BAILEY
Hey, Jack? Do me a favor, call the
Atlanta Field Office, see what you
can dig up on Agent Reed.
33 INT. SAM AND TARA'S APARTMENT - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT 33
Sam is making up the couch for Mindy and Anika as Tara and
Chad cook dinner. In the kitchenette --
TARA
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.
CHAD
Hey. I’m not going anywhere.
You can cut the attraction with a knife. Mindy rolls her
eyes, over it.
MINDY
Uggggggh, will you two just make
out already?
TARA CHAD
What are you talking about? Mindy, that is completely
inappropriate- *
MINDY
Whatever. Sam, we don’t have to *
stay here- *
SAM
I insist. Safety in numbers, *
right?
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 49A.
CHAD
This is gonna be great. Slumber
Party with the Core Four!
SAM
“The Core Four”?
TARA
You gave us a nickname?
CHAD
Hey, we lived through some crazy
shit! Plus it’s a great name-
SAM
That’s debatable-
CHAD
Not debatable-
TARA
Extremely debatable-
MINDY
You can’t give yourself a nickname,
dingus-
CHAD
Yes you can, dingus, cause I just
did! Core Four!
He pumps his fist proudly. Chad looks from one of their

cringing faces to the next. No one’s into it.
CHAD (CONT’D)
Gotta be honest, I was expecting
more support from my fellow members
of The Core Four. Heartbreaking.
Tara laughs. Sam, smiling. Anika looks past them to the TV.
ANIKA
What the hell...?
She unmutes the TV, which shows the same reporter as before
in front of Jason’s building. The sound crashing in --
REPORTER
...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.
CUT TO the clip Sam getting soda thrown on her again:
ANGRY WOMAN (ON TV)

Murderer!
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.
TARA
Hey. I know you don’t think I’m
dealing with what happened in the
right way.
(MORE)
TARA (CONT’D)
But I get that none of us are
dealing with what you are. I’m
sorry this is happening.
SAM
I know I shouldn’t care what people
think. But it’s hard to be this
hated.
This brings Chad and Mindy over.
CHAD
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.
Mindy leans her head on his shoulder.
MINDY
Yeah. Core Fucking Four.
CHAD
See now that’s what I’m talking
about.
Sam smiles, grateful for her actual and found family. Then
she blurts:
SAM
I’ve been sleeping with Cute Boy,
by the way.
A massive “WHOA!” from the other three. Sam’s surprised.
MINDY
Yes! Yay to promiscuity!
SAM
(to Tara)
You’re not mad I kept it a secret?
TARA
NO! I’m just glad you haven’t been
alone! Is this a high-five moment?
Tara holds up her hand. Sam laughs. Reluctantly smacks it.

Everyone cheers.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 52.
34 INT. DANNY’S APARTMENT - NIGHT 34
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.
DANNY
Hey! Hey!
Danny bangs on the window! Shouts, trying to get Quinn’s *

attention, but...
35 INT. QUINN’S BEDROOM - NIGHT 35
MUSIC PLAYS. Quinn, lying in bed, post-coital. On the phone

with her father, while her Boy Toy is in the SHOWER.
QUINN
I can’t make her call you, Dad.
A SHAPE, moving behind her. Ghostface. He studies her,

lying there.
QUINN (CONT’D)
I know she’s my roommate. But
you’re, like, the police.
36 INT. DANNY'S APARTMENT - NIGHT 36
Danny pounds on his window, watching Ghostface behind Quinn.
DANNY
Hey! Look out!
He looks to the next window, sees Sam and company in the *

kitchen. Reaches for his phone. *
Quinn, still unaware of Ghostface.
QUINN
She’s really freaked out and
paranoid.
From the shower:
PAUL 2.0 (O.S.)

You want to come join me, babe?
Ghostface turns at this. Starts towards the bathroom...

Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 53.
QUINN
No! And don’t use all my good face
wash, it’s PH balanced for women!
PAUL 2.0 (O.S.)

That’s hella sexist, babe- *
Quinn looks up at a THUD from the bathroom. *
QUINN *
Babe? *
No response. She rises. The door is a little bit ajar. She *

steps towards it. She hears the shower TURN OFF. *
QUINN (CONT’D) *
You better not be fucking with me. *
She reaches for the doorknob... *
38 OMITTED 38 *
39 OMITTED 39 *
40 INT. SAM AND TARA'S APARTMENT - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT 40
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-
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 54.
TARA
I believe Quinn is entertaining a
gentleman caller.
The banging and screaming gets louder. Mindy, impressed.
MINDY
Get it, girl....
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.
MINDY (CONT’D)
Run.
The door opens inward and QUINN’S BLOODY BODY flies into the
room! Launched by Ghostface!
TARA
Quinn!
The body slams into Anika, knocking her back onto the couch-
CHAD
Come on!
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...
MINDY
Oh fuck.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 55.
Ghostface SLASHES at her, OPENING HER BICEP, as she falls

back screaming! Blood sprays!
ANIKA
Mindy!
Anika tackles Ghostface, but he spins and BURIES HIS KNIFE in

her stomach! Tearing it upwards as she SCREAMS!
MINDY
NO!
SAM (O.S.)
Hey!
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!
SAM (CONT’D)
This way!
Sam and Mindy grab the bleeding Anika and drag her to
Sam slams the door and locks it as WHAM! Ghostface hurls *

himself into it! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! *
42 INT. STAIRWELL - NIGHT 42
Tara and Chad, bounding down the stairs when they realize
that no one is behind them.
TARA
They’re still up there, we have to
go back!
Chad gamely reverses course, and they sprint back up the

stairs! Arriving at the now LOCKED APARTMENT DOOR.
CHAD
Shit!
(to Tara)
Keys?
Tara turns out her pockets, but-
TARA
They’re still inside!
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 56.
Sam and Mindy with their backs to the door as Ghostface tries *
to break it down!
MINDY
It’s not gonna hold!
The banging stops. Mindy looks around for a weapon. Spins

to the bathroom where she sees DEAD PAUL 2.0! She SCREAMS!
MINDY (CONT’D)
Oh fuck, that guy’s dead! *
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:
DANNY
I’ll be right back!
He disappears into his apartment!
SAM
Where are you going?!
Mindy holds the door. Anika, hurt bad. WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!
MINDY
Sam, she’s losing a lot of blood!
ANIKA
(gasping)
Say something more positive!
Danny reappears, holding a UTILITY LADDER. He begins to

stretch it between the sill of his window and hers...
SAM
Are you kidding me?!
DANNY
Do you have a better idea?
SAM
No! Fuck!
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...
MINDY
Go, Sam!
SAM
You’re hurt, you go first-
MINDY
Someone has to hold the door! I’ll
send Anika next! Go!
Their eyes meet. Mindy - Do it. Sam puts her weight on the
ladder. It seems to hold. She shimmies out onto it...
44 EXT. AIRSHAFT BETWEEN APARTMENTS - NIGHT 44
Sam crawls across the ladder, which CREAKS under her weight.
She balks. Not sure she can do this.
DANNY
Keep your eyes on me.
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.
DANNY (CONT’D)
Eyes on me, Sam.
SAM
(under her breath)
Shut the fuck up...
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:
SAM (CONT’D)
Mindy, come on!
45 INT. QUINN'S BEDROOM - NIGHT 45
WHAM! The door, almost off its hinges! Mindy, to Anika:

Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 58.
MINDY
You’re next. Go.
Anika hauls herself to the window. Can barely stand...
ANIKA
I can’t...
Mindy looks from the door to Anika. Fuck.
MINDY
Okay, we go together. I go first,
you stay right behind me.
Mindy abandons the door and pulls Anika to the window. Anika,
scared to death and losing blood. But Mindy’s calming her.
MINDY (CONT’D)
We can do this. I promise.
ANIKA
Okay. Okay.
WHAM! The door comes off its hinges. The vanity barely
holding it in place.
46 EXT. AIRSHAFT BETWEEN APARTMENTS - NIGHT 46
Mindy climbs onto the ladder. Somehow holding back the

terror. Shimmies forward -- *
MINDY *
Come on- *
Anika, about to climb out when the ladder GROANS. SAGGING. *
MINDY (CONT’D)
Oh shit...
Danny, trying hard to keep himself and everyone else calm.
DANNY
It can’t hold you both. You have
to come one at a time.
Anika, momentarily relived. Until she sees Ghostface *

SMASHING THROUGH THE DOOR. Nearly inside...
DANNY (CONT’D)
He’s coming!
SAM
Move, Mindy, move!
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Mindy hauls ass across the ladder. Reaching the other side,
Sam and Danny pull her in.
MINDY
Anika, come on!
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.
MINDY (CONT’D)
You’re doin great, baby! Keep
coming!
46A INT. QUINN’S BEDROOM - NIGHT 46A
Ghostface throws the vanity aside and enters the room.

46B EXT. AIRSHAFT BETWEEN APARTMENTS - NIGHT 46B
Anika is halfway across when Ghostface appears IN THE WINDOW.

Everyone sees him. Their expressions terrify Anika.
ANIKA
What? What’s happening?
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.
MINDY
Anika. You have to get over here
right now.
SCRRRRRRCH! Ghostface nudges the ladder closer to the edge.

Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 60.
SAM
Leave her alone, you fuck!
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--
ANIKA
Stop it, please!
Ghostface SLAMS the ladder up and down again! And again!

Anika just whimpering, trembling.
Mindy turns to Sam and Danny.
MINDY
I have to go get her.
DANNY
It can’t hold you both. You’ll
die.
Mindy goes to move past him... but Sam is already leaning out *
as far as she can, dangling dangerously out of the window- *
MINDY
Sam, no- *
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... *
ANIKA
(weeping)
I don’t want to die, Sam!
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.
MINDY
ANIKA!!
WHANG! Her head kerrangs off a dumpster below as her body

impacts on the concrete. Impossibly twisted.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 60A.
Sam collapses. Looks back across the airshaft to her bedroom *

window. Ghostface is gone.
47 INT. SAM & TARA'S APARTMENT - DAWN 47
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.
BAILEY
(quietly)
Go back downstairs.
The techs look at each other.
TECH
Sir, we have to take the body-
BAILEY
Nobody touches her but me!
48 EXT. SAM AND TARA'S BUILDING - DAWN 48
Police cars. Mindy is being tended to in an ambulance. Chad

and Tara comfort her.
NEAR BUILDING
Sam stands at the edge of the building. Watching the coroner

zip Anika into a bodybag. Danny approaches.
DANNY
Are you okay?
SAM
No. I’m really not.
She looks up at him, eyes wet.
SAM (CONT’D)
You should stay away from me.
DANNY
What if I don’t want to?
SAM
Then you’re probably going to die.
That’s what happens to people
around me.
She wipes a tear away, looking toward Anika’s bodybag.
DANNY
This isn’t your fault.
SAM
Actually, it kind of is.
She looks at her friends, scattered among the emergency

vehicles. Camera pans from Tara, to Mindy, to Chad as...
SAM (CONT’D)
Someone took the knives.
(off his look)
In our kitchen. Someone removed
all the knives before we were
attacked so we couldn’t fight back.
(looks at him)
I don’t know who I can trust.
DANNY
Then don’t trust anyone. Not your
friends. Not me. Not anyone.
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!
CHAD
Where were you?
ETHAN
I had Econ, you know this-
CHAD
Bullshit! You disappear and then
my sister almost gets killed?!
ETHAN
I was in a lecture hall with a
hundred other people, ask any of
them!
(sees the bodybag)
Oh my God. Who...?
CHAD
Anika.
ETHAN
Oh God. Mindy, I’m so sorry-
He moves to her, but she holds up her hand.
MINDY
Step the fuck back. You are at the
top of my list.
ETHAN
I had Econ!
NEAR BUILDING
Sam sees Bailey exit the building through a side door. Sheet
white. A changed man. Tara joins Sam as Bailey nears.
TARA
We’re so sorry about Quinn.
Bailey looks at her.
BAILEY
Both my kids are gone. My family’s
gone.
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.
BAILEY (CONT’D)
They took me off the case. But I’m
not gonna stop until I find him.
(looks at Sam)
You fuck with my family, you die.
SAM
Agreed.
Bailey nods. A moment of solidarity between them. Broken as

Sam sees GALE approaching.
GALE
Are you okay? I came as soon as I
heard-
SAM
Gale, I swear to God-
GALE
Truce, okay? I’m here for whatever
you need.
(off their looks)
No, really, I am!
(off even worse looks)
Fine, off the record, okay?
TARA
Thanks, Gale. Sorry I punched you.
Gale studies her. Smiles at what she sees.
GALE
No, you’re not.
TARA
(smiles)
No, I’m not.
She turns back to Bailey.
GALE
You’re the cop, right?
BAILEY
You’re from TV.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 64.
GALE
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.
BAILEY
Show me. *
A screech of tires. A car has pulled up. KIRBY. She takes

in the assembled group.
KIRBY
Ladies.
GALE
Kirby?
SAM
She’s with the FBI.
GALE
She’s a child. They let children
into the FBI now?
KIRBY
I’m 30.
GALE
You look like a zygote.
KIRBY
I have a gun, Gale.
GALE
Fine. You’re going to want to see
this too...
49 EXT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - DAY 49
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.
GALE
Jason and Greg were little Atlanta
rich boys, they apparently used
false names to rent this space.
KIRBY
How’d you find it?
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GALE
It’s called “investigative
journalism” for a reason.
(eyes her)
How didn’t you find it? Weren’t
you tracking them?
KIRBY
I went through their financial
records dozens of times. This
place wasn’t in any of them. It
doesn’t make sense.
Sam and Tara exchange a look. Suspicious.
GALE
Don’t take it too hard. It’s
called experience. You’ll get
there.
Gale goes through the door. Kirby makes a face behind her
back.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 65.
50 INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - VESTIBULE - DAY 50
Gale leads them through the door into an airlock-like

vestibule. Double security doors, another swipe-lock. *
SAM
Why all the security? What is this
place?
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.
TARA
A movie theater?
GALE
Not just a movie theater.
51 INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - MAIN FLOOR - DAY 51
They step through the curtains into the main theater. Push
in on our heroes as they see...
GALE
A shrine.
She presses a button and the tattered movie screen above the *
stage rises to reveal NINE GHOSTFACE CLOAKS. *
SAM
Oh, God...
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. *
MINDY
It’s the whole goddamn franchise... *
We TRACK with Mindy as she walks through the whole macabre *

collection. Finally landing on... *
MINDY (CONT’D) *
Chad...
She points to Randy Meeks’s Bradley Video employee shirt.

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MINDY (CONT’D)
This was uncle Randy’s.
(looks ahead)
They’ve got everything.
So many displays. Monuments to cruelty. Among them:
GALE
Mickey Altieri’s Windsor College
Class schedule...
Kirby looks up from a 35 mm film canister.
KIRBY
Roman’s unfinished cut of Stab 3.
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.
TARA
Is that...?
KIRBY
The knife I was stabbed with.
Kirby does her best to look stoic. She doesn’t pull it off.
Bailey approaches, overwhelmed by all the artifacts.
BAILEY
You’ve all been through so much...
Gale goes to the final display. DEWEY’S GUN and BADGE. Gale
absently touches the glass, holding back tears.
TARA
How did they get all this stuff?
Isn’t it evidence?
GALE
Cops like money and evidence can
“get lost” pretty easily,
especially in closed cases.
(off Kirby and Bailey’s
looks)
Present company excluded, of
course.
Ethan looks around, extremely uncomfortable.

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ETHAN
Why am I here, exactly? My alibi
checked out.
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CHAD
So I can keep an eye on you.
Roomie.
Mindy gives Ethan the “I’m watching you” gesture. Nearby, *

Sam ascends the stairs to the stage. *
GALE *
The killer must have found this *
place before they murdered Jason *
and Greg, then they took all the *
masks. *
51A INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - STAGE - CONTINUOUS 51A *
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.
BILLY (O.S.)
Hot damn - how fucking cool is this
place?
Sam blinks and there he is - BILLY LOOMIS is there in the

reflection of the glass. Uh oh.
SAM *
Oh, no... *
BILLY *
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!
TARA (O.S.)
Sam. What are you doing?
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.
SAM
I- I don’t know.
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. *
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CHAD
So somebody killed these
chucklefucks and just took over?
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GALE
Someone who believes Sam
masterminded Woodsboro.
MINDY
If this were a normal Stab movie,
this would be the killer’s lair...
KIRBY
Which means this isn’t a normal
Stab movie.
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. *
KIRBY (CONT’D)
I hear you’re a horror fan.
Mindy eyes her. Gets that Kirby’s trying to cheer her up.
MINDY
It’s been said.
KIRBY
What’s the best Nightmare on Elm
Street?
Mindy answers automatically:
MINDY & KIRBY

(together)
The original.
KIRBY
Best Friday the 13th?
MINDY KIRBY (CONT’D)

Part 2. The Final Chapter. *
KIRBY (CONT’D)
(off Mindy’s look)
Had a crush on Corey Feldman.
MINDY
Respect. Psycho II is...
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 68A.
MINDY & KIRBY

(together)
Underrated.
KIRBY
Candyman: original or requel?
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 69.
MINDY & KIRBY

(together)
Both.
They nod at each other in mutual respect.
MINDY
Okay. Okay. Game recognize game.
52 INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - LOBBY - MOMENTS LATER 52
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:
SAM
Are you okay?
TARA
No. None of this is okay.
(breaking)
When do I get to be a normal
person?
Sam, her heart breaking as she answers truthfully:
SAM
I don’t know.
TARA
I don’t want to be a part of this!
I don’t want to be a part of this
stupid legacy just because-
She chokes off her words. Sam, realizing what she means:
SAM
Because of me. You can say it.
What happened to you last year and
now this. I know it’s all my *
fault.
Tara’s gaze betrays her.
TARA
Just leave it, Sam.
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.
GALE
That looked... intense. You okay?
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SAM
Not really. Ever since I came back
into her life, I’ve made a mess of
it.
GALE
Life’s messy.
Sam looks up at Gale.
SAM
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.
GALE
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.
SAM
And that’s a good thing?
Gale smiles at the jab.
GALE
Fuck yeah, it is! We may be the
loners, but it’s made us tough.
SAM
That’s the thing about loners,
though. They get lonely.
Gale studies her.
GALE
Where’s your mother in all this?
SAM
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.
GALE
Well then, I’m sorry to say it, but
fuck her. My parents sucked too.
(MORE)
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 70A.
GALE (CONT’D)
But you can still find your own
family. Even if it’s just one
person.
Sam, remembering Dewey.

Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 71.
SAM
And if you lose that person?
Gale takes a deep breath. Still in pain over her loss.
GALE
You keep going. And maybe you find
another loner and look after each
other.
She takes Sam’s hand. Sam looks at her and squeezes it. Two
loners, finding each other.
52A INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - BALCONY - SAME TIME 52A *
Upstairs, Tara stands with Kirby. *
TARA
How did you get past what happened
to you?
KIRBY
I almost died after I was stabbed.
Technically, I did die, for four
minutes. When I recovered, I got
mad.
(looks at her)
I didn’t want to spend my life
being afraid of monsters. I wanted
the monsters to be afraid of me.
Tara nods.
TARA
I like that.
Bailey, Sam and Gale approach. *
BAILEY
Sorry to interrupt, but I think I
might have an idea about how turn
the tables on this creep. *
GALE
Yep, and we’re in. *
Bailey and Kirby exchange a look. A silent consensus. *
KIRBY
Sorry, Gale. No press allowed.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 71A.
53 EXT. NEW YORK - VARIOUS - DAY 53
The sun blazes over the Hudson. It’s Halloween Day. The
streets are overrun with people in costumes...
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 72.
54 EXT. PARK- DAY 54 *
Sam and Tara walk across campus. Eyeing everyone they pass,
suspicious.
SAM
You should have stayed with the
others.
TARA
Not gonna happen.
SAM *
There’s no point in both of us *
putting ourselves at risk. *
TARA *
I’m not. I’m your back-up. *
Sam smiles despite her nerves. *
RACK FOCUS to a nondescript WHITE VAN parked nearby.

55 INT. SURVEILANCE VAN - DAY 55
Kirby climbs from the front seat into the back of an FBI *
surveillance van where Chad, Mindy, and Ethan sit. *
MINDY
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.
KIRBY
I can trace a call in fifteen
seconds.
Mindy blinks. Then pivots.
MINDY
Well, but you’ve got them out there
as bait-
KIRBY
Because the killer usually calls
from somewhere nearby-
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MINDY
And you think they’re safe because
it’s broad daylight in a public
place-
KIRBY
I’m right here, and so is Bailey-
MINDY
This is exactly how our Uncle Randy
died. College campus. Broad
daylight. Yanked into a van. Stab-
stab-stab. No more Randy.
Now Kirby blinks. It’s a solid point. She radios Sam.
KIRBY
Hey Sam - stay frosty out there.
INTERCUT WITH
55A EXT. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CAMPUS - QUAD - SAME TIME 55A
Sam hears Kirby over an EARPIECE. They pass an undercover

Bailey on a bench.
SAM
We’re good-
Her phone buzzes. Caller ID - Richie Kirsch. Sam braces

herself and answers.
White Production Draft (04/27/22) 73-74.
SAM (CONT’D)
You’re gonna die, you know-
VOICE (O.S.)
No YOU’RE going to die, Samantha.
Choking on your own blood while I
hack up your sister.
Sam, thrown by the intensity. Re-centers.
SAM
Unless we find you first.
VOICE (O.S.)
For a mastermind, you’re not very
bright. Waiting for me to call,
desperately hoping I’m nearby so
the police can grab me.
Sam stops in her tracks. Spins around. Lots of places for a

killer to hide. Some students wearing COSTUMES.

But I’m not nearby. I’m about to
visit an old friend of yours. Be
seeing you, Samantha.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 75.
CLICK. Ghostface ends the call. Bailey races over to Sam,

hand on his weapon.
SAM
(into earpiece)
Did you get him?
KIRBY (O.S.)
Yes! Geolocation coming through
right now!
IN THE VAN
KIRBY (CONT’D)
(confused)
He’s on the Upper West Side. He’s *
not even outside, he’s in an
apartment...
TARA
On West 96th? *
In the van, Kirby blinks.
KIRBY
How did you know that?
Sam, her stomach dropping as she realizes:
SAM
Gale.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 76.
56 INT. GALE’S APARTMENT - SUNSET 56 *
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. *
GALE
“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.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 77.
57 EXT. NEW YORK CITY UNIVERSITY- QUAD - DUSK 57 *
Sam sprints towards the surveillance van, dialing her phone,

Tara, and Bailey close behind.
SAM
My friend Danny works on the Upper
West Side, he can get there *
quicker!
BAILEY
Or he can finish her off. Is it
possible he’s the killer?
SAM
We need to go now!
BAILEY
It’s fifty blocks away and we don’t
even know if this is real, we need
to take a minute-
SAM *
We don’t have a minute! *
Interrupted by Bailey’s car STARTING. Tara in the driver’s

seat, revving the engine.
TARA
Get in!
Sam hops in.
SAM
Should we use the sirens?
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 78.
TARA
If we’re stealing a police car, why
not embrace the full experience?
The sirens blare as they peel out, leaving Bailey gaping.
BAILEY
I’m a police officer which means
you’re not allowed to steal my car!
57A OMITTED 57A *
58 INT. GALE'S APARTMENT - NIGHT 58
Gale and Brooks, on the couch as the LANDLINE rings. *
BROOKS
This’ll be the food. *
(answering) *
Hello? *
(listens; then)
Not the food. It’s for you.
GALE
Who is it?
BROOKS
Who may I ask is calling?
(listens)
He says it’s the killer?
Gale snatches the phone from him.
GALE
Hello?
VOICE (O.S.)
Hello, Gale. Strange that you and
I have never spoken on the phone.
This is long overdue.
GALE
I agree.
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.
VOICE (O.S.)
I figured after all these years
you’d want an interview.
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GALE
You figured right. So what’s your
motive this time? You angry at the
movies? Or just trying to stay
relevant?
VOICE (O.S.)
I could ask you the same. Don’t
you know the legacy characters are
disposable now? Nobody cares about
last century’s heroes.
GALE
Then why bother with me at all?
VOICE (O.S.)
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.
GALE
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.
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.
VOICE (O.S.)
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?
Gale has gone still at Dewey’s name.
GALE
Fuck you.
VOICE (O.S.)
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?
GALE
You’re the one who’s going to die
screaming.
VOICE (O.S.)
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.
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
59 EXT. GALE’S BALCONY - NIGHT 59
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
60 INT. GALE’S APARTMENT - NIGHT 60
She spins, trying to lock the door behind her, but he’s too
close, so she races toward the bedrooms...
61 INT. GALE’S BEDROOM - NIGHT 61
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.
GALE
How’s that for nostalgia, fucker?
No response. Gale doesn’t move. Waiting. Her phone rings.

She answers, keeping her gun on the door.
VOICE (O.S.)
You missed.
GALE
Sure I did.
VOICE (O.S.)
You win, I’m in the elevator,
heading for the ground floor.
GALE
Sure you are.
BLAM-BLAM! She puts two more bullets through the door.

Listens. Still silence.
VOICE (V.O.)
Maybe you did hit me. Maybe I’m
wounded. Or maybe I’m wearing a
bulletproof vest.
GALE
That’s why I’m going to shoot you
in the fucking head.
She moves to the door and opens it... Nothing.

62 INT. GALE’S APARTMENT - NIGHT 62
Silence. Gale steps out of her room, gun up. Hunting.

VOICE (O.S.)
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.
Glass crunches under Gale’s feet as she walks. Taking

corners, clearing rooms.
GALE
Keep talking, asshole.
VOICE (O.S.)
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?
GALE
The brains and the sex appeal.
She enters the living room. Tries not to look at Brooks.
VOICE (O.S.)
Sorry about your boyfriend. All
those muscles didn’t help much.
GALE
Hang on a second, I want to try
something.
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.
GALE (CONT’D)
You’ve been in my life so fucking
long. I made you. And you made
me.
Ghostface just stares.
GALE (CONT’D)
You want to try and finish this?
Go ahead if you’ve got the guts.
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.
GALE (CONT’D)
Fuck... you...
But he’s got her. The tip of the blade, brushing her
eyelashes. We’re not gonna want to see this...
SAM (O.S.)
Hey!
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
TARA
Sam!
She turns back, sees Gale, Oh fuck. She and Tara run to her.
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TARA (CONT’D)
Gale...
Gale manages to focus on them. Tears in Sam’s eyes, at her *

breaking point seeing Gale this messed up. *
SAM *
I’m so sorry, I- I should have *
known he’d come after you- *
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 83.
Gale SCREAMS as Sam presses on her wounds. *
GALE
He didn’t get me... Tell Sidney...
He never got me...
Her eyes, dipping closed...
SAM
Hey. Stay with us! Hey!
Sam slaps her. But Gale doesn’t move. *
TARA
Gale!
EMT (O.S.)
Out of the way!
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.
MINDY
Is she...?
SAM
I don’t know.
She shakes her head, eyes wet. Ethan looks stunned. Chad
kicks the wall.
CHAD
Fuck!
Everyone stares in agonizing silence as the EMTs check Gale’s

vitals --
EMT
I’ve got a weak pulse- get the back
board! We need to move now. One-
two-three!
As they hoist Gale we CUT TO:
63 OMITTED 63
64 OMITTED 64
65 INT. GALE’S BUILDING - LOBBY - NIGHT 65
Our crew, now huddled together in the lobby of Gale’s

building. Processing the aftermath. Cops come and go.
Danny enters, out of breath.
DANNY
I got here as soon as I could.
TARA
(suspicious)
Did you?
Sam eyes Danny. Why did it take him so long?
MINDY
I’m scared. I don’t want to get
hurt again.
CHAD
Neither do I.
(to Sam)
What do we do?
Sam looks at her friends. All of them scared. Softly:
SAM
Maybe he gets to win this time.
ETHAN
I’m sorry, what?
SAM
He wants to punish me... Me. Maybe
I let him.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 85.
MINDY
You want to give up?
SAM
Everyone thinks I’m this terrible
person. Maybe they’re right.
(looks at Tara)
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.
TARA
Sam, no. Fuck that.
Tara moves to her suddenly, taking her hands.
TARA (CONT’D)
You came back to Woodsboro to
protect me. And you’ve been *
protecting me ever since. We’re *
all still alive because of you. *
(deep breath)
So maybe it’s time you let us *
protect you. We’re a team,
remember?
Mindy nods in solidarity, wiping her eyes.
MINDY
No. We’re a family.
CHAD
Hell yeah. Core Four.
DANNY
Core what?
SAM
He’s going to keep coming for us.
ETHAN
Can’t we just hole up somewhere
safe?
TARA
There is nowhere safe. Like Sam
said, he’ll find us...
(beat)
Which we can use. I have an idea.
Chad, give me your phone.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 85A.
66 INT. POLICE STATION - NIGHT 66
Bailey, on the phone, whispering:
BAILEY
I’m getting my ass chewed out for
not dropping the case and now you
want to do what?
67 INT. GALE’S BUILDING - HALLWAY - NIGHT 67
Our crew huddled around Chad’s phone, Bailey on speaker.

INTERCUT:
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TARA
Trap him. We need to lure him into
a secure location and trap him
inside like a killbox.
BAILEY
And then what?
TARA
And then we execute him.
She looks to Sam, who nods with a new fire and determination.
TARA (CONT’D)
Are you gonna help us?
Bailey swallows, looks at the cops around him. Voice low:
BAILEY
Yes. Let’s kill the sonofabitch.
Relieved looks between the gang.
BAILEY (CONT’D)
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.
TARA
Got it.
BAILEY
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.
As we PRE-LAP the ROAR of SUBWAY TRAIN BRAKES...

68 INT. NARROW SUBWAY PLATFORM - NIGHT 68
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...
TARA
You guys don’t have to come with
us.
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ETHAN
We peel off and the killer takes us
out one-by-one? No thank you.
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DANNY
Safety in numbers, right?
SAM
Let’s just get to the theater.
CHAD
Yes, it’ll be much less scary at
the serial killer movie theater.
But the FLOW OF PASSENGERS getting off the train SEPARATES

THE GROUP. Ethan and Mindy are pushed back by people...
MINDY
Hey!
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.
MINDY (CONT’D)
CHAD!
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!
MINDY (CONT’D)
CHAD!
Mindy runs, but can’t make it onto the train in time. A hand
grabs her shoulder. Ethan.
MINDY (CONT’D)
Get your Ghostface ass away from
me, Ghostface. *
69 INT. SUBWAY CAR - SAME TIME 69
Chad sees Mindy distancing herself from Ethan on the platform

as the train pulls out of the station.
SAM
Where’s Mindy?
CHAD
She missed the train. I would’ve
waited with her but Cute Boy pulled
me inside.
DANNY
I was trying to keep us together.
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TARA
By splitting us up?
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.
CHAD
She’ll meet us there-
(looking past the others)
Oh... shit.
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.
TARA
How many stops?
Sam checks the map. Darkens.
SAM
Ten.
Cold fear takes hold of the group.

70 INT. OTHER SUBWAY CAR - LATER 70
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.
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.

72 INT. OTHER SUBWAY CAR - SAME TIME 72
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.
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...
SAM
Guys-
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.
73A INT. OTHER SUBWAY CAR - SAME TIME 73A
Mindy is forced into a corner by a new throng of passengers

that just boarded. Stiff as a board. Watching everyone...
THE LIGHTS GO OUT.

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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.
MINDY’S POV - She zeroes in on the slumped-over Ghostface.

He sits up. As the lights strobe...
He slowly turns to face her. *
Then, blackness again. When the lights strobe on again --
He’s standing. BLACKNESS AGAIN -- THEN LIGHT --
Now he’s right fucking next to her.
THE KNIFE slides between Mindy’s ribs. He folds a hand over

her mouth to silence her screams--
The lights blast on as the train exits the tunnel. Ethan

sees Mindy fall to the floor, bleeding--
ETHAN
Mindy!
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. *
ETHAN (CONT’D)
Mindy... oh fuck. Oh, fuck. We
have to get off. HELP!
Passengers finally notice what’s happening and SCREAM. Ethan

picks Mindy up, carries her towards the doors...
74 OMITTED 74
75 INT. SUBWAY PLATFORM - SAME TIME 75
Ethan hauls Mindy off the train and lays her on the ground.
ETHAN
Somebody call 911!
Mindy gazes up at him, confusion and frustration in her eyes.
MINDY
Goddamn it... I got it wrong
again...
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76 OMITTED 76 *
77 OMITTED 77 *
78 EXT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - NIGHT 78
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. *
KIRBY *
Go around to the back entrance, *
we’ll get set up. Where’s Mindy *
and Ethan? *
TARA *
Five minutes behind us. *
KIRBY *
Let’s get you inside. *
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.
SAM
Not you.
DANNY
What?
SAM
“Don’t trust anyone”, remember?
DANNY
Sam-
SAM
We don’t know you, not really.
DANNY
You know me.
SAM
You’re not Woodsboro.
(off his pained look)
We have to finish this and I can’t
be looking over my shoulder while I
do. I’m sorry.
KIRBY
You heard the lady.
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She taps the gun on her hip. Danny exhales. Softens.
DANNY
I get it. Be safe, okay?
SAM
You too.
He turns and goes.
KIRBY
That was the smart play.
CHAD
(unsure)
But like I’m still cool to come
inside, though, right-
TARA
Get in the theater, Chad.
Kirby leads the way around the corner. *
79 OMITTED 79
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80 INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - VESTIBULE - NIGHT 80
The group clears the second set of doors. The curtains are *
open and the movie screen is up. Kirby turns to the others. *
KIRBY
I cleared the whole place before
you got here. This is the only way
in or out.
She gestures to a BANK OF MONITORS showing the street view

outside from multiple angles.
KIRBY (CONT’D)
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...
Sam stares at the AIRLOCK...

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KIRBY (CONT’D)
And then we turn it into a killbox.
SAM
Weapons?
KIRBY
One gun and I hold onto it.
(before they can argue)
I’m the only one with a badge,
that’s how it’s gonna be. We’re
safe in here.
TARA
So what now?
KIRBY
I’ll hold position here. There’s a
coffee maker in the lobby.
Tara and Chad head for the lobby. Sam peels off as well.
SAM
I’ll check in with Mindy, see if
they’re close. *
80A INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - STAGE - MOMENTS LATER 80A
Pacing the stage, Sam gets Mindy’s voicemail. Worried, she

surveys the theater.
BILLY (O.S.)
You know you’re not safe here.
Sam spins to see Billy in the reflection of a glass case

housing the bloody shirt Billy died in.
BILLY (CONT’D)
Whenever someone says “We’re safe
here,” it means you’re not.
SAM
I can’t deal with you right now-
BILLY
You’re smarter than this, Sam.
Grab a weapon and clear this place
yourself. You know I’m right.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 94.
Fuck. She does. Sam goes to the next exhibit. BILLY’S *

BLOOD-ENCRUSTED KNIFE. Picks it up. Hefts it.
BILLY (CONT’D)
Excellent choice.
Sam turns back towards the vestibule. Kirby is gone.
SAM
(calling out)
Kirby?
Sam drops down to the auditorium floor.

80B INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - MAIN FLOOR - CONTINUOUS 80B
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-
SAM
Hello?
Sam’s eyes narrow, suspicious.
SAM (CONT’D)
Yeah, why?
81 EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET - NIGHT 81
Bailey running towards his parked car on the phone with Sam.
BAILEY
Get everyone out of there, Sam!
You’re not safe!
81A INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - NIGHT 81A
Sam, on the phone. INTERCUT:
BAILEY
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-
SAM
What are you talking about-
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 94A.
BAILEY
They fired Kirby two months ago for
being mentally unstable! She’s no
longer with the FBI!
On Sam as this crashes in on her! She sprints into the

vestibule --
82 INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - VESTIBULE - NIGHT 82
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.
SAM
Oh shit...
83 INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - LOBBY - NIGHT 83
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.
TARA
You can have them.
CHAD
We’ll share.
TARA
I don’t have much of an appetite,
and they’re probably about a
hundred years old. You should take
them if you-
Chad suddenly steps forward and KISSES HER. Finally. Music

swells. When they finally break:
CHAD
I can’t tell you how long I’ve
wanted to do that.
TARA
You should have done it sooner.
CHAD
I know.
TARA
You should also do it again. Like,
a lot more times-
Ghostface steps out of an alcove and STABS TARA IN THE BACK!
CHAD
No!
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)
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CHAD (CONT’D)
Run!
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:
SAM
Tara! *
CHAD
Come on!
The trio runs back into

84 INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - MAIN FLOOR - NIGHT 84
SAM
It’s Kirby! She’s the killer!
CHAD
No shit!
Chad starts to the back of the theater where they came in-
SAM
No, that door’s locked!
CHAD
We’re trapped?
SAM
She made the whole theater the
killbox. For us.
TARA
What about up there...? Might be a
door to the roof?
They all LOOK UP. The balcony above them. Some scaffolding
on stage right they can climb up.
CHAD
Only one way to find out.
They creep down an aisle, past exhibits, towards the

scaffolding. Listening for any movement. Ghostface is out
there.
SAM
Bailey’s on the way, but maybe-
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!
CHAD
“Beheadings!”
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!
CHAD (CONT’D)
Not into movies, huh motherfucker?
How ‘bout TV? Goddamn, I sounded
cool saying that!
Ghostface rises, springs back into action, but Chad holds him
off, protecting his body with the bulky camera.
CHAD (CONT’D)
Run!
The sisters duck into the narrow hallway stage left! Chad
follows into
84A INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - NARROW HALLWAY - NIGHT 84A
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
84B INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - LOBBY 84B
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!
CHAD
Fuck yeah!
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.
TARA
NO!
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...

CHAD
Go...
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

84C INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - MAIN FLOOR - NIGHT 84C
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.
SAM
Ready?
TARA
Ready.
One Ghostface for each. Tara eyes hers like a wounded

animal. The Ghostfaces close in. Knives up. This is it.
TARA (CONT’D)
Come on, motherfucker!
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.
KIRBY
It’s okay now-
TARA
The fuck it is!
SAM
Stay back!
Kirby stops. Sam and Tara back up to the wall.
TARA
We know it’s you!
KIRBY
One- one of them knocked me out,
dragged me in here!
She takes a step forward and the girls raise the bricks...
BAILEY (O.S.)
Get away from the girls!
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.
KIRBY
What are you doing-
BAILEY
Did you kill Quinn? Did you kill
my daughter?
KIRBY
Jesus Christ!
(to the Carpenters)
Whatever he told you, don’t believe
him! He’s probably the killer-
One of the Ghostfaces suddenly darts out of the shadows!

Knife raised, running at Bailey! Kirby shifts her aim-
KIRBY (CONT’D)
Behind you!
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!
BAILEY
Great work, both of you.
And the three of them turn to face a stunned Sam and Tara.
TARA
You?
BAILEY
Of course me. Frankly I expected
more from you two, after what you
did to us.
TARA
Us?
The Ghostface on Bailey’s left removes his mask... Ethan.
ETHAN
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.
Tara’s eyes flare with rage. Ethan grins and holds up his
mask.
ETHAN (CONT’D)
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?
TARA
Dad?
Bailey smiles approvingly at his son. Sam stares at the

Second Ghostface in growing horror, doing the math.
SAM
But if you’re Ethan, that just
leaves... Mindy?
As Second Ghostface pulls off his mask to reveal... Quinn.
QUINN
Hey, roomies. Didn’t see that one
coming, did you?
On Sam and Tara, stunned.
TARA
But you... died...
QUINN
Yeah, kinda didn’t though. It was
a good way to get off the suspect
list, stab Gale Weathers, that sort
of thing.
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BAILEY
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.
The others react - that’s fucked up. Quinn holds up her

mask.
QUINN
I got Stu Macher’s mask. He was my
favorite.
BAILEY
(points to their masks)
Number three and number two.
Which just leaves...
He pulls the most cracked Ghostface mask of all from his

pocket. Billy’s. He holds it out to Sam.
BAILEY (CONT’D)
Your father’s. This is what we
were counting down to, Sam.
(smiles)
I’m gonna need you to put it on.
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. *
SAM
You did all this as a family?
QUINN *
Hell yeah, bitch! You should know
why better than anyone!
Ethan laughs at their confusion.
ETHAN
They still haven’t figured it out!
Maybe we overestimated them.
SAM
I don’t know what you believe, but
I didn’t commit the murders in
Woodsboro-
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BAILEY
Of course you didn’t! You think
this is about that conspiracy
theory bullshit?
(laughs)
Who do you think started those
rumors about you?
Quinn raises her hand proudly.
TARA
You?
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QUINN
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?
TARA
But why?
ETHAN
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!
BAILEY
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.
SAM
I’m not-
QUINN
Yes, you are, you motherfucker!
You killed our brother!
TARA
Your- your brother died in a car
accident-
Ethan cackles at this.
ETHAN
Oh no, no, no, you sweet dumb
thing! He died in Woodsboro, at
the hands of your bitch sister.
Sam blinks at this. Staring at them, realizing:

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SAM
Richie?
(pause)
You’re Richie’s family?
Ethan lunges again, this time he slashes Sam’s arm, drawing *

blood! Cackling as she clutches her wound. *
ETHAN
Ding-ding-ding, now she’s finally
getting it!
BAILEY
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.
ETHAN
(proudly)
I took care of her myself!
TARA
You killed your own mother?
ETHAN
What kind of mother doesn’t want to
avenge her dead son? Abandoning
your kid is just plain evil!
QUINN
(to Sam)
Bet you wish you could kill
yours...
Sam’s eyes narrow, dangerous.
QUINN (CONT’D)
There she is. There’s the fucking
killer.
TARA
Great job with the parenting...
QUINN
You shut your whore mouth!
Bailey shrugs, introspective.
BAILEY
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.
(smiles)
He even made a few of his own.
He nods to the movie screen. These are Richie’s fan films.
BAILEY (CONT’D)
And I loved my son. So I helped
him build this collection.
He gestures to the museum around them.
SAM
All of this is Richie’s?
BAILEY
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.
(nods to an exhibit)
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.
SAM
And then what? When you’re done
with us, you just disappear?
BAILEY
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.
(MORE)
BAILEY (CONT’D)
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.
QUINN
Fuck yeah, they do!
Bailey raises his gun. This is it. Sam gets Tara’s

attention with a look. Softly:
SAM
He was pathetic, you know.
Bailey blinks. Direct hit. Tara understands. Sam’s

provoking them, drawing them in. Her grip on her brick
tightens.
BAILEY
That’s not true-
SAM
He was a man-baby who made his
girlfriend do almost all the
killing-
BAILEY
He was a strong virile young man!
Sam smiles, twinkle in her eye.
SAM
He was a weak little bitch who
cried before I cut his fucking
throat.
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--
ETHAN
Recognize this?
Kirby’s eyes go wide. It’s Charlie’s knife.
KIRBY
Fuck you-
He stabs her in the stomach, over and over!

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SAM
No!
Sam barrels into Ethan, who tumbles off Kirby and disappears
through the door to the lobby!
Sam looks down at the bloody Kirby- *
SAM (CONT’D)
Sorry, but I need this.
And pulls the knife out of Kirby. She howls in pain, but-
KIRBY
Fuck ‘em up.
Ethan rises and comes at Sam. *
ETHAN *
What’re you gonna do, bitch-? *
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. *
TARA (O.S.) *
Sam! Come on! *
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...
84D INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - BALCONY 84D
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!
SAM
TARA!
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.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 106A.
ETHAN
Always wanted to stick something in
you, Tara! Chad was right, I’m
feeling real confident now!
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.
TARA
Sam. You gotta let me go.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 107.
SAM
(tears in her eyes)
No!
Quinn’s almost to Sam. Below, Ethan’s practically *

drooling...
TARA
Trust me. Let me go.
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-
ETHAN
GOTCHA!
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.
TARA
Now... die a fucking virgin.
Simultaneously - Sam gets the gun and raises it! Quinn

freezes, just a few feet away. Sam smiles at her, mean.
SAM
Looks like you’re down another
brother.
Quinn howls and charges anyway and BLAM! Sam fires and hits
Quinn, whose head snaps back in a spray of blood!
SAM (CONT’D)
(to herself)
Always gotta shoot ‘em in the
head...
Bailey has just arrived at the top of the stairs and seen
both of his remaining children die.
BAILEY
NO!
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.
85 OMIT 85
86 INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - MAIN FLOOR - MOMENTS LATER 86
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:
SAM (O.S.)
I’ve got one question for you.
He climbs up to the stage, desperately trying to find her...

86A INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - STAGE 86A
Bailey walks through the torn movie screen.
BAILEY
Oh yeah, what’s that?
SAM (O.S.)
What’s your favorite scary movie?
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.
BAILEY
You put on your true face, huh?
Your birthright. Poetic that
you’re going to die in it-
A CREAK. Bailey whips around, fires again! Shatters more

display cases. But there’s no sign of Sam.
BAILEY (CONT’D)
You know the truth now. Murder’s
in your blood.
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:
BAILEY (CONT’D)
Stop fucking around and show
yourself!
Nothing but silence.

Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 109-110.
BAILEY (CONT’D)
I’m a fucking police officer! What
are you gonna do, huh? Who do you
think they’re gonna believe?
SAM (O.S.)
Probably the one that’s still
alive.
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.
SAM (CONT’D)
My father was a murderer. But I’m
not. No matter what you say. I’m
better than that.
She lowers the knife. Showing mercy. Tara, relieved. Bailey

weeps. Spared.
BAILEY
Thank you... Oh thank you...
Sam looks down at him.
SAM
But you did fuck with my family,
so...
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.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 109-110A.
Sam stares down at him. Cold. Tara, disturbed. Sam sees

her. They walk through the screen and come down from the *
stage.
86B INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - MAIN FLOOR - CONTINUOUS 86B
Sam approaches her sister.
TARA
Thank you for letting go.
SAM
I knew you could take care of
yourself.
(looks at her)
I want to be in your life, but only
as much as you want me to be-
TARA
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.
Sam laughs. Squeezes her hand. Tara looks at her.
The tears start to come. For Chad. For everything-
ETHAN (O.S.)
AAAAHHHHHHH!!
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--
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 111.
KIRBY (O.S.)
Heads up!
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.
KIRBY (CONT’D)
Saw that in a scary movie once.
Sam and Tara smile up at her, grateful.

87 INT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - STAGE - MINUTES LATER 87 *
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.
DANNY
Are you okay?
SAM
You didn’t leave us.
She says it almost in disbelief.
DANNY
Just went for reinforcements. And
I called Mount Sinai, Mindy and
Gale are going to be okay.
TARA
Not bad, Cute Boy, not bad at all.
Danny smiles.
88 EXT. ABANDONED MOVIE THEATER - MORNING 88
Police vehicles and ambulances. Kirby in a gurney, wheeled

out as Sam and Tara walk next to her.
KIRBY
What do you think you’ll do now?
SAM
Like Tara said, make a plan...
start living again. Start dealing
with the future.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 112.
TARA
And I’m gonna start dealing with
the past.
Kirby nods. Looks at both of them.
KIRBY
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?
This lands with Sam. Tears in her eyes. Softly:
SAM
Okay.
The three women embrace. Survivors. Found family. On Tara.

The tears come again. Softly:
TARA
I only got to kiss him once...
Kirby’s face falls. Remembering all they’ve lost. Sam holds

her sister as she’s wracked with sobs.
PARAMDEIC (O.S.)
Hey, we got one more in here!
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!
SAM
Are you kidding me? How are you
alive?!
Chad can’t speak with the oxygen mask on. Holds up FOUR
FINGERS.
TARA
Core Four!
Tara covers him with kisses - a second, a third... He groans

in pain as the paramedics have to keep her off him.
MINDY (O.S.)
Oh my God, is he okay?
Everyone turns to see a patched-up Mindy bursting from the

back of a police car.
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 112A.
MINDY (CONT’D)
I know who the killer is! It’s
Ethan and Bailey!
She takes in the scene. Clearly the aftermath.
MINDY (CONT’D)
You got them, didn’t you? Fuck,
did I miss the monologue again?
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...
Pink Rev. (06/07/22) 113.
TARA (O.S.)
Sam?
Sam looks up. Tara stands by the ambulance door, the sun
behind her. Smiling at her. Mindy, Chad and Kirby as well.
Home. Family.
TARA (CONT’D)
Are you coming?
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
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BLACKMORE

James Vanderbilt & Guy Busick

WHITE PRODUCTION DRAFT - April 27, 2022

© 2022 SPYGLASS MEDIA GROUP LLC. All rights reserved. This

Piercing our soundtrack. Once. Twice. Three times. We

A WALL PHONE, ringing its head off. In a RESTAURANT. A

LAURA (30s). Sitting alone at the bar. Make up and a nice

Her phone VIBRATES. A message through Tinder. It’s him.

Laura laughs. He’s got a nice way about him.

VOICE (O.S.) (CONT’D)

Laura laughs. Is this date actually going well?

VOICE (O.S.) (CONT’D)

She rises and walks to the front of the restaurant, passing

4 EXT. HUDSON STREET - NIGHT 4

Laura steps outside. October chilly. Cars fly past. She

She looks up and down the block. A few pedestrians.

She looks. There is an alley next to the restaurant.

4A EXT. ALLEY OFF HUDSON ST - NIGHT 4A

She takes a few steps into the alley.

Laura waves again.

Panic in his voice. Laura begins moving further into the

Laura STOPS IN HER TRACKS. About 20 feet into the alley.

And GHOSTFACE emerges from the darkness of the off-shoot.

We see him before Laura does. She turns just as he raises a

She stumbles back against the bricks. He keeps stabbing,

He raises the knife and stabs right at camera...

But we don’t cut to the title screen.

This is JASON (19). He quickly removes his cloak, wraps the

5 EXT. HUDSON STREET - MOMENTS LATER 5

Jason dials his phone. It goes to voicemail.

Jason walks across a college campus. Passing other students, *

It’s TARA CARPENTER. Wearing a pirate costume. Full of

Oh, fuck. He’s already infiltrated the friend group.

Tara laughs at the very thought.

A twinkle in his eye. Tara laughs and moves on. He watches

7 INT. JASON & GREG’S APARTMENT - VARIOUS - NIGHT 7

Jason enters his two-bedroom walk-up and shuts the door.

Nothing. Jason furrows his brow. Opens the CLOSET. It is

It’s the Ghostface voice. Jason rolls his eyes.

Long pause. Then a laugh.

Jason relaxes. Enters the living room.

Jason does a 360-degree turn. Nobody there. He sighs,

Jason goes to a sideboard and pours a shot of Jaegermeister.

Jason does his shot, pours another.

Jason snorts a laugh.

But he glances around the apartment again. Just to be safe.

Jason drains his second shot.

Jason stops mid-pour and sets the bottle down. Tensing.

Jason, about to blow past the rhetorical question, stops.

Jason visibly relaxes. Right answer.

VOICE (O.S.) (CONT’D)

Jason eyes the SECURITY CAMERAS positioned on the ceiling.

Jason moves towards Greg’s bedroom.

VOICE (O.S.) (CONT’D)

Moves towards his own bedroom.

VOICE (O.S.) (CONT’D)

Towards the entryway.

VOICE (O.S.) (CONT’D)

Jason moves back into the living room.