Scream (I) (2022)

Sonia Ammar: Liv McKenzie

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• Liv McKenzie : Fuck you, Amber! I'm not the fucking killer!

  Amber Freeman : I know.

  [Pulls out a gun and shoots Liv in the head, revealing herself as a killer] 

  Amber Freeman : Welcome to Act 3.

• Liv McKenzie : Why are you looking at me like that?

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : Just revising my suspect list.

  Liv McKenzie : Fuck this.

  [Walks away, then returns with a smile] 

  Liv McKenzie : Are you afraid of me, Mindy?

  [Mindy laughs] 

  Liv McKenzie : You think I did something to your brother, huh?

  [Mindy frowns, Liv leans in] 

  Liv McKenzie : You think I'm gonna cut you up?

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : A little bit now, yeah...

  Liv McKenzie : I thought you said I was 'too boring' to be the killer? Maybe I was the twist. What do you think, huh? You're the expert. You know what eventually happens to the expert?

  [Does a throat cut motion] 

  Liv McKenzie : Enjoy your stupid movie.

  [Grabs Mindy's chips and walks away] 

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : Fucking... psycho...

• Liv McKenzie : [Liv and Chad make out on the couch]  I mean, I think we should, like now. Want to go upstairs?

  Chad Meeks-Martin : Like, like upstairs?

  Liv McKenzie : Uh-huh, right now.

  Chad Meeks-Martin : [hesitant]  Um... don't take this the wrong way, but I think I have to pass... on that...

  Liv McKenzie : [laughs]  What?

  [realizes Chad is serious] 

  Liv McKenzie : W-why?

  Chad Meeks-Martin : Well, you know, I-I'm not entirely sure you're not the... killer.

  Liv McKenzie : [incredulous]  Don't take this the wrong way?

  Chad Meeks-Martin : [tries to backtrack in high pitch]  No, no, no, no, look! I'm, like, almost one hundred percent certain that you are not, BUT the safest option... is to be down here... with all the people...

  Liv McKenzie : Fuck you.

  [Liv stands and charges away] 

  Chad Meeks-Martin : ...and all the potential witnesses.

  [Liv charges away] 

  Chad Meeks-Martin : That is a completely valid emotional response to have.

  [Liv turns and gives him the finger] 

  Chad Meeks-Martin : That, too!

  Liv McKenzie : Fucking asshole!

  [bumps into Mindy on her way out; Mindy smiles and gives Chad a thumbs up] 

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : Good talk!

  Chad Meeks-Martin : [sarcastically returns the smile and thumbs up, then gives her the finger]  Fuck you, Mindy.

• Chad Meeks-Martin : So, let me get this straight. You're saying that you're the daughter of Billy Loomis and, what, that one of us is the killer?

  Sam Carpenter : The killer said he knew my secret. He attacked Tara to lure me back here.

  Chad Meeks-Martin : But then why immediately go and murder some douche nozzle that was stalking Liv?

  Wes Hicks : Why does it have to be one of us? What about Deputy Dewey here? Maybe he's the killer.

  [to Dewey] 

  Wes Hicks : No offense.

  Dewey Riley : None taken, but what's my motive?

  Wes Hicks : You got stabbed a billion times, got dumped by your famous wife, and crawled into a bottle. I think it's safe to say you're on the suspect list.

  Dewey Riley : Well, maybe, you're the killer... 'cause that cut deep.

  Amber Freeman : That douche nozzle is connected. I googled him, his Mom is Leslie Macher. Stu Macher's sister.

  Liv McKenzie : Who's Stu Macher?

  Dewey Riley : Oh, my god. He's Billy Loomis's accomplice, a real looney tune.

  Sam Carpenter : Okay. Okay. So, the first three attacks are all on people related to the original killers.

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : Oh, my God! He's making a requel!

  Sam Carpenter : A what?

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : Or, uh, legacyquel. Fans are torn on the terminology.

  Chad Meeks-Martin : Please speak English.

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : Okay. Remember the Stab movie that came out last year?

  Liv McKenzie : Oh, yeah! The one the Knives Out guy directed, right? I, actually, really liked that one.

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : Of course, you did. You have terrible taste.

  Liv McKenzie : I hate you.

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : The point is the hardcore Stab fans hated it. You go on 4chan and Dreadit. All they're talking about is how Stab 8 pissed on their childhoods, how they crammed in social commentary just to make it elevated, how the main character's a Mary Sue.

  Richie Kirsch : What's a Mary Sue?

  Wes Hicks : You really don't want to know.

  Amber Freeman : What's wrong with elevated horror? I mean, Jordan Peele fucking rules.

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : Uh, obviously. But's that not what Stab is. Real Stab movies are meta slasher whodunits, full stop.

  Sam Carpenter : Come on, it's just a movie.

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : No, it's not. To some people, the original is their favorite thing in the world. The movie that made them love horror, that Mom or Dad showed them when they were 10 that bonded them together. And God help anyone who slightly fucks with that special memory, who makes a movie they think disrespects it. It sounds like our killer is writing his own version of Stab 8, but doing it as a requel.

  Dewey Riley : Which is?

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : See, you can't just reboot a franchise from scratch anymore, the fans won't stand for it. Black Christmas, Child's Play, Flatliners. That shit doesn't work. But, you just can't do a straight sequel, either. Uh, you gotta build something new, but not too new or the internet goes bug-fucking nuts. It's gotta be a part of an ongoing storyline, even if the story shouldn't have been ongoing in the first place. New main characters, yes, but supported by and related to... legacy characters. Not quite a reboot, not quite a sequel. Like the new Halloween, Saw, Terminator, Jurassic Park, Ghostbusters. Fuck, even Star Wars. It always, always goes back to the original!

  Sam Carpenter : Are you telling me that I'm caught in the middle of fan-fucking-fiction?

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : Not... just... in the middle, Sam. You're the star.

  Liv McKenzie : So, not to put, like, too fine a point on it, but, according to requel rules... who's next?

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : Going by the pattern, whoever it is has to be connected to someone that came before.

  Dewey Riley : [as everyone looks shocked and confused]  I'm starting to regret coming here.

  Wes Hicks : Jesus, my Mom's a character in one of them.

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : No one cares about the shitty inferior sequels, Wes. You're safe.

  [to Chad] 

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : With Randy as our Uncle, though, you and I are probably screwed.

  Chad Meeks-Martin : Wait, what?

  Richie Kirsch : Or you're the killer and this whole, what, elaborate monologue is just to cover your tracks.

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : [Chuckles]  I think it's pretty clear who the killer is at this point.

  Sam Carpenter : Who?

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : You. It makes perfect requel sense.