The Original Trio

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The Original Trio (also known as Legacy Trio and The Originals) is a group represented by the original First Woodsboro Murders (1996) survivors, consisting of the original three main characters of the Scream franchise — Sidney Prescott, Gale Weathers and Dewey Riley.

Originally being apart, their paths first crossed during the first Woodsboro massacre started by Billy Loomis and Stu Macher as the first and second Ghostface killers, respectively.

After surviving the event, the three later joined together as an informal team, becoming near and dear to each other. Their paths crossed at each new Ghostface massacre thereafter, making them an unstoppable team. Thanks to their different qualities and cohesion, they managed to survive four series of murders together, all from the first set, from September 1996 to October 2011 (See Timeline), before unfortunately becoming inactive, due to Dewey's death at the hands of the eighth and ninth Ghostface killers, Richie Kirsch and Amber Freeman, (the latter who ends up being his killer), during the Third Woodsboro Murders occurring on the 26th anniversary of the original Woodsboro Murders, known as the Legacy Murders (2022).

History

Scream (1996)

The Woodsboro Murders (1996)

In September 1995, following the brutal murder of 44-year old housewife Maureen Prescott at night in her home on 34 Elm Street in the small Northern California town of Woodsboro, unfortunately found by her traumatized 16 year old daughter, Sidney Prescott, of whom sees a figure wearing a coat but whose turned around, whom she suspects to be her mother's lover, Cotton Weary. Following the overnight turn of the murder becoming sensationalized and the trial for Cotton, in which Sidney testified against him became national, a then 34 year old Top Story investigative journalist and reporter, Gale Weathers comes to Woodsboro alongside other media press, to report on the case following having left New York City due to Maureen's case being the "hottest court case", according to Gale to Sidney later on. Going further to gain an opportunity, she would interview and sympathize with Cotton, who claimed innocence in the murder, and who then would write her debut novel, Wrongly Accused: The Maureen Prescott Story (1995), which is by the time of the events of the murder spree occuring on the near anniversary of the first a year later, released.

In September 1996, following the brutal murders of Woodsboro High School seniors, 17 year old Casey Becker and 18 year old Steven Orth by Ghostface (name for killer in Father Death costume) at night at the former's house, a now 17-year old Sidney finds herself to be reliving the haunting memory of her mother's anniversary of her death nearing due to the murders, whose widowed father, Neil Prescott, is out of town due to work. The very next day at school in the morning, Sidney is told the news as she is looking around by her best friend, Tatum Riley. Outside the school there's shown to be many news vans and media press reporting on the murders, with Gale herself being among them standing out in a bright green jacket suit and skirt. As the Woodsboro Police Department, led then by Sheriff Burke, interrogate the entire students of Woodsboro High, as cooperated by then Principal Arthur Himbry, Sidney is then called out of her English class by Mrs. Tate (whose sat in class across from Casey), as Sidney heads to the principal's office, of whom she's met by, as well as greeting then 25 year old Deputy, Dewey Riley, who is Tatum's older brother, and a friend to Sidney, due to Dewey working the case of Sidney's mother's murder, of which everyone in town has known now.

As Sidney hangs out with the Gang consisting of Sidney's boyfriend, Billy Loomis, Tatum, as well as her boyfriend Stu Macher, and horror expert, Randy Meeks, she has a conversation as to how someone can gut someone, as they speak on the murders and the interrogation by the Fountain. Following Sidney's near attack by Ghostface at her home that night, Gale, alongside her cameraman, Kenny Brown, follow Sidney to the Woodsboro Police Department to which Gale gets the idea, due to the police not allowing press inside, to head to the back to where arguably, the Trio would all be for the first time. After Sidney's interrogation ended with her placing her boyfriend Billy in jail for the night, due to suspecting him after he came to her aid following him dropping a cellular phone, Sidney, alongside Tatum are told to wait as Dewey went to get a car in the alleyway, to which Gale, followed by Kenny and behind them other media reporters, followed with cameras to get a comment or statement from Sidney. Tatum tried to defend Sidney by saying she's not taking questions. Sidney, although visibly upset, forces a smile and reassures Tatum calmly as she tells Gale how she's just doing her job, to which Gale agrees. Sidney then asks Gale about her book, to which Gale replies it would be out later in the year, as Sidney sarcastically, states she'll look for it, as she turns around as Dewey pulls up, as Gale states to Sidney eagerly that she'll send her a copy, before an upset Sidney turns around and punches Gale across her face, taking her back into the arm of her cameraman, much to Gale's shocked face at an angry, teary Sidney before pulled away by Dewey as he, Sidney, and Tatum leave as Sidney stays with Tatum's family for the night, due to her father's absence and suspecting of as the killer. The moment in the alleyway is the first moment all three survivors would be together.

The next day, following Billy being released from custody due to lack of evidence and his phone records coming up clear, he would return and be ran into by Sidney herself in their school hallways, where they had a talk before Sidney left upset, as prior to this two male prankster students dressed as Ghostface ran inside the hallways, much to Sidney's frustration, which amuses Stu to Tatum's displeasure at him at her best friend's attack, which is why Sidney ran when the bell rang before running into Billy. After leaving Billy, Sidney had gone to the bathroom and hid in a stall where two female classmates (Cheerleader and her friend) talked about Sidney, mainly the cheerleader, taunting her mental health after her mother's murder, and then accusing her of being the killer before they both left. Sidney, distraught of overhearing this, then leaves her stall and tries to clean up by turning on the faucet, before she notices somebody (probably the prankster) in the stall coming down from where she's crouched on the floor, and putting on a robe before she leaves as Ghostface pops out.

Outside, Dewey is approached by Gale on if they're addressing the murders as a serial killer, as Dewey and Gale both flirt. Dewey is then entrusted with watching and protecting Sidney and accompanying her, as police protection, even after she was invited to a night party to be hosted at Stu's house, 261 Turner Lane, to which she agreed to Tatum to go to, despite the town curfew. Gale then makes Kenny drive the news van and follow Dewey as he drives his sister and friend that night to the house party. The party would also be the second instance in where the Legacy Trio is united, before and after the events. As a broadcast measure and in her endeavor to report, Gale plants a camera in Stu's television in his living room that broadcasts to the van where she would oversee it, alongside Kenny, in order to report and catch the killer. However, she is thwarted as she then accompanies Dewey, upon him asking, if he would like to go with her to investigate a report of a car being found outside the house, which she agrees to. They would flirt, and kiss after almost being run over by the last partygoers speeding to go see Arthur's body, which after being killed alone after school earlier that day following his suspension of classes, was gutted and hung on their school's football field post, and who then find Neil's car crashed outside as Dewey and Gale both then head to investigate, before deciding to return back, anticipating the killer.

As the party concludes due to the town curfew and some late night male partygoers leaving following Randy's delivery of the Rules to surviving a horror movie, the group would be attacked separately, following Tatum's murder isolated in the garage that occurred when she went to get beer in the garage while the party was happening. Ghostface would strike following Sidney dressing upstairs, after having had sex with Billy, who had arrived late to the party, as she still suspected him, until the killer appeared behind Billy and seemingly stabbed Billy, much to Sidney's horror as she was pursued and chased by the killer around the house, before she escaped through the attic, and was traumatized upon discovering Tatum's body in the garage. She would find Kenny and try to ask for help, before she witnessed the camera in which Randy was almost attacked by Ghostface, before she then is traumatized as Ghostface appears and slits Kenny's throat, before escaping into the van, despite the killer stabbing her in the shoulder, as she then manages to escape and run from the house.

Gale and Dewey arrive before they split up, as he was then off-screen stabbed by Ghostface not long after entering the house, supposedly while he was distracted and who pointed his gun to the living room, where the whimpering he heard was just Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode from Halloween (1978) which was still playing on the TV, specifically the scene while she was hiding in the closet from Michael Meyers. Gale then calls out to Kenny outside, as she then steps onto a pile of blood, unbeknownst it's his, and tries to leave, scared, who is attempting to call the police, before she is scared by a drunken Randy, who asks what's going on. Gale hits him on the head with the phone, as she then starts the car, as Randy tries to get her to stop, as she finds blood on the windshields, and who as she then is driving, screams upon seeing Kenny's body fall from the roof of the car onto the windshield. Gale then maneuvers the car so she can dump Kenny's body down as his body falls from the car, who is then driving away before an injured Sidney suddenly gets out onto the road and asks for her to stop, causing Gale to swerve off and crash the van, knocking her out.

Sidney then goes back to the house, where she calls for Dewey, who arrives before stumbling as Sidney sees the knife stuck, stabbed onto his back, as she is then forced to hide in Dewey's car as Ghostface approaches from inside the house, who takes the knife out of Dewey's back, as she then locks the doors of the car and tries to start the car, before Ghostface taunts her with the keys as he holds them jingling, before the killer heads inside the car through the back, as Sidney tries to radio for help before narrowly avoiding an attack by Ghostface. She then heads out, as the killer has disappeared, to grab Dewey's gun off his holster, before she then points it as Randy and Stu appear, and blame one another. Sidney leaves both of them outside, as she heads inside and locks the door.

Not long after, it would be revealed both Billy Loomis and Stu Macher were Ghostface, which happened as soon as Sidney gave Dewey's gun to Billy, who had feigned his attack as he seemingly stumbled downstairs after Sidney had shut the door on Randy and Stu, as he then quoted Norman Bates from Psycho, after he let Randy inside: "We all go a little mad sometimes", when Randy had told them that Stu's flipped out and gone mad, before then shooting Randy down, knocking him out. Much to Sidney's distress and shock as Billy reveals his blood was fake (corn syrup), as she is then brought and cornered into the kitchen by both, as Stu uses the voice changer to say "Surprise, Sidney!", as he gives it to Billy, who uses it by taunting Sidney, stating it looks like if she's seen a ghost, and how they're going to play a game "It's called guess how I'm gonna die!", referring to Sidney, who screams profanely at Billy, before he reminds her of the rules alongside Stu. Meanwhile, either during their reveals and motives, specifically Billy, to Sidney or following Stu taking out a gagged and tied up Neil, Sidney's father of whom Billy and Stu kidnapped not long after he had supposedly left a few days prior (explaining how Dewey and Gale stumbled upon his car outside) and how they cloned Neil's cellular, Gale would stumble in quietly, and while both killers were distracted talking to Sidney, take Dewey's gun, and when each was stabbing the other to make themselves look like victims. Once Stu went to retrieve it as Billy goes back when Stu tells him it's missing, Gale announces herself, as right there, who'd emerge from the hallway and points it at them, with the killers taken aback, believing Gale to have died following her van crashing onto the tree. Gale then states how she's got a story for them, in reference to having overheard their ending plans, how she stumbled upon them "two dipshits" as the news reporter left for dead, foiling their plans, and saving the day. Sidney in the kitchen says she likes that ending. Billy then walks towards her by taunting her on knowing something she doesn't, before he kicks Gale onto her back onto the column of the porch, knocking her out, onto Dewey on the porch floor.

Using this distraction, Sidney would quietly manage to get away, alongside her father, much to the horror of both killers, as they make their way back, hiding as well as calling the police to report them. Sidney then uses the voice changer to call and inform Billy, who answers, of having called the police and reported them, much to Billy's anger, telling Stu to find her, as Stu telling him how he can't, due to his wound and blood loss, who is kneeling by the kitchen counter of where Billy answered the phone. Billy whispers to Stu to talk to her as he goes to look. Stu answers, as Sidney taunts him on what his motive is when the police arrive, due to Billy having one, who states it's peer pressure and being far too sensitive, before Billy grabs the phone off Stu and threatening to kill her just like they did to her mother, as Sidney retorts how he's got to find her first, referring to Billy as a "pansy ass momma's boy", angering him as Billy throws the phone at Stu's back, much to his anger, as he proceeds to angrily go and slash the couch in the living room and throwing and breaking objects in his way, angrily. Stu asks if she really did call the police, as Sidney agrees, with Stu crying how his parents are going to be upset with him. Billy then is ambushed by Sidney when he proceeds to open the closet door in the hallway between the living room and the foyer, who, like Dewey before, is distracted by the movie playing on TV and it's sounds. Sidney then appears as Ghostface and stabs Billy hard on the chest with the end tip of an umbrella, knocking him down, as she unmasks and de-robes herself, grabbing Billy's gun and throwing it into the porch. Stu is then shown coming to, who manages to get Sidney down as the duo proceed to fight onto the living room, as Stu attacks on top, stating he always had a thing for her. Sidney manages to bite into his hand wound, as Stu screams, and grab a vase and knock it onto his head, knocking him down, as Sidney gets up before she proceeds to tell him "In your dreams" as she throws the living room television onto his head, killing him as it comes down in a crash. Sidney then proceeds to go back into the hallway, grabbing the mask off the floor, as Billy lays down, seemingly unconscious. Sidney is then frightened by Randy awakening, who she thought was dead, as Randy agrees and how he never thought he'd be so happy to be a virgin. Billy then awakens at the same time , punches Randy down, as he then struggles as he then gets into it with Sidney, pinning her to the floor, proceeding to strangle her. Billy tells her to say hello to her mother, before Sidney uses her other hand to poke with her finger, Billy's wound on his chest where Stu stabbed him, causing him to scream, as he raises the knife and is about to strike. Gale then manages to shoot Billy on the chest, incapacitating him and injuring him as he falls down onto his back to the floor, as he coughs before passing out again. Sidney gets to her feet, stumbling as she helps Randy up as she takes him towards Gale, taking the gun off her hand. The three of them then stand on top of Billy, as Randy then warns her of the killer coming back to life, as Billy awakens before Sidney shoots him fatally in the head. Sidney and Randy untie Neil, and as the morning and the sun is rising, it's shown Dewey is alive in the back of a stretcher heading towards an ambulance, with the Legacy Trio surviving their first massacre together.

Scream 2

The Windsor College Murders

Nearly a year or two after having survived in Woodsboro, a now 18 year old Sidney has moved from her hometown and is studying in Theatre at Windsor College in Ohio, alongside her fellow survivor, Randy, in Film. Following the shocking brutal murders of two Windsor College seniors and couple, Phil Stevens and Maureen Evans, the latter's of which was committed in public, unbeknownst to the crowd or audience, with the theatre being loud as some attendees were dressed in Ghostface robes and masks; which were attending the sneak preview screening of the film-within-a film, Stab, (directed by Robert Rodriguez for Sunrise Studios) which was based upon Gale's second book, The Woodsboro Murders, on which they had survived. The Legacy Trio would be reunited as Dewey had left from Woodsboro to Windsor the second the news broke, leaving his position as Deputy in order to act as a private citizen and serve as protection for Sidney and Randy as college students, warning Sidney how whoever the killer is, she already knows them due to being close to her. Meanwhile, Gale has seen success due to giving her book film rights, who arrives to Windsor College in order to report; now paired with one of Ohio's news affiliates and having a new cameraman, Joel, to broadcast wherever Gale goes. Gale, despite her presence as a press reporter, would find herself to be reported and sought out by other reporters covering the events, much to Gale's disdain at the other reporters, specifically one who would follow her around, named Debbie Salt, who she insults not so very subtly, in an effort to get her off of her.

Alongside her University Group consisting of Randy, as well as Sidney's pre-Med boyfriend, Derek Feldman, and Sidney's new best friend and sorority sister, Hallie McDaniel, and Randy's own Film classmate, Mickey Altieri; they all watch the press statement by Chief Lewis Hartley, which Gale reports on. Sidney is then invited by two Delta Lambda Zeta sorority sisters, Murphy and Lois, who comment on the publicity in part due to Sidney, and invite her and her friends to their sorority mixer (of which Hallie is a pledge) that night, in order to convince and recruit Sidney, who offer her their help before leaving. Sidney would then find herself taken aback, when following the press statement and Murphy and Lois leaving, as well as after returning after she talked to Dewey, she is cornered in a surprise interview by Gale, as Cotton then approaches Sidney in a suit and tie, greeting her, much to Sidney's own surprise at seeing him. As Gale begins to speak into her microphone and is set to talk about having an exclusive interview with Cotton who's been exonerated who Sidney had wrongly accused of murdering Maureen Prescott. Now angry, Sidney asks Gale what the hell she's doing, as Joel begins to record, much to Sidney's displeasure. Gale begins to state to the camera about having an exclusive interview with Cotton, after having been just a few years since she testified against him on the trial of her mother's murder, on the pretense of wanting to know how she's feeling after Sidney asks her, upset, with Cotton stating he's willing to forgive and forget in regards to the events (in exchange for some fame and notoriety in records clearing him via interviews which he mentions to her later), how he'd like to get back with his own life, as she's doing so herself.

Sidney then turns around hastily, not wanting to do so, even after approaching to punch Gale, who had asked her for a comment, with her own friends holding her back. Gale steps back herself, holding up her hand, due to their being also a crowd and preemptively. Gale, holding her microphone, turns it towards Sidney as she was walking away, and asks her enthusiastically to please share with them. In a nod to their first encounter, Sidney turns around and instead of her punching Gale, she now hits her by slapping her with the backside of her hand, taking her aback. Sidney angrily approaches Gale and tells her how she'll share with her, before she is pulled back by her friends, as Hallie points to Joel and sarcastically asks him if he got that on film, with Joel responding, imitating Hallie. Cotton is confused, who asks Gale how he thought they had an official interview and why Sidney didn't know. Joel states how that was cold in regards to the slap, as Gale tells him to check his conscious at the door and how she's not there to be loved, with Gale remarking to Cotton how he'll have his interview when she has her "goddamn story" referring to the copycat murders taking place, as she walks away with Joel, much to Cotton's disdain as he states he did his part calling for her.

Gale then walks into Dewey, who takes her aback, as Dewey tells her to leave Sidney alone, reuniting the duo. Dewey then states how he doesn't condone violence as they walk around the college campus (with Joel recording as they do so), as Dewey quotes off Gale's book, due to him being angry at her for how she wrote his portrayal in the events, much to Gale's own surprise on him having read it. They then both flirt and tease each other, with Gale telling him not to take it all that seriously, and how if he's taking it too seriously as Dewey insults her mediocre writing, money hungry and fame-seeking, having cold storage shed where her heart should be, as he tells her to no offense. Dewey states on how would she know if his inexperience is merely just a subtle form of manipulation, as he goes off and finishes, with them facing each other, romance in the air. Gale then tries to reach with both of her hands to his face, as Dewey recoils, as Gale apologizes to him. Dewey apologizes as well, saying he misjudged her, and if he'll excuse her, how he has some oozing to do, and who returns to compliment her on her nice streaks, referring to her hair, before they depart.

Meanwhile, while Sidney and Hallie arrived to the Delta Lambda Zeta mixer with Derek, Mickey, and Randy in attendance, as the girls were approached by Murphy and Lois, just across the street at the rivaling sorority was Omega Beta Zeta sorority sister, Cici Cooper, watching TV in the living room, talking on the phone with her friend (classmate in both Randy and Mickey's Film class earlier that day, who was discussing to their professor about the effects of Phil and Maureen's murders by Ghostface at the movie theatre for the sneak peek screening of Stab, counterarguing with him as well as to two male classmates, that one can't blame real life violence on entertainment and how movies aren't responsible for one's actions; reference to Billy's statement to Sidney from the first film, as she blamed him watching horror movies, and Randy counterargued Mickey's point of art imitating life to vice versa, in regard to the events he survived, before the class discussed sequels, due to the copycat murders trying to replicate Woodsboro, and how due to the previous two killers being immortalized on film correlating, and thus make Stab 2 in real time) who was home alone at her sorority house; as the Delta Lambda Zeta mixer party occurred next door, due to her being the designated "sober sister" who would drive to pick up her fellow sorority sisters who had driven to a mixer her sorority was co-sponsoring with another fraternity, for safety afterwards in case they were drunk.

Cici is then called by Ghostface, after she mistook him for her boyfriend, Ted, who she answered the other line and told her friend she'd call them back. After Ghostface taunts her and threatens her, Cici is on high alert, who's taken aback by noise being made upstairs, who unbeknownst to her was just her sorority sister, Dawnie. Talking again to her friend and per her suggestion, Cici tries calling for campus security thrice, being disconnected due to the call cutting out after stepping outside and back inside to the house due to poor reception. After Cici is back inside, she's scared by Dawnie popping out, who apologizes, as both are then unaware of Ghostface sneaking in, due to Cici and Dawnie walking the staircase and talking, through the open front door, the girls' backs facing away in the foyer, as well as Dawnie being tricked by Ghostface by saying they're Ted after she picked up the phone and intercepted the call from Cici, due to having asked her if anyone called for her, due to her having stayed behind to change for the mixer after Cici told her she thought she'd had left. Dawnie tells Cici to set the alarm as Cici walks her out the door, as she locks the door, and begins to speak before Ghostface answers and mimic Dawnie's reminder. Cici would then drop the phone in fear, and who sets the alarm, and goes to investigate noises she heard as she walks around the living room, nervous. After the landline rings as Cici answered, she would be chased by Ghostface emerging from a nearby closet, narrowly missing their knife attack. Like Sidney in the first film's events, Cici runs upstairs as Ghostface follows in pursuit, as she then begins to throw items, such as a potted plant and a bicycle, to impede them in the chase. Cici would fail, unfortunately, as she's grabbed from the back by Ghostface and throwing her out into the attic's balcony door, breaking and Cici being defenestrated. The house's security alarm system then is activated as the alarm rings, and Cici would then be murdered after she is stabbed twice in the back and thrown off by Ghostface from the balcony, up in the house's second story, onto the driveway.

Due to the alarm and campus security, as well as due to the murders the night before, the police arrive to the sorority in numbers, much to the growing curiosity of the partygoers, as Lois and Murphy tell them as they all begin to leave to head out and see what's going on, much to Sidney's awareness. At the crime scene, Gale arrives alongside Joel, who is informed about the crime and it's details by Debbie before she leaves, and as she gets ready on her way to report, she then encounters Dewey, as she then tells him solemnly how it's actually happening again, taking in the situation for what it is, unlike the previous sensationalization she had made of Phil and Maureen's murders. Dewey responds sarcastically how she'd love that, telling her to go on in before she gets scooped, as Gale then tells Joel coldly to not mess with her, due to Joel's hesitance on going on to report Cici's murder, as he was only brought on for the Cotton interview, before he goes quiet and grabs the camera following Gale as Dewey stayed behind amongst the press and others.

Sidney stays behind, comforted by Derek, at the sorority's front porch, who tells her to get her coat from inside the house so he could take Sidney back home to her dorm, as Sidney proceeds to go back alone inside and grabs it and puts it on, before she's then distracted as the landline at the foyer rings. Derek asks her if she's ready, as Sidney answers almost, who then answers the phone, as Derek faces to look across the street, walking down the porch and a few feet away from the house. Sidney answers as Ghostface taunts her, much to her anger, as she asks the killer to show their face, as Ghostface answers "My pleasure", as Sidney yells in horror for Derek, turning around, before Ghostface appears at the front door, having closed it as Sidney ducks to then avoid the killer, heading to escape through the front. Hearing the commotion, Derek returns to the door, now seeing it shut, as he calls out for Sidney, trying to turn the doorknob and open the door from the outside in, before Sidney ducks again as Ghostface stabs the wooden door, as Derek on the outside sees the tip of the knife, inches away from him. Sidney looks to Derek from the windows, as Ghostface dislodged the knife from the door, as she runs back to the living room as Ghostface gives chase, who stumbled down on a sofa chair in pursuit of her. Sidney goes back to the backyard, who is near the door, looking tensely back inside, as she stays there before she is then scared by Derek who arrives, as he grabs ahold of her and asks her if she's ok as she tells him the killer was inside. Derek heads inside, as Sidney calls back for him to not go. Dewey then arrives as Sidney informs her of the killer being there and Derek heading in, crying, as they then hear Derek struggle, as he was attacked by Ghostface before fleeing upon hearing Dewey enter. Dewey stumbles as he opens the door carefully of one of the hallways, where Derek is on the floor holding his arm, which has been slashed and is bleeding. Derek tells Dewey of where the killer went, pointing to the front, as Dewey calls out to Sidney on where the killer went, heading to the front before he then sees the door open and both Murphy and Lois standing a few feet from the porch, peering in curiously as Murphy asks if everything's ok. Dewey smiles smugly at them, before returning to tend to Derek, grabbing ahold of his arm wound, and wrapping it in gauze wrap, telling him to keep it on and apply pressure, much to Derek's pain and wincing. Sidney then heads back inside to look on as Dewey looks up to her, with Sidney crying silently, as she's watching apprehensively as her fears are confirmed.

At the hospital the next day, Derek is tended to by a doctor and interrogated by Chief Lewis and another officer, while Mickey goes to comfort Sidney as he sat down next to her following his interrogation, on the hospital's hallway chairs where she watches on at Derek, while Hallie leaves to get a coffee, having asked Sidney previously if she'd wanted one, whose due to be interrogated next. Following Mickey asking why Derek went back inside the house to begin with, Sidney becomes increasingly more distant and suspicious of Derek, due to what Dewey had told her, in fear of repeating what's been said and done before again in regards to her previous relationship. Dewey also notices this, telling the officers of how it was awfully convenient of Derek to only be attacked and let out alive, due to the killer having fled and left off, as Derek protests angrily how it's only because Dewey had got there too late, seeing as one of the officers had commented how he'd gotten lucky that he wasn't killed, as Dewey claims it's a shame they got away so easily and how the killer had disappeared. Dewey answers defiantly, ignoring Derek's remarks.

Back at the police station, Chief Lewis writes down the names of all of the current three victims of Windsor, as Dewey and Gale watch on, before Gale makes the connection of the new victims all sharing the same names & nomenclatures of the first three victims in Woodsboro. Dewey then states to the Chief of how it looks like there's a copycat after all, much to the Chief's stress. Dewey then asks about what he's doing to keep Sidney safe, who tells them how he's got his two best detectives guarding her: Sidney's security detail and police protection: Officer Andrews and Officer Richards. Meanwhile as Sidney and Derek walk side to side outside on campus, with both Sid's officers behind them at tow a few feet away, as Derek asks playfully how he's going to get her alone, referring to his and hers relationship. Sidney would tell him how its in his best interest for him and saying he needs to stay as far away from her as possible, much to Derek's confusion on the remark and who asks if she means it, despite Sidney stating she means it, as she solemnly looks at him and states how he already got her. Derek then asks if she's really concerned about him and if her deciding they need a break has nothing to do with her not trusting him. Sidney then tells him adamantly and repeats what she said, how she just doesn't want to see him get hurt again, as Derek agrees likewise of her, who brushes her hair, before Sidney takes off and walks away.

After leaving the station and being dismissed by the Chief, both Dewey and Gale talk as Gale tries to enlist Dewey for some help in checking the admissions office for legwork, as Dewey denies stating he's not there to write a book but help Sidney, as Gale agrees to doing so as well and to help herself. Gale tells Dewey to smile before he states how he'll smile when he catches the killer. Gale then walks away and who's surrounded by reporters, including Debbie, questioning her about why Dewey was there and if he could be a suspect, before she shuts them down, stating upset, how he's a good one, unlike the rest of them. Following Derek singing to Sidney at the college's cafeteria, as Andrews and Richards watched on, as Hallie and Mickey supported, and Derek giving up his Greek letters via his necklace of them to give to Sidney for her protection, much to the crowd joining in via applause and cheering as they kissed. Randy then meets up with Dewey at Baskin Robbins, as Randy is angry about his actor, as they grab their ice creams or drinks in cups, sitting down as they watch as the store's TV which is playing an interview of Tori Spelling speaking to Nancy O'Dell about her role as Sidney in Stab, as a scene is shown in preview, a re-enactment of the hallway which Sidney ran into Billy and their conversation, as Tori as Sidney is talking to Luke Wilson portraying Billy. As the scene ends, and Nancy continues to interview Tori, Randy then tells Dewey how he'll wait for the release via video for the film before getting down to business as Randy states the Rules to any sequels in application to their situation, as Dewey wants to know how they're going to find and catch the killer in these new events.

Scream 3

The Hollywood Murders (2000)

Scream 4

The Second Woodsboro Murders (2011)

Scream (2022)

The Third Woodsboro Murders (2022)

Notes

• They are one of the few groups of survivors of the horror franchises and slashers that have managed to appear in five films in the series.
  • However, the trio was destined to break up after the tragic death of Dewey Riley following the reboot of the franchise from Radio Silence.
  • The trend about old characters returning to new franchise movies and their subsequent deaths was also mocked in Scream (2022), which makes meta comments about Disney's Star Wars sequel trilogy, where the focus shifts to new characters, Han Solo dying, and Luke and Leia in the later sequels.
• Scream VI was the first film in the franchise without the trio - Neve Campbell and David Arquette did not return to their roles (however, their characters are referenced throughout the film). Gale Weathers, played by Courteney Cox, was the only character to appear in all of the franchise's current films.

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