This Is The Real Killer In Season 1 Of Scream
By Rachel Davis
"Scream: The TV Series" starts with the familiar — an established actor, in this case Bella Thorne, gets murdered by a masked figure leaving everyone who knew her (and, in many cases, despised her) wondering who was behind her death and why.
Our story includes a horror nerd, Noah Foster (John Karna), who sets up the question that the show's very existence must answer — can a slasher movie be successfully stretched across a season of a television show? And when it comes to very slowly piecing together who the killer is specifically, the answer is a resounding "yes." In fact, each of the 10 episodes of that first season seem to point to a different potential killer.
Before Thorne's character Nina Patterson is killed, she uploads a video online of Audrey Jensen (Bex Taylor-Klaus) making out with another girl, causing the entire school to harass her. And it isn't long before we find out that our final-girl-to-be Emma Duval's (Willa Fitzgerald) boyfriend Will Belmont (Connor Weil) was cheating on her with Nina. Not only that, but Will and his friend Jake Fitzgerald (Tom Maden) also seemed to be filming Nina without her knowledge for no other reason than their own amusement.
And then there's the town's own personal folk tale about Brandon James — a disfigured young man who fell in love with a girl names Daisy, was bullied and beaten for it, and was ultimately killed after murdering all his bullies. The folk tale isn't a folk tale at all, though — it's at least partially true. And Daisy is none other than Emma's mother Maggie (Tracy Middendorf).
Everyone on "Scream: The TV Series" has a motive. All we know for sure from the start is that the killer wears the same mask Brandon James did to cover his disfigurement. And as you might expect from a "Scream" story, the killer is among the last you'd expect.
