CW Cotton Weary
So, why don't you tell me, who you are?
FV Female Voice
Oooh. You're naughty boy, Cotton. Now, what would your girlfriend say?
CW Cotton Weary
What makes you think I have a girlfriend?
Phone Voice [Changes the voice]
I know you do. I'm right outside her bathroom door.
CW Cotton Weary
Who is this?
Phone Voice She's in the shower. She's got a nice little ... voice. Let's come in for a closer look. Oh, she's very pretty, Cotton. A step up from Maureen Prescott. Speaking of which, let's play a little game. Answer right, your girlfriend lives. Answer wrong, she dies. Where's Maureen's daughter Sidney?
CW Cotton Weary
Who the **** is this?
Phone Voice Somebody who kills to know where Sidney Prescott is. One chance, Cotton. You've got connections, where is she?
CW Cotton Weary
You listen me, you **** psycho: You lay a finger on Christine, I swear to god, I'll kill you.
Phone Voice Wrong answer.
S Sarah
[Sarah answers the ringing phone]
Director's office.
Sarah, it's Roman. I'm sorry I'm running late. I'm still on the 405. I'm about 10 minutes away.
S Sarah
Oh, it's no problem. I'm just looking at your music video awards.
Uh, look, since I got you on the phone, let's talk about your character, okay?
S Sarah
What character? I'm Candy, the chick who gets killed second. I'm only in two scenes.
You're not happy with your part.
S Sarah
I'm not happy that I am 35 playing a 21 year-old. I'm not happy that I have to die naked. And I'm not happy that my character is too stupid to have a gun in the house after her boyfriend's been cut into fish sticks.
Mm-hm. Mm-hm. Great, okay. So let's run the lines.
Page 28. Candy's big moment.
S Sarah
Page 28. "Ring-ring. Hello?"
S Sarah
"This is Candy. Hang on, let me get some clothes." See? I don't understand why I have to start the scene in the shower. The whole shower thing's been done. Vertigo. Hello? And I mean, my boyfriend just died. Why am I showering?
[sighs]
Why don't we just read the scene? "Candy. Nice name. Is that like Candy Cane or Candy Apple?"
S Sarah
Whatever. "Come on, who is this? I think you have the wrong number."
"But you know my favorite name?"
S Sarah
"I'm hanging up right now."
S Sarah
[confused]
Roman, that's not the line.
S Sarah
Has there been another goddamn rewrite? How the **** are we supposed to learn our lines when there's a new script every 15 minutes?
It's not just a new script. It's a new movie.
S Sarah
What? What movie?
Phone Voice [Roman's voice suddenly changes]
And it's called Sarah Gets Skewered Like a **** Pig! [Sarah's eyes widen] Still in character, Sarah?
[Sidney answers a cell phone at the police station]
Hello?
Gale, Dewey, whoever, call me back. I can only hear myself.
Phone Voice I only hear you, too, Sidney.
[Sidney's eyes widen]
Who is this?
Phone Voice The question isn't who I am. The question is: Who's with me? [Sidney hears yells and cries for help from Dewey and Gale, causing Sidney to jump] Don't do it. If you do one thing to attract attention to yourself, one thing, I'll kill them both. Now, do you have somewhere we can be... alone?
Phone Voice Yeah. Go there. [Sidney goes into the staff room] Oh, it's hard being friends with you, Sidney. When you're friends with Sidney, you die. Well, these friends don't have to, Sidney. It's up to you.
How do I know their voices are...?
Phone Voice Are real? How do you know you're not hearing things? How do you know I'm not someone in your head? Somewhere, you know. [More yells are heard from Dewey and Gale] Or do you?
Phone Voice I don't want them. I want you. It's simple. You show yourself, they survive. You run, they die! Don't you wanna know, Sidney, who killed her? Don't you wanna know who killed your mother?
Phone Voice She'd have been so happy, Sidney, to know we'd be together.
Phone Voice I'll call you when you're on your way.
[Sidney has reached the house where Ghostface is holding Dewey and Gale hostage. Her cell phone rings. She answers it]
What?
Phone Voice You follow directions well, Sidney. Now, welcome to the final act. See that metal detector? Use it. [Sidney picks up a metal detector] All over, Sidney. Everywhere. [Sidney scans herself] Everywhere. The other leg, too. [Sidney scans her other leg, causing the detector to beep] Show it to me. [She takes out a gun] Throw it in the pool. [She does so] Now, come inside, Sidney.
No **** way. How do I know they're not dead already?
Phone Voice They're right inside, waiting for you. Look for yourself. [Sidney sees Dewey and Gale tied up and walks over to them] Now that we're all here, the party can begin.
[Sidney is confronted by a person in a white, blood-stained cloth, speaking in Maureen's voice]
Sid... Sid... come in here... please. It's just me, Sid. Oh, I was so pretty. Everybody loved me. Have you missed me, Sidney? Would you like to hold me one last time? What's the matter? What are you staring at? Don't you remember your-
Phone Voice [Her voice changes]
Mother?
G Ghostface
[The person takes off the cloth, revealing himself to be Ghostface, who locks the doors so Sidney cannot escape] [Speaking in the Phone Voice]
You're not going anywhere, Sidney. It's time you came to terms with me and with Mother. Maybe you never knew her at all, Sidney. Maybe you just can't get past the surface of things. [Reveals his chest is bulletproof]
G Ghostface
The other half of you. I searched for a mother, too, an actress named Rina Reynolds, tried to find her my whole life. And four years ago, I actually tracked her down, knocked at her door, thinking she'd welcome me with open arms. But she had a new life and a new name: Maureen Prescott! You were the only child she claimed, Sidney. She shut me out in the cold forever! Her own son.
[Takes off the mask to reveal himself as Roman]
Roman Bridger, director. [Uses voice changer]
RB Roman Bridger/Phone Voice
And brother.
She slammed the door in my face, Sid. She said I was "Rina's" child and Rina was dead... and then it struck me. What a good idea, so I watched her. I made a little movie, a little family film. Seems Maureen -"Mom"- she really got around. I mean Cotton was one thing; everybody knew about that. But Billy's father - that was the key. Your boyfriend didn't like seeing his daddy in my film too much. He didn't like it at all. And once I supplied the motivation, all the kid needed was a few pointers. Have a partner to sell out in case you got caught, find someone to frame, it was like he was making a movie.
You. This is all because of you.
I'm a director, Sidney. I direct. I had no idea they were gonna make a film of their own. What a film it turned out to be, huh? I mean, introducing Sidney the Victim, Sidney the Survivor, SIDNEY THE STAR!
Fine, you got what you wanted: hero and villain face-to-face. Well, you know what happens now? The villain dies!
Exactly! But I'm not the villain, Sid. You are. [Brings out a captured John Milton] Here he is, the man who gave away your mother's innocence. Huh? What he did to her made her a slut, didn't it? Huh? She never recovered from that night, right here in this room. They **** her three ways from Sunday, ruined her life. Ruined yours, too, didn't it, Sid? You hate him, Sid? Come on, I know you do. I'm sure you do.
[Brings out an answering machine that speaks in Sidney's voice]
I know who you are. I know what happened to my mother, and I want you to understand, I'm gonna make you pay!
That's what the police are gonna find on Milton's answering machine, right next to his lifeless, mutilated corpse. [John mumbles] What? Can't hear ya.
JM John Milton
You don't have to do this, Roman. Just tell me what you want. I can make it happen. Any picture. Name your budget. Script approval. Final cut!
[He slits John's throat]
No! God! You spineless bastard!
No, Sid, that would be you! You did it all. You did it! You call them all, even your closest... friends. Living in total isolation, the pressure of another movie about you, the discovery that Milton destroyed Mommy dearest, you finally just SNAPPED! And who's our hero, huh? The sole survivor. Who's the one who bravely faced down the psychopath and killed her with her own knife?! You're gonna pay for the life you stole from me, Sid. For the mother, and for the family, and for the stardom, and...GODDAMN IT! EVERYTHING YOU HAVE THAT SHOULD'VE BEEN MINE!
God, why don't stop your whining and get on with it! I've heard this shit before!
Do you know why you kill people, Roman? Do you?
Because you choose to! There is no one else to blame!
Why don't you take some **** responsibility?!
[The answering machine rings. Sidney answers it]
California Women's Crisis Counseling. My name is Laura. How can I help you?
FV Female Voice
Oh, Laura. I do have a crisis.
Okay, well, whatever it is, you can tell me.
FV Female Voice
Oh, my God! I've killed someone, Laura.
FV Female Voice
Uh-huh, I'm sure. I killed someone! I know it! Oh, my God. I did.
Well, then, uh...then the people you need to call are the police.
[The voice suddenly changes to Maureen's voice]
No, I need to call you! Just you.
[confused]
I'm sorry. Your...your voice...
Don't you wanna know how you can help, Laura? Are you listening to me? Huh?
It's Mother, Laura. Now be a good girl and turn on the news. Do as Mother tells you.
You're not my mother. How did you get this number? Who is this?
You know your mother's voice when you hear it! Now turn on the news!
Phone Voice [Sidney turns on the TV to see a news report revealing that Stab 3 is shutting down production due to the recent murders of the film's cast. Maureen's voice changes again]
Just one question. Do you think it's over, Sidney? Do you?!
