Scream (I) (2022)
Melissa Barrera: Sam Carpenter
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Quotes
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Sidney Prescott : Sam, I want you to help us kill him.
Sam Carpenter : You want me to help you and the host of a morning show to commit murder?
Gale Riley : Correct.
Sidney Prescott : Yeah.
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Sam Carpenter : [to Ghostface who's been shot and stabbed continuously] Never fuck with the daughter of a serial killer.
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Richie Kirsch : [having been stabbed multiple times]
[whimpering]
Richie Kirsch : WAIT! What about my ending?
Sam Carpenter : Here it comes.
[slashes his throat then fires repeatedly with a coup de grâce headshot]
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Sam Carpenter : Sidney. Gale. Thank you both, for everything.
[to Sidney]
Sam Carpenter : Are you gonna be alright?
Sidney Prescott : I'll survive, I always do.
Sam Carpenter : You were right, about not running.
Sidney Prescott : Sorry about that.
Sam Carpenter : [to Gale] How are you doing?
Gale Riley : Ask me in a few days. But at least I know what I'm going to write about.
Sam Carpenter : What's that?
Gale Riley : Not this. Those fuckers can die in anonymity. Maybe something about a good man who was still the sheriff here once.
Sidney Prescott : [Nods and smiles warmly] I'd like to read that story.
[Gale smiles and nods back]
Sam Carpenter : [to Sidney] Can I ask you a weird question?
Sidney Prescott : Yeah.
Sam Carpenter : Am I gonna be okay?
Sidney Prescott : [Sidney pauses, pondering, then:] Eventually.
[Sam pauses, then nods and smiles at Sidney and Gale before walking away]
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Sam Carpenter : [visiting in hospital] How are you feeling?
Tara Carpenter : Every time I get attacked, they give me better painkillers.
[smiles]
Tara Carpenter : Why is that?
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Tara Carpenter : You're not the reason dad left. You didn't choose where you came from, or who you came from. I don't blame you for that. I blame you for leaving me too.
Sam Carpenter : That's never gonna happen again.
Tara Carpenter : I know.
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Sam Carpenter : Are you telling me that I'm caught in the middle of fan fucking fiction?
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Tara Carpenter : So what do we do now?
Sam Carpenter : What nobody ever does in these situations, we're gonna get the fuck out of Woodsboro.
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Sam Carpenter : [after sharing an emotional moment] You're so high right now.
Tara Carpenter : I'm so high right now, not even gonna lie.
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Sam Carpenter : You did all this just to make me the hero of your fucked up movie?
Richie Kirsch : Sweetie, you're not the hero. You're the villain. The daughter of Billy Loomis who sees fucked up visions of her dead dad. Sidney Prescott killed your father. You did all this just to get her back to Woodsboro.
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Sam Carpenter : I'm sorry. I didn't know him well, but... he helped me.
Gale Riley : That's what he did, he helped people. I should have stopped him.
Sam Carpenter : If you had, my sister would be dead.
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Dewey Riley : [as Dewey is about to escape in an elevator with Sam, Tara, and Richie, he hesitates and holds the doors open] The head.
Richie Kirsch : What?
Dewey Riley : You have to shoot them in the head, or they always come back.
Sam Carpenter : Dewey! Who gives a fuck?
Dewey Riley : [pauses, then] I do.
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Sam Carpenter : [Sam's final line, to Tara, as she climbs into the back of an ambulance] You're not going anywhere without me. Don't worry, I'm gonna hold your hand the whole way there.
[Sam extends her hand, Tara takes it]
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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.
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Sam Carpenter : Every decade or so, some idiot gets the bright idea to put on the mask, kill his friends, and get famous too.
