SPOILER-FILLED WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK PART: Last week, Emma was followed by a mysterious car, that turned out meant her dad was back in town. Noah talked to the desk boy at the hotel where Piper stayed last season and found out about a mysterious storage unit where Piper kept her stuff. Audrey went to said storage unit where she found Jake’s bloody body.
Episode 3 of “Scream” keeps the momentum from last episode - Audrey’s going more and more out of her mind trying to keep her secrets - secrets Noah seems determined to find on his own. Emma has all sorts of family drama with her dad back in town and creepy Mr. Branson shows up again to give Brooke trouble.
So far the real excitement this season is with Audrey trying to get away from her hand in last season’s murders. While we still don’t know exactly how much blood is literally on her hands, we do know there’s enough. This week we saw what lengths she might go to in order to protect herself as she almost took some pretty serious actions about her best friend Noah. With a show like this, though, a major crisis was averted but, still, not knowing what Audrey would have done, but seeing what it looked like she was going to do was pretty heavy stuff.
We learned a lot about Emma’s dad and, more importantly, learned he’s been getting updates about Emma from one of last season’s victims via email. All this leads to the belief that someone wanted him back in town, the question is why. The episode made a pretty big hint about it, mind you, but there’s a lot left to do.
Again, one thing the show continues to do well is use the horror melodrama as a way to reveal the truths these characters have been hiding from for years. In this case, we learn the reasons Emma’s dad left - they’re not fodder for a murder mystery so much as they’re the end result of a normal human falling apart and losing control. It’s that underlying unhappiness that has made this show work since day one.
Oh yeah, then Brooke and friends ran into douchey Mr. Branson at a movie theater. Weird Gustav was there too and before we knew it he’d aligned himself with Brooke, Noah and Zoe (who’s hoping to get in on some of that Noah action.) It could all be teenage melodrama but, on a show like this, it could be a lot more. We did learn that Branson’s been around more than we thought and that only drove home Brooke’s frustrations with the still missing Jake. Granted, we know why Jake’s missing but the show isn’t letting anyone else know, which is a fun and morbid twist on things.
Still, the real thrill this season is seeing Audrey getting more and more trapped in her own past, with no real end in sight. At some point she’s going to have to tell someone something, right?
In the meantime, the killer came closest to taking another shot at one of the Lakewood Six tonight. It got foiled. Maybe next time it won’t.
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