Scream: The TV Series (TV Series)

Pilot (2015)

John Karna: Noah Foster

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• Riley Marra : It's just crazy that we were talking about slasher movies in Language Arts. And then Nina gets slashed.

  Noah Foster : Well technically she was already dead when we started that conversation. So there's no direct correlation.

• Noah Foster : Ah, the lady of the hour.

  Audrey Jensen : Today is going to suck exceptionally hard.

  Noah Foster : What? No, you love taco Tuesday.

  Audrey Jensen : Come on, let it out.

  Noah Foster : It's just... Rachel? Seriously? The socially awkward Catholic school film geek is your lesbian lover and I have to find out on YouTube? I call a best friend foul.

  Audrey Jensen : I didn't make the video.

  Noah Foster : [chuckling]  Oh, yeah. Lack of production value made that pretty clear, but if we could just move right on back to the whole lesbian thing.

  Audrey Jensen : Okay. Not a lesbian, not discussing it.

• Seth Branson : Or the same rotting flesh. Kieran's right. The gothic genre is all over TV right now. American Horror Story, Hannibal, Bates Motel.

  Jake Fitzgerald : What about Texas Chainsaw or Halloween?

  Noah Foster : Those are slasher movies. You can't do a slasher movie as a TV series.

  [Everyones turns to Noah, Mr Branson then motions him to continue] 

  Noah Foster : Think about it. Girl and her friend arrive at the dance, the camp, deserted town, whatever. Killer takes them out one-by-one. Ninety minutes later, the sun comes up and survivor girl sits in the ambulance watching her friends' bodies being wheeled past.

• Noah Foster : Gotta remember that the whodunit may not be as important in our story... You need to figure that it's a horror story, that someone might die at every turn. You have to care if the smokin' hot lit teacher seems a little too interested in his female students. You have to care if the team wins the big game. You have to care if the smart, pretty girl forgives the dumb jock.

  Riley Marra : Sounds like Friday Night Lights

  Noah Foster : Exactly. You root for them, you love them, so when they are brutally murdered, it hurts.

• Kieran Wilcox : Who's Brandon James?

  Noah Foster : Uh, he killed a bunch of students twenty years ago. He, um, he cut some others up.

  [showing Kieran a picture on his phone] 

  Noah Foster : This is him. Emma's dad got stabbed; he almost died. Brandon had Proteus syndrome, like the Elephant Man. People say he was born a monster, but I think he was bullied and beaten into one.

  Kieran Wilcox : And you know all this... why?

  Noah Foster : I don't know. Some guys like sports. I like serial killers. And Brandon James is my Dallas Cowboys. He was a classic case of the deformed kid who lived in the shed. Mom homeschooled him, dad was ashamed of him. His older brother, Troy, was the only one who cared about him. Whenever he went out, he wore this post-op surgical mask. They tried to fix his face a few times; never really worked.

  Riley Marra : What made him start killing people?

  Noah Foster : Rumor is he fell in love. His brother said Brandon was obsessed. Wrote her anonymous love letters, made her little carvings. Brandon found her at the Halloween dance. He got up the nerve to talk to her. It went okay at first. But then a bunch of drunk jocks jumped him. They thought they were saving her from a monster. After a lifetime of taking it, something in Brandon snapped. He killed five students by the time he was done. The manhunt ended at Wren Lake. The girl agreed to meet him.

  [flashback sequence] 

  Noah Foster : Nobody ever knew who she was.

• Seth Branson : The gothic genre is all over TV right now. You have American Horror Story, Bates Motel, Hannibal.

  Jake Fitzgerald : What about Texas Chainsaw or Halloween?

  Noah Foster : Uh, those are slasher movies. You can't do a slasher movie as a TV series.

  [everyones turns to Noah, Mr. Branson then motions him to continue] 

  Noah Foster : Well, think about it: You know, girl and her friends arrive at the dance, the camp, deserted town, whatever. Killer takes them out one-by-one. Ninety minutes later, the sun comes up as survivor girl is sitting in the back of the ambulance watching her friends' bodies being wheeled past. Slasher movies burn bright and fast. TV needs to stretch things out. You know, by the time the first body is found, it's only a matter of time before the bloodbath commences.