Maureen Prescott-Madden

Maureen Rose Prescott-Madden is one of the protagonist of the Radio Silence reboot of Scream films, beginning with the fifth film, simply titled Scream V and followed by its most recent sequel, Scream VI (2023).
For her aunts book tour a decade later, she returned to her hometown. She is forced to stay as evidence is planted in her mom's car framing her for a new series of killings. The Remake Massacre was planned by her fame-seeking, jealous cousin, Jill, alongside secret boyfriend, Charlie. After stopping the remake, she decided to stay in Woodsboro with her honorary uncle and aunt, Dewey Riley and Gale Weathers to finish high school.
Having the next 10 years with peace and quiet she was thinking the whole thing is behind her now but it all comes crashing down with her younger sister Luna being attacked by a new Ghostface. Later, she and The Fantastics (consisting of herself, her younger sister, Sam, Val, and Tara Carpenter, Lana, and the Meeks-Martin twins Chad and Mindy) are confronted with a series of Ghostface entities in New York City.
At age 11, she discovered the secret of her birth origin — she is the biological daughter of one of the original Ghostface serial killer, Stu Macher who derives from the original Scream (1996).
In 2021, she is confronted with both her birth origin. Now a 24-year-old journalist, she joins forces with original legacy franchise survivors and family, Dewey Riley, Gale Weathers, Lucy Prescott, and Sidney Prescott, to stop the new killer. She finds herself to be one of Ghostface's primary target.
In the end, Maureen proves to embody the rules of a real-life horror movie legacy "requel" (reboot and sequel); she is both the descendant of two legacy characters, and the new Ghostface entity is her cousin, Madison Roberts whom she is able to kill as well as her accomplices one being Sam's boyfriend Richie Kirsch and the other one who lives at 261 Turner Lane, Woodsboro (Macher residence), Amber Freeman.
One year later, Maureen is in therapy and also deals with public scrutiny following conspiracy theories accusing her of being the true killer of the Legacy Killings. She lives in New York City where the rest of the Fantastics and study at Blackmore University.
Alongside former schoolmate Kirby Reed, the Fantastics confront the killers—NYPD detective Wayne Bailey, his daughter Quinn, and her husbands and former Ghostface older brother, Carson Freeman who seek revenge against both Maureen and Sam for killing Richie. She successfully kills one out of the three known killers, as her younger sister helped the forth one not be killed or get locked up. Meanwhile Maureen herself is alluded to have embraced the darker side of her father.
She is portrayed by Danielle Rose Russell.
== Biography ==
=== 2021 Woodsboro Legacy "Requel" Murders ===
Maureen's sister Luna is attacked by Ghostface, Amber Freeman calls Maureen to inform her. She immediately goes to see Luna in the hospital and reunites with one of her close friends, Samantha Carpenter who also went to visit her sister Tara Carpenter in the hospital.
Maureen states to Sam and Richie that there's an expert that can help them but needs to be patient. They go and visit her honorary uncle Dewey Riley who gives them two minutes with him. He explains the rules of surviving these attacks and then kicks them out of his house. However he later has a change of heart and joins the three at the Meeks-Martin house, where the rest of Tara and Luna's friends have gathered.
Dewey introduces the teens to Stab and the history of Billy and Stu and they attempt to figure out the connection between the Killer and Maureen. Mindy, who has the same traits as her uncle, deduces that the Killer is attempting to create a "Requel" - a reboot / sequel - to Stab 8, which at that point is just called Stab, which received poor reviews amongst fans and is a generally hated sequel. They realize the Killer is probably a Stab fan who is using Sam, Val, Tara, Maureen, and Luna to make the movie. They are using Luna, Tara, and their friends as the new generation and using Sam's connection to Billy Loomis and Maureen's connection to Stu Macher as a way to weave the legacy characters, Sidney, Lucy, Dewey, and Gale, into the story. Maureen gets angry when she is accused of being one of the Killers, and leaves the room.
After Judy, Athena, and Wes are killed, Maureen arrives on the scene and learns about their deaths. A news van pulls up, and a woman approaches Maureen looking for information. It is revealed that it's Gale Weathers. Maureen then spots Deputy Vinson at the crime scene, despite the fact that he should be watching Tara and Luna at the hospital and she races back to save her sister and Tara, with Samantha and Dewey joining her. They are able to distract the Killer long enough to catch him off guard, however Dewey sends the sisters away and prepares to kill Ghostface once and for all, resulting in his own death.
Maureen decides it's time to leave Woodsboro and ignores her mother and aunt's request for help. Along the way, Tara realizes she forgot her inhaler and they stop at Amber's house to get another one, unaware that Amber's house is 261 Turner Lane, Stu Macher's old house. They arrive in time to interrupt Ghostface as he's trying to kill Chad Meeks-Martin and they call the party off.
After Mindy and Val are attacked, an argument breaks out amongst the group resulting in Amber Freeman unmasking herself as one of the killers. Maureen, Sam, and Richie flee to the basement to hide and Richie deduces that Luna or Tara may be the other killer, resulting in Maureen and Sam abandoning him. Maureen goes into Stu's old bedroom and sees Luna tied up crying. She unties her and puts her fingers to her lips to be quiet before handing her sister a box cutter and closes the door. Sidney, Lucy, Nessa, and Gale arrive at the house and it's finally revealed that the other killers is none other than Richie and Jill's twin sister, Madison.
He and Amber reveal that they are trying to make a new Stab movie after the fail of Stab 8 and they are pinning Sam and Maureen as the killers, as they are the daughters of Billy Loomis and Stu Macher, the original killers. Madison wanted revenge for Jill's death. Amber goes to grab Tara and Luna so they can finish them off together however it is revealed that Sam and Maureen had untied their sisters and Luna taunts them with a phone call. Amber looks for them but Tara jumps out and attacks her. Samantha and Maureen then fights Richie while Sidney and Lucy fights Madison as Amber returns to the kitchen where Luna jumps from out of the closet and attacks her.
Luna repeatedly stabs Amber before taking a fetal shot to the head. Sidney and Lucy gang up on Madison and kills her by setting her on fire. Samantha and Maureen repeatedly stabs Richie and then slits his throat. Sidney warns them that the Killer always comes back, so Samantha shoots him three times. A burnt Madison comes running at them from the kitchen with a kitchen knife and Lucy quickly grabs the gun from Sam's hand and shoots her through the head, finally killing her. 
Outside, Val, Tara, Mindy, Lana, Luna, and a still alive Chad are taken to hospital and Maureen apologizes to her mother, aunt, and honorary aunts for not wanting to stay and help and thanks them for the help. She embraces the four and tells them she loves them before she tells her mother she's going to the hospital with Luna.
==== Aftermath ====
Following the murders, Maureen tried to lead a normal life. When Luna graduated Woodsboro High, she enrolled at Blackmore University and moved to New York, and given that Maureen wanted to leaves Woodsboro she followed her there, taking "two shitty jobs" to support their living.
Maureen also began to deal with the fallout of Gale's new book, Requel: Terror Returns To Woodsboro, which depicted Maureen as a psychopath, and a new online community that had been started that accused both her and Sam of being the true masterminds of the 2021 Requel Murders, having framed Richie, Amber, and Madison.
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