Samantha Carpenter

Samantha "Sam" Carpenter 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).
Having run from a troubled past, the former Woodsboro resident returns to her haunted small California hometown to aid her younger sisters Val and Tara against a new Ghostface entity. Later, she and The Fantastics (consisting of herself, her younger sisters, Maureen and Luna Prescott-Madden, Lana, and the Meeks-Martin twins Chad and Mindy) are confronted with a series of Ghostface entities in New York City.
At age 13, she discovered the secret of her birth origin — she is the biological daughter of original Ghostface serial killer, Billy Loomis who derives from the original Scream (1996). Correspondingly, this also makes her the paternal granddaughter of the first copycat Ghostface killer, Nancy Loomis, who appeared in Scream 2 (1997).
After her legal father's abandonment due to her birth origin revelation, she spiraled into a life of drugs and crime. This dismayed soon-Sheriff Judy Hicks, who Sam would help babysit the son of (one of these duties was during the second Woodsboro Murders). At age 18 (likely almost 19) — with Woodsboro no longer serving her any good — she abandoned it in favor of another California town.
In her departure, Sam did not say goodbye to her mother or baby sister (then age 13). Over 5 years later, Sam is confronted with both her troubled teen past and birth origin. Now a 24-year-old bowling alley attending, she joins forces with original legacy franchise survivors, Dewey Riley, Gale Weathers and the twins Sidney and Lucy Prescott, to stop the new killer. She finds herself to be one of Ghostface's primary target.
In the end, Sam proves to embody the rules of a real-life horror movie legacy "requel" (reboot and sequel); she is both the descendant of a legacy character, and the new Ghostface entity is her own boyfriend, Richie whom she is able to kill (staying true to the original Sidney-Billy dynamic), as well as her best friends maternal cousin, Madison Roberts, and his accomplice who lives at 261 Turner Lane, Woodsboro (Macher residence), Amber Freeman.
One year later, Sam still deals with hallucinations of her father. She is in therapy, dates Danny Brackett, 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 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 Sam and Maureen for killing Richie. Meanwhile Sam herself is alluded to have embraced the darker side of her father and grandmother.
She is portrayed by Melissa Barrera.
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