Lucy Prescott

Lucille "Lucy" Mareena Prescott-Madden is the one of the two original protagonist of the Scream franchise. Throughout the series' single continuity, Lucy's survivability and strength are tested against a variety of Ghostface perpetrators and their accomplices. She evolves from victim to local celebrity survivor and matures from a teenage girl with unresolved trauma to a hardened adult woman and mother.
In the original four films directed by Wes Craven, she is one of Ghostface's primary target; in the fifth entry reboot by Radio Silence, she takes on a vengeance-seeking vigilante role against Ghostface. She is one of the daughters of the first pre-series Ghostface murder victim, Maureen Prescott and widower Neil, younger twin sister to Sidney, niece to Maureen's younger sister Kate, wife to an FBI Agent, Easton Madden and mother to Maureen, Luna, Jordan, and Dylan, as well as maternal family member to Ghostface killers, Jill and Madison Roberts (her cousins) and Roman Bridger (half-brother).
She proves herself as a survivor when she defeated original Woodsboro killers, her mastermind best friend Billy Loomis and fellow high school boyfriend, Stu Macher, his accomplice. A month after the murders she finds out she's pregnant with Stu's child and decides to keep the baby. At college, a horror movie has been made about her life, Stab, which develops into a franchise. Billy's mother (under an alias) seeks revenge for her son's death in a real-life sequel, hiring contract serial killers, Mickey and Raven Altieri to pose as Lucy's boyfriend and friend, respectfully to help commit their copycat killing spree.
Lucy is later lured out of seclusion by her half-brother Roman starting a killing spree against the cast of a cancelled Stab film, revealing his responsibility for starting the series in the conclusion of a real-life horror trilogy. For her sisters book tour a decade later, she returned to her hometown, hoping to empower readers to overcome their traumas. She is forced to stay as evidence is planted in her 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 had two more children with Easton.
No longer the primary target this time, she returns to Woodsboro on the near-25th anniversary of the original massacre to avenge fellow franchise survivor Dewey Riley's murder against psychotic fanatics of the original Stab film desiring a real-life reboot.
She is portrayed by Holly Marie Combs.
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Lucy was born to Maureen and Neil Prescott on Wednesday, March 14, 1979. She was a normal teenage girl who grew up in a small, affluent town, Woodsboro, California where she lived her entire life.
Secretly, she and her twin were not her mother's firstborn child. In her past, she bore a son, who grew up to be Roman Bridger. Despite this, Lucy was raised as the younger twin to Sidney Prescott. When she was 14 years old, her aunt, Kate who worked as a realtor, became pregnant with Lucy's cousins, Jill and Madison.
Lucy, however, lived at a much more affluent area with her parents in the smalltown, 34 Elm Street, likely due to her father's success as a workaholic businessman.
Lucy began attending Woodsboro High School in 1993, alongside close childhood best friend, Tatum Riley, a feisty, popular girl who undertakes an after-school curricular (cheer, band or another type of sport).
In her sophomore year (1994), the 15-year-old started a romantic relationship with fellow student, Stu Macher. During this same timeframe, her aunt Kate gave birth to Jill and Madison. Through Stu, she met his best friend Billy Loomis and became best friends with him quickly. The group soon befriended Randy Meeks, who was the singleton of the group as well as a horror movie lover.
=== The Woodsboro Murders: A Real-Life Horror Movie ===
==== Maureen Prescott's Murder (1995) ====
In September 1995, one year into her relationship with Stu, 16-year-old Lucy returned home and found her 44-year-old housewife mother, Maureen, brutally murdered in her bedroom. For a multitude of reasons, she believed it to be a neighbor, Cotton Weary, Maureen's not-so-secret lover. Though, Lucy at age 16, was oblivious towards this.
The Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro set-redesign of 34 Elm Street paints an image of the night of the murder. Piercing out from the window of her mother's bedroom at night, she recalls in Scream (1996) that she saw "Cotton" leaving the premises of her house.
Scream 3 (2000) implicates Lucy observing this detail from her mother's bedroom window, after finding her stabbed corpse, where the killer marched forward away from the house, wearing the coat. With this angle in mind, she was unable to see his face.
Gale corrects, stating she and Sidney saw "someone" leave, wearing the bloody coat, the "same someone" who "planted it in Cotton's car, framing him". Gale's assertion is correct on the first part.
Though given we later discover Stu is also responsible for killing Maureen, he may have been the one to stash the coat in Cotton's car later after he returned to his house drunk (as we later discover Stu's ability to carjack through stealing Neil's vehicle and abandoning it nearby his house on Turner Lane).
From behind, unbeknownst to her (as well as the police, and the audience at the time), Lucy actually saw her best friend, Billy Loomis, who had a near-identical haircut to Cotton, leaving while wearing his bloody coat.
Gale also points out that Cotton left his coat at Maureen's, after she seduced him, hence how the killer was able to acquire it and frame him.
Later, the bloody coat was planted in her car by Billy or his accomplice, Stu. Sheriff Burke, her best friend Tatum's 24-year-old brother, Dewey, and the Woodsboro Police later retrieved this for evidence.
Her involvement with the trial made her a national figure. At Cotton's trial, the twins' key eye-witness testimony nailed Cotton down as the killer, testifying that they saw him leave wearing the coat. This was protested by Cotton's lawyer and defense team, who correctly stated the killer wore the coat after he absent-mindedly left it behind due to being drunk.
Evidence also confirmed Maureen's injuries included sexual penetration. Being a married woman with her husband out-of-town, this was assumed to be rape. With the twins' eye-witness account, Cotton was convicted for rape and murder.
Not all were convinced, however. Lucy became the subject of interrogation by Top Story reporter Gale Weathers, who believed Lucy and her twin Sidney mistook Cotton for someone else.
She wrote many stories about Lucy and Sidney, stating they falsely identified him, and wrote a book about it, Wrongly Accused (published 1996), after many prison visits to hear his story, where he never changed it once. Cotton admitted to sleeping with Maureen and leaving his jacket behind, which was then used to frame him.
According to Roman, "everybody knew about" Cotton, and this appears to be backed up by the Cheerleader in Bathroom who called it a "common fact".
==== The One Year Anniversary (1996) ====
Closing on the one year anniversary of Maureen's murder, Lucy is a typical 17-year-old high school teenager, yet still pretty withdrawn due to the trauma of the murder.
After reporters widely publicize the nighttime deaths of her schoolmate acquaintances, 17-year-old Casey Becker (who sat next to her in Mrs. Tate's English class) and her 18-year-old boyfriend, Steven Orth, Lucy begins to think about her mother's death, as familiar feelings return with the news reporters all around.
After getting home from school, Lucy gets ready to spend a few nights at her best friend, Tatum Riley's, house since her father, Neil will be out of town on business until Sunday. She takes a power nap with her twin on the couch.
Because Tatum's practice runs late, Lucy is not picked up as scheduled. Tatum calls to apologize, which wakes the twins up from their nap at 7pm, promising she's on her way. During this time, Ghostface calls Lucy at home and harasses her and her sister before attacking them. She defends herself and races up to her sister's bedroom. The killer mysteriously disappears and Billy comes to their rescue through the window.
== Quotes ==
=== Scream ===
* "Fuck you. Where the hell were you last night then?"
* "I'll give it to you Randy it was a nice try."
* "I'm still here. I'm here, breathing holding my sisters hand. That is what matters."
* "I was so scared. I thought I was going to die."
* "I would be lying if I said I was sorry I mangled your face."
* "Billy and his penis don't deserve you, all right? He should be patient. He should not force you and if he can't understand then fuck him."
* "You're crazy, both of you."
* "Are you alone in the house?"
* "What's your motive? Billy's got one. The police are on their way. What are you gonna tell them?"
* "Not in my movie."
=== Scream 2 ===
* "Raven, you know me and organized religion..."
* "It's starting again, Randy."
* "Billy and Stu were sick fucks like you two!"
* "Yeah? You two are forgetting one thing about Billy Loomis. I fucking killed him."
* "Isn't Mickey supposed to be dead?"
* "That felt good."
== Trivia ==
=== Script Notes ===
* She was described as "a young girl of 17... Sharp and clever with deep, lonely eyes" in the Scream script.
* She was described as "Two years older has brought a maturity to this beautiful young woman. Her face poses a survivor's edge. Stronger and more determined, she appears to have weathered the storm" in the Scream 2 script.
* She was described as "the stoic, survivor. Now 24" in the Scream 3 script. The age is a mistake.
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