Nina Patterson

**Nina Patterson** is the cruel and ruthless queen bee of Woodsboro High, ruling the student body with an iron fist. Her decisions are driven by hate and competition with other students whether it involves her relationship with friends, family or Tyler.

While, that may be true to some extent, Nina’s ability to act as the queen puppet master comes from her near to flawless ability to manipulate people. Of all the residents in Woodsboro, Nina was the girl you shouldn’t cross.

Many recognize Nina as the strawberry blonde spitfire who won’t hesitate to out people the first chance she gets. Girls like Nina are affluent and spoiled and expected to marry billionaires without ever suffering the consequences of their actions. While, that may be true to some extent, Nina’s ability to act as the queen puppet master comes from her near to flawless ability to manipulate people.

With Tyler's assistance, she was able to bug everyone, including teachers and town officials. She had an entire private room set up in her mansion with monitors on everyone. And Nina, she had front row seats to the whole thing. Even Brooke described Nina as a "spoiled sociopath with no impulse control”. So, not exactly someone you want to be frenemies with. For years, Nina relentlessly bullied Audrey, Noah, and a score of other underlings at Woodsboro High. And now, well... karma’s a bitch.

She has the most influence over the plot, the setting of the story, serving as the posthumous secondary antagonist for the drama half of the show, because without her there would be no story to begin with.

## **Physical Appearance**

Nina has a very beautiful face complimented with lush pouty lips, prominent nose, chocolate brown eyes and a slim long neck. She has a pale rosy complexion and long, wavy strawberry-blonde hair. Nina is tall at approx. 5'8".

## **Personality and Traits**

Nina is a very realistic representation of sociopaths and psychopaths in society. One that could easily be found at your nearest high school. She’s a world-class bully who gets her kicks on tormenting people weaker than her. She has no redeeming characteristics whatsoever.

She’s self-centered like many school bullies. However, this is obviously ramped up to sociopathic degrees.

Speaking of manipulation, the reason Nina was attracted to Tyler is because she was the only person she couldn’t manipulate. Her previous boyfriends were all college frat-boys who she had eating out of the palm of her hand which didn’t exactly satisfy her.

## **Role in Series**

* ***Pilot***

A roaring engine of a car came to a stop, as two teenagers pulled up to the Patterson household. Nina sits in the passenger seat, while her ex-boyfriend, Tyler, sat in the driver's side, his hand casually resting on the steering wheel. Nina rolled her eyes and took a sip from her flask. "It's a time-honored enforcement of the food chain. The weak are outed, and then eaten." Nina says. Tyler grinned. "Wow, you're a mean drunk tonight." Tyler says. "Oh, please," Nina rebuked, her words slurring slightly. "You agreed that clip was too good to trash." "Officer, she made me do it," Tyler said smiling, turning his head toward Nina.

    "She makes me do a lot of things," he says, sending a suggestive look toward his ex-girlfriend. Nina ignored him, only paying attention to the numerous alerts on her phone. "Oh, my God. Chirpster's all over it. Audrey's totally trending," she announced excitedly, glad her plan was going well. Everyone was buzzing about the viral video of Audrey making out with a blonde girl in a parking lot. "It already has 500 views and counting," Nina added as she turned to Tyler, a prideful, satisfied look on her pretty face. Tyler moved closer to Nina, roaming his hands along her body. "Then why don't you make me a drink while we break the internet, huh?" he suggested. "I know your parents are out of town." Nina remained unimpressed. "Awww, no," she replied, unsympathetic toward his sexual needs. "I only needed your tech-savvy tonight, not what's in your pants." Nina replies. Opening the car door, she stepped out and headed toward her house. *Even though her parents were out of town, Nina never planned on hooking up with Tyler tonight. She only needed his extensive knowledge of technology, so she could upload the video without it being traced back to her.* Nina's heels clicked against the pavement on the way toward her front door, leaving Tyler watching her walk away with a longing expression on his face. Nina walks up to the front steps of her house. A key clicks into the lock and the front door opens. Nina gasps with happiness after see her little Pomeranian dog. "Hi, baby!" she chirped. Nina bends down, petting Sage. "Aw, yes the love of my life. Come on." Nina walks through her house, planning on taking a nice, relaxing soak in her hot tub. Not liking the quiet, she opened up an app on her phone and commanded, "Music on," into her iPhone 5c. She bobbed her head to the beat, as a pop song started playing from the various speakers around the house. A little while later, Nina changes into a black string bikini and puts on a magenta kimono, while Sage yapped at her feet. "Aw, you want to come into the hot tub with me, don't you, Sage?" Nina asked, securing her hair up into a ponytail. "You can't go in the hot tub. That would be gross." Dinging, Nina's phone blasted with numerous notifications, causing her to look down. Picking her phone up, Nina unlocks it. Seeing a video of her talking to Sage just a mere few seconds earlier, Nina widens her eyes.

    Confused, she turns around, surveying her surroundings. But no one was there. Phone dings. "*How does it feel to be the star of the show?"*  Nina sees the text was from Tyler. She turns back around, and noticed the green light shining from her MacBook Air computer; a signal that the webcam was on. Nina shook her head, marching over to her computer and slamming the laptop shut. Leaning against the desk, she muttered, "Tyler, you are skating on Restraining Order Lake." Getting another text alert, Nina quickly looks down at her phone. "*Am I on thin ice?*" Freaked out and growing angrier by the minute, she yells, "Tyler!" Nina started wandering around the house, trying to see where her ex-boyfriend was. "I swear to God if you are in my house, you are dead!" Nina calls out, clenching her jaw, growling under her breath. She walks down the hallway. "Sage is a trained-attack Pomeranian, and she will gut you on command!" Nina calls out. Reaching the front door, Nina shakes her head slightly and turns to the front door. Nina slowly walks towards the front door, opens it and slowly steps outside to the porch in wonder. Nina stared out at the empty porch. She listened to the sounds of chirping crickets. Nina looked out at the vast front garden, the gnarled oak tree in the night time. She looked around and scanned the area with narrowed eyes, frowning when she noticed that, again, there was no one there. Getting another ding from her phone, Nina looked down at the screen and sees a video playing of herself walking outside from just moments earlier. Nina gasps in fear, spins around. But still, there was no one in sight. Nina's breath was coming out in short pants, no longer finding Tyler's little game funny. She couldn't help but jump in fright, as another beep came through her phone, causing Nina to furrow her eyebrows. "*Maybe you'll get more views than Audrey's video*." Nina froze momentarily, before quickly heading back inside the house; her fear slightly washing away and replacing itself with anger. "Well, maybe you should grow up!" Nina scowly shouted in anger, walking into the living room and to the side glass door. "And when you do, I'll be outside!" Wanting to come follow, Sage nudged Nina's leg with her snout, only for Nina to shut the door in the dog's face, whispering, "No. Stay inside." Sensing Nina's movement, the motion-detecting lights turned on, illuminating the pool area and revealing numerous lounge chairs, a large swimming pool, and some aesthetically pleasing plants. Walking toward the hot tub, Nina sees steam rising from the heated water. Her phone beeps. "Outdoor speakers on," Nina commanded into her phone. And instantly, music emitted from the speakers along the house and distracted her from her creep of an ex-boyfriend. Nina sits down at the edge of the hot tub, dipping her feet into the hot water as the warmth soothed her tense muscles. But her calm state only lasted for a few moments and was interrupted when a strange noise reached her ears. Instinctively, Nina turned around, trying to push down the fear that gnawed inside her.

    "Tyler?" she called out hesitantly. The motion-detecting lights shut off, and Nina turns back around to grab her phone, sending a text to Tyler's number. "*Was that you?*" she typed. "*Maybe. Is this where it gets interesting?*" A smile made its way onto Nina's lips. She liked this new side of Tyler. It was exciting. "*I may have underestimated you*," she texted back. Setting her phone down and removing her legs from the water, Nina headed toward the other side of the hot tub. Nina dropped her robe, giving Tyler a perfect view of her, as she slowly made her way back into the hot tub. Nina seductively watches the backside of the house. She slowly turns around and almost sinks into the water, resting against the wall of the hot tub. As her phone alerted her of another text message, Nina snatched the phone from the edge of the hot tub, unlocking it to see what see what it said. "*You're killing me*." Satisfied by Tyler's reaction, Nina typed back, "*Then get over here, and do something about it*." After sending the message, she set her phone back down, leaning against the edge of the tub and closing her eyes. A few seconds later, her phone dings. "*Heads up*." A splash in the water startled Nina. Nina opened her eyes, squinting slightly from a splash of something dropping into the water. Frowning, she moves closer to see what it was. Nina screams in horror once she sees Tyler's severed head floating in the water, facing her with his eyes open. Nina's hand splashes water around. She rises up, letting out another blood-curdling scream. Quickly reaching out for her phone, Nina grabs it and scrambles out of the water, panting while she ran in panic, only to keep looking back to see if anyone was following her. After a few moments of running aimlessly in fear across her backyard, she came to a stop by hiding behind a tree. Still hyperventilating, Nina struggles to unlock her phone with her trembling wet fingers. Starting to get fed up, she wipes the phone on her arm, turning on the voice command app. Nina whispers frantically into the phone, "Call 9-1-1." Her phone beeps. "Calling Pottery Barn," Siri responds. Nina grunts in frustration and then peeks her head out from behind the tree. Seeing no one around, Nina looks back. Deciding to make a run for it, Nina runs toward the house, causing the motion-detecting lights to turn on and her to panic. Pounding the palm of her hand on the locked garden glass patio door, Nina tried to get inside, but to no avail. "Help! Help!" she cried out. Seeing as that wasn't working, Nina panically goes further down the side of the house. "Somebody, help me!" she whimpers in fear. Nina continued to frantically bang her hand against the glass, in an attempt to get someone's attention. But no one, besides her dog, was home. Just as she was about to call out for help again, in the hopes that one of her neighbors would hear her, the *wicked-sharp* blade of a hunting knife slashed horizontally across Nina's back, slicing the flesh open. Nina lets out a strangled cry of agonizing pain before dropping to her knees as the warmth of blood drips down her back. Nina's hand desperately reached behind her to stop the bleeding. But she couldn't reach the injury. Nina groaned in pain. With her back stinging from the slash wound, Nina spins around and backs away in terror, gasping. Nina slowly staggered to her feet and stumbled across the cement patio, desperate to escape. However, from the possible pain she was enduring or from fear or possibly for both reasons, Nina dropped down onto the grass. She fumbled, trying to crawl away, but the energy was quickly draining from her body. While trying to stand up with as much strength as she could muster, Nina limped across the grass in a last attempt to escape. But she didn't have the strength to go any further. Nina moans in pain, dropping down to the ground again, her back coated in blood. Crawling forward, she continued to whimper, and the white ghost-masked figure in a black hooded poncho wraps his arm around Nina, and lifts her to her feet near the edge of the swimming pool. The masked figure pulls Nina to him, gripping her with his arm. Nina beats at the figure while wrenching from side to side, crying helplessly. The killer seized hold of the girl’s hair in their left hand. They hovered the blade over the side of Nina’s throat. They angled the blade so that they could press the side against her throat and then they pressed down and dragged their wrist across swiftly. As the blade parted flesh and arteries, it turned slightly so that the pointed tip started tearing through Nina's skin. As a result it ribboned her windpipe like a sheet of paper. Blood didn’t gush out in a fountain, but rather it took to the air in a fine mist that sprayed out. The killer didn’t let go of Nina, keeping her head held back so that the wound stayed stretched open. Nina wasn’t really making noises. It was hard to tell if the hideous wheezing rasps were coming out of her mouth or the slice in her throat, her destroyed windpipe. After a few moments, body twitching and shuddering, the blonde fell still.

     That was when the masked figure carelessly tosses the limp Nina into the water with a splash, not even bothering to check and see whether she was still alive or not, knowing that if she wasn't, she would be soon. Near where the queen bee's splayed out body floated facedown, the previously clear water-filled swimming pool began to turn a crimson color, as blood swirled around her half-naked form.

At school, Emma Duval, Brooke Maddox, Riley Marra, Will Belmont, and Jake Fitzgerald. Riley says that she doesn't see Nina anywhere. Brooke deadpans that Nina is a "spoiled sociopath with impulse control." Will claims that Nina was the one who did the "wide-release."

Later that morning, Nina's parents arrive home and Mrs. Patterson discovers her daughter's bikini-clad lifeless body still floating facedown in the pool.

Murmurs of gossip circled around the school, and it seemed as if a majority of the student body was discussing the recent, but not so tragic, news of Nina's murder. Most of Woodsboro's teen populous reacts to Nina's death with mild indifference, dry humor, or as a legitimately good thing, seeing as she was a complete bitch after all.

At the end of the episode, it is revealed that Jake saved files of Nina and watches a video footage from Nina's webcam. Nina is seen wearing a gray sheep print bathrobe, dancing around in her bedroom with Sage on the couch.

* ***Hello, Emma***

A memorial has been set up on a fence at the school, completely filled with sappy, shallow mementos and flowers from Nina's friends.

Later that day, a GIF from the night of Nina's murder (superimposed with the blinking red caption **"PAYBACK'S** **A BITCH"**) is sent to the entire Woodsboro High student body. On the GIF, a short video footage shows Nina's body laying face down, floating in the swimming pool, as blood seeps out from her back, making the water look like a scene from ***Jaws***. In front of Nina, holding the camera, was a masked figure, tilting their head.

* ***Aftermath***

During a conference with Clark Hudson, he mentions that when Riley died of her injuries, it was the same person who murdered Nina.

Later, a Chirpster poll tags Brooke. She discovers a photo with the title: ***WOODSBORO'S HOTTEST CLIQUE IS BEING MURDERED! VOTE FOR WHO YOU'D RATHER SEE ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK.*** Under the title, photos of Nina, Brooke, Emma and Riley. Nina's photo is crossed out with a red X.

* ***The Dance***

After Audrey and Noah look through Rachel Murray's raw video footages, a video footage appears on the TV, showing a very drunk Nina being led outside of a bar by Kieran Wilcox the night before she is murdered. This is filmed by Rachel.

At the Halloween Dance, Audrey reveals to Emma that she went through Rachel's tapes and discovered a video of Kieran at a bar with Nina. Emma watches a clip of the video footage of Nina looking stunningly beautiful as she is led outside by Kieran, who sees Rachel. It is revealed that Kieran met Nina at a bar.

A flashback shows Nina in a red bandage dress, looking bored and listening to a man sitting at the bar. Nina soon looks over people in front of a bar, particularly eyeing an attractive guy on the other side, staring at her. Nina smiles flirtatiously as she broke eye-contact, with the man flirting with her. Nina drinks her martini cocktail and sets it down on the table. She has her keys in her hand and smiles while telling Kieran that she insisted on driving herself. Kieran turned a very much drunk Nina to face the door. Kieran held his hands on Nina's waist, directing her drunk body through the pool table games, and out the door.

## **Trivia**

* Nina was the secondary antagonist for the majority of the series, but was ultimately killed off to make way for the true main villain to take over.
* The first character in the franchise to run a big extortion company.
* While *not* a killer, Nina kept ruin people's lives beyond the grave due to her extortion company and videotaping people in their intimate moments.
* Her complete selfishness and cruelty makes her to the most unlikable victim in the series and one of the few victims in the whole franchise that no one mourned about them.
* Nina also is most likely a pathological liar, making her a minimal catalog of mental illness.
* She's attractive, and more importantly, she's *the* most socially intelligent resident of Woodsboro.
	+ That's what gives her the power to manipulate others so well. She understands people's fears and insecurities.