Best Friends Forever

REVENGE is a dish best served COLD, and this is only the BEGINNING

***Best Friends Forever***, originally titled *"A Beautiful Friendship",* is the third episode of the first season of *Shelley* and the third episode overall. It is directed by Peter Stanley-Ward, written by Natalie Conway and Peter Stanley-Ward, and released by Crypt TV. It stars Sylvie Nightingale, Lucinda Davidson, Sophia Del Pizzo, Megan Greeves, and Laura McKee.

The episode was released on Crypt TV's Facebook page on May 15th, 2018, and on their YouTube channel on June 15th, 2018.

## Summary

Shelley closes in on the final accomplice in her murder with the help of an old friend.

## Plot

Immediately after the events of the previous episode, Heidi is running through the empty school, She sees a group of people outside one of the windows and starts banging on the glass, screaming for help to try and get their attention. She looks over and runs away, and Shelley is seen gaining on her. Heidi runs down the hall and goes through a nearby door -- to the backstage of the auditorium where the reunion is being held.

Heidi runs down the spiral stairs and starts to shake the curtains, once again screaming for help. She runs onstage and is startled by the in-progress set left behind for the school play. As she tries to run, someone starts to move the trees to close her in. Heidi runs for the open space when Shelley appears out of nowhere and cracks her in the head with her hockey stick. Heidi falls to the floor and Shelley throws her stick on the floor before turning away from Heidi...and removing her hair. "Shelley", revealed to be Celine Beker, turns around and tells Heidi it's time to pick up where they left off. Heidi, however, once again calls her "Blobby", much to Celine's irritation.

Heidi asks Celine what she's doing, and Celine only smiles, stepping towards her and singing "I saw you." As Heidi tries to crawl away, Celine turns her back and stares up at the staircase. As a flashback plays of the teenaged girls taking Shelley to the auditorium, Celine reveals that she stood there twenty years ago, and says that suicide was the perfect cover-up for what the bullies did to Shelley. In the past, Lauren, Nicki, and Heidi tie Shelley up and hang her from the auditorium rafters, watching as the students in the auditorium become hysterical. In the present, Celine says that she told the teachers what she'd seen, but none of them believed her. She storms over to Heidi and grabs her by the hair, saying that since they were left to deal with what happened by themselves, this is her "dealing with it".

Heidi grabs a nearby screwdriver and stabs Celine in the foot, disorienting her enough to run away. Heidi runs backstage while Celine grabs her hockey stick and pursues her. Heidi shouts that Celine is insane, and Celine, seemingly unbothered, asks Heidi if she remembers the slasher films they grew up with. Someone comes out of the shadows behind her, and Celine asks cryptically, "There was never just one killer, was there?" Someone puts a field hockey stick around Heidi's neck and pulls her back towards them, revealing Shelley was the one behind her. Celine says it's hard to plan a reunion when you're dead as Shelley strangles Heidi with her hockey stick. Blood drips from Heidi's eyes, and Shelley quickly yanks the stick back, creating enough pressure to kill her.

In the auditorium, the reunion goes on, with the guests unaware of what has transpired. The curtains begin to open, and as the audience looks on, Heidi's corpse is hanging from the rafters. As the reunion descends into chaos and people start to flee, Shelley and Celine watch on. Shelley takes Celine's hand, and Celine says that this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

## Continuity

### Revelations

 Celine Beker saw the girls kill Shelley, and she organized the reunion as a way to get revenge for Shelley's murder.

## Trivia

* The episode was originally titled "A Beautiful Friendship".

## References

1. ↑ Crypt TV. “Shelley | Episode 3: A Beautiful Friendship | REVENGE is a dish best served COLD....this is only the BEGINNING | By Crypt TV.” Facebook, Crypt TV; May 15th, 2018.