Claire Bailey

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Claire Bailey was a main character in Scream (2022) and one of the three main antagonists in *Scream VI*. She was the thirteenth revealed Ghostface killer in the Scream film franchise. She was the sister of Richie Kirsch, Quinn Bailey, and Ethan Landry, but also the adoptive daughter and sister of Judy and Wes Hicks.

## General Information

### Occupation

Woodsboro High School student, Class of 2022 (graduated)
Blackmore University student (freshman)
Killer

### Weapons

* Buck 120
* Shotgun
Kitchen Knife
Handgun

## Relationships

### Relatives

Wayne Bailey (father) †Unnamed mother (mother) †
Quinn Bailey (twin sister) †
Richie Kirsch (brother) †
Ethan Landry (brother) †
Wes Hicks (adoptive brother) †
Judy Hicks (adoptive mother) †

### Enemies

Samantha CarpenterTara Carpenter
Amber Freeman †
Wayne Bailey †
Chad Meeks-Martin
Mindy Meeks-Martin
Danny Brackett

## PortrayedBy

### Portrayed by

Delilah Reynolds

In the beginning of the Woodsboro Murders, Claire is terrified, as she’s a close friend of the first victim, Tara Carpenter. After Judy and Wes Hicks got murdered by Ghostface, everyone suspected her, as she was the only one, who came out alive.

Before the New York murders, a bit after the group moved to New York, Wayne found her and explained how she ended up in Woodsboro with Wes and Judy. Since that moment, she wanted to kill him, but started off by killing the starter Ghostfaces, Jason and Greg. She became a team with Quinn, Ethan, who helped her with the killing, and Wayne Bailey who did some calls.

## Biography

### Early life

Claire Bailey, also known as Claire Kirsch or Claire Hicks, is the daughter of Wayne Bailey and an unnamed woman. Her mother died after giving birth to her and Quinn. After that, Wayne had problems with raising four kids, so he gave her away to Judy Hicks, who adopted her.

She grew up with Wes, and later both became friends with Tara Carpenter.

### 2022 Woodsboro Legacy Murders

Before the Woodsboro Murders, Richie contacted Claire and explained to her everything about her real family in New York.

After Tara Carpenter is attacked by Ghostface, Claire and her friends visit her in the hospital and are also troubled by the return of Vince Schneider to Woodsboro, who was Liv McKenzie's ex-boyfriend and now stalking her. The next day, Mindy and Chad host their friends and Samantha Carpenter, Richie Kirsch and Dewey Riley, as they discuss the new attacks at their house.

After her adoptive mom, Judy Hicks got murdered, she went downstairs, to see the front door opened. When she closes it, Ghostface jumps out behind her and attacks. Claire gets stabbed in the stomach, Wes comes out of the kitchen, hearing his sister fighting. He screams “Hey” to get Ghostface’s attention. Claire falls down, unable to move, watching Ghostface stabbing Wes’ through the neck. After Ghostface runs away, she calls the police, after they come, Sam appears too, and after the policeman said, Wes died, Sam sees a cop leading Claire out of the house. Sam starts then to suspect Claire to be Ghostface, as she was the only one who came out alive. Meanwhile, Claire suspected Richie, as Ghostface only stabbed her once in the stomach, even though he could kill her, instead of running away.

The next night, Claire and her friends attend the Party at Amber Freeman’s house. While Mindy is getting stabbed, Claire hears the commotion in the other room and comes to find her struggling to fight off Ghostface. Whitney grabs a lamp and smashes the killer in the head and he relents on Mindy. Ghostface runs away and Claire checks on Mindy who fell unconscious with her stab wound.

When the killers, Richie and Amber are revealed, Claire isn’t very shocked, as she expected Richie to be Ghostface. She kinda enjoyed watching her confused friends, who believed, she was the killer.

#### Aftermath

After recovering and graduating from Woodsboro High, Claire enrols at Blackmore University and moves to New York City with Mindy, Chad and Tara, who are also attending.

### The New York Ghostface Murders

Almost a year after moving to New York, Claire and Wayne met for the first time. He explained her, he gave Claire away, she wanted to take revenge and kill him. She also met her siblings Ethan and Quinn, and with her family, she planned to become Ghostface in order to kill Samantha, for killing their brother, Richie, but Claire was working alone to kill Wayne. At first, she dressed up as Ghostface and killed her classmates Jason Carvey and Greg Bruckner. After that, she had to change in her normal clothes and join Tara, Mindy and Ethan the party, but while she was killing Greg and Jason, Ethan covered for her. After returning to the apartment, Then, while Sam and Tara left the house, Claire covered her outfit with the Ghostface costume, and went out of the apartment, a while after Tara did. Then she attacked her, followed to the Bodega Store, where she killed multiple customers and then the Bodega owner and took the owner's shotgun which she used to stalk Sam and Tara. Sam and Tara escape just as the police arrive and Claire escapes through the backdoor, leaving behind Jill Roberts and Charlie Walker's old mask from the shrine.

The next morning, Mindy gathers the group to discuss the rules of a "sequel to the requel" and immediately pins Ethan, Quinn and Anika at the top of her suspect list, and wanted to add Claire, but thinks of it, how she suspected her last time and was wrong. The group agree to stay together for the night and Chad nicknames the survivors the "core five". Tara makes amends with Sam and Sam then reveals that she is dating Danny Brackett, their neighbor. That night, Ethan and Claire helped their sister Quinn to fake her death, so she could continue being Ghostface for them whilst everyone believed she was dead.

Ghostface attacks the group in the apartment. As Tara, Nevaeh and Chad escape the apartment, Mindy, Claire, Sam and Anika flee to Quinn's bedroom where neighbor, and Sam's boyfriend, Danny Brackett runs a ladder between the apartments to allow them to crossover. Claire holds the door shut as Sam crosses and instructs Anika to go next but Anika declines and asks Mindy and Claire to go first. They make it across successfully and as Anika tries to cross over and avoid more blood loss, Ghostface breaks into the room and flips the ladder causing Anika to fall to her death. In the aftermath of her death, Mindy draws suspicion on Ethan as he was the only one of the group not be with them that night as he had an Economics class.

Gale reunites with the group and shows them her discovery of Jason's Ghostface shrine containing the old robes and knives of past Ghostface killers as well as various pieces of Stab memorabilia and old clothes belonging to past victims and killers. Later, Wayne devises a plan to track down Ghostface by having Tara and Sam walk together in a park to get his attention with a phone call whilst Kirby tracks them down. When they discover that Ghostface is at Gale's penthouse, Tara and Sam steal Wayne's police car and race to her apartment where they interrupt Ghostface as he is attacking Gale.

Tara comes up with a plan to lure Ghostface in and execute him and Wayne tells them that they should use the theatre for this plan and to travel there in public, where Kirby will be waiting for them. After getting separated on the subway, Mindy, Ethan and Claire take a next train, while Nevaeh is missing it again. After Mindy is getting stabbed, Claire takes her to the hospital, telling Ethan to join the others at the theatre. After Mindy falls asleep in the hospital, Claire arrives with Ethan, Quinn and Wayne at the theatre. Ethan and Claire both wear Ghostface masks, Claire wearing Stu Macher's and Ethan wearing Nancy Loomis', and attack Kirby Reed, knocking her out so Wayne can frame Kirby as the killer. They then attack Sam, Tara and Chad and the two stab Chad multiple times, leaving him for dead.

While Sam and Tara try to escape the theatre, Ethan and Quinn surprise them from both. Sam gave Tara a brick, but before they can do anything, Kirby comes and shoots. Ethan and Quinn hide, leaving Kirby alone with Sam and Tara, who still think she is one of the Ghostfaces. Wayne went behind them, blaming Kirby for Quinn’s death, then Quinn came next to him, Wayne shot Kirby revealing himself, to work with the killers. Claire came behind him and Ethan on Wayne’s left side. After Quinn and Ethan revealed themselves and told the whole story, Claire standing behind Wayne, put a knife in his throat, killing him and giving Sam and Tara hope. Then, Wayne’s corpse fell on the floor, Claire took out the knife and Billy Loomis’ old mask. She told everyone her motive, why she killed her father and her siblings accepted it. Sam and Tara kill Quinn and Ethan and Sam and Claire fall over a railing, where Claire is knocked out after smashing into a glass display case. When Claire comes to, she gets a phone call from Sam who uses the Ghostface voice and she then emerges behind her in Stu Macher's' old mask and robe and she stabs her over forty times, believing she’s dead.

After a while, Claire comes out of the theatre, she sees multiple ambulances and police cars, she screams for help, telling everyone, Sam killed her family, stabbed her and Chad, then passes out. After Kirby dropped a TV on Ethan’s face, a bunch of policemen come into the theatre, with guns pointed at Sam and Tara.

## Relationships

### Family

* Unnamed Woman † - Mother
* Wayne Bailey † - Father
* Richie Kirsch † - Brother
* Ethan Landry † - Brother
* Quinn Bailey † - Twin sister
* Judy Hicks † - Adoptive mother
* Wes Hicks † - Adoptive brother

### Enemies

* Woodsboro, California
	+ Samantha Carpenter
	+ Tara Carpenter
	+ Chad Meeks-Martin
	+ Mindy Meeks-Martin
	+ Kirby Reed
	+ Gale Weathers
	+ Amber Freeman
* Blackmore University
	+ Anika Kayoko †
	+ Jason Carvey †
	+ Nevaeh Woods †
* New York City
	+ Danny Brackett

## Quotes

*"Who gives a f-ck about movies?!"*

*"Karma is real."*

*"You're all gonna get exactly what you deserve."*

## Appearances

* *Scream VI*
* *Scream*