Wanna Play A Game?

"**Wanna Play a Game"** is the third episode of the first season of the television series, *Scream*. It was written by Jordan Rosenberg and Meredith Glynn. It aired on 14th July, 2015.

## Plot

Emma learns quickly that her mother has been keeping even more secrets from her; the killer continues to harass Emma and challenges her to a dangerous game. Jake and Will's cyber connection to Nina's death put their futures in jeopardy. The killer claims another victim close to Emma.

## Summary

Episode opens with the death of a characters that are flashbacks to the first two people Brandon James killed back in 1994.

We immediately cut to Noah telling podcasting Piper this fact and giving his opinions on the matter. He tells her that no one puts on a mask to murder someone and just stops, so the question is who’s next?

Maggie is still working on the autopsy of Rachel, while Emma lurks outside and overhears a lot. Not only does she find out that Rachel was murdered, she also discovers that her mom was sent a heart in a box. Sheriff Hudson decides not to tell Rachel’s family her cause of death until after the wake.

Brooke is in a hotel room, having a sexy Skype call with Mr. B. She tells Mr. B. that there is a naughty photo of her hidden somewhere in his classroom and he better find it before someone else does, which leads to a scene later where he’s attempting to “teach” while also looking for this picture. The saga of Jake and Will continues this week and it’s becoming increasingly convoluted. Jake goes to the woods and digs up a box that is now empty, because Will has taken the money that was in it. It seems they had some sort of teen stalker porn empire that Tyler was also involved in. And now neither one of them trusts each other.

Emma shows up at Rachel’s wake and finds Audrey upstairs looking as if she’s about to hang herself from the ceiling fan, but what she’s really doing is testing to see if Rachel’s death was even possible. Emma informs her that it was murder and later at the coffeehouse, she confesses that she has a stalker who may have been the one to murder Rachel. Audrey convinces Emma to reply to the direct message she received earlier from @brandonjames\_94.

Mr. B. puts everyone into pairings and asks them to perform a scene in class. Emma and Kieran are paired off, and while trying to pick a scene, Kieran mentions that his dad has the Brandon James files at his house. When this piques Emma’s curiosity, he offers to bring them to her house to look over.

Noah and Riley are scene partners, and she’s miffed because he ran off in the middle of their make-out session last week, and he gives a pseudo-apology and promises their next hangout will be better.

Brooke and Jake are another assigned pair and while she teases him about his falling out with Will, he teases back about her “college” boyfriend. He mentions a story about a bobcat attacking a shark, and how the shark thinks it’s the apex predator until the bobcat comes along, leaving her to ponder whether she’s the bobcat or the shark in her relationship.

Over at Emma’s house, she’s going over the files with Kieran and finds a picture of Brandon James before the surgeries. She also finds out that the reason her father was attacked by Brandon is because of her mother, thus she connects the dots that Maggie is Daisy. When Maggie gets home, Emma confronts her with the truth and asks why the police want to talk to her dad, but Maggie doesn’t give her any real answers.

Noah takes Riley to his workplace after hours for their date and it’s a weird hybrid of video game store, comic book store and record store. His plan is to woo her with video games and it works, because Riley is just as big of a nerd as he is. They move their nerd love to the couch and get *very* horizontal, but are interrupted by a text from Tyler asking for help.

Riley gathers Emma, Will, Jake and Brooke at the coffee house and while Riley is fully on Team Tyler, Brooke, who also received messages from Tyler, is on Team Call the Cops. Emma explains that she has a stalker and that’s who is probably behind this, so the rest of the group outvote Riley and agree to go to the police.

The police set up a ruse to draw Tyler out with a fake Riley as bait, but instead they get a man who was paid two hundred bucks by a stranger on the internet to show up at the park. While this is happening, the girls are at the station, until Brooke bails after texts from an “unknown number” that she presumes is Mr. B. wanting to meet her at the hotel.

When they discover Brooke is missing, Emma and Maggie leave to go search for her, and Emma starts getting more chirps from the killer, asking her to choose between Brooke and Riley and if she refuses, he’ll choose for her. When she finds out that Riley is safe at the police station, she chirps back asking him not to hurt Brooke. Brooke, meanwhile, is at her hotel, handcuffed to a bed, wearing a mask and lingerie.

Lakewood Slasher isn’t going to hurt Brooke though, because he’s behind the police station texting Riley as Tyler, and luring her out there alone. Riley heads outside, sees Tyler’s car, but no Tyler. She’s chased by Lakewood Slasher and stabbed in the back and the leg as she tries to climb a ladder to the roof. Once up there, she gets a call from Noah who she begs to call 911 because she’s been stabbed and as he freaks out and does *not* call 911, she dies while looking at the stars, as they did on their first date.