Carrie

**Carrie** is a Gallows Creek High student and the seventh 911 caller.

## History

Carrie was a teenager attending Gallows Creek High. She was best friends with Jeanie McPherson.

Shortly before September 3, 1987, a schoolmate named Jimmy invited her and of her friends to go explore the abandoned Loramie Estate as part of the informal Whistling Night, where it is said that the man it is named after, Edward Marshall Mooney a.k.a. the Whistling Man, would return from the dead and search the town for victims. Carrie went along while Jeanie declined.

Unbeknownst to her, Jimmy and the others had agreed to prank Carrie by making her believe that the Whistling Man had broken in and was killing everyone. Carrie is able to get away to hall on the first floor, where she calls 911 at around 2 a.m., being redirected to KFAM 189.16 - The Scream with Forrest Nash. Initially, Carrie is confused why she isn't talking with the police, scared out of her mind, and unable to answer questions as she begins to hyperventilate. Peggy is able to calm her down and gets her to disclose her location and that she is being pursued by the Whistling Man. She asks Forrest for help and where she should hide, her choices being the bathroom, the bedrooms or a closet. No matter which is chosen, she is unable to follow through as she realizes that the Whistling Man has entered her floor and begins to panic again. Forrest can either tell her to run or stay still, but regardless of his answer, the door to Carrie's position is broken down, causing her to scream. It is then revealed by the laughter of several people that the entire thing was a set-up and that her life was never in danger.

Forrest and Peggy are left stunned at Jimmy's audacity to go through with the prank and endangering the lives of his friends despite being informed of the presence of an actual murderer under the guise of Whistling Man, while Carrie is left outraged and demands for the Whistling Man to unmask. Only then do the teens realize that none of them are playing the Whistling Man and that the person in the get-up is a complete stranger to them, which only becomes more apparent when the Whistling Man proceeds to slash and stab Jimmy to death. Carrie is able to corral her friends into a room and help her temporarily barricade it from the inside. As Forrest and Peggy think of what could be done to help them, Carrie, having taken on a leadership role, tells her group that 911 isn't available and that they must find a way out on their own. She realizes that everyone could escape if they managed to reach the van they arrived in, but also remembers that they keys were on Jimmy. Almost immediately, the group begins to bicker about possible ways of planning their escape, to which Carrie laments that Jeanie wasn't there to help, a name Peggy recognizes as being that of their intern at the station. Carrie, getting overwhelmed with the awful individual ideas of her friends, asks Forrest to wait for her to call back as they try to formulate a cohesive plan.

Forrest and Peggy decide that they should look through Jeanie's workstation to see if she has anything to help the teens with their plans. They can find a friendship quiz with the names of Carrie and her classmates on it. Shortly after, Carrie calls again and goes through the plan the group has made step by step, asking Forrest to act as the tiebreaker to decide over who should do what in accordance to who is best skilled for the job. The only role that has been definitively decided is who gets the car keys from Jimmy's body, which Carrie has taken upon herself.

Regardless of the success of her friends, Carrie completes her task, retrieving the keys, though retching at the sight of Jimmy's flayed face. Depending on who is chosen, Carrie either elects to stay behind to open the gate for the van for the others to escape, or is injured and left behind after they crash their vehicle, both times leaving her to be found by the Whistling Man. In the former case, the Whistling Man grabs Carrie as she holds the gate open, but stops short at killing her and leaves without harming her while if the van crashed, the Whistling Man actually gets Carrie's leg out of the wreckage before walking away. Carrie is left puzzled by the encounter and decides to walk home.

A little later, directly after Roller Ricky calls in, Carrie makes a follow-up call from her home, where she thanks Forrest for his efforts, regardless of their effectiveness, and ponders why she of all people was spared by the Whistling Man. Forrest can suggest that the killer only wanted the pranksters, just got bored, or saw her as an innocent victim, though neither of them are entirely convinced of their accuracy. Peggy butts in and says that the hazing nights need to stop, which would have prevented the teens from leaving their homes tonight in the first place. Carrie thanks the station for their time and asks for a song request for anything by Blast Processor. Directly afterwards, Dawn mentions in her call how glad she is that no harm came to Carrie.

## Trivia

* Carrie is named after the titular protagonist of the horror novel *Carrie* by Stephen King, which was his literary debut. Both Carries also fall victim to ill-spirited pranks by their peers, which inadvertently leads to murder, though in this case, it is not Carrie who kills anyone, but another vengeful killer.
* Carrie, Leslie Harper, Casey Moore, and technically Dawn, are the only 911 callers who never die during their calls.