Scream – Jeepers Creepers

By starrymag | July 6, 2016

By: Allison Schonter

 

 

Alibis

 

In last week’s episode, Brooke (Carlson Young) told Sheriff Acosta (Anthony Ruivivar) that she believed Seth Branson (Bobby Campo) to be responsible for Jake’s (Tom Maden) murder. This week, her belief in Branson’s guilt hasn’t wavered. She recruits Gustavo (Santiago Segura) to aid her in her mission to discover the truth and he sneaks into his father’s office to look at Branson’s file. Branson has an alibi: he was with Ms. Lang (Austin Highsmith), the Psychology teacher, the night that Jake was killed. Brooke; however, doubts this to be true and continues on her mission.

 

She takes Gustavo’s words of wisdom perhaps a little too close to heart and takes no prisoners and kicks ass when needed. Luring Branson back to their old hookup spot, she ties him to the bed. She’s brought along a pair of scissors, which turn out to make for the perfect torture device. Branson confesses to lying about his alibi. He was waiting for Jake, who was supposed to be paying him $10,000 to get out of Lakewood. Jake was trying to keep Branson out of Brooke’s life.

 

A Night at the Fair

 

When Emma (Willa Fitzgerald) discovers that Audrey’s (Bex Taylor-Klaus) face has been added to Noah’s John Karna) murder board of possible suspects, she is determined to clear her name and Noah is determined to discover the truth about Audrey. He texts Eddie Kreuger (Chase McCleery Bouchie) a picture of Audrey; Eddie had seen Piper’s (Amelia Rose Blaire) accomplice and therefore he will be able to tell them whether or not Audrey is the accomplice and the possible killer. This leads to them planning to meet Eddie, whom we must not forget is really dead, at the fairgrounds.

 

Noah is the first to arrive and in classic horror movie stupidity, he ventures into the fairgrounds alone and at night with absolutely no cell service. He calls out for Eddie, but nobody is there. The fairgrounds are empty, but Noah continues on and goes into a house of mirrors. Thankfully, he realizes that he is falling into the horror movie tropes and decides that he isn’t going to be a victim, rushing out of the grounds and to his car. Unfortunately, the killer is waiting for him in his car and kidnaps him.

 

Noah wakes up with his hands bound and he is sitting in an amusement ride cart. Audrey is there, too. With his plethora of horror movie knowledge (Noah is sort of the walking encyclopedia of all things horror), he knows that their current situation is bad. Multiple kidnappings usually result in only one survivor and in some cases no survivors. Horror movie logic says that they’re about to die, real world logic says the same and Noah begins a long line of confessions. He tells Audrey that he stole her phone and saw everything and Audrey tells him that the killer lured her to Jake’s body and she was too afraid to tell anybody anything. Noah continues making odd confessions and he even confesses that when he kissed Audrey, it made him feel something.

 

Audrey seems relatively calm for their current predicament, but when she hears Emma and realizes that Noah had received a text from Eddie, she begins to panic. She knows that Eddie is dead, which means that the killer is the one who lured Noah to the fairgrounds. She tells Noah that she followed him and kidnapped him because if they were both kidnapped, he wouldn’t believe her to be the killer. She cuts the rope binding his hands and they run to find Emma. The killer is in the fairgrounds, as suspected, and Emma nearly runs into him before running into Audrey and Noah and later Kieran (Amadeus Serafini). By some miracle, they are all able to make it back to their cars and back home.

 

Confessions

           

Jeepers Creepers ends with a number of confessions, first of which involves Kieran. He has become Sheriff Acosta’s “in” and he is still providing him with information regarding the Lakewood Six. So far, all of this information is regarding Emma. He told Acosta about the gun during the lockdown in last week’s episode and this week he goes to tell him more about Emma. Interestingly enough, Sheriff Acosta also receives the IP address of the person who had been emailing Emma’s dad. It turns out that it was Emma. Could this the killer framing Emma or did Emma really contact her father through a dead person’s email?

 

Audrey also made a confession. She goes to Noah and tells him that she was the one who had brought Piper to Lakewood. She had written letters to Piper requesting that she help her investigate Brandon James. Brandon may have looked different, but he wasn’t a monster. Brandon was like Audrey: alone, angry and rejected. Lakewood had turned Brandon into a monster. But when Piper showed up and the murders started, Piper had sworn to Audrey that she wasn’t the murderer and Audrey believed her, but now she has to live with that guilt. While Noah promises that he won’t tell Emma about this, his promise isn’t a strong one because he has been secretly recording the entire conversation for his podcast.

 

Final Thoughts

 

The strength, resiliency and tight-knit bond that the Lakewood Six once shared are breaking. The recent slue of fresh murders and taunts from the killer is taking its toll and they are beginning to turn against one another. Kieran is the only person that Emma can trust, but it turns out that she can’t really trust him at all. He is now working with Sheriff Acosta and not even Emma is safe from this new alliance. The close friendship that Noah and Audrey once shared is quickly failing, too. Even with Audrey’s confession, Noah doesn’t seem to trust her. Is she still one of his suspects?