Scream – Let the Right One In

By starrymag | July 14, 2016

By: Allison Schonter

 

 

A Day at the Lake

 

It seems as if Zoe (Kiana Ledé) and Noah (John Karna) are hitting it off and, much to everyone’s surprise, Noah actually has some game. After running into Zoe at the coffee shop, Noah agrees to help her study for Applied Physics and it isn’t until Audrey (Bex Taylor-Klaus) says something that he realizes that Zoe has just asked him out on a date. They to go to a lake (Have they never seen Friday the 13^th?) and Noah displays that he has game some more before they head back to his place.

 

Zoe, the ever so intrigued Lakewood student who has an obsession with Noah’s podcast The Morgue, gets to see the behind the scenes of the podcast and how it is made. She catches a glimpse of a recording titled “Audrey” and it piques her interest even more, prompting her to distract Noah and email the file to someone. She is definitely up to something, but we just don’t know what.

 

Where’s Branson?

 

For Brooke (Carlson Young), “Where is Branson?” is the new “Where’s Waldo?” She isn’t sure what to do; she left Branson (Bobby Campo) handcuffed to the bed in the motel room and she comes running to Audrey for help. Audrey is dark, as Brooke notes, and therefore better equipped to deal with these things and understand what Brooke has done.

 

The two go to the motel room and, much to their surprise, Branson isn’t there. As viewers already know, the killer paid a visit to Mr. Branson in last week’s episode and cut off his hand before using an iron to cauterize the wound. This begs the question of, drum roll please, where’s Branson? Brooke’s question is answered moments later when she receives a text from Branson, which we can only assume is really from the killer because it tells her to meet him at the school.

 

After applying her war paint (a/k/a/ makeup), Brooke and Audrey head to the school and Audrey practically begs Brooke to let her go in first and check things out. Audrey is smart and realizes that this could be a trick that the killer is playing and so she decides to risk being the one to fall victim to his/her trap. As she walks into the school, her suspicions are soon confirmed when the janitor comes running to her thinking that she is the paramedics. It turns out that Ms. Lang (Austin Highsmith), who had earlier been in her office listening to recordings that she has of Emma (Willa Fitzgerald), is lying unconscious at the foot of the stairs in a pool of her own blood. The teacher had received a call from the killer only moments before, had found a badly injured Mr. Branson and then been thrown over the railing of the stairs by the killer.

 

Dinner Date for Two

 

Apparently “goldilocksing” is the new thing to do and Eli (Sean Grandillo) even gets Emma in on it. The rift in Emma and Kieran’s (Amadeus Serafini) relationship only keeps growing. Sheriff Acosta shows up to Emma’s house and asks for her computer. He informs her that the emails that her father had received came from Emma’s IP address and he believes that Emma is being targeted.

 

Emma goes to talk to Kieran. She is on edge after everything that has happened and is struggling to understand why Kieran keeps telling the police things about her. She trusts him with these things, but he keeps turning around and telling on her. She is feeling betrayed. Kieran confesses that he’s telling the police these things because they never went to the police with Piper and it only resulted in more murders. He can’t help but believe that if they work with the police now, they can prevent the bad things from happening. He’d rather have Emma alive than dead.

 

Kieran’s confession does little to ease Emma’s anger and Eli is quick to pick up on her sour mood. In an attempt to take her mind off of things, he invites her out to dinner – just the two of them. After a lot of convincing, Emma agrees. The two go goldilocksing, although Emma is unaware that this is what they will be doing. They sneak into a model home in an abandoned subdivision and have dinner. It’s something that Eli does on occasion, a way for him to escape. A short kiss is shared (well this is a really awkward love triangle that’s forming considering that Eli is Kieran’s cousin), but Emma is quick to break it. Before much of anything else can be said or done, the house catching fire rudely interrupts them.

 

Final Thoughts

           

I think that we all may need a breather after that one because Let the Right One In was full of shocks and surprises. Perhaps the biggest thing we garnered from this episode is that Zoe has an alternate agenda. Is her intrigue with the Lakewood Six more than just an interest, maybe something more sinister? Is she only using Noah’s attraction to her to gain further insight into what happened? Could she be Piper 2.0?

 

And then there is everything else that happened. Why is Ms. Lang recording every interaction that she has with Emma? That’s not creepy at all…but it does take her off of the list of possible suspects. And is there something that Kieran could possibly be hiding from Emma? Speaking of Kieran and Emma, lets throw Eli into the mix, too. Emma is possibly feeling some sort of romantic connection to Eli, which will only hinder her relationship with Kieran even more.

 

Lets not forget about Sheriff Acosta (Anthony Ruivivar) and Maggie (Tracy Middendorf). Emma wasn’t hallucinating when she had seen pictures of herself at the abandoned Branson household because Sheriff Acosta goes there and finds a picture of Emma as a child with Seth Branson. Apparently, Acosta and Maggie are hiding something and Emma is the target of whatever is to come.

 

Things aren’t looking like they’re going to settle down for the Lakewood Five anytime soon.