Scream – The Orphanage

By starrymag | July 27, 2016

By: Allison Schonter

 

 

Daddy Issues

 

Brooke (Carlson Young) just can’t seem to catch a break. She’s lost Jake (Tom Maden), she had an alcohol-induced breakdown in front of the entire town and in The Orphanage she finds out information that she’d probably rather not know. On the brightside, she seems to have found a confidant in Gustavo (Santiago Segura), who slept over at her house the entire night and is still there in the morning.

 

Gustavo is determined to bring some form of comfort to Brooke and to do so he breaks into his father’s office and scours through the files on his desk. He finds what he is looking for in the form of a text conversation between Mayor Maddox (Bryan Batt) and Jake, but he also finds an entire file about himself. He realizes that his father suspects that he could be the killer.

 

Presented with this new information that Gustavo has so graciously provided, Brooke confronts her father. He sat there while she cried. He watched her mourn. And yet he remained completely silent about the role he may have had in Jake’s death, whether it was intentional or not. It turns out that Mayor Maddox had hired Jake to burn down his real estate development and that if it weren’t for that, there is a high likelihood that Jake would still be alive.

 

The Truth Hurts

 

The truth really does hurt and it causes friendships to break and trust to shatter. Not only is the recent revelation that Audrey (Bex Taylor-Klaus) brought Piper (Amelia Rose Blaire) to Lakewood causing Emma (Willa Fitzgerald) to have night terrors that involve her wandering into the kitchen and grabbing knives, but it has also caused a strain in her core group of friends. To make matters worse, Emma has a surprise waiting for her in her locker: a cassette tape hanging from a lock of hair and a message written in lipstick on her mirror that says “play me.”

 

The cassette tape is a conversation between Emma and Ms. Lang (Austin Highsmith) that Ms. Lang secretly recorded. It seems Ms. Lang believes that Emma has violent tendencies. This sets Emma and Kieran (Amadeus Serafini) on a new mission to talk to Ms. Lang, but when they arrive at her room she panics when she sees Emma. The reaction leads Emma to believe that Ms. Lang didn’t accidentally fall from the stairs but was attacked. A delivery of daisies that arrive for their teacher with a note that says “Love, Piper,” only confirm her suspicions that it’s the killer. In an attempt to make sense of Ms. Lang’s motivations, they sneak into her house and discover that their teacher knew Piper.

 

Meanwhile, Noah (John Karna) is trying to figure out who sent Emma the recording of Audrey’s confession. Audrey believes that Zoe (Kiana Ledé) was the one to send the file. She’s the only other person who has been in Noah’s room aside from Audrey and Noah’s mother. Credibility is added to Audrey’s theory when Zoe shows up and Noah checks his sent message folder. Zoe is guilty, at least of sending the recording to herself, but Noah believes that she is innocent of sending the recording to Emma’s phone. After a little more sleuthing around, Noah discovers that the email address from the anonymous friend is registered in Zoe’s name and Zoe is quick to point out that if it were really her, she wouldn’t be stupid enough to register the email address in her name. She is being framed.

 

Party Shenanigans

           

You’d think that for a town where a killer is running rampant a party in an abandoned psych ward would be off limits, but apparently not for teenagers in Lakewood. Blessed Sisters is the venue and according to Noah, it is an insane asylum that shut down after an abuse scandal. It is also where Piper and Ms. Lang grew up.

 

Noah, Zoe, Kieran and Emma go there in hopes of finding more information about Ms. Lang while Piper and Audrey go there after receiving a call from the killer saying that Noah is going to die. A party is being held and all attendees are wearing Brandon James masks. It is an act of rebellion and apparently Emma and Audrey invited everyone. In reality, Haley (Mary Katherine Duhon), the girl who pranked Audrey in the beginning of the season, is behind the party along with her “special friend” who later kills her. Emma and the others know that the killer is behind this.

 

As Noah and Zoe go to turn off the electricity (no music, no lights, no party, right?), Emma gets separated from Kieran and ends up in a room with Audrey, who tells her that she received a call from the killer. As the lights go out, Audrey and Emma use the light from their phones to help guide them through the building. There are pictures of Piper on the walls, and as they enter a room, they discover Piper’s body in a chair.

 

Final Thoughts

 

The pile of evidence against Gustavo just keeps growing and growing and it is beginning to seem more and more likely that he could be the killer. In The Orphanage, he takes a tube of lipstick from Brooke’s room and the note left on Emma’s mirror in her locker is written in lipstick. Coincidence? Possibly, but with his obsession with the Lakewood Six and the fact that he has a Brandon James mask in his possession, he’s looking awfully guilty. Add to that the fact that his own father suspects that Gustavo possibly killed a friend back in Phoenix. But could it all be a little too obvious? Could the killer be somebody else? There is still Zoe, but last night’s episode made her look a little more innocent. There is also still Kieran (unpopular belief, I know). And don’t forget Eli, who was absent from the episode. There are only five episodes left in Season Two, so only time will tell.