Chapter 3 (Ghostface)

Chapter 3 (Ghostface) is the third chapter of Ghostface. It was written by Donald Newton and will be published on February 6, 2021.

Plot
As Jyle Venedict and his gang relish in their power, somebody from their past decides to take action.

Full Chapter
INT. VENEDICT MANSION - DAY

JYLE VENEDICT (40) raises his head from his desk to look at us. His eyes are cold and his soul is dark. This man has no redeeming qualities about him. Just one look at him tells us that he is pure evil.

VENEDICT: Today, we have more control of this city by the fear of the people and the corruption of the police. They bow down to us. We own them all. The people and the police. Nobody will touch us. Nobody.

We PAN across the room as we get a shot of each of the main gang members that we'll see throughout the story; Portman, Luther, Rydell, Kila, and Schuyler. These were the gang members that were responsible for the murders of the three kids in the opening chapter.

PORTMAN: The more people we take, the more hopeless they become.

KILA: The police are weak. And those who are strong are under our thumb.

LUTHER: Nobody dares to challenge us. We're too strong and powerful for them to fight back.

Portman is the leader of the five, right under Jyle Venedict himself. He is wearing a black dark trench coat, crew cutcrewcut with facial hair, scar across his face indicating a violent past. Like Venedict, his eyes are cold as ice. He will kill anyone for Venedict and the gang.

Luther is African-American, large, muscular, bald, and wearing a leather jacket and black pants. He is the scariest looking of them all. This is a man that you don't want to mess with.

Rydell is a pretty boy with facial hair and hair slicked back. Very F.P. Jones (Skeet Urlich) like. He is Kila's boyfriend. Kila, herself, is a pretty blonde girl. But don't let her pretty looks fool you. She's just as dangerous as the other men in the gang. In fact, she uses her looks and feminine charms against the vulnerabilities of her prey.

Schuyler, whom we know more about already, is the creepy rapist of the gang. He has that extremely rapey look in his eyes and smile. His smile is the automatic giveaway that he's no good.

It's obvious that this gang relishes in the fact that nobody can stop or even attempts to out of fear. They control all of Lakehart and their reign of terror doesn't appear to have an end in sight. Nobody will ever touch them. Nobody can stop them. Or...is there somebody who can stop them?

INT. DARK APARTMENT - NIGHT

A DARK FIGURE of a MAN sits at his bed. The darkness prevents us from seeing his face. The unknown man is crying as he is remembering something painful. He turns to his wall which is a shrine of the three victims of the opening chapter; The teenage girl SARAH, her LITTLE BROTHER, and her BOYFRIEND. All of the pictures showing the Boyfriend has his face scratched, covered by something, are somehow not seen by the viewers (implying that the viewers would recognize the Boyfriend). The Man touches the pictures, which brings us to --

FLASHBACK:

MAN'S POV - Sarah is a happy and beautiful girl. She smiles at the Man. He touches her face, rubbing it softly in a romantic gesture, which feels good to her.

SARAH: I love it when you do that.

FLASHBACK:

MAN'S POV - Sarah's Little Brother is throwing a ball at the Man, playing catch with. It's obvious that these two have a friendly relationship.

LITTLE BROTHER: Throw it farther!

The Man throws the ball higher and farther. The boy runs after it, laughing all the way there. He successfully catches it. He's happy about it.

FLASHBACK:

The Man wears a Ghostface mask as he sneaks up on Sarah.

MAN: BOO!

Sarah giggles over this. She grabs the mask, removing it from his face. But before we can see his face, we CUT TO:

FLASHBACK:

The Little Brother is running around the house with the Ghostface mask on. He has a fake knife and is pretending to stab people with it. Sarah laughs over her little brother's play acting.

BACK TO PRESENT

The Man is crying even harder as the worst of the memories return to him.

FLASHBACK:

EXT. ROAD - NIGHT

Portman shoots the Boyfriend in the chest.

DIFFERENT FLASH CUTS:

Portman, Schuyler, Luther, and Rydell take turns in their assault on poor Sarah, who is screaming and crying. Meanwhile, Kila drags the Little Brother into the woods.

At the same time that Portman points his gun at Sarah, Kila points her gun at the Little Brother. Both fire at the same time, killing the two siblings.

The gang leaves after their deadly assault on the youngsters.

We CUT TO:

A small segment of the opening scene of the family driving by the crime scene in the aftermath.

But what we didn't see before: A police checks the pulse of the Boyfriend. He is shocked by what he finds. He looks down at the Boyfriend -- HIS HAND MOVES. THE BOYFRIEND SURVIVED.

BACK TO PRESENT

The Man's hand moves exactly the same, finally revealing that the unknown crying Man is Sarah's Boyfriend. The Unseen Man's cries turn to anger and fury as he thinks about Portman, Luther, Rydell, Kila, and Schuyler. The five who destroyed his life by killing the two people who meant the most to him...and got away with it.

MAN: NOOOOO!!

The Man tears his apartment up in anger. Rage has consumed him. He looks at a picture on the wall. It's a picture of himself (wearing the Ghostface mask) with Sarah and her Brother. Then he sees an newspaper article that we don't see. The Man has a look of resolve in his eyes. An idea has come to him.

The Man walks over to a closet and opens it. He pulls out something very familiar to us -- THE BLACK CLOAK OF FATHER DEATH. He picks up something else that we don't see. But it is very important.

Through the lighting against the wall, we see the Man's shadow as he puts this important thing over his face.

The Man opens a drawer and looks through it before pulling out a BUCK 120 HUNTING KNIFE.

EPIC SHOT:

Through the darkness, we see the dark figure of the Man walking towards us. He appears to be wearing the black cloak and holding the knife. But we still cannot see his face, now covered by something that we don't see yet.

THUNDER AND LIGHTING STRIKES, bringing light to the apartment, and finally giving us the moment we've been waiting for -- THE MAN HAS BECOME GHOSTFACE!

Deaths
None.

Trivia

 * First appearance of Ghostface.
 * For the first time in the Scream Franchise or Ghostface related story, the transformation of Ghostface is depicted.
 * First appearance of the story's main villain Jyle Venedict.