Scream episode review — 2.9 — The Orphanage
Original air date: July 26, 2016
Director: Leigh Janiak
Writer: Brian Sieve
Rating: 6/10
This episode starts with Emma being justifiably very angry. Well first I guess there’s technicaly a dream sequence where Emma stabs all her friends. I don’t much care for that kind of stuff. But eventually, in her waking life, she’s pissed at Noah, but more pissed of course at Audrey.
Noah finds out about the e-mail she got, so he sets off trying to prove that it wasn’t sent by Zoe, who eventually comes clean about e-mailing that to herself, but since that was a few episodes (and thus a few days) ago, we know that’s not actually the e-mail that Emma got.
Impressed by his willingness to stand up for her even with his best friend, Audrey, accusing her, Zoe and Noah finally have sex.
Noah then realizes that they haven’t been watched, but they’ve been listened to, as the camera that he took from the storage facility is bugged.
Emma and Kieran find some connections between Piper and Miss Lang, the psychology teacher, who’s apparently still alive and in the hospital. Emma was also given a recording that Miss Lang took of Emma, and she concluded that Emma was violent and emotionally unstable, but that she needed her.
They also learn that Piper and Miss Lang were raised together at some abandoned orphanage, so they head there and meet Noah and Zoe, finding that there’s a party there supposedly organized by both Emma and Audrey.
Is it incredibly dumb that there’d be this party going on, and that people actually believed it was thrown by Emma and Audrey after the entire school saw them almost fight at school that day? Yes.
Is it kind of a Scream tradition? Also yes.
Audrey and Emma are reunited as Audrey arrives with information that Noah is the next target.
They find Piper’s body upstairs, which is pretty gruesome, and of course the killer takes another victim while all this is going around — this time it’s Haley, the bitch who set up that prank thing on Audrey in the first episode, and also helped set up this party. Not going to miss her.
Sort of like the last season, here in the middle, Brooke is mostly away doing her own thing, this time with Stavo rather than either Jake or Branson.
She learns that her father had hired Jake to burn down his failed housing development the night of his death, and he doesn’t offer any particularly reasonable explanation for it all.
Plus we learn more of Stavo’s backstory, as when he was younger, he and a friend were fucking around with a gun and it accidentally went off. But when the cops came to check things out, Stavo was drawing his friend’s dead body.
So Stavo’s definitely the main suspect right now, considering our other suspect, the psychology teacher, was attacked and nearly killed. So I’m expecting there to be something stupid that clears him at some point.
Anyways, this episode is decent. There is a lot going on and a lot of it doesn’t quite work. But as dumb as it is, I like the high school party in the abandoned orphanage. I like the conflict between Noah and Audrey and Emma and Audrey, even if it seems like that’s all resolved by the end of this episode.
