| “ | Now, I have one more surprise for you before I open you up, and you'll never see it coming... | ” |
–Piper Shaw to Emma Duval, "Revelations" | ||
Piper Shaw (formerly known as Piper Anderson James) was a recurring character who was revealed to be the main antagonist of the first season of Scream and the mastermind of the Second Lakewood Murders in 2015, with the murders carried on by her accomplice and 17-year old boyfriend, Kieran Wilcox, later on in 2016.
As a podcaster of Autopsy of a Crime, she would record and cover her premediated murders, targeting various teens in Lakewood. She was the illegitimate daughter of Brandon James and Maggie Duval and the maternal half-sister of Emma Duval, with the latter being who she chose to target, alongside their mother, and her friends in order to exact revenge on her father as the original Lakewood Slasher (who was framed, unbeknownst to her).
She was portrayed by Amelia Rose Blaire.
Description
A smart, quirky and Gale Weathers-like host of a wildly popular podcast Autopsy of a Crime, who comes to town to investigate the recent deaths. Similar to Gale, she knows about the protagonist's family. As of her reveal as the Lakewood Slasher, Piper was shown to be an aggressive and very unstable homicidal psychopath.
Biography
Early Life
Piper was conceived in 1994, just before the 1994 Lakewood Murders on Halloween night. She is a result of an affair between Margaret "Daisy" Anderson and Brandon James; the latter being the town's deformed outcast and alleged serial killer, responsible for the murders of five teens as his bullies and victims and attacking Daisy's boyfriend and eventual husband, Kevin Duval. Piper was born on July 8, 1995, in Lakewood, Louisiana and given up for adoption.
However Piper never was adopted and spent her childhood at the Blessed Sister's Children's Home, an orphanage outside Lakewood. Kristin Lang, who'd later grow up to teach at George Washington High School was also a resident there but they never interacted.
Piper would eventually grow up to discover the truth of her parentage, causing much anger towards her mother and younger half-sister, Emma Duval, for having the life she never had. Wanting to avenge her father’s death, Piper planned on perpetrating a new series of murders targeted around Emma’s friends, in order to make her suffer.
At some point Audrey Jensen, began contacting her through letters, wanting to make a video documentary about Brandon James. Since Audrey was Emma’s former best friend, she used her to gather information on Emma.
Piper also recruited her boyfriend Kieran Wilcox, who had just moved from Atlanta into committing the murders with her, in order to punish his father Clark Hudson, who was Sheriff of Lakewood and her mother who was the town coroner. Torturing them with a killing spree that they could not stop.
The Second Lakewood Murders (2015)
Initially claiming to be a visiting podcaster investigating the Second Lakewood Murders and new in September of 2015, via her podcast being a premediated record of her and Kieran's murders titled, Autopsy of a Crime, as Piper is first seen talking to faculty and students outside George Washington while documenting supposedly on Nina's murder. While as the Lakewood Slasher, she took great pleasure in making Emma suffer by killing her friends, and making her feel indirectly responsible. Emma would grow to trust Piper and would confide in her, unknowingly giving the killer information.
Piper would also gain information from the Lakewood Sheriff's Department and target and kill various of Emma's friend from her former friend group, known as the Popular Crowd, including her ex-boyfriend Will Belmont and friend Riley Marra; who prior to the former's death, would get voice recordings of the mayor, Quinn Maddox, after Will wanted to set the record straight and redeem himself for his and Emma's sex tape leaking, which Piper had toyed around and took joy in Emma's suffering.
Piper would make herself seem like a victim, by having Kieran as the Lakewood Slasher knock her out after the rendezvous at the abandoned garage at night with Will and after the mayor had left, before he then kidnapped Will and Piper pretended alongside finding Emma and informing her and her friends, as a ploy before she would attack and taunt them at the Bowling Alley where she had hidden Will, before his death a day later in an effort to fully traumatize Emma.
Piper's ultimate plan was kill and frame Seth Branson for the murders after she killed Emma and Maggie. After helping Kieran kill his father, Piper was ready to finish her plans and who kidnapped her mother, Maggie, once she was away from police surveillance following Clark's death so that Emma would be forced to come to the same dock where Brandon was shot, upon Emma and Noah setting out to find her following the video stream of Clark before his death being broadcast at the school's dance. She cruelly revealed herself as the killer and took great pleasure in the pain her betrayal had caused Emma.
Death
Saturday, October 31st, 2015
Piper managed to severely wound Emma and her mother, slashing Emma's stomach and stabbing Maggie in her side. As she prepared to finish Emma off, saying that she had one final surprise for Emma (presumably revealing Kieran as her accomplice), Audrey, who saw Emma running to the dock, intervenes and shoots Piper in the chest with Kieran's gun, causing her to fall into the water. Piper manages to get out of the water one last time to attack Emma and Audrey with her knife, but is shot in the head by Emma, causing her to fall back into the water.
Aftermath
Throughout Season 2 and during the second half of the Second Lakewood Murders re-initiated upon Emma's return from rehabilitation due to all of the trauma Piper put her through, from January-February 2016, Emma and Noah uncovered that Piper had a hidden secret that didn't come out until after she died. As her final surprise to Emma and her surviving friends was that Kieran was her accomplice in the murders, who proceeded to terrorize and murder the people that she failed to kill, including Jake Fitzgerald, Zoe Vaughn, and Seth Branson.
Kieran, focused on avenging Piper, also began stalking and harassing Audrey about her involvement with Piper, as well as made Brooke suffer mentally, manipulated Noah emotionally and continued making Emma suffer by killing her friends. It's also revealed that during the three months when she was away, Kieran managed to recover Piper's body from Wren Lake after being shot, robbing the grave she was buried in, and managed to keep her body refrigerated in the orphanage where Piper grew up until it was eventually found by Emma and Audrey. Kieran also surgically implanted a pig's heart inside her, as her autopsy (done by Maggie) revealed. In the end, however, Kieran was defeated by Emma and Audrey and put in jail.
Appearances (12/24)
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Season 1 (9/10) |
Season 2 (3/14)
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Relationships
Family
Allies
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Enemies
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Committed Murders
Season 1
| Crime Scene Photo | Victim | Cause of Death | Episode |
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Nina Patterson | Back slashed and throat slit. | "Pilot" |
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Riley Marra | Stabbed twice in back, femoral artery slashed, bled out. | "Wanna Play a Game?" |
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Will Belmont | Tied to chair, sawed in two by trencher trap, set off by Emma. | "In The Trenches" |
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Clifton Roberts | Stabbed to death (offscreen) | "The Dance" |
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Grayson Pfeiffer | Throat slit (offscreen) | "Revelations" |
Speculated Murders
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Tyler O'Neill | Completely decapitated (off-screen) | "Pilot" |
Quotes
Before reveal
- "I always have a very serious caffeine addiction."
- "Life is like Charlie Brown and his football. That bitch Lucy keeps yanking it away but you got to keep kicking."
- "My dad was murdered. I was too young to remember him and the police never solved it. Honestly I don't think they tried."
- "I started to ask questions as soon as I could talk and I have never stopped."
- "We all have our demons."
- "It's just it's hard to know the truth unless you have the whole story."
As Lakewood Slasher
Piper masked.
- "It's what you want, right? On Instagram and Facebook...Perfect smiles, perfect lives, but I know the truth."
- "I'm the one that's gonna lift the mask."
- "Hi. This is GPP Security. We got an alarm notice at your house. Can you give me your name and code word?"
- "What you should really be asking is, did you just lock me in or out?"
- "By all means. They'll reach a nice, confused man named Art, who works at GPB Security, and the cops will never get here in time. So I suggest you, Talk. To. Me!"
- "I know that everyone you trust is lying to you, playing you. Your two-faced friends, your fraud of a family, your whore of a mother. It all started with her Emma, but it's gonna end with you. See you soon."
- "I wanted you to have a little pride, instead, you forgive his lies, just like Daisy did all those years ago, I don't forgive so easily."
- "Yes! Game's still on and we're in the bonus round!"
- "Small catch, Emma. It's not just you that I want. Yes, I told you it started with Daisy, but it ends with you! Can't have one without the other."
- "Just you, Emma. Or others will die!"
After reveal
- "Hey, sis! Surprise!"
- "I seriously wish that you could see your face right now."
- "Hashtag, MINDBLOWN!"
- "Yes, and you were so easily convinced that it had to be his son that was swinging the knife. But it's 2015, Emma. Sexist much?"
- "And it stings when someone breaks your trust. Right, mom?"
- "Dad got shot, I got tossed, and Emma got the perfect life."
- "I plan on it. But I kind of put a lot of thought and time into this. So I'd like to savor the moment a little bit, before I slice you open, okay?"
- "To watch you suffer, Emma."
- "Although, they did help a lot. After all, what did your B.F.F's do? They filmed your first time."
- "Do you know one benefit of stripping off masks? Is sometimes, you find the perfect fall guy."
- "You broke my heart, mommy."
- "You always hurt the ones you love."
- "So, I have one more surprise for you before I open you up and you'll never see it coming..."
Trivia
- Piper's character has many similarities with Gale Weathers.
- Piper's name was originally named "Piper Shay".
- She had a podcast called Autopsy of a Crime.
- Noah took over the show after her death in "Revelations" and re-branded it to The Morgue in "I Know What You Did Last Summer".
- She is the first killer in the entire franchise not to withhold possession of a firearm during her reveal, as well as female (albeit Lakewood Slasher).
- Succeeded by Jamal Elliot as Ghostface in "Endgame", who's gun was taken by his accomplice, as well as due to being attacked, kidnapped as well as left to die in front of his half-brother, Marcus Elliot, in his reveal; a reverse to how Piper revealed herself to her half-sister, Emma, and their mother, who like Jamal, she'd kidnapped and tied down onto a chair after an attack.
- Succeeded by both Amber Freeman in Scream (2022) and Quinn Bailey in Scream VI (due to their accomplices carrying it instead, such as Amber's by her boyfriend Richie, in the fifth film, and later Richie's sister Quinn, and their father, Wayne Bailey, carrying the gun in the sixth).
- She has a love of coffee, even promising to respect her half-sister's privacy for the sake of it (which she didn't, ironically).
- Piper was the main antagonist in Season 1.
- Piper was the final character to be killed in Season 1.
- She was shot once in the chest by Audrey and then once more in her forehead by Emma.
- In "Revelations", Piper revealed herself to be the killer, and her motivations has many similarities with Roman Bridger and Jill Roberts.
- Similar to how Roman and Jill were related to franchise heroine, Sidney Prescott, Piper is related to the TV series first two seasons heroine, Emma Duval and is the long lost half-sister Emma didn't know existed until she saw her mother's ultrasound and found out Maggie had slept with Brandon James. Subsequently, she shared a hatred of her younger sibling for having a family just like Roman did to Sidney.
- Like Nancy Loomis, Piper had an accomplice, who went on to be the new killer of Season 2.
- Both Piper Shaw and Jill Roberts filmed most of their murders with their partners.
- Piper was also the first lost long half sibling exacting revenge in the TV series (albeit for her father) and the second out of three overall, who would later be succeeded by Jamal Elliot in Season 3. She would be the only female half-sibling killer (preceded by Roman in the films and Jamal in the third season)
- Piper has various similarities to the film Ghostface killers:
- She's related to the final girl (Emma) like Roman and Jill were to Sidney (half-brother and cousin).
- She worked as a reporter (like Nancy Loomis) and just like Jill, she had a completely different personality when revealed as the killer.
- Piper became the first half-sibling killer to a protagonist in the TV series and the Scream franchise's first half-sister killer, the second overall out of three half-sibling killers (succeeded only by Jamal Elliot in the third season, making her and Jay the only two of the TV series), and the second out of four elder half-siblings to a younger protagonist in general, succeeded by Samantha Carpenter (daughter of Billy, granddaughter of Nancy) to Tara Carpenter in the fifth film, Scream (2022).
- With Piper and Samantha the only eldest half-sisters, as well as Piper the only one to become an actual killer in order to avenge her "killer" father (who was framed) by targeting her mother and younger half-sister Emma nearing the 21st anniversary of the 1994 murders (with her and her accomplice's original fall guy and suspect during the 2015 murders being disgraced teacher Seth Branson).
- This is due to Piper being abandoned and given up for adoption at birth, unlike Samantha, despite both of their mothers' secrecy over the origins of the fathers due to infidelity to their partners, later separated or divorced husbands (Piper with hers, Maggie Duval giving her up despite her future ex-husband Kevin being aware of her illegitimate existence due to Maggie and Brandon's rumored affair; Samantha with Christina Carpenter, who instead of giving her up, convinced Sam's stepfather, Mr. Carpenter, that she was his, conceived in high school).
- Ironic in that following Piper's death, her accomplice and secret lover also being her half-sister's unfaithful boyfriend, Kieran Wilcox, would attempt to now frame Emma as Piper's murderer and of the Second Lakewood Murders (2015-2016) first volume of murders in September-October 2015 alongside the ones he had committed in January-February 2016 with Emma's former childhood best friend, Audrey Jensen.
- This, ironically, with Piper's death (killer half-sister, non-killer father) being tried to pin on the protagonist, is reversed & similarly referenced with Sam (non-killer half-sister, actual killer father) in the fifth film, with her millennial boyfriend Richie and his teen accomplice and secret girlfriend, Amber, the latter being her half-sister Tara's high school friend, committing the third Woodsboro Murders just 26 years since the anniversary of the original (first) 1996 Woodsboro Murders by father, attempting to frame her in requel rules as the new decades' Ghostface killer as the "illegitimate daughter of the original mastermind" (by Amber).
- This failed before being attempted again the following year in the New York Murders, as her ex-boyfriend's killer and the mastermind of the 2022 events due to online discourse rumors instigated by Richie's family and his siblings (with Sam as the only killer). Ethan's words to Tara and Sam, "So when dad here finds your horribly mutilated body posed with Sam wearing her father's mask, he'll say some poor bastard read on the Internet that you're the real Ghostface and took matters into their own deluded hands". Whether or not meant to imply Tara in this statement is vague of her being killed in this scenario possibly as Sam's "accomplice", like Emma and Audrey had been attempted to be framed by Kieran, of Piper's death in the first season and murder, later in the second season.
- Piper recording on her phone while in Lakewood, is a reference to Mickey Altieri's camera recorder which he recorded with at Windsor College, in Scream 2. As the killer, Piper also filming the murders is a reference to Mickey in the second film, as well as Jill and Charlie in the fourth film.
- The story about her motivation for her current job was fake.
- In "Exposed", she told Emma that Audrey tried to force Rachel Murray to do things that made Rachel uncomfortable.
- This was done in order to get Emma to distrust and be weary of Audrey, given that she was originally Piper's accomplice before the events of Season 2.
- Piper's role in documenting her kills via her podcast Autopsy of a Crime, given it's meta reference to true crime and going on to committing the Second Lakewood Murders (2015-2016), of which would then be written about following her accomplice's arrest the following year (and later, his death) by Noah Foster and illustrated by Gustavo Acosta in a comic book series (with Noah's own podcast, The Morgue, a follow up to the murders she committed and from a survivor's perspective), with this being a reference throughout the Scream franchise:
- Similarly with the copycat murders at Windsor College after the Woodsboro Murders and film-within a film Stab inspiring the sequel based on true crime, in Scream 2, which is discussed upon in the sequels due to the Hollywood Murders in Scream 3 committed due to no true crime of which inspired the Stab series, of which would then inspire two duos of fanatics during the Second Woodsboro Murders (2011; also known as the Remake Massacre) in the fourth film and and the Third Woodsboro Murders in the fifth (2022; also known as the Legacy/Requel Murders).
- Piper's continuation of her town murders would reference that of the titular Woodsboro Murders from the Scream films, similarly, as well with the medium as podcasting/journaling referencing Gale Weathers as an investigative journalist throughout all six films.
- Gale would even state to the Carpenter sisters in the sixth film, due to how her recent book, Requel: Terror Returns to Woodsboro, based on the Legacy Murders wasn't adapted given she couldn't sell the movie rights (which is how the Stab series took off, in-universe), how "It's all about true crime limited series these days", which is aligned to how Piper's murders were sensationalized due to the nature of her true crime podcast, as well as it having a huge following, according to Riley Marra in "Hello, Emma".
- Piper, alongside Kieran, would also begin to use to her advantage, social media and the advancement of technology, to attract attention and fear from her murder spree, which was Jill Roberts's motive to distribute the murders of which she and Charlie committed and gain fame off it (although Piper's motive was revenge, her notoriety was brought on due to her podcast) of which in itself, would be a inverse homage to Jill's cousin, Roman, hired to direct the fictional Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro, due to no real life murders inspiring a sequel, before he himself then did.
- Albeit he was the fifth Ghostface killer, who despite not filming the murders like his cousin on set while filming at Sunrise Studios, who'd instead target them by making use of the film having three scripts in order to prevent leaks, meta reference, targeting his cast of actors as to how their "characters" were killed in said scripts and changing it in real time, via fax, as seen in Jennifer Jolie's home; loosely close to how Piper had targeted Emma's friends in the Popular Crowd due to having access to information given their online history and after killing them in-real time, such as distributing the GIF of Nina's body the next day; as well as Roman mimicking his victims and targets voices, similar to how Piper (and Kieran) would do during her killing spree in 2015.
- Piper is the first killer in the franchise to be in an inappropriate relationship with her accomplice, Kieran Wilcox, seeing as she was an adult while he was a teenager.
- They would later be succeeded by Jamal Elliot and Beth in Season 3, and the first in the films by Richie Kirsch and Amber Freeman from Scream (2022) as the second and third inappropriate killer couples with each adult (Piper, Jamal, and Richie) dating a teenager (Kieran, Beth, and Amber).
- Piper is the second sister killer in the franchise (the only of the TV series), succeeded by Quinn Bailey in the sixth film.
- Piper is the only killer (female) so far in the franchise to have been dug up and returned as a corpse, in the sequel (Season 2) to her original death.
- Piper would respectively be the second out of four Lakewood Slashers, and the only known female killer, preceded by the 94 Killer and succeeded by her accomplice, Kieran, and the Third Killer (with Piper the first of the new 2010s killers/Lakewood Slashers of the first two seasons, overall).
- This is assuming that the 94 and Third Killer aren't the same person.
- Piper, as the elder (half) sister of another sister (Emma), makes her the second of three (four) sets of duo sisters (the only of the franchise and of the TV series to have become a killer).
- Preceded by Maureen Prescott (née Roberts) and Kate Roberts (Maureen as the off-screen first official Ghostface victim in Scream, with her sister Kate falling victim 15 years later in Scream 4).
- Succeeded by the Carpenter half-sisters (survivors, Core Four) in the fifth and sixth films, and despite a sister trio, by Tatum Evans (eldest) and her two unnamed younger biological sisters in the upcoming Scream 7.
- Piper died just like her father; she was shot on the dock at Wren Lake and fell into the lake. The only difference is Piper was shot twice.
- However, it was later confirmed in "The Vanishing" that Brandon James, Piper's father, had survived the shooting.
- Initially, it was assumed that Piper was unaware of the fact that her father, survived his shooting when she was still alive.
- However, according to an interview with the former showrunners, Richard Register and Michael Gans, it was confirmed that she and Kieran believed that Brandon survived the event.[1]
- Piper being the daughter of a (supposed, due to someone using his mask) serial killer father, who started an infamous killing spree in his hometown and who would be killed and his daughter, who would return to avenge and continue the killing spree, would be loosely referenced and used for the first time in the franchise almost 6 years later in-universe, more directly.
- Due to the existence of Samantha Carpenter in Scream (2022), who was the result of an affair between actual serial killer and the first known Ghostface killer, Billy Loomis, and his fling (Sam's mom), Christina Carpenter.
- Both Piper and Samantha's mothers, were in an affair with the serial killer men and dating their younger half-sisters future fathers and true lovers (Piper to Emma, to Maggie and Kevin Duval; Sam with Tara, to Christina and Mr. Carpenter).
- Both are the older half-sisters of younger half-sisters (Piper to Emma, Sam to Tara)., who would become targeted by their older half-sisters secrets, more so the former than the latter due to Piper being a killer.
- This makes Piper a faux-shadowing in this aspect and more an homage to Roman Bridger and the death of her father, Brandon James, similar to Maureen Prescott instead, albeit the differences in each, respectively, in the origins of both town's infamous murder sprees.[1]
- However, it was later confirmed in "The Vanishing" that Brandon James, Piper's father, had survived the shooting.
- Emma shooting Piper in the forehead is reminiscent of how Sidney killed Billy and Nancy Loomis.
- She shares the same amount of murders as her father as the framed and alleged 94 Killer.
- She appeared as a hallucination to Emma in "Psycho".
- Piper and Kieran's motivations around targeting Emma, are a reference to Roman and Jill targeting Sidney in the third and fourth film.
- Split between the two, with Piper, like Roman, targeting her half-sister and the protagonist (Emma/Sidney), as an attempted victim, which is loosely referenced with Kieran, like Jill, attempting to target his cousin, albeit not the protagonist (Eli/Sidney), as Eli becomes the last victim, a reverse on how Piper and Kieran attempted to make it out and kill the final girl, just like Roman and Jill, with each failing.
- It was revealed in "Jeepers Creepers", that Audrey is the main reason Piper was in town, as Audrey had invited and exchanged letters with Piper, asking her to come and investigate about Brandon James and Lakewood's bloody history.
- Prior to "The Orphanage", Piper's body was never been found.
- Later on in the same episode, it was revealed that her corpse was kept by her accomplice.
- It was revealed in "The Orphanage", that her and Kristen Lang, were foster sisters at the Blessed Sisters Children's Home in Lakewood, before each were adopted.
- In "The Vanishing", Piper's autopsy, which was done by her mother, Maggie Duval, revealed the killer had refrigerated her corpse and surgically implanted a pig's heart inside.
- In "The Vanishing", it is stated that Piper died on March 21st, 2015 at 1:31 AM.
- This is considered to be false, due to the fact that she was killed on Halloween night.
- It is also stated that Piper was in her mid 20s when she died, however this is considered to be false as well since she was born sometime after the 1994 murders, so she would have to have been around 20 or 21.
- According to a police file prop used for unknown episodes, Piper's date of birth was given as 8th July, 1995, which is consistent with the timeline of the story. [2]
- In "When a Stranger Calls", it has been revealed that Piper had a secret relationship with Kieran, her accomplice, long before they came to Lakewood, which suggests as to imply that they met online.
- However, given Kieran's statement during his reveal monologue about both his and Piper's parents abandoning them, this would mean that they would've met up earlier on, off-screen, either when Kieran moved to Lakewood or in Atlanta, although it currently remains unstated.
- Given that in the second season, motel employee Eddie Hayes stated that Piper had stayed at Crescent Palms, it's more likely that right as Kieran transferred, and possibly the week before September 28th-October 2nd, 2015, is when he would've been recruited by her and formed a relationship with Piper and partnered up with her to commit the murders, while in Lakewood.
- Piper attempting to avenge her father as a killer (despite being framed, which she was unaware of before her death) would be a reference to:
- Nancy Loomis attempting to avenge her son Billy Loomis during the Windsor College Murders in Scream 2.
- Wayne Bailey trying to avenge his son, Richie Kirsch, alongside his other children and Richie's siblings, Ethan Landry and Quinn Bailey, by then committing the New York Murders in Scream VI.
- Piper's corpse seen in the second season would be referenced by the Apartment attacks in Scream VI, given that Quinn Bailey faked her death by Ghostface and who's "corpse" was thrown onto Anika Kayoko.
- Difference being that Quinn's death (albeit fake) was staged (as stated by her father on how he replaced her corpse with that of an unknown female victim, whether his or from the morgue), whereas Piper's corpse wasn't (given she was dead months prior), but similarly in that it was staged by each killer to attract attention.
- Piper staging an attack as a female killer is a reference to Jill Roberts being slashed in the arm by Charlie Walker as Ghostface in Scream 4.
- This would also be similar with her seemingly faking her death by placing bloody handprints on her cars window outside of Brooke's house, which is what Quinn Bailey did in Scream VI, with the bloody handprints on the car window referenced in Season 3 in "The Man Behind the Mask", by Kym, albeit the latter wasn't a killer and possibly placed her bloody handprint on her window upon coming out of crashing her car in a cornfield, due to her injuries.
- It is shown Piper is willing to betray her accomplice so she can get away with murder. She told Emma that Kieran was her half brother while the killings were happening. Kieran was unaware of this.
- While this is a loose reference to Nancy Loomis betraying Mickey Altieri in Scream 2, and more so to Jill Roberts betraying Charlie Walker in Scream 4, Piper ultimately did not go through with it.
- Piper would be the third out of six female killers in the franchise to be killed off via gunshot, and the only Lakewood Slasher, given the other female killers were Ghostface. Piper's death via headshot makes her the only TV series killer (female) to be killed off via headshot.
- Piper's death via headshot, makes her the second out of only four female killers to be killed this way, preceded by Nancy Loomis and who is succeeded by Amber Freeman and Quinn Bailey.
- Aside from motivation, Piper has other similarities to Roman Bridger from Scream 3.
- Both wear glasses and take them off once they reveal themselves as the killer
- Both are able to avoid any suspicion of them being the killers:
- Piper faked being attacked by the Lakewood Slasher (Kieran Wilcox) while Roman faked his own death to make it look like he had been killed by Ghostface.
- Both have connections to other killers:
- Roman was the mastermind of his mother's murder, Maureen Prescott and convinced Billy Loomis and Stu Macher to kill her and they eventually went on their killing spree afterwards (Scream).
- Piper was the lover of Kieran Wilcox who was revealed to be the second Lakewood Slasher (third, after the 94 Killer).
- Both are shot in the chest before being finished off with a bullet to the head.
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