Scream: Let the Right One In

"Let the Right One In" is the sevneth episode of season two of the psycho-thriller television program Scream: The Series, and the seventeenth episode of the series overall. It was directed by Rodman Flender with a script written by Steve Yockey. It first aired on MTV on Tuesday, July 12th, 2016 at 11:00 pm/10:00 central.

Crew

 * April Blair - Consulting producer
 * Matthew Signer - Producer
 * Keith Levine - Producer
 * Eoghan O'Donnell - Executive producer
 * Kat Landsberg - Co-executive producer
 * Bob Weinstein - Executive producer
 * Harvey Weinstein - Executive producer


 * Tony DiSanto - Executive producer
 * Liz Gateley - Executive producer
 * Wes Craven - Executive producer
 * Michael Gans - Executive producer
 * Richard Register - Executive producer
 * Marianne Maddalena - Executive producer
 * Cathy Konrad - Executive producer

Notes & Trivia

 * Scream: The Series was developed for television by Jill Blotevogel, Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie. It was created by Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson.


 * Series co-creator Jill E. Blotevogel is credited as Jill Blotevogel in this episode.


 * This episode had a viewership of 395,000 people, which is down by 50,000 from the previous episode.


 * Actor Anthony Ruivivar receives a "With..." credit qualifier in this episode.


 * Actor Garrett Kruithof is credited as Garrett Scott Kruithof in this episode.


 * Actress Susan LaBrecque is credited as Susan Marie Labrecque in this episode.


 * This is the second episode of Scream: The Series directed by Rodman Flender and his first episode from season two of the show. He previously directed the season one episode, "Ghosts".


 * This is the third episode of Scream: The Series written by Steve Yockey and his third episode from season two of the show. He previously directed "Psycho" and "Vacancy".


 * The actor who plays the husband in bed is not identified in this episode.


 * Zoe Vaughn appeared last in "Dawn of the Dead".


 * This is the first appearance of the janitor of George Washington High School.


 * Eddie Krueger appears as a corpse only in this episode. He was killed with a corkscrew to the throat in "Psycho".


 * Eli Hudson appeared last in "Dawn of the Dead".

Story notes

 * This is the episode where Noah Foster and Zoe Vaughn finally have sex. It is implied that Noah is a virgin.


 * It's unknown who set the fire at Wren Lake Estates. A likely candidate however is Eli's mother, Tina Hudson. Tina made a secret shady deal with Quinn Maddox in "Jeepers Creepers", though the nature of that deal was not revealed.

Allusions

 * The title of this episode is taken from the 2008 Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In by director Tomas Alfredson. It follows the pattern of season two of titling all of their episodes after horror movies.


 * Audrey Jensen makes reference to the 2005 crime thriller film Hard Candy, directed by David Slade. The premise of the movie involves a fourteen-year-old girl who captures and tortures a sexual predator. Audrey compares Brooke Maddox's treatment of Seth Branson to this film.


 * The emails that Kevin Duval received were supposedly sent by Riley Marra. Riley was one of the murder victims from the previous spree and the former girlfriend of Noah Foster. She was murdered by Piper Shaw in the season one episode, "Wanna Play a Game?".


 * The "incident at the fairgrounds" that Miguel Acosta speaks of took place in "Jeepers Creepers".


 * Miguel Acosta makes reference to the Crescent Palms Motel in this episode. This is where Eddie Krueger worked before he was murdered in "Psycho".


 * The song that plays in the scene with Eli Hudson breaking into the house is "Dark in My Imagination" by Of Verona.

Body count

 * 1) Seth Branson - Hand cut off; stabbed in the chest and then burned in house fire. Death revealed in the following episode.

Quotes
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 * Audrey Jensen: [Mocking Zoe] "She likes to drive".
 * Noah Foster: First, shut up. Second, its just a study session.
 * Audrey Jensen: Okay. Study session or study date? [Noah looks confused] Oh my God. Foster, learn to read a moment, or you will be a virgin forever.
 * Noah Foster: I'm more focused on staying alive.
 * Audrey Jensen: If we stop living our lives, we may as well give up fighting now.
 * Noah Foster: Who knows? Maybe I'm meant to die alone.
 * Audrey Jensen: Will you take your yogurt and go? You have a "date" to get ready for.
 * Noah Foster: It's a study session.
 * Audrey Jensen: Whatever! Bring protection.
 * Kieran Wilcox: I would rather have you angry at me and alive... then... then... dead. It was for your own good, Em.
 * Emma Duval: For my own good? Then why do I feel so betrayed?

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 * Brooke Maddox: I... I think I really messed up.
 * Audrey Jensen: That's ominous.
 * Brooke Maddox: You're dark. Like... in a good way. I feel like maybe you would understand.
 * Audrey Jensen: That's even more ominous.
 * Brooke Maddox: So, last night I handcuffed Branson to a bed, threatened to castrate him with scissors, and then left him trapped in hotel room.
 * Audrey Jensen: You went full Hard Candy on Branson and left him chained to a bed?
 * Brooke Maddox: Yeah. I don't know, I was just trying to scare him. I thought he would know something about Jake.
 * Audrey Jensen: Is he still there? [Brooke pulls something out of her coat] What the hell is that?
 * Brooke Maddox: The key to the handcuffs.
 * Audrey Jensen: Oh, wow.
 * Brooke Maddox: I'm serious. Don't judge me.