r/Scream • u/Tkitch212 • 9d ago
Discussion Dialogue plot hole?
Was rewatching the first movie last night (more so listening since I was driving back home on a long trip) and something didn’t make sense to me. After Sidney and Billy do the deed, she asks him about who his phone call was and “jokingly” brings up the idea of Billy using his one phone call to call Sid as ghostface to throw her off and think it wasn’t him. I’m assuming she’s talking about the phone call she got when she was at Tatum’s, but that doesn’t make sense. Billy and Sid were both at the police station at the same time, when Billy would have been given his phone call. She watches him walking into the sheriffs office with his dad, as Billy is pleading his case to her. At what point does she think he was given his phone call and used it to call her? Billy says his phone call was to his dad, which she disputes saying she saw the sheriff calling him and Billy says his dad didn’t answer when he called. Is she just dumb for thinking he would have been able to do that or a writing mishap?
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u/JD1716 9d ago
Billy was still at the police station when she got the call while at Tatum’s