In the latest Scream Queens recap, the search for Zayday is on and the Red Devil apparently has a boss and he or she is revealed….
By Damon Martin — Editor/Lead Writer
It’s a bad news kind of week for Chanel Oberlin, who wanted nothing more than to celebrate everyone’s favorite holiday — Chanel-O-Ween — while putting on a haunted pumpkin patch charity event to benefit hairy black tongue disease.
Unfortunately with a Red Devil killer running around offing co-eds like Taco Bell burritos after an all night kegger, Dean Munsch decides that the campus is closed, curfew is on and Halloween is officially cancelled.
That ruins Chanel’s entire plan where she orchestrated a fabulous pumpkin patch and a full scale replica of the maze from The Shining, complete with knee-high snow.
Things only get worse for Chanel this week when her sisters in Kappa Kappa Tau turn traitor and report the embattled president for the murder of Ms. Agatha Bean (she does have a first name!), which lands her in short-lived version of Orange is the New Black — Scream Queens edition (or as I like to call it Pink is the New Black).
Chanel just can’t catch a break but do things get better or worse for our favorite Kappa president?
Let’s recap the latest episode of Scream Queens titled ‘Pumpkin Patch’ to find out:
A Mutiny is Afoot
Despite the ban on Halloween from Dean Munsch, Chanel moves forward with her Halloween plans and the grand costume idea to dress her and the other Chanels up as the wives of slain presidents. Chanel will be Jackie Kennedy (of course) while Chanel No. 3 ends up as Nancy Reagan after the Kappa president amends the rules and allows nearly assassinated presidents in the running as well. Chanel No. 5 was left to play Mary Todd Lincoln because she’s crazy as a shit house rat (according to Chanel No. 1).
Chanel No. 5 finally snaps and attempts to storm off, but she’s ultimately living under Chandel No. 1’s thumb. Chanel No. 5 does manage to team up with Hester aka Chanel No. 6 and the crazy candle blogger, who is also secretly raising an army of ants to put Chanel No. 1 in prison for Ms. Bean’s murder.
Her sentence only lasts as long as it takes Chanel No. 3 and Predatory Lez to post bail money and get her out of jail and she’s making a bee line to Chanel No. 5 and her betraying ways.
Chanel No. 5 even has the gall to dress up in Jackie Kennedy’s outfit while her president was in jail, but when Chanel No. 1 returns, she seeks her retribution in a hurry. She orders her underling to go to the pumpkin patch and light all the Jack-O-Lanterns as instructed, and curfew or not she better get it done or else her boy-toys Roger and Dodger will find out that she likes to double-click the mouse while watching children’s cartoons.
The Not So Artful Dodger
Chanel No. 5 teams up with her threesome twosome Roger and Dodger from the Dickie Dollar Scholars so they can light all the pumpkins per Chanel’s request and then get the hell out of there before the killer shows up.
It all goes awry when shocker — the Red Devil killer shows up.
The trio runs into the maze but in the middle of trying to escape, Roger and Dodger decide this is the best time to corner Chanel No. 5 and force her to choose one of them. She ultimately opts for Roger and follows him on the path to get out of the maze while his brother Dodger takes a wrong turn and ends up gutted courtesy of the Red Devil killer.
See ya, Dodger, we hardly knew ya.
Chanel No. 5 and Roger escape and live to run another day!
The Search for Zayday
While Chanel No. 1 spends five minutes in jail, Grace sees this as her opening to convince the other sisters to search for Zayday, who went missing the night of the haunted house. No one is willing to help and Hester says if Zayday really wants to prove she should be president, escaping the clutches of the Red Devil killer is a great way to show her leadership skills.
So Grace turns to her dad for help, but accidentally walks in on him and Gigi having sex, which of course scars her for life because apparently her father hasn’t been with anyone since her mother died (allegedly) 18 years ago.
Grace accepts whatever choices he’s going to make, but more importantly she needs his help to find Zayday since no one else seems willing to look for her.
At the Dean’s office, she’s currently commiserating with Denise Hemphill while sharing stories about both of them banging Chad Radwell. At this point it seems like people are safer from the wrath of the Red Devil killer than Chad Radwell’s penis
When Grace, Pete, Wes and Gigi show up asking for support, the Dean says she’s already hired a private investigator to look into Zayday’s alleged kidnapping — none other than Denise Hemphill!
Denise is convinced Zayday is the killer and she’s really motivated to find her so she can put her behind bars.
In the midst of the search, Gigi reveals a little too much knowledge about the soil hiding in the backyard at that haunted house where she was revealed last week to be the weeping lady who was crying for a missing child, but ultimately that’s just a distraction as Grace finally realizes that the way to find Zayday is to use the ‘find my phone’ app.
They track Zayday’s phone to a basement where an old lady has been renting out the space to somebody she’s never met before, but they pay rent in cash so she’s happy. Denise arms everybody with tasers and they set off into the basement to look for Zayday.
Deep in the bowels of the lair, Grace finds the Red Devil mask, some sewing machines and other items including a plate full of Zayday’s favorite snack, Oakland nachos (corn chips with chocolate sauce — ewww!). She also finds the hidden pit where Zayday was trapped a week ago, but now when Grace finds the hole, her best friend is nowhere to be found.
At the same time, Denise and Gigi find another room where the killer’s tools are all hanging from the ceiling but like a remake of Silence of the Lambs, the lights drop and the killer is in the room wearing night vision goggles. The killer gets close to both Gigi and Denise, but when he revs up his bush trimming took (aka his weapon), Denise swivels around and fires but ends up hitting Gigi directly in the boobs.
Gigi goes down but fires her own shot that smacks the killer directly in the face!
Denise runs to find the others but when they return, Gigi is down on the ground and the killer escaped after waking up and hitting her over the head. The killer’s lair has been exposed, but we still don’t know who he is — or do we?
Election Night
With Zayday missing in action and half the people who would vote for her out of the picture, Chanel No. 1 calls an impromptu election for the new president of Kappa Kappa Tau. But before she can get everyone to cast their vote, Zayday shows up unharmed and ready to run for office.
When Grace and the others arrive, Zayday explains that she’s like the ‘black Die Hard‘ and the Red Devil killer didn’t hurt her but in fact pulled her up from the hole, presented her with flowers and offered her a fine dinner of Oakland nachos. Zayday played nice until she stabbed the killer with a fork and made her escape. So the killer has a thing for Zayday? Hmmm sounds an awful lot like Earl Grey, the dashing British member of the Dickie Dollar Scholars.
Once the excitement of Zayday’s return dies down, Chanel insists on holding the vote but while the election is going on, Gigi is across campus walking alone near a darkened building. She doesn’t notice the Red Devil killer directly behind her — until she does.
“You’re late,” she said to the masked killer. “That got way out of hand.
“He’s gotta go. You understand me? Good — take care of it.”
So now we’ve got at least two confirmed killers and probably a boss in Gigi. We already know that Boone is one of them or he’s involved but now it appears there’s a second Red Devil killer plus Gigi ordering them around. An interesting twist with one more Halloween — excuse me — Chanel-O-Ween episode still to go next week!
BEST LINES OF THE WEEK:
“Love the warty white ones. They look like No. 5 when she runs out of concealer.”
“I wasn’t able to get Led Zeppelin. Well, apparently one of them died or something.”
“Because on this night, even shy kind of homely girls dress up as total sluts. I mean every costume is just a slutty version of something. Slutty teacher, slutty nurse, slutty nun. I saw a girl last year dressed as slutty Al-Queda. Are we going to deny ourselves the sluttiest night of the whole year out of fear?”
“I kept my uniform on and proceeded to read him his rights — my favorite being ‘you have the right to remain sexy!”
“I’ll show Roger and Dodger video proof that their hot new girlfriend regularly rubs it out in her room while watching Dora the Explorer“
“I’m getting a nervous feeling in my stomach. I might start farting. If I cut some, you promise not to tell anyone?”
“No, kitty puncher!”
SOUNDTRACK:
“You Keep Me Hanging On” by Kim Wilde
“Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?” by Culture Club
“Black Velvet” by Alannah Myles
Tune into the next episode of Scream Queens on Tuesday night at 9pm ET on FOX!
