Ghostface traps Sydney and her cousin Jill. He reveals his identity and then tells Jill that he staged everything for her. Charlie recounts how Jill told him that she wished she were Sidney (attention, excitement, etc.). Charlie presents an ultimatum to Jill: kill Sidney or die.

Shockingly, Jill gives in and shoots Sidney. Charlie hugs Jill, but Jill shoots him, too, killing him. Jill calls 911, holds Sidney, and tells her how sorry she is. Sadly, Sidney dies. When questioned by police, Jill lies and says that Charlie killed Sidney.

Fast-forward a year or two for a 5 minute segment: Jill is in college, and she appears to be doing pretty well, at least on the surface, although some serious issues clearly linger. (This is similar to Sidney's situation in Scream 2, of course.) Jill's boyfriend is murdered by who else...Ghostface. When Jill is questioned by police officers, they reveal that a cryptic note was attached to her boyfriend's body (similar to I Know What You Did Last Summer). The note might say something like, "Et Tu, Jill?" Jill lies and says she doesn't know what the note means, and Scream 4 ends.

In Scream 5, Ghostface threatens to continue killing until Jill announces the truth: that she, in fact, killed Sidney. Eventually, Jill does just that. Everyone is shocked, and people begin to act as if she is to blame for the current killing spree. At that point, Ghostface then targets Jill alone.

The actor(s) we find out "did the deed" are both very much shorter than the Ghostface we've seen during the rest of the film. Significantly so...meaning Ghostface would have had to have worn foot-high lifts during his killings to actually have been those people. I know it is a movie, but I elimiated characters while I was watching because of their height. So this movie "cheats" in a cinematic way that the previous three Scream flicks did not.