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Jillian "Jill" Roberts is the main antagonist of Scream 4, the fourth installment of the Scream franchise.

She is Sidney Prescott's egotistical and envious cousin who wants to become famous just like her. To accomplish this, Jill becomes the next Ghostface and pretends to be a surviving victim of the very massacre she creates.

She was portrayed by Emma Roberts, who also played Madison Montgomery in American Horror Story: Coven, Maggie Esmerelda in American Horror Story: Freak Show and Chanel Oberlin in Scream Queens.

While in-disguise, she is voiced by Roger L. Jackson. In-costume scenes as Ghostface were portrayed by Dane Farwell.

Biography[]

Background[]

Jill was born to single mother, Kate Roberts in 1993. She grew up in Woodsboro, California. Just one year after her birth, the very first Ghostface killing in Woodsboro occurred; the victim being her aunt, Maureen Prescott, killed by Billy Loomis and Stu Macher.

As a child growing up, Jill was all super familiar with the name of her celebrity cousin, Sidney Prescott, a survivor of the 1996 Woodsboro Murders, and the name and face protagonist of a successful slasher franchise, Stab.

After she was cheated on by her boyfriend, Trevor Sheldon sometime in their junior year or the summer before senior year, Jill began a secret relationship with Woodsboro High Cinema Club President and horror buff, Charlie Walker, who she sat next to in Mr. Baker's English class.

Growing up, her mother Kate neglected her a lot. Fueled by her cousin's immense stardom and fame, being cheated on, and her cousin's successful book tour of her self-help novel, Out of Darkness (2011, published by Random), the events spiraled Jill over the edge into psychopathy. She conspired with secret boyfriend, Charlie Walker to concoct their own elaborate anniversary killing spree in the town for the 15th anniversary, learning Sidney would be in town as a last stop on her book tour. Unbeknownst to Charlie, he was simply a tool in her game. Jill convinced him of manifesting his Stab movie dreams to reality in the form a real-life remake. She elaborated on her vision: millennial counterparts to Sidney Prescott and Randy Meeks.

As part of their plan, they desired to remake the original Woodsboro murders that Billy Loomis and Stu Macher orchestrated, framing her ex-boyfriend, Trevor Sheldon in the process. However, Jill also secretly intended on framing Charlie for the murders as an accomplice, with the pairing serving as a true millennial counterpart to Billy and Stu, while Jill would be left as the sole survivor, like her cousin. As part of the scheme, she came up with the idea of filming the murders due to Jill's belief that no one reads anymore, which they also intended on uploading onto the internet under Trevor's IP address to further frame him as the Ghostface killer.

Scream 4 (2011)[]

Jill and Charlie began their copycat killings with Jenny Randall and Marnie Cooper. Originally, Jill planned to kill only Jenny, because she was the girl Trevor cheated on her with, Marnie was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. When Jenny was upstairs, Charlie kidnapped and killed Marnie off-screen. After that Jill called Jenny and taunted her over the phone, shortly before she and Charlie threw Marnie's corpse through a nearby window. Charlie chased Jenny until she finally managed to kill her, while jill filmed the murder.

The following day, Jill and her friend Olivia Morris are given a ride to school by their best friend Kirby Reed. Charlie plants Jenny and Marnie's blood, Sidney's novels and Ghostface merchandise in the trunk of Sidney's rental car while she is inside a bookstore doing a book signing for her newly released novel Out of Darkness. Jill receives a phone call from Charlie as "Ghostface" using Jenny's phone during the ride, and after Jill hangs up, Olivia reveals she got a call like that from Marnie's phone. In the evening, she and Kirby prepare dinner with her mother. Later, she sees that Trevor has snuck into her bedroom when she comes into her room after using the bathroom. She tells Trevor to get away from the window. He starts talking about wanting a second chance again when Sidney walks in and sees Jill with Trevor. After he leaves, she tells Jill she reminds her of herself. This is a homage to the time Billy Loomis snuck in through her window 15 years earlier.

Later on, while watching Shaun of the Dead with Kirby, Jill makes a fake "Ghostface" phone call to Olivia. During this conversation, Charlie calls Kirby as Ghostface, claiming to be in the closet. Kirby opens Jill's closet to prove he isn't in there and called him a liar. He then gives a bone chilling response, "I never said I was in your closet" before immediately leaping out of Olivia's closet. Charlie mutilates her while Kirby and Jill watch horrified from the house next door. Sidney rushes to the Morris house, but does not arrive in time to save Olivia from death. Charlie then calls Sidney as Ghostface to taunt her. Jill heads upstairs to Olivia's room, but Sidney prevents her from looking at Olivia's corpse. Then Charlie, still wearing the Ghostface costume, comes out from behind a door, seemingly trying to attack Jill and manages to slash her arm. Sidney pushes her out of the way and kicks him down the stairs. After fighting him off, Sidney sees Jill sitting down at the top of the stairs, holding her bloodied left her arm. The police come in and Sidney tries to show them where Charlie is, but he already escaped. Kirby and Trevor also arrive at Olivia's house shortly after to see if Jill is okay.

Jill's arm is X-rayed at the hospital, where no serious damage appears to have been sustained. Jill somehow finds a way to escape from Sidney, her mother, and the doctors for a little bit. She calls and taunts Sidney's former publicist and personal assistant, Rebecca Walters. Later, Charlie as Ghostface follows her into an empty parking structure. Having disabled Rebecca's car's ability to operate, he taunts her some more before finally stabbing Rebecca in the stomach as she attempts to flee. Charlie makes his way to the roof and throws Rebecca's body off the parking structure. The body lands on a news van during a press conference held by Dewey Riley.

The third annual Stab-a-Thon is the next night, taking place at an abandoned barn on the outskirts of town. However, Jill can't go because Kate wants to keep her teenage daughter safe. Jill and Sidney share a family moment when Sidney states that she knows how Jill feels and is very sorry about Olivia. Jill says she is sorry about Rebecca. Continuing the moment, Jill asks Sidney about being a survivor. Later on, Charlie lets Jill know that Gale Riley has arrived, and to log onto her laptop to watch through the webcam. She does so and sees Gale has discovered the webcam hidden in the haystack. Jill watches as Charlie attacks Gale, but he panics when Dewey begins firing gunshots at him. She sees Charlie stab Gale in the right shoulder, just before fleeing the scene. Gale survives her injuries and is rushed to the hospital as soon as possible. The Stab-a-Thon is canceled as a result of the incident.

Jill meets Charlie outside her house in her own Ghostface costume where she stabs Deputy Hoss and Deputy Perkins. Charlie drives the cop car with their corpses two blocks down the street and stabs them several more times before taking a gun from one of the dead officers, which he gives to Jill later. In the meantime, after killing the cops, Jill calls Sidney to taunt her about Gale and to tell her a member of her family is going to die while all Sidney can do is watch. When Charlie returns, they attack Sidney and Kate from both sides of the Roberts house. Charlie scares Sidney and Kate at the back door forcing them to run to the front door where they are attacked by Jill. Sidney slams the door on Jill's arm causing her to groan in pain. Jill angrily thrusts her knife through the mail slot, stabbing her mother Kate, who was sitting against the door in an attempt to keep it shut. Kate dies after asking Sidney to tell Jill she's sorry.

Jill, while waiting for Kirby to pick her up, sends Trevor a text message telling him to meet her at Kirby's house, where she intends on ending the killing spree. Trevor appears claiming Jill invited him to come over. Jill denies sending Trevor a text message to further arouse suspicion of him. She goes to upstairs to "look" for her cellphone, claiming she doesn't have it on her, and Trevor follows her. Later, after Trevor interrupted Charlie and Kirby's erotic moment, mad Charlie leaves to room just to kill a drunken Robbie outside of Kirby's house while Jill abducts Trevor, tying him up upstairs. Jill returns downstairs after erasing the text she sent to Trevor. Soon, Sidney arrives and asks Jill to come with her when a bleeding Robbie appears at the door and gurgles "Run.", dying. Shortly after that, Charlie appeared and chased Jill and Sidney upstairs. Jill hid under the bed, while Sidney fled on the roof. Charlie didn't find Jill and continued to attack Sidney. At the same time Jill came out from under the bed and went to get her Ghostface costume.

Sidney escaped from Charlie and after that she joined up Kirby. When they go towards the basement, Charlie appears at the patio doors, trying to get inside. Because Charlie had blood on his hands, Kirby didn't let Charlie in. Because of that, Charlie is attacked and later tied-up on the chair by Jill (reference to Steven Orth). Jill calls Kirby as Ghostface and Sidney tells her to keep the killer on the phone while she goes to get Jill. They manage to trick Kirby into coming out of the room by asking her several trivial horror movie questions and letting her believe she actually won the game. She goes to untie Charlie, but he stabs her in the stomach twice, blaming her for not returning his affections sooner and leaving her for dead. Luckily, Kirby managed to survive off-screen, which is revealed in a Scream (2022) easter-egg.

Sidney, back inside, finds Jill is gone starts to go into the basement, going back for Kirby. She is grabbed from behind by Charlie, who holds her at knife point. After a struggle, she gets free and races for the front door. Before reaching the front door, Jill stabs Sidney in the stomach just before revealing herself as the main Ghostface killer.

In the kitchen she tells Sidney how she plans to frame her ex-boyfriend Trevor Sheldon for the murders and then she kills him (taking her revenge because Trevor cheated on her), by shooting him in the groin and then in the head. Charlie and Jill then tell Sidney they plan on being this generation's Randy Meeks and Sidney Prescott. Jill then kisses Charlie, leading him on into thinking that she loves him. Afterward, Jill asks Charlie if he's ready. He says yes, just like Billy and Stu, wanting her to stab him in the shoulder like they rehearsed. Instead, she stabs him the chest, and claims the media really loves a sole survivor, before stabbing him in the stomach, killing him. Jill then continued her jealous rant, before stabbing Sidney again (supposedly to death) and deliberately injures herself to make it appear that she had been attacked.

At the hospital, Dewey talks to Jill, who reveals to know a little more information than she should for somebody who is a victim; Jill mentions to Dewey that she would like to write a book with Gale, with their "matching wounds", referring to them both being stabbed in the shoulder. The details of Charlie's attack on Gale were never released to the public, so Jill could never have known unless she was one of the murderers herself (some fans believe that Jill was the one who attacked Gale, but it has been debunked, she knew about the "matching wounds", because Charlie told Jill about the attack). Dewey does not catch onto this until he speaks with his wife. Furious that Sidney is still alive, Jill goes to the I.C.U. and tries to kill her again. She digs her fingers into Sidney's stitches until Dewey arrives. Jill hides and knocks him out with a metal bedpan. Gale and Deputy Judy Hicks arrive, but Jill shoots Judy in the chest after she tells Jill not to do anything stupid. As she prepares to shoot Gale, Sidney regains consciousness and puts two defibrillator pads to her skull, shocking her brain. However, Jill is still alive and proceeds to grab a glass shard in a foolish final attempt to kill Sidney but was slow due to her being too injured this time to attack quick. Predicting Jill's final attack, Sidney grabs Dewey's gun and shoots her in the chest, finally killing Jill and putting an end to her killing spree and delusional goals.

Despite her death, however, Jill seemed to have achieved her wish to become famous and to create a legacy of her own as the new generation's "Sidney Prescott", as the reporters outside the hospital refer to her as "an American hero right out of the movies". However, since Sidney, Gale, Dewey, and Judy (Gale because she's a news reporter and Judy and Dewey because they're cops) knew the truth, they told everyone, and they realized that they were wrong about her. They realized that she was "a true American villain right out of the movies" and was officially confirmed to be the new generation's "Billy Loomis".

Scream (2022)[]

While in the car going to Woodsboro to see about Tara, Sam tells Richie Kirsch about Woodsboro’s fatal history remarks on the massacre that happened during 2011 as she referred to Charlie and Jill as “some idiot” as wanting to kill their friends and get famous as Billy Loomis her father once did the generation before that in 1996.

Scream VI (2023)[]

Jill's Ghostface mask was left in the bodega after the attack. At the police station, Wayne reveals, that another mask which was left behind at the Bodega, had "DNA that matched Jill Roberts and Charlie Walker, both deceased." Kirby later responds "Ghostface killers from 2011". These words refuted the speculations of fans and Emma Roberts herself, who believed that Jill survived the gunshot to the chest.

Jill is mentioned again by Kirby, when she and Wayne are tracking the timeline of Ghostface. While at the shrine that was created by Richie, Kirby stares with watery eyes at the shirt that was worn by Jill in the final act of the movie.

Personality[]

Jill appeared to be a nice, vulnerable and dainty person, who was supposed to be the new generation "Sidney Prescott". However, Jill turned out to be a high-functioning psychopathic, selfish, brutal and skilled manipulator, who will do anything to be in the center of attention. She is naturally self-indulgent, feeling nothing but endless wanting.

To achieve her goals, she even goes so far as (directly or indirectly) to kill anyone who ever loved her, including her own mother, as well as Charlie Walker, who helped her orchestrate the Woodsboro murders knowing that he did it out of love for her. Jill gladly and without remorse killed her ex-boyfriend, Trevor Sheldon, and her accomplice Charlie Walker, so she could frame them as the Ghostface Killers, and people would remember her as a Woodsboro hero rather than a psycho killer.

Jill also wanted to kill Sidney and her friends to cover her tracks, as well as be the sole survivor. But despite her intelligence she was ultimately arrogant, as she wanted to become famous like Sidney, she doesn't see the fact that Sidney didn't survive so far on her own, as she always had Dewey, Gale and other friends who helped which was Jill's ultimate downfall, as she herself foolishly believed friends would only hold her back, as she got ultimately outsmarted by Gale and Sidney, as Gale distracted her and Sidney snuck up behind her and fried her brain with defibrillators before fatally killing her as Jill made another reckless attempt to attack the group alone.

Even if Jill did get away with killing Sidney, Dewey would eventually found out she's the killer due to how she knew what spot Gale was stabbed in and had her arrested and only be famous for being another Ghostface pathetic enough to believe they'd succeed in lies like the others.

Victims[]

Confirmed Victims[]

	Deputy Ross Hoss	Stabbed in the back by Jill (on-screen), stabbed multiple times by Charlie (off-screen).
	Deputy Anthony Perkins	Stabbed in the forehead by Jill (on-screen), stabbed multiple times by Charlie (off-screen)
	Trevor Sheldon	Shot in the groin and forehead.
	Charlie Walker	Stabbed in the heart and stomach.

Speculated Victims[]

	Jenny Randall	Stabbed in the back, back crushed by garage door, stabbed in the chest.
	Kate Roberts	Stabbed in the back through letterbox.

Quotes[]

Trivia[]

• Jill Roberts shares the same last name as her actress Emma Roberts.
• Jill is the first killer in the franchise who successfully killed another killer (the second is the Third Killer, the third is Jamal Elliot, the fourth is Beth and the fifth is Wayne Bailey). In her case, she did it to her accomplice Charlie.
• Jill Roberts is the youngest person to wear the Ghostface mask in the series so far, only being 18 years old at the time of her death.
• Jill did not receive her 15 minutes of fame postmortem either; no Stab film was made about her story. After Stab 7 (2010), the franchise was in development hell for 10 years, until the infamous Rian Johnson directed eighth Stab film, simply known as Stab (2020) was released. In the Scream universe, this technically means she and Charlie are the least famous Ghostface killers known in comparison to the first three killing sprees.
• Jill's jealousy was rooted in desiring to be Sidney, whereas Roman's issue was about their shared mother's rejection, with Maureen rejecting her birth son and "choosing" Sidney, who would develop a celebrity victim reputation with adoring fans and a film franchise inspired by her life. This would have aggrieved Roman, as he technically sparked the chain of events to convince her mother's killer to do the job. Ultimately, both relatives have very similar motives, but subtle and important differences.
  • Between them, though, Roman's is realistically more tragic (even if it did corrupt him), as opposed to Jill's, which is instead a much pettier one.
• Emma Roberts was required to dye her short, blonde hair brunette and wear extensions to match Sidney's length and color in the first film. She also had to wear seven-inch-high boots in order to make her height the same as everyone else's, as she was the shortest person on set. The boots can actually be seen at the end of the movie, where Jill attacks herself and falls down next to Sidney and when Sidney instructs her to go under the bed.
• In the movie Lymelife with Rory Culkin and Emma Roberts, Emma's character seduces Rory's character in a confessional and they also had a sex scene. This is apparently what happened between Jill and Charlie: Jill seduced Charlie into doing her bidding and thinking that she loved him, he agreed to help her with her killing spree.
• Jill continues the trend of (usually mastermind) killers wearing plaid and or blue to indicate their secret intentions. Billy Loomis had a plaid flannel shirt on his white shirt when arriving to Stu's house, Mickey Altieri wore a blue shirt at the Sorority House Attack, Charlie Walker wore plaid/flannel in the film club, Nancy Loomis wore blue as her Debbie Salt persona, and Roman Bridger was seen wearing flannel when Stab was shut down.
• Jill is the first main antagonist in the franchise whose ultimate demise does not involve being shot at the head (although she was electrocuted there with a defibrilator); instead she got shot at the heart with Dewey's gun.

External Links[]

• Jill Roberts on the Pure Evil Wiki
• Jill Roberts on the Scream Wiki

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