Scream Again (Scream Queens)
| "Scream Again" | |
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| Scream Queens episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 1 |
| Directed by | Brad Falchuk |
| Written by | Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk & Ian Brennan |
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| Production code | 2AYD01 |
| Original air date | September 20, 2016 |
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"Scream Again" is the season premiere and the fourteenth episode of the horror black comedy series Scream Queens, which premiered on Fox on September 20, 2016. It was directed by Brad Falchuk and written by Falchuk and his co-creators, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. The episode was watched by 2.17 million viewers and received mixed to positive reviews from critics.
The episode revolves around Cathy Munsch's recent acquisition, the C.U.R.E. Hospital, which she bought in order to cure the incurable and to reorganize the U.S. health system, while flashbacks shows a connection with the hospital from 1985. Zayday Williams and the Chanels are cast as medical students by Cathy, while a new serial killer surfaces.
On October 31, 1985, a pregnant woman named Jane (Trilby Glover) arrives at hospital Our Lady of Perpetual Suffering during a Halloween party, saying her husband, Bill (Jeremy Batiste), has COPD and needs medical assistance immediately. Nurse Thomas (Laura Bell Bundy) and Dr. Mike (Jerry O'Connell) determinate that Bill's surgery will succeed at morning, an excuse to return to the party. However, he agrees to do the operation after Jane threatens to have his medical license revoked and the hospital shut down. Then, Dr. Mike injects the woman's husband with an anesthetic and decides to dump his body in a swamp. Nurse Thomas seems hesitant about that and explains to Dr. Mike that she grew up in the area and heard some stories about a monster that lives by the swamp, the Green Meanie. Dr. Mike explains to her that the swamp's the real monster and dumps the body and his costume in the swamp, while Jane is in the waiting room, unaware of what happened.
Cathy Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis), now recognized by her movement known as New New Feminism and as a global icon, explains to an audience she's into a new social cause: reforming America's health care system. She opened the C.U.R.E. Institute using her own personal publishing fortune, with the intent of hiring only the best doctors to solve the world's most incurable medical cases. It is then revealed that Hester (Lea Michele) confessed her crimes, which lead to the Chanels to be acquitted. An award-winning Netflix documentary series turned them into national obsession. Later, Cathy visits Zayday Williams (Keke Palmer) at the restaurant where she works, where Zayday tells that she managed to graduate from Wallace University in only two years and is now working on three jobs to pay her medical school. Cathy then offers to pay for Zayday's medical study, if she agrees to work at C.U.R.E Institute.
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