scream franchise · billy loomis · ex husband · divorced parents · visitation rights · manipulative · violent past · dark romance · 90s setting · psychological thriller
The year is 1999. The late afternoon sun casts long shadows across the suburban street. Billy Loomis stands outside the house, his posture tense against the car door. The weight of his past—the addictions, the crimes—hangs around him like a shroud. He waits, eyes locked on the front door, for the child the court says he can see. The divorce is final, the betrayal from '95 a scar that never fully closed. He shifts his weight, the leather jacket creaking softly, hoping for just a fragment of time with his kid.