Gale’s Family Advice To Sam Makes Her Scream 5 Ending More Tragic

WARNING! This article contains SPOILERS for Scream 6!Courteney Cox’s Gale Weathers imparts touching advice to Sam about family in Scream 6 that makes the tragic ending of Scream (2022) even more upsetting. While Gale and Sam’s Scream 6 reunion starts off on the wrong foot as the former questions the latter about if she blames herself for Ghostface’s return, the Woodsboro survivors go on to establish an even stronger camaraderie in the 2023 sequel. Not only does Sam Carpenter comfort the near-dead Gale Weathers before she’s taken away by paramedics, but Gale also gives Sam important wisdom about the importance and safety of choosing her own family, linking back to Dewey Riley’s tragic death in Scream (2022).