The Final Girl Support Group

On the way to her apartment, Lynnette tells Skye about how people worship monsters. They collect “murderabilia,” which includes the killers’ belongings or mementos from their killings. When Skye suggests she’s stuck in her past, Lynnette responds:

None of us have to be defined by the worst thing that happened to her. Unfortunately, those things have a bad habit of coming back and trying to kill us again. After a while, you start to realize that your life isn’t the thing that happens between the monsters, your life is the monsters” (89).

There is no escape from the past for her because there is always threat of the monsters coming back. She has to live this way if she wants to stay alive.

They sneak past the media and law enforcement parked outside her apartment. Inside, she finds Fine, the plant, and then opens a hidden panel in the wall where her real computer is—the one the cops got is a dummy. Skye determines someone installed software that allows them to remotely operate her computer. Lynnette is upset with herself for having been careless, especially because her computer has her book on it. She has Skye take her to Bel Air and promise not to tell his mother. On the way there, Lynnette notices that Skye looks like Tommy; she feels sorrow about Tommy and what might have been.

A little while ago, journalist Russell Thorn tried to blackmail Lynnette when he discovered that she writes romance novels under a pseudonym: To prevent him from going public with this information, he demanded she co-author a book about the Final Girls, a book she imagined titling The Final Girl Support Group. Refusing to go along, Lynnette instead wrote the whole book herself, but realized she couldn’t publish it because it would betray the women in the group. She didn’t want to throw it out, though, so she simply left it on her computer.

Lynnette approaches Marilyn’s house and puts Fine in the bushes. There is extra security. She realizes Marilyn is having a party.

Years earlier, when Marilyn, her brother, and three friends went to make sure Marilyn’s grandfather’s grave hadn’t been dug up—something that was rumored to be happening in the place where he was buried—they ran into a backwoods family of former slaughterhouse owners, the Hansens, who turned out to be murderous cannibals. The Hansens brutally murdered everyone except Marilyn. A year later, the surviving Hansens showed up at a radio station where Marilyn had a DJ job. She once again survived.

Lynnette tries to get into the party, but a security guard stops her and wrestles her to the ground when she tries to fight back. Security gets Marilyn, who is annoyed to see Lynnette there. Lynnette screams, so Marilyn has no choice but to send Lynnette to the guest cottage and to promise she’ll arrive later to talk. The guards take Lynnette to the cottage, where she finds Heather.

Heather doesn’t want Lynnette there—she’s worried Lynnette will ruin Heather’s new luxurious hiding spot. When Lynnette warns that something dangerous is happening to the Final Girls, Heather tells Lynnette everyone pities her because she’s so disordered: “[Y]ou can barely walk through a door without having a nervous breakdown and you’re going to help anyone? […] Out of everyone, you are the absolute fucking worst at letting go of the past” (116). Lynnette retorts that they all have to look out for each other.

Suddenly, Lynnette’s story is on the news. Officer Garrett P. Cannon announces on TV that the police have new information on the Silent Night Slayings.

Heather tries to escape, but the security guards hold her back. Marilyn arrives, tells the women to stay put, and has food delivered to the room. Marilyn explains that paparazzi followed Lynnette to her party. Lynnette tries to get Marilyn to believe that killers are coming for the Final Girls, but Marilyn believes everyone else is safe—Dani is protected in jail and Julia has security posted in the hospital. Meanwhile, Heather and Lynnette both have warrants out for their arrest. Lynnette asks about Michelle in hospice. She convinces the other women that they need to make sure she’s safe.

The three women spring the dying Michelle from hospice, relying on Marilyn’s savviness and a small taser to a guard’s crotch. Their plan is to take Michelle to Dani’s ranch, but in the car, they realize they don’t know where the ranch is, and Michelle is too far gone to tell them. Marilyn drives to a park, where they wheel Michelle onto the grass so she can die outside in nature. Michelle dies. They ask an old man to stay with her body.

As they are leaving, Garret and other cops show up. Heather called him to arrest Lynnette—both Lynnette and Heather have warrants out, and this would give Heather a way to escape. Shrugging about the betrayal, Heather says, “The rest of us are survivors […] You were always just a victim” (144). Lynnette sees that Heather offered up Lynnette to save herself, just like Lynnette did to Julia during the shooting.