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Officer, she made me do it. She makes me do a lot of things.

–Tyler O’Neill to Nina Patterson, Pilot

Tyler O'Neill was a minor character in the television series Scream. He was the tech-savvy ex-boyfriend of Nina Patterson, also attending George Washington High School. Initially, he was considered a suspect in the 2015 Lakewood Murders until it was later revealed that he was a victim of the killings.


He is portrayed by Max Lloyd-Jones.

Description

Tyler was the bad boy, tech-savvy high-school genius at George Washington High. On the night he helped his ex-girlfriend Nina Patterson to upload an untraceable video of Audrey Jensen and Rachel Murray making out. After that night Tyler brings Nina home on the night him and Nina got murdered.

Appearances (4/24)

Season 1 (4/10)

Death

Monday, September 28th, 2015

Tyler Death

Heads Up: Tyler would become the infamous 1st victim (and male) in the 2015-2016 Lakewood Murders to the Lakewood Slasher (sixth victim overall, first murdered since the 1994 murders) whose brutal death in the franchise, despite off-screen, would follow his friends.

Shortly after Tyler dropped Nina off at her house, The Killer decapitated him off-screen. Nina starts receiving text messages from The Killer, whom she assumed was Tyler. When Nina goes in the hot tub, she does not notice the incoming text she gets that reads "Heads up", then the Lakewood Slasher throws Tyler's severed head in the hot tub.

Quotes

  • Tyler: "Officer, she made me do it. She makes me do a lot of things."
  • Tyler: "Wow, you are a mean drunk tonight."
  • Tyler: "So then, why don't you make me a drink while we break the Internet? I know your parents are still out of town".

Trivia

  • Tyler is the first character to be killed in the TV series off-screen and the first to be murdered overall.
  • Tyler is also the first male character to be killed in the 2015-2016 Lakewood Murders (Second Lakewood Murders), following Dara Alden in 1994 (original Lakewood Murders).
  • Like Casey Becker's boyfriend, Steven Orth, he was killed to prove the Lakewood Slasher's intents.
  • He and Nina are the first two characters to be killed on the TV series, much like in the films seeing as they are coupled up but apart (ironically their characters were exes) when they die much like:
  • Tyler was the main suspect in Nina's murder up until Emma, Audrey, and Noah found his mutilated head, his name was then cleared and everyone, including Nina's parents, realized that he wasn't the killer, but was a another victim of the killer himself/herself.
    • This aspect would be used similarly for the suspecting of Shane in Season 3. Both characters being supposedly fostered (despite Tyler actually) and suspected of being the killer, while Tyler was suspected after his death, unlike Shane.
  • The Lakewood Slasher also planted evidence of Tyler's fingerprints on a glass cup in Nina's kitchen, as to implicate him in the murder in order to throw off suspicion.
  • He was apparently an orphan, as it is mentioned that he lived with his foster parents.
  • He is the first character in the franchise to be dismembered in some fashion.
    • Next would be Seth Branson on Season 2, when the Lakewood Slasher (Kieran Wilcox) severs his right hand.
    • In the 6th film, Greg Bruckner was dismembered by Ghostface (Wayne Bailey) and stuffed in fridge, making him the first in the films. Like Tyler he was killed off Screen

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