scream 6 is just as full of twists and turns as its predecessors with meta nods to the franchise and a fair few ghostface fake outs and surprises naturally then you might be a bit confused by what exactly happened at the end of the film have no fear though because weve broken down all your biggest questions to reveal exactly what goes down at the end of scream 6 the film sees sam carpenter melissa barrera her younger sister tara jenna ortega and their friends chad mason gooding and mindy meeksmartin jasmin savoy brown relocate to new york city after the events of scream 5 hayden panettiere returns as scream 4s kirby reed and courteney cox is once again back as gale weathers so for all you need to know about the scream 6 ending explained look no further than the below it goes without saying but there are major spoilers for the movie below turn back now if you havent seen the film yet scream 6 ending explainedimage credit paramount picturesthe scream 6 climax sees kirby now an fbi agent sam tara and chad go to the ghostface shrine they discovered earlier in the movie which belongs to the killer to trap the murderer and take him out themselves unbeknownst to them mindy has already been stabbed by the killer when she was separated from the rest of the group on the way to the shrine when they arrive detective bailey dermot mulroney calls sam who is alone downstairs and warns her that kirby has been fired from the fbi and is mentally unstable a video then starts playing in the ghostface shrine meanwhile upstairs tara and chad share a kiss its a sweet moment swiftly ruined by ghostface two killers arrive and stab chad repeatedly sam and tara reunite downstairs and the ghostfaces finally reveal themselves there are three of them this time detective bailey his daughter quinn liana liberato and her brother ethan jack champion quinn is the biggest shock as she was thought dead after being attacked by ghostface in her bedroom but as bailey explains being a cop meant it was easy for him to switch out her fake dead body with a real one richie kirsch scream 5s ghostface is revealed to be baileys son and quinn and ethans brother they want revenge on sam after she killed richie at the end of scream 5 and quinn was the one who started all the rumors that sam was actually behind the previous killings all along they plan to frame someone obsessed with ghostface as the killer this time around and pose sams body in the costume luckily though despite being wounded by the killers kirby is still alive and she resurfaces in the nick of time sam attacks ethan but doesnt kill him and her and tara attempt to escape to the shrines exit by going up a ladder they end up stuck over the balcony though with ethan right below them swiping