Scream 6 Spoiler Interview: Dermot Mulroney Talks Detective Bailey

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Scream VI.] Every new Scream character becomes part of franchise legacy, but Dermot Mulroney will be an especially big part of it forever because — Detective Bailey is a Scream VI Ghostface killer. After spending most of the movie pretending to help The Core Four evade Ghostface and try to figure out the killer’s identity, Detective Bailey reveals his master plan to Sam (Melissa Barrera) and Tara (Jenna Ortega) in the shrine — a shrine that he helped build. Turns out, Detective Bailey is actually the father of Scream 2022 killer Richie Kirsch (Jack Quaid) and he’s devastated over the loss of his Stab-loving son. And so are Richie’s siblings, Jack Champion’s Ethan and Liana Liberato’s Quinn. In a Scream first, we get three Ghostface killers, Richie’s father, brother, and sister. Now that the Scream VI spoiler interview embargo has lifted, I can share my conversation with Mulroney covering what it was like for him to find out that he’d