Cry Wolf

Owen Matthews (Julian Morris) arrives at Westlake Preparatory Academy. That night Owen's roommate, Tom (Jared Padalecki), tells him they are sneaking out. Owen is a new student to the school, having recently been transferred from England. Owen's father Mr Matthews (Gary Cole) is not very interested in checking on Owen while he settles down in his new school. Nobody stays at school for the weekend. Tom tells Owen a Dodger asked him to bring Owen. Dodger had met Owen earlier in the day when he entered the school gates and was searching for his dorm. A group of students consisting of Graham (Ethan Cohn), Mercedes (Sandra McCoy), Lewis (Paul James), Randall (Jesse Janzen), Regina (Kristy Wu), Tom, Dodger (Lindy Booth) and Owen play a game called Cry Wolf. Everybody pools in money. Dodger will secretly pick one person in the group to be the wolf (who will put a mark on their body), and the rest will be sheep. The objective of the game is to find the wolf and convince the rest of the group to vote the wolf out. The one who exposes the wolf gets the money, if the wolf survives, the wolf gets the money. The group has to reveal the wolf by finding out who is lying. Owen is great at spotting the tell-tale signs of someone lying (like Graham trying to take a swig of beer from an empty bottle). Owen was the wolf, but he voted everybody out and won the money. After meeting his new journalism teacher, Mr. Walker (Jon Bon Jovi), Owen and Tom meet everyone for lunch. They discuss the police finding a girl's body, Becky (Erica Yates), after it was dragged through the woods by a wolf. It is shown that Becky was chased by a person with a torch in their hand. Becky was able to hide from her attacker in the dense, dark jungle, but the attacker called Becky's cell phone which rang loudly, thus giving away her position. When her body was found, she was covered by leaves and her fingers were chopped off. The group considers who could have murdered Becky, when Dodger proposes expanding Cry Wolf to the entire school. Dodger says that the best way to play the game is to accuse someone else of being the Wolf. So, Dodge suggests starting a rumor that Becky's killer is on campus. Owen suggests creating a fake e-mail telling everyone about a serial killer who goes from campus to campus killing students on full moon night (which is the coming weekend). They describe the killer as wearing an orange ski mask, a green camouflage jacket, steel toe combat boots, black tactical leather gloves, brandishing a hunting knife or a high-powered handgun. That night, they send out the e-mail. The next day, the entire school has spread the story in the e-mail. Owen receives an instant message from someone using the name "Wolf". Tom and Owen accuse Dodger, but she claims she was studying with Regina. Tom and Owen find their dorm room trashed (but only Tom's side of the room is messed up and Owen's side of the room was left untouched). When the instant messenger comes up on Owen's laptop, they find a piercing stud and blood on Owen's keyboard. Tom blames Regina, who has a recipe for fake blood. When accused, she insists she was on a field trip. Believing Dodger is lying, Owen confronts her. Dodger informs him that she was visiting her mother. Deciding that Randall is behind the odd behavior, Owen tries tracking him down, to no avail. Owen once again seeks out Dodger and finds her kissing Mr. Walker. In his journalism class the next day, when Owen reaches into his bag for supplies, a hunting knife falls out. Mr. Walker escorts Owen to the Headmistress Tinsley's (Anna Deavere Smith) office. Owen tells Mr. Walker that he knows about his relationship with Dodger, and that he will tell the headmistress if Walker reveals the knife. Mr. Walker agrees not to say anything. On the night of Halloween, "Wolf" attacks Owen. Thinking Tom was trying to prank him, Owen goes to leave with Tom's car but sees Wolf behind him. The attacker ends up being Mercedes, who was trying to prove that attackers can be women. The following day, Owen and Mercedes meet with the headmistress, who decides that Owen's fate will be decided over the weekend. The rest of the group is forced to stay at school over the weekend. Owen contacts them to meet in the chapel. Owen, Dodger, Tom, Lewis and Regina meet and try to get to the bottom of the attacks. While Lewis is on the phone, Mercedes is attacked in the bathroom by Wolf. Lewis runs out as Owen tries to call for help. Owen, Regina and Tom find Randall's body in a confessional. Owen goes looking for Dodger, and sees Lewis get attacked. After the group scatters, Owen runs to the parking lot to see that Mr. Walker is still on campus. Owen runs to Mr. Walker's office as his phone starts ringing. Owen answers to Dodger crying on the other end; she has found Mercedes dead. Dodger tells Owen she is coming and can see him through the window. He looks out to see Wolf kill her. Suddenly Mr. Walker enters the room. After noticing that Mr. Walker has a jacket, an orange mask and a knife, Owen shoots him. The door is suddenly opened by Dodger, Tom and Regina. Owen is arrested for murder. The group admits that it was a prank to get Mercedes and Owen back for making them stay on campus. It is discovered that Mr. Walker was involved with Becky, the gun in his desk being the same one that killed her. Dodger visits Owen, who has been released on bail, and says that she would never have played the game if she knew that Mr. Walker was cheating on her, revealing she had organized everything. She had killed Becky because she was jealous of Mr. Walkers relationship with her. She had set up the game, knowing that Owen would blame Mr. Walker for the killings, thereby killing him and making her happy. Owen threatens to report her, to which she replies that no one would believe him.