Denise Hemphill is one of the main characters of the Scream Queens TV series.
Biography[]
Denise Hemphill is introduced in season 1 episode 2. Gigi introduces her to the Chanel’s and claims she’s a private security guard she hired due to the red devil killings. Denise claims to not be a real police officer but they have nothing to worry about as long as she’s on the premises.
She claims there is 3 step safety procedure to anyone who encounters the red devil. Step 1 is scream “Denise Hemphill” and she will come to help. But if she’s not on the premises, proceed to step 2, Call 1-866-KLJ-0199, and she will be notified. If you can’t call that number then proceed to step 3, which is, get the hell out of there. The Chanel’s appear to be very underwhelmed about her.
One night, Denise was going for a drive and came across Zayday Williams. She asks Zayday if she needs a ride, which Zayday accepts, but then when she gets in, Denise temporarily arrests her as she thinks Zayday is the killer. Zayday gets really annoyed and asks her why, and Denise says she found a chainsaw under Zayday’s bed. She also suspects that there’s more than one killer (which turned out to be true) and that Zayday had her accomplice kill Shondel Washington while she was in the house. But Zayday claims that she had that chainsaw under her bed to defend herself and it was a gift from her grandmother. Denise eventually lets her go but claims she has her eye on her.
In episode Black Friday, Denise was all of a sudden promoted as the chief of police (despite the fact that she was only a security guard before) after a bunch of other police officers were fired, and she managed to save Chanel from the killer. She almost managed to catch Pete, but he shot an officer with a crossbow and then ran off. Denise gets really frustrated that she failed to catch the killer (who she once again believed was Zayday Williams).
Denise helped make the arrests on Chanel, Chanel 3 and Chanel 5 when Hester accused them of being the killers.
It was revealed at the end of the series that she had been dating Chad Radwell but they were going to have to seperate because Denise was going away to do FBI training. Chad Radwell is heartbroken over this and Denise tries to cheer him up.
She makes a cameo appearance at the beginning of season 2. She is now an FBI agent and she reveals that the Chanel’s are innocent because Hester Ulrich was responsible for the killings. She showed video proof of Hester confessing to it. In the video, Hester says she can’t be arrested because of Double Jeopardy which means you can’t be tried with the same crime twice. But Denise disputes this saying the Chanel’s were tried the first time and this results in Hester being arrested.
She attended Chanel and Chad’s wedding and started yawning when Chad was taking ages to show up. Her and everyone else started screaming when Chad was murdered and his dead body fell through the roof.
She appeared to be very sad after Chad Radwell’s death due to their previous relationship. After everyone leaves the room where Chad’s body was, she has one last moment alone with him.
Later on, Chanel accuses Denise Hemphill of killing Chad (despite the fact that Denise was at the wedding with everyone when it happened so it couldn’t have been her), which Denise denies and she said that Chad Radwell loved her more. They even get out a ouija board to summon Chad where Chad confesses he loved Denise more.
At the end of Halloween Blues, she tried to help Chanel 5 when she was stabbed by the Green Meanie (Wes Gardner), but the Wes showed up again and electrocuted Denise until she was almost dead.
At the beginning of Chanel Pour Homme-Icide, Chanel, Cathy, Zayday and Chanel 3 show up to find Denise and Chanel 5. Cathy feels Denise’s pulse and says she is dead. However when Cathy is alone with Zayday, she reveals that Denise is still alive and that she had a weak pulse, so Cathy and Zayday put her in a cryo chamber to keep her alive until they can find a cure for being electrocuted.
Denise spends the rest of the series and Cryo-sleep, and is awoken and cured at the end of season 2. She reveals to everyone that she is still alive when they are soon to be blown up by Ingrid Hoffel’s fertiliser bomb. However she luckily managed to defuse the bomb, managed to free everyone and then they all went after Ingrid.
Heroic Acts[]
- Helping protect Wallace University from the red devil killer.
- Forcing Chanel to apologise to Grace for saying mean things to her about her mom.
- Saving Chanel’s life from the red devil at the mall in Black Friday.
- Becoming an FBI agent.
- Was one of the few people who actually bothered to help Chanel 5 when she was stabbed by the green meanie.
- Deactivated the fertiliser bomb that Ingrid Hoffel set up which saved everyone’s lives.