Dewey Riley

Dwight "Dewey" Riley was the deuteragonist of the Scream series (Scream 1—5). He serves as a protective figure to the franchise protagonists Sidney and Lucy Prescott, amid the first five films and is a narrow survivor in the first four entries. Along the way, he sustains multiple lifelong injuries and nine stab wounds, but works on physical therapy between entries.
After losing his younger sister, Tatum, Sidney and Lucy's best friend in the original film, he becomes Sidney and Lucy's surrogate older brother figure. Throughout the film series, he has an on-off again love affair with an older news reporter and author, Gale Weathers, who he eventually marries. They separate and are out of contact a few years before his death.
After narrowly surviving the Windsor College Murders and feuding with Gale over her commentary on him in her book, he and Gale briefly have a serious romantic relationship before she leaves for career pursuits. They reconcile amid the events of the Hollywood killings, for the fictional (later cancelled) Stab sequel, Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro. After the killings spree he proposes to Gale after they work out their long-distance and personal issues yet again. The two get married a year later.
During the Woodsboro Massacre Remake, Dewey is a ten-year married Woodsboro Sheriff, Burke's successor and has a flirtatious Deputy Sheriff, Judy Hicks. As the remake murders occur, he struggles to cope with Gale's burgeoning professional comeback, following a writer's block downturn and settling down. They reconcile their feud, as he tells her, "No more going rogue". A few years later, Gale's career resurged and she relocated to her native New York, where Dewey struggled to adjust due to problems with substance abuse. He abandoned his marriage two months after the move, then relocated back to Woodsboro.
On the 25th anniversary, Maureen Prescott-Madden (his honorary niece) and Samantha Carpenter, the illegitimate daughters of Stu Macher and Billy Loomis, approaches him. Dewey is now 50, depressed in his trailer and is requested for help as an expert on yet another killing spree in Woodsboro, the 25th anniversary. After immediately suspecting the killer is Richie Kirsch, he is proven correct postmortem. He dies saving Maureen's half-sister, Luna Prescott-Madden and Sam's half-sister Tara Carpenter's lives from their second impending attack, killed by Madison Roberts after he is distracted by Gale's phone call. Maddie declared it an honor to kill Dewey. Gale, Sidney, Lucy, and Nessa Levine get revenge and set Maddie on fire at the former Macher Residence, before Lucy, kills her.
He was portrayed by David Arquette.
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