At the end of Scream he got stabbed in the back. When he shows up in Scream 2 he explains to Randy that his pronounced (and so obviously fake) limp is the result of a severed nerve.
In Scream 2, the character of Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy) questions why Dewey limps despite having been stabbed in the back, with Dewey explaining that the abnormality is the result of a severed nerve.
He is stabbed by Ghostface during the finale of Scream, but survives. Dewey returns in Scream 2, suffering from a limp and weakened arm caused by nerve damage as a result of his stabbing.
Dewey in Scream 2. He arrived once again to protect Sidney, who he now sees as some kind of surrogate sister after the death of his sister in the first killing spree. Only this time, he has a limp due to a severed nerve caused by his injury in the previous film.
By Scream 4 (2011), there is an eleven-year time jump, and Dewey has used years of physical therapy to make his limp appear non-existent. Due to non-training, and alcoholism, his limp returns by Scream 5 (2022). He has been stabbed "nine times," according to Scream 5 (2022).
One of the few times the killer admits to a specific murder is in 2022's Scream when Amber gloats to Gale about being the one who killed Dewey. As she is the first Ghostface to kill off a legacy character, she cements herself in the pantheon of the franchise's killers.
To make the impact effective, the film needed to sacrifice its legacy character, who died in the line of duty facing Ghostface, which circles back to Dewey's role since 1996's Scream. Scream also showed that anyone could die to challenge the implications of the central characters being immortal to Ghostface.
Undoubtedly! Dewey is a resilient character and has survived injuries in previous Scream movies. If somebody found him in time and got him medical attention, there's a good chance he could have made it. But let's not forget that this is a horror movie, and the writers might have had other plans for Dewey's character.
The original Scream takes place in October of 1996. At the time, Sidney is a high school senior. She was born in 1979 and is set to graduate in June of 1997, thus making her 18 years old. Dewey was born in 1971, and he is 25 years old in the original film (as he tells Gale when they first meet).
Though the seventh film is still in the works, the franchise has hit a bump in the road as it has been reported that several cast members will no longer return for the sequel.
During a panel at Emerald City Comic Con 2023, Matthew Lillard (who played Stu) weighed in on the debate. “Stu and Billy were definitely gay,” Lillard definitively announced. “You just throw that away like that, you just toss it out,” Billy Loomis actor Skeet Ulrich said with astonishment.
Sidney has survived four stabbings so far, suggesting she has another five left before she succumbs to Dewey's same fate. Gale has been shot twice and stabbed once in the Scream movies, so Courteney Cox's character still has several wounds before her time comes.
Courteney Cox is full of praise for new Scream directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett — but she did have one quibble with the franchise's latest film: the decision to definitively kill off the character of Dewey Riley, the now ex-cop portrayed by Cox's real-life former husband David Arquette.
The fifth film, prior to Dewey's death, shows he is still in love with her. While Gale also appears to share the same feelings, albeit somewhat muted in comparison as she has been career-busy.
The first film overtly states that Dewey is obsessed with Sidney. His crush is obvious, and although his feelings seem to change from romantic to protective and platonic, he still finds reasons to be around her as much as possible.
Billy is the Ghostface to stab Dewey (David Arquette) in the back, which originally was supposed to be his death but due to test audiences loving him so much, Wes Craven decided to save him. The last two kills are then pretty obvious with Billy stabbing Stu.
While many of these instances truly could be coincidences, director Wes Craven revealed that Dewey was thought to be a possible third killer in the original Scream movie, thus proving his innocence doesn't fool everyone.
I killed Cassandra for everyone because she had it coming, because the night we were all at prom, we were at Harry's house and he said "he wished she were dead". Dewey also says: "Campbell helped me plan it.
Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) was Sidney's boyfriend for the first flick and is the original Ghostface. But by the third act of “Scream,” he reveals himself and pal Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard) to be the homicidal maniacs behind the mask.
Voice actor Roger L. Jackson has been the man behind the murdering monster in every film within the Scream franchise, despite the revolving actors physically playing the character on screen.
The Scream 2022 kills mirror the original film by having two killers as Ghostface, but since the Scream 5 killers have the mask on when committing the murders, only a few kills definitively show which Ghostface killer killed who.
Dewey's second appearance was Scream 2. Now paralyzed in one leg due to a nerve severed when he was stabbed, Dewey has flown out to Windsor College, Ohio to keep an eye on Sidney. He meets Gale but is upset with her because Gale wrote about him in an unflattering manner in a book she published.
