Case #1: Dewey's Not Dead

Letter: Dewey's Not Dead. Evidence and Reasoning.

Dear Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, James Vanderbilt, Guy Busick, Chad Villellla, Tyler Gillet, and whomever else it may concern:

Hello. My name is Grace. I am a student in and I'm writing to you to address the "killing off" of the best character in your hit film Scream 5. But first, I would like to take the chance to appraise your work. I love your movies and think you did an amazing job on them. Now, the character you killed was Dewey Riley. After 4 amazing, heart wrenching, horrific movies where Dewey has survived, and saved the day, you killed him off in the big important requel. The reason you killed him off was to get Gale and Sidney back to Woodsboro. So they went. And the movie happened. But now that his death has done as you wish, there is no use of him being dead. There are so many advantages to the possibility of bringing him back. Besides, it's not like he hasn't survived worse before. I am writing now because I have evidence that he could be alive.

At 1:05:52 barely the middle of the 5th scream movie, Dewey Riley was stabbed first in the stomach, and second in the back by an 18 year old girl. At the time of the attack, both the assailant and the victim were located on a private floor of a hospital. When the scene shifts, we see who is presumed to be Dewey in a body bag being wheeled away from the hospital. He is thought to be dead. The whole world now believes that he is gone forever. But it doesn't have to be that way. Based on long hours of grueling research, 2 experiments, and a meeting with a doctor, I believe that Dewey can appear alive in the next movie.

First, the average blood a 5 foot 10, 160 pound man can lose before dying is 5.3 pints. After measuring the size of tiles in the hospital that Dewey died in and performing a controlled experiment where I spilled a blood-like substance across the same sized tiles until I got the same amount of tile coverage as in the movie, I found that Dewey would not have died right away. In order to find out how long the tiles were, I found a shot of Dewey lying on the ground. Then I zoomed in on his arm and used the length of his Ulna bone to determine that the tiles were the standard 12 inches long. The average length of the Ulna of a 5'10 man is 10.83 (about 11) inches. Add that the tile extended to the beginning of his palm and you get 12 inch tiles which is the most common size. Using this, I drew 12 inch tiles across my garage floor which I had covered in plastic wrap. Using various clips from the movie, I was able to count out which and how many tiles had blood on them, and how much. Then, I studied how to replicate blood. I came up with various ways to make a blood like substance that has a similar viscosity as real blood. The recipe I used was that of the Hollywood special effects expert Erik Porn. Erik works with real fake blood for actual horror movies. Using this fake blood, I proceeded to pour it onto the floor precisely according to the movie clips. I even spilled some on the front and back of a button down work shirt and jacket similar to what Dewey was wearing when he was bleeding. Out of the 6 pints of blood I had to begin with, only 4.25 were spilled. That means Dewey had one whole pint of blood before he would have died. Dewey would not have died according to blood loss.

All this proves that Dewey would not have died. But A) you showed a body bag being pulled out, and B) We saw him lay with his eyes open. This body bag is assumed to be the body bag of Dewey. It even has a body bag tag. So how do we solve this problem? Well, first off, the body bag tag might not have Deweys name on it. The names on the first two lines were written so scribbly, that it is impossible to tell the real names on it. The only thing we can tell is that most of the names start with the letter D. Everyone watching just assumes this D stands for Dewey. It's simple hypnotism. They think it's Dewey so when they look at the tag, the name looks like his. But there are many things that suggest otherwise. One thing is that all the names appear to start with the letter D. This is a problem because Deweys full name is Dwight Riley. If they wrote his name on the tag, that is what they would have written. Yet I do not see one R in any of that. In order to help prove that Dwight Riley did not look like the name on the tag, I did an experiment. I asked 22 people to tell me what names or words they saw written on the top two lines of the body bag tag. Not one person said the name Dwight, Dewey, or Riley. To keep this study neutral, I did not tell anybody what the tag was from, or what the real name was supposed to be prior to asking them. Here is a list of what people thought the first and second lines read: