Scream (I) (2022)

David Arquette: Dewey Riley

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• Wes Hicks : [suspecting Dewey as the killer]  You got stabbed a billion times, got dumped by your famous wife, and crawled into a bottle. I think it's safe to say you're on the suspect list.

  Dewey Riley : Well, maybe you're the killer. Because that cut deep.

• Dewey Riley : [to Sidney over the phone]  But Sid, promise me. No matter what you hear or what you see on the news, don't come here.

  Sidney Prescott : No offense, Dewey, I have no intention of ever setting foot in that town again.

  Dewey Riley : Good.

  Sidney Prescott : Dewey, whoever this killer is after, I'm glad they have you to protect them...

  [Gets emotional] 

  Sidney Prescott : You be safe, okay?

  Dewey Riley : Will do.

  Sidney Prescott : It's good to hear your voice.

  Dewey Riley : You too, Sid.

• Dewey Riley : [notices Gale's camera operator and assistant]  Couldn't resist a good story, could you?

  Gale Riley : Don't be an idiot, Dewey. I'm here because I was worried about you... Okay, yes! My producers wanted me to cover this for obvious reasons, but ninety percent is because of you.

  Dewey Riley : Well, I feel ninety percent better.

• Dewey Riley : Do you have a gun?

  Sidney Prescott : I'm Sidney fucking Prescott, of course I have a gun

• Gale Riley : You are a lot of things, Dewey, but you are NOT a coward. You just, you just were meant to be in Woodsboro.

  Dewey Riley : And you weren't.

• Dewey Riley : [text message to Gale]  Ghostface is back. Don't come to Woodsboro. Hope all is well.

  [Adds a smile emoji to the end of the text] 

  Dewey Riley : [when asked about Stu]  Stu Macher... Billy Loomis' Accomplice

  [disparagingly] 

  Dewey Riley : REAL Looney Tunes

• Mindy Meeks-Martin : Going by the pattern, whoever it is has to be connected to someone that came before.

  Dewey Riley : [shifts uncomfortably while everyone stares at him]  I'm starting to regret coming here.

  Wes Hicks : Jesus, my mom is a character in one of them.

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : [rolls her eyes]  No one cares about the shitty, inferior sequels, Wes. You're safe.

  [to Chad] 

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : Randy is our uncle, though, you and I are probably screwed.

  Chad Meeks-Martin : Wait, what?

• Dewey Riley : [after Sam runs a red traffic light]  Stop! You know we have to live through this to help her, right?

• Dewey Riley : How are you? How's Mark?

  [as in, Mark Kincaid from 'Scream 3'] 

  Sidney Prescott : [smiles]  I think I'll keep him.

• Dewey Riley : [as Dewey is about to escape in an elevator with Sam, Tara, and Richie, he hesitates and holds the doors open]  The head.

  Richie Kirsch : What?

  Dewey Riley : You have to shoot them in the head, or they always come back.

  Sam Carpenter : Dewey! Who gives a fuck?

  Dewey Riley : [pauses, then]  I do.

• Chad Meeks-Martin : So, let me get this straight. You're saying that you're the daughter of Billy Loomis and, what, that one of us is the killer?

  Sam Carpenter : The killer said he knew my secret. He attacked Tara to lure me back here.

  Chad Meeks-Martin : But then why immediately go and murder some douche nozzle that was stalking Liv?

  Wes Hicks : Why does it have to be one of us? What about Deputy Dewey here? Maybe he's the killer.

  [to Dewey] 

  Wes Hicks : No offense.

  Dewey Riley : None taken, but what's my motive?

  Wes Hicks : You got stabbed a billion times, got dumped by your famous wife, and crawled into a bottle. I think it's safe to say you're on the suspect list.

  Dewey Riley : Well, maybe, you're the killer... 'cause that cut deep.

  Amber Freeman : That douche nozzle is connected. I googled him, his Mom is Leslie Macher. Stu Macher's sister.

  Liv McKenzie : Who's Stu Macher?

  Dewey Riley : Oh, my god. He's Billy Loomis's accomplice, a real looney tune.

  Sam Carpenter : Okay. Okay. So, the first three attacks are all on people related to the original killers.

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : Oh, my God! He's making a requel!

  Sam Carpenter : A what?

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : Or, uh, legacyquel. Fans are torn on the terminology.

  Chad Meeks-Martin : Please speak English.

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : Okay. Remember the Stab movie that came out last year?

  Liv McKenzie : Oh, yeah! The one the Knives Out guy directed, right? I, actually, really liked that one.

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : Of course, you did. You have terrible taste.

  Liv McKenzie : I hate you.

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : The point is the hardcore Stab fans hated it. You go on 4chan and Dreadit. All they're talking about is how Stab 8 pissed on their childhoods, how they crammed in social commentary just to make it elevated, how the main character's a Mary Sue.

  Richie Kirsch : What's a Mary Sue?

  Wes Hicks : You really don't want to know.

  Amber Freeman : What's wrong with elevated horror? I mean, Jordan Peele fucking rules.

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : Uh, obviously. But's that not what Stab is. Real Stab movies are meta slasher whodunits, full stop.

  Sam Carpenter : Come on, it's just a movie.

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : No, it's not. To some people, the original is their favorite thing in the world. The movie that made them love horror, that Mom or Dad showed them when they were 10 that bonded them together. And God help anyone who slightly fucks with that special memory, who makes a movie they think disrespects it. It sounds like our killer is writing his own version of Stab 8, but doing it as a requel.

  Dewey Riley : Which is?

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : See, you can't just reboot a franchise from scratch anymore, the fans won't stand for it. Black Christmas, Child's Play, Flatliners. That shit doesn't work. But, you just can't do a straight sequel, either. Uh, you gotta build something new, but not too new or the internet goes bug-fucking nuts. It's gotta be a part of an ongoing storyline, even if the story shouldn't have been ongoing in the first place. New main characters, yes, but supported by and related to... legacy characters. Not quite a reboot, not quite a sequel. Like the new Halloween, Saw, Terminator, Jurassic Park, Ghostbusters. Fuck, even Star Wars. It always, always goes back to the original!

  Sam Carpenter : Are you telling me that I'm caught in the middle of fan-fucking-fiction?

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : Not... just... in the middle, Sam. You're the star.

  Liv McKenzie : So, not to put, like, too fine a point on it, but, according to requel rules... who's next?

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : Going by the pattern, whoever it is has to be connected to someone that came before.

  Dewey Riley : [as everyone looks shocked and confused]  I'm starting to regret coming here.

  Wes Hicks : Jesus, my Mom's a character in one of them.

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : No one cares about the shitty inferior sequels, Wes. You're safe.

  [to Chad] 

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : With Randy as our Uncle, though, you and I are probably screwed.

  Chad Meeks-Martin : Wait, what?

  Richie Kirsch : Or you're the killer and this whole, what, elaborate monologue is just to cover your tracks.

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : [Chuckles]  I think it's pretty clear who the killer is at this point.

  Sam Carpenter : Who?

  Mindy Meeks-Martin : You. It makes perfect requel sense.

• Richie Kirsch : I was with Sam in Modesto when Tara was attacked!

  Dewey Riley : And let me guess, you were just in the other room, conveniently unaccounted for when she was attacked at the hospital?

  Richie Kirsch : [to Sam]  Okay, do I have to take this from shitty Sam Elliott over here, or what?