Dewey's not dead.

[thistledown]

I think you put that rather nicely, Dante.

[cyrus]

Well, I'm not sure that woman in the diving suit was the one in the boot.

[gator4life]

i really think that he is dead

[Spymaster E]

Everyone thinks that by now.

I can't believe this discussion is stil going on. TPP came out more than a year and a half ago.

[t]

Dewey isn't dead. because according to the first post, he mentioned Kit and pointed to the sky. [Perhaps he saw Kit with the Quagmires but Kit supposed to be meeting the Captain on a certain clump of seaweed]. Moreover, Kit asked the Baudelaires if they bought Dewey with them in the Coastal Shelf. Kit perhaps didn't believe that Dewey would die that easily.

[Dante]

Well, she didn't know he was dead. She had no idea what had transpired at the Hotel Denouement; it's not even clear if she knows the hotel burnt down - she says she saw the smoke, but interpreted as the Baudelaires' signal and didn't react in the way one might expect if she understood that the hotel had been destroyed. But the fact that Kit saw the smoke of the Hotel Denouement shows she hadn't returned before the hotel burnt down, and even if she had, it was night when Dewey was harpooned - if the SSHAMH hadn't been visible in the sky, Dewey getting harpooned on the ground certainly wouldn't have been visible, and it might just as easily have been Frank or Ernest. It's a cliché that people say their loved one's name at the time of their death; I don't know why you'd think that Dewey wasn't doing this and had literally seen her.

And then there's the crucial fact that Dewey had a harpoon shot through his chest. That's not something people survive, and even if they did, they don't survive it by falling in a lake and sinking to the very bottom, even if they did, in some unlikely scenario, escape into a secret library in which nobody else lived and there's no medical attention. The series is over. Dewey's dead. Dead dead dead. He's a corpse slowly decaying and being eaten by fish at the bottom of a pond. By now he's a skeleton wearing a tattered uniform and with a huge metal rod piercing his torso.