Dwight is a minor character in Slither. He is played by Dee Jay Jackson.
Biography[]
Dwight was a resident of Wheelsy, South Carolina, whom had gotten involved in Bill's posse to hunt down Grant Grant, alongside the town's deputies, Grant's wife Starla, a local hunter named Charlie and the town's mayor Jack MacReady.
During their hunt, Charlie gets killed by Grant, and the group chases Grant into a barn, in which they find a local woman called Brenda, whom Grant had infected earlier, and whose body has been inhumanly bloated from the larvae impregnated inside her. The group suddenly realize that Grant lured them to the barn as a trap, but before they can escape, Brenda bursts into a wave of slug-like larva, which infect nearly everyone in the barn (except for Starla, Bill, and MacReady), before the larva leave the barn and make their way towards town.
After the larva has left the barn, the non-infected survivors gather up the unconscious bodies of the officers and drag them outside. Bill, meanwhile, heads off to town to radio for help. Upon them regaining consciousness, Starla discovers that those infected by the larvae become part of a hive mind controlled by Grant, obtaining Grant's personality in the process. The infected officers all try to calmly tell Starla to "put that goddamn gun down", but when Deputy Hooper tries to grab her gun and control the situation, she gets sprayed in the face with acid vomit from the infected Deputy Carpenter, killing her. Starla then kills the infected Deputy Whale when he tries to threaten her, but, having run out of bullets, she flees alongside MacReady into the woods, and is pursued by Carpenter, Tourneur and Dwight.
Whilst preparing to drive back to the barn, Bill sees Starla and MacReady being chased, and quickly runs Carpenter over, knocking him down, where Starla finishes Carpenter off by stabbing him in the neck with a sign post. Bill picks up Starla and MacReady in his car, and the three drive away alongside Kylie Strutemyer, a teenager whom Bill had saved earlier, as Tourneur and Dwight mourn her departure.
Death[]
Dwight was killed alongside all the other infected townsfolk after Grant Grant was destroyed by Starla.