With Halloween right around the corner
(hopefully, if this video is done in time), what better way to celebrate than to tackle one of
the most beloved horror game series of all time: Silent Hill. Now, while I’m going to
try to cover this as in-depth as I can, do note that most of the Silent Hill games feature
a bevy of multiple endings. In this video, I’m going to feature what I, as well as many others in
the community, personally feel to be the “best” or “most accurate” ending to each game’s story, but I
will occasionally mention some of the other ending possibilities in passing. This does not
include the secret, “U.F.O.” joke endings. Now, I’m going to try to keep
things as chronological as I can; but as I always do in this series,
I’m going to focus mostly on the events of the games themselves, touching on
relevant background lore as needed. As such, some events may be covered a bit out of order
just to keep certain reveals and twists intact. Do note that I will be covering the
remake/reimagining, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, on its own at the very end
of this video, due to its story existing in a completely different universe than the mainline
titles. Also, given that the now delisted “Playable Teaser”, or P.T., of the canceled
installment, Silent Hills, is Konami’s final released Silent Hill property as of this video’s
production, I’ll touch on that as well. However, some games, namely the mobile installments,
will not be covered, for various reasons. I will also be skipping over
the two Silent Hill films, as they are also unrelated to the narrative of
the game series. However, as a bonus, I will be covering the various Silent Hill comics that
have been released over the years through IDW, and I’ll try to fit them into the narrative as
best as I can (but take them with a grain of salt, as their canonicity is debated amongst the
community). There are also some Japan-exclusive comics that I’ll be skipping since I couldn’t get
my hands on them. Also, I’m not covering Dead by Daylight’s DLC. You can feel free to complain
about everything I’m missing in the comments. Oh and by the way, given that this
is yet another huge undertaking, I’ve once again enlisted the help of the best
Let’s Play channel on YouTube: the 2-Bit Players. Alright Josh, I'm excited. I've learned
my lesson this time: no more swearing. That's right, Jeffrey's been practising.
We're ready to go; let's *CENSORED* do this. Now, with quite possibly the most
disclaimer-filled intro I’ve ever done out of the way, without further ado, this
is What You Need to Know about Silent Hill. Our story begins in the year 1867, where
we find settlers Jebediah Foster and his pregnant wife Esther traveling to Silent Hill.
On their way, they meet the town’s postmaster, Howard Blackwood, who is on his way to the nearby
town of Shepard’s Glen. He welcomes them into the town and wishes them luck before riding off,
leaving them to enter the town of Silent Hill. The pair ride through town and find Esther’s
family home, where they begin to settle in. As Jeb throws away a ruined char in
the nearby woods, however, a strange, skeletal creature watches over him. He makes
his way to the barn, as the creature follows, where he finds a jar of whiskey, which reminds
him of a contract hit job he had taken previously. Just then, he hears Esther scream from
inside the house, and he runs to investigate, finding a Native American woman
with bloody hands on the floor. She states that the whiskey is “her first gift”,
referring to some unknown third party. As Jeb runs off to find bandages for the woman’s cuts,
she speaks to Esther, warning her that Jeb is a man who has done evil things, and their
baby may turn out the same. She then leaves the knife she cut herself with as she walks out
of the house, referring to Jeb as “Hellrider”. At night, Jeb begins to have nightmares
about the creature from the woods, which watches over him through the window. In
the morning, an angered Jeb decides to take the knife to the Sheriff so he can do something
about the woman who came into their house. Jeb rides into town and approaches the Sheriff’s
department, but finds it locked. Howard Blackwood arrives and tells Jeb that Sheriff Seth
Creviston is down at the Toluca Prison. Jeb heads into the nearby Leek’s Tavern to
grab a bite to eat, and inside he orders a coffee. The bartender, Jonas, is surprised,
stating that it isn’t his “usual order”, which confuses Jeb, as this is the
first time he’s come to the tavern. Just then, Jonas’ wife Helene walks
in and recognizes Jeb as “Hellrider”, referring to some kind of past together between
the three of them before mentioning a “big knife” Jeb used to own. As the three begin to argue,
Sheriff Creviston walks into the tavern and meets with Jeb. Jeb tells him about the trespasser,
and the Sheriff hints at some kind of history between him and Jeb as well before inviting
him back to his station to discuss further. At the station, Jeb and the Sheriff talk about the
former’s past, and he explains that he used to be a heavy drinker, but gave it up before he and his
wife moved to Silent Hill to start a new life. Jeb changes the subject to his intruder, and the
Sheriff explains it must be an old woman named Inola, who is a bit strange, but harmless. Jeb
then leaves, stating that if Inola shows up again, it’ll be her last time, and as he leaves, the
Sheriff also refers to him as “Hellrider”. Meanwhile, back at the house, the skeletal
creature begins to watch over Esther as she collapses on the porch. When she awakens,
she finds Inola before her, and the old woman helps her inside the house. The two then have a
conversation, and Inola cryptically states that she and others have been awaiting her child’s
birth. She then leaves before Jeb returns home. Weeks later, as Jeb cuts the chair into
firewood, he begins to remember his days when he went by “Hellrider”, including an incident
when he slept with Helene. Jonas caught them, and in a rage, he tried to stab Jeb,
but he pulled Helene in front of him, causing Jonas to kill his own wife
instead. Jeb then pulled his shotgun and blew Jonas away, leaving the
couple dead as he walked out. Just as Jeb comes to this realization, Howard
Blackwood arrives once again to check in on Jeb to see how he and his wife have settled in. The
pair speak about killing people in their past, and Jeb recounts his days as “Hellrider”,
when he drank whiskey and killed with no remorse before Esther got him clean. He then
states that some of the murders were killing Native Americans to free land for the rich
and powerful, but he doesn’t count that. Howard then ominously states that in Silent
Hill, “it all counts”, before he rides off. Later, Jeb takes Esther to the church in Silent
Hill, and they listen to a sermon where Reverend Stone mentions lost sheep, triggering another
memory of Jeb’s Hellrider days in which he met with Sheriff Creviston while roasting a sheep
they stole from a farm. During the confrontation, Jeb sliced the Sheriff’s eye with his giant knife. As Jeb looks over at the Sheriff in the church,
he notices his damaged eye and giant scar, causing him to grab Esther and
return to their carriage to go home. Once they arrive, Jeb sends Esther inside and
heads to the barn, where he grabs the bottle of whiskey and drinks as the skeletal
creature, now revealed to be pregnant, appears behind him. Meanwhile, inside the
house, Esther begins to go into labor, and Inola arrives, her hands bloody once
again, and sinisterly offers to help. Esther shouts for Jeb, and he hears her
outside. As he goes to check on her, he’s stopped by the ghostly apparition of
Helene. As he tries to escape from her, Inola “introduces” Esther to her daughter,
Awinita, the skeletal creature. Jeb kills Helene, but is stopped again by Jonas, and then again
by Sheriff Creviston, and he kills them both. Back in Silent Hill, Howard Blackwood
notices the Sheriff’s office and the tavern ignite into flames, and he
rides towards the Foster’s home. Inside the house, the creature that was Awinita
inhabit’s Esther’s body, and it’s revealed that the woman was once alive, but while she was giving
birth, her village was attacked by Hellrider, who killed her and her baby. Esther gives birth, and
Inola takes the baby from her just as Jeb arrives. Inola then leaves with the child as Jeb and
Esther die in the house as it burns to the ground. Outside, Howard arrives and watches the inferno,
asking Inola about the baby and the fires. Inola responds that the baby is her daughter,
Awinita, and the fires burn for the spirits in the town, as they’re done being “silent”, and
furthermore states that they’ve only just begun. A century later, in the small, rural, New England
town of Silent Hill, we find truck driver Travis Grady passing through on his way to the city
of Brahms. While driving, Travis has visions of a funeral before a cloaked figure steps out
into the road, forcing him to come to a forceful stop. After he exits his vehicle to check on the
figure, he finds it gone, and in its place is a young girl in a blue school uniform. He follows
the girl, eventually coming upon a burning house. Travis sees a woman outside the house, but
he soon hears a girl screaming from inside, forcing him to run in. Inside the
fiery blaze, Travis finds a girl, alive but charred, lying on top of a painted
seal, seemingly as some sort of ritual. She asks Travis to leave her there to burn, but
he picks her up and carries her out of the house. Outside, however, he collapses, just as
sirens begin to be heard in the distance. Travis awakens the next day to find himself on
a bench within Silent Hill, which he finds to be enveloped in a fog. Concerned about the girl’s
condition, Travis decides to head to the nearby Alchemilla Hospital in order to find and check
on her. There, Travis meets Dr. Michael Kaufmann, who claims to know nothing about the burned
girl, revealing that the hospital did not admit any new patients in the past day or two. He then
rushes off, leaving Travis alone in the hospital, where he then finds a disfigured,
otherworldly nurse, which attacks him. Travis fights his way past the creature and finds
a mirror, where he sees the girl in the blue uniform in its reflection. When Travis touches the
mirror, he finds himself on the other side of the reflection: inside a bloody, twisted version
of the hospital. After working his way through both versions of the hospital, Travis encounters a
monster resembling a patient in a straightjacket, and he defeats it to find a mysterious,
pyramid-shaped item on the ground, surrounded by the same seal symbol he found
the burned girl on. After he picks the item up, he sees the girl in the uniform once again,
before he passes out once again shortly after. Travis awakens back in the normal version of
the hospital, where he meets a trainee nurse named Lisa Garland who reveals that the
girl in the fire, named Alessa Gillespie, died from her wounds. Lisa then rushes off to
meet Dr. Kaufmann at the Cedar Grove Sanitarium, and Travis follows shortly after to
learn more about the town’s events. On the way, however, Travis finds
the town to be overrun with monsters, and he soon comes across a giant
one resembling a butcher which viciously murders one of the
nurse monsters before walking off. Travis finds the Sanitarium and comes across the
woman he saw outside the burning house. The woman, Dahlia Gillespie, reveals that the house was
hers, and the girl who burned was her daughter. The woman cryptically tells Travis not to trust
Lisa, and warns him that there’s more to the town of Silent Hill than he may realize. Travis
explores the sanitarium and finds that it has its own otherworldly counterpart. While traversing
through, Travis learns that his own mother, Helen, had tried to kill him when he was a child,
resulting in her admittance to the sanitarium. In the Otherworld, Travis finds a
manifestation of his mother and is forced to kill the creature. Afterward, he finds another
pyramid-shaped item and the girl in the uniform, an unburned manifestation of Alessa, appears
and once again causes him to pass out. When Travis wakes up, he finds a ticket to a
show at the local Artaud Theater and makes his way there to investigate. Once he reaches the
theater, Travis finds Lisa inside, who tells Travis of her dreams of becoming an actress,
displaying her talents before walking off. Travis explores the theater, learning of Alessa’s
fear of the Shakespearean creature, the “Caliban”, who would use her supernatural abilities to
telepathically torment its actor in retaliation. Travis comes across an Otherworldly manifestation
of the Caliban and defeats it to find another pyramid object, as well as Alessa once
more. While Travis now expects the girl, he is unable to prevent her from once
again causing him to lose consciousness. Travis then awakens in the theater, finding a
key to the nearby motel where he had stayed as a child. Travis makes his way to the hotel, where
he is forced to traverse through the fog-filled world as well as the rusted, bloody otherworld
while reliving his previous trips there with his father while they stayed in the
town to visit his committed mother. Eventually, Travis is forced to battle the
giant, Butcher-like creature he saw earlier, eventually killing the beast with its own
cleaver. Travis continues searching the motel, finding more evidence of his parent’s extremely
strained relationship before coming across Lisa and Dr. Kauffman together on a bed in a room
filled with an unknown drug. The pair scurry off, and Travis finds the key to Room 500,
where he stayed with his father as a child. When he enters the room, Travis relives
his memory of finding his dead father hanging from a noose inside the room. Travis then
witnesses his father’s corpse in the otherworld, awakening to tell him to face his demons. He
then transforms into an unnatural monster that Travis is forced to kill. After he does, he finds
final pyramid-shaped piece, as well as Alessa, who he now realizes has “dug up” his parents in
order to torment him. While he tries to confront her, she is able to psychopathically overpower
him and cause him to pass out once again. When Travis awakens, he finds the final piece of
the pyramid-shaped item, and he is able to combine all of his pieces to create “the Flauros”,
an item he has read about that holds some kind of mystical power related to Alessa’s. Alessa
appears to him afterward before quickly vanishing. Travis returns to the streets of Silent Hill,
finding Dahlia, who chastises him for breaking the spell and freeing Alessa. Travis asks for
Dahlia’s help, but she simply warns him that Alessa will soon “give birth to god”. As Travis
turns around, he witnesses Alessa rise from the ground and transform the fog-filled town of
Silent Hill into an Otherworldly hellscape. Travis is able to escape to
the Green Lion Antiques shop, where he finds a hidden passageway leading to
a room housing several members of a cult-like group called “The Order”, who look
over Alessa’s burned physical body, which they hope to use as a vessel to bring forth
the birth of their god. Dr. Kaufmann reveals himself as one of the members and knocks Travis
out with sleeping gas. Dahlia, also revealed to be a member of the Order, states that they
must contain Travis in a “cage for a demon”. Travis then finds himself inside some kind of
nightmare reality, where he is forced to fight a demon of Alessa’s Dreams. After he emerges
victorious, Travis regains the Florous and uses it to destroy the demon. Back in Silent Hill,
Travis awakens to find the Florous shooting a beam of light at Alessa’s burned body, causing
an infant-like shape to emerge from her. Afterward, Travis emerges to find himself in
the real world, where he comes across his truck. He gets in, and sees Alessa in his
rear-view mirror, holding a newborn child. Travis simply smiles, resets
his odometer, and drives off, leaving his past, the town of Silent
Hill, and Alessa Gillespie behind. Afterward, a couple, Harry and Jodie Mason, find
the newborn on the side of the road, and they adopt the child, naming her “Cheryl”. The Order
then realizes that this part of Alessa’s soul has gone missing, causing the seed of their god to lay
dormant. They then determine that they can bring the other half of her soul back using a summoning
spell, but realize that this will take some time. Around 7 years later, Harry Mason
takes Cheryl back to Silent Hill on vacation after the death of his
wife Jodie a few years prior. Shortly after a police officer passes Harry, he
spots her bike crashed on the side of the road. Harry then notices a girl in a blue uniform
in the road and swerves to avoid hitting her, causing him to crash his car off the side of the
road, knocking him unconscious in the process. When Harry awakens, he notices Cheryl missing and
emerges from his car to find himself in the fog and snow-filled town of Silent Hill, where
he begins to search for his daughter. Before he can get too far, however, the area
transforms into the dark Otherworld, and Harry is attacked by small, monstrous creatures,
which overwhelm him before he passes out. Harry later regains consciousness in a diner,
where he is greeted by the police officer he saw earlier, who introduces herself as Cybil Bennett
from the neighboring Brahms Police Department. Cybil shares Harry’s confusion with what’s going
on in the town and leaves him with a pistol to protect himself as she heads off to call for
reinforcements. As Harry prepares to continue his search for Cheryl, a nearby portable radio
begins to emit a staticky noise, and suddenly a flying monster crashes through the diner
window, forcing Harry to open fire and kill it. Harry works his way back to where he was attacked
and finds a note seemingly left by Cheryl noting that she has gone to the nearby Midwich Elementary
School. Harry makes his way through the school, as well as its Otherworldly counterpart,
finding a large circular seal painted on the ground of the courtyard. He eventually finds
a large, lizardlike creature called “Split Head”, which he defeats, returning
him to the fog-filled world. He then spots the girl he saw in the middle of
the road, but she quickly vanishes into thin air. As he exits the school, Harry hears
the bells of the nearby Balkan Church, and he heads there to investigate. Inside,
Harry meets Dahlia Gillespie, who gives him the Flauros and tells him to make his way
to the hospital before cryptically exiting. Harry makes his way to the Alchemilla Hospital
and enters it to find a man with a gun, who shoots at him when he enters. Harry diffuses
the situation, and the man introduces himself as Dr. Michael Kaufmann, who claims to be just as
bewildered about the current state of Silent Hill before he grabs his briefcase and hurries
out. Harry then finds a box of smashed vials containing an unknown red liquid, and he can
optionally take a sample of the liquid with him. Harry fights through the Otherworld version of
the hospital, finding monstrous nurses as well as the girl in the blue uniform (who he learns
is Alessa Gillespie, a patient at the hospital) along the way until he comes across a
frightened nurse: Lisa Garland. However, during their conversation, Harry’s head
begins to hurt and he passes out once more. When Harry awakens, he finds himself back in the
fog world, with Dahlia Gillespie waiting for him inside Dr. Kaufmann’s office. She tells him not
to let the symbol he saw in the schoolyard be completed (which she refers to as “The Mark
of Samael”), She leaves him the key for Green Lion Antiques and tells him that the other
church in the town is his next destination. Inside the antique shop, Harry finds the
secret passageway and is quickly met by Cybil. Cybil tells Harry that she saw a
girl by the lake, which Harry assumes to be Cheryl. Cybil also reveals that there’s
an issue with drug trafficking in the town, but the police force has no leads on who’s
behind it. Harry then enters the passageway alone and finds a hidden altar with a chalice
full of an unknown powder, which suddenly begins to burn. Cybil enters the passageway to
investigate but finds no trace of Harry inside. Meanwhile, Harry awakens inside the Otherworld
version of the hospital, with Lisa sitting before him. Lisa fills Harry in on some of the background
of the town, including a strange religion its inhabitants used to follow and tells him about
Dahlia’s daughter dying in a fire years ago. Harry then mysteriously finds himself waking
up again in a bed, and he exits into the Otherworld version of the town to reach
the Silent Hill Town Center shopping mall, where he sees a video playing of a captive
Cheryl. Harry then falls through a faulty walkway, and battles a large, wormlike creature called
the “Twinfeeler”, which he swiftly defeats. He then returns to the hospital and reunites
with Lisa to ask her how to get to the lake. She gives him directions to go through the sewers,
but asks him not to leave, as she feels safe, However, she won’t leave with him, as
she feels like she isn’t supposed to. Harry promises to return and heads off, fighting
the evolved form of the Twinfeeler, the flying Floatstinger, on his way. The end of this battle
brings him back to the fog world, and he enters the sewers, fighting through various monsters
before emerging into the Resort Area of the town. Here, Harry can optionally enter Annie’s
Bar, where he rescues Kaufmann from an attacking monster. Afterward, Kaufmann leaves, and
Harry finds a key and a note, which lead him to a store called “the Indian Runner”, where he opens
a safe to find a cache of drugs, as well as an article calling the recreational drug “PTV”, the
same one being trafficked around Silent Hill. This leads Harry to a motorcycle, and when he opens the
gas tank, he finds a vial like the broken ones in the hospital. Kaufmann arrives suddenly and scolds
Harry, taking the vial from him and scurrying off, leading Harry to surmise that he must
somehow be involved in the local drug trade The town then shifts to the Otherworld again,
and Harry rushes to the docks to reunite with Cybil in a boat. The pair discuss their next
steps, and Dahlia enters to interrupt them. She again warns Harry to stop the Mark
of Samael from being completed before his daughter is used as a sacrifice.
She then sends him to the lighthouse on the lake, while Cybil goes to
the center of the amusement park. Harry reaches the lighthouse and climbs it to
find Alessa, standing atop the Mark of Samael before vanishing. Harry then makes haste to the
amusement park to hopefully beat Alessa there. When Harry arrives, however, he is shocked
to find Cybil, seemingly possessed, who attacks him on the carousel. At this point, Harry can either kill Cybil to stop her or
throw the sample of the red liquid he found at the hospital on her, ridding her of the
mind-controlling parasite and saving her. Afterward, Harry finds Alessa once again,
but she telekinetically pushes him away. Harry then notices the Flauros glowing, and he
grabs it, unknowingly activating it. It blasts Alessa with some kind of energy, incapacitating
her. Dahlia then arrives and confronts Alessa, revealing that the girl had
somehow escaped “their” spell and that she used Harry to capture her. She
then tells the girl that there is one more thing she needs from her before the two
disappear into the glow of the Flauros. Harry then awakens once again in a hospital
room with Lisa, this time in “Nowhere”, a physical manifestation of Alessa’s memories.
Lisa runs off, forcing Harry to find his own way through the distorted labyrinth to find
her once again. Lisa realizes that she’s no different than the monsters around them, and
she suddenly begins to bleed from every orifice, forcing Harry to lock her away behind
him. Afterward, Harry re-enters the room to find that Lisa is now missing, but
notices her diary in her place. Reading it, he learns that Lisa was addicted to the PTV drug
and that she was the nurse attending to Alessa, although she tried to reason with Kaufmann
to let her quit, as the girl frightened her. Harry eventually finds Alessa’s room in Nowhere,
and witnesses the memory of Dahlia, Kaufmann, and two other members of the Order
discussing her soul splitting in two, as well as how they can bring the halves back
together to initiate the birth of their god. Harry finally finds Dahlia, as well as Cybil if
he had saved her earlier, alongside Alessa and a bandaged figure in a wheelchair. The figure,
it is soon revealed, is a fully reformed Alessa. Dahlia explains that Cheryl was the result of
Alessa’s soul splitting into a new child, but she has now been reunited. The girl Harry had seen
around town was Alessa astral projecting herself to draw the “Seal of Metatron” around the town,
attempting to stop the god from being birthed from her. Dahlia had manipulated Harry into
stopping Alessa, and now the god is set to arrive. Just then, Alessa appears as the white,
glowing “Incubator”. Suddenly, Kaufmann (if he was saved by Harry) appears and shoots Dahlia,
incapacitating her. Kaufmann pulls out another vial of the red liquid, which Dahlia refers to as
“Aglaophotis”, and he throws it at the Incubator, causing a giant monster called the “Incubus”,
which immediately burns and kills Dahlia. Harry then fights the creature, finally killing it and preventing the
birth of The Order’s God through Alessa. After the battle, Harry sees the
Incubator return to the form of Alessa, now holding a newborn baby. She hands the baby
to Harry and creates an opportunity for him (and potentially Cybil and Kaufmann) to escape the
Otherworld. Kaufmann doesn’t get the chance, however, as a still bloody Lisa appears
and drags him to the depths below as the others make their escape while
the Incubator burns to death behind. Finally outside the town, Harry
(potentially alongside Cybil), takes the newborn girl and heads off to
raise her as his own daughter once again. If you'd like to see a full Let's Play of
that game, click the link! (Please subscribe) Sometime later, inside the “Heaven’s Night”
gentleman’s club in Silent Hill, a woman named Maria wakes up to find herself in the town,
which is crawling with monsters. She holds a gun, contemplating using it on herself, but instead
feels compelled to find someone else in the town. She explores the town and finds a
mansion owned by Ernest Baldwin. Inside, she speaks with the agoraphobic
man through the door of his room, but he simply asks her to go away. In the attic,
Maria finds a note from Ernest’s daughter Amy and she returns it to Ernest, who reveals
that his daughter is dead, and asks Maria to retrieve a bottle of “white liquid” for him,
which he can use to bring back his daughter. Maria retrieves the bottle from the apartment
complex next door and returns it to Ernest. The man thanks her for bringing him “the only item
[he] couldn’t get himself”, before revealing something to her: that a man, a bad man, named
James Sunderland will be coming to the town soon to look for “the you that isn’t you”. Maria
begins to remember the man but believes him to be kind. Maria then opens the door to Ernest’s room,
but shockingly finds it to be completely empty. Maria then steps out into the streets of
Silent Hill and holds her gun up to her head. She takes a moment but decides
to throw the gun over a nearby wall before walking deep into the fog
of the town to look for James. Meanwhile, James Sunderland arrives in Silent
Hill. James traveled to the town after receiving a letter seemingly from his wife, Mary, who had
fallen ill with a disease and passed away three years earlier, stating that she is currently
waiting for him at their “special place”. Knowing that he had promised to take
Mary back to Silent Hill before she died, James went to the town to uncover
the truth behind the letter. Just outside the town, James comes
across a graveyard where he meets a woman named Angela Orosco, who
is also looking for someone: her mother. Angela warns James to stay out of
the town, as something appears to be wrong with it. James wishes her luck in finding her mother
but ignores her warning and heads into the town. There, James finds it to be nothing like the rich
resort town it had been when he had previously visited with Mary, instead finding it to be
a fog-filled hellscape filled with monsters. James fights off the monsters, working
his way to the Rosewater Park by the lake. However, he soon finds his path blocked,
forcing him to instead explore the town to find another route, locating it through
an apartment complex which he enters. Inside, James finds a flashlight, as well as a
key behind a locked gate. When he tries to grab the key, however, a little girl stomps on his hand
and kicks the key out of reach before running off. James then finds a handgun before coming across
a unique, powerful enemy with a giant cleaver and a red pyramid-like helmet on his head
having its way with two other enemies. James shoots at the creature, and it disappears,
allowing him to continue through the complex. James soon finds an apartment with
a dead man in the refrigerator. He hears noises in the bathroom and enters
to find another man vomiting into the toilet. This man, Eddie Dombrowski, claims to have nothing
to do with the dead man, stating that he entered the apartment to flee from the monsters and
found the corpse inside just as James did. James tells Eddie to be careful and
heads off to continue his search. James is able to jump to the neighboring apartment
complex, and there he finds Angela laying on the floor with a knife in her hand. While she’s
overcome with self-loathing, James is able to talk her into handing him the knife, but as
he tries to take it, she screams and runs off, leaving the knife behind. James takes it
and tries to leave the apartment complex, but he is stopped by the Pyramid Head monster.
After a short while, a siren begins to blare in the distance, and the creature leaves James
by descending into a flooded stairwell. Outside the apartments, James finds the little
girl who stepped on his hand. The girl cryptically states that James “didn’t love Mary anyway” before
running off, leaving a very confused James behind. James finally reaches Rosewater Park, where he
finds Maria. James is shocked to find that Maria looks and sounds identical to his late wife, Mary,
but the woman knows nothing about her. Maria asks James if he had any other “special place” with
his late wife, and he speculates that it might be the Lakeview Hotel. Maria then accompanies
James as he makes his way to the hotel. James finds Pete’s Bowl-O-Rama and enters to
find Eddie once again, who reveals that he was just speaking with the little girl, who he calls
“Laura”. James leaves to chase after Laura but finds that the girl had slipped past Maria. The
pair follow Laura’s path, passing through Heaven’s Night on the way. Outside, they see Laura run into
the Brookhaven Hospital and follow her inside. There, James is forced to fight several
nurse-like monsters, and eventually, Maria falls ill and elects to rest on one of the
hospital beds while James continues to look for Laura. On the roof, James finds a diary from
a suicidal patient before Pyramid Head appears and knocks him off the rooftop. James survives
the fall and eventually finds Laura. He asks the girl how she knows Mary, and the girl claims
that they met at the hospital last year. James doesn’t believe her, as Mary had already
been dead, but he leaves with the girl anyway. Laura then tells James she has a letter from Mary
and sends him into a room alone to retrieve it. When James does, however, Laura locks him inside,
and he is ambushed by two hanging monsters, which he is able to defeat. After the
battle, the hospital begins to transform, and James emerges within its Otherworld
counterpart. James returns to the room he left Maria but finds her to be missing. He eventually
reunites with her in the basement of the hospital, but she meets him with anger, frustrated that
he left her for dead. She comes to her senses, however, and realizes that they need to
find Laura and get out of the hospital. The pair are soon attacked by Pyramid Head, who
gives chase. James and Maria are separated when James enters an elevator, and the door
closes behind him. On the other side, Pyramid Head catches Maria and instantly kills
her with one swift swing of his giant blade. James takes a moment to collect himself
before continuing on, finding a reference to something at the Rosewater Park. When James
returns, he finds a key buried under a statue, which he learns opens the front door to the
Silent Hill Historical Society building. The building soon transforms into an Otherworld
representation of a prison, and in its cafeteria, James finds Eddie, musing about how easy it was
to kill a man who made fun of him. James scolds Eddie for killing someone, but Eddie laughs
and admits it was just a joke before leaving. James continues until he enters a room
where he is surprised to find Maria, still very much alive, behind a set of jail cell
bars. James expresses his confusion about her survival, but Maria simply states that they got
separated in the basement, but has no recollection of being attacked. Maria then jokes that James has
a history of being forgetful, and mentions a time where he left a videotape they made in the hotel
room. James begins to question her true identity, but Maria simply states that she is there
for him, and asks for him to release her. James continues through the Otherworld labyrinth,
reuniting with Angela, who he learns killed her sexually abusive father. He saves her from
a monster representing her father, but she distrusts him, calling him a liar who didn’t
want Mary around anymore before she storms off. James reaches the inside of Maria’s cell
but finds her dead and mutilated on the bed. James traverses through more of the
labyrinth, finding Eddie in a room, who threatens to kill the next person who laughs
at him. James asks Eddie if he’s “gone nuts”, which angers him, prompting a fight between
the two. James is forced to kill Eddie, and he immediately becomes overwhelmed
with grief over killing another human. James exits the labyrinth and finds a boat
outside, using it to reach the Lakeview Hotel. James finds Laura in the hotel restaurant, and the
girl finally gives him the letter from Mary she tricked him with earlier. In the letter (which
Laura took from their nurse, Rachel’s locker), Mary tells Laura to trust James, as underneath his
surly exterior, he’s a good person; she also tells Laura that she hoped to adopt Laura. This letter
makes James believe that Mary must not have died three years ago, while Laura runs off to look for
another letter from Mary that she has misplaced. James enters Room 312, the room he and his
wife stayed at on their previous vacation, and he watches the videotape he left there.
The tape starts off showing James and Mary on their vacation but then cuts to footage of James
smothering his wife with a pillow and killing her. James then sits before the snow of the television
static as he comes to grips with the truth behind his wife’s death, as well as the guilt, rushing
over him. Laura runs in and tries to get James to come with her to find Mary, but James
simply admits to her that he killed Mary. Laura screams at James before running out.
As James stands alone in the hotel room, he hears a message on his radio from
Mary begging him to come and find her. As James leaves the hotel, he finds Angela one
last time, standing on a burning staircase. She initially believes James to be her mother,
but quickly realizes who he is. Knowing there’s no other escape from her pain, she asks
James for her knife back, but he refuses. Angela then ascends the staircase, walking
into the flames while James leaves. James reaches the hotel lobby, finding Maria once
again alive. However, she is immediately killed by a pair of Pyramid Heads, and James realizes they,
as well as Maria, came to exist to “punish him for his sins” and guilt of killing his wife. He then
fights the creatures, eventually leading to them impaling themselves on their weapons, ending
their existence as James’ personal punishers. James then walks through a long
hallway, recalling a memory where he tried to bring Mary flowers while
she was hospitalized for her illness, but she was hostile with him, believing she
looked like a monster and didn’t deserve flowers. At this point, James’ actions throughout his
journey determine his outcome. In one instance, James finds a tall staircase, and at the top, he
finally finds Mary or at least a woman who looks like her. This woman offers to be the perfect wife
like James wanted, but he refuses, triggering her transformation into a monster resembling his
late wife’s appearance on her hospital bed. After James defeats this creature, his
journey through Silent Hill, and his own personal punishment, come to an end. James then
finally gets one last moment with his wife. Mary tells him that she wanted the pain to
end to make him feel better for his actions, but he admits his motivations were
selfish, as he just wanted his life back. Mary doesn’t believe this is fully true,
as his guilt tells a different story. She then tells him that he has suffered enough,
and hands her the letter professing her love and thanks to him before dying. James then
carries her body out of the room and to his car. Inside his car, James realizes why he came
to Silent Hill: to end his own suffering. He then drives his car into Toluca Lake to drown
himself so the two can be together forever. Sometime later, a group of college students
travels to Silent Hill to investigate the history of the Little Baroness, a boat that mysteriously
sank in Toluca Lake seventy-five years prior. Two of the students, Eric and Tina,
awaken the next day to find the town filled with fog and monsters, and
the rest of the group missing. The pair then fight through
various locations in the town, as well as their Otherworld counterparts,
to eventually find Tina’s friend, a young girl named Emilie, and the group finds
the Little Baroness docket at Toluca Lake. Eventually, they learn that in 1918, a woman
named Lorraine drowned her daughter, Hanna, by throwing her from the boat,
and it sank shortly after. The representation of Lorraine throws
Emilie to the bottom of the lake as well, and when Eric and Tina dive down, they find
Hanna, who transforms into a giant monster. The pair defeat the monster, and Emilie is
rescued. Eric then notices that the monster is returning to its original form, and he pulls
Hanna out of the lake. Hanna thanks Eric for rescuing her from the depths, and he then sees
a vision of Hanna reuniting with her mother, while the captain of the boat, his
great-grandfather, gives him a nod of approval. Seventeen years after Harry Mason left
Silent Hill, his second adoptive daughter and reincarnation of Alessa Gillespie,
named Heather Mason, falls asleep inside the Central Square Shopping Center and dreams of
the Lakeside Amusement Park in Silent Hill, where she finds several monsters before being struck
by a roller coaster car, shocking her awake. Heather then calls her father, Harry,
from a payphone, and lets him know that she’s on her way home. As she walks off, she is
stopped by a detective named Douglas Cartland, who states that his employer wants to talk
to her about her “birth”. Heather slips away into the women’s bathroom before climbing out the
window. Unfortunately, she finds her path blocked and is forced to enter another door back into
the mall, where she is met with a grizzly sight. Heather finds that the mall is now filled with
flesh-eating monsters, but she is luckily able to find a handgun to protect herself.
Heather fights her way through the mall, soon coming across a woman in a black dress
who introduces herself as “Claudia”, who states that she needs the girl’s power to lead “them” to
Paradise. She also tells Heather to remember her, as well as Heather’s true self, before the girl
feels a pain in her head as the woman walks off. Later, Heather finds an elevator, and when she
enters, she finds herself inside the hellish Otherworld version of the mall. At the very
bottom of the mall, Heather fights a giant, wormlike creature and defeats it, returning the
mall back to normal. As heather goes to leave, Douglas stops her once again. Heather asks
about Claudia, and Douglas reveals that she is his employer. Heather assumes that Douglas
is somehow behind the monsters in the mall, but he acts just as surprised by them as she is. Heather leaves Douglas and enters the subway,
only for it to also be inhabited by monsters. She uses the subway to reach a construction
site before reaching the Hilltop Center, an office building that also transforms into
the Otherworld. Heather explores the center, coming across a man named Vincent Smith,
who recognizes her. Vincent reveals that while he is in the same cult as Claudia, the
Order, he states that he isn’t “on her side”. Heather walks off and is able to solve
a riddle to return to the real world, where she is able to leave the Hilltop Center
and return home to the Daisy Villa Apartments. Heather enters her apartment but
is shocked to find her father, Harry Mason, murdered in the
chair in their living room. Heather spots a trail of blood and follows
it up the fire escape to the roof, where she finds Claudia, who states that Harry’s murder was
revenge for his crossing the Order seventeen years ago by stopping their plan and taking Heather. She
also states that by killing Harry, she has filled Heather’s heart with hatred, something Heather
will understand later. Claudia then reveals their intention to have Heather birth their God and
bring forth Paradise, before revealing Harry’s true killer: a monster called the Missionary
that attacks Heather as Claudia exits. Heather defeats the monster and returns to the
apartment, finding Douglas examining Harry’s body. Douglas expresses his condolences and helps
Heather place her father’s body in his bed before covering him with a sheet. Douglas asks
Heather what’s next, and she states that she’s going to Silent Hill to find the Order and
kill Claudia to avenge her father’s death. Heather meets Douglas outside, who claims that
he saw Vincent, who gave him a map of Silent Hill and instructions to find someone named
“Leonard Wolf” when they get there. Douglas then hands Heather a
notebook he found on Harry’s person, in which he explains the truth behind
Heather’s birth and subsequent adoption. On the car ride to Silent Hill, Heather
tells Douglas the story of Silent Hill and how Harry stopped Dahlia from sacrificing
Alessa to rebirth the Order’s God, and she admits that she fears Claudia
is trying to use her to do the same. The pair reach Silent Hill and hole up in Jack’s
Inn before Douglas heads off to find Leonard at his house. Heather heads to Brookhaven Hospital,
passing through Heaven’s Night on the way. At the hospital, Heather finds notes and
gifts from a patient named Stanley Coleman, who is seemingly infatuated with her. As Heather
progresses, his notes get more and more hostile as she does not return his affection. Heather
soon hears a phone ringing and answers it to find the man on the other end is Leonard Wolf,
who reveals himself to be Claudia’s father. He asks Heather to come find and release him so he
can help in stopping Claudia, and she agrees. However, as she looks to find him, the
Hospital transforms into the Otherworld. She has a vision of Lisa Garland but doesn’t fully
remember her. She then passes by a manifestation of her corpse on her way to find Leonard. When
she finds the man, however, she learns that he is also a member of the Order, and he becomes
upset when he learns that she is a non-believer. Leonard then emerges from a pool of water,
revealing himself to be a monstrous creature. Heather kills Leonard and returns to the
real world, where she finds a talisman with the Seal of Metatron, which she takes as she
heads back to the inn to return to Douglas. In their hotel room, Vincent and Claudia
argue about their religious beliefs, and Claudia chastises Vincent for leading Heather
to her father, resulting in his death. Claudia leaves and Heather arrives shortly after, finding
Vincent there. Vincent tells her that Douglas left her a message to go to the church on the
other side of Toluca Lake to find Claudia. To get there, Heather must pass
through the amusement park, where she relives the events of her
nightmare the day before. Luckily, with her knowledge of what’s coming, she is
able to avoid getting hit by the roller coaster. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the park,
Douglas confronts Claudia about hiring him under false pretenses. Claudia
tries to explain that they must retrieve Heather so they can awaken Alessa
and usher in their Eternal Paradise; a notion Douglas doesn’t agree with, causing him
to pull out his gun and set his sights on Claudia. Heather makes her way through a “haunted mansion”
attraction, and finds Douglas, incapacitated due to a broken leg, likely caused by his altercation
with Claudia. Heather heads off to take care of Claudia, promising to come back once she’s
done. As she walks off, Douglas wonders if killing Heather is the only way he can prevent the
birth of God, but he ultimately puts his gun down. Heather continues through the park, eventually reaching the same carousel where
Harry encountered Cybil all those years ago. As the carousel turns into its Otherworld
representation, however, Heather sees a burned, black-haired, doppelganger version of
herself: the Memory of Alessa Gillespie. After Heather defeats her counterpart, she finds a
long passageway that leads to the Order’s church. Inside, Heather finds Claudia,
who again tells Heather that her “true self” must awaken. Heather
then tells Claudia that she is Alessa and that she wants to leave the world
as it is now. As they argue, however, Heather begins to feel a pain in her abdomen and
collapses, giving Claudia a chance to walk away. Heather eventually finds Vincent, who
tells her that she can use the Seal of Metatron to stop Claudia from completing her plan. He then hands her a book explaining
the seal’s importance and walks off. Heather then travels through Otherworld
locations that mirror the memories of herself, her father, and Alessa Gillespie before
finding Vincent and Claudia arguing. Vincent tells Heather to kill Claudia, and
Claudia responds by stabbing the man in the back. Claudia then tries to reason with
Heather about the birth of God, but a surviving Vincent tells Heather to use
the seal. Heather takes it out, and Claudia… ...reveals it’s a useless piece of junk. She then
stabs Vincent in the chest, finally killing him. Heather then begins to transform as she
gets close to birthing the God inside her. She then opens a pendant she’s had since she
was a child, and ingests the Aglaophotis inside. This chemical is the same one used 17
years prior to remove God from Alessa, and Heather vomits the fetal-like God on the
ground. Claudia then rushes over and ingests it, hoping to birth God herself instead. She then
begins to transform and falls down a nearby hole. Heather jumps down after her but finds her already
dead. While Heather feels robbed of her vengeance, she is soon startled to see the giant, monstrous
body of the birthed God. Heather fights, and kills God, bringing an end to the Order’s
plans to use her, as well as avenging her father’s death. She takes a moment to remember her father,
before leaving the horrors she witnessed behind. Back outside, Heather reunites with
Douglas, but as he notices her, she begins to approach him wielding a knife.
As she draws closer, she jumps at him jokingly, revealing it to be a prank.
Douglas calls her by her name, Heather, and she requests that he call her
by the name her father gave her: Cheryl. The pair then leave, and the last we see of
Cheryl is her visiting her father’s grave after his burial. Sometime later, we find Henry Townshend
in his apartment, Room 302, in Ashfield, a town a few hours away from Silent Hill.
One day, Henry awakens and is shocked to find his apartment door inexplicably chained
and locked from the inside with a warning to not go out written by someone named “Walter”.
After five days trapped in his apartment, Henry finds that a hole has mysteriously
appeared in the wall of his bathroom. Henry climbs through the hole and emerges on
the other end in an Otherworld subway station, abandoned save for one woman, named Cynthia
Velasquez, who believes herself to be dreaming. The pair look for an exit, but Cynthia soon falls
ill and runs into the restroom. As Henry waits for her, he is attacked by monstrous, dog-like
creatures. Henry fights off the creatures and heads into the restroom, finding Cynthia
gone, and in her place, a bloody mannequin. Henry continues to explore the subway, getting
attacked by ghosts on his way, before he finds Cynthia, trapped in a train car. He is able
to free her, and Cynthia finds the exit. Henry travels through more holes he finds
back and forth to and from his apartment. When he eventually finds Cynthia,
however, he finds her brutally attacked, and she dies from her wounds in his
arms, with numbers carved into her chest. Henry awakens in his apartment, and looks out the
window to find paramedics retrieving a body from the nearby subway; one he assumes is Cynthia. In
his apartment, Henry starts to find more things out of order. Mysterious letters are slipped
under his door, a peephole to his neighbor Eileen Galvin’s apartment suddenly appears,
and the hole in his bathroom is getting bigger. Henry goes through a new hole in his apartment,
now finding himself at the Otherworld version of the Wish House Orphanage, where he finds a man
named Jasper Gein, as well as a little boy. Later, though, Henry finds Jasper burning alive,
carving numbers into his own chest. As Henry awakens back inside his apartment, he
hears a radio broadcast reporting Jasper’s death, as well as noting its similarity to the modus
operandi of a serial killer named Walter Sullivan, who killed ten people before committing suicide,
however, his full methods were never released to the public, making the police fear the dead
killer has somehow come back to finish his crimes. Through the notes slipped under his door, Henry
learns from an article written by a journalist named Joseph Schreiber that Walter grew up at
the Wish House Orphanage, which was really just a front for the Order, which would take in children
and indoctrinate them into their twisted religion. Henry heads back into the hole and finds
himself in an Otherworld water treatment facility where a man, Andrew DeSalvo, is
currently held captive in a cell. Inside, Henry finds evidence that the Order used
the facility as a prison for the orphans, where they were frequently
beaten and oftentimes died. Henry is able to free Andrew and later finds
him speaking with the boy he previously saw at the Orphanage. Andrew reveals that the
boy is none other than Walter Sullivan. Andrew explains that he used to
be a guard at this “Water Prison”, and that Walter was very much
into the teachings of the order. However, like the others, Henry eventually finds
Andrew dead, with numbers carved into his corpse. Henry awakens yet again in his own apartment,
reading more notes by Joseph Schrieber before returning through the hole, finding
it to now lead to an Otherworld version of his own apartment complex, where he meets
his real-life neighbor: Richard Braintree. Richard reveals that the tenant who lived in
Room 302 before Henry was Joseph Schreiber, who mysteriously disappeared after
shutting himself into the apartment. Henry explores the otherworld complex,
while Richard finds the young Walter. He holds the boy at gunpoint, stating that the boy
also lived in room 302, before Richard found him “sneaking around”, the boy runs, and Richard gives
chase. Henry eventually catches up with Richard, finding him in the Otherworld version
of his apartment, room 207, strapped to an electric chair with numbers carved into his
forehead while the young Walter stands nearby. Henry wakes up in his apartment
again and returns through the hole, where he emerges in the Otherworld
hallway of his apartment. There, he sees the adult Walter Sullivan menacingly
knocking on Eileen’s door before walking off. Henry follows him and sees Walter’s child version
banging on the door to Room 302. Eventually, Henry finds the adult Walter, who tries to give him a
doll that Eileen gave him when she was a child. Throughout the various rooms, Henry learns of
other inhabitants in the apartment complex, as well as their various relationships.,
a nurse named Rachel (the same nurse who treated Mary Sunderland) is stalked by her
neighbor Mike, who was beaten up by Richard. There was also a painter who painted
portraits of the various residents, including the building’s superintendent: Frank
Sunderland, none other than James’ father. After finding various pieces of red paper
and slipping them under his Otherworld door, Henry returns back to his real world apartment to
read notes he slipped to himself. In the notes, Joseph Schreiber assembles all of
his learnings about Walter Sullivan. Walter was born in Room 302, but when his
parents abandoned him there, he was found and sent to St. Jerome’s Hospital. From there,
he was adopted into the Wish House Orphanage, where he was indoctrinated into the Order. Walter
started to believe that Room 302 was his mother, and he would return to the apartment and try
to get in, being stopped by the new tenants. Disconnected from his perceived “mother”, Walter
became obsessed with one of the cult’s rituals, the “21 Sacraments”, which he believed
required 21 murders. Walter killed ten victims, then conducted another ritual to kill himself as
the eleventh murder, but continue to live (and murder) through worlds of his own manifestation,
allowing him to continue the 21 Sacraments. Henry returns to the Otherworld and
reaches Eileen’s apartment. When he enters, he finds the woman bleeding to death on her floor
with the numbers indicating she is the 20th victim carved in her back while the boy Walter stands
above her. Henry falls to his knees and collapses. When Henry wakes up back in his apartment,
he sees an ambulance taking Eileen to St. Jerome’s Hospital. He also starts to notice
various ways Walter’s Otherworld starts to invade his real world apartment, which
he is able to ward off in various ways. Henry finds that the hole in his bathroom is now
sealed shut, but he is able to open a new one in his laundry room, which he enters to reach the
Otherworld version of St. Jerome’s Hospital. Henry sees Walter digging through a dead woman’s
abdomen, which causes him to leave the room. Henry finds Eileen….’s giant head eerily gazing
in a hallway, but he then finds the real woman, still alive, albeit very injured from her
previous attack. Henry takes Eileen with him through a hole, but when he returns
to his apartment, he finds himself alone. Henry re-enters the hole and finds Eileen in the
hospital on the other side. She states that she doesn’t see a hole, and Henry simply disappeared
for a bit before reappearing. Henry tells Eileen about the last note he got from Joseph, which
told him to go “down into the deepest part” of Walter to find the truth and the pair head down
a giant flight of stairs in Walter’s Otherworld. Henry and Eileen travel through the
Otherworlds Henry had already visited, encountering each victim as a now dangerous
ghost. Walter starts to stalk the pair, relentlessly attacking them to try to hinder
their progress. In one of the Otherworlds, Henry watches the adult Walter kidnap
his own younger self before running off. At the bottom of the giant stairwell, Henry
and Eileen find Walter’s Otherworld version of Room 302. There, the pair find the specter
of Joseph Schreiber, who explains the ceremony of “Holy Assumption”, which allowed Walter
to create the twisted Otherworlds that allow him to keep killing and finish his work, with
Eileen and Henry being the final two victims. Henry learns that there was originally a storage
room in his apartment that was sealed off. In the real world, Henry smashes through
the new wall and enters the storage room, finding the body of Walter Sullivan, strung up
from the ceremony. Henry finds a set of keys in Walter’s pocket and is able to use them
to finally remove the locks from his door. With the door now open, Henry emerges
into the hallway of his apartment to find that the Otherworld has completely
invaded. Eileen finds him, and the pair make their way to Frank Sunderland’s room to
find the umbilical cord from Walter’s birth, which Frank had kept after
the boy was born in Room 302. Henry and Eileen split up, and
when Henry returns to Room 302, he finds Walter’s body now gone, with a hole
where it used to be. Henry enters the hole and finds Walter in a room with a spinning machine, as
well as a giant humanoid monster. Henry looks and sees Eileen, seemingly possessed and walking
towards the machine and her certain death. Walter attacks and Harry uses the
umbilical cord on the giant beast, allowing him to grab nearby spears and use them
to pierce and damage the creature. With the beast incapacitated, Henry is able to attack Walter,
finally defeating the serial killer for good. As Walter lays on the floor, he calls
out to his mother before finally dying. Afterward, the room begins to collapse,
and Eileen falls to her knees. Back outside Room 302, child Walter stops
knocking and disappears as the door opens. Later, Henry walks past the apartment
outside, and he calls out for Eileen. The next day, Henry visits Eileen in the real
world hospital, bringing her a bouquet of flowers. Eileen then jokingly states that she’ll
have to find a new place to live, as the pair’s nightmare finally comes to an end. In a different time, a former soldier named
Jason decides to head to a mountain range to commit suicide, hoping to bring an end to his PTSD
nightmares of his former unit dying in an attack. He crashes his car on the way to the mountainside
he plans to do the act, and when he walks into the nearby town of Silent Hill, he is
immediately met and attacked by monsters. Jason finds a shotgun and fights his way
through the monsters, finding and saving a woman named Dahlia, a famous singer, who
is then attacked again by a giant creature. She gets stabbed with a large cleaver, and
Jason drags her away to safety, where she luckily survives her wound. However, they are soon
ambushed by more creatures, and suddenly Jason’s late friend, and fellow soldier, Aaron appears,
much to his surprise, to protect the pair. The pair reach a building where the town’s
survivors are housed, and they take shelter until the next day, when they try to leave Silent Hill.
They’re soon stopped by monsters representing Jason’s former unit. Jason and Dahlia take
refuge in a nearby church, but they soon attack. Suddenly, Dahlia transforms into a monstrous
figure herself, and commands the other creatures to bow down and worship her. She then rips out
her heart and gives it to Jason to ward away the monsters, before kicking him out the window,
allowing him to escape after speaking with Aaron. Later. Jason finds Dahlia at the
mountaintop where he planned to do the deed. She states that Jason kept her heart, and it
was a good thing, since it saved them both. Jason then recounts his final conversation with
Aaron, who reveals that the attack that killed their unit was planned, and Aaron was actually the
one that should have survived to tell the tale. However, Aaron and the others felt
Jason was the most deserving to survive, so they made that happen. Now realizing
his survivor’s guilt to be misplaced, Jason decides to live, as does Dahlia,
and the pair walk away into the sunset. Some other time, a murderous, smiling
madman blows up a building before hitching a ride to Silent Hill to
deal with some unfinished business. Elsewhere, state trooper Robert Tower arrives
to work on his last day before retirement. Tower is shocked to learn that despite him choosing his
own replacement, the department decided on another officer, Mayberry, to take his spot. Tower is to
spend his last day showing Mayberry the ropes, and the pair are soon sent to Silent Hill
on assignment. As the two get to talking, Tower learns that Mayberry is a believer
in the supernatural rumors of Silent Hill, something that disgusts the superior officer. Meanwhile, the grinning man kills a few monsters, saving a pair of humans, who
he states he has plans for. At the Lakeview Hotel, Mayberry
begins to hear static on his radio, and he and Tower enter the building. Inside, two
officers are dressed as monsters, planning to “attack” Mayberry as a bit
of a prank on the newcomer. However, when the door bursts open, it’s actually
the grinning man, who kills the two officers. When Tower and Mayberry enter, they spot
apparitions of someone with long white hair, who quickly vanish, forcing the
two to investigate the hotel, where they find the two women
the grinning man saved earlier. They have sigils burned into their foreheads,
and the officers take them out of the hotel. Outside, Tower tries to question the women,
but Mayberry theorizes that the incantation the grinning man placed on them must be preventing
them from speaking. Just then, two other men who have the sigils on their foreheads arrive,
claiming that they “died” in the town ten years ago and ask the officers to put them out
of their misery; a request gladly accepted. Tower, now believing some
of the stories he’s heard, soon comes across the grinning man, and asks
what his deal is. The man simply replies, “I hunt”. Tower meets this response with a
gunshot, but it doesn’t phase the grinning man. Monsters soon appear, and Tower tasks
Mayberry with getting the girls to safety. Tower runs off and tries to rescue all
of the others the grinning man kidnapped, but he later finds the man holding Mayberry
hostage. Tower shoots the man, and is able to actually wound him, having weakened
his powers when he freed his kidnapees. As Tower continues to shoot the
man, his own grin crosses his face, and the victims’ burns leave their foreheads
as the maniac bleeds out on the ground. Tower then gives one more look at the monsters he
could never bring himself to believe in before, and opens fire at them as well. At some other point, an artist named Ike Isaacs
is in a creative slump, leeching off his friend’s generosity until he is kicked to the curb. On
the street, Ike meets a stranger who warns him of Silent Hill, where his friend sacrificed his own
life so the stranger could escape the town. With nowhere else to go, Ike decides to travel to the
town to see if there’s any validity to this story. When Ike reaches Silent Hill,
he immediately falls in love, finding his artistic inspiration once again.
When Ike finds the town’s various monsters, he is allowed to safely paint portraits of them,
despite the creatures killing any other visitors. Six months later, Ike finds that
his paintings are disappearing, but learns that they’re somehow being sold
to various art magazines and collectors. He tries to leave Silent Hill to confront his
agent, but finds that he’s inexplicably unable to. A year into his stay in the town,
Ike is met by a team of cheerleaders, led by their captain, Cheryl, whose
bus broke down just outside of town. Feeling bad for them, Ike tries to protect
the cheerleaders from the monsters, taking them in with him. When they overstay
their welcome, he tries to get them to leave, but they lock him up. While he’s sequestered, the
cheerleaders are attacked and two are captured. Cheryl lets Ike out, and they go to the bowling
alley to try to save the kidnapped girls. The cheerleaders use found
weapons to fight the monsters, and Ike scurries off, and finds that he can
enter his own paintings (or at least ones with his name on them that he doesn’t remember
painting) to travel to some kind of other dimension. Ike pulls Cheryl into the painting
world, but monsters follow. They fight them off and soon find the kidnapped cheerleaders,
being held by a monster in a gastly mask. Cheryl tries to attack, but the creature
overpowers her. Ike then stops the monster by threatening to stop painting if they
continue killing all of the town’s visitors. This angers the monsters, who lift their
protection of Ike and begin to attack the four of them. They run, and the girls exit the
painting world, closing the portal behind them by destroying the painting, trapping
the monsters, as well as Ike inside. The cheerleaders then leave Silent Hill, but the
two kidnappees hide monstrous forms from Cheryl. Some other time, Silent Hill Gazette reporter
Douglas Brenneman finds himself in a nightmare of the town abandoned, with a heavy fog and
various monsters attacking him. He awakens and tells his fiancee, Rosy, about it, but
she simply writes it off as daydreaming. While on a story, Douglas and his editor
chase an ambulance to an abandoned house, where the current Sheriff of the town,
Bryce Canavan, reveals that one of his officers was murdered inside after
being led there by a fake 911 call. Meanwhile, a strange man with long white hair in
a suit silently watches on. Douglas ignores him, and sees this cop-killer as his
next big scoop, so he gets to work. Back at the newsroom, Douglas receives
a package from an unnamed sender, containing the journal of an eight year old child.
Inside, there’s drawings of several monsters, and Douglas then envisions the journal sprouting
tendrils and attacking him. Douglas snaps to and tries to piece everything together, finding
the phrase “they are hungry” multiple times. Douglas goes to the home in the return address of
the package and finds an old woman named Clara, who recognizes the handwriting on the label and
tells him it’s from a man known only as Whately, who she describes as the man with the
white hair Douglas had seen earlier. Clara explains that Whately had been renting a
room with her, and she would smell strange aromas from his room, and once saw him watching
a man “play doctor” with a young woman. Douglas asks around town and only hears strange
stories of odd behavior and everyone suffering from an insatiable hunger. Douglas sees Rosy and
follows her, but after she heads underground he is attacked by a seemingly homeless man who rambles
about the Order planning to summon an entity called “Samael”. Douglas is rescued by Whately,
who brutally kills the attacker. Whately tells Douglas that he has a part to play in the upcoming
events, but doesn’t elaborate before he walks off. Afterwards, Douglas starts
to feel the hunger himself, but he is able to overcome it and
get back to work on his story. As he returns to his office, however, the sky
turns grey and a heavy fog rolls into the town. He tries to contact Rosy, but finds that
she’s gone missing; he soon gets ahold of her, but finds that he’s actually listening to the 911
call that led the officers to the abandoned house. Douglas runs to the house and finds Sheriff
Canavan, holding Whately at gunpoint. Whately shows Douglas a vision of what the
murdered officer saw in his final moments: Rosy being held as a “sacrifice”. Suddenly,
a tentacle shoots out of Whately’s mouth, and he kills the Sheriff. Whately explains
that he killed the Sheriff as a warning, and if he fulfills his “role”, Douglas’s
hunger will forever be satiated. Douglas takes the Sheriff’s
gun and runs off to find Rosy, finding the citizens of Silent Hill
to be acting more and more violently as monsters begin to descend from
the sky, which kill Douglas’s editor. Douglas sees Rosy once again, and follows her
into a library, where he speaks with her, but finds that she doesn’t recognize him at all. She
points him to a file, written by a Dr. Aickmann, which details experiments he had been running on
fertile young women to try to find one to carry a child for some reason. Rosy then transforms into
a monster, and Douglas realizes it’s just another one of Whately’s lies. She knocks him down, and
he finds a book, called “The Book of Samael: A History of Silent Hill”, written by him,
although he’s never written a book in his life. Douglas runs from the monster
and reaches Brookhaven Hospital, where he finds Aickmann’s office. The doctor
reveals that he had been trying to find a young woman who could birth the Order’s God,
Samael. As Douglas threatens the doctor, Whately arrives and takes his gun and teleports
him out of the hospital. Douglas looks around and views a fiery, hellish landscape of the town, and
Whately offers Douglas a life as Samael’s servant, with the mission to tell the story
of this night in The Book of Samael. His other option is to stay in this hellish
version of Silent Hill for eternity, with his love, Rosy, who appears before him.
Douglas decides to fulfil his “hunger” for the truth behind the Otherworld, as well as
his desire to stay with Rosy. To do this, he realizes he must die and be “re-born”, so
he lets the demonic Rosy rip out his throat, satiating her own hunger in the proces. At some other point in time, we find famed
psychiatrist Troy Abernathy, no longer taking patients after his wife, Julianna,
committed suicide. One day, his colleague, Phil, comes to him with a patient named Lynn
DeAngelis, who he finally agrees to treat. Lynn, a film student, suffered some apparent
trauma when she visited Silent Hill on a video shoot. After a year of treatment, she has
seen no progress, and as Troy takes over, he also notices that none of
his methods work on the girl. As a bit of radical treatment, Troy takes
Lynn back to Silent Hill to let her face what happened to her there. As Troy helps Lynn
out of his car, he is soon shocked to find a bloody gourney on the foggy street, and nearby is
a nurse, bleeding profusely from her neck, where a scalpel is sticking out. The nurse stands up and
Troy realizes it’s none other than his dead wife. Troy tries to run away, but is attacked by
monstrous dog-like creatures. He is able to find a nearby piece of metal and he fights them off,
regrouping with Lynn, who had also seen the nurse. Troy refuses to believe what he has seen,
but his guilt begins to overwhelm him, as he blames something he did
for driving his wife to suicide. More monsters appear, and Troy
grabs Lynn to run back to his car, only to find the tires slashed. They
run to safety in a nearby building, and inside they find a young girl in a white
dress, one that Lynn had seen in a dream about Silent Hill, who introduces herself as
Christabella. Christabella spots Lynn, and yells at her that she “brought the wrong
one”, before unleashing a monster to “punish” her. Lynn simply ignores the monster,
which slightly annoys Christabella, who states that “they” let Lynn
get footage of Silent Hill, and allowed her to leave to she would bring
others to the town, but she never uploaded the footage to the internet, and only brought
Troy, who she isn’t very impressed with. As Christabella goes to finally kill Lynn, a man
with a gun shows up, one that Lynn had also seen in her dream, and Troy recognizes him as a man
named Brett, who shouldn’t be alive. Brett throws a gun that Lynn grabs, and she shoots Christabella
in the eye, who simply walks away annoyed. The three leave the building, and Lynn
notices that the back of Brett’s skull is bashed and bloody. Brett states
that he and Troy “go way back”, and Troy pushes him out of the way
before grabbing Lynn and running off. The pair fight through some monsters before
finding another place to take shelter, where they find Julianna once again. She takes the scalpel
out of her neck and attacks Troy with it, forcing Lynn to bash her across the skull to knock her off
of him. As Troy and Lynn turn to leave, Julianna reveals that the wound on the back of Brett’s
head was from Troy, who had murdered the man. After they leave, Troy tries to explain that
Brett was a monster that deserved to die, and Lynn surmises that Julianna must have killed
herself when she found out that Troy was just as much of a monster. The pair are then chased by
more monsters before finding a bridge out of town, but they are stopped by Christabella
and a monsterous manifestation of Brett. They try to fight the monsters
off, but are unsuccessful, prompting Troy to offer himself
up in exchange for Lynn’s freedom, and Christabella takes the offer, killing
Troy and allowing Lynn to cross the bridge. As she reaches the other side, a couple in a car
pick her up, and drive her away from Silent Hill. Later, Christabella reveals that
she had been recording Troy’s death, and later, a group of young adults watch
the tape. One of them, called “Clown”, reveals that he took the tape from Lynn
when she was at the hospital a year prior, but that the contents of it have changed since
he originally watched it. Seeing something of interest, Clown’s girlfriend Lauryn states
that they need to go to Silent Hill themselves. The group arrives in Silent Hill with a
camcorder, and Lauryn reveals that she saw symbols on the tape that matched a tome she
read containing evocations to raise spirits, or even gods. She states that there were six
demons’ names written on the walls in the video, and she figures the rest of the graffiti in the
town must contain the rest of this “riddle”. Soon after, however, a fight breaks out amongst
the group, and the man who initiated the fight walks off in anger. He is then killed by
Christabella, and Lauryn suddenly finds herself in a dark room. There, she is confronted
by a man holding a “file” of her darkest secrets, including feeling responsible
for her younger sister’s murder, before tendrils sprout from his
chest and begin to envelop her. She then awakens inside a mall, where a boy
called “Payne”, her boyfriend’s brother, grabs her and kisses her, asking if she’s ever
going to tell Clown about their relationship, one she retorts isn’t serious. The group is then attacked by monsters, and they fight them off while Lauryn
tries to use a spell from the book, which she is unable to do before she is
captured and taken away by one of the creatures. The rest of the group are able to
ignite the remaining monsters to escape, but they are stopped by Christabella,
but as she speaks to the group, she is smacked over the head.
As she turns, she sees Lauryn, who had escaped from the creatures with the book.
Christabella then greets the woman, calling her “big sis”, revealing that the young girl is a
nightmare manifestation of her murdered sibling. Lauryn begins to recite an evocation, causing
Christabella to burst into flame before she dies before her sister’s eyes… or at least
she pretends to. The girl reveals her ruse and states that she’s had a lot of time
to hone her powers, causing Lauryn and her friends to run away, despite her
sister laughing at their attempt to flee. Elsewhere, another group of Lauryn’s friends
fight another monster of Christabella's creation, and they are able to successfully
defeat it. As they recuperate, however, what remains of Troy Abernathy appears,
with tendrils protruding from his chest. Troy apologizes, as he doesn’t
want to do what he’s about to do, but he is forced to in his current “position”.
He then kills each member of the group. Meanwhile, Lauryn’s group escapes Christabella.
They find some guns at a sporting goods store, and Payne whispers to Lauryn that
Clown may know about their affair. She then tries to call the other group,
but Troy answers the phone instead. Troy tells her about two more groups
of her friends that are in danger at the lighthouse and at Midwich Elementary
School, then forces her to relive the day when she allowed her sister to go with a pair of boys
who were secretly being used by child abductors, who murdered Christabella
and the boys not long after. Lauryn is able to escape the vision with the
help of her friends, and they split up to go to the lighthouse and the school to save the rest of
their friends. As Clown, Payne, and Lauryn drive off, they’re attacked by a monster, and Lauryn is
forced to drive the car off the road into a tree. They survive the crash, but the brothers
are left unconscious. Christabella then appears to speak with Lauryn. Lauryn grabs the
book once again, but her sister is unaffected, knowing that the last time she tried using
it, nothing happened. Lauryn then reveals that she had used the book to “mark” her
friends, and now that they’ve been killed, she is able to bring them back from
the dead to fight fire with fire. While her zombies begin to fight
the monsters, the brothers regain consciousness in the car. However, they are
soon swarmed by another group of monsters. Lauryn tries to force Christabella to call
them off, but she simply states that she can’t, as they don’t belong to her. While Lauryn
tries to get her zombies to protect the car, Christabella won’t let them past her monsters
unless Lauryn agrees to do what she wants. Lauryn reluctantly agrees, and Christabella’s
monsters protect the brothers. Christabella then reveals that she brought Lauryn
to Silent Hill as part of a plan to help her gain control of the town, as she
is now in the middle of a power struggle. Meanwhile, at the lighthouse,
one of the friends, Hogg, is met by Troy Abernathy, who stands over the
corpses of the dead friends that were there. While Troy states that he had nothing to do with
their deaths, he does have other plans for Hogg. Lauryn is sent to the Brookhaven Hospital, and she
tries to find who Christabella has been fighting with. While she explores, her undead friends
tell her how much they enjoy their current state. However, they are soon all ignited into
flame, and a man emerges from the carnage, Whately: the very person she’s looking for. Meanwhile, in the car wreck, Payne tries to tell
his brother about his affair with his girlfriend, but Clown stops him, stating that he
already knows. Christabella then rips the roof off the car and asks
them to be her new “friends”, as Troy isn’t answering her, and she
needs to teach him to not cross her. Back in the hospital, Whately blames Lauryn for
bringing Christabella’s evil to Silent Hill. Lauryn tries to use the book, but Whately
simply lights it aflame with his powers. Just as Whately threatens to kill Lauryn,
Hogg and Troy arrive and Troy reveals that Whately serves the Order before
Hogg shoots him with a shotgun. A monster emerges from Whately’s body, and his
army of creatures begin to attack. As they begin to fight them off, Troy asks Lauryn to open
a nearby door and find the sleeping patient inside the room. He states that she is the
source of all of the darkness in Silent Hill, and awakening her will bring it to an end. Lauryn opens the door, but as she’s about to
enter, Christabella stops her, threatening to kill her boyfriends if she doesn’t help her
regain control over Troy to kill the patient so she can take full control over Silent Hill.
Lauryn realizes that the power to make things right exists within her, and she is able to banish
all of the monsters, as well as her own thralls. She is then able to limit her sister’s power,
before leaving her with Troy to “treat” her. On the outskirts of Silent Hill, Payne and Clown
find Lauryn, and ask her to go home with them. She simply states that she “is home”, before
stating that she plans to stay there with Hogg. The brothers then reluctantly walk out
of the town, as Lauryn walks back in. Inside, Lauryn notices the fog beginning to lift, as she lifts her arms and claims that
it’s going to be a beautiful day. At some later point, we once
again find Christabella and Troy Abernathy in Silent Hill,
preparing to head somewhere in a car. Meanwhile, a woman named Connie Mills speaks
in a store with an acquaintance about her former relationship with famed actor Kenneth
Carter. However, the store begins to transform into an Otherworld that only Connie can see,
where she is grabbed by a monster and disappears, leaving only the words “Silent
Hill” scratched into the ground. Back in Silent Hill, Christabella grows annoyed
with the changes Lauryn made to the town, making it more safe and “boring”. She goes to sleep, but
when she wakes up, she finds the town back in it’s hellish, monstrous form. Christabella tries to
go to Lauryn’s room to get her sister’s book, but finds the door chained shut in a very familiar
way. Christabella finds a monster and tries to get it to help her tear down the door, but instead of
following her commands, the monster instead bites her hand, and she starts to bleed, making her
realize that she is somehow alive once again. In Los Angeles, Kenneth Carter watches a screening
of his new movie in his home with his girlfriend, Jessica Aldrich, and his dog Bear. He takes a
call with Jon Cross, a private investigator, and tasks him with finding out who his parents
are, no matter the cost. Cross then informs him of Connie’s disappearance, and he hangs up.
He tells Jessica about Connie, and she grows extremely jealous, so jealous that her face opens
up and she transforms into a monstrous creature. Meanwhile, Christabella tries to hide from the
monsters in the antique shop, but instead finds a creature representing the Order, who is upset at
Lauryn’s meddling. While the creature threatens to kill Christabella, the girl states that they’re
working for the same thing, and offers a deal. Back in Kenneth’s house, the actor runs into his
bathroom, and watches his reflection mutate before the room transforms into the Otherworld, and
as a monster appears, he’s forced to fight it. Kenneth’s paintings (by Ike Isaacs) then
transform into portals to the other dimension, and Bear jumps through one. Before Kenneth can
chase him inside, a woman, named Lenora, appears before him and offers to help him find Connie in
exchange for him playing his part in “something new” that’s coming. Another monster then
appears and drags Kenneth away to Silent Hill. When Kenneth awakens in the town, he begins to
look for Connie, but is soon met by Christabella, who tricks him with her childish demeanor,
obviously with something else in mind for the man. Meanwhile, Bear arrives in Silent Hill
and somehow befriends the monsters. Kenneth and Christabella explore the town
and reach an abandoned movie theater. Inside, Kenneth is surprised to
find his own birth certificate, listing his real name: Joshua Reynolds, as well
as several other documents regarding his past. He can’t investigate too much, as they’re
soon met by monsters, causing them to flee to an auditorium. There, the pair take a
seat and watch the movie that’s showing. The film depicts Kenneth “promoting” the town
of Silent Hill, and ends with a video of Connie. In the video, Connie tells Kenneth that he must
stop “wearing someone else’s skin” and be true to himself, before showing him that in his house in
the real world, his new girlfriend, Jessica, has been murdered by an axe to the skull, with a note
written in her blood putting the blame on Kenneth. Connie then tries to force Kenneth
to admit he committed the murder, but he continues to deny it, and this
“Connie” is revelaed to be Lenora in disguise. Just then, Troy Abernathy enters
the theater, deformed and monstrous, who states that he is there to make Christabella
pay for what she’s done, threatening Kenneth as well. Troy explains the twisted world of
Silent Hill to Kenneth, and Christabella reveals her powers, stopping Troy with some
kind of attack that causes her to pass out. Despite Lenora’s warning, Kenneth carries
Christabella out of the theater and tries to get to safety, but he is attacked by
several monsters. As he becomes surrounded, he is surprised to see Ike Isaacs arrive with
a gun to protect him, and with him his trusty canine companion, Bear. Christabella wakes up,
and helps Kenneth and Ike fight off the creatures. Meanwhile, Jessica Aldrich’s body is examined, and her autopsy reveals that the axe wound in
her head wasn’t the cause of her death; rather, it was placed there post-mortem. Her actual cause
of death was something unexplainable “eating” her. Somewhere in Silent Hill, Connie awakens in a tub, being worked on by two monstrous nurses.
She looks before her to spot Lenora, who speaks with the woman. Connie tries to
respond, but finds that she can’t speak. Lenora reveals that since a single word from
her lips can “save Kenneth’s soul”, she’s taken away her voice. She then states that Connie is an
“empty vessel”, but one that will be filled soon. Elsewhere in the town, Ike speaks with Kenneth and
Christabella, and the girl reveals that like Troy, Ike is now dead, and simply serves her
sister, Lauryn. Ike doesn’t believe this, and states that he was sent to help take
Kenneth to something that he’ll need, but he doesn’t know what it is. The
group see lights in the distance, and head there to find a festival
the monsters are holding for Lenora. Ike finds the item he was tasked with locating:
a large, mystical blade that can take souls. When Christabella causes Ike to
accidentally cut himself with it, the monsters from the festival smell his blood
and begin to attack. Kenneth grabs Ike’s gun and begins to slay them, transforming into
the murderer Lenora wanted him to be. Kenneth is then wounded, and his attacker is
revealed to be Lenora, who teases that his parents may have some kind of connection to Silent Hill,
before showing him the real world once again, where he has supposedly murdered the investigator
and coroner looking into Jessica’s murder. Lenora takes Kenneth to where she is
keeping Connie and explains the part she wants Kenneth to play: being the Otherworld’s
emissary and spokesperson in the real world. She then gives Kenneth a choice to kill either
Connie, Bear, or Christabella by midnight, or else they will all die. What she doesn’t know however,
is that Christabella is holding the blade. Christabella throws the dagger at
Lenora, and it impales her chest. The clock then stops at one minute to
midnight. Before Christabella can celebrate, Lenora pulls the dagger from her chest
and reveals that since she has no soul, the blade has no power on her. Christabella then
runs off, and Bear follows her, leaving Connie to be Kenneth’s only choice. He then picks up
a nearby axe and swings it towards Connie, slashing her chains and allowing
her to escape as he flees as well. Back in the real world, a woman is being
interviewed by a man with a company called WTM Media about a murder she witnessed: which
she reveals was committed by none other than famous actor Kenneth Carter. The company is
planning to buy exclusive rights to her story, and she tells it to the man, who introduces
himself by a single name: “Whately”. Meanwhile, in Silent Hill, Lenora finds Bear, but the dog is able to snatch
the dagger from her and run off. Kenneth looks for Connie, Bear, and
Christabella, and he finds Lauryn’s house. As he prepares to enter, he is stopped by his
victims in the real world: Jessica, and the police investigator, but he ignores them, chopping
the chains to Lauryn’s room. As he enters, he finds her book, but is more shocked to
find the ghastly figure of his own father. Elsewhere, Christabella is tricked by Troy
Abernathy, who lures her into a jazz club to enact his revenge on her. He is stopped from
doing so by a seemingly possessed Connie, who simply states: “the Empty
Vessel has been filled.” Lenora is then found by Whately, and it is
revealed that she serves the man. She states that she’ll do anything for the man and their
cause, but he reveals that he knows the truth: that Lenora is none other than
Lauryn LaRoache in disguise. In the jazz club, the being that
possessed Connie absorbs Troy’s soul, and Christabella tries to fight, but
uses her abilities to teleport away. She then travels to Bear’s location,
and takes the dagger from him. Meanwhile, Kenneth speaks with his
father, who reveals that he and his wife conceived Kenneth with the sole
intention of having him become famous so he could spread the word of Silent Hill and
bring more and more people into the nightmare. Kenneth’s mother, a monster, planned
the whole thing, seducing a human, his father, in order to half a half-human
child that could live in the real world. His father then states that it’s up to him
whether he wants to live up to their plan or not. Elsewhere, Whately and Lauryn battle,
and just as Whately gets the upper-hand, Kenneth arrives and presses the book up
against the man’s head, burning him. Meanwhile, Christabella stabs Connie with the dagger,
and she transforms into a massive creature, one assumed to be the incarnation of a God,
Samael, which then arrives at the battle. Lauryn fights the creature inhabiting Connie, and
Kenneth is forced to use his axe to finish her. However, as he plants the axe in her skull, an
explosion occurs, and Kenneth is startled awake inside a bed. In it, he’s shocked to find
Connie, still alive and well, next to him. Kenneth finds himself in some kind of
paradise, where he was never an actor, and instead he lives on a farm with Connie and
Bear. Elsewhere, Lauryn lives with Ike in France, and the pair watch the news to see
Whately arrested for the murders. Meanwhile, Christabella remains in Silent Hill, and re-takes her place as it’s
“ruler”. At least in her own reality. At some other point in time, former-hitman
Jack Stanton and his girlfriend, Jill Conway, are traveling by car, when they make
a pit stop just outside Silent Hill. They stop at Charon’s Bar.B.Q, and Jill uses
the restroom, and as Jack watches her walk off, he reflects on their relationship. As it
turns out, Jill is Jack’s Boss’s wife, and the pair ran off together to start
a new life after they fell in love, which gave Jack the inspiration to
try to be more than just a hitman. Jack walks into the nearby pump station and pays
for some gas, but as he walks out, he’s met with a pistol to the face, held by Dewey O’Conner,
while his brother Liam and another associate Jimmy Shea surround him. Dewey tells Jack that
they were sent by their boss, Finn Conway, to retrieve his wife, Jill. Dewey grabs Jill and
Liam pistol whips Jack. Suddenly, a shotgun blast rings out, and the O’Conner brothers are blown
away by the emerging pump station attendant. Jimmy throws Jill in his car and speeds off while Jack
can only watch as he slips into unconsciousness. While out, Jack dreams of his childhood with his
father, who was also a hitman. Jack’s dad taught him how to use a firearm and forced him to shoot
his own beloved pet dog to train him how to kill. When Jack awakens, the old attendant is dealing
with the bodies, and he tells Jack that Jimmy drove up to Silent Hill. Jack gets in his
car and speeds off to the town, and he finds Jimmy’s vehicle quicker than expected. However,
he also spots the man dead on the ground, with two dog-like monsters consuming his corpse. Jack gets
out to investigate, but finds Jimmy’s car empty. He then looks over to find Jimmy somehow standing
up, and the undead man speaks to him, stating that Jill is waiting for him in Silent Hill. As the
man transforms into a more monstrous form, Jack is forced to pull his gun and shoot him, before
getting back into his car and driving into the town. Once he reaches Silent Hill, Jack runs out
of gas and exits his car to find the foggy town completely empty, and he grabs some weapons from
his trunk before beginning his search for Jill. In Boston, Finn Conway sits at his bar,
concerned that he hasn’t been able to get ahold of the men he sent to retrieve his wife.
He then decides that if he wants something done right, he has to do it himself, and
heads off to handle the situation. Back in Silent Hill, Jack finds Jill’s
bloodstained dress outside of Pete’s Bowl-O-Rama. As he goes to investigate, a giant monster
emerges and attacks, and he is forced to fight it. Suddenly, Jill emerges from the bowling
alley, dressed as a nurse, and scolds Jack for hurting the creature, not seeing it as a monster.
She then says that the town is of their creation, and all of their “victims” are there
waiting for them. He tries to console her, but she runs off frantically, leaving Jack with
the creature, who awakens and attacks once again. Jack sees the creature’s face and
recognizes it as that of Tim Delaney, a man he killed for Finn a decade prior. He
kills the man again and runs off after Jill, but instead finds another woman tied up
to a crucifix, surrounded by monsters. Jack sees the faces of other people he killed
on the monsters, and he kills them to protect the woman before cutting her down from the
cross. The girl introduces herself as Sara, and explains that she was with her
parents before a siren rang out, then she found herself tied up somehow. He
tries to give her a gun to protect herself, but she refuses, stating that
she hates guns and won’t use one. Meanwhile, Finn Conway arrives at the
pump station outside the town and asks the attendant if he’d seen his men roll through.
The old man lies and denies ever seeing them, but when he’s threatened with a gun,
he does state that Jack and Jill came through looking for a place to
eat, and he sent them to Silent Hill. In the town, Jack and Sara come across Brookhaven
Hospital, and Jack decides to investigate, given that Jill was wearing a nurse's uniform.
When they enter, Jack hears screaming upstairs and rushes up, finding a room filled with dead
monsters on gurneys, with Jill looking over them. Outside, Finn finds Jack’s
car and follows his footsteps. In the hospital, Jill is hysterical over not
being able to save the monsters, and Jack tries to calm her down, and Sara enters and reveals
that she also sees the dead monsters as people. Sara pulls back one of the covers
and finds a pair of corpses: her own parents. Sara then realizes that the
bodies in the room are the people Jack has killed, and accuses him of killing her parents. Before he
can respond to her, however, a loud siren blares, causing Jack and Jill to fall to the floor. Jack then remembers the night of Sara’s
parents’ death. His final hit job for Finn was to kill Councilman Linwood. While Jack was
able to kill him and his wife in their sleep; as he went to escape, he was spotted
by Sara, and he shot her in the head, killing the girl. When Jack looks up, he
finds Sara now standing before him with a team of monstrous nurses, preparing
to get payback for what he’s done. Sara confronts Jack about killing her family,
and mocks him for never having one of his own. Sara states that both Jack and Jill have
a disease: murder and greed, respectively. She states that they can make things
right by curing their disease. Jill says her goodbyes to Jack
and tells Sara to “cure” her, resulting in the girl and her nurses stabbing her
to death as Jack watches on, powerless to help. Sara then gives Jack a chance to cure
himself, but he instead chooses to run, finding her waiting for him at every turn.
Outside the hospital, Jack is met by Finn, who holds a revolver to his head. Jack
reveals to Finn that his wife is dead, and Sara then commands a Pyramid Head
to kill the man so he won’t kill Jack. Jack tries to run out of town, but finds his
childhood dog, the one he was forced to kill, and his guilt rushes over him. Jack falls to his
knees and Sara appears before him. He tries to apologize to the girl, but she tells him it’s
too late. He then realizes what he must do, as he puts his gun to his own head.
He then finishes his last hit job, this time on himself, and Sara disappears, leaving
the dead man as the fog lifts in Silent Hill. Sometime later, we find prisoner Murphy
Pendleton in the Ryall State Prison, where he is led by a corrupt corrections
officer named George Sewell to the showers. In the showers, Murphy turns on all of
the water lines to steam up the security cameras before a man named Patrick Napier
enters. Napier is surprised to see Murphy, as he is supposed to be sequestered.
Murphy then tells Napier that they used to be neighbors before he grabs a weapon
left for him and savagely assaults Napier. As he goes to deliver the final blow, we see
Murphy wake up in his cell, waking from a dream in which he is reliving the event. Sewell is waiting
at his cell door, and he cuffs the prisoner as he escorts him to be transferred to the Wayside
Maximum Security Penitentiary. Murphy gets on the transport bus with a few other prisoners,
as well as officer Anne Marie Cunningham. As the bus passes by Silent Hill,
Murphy dozes off and dreams of his son, Charlie, who died. When the driver
gets distracted by an unruly prisoner, he looks back to see that the road comes
to a sudden drop, and he turns to avoid it, causing the bus to careen off the
side of the road and flip down a hill. Murphy survives the crash and awakens in the
woods, where he makes a break for escape. As he tries to climb up a rocky wall, however, he is
held at gunpoint by an arriving Cunningham, who crosses a narrow ledge to reach him. Cunningham
loses her footing, and Murphy can try to help her, but either way, she falls into the abyss
below, leaving Murphy able to continue on. As Murphy reaches Silent Hill, he is met
by Silent Hill’s seemingly eternal postman, Howard Blackwood. Howard offers Murphy his
help to leave the town, but as they speak, Murphy spots a creature in a wheelchair
observing the conversation from a nearby window. When he turns back, however, the creature
is gone and the window is boarded up. Howard ignores Murphy’s paranoia and tells
him he can probably leave the town via the nearby sky tram before he mysteriously
vanishes to continue delivering his mail. As Murphy passes through the kitchen of a
nearby diner, he tries to stop a gas leak. This goes awry, however, and a fire breaks out,
forcing Murphy to pull the fire alarm and activate the sprinkler system. As the kitchen fills with
water, the walls and ceiling begin to crack away, transforming the diner and taking Murphy on
his first trip to the Otherworld. As he tries to escape, he comes across the “Void”, a black
hole-like vortex that begins to absorb everything around it, forcing Murphy to run through a
horrible game mechanic to escape as it follows. Eventually, Murphy escapes the void and returns
to foggy Silent Hill where he exits the diner and explores an adjacent building where
he finds a fellow escapee named Sanchez, seemingly beating a woman to death. When Murphy
stops him, however, the “woman” is revealed to be an otherworldly monster, which slashes
Sanchez’s throat, killing him instantly. Murphy fights off the creature and continues
his search, finding a change of clothes, and in the pockets he finds a police
badge adorned with a mourning band. Murphy then reaches the sky-tram and rides it
across the Devil’s Pit gorge to emerge on an observation deck. There, Murphy meets a depressed
former tour guide named JP Slater who states that there’s a train through a nearby cavern that
can take him to the Hillside area of the town. Passing through the caverns,
Murphy comes across JP once again, now contemplating jumping off a lookout deck.
JP was accused of causing a train crash that killed eight children due to his drinking,
and Murphy can either console or chastise him. Either way, JP jumps off the ledge into the
gorge and his certain death. Murphy finds the train and is able to get it operational again,
but the Otherworld begins to invade his trip and monsters begin to attack, causing his
car to derail and he loses consciousness. When Murphy awakens, he finds himself at the exit
of the train ride, but as he goes to leave, he is stopped by Cunningham, who survived her fall. She
starts to place him under arrest, and searches his person, finding the badge, which takes her
by surprise. She demands to know where he got the badge, but Murphy states his ignorance of
everything going on. Cunningham considers killing Murphy, stating that he doesn’t deserve to live,
but can’t bring herself to do it, and collapses in a fit of emotional rage as she demands Murphy
leave her alone, a request he complies with. Murphy explores the Hillside area until it
begins to rain when he takes shelter in an abandoned apartment building. Inside, he hears
a radio broadcast from a DJ named Bobby Ricks, which features requests addressed directly
to Murphy. As Murphy leaves the complex, he runs into Howard again, and he gives
Murphy directions to the radio station. When Murphy gets to the station building, he
finds his parole papers tacked to the door, triggering a memory of the prison. In the memory,
Murphy is speaking with Sewell about some kind of offer, before officer Frank Coleridge
calls Murphy over to hand him his paperwork. Coleridge warns Murphy not to work with
Sewell, as he’s bad news, and he instead encourages Murphy to keep up his good behavior
before going up before the parole board. The pair then discuss why Murphy even ended
up in prison. Frank is confused as to why someone with no prior criminal record would
break the law, stealing a police cruiser, and end up locked up and working with a corrupt
officer. He then gives Murphy one more word of encouragement to stay on the straight
and narrow before leaving him in his cell. As Murphy ascends the building to reach the radio
station, he has another memory of a conversation with Sewell, where it is revealed that Murphy got
himself arrested on purpose so he could be in the same jail as Patrick Napier, the man he attacked
in the showers. It turns out, this opportunity for an ambush was set up by Sewell in exchange
for a favor Murphy would owe him in the future. Murphy finally reaches the DJ and
asks him what the dedications mean. DJ Bobby Ricks initially acts like there’s nothing
amiss, and he has no idea what Murphy is referring to, but then lowers his voice and expresses his
joy that someone finally heard his cries for help. He then tells Murphy about a boat at the
marina that they can use to escape the town, but Murphy needs to find the keys. Suddenly, Cunningham bursts in with her
gun drawn and tries to use Ricks’ phone, but suddenly the three are attacked by monsters. The lights cut, and when they turn back on, Murphy
is back in the Otherworld, now alone. Murphy is again forced to run from the Void, and when his
surroundings transform into a prison-like area, he is once again observed by the wheelchair-bound
creature, the “Wheelman”, before he falls from the building and finds himself hanging
from the clocktower before he falls. Murphy then awakens on a bench back in Silent
Hill, where Howard comes across him once again. Howard hands him a letter from St.
Maria’s Monastery and expresses that Murphy should go there. Murphy heads
to the Monastery and speaks with a nun, who tells him that someone had died, and
Murphy was the “only family they could find”. She then asks him to meet her
in the morgue when he is ready. Murphy is confused to find the
monastery nearly destroyed, and he’s forced to fight through various monsters
to find his way to the morgue. On the way, he is blocked by a locked door with a young boy
on the other end, who refuses to let Murphy in, as he believes him to be the “Boogeyman”.
The only way the boy will let Murphy prove his safety is by reciting a poem the children in
the orphanage repeat to keep the Boogeyman away. Murphy travels through the monastery, finding various pieces of paper with
parts of the poem written on them. As he collects these pieces, he finds himself
remembering more events from his past, namely surrounding his son Charlie’s death, in
which he was drowned by a child abductor, one who was later believed to be Patrick Napier, revealing
Murphy’s desire to kill the man in prison. Murphy returns to the boy and recites
the poem, but he simply ignores him. Just then, the real Boogeyman
appears and kills the boy. As Murphy watches the Boogeyman suffocate the boy,
he realizes the child is a manifestation of his own son, and he realizes that once
again, he is helpless to save him. The Boogeyman leaves and the door opens,
allowing Murphy to rush over and mourn the boy. Just then, a girl spots him and accuses
him of hurting the boy before running off. Not wanting another child to
be harmed, he chases after her, but the Monastery begins to transform
into its Otherworldly counterpart. Murphy runs from the Void, as well as the
Boogeyman, and reaches the little girl, holding hands with the Wheelman. As Murphy
approaches, the floor falls beneath him, and he awakens in the foggy reality version of the
morgue, where he meets the nun. The nun removes a sheet to reveal the corpse to be the Boogeyman,
asking him to sign for his “son’s” body. A confused Murphy breaks down, admitting that what
he did to Napier didn’t actually change anything. Murphy takes a key from a necklace on the
Boogeyman, but the figure grabs him before swinging his massive hammer, teleporting
Murphy to the lake where his son drowned. The Boogeyman emerges from
the water, and the two battle, with Murphy gaining the upper hand and using
the monster’s own hammer to defeat him. Murphy finds himself back in the
morgue, and he approaches the body, finding its face to be oscillating
between his own and Napier’s. A manifestation of Charlie appears and
congratulates Murphy on killing the Boogeyman, but Murphy concedes that it ultimately meant
nothing, as it couldn’t bring his son back. He then takes the key, and finds that
it has the word “Freedom” written on it. Murphy reaches the marina and boards Ricks’ boat, using the key to start the engine. Murphy then
smiles as he drives the boat into the sunrise. The fog over the town begins to lift,
and the nightmare appears to be over… Until Cunningham pulls her gun and
presses on the back of his neck, bringing the fog, and Murphy’s
dread, back to its former state. Cunningham demands Murphy turn the
boat around to return to the town. She states that the town has “shown her
things”, and that they have to complete their unfinished business before the
town will let them leave. Murphy refuses, stating that she “might as well shoot
[him]”, which causes her to pull the trigger. In another flashback, we see the moment
Sewell asks Murphy to repay his favor. Murphy’s job is to kill someone
in the showers during a riot. While Sewell doesn’t explain why he wants the
man dead, he does state that he “deserves it”. Just then, Murphy wakes up inside his prison
cell, with the Wheelman sitting outside. After the creature leaves, his cell door
opens, and Murphy makes his way to the showers. There, Murphy finds the crime
scene evidence of a murder, and he eventually finds a body bag on the
ground of the showers. Murphy examines the body, and it disappears, transforming the prison into
the Otherworld with it. Murphy runs from the Void, fights a gauntlet of enemies, and faces
rooms of death traps that he must navigate. Murphy finds a room with the Scales of Justice, and he puts the evidence from the showers on
the scale. A pair of doors open, and Murphy goes through them to find a giant version
of the Wheelman, which begins to attack him. Murphy is then forced to navigate the cell
block area to climb various watchtowers and pull the Wheelman’s life support tubes,
eventually killing the giant creature. Murphy finds himself back in the shower, standing
over the corpse of the Wheelman. Cunningham appears and holds him at gunpoint yet again,
but Murphy states that he acted in self defense, pointing at the creature’s body to prove it. When
he looks over, however, he sees that the corpse on the shower floor is actually Frank Coleridge, the
friendly officer who only ever tried to help him. In another flashback, we learn that when Murphy
went to the showers to repay his favor to Sewell, he was shocked and saddened to learn
his target was Frank. Sewell arrives and reveals that Murphy is going to kill him to
prevent him from “snitching” on Sewell’s illegal conduct. Sewell then demands Murphy kill Frank,
while Coleridge simply pleas for him not to. In present time, Anne tells Murphy that Frank
Coleridge was her father, and the reason she became a police officer. She reveals that when
Frank was attacked, he didn’t die, but was left in a vegetative state, bound to a wheelchair.
She then begins to see Murphy as the Boogeyman, and reveals that she pulled the strings to get
him transferred to the prison she worked at so she could enact her revenge. She then shoots Murphy,
and he awakens as the Boogeyman, and attacks her. After the Boogeyman incapacitates Cunningham,
Murphy is given the choice to either kill or spare her. He ultimately chooses
to spare her, and we learn that it was Sewell who actually beat Frank to his
near death before pinning it on Murphy. Back in the fog world, Anne realizes that
Murphy was innocent in her father’s death, and the pair share a hug, after which they find
themselves back in the real world after the bus crash. Cunningham hears a call on her radio
about the location of Murphy Pendleton, and she simply responds that he’s dead.
Murphy asks her if she’ll be okay, and she simply tells him that he better
go before the reinforcements arrive. Back at the prison, Anne meets Sewell in his
office. She hands him her father’s badge, and states that the two “need to talk”,
while she holds a gun behind her back, remembering that while her father
didn’t believe in revenge; she does. At another point in time, we
find a man named Alex Shepherd, being pushed on a gurney through some kind of
demented hospital. When he is put in a room, he witnesses a doctor being impaled by
a giant blade. Alex breaks free of his restraints and explores the hospital, finding
what appears to be his younger brother, Joshua, behind a locked cell door. Alex tries to call out
for his brother, but the boy simply ignores him. Alex unlocks the door, and Josh runs. As Alex
follows him, the hospital transforms into the Otherworld, and Alex is forced to fend off
attacking nurse monsters. When he finds Josh again, he’s behind another locked door, and he
asks Alex to find his toy rabbit. Alex finds the toy and retrieves it, bringing it back to his
brother. Instead of taking the toy, however, the boy looks at Alex in fear and runs off. As
Alex rides in an elevator to follow the boy, he hears a metal scraping, and the doors are
suddenly opened by a large blade that impales him. Suddenly, Alex awakens out of this
nightmare inside a semi truck being driven by former Silent Hill visitor
Travis Grady. Grady drops off Alex in the town of Shepherd’s Glen and drives
off, bidding him farewell and good luck. Alex explores the town and finds
it to be practically abandoned and covered in a heavy fog. He soon comes across
another person, however, when he is surprised by Judge Margaret Holloway, who tells him he should
meet with her daughter, Elle, while he is home. Alex returns to his childhood home, finding
a flashlight he once gave his brother, Josh, after he had a bad dream. Alex then comes across
his mother, Lillian, rocking in a chair and barely responsive. Alex tells her that he was discharged
from the army after a short stint in a hospital. His mother then reveals that Josh has gone
missing, and his father has gone off to look for him. She then states that now “everyone
is gone”, and he looks down to see his father, Sheriff Adam Shepherd’s gun in her lap. Alex
takes the gun and promises to find his brother. Alex then hears something, and his mother
tells him it came from the basement, so he goes to investigate.
In the flooded basement, Alex finds the source of the noise:
a monster he’s forced to fight. He then finds his father’s workshop, where he
recalls being scolded as a child to never enter. Alex leaves the house and enters the nearby
graveyard, where he fights through more monsters and travels through the tombs of the town’s
founding families, his own being one of them. Also in the graveyard, Alex spots somebody digging
graves. When he emerges from the graveyard, he finds his old friend Elle Holloway, who is hanging
missing persons notices on a communal board. While she is happy to see him again, she
nonetheless chastises him for leaving for the military without ever saying goodbye. Alex asks
about the fliers, and she reveals that every day, more and more people go missing, and Alex fears
that the worst has happened to his brother Josh. Elle then gives Alex a walkie-talkie,
and he continues on his search. Alex reaches a junkyard and meets the town
mechanic, Curtis Ackers, and Alex gives him his fathers revolver, asking him to fix it.
Curtis also advises Alex to ask Mayor Bartlett about Joshua’s whereabouts, since the mayor
seems to know everyone’s business, revealing that the man digging the graves was the mayor.
He then gives Alex a handgun in exchange for the revolver as a trade. The pair then muse about
how all of the clocks in town are stopped at 2:06, before Alex heads back to the graveyard to find
the mayor. When he reaches the graveyard, however, he finds Mayor Bartlett gone, so he examines the
Bartlett family tomb, where he opens a crypt to find an old watch. Suddenly, Alex hears a loud
siren, which inexplicably causes him to pass out. Alex awakens later to find himself at the
entrance to the neighboring town of Silent Hill, also covered in a thick fog. Alex examines
his surroundings to find his brother, who runs in fear into the nearby Grand Hotel.
Alex follows, and inside sees his own Boogeyman much like James Sunderland’s: a large man-like
creature with a pyramid shaped object on his head and a giant cleaver; the same cleaver
he saw in his nightmare of the hospital. The Boogeyman spots Alex, but simply
glares at him before continuing on his way. Alex finds Josh, but falls through a hole in
the floor, landing in a room which transforms into the Otherworld, where he finds Mayor
Sam Bartlett, who also belongs to one of the founding families of the town. Alex hands Sam
the watch he found, which belonged to his son, Joey (who is also missing), and the Mayor
throws it on the ground, where it absorbs into the dirt. A giant monster then emerges from
the ground, and while Sam begs God for protection, the monster kills him in one blow. Alex is then
forced to fight, and eventually kill, the giant beast. As it dies, it falls through a hole,
and Alex passes out, falling through as well. When Alex wakes up, he is locked in a holding
cell in the Shepherd’s Glen Police Station by the town’s deputy: James Wheeler. Wheeler, just
as confused about what’s going on in the town, lets him out of the cell and the
pair explore the building to try to find another descendant of one of the
founding families: Dr. Martin Fitch. The pair get separated, and Alex soon finds Elle
once again, protecting her from a giant monster. The pair escape into the sewers, where Elle
reveals that her own sister is one of the missing. However, Alex loses Elle in the sewers,
finding only a blood trail where she once was. Alex exits the sewers and receives a call from
Wheeler on his radio, and the pair agree to meet at Fitch’s office. On the way, Alex finds a very
distressed Fitch, holding a blood-drenched scalpel before he runs into his office. Alex follows
and finds Fitch’s collection of dolls before the clinic transforms into the Otherworld. There,
Alex finds Fitch, covered in self-inflicted cuts. Fitch states that he plans to give
his daughter, Scarlet (also missing), a doll. Alex hands over the doll he
found, and Fitch’s wounds begin to take over his entire body as he drops the
doll, which absorbs into his pool of blood. A mannequin-shaped monster then emerges and
kills the doctor, prompting a battle with Alex. After Alex defeats the creature, he gets pulled
into the pool of blood before awakening back in Fitch’s office, now with a key adorned with
the same symbol Alex had seen on a pedestal in the town hall. Returning to the hall, Alex uses
the key in the pedestal to open a secret passage underground. He explores the passage and finds
information about some kind of pact the town’s founding families made with God, as well as the
Shepherd family’s apparent excommunication. He then finds a Ceremonial Dagger, which he remembers
as the key to open his father’s basement workshop. Alex returns home and opens the door to the
workshop, and inside he finds a key to the attic. There, Alex relives another memory, this time
of his father giving Joshua a family heirloom: an important ring that he is to keep
secret from everyone, including Alex. Alex then finds a letter from his father
in the attic, detailing that the Order is behind the missing people in the town, and
that he must fight the evil in Silent Hill. Alex questions his mother about
the note, and Silent Hill, but she only offers him her apologies.
As he continues to press her for answers, the pair are attacked by cultists from the
Order, dressed in hazmat suits. They kidnap his mother, but leave him behind as the house
transforms into it’s Otherworld counterpart. Alex is able to solve a series of puzzles
incorporating his own memories before unlocking a giant door, returning the house to its normal
state and allowing him to exit back into the town. There, Alex finds Elle, who states
that her mom has also gone missing. Alex states that they’ll be able to find
all the missing people in Silent Hill, before the pair receive a call from Wheeler, and
they all agree to take a boat to Silent Hill. Aboard the boat, Wheeler expresses
that Silent Hill has a bad history, recounting that when he worked in the Brahms
Police Department, a female officer had gone missing in the town. Additionally, Alex and
Elle’s parents told them to never go there. Elle also reveals that her sister,
Nora, went missing years ago as well. Unfortunately, as the boat reaches the pier,
they are boarded and attacked by the Order’s soldiers once again, who kidnap Elle and
Wheeler before Alex falls into the water. After he washes up on the shores of Silent Hill,
Alex gets a call from Wheeler, who leads him to the Overlook Penitentiary, where he is able
to fight through the Order to rescue Wheeler. Wheeler reveals that he heard the cultists
taking a woman to Solitary Confinement, and the pair surmise this must be Elle. The pair split up again so Wheeler can man
the security controls while Alex makes his way to Solitary. When he arrives, however, he
finds that the woman the Order spoke of was not Elle, but instead his mother, tied up
to a large, torture-rack-like device. She apologizes to Alex, telling him that
she and his father “could only choose one”. The device begins to split her
in two, and Alex pulls out his gun, deciding to either put her out of her suffering,
or allow her to live through her gruesome death. Either way, the prison transforms into the
Otherworld, where he is able to regroup with Wheeler. The pair eventually find Elle’s
mother, Judge Margaret Holloway, tied to a chair. Alex releases her, but a monster grabs
Wheeler and pulls him into a trap in the wall. Alex tells Margaret to escape while
he saves Wheeler, and she runs off, glancing back with a sinister
smirk as a door closes behind her. Alex tries to save Wheeler, but he is taken
away as a giant monster emerges from the wall. Alex defeats it before seeing his brother run
past. He follows Josh into a mysterious church. There, he finds a confessional, where an unseen
man describes his relationship with his two sons, one of which he describes as treating horribly due
to a “choice” he made between the two. He explains that he had never let the boy see the good things
in life, to make it “easier for him”, but his reasoning is not revealed. Alex is then given
the choice to offer this man forgiveness or not. Afterwards, Alex discovers a door behind the
church’s organ, and through it he finds his father, Adam, tied up to his own torture device.
Adam tells Alex that he can’t save his brother, and reveals that the dog tags around his neck
aren’t his own, but his father’s. Adam explains to his son that he wasn’t injured in battle,
but instead was hospitalized for mental illness after an “accident” that occurred the night Adam
gave Joshua the family ring. Adam then opens his hand to reveal the ring, which Alex takes from
him. Adam then asks Alex for forgiveness as the Boogeyman suddenly appears and cleaves Adam in
half, killing him instantly before walking off. Alex follows the Boogeyman, finding an unused
Hazmat suit which he uses as a disguise. However, his disguise is soon seen
through by none other than Curtis, the mechanic from Shepherd’s Glen, who
knocks him out and drags his body away. When Alex awakens, he finds himself strapped
to a chair before Judge Margaret Holloway, who reveals the dark secret behind all of
the missing children in Shepherd’s Glen. As it turns out, the four families that founded
the town were former members of the Order, who left Silent Hill to start a
new life in a town of their own. Still fearing the wrath of the Order’s God,
they made a pact with it to keep the town safe. That pact required each of the families to
sacrifice one of their own children every fifty years. Mayor Bartlett sacrificed his son
Joey, Dr. Fitch sacrificed his daughter Scarlet, and Judge Holloway sacrificed her own daughter
Nora. Sheriff Adam Shepherd was supposed to sacrifice one of his sons, but failed to do
so, breaking the pact and cursing the town, making all of the other sacrifices for naught and
returning Shepherd’s Glen to the Order’s control. Margaret then inserts a drill into Alex’s leg,
but he fights her off, forcing her to turn the drill on herself before pushing it through her
skull, killing her. Alex escapes and finds Elle, similarly being tortured by Curtis. Alex is able
to kill Curtis and save Elle and they make their way out of the facility. On their way, they find
Wheeler, still alive but stabbed in the chest with multiple knives. Alex can then save the
man, provided he has the medical kit to do so. Alex then leaves Elle to get Wheeler to safety,
and heads off alone to finally find his brother. Alex soon comes across a crypt with
tombs for each of the founding families, and etched on each are the names of the children
they have sacrificed to the Order’s God. Alex examines the Shepherd family tomb and
is shocked to find his own name carved on it, revealing the true motivation behind
his parent’s treatment of him. Alex then finds himself reliving another memory.
In this one, Alex takes Josh on a boat to Toluca Lake at night, and he teases the boy over
their parent’s coddling of the younger brother. Josh then takes out the family ring to taunt Alex
back, but Alex tries to take the ring by force. In the ensuing struggle, Josh
falls back and hits his head, concussing him as he falls into the
water and drowns in Toluca Lake. Later that night, Adam and Alex retrieve
Josh’s body, and Adam scolds his son for what he’s done. The father reveals that he chose
Adam, but by allowing Joshua to die instead, Adam has ruined everything, and the whole town
will suffer for his mistake. This event threw Alex into a mental breakdown, where he believed
he could still somehow save his brother. Back in the crypt, the Otherworld invades
once again, and a giant, spider-like monster with a woman’s face appears and attacks Alex,
forcing him to fight the demented creature. After he emerges victorious, he cuts open the
monster, and his brother’s body falls out. Alex knees before his brother and places
the ring, and his flashlight, on the boy. He then apologizes to his brother
before leaving him behind. Alex then exits the church, emerging from a
manhole to find Elle outside. She asks him what he saw down there, and he simply responds
“what I needed to” before the pair walk off. In the year 2010, an unnamed protagonist
is surprised to receive a strange book on their birthday from an unnamed sender,
postmarked from Silent Hill. The book, delivered by Howard Blackwood, contains all
of the protagonist's memories. One night, the protagonist tries to “rewrite” their memories,
and finds themself in an Otherworld dungeon. After fighting through a bit, the
protagonist finds Howard yet again, operating a store in the Otherworld.
Howard explains that the protagonist must find a material known as “Memory
Residue” in order to change his memories. When the protagonist awakens, they find
that the events they rewrote came true, but every night, they return to the
nightmare. They spending several nights fighting through dungeons based around their
friends, family, and other acquaintances. Eventually, the protagonist comes across
a creature that represents their own wants and desires, and they destroy it. Free of
this “guardian”, the protagonist is able to either lock away the book for good, or use it
for their own benevolent, or selfish, means. At some point in the future, an unnamed man wakes
up in a room with a concrete floor and walls. The room is empty, save for a table and some tally
marks on the walls, which also contain a single door. The man walks through the door and finds
himself in the hallway of a seemingly normal, albeit a bit messy house. On one of the tables
is a clock, stuck at one minute to midnight. A radio plays a broadcast detailing the grizzly
murder of two families by their respective fathers and the man continues to explore the house.
While the only door in the hallway is locked, another at the bottom of a short
set of stairs mysteriously leads to the same hallway he had previously entered. The man continues to “loop” through this
hallway, finding each iteration to be slightly different than the last. Soon, strange
things start to occur, like the locked door slamming open and shut, a baby’s cry being heard,
cockroaches crawling on the walls, among others. Soon, the man finds the locked door open, and
enters to find a flashlight inside a bloody bathroom. In the sink is a strange, fetus-like
being which is the source of the crying. The man goes through more hallway loops,
finding messages written to someone named “Lisa”, as well as a photo with an eye
gouged out. As the man looks above, he sees the specter of this Lisa, missing an eye. More loops and Lisa sightings
later, the hallway begins to change. Sometimes lights appear differently, at one point
there’s a hanging fridge dripping with blood, and soon the hallway becomes an endless series
of red corners the man is forced to run through until he spots a peephole into the bathroom,
which he looks through and hears a grizzly murder. Soon the fetal creature starts to
speak to the man about someone who got fired and drowned their sorrows in
booze before their wife was forced to get a part-time job where she was
apparently sexually harassed by her boss. After more loops, the man wakes up yet again
in the concrete room, this time with a bloody, talking bag. After he finds pieces of a torn photo
and acts out several actions, a telephone in the hallway rings, and when he answers, the voice
on the other end states, “you have been chosen”. A voice is then heard stating that their father
killed their family, but they will be coming back, and “bringing [their] new toys with them”.
Afterwards, we see the man from the hallway walking through Silent Hill. He takes a
quick look behind him before continuing on. This, unfortunately, concludes our very
last visit to the town of Silent Hill, but as mentioned before, we have one more
trip to look at: a re-envisioning of the first Silent Hill story, set in it’s own universe,
told for a different generation of players. In winter of the year 2008, we find psychiatrist
Dr. Michael Kaufmann preparing a drink for himself as a new patient arrives. His secretary
calls to inform him that the patient is early, and he states that it’s fine,
and they can begin right away. Meanwhile, a man named Harry Mason is driving
down an icy road before losing control, spinning off the road and crashing
into a post. He unbuckles himself, but loses consciousness and falls to the ground. Kaufmann starts his session with his
new patient, and asks them to start at the beginning of their troubles, before handing
over a quick questionnaire to get to know them. After the questionnaire, Kaufmann
asks the patient to tell their story It’s then that we see Harry awaken, and as he
stands up, he realizes his daughter, Cheryl, is missing from the car wreck. Harry enters
and explores the nearby town of Silent Hill, looking for his daughter. He stumbles
across the diner, and inside meets a woman, in this case Silent Hill Police officer Cybil
Bennett. He tells Cybil about the crash, but finds that he can’t remember much
before it. Harry then hands her his ID, and they realize he lives on Levin Street.
Cybil advises him to go home to check if his daughter is there, and if she isn’t,
to call state police in the morning. On his way home, Harry gets a call from Cheryl,
in which she frantically tells him that he “can’t fight them” before advising him to “run”.
The town then instantly becomes covered with ice, and he is soon chased by monsters and is forced
to run through that same horrible game mechanic before finally escaping them, emerging through a
gate to find himself at the front of his icy home. Back in Kaufmann’s office, the patient is
asked by the doctor about their family, and is then asked to color a drawing of
a house just like their childhood home. Harry then comes up to his home (which is the same
colors as the patient expressed in the office) and knocks on the door. A couple he
doesn’t recognize answers the door, and a very confused Harry begins
to shout for his daughter. They state that they’ve lived there for fourteen
years before closing the door on him. Harry pounds on the door before Cybil arrives, having
been called by the couple for being harassed. Cybil takes Harry in her car to go to
the police station to figure things out, but the snowstorm gets too bad to navigate.
Cybil exits the car to get a lay of the land, but when she doesn’t return, Harry is forced
to leave the car and explore the nearby forest. There he gets a call from Cybil chastising him
for leaving the car, and she tells him to come back. The forest soon turns into another icy
nightmare, and Harry is forced to run from the monsters once again, this time ending up at
the football field of the Midwich High School. Meanwhile, Kaufmann asks his
patient about high school, and gives his appropriate feedback to them. At the football field, Harry gets another call
from Cybil, and the pair agree to meet at the High School’s gym. Harry heads through the
town and explores a bit before reaching the High School campus, where he makes his way to the
gym. After finding it, he is surprised to find it set up for a reuinion, while a woman performs
a song on the gym’s stage. After the song, the woman introduces herself as Michelle Valdez,
and when Harry tells her his daughter’s name, Michelle reveals that she went to school with
a girl named Cheryl Mason at Midwich years ago. While Harry is initially dismissive of this
claim (as his daughter is only 7 years old), Michelle shows Harry a photograph from the reunion
display. Harry denies the girl is his daughter, while Michelle states that their resemblance
is far too strong to be a coincidence. The pair then head into the principal's office,
where Harry cracks the password to his computer and reads Cheryl Mason’s records, learning that
the girl and his daughter are one in the same, and that they apparently moved to Simmons
Street at some point he can’t remember. Harry calls the number listed in the records, and
a woman named Dahlia answers. When Harry states his name, the woman begins to panic, and suddenly
the school turns into another icy nightmare. Harry runs through, learning that Cheryl’s classmates
had bullied her and smeared her reputation. When Harry escapes the school, and the nightmare,
he finds Michelle waiting for him outside. The pair then walk to the nightclub where Michelle
works so she can use a car to drive him to his Simmons Street address. The pair reach the club,
and Michelle gets a call, so she sends Harry upstairs to her room to fetch the keys to the car.
He starts to receive text messages from “Dahlia” as he looks for the keys. He eventually
finds them and returns to Michelle, and the pair talk about his wife, which confuses him,
prompting him to take a moment in the restroom. When Harry returns, he finds
another woman in Michelle’s place. This woman introduces herself as Dahlia, and
is surprised that Harry doesn’t recognize her. Dahlia then takes him outside to the
SUV so they can take it to see Cheryl on Simmons Street. The pair drive off,
but are soon stopped by a raised bridge. Harry gets out and enters the control room, where
he is able to successfully lower the bridge. As the pair continue on, Harry presses
Dahlia for answers to his current situation, but as she stops the car, she begins
to freeze over. Suddenly, the bridge begins to freeze as well, and it collapses,
plunging the SUV into the icy waters below. Harry tries to save Dahlia, but she doesn’t move,
forcing him to escape on his own, leaving her behind in the submerged SUV. Harry reaches the
surface, but passes out due to his exhaustion. Back in Kaufmann’s office, he asks his
patient about how they feel regarding death. After getting their feedback and playing a little
game, he asks them to get back to their story. Later in the night, Cybil finds Harry
and takes him to Alchemilla Hospital. When he awakens in a wheelchair being pushed by
her, he explains what happened, but Cybil states that the bridge was closed, and there was no way
he could have gone over it. She also confronts him about his true identity, revealing that she
pulled Harry’s Mason’s file at the station. Before she can finish her thought, she
(along with the hospital) begin to freeze, and Harry is forced to frantically
push his wheelchair to safety. After escaping this nightmare, Harry finds
a crying nurse next to a crashed ambulance. This nurse introduces herself as Lisa
Garland, and he walks her to her apartment. When the pair arrive, Lisa changes out of her
scrubs and lays on the couch with a headache, asking Harry to retrieve a certain color pill
from the medicine cabinet in her bathroom. Harry is then tasked with the very hard job of
remembering what somebody said mere seconds ago and returns to Lisa with a
pill, which he gives her. Kaufmann then tells his patient a story before
getting their opinion on who was the most and least guilty party in the story. Meanwhile, Harry leaves Lisa’s apartment before
continuing his journey to Simmons Street. Not too far on his way, however, he gets
a call from Lisa, crying out for help. Harry rushes back and finds Lisa dead on her
couch (that is, if he gave her the wrong color pill because he wasn’t paying attention to her
when she asked for medication). Not long after he finds Lisa dead, Cybil arrives and holds him
at gunpoint. She tells him that she now knows he isn’t Harry Mason, before the apartment
freezes over and another nightmare begins. Afterwards, Harry reaches his home on
Simmons Street, and enters it to find Dahlia, now somehow aged several years. She is
shocked to see Harry, and he asks where Cheryl is. Dahlia states that his daughter went
to the lighthouse, then reveals that she and Harry are married, before she freezes over
and Harry enters another nightmare. At the end, Harry finds himself in Cheryl’s bedroom and he
lays down on her bed before quickly passing out. In Kaufmann’s office, the doctor asks his patient
about how they feel about marriage and divorce. After this conversation, Kaufmann
feels they’re really making progress, and the patient continues on with their story. Harry is awakened by Michelle, and
he asks her where the lighthouse is. Michelle offers Harry a ride from
her boyfriend John to the lighthouse and they all drive off. Michelle and John begin to
argue, and John stops the car before storming off, after which Michelle follows, leaving
Harry alone in the car. Harry exits and enters the sewers nearby and makes his way
through to the other end, where he emerges and enters Annie’s Bar. Inside, Harry finds
Michelle, who reveals that she and John broke up, before telling Harry that he needs to find a boat
at the jetty behind the Lakeside Amusement Park. Meanwhile, Kaufmann finally asks his
patient about the important stuff: sexuality. He gives his opinion on their
stance and feelings regarding it, before doing a Rorschach test. He then flips one of the
cards to surmise that on the other side of sex is death: showing a drawing of a car crash.
He then has his patient finish their story. Harry makes his way through the icy
amusement park, finding a docket boat on the other side. Harry enters the boat, where he
is surprised to find the young version of Dahlia. Harry tells Dahlia to take him to the lighthouse,
but she asks him for something in return. She then starts the boat and lays on the bed.
Harry sits next to her, and the pair kiss, before spending the 20-minute boat ride
across Toluca Lake together in bed. Harry then awakens next to a frozen Dahlia. When
he emerges from the boat, he finds the entire lake to be frozen. Harry steps out onto the frozen
lake and begins to make his way to the lighthouse. On the way, the old Dahlia calls him and tells
him to “turn back for [their] daughter’s sake”, but he presses on. He then gets a text message
from Cybil, containing a mugshot of Cheryl Mason. Monsters begin to chase Harry, and he
runs faster and faster to escape them. As they draw closer and closer,
they begin to overwhelm him, but they’re hit by the light from the lighthouse
and they are suddenly frozen in place. The lake then thaws, and Harry
swims towards the lighthouse, peering under the surface to spot various
rock formations in the shape of events from his past. As Harry closes in on the shorenear
the lighthouse, he passes out from exhaustion. Harry washes up on shore, where he is again
retrieved by Cybil. As she helps him up, Harry grabs her gun from it’s holster and
holds the officer at gunpoint. Cybil states that she isn’t there to stop him, and instead just
wants to find the truth just as much as he does. In Harry’s file, she found that he died
in a car crash eighteen years prior, which confuses both of them. She then tells him
his answers must await inside the lighthouse, and he hands her back the gun as she
walks away to let him finish his search. Harry enters the lighthouse before
finding a door at the end of a hallway. He enters the doorway to find… Dr. Michael Kofmann, speaking
with his 25 year old daughter, Cheryl Mason. Kaufmann explains to Cheryl that
the story she’s been telling him about her father is a fabricated one, and
that she needs to move on. Her manifestation of her father then walks up to
her. She tells him that “[he’s] been with [her] for so long,” and he simply replies, “I always
will be,” before he himself freezes before Cheryl. Outside, Cheryl finds her
mother, Dahlia, waiting for her. The pair then leave, to start Cheryl’s new life. And with that, we come to the end of Suggestive
Gaming’s trip through (most of) the Silent Hill franchise. While we unfortunately never got
to see a new beginning to the game series all those years ago, maybe someday we’ll find an
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