Silent Hill 2

Sh2.pngRebuilding the Past
Three years after the death of his wife, James Sunderland receives a mysterious letter from his dead wife telling him to meet her at their "special place" in Silent Hill. Like James, two others have been called to visit Silent Hill under mysterious circumstances: A woman named Angela Orosco, who is searching for her mother and a man named Eddie Dombrowski with an unstable personality.

James begins his search of Silent Hill and runs into a woman named Maria, who looks strikingly similar to his wife. James agrees to let Maria tag along as he continues his seach. Unfortunately, Angela doesn't fare well during her trek through Silent Hill. James discovers her on the floor with a knife contemplating suicide. After convincing her not to commit suicide, she immediately gets up and flees into the darkness. Unlike Angela, James always finds Eddie extremely defensive and confrontational. Eddie always seems to appear around corpses, but profusely denies any involvement with the deaths.

While searching a hospital, Maria is inexplicably killed by a monster known as Pyramid Head. James is distraught over her death, but gains composure and continues his search foe Mary Shepherd-Sunderland. James heads for the next logical location, the old Lakeview Hotel. On the way he runs into Maria - who is alive and well - locked inside a cell. Instead of revealing how she is still alive, Maria teases James with sexual advances. James tries to free Maria, but once again she is mysteriously killed.

As James ventures further into Silent Hill, he encounters Angela and Eddie once again. James learns that each person has a dark and troubled past that resulted in both of them killing someone important in there lives. Eddie suggests that maybe James has also been called Silent Hill because he too is a murderer. Following this revelation, the letter that James has been holding on to suddenly turns blank!

James then scurries to the Lakeview Hotel to make sense of it all. While in the hotel, James finds a videotape of himself next to Mary's hospital bed. James watches himself on the videotape kill his beloved Mary. Once James remembers his unforgivable acts, the hotel descends into the otherworld. Back in the hotel James runs into Maria, who is being tortured by a group of Bogeymans. The Bogeymans kill Maria before James eyes, at which point he realizes that this entire world was created to punish him for his deeds.

James defeats the Bogeymans and heads to the hotel's rooftop where he encounters Maria for the last time. She then turns into a monster that he must overcome. James fights the monster and kills Maria with his own hands. Following Maria's defeat, James has one last meeting with his dying wife where he can confess his sins to her.