| Bill Edward |
Sprite Gallery |
"That's ENOUGH out of you! Why don't you listen to me? I don't HAVE anything else. Another is all I have left!"
Bill Edward is a major character in Another Code: Two Memories and its remake Another Code: Recollection.
He is a scientist who worked on Another with Ashley's parents. He is the last descendant of the Edward family and the current owner of the Edward mansion on Blood Edward Island. According to a DAS card, Bill does not live on the mansion, however, only visiting it every few months.
Personality[]
In the original game, he is first portrayed as a father like figure to Ashley when he posed as Richard which can come off as creepy. He took this to his advantage, manipulating and lying to her as a result. Later on, it's revealed that he is a serious person and he's dedicated to his work. Bill had fallen love with Sayoko but he became bitter when she got together with Richard and he lost trust in people. He is also not above harming others to accomplish this goal of his, considering that he murdered Ashley's mother, knocked out Jessica and Richard. Plus, he attempted to kill him and Ashley.
In Another Code: Recollection, he acts more similar to Sofia Callaghan since he wanted to sell the Another for financial gain and had the mindset that anyone could pay top dollar for this sort of technology. Bill has more of a short temper and is shown to be less caring to Ashley or Jessica since he felt that the Another is the only thing he has left, meaning that he needed it to feel happy or whole again. It is said that Bill was optimistic in the past.
Background[]
Bill (right) with Richard, Sayoko and Jessica.
Around 1966, Frannie Edward had a son named Bill after she supposedly got together with a unknown man. She seemingly raised him as well. However, it is unclear if Bill's father was even around to take care of him. When he grew up, Bill worked at M.J. Labs. In 1994, his mother passed away.
Bill knew Sayoko and Richard when they were working at M.J. Labs, as well as Jessica Robbins. They worked on researching memories and the project known as Another, with him and Sayoko being the driving forces of the project.
It is hinted he had feelings for Sayoko and felt bitter when she fell in love with Richard. Meanwhile, it is hinted that Jessica had a crush on Bill, although for unclear reasons, it appears they never became a couple. On the chance they were in a relationship, Bill would have ended it when he fled to Blood Edward Island after his crime.
Bill was annoyed when Sayoko left the project to focus on being a mother (which she did because she felt Another could fall into the wrong hands and be used for evil), as well for betraying the company by hiding her work on Another in her house, feeling Another wasn't just hers or Richard's. In order to stop Another from completion, Sayoko also lied by claiming there was a false report that there was an error in the Another theory. Bill claims he begged Sayoko to share their work, but she refused.
Sayoko murdered by Bill in 1994.
In 1994, under the manipulation of Ryan Gray, he intruded in the Robbins' home with a handgun. He found Sayoko and ordered her to give him the research on Another, but she refused. He shot her with a handgun, while Ashley hid in a closet and witnessed the act.
Sometime later, he arrived at Sayoko's graveyard and left her some flowers. He stood by her own grave for a long time with a stricken (sad) look on his face (possibly because he felt emotionally hurt). It is unknown if he noticed Richard at that time. Bill continued to work with him to finish Another, and encouraged Richard to isolate from the rest of the world by offering Blood Edward Mansion as a place to live.
He eventually discovers that Richard secretly encoded Another to be only usable by Ashley's biometrics, fueling his anger and seeing this as another act of Richard being secretive and selfish.
Another Code: Two Memories[]
Bill manages to subdue Richard and implant a false memory of Sayoko's murder into Richard's mind using Another. He later leaves an unconscious Richard in a secret room belonging to his ancestor, Lawrence Edward, and begins his plan to pose as Ashley's father, manipulating her into giving him her Dual Another System, and allowing him to take Another for himself.
Bill embracing Ashley while pretending to be her father.
Although not made explicitly clear, it is hinted he may have wanted to kill Richard and Ashley afterwards so they would not interfere with him taking Another. It is shown he is not above murder, having killed Sayoko and he tells Ashley to say goodbye to Richard while holding him at gunpoint.
Bill abducts Jessica after she crossed a bridge. She is knocked unconscious and he locks her in the storage room of a kitchen. She was seemingly drugged as well (which was presumably done to make her sleepy and woozy, so that she wouldn't have the energy to meddle with his affairs after regaining consciousness). Bill never actually intended for Jessica to come to the island.
He later meets Ashley in the mansion, pretending to be her father. She is taken aback by how he smells of smoke. She has a conversation with him and asks some questions. Then, they heard a loud noise and he leaves the room to investigate. By the time Ashley reunites and hugs Richard (her real father) at the laboratory inside the mansion after remembering his face, Bill tells him to meet up at the mines through a speaker.
He is confronted by Richard and Ashley in the mine. This is where he's revealed to be the main antagonist. Ashley tells him that was an incredibly creepy thing to do when he posed as her father. He tries to mess with Ashley's head by positing Richard being her mother's killer, but with intense focus, she is able to identify him as Sayoko's murderer from her memories of her third birthday.
Bill, shocked after seeing D, falls off the cliff, leading to his death.
He holds Richard at gunpoint, but Daniel Edward's ghost appears briefly and spooks him, telling him to stop or he will make Frannie cry. The shock makes him lose balance and he ends up dangling over a cliff, Richard having caught him. Richard's grip slips and Bill meets his end after he falls off the ledge in the mine. It's never explained if his body is retrieved after.
Another Code: R - A Journey into Lost Memories[]
Bill is referenced a few times in the game. His figure can be seen in Ashley's dream in the opening as the figure who shoots her mother.
Near the end of the game, Ashley discovers Ryan's role in manipulating Bill to murder her mother. It is revealed Bill was one of the few people who knew that Ryan was actually the son of Judd Fitzgerald. Ryan was dismayed when Judd refused him to be his successor, and Bill revealed the truth to him. Ryan wanted revenge against Judd and his successors, and pretended to ally with Bill, although Ryan just saw Bill as a tool to be used.
Ryan ends off dangling off a cliff, an allusion to what happened in the first game. However, this time around, Richard manages to pull Ryan and save him.
Quotes[]
- "You're a bad little girl, Ashley. To accuse someone of such a heinous crime without proof... Richard, did you fill her mind with all this poison?"
- "Ashley, your father is the horrible one. He pretended to be my friend, but then he stabbed me in the back."
- "I thought it was your weakness that made you hide from reality, not any grand goals for humanity. For eleven years, you reveled in your solitude and research, never thinking of the cost. Who do you think paid? Me and Ashley!" (to Richard)
Trivia[]
- Depending on if the player plays Another Code or Trace Memory, Bill's characterization between the two versions is a bit different with him saying different things in each version. For example, in Another, Bill is calmer and he attacks Richard's masculinity by saying, "And you call yourself a man?" In Trace:
- Bill comes off as more patriotic, saying Sayoko betrayed their country.
- He seems more concerned about money, annoyed he financially contributed to funding Richard's agenda.
- He has a shorter fuse; telling Richard to shut up, twice.
- He seems angrier at Richard in general, wanting him to die sooner than later, pressuring Ashley say goodbye to him. In Another, however, he puts focus on getting her to talk more about her memories instead. In Trace, he also takes jabs at Richard for not attending Ashley's birthday party sooner, supporting his view that Richard is a bad father.
- In the DS game, it is not revealed Bill is Frannie's son, but there was evidence. D interrupted him when he is about to shoot Richard by mentioning Franny's name (D: "Stop, You're going to make Franny cry.") and Franny is likely the only one whom is able to give the inheritance of the estate to him. On a New Game Plus, one of the DAS cards reveals that Bill's mother died in 1994, the same year that Sayoko died, and she refused to set foot in the 'cursed mansion'. Considering what happened to Franny's family during her short stay on the island - her cousin's death, her uncle being shot by her father, and her father's madness leading to his suicide - it makes sense that she'd be unwilling to ever return.
- In the first game, it is stated that he smells like cigarettes (smoke), so it can be speculated that he smokes to relieve some amount of stress or emotional pain from what he had experienced. Examples include: losing his mother, the memories of Sayoko being more distant and ignoring his pleas, Richard acting secretive and selfish in his eyes or other reasons.
- In a DAS card, Richard mentions, "Bill visits me every few months to hear about my progress. When he visits this mansion, he often acts strangely. When his right hand touches some of the furniture with the golden bird designs, he sometimes recoils as if he had been electrocuted. It's all very peculiar. Oddly enough Bill doesn't even notice himself recoiling, and looks at me very strangely when I mention it to him." It can be theorized it has something to do with Henry (who may be Bill's grandfather) losing his right arm in World War II.
- It can be speculated that Bill probably tried to get Richard to isolate himself on the island in order to avoid any possible contact with Ashley. At some point, Richard probably told Bill that Ashley was found hiding in the room and may have witnessed Sayoko's killer. Bill would not be aware of how well toddler Ashley would see his face and if Ashley saw Bill, she could claim he killed Sayoko. This held true 11 years later when Ashley was able to recognize Bill. Even though, she didn't recognize him at first when they met at the island. Ashley regained her memory of Bill committing the crime by focusing on his face intensely in the mine.
- As Bill visits the island every few months, it is likely Bill who brings fresh canned food to Richard which he mentions eating in a DAS card.
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Another Code: Two Memories[]
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Another Code: Recollection[]
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