This is about the Brock Williams featured in the Ash vs Evil Dead television series. You might be looking for the version of Brock Williams featured in Evil Dead: The Game.
Brock Williams was the father of Ashley and Cheryl Williams, and the owner of a hardware store based in the small town of Elk Grove, Michigan. After separating from his wife Caroline, Brock raised the two children on his own to the best of his ability, though his already tense relationship with his son would reach it's breaking point after learning of a fateful trip to a cabin in the woods that resulted in the death of Cheryl and several others by a demonic entity, with Ash being the lone survivor of the ordeal.
Brock Williams first appeared in the Ash vs Evil Dead Season Two episode Family. He was portrayed by Lee Majors.
Biography[]
There is little information in regard to the life of Brock Williams prior to the 21st Century. At an unknown point in his life (presumably in the mid-1950s), Brock was married to a woman named Caroline,[1] who gave birth to two children: a son which he named Ashley Joanna Williams in 1957, and a daughter named Cheryl several years later. Some time after Cheryl's birth, Caroline separated from Brock for reasons unknown (Ash later theorized that it was because Brock was a "miserable son of a bitch", though what exactly entailed remains to be seen), which prompted Williams to raise his two children on his own.[2]
Family Falls Apart[]
The relationship between Brock and his son grew tense in the years that followed, though the adolescent Ash had begun either subconsciously or knowingly began to model his developing qualities after his father's own boorish and chauvinistic traits.[3] This relationship would finally reach it's breaking point in 1982 following Ash's lone return from a weekend trip gone horribly awry. Brock listened to Ash's tale of an ancient book and demonic spirits which had claimed the bodies and souls of his friends, including Cheryl. Brock, angered by the loss of his daughter, refused to humor his son's story or defend him from the ridicule from the denizens of Elk Grove.[2] It was largely the part of Brock's denial of these events which prompted Ash to flee from his hometown and cut off contact from his father for the next three decades.
At some point before or after Cheryl's death and Ash's departure, Brock opened a hardware store located on the main street running through Elk Grove. In December of 2012, a strange man, had come to Elk Grove looking for Ash Williams, but visited Brock first for any information on his whereabouts. When the man launched into a story about demons and an ancient prophecy, Brock believed him to be just as crazy as Ash, and knocked the man into the hardware store's cellar. Believing the stranger died from the fall down the stairs, Brock locked the store's door and never returned.[4]
Ash's Return[]
In 2016, Ash returned to the town of Elk Grove after being summoned by the Dark One known as Ruby. Before investigating Ruby's call, Ash visited his childhood home. Brock was amazed that Ash was still alive after all this time, though he had wished that he could have gone the rest of his life without seeing his disappointment of a son ever again.[3] To his surprise, Brock later agreed to let Ash stay at the house until his "business" in town was taken care of. Shortly thereafter, Brock had arranged for a date with Lillian Pendergrast, a woman whom Brock had been seeing for some time prior to Ash's return. However, shortly after Ash arrived in town, Lillian died of pneumonia, and was now a Deadite. After recovering the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis from the local morgue and learning about Lillian's passing, Ash raced back home to save his father, only to discover Ruby and Pablo Simon Bolivar had already disposed of her without Brock learning Pendergrast was a demon in disguise.[5]
Death[]
Shortly after the incident with Lillian Pendergrast, Brock would finally see one of these alleged demons for himself after getting frisky with a woman in the bathroom of the Elk Lounge Bar. Moments after the woman revealed herself to be a Deadite, Ash barged in the bathroom and saved his father, who proceeded to apologize to his son for not believing his story. With their relationship mended (to an extent), Brock began to tell Ash about a vital secret that could very well change the fabric of his life, though he was cut short after getting run over by Ash's possessed Oldsmobile.[2] Distraught over the loss of his father, Ash and his friend Chet Kaminski chased the haunted car through the streets of Elk Grove before arriving at the old Elk Grove Destruction Derby, the very location where Brock had purchased the Oldsmobile for his son decades prior.[6]
Afterlife[]
When Ash traveled back in time to 1982 to prevent his younger self from finding the Necronomicon in the first place, Brock appeared to Ash in the midst of a battle between him and the illusion-projecting demon known as Baal. Believing Brock to be one of Baal's hallucinations, Ash drowned his father in the bathroom of the Knowby cabin before he could let Brock elaborate on the aforementioned secret he was going to divulge at the moment of his death. Later, when Ash and his cohorts return to the 21st Century, the ghostly image of Brock (along with Cheryl and Chet Kaminski) stood in the crowd and watched as Ash gave a speech to the citizens of Elk Grove during a party held in his honor.[7]
Back From The Dead[]
With history slightly altered from Ash's trip back to 1982, a new, more ruthless iteration of Ruby was now active in Elk Grove. As part of a plan to manipulate Ash's daughter Brandy into betraying her father, Ruby used dark magic to resurrect the corpse (but not the spirit) of Brock, now laid to rest in River Walk Cemetery. The rotting body shambled back to Brock's former abode, shedding his decaying flesh with a hot shower and revealing his "old" normal-looking self. Ash returned to the house to find "Brock" and Brandy laughing and watching Ash's new low-budget television commercial on repeat. After Brandy was accidentally knocked unconscious by a can of beans that struck her head, Ash and Brock fought through various rooms of the house until Ash managed to grab his trusty chainsaw and grind-up the soulless body posing has his father.[8]
While Ash was in the possess of dismembering the corpse, the spirit of the real Brock appeared to his son, having been summoned back after his grave had been disturbed. Seizing the opportunity, Brock was finally able to tell Ash about stranger who had come to visit him at the hardware store in 2012 by transporting him into a sort of "interactive memory". The two then left the vision and arrived at the hardware store (which Ash had just recently re-opened as a hardware store and sex toy emporium) to investigate the now-hidden cellar. Underneath the shop, they discovered the man had actually survived the fall, and had spent whatever time he had left trying to decrypt the secret of the lost pages of the Necronomicon, which he painted on the back wall of the basement. Soon after this discovery, Brock realized his time was coming to an end, and father and son parted ways one last time.[4]
Weapons & Equipment[]
- CZ-581 Shotgun: Brock carried a 12-gauge "over and under" shotgun for home defense.[3]
Gallery[]
Ash vs Evil Dead Season Two[]
Promotional Images[]
Ash vs Evil Dead Season Three[]
Trivia[]
- Photographs of Ash and Brock seen in the Williams homestead are actual photographs Bruce Campbell and his real father, Charles.
- Prior to Brock's appearance in Ash vs Evil Dead, several officially licensed comic books (though not part of the primary continuity) had previously mentioned or depicted Ash's father:
- Ash's father was first mentioned in the 1992 comic adaptation of Army of Darkness, written by Sam and Ivan Raimi. The first issue of the comic mentions that his nameless father had "blown twenty grand on [Ash's] engineering degree."
- The first physical depiction of Ash's father (also going unnamed) was in the 2006 one-shot Tales of Army of Darkness, in a short story in which he invites his son over for Thanksgiving dinner.
- In Army of Darkness: The Death of Ash #12, Ash's mother and father appear in a flashback when a young Ash remembers seeing a Deadite Santa at a mall.
- The 2014 comic Ash and The Army of Darkness #6 were seen in silhouette during a scene in which a young Ash yells out after awakening from a nightmare.
References[]
- ↑ Ash vs Evil Dead: Baby Proof (Season 3, Episode 5) (2018)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ash vs Evil Dead: Last Call (Season 2, Episode 3) (2016)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Ash vs Evil Dead: Home (Season 2, Episode 1) (2016)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ash vs Evil Dead: Unfinished Business (Season 3, Episode 4) (2018)
- ↑ Ash vs Evil Dead: The Morgue (Season 2, Episode 2) (2016)
- ↑ Ash vs Evil Dead: DUI (Season 2, Episode 4) (2016)
- ↑ Ash vs Evil Dead: Second Coming (Season 2, Episode 10) (2016)
- ↑ Ash vs Evil Dead: Apparently Dead (Season 3, Episode 3) (2018)