Cybil Bennett

Cybil Bennett is a fictional character of the PlayStation video game "Silent Hill" and the film of the same name.General CVG character
name=Cybil Bennett


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series="Silent Hill" series
firstgame="Silent Hill"
voiceactor=Susan Papa - "Silent Hill"
Laurie Holden - "Silent Hill" (film)
inuniverse=Silent Hill character
occupation=Police Officer for the county of Brahms

Role

"Cybil Bennett" is a police officer from Brahms, a town neighboring Silent Hill. She was sent to investigate her precinct's lack of communication with the Silent Hill police and was unwittingly drawn into its strange world. Unlike the other human characters, Cybil is a skeptic and has difficulty accepting the paranormal activity in town. She quickly befriends Harry Mason and helps him to find his daughter.

In the intro, Harry sees Cybil riding by on her motorcycle while he is driving with his daughter. Shortly before crashing his jeep, he spots the bike again lying abandoned by the roadside.

After he is ambushed by demons in the game's opening, Harry somehow finds himself inside a cafe with Cybil. She can't find any logical explanation to what has happened to the town ("The phones are all dead, and the radio, too") but feels that something is wrong. Due to the alarming nature of their situation, Cybil lends Harry a Smith & Wesson Sigma pistol and tells him to be careful with it. ["Cybil:"' Now listen to me. Before you pull the trigger, know who you're shooting. Konami "Silent Hill" (in English) 1999-1-31 (NA)]

Much later in the game, Cybil shows up again in the antique shop right after Harry has been to the "Otherworld" of Silent Hill. Here she explains that the police were investigating the flow of drugs in Silent Hill, to which she attributes all the weird things going on. She seems reluctant to believe Harry's talk of demons and the occult. [Harry: She said something about the town being devoured by darkness. Gibberish like that. Any idea what it means? Cybil: Darkness devouring the town? Must be on drugs. They sell 'em to the tourists. The force still can't figure out who's behind it. None of our leads have panned out, and the investigation is stalled. Konami "Silent Hill" (in English) 1999-1-31 (NA)]

When Harry enters a boat in the alternate resort area, he is relieved to run into Cybil again. This time, he insists that something otherworldly is going on. Cybil is still reluctant to believe Harry, despite this time having seen the fog and snow turn into dark and rain. [Harry: This may sound really off the wall, but listen to me. You've got to believe me. I haven't gone crazy, and I'm not fooling around. At first I thought I was losing my mind. But now I know I'm not. It's not me. This whole town. It's being invaded by the other world. By a world of someone's nightmarish delusions come to life. Little by little the invasion is spreading. Trying to swallow up everything in darkness. I think I'm finally beginning to understand what that lady was talking about. Cybil: Harry. Hold on a minute. I don't get it. Harry: Look, I don't understand it all myself. I guess I can't explain it. Cybil: Harry, this whole thing has been a major blow to you. You need to rest. Konami "Silent Hill" (in English) 1999-1-31 (NA)] Left with no recourse, Harry and Cybil decide to split up and look for Cheryl; Harry leaves to investigate the lighthouse while Cybil heads toward the amusement park.

Cybil fails to rendezvous with Harry on the boat, and Harry's next encounter with her occurs on the amusement park's merry-go-round. Having been infected by the same type of worm-like parasite that controlled the doctors and nurses in Alchemilla Hospital ("see" puppet nurses), Cybil draws her gun and attacks Harry. If the Red Liquid was obtained earlier, it is possible for the player to rid her of the parasite's influence and save her; If not, Harry will have no option but to kill her.

If Harry spares her life in the amusement park, Cybil will appear in the final battle. She corners Dahlia and Alessa Gillespie in the final area ("Nowhere"), but Alessa's psychic energy shoves Cybil back and knocks her out.

If the player achieves the bad+ ending, Cybil regains consciousness after the final boss fight. She walks over to Harry, smacks him out of his grief, and tells him to "go". The Otherworld is crumbling around them, and it is unknown whether they escape or not.If the player is awarded the good+ ending, Alessa gives Harry a newborn baby and uses her power to open a portal for him. Cybil will wake up and follow Harry through the light, which transports them out of the Otherworld in time. After the credits, the video from the game's opening of Harry and his wife finding Cheryl as a baby plays, with Cybil replacing Harry's wife. If a new game plus is started from this save file, this new version of the sequence will replace the original version in the opening video as well.

Cybil is mentioned in a later installment in the series, Silent Hill: Homecoming. Deputy Wheeler tells the protagonist, Alex Sheperd and Elle Holloway about a police woman who went to Silent Hill on a case and disappeared. The only evidence left of Cybil was her motorcycle, which was found crashed on the road to Silent Hill. Whether she was killed or simply went into hiding from The Order after SH1 is not specified. Silent Hill creator Hiroyuki Owaku has stated that what happened to Cybil after SH1 is "left to the players' imaginations". [http://www.translatedmemories.com/bookpgs/Pg92-93.jpg]

Film adaption

Cybil, played by Laurie Holden, is a gruff, but dedicated police officer from the nearby town of Brahams. Years earlier, Cybil followed a man into Silent Hill and rescued the boy he kidnapped after the boy was dropped down a mineshaft. Now, after pulling a suspicious Rose over, and then engaging in a high-speed car chase with her, Cybil finds herself trapped in Silent Hill's alternate dimension. Cybil joins Rose on her search for Sharon.

As Rose nears her goal at the "Brookhaven Hospital", Cybil distracts the member of The Order and allows Rose a chance to get into the elevator that will take her to the halls she needed to go through to find Alessa. Cybil is then beaten within inches of her life and taken to the church. While in the church she meets Sharon and tells her everything is going to be alright and that Rose is on her way to get her. She tries arguing with The Order, but to no avail. Before Sharon's eyes she is tied to a ladder and immolated, as execution for helping the 'witch' and Rose.

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