Elisabeth Jarret

Elisabeth Jarret
Biographical information
Other names	Captain Red (Disguise, cut content)
Date of Birth	Late 17th century
Home	Haiti (Formerly) Hell's Kitchen, CA
Occupation	Sorceress Gang leader
Status	Deceased
Affiliations	One-Eyed Jack's gang (Leader)
Family	One-Eyed Jack (Lover) Ezechiel Pregzt (former Lover) Jed Stone (Son)
Physical description
Gender	Female
Species	Human
Hair color	Black
Eye color	Blue
Behind the scenes
Appears in	Alone in the Dark 2 Alone in the Dark 3 (mentioned)

Elisabeth Jarret is a character in the Alone in the Dark series, who appears as the secondary antagonist in Alone in the Dark 2 and as a minor unseen character in Alone in the Dark 3.

She is an evil voodoo sorceress who is romantically involved with One-Eyed Jack and the one to have given him and his crew the power of immortality. She is rumored to be the mother of Jed Stone through a relationship with Ezechiel Pregzt by his guardian, Father Don Fernando.

Biography

Early Life

200 years past, she came to Haiti as a little girl to live with her guardian and tutor Cotten, who was cruel and abusing to her. One of Cotten's slaves, in secret, taught her how to use the dark arts, or in Elisabeth's words, "how to ride the darkness". However, once she mastered the technique, she killed her tutor with the use of a stabbing voodoo doll and used her new powers to burn down Cotton's mansion, and as revenge, she reanimated and enslaved him into her "creature".

When they were captured by Royal soldiers, they recognized Cotten despite his change. She was then put aboard the Flying Dutchman as a prisoner. With her powers, she was able to "see" where the keys to her chains were hidden. In desperation, she sent out a cry for help, which attracted the dreaded pirate captain One-Eyed Jack. He came to her rescue and destroyed the crew of Captain Nichols. In return, she conjured up a pact to grant One-Eyed Jack, his crew, and herself immortal. The only catch was that every 100 years, they needed to sacrifice an innocent little girl to age in their place, thus fulfilling the pact.

This is where their present-day plan comes into action, as they intend to use Grace to continue their immortality for another 100 years.

Alone in the Dark 2

At 11:30 A.M. of December 21st, 1924, Grace Saunders left the Pacific College in the company of her chaperon Hilda Pennicoat. The light brown limo Elisabeth was in screeched to a halt beside them, and a man in dark coat under her orders jumped out to swoop her. Grace's chaperon, Pennicoat, attempted to get between the man and Grace, but Elisabeth stared at her and cast a spell on her, making Pennicoat fall into an instant coma, leaving Grace at the mercy of the agressor. The limo then sped off.

Desperate for answers and for the life of his daughter, the anxiety-wracked movie producer George Saunders waits for a ransom, with the police finding nothing but her school satchel and the limo half-sunk in the ocean. Frustrated with the incompetence of the police, he hires the detective Ted Striker to take on the case, who finds out that Grace Saunders was kidnapped by One-Eyed Jack and Elisabeth Jarret and taken to Hell's Kitchen. He sneaks his way into the mansion and avoids the guards. As he reaches the room that Grace in being kept in, but he's suffocated by a puppet clown and falls. Elisabeth Jarret comes over to search and get rid of Ted. However, before getting to the estate, Ted sent Edward Carnby a telegram with Grace's location.

She is encountered when Carnby escapes One-Eyed Jack's trap. She confronts him as he tries to flee out the front door and subdues him into a trance. Incapacitated, Jack and Elisabeth transport Carnby to the holding cell of the Flying Dutchman. After Grace Saunders helps free Carnby of his shackles, Elisabeth strikes with her magic against Carnby once again, when he comes upon the Captain's Quarters. Grace, having learned a critical weakness of the witch, uses the magical power of Chicken Paws to enter her room and end her life.

Personality

After being taught how to master the dark arts, she had no qualms about killing her former teacher with her newfound power. She was shown to be very vengeful, burning down her abusive guardian and took pleasure into turning him into her creature.

Trivia

• As well as being immortal, she is a powerful spell caster which puts her at an advantage over Carnby and Grace. In her backstory, she is known to see and communicate from great distance.
• In her early life, she was once a former plantation slave.
• You can see Elisabeth in the beginning intro of the game - some versions show her "seeing" Stryker's attempt to rescue Grace, who is then choked to death by a possessed Clown. In the remastered Saturn and PSX ports, an additional scene shows her laughing at Striker's failed attempt of rescue and finding his business card.
• Like most characters, she was given texture-mapping in the 1996 ports of Alone in the Dark 2, rather than the flat shading look of the original game.
• During her speech of her past, she talks with a lisp.
• In early development, Elisabeth was meant to reappear in an abandoned mine between the Garden in Hell's Kitchen and the Flying Dutchman disguised as a character named Captain Red, but this content was cut due to lack of storage space for the game. The abandoned mine later evolved into the basis for the underground cave in Alone in the Dark 3.

See also

• One-Eyed Jack
• Ezechiel Pregzt
• Jed Stone
• Grace Saunders