Robert Evans is the late father of Mila Evans, the husband of Mary Evans, and the mastermind of the Marcel Osterzone fraud. He had ties to the crime syndicate Nile, and also ran Gallery May.
Background[]
At the age of 23 in 1933, Evans inherited his family's art gallery, Gallery May in Santa Monica, from his grandfather.
Robert Evans and Dunning Smith were friends at college, with Evans being around two decades older than Dunning. They both wanted to become painters and studied art, but went their separate ways. Evans focused his life on managing the gallery which he became the owner of in 1956. Both married and each had a daughter: Mila and Jenny, respectively.
In 1960, they reunited in an airport, after both of their wives died in a tragic plane crash, known as the Las Vegas crash.
A year later, Evans came up with the idea of creating "Osterzone", a dead painter from the 19th century whose works would be highly valued. Evans deeply admired Dunning's skill at painting, and offered him to paint works to be credited as Osterzone's, to which he agreed. While Dunning painted, Evans displayed the works in his art gallery and created the mythos of Osterzone. The scam was successful; the paintings sold for fortunes, including one called "Angel Opening a Door", and Evans and Dunning became rich.
Their activities attracted the attention of a crime syndicate, called "Nile," that Evans worked with. Evans bought Hotel Dusk in 1969 to use as a front for his illicit meetings and to provide a secret workshop for Dunning to paint, despite Dunning's wishes to get out of the scam. During one meeting with Nile, Dunning refused to continue painting, resulting in one of the Nile agents to kidnap Jenny. During the skirmish, Mila, who was playing with Jenny, was knocked into a coma. Evans threatened Dunning to continue to paint as Osterzone in order to be able to see Jenny again.
Evans, now in trouble with Nile, was forced to sell his art gallery in 1972, and gave Hotel Dusk to Dunning before going into hiding, and was considered a missing man by the public. Dunning lost hope of seeing Jenny again after three years, and quit painting, but Evans convinced him to wait at the hotel and Jenny would be returned in time. Dunning became the hotel's owner and renovated it to hide the evidence of Nile and Osterzone, while creating the mythos of Room 215 so as to attract customers.
Three years prior to the game's present, Kyle Hyde and Brian Bradley investigated Nile's activities in New York City. Evans claimed that Nile was holding Bradley's sister, also named Mila, as a hostage to force Bradley to leak confidential information. Through this, Bradley learned of Dunning and Osterzone, and later stole "Angel Opening a Door" from Nile in anticipation of returning it to Dunning. However, despite giving Nile confidential information, Bradley found his sister dead, believing that she was murdered by Evans. He even wanted Bradley to betray the police in vain (after his sister was killed), so he wouldn't have any other option but to work for Evans.
It is highly suggested Evans was killed by Bradley, as he once told Dunning, "You won't see Robert Evans again." After reading Bradley's letter, Kyle ponders over Bradley visiting Robbins Memorial Hospital to see the comatose Mila reminding him of his late sister, took off his own bracelet with his sister's name on it and slipped it onto Mila's hand. He waited outside the hospital in hiding for Evans to arrive and also visit Mila then finally killing him fulfilling his own revenge.
Trivia[]
- According to the information and ages given, Evans is about 20 year older than Dunning, suggesting that he was studying at art college in his late 30s or 40s during the 1950s or 1960s. This means he was on the older side when he became a father, as he would be around the age of 50. This also suggests that he inherited the art gallery in his early twenties and he was around 46 when he decided to give up his dream of painting art and focus on the gallery management instead.
- Despite the belief that Evans was the leader of Nile, this has been disproven.
- The Hotel Dusk guidebook confirms he is deceased.
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