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Harry Mason is the main protagonist of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. He is a re-imagining of Harry Mason from the main game canon. At the end of the game, it is revealed that Harry is a mental manifestation.
He is voiced by Kirk Thornton.
Biography[]
Background[]
Although Harry was likely born around 1960, almost nothing is recorded about his early years. In 1983, he and his wife Dahlia celebrated the birth of their daughter, Cheryl Heather Mason, and the young family settled on Levin Street in Silent Hill. Devoted to his child, Harry watched helplessly as his marriage fell apart—an event Cheryl internalized as her fault, and he and Dahlia divorced. Tragedy struck again in 1990 when Harry was killed in a sudden car crash, leaving Cheryl heartbroken and resentful of her grieving mother. Dahlia relocated with Cheryl to Simmons Street, but unable to face her father’s death, Cheryl fixated on a single, fuzzy home video of them together. Over time, her memories idealized him as a hero who might return, and she cycled through various therapists until, at age twenty-five, she finally began sessions with Dr. Kaufmann.
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories[]
The game opens with Cheryl in therapy, her intense emotions summoning a hallucinated version of Harry re-experiencing the 1990 car crash that supposedly killed him. He awakens in a frozen junkyard and, convinced Cheryl is alive, sets out down Silent Hill’s icy streets. Early on, Harry encounters Officer Cybil Bennett, who questions him about the accident and Cheryl’s disappearance, then dismisses his claim that Cheryl has simply gone home to nearby Levin Street. When Harry tries calling (and then driving) to 1206 Levin Street, the town literally crystallizes around him (buildings, streetlights and fountains entombed in ice) while faceless, pale humanoid creatures attack. He finally reaches the “right” address, only to find another family living there, and ends up stranded on their porch.
After a second meeting with Cybil, Harry strands in the woods. He forges through an abandoned Orion Hunting Lodge, narrowly evades Raw Shocks in a frozen shed, and arrives at Midwich High’s ice-locked gym where he meets singer and former student Michelle Valdez. Together they hack the principal’s computer and discover Cheryl has moved to Simmons Street, which disconcerts him. They head to Michelle’s nightclub, but after Harry grabs her car keys, Michelle disappears, and he instead finds Dahlia, who simply offers to drive him to Simmons Street to reunite with Cheryl.
As they approach a bridge, Harry heads into the control room to lower it. Before they can cross, the Otherworld descends: ice overtakes Dahlia, then the bridge itself shatters. Their SUV plunges into the river, and depending on Harry’s actions, he either radios for help and escapes or drowns. In either case, he awakens soaked, wearing different clothes and no longer wearing his glasses—and confined to a wheelchair. Cybil Bennett wheels him along, insisting he somehow swam free, just as the Otherworld’s frozen nightmare closes in once again.
Through the chaos, Harry escapes the humanoid attackers and stumbles upon Lisa Garland, a hospital nurse freshly injured in a car crash. He escorts her home so she can tend to her wounds, then presses on—only to be summoned back by a frantic call. Arriving too late, he finds Lisa either mortally wounded or already dead (depending on the pill he gave her). Cybil Bennett bursts in, accuses him of causing Lisa’s death, and insists he isn’t really Harry Mason, before the world freezes over again. Breaking free, Harry makes his way through the abandoned Toluca Mall. After searching the mall’s empty corridors, he reaches Dahlia’s Simmons Street home, where she appears decades older. She reveals two startling truths: she and Harry are married, and Cheryl is waiting for him at the town’s lighthouse.
Guided by Cheryl’s cryptic messages, Harry traverses sewers, reunites with Michelle at Annie’s Bar, and presses on through the deserted Lakeside Amusement Park toward a lone dock. Boarding a boat, he’s ferried by a youthful Dahlia and—after more frozen nightmares and Raw Shock ambushes—swims the final stretch to the lighthouse, but he passes out. Cybil Bennett revives him, and she reveals she’s checked his records: “Harry Mason” died in that car crash eighteen years ago. Left alone, Harry enters the lighthouse only to discover it’s Dr. Kaufmann’s clinic. There, Dr. Kaufmann reveals that Harry’s entire quest has been Cheryl’s coping illusion and that her real journey is to let go of the past.
Endings[]
After Cheryl's conversation, there are 4 possible videotapes scenes that serve as an epilogue:
- Love Lost: Harry and Dahlia stand by the car, with Harry getting ready to leave. Harry reassures Cheryl that their divorce isn’t her fault and reminds her that, although her parents no longer love each other, they both love her unconditionally. This “best-case” ending appears if the player avoids choices tied to sex or drugs, presents themselves as friendly in therapy, and generally behaves virtuously.
- Drunk Dad: A drunken Harry staggers into the house and angrily demands another beer from Cheryl. This bleak outcome reflects his real-life alcoholism and how it poisoned family life. You unlock this tape by fixating on alcohol or other substances (beer, pipes, pills, etc.) during the game.
- Sleaze and Sirens: On the Orpheus boat, a tipsy Harry lounges in bed with Michelle and Lisa as they joke about dedicating his next novel to them. Harry quips he can only dedicate it to his wife and daughter “out of fairness,” and they all burst into laughter—underscoring his infidelity. It plays if you pursue sexual imagery and confess to enjoying role-play or cheating in therapy, essentially acting lecherous throughout.
- Wicked and Weak: In a tense bedroom scene, Dahlia repeatedly slaps Harry, berates his financial failures, calls his writing “shit,” and mocks him as a “pathetic, dickless waste of space.” Cheryl films it in silence; Harry looks down, crestfallen. This harsh finale is triggered by antisocial or self-centered choices—admitting you struggle to make friends, bragging about superficial things, or generally behaving rudely.