Tony

## Tony Brown

**“***Next time tell him to shove it... yeah?***”**
— **Tony to Franky about Keith's orders**

**Tony Brown** is a playable character and the main protagonist in *Rewind Or Die*.

## Description

### Appearance

Tony is an adult Caucasian man with a bald head, a dark brown mustache and chin beard. He wears a dark blue Video-2-Go uniform with a yellow collar, khaki pants, black horn-rimmed glasses, the left lense of which becomes cracked after being captured, and black shoes. Both of his forearms are tattooed with tribals.

### History

Tony is employed at Video-2-Go, a VHS rental store in Greater London, with two colleagues, Dave and Michelle. He has struck up a friendship with the Captain, a homeless war veteran who sleeps in the store's backyard. He lives close by in an apartment with his friend Franky. Tony briefly mentions that he is watching TV illegally since he hasn't paid for his license.

## *Rewind or Die*

On the evening of November 29th, 1997, Tony is informed by his roommate that his boss Keith is calling him in to take over Michelle's shift, and assist Dave until 9 o'clock. Begrudgingly, Tony heads out, taking his usual shortcut through a nearby alley, where he pets a stray dog named Zakk and is accosted by a hobo, who smells him and says that the "stench of death" might mean that this will be his last night alive. After pushing him off, Tony crosses the street to the shop, where an irate customer chews him out for having him wait for ten minutes and demands to see the manager, but Tony shuts him up by loudly proclaiming that he has his usual porn flick ready. He then goes into the staff room to check on Dave, but finds only his phone, which has the voice message of a woman asking for someone and screaming. Going back to the front desk, Tony listens to another customer ramble about movie details before he dashes out the door and finally finds Dave inside the bathroom, napping away. Just then a journalist named Timothy enters to question the clerks about some recent disappearances in the store's direct vicinity, but Tony says that he has no information to offer him.

At the end of his shift, Tony prepares to go, when Dave beats him to the punch, off-handedly revealing that Michelle wasn't sick at all and that the two were going on a date, leaving his colleague to close down the store by himself. Before he can start, Detective Harry Johnson enters and after being reassured that he wasn't there to take Tony in for evading TV payments, he is asked to give the police access to the store's customer list, since they've found that all the missing people in the area had accounts with Video-2-Go. Tony then proceeds to clean up the store, running into the Captain while putting the trash in the dumpster, and begins sorting returned movies when he notices a man in a pig's mask standing outside by the display window. Unconcerned by the man's costume, he tells him that they're closed and that he'll have to come back tomorrow. The stranger departs with an ominous "I'll be back". Only seconds later, a cinder block is thrown to the window, forcing Tony to call Keith to inform him of the incident. Keith agrees to come down and look at the damage, but when he doesn't show up, Tony calls Keith again, this time hearing the voice of Slaw, the man in the pig mask, that he'll "have fun tonight" with Tony. Tony then hears screaming, either that of Keith or the Captain, from the nearby emergency exit, which is then blocked up. Becoming aware of his predicament, but believing the front door to be too dangerous, Tony enters the ventilation system to escape, avoiding Slaw's frequent sickle stabs through the duct. He gets out in the alley, finding the dismembered remains of the hobo from earlier and is caught by Slaw, who challenges him to a race through the alleyways in exchange for his freedom. Tony almost shakes him off, but a metal sheet on the makeshift path beneath him gives away, causing him to fall into a lower level and hit his head on a pipe, allowing Slaw to catch up and knock his victim out.

Tony reawakens the next day on November 30th in the late afternoon hours in a cell inside Slaw's hideout, being greeted by his abductor, who tells him to wait while he makes the finishing touches to the "game" he's planned for him. Tony is able to get out of his cell when he finds a hidden passage leading to the basement, then climbs a set of stairs, where he comes to a door labelled "tanning room". He breaks it down to find a gruesome dissection chamber, with a skeleton with a key in its mouth, propped up in a mock-up of Jesus' crucifixion on a meat cross. Tony goes to the attached loft section, where Zakk, the dog from the alley, is locked in a cage. A key to the prison cells can be found in Mike's locker and on his way to the cell block, he discovers that the Captain has also been captured and imprisoned inside a hermetically-locked incinerator. Tony promises to help him out, but first has to figure out how to open the chamber. He is able to lower the skeleton in the torture room, with its key unlocking another section of the basement, where he finds the lever to the freezer and van keys. Unlocking the van will cause its alarm to alert Slaw, requiring Tony to return to the cell to avoid suspicion. In the freezer's meatlocker, a crowbar is found there, but Slaw, having noticed Tony's absence, locks him inside with a temperature drop countdown. Tony avoids certain death when the floor beneath crumbles, finding himself in the structure's sewers.

Underground, he must find all valves to lower the pipe pressure for the exit to open, all the while being followed by Slaw, who drops from the same hole soon after him. He is then able to find a room containing a vent, barely escaping Slaw by climbing a maintenance ladder inside. In the upper part of the vent, where he finds a bisected security guard, who is revealed to still be alive, grabbing Tony and instructing him to find the key to a room with a gun to kill Slaw. To do so, the key must be found on the corpse of Aaron, who in the incinerator with the Captain, so Tony has to put in the power pack to activate the incinerator in order for it open.

If the gas valve is turned off beforehand, no fire will occur and the door will simply open, saving the Captain's life. Otherwise, once the pack is inserted, gas will flood his chamber before being set alight, killing its occupant. Either way, Tony is able to get the key and retrieve the gun and a circuit breaker.

When Tony tries to leave the chamber, he finds the door locked, at which point Slaw appears and initiates a showdown, during which Tony shoots him down until he stops moving. Tony may then proceed to the office to unlock the front garage door, and can optionally free the dog from its cage. When he enters main hangar, he is jumped by the still-living Slaw, who stabs Tony several times, but his victim is able to make a retaliatory strike by piercing his chest with the crowbar, causing him to trip and fall into the nearby meatgrinder. Tony then walks to the open exit to his freedom, either in company of the Captain and/or Zakk or alone.