Timeline of the Child's Play franchise

#### October 31

Charles Lee Ray returns home from trick-or-treating. Inspecting his candy, he finds an apple with a razor blade in it, but eats it anyway, uncaring as he cuts his mouth.

### 1965

#### May 1

During Charles Lee Ray’s birthday party, he uses a mallet to knock the piñata to the ground, but continues to aggressively smash it even after it has fallen. He overhears the news of a serial killer on the loose on the radio, and delights in plunging a knife into his birthday cake. Later that night, Charles wakes from his sleep to discover the serial killer has broken into his house and is stabbing his father Peter to death. His mother Elizabeth takes him and the two hide in a closet, but Charles manages to grab his pocketknife before they hide. The killer soon finds their hiding place, but when he opens the closet, he finds that Charles already stabbed his mother to death, claiming to have "helped". Impressed by the boy's actions, the killer gives him advice that he should always cover his tracks, and wipes the blood off his pocketknife before handing it back to him and leaving.

**Unknown date:** Soon later, Charles would be put under the care of local therapist, Dr. Amanda Mixter, who shared his devious ambitions and aspired to stamp out any potential innocence left in him, truly forming him into a ruthless serial killer. During one of their sessions, she asks him if he planned on killing his mother or if it was a spontaneous decision.

### 1967

#### November/December

**Unknown date:** Tiffany Valentine was born in 1967 to an unnamed mother and alongside an unnamed sister in New Jersey, United States. Growing up, Tiffany's relationship with her mother was complicated, however, much of her mother's wisdom would stick with Tiffany throughout her life, mostly on the topic of romance.

### 1969

**Unknown date:** Michelle Cross was born.

## 1970s

### 1972

**Unknown date:** By 1972, a 14-year-old Charles had been placed in Burlington County Home for Wayward Boys, growing up around other troubled youth. It was here that he met and began mentoring a young boy named Eddie Caputo, showing him the ropes of killing. In another session, Dr. Mixter asks which method of killing is his favorite. Charles confirms that he likes both planned and spontaneous killings, but spontaneous killings are the most fun. He spent a few years in the boys home before, one day, he is yelled at by the janitor for leaving dirty shoe marks on the floor, enraging him. This leads Charles to slit the janitor's throat and cut off his hand, jamming a hook into his wrist to play a game of Peter Pan with the other boys, labelling him Captain Hook. After showing the corpse to his young friends, the majority of them run in fear except for Eddie, who simply pokes the corpse with a nearby stick with Charles looking on, proud. Later that night, after the police had arrived to investigate, Charles bids Eddie goodbye before making his escape, gifting him the janitor's severed hand in the process.

## 1980s

### 1986

**Unknown date:** One night in 1986, Ray sets out on his own to a local nightclub in Hackensack. He approaches a woman named Delilah, and they then pick up another red-headed woman before leaving to the Hackensack Hotel. He watches the two women kiss on the bed before grabbing the red-headed woman by the neck and holding a knife to her head. Smiling, she tells him to do it, but he hesitates and instead stabs Delilah in the stomach. He hands the knife to the other woman, allowing her to finish the job and kill Delilah. Exhilarated by the kill, they jump on the bed and start making out. She tells him her name is Tiffany, and remarks that he should go by "Chucky". Following their meeting, Charles and Tiffany would start a committed relationship, murdering people together as a duo and wishing to start a life together. Charles would eventually kill Tiffany’s mother.

### 1987

**Unknown date:** Charles and Tiffany meet up with a car salesman in Hackensack, interested in purchasing a brand new vehicle. While talking to the car salesman, Charles argues that the car he's selling isn't vintage or an antique, it's just old like him. He tells the man not to worry as they're going to give him another paint job too, just as Tiffany sneaks up behind him and slits his throat with her nail file. Taking the keys from the man, the two get into the car. Charles reads a book on voodoo, leaving Tiffany confused as they drive off.

**Unknown date:** Angela, a woman with schizophrenia, is put in Harrogate after being found on the streets.

### 1988

**Unknown date:** Charles and Tiffany finally leave Hackensack and relocated to Chicago, starting anew. The couple purchases their first apartment together, deeming it a suitable fit for their first co-owned place. They order a pizza and kill the delivery man, leaving his body in their bathroom while they fool around in the living room. Sometime later, Charles would reunite with Eddie. It was during this time in Chicago that Charles would become the high-profile serial killer known as The Lakeshore Strangler, earning the attention of homicide detective, Mike Norris. Around this time, Ray would also come into contact with a voodoo doctor named John Bishop, who would provide him with various ritualistic objects, including the Heart of Damballa.

Later that year, unbeknownst to Tiffany, Charles would become acquainted with the Pierce family through a mutual friend in Chicago. On a summers day, during a cookout, he is introduced to Daniel Pierce, his pregnant wife, Sarah Pierce, and their young daughter, Barb Pierce, stating how the young girl has her mother's eyes. Over time, Charles became infatuated with Sarah, growing into an obsessive love for the woman and wanting her all to himself. During this obsession, Charles would grow noticeably distant from Tiffany, preferring to murder by himself and actively avoid spending time with her. One night, Charles ended up subduing Daniel on his way home from work and brutally drowned the man, leaving Sarah a widow but allowing Charles to continue stalking her.

#### November 4

At Daniels funeral, Sarah notices him staring and has her suspicions. At a later point, he manages to kidnap her completely, holding her hostage within an abandoned warehouse and frequently bringing her sunflowers as a romantic gesture.

#### November 5

The following day after Charles kidnapped Sarah, he became the prime suspect. A police officer would stop by him in order to ask questions but would get shot in the process.

#### November 8

Tiffany would leave to go shopping and Charles would track down a woman by himself and bring him back to his and Tiffany's apartment. Around eleven, Tiffany comes back from the store to their apartment to find Charles killing the victim without her. She becomes upset as "*killing is an 'us' thing*", which Charles brushes off claiming he has a life outside of her. Tired of listening to Tiffany's whining, he puts on his coat and storms out of the apartment. Unbeknownst to him, she then calls Mike Norris with information about Charles after he leaves. She then finds a ring on the mantle.

#### November 09

Charles visits his Sarah after buying sunflowers while his accomplice Eddie waits outside in their getaway van. He gives them to her and he tells her he is going to pick up Barb from daycare. Sarah attempts to get him to stay, telling him she wants to spend more time with him alone. He retorts that that's a "*selfish fucking attitude for a mother to take*", and asks if she doesn't want to share him with Barb. When she shakes her head no, he asks if she is going to keep him from the new baby too, as that would be very hurtful to him. Suddenly much to Charles' surprise, the police quickly have his safe house surrounded. Feeling betrayed about Sarah destroying their "family", Charles stabs her in the stomach hitting the baby inside. Charles then leaves the house intending to reach Eddie, but instead his partner drives away before he can reach him. He is then pursued by Detective Norris. Mike chases Chucky, through the streets of Chicago and into a toy store, after Ray is abandoned by his accomplice, Eddie Caputo. Shot by Norris and dying, Ray performs a voodoo chant to transfer his soul to one of the *Good Guy*-brand talking dolls. The store is struck by lightning and explodes, and Norris finds Ray's lifeless body next to the doll. Widow Karen Barclay's six-year-old son Andy wants a *Good Guy* doll for his birthday, but she cannot afford one. She buys a discounted one from a homeless peddler and Andy is delighted. The doll refers to itself as "Chucky". That night, Karen's best friend Maggie, who is babysitting Andy, is attacked by Chucky, causing her to fall out of a window to her death. Norris considers Andy a suspect but he claims that it was Chucky and that Chucky told him his real name was "Charles Lee Ray".

#### November 10

Chucky makes Andy skip school and take a train downtown. He sneaks into Caputo's home and kills him by causing a gas explosion in revenge for Caputo abandoning him. Andy is again considered a suspect and admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Back home, Karen discovers that the doll has been moving and speaking without batteries. Chucky violently comes alive and attacks her before escaping. Karen goes to Norris but he does not believe her. She finds the peddler for more information but is almost assaulted; Norris saves her and forces the peddler to admit that he stole the doll from the torched toy store where Norris killed Ray. Norris is still skeptical though Karen tries to warn him that he's next after Caputo. Sure enough, Norris is attacked by Chucky. He shoots the doll, whose wound inexplicably bleeds and causes pain.

#### November 11

Chucky escapes to his former voodoo instructor John, demanding answers; John informs him that the longer his soul remains in the doll, the more "human" the doll will become. He refuses to help so Chucky tortures John with a voodoo doll, forcing him to reveal that in order to escape the doll's body, Chucky must transfer his soul to the first human he revealed his true identity to: Andy. Chucky leaves for Andy as Karen and Norris find a dying John. Before dying, John tells them that to kill Chucky, they must strike his heart. Chucky arrives at the psychiatric hospital and kills Andy's doctor with an electroshock therapy device. Andy flees home, where Chucky knocks him out. As he prepares to possess him, Karen and Norris arrive. Chucky stabs Norris but Karen and Andy light him on fire. A horribly-charred Chucky rises but Karen shoots him, blowing his limbs and head off. Norris' partner Jack arrives, refusing to believe the trio until Chucky's body bursts through a vent to strangle Jack. Norris shoots Chucky's body through the heart, finally killing him. The group leaves to get Norris to the hospital as a traumatized Andy looks back at Chucky's remains.