Scott Brooks

**Scott Brooks**, né *Vincent Roberts,* was the adopted son of Father Matthew Brooks and the prime suspect during the investigation of the murder of Vivian Roberts.

### Early life

Vincent Roberts was born of a love affair between mayor and businessman Charles Roberts and his maid Sofia Miller. To protect himself from scandal, Charles convinced Sofia to keep the affair secret. Sofia agreed to this, since her lover and fiancé, Father Matthew Brooks, who at the time was away doing missionary work in Indonesia, didn't know about the child. Some time after Vincent was born, Vivian Roberts found out about her husband's adultery and promptly kicked Sofia and the baby out of Painscreek. The head priest of Painscreek Trinity Church, Father Calvin Bennett, aided Sofia in getting the boy out of town and left him at St. Patrick's Orphanage under the name "**Scott**". It was here that Scott spent the first 9 years of his life. On April 6 1985, he was adopted by Father Matthew Brooks and brought back to Painscreek to live with him at the church.

The relationship between them started off well, with Scott being happy that he had finally found a loving home. At school he was initially bullied by the other children for being an orphan and a "bastard", but was defended by Trisha Roberts. She quickly became his best friend, along with the somewhat older boy, Derrick Tyler.

### Teenage years

Scott's relationship with Trisha continued to deepen and become more intimate as the years passed. This was much to the dismay of Father Matthew who knew of the blood relation between the two. At age 18, he forbid Scott from seeing her. He also refused to tell Scott the truth behind his choice, since he wanted to protect his son and prevent the public scandal that would follow such a revelation. Scott was deeply hurt and confused by this seemingly arbitrary decision and thought it might have something to do with the fact that he was adopted. During an argument, Father Matthew revealed that he wasn't an orphan at all. Scott demanded more answers but he refused to approach the topic any further. After a few months of tension and actively avoiding Father Matthew as much as possible, Scott decided to move out of the church.

During the years of seeing Trisha, he had become close with her father, Charles, whom he looked up to and respected. He offered him to stay in his hunting cabin on the outskirts of the village, provided that he start working for him as an assistant gardener. Seeing this as a way to get away from the situation at home, Scott took him up on the offer. After having stayed in the cabin for a month, he started investigating who his biological parents were.

### The mansion and family research

Scott started working under head gardener Andrew Reed. Due to Andrew's alcoholism, he was unreliable when it came to keeping the grounds in good condition and Scott often wound up having to care for him. During his drunken episodes, Andrew would blurt out regrets about his past and the fact that he was a "sinner", which caught the interest of Scott who took notice of the names mentioned by him. The name "Sofia" came up during a rant in November 1993.

On his time off, he went to his old orphanage, to find out that he originally came from Painscreek. Since this was news to him, he began to ask around about this "Sofia" at the Roberts' mansion where he was working. It wasn't until he asked Dorothy about her that he found out about the affair between Sofia and Charles.