Ward

Ward

Background

Ward Phillips is a hydrology surveyor for Hydrolit. He went to Miskatonic Unversity. Ward is from Providence, Rhode Island. He is lactose intolerant.

During the events of Color Out of Space (2019) played by Elliot Knight

Ward talks about an area where the woods are dark and grass has never seen sunlight. He talks about how he went to the area to survey for a reservoir project and how the locals said Arkham was an old town that was full of evil.

Lavinia is in a circle of stones preparing a magic spell while Comet the Horse waits nearby. She starts chanting a spell to dispel any remaining cancer from Theresa's body. Ward walks up and surprises Lavinia who blames him for ruining her ritual after he hands her his business card. Lavinia rides away after telling Ward how to get back on the public property path. After the meteorite lands on Nathan and Theresa's land, Ward arrives and introduces himself to Nathan and then also inspects the meteorite. Nathan shows Ward how he milks the Alpacas and offers him some milk. Nathan then has Benny take Ward to see Ezra, who invites Ward inside his hut. Ezra introduces Ward to G-Spot the Cat. He offers them java and apologizes for the color of his water and Ward offers to run some tests on it. A storm rolls in and Ward finishes running a sample on Ezra's water and as he is listening to Mayor Tooma give a speech over the radio about the upcoming reservoir, the signal goes out and he receives a call on his cellphone with no one on the other end. He hears a twig snap nearby and sees a multi-colored haze in front of his flashlight. His truck suddenly turns on and the radio signal returns.

Ward tells Lavinia something is wrong with their water and it may be contaminated. He sees Jack staring at the well and Jack tells him he is playing with his friends and suddenly laughs. He goes to talk with Ezra and Ezra tells him G-Spot has been missing and gives Ward some headphones and says he can hear aliens chattering below the ground, which he has been recording. Ezra tells him the aliens are in the moisture and Ward advises him to stick to bottled water. At the mayor's office, Mayor Tooma yells that she doesn't care about contamination as Ward sits outside her office. Secretary brings Ward into Mayor Tooma's office and he tells her about the contamination. As Ward is leaving, Sheriff Pierce calls him over and shows him something Hunter Jake found. Sheriff Pierce pulls back a sheet, revealing a mass of bodies fused together and Ward recognizes G-Spot's collar jingle among the mass. Ward and Sheriff Pierce drive towards Nathan's house. They are shocked when they see the physical and mental condition Nathan is in. He invites them in and Ward and Sheriff Pierce run to the attic when they hear Lavinia scream and are transfixed in shock at Theresa-Jack. Nathan comes upstairs and shoots and kills Theresa-Jack. Ward carries Lavinia towards Sheriff Pierce's car and Sheriff Pierce shoots and kills Nathan when he thinks he is about to shoot Ward. Lavinia tells Ward she isn't leaving and Ward and Sheriff Pierce go to check on Ezra. In his cabin a recording by Ezra plays talking about the Color out of Space and how it came down from the meteor and grew in the well. They find a mummified Ezra that starts to split open. As they are walking away, Sheriff Pierce is grabbed by a tree limb and crushed to death. Ward runs back and finds Lavinia staring at the Color. Her eyes change color and her head starts to split open as Color seeps from it. Ward has an image of another world and the Color forms a funnel and flies into space. Ward watches as Lavinia disintegrates and runs into the house and sees a phantom of Nathan which attacks him as it speaks in the various voices of the family. Ward hides in the basement as an explosion of Color happens everywhere. He climbs out of the basement and sees everything covered in a grey ash and finds and takes Lavinia's compass.

Many years later after the reservoir is built, he talks about how he won't be drinking the reservoir water no matter how deep it is. He says very few are alive that remember what happened and no one understands what it was that appeared, it was just a Color Out of Space.