Lee Brackett

Lee Brackett is a character featured in the 2007 slasher film Halloween directed by Rob Zombie. A version of the character was previously presented in John Carpenter's 1978 film Halloween where he was played by Charles Cyphers. In the original movie, Sheriff Brackett's first name was spelled "Leigh", not Lee.

Biography
Lee Brackett was the sheriff of the town of Haddonfield, Illinois. He was the father of seventeen-year-old Annie Brackett. Around the time that his daughter was born, Lee responded to a 911 call, which related to the suicide of a woman named Deborah Myers. Deborah was the mother of Michael Myers, a young boy who was guilty of murdering five people and was admitted to Smith's Grove Sanitarium. Lee found Deborah's infant daughter alone in the room. He didn't want the child growing up with the stigma of the Myers' legacy around her neck, so he omitted finding her in his report and drove her to another town where he dropped her off at the emergency room. Three months later he discovered that his friend Mason Strode adopted the baby who was later named Laurie.

Seventeen years later, Michael Myers broke out of Smith's Grove and came to Haddonfield in search of his long lost sister. Michael's former psychologist, Doctor Sam Loomis, recognized how much of a threat Michael was and tracked him back to Haddonfield. He found Sheriff Brackett and warned him about Michael. Brackett didn't care for Doctor Loomis much, and knew that he had written a book about Myers. He suspected that Loomis was trying to drum up stories of "monsters", because monsters sell books. Sam was adamant however and insisted that Brackett should conduct a search for Michael.

Lee Brackett finally told Loomis about his involvement with Michael's infant sister and he tried to contact Mason Strode. When nobody answered the telephone, Lee grew concerned so Loomis and he began to drive out to their house. En route, he received a 911 call from the Wallace residence which had been ironically called in by Laurie Strode. They turned the car around and went to the house where Lee found his daughter, Annie, bleeding on the floor. While Loomis scoured the area for Michael Myers, Lee attended to his daughter.

Notes & Trivia

 * In an alternate ending to the film, Sheriff Brackett returns to the Myers house with a squad of police officers and brings Michael Myers down in a hail of bullets. In the original version of the film, Brackett is not scene again after he finds his daughter.