However, Billy's death is apparently in vain as a military rescue convoy arrives moments later.īilly had a very good relationship with his father.

He also broken Billy’s promise to kill him for the monsters. When the Land Cruiser eventually runs out of fuel, Billy wakes from a nap in time to be shot by his father to uphold the latter's promise to Billy that he would never let the creatures in the Mist get him. Billy survives the escape from the market, and is driven in his family's car south by his father, in an attempt to get clear of the Mist.ĭavid keeps driving south through the Mist with Billy, Amanda and Reppler, into an uncertain future. Carmody attempts to sacrifice Billy and Amanda, but is killed. In 1980, Billy, his father, and their neighbor, Brent Norton, go into town to buy tools from the Grocery Store to clean up the aftermath of a storm, but instead witness the Mist appears and engulf the town outside.īilly is visibly traumatized and weakened by the experience and spending an entire two days beseiged by the creatures in the Mist in the store, but is looked after by David, Amanda, and, most effectively, Hattie.īilly makes his father promise to protect him from the creatures in the Mist at all costs. Billy Drayton was born circa 1973 (2000 in the film) to David Drayton and Stephanie Drayton.

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