Ariel Wolfe is the sister of Sara Wolfe and a survivor of the last incident at the "House on Haunted Hill".
Biography[]
When Ariel's sister, Sara, returned from Steven Price's party at the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane claiming that the asylum really was haunted and that Price and most of the other guests were killed by ghosts, Ariel did not believe her and became more distanced from her sister.
Return to House on Haunted Hill[]
Ariel receives a message from her mother. Ariel's sister Sara has apparently committed suicide. Ariel is grief-stricken by the news. Paul, one of Ariel's photographers at the magazine which she edits, finds her and hears what has happened. She asks him to help her sneak into Sara's apartment, in order to verify that Sara actually killed herself.
Ariel goes back into the house for Paul
Paul and Ariel break into Sara's apartment. There Sara's ghost appears to Ariel, asking her to "Help them." Before Ariel can explain to Paul what she just saw, Dr. Richard Hammer arrives. He tells Paul and Ariel that Sara wanted to return to the Vannacutt asylum, in order to find the Baphomet Idol. He also warns the two to be careful before they leave.
Paul drives Ariel back to her home, where the two are kidnapped by Desmond Niles and his team of mercenaries. When Ariel sees that Desmond has Dr. Vannacutt's journal, she realizes that Sara was actually murdered by Desmond. Desmond's mercs take Ariel and Paul with them to the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute. There they meet Dr. Hammer and his assistant Kyle. While Desmond and Michelle are distracted, Ariel tries to escape but is stopped by Harue. The facility then goes into lockdown, but Desmond disables the lockdown mechanism. The group split up in search of the Baphomet Idol, and Ariel goes with Desmond.
While Ariel and Desmond are searching the asylum for the Idol, a ghost locks Ariel in his cell. He shows her a vision of himself leading a revolt against Vannacutt, the night the asylum burnt down. Ariel wakes up from the vision in a straightjacket. Desmond, Michelle and Dr. Hammer find and free her. Ariel realizes from the ghost and the vision that her sister wasn't mad, that the house really is haunted. Hearing Kyle scream, Ariel and Company run back to the lobby. They find Norris torn apart and Kyle traumatized.
Ariel, Paul and Hammer search for the heart of the house
Kyle confronts Ariel about the house really being haunted, when the lockdown starts again. Ariel runs for the lobby's main doors as the building seals itself up. She jumps through the entrance, and out of the house, at the last second. Ariel goes to Desmond's cars to escape with Paul, but finds Paul and Samuel are gone. Realizing that they have gone into the facility, Ariel decides to return for Paul. The house lets her back in. Ariel explains to the others that the house really is haunted, that they are in mortal danger. Desmond refuses to believe her.
Ariel, Paul, Kyle and Hammer capture Desmond and Michelle. They decide how to escape the facility. Ariel discovers from the asylum's blueprints that a sewer tunnel runs directly underneath the asylum's washroom. She, Kyle, Paul and Dr. Hammer head for the washroom. They hope to find a drain and escape through the sewer. The group travel, with a captive Desmond and Michelle, through the asylum towards the washroom. However, while they are passing through the hydrotherapy room, Desmond and Michelle swat Kyle into the water and escape.
Ariel dives into the pool after Kyle and revives him, but they find themselves unable to climb out of the water. Then both are attacked by the ghosts of asylum patients who died in the hydrotherapy pool. One ghost shows Ariel a vision of how it was plunged into the water and perished. More ghosts drag Kyle beneath the surface, killing him before Ariel can do anything. Paul and Dr. Hammer rescue Ariel from the pool by lowering a chain and hoisting her to safety. All three continue on, entering the washroom. There they find a grated drain which they vainly attempt to open. Ariel then has another vision which shows her that the Baphomet Idol is hidden in the crematorium...and that the Idol must be destroyed, and the ghosts freed, before Ariel and Company can escape the house.
Ariel and Richard fight over the Idol
Ariel, Paul and Hammer enter the crematorium. Through her previous vision, Ariel guides them through a hidden door in one of the furnaces to the heart of the house. When the trio can't find a way to successfully destroy the Idol, Ariel decides to remove it from the facility instead to see if that will work. Ariel notices that the statuette is small enough to fit through the grate of the washroom's sewer-drain, so she and Paul take it there. She and Paul pull the Idol from its organic throne, but in doing so they alert Vannacutt and the other ghosts. The trio run back into the crematorium; there they are confronted by Desmond, who demands the Idol from them. However, the ghosts of the asylum's tuberculosis patients attack and kill Desmond. Ariel and Dr. Hammer run back to the washroom with the Idol, while Paul is separated from them.
Just as Ariel is about to throw the Baphomet Idol down the drain, its evil temporarily corrupts Hamer and he attacks Ariel and wrestles the statuette away from her before she can flush it. Ariel and Dr. Hammer fight and wrestle over the Idol as Vannacutt and several other ghosts arrive. Hammer gains the upper hand, but Ariel encourages him to fight the Idol's influence, and Hammer is able to regain control of himself. Ariel takes the Idol but is attacked by the ghost of Dr. Vannacutt, who throws her into a wall and knocks her out.
Ariel realizes that she has set Baphomet's evil free
Vannacutt confronts Dr. Hammer, killing him just as Ariel regains consciousness. She recovers the Idol and drops it down the drain into the sewer. With Baphomet's power over the house and its ghosts broken, the ghosts of Vannacutt's patients - including the inmate who led the 1931 revolt - turn on him. Ariel steps aside, allowing the ghosts to tear Vannacutt apart and then cross over.
Ariel reunites with Paul in the building's lobby. The two embrace and kiss passionately, then go out and leave in Desmond's car. Yet Ariel realizes that, by sending the Baphomet Idol into the sea, they have also freed Baphomet's evil from the house.
Relationships[]
Paul[]
Ariel fancied Paul and was in love with him. When she discovered that he was trapped in the Vannacutt asylum she went back in for him, despite the dangers and the horrors; and when the Furnace Ghosts separated her from Paul she was reluctant to leave him behind.
Desmond Niles[]
Ariel had a deep hatred for Desmond for killing her sister, and was more than willing to kill him.
Richard Hammer[]
Ariel initially disliked Dr. Hammer when she discovered that he was lying to her about talking with Sara; she left him trapped in the Vannacutt asylum with Desmond's team, when her first opportunity to escape presented itself. However, over the course of events in the asylum, she warmed up to him - literally, when he helped Paul save her from the ghost-infested Hydrotherapy Pool. She consoled Hammer when he blamed himself for Kyle's death, and showed pity for him after he was killed by Dr. Vannacutt. Nonetheless, Ariel was willing to fight or kill Hammer, if and when she had to; to that end, Ariel aimed a gun at him when he was hypnotized by the Baphomet Idol in the Heart of the House.
Kyle[]
Ariel left Kyle trapped in the Vannacutt asylum with Desmond's team to die when she managed to escape the first time. But over time, she quickly came to care about Kyle, as she tried to save him from drowning or being killed by the ghosts in the hydrotherapy room, and was upset by his death.