Resident Evil 2 fans end ‘years of searching’ for identity of Jill Valentine’s photo boyfriend

Being as I was assembled in a factory in Sverdlovsk in 1928, I am generally quite bad at identifying or following celebrities. But even I have a profound love for Kyle MacLachlan, the longtime David Lynch collaborator who starred as Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks, Jeffrey Beaumont in Blue Velvet, Paul Atreides in the Dune we don’t talk about and, of course, papa Hank in the Fallout TV show.

Well, here’s an additional role I didn’t know he had (and likely neither did he): Jill Valentine’s possibly-maybe boyfriend in the original Resident Evil 2. You see, back when RE2 first released in 1998, players found that Jill Valentine’s desk in the Raccoon City Police Department had a picture on it. Inspect it and you get the message “It’s a picture of a young man. There’s a good chance it’s her boyfriend…” Unfortunately, there were only so many pixels to go around back then, and the identity of the man in question—or, well, his model—was impossible to ascertain.