He pressed on, reaching a shower that was still dripping wet. His voice reverberated on the mouldy tile walls. As Ash pushed open the door, the singing stopped. Stepping into the corridor in his boxers, he strode towards the voice, which lead to the public locker room. He heard the voice once more a woman singing, sensual and inviting. Since defeating a gang of Deadites a week ago, he had been in a perpetual state of hangover. Ash wakened to a voice, his head throbbing. After a terrible fight with a fully formed demon, Ash, drawing his last breath, was taken by the Knights of Sumeria and transported into the future. While battling Evil, Ash was reunited with his long-lost daughter Brandy, who encouraged him to embrace his role as saviour of humanity. But his co-workers, Pablo who was raised by a shaman and Kelly who was orphaned by the Deadites, helped him put up a fight. Evil found him once more, wrecking the life of those around him.
But he screwed up one night while being high, when he read from the Necronomicon to impress a woman. For the next thirty years, Ash ran from his past, working at a Value Stop department store and seducing women in dive bars. Evil possessed his friends, whom he was forced to kill, and his right hand, which he sawed off. During a weekend at a cabin with friends, Ash Williams uncovered the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis (The Book of the Dead) and awoke something dark in the woods.