- "You think you know me? You don't know me. You don't know my family and you certainly don't know my husband."
- ―Charlotte to Pryce.
Charlotte Collins is the First Lady of the United States, married to President James Collins.
Chucky: Season 3 (2023)[]
After the death of her youngest son Joseph, she and her family mourn at his grave. Her son Henry finds a Good Guy doll hidden behind the gravestone, and he immediately takes a liking to "Joseph". Although her husband is hesitant about him taking the strange doll, Charlotte notes that he hasn't smiled like that in months, so they allow him to bring it back to the White House.
One night, Charlotte enters Henry's room to find him hiding from "ghosts" in his closet. She is able to coax him out, promising that there are no such thing as ghosts. She tucks him and his doll "Joseph" into his bed, and keeps his lamp on before leaving his room. Suddenly, there is a power outage in the White House. She and the rest of her family are escorted by the Secret Service to the elevator leading to the underground bunker. As they begin their descent, the power suddenly shuts off in the elevator's back-up generator. However, it quickly turns back on again, as does the power to the rest of the White House. The Secret Service halt the escort, and allow the family back to their beds.
The next morning at breakfast, Charlotte argues with Grant over his use of TikTok, and revealing the family's private matters. They are interrupted by Henry reading aloud from a book about ghosts haunting the White House. He gets to the most famous ghost supposedly in the White House, Abraham Lincoln's 11-year-old son Willy. This part upsets Charlotte, who excuses herself from the table to get to a meeting with her decorator.
Later in the afternoon, she and James go over colour swatches for the Executive Residence. She admits to him that the pressure of being the First Lady is getting to her, how she has a high bar to follow from past First Ladies and that everyone is watching her every move. James remarks that she needs to give herself a break, but she tells him that she has to keep busy. Just then Henry arrives home from school, and asks his Secret Service agent Teddy to check his room before he goes in himself. However, after a gunshot is heard from inside the room, it is believed that Teddy committed suicide.
James and Charlotte smoking a bong together.
That night, Charlotte and James smoke a bong together as they share their concerns over Henry's wellbeing and his attachment to his Good Guy doll. They reason that after the loss of his brother Joseph and now Teddy, they should allow him to get comfort from his doll. A couple days later, James and Spence meet with a government agent named Pryce. As Pryce insisted no staff be present during their meeting, Charlotte attends to serve coffee. He explains to them he is here because the circumstances of Teddy's apparent suicide are suspicious, and he has been given carte blanche access to all facilities in the White House to carry out his investigation.
In the evening, Charlotte and James sit alone in the Executive Residence, drinking wine. He tells her that although he wishes to protect the American people and does not agree with Pryce's investigation, he can't stop thinking about Teddy's family and their pain of losing a family member. Charlotte reaches her hand out to comfort him, when she suddenly receives a text message from Pryce telling her to come to the Oval Office without James knowing why. Lying, she tells him that she is going to check on Henry, and rushes to the Oval Office. She immediately begins panicking upon seeing the corpse of Samantha, and attempts to leave to get Coop. However, Pryce stops her and explains that he now believes there is a killer in the White House, and he is most likely responsible for Teddy's death as well. He convinces her that they keep this a secret to protect James' presidency. Just then, Spence arrives and tries to get into the Oval Office. Charlotte blocks the entrance, telling him James has already left, and that she is inside looking for Henry's doll. This bluff works, and she quickly ends the conversation to shut the door. Two CIA agents are then called in to place Samantha's body into an antique chest owned by Charlotte, where she is taken out of the White House.
The following evening, Charlotte and James are alone in the dining room. She lies to him about Samantha, telling him her brother informed her that she had checked herself into rehab. While he becomes concerned over Samantha struggling by herself and wanting to visit her, she insists that there can't be any visitors for the first few weeks. When Charlotte sees how hard he is taking this, she decides to shift the mood by asking him to come to bed with her. Dancing briefly, James tells her he can't as he plans on heading back to the office, but gives her a kiss before leaving the room.
Charlotte talking with Miss Fairchild.
The next day, Charlotte is informed by Grant that he invited three teenagers he met the other day to the White House Halloween Gala. After checking their backgrounds, she tells him that she forbids him from inviting them to the Gala or befriending the trio as they have very troubled pasts. Grant retorts that she isn't concerned about security, but rather the optics of her son hanging out with orphans. He further clarifies that nobody at his school has ever had anything traumatic happen to them, but that he actually has something in common with his new friends. After thinking it over, Charlotte tells him that she will meet with their foster mother, Miss Fairchild, to see if they can handle the expectations and protocols of being at the White House. During their meeting, Miss Fairchild is successful at explaining to her that Jake, Devon and Lexy are sensitive, compassionate teenagers that are able to put aside their grief and act just as like normal kids in their friendship with Grant. Just then, Charlotte receives another text from Pryce, and excuses herself from the room to meet with him. Once in a private office, he tells her that his team ran a private ballistics analysis on Teddy's death, and they believe it is extremely unlikely that Teddy could have handled his gun at such an extremely low angle to kill himself. Angered, Charlotte demands to know why he is still no closer to catching the killer as he promised results if he talked her into going along with his plan. She remarks that her family is in danger, and she will do whatever it takes to protect her husband's legacy and the promises he made to the American people. As she begins to leave, the office phone rings. Pryce hands it to Charlotte, where the voice on the other line taunts them both that since they like cleaning up his messes, he just left another corpse for them.
The two make their way back to where Charlotte was meeting with Miss Fairchild, and find her dead body on the ground. As she finds this all to be too much, she tries to call the police. To stop her, Pryce gives her an envelope of photographs showing James cheating on her. He blackmails her with the prospect of James' affair getting out to the public, which would effectively end his presidency before it even began. Incensed, Charlotte snaps back that this issue between her and James was resolved in private long before the election. While she remarks that Pryce doesn't know her or her family, he replies that what her husband stands for is worth protecting. She stands in silence as Pryce calls in for Miss Fairchild's corpse to be removed from the White House.
On the night of the Halloween Gala, Charlotte wishes to cancel the event as there is still a killer loose in the White House. Pryce believes this party is the perfect place to set a trap, and details an extensive surveillance plan to watch the movement off everyone inside the ballroom, to insure if the killer strikes, they will catch him in the act. Although she relents to allow Pryce to take over the security, she is still wary of her children's safety. Once the party commences, she and James dress as JFK and Jackie O. and mingle amongst the party guests. Suddenly in the midst of the evening, the power goes out in the White House. She and the rest of her family are escorted to safety, although they witness the large chandelier in the ballroom fall down and kill 10 partygoers.
The day after the Halloween Gala, James holds a press conference to talk about the tragedy. During his speech, he suddenly becomes disorientated and runs out of the room. Charlotte leaves the conference to attend a secret meeting with Pryce, who questions if she has told her husband about their secret arrangements considering his strange demeanor. She insists that she has no intention of telling him, and that will stay a secret to protect her family. When she asks for updates, Pryce reveals that the chandelier didn't fall by accident and that it had been tampered with. As their killer is getting more brazen, he suggests feeding some of their findings to the media, but Charlotte is vehemently against this at the risk of them looking complicate. Before she can leave, Pryce shows her security footage from the Halloween Gala, where what appears to be the ghost of her dead son Joseph vanishes on-screen. She dismisses it as meaningless, and reminds Pryce that he is here to find the killer.
Charlotte searching through Henry's closet, unaware of the corpse or Chucky.
Later that afternoon, Henry comes running to her as he believes he's seen his former bodyguard Teddy's ghost. He believes that Teddy was trying to tell him something, and asks his mother to talk to the ghost. Inside Henry's room she finds nothing out of the ordinary, but takes his Ghosts at 1600 book from his closet. After exiting Henry's room, she goes to check in on her son Grant. He is unsure how to feel about texting Lexy back, even after she apologized to him for leading him on about her intentions. Charlotte explains that sometimes apologies aren't enough as relationships require trust and Lexy broke that. The right person will be able to see and appreciate him for who he really is, other than being the President's son. She leaves him alone, warning her son not to let Lexy manipulate him.
The following day, Charlotte is reading through Henry's ghost book when James enters their bedroom. He confides to her that he believes Henry about there being ghosts in the White House, and that he's seen their dead son Joseph. But Charlotte convinces him that his grief-stricken mind is playing games and he must get a hold of himself for the sake of their children, as she cannot keep their family together by herself. She leaves the bedroom to talk to Pryce, confessing that she can't do this anymore and she needs to tell James the truth. As both Henry and James are seeing ghosts, she believes this is all her fault and that she is failing to protect her family. Pryce thinks that James may be right, and that there must be a supernatural element to these killings. Although she laughs at this suggestion, they both freeze as they witness the American flag in the room contort to show Miss Fairchild's death.
Charlotte confused at who "Chucky" is.
During the middle of the night, Charlotte and Pryce discover James had been murdered in Joseph's old room. They both witness blood manifesting on the wall, writing out "Chucky did it". He leaves her alone in the room, but shortly after two CIA agents arrive to remove James' body. When they try to make her get into Joseph's dresser while they do their job, she runs away. Coop and Pryce stop her in the hallway, warning her not to not yell and wake her boys. Instead, she runs to Grant's room, frantically packing their clothing and telling him and Henry that they are going on an impromptu vacation to visit her sister in Chicago right now. However, she is pulled away by Pryce, who bluntly explains that the death of the president by a "ghost" cannot get out to the public, and she and her sons are not permitted to leave.
In the morning at breakfast, Grant questions what happened last night. She brushes it off, claiming that she had a nightmare and overreacted. She is then called into her office to speak with Pryce. As she demands to remove her family from the White House, he reminds her that she is complicit in covering up these murders and they cannot expose the truth now that the president is dead. He outlines his plan to bring in a government paranormal expert named Dr. Carol Lindstrom, and takes her to the Oval Office to introduce her to a man they hired to be James' body double, Randall Jenkins. Using Randall, they will orchestrate a narrative that James died after contracting a serious illness. Charlotte is greatly upset by Randall's presence, insisting that her sons will recognize that this impersonator is not their father and that they will eventually learn that James is dead.
Later that evening, Charlotte is walking through the Executive Residence when she discovers that Grant had invited Jake, Devon and Lexy over for dinner. He asks if his father is home yet, but she suggests he's probably working late and sends them on their way as she orders dinner from the kitchen. As they are eating, Grant again asks when James is coming home. She tells him that he isn't feeling very well, to which Grant begins questioning if he is sick or if he is working late. With this becoming too much to bear, she leaves the dining room to have a cigarette. While in the hallway, she spots Pryce bringing Randall into the Executive Residence, along with a slew of medical equipment to keep up their plan making it seem like James is sick. Charlotte follows Randall to his bedroom, instructing him to not let her children see him under any circumstances, and if he leaves to avoid the hall where her sons' rooms are. She then walks into Joseph's room to finish her, and sees James' ghost staring at her. She apologizes for everything and attempts to reach out and touch him, but is scared off when he suddenly screams and displays his death face.
Shortly after, she is startled by Coop running down the stairs in what he claims to be an emergency. She follows him to the Situation Room, witnessing Chucky launch a nuclear missile to the North Pole before he is shot and killed by Coop. She hugs both her sons as Henry questions who Randall is, realizing that man is not their father. When Pryce arrives and attempts to order Charlotte, she snaps back at him to leave her family alone.
Charlotte talking with Randall.
The next day, Charlotte waits with Randall in his bedroom. He reassures her that her family is strong and they will get through James' death. Just then, Pryce enters the room, explaining to them that what they saw last night was the manifestation of Charles Lee Ray. He discloses his plans to have Randall tape an announcement with the Collins family, explaining that James had been diagnosed with brain cancer and he is transferring the presidency to Spence. Charlotte is vehemently against this as her son Joseph died of cancer, but she has no say as Pryce believes it will help the situation be realistic for the public.
Without the knowledge of Pryce, she decides that she's had enough and with the help of Hicks and Coop, plans her escape. She gathers Henry and Grant and the three of them are escorted to the front entrance, where a getaway car is waiting. However, Grant refuses to leave without his friends who are still being held hostage inside. Charlotte cannot stop him from staying behind as they cannot risk staying any longer and the car drives away. Later that evening, Coop brings Charlotte back to the White House and they witness the building burning down. She finds that Grant made it out safely and hugs him tightly.
Trivia[]
- This is Lara Jean Chorostecki's second character in the Child's Play franchise, with the first being Sister Ruth.
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