William "Billy" Grey is a character in the Grand Theft Auto series, who appears as the main antagonist of The Lost and Damned and as a minor character in The Ballad of Gay Tony.
Background
Early Years
Billy Grey was born in 1971 in Acter, Alderney. He was introduced to violence and racism at a young age, by watching news coverage of the Vietnam War and/or Chinese Cultural Revolution deaths when he was under 10 years old (as he arrogantly tells a Triad capo during Chinese Takeout). Around 1984, he was friends with Michael Klebitz when Michael was 15 and Billy was 13, and Billy was introduced to his younger brother Johnny Klebitz, Johnny being only 10 at the time. According to Michael, Billy "thought he was Jesus on an acid trip" and quickly became a bad influence on Johnny. Michael, in contrast, became a soldier in Iraq and an upstanding citizen, criticizing Billy's and Johnny's criminal biker lifestyle. In 1986, Billy was arrested for stealing a bike when he was 15, which Johnny would soon imitate in 1991. Billy committed many other crimes and served up to two years in juvenile hall before he and Johnny both joined the Lost MC. He was arrested for murder in 1989 when he was 18, possibly alongside Brian Jeremy who was arrested for the same crime in the same year (whether or not, Brian would eventually be his most loyal follower in the Lost).
The Lost MC
Billy worked his way up from a prospect to president of the chapter. Billy is shown to be a sadistic and violent leader and as president, he enacted the worst acts of violence to the Lost's ongoing rivals since 1982, The Angels of Death. During his presidency, he was to blame for an accident that handicapped fellow Lost member Angus Martin, and put their AOD rival Joe Jon's nephew in a coma. His drug problem severely worsened; he began using heroin. The mission This Shit's Cursed reveals that Billy used to take steroids.
At another point in time, Billy slept with Johnny's girlfriend Ashley Butler; despite common belief, this goes against most normal Outlaw Motorcycle Club's laws, as sleeping with a member's girlfriend or old lady/wife is strictly forbidden. Johnny became understandably jealous but never outwardly criticized Billy for it, possibly hinting that his relationship with Ashley was already weak due to her drug addiction, with the affair being the final add-up for the relationship's end.
Events of The Lost and Damned
Return
In early 2008, Billy was arrested with heroin and was placed in rehab. Johnny became president in his place, giving Billy's motorcycle to the Angels of Death as a peace offering. Months later, he was released (in the first mission of the game Clean and Serene, and reclaimed his place as chapter president, also continuing his drug habits. Billy -- just as he returned from jail -- demanded Johnny and the gang go steal his bike back.
Billy later held a party at the clubhouse, and had the gang exterminate all the Angels of Death members who ambushed it. He then later, after introducing Johnny Klebitz to Dave Grossman, sent The Lost to strike down many more AOD members -- after the ambush, he announced that Jason Michaels was killed, and told the Lost that the AOD killed him. This was the basis Billy used to fully raid and attack the Angels of Death Clubhouse (with some Grenade Launchers he purchased from Ray Boccino.
During the mass raid, Billy found a large pile of Heroin belonging to the AOD; against Johnny's statement that they should abandon it since it will start a war, Billy decided to take the Heroin to himself. He later sent Johnny Klebitz to Elizabeta Torres to sell the Heroin to a third party; however, despite having Niko Bellic and Playboy X as backup, the deal turned out to be a sting.
Betraying Johnny and Jim/Return to Jail
In the TBoGT mission Chinese Takeout, it is revealed that Billy was making a deal with a Triad leader -- he would lead Johnny Klebitz and Jim Fitzgerald to the Triad building, and would just let the Triads exterminate them and take the Heroin for himself (he also has a brief, 2-line conversation with Luis Lopez and Tony Prince in this mission). However, when the plan came to come in the mission This Shit's Cursed, Johnny and Jim -- desptie losing the Heroin -- were able to escape the ambush. Not only that, but Billy also ended up arrested by the LCPD (possibly tipped off by the Triads). This left Johnny Klebitz in charge of The Lost (this started a brief civil war between Brian's Faction and Johnny's that started in End of Chapter and culminated in Bad Standing.
Death
In the mission Was It Worth It?, Ray Boccino commented that Billy told him that Johnny and Jim were backstabbers. Also, Agent Jones -- an unseen FIB agent -- also told Johnny in his second phone call to him that Billy was testifying against him. In the game's final mission, after Thomas Stubbs explained that Billy was to testify against the MC, Johnny decided to take the last three combat-enabled members of The Lost (himself, Terry Thorpe and Clay Simons) mass-attacked the Alderney State Correctional Facility and after blasting through all the security guards, confronted and executed Billy, ending the game.
Mission appearances
- The Lost and Damned
- Clean and Serene (Boss)
- Angels in America (Boss)
- It's War (Boss)
- Action/Reaction (Boss)
- Buyer's Market (Voice)
- Off Route (Post-mission phone call)
- This Shit's Cursed (Boss/Betrayal/Arrested)
- Was It Worth It? (Mentioned)
- Get Lost (Killed by Johnny Klebitz)
- The Ballad of Gay Tony
- Chinese Takeout (Revealed to have had betrayed Johnny in This Shit's Cursed)
LCPD Database Information
Surname: Grey
First Name: Billy
Age: 37
Place of Birth: Acter, Alderney
Affiliations: The Lost
Criminal Record:
- 1986 - Hijacking
- 1987 - Assault
- 1989 - Murder
- 2002 - Racketeering
Notes:
- Head of the Alderney Chapter of the Lost Outlaw Motorcycle Gang.
- Recently convicted of drug related felony and sentenced to rehabilitation.
- Johnny Klebitz is been believed to have taken control of the Chapter while Grey was incarcerated.
Murders committed
- Angels of Death Lieutenant - Murdered for crashing his party and flipping him off.
Trivia
- When Johnny Klebitz and Billy Grey are arguing early in the episode, Johnny mentions that Billy's Revenant "Chopped that girls leg off," and that Billy put Joseph Johnson's nephew into a coma. He states that this the reason, apart from the financial problems, that the bike was not returned.
- Billy is missing a President patch on his vest on his concept artwork.
- Billy has a skull tattoo with "1%" inside on his forehead. "1%" means that the Lost MC is an outlaw motorcycle club. His tattoo is also similar to Charles Manson's.
- Billy looks similar to James Hetfield from Metallica.
- Billy has betrayed Johnny twice. First, in This Shit's Cursed, where he conspired with a triad member to kill Johnny (although it is only seen in Chinese Takeout in TBOGT). In Get Lost, where he pins a major drug operation on Johnny and his "buddy in the chair" (Angus Martin) so he can have them sent to prison.
- In the Meet Billy Grey trailer, he is seen driving a Zombie and Hexer. However, he is not seen driving either of these in the game.
- There are four colored wings on Billy's vest. The purple one indicated he once engaged in a group sex with at least four people.
- After Johnny kills Billy in Get Lost, his police database still says that he is in custody instead of deceased. This is the same for GTA IV and TBoGT.
- In Clean and Serene, before Johnny gets back to the clubhouse, you can see that Billy wore blue jeans and brown causal boots while in rehab.
- According to the LCPD database, Billy is 37 years old by the time of the events of The Lost and Damned. Michael Klebitz sends Johnny an email which states that Billy and him were friends at 15 when Johnny was 10. This contradicts what the LCPD police database says about his age. What the email says is probably just an error.
- Billy, Dimitri Rascalov and Big Smoke are the only antagonists who disappear after their betrayal and reappear only when they are killed. In Get Lost, in Billy's case. Billy is also the only one of these three who doesn't disappear by choice (since he was arrested).
- Billy is the only main antagonist in the GTA IV era that is not Russian. (Dimitri Rascalov and Ray Bulgarin are the main antagonists of GTA IV, and The Ballad of Gay Tony, respectively, and they are both Russian.)
- Non-chronologically, Billy is one of the three antagonists to be killed in their first appearance (TLAD) and reappear in another game (TBoGT), the others being Catalina and Ricardo Diaz.
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