Franklin Hardesty/1st Timeline

Franklin Hardesty is a supporting protagonist in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. He is Sally Hardesty's invalid brother that suffers from paraplegia. He is also the nephew of Lieutenant Boude "Lefty" Enright. He's constantly reminded that he can't do half the stuff his friends and sister can do due to his handicap which irritates him greatly.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Franklin grew up with his sister Sally in Texas. He and Sally travel with three friends, Jerry, Kirk, and Pam, to visit the grave of the Hardestys' grandfather and investigate reports of vandalism and grave robbing. Afterwards, they decide to visit the old Hardesty family homestead. Along the way they pick up Nubbins Sawyer who slashes both himself (with Franklin's knife) and Franklin (with Nubbins' straight razor) before the group forces him out of the van. While at the homestead, the group abandons Franklin and heads upstairs. Franklin tries to follow but he can't due to the stairs infuriating him. He then gets a splinter from the broken door frame infuriating him a lot more.

Pam and Kirk go missing after they left for a local swimming hole, and it gets late. Jerry decides to look for them while Sally and Franklin stay behind at the van. It soon gets dark and Jerry hasn't returned, so Sally and Franklin decide to look for him. Sally asks him for the flashlight and he refuses. After fighting, Sally storms off leaving Franklin behind. Franklin attempts to follow her while he apologizes for his behavior. Sally accepts his apology and pushes Franklin through the hilly woods while they scream for Jerry.

While looking for Jerry, Franklin hears something and tells Sally to stop but she couldn't react in time. The noise turns out to be Leatherface turning on his chainsaw, after which he slashes Franklin repeatedly, killing him in front of a horrified Sally.

TCM Part 2
In another section of the underground cave, the growing insane Lefty is freaked out just as well when he finds the skeleton of his wheelchair-bound departed nephew Franklin Hardesty who was murdered on August 18 1973 about 14 years ago and is now in display in his old wheelchair. Pure and filled completely with anger, hate, and madness, Lefty makes his way through the caves to find and destroy the Sawyer family.

Trivia

 * Franklin is the first to be killed by Leatherface's chainsaw.
 * Despite being a grown man, he still has childish ways such as carving into the side of the van and fighting over the flashlight with Sally.
 * He is the only one of the victims in the first film to not to see or enter the Sawyer House.