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Decades of games, a bunch of spin -offs, and somehow Resident Evil is all one connected story.
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And by the end of this, you'll understand it.
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Because with so many games, I know it's easy to get confused.
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So let me walk you through the whole thing, game by game, by following the major events that happen in Resident Evil lore.
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But don't worry if you haven't played all the games.
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Even though I will be talking about the overall story, I won't be diving too deep into all the details.
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Before anyone fighting zombies in a mansion, remember everything starts with one company, Umbrella.
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On paper, Umbrella was a pharmaceutical company, but behind closed doors, it was developing biological weapons.
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One of its founders, Oswald Spencer, believed humanity could be forced to evolve into something greater so to make that happen,
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he financed experiments using the ancient progenitor virus his team found in West Africa in the 60s.
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His lead scientist, James Marcus, combined it with his research on leeches and created the T -Virus, setting up the events of the story.
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Now let's take things from the mountains just outside Raccoon City.
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July 23rd, 1998.
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The event of Resident Evil Zero began.
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Rookie medic Rebecca Chambers is sent into the Arklay Mountains with Star's Bravo team to investigate a series of brutal murders.
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On the way there, their helicopter goes down, and Rebecca is separated from the rest of the team.
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She then encounters
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Billy Cohen, a former
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Marine convicted of murdering civilians during a military operation.
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Rebecca has every reason to not trust him, but the two quickly realize that surviving depends on working together.
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They fight their way through a train crawling with leeches and infected, which eventually crashes into an old umbrella facility hidden in the mountains.
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It's a training facility James Marcus used to run his experiments, and the files that they find there reveal what happened to him.
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After creating the T -Virus, Marcus was killed on Spencer's orders, murdered by his two students, William Birkin and Albert Wesker.
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But Marcus kinda came back.
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One of the leeches he experimented on latched onto his body, absorbed his memories, and over 10 years took on his appearance.
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That creature believes it's Marcus, and it's the one that caused the virus to fall into Arklay Labs' water supply,
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which leads to the Spencer Mansion incident later.
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Rebecca and Billy survived the creatures, including leeches, zombie dogs, mutated monkeys, and infected people.
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Then they face the thing wearing Marcus's face which drops the disguise
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and mutates into a massive leech creature before they put it down for good.
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And after everything they went through Rebecca lets
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Billy go for saving her life.
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She then heads for the Spencer Mansion to link back up with Bravo team
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And a few hours later, the events of the original
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Resident Evil begin.
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July 24th, 1998.
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This is where we meet
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Star's Alpha Team.
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Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, Barry Burton, and Albert Wesker.
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Yes, that same Wesker.
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After Bravo Team goes missing, Alpha Team searches for them in the Arklay Mountains, getting chased by something in the woods,
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and takes shelter inside the Spencer Mansion.
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Splitting up to search for the estate, they find it overrun by zombies and mutated animals and run into the members of Bravo Team,
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some barely alive while others are already dead.
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Rebecca Chambers is the only one who survives the night and joins up with Alpha Team.
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The deeper they push into the estate, the worse it gets.
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Eventually, they find
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Umbrella's underground research facility right under the mansion, which explains all the creatures they've been fighting all night.
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Zombies, hunters, giant spiders, all Umbrella experiments.
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And someone has been watching all of it, their own captain.
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The whole time Wesker had been playing the dependable leader, when in reality he was using the whole incident to gather combat data on Umbrella's bioweapons,
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with his own team as the test subjects.
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Wesker reveals his motives in the underground Arklay Labs, then wakes up
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Umbrella's ultimate creation at the time, the Tyrant, turning it against the team.
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As the Tyrant wakes up, it impales Wesker, who immediately falls to the floor.
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The surviving Starz members defeat the Tyrant, set the mansion to expel explode and escape.
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And you would think this would be the last time we see of Wesker, but that's not the case.
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We would later find out that before he let the tyrants strike him, Wesker had already dosed himself with a prototype virus Birkin handed to him.
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His death was part of the plan, and the virus brought him back faster and stronger,
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letting him walk off with umbrellas research after their escape the remaining stars members try exposing umbrellas crimes
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but no one believes them as the virus keeps spreading beyond the spencer estate
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by late september 1998 two months after the mansion the
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t -virus has already spread through raccoon city on september 29th
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rookie cop leon kennedy shows up for his first day on the job and walks right into the middle of the outbreak.
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This is where
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Resident Evil 2 begins.
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Claire Redfield arrives separately hoping to find her brother Chris, but neither of them finds what they came for.
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Instead, they deal with a city filled with infected civilians.
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They run into each other early on and head towards a police station together, but are separated almost immediately.
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So they take their own paths through the city, into the Raccoon City Police Department, down the sewers, and finally
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Nest, Umbrella's secret laboratory buried under the city.
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Along the way, they meet a little girl named Sherry Birkin, whose father William created the experimental G -Virus.
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When Umbrella sends a team to take the sample back, they gun him down, and William injects himself with a G -Virus to survive,
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becoming one of the franchise's most terrifying monsters.
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Every time Leon or Claire runs into him, there's less of a man left.
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And that G -Virus is what pulls another big player into the city, Ada Wong, who introduces herself to Leon as an FBI agent,
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though she's really a spy after a sample for an employer she never reveals.
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Meanwhile, while all this is happening, the events of the two
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Resident Evil Outbreak games run through the same city during the
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same week following eight ordinary civilians including a reporter named elissa ashcroft remember
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that name for later but
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while all of this is happening above ground the worst of
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it is waiting underneath by the time the main cast reaches
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nest sherry has already been infected with a g -virus embryo by her own mutated father
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and claire is racing to synthesize a vaccine out of umbrella's own research to save her leon's down
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there too with ada and this is where her cover is blown.
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She admits what she's actually after, then takes a bullet and goes over a railing into the dark.
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Meanwhile, the whole place starts to count down to self -destruct, leaving everyone still down there with minutes to get out.
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Soon after, Leon reunites with Claire and Sherry at the emergency escape train of the facility, put what's left of William down for good,
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and escape the city alive.
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Hey, it's up to us to take out Umbrella.
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But Leon and Claire weren't the only ones fighting their way through the city.
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Jill Valentine already knows exactly who's responsible for the outbreak, and Umbrella knows she survived the mansion.
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The events of Resident Evil 3 begin a day before
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Resident Evil 2 and end a couple days after, in early October 1998.
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To silence anyone who can expose the company, Umbrella drops Nemesis into the city with a specific mission, eliminate every surviving member of STARS.
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Nemesis is a tyrant, the same class of bioweapon Wesker woke up in the mansion labs,
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except this one has a parasite grafted into it that makes it far smarter and more controlled than the standard tyrant.
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It can use weapons, open doors, and will stop at nothing.
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It's finally over.
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Jill runs into Carlos Oliveira in the middle of all of this, a mercenary from Umbrella's own countermeasure unit, which should make him the enemy,
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except his squad is getting torn apart the same as everyone else.
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So they end up working together out of necessity.
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His unit was told they were here to evacuate civilians.
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But the longer Carlos is on the ground, the clearer it gets that saving the city was never really Umbrella's priority.
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And he's expendable too.
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But here's what none of them knew.
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The US government has already given up on Raccoon City and has decided to destroy it and Jill nearly doesn't make it.
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Nemesis infects her during one of their fights, and Carlos has to find a vaccine while she's unconscious.
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He gets it, Jill wakes up, and then she finishes Nemesis herself, with an experimental rail cannon she finds.
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Then Carlos and Jill are airlifted out with hours to spare, and they only learn what's coming right at the end,
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when they're looking back at the city from the rescue chopper, watching a missile take the city apart.
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The United States government destroys Raccoon City to contain the outbreak, officially closing a long chapter that spans across
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Resident Evil 2, 3, and both outbreak games.
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Raccoon City is gone, but biological terrorism is about to spread beyond its borders.
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And you'd think the destruction of Raccoon City would be the end of Umbrella's story, but one loose end leads to another chapter.
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Claire Redfield escaped the city, but she never found her brother Chris.
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Her search continues in Resident Evil Code Veronica.
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December 1998.
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Claire breaks into an umbrella facility in Paris, chasing any lead on where her brother is, only to be captured and shipped out to Rockford Island,
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an umbrella prison in the South Atlantic.
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The island is attacked, the T -Virus gets loose, and Claire is facing another biological disaster.
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She gets one message out to Leon asking him to tell Chris where she is, which is the only reason anybody knows she's alive.
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Along the way, she meets Steve Burnside, another prisoner.
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And together, they piece together who owns the place, the Ashford's, one of Umbrella's founding bloodlines.
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Alexander Ashford engineered his own twin children, Alfred and Alexia.
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And Alexia turned out to be a genuine prodigy who, while still young, developed her own virus.
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She named it T.
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Veronica and what makes it different is
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that in a compatible host it makes you far stronger and faster without wiping out your mind.
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She infected herself
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and froze her body for 15 years to let the virus
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bond properly in a base at the other end of the world.
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Claire and Steve get off Rockford except Alfred takes remote control of their plane
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and flies them straight to the base in Antarctica, which is exactly where Alexia is about to wake up.
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And Claire and Steve aren't the only ones headed there.
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A virus that makes you stronger without costing you your mind is the most valuable thing
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Umbrella's founders ever produced.
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And somebody else has come to collect it.
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Albert Wesker.
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Everyone believed he died inside the Spencer mansion, but that prototype virus Birkin handed him did exactly what it was supposed to.
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He's faster and stronger than any person should be, no longer working for Umbrella and willing to steal whatever gets him closer to his own goals.
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So Alexia wakes up at the base, and she's everything the Ashfords were trying to build,
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fully conscious, in control, and strong enough to take the base apart from the inside.
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She kills Steve using him as a test subject for T Veronica.
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Meanwhile, Chris has finally caught up to Rockford Island following Claire's message
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and comes face to face with Wesker for the first time since the mansion blew up.
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Wesker breaks off to go after Alexia instead because she's what he's actually there for.
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Chris figures out where Claire went, heads for Antarctica, and together they finally put down Alexia.
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But it's not over because Wesker already has his people taking Steve's body since he's carrying T Veronica now.
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Chris fights Wesker himself, gets beaten badly, and the only thing that ends it is the base coming down around them.
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So Wesker gets what he came for.
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He walks out of Antarctica with T Veronica on top of everything he stole from the mansion.
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That's two of Umbrella's biggest breakthroughs, sitting with a man who doesn't answer to anybody.
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Over the next few years, everything catches up with Umbrella.
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Government action, investigations, lawsuits, and public outrage over Rackham City all pile up.
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And the company goes bankrupt and collapses.
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So by the time we get to Resident Evil 4 in 2004, Umbrella is history.
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By this time, Leon Kennedy works for the US government.
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His latest assignments send him to a remote village in Spain to rescue Ashley Graham, the president's daughter.
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At first, everything feels familiar.
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Hostile villagers, people becoming infected, another outbreak.
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But Leon quickly realizes this isn't the T -Virus.
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The villagers have been infected by Las Plagas, an ancient parasite controlled by a religious cult known as Los Illuminados.
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The cult plans to infect Ashley, send her home, and take the United States from inside.
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And a parasite that can control people is worth a fortune to the right to fire.
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Which is why Ada Wong turns up in that village.
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That's right, she's alive.
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Six years after Leon watched her go over the railing in Nest,
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she's there to steal a plaga sample for an employer that she still won't name.
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Still, like old times, she keeps saving Leon's life along the way.
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But here's what makes Leon's rescue mission really complicated.
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He finds Ashley fairly early in the village church, but that turns out to be the easy part.
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Sadler, the cult leader, has his people put a plaga in both of them while they're unconscious, which slowly starts taking control.
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Getting Ashley out of the village was never going to be enough.
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Now they have to get the parasites out,
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which they manage to do using a machine in the cult's own lab that burns them out with radiation.
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Then Leon goes after Sadler and beats him as the island starts coming apart.
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That's when Ada shows up one last time.
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She takes the plaga sample Leon just recovered, tosses him the keys to a jet ski so he could get out with Ashley and leaves.
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In the original game, she then delivers that sample to the man she's been working for this entire time, Albert Wesker.
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The remake reworks how that plays out a little, but either way, Wesker ends up with Las Plagas.
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Leon and Ashley escape the island.
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Mission accomplished, as far as the government is concerned.
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But the man who walked out of Antarctica with T.
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Veronica now has
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Las Plagas too.
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We continue as planned.
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Around the same time, in 2004, a terrorist group released the new waterborne virus called T.
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Abyss and Terragrigia, a floating solar -powered city in the Mediterranean.
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And the response is the same one used on Raccoon City six years ago.
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A U .S agency called the FBC,
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the Federal Bioterrorism Commission, takes charge and they decide the only way to contain the outbreak is to destroy the city.
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So they do it with a satellite weapon from space.
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This became known as the Terragrigia Panic.
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And a year later, it's still not over.
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But before we get into what actually happened in Terragrigia, Hi, I'm Antonio and if you're new to the channel, welcome to Thy Geekdom.
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Alright then, back to Terra Grigia because the official story about who did it and why doesn't hold up.
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A year later, in 2005, Jill Valentine and her new partner, Parker Luciani, get sent to the Queen Zenobia.
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a ghost ship in the Mediterranean after receiving a distress signal from Chris Redfield, who has gone missing.
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They work for the BSAA, a small anti -bio -terror group Chris and Jill helped found, whose director, Clive O 'Brien,
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argued against burning Teragregia and has been quietly building a case ever since.
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What they find is an abandoned cruise ship full of infected, but no Chris, and the ship itself is the first real clue.
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The Zenobia is one of three sister ships owned by the same shipping line, quietly bought years ago by a single buyer,
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and those ships are where the Terragrigia panic was staged and the virus developed.
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And the deeper Jill gets, the clearer it becomes that the group behind Terragrigia didn't act alone.
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The man who gave the order to burn the city is the FBC's own director, Morgan Lansdale, who funded the attack himself.
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Because a world terrified of bioterrorism is a world that gives his agency whatever it asks for.
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Chris turns up alive.
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He was never on the ship at all.
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He was sent to a snowy mountain region with a new partner, Jessica Sherowat, chasing reports that Teragrigia terrorists were active again.
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And the distress signal
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that sent Jill out to sea was faked by O 'Brien
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himself to get his agent somewhere they'd find what Lansdale was hiding.
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Chris and Jessica board what they think is a Zenobia, only to realize it's actually one of its sister ships.
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Once they sort that out, O 'Brien sends them the real coordinates.
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They finally make it aboard the Zenobia and reunite with Jill.
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Now there's a mole inside the BSAA, feeding Lansdale everything and it turns out to be Jessica.
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So Lansdale moves to wipe out the evidence tying him to the Terragrigia panic by turning the same satellite
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that was used by the FBC just a year ago to sink the Zenobia with Chris and Jill still aboard.
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But they find what he was trying to destroy first, a video of him meeting with a terrorist group.
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Lansdale has O 'Brien arrested on false charges to bury it.
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But Jill and Chris broadcast a video anyway, and everyone sees it at once.
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Lansdale's own agents arrest him.
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O 'Brien walks free, and the FBC gets shut down for good.
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Everything it had gets folded into the BSAA.
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And off the back of all this, the BSAA gets reorganized as a United Nations agency.
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That's the moment it becomes the global anti -bio -terror organization you see moving forward in this story.
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Which brings us back to Wesker.
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Since walking out of Spencer's mansion, he's been quietly gathering many of the viruses that we've been talking about
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so far and he doesn't wait long to use them.
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But before we get to 2009 and Resident Evil 5, there's one thing you need to understand first in a bonus chapter called Lost in Nightmares.
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2006, Chris and Jill track down Oswald Spencer to an estate in Europe, but Wesker gets there first.
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Spencer's already dead and before Wesker leaves, he He tells them what Spencer confessed.
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Spencer didn't just fund experiments on viruses.
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He ran a program that created and raised children into what he thought a superior human being should be.
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Wesker was one of those children.
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Are you saying I was manufactured?
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Chris and Jill both go after him and get thrown around the room.
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And when Wesker moves in to finish Chris, Jill tackles him through a window and both of them go off a cliff behind it.
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Chris never finds a body and for the next three years he believes he got his partner killed.
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By 2009 Chris is still working for the BSAA
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and he's sent to a region in West Africa called Kijuju to intercept a bioweapon steal.
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The people there have been infected with something that leaves them fast and coordinated, the same way
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Las Plagas worked in Spain.
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And the deal turns out to be Wesker's.
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Following it, it leads Chris and local agent Cheva Alomar into an enormous underground facility beneath Kijuju, in the same African region where
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Umbrella's founders first pulled the progenitor virus out of a flower back in 1966.
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Wesker has spent 11 years gathering virus research from across this entire story and what he's built out of it is uroboros,
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a virus he intends to release on the world.
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Almost everyone who breathes it dies, but a small number are genetically compatible and those are the ones who survive and come out stronger,
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which is exactly what
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Spencer wanted back in the 60s.
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Except now it's Wesker deciding who gets to be part of it.
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And there's one more thing waiting for Chris down there.
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Jill is alive.
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She survived the fall.
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Wesker recovered her body and he's had her for three years as his enforcer chris
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and sheva get the device off jill and she comes back to herself
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and then the two of them chase wesker to a plane loaded with the roburos over an active volcano
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they bring it down wesker goes into the lava and chris
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and sheva put two rockets into him to make sure he stays down you son of a bitch
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11 years after he walked his own team into the Spencer mansion Albert Wesker is finally dead.
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The T -Virus, the G -Virus, T -Veronica, Las Pagas, and now Ouroboros.
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All of it out in the world with a market for it.
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Killing Wesker doesn't put any of that back and it doesn't undo what
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Spencer built either because Wesker was never the only child
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Spencer's program produced.
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Two years Years later in 2011 we catch up again with Claire in Resident Evil Revelations 2.
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Claire is working with TerraSave, an organization that helps survivors of biological attacks.
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She's at a company party with a new colleague Moira Burton when armed men storm the building and kidnap them both.
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They wake up in a cell on an abandoned prison island with metal bracelets locked on their wrists that measure their fear,
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which they find out is part of an experiment.
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Everyone on that island has already been infected, including Clara and Moira.
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And the prisoners who couldn't hold it together are the monsters now roaming it, because the virus feeds on fear and
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if a person's fear climbs high enough the bracelet turns red
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and the infection can make them mutate so claire
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and moira try to get off the island
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while a voice watches the whole thing and comments on how they're doing
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that voice belongs to a woman named alex wasker she's another
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one of the children spencer's program produced the same program that made albert and she's dying of a terminal illness.
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What she's doing on
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that island is looking for a way to transfer her mind into a younger body so she can survive.
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And the fear experiment is how she picks the body.
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The transfer only works if the host is strong enough.
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So she infects a few hundred people, terrifies them, and sees who doesn't turn.
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The one she settles on is a small girl named Natalia, who stayed calm throughout the experiment.
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So Alex takes Natalia into her facility and runs the procedure on both of them, then pulls the trigger.
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Escape.
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Claire gets off the island around the same time, but not with Moira.
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They make it as far as the tower where Alex is running everything.
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The place goes up while they're still inside, and Claire leaves believing Moira died there.
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The story picks up six months later, when Moira's father, Barry Burton,
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one of the STARS members who walked out of the Spencer mansion back in 1998, lands on the same island looking for his daughter.
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He finds three people still alive.
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Natalia, who he keeps with him, Moira, who survived the whole six months, and Alex, whose ruined body the virus brought back after that gunshot.
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Barry and Claire kills her for good.
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Barry gets both girls off the island, takes Natalia home to raise her, but then the last shot shows the transfer worked after all.
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So something Spencer's program built is still walking around inside a little girl in Barry Burton's house.
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And while all of that is happening, The biggest outbreak our main cast has ever experienced is just around the corner.
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2012 to 2013.
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We follow several protagonists between three continents and four separate scenarios that keep crossing each other.
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This is where the events of Resident Evil 6 take place.
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It starts with the President of the United States deciding to
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finally tell the public the truth about Raccoon City 15 years later.
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He never gets a chance though.
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Somebody infects him with a new virus called the C -Virus.
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He turns in front of Leon and Leon has to shoot him.
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The only other witness is an agent named Helena Harper
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and the two of them spend the rest of the game wanted for killing the president.
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Six months before that, Chris is on the other side of the world with a BSAA unit
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that walks into an ambush and every one of his people dies except his second in command, Pierce Nivens.
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Also in the same war zone is a mercenary named Jake Mulder, whose blood turns out to be naturally immune to the C -virus,
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which makes him the key to a vaccine.
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The agent sent to protect him is Sherry Birkin, the little girl declared saved back in Racket City, now all grown up.
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Behind all of it is Neo Umbrella, run by a woman named Carla Radims, who was remade to look exactly like Ada Wong,
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which is why the real Ada keeps getting blamed for things she never did.
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We're over here!
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This way!
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Chasing that imposter down, Ada finds Derek Simmons, a US national security advisor, obsessed with her.
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See, Carla was the scientist who actually created the C -virus in the first place, working under Simmons.
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Then Simmons, desperate to turn her research into a copy of the woman he was obsessed with, had Carla herself injected with the same C -virus,
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and and it rebuilt her into a double of Ada.
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But she turned on him, took her own virus, and founded
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Neo Umbrella to burn down everything Simmons built.
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And that C -virus is the thread tying every campaign together, which brings us back to Jake,
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and why his blood out of everybody's holds the cure.
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The answer is that he inherited his immunity.
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Jake is Albert Wesker's son.
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So the man who once tried to wipe out the human race turns out to be the reason
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there's hope of stopping this virus.
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By the end of this chapter, everyone ends up in the same city, Longxiang, China.
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Leon and Helena finally corner Derek Simmons, the man who orchestrated the president's assassination, and take him down, which clears their names.
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Chris and Pierce chase Carla and end up fighting
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House, the giant bioweapon the Umbrella built to infect the world.
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During the fight, Pierce takes a lethal dose of the virus himself to save Chris and finish house.
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Sherry and Jake break out after months in captivity, and Jake decides to hand over his blood for a fraction of what he was demanding.
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The vaccine gets made, and Ada finds Carla and puts her out.
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After all that, the series moves away from our usual main cast and hands the story to someone brand new.
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2017 Resident Evil 7 Biohazard We now follow Ethan Winters, a civilian with no training and no idea
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Umbrella, the T -Virus, or any of the outbreaks we've covered ever happened.
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Three years earlier his wife Mia vanished and he was told she was dead.
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Then a message arrives from her and it leads him to an isolated plantation house in rural Louisiana.
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He actually finds Mia almost right away.
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But the reunion falls apart fast.
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Something takes a hold of her.
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She turns on him, and in the struggle, she cuts off his hand.
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Ethan is able to put down Mia temporarily, but then is knocked down by a man before he can get away.
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Welcome to the family, son.
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When he wakes up, he's deeper in the house with no idea where she went.
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Finding her again is what drives the rest of the game.
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What's waiting there is the Baker family.
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Jack, Marguerite, and their son Lucas, who were an ordinary family until something got into them.
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They take Ethan prisoner and make it clear he isn't leaving alive.
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And when he fights back, he finds that you can put down a Baker, but they'll get right back up.
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The one exception is their daughter Zoe.
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She's infected like the rest of them, but somehow she's still herself.
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And she's the one who actually helps Ethan guiding him by phone and working on a cure for her family and Mia.
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What keeps them coming back is a living organism called the mold.
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It's not a virus like before.
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Instead, it's a fungus, and it links everyone it infects to whoever is controlling it.
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In this case, there's a little girl named Evelyn, who isn't actually a child at all.
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But a bioweapon, an organization called The Connections, grew out of the mold and engineered to look about 10 years old.
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Here's how Evelyn ended up in Louisiana.
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The connections were moving her by ship.
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Mia was one of the handlers keeping her contained.
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Evelyn broke loose mid -voyage and the ship wrecked off coast.
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Mia and Evelyn both washed up on the Louisiana bayou
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and Jack Baker was the one who found them and took them in,
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which is how Evelyn took control of the family and Mia in the first place.
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And so Evelyn decided to make the bakers her family along with Mia.
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Ethan gets through the family one by one.
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Marguerite dies, Lucas who was working with the connections the whole time runs
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and gets away and Jack keeps coming back until Ethan finally puts him down for good.
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Then Ethan finds Mia again and finding her means dealing with Evelyn because as long as that girl is alive,
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everyone she infected stays connected to her.
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I won't be able to resist for much longer.
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He puts her down, cutting that link and freeing Mia and ending what's left of the bakers.
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And then the last shot drops you back into the story you've been following the whole time.
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A man drops down from a helicopter outside the property.
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It's Chris Redfield with a patch on his sleeve that reads Umbrella.
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So it kind of looks like the company
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Spencer founded is now signing Chris's checks, right?
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But that's actually not the case at all.
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A new company bought the name after the original collapsed and turned it into an anti -bio terror organization called Blue Umbrella.
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February 2021, three years later, Resident Evil Village takes place, and this is the end of Ethan's story.
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Ethan and Mia have relocated to Europe under Blue Umbrella's protection, and they have a baby daughter now named Rose.
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While they're at home, Chris kicks the door in with a squad behind him, shoots Mia in front of Ethan,
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and grabs both Ethan and baby Rose.
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On the way out, the vehicle Ethan's in crashes
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and he wakes up alone in the snow outside a village with no idea where his daughter is.
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So he starts walking.
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What he finds is a village that's been terrorized by monsters and infection for generations, ruled by a woman they call
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Mother Miranda and four lords who each control a piece of it.
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A countess in her castle, a puppet maker, a creature in the reservoir, and a madman in his factory.
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Miranda had rows separated into four pieces and handed one to each lord.
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So getting her back means going through all four.
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Along the way, Ethan learns the village's history.
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The mold never started in a lab.
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Miranda found it in a cave under the village in 1919, right after she lost her own daughter to the flu pandemic.
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And she spent the century since experimenting on her own villagers, trying to bring her daughter back.
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Eventually Ethan finds out what he is.
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He actually died in that Louisiana house back in 2017.
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Jack Baker killed him within an hour of him walking in the house
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and then the mold rebuilt his body and put him back on his feet
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and he never knew it every injury
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he walked away from since was the mold holding him together
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he isn't a man infected with it he's a man made
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of it that's why rose could be split into pieces
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and still be alive
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and it's why miranda wanted her a child born from a
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father made of mold was the vessel she'd been trying to create for a hundred years
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and this is where Chris comes in his squad had been tracking Miranda for months
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and the Mia Ethan watched him gun down back at the house was never Mia at all
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it was Miranda who can take other people's shapes
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while the real Mia was locked up in the village Chris couldn't stop to explain
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it without losing his one shot at her.
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Except it didn't work.
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Miranda played dead, came back, ran the convoy off the road, and carried Rose off to the village herself.
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That's how she ended up with her.
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While Ethan fights through the four lords, Chris cuts his own way through the village.
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He frees the real Mia from Miranda's lab.
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And in there, he also finds her records, including notes on a visit Oswald Spencer once paid to the village,
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where what Miranda showed him about the mold is what set him on his path toward forcing human evolution.
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Her fungus isn't the progenitor virus, and it isn't its ancestor either.
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Spencer went a different direction and found progenitor in Africa, but the obsession that became
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Umbrella started right here.
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Chris also reaches the source of all of it, the Megamycete, the giant mold organism buried under the village that everything else grows out of,
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and plants a bomb on it to destroy the whole thing.
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It all comes to a head at the ceremony site at the village.
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Ethan kills Miranda and gets
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Rose back, but by then, his body is done.
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Chris reaches them to help and Ethan knowing he won't make it hands
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Rose over and tells him to get her out.
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Then he takes the detonator from Chris and stays behind.
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Chris gets Rose to the helicopter along with the real Mia
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and Ethan sets off the bomb on the Megamite seat destroying the village and himself knowing his daughter is safe.
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And 16 years later, Rose is a teenager with mold -given abilities of her own under government protection.
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But more happens before
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Rose grows up.
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Which brings us to Resident Evil Requiem, set in October 2026, 28 years after Raccoon City was wiped off the map.
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The lead is Grace Ashcroft, an FBI analyst sent to look into a string of strange deaths among people who survived Raccoon City.
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And that last name should sound familiar because the woman who raised her is Alyssa Ashcroft, the reporter from The Outbreak Games.
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The case sends
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Grace to a run -down hotel on the edge of the Raccoon City ruins,
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the same place her mother was murdered eight years earlier chasing a story of her own.
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Digging in, Grace finds that Alyssa hid something there before she died.
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Files that point straight at what got her killed.
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But before she can get far, she's taken by the people behind those deaths.
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Victor Gideon, an ex -Umbrella scientist, chasing Spencer's old research, and the man who murdered Alyssa,
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and Zeno, an executive operative for the connections.
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Meanwhile, Leon is working that same string of deaths from his own end.
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He's almost 30 years on from the first night in Raccoon City, still cleaning up bioweapon messes for the government,
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and quietly carrying a dormant strain of the T -virus that's finally, after all this time, catching up with him.
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Victor Gideon?
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I don't know.
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Well, we should leave.
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Their paths cross and both lead to the same place, the Ark, a hidden umbrella lab deep under the ruins,
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holding Oswell Spencer's final project, Alpus.
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Gideon and Zeno are sure it's the ultimate bioweapon and that they need
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Grace to unlock it.
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It's down there that she finally plays her mother's recording an old interview with a guilt -ridden spencer
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and learns the truth about herself elissa wasn't her birth mother grace was an orphan
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that a dying spencer took in to atone for everything he'd done then handed to elissa to raise
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and in that interview he calls her his hope
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which turns out to be the exact password that is needed to release elpis she's adorable
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What's her name?
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Grace.
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Grace.
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Is there anything else you'd like to tell me?
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I've said my piece.
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I only hope it serves as a requiem for those who have passed.
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So, Grace cracks it open.
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Leon half dead and not trusting what's down there had her promise to destroy Elpis
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but Grace realizes it was never a weapon at all at the end of his life with so much regret
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Spencer had built Elpis as an antidote something meant to neutralize the viruses he'd spent his whole life funding
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so instead of destroying it she releases it Zeno grabs it,
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believing it's the super weapon he was promised and injects himself on the spot, only for it to strip the infection right out of him.
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It's the cure, not the weapon.
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Gideon, watching his prize turn out to be worthless to him, turns on Zeno and mutates for one last stand.
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Leon is nearly gone, his own Raccoon City infection finally taking him.
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So Grace uses Elvis on him, which saves his life and puts him back on his feet, just in time to put down Gideon.
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And with that, Leon and Grace survived the ruins of Raccoon City, with the one thing
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Spencer ever built that was actually for good.
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And that's Resident Evil's story for now.
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A lot to cover I know, so if this finally made the series easier to understand,
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and you've got another franchise tangled up in your mind like
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Dragon Ball, I did the exact same thing for that.
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Decades of story and alternate universes all sorted out in one video.
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Click here to see how every timeline fits together.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Resident Evil Timeline Explained Easily in a 40-Minute Video”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: virus, chris, wesker. This video has 492 sentences and 6462 words to shadow. The speech runs for 42:52. The speaker talks at a natural 151 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 77% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| virus noun | /ˈvaɪ.ɹəs/ | A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure that consists of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and… |
| umbrella noun | /ʌmˈbɹɛl.ə/ | A cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun. |
| mansion noun | /ˈmæn.ʃən/ | A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy. |
| outbreak noun | /ˈaʊtbɹeɪk/ | An eruption; the sudden appearance of a rash, disease, etc. |
| mold noun | /moʊld/ | A natural substance in the form of a furry or woolly growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and… |
| chase verb | /t͡ʃeɪs/ | To follow at speed. |
| experiment noun | /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/ | A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of… |
| meanwhile adverb | /ˈmiːnwaɪl/ | During the time that something is happening, often specifically in a different place. |
| infection noun | /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/ | The act or process of infecting. |
| biological adjective | /ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/ | Of or relating to biology. |
| ruin noun | /ˈɹuː.ɪn/ | The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle. |
| quietly adverb | /ˈkwaɪ.ɪt.li/ | Producing little or no noise. |
| civilians noun | /sɪˈvɪl.jənz/ | Synonym of civvies |
| vaccine noun | /vækˈsin/ | A substance given to stimulate a body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease without causing the disease itself in the treatment… |
| rescue verb | /ˈɹɛs.kjuː/ | To save from any violence, danger or evil. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
| come back verb | To return to a place. | |
| put down verb | To insult, belittle, or demean. | |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. | |
| get off verb | To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it. | |
| wipe out verb | To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate. | |
| back up verb | To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Are you saying I was manufactured?
- I won't be able to resist for much longer.
- Is there anything else you'd like to tell me?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | they've been fighting · has been watching · she's been working |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | haven't played · has already spread · has already been infected |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | could be forced · is sent · is separated |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | one who survives · anyone who can · Antarctica, which is |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 51 contractions and reduced forms, such as doesn't, isn't, they're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, thread /ˈθɹɛd/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: mansion /ˈmæn.ʃən/, infection /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/, unconscious /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/
- Long words — get the stress right: experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, biological /ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/, helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/, ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/, experimental /ɪkspɛɹəˈmɛntəl/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like virus, umbrella, mansion.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.