[0:02]The Resident Evil franchise has a sprawling timeline that interweaves its complex narrative across eight mainline games, a handful of spin-offs and countless DLC expansions.
[0:13]But how does it all tie together?Well, largely, it's pretty linear. What's not so straightforward is that the ever-evolving timeline takes in everything from corporate conspiracies and human cloning to the American president's daughter, and whatever the hell this thing is. From the convoluted creation of the Umbrella Corporation, through to the Gothic horror of Resident Evil Village, via the crowd-pleasing boulder-punching antics of one Chris Redfield. Hey, my name's Adam and this is the complete timeline of Resident Evil.
[0:53]Okay, chronologically speaking, our story kicks off with a good chunk of backstory for Resident Evil Village, the main story of which book ends this timeline right at the very end. In the early 20th century, the main villain of Rezi Village, Mother Miranda, is living out her life peacefully in Eastern Europe with her daughter Eva, until the Spanish flu pandemic whips through her community in 1919, killing all and sundry. Eva's death sends Miranda into a downward spiral, and she ventures off into a cave network beneath the village to seek out death. Ironically, instead of finding a quick death, she discovers a form of mold known as the Megamycete, a genome which gifts her with regenerative abilities. Armed with this newfound power and knowledge, Miranda seeks to use it to bring her daughter back to life. Miranda continues to experiment with the Megamycete genome over the next couple of decades, and she eventually creates the Cadou parasite, which will crop up again when we come back round to Resident Evil Village. Anyway, the year is now 1951, and a young British medical student has stumbled onto Miranda's research after getting lost on a hiking expedition. This young whippersnapper turns out to be one Oswald E. Spencer, who will prove to be very important on this timeline, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Spencer is impressed with Miranda's work, and it inspires him to undertake his own devious research into instigating the next level of human evolution. More on that very shortly. He even nabs a local symbol representing the sigil of the four houses of the area as inspiration for his iconic logo. A logo that also looks a lot like an umbrella. Speaking of Umbrella, let's chart the origins of that despicable company.
[2:40]In 1962, Spencer commissioned architect George Trevor to design and build a certain mansion and research laboratory in the Arklay Mountains. Trevor finally finishes his mad masterpiece in 1967, and it's a labyrinthine structure full of locked doors that make no logical sense. And in order to hide the mansion's terrible secrets forever, Spencer, being the awful bastard that he is, invites the Trevor family to stay, and, well, they never leave. Across the swinging 60s, he joins forces with university pal James Marcus, an eccentric millionaire Edward Ashford, on an expedition to locate a legendary African flower known as the Stairway to the Sun. This flower is said to contain powerful properties, and this is confirmed when the trio extract the progenitor virus from it. This virus has the ability to genetically alter organisms, and they immediately transport it back to the USA. Our evil trio then established the Umbrella Corporation as a legitimate pharmaceuticals company, as a cover for their totally illegitimate viral research and their ultimate goal of creating a race of superhumans. Or at least that's Spencer's ultimate goal. Ashford becomes increasingly frustrated with the other two, and he makes for Antarctica to set up his own research labs, which would later hold the Code Veronica project. Ashford never sees the Code Veronica project come to fruition, though, as in July 1968, he's injected with the progenitor virus himself on the orders of all-around bad egg Spencer, and he swiftly dies. He was succeeded by his son Alexander, who takes control of the Antarctic Umbrella lab in an effort to keep his father's work going, albeit with more of a focus on cloning. Back in the USA, Spencer and Marcus take control of Umbrella facilities in the Arklay Mountains, just outside of Raccoon City. Spencer continues his research into the progenitor virus in the lab under the newly constructed mansion, while Marcus is appointed as director of the newly founded Umbrella Training Facility. Spencer's plan is to create a race of superhumans dubbed Project Wesker, and this nefarious plan sees Umbrella kidnap a whole load of children to be loyal foot soldiers to Spencer's cause. And they're all brainwashed and injected with the progenitor virus. Sadly, most of them die, except for a certain Albert Wesker, who will come to be quite familiar with across this timeline. Meanwhile, in Antarctica, Alexander Ashford's Code Veronica project is finally complete. In 1971, Ashford creates two clones from his family DNA, Alfred and Alexia. Fast forward to January 1978, yep, the 70s were seemingly sparse for the Rezi franchise, and Marcus is making a breakthrough with his research at the Umbrella Training Facility. By splicing the progenitor with leech DNA, he creates the T virus, or at least a strain that doesn't immediately kill those exposed to it, it just turns them into hideously mutated creatures. Not sure which one of those is the better option, if I'm honest. His research is assisted by two students from the Umbrella Training Facility, doctors William Birkin and Albert Wesker. But their work together does not last long, as at the end of the school year, the Umbrella Training Facility is closed down, and Birkin, Wesker and the T virus are all moved to Spencer's Arklay Research Labs. Suspicious of Spencer's motives, Marcus continues to stay behind with his work, and experiments on anything and everything from mammals to reptiles. All of which will pop up as end of level bosses in Resident Evil Zero.
[6:16]The early 1980s are not a good time for the Ashford family. Remember Alexia? Well, she's grown up to become a 10-year-old child mastermind, and is promptly appointed the senior researcher at Umbrella's Antarctic lab. Much to the annoyance of 21-year-old Wesker. Keep up, Albert. After learning about their origin as clones, Alexia and her brother Alfred vow to hunt down and capture their father, which they succeed in doing in 1983. With Alexander in custody, Alexia uses him as a test subject for research into her new version of the T virus, known as the T Veronica virus. Surprise surprise, the experiment turns him into a psychotic monster, later known as Nosferatu. Nope, not that one. Taking the failed experiment on the chin, Alexia uses the data she obtained on her father to inject herself with the T Veronica virus, while she peacefully sleeps the effects off in a cryogenic chamber for 15 years. Don't worry, we'll come back to this mad child prodigy later on. Back in the Arklay labs, research on the virus, now headed up by William Birkin, has stalled. Umbrella have discovered that 10% of the population are naturally immune to the virus, and Birkin sets himself the morbid task of solving this unique problem. His answer comes in the form of a bio-organic weapon or BOW for short, known as the Hunter, which is born through splicing reptilian and human DNA with the T virus. Birkin's research and development continues across the 80s and culminates with the start of a little project known as the Tyrant.
[7:48]Okay, it's late 1988, and I think it's about time we catch up with our good pal James Marcus, who's slowly been going off the rails with his own brand of the T virus research. As an independent researcher, Marcus makes headway by continuing to experiment with leeches, and in some extreme cases, his own staff. And he eventually creates his magnum opus, the Queen Leech. His old mate, Oswald Spencer, is having none of this, though, and seeks to regain control of the T virus research by assassinating Marcus and stealing his work. He sends in a team of Umbrella soldiers alongside Wesker and Birkin, and they shoot and kill Marcus before dumping his body and his precious Queen Leech at a nearby sewage treatment. I wonder if they'll crop back up in this story. Spoilers, they do.
[8:39]The 90s Umbrella expand their operations across the Arklay Mountains and into neighboring Raccoon City, with Birkin making significant progress with his research, creating the superior G virus in the process. Spencer commissions a gigantic underground lab to be built underneath the city, a job that he covers up by bribing Raccoon City police chief Brian Irons. Irons.
[9:15]Fast forward to 1996, and the Raccoon City Police Department instigate the inaugural Special Tactics and Rescue Services unit, or STARS for short.
[9:31]Although it's under the jurisdiction of the RPD, it remains a privately funded independent venture, namely so Umbrella can keep their fingers in the pie. Disgusting. During this time, Albert Wesker is assigned to STARS by Umbrella, and he quickly becomes the captain of the squad's Alpha team. Right, we have finally reached the most pivotal year in the entire Resident Evil timeline, 1998, a year in which a whopping five games in the franchise take place. In May 1998, there is a catastrophic outbreak of the T virus at the Spencer Mansion Labs, and a handful of Cerberus, zombie dogs to you and me, escape into the Arklay Mountains and start killing unfortunate hikers. In an attempt to contain the outbreak, Umbrella locks down the mansion lab, and the T virus begins to spread among the poor staff still there. Naturally, with the horrific nature of the Arklay killings, the stories emerging inspire a media firestorm, and the press start putting pressure on the RPD to get the situation under control. Chief Irons dispatches the STARS Alpha and Bravo teams to investigate the surrounding mountains, with Wesker overseeing the missions. Unbeknownst to the rest of his teams, though, Wesker's directive from Umbrella HQ is instead to gain critical information about the site's BOWs, and destroy the mansion before it is discovered. Alongside that, he is ordered to gather information about the BOW's combat ability, specifically in their interactions with the incoming STARS teams.
[11:07]And so we finally reached the very first game in the Resident Evil timeline, which details the STARS Bravo team's failed mission. The Bravo team make their way out to the Arklay Mountains, only for their helicopter to crash en route, courtesy of a little bit of sabotage from our good mate Wesker. Instead of making for the Spencer Mansion, as per their original plan, the team stumble onto the wreck of a military convoy with all the soldiers very much dead. They discover that the troop had been escorting accused murderer Billy Coen, and putting two and two together and making five, assume Billy is the lad responsible for all the brutal killings. They split up, and rookie STARS member Rebecca Chambers quickly discovers an abandoned train, the Ecliptic Express. Now, remember that I said that James Marcus and his Queen Leech would make a comeback into this story? Well, boy, what a comeback it is. It turns out that when Umbrella dumped Marcus and his leech in that sewage facility, the leech slowly ate away at Marcus's body and mind, effectively absorbing his personality. The end result was a reincarnated Marcus leech hybrid thing, hell bent on revenge with Umbrella. This franchise is totally bonkers, but I absolutely love it. With Marcus back from the dead, he goes to town on the poor inhabitants of the train. And by the time Rebecca Chambers stumbles onto the train, they're all dead, or undead, I guess, having been consumed by Marcus's army of leeches. Rebecca boards the train, encounters death row inmate Billy Coen, and they start to investigate the express. Keen to get the train back on its journey, Wesker and Birkin send in a team of Umbrella soldiers who succeed in getting the train underway, but promptly get chomped by the leeches. Rebecca and Billy managed to bring the train to a stop, albeit a messy one, and emerge from the wreckage at the Umbrella Training Facility. Marcus, or the hybrid leech thing, reveals himself to Wesker and Birkin, and this leads the duo to activate the facility's self-destruct function. Caught in the middle of all of this are poor Rebecca and Billy, who navigate their way out of the facility, kill the Queen Leech, and get to safety before the place blows sky high. As they overlook the destruction, Rebecca allows the actually innocent Billy to go free, and she leaves him to go and help Alpha Team at a familiar-looking mansion. The game then ends with Billy giving the cheesiest thumbs up I've ever seen.
[13:38]Okay, we are now with the OG Resident Evil, which details the exploits of Alpha Team in their mission to investigate the Arklay killings. Headed up by Wesker, the STARS squad includes expert marksman Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, the master of unlocking, top explosives lad Barry Burton, and helicopter pilot Brad Vickers. The team successfully land near the mansion, but are quickly caught off guard by a pack of zombie dogs, which forces them into the Spencer Mansion. Separated, they each make their way through the illogical maze of corridors, encountering and surviving the zombified Umbrella staff, BOWs and various other mutations. Meanwhile, Wesker is pulling the strings behind the scenes. He strong-arms Barry into helping him set traps for the rest of the STARS team by threatening to kill his family. Chris and Jill survive everything and anything that's thrown at them, sharks, snakes, spiders, bad dialogue, and they meet up with Rebecca Chambers on their way to getting out of the mansion. Wesker is finally revealed to be a traitor to Alpha Team, and as a result, he releases Umbrella's Tyrant project, a huge mutated man mountain, in a bid to kill the remaining STARS members. Chris, Jill and Rebecca fight off the Tyrant, and thanks to the impeccable timing of Vickers's return with the helicopter, they all escape as the Spencer Mansion self-destructs. There's definitely a pattern emerging here, right? Amidst the chaos, Wesker manages to survive as well, albeit without the critical BOW samples he intended to gather, and he leaves Umbrella for good.
[15:17]Okay, a couple of months have passed, and we catch up with Jill Valentine during the events of Resident Evil 3, Nemesis. Under pressure from Umbrella, STARS has been disbanded, and nobody believes the team about what they saw in the Arklay Mountains. The T virus has very much arrived in downtown Raccoon City, having spread from that gigantic underground lab that somehow remains secret. With the zombie population on the rise, there is chaos in the streets and the RPD is quickly overwhelmed. Umbrella, in a series of questionable decisions, starts deploying BOWs all across Raccoon City. Chief among them is the dapper Mr. X and the titular foe of Rezi 3, Nemesis. Nemesis is given the mission of hunting down former STARS members, and keeping this momentum going, he begins his unrelenting chase of Jill Valentine. Across town, the Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service, God, that's a mouthful, arrive and start evacuating anyone who's not a zombie. In her attempts to escape, Jill runs into UBCS team member Carlos Oliveira, and the pair take the fight to Nemesis while trying to escape the ruins of the city. During their fight, Jill becomes infected with the T virus, leaving poor Carlos to fend for himself and find a cure for Jill. Will she survive? We'll have to wait until later because we've got a date with a blonde hunk.
[16:42]Taking place concurrently with Resident Evil 3 is the campaign to Resident Evil 2, which sees new cop on the block Leon Kennedy and Chris Redfield's sister Claire appear for the first time in the franchise. Leon arrives in Raccoon City for his first day on the job in the middle of the zombie apocalypse. After encountering Claire Redfield, who's searching for her brother Chris, at an out-of-town gas station, the pair make their way into the heart of the city before getting separated during a car accident. Leon eventually makes his way to the RPD, which is completely overrun with zombies. After navigating the station's bizarre lock and key setup, it is an old museum after all, Leon finds himself down in the cells where he runs into the mysterious Ada Wong. Ada's mission is to swipe a vial of the G virus, and Leon agrees to go along with it, the naive heartthrob. As they're investigating, the pair are attacked by Mr. X, and they escape into the sewers where they encounter Annette Birkin, wife of Umbrella scientist William. Annette injures Ada and informs Leon that he's working with a mercenary who wants to sell the virus on the black market. Leon, the fool that he is, descends into Birkin's lab anyway, swipes the G virus, and returns to Ada, who immediately holds him up at gunpoint for it. Annette pops up one last time, shoots Ada, and in the ensuing chaos, the G virus and Ada fall into the abyss. As Leon tries to escape the lab, Mr. X makes one last encore before being dispatched by a handy rocket launcher that is thrown to him by Ada, who has miraculously survived her fall. Meanwhile, Claire encounters a young girl, Sherry, daughter of William Birkin, and they managed to escape a giant creature by taking refuge in the RPD car park, where they meet morally bankrupt police chief Brian Irons. Irons. Brian kidnaps Sherry and locks her in a neighboring abandoned orphanage. As Claire mounts a rescue mission, a Tyrant drops in on Irons, infecting him with a parasite. Irons dies and Sherry flees, while Claire manages to escape into the sewers, only to bump into Sherry's mom, Annette, who reveals that the creature chasing her daughter is, in fact, her mutated father. Turns out our Will had plans to sell his G virus creation to the US military. A plan that didn't go down too well with Umbrella, who promptly sent in a team to kill him. To save himself, Birkin injected himself with the G virus, turning the good doctor into a repulsive monster. In the ensuing carnage, he destroyed a bunch of T virus stores, which led to the Raccoon City outbreaks. When Claire and Annette find Sherry, they discover that she's already been infected by her father, and the pair hatch a plan to find a cure from within Birkin's labs. Claire succeeds in finding an antidote, and in the chaos of getting back to cure Sherry, Annette is killed by her husband. Naturally, the whole facility enacts the now contractually obliged self-destruct function, and Claire and Sherry escape to an evacuation train, where they meet back up with Leon. Birkin has one more crack at killing them, fails, and is then caught in the fires of the exploding labs.
[34:03]Before we get into the madness of Resident Evil 6, we've got another jaunt back into the CG film trilogy, with the middle entry Resident Evil Damnation.
[34:17]Damnation is a considerable improvement over its predecessor, and sees Leon S. Kennedy catapulted back into the story. This time around, Leon ventures to Eastern Europe to investigate rumors that BOWs are being used in a local civil war. Obviously, they are, and he spends the run time trying to clean up the mess, with occasional help and hindrance from the lady in red herself, Ada Wong.
[34:44]Oh my God, where do I even start with Resident Evil 6?
[34:53]Playing like a greatest hits of the franchise, Resident Evil 6 features a bloated monster of a storyline with not one, not two, not even bloody three, but four different campaigns and seven major characters. The story kicks off on Christmas Eve 2012 with Jake Muller, the son of the late Albert Wesker. Hang on, when did he get busy? Yeah, Wesker fucks, being taken into custody by a grown-up Sherry Birkin, who is now a BSAA agent. Muller is the key to creating a vaccine to the new C virus, but Birkin's mission to extract him from the fictional country of Edonia is put on hold when they are hunted down by a new bio-weapon called Ustanak, which is like Nemesis on steroids. To add insult to injury, during the attack, they are abducted by an impostor calling herself Ada Wong. Meanwhile, BSAA agents Chris Redfield and Piers Nivans are in the same neighborhood to keep the local infected population under control. They soon come under attack from a new organization calling itself Neo Umbrella, supposedly led by Ada Wong, and their whole squad is wiped out by the C virus. Fast forward six months, and the American president is about to air Umbrella's dirty laundry from the 1998 Raccoon City outbreaks, but there's another bioterrorism attack and the president is infected, forcing our old friend Leon Kennedy to kill him. Leon uncovers that the National Security Advisor Derek Simmons was behind the attack, and he tracks down Simmons to a Neo Umbrella lab in Langshiang, China, with his partner Helena Harper. Chris and Piers are then dispatched to Langshiang to hunt down Ada, and they come into contact with Leon and Helena, who informed them that the Ada that they are hunting is, in fact, a clone. Following their run-in with Chris, Leon and Helena finally confront and defeat a mutated Simmons. Leon then dispatches Chris and Piers to an oil rig to rescue Jake and Sherry, and prevent another large-scale bio-terrorism attack, this time courtesy of a bio-weapon called Haos. This kitchen sink approach to storytelling all dovetails into a messy conclusion that sees Piers inject himself with the C virus to defeat Haos. Sherry and Jake then killed the behemoth Ustanak, and the real Ada destroys the lab where her clone was created. I didn't even mention the fact that the logo looks like a giraffe being sucked off by a pig.
[37:20]Unfortunately, the film trilogy closer Resident Evil Vendetta also throws everything in the kitchen sink into its overstuffed narrative too. Vendetta brings Chris and Leon back together again, but also throws Rebecca Chambers back into the mix. Yeah, remember her? Last time we saw her on the timeline was all the way back in the original Rezi, like 20 or so minutes ago. Anyway, this trio of bioterrorism busting badasses get embroiled in yet another attempt to unleash a new virus on the unsuspecting citizens of the world, but this time it's a virus with a new name. The A virus, because well, that letter wasn't yet taken. Long story short, the trio succeed, and along the way, this fan favorite is all over the shop, a new Tyrant, a launcher of the grenade variety, and of course, lots and lots of virus-riddled zombies.
[38:13]Right, after the bonkers plots of the last couple of entries, it's time to take things back to basics with the swamp land horror of Resident Evil 7. The year is 2014, and all hell is about to break loose for the Baker family. After encountering an abandoned tanker in the Louisiana Bayou, Jack Baker finds a little girl and brings her back to the family home. All appears normal until the girl wakes up and causes the Bakers to go, well,
[39:00]He soon discovers that his wife and the family have been infected with a mold-like fungus that turns them super aggressive. He escapes the hellish residence with help from the Baker's daughter Zoe, defeating Jack and Marguerite along the way. Ethan eventually discovers that his wife Mia was working as an operative for an organization that developed the little girl known as Evelyn into a bio-weapon. Evelyn escapes, and well, you know the rest of the story. Ethan finally encounters Evelyn face to giant face, eventually killing her before being rescued by none other than boulder murderer Chris Redfield. The pair escape in a helicopter with Mia, if you chose to cure her, and they fly off into the sunrise. Wait, is that an Umbrella logo on the side of that helicopter? Well, sort of. In the wake of Umbrella's messy end, another company known as Blue Umbrella emerged from the ashes with the primary goal to clean up the mess of the original corporation. In the wake of the Baker residence outbreak, Chris Redfield assists Blue Umbrella in capturing Lucas, the last remaining Baker, before he reveals the secrets of Evelyn's infection to nefarious ne'er-do-wells. Game over.
[40:13]And so we reached the final destination of this madcap roller coaster of a franchise, Resident Evil Village, or Resident Evil 8 Age, if you're being pedantic. Three and a half years have passed since the carnage of Rezi 7, and Ethan and Mia Winters are living a relatively normal life with their newborn daughter Rose. That is until our pal Chris Redfield and his Hound Wolf squad storm the Winters' residence and kidnap hapless Ethan and baby Rose. Ethan and his daughter are taken out of town, but before they can reach their destination, their truck is ambushed. The little nipper Rose is kidnapped by someone else, and Ethan is left for dead. Gosh, this lad just can't catch a break, can he? He awakens to this new nightmare and ventures into a nearby village to search for Rose. The village in question is like something out of a Universal Monster movie, complete with actual werewolves roaming the streets, and a Dracula-alike Countess lording over a giant spooky castle. After the former nearly eviscerates poor Ethan, he's imprisoned by the latter, a giant lady vampire known as Lady Dimitrescu. Having been tipped off by a mysterious merchant known simply as the Duke, Ethan discovers that Rosemary has been killed, oh God, and her body parts scattered across the village in four different flasks. Damn that's dark. The four different flasks have been entrusted to four different lords, or in a massive cool back to the very beginning of this video, four of Mother Miranda's Cadou parasite experiments. One by one, Ethan systematically dispatches these monstrosities, starting with the aforementioned tall vampire lady Dimitrescu, before offing puppet possessor Donna Beneviento, giant fish-man Salvatore Moreau, and finally, Magneto on steroids, Karl Heisenberg. After dispatching Heisenberg, Ethan discovers that Chris is in the neighborhood, and he tracks him down to have a go at him for shooting his wife. Chris explains that the Mia that he shot was actually Mother Miranda in disguise, and that she's pulling the strings on this whole damn puppet show. This surreal nightmare comes to a head when Ethan confronts Miranda, only to die for his troubles. Don't worry, we haven't seen the back, or face either, to be honest, of this lad just yet. Having witnessed Ethan's death, Chris assembles his Hound Wolf Squad, and they venture deep under the village where they discover the truth behind Mother Miranda, and her experiments with the Megamycete. Chris's plan is to deal with this truth, blow the shit out of it. He plants a charge and vacates the premises. Cut to Ethan who isn't dead. Well, actually he is, but let me explain. You see, Ethan has been dead since pretty much the very beginning of Rezi 7, after his encounter with Jack Baker. The reason that he's still alive is because he was infected by the very mold that he was trying to destroy in that game, and its powers of revival have been keeping him breathing ever since. Hence why he can just put his hand back on when it's chopped off earlier in the game. The revived Ethan once again takes the fight to Miranda, who's halfway through trying to revive her daughter Eva. With Ethan's timely intervention, she actually revives baby Rose, and with his mission complete, Ethan kills Miranda and stays behind to make sure Chris's bomb destroys the Megamycete. And as the Megamycete blows sky high, Chris jets off into the horizon with Rose, and a rescued Mia too, having found her held prisoner in the dungeons of the castle. Before we close out this timeline, there's one last little epilogue that wraps up the Winter's story with a nice, neat little bow. And that's the story DLC expansion, Shadows of Rose. It's 16 years since the events of Village, and baby Rose is all grown up. And has sadly lived a life of being bullied for her unique powers, a result of her time with Miranda and the Megamycete. Wishing to be rid of her powers, she's given an opportunity to shed them by her friend, a lad simply named K. His proposition is for Rose to enter the consciousness of a shard of the Megamycete and recover a purifying crystal to help remove her abilities. Instead of running for the hills at that clearly mad idea, Rose dives on in and finds herself in a warped version of the Dimitrescu Castle, trying to survive from a dark version of the merchant from the main village campaign. As she dives deeper through the various levels of the Megamycete, Rose is aided by a disembodied voice calling himself Michael. His golden words guide Rose past the merchant, a horde of killer dolls, and finally Evelyn, the big bad from Resident Evil 7. Rose eventually nabs the purifying crystal, but in the process comes face to face with Mother Miranda, who reveals that K was an illusion, and the whole setup was a plot to use Rose as a vessel to revive her daughter Eva. Michael also reveals himself to be Ethan's consciousness, and this lovely family reunion is promptly ruined by Miranda baying for blood. Ethan and Rose eventually overpower Miranda when Rose decides to keep her powers. And with Miranda dispatched once again, Rose finds herself back home in her own reality. And the game ends with Rose at her father's graveside, being drafted back into the machinations of some shadowy organization. And as they drive off into the distance, a mysterious figure is seen approaching their car. Who is he? Well, I guess we'll have to wait and see where this mad franchise goes next for the answer to that. And that, friends, is the Resident Evil timeline in a hideous, hideous nutshell. I hope you enjoyed this one. If you did, please make sure to check out some of my other timelines, including Dead Space, Metroid and Uncharted. Thanks a lot for watching, guys. I'll see you next time.
