Resident Evil recap: the story so far

No. 01 · 2002 · Film

Resident Evil recap

Inside the Hive, a secret Umbrella laboratory under Raccoon City, someone releases the T-virus, and the facility's computer, the Red Queen, seals the building and kills everyone inside. Alice wakes with no memory in a mansion above it, along with a police officer, Matt Addison, before an Umbrella commando team storms in. The team, led by One and including Rain Ocampo, takes them down to shut the Red Queen off. Another amnesiac, Spence, turns out to be Alice's partner as a security operative. One and much of the team are cut apart by lasers in a corridor, and when the Red Queen goes offline, the doors open and the dead staff come back as zombies. Rain is bitten. Alice remembers she was planning to expose Umbrella with Matt's sister, and that Spence stole the virus to sell, releasing it to cover his escape.

How Resident Evil ends

Alice and Matt escape the Hive, but Umbrella takes them away, and Alice wakes alone in a hospital to find Raccoon City overrun. A Licker, a mutated creature, kills Spence and Rain turns, and the Licker slashes Matt as the survivors reach the train. When the blast doors close, Umbrella scientists seize them and send Matt into the Nemesis program. Alice walks out of the empty hospital into a ruined Raccoon City with a shotgun.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 02 · 2004 · Film

Resident Evil: Apocalypse recap

The T-virus has escaped into Raccoon City, and Umbrella seals the city behind walls, leaving its people to die. Alice, now with enhanced strength from Umbrella's experiments, joins a small group of survivors: the police officer Jill Valentine, the Umbrella soldier Carlos Olivera, and the petty criminal L.J. Dr. Charles Ashford, the virus's creator, contacts them with a deal: find his daughter Angela, trapped at her school, and he will get them out before the city is destroyed. Umbrella's Major Cain sends a new weapon after Alice: Nemesis, a giant mutant with a rocket launcher. Alice and the others find Angela, who has been given the T-virus and its antivirus to treat a disease. Cain captures them at the evacuation point and orders Alice to fight Nemesis.

How Resident Evil: Apocalypse ends

Alice refuses to kill Nemesis when she realises he is Matt Addison, and he turns on Umbrella and dies protecting her. The survivors throw Cain out of the helicopter to the zombies and escape just as a nuclear warhead destroys Raccoon City, but the blast brings the helicopter down and Alice is killed by a pole. Umbrella revives her in a lab, and she escapes with the others, but Dr. Isaacs says her escape was part of Umbrella's plan.

Post-credits scenes

During the credits, a fake Umbrella advert for a skin product plays. There is no story scene after the credits.

No. 03 · 2007 · Film

Resident Evil: Extinction recap

Five years after Raccoon City, the T-virus has spread across the world and dried up the land. Alice wanders the desert alone, avoiding Umbrella, which is tracking her through satellites, while Dr. Isaacs in an underground lab clones Alice to make a cure from her blood. Claire Redfield leads a convoy of survivors that includes Carlos, L.J. and a teenager, K-Mart. Alice saves them from a flock of infected crows with new telekinetic powers and convinces them to head for Alaska, which may be free of infection. Isaacs, defying the Umbrella chairman Albert Wesker, ambushes the convoy in Las Vegas with zombies he has bred to be faster. L.J., who hid a bite, turns and bites Carlos. Isaacs is bitten and injects himself with a heavy dose of the antivirus, which turns him into a monstrous Tyrant.

How Resident Evil: Extinction ends

Alice kills Isaacs in a laser corridor copied from the Hive, and the convoy flies to Alaska while Alice vows to come after Wesker. Carlos drives a tanker of explosives into the horde to clear the way, and Claire takes the survivors north by helicopter. A surviving Alice clone saves the real Alice from the lasers. In Tokyo, Alice appears at Wesker's meeting by hologram and warns him that she and her clones are coming.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 04 · 2008 · Film

Resident Evil: Degeneration recap

In 2005, seven years after Raccoon City, a T-virus outbreak hits Harvardville Airport in the United States. Claire Redfield, now working for the aid group TerraSave, is trapped there with the senator Ron Davis and a girl named Rani. The government sends the agent Leon S. Kennedy, who teams up with the police officer Angela Miller to get them out. A terrorist threatens a wider attack, and vaccine trucks belonging to the drug company WilPharma are blown up. Claire goes to WilPharma's lab with its head scientist, Frederic Downing. Angela's brother Curtis is behind the terror campaign; his family died in Raccoon City and he wants the government's cover-up exposed. Curtis injects himself with the G-virus and mutates into a giant creature, and a bomb goes off at the lab.

How Resident Evil: Degeneration ends

Leon shoots Curtis, who falls to his death, and Downing is arrested for selling the viruses and manipulating Curtis. Leon and Angela escape the lab as it burns. Downing turns out to be a former Umbrella researcher who stole the T and G viruses and planned to sell them. Davis resigns over a scandal and is later found dead, killed by the company Tricell, which takes G-virus samples from Curtis's body and moves to buy WilPharma. That sets up Resident Evil 5.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 05 · 2010 · Film

Resident Evil: Afterlife recap

Alice and her clones storm Umbrella's Tokyo headquarters and kill nearly everyone there. Albert Wesker escapes by aircraft, blows up the facility, and injects the real Alice with a serum that removes her powers before the plane crashes. Six months later, Alice follows radio broadcasts promising a safe place, Arcadia, to Alaska, but finds only Claire Redfield, who has lost her memory because of an Umbrella device on her chest. They fly to Los Angeles and land on a prison where a group of survivors led by Luther West are holding out. One prisoner is Claire's brother, Chris Redfield, who knows a way out, and he and Claire are reunited. They learn Arcadia is a ship off the coast. A giant executioner with an axe breaks through the gates, and the survivors are picked off, while the film producer Bennett betrays them and steals Alice's plane.

How Resident Evil: Afterlife ends

Alice, Claire and Chris reach Arcadia, free its captive survivors and defeat Wesker, but an Umbrella air fleet arrives to attack the ship. Wesker, revived by the T-virus, wants to consume Alice to control it. With help from K-Mart, they trap him with Bennett, whom he devours, and Wesker's plane explodes after Alice moves his bomb aboard, though he parachutes clear. Luther turns up alive. The aircraft are commanded by Jill Valentine, controlled by an Umbrella device.

Post-credits scenes

During the credits, Jill Valentine, with a control device on her chest, appears with the Umbrella assault, setting up Retribution.

No. 06 · 2012 · Film

Resident Evil: Retribution recap

An Umbrella attack led by the brainwashed Jill Valentine takes the Arcadia, and Alice is captured. She wakes in a huge underwater base in Kamchatka where Umbrella simulates outbreaks in copies of real cities, using clones. In a suburban set, an Alice clone lives with a husband and a deaf daughter, Becky. When the power fails, Alice escapes and meets Ada Wong, who works for Albert Wesker. Wesker has turned against Umbrella, now run by the Red Queen, and has sent a rescue team led by Leon S. Kennedy with Barry Burton and Luther West. Alice finds Becky, who thinks she is her mother, and protects her. Jill attacks with clones of Alice's dead friends Rain, One and Carlos, and Barry dies holding them off.

How Resident Evil: Retribution ends

Alice frees Jill from Umbrella's control, Rain is dragged under the ice, and Wesker gives Alice back her powers in Washington, where the last humans prepare for a final siege. A super-strong Rain clone kills Luther before Alice drowns her. Wesker's base is the White House, and from the roof he shows Alice the vast army of monsters outside. The film ends as the survivors brace for that final battle in The Final Chapter.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 07 · 2012 · Film

Resident Evil: Damnation recap

In 2011, Leon S. Kennedy goes into the Eastern Slav Republic, a former Soviet state in civil war, to check rumours that bio-weapons are being used. He ignores an order to pull out. Rebel fighters capture him, and he learns they are using the Las Plagas parasite to control Lickers and other monsters against the government. Their leader is Alexander "Buddy" Kozachenko, a teacher whose students and fiancee were killed by the government. Ada Wong, posing as an agent, works with the country's president, Svetlana Belikova, and is after a Plagas sample herself. Leon warns the rebels that their old leader, Ivan, is infected, and Buddy has to kill him when the parasite takes over. The parasite then turns the other rebels, Leon is forced to kill Buddy's friend JD, and the government bombs the city. Belikova arrests Ada, and Leon and Buddy end up fighting together in the presidential bunker as she unleashes Tyrants.

How Resident Evil: Damnation ends

Leon and Buddy destroy the Tyrants with a tank, Belikova resigns as Russian and American troops arrive, and Leon spares Buddy by shooting his spine to free him from the parasite. Buddy asks to be killed before the parasite takes him over, and Leon refuses and severs its control, leaving him paralysed. Ada keeps her sample and tells her employer she has it, without saying whether she will hand it over, and Leon reports back to his handler, Hunnigan.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. After the credits, Buddy, in a wheelchair, pushes himself up a hill behind a group of children on their way to school, back to teaching.

No. 08 · 2016 · Film

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter recap

Alice wakes in the ruins of Washington, betrayed by Wesker. The Red Queen tells her that Umbrella has an airborne antivirus in the Hive under Raccoon City that could kill all the infected, but in 48 hours the last human survivors will die. Alice heads back to where it began. On the way, she is captured by Dr. Isaacs, alive and revealed to be the original, the man she killed in Extinction being a clone. She escapes and meets survivors in Raccoon City, including Claire Redfield and Doc. Inside the Hive, the Red Queen shows Isaacs' plan: Umbrella released the virus on purpose to wipe out mankind, while its elite sleep in cryogenic pods. Alice learns she is a clone of Alicia Marcus, the dying daughter of Umbrella's founder, who opposed the plan. Doc turns out to be a traitor.

How Resident Evil: The Final Chapter ends

Alice releases the antivirus, which kills the infected and spares her, and she rides off to keep fighting until it spreads around the world. Alicia fires Wesker, the Red Queen traps his leg in a security door, and Alice leaves him holding a dead man's switch; when he drops it, the Hive, Alicia and Umbrella's frozen elite are destroyed. On the surface, Isaacs is killed by his own clone, who is then eaten by zombies. Claire wakes Alice, and the Red Queen gives her Alicia's childhood memories, so she has a past at last.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. After the credits, the Red Queen's voice is heard saying, "You're all going to die down here."

No. 09 · 2017 · Film

Resident Evil: Vendetta recap

In 2014, BSAA agent Chris Redfield raids a mansion in Mexico to rescue an informant from Glenn Arias, a former government agent turned arms dealer. Arias's family and friends were killed when a drone strike hit his wedding, and he wants revenge on the United States. Chris's team is wiped out, and Arias escapes with his allies Diego and Maria Gomez. Months later, the former S.T.A.R.S. member Rebecca Chambers, now a researcher, is studying a new strain of virus that can lie dormant until triggered, and that makes victims obey their masters. Arias's people attack her lab, and Chris saves her. They recruit Leon S. Kennedy, depressed after killing an infected SWAT team, and learn that Arias plans to release the virus in New York City. Rebecca is kidnapped and infected with a strain the vaccine cannot cure.

How Resident Evil: Vendetta ends

Chris and Leon stop the attack on New York, kill Arias and his monster ally, and save Rebecca with the antidote. Leon's team destroys the gas tankers. Chris throws Arias through a glass wall to his death, and Diego, fused with Arias, becomes a Tyrant that Chris and Leon destroy. The antidote cures the infected across the city. Maria survives and finds her father's body, and she returns for revenge in Death Island.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 10 · 2021 · Series

Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness recap

This four-episode Netflix series is set in 2006. In episode 1, hackers break into White House systems and several staff turn into zombies. Leon S. Kennedy and the soldiers Jason and Shen May are sent on a covert submarine mission to investigate, while Claire Redfield, working for an aid group in the war-torn country of Penamstan, finds evidence that its people were exposed to bio-weapons. In episode 2, infected rats kill the submarine crew, and in Shanghai, Jason and Shen May reveal they are trying to expose the defence secretary, Wilson; Leon appears to shoot Jason. In episode 3, Shen May tells Leon that her brother was infected in Penamstan and that Jason's unit, the Mad Dogs, were also infected and became Wilson's private army. Wilson's men capture Claire. In episode 4, Claire wakes in Wilson's lab, where he admits he is breeding super-soldiers and tries to recruit her, while the president prepares a peace accord with Penamstan.

How Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness ends

Leon and Claire escape Wilson's lab after Jason, transformed into a monster, kills Shen May, and Leon keeps the evidence against Wilson rather than release it. Wilson is infected and goes into hiding with help from the company Tricell. Jason is destroyed as acid floods the lab. The president signs a peace deal with Penamstan, and Leon and Claire go their separate ways, with Leon planning to use the evidence quietly to stop bio-weapons being used again.

No. 11 · 2021 · Film

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City recap

In 1998, Claire Redfield returns to Raccoon City, the Umbrella company town where she and her brother Chris grew up in an orphanage, to warn him that Umbrella is poisoning the town. People are turning into zombies. Chris, with the S.T.A.R.S. team of Jill Valentine, Albert Wesker, Richard Aiken and Brad Vickers, investigates the Spencer Mansion, where the Bravo team has disappeared. Wesker is secretly working for a rival to steal Umbrella's research. Rookie officer Leon S. Kennedy, on his first night, teams up with Claire at the police station, where Chief Brian Irons is cut off from escape. In the mansion, Chris and Jill fight the zombie-eaten remains of their teammates. Leon and Claire go through the orphanage to the secret lab, guided by Lisa Trevor, a disfigured girl Claire knew as a child, while Umbrella prepares to destroy the town at dawn.

How Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City ends

The survivors escape on an underground train as Raccoon City is destroyed, after Leon kills the mutated William Birkin. In the lab, Wesker kills Annette Birkin and is shot by Jill, and William injects himself with the G-virus. Chris, Jill, Claire, Leon and William's daughter Sherry board the train, and Birkin catches them; Leon blows him up with a rocket launcher. The five walk out of the tunnel as Umbrella announces there are no survivors.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In a mid-credits scene, Wesker wakes up in a body bag, unable to see; a woman gives him sunglasses and introduces herself as Ada Wong.

No. 12 · 2022 · Series

Resident Evil recap

The single season runs in two timelines. In 2022, the twins Jade and Billie Wesker move with their father, Albert, an Umbrella scientist, to New Raccoon City, a company town in South Africa where Umbrella is preparing to launch a new antidepressant, Joy, made from the T-virus. Billie is bitten by an infected dog and becomes infected, and Jade learns that Umbrella's CEO Evelyn Marcus is hiding what the drug does. Albert, one of several clones of the original Wesker, reveals that the girls were engineered and that their blood keeps him alive. In 2036, fourteen years after Joy started an outbreak that infected six billion people, the adult Jade is a scientist studying the "zeroes" in the ruins of Europe while hiding from Umbrella. She is captured and escapes, and kills a zero queen. Umbrella's forces close in on Jade, her husband Arjun and their daughter Bea. Jade finds a way to attract the zeroes and sends a swarm against an Umbrella base, but Umbrella's drones wipe them out.

How Resident Evil ends

In 2036, Billie, now commanding Umbrella's forces, shoots Jade when she offers to surrender in exchange for her daughter, and Jade gets up again; the story stops there. In 2022, Evelyn shoots Albert, and Billie turns out to have been controlling Umbrella. A contact Albert left for Jade is revealed to be Ada Wong. Netflix cancelled the series after one season, so none of this is resolved.

No. 13 · 2023 · Film

Resident Evil: Death Island recap

In 1998, during the Raccoon City outbreak, an Umbrella soldier named Dylan Blake is ordered to kill his own infected squad. In 2015, Leon S. Kennedy is sent to catch a robotics researcher, Antonio Taylor, but Taylor is kidnapped and Leon is stopped by Maria Gomez. Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine investigate deaths from a new strain of the T-virus with Rebecca Chambers, all linked to tourist visits to Alcatraz. Claire Redfield finds infected whales nearby. Jill, still struggling with guilt over the things she did under Umbrella's control, insists on going with Chris. On Alcatraz, a zombie outbreak breaks out, and they find Leon. Dylan, now leading Glenn Arias's old network, captures them, infects Chris, Claire and Leon with mosquito-sized drones, and makes Jill watch.

How Resident Evil: Death Island ends

Leon, Chris, Jill, Claire and Rebecca kill Dylan, who has merged with a monster, and wait together for the BSAA to pick them up. Rebecca makes a vaccine that cures the others, and Leon kills Maria in a fight. Claire and Rebecca turn Dylan's drones against him, and the others finish him with explosives. Chris tells Jill she is a hero.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 14 · 2026 · Film

Resident Evil recap

On the night the T-virus breaks out in Raccoon City, Bryan, a medical courier, takes a last-minute delivery to Raccoon City General Hospital while arguing on the phone with his pregnant girlfriend, Michelle. He hits a woman on a mountain road; the deputy who stops him dies in a crash, and the infected woman attacks. At a farm Bryan is ambushed by her husband, and the two bodies fuse into a tentacled mass that hunts him for the rest of the night. A girl bites him in a tunnel. Two Umbrella employees, Paul and Maxine, rescue him and explain that the package holds a stabiliser scientists need for a cure. Maxine is killed and Paul is absorbed into the creature as Bryan fights his way through the sewers and a hospital overrun with mutated patients, recording a goodbye to Michelle as his bite spreads.

How Resident Evil ends

Bryan delivers the package, but his infection takes over as the scientists begin work on the cure: his body sprouts mutant limbs that kill them, and the finished cure falls from the rooftop. Fully transformed, he roars as National Guard helicopters arrive over the city. The film is a standalone reboot that runs alongside the events of the Resident Evil 2 game and features none of the game characters.

Post-credits scenes

No post-credits scene has been reported.