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Raccoon City Center
October 9, 1:57 p.m.
Sherry: You should be close to the coordinates.
Leon: Yeah. Looks like it. I’ll take a look around then. Can’t believe it’s still standing.
Marvin (V.O.): It’s on you now.
Leon: Sherry, I’m in R.P.D.
Sherry: It’s been a while since you’ve been back there…
Leon: Yeah. Looks like the BSAA set up HQ here.
Sherry: Abandoned?
Leon: Not sure. That fucking guy… And Grace. Shit, she’s in danger. Sherry, I found Grace.
Sherry: At R.P.D.?
Leon: Yeah, exactly. And someone’s been expecting us. Got a lock on her location. Headed there now.
Sherry: Copy that.
Leon: Shit. Need to pry this open.
Leon: Hey, Lieutenant Branagh. Kennedy… reporting for duty.
Leon: Jesus. Rest easy, officer.
Leon: Good lives needlessly lost…
Leon: Old faithful. Time to crack open that shutter.
Zeno: You need to understand. Covert military units from every country on Earth come to Raccoon City for one purpose… to find Elpis.
Grace: Wh-What is Elpis?
Zeno: The power to upset the military balance of the world. The last virus created by Spencer. Designed to control human consciousness.
Grace: Mind control?
Zeno: They couldn’t let it be stolen. So they launched the missile strike to hide it.
Grace: To hide a virus… Why do something so extreme?
Zeno: Extreme? Is it? When the president tried to investigate, they had him assassinated. And you are the key to retrieving Elpis.
Grace: Emily?
Zeno: In a way, but not the girl you met. So many attempts. So many failures. Such a waste.
Grace: Wh-What do you mean?
Zeno: Copies, crafted to duplicate you. All useless. All scrapped. They each have their own sad story.
Raccoon City Orphanage
February 1990
Researcher A: Oh my god!
Researcher B: We need to do something!
Researcher A: I called security, but nobody answered.
Researcher B: They are out of control.
Researcher C: Doctor, we can’t contain them!
Researcher B: Sedate them, now!
Researcher A: Are you kidding me!?
Researcher B: Get out of my way!
Chloe: Hey, are you awake? What? Where did everybody go? Weren’t they just here? But it’s past our bedtime.
Researcher A: Stay away! Stay away! Get back! Don’t come any closer! No… No, get back! Get back!
Chloe: Hey! What are you doing!? Wh-What was that? Please… Someone help me. He’s not… moving. Please open. Wh-What do I do!? What do I do!? Please just be a bad dream. Wh-Why did they… Wh-What’s wrong with them!? Wh-What… What is this place? Are those… babies?
Researcher B: Chloe?
Chloe: Is that how I—?
Researcher B: I’ve got her! Get over here, now! She’s showing symptoms too. We need to get rid of her.
Zeno: They weren’t able to recreate Spencer’s key. But now we have the original. We have you. You can unlock Elpis at ARK. That’s where we’ll go.
Grace: So, wh-what? I-I… I was made?
Zeno: Correct.
Grace: S-So it really was all my fault?
Zeno: What was?
Grace: Th-That Mom was m-murdered and… Oh god, that Emily, sh-she turned into that… that thing.
Zeno: What’s done is done. You need to focus on the future.
Grace: Was she even really my mother?
Zeno: It’s time to embrace your destiny.
Leon: Grace!
Grace: Mom…
Leon: What the…
Zeno: Mr. Kennedy. I had a feeling you’d make an appearance. Sorry, but I don’t have time to spare. Have fun.
Leon: I remember you. I remember that, too. Sherry. Wasn’t there an orphanage around here?
Sherry: Yes, there was. Why?
Leon: I’m gonna do some digging.
Sherry: I just sent you the coordinates.
Leon: I don’t have time to deal with this. Give me a goddamn break!
Sherry: Everything all right, Leon?
Leon: Yeah. I’m good.
Sherry: So, why’d you ask about the orphanage?
Leon: They’re taking Grace to ARK. The orphanage is the entrance.
Sherry: What is ARK?
Leon: Not sure, but apparently it’s someplace important.
Leon: It hasn’t changed.
Kendo (V.O.): “Terminate”? That’s my fucking daughter! You’re a cop. You’re supposed to know something—how did this happen!? This fuckin’ things outside… Look what they did to us.
Leon: I am so sorry. Never again.
Leon: Fuck me. I couldn’t save them… But I can stop bastards like you. Die already, you son of a bitch. Not… yet… I’ll stop you as many times as I have to.