The Devil You Know – As the second episode of Resident Evil begins, Jade Wesker (Ella Balinska) falls to the ground before the zombies begin chasing her. Richard Baxter (Turlough Convery) tells his men to keep her alive as they begin shooting the zombies. Once she finds a place to hide, Richard encourages her to come with them because she is dead if they stop shooting. A vehicle bursts through the gate so Jade decides to join them. She runs through the zombies and climbs on top of the vehicle before it drives off. After the intro, Jade (Tamara Smart) checks on Billie (Siena Agudong) after the dog attack at the Umbrella facility. Once Billie comes through, she jokes she isn’t a dog person anymore before Jade argues she needs to see a doctor.

Jade helps her get into a chair and checks the wound. Albert (Lance Reddick) enters to see if the dog bit her. He finds that she is in shock. Albert instructs Jade to take her home and keep pressure on the wound. He tells them to go through the door at the end of the hall and cut through the backfield to make sure Umbrella doesn’t see them. Once they leave, it looks like Albert erases all data from the computer system to protect them. The man in the vehicle gets out and tells Jade to leave because Umbrella is after her. She warns him that they’re not going to let him just leave. Jade believes they can save one another. Zombies begin dropping down from above and the man is soon overpowered. Jade breaks through the sunroof before driving away from the zombies.

Once guards arrive at the Umbrella facility, they find Albert who tells them there has been an incident. Jade and Billie make it home and discuss that dog that looked dead. Albert tells them that everything was fine one minute, but the screens turned red and all hell broke loose. Evelyn Marcus (Paola Nunez) arrives and tells them that she runs the company. Evelyn learns that the blood on Albert’s shirt isn’t his. She asks for the guard to be fired, but he is already gone. Albert claims they got hacked and the hacker overrode their security. Once the cage was unlocked, the dog got out. She reveals that every hard drive on campus was wiped by whoever did this. Although they have backups of the research, Evelyn calls it a pain in her butt. She wonders why they’d want to burn it all down. She splits her time between here and Tokyo.

He warns her that the drugs have side effects, but she argues that they’re minor. Albert asks if she saw the monster in the lobby. Evelyn says they can fix it and make it better although they’re taking the Tijuana incident seriously. She is moving the Joy production line here to keep an eye on it and take advantage of the tax breaks. Evelyn claims they’re going to drive it home like the old days. As they walk out, a distraught Diana (Emily Child) rushes in to check on Evelyn. She tells Albert that Diana is her wife. Diana gets upset that Evelyn didn’t tell her she was back so she storms out. Before Albert leaves, Evelyn tells him to say hi to the girls for her. Once he gets home, he checks Billie’s wound and asks for the first aid kit. Billie asks what bit her. Albert says a dog with a rare genetic disease that he was trying to help. He doesn’t think she will get sick.

They don’t want to say why they went to the lab in the first place. Billie takes responsibility for the idea. She explains they thought Umbrella was doing testing on rabbits, but Albert argues that they’re not. He suspects it would’ve been worse if he hadn’t woken up and realized they took his keycard. Albert warns his daughters that they cannot tell anyone. If Umbrella found out, they’d all be arrested and some of the things inside are classified since they’re government projects. They’d probably never see each other again. Albert thinks he can resolve this right now, but it has to stay between them. In the present, Jade drives to Dover, England. She goes into a community where she eventually meets with Melinda (Corien Pelt). She says they met a while back because her husband Barry got her here from Cairo.

Jade goes inside with her as she learns that Barry is not home. She remembers that Umbrella wasn’t around the last time she came here so Melinda explains the city signed a security contract with them last month. They haven’t had a single infection since. The cameras make Melinda more comfortable since Umbrella is always watching. Jade uses her sat link to get in touch with Arjun (Ahad Raza Mir) who thought she was dead. Jade tells him scavengers took her equipment. When he learns about her situation, he tells her to get to Calais even though it is Brotherhood territory since they’re better than Umbrella. She’ll have to get across the channel so he can send a team to get her. Jade asks to talk to Bea only to learn she is at ballet practice. After the call, Jade tells Melinda that she needs to see Barry. Melinda threatens to call Umbrella before they hear a noise in another room.

Once Jade looks in the bathroom, she sees a handcuffed zombie banging his head against the wall over and over. Melinda says Barry wasn’t feeling well when he came home from his last trip. She found him chained in the bathroom the next morning. Jade warns her that he’ll get free and kill her, but Melinda isn’t going to change her mind. Then, Jade admits she needs to find a way to get to France. Melinda believes Charon could possibly help her. Barry kept all that information in his pocketbook so they’ll have to get it t get in touch with Charon. Jade decides to retrieve it. Although she does, Barry breaks free and attacks his wife. Jade has to kill him to save her, but Melinda isn’t happy about it. In the past, Albert checks on Billie who says she is sore. He checks on her to make sure she isn’t getting an infection. Jade watches from the doorway as Albert gets a syringe ready.

Jade tries to find out more about the incident in Tijuana only for a website claiming to reveal the truth to be blocked. Albert tells her that Billie is staying home today as a precaution and he gave her something to help her rest. Albert checks Billie’s blood. Jade looks in on Billie who thanks her for saving her. Albert begins changing so he has to inject himself to stop it. At school, Jade learns that Simon (Connor Gosatti) got the new Deca-Dence which is an anime that is hard to get. Umbrella blocks torrent sites and Simon is the only one that can get around the firewall. Jade tells Simon that he is disgusting even though she wants his help getting past Umbrella’s firewall. He thinks she wants to view porn. Simon asks what he gets for helping her. He likes her necklace. They go outside where Simon explains he taught himself how to do this because he has lived in Umbrella housing his entire life.

Once he gets past the firewall, they learn that someone was bitten by an animal and it turned them psycho enough to start eating people. Jade leaves a comment that she believes it is happening in her town along with her email address. Melinda gives Richard a cookie. He tells her that their drones picked up a person of interest so he visited her. When he shows her a picture of Jade, Melinda admits she was here asking about her husband. Jade goes to Charon and tells him that Barry sent her. She tries to pay for transportation with her ring, but she is told the fee is double for any friend of Barry. She steals a man’s coin. Evelyn requests to see Albert who visits her moments later. She admits they haven’t found out who hacked them yet. Albert asks what she wants. She wants Joy new and improved on their shelves within two months.

She tells him that he can do it because he is a genius. Plus, it could help cutters, spastics, chronic masturbators, and others. Albert warns her that they’ll make mistakes and people will die just like last time. He wants out. Evelyn checks his neck and asks how often he is injected now. She says they all need each other since he needs his blood bags and she needs him. Evelyn tells him to get to work. At home, Billie gets out of bed to look at the wound in the mirror. It makes her sick enough to throw up in the toilet. She wants to take her dog for a walk, but the dog barks and growls at her. Jade gets an email from the admin of UmbrellaTruth.com asking for a video chat.

Angel Rubio (Pedro De Tavira) eventually shows her his face as he tries to find out about the person who was bitten. He reveals he was an investigative reporter at The Baja Post and has been looking into Umbrella’s health and safety violations for years. Jade learns that a worker at a lab went on a rampage and killed nine people last week. His wife said he was bitten by an animal in a lab before he became erratic. The company got him fired when he tried to publish the news. Jade confirms she saw the bite and there was a red bite around it. Rubio hears a teacher call her Jade Wesker before she shuts the computer and runs off to class. Billie takes her dog for a walk and it seems eager to get away from her. Pablo tries to bite her when she attempts to take the dog from a man who picked him up.

When the man tries to take the dog to the shelter, Billie hits him in the face. She grabs the dog and leaves in a hurry. In the present, people start getting killed while waiting for the boat. Umbrella arrives to take Jade. Billie begins zoning out when blood flows down her lip. The cage in the cage at Umbrella tries to break free as the episode ends.

 

Resident Evil Review

The second episode of Resident Evil didn’t show any real improvement from the first and still has some of the same issues. It is really hard to get behind any of the characters because many are more annoying than sympathetic. The dialogue is pretty bad when it drops those one-liner jokes that just make you cringe. The CGI and special effects are a good point for the series and some of the performances are good, but there isn’t a lot to like about Resident Evil.

The scenes that should be frightening and tense are more humorous than anything. It is strange to see the two sisters stroll through Umbrella’s offices where classified information is kept without a single guard in the building. It doesn’t help that the show is trying to tell two stories simultaneously and neither is particularly interesting.

Removing the Resident Evil name would likely lessen the sting a bit, but it’d still just be a polished turd. I did enjoy the scenes with Pablo the Dog though. The episode scores a 4 out of 10. Recaps of Resident Evil can be found on Reel Mockery here. Find out how to support our work at this link.