Chad Kaplan

The bitch wouldn't open the door, so I had to fry her.

Chad Kaplan was the computer technician of the commando unit sent into the Hive to shut down the Red Queen.

Biography

 * NOTE: The following section contains information that appears in the Resident Evil novelizations, which have been classified as non-canon from the primary movieverse

Prior to his service with One, Kaplan was a computer technician who worked for the Federal Bureau. Timothy Cain offered him a position in an Umbrella special forces commando unit and Kaplan took Cain's offer, eventually falling under the command of One. The team's mission was to go into The Hive and shut down the Red Queen, who killed everyone in the Hive except for Spence Parks. Though Kaplan was the second-in-command, he had seen no prior action and was the only rookie on the team. Despite this, One evidently trusted Kaplan enough to tell him his real name, James Shade.

The Hive
Kaplan was a competent computer technician and disabled all of the Red Queen's security devices up until they nearly reached her room. Unfortunately, the Red Queen activated her trump card as Shade, Olga Danilova, Vance Drew, and Alfonso Warner entered the corridor leading to her room. She locked the doors leading into and out of the corridor, activating a dormant defense mechanism. Kaplan worked quickly to deactivate it, however, one by one the commandos were killed until only James Shade remained alive. Kaplan managed deactivate the laser grid seconds after Shade had been cut into pieces.

Though frightened, Kaplan he convinced himself (and Spence Parks) that they had to finish the mission. He was not fooled by the Red Queen's attempts to trick him and Alice, who entered the Queen's Chamber. Befor he shut her down, her last message to him was that they would die in the Hive.

When Alice, Spence, and Kaplan met up with J.D. and Rain, who waited in Dining Hall B with Matt Addison, the group was attacked by a swarm of undead.

Compromised by his fear, Kaplan failed several times to successfully enter the code which would open the doors to the team's to escape. J.D. Salinas impatiently pushed Kaplan out of the way, and ordered Kaplan to tell him the code. J.D. managed to open the door, but the room was full of undead. The undead devoured J.D., and the others fled.

Death
Though Alice tried to convince him that they would all escape, Kaplan lost hope, and thought they would all die. Unfortunately, during their escape, he was separated from the group and surrounded by a horde, and bitten several times. Defenseless, Kaplan managed to escape and joined the surviving team later via a vent to another level.

The others had restarted the Red Queen in an attempt to help them, but the program refused to aid them until Alice killed the infected Rain. Matt, Alice and Rain were trapped in a lab until Kaplan fried the Red Queen's motherboard. Kaplan escaped with the others, barring Spence, who betrayed them and was killed by the Enhanced Licker.

While driving the train Kaplan was attacked by the mutated licker and pulled out of the train in the process.


 * Novelization information ends here