Dead Air

'Dead Air' is a story presented in Resident Evil: The Official Comic Magazine.

Taking place sometime after the events of Resident Evil 2, Dead Air is part one in a three-part story arc told over the course of three issues. it is followed by Zombies Abroad and Kane and Abe.

Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine and Barry Burton are dispatched by the US government to search for Umbrella laboratories in Europe. Because they are undercover, they are having to go without their S.T.A.R.S. identification, and thus ride in coach. Unknown to them, they are being watched by a mysterious man on a cellphone.

As they board, the man tells his equally unknown caller (someone high up in the Umbrella chain of command) that he has contaminated the airplane's water supply with a fast-acting version of the T-virus. Later, in midflight, passengers in first class being turning into zombies.

Chris, Jill and Barry leap into action, using a variety of improvised weapons to defend themselves and the other passengers from the undead, as they fight their way through to first class. As Jill kills what she thinks is the final zombie, she realizes with horror it was the pilot. No one is flying the plane!

Characters

 * Barry Burton
 * Chris Redfield
 * Jill Valentine
 * Umbrella Agent
 * First Class Passenger
 * First Clas Stewardess
 * Pilot