Ricardo Irving

Won't you two just die already? You're making me look bad! Who do you think got this entire operation off the ground? Research like this doesn't fund itself, you know! Yet everyone looks down on me... but not any more!

History
Splendid timing! Youse two are just in time for the fireworks show! Boom!

Irving was a TriCell Pharmaceutical Company researcher, working alongside Excella Gionne, Albert Wesker, and the mysterious cloaked female. He also is the director of Tricell's oil field within Kijuju, but also has served as a black-market seller of B.O.W's. This trait earned him a place in Tricell's Resource Development Division, where he helped fund Tricell's research by illegally selling B.O.W.'s. In the end however, Ricardo was a crude, greedy man who only cared about making money. It is a probability that he was the one who supplied Excella and Wesker with samples of Las Plagas once it started to appear in the black market.

In 2006, Ricardo was contacted by the butler of Ozwell E. Spencer, Patrick. This meeting would reveal to Ricardo the location of Spencer, so that he may tell Albert Wesker, whom was involved with Tricell in a capacity at the time. Given the secrecy of the location, it may be presumed that Ricardo also told several people within Tricell, one of whom would leak the location to the BSAA, leading to Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield following Wesker, thus setting into motion the events of Resident Evil 5.



Irving's B.O.W. dealings had not gone unnoticed by the BSAA. Believing Irving to be completing another deal with terrorists in Kijuju, the BSAA sent in Chris Redfield to meet with Sheva Alomar and the BSAA's African division in order to intervene and capture Irving.

The BSAA's lack of information regarding Irving's location was something Irving was able to exploit. Changing the deal to be done in the mines, he released the Type 2 Plagas in the Kijiju Autonomous Zone, where the deal was originally going to take place, successfully creating a trap. He then released a sample of Uroboros on the BSAA's alpha team, which eliminated them. He did not expect however, that Chris and Sheva were able to destroy the monster, nor did he expect them to claim a hard disk which not only revealed the deals actual location, but also made Chris and Sheva realize the big picture of what was going on.



Chris and Sheva tailed Irving through the village and the oil field, where Irving made various attempts to eliminate them, including releasing a Popokarimu and a Ndesu upon them. While he succeeded in decimating the BSAA's delta team, he was not able to stop the two agents.

Believing there was nothing more he could do, Irving planned to abandon Tricell with his accumulated wealth. Before he could however, he was ambushed by the controlled Jill Valentine, who forced him to finish the job of eliminating Chris and Sheva. She supplied him with a sample of Las Plagas and ordered him to use it. Irving tried to eliminate Chris and Sheva by destroying the oil field. However, due to the field being more dry than predicted, Chris and Sheva managed to escape the explosion.

Transformation
I'm far beyond anything you could ever hope to become I just had an extreme make-over!

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As punishment for not previously eliminating the two BSAA agents, Irving was forced to infect himself with a Control Plaga, turning him into a massive tentacled monster. Despite his transformation, Irving was defeated by the two agents. Just before dying, Irving mentioned that all their answers were in the cave.

Trivia

 * The "Syringe" he uses to infect himself with the Control Plaga is quite strange, as it is an air-injector, compared to more conventional syringes.
 * In many ways, Ricardo Irving can be seen as a spiritual successor to Ramon Salazar. Both were corrupted by external influences. Both eventually mutated (Salazar had the Plagas all along, Irving injected). Both would have their human bodies be a weak point on their Plagas Creatures (The Wall Plant versus The Sea Monster).
 * As revealed in a diary entry written by Ozwell Spencer's butler, Patrick, Irving had connections to a "female spy" who knew Albert Wesker. The spy is most likely Ada Wong.