Dulvey incident

The Dulvey incident (tentative) was a viral outbreak in Dulvey, Louisiana, caused by an unstable human bio-weapon with hypnotic powers, which also spawned a series of murders perpetrated by Jack, Marguerite, and Lucas Baker.

Background
The bioweapon Eveline was the cause of the incident. She was created and birthed in 2014 by The Connections crime syndicate and was artificially aged to appear as a ten-year-old child to suit her purpose for infiltration. Eveline had a human-like appearance and consciousness, and had the ability to spread a mold-like infection to people which allowed her to telepathically-like communicate to, manipulate and control them. Her mold would also enable the victims to have superhuman strength and regeneration. Although her infection could be suppressed, further infection would render the person's state incurable.

The threat of Eveline and The Connections made them targets to be stopped by Blue Umbrella, a PMC with the goal to stop bioterrorists and Bio Organic Weapons. However, her abilities also signaled her superiority to the majority of available bioweapons in the black market, which puts her as a target for other organizations to acquire and mercenary groups to find and kill.

In October 2014, her creators decided to bring her into hiding and transported her on the cargo ship Annabelle, to be brought to a second laboratory. She was cared for by agents Alan and Mia Winters, who acted as her parents in public. Eveline genuinely felt Mia as her mother, stemmed from her lack of familial love and her growing obsession to have a normal family after months of being treated as an experiment.

Days later on October 5th, a hurricane hit while a mercenary force simultaneously attacked the ship. Eveline became unstable, infecting Alan and vomiting excessive amounts of Mold. The sudden chaos and her obsession with family led her to start infecting the crew of the ship. She later killed Alan and infected Mia in hopes of keeping her in her control. When the ship's tankers exploded, Mia and Eveline were thrown from the ship, which drifted into the Louisiana bayou.

Infection of the Bakers
The two survivors of the crash, Mia Winters and Eveline herself, were given shelter by the Baker family on October 10. Eveline, using her powers, was able to take control over Jack and Marguerite Baker, though it would take some time before she gained total control. Two days later, Marguerite began to feel ill following contact with Eveline, no longer aware she had been under control, and later went to the hospital after experiencing hallucinations. By the end of the month she finally succumbed totally to Eveline. Though Jack also lost to Eveline, she was not able to take total control of their children, Zoe and Lucas. - the former avoided contact while the latter was supplied with a serum by Eveline's creators in order to work as their mole.

Lucas managed to make contact with The Connections and work as a agent for them. He ran experiments with E-type mutamycete.

Unaware that Eveline required medication, the enslaved Jack and Marguerite were unable to prevent her deteriorating, aging twenty-five times the normal human aging rate until she gained the appearance of an elderly woman confined in a wheelchair. No longer mentally stable, Eveline passed on this instability to her caregivers. The family themselves disappeared from public life in 2014, with the local police force suspecting foul play after Marguerite failed to visit her doctor following the results of her X-ray which noted a serious fungal infection in her head.

The local police force launched an investigation on Dulvey House where most murders took place, eventually sending a Deputy to investigate.

Baker Family murders
The precise number of victims of the Baker family in uncertain, though it is believed to have been higher than thirty. An article by Alyssa Ashcroft published in January 2016 counted twenty missing people, the Baker family likely included. The majority of the missing were described as either vagrants or tourists.

Jack would assault his victims through immense brute force. Marguerite would produce mutated insects from her body. As he has taken the aforementioned serum to suppress his infection, Lucas instead carries out Eveline's instructions to maintain his guise by creating several sadistic booby traps that mutilate his victims before killing them.

The Bakers catalogued the names of a number of their victims and in some cases infected, or allowed them to be infected by the Mold so they would be "turned" into Molded. The Bakers recorded at least thirteen victims successfully transforming. The twelfth was a man on a honeymoon with his wife, who herself died. Their thirteenth was a homeless man. Another incomplete list shows another eight "turned" victims by name, including Heidi; Lindsay; Steven; Reid and Susan. Another turned victim, Travis, was taken to the incinerator room to prevent him escaping while he slowly transformed.

Most victims however were simply killed by the Bakers or the existing Molded. Courtney, Travis' partner, was given help in escaping confinement. However, she was soon targeted by the Bakers and killed. Another victim was referred to by Jack Baker as a "piece-of-shit hippy", who was caught in the hall and taken to the processing room. It was these attempted break-outs in particular that led to the Bakers locking out the entrance hall door through a complicated relief puzzle. Another three college girls were captured for experimentation in-between their 12th and 13th Molded; all three died.

On 1 June 2017 three Urbexers for the internet series, "Sewer Gators", departed from New Orleans to investigate the "Dulvey Haunted House", the Bakers' Guest House and were reported missing soon after. Andre Stickland was captured and killed by Jack immediately after splitting from the group, while Peter Walken and Clancy Jarvis were locked in a room. Peter was killed by Mia and Jarvis was left injured and later killed by Lucas.

Alongside these incidents, Zoe and Mia made repeated attempts to escape, despite being infected if not under Eveline's complete control. Zoe camped out in an RV located outside of the main house while Mia was kept locked in the Guest House.

Lucas continued to work with The Connections and helped developed the WM series of Molded in a lab they helped set up in the nearby Abercrombie Salt Mine. On June 11th 2017, Lucas was made head researcher and subsequently killed all the other researchers. He continued to work the organization covering up the intentional murders and began plotting to cut ties with them and keep Eveline for himself.

At some point, Blue Umbrella became aware of Eveline's presence and began monitoring the Baker ranch while becoming suspicious Lucas was contacting The Connections. In preparation for upcoming missions to apprehend him, they asked the BSAA to send Chris Redfield for assistance which he begrudgingly accepts as he doesn't fully trust them.

On 18 July 2017, Eveline, seeking to expand her family, influenced Mia to email her husband, Ethan Winters, to "retrieve" her planning to make him her father.

Arrival of Ethan Winters
Ethan would receive Eveline's message and make his way to the Baker ranch. Searching for Mia, he winds up in the Guest House and eventually reunites with her. While attempting to leave, Mia mentally fights for control against Eveline, and has no memory of how she ended up there. Eveline influences Mia, who begins attacking Ethan; he manages to incapacitate her and he loses his left hand in the process. After being contacted by Zoe on advice to escape, Ethan attempts so but Jack arrives and knocks him out and brings him and Mia to the Main House. Zoe staples Ethan's hand back with a Genome Codex before he regains full consciousness.

Ethan comes to but bound to a chair at the dinner table, where he meets and is harassed by Jack, Marguerite, Lucas, and unbeknownst to him, Eveline. Meanwhile, Deputy Anderson returns forcing the Bakers to deal with him enabling Ethan to free himself and try to escape. At this point Ethan is suffering from initial stages of the mold infection and as he makes his escape, he continues to aided by Zoe via telephone calls, encounters Molded, and passes by the docile Eveline.

Ethan soon meets with Anderson in the garage, but the latter is immediately killed by Jack. The two fight which concludes with Jack forcing Ethan to shoot him in his head. Ethan manages to be the first captive to gather the dog head reliefs needed to open the back door which involved what he thought was finally killing Jack with a chainsaw. Now in the yard in Mia's RV, Zoe informs him of the pathogen infecting her family and Mia which prevents them from leaving the property, and to look for the serum which may be in the old house.

Zoe helps Ethan escape
While in the old house, he briefly reunites with Mia before she is captured by Lucas. Later Ethan's Genome Codex reacts to a box which contains instructions on how to synthesize the serum. With this knowledge, Zoe instructs Ethan to look for the D-Series Arm upstairs, as she already has the D-Series Head and to meet her in the trailer afterwards. Because Marguerite's lantern is required access that area, Ethan has no choice but to confront and kill her for it. After acquiring the the arm, Ethan's worsening infection leads him to hallucinate the young Eveline as he makes his way back to the RV. Meanwhile however, Lucas captures Zoe as well.

Ethan finds Zoe isn't there. Lucas calls to reveal he has the captured Zoe & Mia, and beckons him to get D-Series head from him. With no choice, Ethan pursues Lucas which involved exposing himself to his elaborate traps set up throughout the Main House and barn. Ethan manages to solve the "Happy Birthday" puzzle which nearly exposes Lucas prompting him to flee to his lab, leaving the head behind and a clear path to Zoe & Mia in the boat house.

Ethan unbinds the two and Zoe makes two serums from the ingredients and prepares to leave via boat. However, a heavily mutated Jack arrives to stop them forces Ethan into another fight. Ethan is spurred by Zoe to use a serum on him, which effectively stops Jack and appears to kill him. Now with only one serum, Ethan chooses to cure and leave with Mia, Zoe bitterly stays behind but Ethan promising to find help. Zoe wanders into the swamp, where she is calcified by Eveline. Meanwhile on the boat, Mia still suffering from memory loss fails to explain to Ethan what's going on before they come across the Annabelle in surprise.

Eveline's plan
With Ethan and Mia finally together, Eveline begins her plan of helping Mia regain her memories to get consent that they can be a family again. She first throws them off the boat with mold then lures Mia into the ship by taking the unconscious Ethan in. Inside, Eveline makes Mia hallucinate flashbacks of 2014 to remind her she was her caretaker, or "mommy" to Eveline. With her memories back, Eveline asks if they can be a family again to which Mia harshly says they never will. With that, Eveline decides she doesn't want Mia anymore and allows her to reach Ethan intending to influence her and make her kill him.

Mia wakes him up and thanks to the serum however, is able to resist Eveline long enough to hand him Eveline's tissue samples she realized she had on her person, force him out of the room, and tells him to kill Eveline. Around this time Blue Umbrella's Bravo 1 team searches the Baker property not finding Eveline but encrypted messages from Lucas.

Spurred and angered by losing Mia once again, Ethan follows the path he's on which leads out of the ship and to the mine office. There he overhears a radio report from Bravo 1 to Alpha 1 stating their findings, plans meet up to look for Lucas in the mines, and to kill Eveline if she is encountered.

Ethan chooses to go through the mines himself and winds up in Lucas' lab. With the tissue sample, he synthesizes a toxin that can destroy Eveline. Eveline becomes aware of this and begins sending Molded to kill him and taunts by taking advantage of his worsening infection.

Umbrella manages to rescue Mia via helicopter and heads towards the Guest house meanwhile a team of three soldiers scout the salt mine and report they believe Lucas could be down there before falling victim to him and loosing contact with their comrades. Ethan just missing making contact with Lucas and Umbrella, manages to make his way to the basement of the Guest House, where he engages in a psychological battle against Eveline until he injects her with the toxin. This mutates her into a gigantic monster that starts consuming the property and then she knocks Ethan through the wall of the second floor onto the ground outside.

Ethan has a grueling battle with Eveline's while crippled and immobile just as more soldiers are arrive by helicopter. Umbrella drops down a Albert-01 handgun loaded with Ramrods for Ethan use and kill Eveline once and for all. Chris retrieves Ethan and boards him on their helicopter with Mia while several soldiers remain to clean up the mess. Happily reunited and safe now, Ethan expresses an optimistic future, and requests Umbrella to search for, rescue, and cure Zoe too.

Blue Umbrella pursues Lucas
Having rescued Ethan and Mia, Chris continues the operation and look for the missing unit in the salt mine and to pursue Lucas because could be their only link to The Connections.

Chris falls into a trap set by Lucas, who attaches a bomb to him after killing one of his men. Instead of turning back to remove the bomb, Chris continues on and Umbrella gets confirmation of Lucas contacting The Connections. Throughout Chris’ exploration of the mine, he encounters the the WM series of Molded, locates the other two missing operatives but Lucas has them both killed by traps, then sets off the timer on Chris’ bomb but with the help of HQ, Chris finds liquid nitrogen to freeze the bomb and disposes of it.

HQ suggests to Chris to check beyond a shield door, where once inside, Lucas locks Chris in and sets it on fire. Believing Chris to have perished and safe from pursuit, Lucas moves to his lab and emails the Connections informing them he’s about to send the data, which Umbrella intercepts. Now with the element of surprise, Chris catches up to Lucas who attacks him with a knife, which forces Chris to shoot him and triggers' Lucas mutation into a large monster. Chris manages to kill Lucas for good, and shoots the hard drives to prevent the transfer of Lucas' data.

Umbrella then sets up a perimeter wall to contain the mold outbreak. He then returns to the Main House, where, despite his mission's success, he laments his inability to save the Bakers.

Saving Zoe
The mold continued to spread throughout the swamp prompting Blue Umbrella to create cures for infection should they find any survivors, including Zoe. Joe Baker, Zoe's uncle and Jack's brother, living as a hermit in the area unaware of what had occurred, adapted to fighting the Molded instead of migrating or calling for help.

Weeks later, two soldiers find Zoe in the swamp calcified but still breathing. However, they are confronted by Joe who mistakenly believes that Umbrella is responsible for Zoe's condition, who assaults them and takes one captive. The imprisoned soldier explains to Joe that they have a cure located in a nearby shack. Joe retrieves it while the further mutated and unrecognizable Jack Baker, sets Joe's house on fire. The cure is ineffective as it is a partial dose, so the soldier volunteers to lead him back to their base for a full dose, but he is attacked and killed by Jack before he could say where. Joe flees with Zoe on a boat to look for the base, however, soldiers were forced to move it and end up slain.

By moving towards a nearby light structure, Joe discovers the base but abandoned, swarming with Molded, and the cure relocated. During Joe's efforts to retrieve it solo and return to Zoe, Jack fights him multiple times then abducts Zoe. Joe locating Zoe again, begins another fight with Jack and realizes its his brother as shell of his former self, and is knocked out and put into a coffin as Jack moves Zoe to his house.

Umbrella forces engage Jack there and call for reinforcements via radio, which a team lead by Chris responds to and Joe happens to hear after washing up on shore. Joe salvages a AMG-78 power gauntlet from Umbrella's belongings to break a barrier to make it into the family property. In the house, he finds Zoe and battles Jack one last time, using the gauntlet to finally end Jack's misery. He administers the dose to Zoe, who awakens just as Chris' team arrives.

After moving everyone to a lab tent, Zoe is fully cured expresses relief to Joe that her nightmare is finally over. Chris calls Ethan inform him of Zoe's rescue and hands the phone to her so the two can reconnect. Ethan reminds her of his promise to get her help, and she thanks him.