Flashback

"An abandoned building in a foggy forest. All around us were the echoes of some forgotten tragedy. Enveloped in evil, we pressed onward. 霧深い森の奥、 剥き出しの敵意に満ちた狂気の廃屋. 血と毒、愛と憎悪―― 惨劇の傷跡に潜む戦慄の真相. 絡みつく魔性を振りほどき、 活路を切り開け."

- In-game descriptions: English localization and original Japanese script.

Flashback, known as Memory (記憶) in the Japanese game, is the fourth scenario of Resident Evil Outbreak File #2 (the first being the Outbreak Revisited training scenario), and is centered around an abandoned hospital in the Arklay Mountains.

Plot
When Alyssa Ashcroft takes refuge in an old cabin, Al enters the cabin and welcomes her. He guides Alyssa (or "Lures") her to the Abandoned hospital, and suddenly disappears once Alyssa reaches the old rope bridge leading to the Hospital. Alyssa must destroy all of the mini plants to anger or "Activate" the main plant in the basement. After killing the boss plant, it spits out Al's dead wife that had died of cancer years ago. Alyssa has to escape the hospital from the backdoor before the hospital collapses due to the death of the boss plant.

Transcript
Official script= Al: "I don't get many visitors around here." I hear the city's in quite a state right about now. Well, there is an old road through these woods that leads to the neighboring town. It's easy to get lost, I'm afraid. Let me show you the way. Let's hope no one gets hurt. It's not like there's a decent hospital around here, after all.

Alyssa''': "Hospital?"

Original script= Al: おや…客とはめずらしい 街がたいへんなことになっておるらしいな たしかにこの森には隣町に通じる古い道があるが… 迷うといかん…わしが案内しよう ケガでもするとまずかろう？ 近くにまともな病院でもあれば別だがね

…病院？

Enemies

 * Axe Man/Al
 * Green Zombie
 * Scissor Tail
 * Giant Wasp

You start in a shack and you have to follow the old man through the forest, dodging some poisonous zombies if you play on hard mode. In addition, if you're not playing as Alyssa in hard mode or above, you will encounter her as a zombie. If playing below hard mode, she will just give you a First Aid Spray and her Stun Gun. Once you make it to the hospital, if you move a bit further, the Axe Man (the old man you were following) will come after you, and will follow you in this scenario. You can either just keep running from him throughout the hospital, or draw him away with heavy firepower, which will get you a special scene at the end. First thing you wanna do is get the chemical filled syringe, which is to the left of the entrance. Then down the stairs, there is a plant blocking the way, and beside it is the syringe. Take the syringe and use it on the plant to unblock the way and keep going. There is a room which gives you the key to another area, and here you wanna fill all the empty bottles and take them with you; also fill 2 syringes as well, which are needed to kill the other 2 plants. Once you do kill the plants, the boss will awake. Now next thing you wanna do is get to the room where the boss lies. Once you do get there, what you wanna do is just keep hitting it in the open red area, but be careful of the plants on the floor and ceiling, which if you get too close will grab you. I recommend you use the green chemical bottles and the yellow bottles on the boss, which do a lot of damage. But if you run out, just keep attacking it with any other weapons you have left. Once the boss is dead, the hospital will start falling apart. Remember that wheelchair blocking the way and the door that had the vines wrapped around it? Well now the wheelchair is gone, and so are the vines, so that is your ticket out of there. Obviously if you stay in the hospital too long you will die.

Character specific secrets
When playing as Alyssa Ashcroft, extra cut-scenes will be added. These occur when Alyssa enters a certain room. It shows things that happened there before the Outbreak.


 * Suspension Bridge - an injured man (possibly Kurt) warns Alyssa not to go to the hospital.
 * Outside Hospital - two Police officers discuss on if there were survivors.
 * Room 201 - Kurt being eaten by the zombified Dorothy Lester. He whispers, "Alyssa".
 * Administrators room - 2 people, one Al Lester, discuss.
 * If Alyssa collects all of her flashbacks and clues, her special ending will be played showing one more flashback.

Special ending
Once the masked maniac with the axe begins to attack Alyssa, she can either continue to run from him throughout the whole scenario or damage him enough to make him flee for good (when a scene is played with him backing away then running away) an extra scene is added to the ending after you escape the collapsing hospital. The scene shows Alyssa running out of the hospital, then Al holding his dead wife with happiness that he can finally see her one more time, when a huge rock from the ceiling falls on them, crushing them both ...

Side-Quest or Quick Ending
The player can choose to turn back once they reach the front of the hospital, and return to the cabin. Once there, wait outside the cabin for an extended period of time. Eventually the bridge leading to the hospital will give out, barring access. Once the scene is triggered, a non-infected woman named Regan appears inside the cabin. Upon ad-libbing to her, she explains that her daughter Lucy is lost somewhere in the woods. She gives up her Pendant, which she says will make Lucy more willing to trust you. After going through the woods, avoiding Scissor Tails along the way, a select path will lead to the shore of a river, where Lucy will be waiting for you. Upon ad-libbing to her and showing her the Pendant, she will go back to the cabin herself without escort. Upon returning you are rewarded with a Shotgun E (or possibly something else depending on the difficulty).

From here the player can take another suspension bridge to escape the woods, leaving the mystery of the hospital behind. Alternatively, the player can skip the Regan and Lucy quest altogether and simply leave once the bridge to the hospital gives out. Either way, many Green Zombies and Giant Wasps crowd the second bridge, making the trek across quite difficult. Choosing to leave without doing anything will result in a poor score for the scenario, naturally.

Files

 * Kurt's Notebook
 * Doctor's Confession
 * Botanist's Notebook
 * Raccoon Today

Further notes

 * Other than Sherry Birkin from Resident Evil 2, Lucy is the only small child ever present during actual gameplay in a Resident Evil title.
 * This level is very similar to The Hive in the original Outbreak. They both are the third story level, taking place in a hospital, and both feature invincible enemies trying to kill you up to a certain point.
 * This is the third scenario in the outbreak series where the player can die and still pass.
 * Also this is the third scenario that can be done by an alternate way without confronting the "final boss" - the other two are "Outbreak", where you can avoid the main street confrontation and "Underbelly", where you can go up the ventilation shaft without fighting the Giga Bite.