Chad Kaplan

Chad Kaplan was a computer technician who worked for the F.B.I. before Timothy Cain hired him into the U.B.C.S. He took Cain's offer and became the second in command of the group, which was led by One. The team was going into The Hive to shut down the Red Queen, which had gone rampant and killed everyone in the Hive save for Alice, Spence Parks, and Matt Addison. Even though he was the second in command, he had seen no action and was the only rookie on the team. Despite this, One evidently trusted Kaplan enough to tell him his actual name, James Shade.

Kaplan was a competent computer technician (Not competent enough for Olga Danilova, who often complained about how slow he was) 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 One, Olga, Vance Drew, and Alfonso Warner entered the corridor leading to her room, and she locked the doors leading into and out of the corridor, and also activated a laser defense grid. He worked quickly to defeat it but only managed to do so moments after One and the rest of the commandos that entered the corridor had been cut into pieces by it.

This struck fear into Kaplan and he was very frightened but convinced that they had to finish the mission. He was not fooled by the Red Queen's attempts to fool he and Alice, who entered with him, into letting her live. He shut her down and her last message to him was "You're all going to die down here."

Kaplan was so frightened by the appearance of the zombies that when escaping them he could not type in a code to enter a room to safety, so he had to enlist J.D. Salinas into helping him. J.D. opened the door but the room was filled with zombies and killed J.D., making him even more scared.

Even though Alice tried to convince him that they would all escape, Kaplan thought they would all die. Soon, unfortunately, during their escape, he was seperated from the group and surrounded by zombies, and also bitten several times. He escaped, though, even though he had no weapons, and joined the team later. They had restarted the Red Queen in an attempt to help them, but all this did was release the licker and seal the group in a lab until Alice would kill Rain Ocampo, who was infected. Kaplan killed the Red Queen- for good this time. Kaplan escaped with the others, barring Spence, who betrayed them and was killed by the licker. While on the train, Kaplan was killed by the licker.