Morgan Lansdale

"Let the heavens scorch the earth with justice."

Commissioner Morgan Lansdale was the head of FBC (Federal Bioterrorism Commission) until 2005. He went by the nickname of "Silver Fox".

Biography
Lansdale was engaged in foreign intelligence activities for many years. Lansdale was the head of the Federal Bioterrorism Commission and was responsible for the destruction of Terragrigia through the use of the Regia Solis during the infamous Terragrigia Panic.

During the incident, Lansdale took charge of ground operations, using FBC forces in an attempt to counter the attacks by terrorist group Il Veltro. Operating out of the FBC headquarters within the city, he worked closely with BSAA director Clive O'Brian. However, the two did not see eye to eye. Though the B.S.A.A was a fledgling organization at the time, Lansdale still perceived the group as a threat to his position, and Lansdale was openly hostile in his interactions with O'Brian.

The situation in Terragrigia quickly got out of hand, and after a tense dispute with O'Brian, Lansdale ordered the use of the Regia Solis satellite to sterilize the city. Shortly afterwards, the F.B.C evacuated and left the city to its fate.

However, unbeknownst to everyone else, Lansdale was actually the main architect of the attacks, planning to use the incident as a tool to increase his own power. Before the incident, Lansdale had bought the Paraguas Line Company and the three sister ships Queen Zenobia, Queen Semiramis, and Queen Dido. Working closely with Veltro leader Jack Norman, Lansdale provided the terrorist group with samples of the t-Abyss virus that Lansdale had acquired from Montpellier Marine University. He also allowed Veltro use of the ships as platforms to launch the attacks.

Once Lansdale was certain the attack would succeed, he betrayed Veltro, activating the remote destruct on the Queen Dido in order to kill Norman and releasing the t-Abyss on the two other ships to wipe out any remnants of Veltro. Finally, he activated the Regia Solis and ensured any evidence linking him to the attacks was destroyed.

With Veltro out of the picture, Lansdale had research teams take over the two remaining cruise liners. The objective for these men and women was to prepare a vaccine to the t-Abyss virus, after first examining how the virus reacted to human beings - hence the deliberate infection of the Veltro members. For the next year the team researched the vaccine. When it was done and their report handed in, Lansdale, who had remote access to the ship's security, locked down the ship and released the B.O.W.s from cryogenic sleep. Ensuring, again, that evidence linking to him was removed, Lansdale had always intended for research members like Ryan to die that night.

In 2005, responding to reports that members of Veltro had returned, he despatched FBC agents Raymond Vester and Rachel to the Queen Zenobia to assess the threat to him around the same time that BSAA agents Jill Valentine and Parker Luciani were also dispatched to the vessel. Lansdale was not aware that Agent Vester was working with director O'Brian, who had harbored suspicions against Lansdale since the Terragrigia attacks and who was attempting to use the "return" of Veltro to collect incriminating evidence against Lansdale.

In a bid to destroy the last of the evidence against him, he made several attempts to kill agents Luciani and Valentine, first by attempting to destroy the Zenobia with the Regia Solis and also by releasing B.O.W.s from the ship's lab. When these methods fail, he activates the destruct system and destroys the Semiramis. He then orders his double agent, Jessica Sherawat, to do the same on board the Zenobia. She succeeds, but not before Redfield and Valentine obtain a vaccine and deactivate the t-Abyss virus, escaping the doomed ship.

In a final bid to protect himself, he and a group of FBC agents invade the BSAA headquarters and order the arrest of O'Brian for conspiring with Veltro. After Jill and Chris kill an infected Jack Norman aboard the wreck of the Queen Dido and broadcast incriminating evidence against Lansdale, O'Brian is released and Lansdale is placed under arrest and relieved of his position as Commissioner of the FBC. In the aftermath of the Queen Zenobia Incident the FBC is disbanded and the remainder of its agents and resources are transferred to the BSAA.

Gameplay
Morgan is a playable character in Raid Mode. But in order to unlock him, the player must reach the foredeck and defeat all the enemies in the Ghost Ship stage in the 3DS version. In the console versions he can be unlocked simply by obtaining all S's on Trench His melee attack is an open palm strike.

ResidentEvil.net
Morgan is an obtainable diorama figure on ResidentEvil.net awarded as a random prize through using a Genesis Scratchcard. "Like an external symbol of his composure, Morgan's silver hair earned him the nickname "Silver Fox". Highly respected during his commission as consultant to the Federation of Pharmaceutical Companies, he was selected as the first director of the FBC after riding a wave of public opinion for stronger measures to combat the increasing risk of bioterrorism, and personally commanded the forces dispatched during the "Terragrigia Panic". His iron will and leadership have put the FBC at the forefront of counter-bioterrorist organizations across the globe."