Forest Speyer

Forest Speyer was a member of the Special Tactics And Rescue Service, an organization within the Raccoon City Police Department, serving under the S.T.A.R.S. Bravo team as the team's marksman; a similar role of S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team's Chris Redfield. The two were rivals and commonly turned target practice into competitions, with Chris generally the victor.

Biography


On July 23, 1998, Bravo team was sent into the Arklay Mountains to investigate the disappearances and brutal murders of hikers. Their helicopter experienced engine failure and crashed into the forest. The RPD pilot, Kevin Dooley stayed behind to find the cause of the failure.

While Rebecca Chambers and Edward Dewey searched the Raccoon forest, the rest of Bravo - Forest included - found an abandoned mansion. The team split up to check the area and report back with their findings. Unbeknownst to them, Kevin and Edward were already dead, and Rebecca was unable to reach them for another day.

While Enrico searched the caves (just returning from the Raccoon City Underground Laboratory), Kenneth J. Sullivan checked the west area, and Rebecca Chambers and Richard Aiken searched the Residence, Forest monitored the east side.

Whilst checking the East Balcony, Forest was attacked and pecked to death by a number of crows. However, he regenerated as a zombie and attacked his fellow S.T.A.R.S. members before finally being put to rest.

Other appearances
In Resident Evil: Deadly Silence, an enhanced Nintendo DS port, a "Zombified" Forest is a boss in the game's unlockable "Masters of Knifing" minigame. He is also playable for the first (and perhaps ONLY) time in Deadly Silence's multiplayer game, which includes his first ever line of spoken dialogue, "Let's light this candle!"

In Resident Evil Remake for the Nintendo Gamecube, an additional game mode entitled "One Deadly Zombie," can be also be unlocked. An undead Forest takes on the role of the so-called "One Deadly Zombie", brandishing a bandolier strapped with grenades and appearing at random in specific areas of the Mansion and Umbrella Laboratory. Firing upon the volatile zombie, even when utilizing self-defense weapons, produces a devastating explosion, inevitably ending the player's game.

In Resident Evil The Umbrella Chronicles, Forest is found as a zombie on the balcony in the Mansion Incident scenario 1.

Trivia

 * Forest is one of the playable characters in the multiplayer mode in the Nintendo DS remake of the original game, Resident Evil: Deadly Silence. When selected as the player's character, he says "Let's light this candle!", most likely in reference to him being the S.T.A.R.S. demolitions expert, though he's officially listed as a vehicle specialist in the Resident Evil Director's Cut instruction manual..
 * It can be understandably assumed that the undead Forest is a Hyper Zombie, because of his running ability.
 * Forest was not scripted to come back to life in the original 1996 game, but appeared this way in all other versions of the first game.
 * In Resident Evil Official Comic Magazine, he's shown as a sniper, as opposed to a demolitions expert.
 * In the original game, and all ports, it's hinted that he was injured within the Mansion and was finished off by the Crows when he fled to the east balcony for safety. However, there is no evidence of this in REmake, which is considered to be the 'true' canon.
 * In Biohazard Pachislot, a Zombified Forest managed to speak sentences such as "Chris please kill me" and "thank you".
 * In the Remake, Forest is the only zombie in the game that the player cannot use a self-defense weapon on while being grabbed, thus taking some damage from Forest, via bite attack, unless the player uses the appropriate controller to shove off Forest, taking only minor damage instead.
 * It's not stated, where Forest left his Samurai Edge ; there is only a Grenade Launcher nearby his corpse. But in Resident Evil 0 opening he has handgun and doesn't have Grenade Launcher