James Shade

James Shade, operating under the call-sign of "One", was the leader of an Umbrella special forces team whose mission was to secure the Hive and shut down the Red Queen. Although killed early on in the mission, a DNA sample was used several years later in a cloning procedure by Umbrella.

Biography
As James and his team proceeded to enter the Queen's chamber, the Red Queen's defenses were tripped, activating a high powered laser beam. He and two of his men were able to dodge the laser in time, but at the expense of his medic's life and one of his subordinate's fingers. When attacked by the laser a second time, James successfully dodged the beam, but lost another teammate. Though the rest of his team were killed in their attempts to dodge the laser, James managed to survive long enough to evade several of its traps.

In the final gambit to dodge the computer's laser grid, he was caught off guard when the Red Queen created a laser grid. The grid passed through him, slicing him into small cubic pieces; Chad Kaplan was only seconds away from disabling the defenses.

During the survivor's attempt to escape the recently released horde of undead, Kaplan notices that the remains of One and the rest of his team are missing from the Queen's chamber.

Revival
The Umbrella commandos James and Rain, as well as the security officer Alice and the UBCS mercenary Carlos Olivera were cloned by Umbrella. Retaining none of the memories of his parent, as with the other clones bar the 2002 clone of Alice, he kept the basic personality traits to elicit the proper responses expected of the original.

He operated solely on the programming as a soldier for Umbrella and Red Queen. He aided Jill in the fight to recapture Alice and her allies until he was killed by Barry Burton during a standoff. He appeared to act as Jill's second in command, often giving out orders when Jill did not.