J.D.

J.D. Salinas was a character in the 2002 film Resident Evil. He was an Umbrella Special Forces Commando.

Biography
Prior to joining the Umbrella Special Forces, J.D. Salinas served variously as a CIA agent and U.S. Navy SEAL. Timothy Cain personally recruited J.D. and assigned him to the team led by One; the team charged with infiltrating The Hive to shut down the Red Queen computer system after it suddenly killed all the facility's employees. His weapon of choice was a Heckler & Koch G36K. He is shown as being a good friend and possibly romantically involved with fellow commando Rain Ocampo. This is hinted in their exchanges on the train and later in Dining Hall B, when assigned to guard Matt Addison whilst the team moved on towards the Red Queen's chamber.

The Hive
He and Rain are the first to encounter the Hive's newly-zombified inhabitants. After a female zombie in a white coat bites Rain, he shouts repeated warnings before reluctantly shooting her with his sidearm. Shocked that his bullets had no effect, the zombie was eventually floored by Rain's MP5K.

Death
After reuniting with the survivors from the Red Queen chamber, the team fight a running battle with the horde of zombies as they retreat towards the door. When the panicked Chad Kaplan fails repeatedly to input the door code, J.D. takes over. Succeeding on his second attempt, J.D. grins at Kaplan, not realizing his mistake. A second horde of zombies waiting behind the opened door quickly overwhelmed J.D., dragging him inside. Rain makes a desperate attempt to rescue him, but is restrained by Spence Parks, avoiding her to suffer the same fate. Rain is forced to look in anguish as J.D. is consumed by the ravenous horde. J.D.'s death deeply affects Rain for the remainder of the film, another possible hint that the two were more than just friends.

Reanimation


Whilst escaping through the Hive's pipe system, the group (now consisting of Chad Kaplan, Alice, Matt Addison, Spence Parks and Rain Ocampo) is ambushed by a horde of zombies. Rain enables the others to climb to safety to the pipes above, while she holds off as many of the undead as she can, knowing that her death is imminent due to her infection. While she is doing this, J.D.'s reanimated body attacks her, biting Rain one more time, and forcing her to kill him herself.