Ricardo Irving (file)

According to official records, Ricardo Irving is

overseer of the oil refinery owned by Tricell

Africa Division's Resource Development Department. Crude

and arrogant, he possesses an insatiable desire for the

accumulation of wealth. It is these traits along with

his unique resourcefulness that have most likely made

him Tricell's ideal agent in dealings with selling

B.O.W.s to black market individuals.

The money gained from these dealings is then invested

by Tricell Africa back into their bioweapons research

and development. The demonstration of those weapons

for clients act as operational tests. Given the degree

of Irving's involvement, it is believed that he is one

of only a handful of people that know the full extent

of Tricell's bioweapons business.

Irving's activities and their connection to Tricell,

however, have been carefully kept under wraps. Adding

to the misdirection is the fact that he is officially

employed with the Resource Development Division and

not the Pharmaceutical Division that sponsors the

BSAA.

Tricell is a conglomerate comprised of shipping,

natural resources development, and pharmaceuticals.

Each division runs on its own capital, and, as such,

could all be considered separate entities under one

parent company. Also of note are the divisions that

exist between each of Tricell's branch offices.

When the BSAA learned of Irving's latest deal, they

viewed it as illicit activity conducted on his own and

without support from Tricell. BSAA's mission,

therefore, was not to fight biological weapons, but to

apprehend a smuggler involved in an illicit deal.

Irving was able to exploit that misconception to the

fullest.

Irving was informed of the BSAA's mission, and

changed the location of the deal to a mine outside of

the Kijuju Autonomous Zone (KAZ). When a BSAA team

arrived at what they thought was the deal's location

inside the KAZ, they walked into a trap.

Before the team even arrived, the improved version of

Las Plagas was released upon the populace of the town,

transforming most of them into Majini.

This intel was acquired by Alpha Team and later

confirmed by the data recovered by the backup team

(Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar) prior to Irving's

deal.

It appears that a sample of the Uroboros Virus was

also released upon Alpha Team's arrival and was

responsible for the termination of Dan DeChant's

team.

Irving did not take into account that the Uroboros

would be engaged and defeated by Agents Redfield and

Alomar, nor that a hard disk and its data would be

seized. The data obtained from the hard disk allowed

to two agents to proceed to the actual location of

Irving's transaction - the mine.

When confronted with the reality that his plan had

failed, Irving was forced to take the following

actions.

First, he contacted his partners in the transaction

and requested to delay the deal. After which point, he

went to the mine to retrieve any documents and

materials relevant to the transaction. It was at this

point that Redfield and Alomar found him.

However, it was obvious that he had a backup plan for

just such a contingency.

Irving escaped thanks to the help of a hooded figure

he had on standby. The two agents were left to deal

with Popokarimu (a bat-based B.O.W.) that was

originally intended to be used in the transaction.

It is thought that Irving released this B.O.W. on the

agents in retaliation for disrupting the transaction

and not to aid in his escape.

It was becoming apparent by this point, that Irving's

mental stability was in question. Whether his

irrational behavior was brought on by the

interference of the agents or if the increased

brought out his true tendencies is unknown.

Irving's situation, however, would digress even

further.

After escaping from the mine, he was soon discovered

by Captain Josh Stone's Delta Team inside the KAZ. In

order to escape Irving unleashed Ndesu (confirmed to

be based on the El Gigante B.O.W. used in Europe). The

frustration of losing two large, valuable B.O.W.s in

such short succession must have been keenly felt by

the avaricious Irving.

After reaching the conclusion that there was nothing

more he could do, Irving plotted to escape with his

accumulated wealth, but he was soon overtaken by the

hooded figure, who provided him a vial containing Las

Plagas. This was to be his punishment for failure. He

was to administer this on himself in order to fight

the two agents.

This vial contained a Las Plagas variant known as a

control Plaga.

According to BSAA intel, the use of the control Plaga

has been documented by Leon S. Kennedy in Europe. The

control Plaga differs from the common form in that it

does not take over a host's rational thought process.

Another difference being that is causes extreme

transformations to the host. As such, control Plaga

hosts must resign themselves to never being able to

live as a normal human again.

In a last-ditch effort, Irving detonated the oil

refinery, but unfortunately for him the refinery was

virtually dry at the time thus limiting the size of

the explosion. His hope was that he could destroy all

incriminating evidence and kill Agents Redfield and

Alomar so he would hot have to resort to using the

control Plaga.

Irving was left with no choice but to administer the

injection to himself, at which point he underwent an

immense and rapid transformation. But even the power

he gained from that transformation did not avail him,

and he met his end at the hands of the two agents.

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