The Light is the third episode of Resident Evil.
Synopsis[]
"Jade helps guide a small group of survivors into the Chunnel, but terror awaits. Albert warns Umbrella about Joy's horrific side effects." — Official Synopsis |
Plot[]
2022 plot[]
Evelyn Marcus being interviewed
Evelyn Marcus is being interviewed about her new efforts to improve Umbrella's image with "Joy" following the company's long history of scandal and poor stock performance. As the daughter of Umbrella's disgraced founder, and someone who experienced Raccoon City, Evelyn has a personal drive to rebuild Umbrella.
Jade Wesker rushes home to check on Billie Wesker's condition, but while she is clearly not OK Jade accepts her need to be alone. Al Wesler briefly arrives to check-up on Billie, but Jade blocks him and he instead takes spare blood samples to his lab which he uses to test on the rat again. Jade meanwhile gets an email from Simon Marcus, who has downloaded a page from Angel Rubio's website and sent it to her. It details allegations of illegal human experimentation conducted by Umbrella. This includes records recovered by an unknown source, including information on Lisa Trevor. In the lab Al determines that, based on the 72-hour average before murderous impulses take over, he has 52 hours to treat Billie's condition.
In the morning, Billie gets up disoriented but wanting to get out of the house and is able to bluff being all better. At school she becomes distressed after being hypersensitive to the sound of Simon's skateboard, which she passes off as coming down from the drugs Al gave her.
Board Room Meeting
In the evening, Evelyn holds an emergency board meeting regarding Tijuana and Joy. Umbrella is primarily a government contractor, but Evelyn wants to shift it towards consumer medication with Joy. Al's thoughts on Joy are well known, with Janet raising those concerns. When asked to refute the rumours, Al talks of how Joy can indeed be a miracle drug, but it "contains a derivative of the T-virus", which was itself developed for the US military, and in the event of an overdose - estimated to be equivalent to 20,000 pills - will trigger viral production, mutate the patient and lead to transmissibility of Cannibal Disease. Due to the absurdly large requirement for a remotely lethal dose, Evelyn debunks any real concerns of an outbreak or in delaying the drug for alteration. Furthermore, a modified Joy developed by another team has discovered it to have increased mental effects, going from an antidepressant to something that will eliminate anger when exposed to certain visual triggers.
After the meeting, Evelyn returns to the lab to give Al the good news that the board has decided in her favour, and thanks to her "charm" the FDA will forgo human testing and allow the drug to get on shelves ASAP. The mind-altering effects of the enhanced Joy is, to Evelyn, prefect for ensuring a better world, half-joking they could end global warming with it. Al is still struggling with his research, and offers to instead see it from Evelyn's perspective - that if they have a cure already they can make billions selling it to halt an outbreak.
Jade meeting Simon and Evelyn Marcus
At Raccoon High School, Billie wanders the cafeteria but the loud noises of the students scare her off. After lunch Jade is in class watching Ms. Foster give a lecture on viruses and their symptoms and becomes concerned, while Billie begins suffering from hallucinations that scare her into going home, where she sees herself in the mirror as a bloodied corpse. Jade and Simon talk about getting more notes from Angel after class, but a surprise update to Umbrella's firewall means that can no longer happen until he knows the code, but he is reluctant to do so as the timing is suspicious. Billie briefly returns to school to meet-up with Jade and catches her in an argument with Simon; she overreacts and punches both before leaving. Following her home, Jade talks things out with Billie about the webpage, but tries to assure Billie her emotional volatility is only the result of the drugs she is taking.
2036 plot[]
Arriving at the Channel Tunnel
As the refugees make their way down the coast, they are harassed by a drone firing "rubber" bullets while Richard Baxter's convoy slowly pursues. Jade picks up a boy, Liam, and heads into a warehouse to hide him. Soon the USS have suppressed the dockyards; many are wounded and dead, with the survivors ordered to remain on the ground. With no sign of Jade, Baxter orders the USS to continue their search, ignorant of the civilians bleeding out. Inside the warehouse, Jade finds the Liam's parents, Mark and Enya, and hides with them. The two planned to smuggle 40-year old spirits to Calais by boat to make a life for themselves, as the presence of alcohol would have prevented them taking the officially sanctioned ferry. With no other choices left, the four agree to pay for the Channel Tunnel route.
Jade drives off with the family headed to Folkestone, where the tunnel entrance is. Mark introduces himself as a Yorkshireman who shielded himself in the ancient walled city of York, but it eventually fell to an outbreak. They arrive at another stretch of coastline where a human trafficker accepts jewellery as payment for transport. The route is dangerous, with three fatalities recorded in the past month, something the gang considers a sign of professionalism. He accepts the payment only with the acquisition of Jade's car; the people are driven out to their planned crossing point in a convoy of vans. Baxter's search takes him to the lead trafficker, who refuses to give any details and insults him and Umbrella; when Baxter notices Jade's car behind the gang, his suspicions are confirmed.
Jade facing an Licker
During the drive, Jade talks with Enya about each other's lives, with Jade saying how she works for a university - The University - which intends to reintroduce the old world's knowledge when the pandemic ends. The convoy reaches the French side of the Channel Tunnel, where they intend to offload through a service hatch. They are forced to remain in their cars when they hear Lickers nearby. Baxter soon arrives, after getting the answer out of the trafficker. He and the USS operators made a lot of noise, and are set upon by the Lickers who also begin breaking into the refugee convoy, killing several people in the process. The armed traffickers, including Devil Horns, attempt to group back together and escape but are reduced considerably in number. Finally the survivors get through a service hatch and leave the USS to deal with the Lickers.
Jade escaping Channel Tunnel
The band go through the flooded tunnels, where they discover Liam is infected. Enya and Mark reveal he was bitten three days prior; taking the ferry would have required being checked for bites, so in reality this was always their intended route. Devil Horns interrupts the discussion, being chased and killed by giant spiders that have made their territory underground. Mark grabs a pipe as a weapon and heads out in search of it. Although he is able to bash the spider, it is not as wounded as he believes and quickly tears him apart sideways. It chases Jade, who lowers a shutter on it, finally killing it. She returns to Enya with a sick Liam, but she refuses to leave her son alone and Jade is forced to continue her journey alone.
Jade gets out of the service tunnel in France, but finds Baxter waiting for her. He is shot and wounded, while the surviving operators are detained by Brotherhood militants. Jade is mistaken for another Umbrella operator and knocked out.
Production[]
Writing[]
Directing[]
The episode was directed by Rob Seidenglanz, who handled this and Episode 4 simultaneously for one month starting Monday 29 March. When developing umbrellatruth.com, the Resident Evil Wiki's article on Lisa Trevor was used as the raw text, with minor alterations made such as referring to Jessica as "her mother".
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Ella Balinska as "Jade Al (2036)"
- Tamara Smart as "Jade Al (2022)"
- Siena Agudong as "Billie Al (2022)"
- Adeline Rudolph as "Billie Al (2036)"
- and Paola Nunez as "Evelyn Marcus"
- with Lance Reddick as "Al Wesker"
Guest-starring[]
Co-starring[]
- Genna Galloway as "Enya"
- Matt Newman as "Mark"
- Neels Clasen as "Devil-Horns"
- Joe Vaz as "Dodger"
- Hanni Heinrich as "Janet"
- Danieyella Rodin as "Reporter"
- Emile Hager as "Alan"
- Rizelle Januk as "Billie's Teacher"
- Adam Atom as "Brotherhood Acolyte"
- Christina Knight as "Biology Teacher"
- Alex Tops as "Man Traveller"
- Ambrose Uren as "Guard with flashlight"
- Caleb Payne as "Liam"
- Saint Seseli as "Sharif"
- Rachel Reynolds as "Student Books"
- James MacGregor as "Jumpy Smuggler"
Stunts[]
Stunt Zeros[]
Dancer Zeros[]
Uncredited[]
- Nico R. (USS trooper)[2]
Below are the dub actors as published in this episode's credits; some dub studies reported their actors for just this episode, while others published the actors for several.
- Czech version (DW Argentura)
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- German dub (Eclair Studios)
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- Latin American Spanish dub (New Art Dub)
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- Spanish dub (Deluxe Spain)
- French dub (Audi'Art Dub)
- Ingrid Donnadieu in "Evelyn Marcus"
- Thierry Desroses as "Albert"
- Mélissa Berard as Young Jade
- Déborah Claude as Jade
- Lila Lacombe as Young Billie
- Corinne Wellong as "Enya"
- Benjamin Penamaria as "Mark"
- Marie Courandière as "Biology Teacher"
- Yannick Lassere as "Chief Trafficker"
- Oscar Douieb as "Simon"
- Christophe Lemoine as "Richard Baxter"
- Arnaud Léonard as "Ferryman"
- Hindi dub (Sound & Vision India)
- Hungarian dub (Mafilm Audio)
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- Indonesian dub (Kantana CS Pro Indonesia)
- Darmawan Susanto as "Mark"
- Hermano Suryadi as "Albert Wesker"
- Eunike Lanti as "Jade Wesker"
- Agus Mahesa as "Yen"
- Nanang Kuswanto as "Simon"
- Agus Tunggono as "Baxter"
- Fransiska Kristiana as "Evelyn Marcus"
- Sri Hastuty as "Liam"
- Endy Fazila as "Allan"
- May Hartati as "Janet"
- Italian dub (Nexus Tv)
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- Japanese dub (AC Create)
- Brazilian-Portuguese dub (Delart)
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- Tamil dub (Sound & Vision India)
- Thai dub (Kantana Thailand)
- Turkish dub (Studio DSE-NP3)
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- Ukrainian dub (Tak Treba Production)
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