Resident Evil (film) - Plot

Plot

Underneath Raccoon City exists a genetic research facility called the Hive, owned by the Umbrella Corporation. A thief steals the genetically engineered T-virus and contaminates the Hive with it. In response, the facility's artificial intelligence, the Red Queen, seals the Hive, killing everyone inside.

Alice awakens in a deserted mansion with amnesia. She finds Matt next to her. A group of commandos break into the mansion and take them to an underground train station. The group finds Spence, also suffering from amnesia. The head of the commandos explains that everyone in the group, except Matt, is an employee of the Umbrella Corporation, with Spence and Alice guarding the Hive entrance under the disguise of a couple living in the mansion. The Red Queen released a nerve gas that caused their amnesia. The commando team does not know why the Red Queen sealed the facility.

They reach the Queen's chamber, but it is protected by a defense system that kills four of the commandos. Alice and Kaplan disable the Red Queen and the power fails, opening all of the doors in the Hive. This releases the zombified staff and containment units containing Lickers, mutated animals. During a battle with the zombies, Rain is bitten and J.D is killed. Alice and Spence begin regaining their memories, but Matt and Alice are separated from the group. Matt looks for information about his sister Lisa, while Alice encounters several infected dogs and surprises herself when she is able to defend herself from them.

Matt finds his sister zombified. Alice saves him and Matt explains that he and Lisa were environmental activists. He implies that he is a law enforcement officer searching for evidence of criminal experiments. Lisa infiltrated Umbrella attempting to smuggle out a sample of the T-virus. Matt believes that Lisa's inside contact betrayed her. Alice remembers she was Lisa's contact in the Hive, but does not tell Matt. The survivors reunite at the Queen's chamber. The commandos explain that they have one hour before the Hive will seal automatically. Alice activates the Red Queen in order to find an exit and Kaplan disables the Red Queen's circuit breaker so she cannot be shut down. As they escape through maintenance tunnels, they are ambushed by zombies. Kaplan is bitten and separated from the group.

Alice remembers that an anti-virus is in the lab, but when they arrive, it is missing. Spence regains his memory, realizing he stole and released the virus. He hid the T-virus and anti-virus on the train. Spence is bitten, traps the survivors in the lab, and heads to the train. Before he can inject himself with the anti-virus, he is killed by a Licker. As the survivors witness this on a security monitor, the Red Queen explains that because the Licker has fed on fresh DNA, it will mutate into a stronger creature. The Red Queen offers to spare Alice and Matt if they kill Rain, whose health is fading and who has been infected too long for the anti-virus to work reliably. As the Licker attempts to reach them, Rain tells Alice to kill her. Alice refuses and smashes the Red Queen's communication monitor, then a power outage occurs. The lab door opens to reveal Kaplan, who disabled the Red Queen to allow their escape from the Hive. They reach the train, but Alice encounters a zombified Spence, whom she kills.

On the train, Alice injects Rain with the anti-virus while Matt does the same to Kaplan. However, the Licker is hiding on the train, and attacks them, clawing Matt. The licker kills Kaplan and hurls him from the train. Alice and Matt battle the Licker. Rain turns into a zombie and attacks Matt, but he kills her. The trapdoor opens and the Licker is killed. Matt and Alice escape the Hive as the containment doors close.

At the mansion, Matt's wound begins mutating. Before Alice can give him the anti-virus the mansion doors burst open and a group of Umbrella scientists and commandos seize them. They subdue Alice and take Matt away, revealing he is to be put into the Nemesis Program and they intend to re-open the Hive. Alice attempts to fight them off, but is knocked unconscious.

Some time later, Alice awakens at the Raccoon City Hospital strapped to an examination table, with no memory of what happened since her capture. After escaping, she goes outside to find Raccoon City abandoned. A newspaper clipping shows that the T-virus spread to the surface after Umbrella reopened the Hive, creating an army of undead that devastated the city within hours. Alice arms herself with a shotgun from an abandoned police car.