AUTHOR'S NOTES
Dedicated to fans of Resident Evil IN ALL ITS MANIFESTATION.
"This novel is based on Mr. Paul WS Anderson's script for Resident Evil Retribution, which I had a lot of fun reading and adapting. Everything in the screenplay is dramatized in the novelization.
All the dialogue in the script is found in the novel too. Other dialogue, of course, has been invented for the novel. A novel requires legroom and stretching and there are scenes and characters and even a SUBPLOT not found in the film-but they are all inspired by the screenplay: by settings, ideas, events and character type found in the screenplay.
And the film's continuity is very much the overriding structure of this novelization. So far as I'm aware, nothing in the novel contradicts the film. And now...we have a dark journey to undertake together..."
Read the first chapter.
Rehash of all the films.
Alice hopes Wesker is dead and mentions how he was the most powerful person next to LORD SPENCER but he died a long time ago.
(Looks like the Author might've used alot of elements from the games and put them in the novel. Looking forward to hopefully having things I'll notice as a gamer mentioned in it.)
Anyway, Umbrella attacks and...its pretty much what you see in the trailer described word for word in the novel. They attack, Jill comes down, fires at Alice who escapes, fires at a Osprey that crashes and explodes, throwing her off the ship and into the water where she is then pulled out and then...
Wakes up with her husband Todd and remembers those events but presumes they're a nightmare and gets up from bed. Its obviously Alice's Clone who retains the former's memories.
Chapters 1 to 5 is Clone Alice.
Wakes up from the Acardia Battle nightmare. Quick stuff with Todd, basically same crap we see in trailer.
Zombie attacks Todd. More burst inside. Alice and Becky escape into Laundary Room. Climb into Attic where Alice gets a Bat. They escape through crawlspace? into living room and get chased into bedroom. Alice and Becky escape through window into the street where chaos ensures.
They nearly get hit by Rain's Car. They get inside and escape more zombies. A truck comes and smashes into them and the Car turns upside down. Alice and Becky escape from crashsite into a empty house. Alice turns back to see that Rain was alive and is surrounded by zombies while shes still in the car.
Alice and Becky escape into house and look around. A Zombie breaks inside. Alice and Becky hide in closet. Zombie comes inside. Alice hides Becky in blankets and makes a run for it to distract the zombie. Zombie gives chase, tackles Alice, Alice escapes, both go crashing over balcony down staircase. Zombie impaled through stomach.
Alice gets up, turns, and comes face to face with zombie Todd who kills her.
Real Alice wakes up naked in facility after having suffered those...memories.
Chapter 6:
Alice wakes up in white room with Umbrella Symbol on floor. Then all lights go off and room is in darkness.
Up above in a room Alice can see Jill through the window.
"Who are you working for? Why did you turn Project Alice?" bla, bla...
Alice asks Jill what happened and THREE times in a row we get this scene of Jill interrogating and then torturing Alice with loud noise.
Forth time Alice wakes up some has revealed a shelf with a Umbrella Battle uniform and drink. Alice takes them and then follows the opening of a door into a corridor.
Jill and other soldiers wearing masks and scarabs awaken to the sound of a alarm. Jill checks systems and discovers Alice is out of her cell. She orders a capture.
A row of laser beams come on and charge at Alice. Alice runs and escapes the white corridor just in time and into Tokyo Square.
Using a Chain she finds, she breaks a police car window and takes the gun. Then wanders about when rain starts pouring in and people come out and then Alice witness J-Pop girl attacking random guy. End of chapter.
Chapter 7 Spoilers.
Outbreak occurs in Tokyo.
A Shop opens up to reveal a large white corridor. Alice runs inside with some people and the zombies chase them down.
Alice fights them. Then makes a run for it into another room and the walls close, sealing off the undead.
Jill arrives in Alice's Cell and looks around to find out how she got away. She then contacts CONTROL for info.
Alice finds herself in CONTROL. The monitors and Control Crew rise out the floor and they're all dead with bullets in them. Alice then sees the Weapon Stand. (ADA AND ALICE CLIP)
Alice is about to cut Ada's throat when Wesker reveals himself.
"I killed you" - Alice.
"THAT WAS A CLONE" "Do you really think I'd put myself in harm's way?"
He then explains about the facility, saying this is the facility where Umbrella tested their bio-weapons before selling it to the different countries.
Examples, Tokyo Outbreak similation, they showed it to the Japanese and sold it.
London, Moscow, American Smilations of outbreaks and sold their Virus to those countries.
IN OTHER WORDS...I believe/think they're trying to say those different countries unleashed the virus and the intro scene in Afterlife was a similation.
Still, THE WESKER IN AFTERLIFE WAS A F..KING CLONE!!!
CHAPTER 8 SPOILERS.
Wesker explains they're in "The straits of Kamchatka" where the old Soviet Union build Submarine Pens. Umbrella came and transformed the Pens into various Country Similations as part of their BOW experiments.
Ada tells Alice they have friends coming to help them but they need to go through the Pens to get to the otherside.
Jill is still in Control and thinks about removing the scarab only for it to send signals and making her focus again. In her mind she explains how she wanted to tell Alice she's sorry but the Scarab keeps her under control and s..t. They learn Control is dead and the facility goes into shut down mode and they go after Alice who is 20 minutes ahead of them. Jill explains there is TRAITOR among them (Obviously Ada who worked for them)
Two Armored Trucks cross the Icey and Submarine grave yard and arrive at a large structure, a AIR VENT for the facility below.
We are introduced to Luthor who is with Leon, Barry, Sergai (Technical Specialist) and Tony (American Latino). The four of them hate Luthor just like that. He is only with them because he is a 'Advisor' because he knows Alice and Luthor has joined them because he likes Alice.
They plant Explosives on the Air Vent and set it to go off in 2 Hours. Blowing it now will screw up their signal?
Sergai hacks the system using Codes that Leon gives him that ADA GAVE TO HIM and makes the entrance open up below them and they get on the large ass elevator and arrive in to the Facility.
Leon is also asked if he trusts Ada and he just smiles about it. Leon is proper serious and Barry sarcastic.
CHAPTER 9 SPOILERS.
Ada sees through her eye lenses? the timer has been set. She explains to Alice that it was through Luther who witnessed Umbrella destroying Acardia and then fishing her out that they found out she was still alive. Her team picked him up and they followed them here to UMBRELLA PRIME.
Jill and team arrive in Tokyo and murder everything in sight before entering white corridor and arriving at Control Room Entrance. They start cutting through the lock.
Ada and Alice get in to the control chairs and lower themselves under the floor and hide.
Jill enters and Rain and One reveal themselves, taking their masks off. One shows Jill a recording of Ada entering the Control Room and killing all the people and the footage of Alice, Ada and Wesker talking. They now know who the traitor is and the objectives in Jill's eye lenses tells them Ada and Wesker are renegades. They also are alerted to Leon's Team and Jill orders them to be kept busy.
Jill and team know Alice and Ada are below them. They fire below but Ada uses an escape ladder in the floor and her and Alice climb down.
A Security Team arrive at the Elevator Entrance. Jack Mines are thrown, blowing them away and Leon and Team surprise attack them and kill them all. They head into the Submarine Pen Smiliators.
CHAPTER 10 SPOILERS.
Alice and Ada arrive in New York Times Square where the Similation has already been run. Ada explains at first Umbrella was testing their BOWs here. But after the world ended they used it to try and control it.
Leon and Team sneak into Submarine Pen where two Submarines are docked. Leon sneaks in and using knife and silencer takes out the guards on the Sub. Sergai explains that Umbrella used the Subs to secretly transport the BOWs around the globe.
Sergai also reveals he used to work for Umbrella. "You worked for the Badguys but I'm the one nobody trusts?" - Luther (LOL)
They continue on. 90 minutes before the explosives go off.
Alice and Ada continue walking through New York. Alice spots Police car and goes to check it out when Zombie Rain bursts out and attacks. Alice kills her. Ada explains that Umbrella is using the blood of 50 people, the same clones been thrown in the test Pens over and over again. Alice is disgusted.
SUBPLOT:
15 Year Old Girl Clone called Dori observes Alice and Ada walking past in New York. Its explained that Judy-Tech rescued her from her Clone Tank, and hid her in a secret room in the basement areas and looked after her, taught her, trained her to fight like the original Alice slightly. Dori explains she sneaked out and got caught in the Tokyo outbreak and now is hiding and knows who Alice and Umbrella are. She leaves her hiding spot to find Judy (Mother). Judy rescued her because she always wanted a daughter.
Chapter 11:
Jill, One and Team still in Control Room. Through Camera Footage they discover Leon's team entering Moscow. They also overhear them explaining they're meant to meet them in the third sim (Raccoon City aka SIM 3). Jill now knows where Alice is. She orders a order to be activated which releases the Las Plagas and Lickers. She remarks how she hates the Lickers.
Leon and Team hide as Las Plagas enemies arrive via trucks and motorbikes. One of them has a chainsaw. Others, rocket launchers. Leon orders them all to take cover at once.
Alice and Ada arrive in Raccoon City. She arrives at the crashsite. She notices something watching from the nearby house. She heads in and finds her dead corpse. Ada explains about Umbrella also cloning her.
Alice heads upstairs, opens closet and is attacked by Zombie Majini. (I forgot which chapter but the writer refers to the zombies with mouths as Majini ONCE)
Alice kills it. Then Becky comes out off hiding and runs into Alice and hugs her.
CHAPTER 12 SPOILERS.
Jill and Team are wondering through Time Square now. She has some thoughts of her old self but the Scarab sends pain through her, making her remain under its control.
Leon and Team have taken cover in a GUM clothing store. The Las Plagas gang up, firing into the store while the others fire back. One fires a Rocket Launcher into the store and the Team takes cover. They enter and Luther, Leon and Barry fight them off until MR CHAINSAW enters. He cuts Tony down. He goes to kill Leon. Luther saves him earning Leon's respect. They check on Sergai who is STILL busy downloading schemetics.
Alice, Ada and Becky wonder about the Raccoon City area. She explains about the dream as they wait for Leon's team to come to them. Ada explains about the telepathic clone thing. (Zane explained it already). Alice promises to look after Becky with her life.
SUB PLOT:
Dori finds a Iron Tire and is attacked by Zombie Alice in Times Square. She kicks it ass using the training she got from Judy. She escapes through an Emergency Exit and into the Facility Utlity Tunnels.
CHAPTER 13:
Luther and Team are still firing away undead. These chapters where Leon and Barry appear are ALL told through Luther's Point of View.
Oh, and a few chapters ago when the Las Plagas appeared, Barry asked, "What the hell are those things?" and Leon explains it to them, having clearly forth them before. (RE game anyone?)
BACK TO SPOILERS.
Sergai, their hacker is trying to find a way out from where they are.
Alice and group enter Becky's empty home. She runs off quickly to look for daddy then again to pack stuff while Ada explains that none of it was real and that Umbrella imprinted fake memories into the clones and that they have no feelings or some *beep* Alice is annoyed with Ada.
They leave the house and are surrounded by Jill, Rain, One and Carlos whom Alice and Becky don't say a thing to.
Jill orders them to surrender and when refused she gets orders from inside her eyes about killing Ada and Clone Becky but either killing or capturing Alice.
Ada and Alice fire away and escape into the house. Jill and Team fire away to.
Ada uses her HOOKGUN to kill a trooper before giving her Digital Glasses to Alice to use to find her rescuers and handing a catriage from her gun to her. Alice gives her a grenade and leaves with Becky while Ada stays behind, telling her they'll meet at the Elevator and that she has a Plan B.
SUBPLOT:
Dori evades troopers and a camera which is near her hidden room. She tries several doors before making it into a bathroom. Then someone enters and Dori comes face to face with Judy who took up the job to over the cameras in the basement and saw Dori and came to her. Dori apologizes about sneaking off and Judy explains they're getting out using fake Scarabs to sneak their way past.
Chapter 14:
Alice and Becky escape the House while Ada is still inside. She fires away killing a few and also uses the grenade. Rain then uses her Grenade Launcher and Ada RIPPING OF SELENA from UNDERWORLD, blows a hole in the floor to drop down onto the ground as the grenades hit the house and blow it to kingdom come and the wreckage drops down onto Ada.
Alice has been shot and is bleeding but the wound clots and her and Becky are been followed by someone???
They make it to the edge of the simulator which is like a mirror. Alice finds the exit and goes through with Becky where they find themselves in a Moscow Subway Underground.
The Entrance Opens and GOOD RAIN from the beginning of the story, ALIVE emerges. She is happy to see Alice and Becky alive and hugs Alice who is confused. Without any kind of dialogue or explanation Alice just decides to hand her gun to GOOD RAIN and explains to her how to fire and tells her to look after Becky while she heads up to street side to investigate. Becky is annoyed because she made Alice promise she wouldn't leave her again.
Jill and Team are about to leave when Ada emerges from the wreckage, wounded but alive. She surrenders and Jill thinks about using her.
SUBPLOT:
Dori and Judy arrive in the Submarine Pen. (Remember, there were two Subs.) Judy explains Umbrella are gonna flood this place and Dori really wants to escape and see the outside world. They head towards the one that has the dead guards Leon killed earlier.
CHAPTERS 15 AND 16:
Luther, Leon, Barry and Sergai are still in the GUM shop, shooting down enemies and managing to have built a sort of dead corpse barrier between them and the surviving Las Plagas. Sergai finally manages to find a way out and leads the group to the back of the store and breaking a window they jump out onto the street.
Sergai goes ahead and is grabbed by a Licker Tongue, pulled up and eaten and half his corpse collapses onto the street. There are also humans in cocoons above it. Leon quickly explains its a Licker and that it was once human. The beast attacks and Luther, Leon and Barry try to fight it off but Las Plagas Soldiers are coming from the opposite direction.
Then Alice arrives in car and saves them. They escape with Licker chasing them. (Like in the Clip released) Leon asks about Ada and when Alice says she died Leon seems upset before saying "She always has a plan".
They make it to the subway station and bury the Licker in the construction wreckage. They meet up with Good Rain and Becky and Alice using Ada's glasses, finds a way out through the train tunnels. The Licker is slowly getting out the wreckage.
In the tunnels Alice asks Leon why he is working for Wesker and Leon explains Wesker told them that Alice knows about a powerful they can use to turn the tide in the undead war.
Jill and her team with Ada handcuffed arrive at the station but see it blocked off. She discovers Alice and team have made it to the Submarine Pens. She orders power to be shut down.
Alice and group make it to the Elevator. As it starts to go up it stops, all power out. Luther goes to investigate and checks out the Sub Pen. Something about the explosives going off in 11 minutes been a way out.
Suddenly a Licker appears from a Open Vent above and rips Barry's off and throws him into a wall before grabbing Becky with its tongue. Good Rain fires at it but it claws her, sending her flying into a wall and killing her. Alice tries to fire but is afraid Beck will fall and die from the height shes in. The Licker takes her. Luther checks Rain whose dead and Alice makes up her mind.
(NOTE: The Author makes a mistake. During the chase he writes that Luther is too scared to fire out in case he hits Barry and LUTHER. It should be Leon. Don't they prove read this s..t?)
CHAPTER 17
Leon checks on the wounded Barry. Alice climbs up the ladder and Leon tries to convince her otherwise not to go and save the girl but he backs down. Luther decides to come with her suddenly Jill and her Team arrive and open fire. Handing her a pack of Grenades Luther tells Alice to hurry before going to help Leon and Barry to fight off the attackers while Alice climbs into the vent.
She looks around the dark area and eventually finds Becky in a cocoon. She manages to sign to Alice that its a trap. The Licker is waiting for her. Alice using Ada's Hookgun (Ada gave it to her before they departed) and her gun, she fires it in perfect timing just as the Licker jumps into the light and towards her. Alice flies into the air through the use of the Hookgun and using her pistol she finds it perfectly into its brain, killing the monster. She then rescues Becky from the cocoon when more Lickers arrive.
Leon and Barry are firing back and with more less than 2 minutes to go Leon orders a fallback to the elevator. Barry holds his ground and tells Leon to go, saying he is enjoying this. Leon understands and leaves Barry alone with the soldiers.
SUBPLOT:
Dori and Judy have made it onto the Sub. Dori is looking for food in the sub when she arrives at the kitchen area only to be captured by someone.
(NOTE: Alice has been losing blood since she got shot and is slowly dying. Luther gets shot through the shoulder when Alice is about to leave and the shot basically breaks his arm.)