Six months have passed since Agent Wong captured the plagas sample. During that time, my research team has made great strides. Infection with the original Tyrant virus appears to mutate the creatures into enlarged, resilient and vicious bio-weapons, which furthermore retain the ability to take hosts. These creatures would have been extremely useful, had the research been completed.

However... the curse of the Umbrella corporation seems to be unending. Perhaps it was foolish to recreate that company, considering its... rather unlucky past. Something terrible has happened.

I was supervising the testing of a new batch of the T-plagas prototypes in the Washington DC facility. The screams of the "volunteers" were truly horrific as they were rent limb from limb in the test chamber. The creatures were almost ready for military use. An interesting feature of these bio-weapons is that any victim not decapitated or dismembered becomes infected with the T-virus inside the plagas creature, rising as one of the "zombies" I have come to know so well over the years. This feature was to prove particularily unfortunate, considering what was to take place.

There was a leak of the T-virus. A recently transferred security guard apparantly opened fire, thinking he saw something move in a laboratory. He hit a canister of T-virus. All research staff had been immunised against the virus, however, the lower floors of the laboratory were flooded with the gas. Blast doors automatically sealed off the area.

After the confusion died down... it was discovered that the plagas creatures had escaped! We had under-estimated their strength, and their host-taking ability.

One of the parasites burrowed into a prototype Tyrant, the stasis fluids not affecting the worm, which soon took control of this new host. Using the strength of the creature, the parasite smashed its way into the air-ventilation system, destroying the special machinery which allowed air in, but prevented air escaping from the lab complex. Thus, the T-virus escaped into the atmosphere. As did the creatures...

Washington was soon over-run by the undead, transformed either by the gaseous virus, or by direct infection from the mutated plagas organisms. Also, at least one of the worms was known to be ready to multiply. That creature is out there now, in the city. It must be stopped at all costs, otherwise god knows how much of the country could be infected by those things...

The zombies in this great city are far too many for the lab personnel to handle. There is no escape for them. The phone lines are down, the mobile transmitter masts non-functional without power, lost when the citizens ceased to be human.

I alone of the research staff... I alone am more than a mere human. I have been chosen to hunt down and destroy the plagas queen. Then I must escape the city, bringing help to rescue my researchers. Not that I care for their worthless lives... But their abilities are invaluable to my work.

At any rate, I must get out of Washington. This time... it is MY last escape...

Umbrella Head of Research, Dr Albert Wesker