Carissa sat and watched the kids playing in the park. Angel City was a beautiful place. She was glad of the move from Raccoon. There had been no contact with the Raccoon City branch of the S.T.A.R.S. for the past few weeks. A team had already been dispatched to Raccoon to see what all the trouble was about. Carrie sighed as she looked at her watch. She had to go to a board meeting and had to change.

When she stepped into her apartment a few blocks away, Carrie saw a sight that made her smile. Brian was asleep on the couch, the TV blaring ESPN. He had broken up with that bitch Lila almost a month ago. She had been standing in the room when it happened. Brian had told her it was over and then...then, what had happened? Carrie tried to recall the events of that day as she changed into her business suit. But no matter how hard she tried, nothing came back.

Outside, Carrie hailed a cab. When she got in, there was a newspaper on the seat. The article on the front page was about the Umbrella Institute of Science and Research. Carrie suddenly had an image of peeling a face off a boot flash before her eyes. She froze. What was that? "Hey lady!" came a voice. Carrie snapped back to reality. Then she realized that she was only half way inside the cab. "Hey, lady," said the driver, "are you gonna get in or what?" "Oh, yeah, sorry." She replied sheepishly.

When they arrived at the building, Carrie paid the driver and got out of the cab. She pushed her way through the doors and got in the elevator for the 15th floor. She entered the board meeting and sat down. But Carrie barely noticed doing these things because all she could think about was the flash she had had in the cab. Suddenly a string of images flashed before her eyes:

Vencor and a blonde man she didn't know shaking hands, a blood covered floor, Lisa being pulled into a crowd of people, screaming.

Then she fainted.