Resident Evil:
Private Investigations

2

I decided that Raccoon City would be a good place to start. This was mostly to do with the fact that it was my only lead. I walked out into the street, hailed a taxi and got in,
"Where to, mate?"
"Heathrow, and turn the intercom off,"
"Sure thing, guv." As we drove off I took my mobile out of my pocket and dialled a number,
"Hello"
"Matthew Rutley?"
"Who wants to know?"
"Chris, I need you to hack something for me,"
"No chance mate, I almost got caught last time," I ignored him,
"I need to find me some information on a Christopher Redfield; can you do that for me?"
"Yeah, read a paper," he hung up, bloody hackers, I thought, never there when you need them. The realization suddenly hit me that I hadn't got any baggage, it didn't matter, just meant I'd have to sleep in my cloths for the umpteenth case.
I booked myself onto a flight to the states, I managed to get through security by using a pen my hacker "friend" had given me, it served as an electrical jammer with a range of half a metre, large enough to deceive the metal detectors but small enough not to affect the x-ray machines. As I boarded the plane I picked up a paper, the headline read "Raccoon Mystery deepens", reading on I discovered that Redfield was a USAF pilot who had been kicked out for insubordination. After this he had joined a STARS team in Raccoon City and had been one of the few survivors of a fire at a mansion outside the city when he and his team had been investigating suspicious deaths in the area. They had come out babbling about zombies and monsters. They, of course, had been taken for junkies and suspended indefinitely. I read the list of the other survivors, they might be useful in tracking Redfield down. Just as I was putting the paper down something caught my eye. The survivors had said that UMBRELLA was involved. I got the sneaking suspicion that something sinister was afoot.