Complete story — includes the ending
Zoe again contacts Ethan, revealing she is the Bakers' daughter. Zoe informs Ethan that she, her family, and Mia are all infected with the same ailment, but can be cured with a special serum. Ethan makes his way to an old house to retrieve the serum ingredients, where he manages to kill Marguerite. After recovering the ingredients, Ethan experiences visions of an unknown young girl. Lucas captures Zoe and Mia before Ethan's return, and forces him to navigate a booby-trapped barn to find them. Ethan outwits Lucas, causing him to flee, and frees Zoe and Mia. Zoe then develops two serum doses, but Jack, now heavily mutated, attacks Ethan, who uses one dose to permanently kill him.
Ethan must then choose to cure either Mia or Zoe. Choosing Zoe leaves Mia heartbroken, despite Ethan's promise to send help. As he and Zoe escape on a boat, Zoe reveals that the Bakers were infected after Mia arrived with a young girl named Eveline when the wreck of a tanker ship ran aground in Dulvey. To prevent their escape, Eveline kills Zoe, and knocks Ethan from the boat. If Ethan chooses Mia, Zoe gives a bitter farewell to him and Mia. As he and Mia escape on the boat, they come across the tanker where they are attacked by Eveline and knocked from the boat.
Following either choice, Mia ends up on the wrecked ship and searches for Ethan while experiencing visions of Eveline, who refers to Mia as her mother. Eventually, Mia's memory is restored, revealing that she was a covert operative for a mysterious corporation that developed Eveline as a bioweapon. Mia and another agent, Alan Droney, were to escort Eveline as she was being transported aboard the tanker when Eveline escaped containment and grounded the ship. After killing Alan, she infected Mia in an effort to force her to be her mother. After finding Ethan, Mia gives him a vial of Eveline's genetic material. If Ethan cured Zoe, Mia succumbs to Eveline's control and attacks Ethan, forcing him to permanently kill her. If Ethan cured Mia, she resists her control long enough to seal Ethan out of the ship to save him.
After leaving the shipwreck, Ethan discovers a hidden laboratory inside an abandoned salt mine. There, he learns that Eveline is a bio-organic weapon capable of infecting people with a psychotropic mold that gives her control over her victims' minds, resulting in their insanity, superhuman regenerative abilities, and various mutations. Eveline grew up obsessed with having a family, influencing her to infect Mia and the Bakers, and lure Ethan to the Bakers' home. Lucas is also revealed to have been immunized against Eveline's control by the corporation in exchange for providing observations on her. Using the lab equipment and Eveline's genetic material, Ethan synthesizes a toxin to kill her, and proceeds through a series of tunnels that lead back to the Baker Ranch. Eveline assaults Ethan with hallucinations, but he overcomes them and injects Eveline with the toxin; she is revealed to be the elderly woman in a wheelchair, who has been rapidly aging since her escape. Eveline then mutates into a large monster but, aided by the arrival of a military squad, Ethan is able to kill her. With Eveline dead, the squad and their leader, Chris Redfield, extracts Ethan by helicopter. If Ethan did not cure Mia, he throws his phone containing her last message to him from the helicopter, saying "goodbye". If Mia was cured, she is found alive aboard Redfield's helicopter. As the helicopter flies away, it is revealed to be branded with a variation of the Umbrella Corporation logo.
Banned Footage
The first three scenarios in the Banned Footage DLC feature alternate protagonist Clancy Jarvis, who appears in some of the VHS tapes in the main game. Clancy was a cameraman who worked with "Sewer Gators", a web series where producer Andre Stickland and presenter Peter Walken explored haunted houses. In June 2017, Sewer Gators came to the estate to film the abandoned guest house, but were found and kidnapped by Jack Baker. While Andre and Peter were killed, Clancy was taken down to the processing area underneath the main house and locked inside for the night. During Nightmare, Clancy attempts to survive against Jack and hordes of Molded using weapons and traps scavenged throughout the area until dawn. Shortly afterwards, Clancy was caught and knocked out by Marguerite, awakening locked in the master bedroom in the main house, where Marguerite served Clancy her Mold-infected cooking in an effort to convert him into one of them. Bedroom shows Clancy attempting to find a way out while being checked on periodically by Marguerite, which he eventually manages to do after stabbing Marguerite in the neck with a knife to incapacitate her and unlocking a hidden tunnel underneath the bed.
However, Clancy is then caught and knocked out by Lucas, leading to the events of 21. Clancy awakens in an unknown room with his left hand strapped into a finger guillotine – opposite him, stuck in the same predicament, is an unknown man whose face is covered by a burlap sack – Lucas simply refers to him as "Hoffman". Lucas forces both men to play a modified game of blackjack, but the loser has their fingers sliced off by the guillotines. Clancy eventually wins the round after Hoffman loses all his fingers, but he refuses to give up and demands another round. Lucas then straps both men into a torture device that administers varying electrical shocks to the loser, the current going up with each loss. Clancy wins again after Hoffman's current goes so high he receives a seemingly-lethal shock, but Lucas puppeteers Hoffman's body using strings and demands a third round – he then places a makeshift buzzsaw (or a bomb in the Japanese version) that moves closer to the loser. Despite Lucas' cheating, Clancy wins – Hoffman, who turns out to be unconscious, awakens just as the buzzsaw slices his head open and kills him. However, Lucas is impressed by Clancy so much that he takes him away to play another game – the tape in the main game confirm that Clancy was killed in one of Lucas' deathtraps in the barn.
In Daughters, which takes place on October 10, 2014, three years prior to the game, a tropical cyclone causes a tanker ship, the SS Annabelle, to go missing off the coast of Louisiana. Jack carries in an unconscious girl, Eveline, found nearby. Jack places her in Lucas' room and orders Zoe to get her fresh clothes. Zoe retrieves the clothes when a lightning strike knocks out the house's power, and Eveline disappears. While Zoe searches for Marguerite, she finds an unconscious Lucas and discovers Marguerite rambling in the bathroom, before she suddenly turns violent. Jack restrains her and orders Zoe to get some rope. Returning with the rope, Zoe discovers Jack attempting to drown Marguerite, and then deliberately stabs himself before Zoe. Zoe flees, witnessing Jack dragging Lucas towards the bathroom. Downstairs, Zoe encounters an apologetic Marguerite, who claims that she had heard voices in her head. Marguerite hands Zoe the car keys and tells her to leave. If the player completed optional objectives earlier in the game, they have the option of escaping to the camper van trailer. If the player tries to escape using the car, they will be confronted by Marguerite and Jack, the latter of whom savagely beats Zoe. If the player attempts to hide in the trailer, they will discover a letter written by Mia that thanks the Bakers for their kindness and warns them about Eveline. Zoe then wakes up at the dining table with everything seemingly back to normal, but soon starts seeing visions of Eveline.
Not a Hero
Moments after extracting Ethan and Mia, BSAA agent Captain Chris Redfield teams up with the now reformed Umbrella Corporation, also known as Blue Umbrella, in order to apprehend Lucas Baker and uncover evidence on the mysterious group that created Eveline, called "The Connections". After Ethan and Mia are rescued and sent away in a helicopter during the conclusion of the main story, Chris proceeds into Lucas' lab in the salt mine, where he accidentally runs into one of Lucas' traps and has a bomb attached to his left wrist. Undeterred, Chris continues his pursuit. He tries to rescue several captured Umbrella soldiers, but they are killed by Lucas' traps. Eventually, Lucas activates a timer on Chris' bomb. Chris is forced to freeze the bomb in liquid nitrogen, disabling it long enough for him to remove it.
With the bomb removed, Chris battles his way through more of Lucas' Molded and traps. He then finds his way into a secret Connections research lab, where Lucas had killed all of the Connections researchers and plans to betray the organization. Chris manages to corner and shoot Lucas, which triggers a mutation in his body. Chris battles and eventually kills the mutated Lucas, and stops him from transferring all of his data on Eveline to an unknown party. With his mission done and Eveline's infection contained, Chris returns to the Umbrella base camp for an urgent call.
End of Zoe
Following the canon story in which Ethan cures Mia instead of Zoe, Zoe wanders into the swamp and is apparently killed by Eveline; however, a pair of Umbrella soldiers find her body and discover she is still alive. They are ambushed by Joe Baker, Zoe's uncle, who lives in the Dulvey swamps and has not been affected by Eveline's mold. Joe initially believes Umbrella is responsible for Zoe's condition, but a surviving Umbrella soldier claims they have a cure for Zoe stored in a nearby shack. Joe goes to the shack, finding a partial cure, and returns to find the Umbrella soldier killed by a Molded.
Joe initially flees with Zoe on a boat to find the Umbrella base but is soon forced to search for the base on foot. A powerful and seemingly immortal Molded called the "Swamp Man" pursues them along the way. Joe and Zoe find the Umbrella base abandoned. They learn that the cure has been moved to a nearby paddle boat. Joe boards the boat and, after encountering the Swamp Man once again, uncovers a full dose of the cure. The Swamp Man captures Zoe before Joe can administer the cure. Joe gives chase into a heavily infected portion of the swamp and finds Zoe in an abandoned church. Inside, Joe is ambushed by the Swamp Man, who is revealed to be Jack, having survived Ethan's injection. Jack knocks Joe unconscious and throws him into the swamp water to die.
Joe washes up near the Baker mansion and finds himself in the midst of a battle between the Molded and Umbrella forces. He recovers an Umbrella power gauntlet and enters the mansion, where he permanently kills Jack and administers the cure to Zoe just as Umbrella reinforcements arrive, including Chris Redfield. Chris assures Joe and Zoe that they are there to help, and Zoe is fully cured of her infection. She then receives a phone call from Ethan, and thanks him for keeping his promise to send help for her.
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