Netflix Resident Evil season 1 recap guide: All 8 episodes explained

Netflix Resident Evil episode 2 recap: The Devil You Know

Resident Evil episode 2 picks up in the immediate aftermath of Jade’s decision to leap off the roof into a horde of zombies. Lucky for her, one of the scavengers betrays the others and gives her a ride out of the angry mob of zeroes toward safety. Unluckily for him, he doesn’t even make it to the tunnel before the zombies catch up and devour him.

At least his death isn’t in vain, since Jade makes off with his jeep. She drives to Dover, England, in search of an old contact named Barry who previously helped smuggle Jade into Cairo. Barry isn’t home but his…eccentric wife and cat lady Melinda (Corien Pelt) is. In a town swarming with Umbrella drones, Jade doesn’t have much time to find Barry and get out of the area before she’s spotted, so Melinda will have to do.

The older woman lets Jade use her satellite phone to touch base with Arjun who advises her to find a way across the Chunnel to Calais where he’ll send a team to pick her up. The only way Jade can get there is to find a smuggler, hence why she needs to talk to Barry. Well, that might be a little tricky since it quickly becomes apparent that Barry is dead and an infected zombie that Melinda has handcuffed in the bathroom.

To her credit, she claims Barry chained himself up after getting bit, knowing he would turn. She’s been feeding him the cats. Melinda isn’t completely useless though, she tells Jade Barry did know one smuggler named Charon and his info would be in a notebook where he kept things like that.

But guess where the notebook is? Yeah, in his pocket. Jade ends up having to kill Barry to get it, deeply upsetting Melinda. Baxter tracks Jade to Melinda’s house after an Umbrella drone spots her and Melinda has no qualms snitching on her after Jade killed her zombie husband.

Armed with the notebook, Jade finds Charon’s bar. Barry had debts and because of this, Charon won’t give Jade the token she needs to board the ferry (Charon-coins-ferry basic Greek mythology). She resorts to stealing one from a bar patron. It ends up not mattering anyway because Baxter and Umbrella catch up to her and the episode ends similarly to the first one, with Jade trying to make yet another narrow escape from Umbrella.

In 2022, Albert arrives just in time to save his daughters and start covering up the colossal mess they’ve made. Billie gets badly bitten by the infected dog (uh-oh), but she’s not dead yet, at least. Albert tells Jade to take Billie home and treat the wound while he starts fixing things at the lab. He uses a convenient USB loaded with some kind of virus to hack the Umbrella systems and wipe all the security footage, plus any other research data on them (he’s gotta make it look realistic). Umbrella has back-ups so it’s not too big of a deal.

Then he douses himself in some of the dog’s blood and makes himself look convincingly bedraggled. By the time Roth (Anthony Oseyemi) and Evelyn arrive, Albert is ready with his story: he was working late when someone hacked their systems. The dog got loose and went after him, but Albert was able to kill him. For now, Evelyn seems to buy it, but she’s clearly suspicious and she wants to find the hacker ASAP.

This is our first scene meeting Evelyn, Albert’s boss and daughter of one of the Umbrella founders and brilliant virologist James Marcus (from the games). She’s married to a woman named Diana (Emily Child) who arrives at Umbrella in the aftermath of all the insanity. It’s clear that there is some tension between the two as Evelyn is a workaholic who tends to put Umbrella before her home life.

By the time Albert returns home, Jade has Billie set up on the couch. Albert tries to assure the girls that it will be okay. He claims the dog was infected, but doesn’t reveal many details. He also asks them to keep this entire incident between them to prevent anyone finding out about what happened at Umbrella.

The next day, Jade decides to start digging into Umbrella after seeing that disturbing Tijuana video. When she goes online, she discovers a website called Umbrella Truth, but it’s blocked by the company firewalls. Meanwhile, Billie is getting increasingly sick and Albert draws some of her blood to test it. He injects it into a lab rat to see if the rat becomes infected like the Doberman.

At school, Jade connects with her classmate, Simon (Connor Gosatti), the boy she briefly met in the first episode. Simon is known around school as a hacker who can torrent anime and other things blocked by Umbrella’s strict security protocols. He’s the perfect person to help her gain access to information on the Tijuana incident.

With Simon’s assistance, Jade gets access to the website and they read through a document regarding the incident claiming that an animal bite turned an Umbrella staffer psycho, like, “eating people” psycho. It looks like one of the lab rats they were using to test Joy caused the outbreak. Jade sends a message to the website creator, claiming something similar might be happening where she lives and asking him to contact her.

Albert confronts Evelyn about her plans regarding Joy. He wants out of this project as he doesn’t believe two months is enough time to make the product safe and start selling it, mentioning that the “last time” they did something regarding the T-Virus it endangered thousands (old Raccoon City?).

Evelyn refuses to back down and she doesn’t accept Albert’s resignation. There’s more to the story here as she knows that Albert injects himself with the twins’ blood and why, referring to him as his “cute little blood bags.” It looks like Albert is injecting himself with increasing frequency, meaning whatever his deal is, it’s getting worse. She also makes a vague threat, claiming he can’t be “out” since she was the only reason he was ever “in.”

It doesn’t take long for the guy behind Umbrella Truth to contact Jade. His name is Angel Rubio (Pedro de Tavira), a former investigative reporter for The Baja Post. He’s been investigating Umbrella’s health and safety violations for years. He knows about the Tijuana incident.

After an Umbrella worker was bitten by a lab rat, he went on a rampage that killed nine people and now he’s dead. But when Angel tried to publish the story, Umbrella shut him down, forcing him underground. Jade freaks out and her teacher calls her name toward the end, just in time for Angel to hear “Ms. Wesker,” meaning Angel now knows Jade’s full name. Will he track her down?

Given permission to stay home due to her sickness, Billie decides to take Pablo for a walk, except her dog starts acting super weird around her, growling and trying to run away. He eventually manages to break loose and a jogger picks him up. Because Pablo keeps barking at Billie, the guy doesn’t believe Billie is his own owner and decides to take Pablo to an animal rescue. Billie suddenly loses her cool and punches him in the face, grabbing Pablo and retreating. It looks like the virus is giving her even more complicated rage problems.

It doesn’t get better at home. Billie is getting increasingly sick, and fast. Her mouth is bleeding and she’s starting to struggle to control her temper. Back at the lab, we see the rat injected with her blood start to turn and attack its glass cage…