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Netflix Resident Evil episode 3 recap: The Light

Resident Evil episode 3 opens with Evelyn Marcus giving an interview. It quickly touches on where Umbrella stands in 2022, amid falling stock prices and legal scandals, Evelyn needs a new major push to reinvent the brand, hence why Joy has become so important. The interviewer asks her about her father, James Marcus, a company founder who was later “pushed out,” and about the tragedy of Raccoon City. Evelyn assures her that Joy is going to change the world.

Post-interview, it’s time for Evelyn and Albert to make their pitch to the board. Albert goes rogue and tells them just how dangerous Joy really is, even bringing forth the infected lab rat so they can see it’s erratic behavior.

But Evelyn has a back-up plan. She not only appeals to how successful Joy can be, but she also tells them that Joy can essentially let them control people because using the drug causes users to become susceptible to certain signals and visuals, she demonstrates this with a video showing the infected Doberman.

Then Evelyn starts pouring out Joy pills in her hand and asks Albert to tell her how many it would take to cause someone to turn. It’s a lot, meaning it wouldn’t be all that easy to turn, albeit still a possibility. “So we know what goes on the warning label!” Evelyn grins.

Elsewhere, Simon sends Jade more documents from the website and I highly recommend pausing to read the content. It’s about Umbrella’s human trials and game fans will recognize a very familiar and tragic story about Lisa Trevor. Lisa was experimented on and developed superhuman strength, but over time her overall health still deteriorated.

She kept a diary. It revealed Lisa thought one of her captors was impersonating her mother, Jessica, and Lisa tried to cut her face off to return it to her mom. Lisa repeatedly tried to escape, but failed. She was kept in captivity for 28 years, contained to a wheelchair. In 1988, she became the chosen host for a trial parasite.

Things got increasingly worse as Lisa started trying to collect more human faces. It’s still not entirely clear whatever happened to Lisa… but Angel writes that something similar might have been happening in Tijuana.

It’s interesting that Resident Evil has this included as an easter egg, as it might mean the show will later introduce the Golgotha Virus, or G-Virus, which was intended as a bioweapon to rival to the T-Virus.

Later, Billie returns to school with Jade. It’s clear she’s not doing well. She keeps hallucinating, sweating and acting feverish. And now Albert knows that the lab rat turns, he estimates Billie only has about 52 hours before she turns too, since rats metabolize faster than humans and it takes them 24 hours, humans take approximately 36 hours and its already been a day since Billie was bitten. How fitting that they start learning about viruses in class!

Back at Umbrella, Evelyn isn’t happy with Albert for bringing the rat to the meeting and he’s not pleased with her for touting behavioral modification, something he claims they already agreed to take off the table. She tells him her friend at the FDA has agreed to rush human trials and he now has less time than ever to get Joy ready for market. Then she cuts the rat’s head off with a pair of scissors to make a point or whatever. Ick.

Billie’s sickness gets increasingly worse, to the point she hallucinates herself throwing up and covered in blood. Then she runs out of school and collapses from dizziness and the overwhelming illness.

Jade tries to talk to Simon again about everything they found on the Umbrella Truth site and the newfound info on human trials, but just as she catches up to him after school she finds him with his mom, which is… Evelyn Marcus!

In 2036, Jade narrowly escapes capture yet again, this time because she rescues a little boy and his parents offer her sanctuary in their bunker. It turns out the parents are smugglers themselves, trying to bring contraband to Calais to sell. They agree to help Jade as thanks for saving their son, Liam, and in return she can offer them some protection.

As a foursome, Jade, Liam (Caleb Payne) and his parents, Enya (Genna Galloway) and Mark (Matt Newman) meet with what is essentially the 2036 post-apocalyptic version of a coyote to get across the Chunnel. But yet again, Baxter and Umbrella catch up to them. This time, before they can kill everyone, they’re attacked by Lickers in one of the coolest and most terrifying sequences of the show yet.

Anyone who loves Resident Evil will appreciate this scene which is plenty taut with tension and is filmed almost entirely in a single take as the Lickers pick off several people one by one. Jade and her group escape, leaving Umbrella to deal with the Lickers alone.

Too bad their luck doesn’t last. Once free of the Lickers, they find themselves face-to-face with a giant spider. Mark sacrifices himself so his family can escape, but Jade discovers that Liam has been bit.

She tries to convince Enya to leave him behind since he’s no longer “Liam” anymore and it’s only a matter of time before he turns into a monster. It sounds like she’s talking from experience, which doesn’t bode well for 2022 Billie. Enya refuses, so Jade leaves her and Liam behind and escapes… only to run directly into Baxter… and the Brotherhood, which is essentially an anarchist faction who are very anti-Umbrella. Assuming Jade is part of Umbrella and Baxter’s team, they kidnap both of them.