Story Summary for Resident Evil 2: Umbrella Lab
Resident Evil 2 Story Summary – Leon Ending
In the spooky depth’s of Umbrella’s lab, Leon searches for the G-Virus at the behest of Ada. She wants the virus secured so that they can avoid another disaster in the future. In the hands of anyone else, she claims, the world is at risk from contamination.
Leon makes his way through the lab. On his way through, he watches another video, this time showing Birkin injecting himself with the G-Virus after special forces come to take it away from him.
Believing they have killed him, the special forces report their mistake to some sort of higher authority before leaving the scene.
Annette then discovers William still alive, and can’t believe that he’s injected himself with the virus.
After unlocking the lab’s west side, Leon is pursued by the Tyrant once more. He makes it across to the west side and then finds the G-Virus and removes it from its container, which triggers an area lockdown.
He then bumps into Annette who claims that Ada is actually a mercenary. She threatens to kill him if he doesn’t hand over the virus.
But an even more mutated William Birkin then appears and Leon is forced to battle him one final time. After killing Birkin, Leon finds Annette terminally wounded.
The two part ways after Annette explains that they never meant for the G-Virus to cause such devastation.
Leon then bumps into Ada, who he confronts about being a mercenary. Ada admits her guilt and draws a weapon on Leon demanding the virus.
But before she can get her hands on it, Annette appears, fires a shot at Ada, and knocks the G-Virus off the platform they’re both standing on. Ada also falls, seemingly to her death.
Leon then makes his escape from the lab as it begins to self-destruct. But once again, the Tyrant appears in hot pursuit.
Leon manages to evade the Tyrant but is then forced to fight it on a funicular railway. Leon battles the Tyrant but only manages to kill it after being thrown a missile launcher. As it turns out, Ada isn’t dead after all…
Leon then makes it to the train, which is promptly leaving. He scurries aboard and finds Claire and Sherry. All three make their escape and the game ends.
Claire Ending
When Claire descends to Umbrella’s lab, she takes her to a bed to recover and then goes in search of the “Anti-Viral Agent” cure. She then watches the same video of William Birkin injecting himself with the G-Virus and then bumps into Annette.
Annette explains that she had the chance to kill William but couldn’t pull the trigger, but confesses that she and William were more in love with their work than each other. William then bursts in, injuring Annette, and Claire is forced to fight.
After taking care of William, Claire and Annette return to Sherry, who has awoken after the anti-virus has taken effect. Unfortunately, Annette is terminally injured and dies.
The two then make their escape from the lab and find the escape train, where Claire has brief contact with Leon, who tells her to escape without him.
William then appears again, and Claire battles him as the train and the platform it’s sitting on descend toward the underground track. After seemingly defeating William for last time, Claire and Sherry scramble inside and recover, where they meet Leon.
But, oh uh, there’s a big bump and judder. Claire goes to check it out and discovers Birkin clambering up the rear of the train. A final battle ensues.
William really does die this time, and the three make it out of the underground train tunnel. Emerging in a deserted wilderness, the three then share a lighthearted moment. A lorry approaches and Claire worries that the infection may have spread. As it turns out, though, the lorry driver is very much human, albeit not a very friendly human.
The game ends with Leon vowing that if the infection has spread, they’ll all fight it together.
That does it for our story summary of Resident Evil 2! Be sure to check out our review for our full impressions of the remake.
