Recaps

William prepared to negotiate Umbrella’s agreement with the United Nations while funding Halsey’s research and strengthening the underground facilities beneath Halifax. Five days after the first containment, he arrived at the United Nations building in New York with a heavily guarded convoy.

• William agreed to give Halsey five billion dollars for new research at The Hive.
• Halsey returned to The Hive, while William went to his seaside villa and considered Halifax’s underground complex a last-resort refuge.
• Agents around the world began containing anomalies, and Umbrella classified them as Safe, Euclid, Keter, and Exafanistei.
• William, Hunk, and Alpha Squad traveled to the United Nations headquarters in a convoy guarded by USS personnel.
• USS guards secured the area around the United Nations building, including nearby rooftops, before William entered.

William Russell arrived at the United Nations for a meeting about the Anomaly Protocol, where he thanked his USS bodyguards and received Canada's support. He began his speech by showing combat footage of UBCS soldiers fighting zombies.

• Hunk and Alpha Squad escorted William into the United Nations building under heavy security.
• William thanked the USS members for protecting him, then followed a receptionist to the meeting hall.
• Paul Heller told William that Canada's prime minister supported Umbrella and authorized it to do what was necessary.
• At two o'clock, William addressed the gathered representatives and introduced video materials from a USB drive.
• The first video showed an Obstacle Clearers squad receiving Victor's order to fire freely and efficiently killing a horde of zombies.

William Russell showed national representatives footage of anomalous objects and explained that Umbrella Enterprises had been founded to contain them. He secured a secret international agreement to let Umbrella lead containment operations while governments helped suppress information about dangerous anomalies.

• William showed footage of the Obstacle Clearers Company fighting anomalous creatures, then played a recording of Object 049 killing D-Class personnel 9527 and resurrecting him as one of the living dead.
• William explained that 049 was a Euclid-class Containment Object and warned that supernatural anomalies would continue appearing around the world.
• William claimed the Russell Family had prepared for anomalies for generations, and Paul said Canada had already partnered with Umbrella to limit losses.
• William asked other countries to help suppress information about Euclid-class and more dangerous anomalies while Umbrella handled containment, winning support from several nations.
• After days of negotiations, representatives established 336 clauses, and countries secretly signed the Athabasca Protocol with Umbrella Enterprises on February 6, 2007.

William considered Umbrella’s need for an aerospace carrier and a global rapid-response force, then learned that a mysterious cargo had arrived for him at his New York hotel. The cargo turned out to be a woman in a white dress who had somehow passed the security detail.

• William recalled how Russell’s influence had helped secure the Athabasca Protocol and Umbrella’s international support.
• William planned to use Halsey’s aerospace-carrier technology to create an ODST force capable of reaching emergencies around the world.
• William decided to visit Marvel’s headquarters in New York while Halsey finished debugging new UBCS and USS combat systems.
• Hunk told William that a cargo delivery had arrived, and William opened the suite door to find a woman in a white dress with Hunk and several Alpha personnel.
• Andre had ordered Hunk to sign for the cargo and deliver it to William after confirming William was still awake.

Andre arranged for Megan Fox to be delivered to William, worrying that his lack of interest in women meant something was wrong. William learned that she had been taken from the Iron Man set by men in suits, and the chapter ended with her explaining how she arrived at his suite.

• Andre ordered Hunk to deliver a woman to William, insisting the mission was safe and important.
• Hunk and the Alphas locked Megan Fox in the suite with William and left them alone.
• William questioned Megan and recognized her as the future Transformers star.
• Megan told William that men in suits had taken her from the Iron Man filming location while she was working as a supporting actress.

William learned that Megan’s family had accepted money to let the USS take her, so he arranged for her to stay safely and offered her a contract with his film company. The next morning, he brought her to the Iron Man filming location, while his guards mistakenly tried to arrange a male companion for him.

• William asked Megan whether she had been mistreated, and she said she had been fed and rested but had no freedom.
• Megan told William that her mother and stepfather had accepted money and asked him to take her to the filming location instead of home.
• William agreed, offered Megan a contract with his film company, and ordered the Alpha guards to protect her overnight.
• Hunk brought William a handsome Alpha who volunteered to serve him, but William insisted that he liked women and rejected the offer.
• William took Megan to the Iron Man filming location, where the crew gossiped about her return and her connection to their boss.

William discovered that Marvel had created the popular Abnormal Crisis comic based on rumors about the Athabasca Incident, then bought Microsoft shares to support Umbrella’s cultural ambitions. After returning to Troy Base, he visited Halsey and was startled by her changed skin color.

• William learned that Marvel’s Abnormal Crisis comic portrayed Jill Valentine, Carlos Oliveira, and STARS escaping a fictionalized Raccoon City, and its sales quickly surpassed the original Super Hero series.
• William decided to buy Microsoft stock and planned to make Abnormal Crisis the launch game for Umbrella’s Xbox console.
• William returned to Troy Base on February 14, 2007, after settling matters in New York and arguing with Andre.
• William visited Halsey’s dormitory, where she allowed only him inside, and he was shocked to see that her skin had changed color.

William visited Halsey, who revealed a new look and teased him about a newspaper scandal linking him to Megan. At The Hive, Halsey showed William her UBCS exoskeleton design, then began a live test against zombies, Zombie Dogs, and Lickers.

• Halsey showed William her changed appearance and confronted him with a newspaper photograph that made him look intimate with Megan.
• William explained how the photograph had been taken, and Halsey believed his account and said her darker skin would return to normal in a few months.
• William and Halsey observed a testing ground full of zombies, Zombie Dogs, and Lickers as they discussed how many soldiers would be needed to clear it.
• Halsey presented the UBCS Advanced Armored Exoskeleton System, which offered protective armor, enhanced strength, and thirty-six hours of power.
• Halsey ordered six UBCS soldiers wearing the exoskeletons into the testing ground, where the trial began.

A live demonstration showed the UBCS using AAES armor to clear a zombie-filled testing ground, though fast attackers remained dangerous. Halsey then showed William two unfinished armor projects: Thor's Hammer for the Spartan Force and Herendine, a more difficult suit intended for ordinary pilots.

• Corporal ■■ led five UBCS soldiers into the testing ground, where their AAES-assisted gunfire efficiently killed zombies and a machine gunner shredded a charging Zombie Dog.
• A Licker attacked Corporal ■■, but he threw it off with his exoskeleton and crushed its head, ending the live broadcast.
• William watched the UBCS clear the testing ground and praised Halsey, who explained that the armor was an inferior prototype and that fusion-powered suits were in development.
• Halsey told William that Wang Zhaofeng's engineering team was working on a fusion reactor design that could provide Umbrella facilities with nearly limitless energy in three or four months.
• Halsey brought William to the weapons research room and showed him the unfinished Thor's Hammer armor for the Spartan Force and the Herendine concept suit, which could take a year or two to complete.

Halsey showed William the costly Thor's Hammer and Herendine armor, then introduced new armor systems developed to prepare for dangerous Containment Objects. She explained the capabilities and steep biological costs of Biochemical Power Armor, leaving William to marvel at her extreme methods.

• Halsey revealed that Thor's Hammer and Herendine had consumed several billion dollars, explaining that their final forms required extensive materials and systems research.
• Halsey told William that ordinary soldiers could contain Euclid-level objects, but Spartans would be needed against Keter and Exafanistei threats while the Spartan Program developed.
• Halsey showed William five suits of AAES, explaining that each cost twenty-two million dollars and that production could reach about fifty suits per month.
• Halsey revealed that she had developed Biochemical Power Armor using serum derived from Tyrant T-103s to boost a wearer's strength, endurance, healing, and reactions.
• Halsey explained that each suit required four thousand milliliters of serum, or the yield of forty Tyrants, and William concluded that her methods were extraordinary.

Halsey explained the dangers of her biochemical power armor, and William agreed to obtain more D-class test subjects. The chapter then documented the secret abduction of John Campe and ended with fourteen Spartan candidates arriving at Minos Island for training.

• Halsey told William that the armor's T-Virus injections caused severe pain and could lead to organ failure and brain death, and William agreed to seek more prisoners for experiments.
• A classified file detailed how Dr. Halsey selected fourteen children for the Spartan Program and used clones to conceal their removal.
• Colonel Andre Kapushkin Ostrovsky's Gamma Squad abducted John Campe from his home in Toronto, and Umbrella altered the surveillance footage.
• William and Halsey arrived at Minos Island with Hunk and the fourteen candidates on February 22, 2007.
• The frightened children disembarked at the island base, while John silently assessed the guards and considered escape before realizing he had nowhere to go.

William brought the fourteen children to Umbrella's Minos Island base and revealed that they were clones, then told them they had been conscripted for military training to defend humanity. The USS took the distressed children to their dormitories, leaving William and Halsey alone in the conference hall.

• William arrived at the Minos Island base with Halsey and met Allen Kent, who had prepared a training plan for the children.
• At William's invitation, John asked whether Umbrella would harm the children's parents.
• William showed the children videos of their clones living with their biological parents and explained that they were clones.
• William showed footage of combat and Safe Containment Objects, then declared that the children had been conscripted to train as humanity's defenders.
• Kent ordered the USS to escort the children to their dormitories, and the children struggled and cried as the conference hall emptied.

William eased the Spartan children’s transition into military life by arranging comforts and rewards, while Halsey cared for them and secretly began preparing their bodies for augmentation. After two weeks of training, William gave the children toys, comics, and movie equipment for their free time.

• William accepted Halsey’s suggestion to reward the children with toys and activities, and she stayed on Minos Island to comfort them and explain their Spartan heritage.
• Halsey secretly injected the children with a tailored T-Virus and vaccine, and the Hive technical team arrived on February 26, 2007, to oversee the process.
• Major Kent began training the fourteen Spartans, assigned them numbers instead of real names, and designated John as number 7.
• The Spartans completed two weeks of demanding physical, academic, and tactical training before gathering in the conference hall on March 11.
• William acknowledged that the children might resent him, then offered them toys, comics, models, and movie nights as rewards for their free time.

William left Minos Island with Halsey to return to Umbrella Corporation’s expansion, while a report recounted three Umbrella agents in Deschambault Lake as a blizzard stranded a group of teenagers in the forest. The chapter left Sean studying a map and considering the missing children’s last known location near an abandoned mine shaft.

• William checked the Spartans’ loyalty, then left them with Major Kent and departed Minos Island with Halsey for a military base in Kenya.
• William decided to return to Haifa and let Umbrella Corporation continue expanding.
• A report introduced RCMP agents Sean Patrick, Adam Gale, and Andy Clement, who served Umbrella in Deschambault Lake, Canada.
• During a severe blizzard, parents reported that their children had gone camping in the forest and could no longer be contacted.
• Sean examined a map and identified the children’s last known area, which contained an abandoned mine shaft.

Sean and his team investigated an abandoned mine after a missing-children case and a legend of a deadly collapse led him to suspect an abnormal phenomenon. They entered the mine’s open dormitory, where Andy found something horrifying and a voice invited them to taste something delicious.

• Sean ordered Adam and Andy to prepare the pickup and gather equipment after remembering a fatal mine collapse fifty years earlier.
• Sean called Umbrella’s agent hotline and secured a UBCS squad to support the investigation.
• Sean told Adam that the mine stood on sacred Blackwood Mountain and that a blizzard had once killed thirty miners, twelve of whom were never recovered.
• The agents reached the dormitory, found its entrance wide open, changed into combat gear, and entered to search the building.
• Sean noticed panicked snowy footprints, including abnormally large barefoot prints and palmprints, before Andy called him to a room.
• Sean arrived to find something horrifying as a voice said, “Delicious... Aren’t you going to try some?”

Sean, Andy, and Adam fought mutated students and a miner-like entity after discovering Kevin eating Diana’s corpse. Surrounded by four Containment Objects, they stood their ground and held them off until the Containment Unit could arrive.

• Sean found Kevin eating Diana’s corpse and asked where his companions were.
• Kevin transformed after breaking free, and the agents shot him with their rifles.
• Kevin survived the gunfire and called to other entities, so Sean used an incendiary grenade as they escaped into the corridor.
• The agents found themselves surrounded by three mutated students and a miner-like Containment Object.
• Sean ordered Andy and Adam to hold the entities back until the Containment Unit arrived, and the group opened fire.

Major Mikhail Victor led the Removers into the Blackwood Mountain dormitory after losing contact with Agent Sean Patrick, where they rescued Adam Gale and subdued the last surviving Containment Object. The investigation found eleven victims and established that Adam would not transform, while the agents’ victory showed that agents were not expendable.

• Major Mikhail Victor deployed two squads of Removers to Blackwood Mountain after Agent Sean Patrick’s support request went unanswered.
• Victor’s squad found Andy Clement dead and several slain Containment Objects as they cleared the dormitory.
• The Removers rescued Adam Gale, who had been wounded while fighting a Containment Object, and secured the creature alive.
• The Removers and reinforcements discovered a cave containing eleven victims’ remains and confirmed that five Containment Objects had been present in the area.
• Captain Auston Lance had Designation 049 examine Adam Gale, and the Containment Center confirmed he would not mutate.

Dr. 049 identified the Wendigo’s infection as an urge toward cannibalism, and Containment Center One contained the outbreak by destroying one Wendigo and sealing off Blackwood Mountain. On the flight back to Troy Base, William learned that anomalies had existed in the past and were now awakening, while Halsey reflected on the agents lost in the incident.

• 049 identified the Containment Object as a Wendigo and explained that a bitten person would not become infected unless they ate another human.
• 049 advised that Wendigo patients could be killed by burning them to ashes, while Lance’s team classified the anomaly as Euclid and arranged Adam Gale’s treatment in Regina.
• 049’s experiments confirmed Wendigo 01 was dead, and Containment Center One incinerated it.
• Colonel Andre ordered Blackwood Mountain sealed within a three-kilometer radius, and the company concealed the deaths and disappearances while warning residents away.
• William asked the system about the Wendigo’s long existence and learned that anomalies from the past were beginning to awaken.
• Halsey mourned the agents who lacked AAES, and William explained that their families would receive benefits.

William traveled to Egypt, where Hunk interrupted a near-kiss with Halsey to report that the Egyptian president wanted to receive him. The chapter revealed that Umbrella had established the Space Exploration Technology Department as cover for the secretive Delphi Base, which William intended to use to take Umbrella into space.

• William and Halsey nearly kissed before Hunk interrupted them with news that President Mubarak had offered to receive William in Egypt.
• William declined Mubarak’s offer and told Hunk to pass along his regards to the president’s mother.
• Umbrella’s influence and rising wealth grew after it established an arms deal in Canada and a leaked Xbox development plan boosted Microsoft’s market value.
• William established the Space Exploration Technology Department in Newfoundland and Labrador to develop private satellites and publicly announced plans to lead humanity into the Interstellar Age.
• The department secretly served as cover for Delphi Base, a highly classified facility staffed by Umbrella personnel and built around its first nuclear fusion reactor.

Umbrella's departments and investments were listed, with its military, arms, and construction operations remaining unprofitable while biomedical work, acquired companies, Marvel Umbrella, and shareholdings provided income. William funded Xbox research out of his own pocket.

• Umbrella Military Contractor (Parent Company) received most of the company's expenditures but remained unprofitable.
• Umbrella Arms Department (Arsenal) supplied weapons to armed personnel and cooperated with the Canadian Military, while expenses exceeded profits.
• Halsey occasionally supplied Umbrella Biomedical with the latest chemical formulas, and the department was profitable.
• Umbrella Pictures had two unreleased films, while Umbrella Real Estate had properties under construction and Umbrella Engineering Team handled construction without outsourcing.
• Various Canadian Companies Acquired and Marvel Umbrella were profitable, while holdings in Microsoft, Apple, and Lockheed Martin yielded dividends.
• William funded Xbox research out of his own pocket.

On August 17, 2007, William reflected on Umbrella’s rapid growth and its expanding control over businesses, arms manufacturers, and military technology. He reviewed progress on the Xbox and Umbrella’s upcoming films before the Humvee reached its destination.

• Alpha asked Hunk whether to wake William as the Humvee neared its destination, and Hunk told him to let William rest.
• William woke and noted that more than a year had passed since he arrived in this world, while Umbrella had grown into a leading company with immense profits.
• William recalled that Umbrella had acquired major arms manufacturers, giving it control of technologies and blueprints used to develop weapons and enhanced vehicles.
• William reflected that Xbox development had stalled until Halsey completed its circuit diagrams and software systems in two nights.
• William expected Abnormal Crisis and the Xbox to launch on January 1, 2008, with Iron Man and Starship Troopers 2 premiering earlier.

William traveled to Delphi Base, where Umbrella was secretly constructing an enormous aerospace carrier facility. When Halsey rushed to greet him in her glass-walled office, William’s fear of heights overcame him and he collapsed.

• William reflected on Umbrella’s casualties and wondered why 049 had cooperated so readily with the UBCS at Containment Center One.
• Hunk escorted William through Delphi Base’s concealed entrance while another Alpha soldier helped keep the trip secret from American spy satellites.
• William saw five enormous structures under construction inside the mountain, each intended to be 600 meters long, 200 meters wide, and 200 meters high.
• William entered Halsey’s glass-floored office after sending Hunk and the other Alpha soldier to wait outside.
• Halsey hurried to embrace William, but he fainted and fell face-first onto the glass floor because of his fear of heights.

William woke from a coma to find Halsey had developed five Paris-class heavy frigates and their weapons and vehicles under Project Heading Dawn. He was stunned by her achievements and the Drop Pods, which she had created without him ever asking.

• William woke beside Halsey and panicked when he realized their bed was floating in her office.
• Halsey told William that the Aerospace Carriers were being built on schedule and handed him the project documents.
• William read that five Paris-class heavy frigates, equipped with advanced weapons and aircraft, were expected to launch on August 8, 2008.
• William was astonished that Halsey had developed the frigates, hydrogen bombs, Magnetic Accelerator Cannons, Pelicans, fighters, bombers, and Drop Pods.
• Halsey hugged William and asked whether her inventions had surprised him.

William and Halsey discussed her reward, then reviewed Umbrella’s plans for a space fleet designed to dominate the world and contain anomalous phenomena. Halsey asked to go to Minos Island to teach the young Spartans, and William agreed.

• William asked Halsey what reward she wanted, and she asked him to call her Catherine from then on.
• William and Catherine examined five Paris-class frigates under construction and discussed the larger fleet Umbrella hoped to build.
• Catherine explained that Umbrella had moved funds to Delphi to assemble a fleet capable of overpowering countries and neutralizing nuclear weapons.
• Catherine asked William for permission to teach the young Spartans on Minos Island, and he agreed.

William used Umbrella’s funds and influence to organize a stock-market rescue, hoping to draw other companies into the effort and weaken them for future acquisitions. He then spoke in Athens about why Umbrella had come to help Greece, which had declared bankruptcy.

• After Lehman Brothers’ stock plunged, investors copied William’s earlier moves and bought shares in companies he had invested in, while the market turmoil made him a celebrated prophet to some and a target of criticism to others.
• William calculated that he had sixty billion dollars in available capital and planned to use it to stabilize the market before the US Government intervened.
• On September 1, 2007, William announced that Umbrella would help rescue the stock market, and the next day Umbrella invested fifty billion dollars, pressuring other companies to join the effort.
• William planned to use the crisis to make large-scale acquisitions and expand Umbrella’s economic and military power.
• On October 11, 2007, William told reporters in Athens that Umbrella had come to assist Greece because it was the cradle of Western civilization and had declared bankruptcy.