Recaps

William explained Umbrella’s plan to take control of Greece while presenting its aid as help with the financial crisis. He showed President Karolos Papoulias footage of agents investigating a newly exposed cave on Santorini, where they discovered ancient ruins.

• William and Greek officials left the press conference and traveled with President Karolos Papoulias to a military base.
• Karolos thanked William for helping Greece, and William said Umbrella was motivated by profit.
• William told Karolos that an earthquake had exposed a cave on Santorini and asked him to assess the footage.
• Two Umbrella agents entered the cave after ordering nearby travelers away and found a smooth, geometric passage.
• The agents reached a large structure resembling a doorframe and identified a carved stone pillar as a Greek Doric column.

Agent A and Agent B discovered ancient ruins beneath Santorini volcano, where a giant lion killed both agents. After seeing the footage, William prepared a UBCS force because the system indicated the incident involved more dangerous abnormalities.

• Agent A and Agent B explored a square corridor covered in murals and Ancient Greece inscriptions, then entered a vast hall beside a lava-lit abyss.
• The agents found blood and clothing scraps and reported a likely abnormal Containment Object to the Command Center.
• A giant male lion emerged among the statues, and the Command Center ordered the agents to retreat as UBCS took over.
• The lion crushed Agent B and struck Agent A into the lava before the footage ended.
• President Carolos watched the footage as William explained that the ruins and their contents belonged to Umbrella.
• William learned that containing all the abnormalities could earn him two character-draw opportunities, so he brought a UBCS company and the Alpha unit to Greece.

William asked Carolos to translate inscriptions from the ruins, and Carolos identified the site as the tomb of Achilles. The inscription described Achilles guarding an entrance to the underworld alongside three tomb guardians, leaving William to suspect that two more abnormal phenomena awaited them.

• William showed Carolos the ruins’ murals and writing, asking him to translate them because Umbrella lacked suitable experts and Halsey was unavailable.
• Carolos examined the inscriptions and recognized them as an account of Achilles, whose tomb lay in the ruins.
• Carolos read that Achilles’ body had resisted cremation and that anyone seeking it had to pass the tests of three tomb guardians.
• William accepted Carolos’s translation and inferred that two abnormal phenomena remained beyond the mutated lion.
• Carolos explained that ancient Greeks may have believed Santorini Volcano was an entrance to the underworld and placed Achilles there to guard it.

William and Carolos analyzed the tomb guardians and prepared Umbrella forces to investigate the ruins. As Omega Company deployed, Hunk and four Alpha entered Biochemical Power Armor for testing and joined the mission, despite William's concern for their safety.

• Carolos identified the giant lion as possibly the Nemean Lion and speculated that the other guardians could be the Cretan Bull or Erymanthian Boar.
• William and Carolos arrived at Umbrella's command center, where Omega Company prepared armor-piercing ammunition, anesthetic gas, and hunting nets before boarding transport aircraft.
• Hunk and four other Alpha insisted on testing the Biochemical Power Armor and accompanying the operation, despite William telling them to withdraw if they could not contain an anomaly.
• Technicians fitted the Alpha into their armor and injected them with T-Virus Serum, reporting that their physical conditions remained stable.

Omega Company deployed to the tomb and subdued the Nemean Lion with gunfire, anesthetic gas, and capture nets. As the soldiers prepared to advance, more roars sounded from the corridor ahead.

• Captain Mike briefed Omega Company on capturing the anomalies, and Hunk and the other Alphas jumped from the Osprey before the Omegas deployed.
• Mike led Omega Company into the tomb, where the soldiers formed up around the ancient statues and blocked the passageways.
• The Nemean Lion attacked, and Omega Company pinned it down with armor-piercing rounds and heavy machine-gun fire.
• At Mike’s command, soldiers released anesthetic gas and shot capture nets around the lion, then reported its subdual to the Command Center.
• After an Omega joked that the mythological monster was nothing special, several deafening roars came from the corridor ahead.

Mike and Omega Company encountered a regenerative nine-headed serpent in a lava-surrounded arena, and the creature overwhelmed their defenses. Hunk ordered the survivors to target its eyes and help Alpha restrain it.

• Mike led Omega Company across a stone bridge over lava and into an arena where they confronted a nine-headed serpent.
• After the serpent attacked, Mike ordered the Omegas to open fire, and they shot it down before firing again when it appeared to be playing dead.
• The serpent healed its wounds, grew stronger, and killed several Omegas with corrosive acid despite their protective suits.
• Grenades failed to stop the serpent, which regenerated even after being blown apart.
• Hunk told Mike to spread out, target the serpent's eyes, and assist Alpha in restraining it.

UBCS and USS forces subdued and contained the Hydra, though Omega Company suffered casualties. William praised the survivors and urged them to regroup for the final anomaly.

• The Alphas climbed onto the Hydra, bound its heads and tail with ropes, and pulled it down while the Omegas fired at its eyes.
• Mike ordered the Omegas to combine their hunting nets and restrain the Hydra, which they trapped along with its acid-spitting mouths.
• Hunk told Mike that the Alphas would scout the next Guardian of the Tomb while Omega Company rested.
• Mike reported the Hydra’s corrosive blood, immunity to anesthetic gas, and Omega Company’s casualties to the Command Center.
• William praised the soldiers, promised that fallen employees would be remembered at the Stone Tablet in Haifa Central Park, and called on the survivors to prepare for the final anomaly.

Hunk and the Alpha team reached the tomb’s final chamber, identified the Ceryneian Hind, and inspected Achilles’s coffin before the Command Center confirmed that all the tomb’s abnormal phenomena had been contained. William received two character-draw opportunities and obtained the young Spartan Carl, whose special skill was Fatal Blow.

• Hunk and four Alpha members entered the tomb’s innermost chamber and found the Ceryneian Hind beside Achilles’s coffin.
• Carolos identified the hind and advised Hunk that it was harmless if the team showed no hostility.
• Hunk left three Alpha members to guard the hind and inspected Achilles’s coffin, finding no abnormalities.
• Andre ordered Hunk to assist the Recovery Unit and Omega Company in recovering the Containment Objects and coffin.
• William received two Halo Legends character draws and obtained twelve-year-old Spartan Carl, whose Fatal Blow could incapacitate or kill physical abnormal phenomena.

William used his final draw to add Mylon, the durable and unlucky Spartan 1337, to his squad, then oversaw the recovery of the Santorini operation’s wounded and Containment Objects. The operation’s survivors and artifacts were sent away, with Hydra designated Keter and all involved objects transferred to Greenland Island.

• The system told William that Hydra could perform a Fatal Blow if equipped with a suitable heavy sniper weapon.
• William used his last draw and received Spartan 1337, identified as Mylon, whose strength and bad luck could draw enemy fire away from his squadmates.
• William ordered Andre to send blood samples from Hydra and the Ceryneian Hind, along with Achilles’ sarcophagus, to the Kenya Base.
• Carolos asked William what he planned to do with Achilles’ remains, but William told him not to ask and redirected him to helping Greece recover.
• Umbrella classified the Ceryneian Hind as Safe, the Nemean Lion as Euclid, and Hydra as Keter, then sent all the operation’s Containment Objects to Containment Center Number Two on Greenland Island.

The Spartans trained over the waters near Minos Island, where Kent kicked Mylon out of a hovering Osprey before he could finish asking about the dive. Dr. Halsey then ordered training suspended, and as the aircraft turned back toward base, John reminded Kent that Mylon was still in the water.

• Kent inspected the fourteen Spartans aboard the Osprey and announced they would swim back to Minos Island after a forty-meter dive.
• Mylon asked whether breaking the dive record would earn him something, but Kent kicked him into the sea before he could finish.
• Mylon surfaced safely and declared that the forty-meter dive posed no danger, amusing the other Spartans.
• Carl called Mylon an idiot, while John defended him as someone trying to make their dull lives more fun.
• A pilot reported Dr. Halsey's order to suspend training and return to Minos Island, so the Osprey began to leave without Mylon.
• John pointed out that Mylon had been left behind, and Kent ordered the Osprey to turn around.

Halsey briefed Kent and the Spartans on an attack that killed an Umbrella convoy in Dadaab and ordered them to assassinate the warlord Glad Mahmud. John and his team accepted the mission, which Halsey framed as an exercise.

• Halsey showed Kent and fourteen Spartans a report that Glad Mahmud's forces and refugees had attacked and killed an Umbrella supply convoy near Dadaab.
• Halsey asked Kent about the Spartans' combat abilities, then confirmed that she wanted them to take part in the incident.
• John told Halsey that the Spartans were confident they could complete the mission, and his teammates backed him.
• Halsey identified Glad Mahmud as the warlord who had seized Dadaab and revealed that the convoy trucks were inside his guarded manor.
• Halsey declared that Mahmud had given the Spartans an opportunity to conduct an exercise.

Kent briefed the Spartans on infiltrating Dadaab and killing their target before Umbrella's assault, while Halsey warned that Mahmud might be a puppet. As the Spartans traveled toward the city, Halsey learned that the boss was arriving at the base and panicked over not having makeup.

• Kent explained that the Spartans would enter Dadaab in groups, eliminate their target before 00:09, and face an A-10 strike if they failed.
• John asked what would happen if the Spartans missed the deadline, and Kent warned them to run when the bombing began.
• Halsey told Kent to watch for signs that Mahmud was a puppet and urged John to discover what was wrong.
• A security officer told Halsey that the boss's private plane and a transport aircraft would arrive in half an hour, and Halsey panicked about her appearance.
• Mylon, John, and Carl drove toward Dadaab disguised as Libyan university students.

John, Mylon, and Carl drove into Dadaab to prepare for a planned attack on Gerard Mahmud, but the city’s mass killings and an eerie broadcast made John suspect an anomaly. They reached their safe house and found the agent inside muttering about killing.

• Mylon drove John and Carl toward Dadaab while John reviewed their plan to meet an agent and prepare for the midnight attack on Gerard Mahmud.
• Mylon asked whether their mother would call off the A-10 airstrike if they failed to escape, and John said he believed the threat was a bluff.
• The Spartans saw starving refugees, militia killings, and other horrors on Dadaab’s outskirts, leaving Carl sickened and Mylon questioning whether humanity was worth saving.
• John noticed that the refugees did not flee the militia and heard loudspeakers broadcasting in Swahili, so he warned Mylon and Carl to stay alert.
• The three Spartans reached the safe house, but the agent did not answer the door, and they heard someone inside muttering about killing.

John, Carl, and Mylon found an Umbrella agent acting violently and learned that other Spartan teams had encountered similar situations. John chose to proceed with the Decapitation Operation, and Team Seven prepared to attack Mahmud’s estate with drone support.

• Mylon kicked open a locked door, and John, Carl, and Mylon found an Umbrella agent muttering and holding a dagger.
• The agent attacked Mylon, who knocked him unconscious; John had him restrained while Carl contacted the other teams and the Command Center.
• After learning that other teams faced similar incidents and were following her lead, John ordered the Decapitation Operation to proceed.
• At night, John and Mylon silently killed two militiamen while Carl accompanied them toward the estate.
• John reported Team Seven ready and requested real-time tactical support; the Command Center confirmed a drone feed for the Spartans’ Graduation Exam.

At Kenya Base, William and Halsey discussed how an enemy was using language to manipulate people while Sparta raided Mahmud's manor. The operation ended with Sparta killing Gerard Mahmud and containing an anomalous phenomenon.

• William watched the military operation from Kenya Base and wondered whether an organization had ordered Mahmud to attack Umbrella's aid convoy.
• Halsey explained that broadcasts in Dadaab used Swahili phrases to push listeners toward killing, and described how language could influence thought.
• Halsey compared English and Chinese writing, then concluded that the person behind Mahmud could manipulate behavior through words and qualified as an anomalous phenomenon.
• A report announced that Sparta had killed Gerard Mahmud and successfully contained an anomalous phenomenon.

John, Mylon, and Carl led Team Seven into Gerard Mahmud’s manor to carry out a decapitation operation while other Spartans and USS cleared the grounds. They shot Mahmud, subdued a white man who tried to reveal a coded message, and reported that they had secured a possible anomalous entity.

• William ordered the troops to attack after Porcupine One finished dropping the bombs.
• John led Mylon and Carl over the manor wall, where the drone guided them past militia sentries toward the villa.
• The three Spartans entered the villa, killed Elite Militia in the corridor, and advanced toward Gerard Mahmud’s living quarters.
• Mylon kicked down the security door, and John shot Gerard Mahmud as the Spartans entered the room.
• A white man began to reveal a coded message, but John ordered Mylon to silence him, and Mylon knocked him unconscious.
• John reported to the Command Center that the decapitation operation was complete and a possible anomalous entity had been secured.

The Spartans escaped the manor as an A-10 strike destroyed it and routed the leaderless forces in Dadaab, while Umbrella’s troops advanced to occupy the city. At the Kenya Base, William learned the identity and likely motives of their captured anomalous prisoner, Dixon Power.

• John ordered Mylon to bind and gag the anomalous prisoner, then led the Spartans out of the manor as the team abandoned the women under its control.
• Kent congratulated the Spartans on passing their coming-of-age ceremony and issued them Optical Camouflage cloaks.
• An A-10 fired two missiles at the manor and strafed militia forces, while Umbrella troops advanced toward Dadaab.
• The Spartans rested at the Kenya Base hangar as USS personnel loaded supplies onto a V-22 Osprey and William and Halsey arrived.
• William identified the captive as Dixon Power, a University of Washington language professor whose daughter and ex-wife had died in Africa, and concluded that Dixon had used his anomalous linguistic ability to seize control of Dadaab’s forces.

William interrogated Dixon about his ability to control people and ordered him killed and completely disposed of. Later, after rewarding the Spartans for their performance, William asked Halsey whether gods existed, and she answered with Skinner’s pigeon experiment before asking why ancient people made sacrifices.

• William questioned Dixon and learned that he had discovered his speech-based influence within the past six months and that its effects were not permanent.
• William ordered Hunk to kill Dixon, dismember him, and dissolve his remains, and Hunk carried out the order with the Alphas.
• William congratulated the Spartans on their performance and invited them to ask for rewards.
• William asked Halsey whether gods had existed after seeing mythological monsters in Greece.
• Halsey described Skinner’s experiment with pigeons and asked William why the ancients had made sacrifices.

Halsey explained her theories about ancient gods and higher civilizations before revealing that she had created Cortana, an AI based on her own scanned neural structure. William received a hidden system reward for Halsey’s achievement, and she prepared to use Cortana to help open Achilles’ sarcophagus.

• Halsey described Skinner’s pigeon experiment and speculated that ancient gods might have been higher civilizations, while warning that humanity risked attracting danger by broadcasting Earth’s location.
• Halsey brought William to her quarters, where she summoned Cortana as an assistant.
• William’s system announced that Halsey’s creation of Cortana had triggered a hidden reward, granting him one physical enhancement draw, which he chose not to use yet.
• Halsey explained that she had cloned herself, scanned her brain, and converted its neural structure into Cortana, whom she planned to use to control media and coordinate responses during the frigate launches.
• William asked whether Cortana could help them open Achilles’ sarcophagus, and Halsey agreed.

William gained Albert Wesker’s superhuman abilities while Halsey and Cortana examined Achilles’s sarcophagus on Minos Island. They discovered Achilles was still physiologically alive, leaving William wary as they considered how the legendary hero had fallen into a deep coma.

• Technicians secured Achilles’s sarcophagus in the isolation chamber, and Cortana began scanning it under Halsey’s direction.
• William used the system to obtain Albert Wesker’s super speed, rapid healing, and great strength without needing viruses or parasites.
• Cortana detected rhenium in the sarcophagus alloy and confirmed it contained no harmful substances, so Halsey ordered it opened.
• Mechanical arms removed the lid, revealing Achilles’s remarkably well-preserved body in armor and a helmet.
• Cortana and Halsey reported that Achilles had basic physiological activity and was likely in an irreversible deep coma, while William recalled accounts linking his fall to pain from Paris’s arrow.

William proposed using Achilles’ blood, Hydra, and the Ceryneian Hind to create a piloted giant biological weapon, with Spartans as its pilots. Halsey began exploring how to build and control it, while William envisioned arming it to fight giant creatures.

• Halsey examined Achilles’ apparently uninjured feet and found that a needle could not pierce his neck, but drew blood from his heel.
• William told Halsey that he had also brought back blood from Hydra and the Ceryneian Hind, then said he wanted to create a god.
• William explained that Hydra’s size and the threat of future giant creatures demanded a humanoid weapon capable of matching them.
• Halsey realized William wanted to create a piloted giant biological weapon using the three creatures’ blood and Achilles’ divine side.
• William suggested that Spartans pilot the weapon, and Halsey began considering neural connections and other ways to control it.
• William imagined equipping the biological weapon with an electromagnetic accelerator cannon to fight giant creatures.

Halsey and Cortana created a giant biological mech by combining Achilles's body model with Hydra, Ceryneian Hind, and Mylon's genes, then equipped it with armor and a shield system. William approved moving ahead with the God Creation Plan, beginning with mechs designed for John, Carl, and Mylon.

• Halsey had Cortana enlarge a model of Achilles and combine it with Hydra and Ceryneian Hind blood, causing repeated mutations until the model stabilized.
• Cortana reported that the stabilized body could withstand conventional weapons, heal itself, and maintain nearly unlimited stamina.
• Halsey added Mylon's genes and designed armor, a Fusion Reactor, and an Energy Shield system for the biological mech.
• Cortana estimated each mech would cost 2.54 billion dollars and take three months and five days to produce, and Halsey said only modified Spartans with compatible genes could pilot one.
• William said he would fund the plan and have Wang Zhaofeng's Engineering Team renovate Minos Island, while Halsey ordered the first three mechs to use John, Carl, and Mylon's genes.

William left the observation room and relaxed on the beach, reflecting on his feelings for Halsey and the Spartans’ uncertain future. He interrupted John’s training of Mylon and asked John to walk with him, while Mylon and Carl headed back to the base.

• William let Hunk and the Alphas relax, but they continued to follow him as he walked past UBCS and young Spartans training in urban combat.
• William watched the Spartans fight, remembered that some children would die or be disabled during their future surgery, and continued toward the shore.
• William walked barefoot along the beach and thought about taking Halsey out once she had the God Creation Plan underway.
• William found John, Mylon, and Carl training on the beach, with John pinning Mylon in a combat hold.
• William told the children to balance training and rest, then asked John to walk with him; Mylon and Carl returned to the base for live-fire practice.

William encouraged John to rest, praised his work, and appointed him First Class Master Chief and Blue Team leader, charging him with keeping the Spartans alive. The appointment triggered a system reward that shortened the reset period from 120 days to 30 days.

• William told John that the Spartans had earned a break and praised his performance in Dadaab.
• John admitted he pushed the Spartans to train because he feared losing his brothers and sisters, and William said they were both there to protect them.
• William appointed John First Class Master Chief of the Umbrella Force and named him Blue Team leader with wartime command over the other squads.
• William told John to make the Spartans a symbol of hope and ensure their survival in battle.
• The system rewarded William for appointing John 117 as Master Chief by shortening the reset period from 120 days to 30 days.

William returned to Troy Base and met with Andre to discuss funding and expand Umbrella’s military preparations. He ordered new armor and protective equipment for UBCS, agents, security personnel, and Alpha Squad.

• William learned that John’s Master Chief skill enhanced nearby allies’ luck and let a three-man team gain Good Luck and steadily increase their combat power.
• William left Minos Island with Hunk and the others, traveled through Kenya Base, and returned to Troy Base, where he rested overnight.
• William met Andre at Troy Base on October 14, 2007, and said Umbrella had enough money to fund its military plans.
• Andre described Umbrella’s bases and estimated its military personnel at around seventy thousand.
• William ordered the Canadian arms factory to produce AAES for UBCS and called for simplified exoskeletons and sealed combat suits for agents and security personnel, plus Biochemical Power Armor for Alpha Squad.