Recaps

William approved a massive equipment budget for Umbrella’s agents and promised Andre he would decide by year’s end about starting a family with Catherine. Later, he took the nervous Halsey to a New York premiere, where she stepped out to face a crowd of reporters.

• William authorized six hundred billion to support Umbrella’s personnel and research, including better equipment for its agents.
• Andre pressured William to marry Catherine and have children, and William promised to give him an answer by the end of the year.
• William said he would stay in Troy to train with Hunk and the Alphas, then learned St. Mary’s might expel him for missing a year of classes.
• William decided to buy St. Mary’s, then traveled to the Empire No. 25 cinema in Manhattan with Halsey.
• William reassured Halsey and draped his overcoat over her before she stepped out of the SUV to face the reporters.

At the premiere of Starship Troopers 2, William publicly called Halsey his girlfriend and kissed her, making their relationship official. As the film began, the system warned William that Elizabeth from Prototype had been detected.

• Halsey stepped out of William's car and was swarmed by reporters asking about her relationship with him and Megan Fox.
• William introduced Halsey as his girlfriend, dismissed questions about Megan Fox, and escorted her into the cinema with his Alpha soldiers.
• Halsey complained that William had never confessed, and William kissed her before saying the reporters' news would count as his confession.
• William, Halsey, and their group took seats in the second-floor box to watch the premiere of Starship Troopers 2.
• As the film showed human soldiers fighting bugs, the system warned William that it had detected Elizabeth from Prototype.

While watching Starship Troopers 2, William learned that Elizabeth Green had appeared in Manhattan and infected tens of thousands of people. He evacuated with Halsey and the Alphas, who prepared to fight their way through the chaos outside the theater.

• The system warned William that Elizabeth Green from Prototype had appeared in Manhattan and offered a detailed report.
• William learned that Green had devoured everyone inside the Plaza Hotel and infected an estimated forty thousand people within a five-hundred-meter radius.
• William carried Halsey out of the theater and told her they were returning to Long Island.
• Hunk met William at the theater exit and confirmed that an emergency evacuation was underway.
• Hunk stopped the group at the back door after they heard screams outside, and William ordered the Alphas to proceed.

William and Halsey escaped the cinema with Hunk and the Alphas as infected flooded Manhattan, and they prepared to hold the parking lot until helicopters could evacuate them. Halsey identified the outbreak as the work of a highly contagious hostile Patient Zero, but the Alphas came under renewed attack before William could explain what he knew.

• Hunk led William and Halsey into the parking lot, where an injured businessman begged for help and revealed he had been scratched by the infected.
• Hunk shot the businessman and ordered the Alphas to purge the parking lot, and they killed the approaching infected.
• William ordered Hunk to request helicopters from the Long Island branch and arm the Alpha squad for further infected waves.
• The Alphas equipped themselves with armor and rifles, while Halsey concluded that a hostile Patient Zero had likely caused the outbreak.
• William brought up a satellite map to explain the outbreak to Halsey, but Hunk and the Alphas opened fire on more infected nearby.

William and Halsey escaped Manhattan by helicopter as Umbrella and the Marines destroyed the infected below. William invoked Clause Twenty-Five of the Athabasca Protocol and learned that the US Marine Corps had already begun a total blockade of Manhattan, leaving him puzzled by the lieutenant general’s initiative.

• Hunk and the Alphas boarded five Little Birds while William and Halsey evacuated with the remaining team in Black Hawks under Marine Cobra escort.
• The helicopters withdrew as infected flooded the parking lot, and the ten abandoned SUVs exploded, destroying nearby infected and Umbrella technology.
• In the Black Hawk, Halsey said Manhattan had no hope if Elizabeth Green was Patient Zero and admitted she had no immediate way to contain her.
• William contacted Troy’s Command Center and ordered Umbrella forces to assemble on Long Island and coordinate a complete blockade of Manhattan.
• Troy reported that Marine Lieutenant General Mike O'Donohue had already initiated the blockade, leaving William confused.

William arranged military support for Long Island as Elizabeth Green’s infection overwhelmed Manhattan, then arrived at Kennedy Airport with Halsey. Halsey worried that she could not contain Patient Zero, while William prepared to meet Lieutenant General Mike O'Donahue.

• William ordered Major Kent to escort Cortana and Spartan Squad to Long Island and told Troy to prepare logistical support.
• William considered the difficulty of containing Elizabeth Green and feared the military might resort to a nuclear strike if the outbreak became uncontrollable.
• William suspected that his grandfather, Sears Russell, had built lasting influence by supporting young people who later became powerful officials and generals.
• William and Halsey landed at Kennedy Airport, which the military was converting into a temporary fortress.
• Halsey told William that thinking about Patient Zero gave her a headache and made her fear she could not find a way to contain Elizabeth Green.

William met Lieutenant General Mike O'Donohue, a longtime ally of the Russell Family, and asked why the family’s agents had cut contact after his grandfather died. Mike explained that Sears had ordered them to stay away until William needed help, believing William would revive the family.

• Halsey worried about solving the Red Mist Zone problem, and William reassured her that they would gather information before deciding what to do.
• Mike O'Donohue approached William at Kennedy Airport, and Hunk stopped him until William recognized him as someone who had cared for him as a child.
• William welcomed Mike and asked why Sears’s hidden agents had abandoned the Russell Family after Sears’s death.
• Mike said Sears had ordered the agents to sever contact because William’s father was incapable of restoring the family, while Sears believed William would succeed.
• Mike revealed that he had watched over William in Manhattan, then dispatched helicopters and sealed off the city when the abnormal phenomenon appeared.

William and his team reviewed Manhattan’s infection map at Umbrella’s wartime command center and discovered that Elizabeth Green had slowed the virus after its initial explosive spread. The chapter left William suspecting that Green was holding Manhattan’s 1.4 million residents hostage to prevent a nuclear strike.

• William thanked Mike for explaining Lord Russell’s support and redirected the conversation to Manhattan’s abnormal phenomena.
• William, Halsey, and Mike arrived at Kennedy Airport’s command center, where the Marine Corps and Umbrella had established a military base.
• An Umbrella supervisor reported that online efforts could not contain the spread of Manhattan-related photos and videos, and showed William a map of the infected areas.
• The supervisor presented drone maps showing that the infection spread rapidly at first but barely expanded during the following thirty minutes.
• Halsey concluded that Elizabeth Green could assimilate Manhattan within an hour but had deliberately slowed the spread, and William suggested she was using the residents as hostages to prevent a nuclear strike.

William ordered the Marines to secure civilians and draw the infected away while Umbrella Agents prepared to enter Manhattan’s Red Zone for reconnaissance and sample collection. The agents assembled in Washington Square Park under Patricks Hogan, ready to investigate the Red Mist and the Plaza Hotel.

• William asked how many agents and troops were available, and the supervisor reported their positions and arrival times.
• William sent Mike’s Marines into Manhattan to establish a safe zone and distract the infected while agents gathered intelligence.
• Mike accepted the order and left with the Marines, while Halsey told William the operation had a success rate of around forty percent.
• Marines stabilized civilians in the Yellow Zone as armored and aerial forces attacked the infected.
• Fifteen agents and twenty-five reinforcements gathered at Washington Square Park in upgraded combat gear.
• Patricks Hogan named the temporary unit Vulture and ordered its agents into the Red Mist to conduct reconnaissance and collect samples.

Hogan led Vulture Squad into the Red Zone under Marine escort, while William watched the operation from Kennedy Airport. After the agents reached the Palace Hotel, the system triggered a mission requiring a vaccine, at least 500,000 survivors in Manhattan, and William’s personal participation in containing Elizabeth Green.

• Hogan briefed the agents on the mission’s risks and support, then led Vulture Squad to join the Marine convoy.
• The convoy pushed through infected on Fifth Avenue, and the commander’s jokes eased the agents’ tension until they reached the Red Zone.
• The Marines drew infected away from the Palace Hotel, allowing Hogan and the other agents to sprint through the Red Mist toward it.
• At Kennedy Airport, William and Halsey monitored the agents’ vital signs and camera feeds as the system issued William a new mission.
• The system tasked William’s Umbrella Corporation with developing a vaccine within five days, preserving at least 500,000 Manhattan residents, and having William personally join the operation; it offered several assimilation options and a Fire Spirit package as rewards.

William learned that the Containment Operation would require him to face Elizabeth Green personally, but the mission rewards—including assimilated soldiers, equipment blueprints, and the Fire Spirit package—convinced him it was worth undertaking. He resolved to protect his soldiers, while Hogan led Vulture Team into the Red Zone to begin reconnaissance.

• The system explained the mission rewards, including options to assimilate colonial Marines or Blackwatch soldiers and a Fire Spirit package.
• William confirmed that he had to join the Containment Unit and learned that Elizabeth Green’s combat power far exceeded Umbrella’s soldiers’ capabilities.
• William decided it was time for him to protect his loyal soldiers.
• Hogan led Vulture Team through the red mist, and his combat suit’s filtration system showed no signs of failing.
• Hogan activated the mask’s Scanning System and reported that Vulture Team was proceeding deeper into the Red Zone.

Hogan led Vulture Team into Manhattan to gather Blood Mist and investigate the Plaza Hotel, where they found fleshy egg-like structures connected to living tubes. After collecting samples, the team withdrew safely, and William concluded that Green was turning the Red Zone into her nest.

• Hogan ordered Vulture Team to avoid combat as they advanced through the Blood Mist toward the Plaza Hotel.
• Hogan collected a sample of the Blood Mist once it reached the required concentration.
• The team found a road covered in tubular organs and thousands of enormous fleshy structures, with a humanoid creature visible inside one of them.
• Halsey ordered Hogan to withdraw, then asked him to collect a liquid sample from one of the tubes.
• Hogan led Vulture Team back to the rendezvous point, and the agents were disinfected and evacuated without losses.
• William watched the agents evacuate and told Halsey that Green appeared to be making the Red Zone her nest.

William recognized that Elizabeth Green was creating Hunters and considered using Umbrella’s overwhelming firepower to protect its soldiers. After Halsey analyzed the agents’ samples, she found that both contained an RNA retrovirus, leaving William to connect it to the T-Virus.

• William recalled that Elizabeth Green could turn humans with superior genes into Hunters and decided Umbrella could bombard the area before its operation.
• William remembered that Blackwatch’s antidote had failed against Green and recalled a red chemical agent that was deadly to infected creatures but harmless to humans.
• A supervisor told William and Halsey that the temporary laboratory was ready and the Vulture Team had completed a second disinfection.
• William and Halsey met the returning agents, and William thanked Sergeant Hogan for helping secure the samples.
• Halsey analyzed the two samples and found that both contained an RNA retrovirus that caused mutations among Manhattan’s civilians.
• William recalled that the T-Virus was also an RNA retrovirus and asked Halsey about the connection.

Halsey explained the viruses spreading through Manhattan and said she needed antibody-rich blood to develop a vaccine. William proved his body could withstand the virus and gave her blood, leaving vaccine production and the hunt for Elizabeth Green as the next steps.

• Halsey compared the T-Virus with the virus spreading through Manhattan and said infected people usually died unless their genes enabled them to become superhuman.
• Halsey said she needed Elizabeth Green’s blood to develop a vaccine quickly, but would need at least a month without it.
• William confirmed with the system that his immune system could resist any virus and offered his blood to Halsey.
• Halsey initially refused to infect William, but changed her mind after he effortlessly crushed an iron test-tube rack and assured her he would be safe.
• William withstood the virus and provided Halsey with antibody-rich blood; he named the virus Blacklight and described Blackwatch’s steam-powered sterilization equipment.
• William and Halsey prepared to develop the vaccine, while mass production, public-opinion control, and containing Elizabeth Green remained ahead.

William welcomed Andre and the reinforcements at the former Kennedy Airport, where Umbrella’s troops and equipment prepared to enter Manhattan. As Marine Corps defenses on West 42nd Street buckled under the Zombie Horde, Tyrants and UBCS troops arrived to reinforce them.

• William waited at Long Island Fortress after Halsey had drawn 1,200 milliliters of blood from him for vaccine research.
• Andre arrived aboard the Um-255 with twenty-two UBCS companies, four hundred USS troops, and a large number of Tyrants, then reunited with Mike.
• Nine more Um-255s landed, and UBCS troops, Tyrants, technicians, and security personnel deployed toward Manhattan and the airport defenses.
• Marine Corps troops struggled to hold West 42nd Street as fast, powerful infected overwhelmed several defensive positions.
• Nearly forty Tyrants charged into a breach at Sixth Avenue, while UBCS troops arrived to help reinforce the Marine Corps line.

A news report and online posts revealed the Manhattan outbreak to the public, prompting calls to end the lockdown. William learned that Cortana had suppressed the coverage, while the US Government continued to pressure the military to reopen the city despite the threat posed by Elizabeth Green.

• Jessica Shawn reported from Jersey City that Manhattan was sealed off and described gunfire on the island before Marines ordered her and Joey to stop.
• A Reddit post claimed that a security guard escaped hordes of zombies near Madame Tussauds, and commenters argued over whether the lockdown should end.
• By December 27, Umbrella forces had contained the Blacklight Virus's spread, and Halsey had developed a vaccine formula for mass production.
• Cortana told William she had deleted online material about the outbreak, restricted the accounts that shared it, and sent USS units to stop broadcasters.
• Cortana reported that President George Walker had demanded the city be reopened, but Lieutenant General O'Donohue refused.
• William told Cortana that officials would blame Umbrella if reopening Manhattan put them at risk, and said they should be ignored.

William reviewed the Total Disinfection Plan and ordered bombing to coincide with the disinfection, while Cortana prepared to track rumors for a later memory wipe. He then inspected weapons at a hangar and saw two new Gauss firearms developed by The Hive.

• Cortana reported that 1.7 million vaccine doses would arrive at Long Island Fortress the next day and that the Total Disinfection Plan could begin simultaneously.
• William learned that the plan was expected to clear every Yellow and Red Zone except the Red Mist Zone near the Plaza Hotel by evening, and ordered bombing to destroy the eggs before they hatched.
• William told Cortana to collect the addresses where rumors had spread and prepare large-scale Memory Wipe Measures for after the Containment Operation.
• William visited a hangar, where a supervisor reported that The Hive had produced fifty-seven sets of Biochemical Power Armor and only one costly Herendine.
• The supervisor showed William The Hive's new Gauss Sniper Rifle, which could fire a warhead over forty thousand meters, and an 8-millimeter Gauss Rifle designed for UBCS and the Spartan Force.

Umbrella bombed Manhattan’s Red Mist Zone with cluster bombs and six Mother Mary airburst bombs to weaken Elizabeth Green and destroy the infected before the containment operation. The observation team reported that the blast had devastated the zone, and the Total Disinfection Plan could proceed.

• A USS observation team reported that Hunters were emerging from cocoons in the Red Mist Zone and requested the bombing begin.
• The Bombing Squadron received authorization and dropped its GBU-100 cluster bombs and six Mother Mary bombs into the zone.
• The blast wave disabled the USS soldiers’ Optical Camouflage and knocked their equipment around, but they survived.
• A USS soldier reported that the Red Mist and blast smoke were rapidly retracting and that much of the zone’s buildings, infected, and Hunters appeared destroyed.
• The Command Center acknowledged the report and told the UBCS companies and Containment Units to watch for surviving enemies as the Total Disinfection Plan proceeded.

William led Umbrella’s Containment Unit into Manhattan to find Greene after the bombing, using Biochemical Power Armor and Cortana’s battlefield scans. The team cleared surviving Hunters and located Greene, and William ordered John and Carl to wait for him before acting.

• William gathered fourteen Spartans and thirty Alpha members, then led them into Biochemical Power Armor and received a T-Virus Serum injection.
• Cortana reported that the Pelicans were ready, and William led the Containment Unit in a jump into Manhattan.
• William landed among the bombed-out ruins and ordered Cortana to scan for living organisms carrying the Blacklight Virus.
• William’s team fired on a Hunter hiding behind a wall, drawing out and quickly eliminating the remaining Hunters.
• John found Greene and marked the target’s location, while William ordered John and Carl to wait for him.

William approached the injured Elizabeth Green alone to contain her, but Green spoke to him and showed him memories of her first night in Manhattan. The chapter ended as Green walked toward the Plaza Hotel in those memories.

• William ordered the Containment Unit to scan the corpse pile and hold fire unless Green attacked.
• William carried a Containment Box into the crater while his team provided cover from the perimeter.
• The system reported that Green was severely injured and her combat power had fallen from 727 to 294.
• Green rose and asked William why he had harmed her children, saying blood similar to hers flowed within him.
• Green showed William memories of awakening in a Manhattan alley, where three drunk finance workers harassed her and she absorbed their thoughts.
• Green walked toward the Plaza Hotel after seeing the finance workers' greed and deception.

After sharing Green’s memories, William rejected her belief that humanity should be exterminated and contained her in a sealed box. He ordered Umbrella to disinfect the site and transport Green to Containment Center One.

• Green’s memories revealed humanity’s cruelty and destruction, while the Blacklight Virus spread her belief that humans deserved extinction to infected people.
• Green gained control over the infected and created obedient Hunters, but the deaths of her children and William’s hostility left her confused and guilty.
• William told Green he had injected the virus to save New York and that she could not decide humanity’s fate, then forced her into the Containment Box.
• Green entered the box and said she would wait to see whether humans had a reason to exist; William sealed the lid.
• William ordered Cortana to coordinate incineration, disinfection, and Green’s transport, then told the Spartans and Alpha to guard the area.

William learned that Umbrella had secured Elizabeth Green and exchanged the Fire Spirit package, which provided a massive spacecraft, Warp Engine blueprints, and enhancements for Spartan Red Team. He then recalled Halsey’s warning that NASA’s Pioneer and Voyager probes could expose Earth to alien civilizations, leaving him concerned about the danger of launching into space.

• Umbrella classified Elizabeth Green as Keter-class, sealed her beneath Containment Center One, and planned a large-scale memory wipe and Manhattan recovery program.
• On December 29, William asked the system for his reward after Captain Lance reported that Green had been secured.
• The system explained that an agreement bearing President George Walker’s signature had placed Lieutenant General Mike O'Donahue’s Marines under Umbrella’s control.
• William exchanged the Fire Spirit package and received a 2,500-meter-class vessel, Warp Engine blueprints, James Carter, Serena, and enhancements for Spartan Red Team.
• William remembered Halsey’s warning about the Pioneer and Voyager probes revealing Earth’s coordinates and human DNA to alien civilizations.

William assimilated Umbrella’s security force into the Colonial Marine Corps and gathered his senior staff to outline the company’s future. He assigned Mike’s Marines to a space fleet and declared that Umbrella’s next objective was colonizing the Solar System.

• William learned the combat-strength requirements for assimilating the Colonial Marine Corps and Blackwatch, then scanned Umbrella’s security force and assimilated all 33,674 personnel into the Colonial Marine Corps.
• William summoned Andre, Mike, and Halsey to the terminal’s conference room to discuss Umbrella’s future development.
• William made Mike an A-Class Employee and assigned his 20,000 Marines to Troy, then promoted Andre to general and kept him in command of Umbrella’s forces.
• Cortana explained Project Heading Dawn to the meeting, and William told Mike that his Marines would join six warships as the fleet’s primary combat personnel.
• William confirmed to Andre that Umbrella would shift its expansion from Earth to the Solar System through the Colonization Plan.

William proposed an interstellar colonization plan, with Mars and Titan colonies protected by sealed domes, and Umbrella’s executives approved it. He assigned Halsey and Cortana to lead preparations while directing the others to handle security, anomalous phenomena, and the Manhattan incident.

• William explained that Umbrella could use Warp Engine ships for affordable round-trip trips to Mars and proposed recruiting paying pioneers to build colonies and exploit space resources.
• Cortana estimated that the Engineering Team could build a Colony Ship for ten thousand people in about eight months at a cost of 7.2 billion dollars.
• Halsey, Andre, and Mike supported the Colonization Plan, and Halsey proposed radiation-resistant domes with artificial gravity instead of transforming planetary atmospheres.
• William ordered Halsey to lead the plan with Cortana’s assistance, tasked Mike with training twenty thousand Marines, and assigned Andre and Mike to address the Manhattan incident.
• Halsey returned to Minos Island with Cortana and the Spartans, Andre and Mike stayed in New York State, and William returned to Halifax City to form an elite Mobile Task Force.

William reviewed Umbrella’s plans for Mobile Task Forces, containment centers, military equipment, and research projects as Serena finished selecting personnel for the first three task forces. The chapter left those forces ready to form, with Umbrella’s wider expansion and research still underway.

• William read the plans for three Mobile Task Forces: Obstacle Clearers under Major Mikhail Victor, Ares under Major Allen Kent, and Gamma under Lieutenant Karina Lesprus.
• Serena told William that she had selected the members of all three task forces and that their commanders and the general should have received the lists.
• William asked Serena to upload Umbrella’s information to his computer so he could review it before going to sleep.
• The report described four containment centers, including their guard forces and notable contained anomalies such as Elizabeth Green, Hydra, and the Water-Loving Slime.
• The report outlined Umbrella’s shift to Pelican transports and its plans for fighter jets, bombers, specialized units, and Blacklight-based enhancement drugs.