Resident Evil season 1, episode 6 recap: Someone’s Little Girl

The previous episode of Resident Evil was focused almost entirely on the 2022 storyline. This means the 2036 storyline has a lot of catching up to do and pretty much dominates the entire runtime of season 1 episode 6.

Resident Evil Season 1 Episode 6 recap – Mother Zero

Jade is taken prisoner by Umbrella, including an apparently not dead Billie who seems to be leading the charge. She confronts Jade about returning to Umbrella, but once they’re alone she frees Jade telling her there is a team from The University a mile away looking for her.

Billie also removes a tracker that Umbrella seems to have implanted in Jade’s arm in between episodes. It seems that Billie is still dying from the dog bite all those years ago.

While she is able to last longer than most people when exposed to the T-Virus (like fourteen years longer) she won’t be able to hold it at bay forever. Jade escapes with the head of the Mother Zero still safely tucked in her bag and meets The University team that can take her home.

We finally get to see The University that we’ve been hearing about since episode one. It’s been able to survive in the apocalypse world for so long because it turns out that it is located entirely on a boat.

Jade climbs aboard and is finally, happily reunited with her daughter. But there’s still science to be done and Jade, along with her lab partner, Amrita, set about trying to figure out how the Mother Zero was able to control all the other Zeroes.

After fifty-six different trials across a single time lapse, they are able to split the sample in two, and have one solution that attracts the T-Virus and one that repels it. Amrita says that they need to test their findings on a real Zero and starts making plans to ask The University for permission to mount a voyage back to land.

There they can set up the proper procedures in order to safely and effectively test out their discovery. Jade has a more direct approach.

Resident Evil Season 1 Episode 6 recap – Going fishing for Zeroes

The cold water can cause Zeroes to slow down, effectively rendering them dead until they warm up. Jade sneaks out in a life raft, finds a shipwreck with dozens of catatonic Zeros below the surface of the water and goes fishing with a meat hook.

Once she has a Zero in her possession, she sneaks it aboard The University ship. As Jade’s tying up the Zero, her daughter comes into the lab and sees her mother with an unexplained monster being tied to the wall.

She understandably freaks out a bit, but Jade explains the plan, and shows her the pheromone that should repel the Zero away from her. Jade douses herself in the pheromone and pricks her finger to draw blood.

The pheromone works and the Zero seems to be unable to register that Jade is there at all. However, the Zero does hear Jade’s daughter excitedly exclaim “It works!” and tears its restraints off in an effort to get to her.

The Zero throws Jade aside and tears off down the hall, attacking and killing the first person it comes in contact with, which just so happens to be Amrita. A nearby soldier shoots the Zero in the head, but it’s too late.

Amrita is dead, and everyone finds out that Jade snuck a Zero aboard the ship that was supposed to be their safe haven. To make matters worse, the episode closes out with a bunch of helicopters coming out of nowhere, suggesting that Billie may not have removed all of the trackers that Umbrella implanted in her sister.

Even though this episode was mostly focusing on the post-apocalyptic future, there were still just a few minutes of the 2022 storyline. We get a quick story focused entirely on Albert trying to get rid of the danger posed by Angel the reporter.

He kills him, with a drug that he pretends is truth serum. When pitching the idea to Evelyn, Albert is able to confirm that nobody else knows about Billie’s bite, and injects the fake truth serum into Angel, thus killing him.

While this gets rid of Angel, Evelyn is suspicious enough of Albert that she has him locked away presumably for some interrogation of his own down the road. However, the big reveal to close out the episode is that next door to Albert is another imprisoned Albert!

But this one has a beard! So, it looks like we’re going to introduce a cloning storyline as we head into the final few episodes.

Resident Evil Season 1 Episode 6 – In conclusion…

This episode kind of manages to be a lot and nothing at the same time. It’s supposed to be a big deal, a turning point for humans.

After all, this is the thing that they’ve been looking for since the show started, something that could allow them to rebuild the world without the fear of the Zeroes. But Jade’s decision to bring a Zero on board seems so wildly off brand that it feels as if it exists only to force a setback in the story and artificially create a new conflict.

Actually, it’s even more frustrating than that. Throughout the series Jade has been described as a character who is impulsive and prone to taking action without thinking through the consequences.

There’s even a whole scene early in this episode that exists only so people can talk about how reckless she is. The only problem is that we’ve never seen that aspect of Jade.

The way she has been presented throughout the whole series so far has been as someone who is resourceful and creative when faced with a challenge. Any actions that could even be described as reckless only happen when her back is against the wall, and all other options have been extinguished.

The Jade that characters have been describing, is not the same Jade the series has been showing us. It’s been annoying, but not something that’s been impossible to get past when watching the rest of the show.

But now we get the episode that this all must have been leading up to. We finally get Jade act in a way that people say is just like something she would do but is completely out of character for the person that we’ve actually been watching these past episodes.

So has this weird disconnect been in the whole series just to try and justify this one action? It doesn’t work.

It still feels out of character, and it still feels forced, and it only serves to highlight how annoying the earlier episodes have been surrounding this particular character development.

Do you think Albert has been cloned? Are Jade and Billie also clones?

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You can watch Resident Evil season 1, only on Netflix!