Resident Evil on Netflix: Lance Reddick Reveals How Albert Wesker Is Still Alive

The plot of the eight-part Resident Evil series on Netflix, which debuted all eight episodes on Thursday, revolves around Dr. Albert Wesker's development of the T-virus-containing pharmaceutical treatment and the apocalyptic consequences it has had 14 years later. The only issue is that Wesker passed away in 2009 following a battle in which he was injured and then fell into a volcano, where he was hit by an explosion. The exact way Wesker appears in the series, despite that terrible death, is revealed in a 2005 flashback in Episode 7. The evil scientist actually created Albert, Bert, and Alby, who are much nicer copies of him, in a bunker in the Arklay mountains by cloning himself. Wesker tries to get rid of the proof of his experiment by killing poor Alby and running away, but Evelyn, the CEO of the Umbrella Corporation, stops him while he is working with her soldiers.

The Albert that we see on the program "is a clone of the Wesker that died in the volcano." The menacing, shades-wearing figure in the flashback wearing the black trench coat is the real Wesker, who is "still alive [at this point in time] in a bunker with his clones that he’s created." He figures, ‘If I’m great, more of me is better." I could get more scientific breakthroughs faster, "Reddick explains." "He doesn’t want to change the world; he wants to take over the world." The character is a complete megalomaniac and a pure psychopath. "

Showrunner Andrew Dabb found it simple to choose to employ clones to bring Wesker back.

"Clones have always been a bit of a big part of Resident Evil. It just became very obvious in a couple different ways, "Dabb tells TVLine. "Number one, it’s a way to get Albert back, but a little bit of a different Albert than we met before." The second thing is, that this show is very much about parents and children, whether it’s Albert and his daughters, or Jade and her daughter, but also the original Wesker and his children because they were raised by him. "

Twins After Bert poses as their father and acts strangely violently over the endless breadsticks at Olive Garden, Jade and Billie are surprised to learn that Albert is a clone. They quickly find out that their father is not who they believed him to be.

"They now know who he is," Dabb notes, "and if you walk out like, ‘Oh my gosh, my dad was this horrible guy,' My dad was Hitler, and I’m a clone of Hitler. What does that make me? ’ I think that’s something that [Billie and Jade] are struggling with, too. Someone like Albert would argue he’s not like his dad at all. But as the show goes on, you start to see maybe he’s a little bit more like his dad than we thought. "

After Billie is proven to have been infected by the T-virus, Albert makes the ultimate sacrifice by causing an explosion at the Umbrella lab to aid his daughters in escaping. As far as we are aware, Bert is the final remaining clone. He is last seen leaving in a car in 2022, together with Billie and Jade.

Why are Albert Wesker's eyes red?

The Prototype virus caused Wesker's luminous, Red Cat-like eyes to dilate. After contracting the Uroboros virus, worse. Wesker's eyes changed color to a yellow or red hue, and his pupils shrank and took on the appearance of slits. This was the only physical alteration he underwent after contracting the Prototype virus.