The film begins with Alice (Milla Jovovich) recalling the key events from the first film, with some being shown almost as though through flashbacks. On September 29, the morning after the initial T-Virus outbreak in The Hive, the Umbrella Corporation sends in a research team to re-open the underground complex. As the team enters The Hive through a secret insertion point beneath Raccoon City, the entire team is slaughtered by the zombies and lickers that were formerly sealed within the complex. Realizing the entrance is now open, and the virus and infectious zombies make their way to the surface, Umbrella quickly begins evacuating high-ranking Umbrella staff members from the city. Dr. Charles Ashford, the creator of the virus, is evacuated without his daughter, Angela, who is knocked uncons