Leon S. Kennedy

Wrenwood (Grace) The story takes place in October 2026, 28 years after the Raccoon City Destruction Incident, Federal Bureau of Investigation's intelligence analyst Grace Ashcroft is investigating the latest string of mysterious deaths occurring across the United States of America, with four of the victims being former survivors of Raccoon City outbreak. She was approached by her supervisor Special Agent-In-Charge Nathan Dempsy who asks her to go back to the abandoned Wrenwood Hotel where a fifth body was found. Dempsy sympathises with Grace's deceased mother—investigative journalist Alyssa Ashcroft who was murdered in the same place eight years ago—and gives her the option to investigate the crime scene and report back her findings. Wanting to understand the nature of her mother's murder, Grace agrees to go back In the city of Wrenwood, a neighbouring city to the desolate ruins of Raccoon City, Grace arrives at an alley where she presents her identity to the city's local officer Norman Cole, who informs her that the hotel was soon to be torn down. Checking inside the building, Grace finds a photo of herself and a key to Room 204. Investigating the room, Grace finds a bed covered with numerous photos of herself and her mother, eventually settling a photo taken on the night of the murder. In 2018, Grace's mother Alyssa was a freelance journalist and nomadic traveller, staying at Wrenwood Hotel with her daughter. That night, a phone rang for Ashcroft who confirmed her identity before being rudely hung up on by the caller. Shortly after, a blackout came and Alyssa, who had been stalked for the past two days by a hooded man, quickly told Grace to escape despite her confusion. Arriving at the reception, the unnamed Wrenwood Hotel Manager reassured them the power outage was natural before being killed by the hooded man. Acting quickly, Alyssa shot him several times before closing the door on him. Near the emergency exit, Grace suffered a nervous breakdown after calling the police, despite her mother's insistence that she not call the police, Alyssa reassured her daughter, and reminded her she was "her hope", though Grace did not understand what she meant. As they escaped, Alyssa's neck was severed by the hooded man before fainting and causing arson, leaving Grace to mourn her mother’s death. Eventually, the hotel was forced to shut down due to the extent of the damage, Since the murders, Grace joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation and works as its intelligence analyst. In the present day, Grace receives an anonymous silent call. Creeped out, Grace tries to leave the hotel and sees a man's shadow walking by. However, before leaving, Grace remembers her mother had hidden her bag behind a painting shortly before her death. She recovers her mother's journal and a floppy disk, before encountering officer Cole again, now dazed and confused and clutching at his neck. Cole turns into a zombie, and Grace gets herself accidentally trapped at the luggage cart. Cole tries to kill her with a shotgun, but Grace gets away and runs to the second floor. However, Grace is grabbed and bitten on the forearm, before using a glass shard to propel the zombified Cole outside, killing him. Hearing music playing upstairs, Grace walks upstairs to see a man sitting by the fireplace. He tells her he had planted the fifth body here to lure her, and she is the chosen one. Grace tries to run but is choked and knocked unconscious by the man.

Wrenwood Outbreak (Leon) Elsewhere in Wrenwood, Division of Security Operations agent Leon Scott Kennedy and his current FOS support Sherry Birkin are investigating the newly appeared sixth body at an alley near the railway in Elbridge. One of their fellow agents, Andrew Hughes discovers that their person of interest is former Umbrella scientist Victor Gideon, who did not attend the Raccoon Trials and contributed to Umbrella's downfall. Hearing a tip from Sherry about a missing officer reported near where the fifth body was found, Leon heads there but is stuck in traffic. However, Leon witnessed Victor carrying an unconscious Grace, and rushes out to chase him. A concerned pedestrian is worried for Grace, but is shot in the neck with a dart gun by Victor who did the same to multiple people, triggering a small outbreak. Leon did his best to contain the outbreak, and orders Sherry to have Wrenwood quickly quarantined. By the time the outbreak is contained, Leon loses track of Victor but Sherry points out Victor may be heading for Rhodes Hill Chronic Care Center, an institution formerly funded by Spencer Foundation and later bought by Victor, following Umbrella's closure.

Awaking at Rhodes Hill (Grace) Somewhere in the care center, Grace wakes up to find herself being slowly drained of blood. Using the IV line and broken shards of blood container, Grace frees herself from her restrains. During her search, Grace is pursued by a creature in hospital gown and wavy white hair. Managing to lift the segregating bars, leading to central hall, Grace tries to crawl herself free but the creature catches and throws her against the wall, before being dragged away by the girl. Arriving at Rhodes Hill (Leon) Arriving at Rhodes Hill Chronic Care Center, on just the outskirts of Wrenwood, Leon visits the institution where he meets a nurse who tells him Dr. Gideon has been expecting him, and guides him to the East Wing Hospital Wards. She informs him she was recently hired, and the facility catered to long-term patients. Unaware he was being surveilled on, Leon is told to wait until alarms blares Code 6, and the nurse immediately returns to inform him a mass hysteria is occurring, unaware staff and patients had been infected. The nurse is killed with a chainsaw, and Leon defends himself against new infected. As he explores, Leon accidentally comes across the moment Grace manages to lift the bars open, and being dragged away. He comes to her aid in time and shoots the creature's head, seemingly killing it. As Grace rushes outside, Leon informs her of his identity and in turn she to hers. Confused on FBI's presence, Leon asks the reason she was kidnapped by Victor, but Grace remains confused. When he tries to leave, Victor, in hiding, triggers the facility's lockdown, separating them both. Before the shutters fully closed, Leon gives her his weapon Requiem and tells her to leave. He meets Victor who tries to initiate a conversation, but Leon attacks him. However, Victor disarms Leon and chokes him unconscious, commenting that he too was afflicted with the "Umbrella's Curse" after spotting the black bruises on his body.

Rhodes Hill (Grace) Left to fend for herself, Grace wanders the institute. Amidst her exploration, Grace encountered Jeff Gray, a dying staff member who screamed at her to stay away from Emily, a young blind girl sealed behind glass. She learnt Emily had a cellmate named Marie who had escaped to the basement, through the hole dug in her glass cell and became the creature she was hunted by. While searching a way to free Emily, Grace encountered Gideon in lead researcher Anthony Richardson's office. She asked the reason for her kidnapping but Gideon saw it as her liberation. He told Ashcroft she was the "key" to free Elpis, and was chosen because "her master" made her who she was. Fearing she would get capture again, Grace fled and bolted the door with a chair, before creating an illusion she had escaped by opening a door then hiding behind a nearby corner. Gideon tried to intimidate her to reveal herself but failed, leaving the room shortly after. Reaching the security office where Grace found Luke Clark dead, she discovered a puzzle that could only be read with braille, and went back to free Emily from her glass cell. They went back to the office where Grace guided Emily to the box, but amidst solving it, few infected patients and staff stumbled to them. Grace locked Emily in the room, as she defend them. Eventually, Emily successfully solved the puzzle, but was immediately taken to the basement by the girl who was still alive. Reluctantly, Grace went after them to rescue Emily. In the basement, Grace saw many former patients locked in cells, and many formerly experimented corpses being dumped into processing. Eventually, Grace found an unconscious Emily locked in a cell with many dolls the girl had collected. In her quest to free Emily, Grace was relentlessly pursued by the girl. Successfully powering the basement, Grace unlocked Emily's cell, but also many others containing the zombified patients. As she rushed them to the elevator, Grace was continuously pursued by the girl who climbed after the lift and laid on top of them. Reaching back to the ground floor, Grace forcefully open the lift doors, and removed Emily first before climbing out. However, the girl entered the lift, and caught Grace's leg, trying to pull her back in. Eventually, the titanium cable snapped, plunging the girl below and nearly severing Grace's leg. Feeling relief, Emily gives Grace the last piece of the puzzle needed to unlock their way to the courtyard. Outside, Grace meets a pilot named {{user}}ry Reed who offers to watch Emily, have them flown out the care center in exchange for her to retrieve the helicopter's key after it was confiscated by his employers. Initially, Grace does not trust the man, but Reed cites his old war wound, affecting his mobility and reasons her agileness could do the job faster. She accepts the offer, and goes to the cabin beside the helipad. Unexpectedly, Grace finds an underground lab beneath where countless patients were experimented for their blood. There, Grace overhears Gideon contacting Zeno, after testing her blood and confirms her to be the "key". Seeing no further need for the lab, Gideon triggers self-destruction sequence, releasing all mutated patients. She fights through tides of blood, before reaching the surface again, having claimed the helicopter key. Grace urges Reed to hurriedly take off, as patients shambling towards them. However, Reed had taken off too late, as zombies began to bust through the front glass, grappling him. Grace was forced to be on co-pilot seat, and attempts to take control of the destabilizing helicopter, only for them to crashed at the cemetery. The impact kills Reed, and left Emily severely injured. She frees Emily as they flee to the chapel, with the cemetery ridden with zombies attracted to the crash.

Rhodes Hill (Leon) For hours, Leon is unconscious and brought to the attic to be interrogated. Victor wants to question him, but Leon keeps silent, only responding through taunts. Frustrated, he is cut by Victor but before he can be tortured, he breaks free and tries to attack Victor who flee. Reestablishing contact with Sherry, Leon announces his objective of going to Victor's private office. Along the way, Leon is attacked by Chunk, a former patient turned bloated zombie but is able to kill him. Descending to the 3rd floor, and finding Victor's hidden office, Leon purposefully inputs the wrong password, paving the way for Sherry to access Victor's files. She retrieves documents about the latent onset t-Virus syndrome, referred by Gideon as Raccoon City Syndrome. He looks defeated as Sherry confirms they are all infected with residual t-Virus laid dormant within their bodies, and are slowly dying from degradation. Furthermore, Leon uncovers another document with the keyword Elpis, and a picture of Grace. He wonders how she is related to the keyword. Just then, Leon witnesses the spiralling helicopter crashed into the cemetery, and Grace emerging from it with Emily. Leon assists them from afar, before reuniting with her inside the chapel. Grace panics as she tries to stem Emily's bleeding wound, but is calmed by Leon. However, zombies, Blister Heads and Blister Borne began to broke into the burning chapel. Leon tells Grace to carry Emily to the water treatment facility behind the building as he stays behind, and deals with stragglers. As Grace flees, she was once again stalked by the girl. Adamant Emily would be taken again, Grace safely leaves her behind. Exploiting the creature's vulnerability to light, Grace manually opens the roof hatch, killing the girl who melts into puddles. However, by the time she comes back, Emily already died from her blood loss. Desperate to save the young girl, Grace frantically does CPR on her, only result in the girl's out of control mutation. Grace tries to plead Emily, but the mutated girl is shot several times by Leon who have just arrived, despite Grace's protests. She mourns Emily, as the girl was her strength to survive. Leon tries to console Grace, but has his weapon Requiem tossed back to him before Grace abandons Leon. He tries to follow her, but his syndrome progresses to stage two, as he now coughs up blood. Grace wanders to the back of the facility where she is greeted by Victor who introduces her to his employer Zeno. He tells her she is the key to unlock Elpis, a project that can change the world. Wanting answers on what Elpis is, Grace willingly goes with Victor and Zeno to the Raccoon City ruins in helicopter.

Returning to Raccoon City (Leon) Determined to save Ashcroft and learn why she was connected to Elpis, Leon drives his way to the old ruins of Raccoon City. En route to Raccoon City, Sherry contacts Leon and informs him Elpis is not documented nor mentioned on CIA servers or the Pentagon. When Sherry asks for higher clearance, she is ordered to terminate the investigation. Leon is confused at the sudden obstruction but cautions her against risking disciplinary or legal repercussions. She refuses to disengage, insisting she will continue to assist him regardless of the consequences. Arriving at the eastern side of Raccoon City, Leon is directed by Birkin to go to Raccoon City center based on the coordinates she has found from Gideon's computer. While there, he fights against the Titan Spinner and its children, before arriving just outside the gate with a line of wall erected by the army. Leon finds a camp of BSAA's North American branch, and is briefed by Birkin on their internal dispute, with the NA branch operating independently. When he reboots the laptop found in the camp, Victor Gideon and Zeno immediately finds out that an electronic device is active in Raccoon City while on the way to ARK and they know that Leon is coming after them after hacking the laptop's camera with Leon standing in front of the camera. Searching for detonators to blow the gate open, Leon comes across a dead BSAA unit, and retrieves footage from a soldier's recording camera, asking Birkin to find the killer's identity. However, Leon learns the man himself is a "ghost", with no public records. Gathering all three parts of the detonator, Leon blows the gate open, and uses a nearby motorcycle courtesy of the BSAA to reach the center. On the highway, Leon is pursued by several Garmr and Victor Gideon himself, who wield rocket launchers to try and kill him. Despite Victor's attempts, Leon successfully leaks fuel out of his motorcycle and ignites it, causing Victor to tumble into the chasm below with an explosion soon following. Thinking he has killed Victor, Leon proceeds to the Raccoon Police Station, where the BSAA uses it as their main base, surveilling ARK as early as 2023. Finding a terminal computer, Leon finds Grace and Zeno conversing at the East Wing. Along the way, he pays respect to Lt. Marvin Branagh and many fallen officers of S.T.A.R.S, R.P.D, and Robert Kendo of the Gun Shop Kendo. Getting to their location, Leon eavesdrops on the conversation the two are having, leading to Grace eventually feeling shell-shocked and overwhelmed when she thinks she is responsible for the many deaths in the pursuit of unlocking Elpis.

Raccoon City Revelations (Grace) En route to Raccoon City Center, Grace overhears Victor Gideon and Zeno discovering Kennedy is in Raccoon City after the latter having interacted with an old BSAA computer on the outer walls in East Raccoon City. At their stop, Ashcroft accompanies Zeno to the ruins of the Raccoon Police Department, while Gideon deals with Kennedy. He leads her to the East Wing, where he tells her Elpis is currently being hunted by all covert militaries around the world in Raccoon City. Ashcroft learns Elpis is supposedly the last virus created by Umbrella's founder, Spencer, with the purpose of mind control and infectious ability. When the 1998 outbreak occurs, the Connections cannot let Elpis be stolen and lobby for the Sterilization Strategy. Using their connections to The Family, the organization forces the federal government to approve of Derek C. Simmons's strategy in their bid to contain the outbreak and hide Spencer's last creation deep within ARK. Its importance is deemed so vital that former President Adam Benford is assassinated when he tries to reveal the truth.[1] Furthermore, Ashcroft is shown a picture of Emily. However, Zeno reveals Emily is but a clone, and many others have been made, with the furthest back being Chloe, the first of the Series 70 subjects. All of these are supposedly made after her, the original. She is shown a surveillance footage of Chloe wandering about Raccoon City Orphanage in February 1990, seeing her friends, the Series 60 children, rampaging and killing Umbrella's researchers and nurses. Eventually, Chloe accidentally wanders to ARK, where she discovers her origin as a test-tube baby. She is subdued by a researcher and killed afterwards upon showing symptoms. Viewing the footage, Ashcroft is shell-shocked and overwhelmed, thinking she is responsible for hundreds of children being experimented on and dying, her mother's murder, and the fact that she is manufactured. Zeno tells her to look to the future, but Ashcroft faints. Leon quickly intervenes, however, Zeno summons the T-501 to deal with him as he carries Grace's unconscious body to ARK.

ARK (Leon & Grace) Pursued through R.P.D and outside, Leon is beaten several times by T-501 before it loses its coat, turning into a Super Tyrant. Eventually, Leon bursts its heart out to defeat it for good. Having overheard mention of the Raccoon City Orphanage acting as an entrance to ARK, Leon heads there, where he is attacked by several seedlings grown from Plant 43. Descending to the deep grounds, Leon finally kills the plant and enters ARK. Inside ARK, Leon spots crates belonging to H.C.F., TRICELL, and Umbrella. Further exploration results in Leon finding Grace and Zeno in PANDORA, where Elpis is being kept. However, he is quickly intercepted by Connections soldiers and their lead Commander. Though the soldiers are easily killed, Kennedy enters a hard scuffle with the Commander but pulls through. Leon later enters PANDORA and interrupts the conversation, battling Zeno, but is easily outmatched due to his enemy's agility. Before he can be killed, Grace grabs his fallen pistol and threatens to end her own life, giving time for Leon to shoot off the cranes and quickly grab Ashcroft. They fall into the waste disposal unit, where Leon passes out due to his progressive syndrome. For hours, Grace stayed by his side before Leon woke up again. Now in stage three, Grace realized Leon was one of the Raccoon City survivors, and asked why he had come here if his syndrome was severe. He affirmed of his resolution to make a difference, as part of his continuous atonement. He set out to destroy Elpis, and initially rejected Ashcroft's assistance but upon seeing her resolve, Leon made Grace promise to destroy it. Finding a crane blocked their bath, he boosted Grace to another part of the facility where Grace finds the key to activate the crane and use it to lift off the crane, giving way to Leon to escape the waste disposal area. As he made his way back to PANDORA, Leon has already been teetered at the edge of death, as his coughs became more pronounced. Finally, Leon vomits out of blood right at the entrance of PANDORA and collapses.

Elpis (Leon & Grace) Minutes earlier, Grace has made her way to the archives, where she spots several records about herself on the screen. Finding a slot reminiscent of an MO Disc, Ashcroft inserts the one she obtained from her mother's satchel and learns of the interview her mother conducted with Spencer following Umbrella's crash in 2004. She finds that she herself is a natural-born child and was given to her mother through Spencer's will. Lastly, Spencer refers to Elpis, his last project, as his "blind hope". Grace is shocked before finding Leon collapsing on a surveillance monitor filming the corridor just outside PANDORA. Quickly making her way to him, Grace tends to Leon and enters PANDORA again to find Zeno awaiting them. Leon offers to buy her time so Grace can input a wrong password to destroy it, however, she offers another idea, and Leon fully trusts her decision. Grace bargains for Leon's life in exchange for unlocking Elpis and standing before the console, she is asked "What does the creator desire?"

Release Elpis If the player chooses to release Elpis, Grace will choose to remember her mother's last words and believe in Spencer's regret, Grace inputs "Hope", thereby releasing Elpis. They are presented with six vials; Zeno, in his arrogant belief that it is a virus, shoves Grace aside and injects himself a vial before she can warn him. Zeno's infection is neutralized as Grace tells him of Spencer's regret and that she was never special. When Zeno demands answers, Leon throws himself at him but is tossed near Grace, who holds a vial of Elpis. She proclaims Elpis is an antiviral agent designed to undo all virus-based infections. Shortly after, Victor Gideon arrives, having been beaten by Kennedy earlier in the Raccoon City ruins, and marvels at Spencer's genius. Zeno angrily confronts him for his flawed research, to which Victor replies that Spencer's thesis was incomplete and there is no correlation between the cloning experiments and Elpis itself. Gideon proclaims he will carry out Spencer's vision by using Elpis to cause global anarchy, whereas Zeno simply wanted a weapon. Done with the Connections, Gideon decapitates Zeno with his newly-generated tentacle after having injected himself with the NE-γ Type parasite, before stabbing Ashcroft with his tentacle. He retrieves an Elpis sample before proceeding to destroy PANDORA and ARK. Using the few precious moments Grace has, she injects Elpis into Leon's forearm to cure him of his syndrome. The platform gives way just after Leon wakes up, plunging them all to the lower floors where Grace is knocked unconscious, leaving Leon to battle and kill Victor once and for all. The battle ends with both of them trapped. Leon runs to Grace, who realizes there is no way out and simply resigns herself to their fate when the last light goes out. However, they are quickly rescued by Umber Eyes of the Hound Wolf Squad, having been sent by Leon's comrade-in-arms, Chris Redfield, when he learns of ARK and Leon's involvement. He then listens to Redfield's message, forwarded to him by Umber Eyes. After being evacuated to the surface, Leon admits he feels better and reassures Sherry that he has secured a vial for her syndrome. She thanks him before Leon approaches Grace, who still feels guilty about Emily's "death". Yet, Leon offers hope that she is still alive as his shots didn't hit any of her vital organs before walking off to be evacuated by the BSAA. Emily is later found alive in the corpse of her own mutated form in Rhodes Hill Chronic Care Center.

In the final cutscene, in the ARK, two soldiers from The Connections appear and they claim to have eliminated all remaining BSAA forces stationing there and they're proceeding to the objective before they send in the wolves.