Alfred Ashford

No one knows where it came from, but it's just there.

But it's funny you mention Dan Burlew and the guides, Rob, because in the Code Veronica X guidebook for the GameCube, the Prima one, or the Brady Games one, Dan Burlew wrote a report to Alfred Ashford that was... written by Nikolai.

Yes.

There was a big sort of um and ah on the forums about whether that could be canon and whether he got that information from Capcom and I think Welsh actually asked him and he genuinely said he couldn't remember.

So they send in some teams.

Dr. Ashford is one of the people they're getting out.

A technical reference to Resident Evil Code Veronica.

The Ashford siblings are the kind of primary antagonistic driving force in that game.

They are.

Let me.

I took notes.

As I told Ryan, I am for the first time in this podcast actually taking notes because I have so much knowledge of Resident Evil that I needed to, like, jot down what was specifically referenced because there is just too much in there to recall on a whim.

As they escape, they encounter...

Alfred Ashford.

Ashford is the Umbrella Commander of the island and has dissociative identity disorder where his alter is his twin sister Alexia.

Claire and Steve try to escape, but Ashford directs their escaping plane to an Umbrella facility in Antarctica.