Alfred the ventriloquist
- When you first get to Alfred's private house you eavesdrop on a conversation between Alexia and Alfred. Alexia is on screen, and Alfred off screen. Makes sense. Except later you find out that Alexia is cryogenically frozen in Antarctica and Alfred is a nutjob taking on her identity. Now, it's perfectly plausible that Alfred switches back and forth between his two personas to have a conversation with himself. But when "Alexia Alfred" talks his lips move, and when "Alfred Alfred" talks his lips don't. Besides deceiving the player/Claire that there are two people in that room this makes no sense, unless we're supposed to accept that when Alfred Alfred is speaking it's actually only in his head and we're hearing his thoughts.
Steve's quite the popular, well-known guy!
- In Code: Veronica X, Wesker knows Steve's name. But Steve's dead, they never met before then, and there's no indication whatsoever that Wesker heard a few of the conversations in-game that would indicate that his name was Steve.
- Steve was a prisoner of an Umbrella-run facility, and they would keep track of that sort of thing. Wesker had access to the facility's files by virtue of having just taken it over by force.
Oh no, someone broke into our base! Let's ship them to our death camp!
- To quote The Dark Id regarding Claire's imprisonment on the island: "Instead of turning her over to the police like rational people, we decided to kidnap her and ship her off to our corporate branch death camp." Umbrella routinely makes stupid decisions, but there is seriously no real reason for them to lock up Claire themselves. It would be understandable if she knew corporate secrets or something, but she broke into the Paris lab facility specifically because she was looking for answers and any claims she made to the police would probably be dismissed.
- Not necessarily. According to RE4's intro movie, after the thing in Raccoon City, the US Government started seriously looking at Umbrella and shut them down. Code Veronica would've been happening just as that investigation was getting started, so she would not have been so quickly dismissed.
- Considering that Claire is one of the few survivors of the Raccoon City outbreak, and probably had some of those files picked up in the labs in RE2 ready to testify against Umbrella, it may not be as stupid as it seems. Then again, Wesker could have just decided to keep Claire around to lure Chris in.
- Except that he had already betrayed Umbrella by that point. He wouldn't have been the one who made the decision to ship her off to Rockfort — the one responsible for that decision would have had to have been either Ozwell Spencer, Alfred Ashford, or whoever ran that facility she had broken into. I think the third is most likely, though he may have had to get Spencer's and/or Alfred's approval first — we don't have any way of knowing about that.
- Wait, no reason for locking Claire up? That include her breaking into the France HQ or where ever she was when she got caught by Rodrigo?
- Honestly, there's several reasons we could go with for that. There's NUMEROUS notes all around the series that basically had Umbrella deciding that if someone got too nosy, then they're the next guinea pig, so that may have been one intention, for her to become a new test subject. There's the above point made about her being a survivor who could help with blowing the whistle on Umbrella. Also there's the other point also made... they found out she was there to find Chris, a STARS member who was DEFINITELY on their hit list, so kidnapping his sister would have been a potentially worthwhile way to get to him. So I guess take your pick, there's plenty of reasons instead of just turning her over to the police.
- For that matter, Umbrella had already deployed a privately-owned attack helicopter in public, in the middle of downtown Paris, in an attempt to kill Claire. From a casual glance at the gun laws in France, if they did go to the cops, Umbrella would immediately be in a lot more trouble than Claire.
Alexia's magic tentacles
- Where are those giant tentacles coming from? Are the coming from Alexia directly? Are they under the base? Why are there a bunch of giant tentacles under the base?
- They are associated with her TV-Virus infection and are used to implement her nefarious plans. It seems unlikely that they're directly attached to her if we don't clearly see stuff sprouting from her feet and going into the ground, but it's possible that she shed some of her biomass (and probably regrew it as another useful side effect of the infection) which grew to massive size and now she can telekinetically manipulate them.
I have had it with these freaking zombie outbreaks in these freaking Antarctic bases!
- Why are there zombies in the Antarctic base before Alexia is revived?
- The D.I.J. Hero Mouse note for that area says that they took some of the T-Virus back to the Antarctica base because... they're Umbrella, and there was an outbreak there.
- I assume that some of the survivors who escaped in the planes before Claire and Steve were probably infected and spread the virus when they arrived.
- They dumped the virus when the survivors started arriving (most likely on orders from Alfred), then those who weren't zombified left on the planes with the survivors.
"I've got to contact Leon and tell him to let my brother know— Wait... Aw, shit."
- So, if Claire knew that Leon could get in touch with Chris the entire time, why in the blue hell didn't she just contact Leon in the first place to track Chris down? The whole "he doesn't want her to get involved" excuse is a pretty weak one to begin with, even without the obvious matter that she already is involved after what happened in Raccoon and she obviously didn't intend to honour his wishes by ending her search. If there is some obscure official explanation somewhere that tries to spackle over this particular Plot Hole, I'd sure be amused to hear it.
- It's not an obscure explanation at all. It's said point-blank in the game itself. When Claire finds Steve on the computer, Steve says that Chris is under direct Umbrella surveillance and he's found out about that via the computer. Claire gets on the terminal, discovers she has outside access, and shoots Leon an email or something that says "I'm in trouble, this is where my brother is, get in touch with him." It's stated about as blatantly as you could ever want.
Monster Reversal.
- Minor, but why exactly did Steve, revert back to his spindly human form after a deathblow? Why was Steve, of all people, the only one to have No Ontological Inertia?
- Rule of Drama. The T-Virus and its derivatives do that sort of thing a lot.
Claire forgetting there were two children
- When it's revealed that the "Alexia" Steve and Claire were struggling against was actually Alfred in full crazy-mode, Claire says this means that there never was an Alexia after all. This would be a reasonable (if incorrect) assumption... except she's already seen incontrovertible proof that there at least was an Alexia at some point, including a home movie featuring her and her brother. So why did she jump to the conclusion that Alexia never existed?
- She worded it a bit poorly, but she probably meant "there never was an adult Alexia, during the time we've known Alfred, because he deceived us (and himself) due to his mental issues".
Asbestos hands
- Chris needs to determine which chemical he needs to pick up. Instead of just looking at the labels (or realizing one of them isn't a copy-paste asset), he decides to raise the temperature to 128°C so that it'll change color. Now, I might be a dumb American, but I'm pretty sure that anything over 100°C is gonna hurt when it touches bare skin. And yes, I know the obvious joke is "These are the same hands Chris uses to punch boulders", but somehow I doubt the devs had that much foresight.
