Albert Wesker is one of the main characters of the action-horror film Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. Loosely based on his video game counterpart, he is an officer of the Raccoon City Police Department and a member of its Special Tactics and Rescue Service. While his game incarnation is irredeemably villainous, this version of Wesker is less of a Machiavellian schemer and more of a mercenary seeking a better life than the one he currently has.
History[]
Prior to the film's events, Wesker had grown up in Raccoon City and pursued a career in law enforcement, joining the R.P.D. and later being recruited into its elite S.T.A.R.S. unit. However, by 1998, he had grown tired of what he considered to be the "dead-end small town life", wanting to find something bigger and more exciting. At some point, he was contacted by a mysterious individual working for an unidentified organization. This group wanted Wesker to dig up whatever dirty secrets he could on the Umbrella Corporation, a massive pharmaceutical company that were in the process of closing down their operations in Raccoon City.
On the night of September 30th 1998, Wesker and the other members of the S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team were ordered by Chief Irons to investigate the Spencer Mansion. The Bravo team had earlier reported discovering a body near the scene, but contact was lost. Following the meeting, Wesker recieved a message on his pager, alerting him that "the time had come" and to check his locker. Opening his locker, he found a PDA-style device inside. The device was already on and a message appeared on the screen stating that Raccoon City would be destroyed at 6:00 AM.
Later, the S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team arrive in the Arklay Mountains via helicopter and discover the Bravo team's Jeep shortly after landing. The vehicle is overturned and Dooley and Marini are nowhere to be seen. Nearby is the Spencer Mansion and Wesker leads his team into the extravagant manor. The team then splits up, with Chris Redfield and Richard Aiken exploring the second floor while Wesker explores the first with Jill Valentine. As the pair explore, they enter a library containing a grand piano. Wesker checks his portable computer which displays a map of the mansion, revealing a secret passage within the room and instructions on how to access it. Jill notices Wesker's device and becomes suspicious.
Within the library, Wesker sits at the piano and plays Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig von Beethoven. As he plays the melody, the secret passage opens. It is at that moment that Jill looks out of the window as she sees a light in the sky, realizing that it is the helicopter that brought them here which is about to crash. Jill runs toward Wesker and pushes him out of the way as the helicopter crashes through the wall and explodes. Both Jill and Wesker survive, but Jill now knows that Wesker is hiding something. He admits to her that he came to the mansion with ulterior motives, intending to expose Umbrella's illegal activities and get paid handsomely for it so that he could start a new life elsewhere. Jill is outraged by Wesker's betrayal, but before she can act on it, a zombie attacks her. Wesker kills the creature, then runs away down the passage while Jill stands in shock over what she has just seen.
Making his way down the secret passage, Wesker finds an elevator that takes him down to NEST, Umbrella's underground laboratory. Upon entering the main lab, he finds Dr. William Birkin and his family who have just gathered up several viral samples in an attache case. He raises his weapon, threatening to shoot the doctor if he doesn't hand over the virus samples. Birkin refuses and draws a gun, shooting Wesker, but Wesker fires as well. Wesker's tactical vest protects him, but Birkin is fatally wounded and begs his wife Annette to give him a vial of the G-Virus. Wesker then shoots Annette, though she did provide William with the vial. Wesker looks over at the Birkins' daughter Sherry, shocked that he had just killed her parents, orphaning her. As Sherry creeps away, Wesker tries to follow her, walking over to William's body and seeing that he is still just barely alive. He looks down to see an empty syringe and a vial, realizing that he had just injected himself with the G-Virus. Wesker proceeds to shoot William several more times, believing he has finally killed him.
Death and resurrection[]
Thinking that his mission is a failure, Wesker turns to leave when he hears the sound of crunching glass. He turns to see Sherry holding her father's gun, pointed at him. He raises his gun, only to be fatally-wounded from a shot from behind, turning around to see he'd been shot by Jill. After collapsing to the floor, Wesker apologizes to Jill for how badly things have gone and tells her about an escape train she can use to get out of the facility, which is set to self-destruct in a matter of minutes and destroy all of Raccoon City along with it. In his dying breaths, Wesker apologizes to Chris as well and tells Sherry that he wouldn't have pulled the trigger on her. He then dies seconds later.
While he did indeed die, Wesker still came back. He awakens inside a body bag, unzipping it from the inside and being blinded by the light hanging overhead. He falls off the table and scrambles about naked on the floor when a mysterious woman enters the room, offering him a pair of sunglasses so that he can see. While not stated specifically, Wesker's resurrection is supposed to mirror that of his video game counterpart; he had been injected with a retroviral serum that brought him back from death, regenerating his body and giving him superhuman abilities. Such abilities are not apparent in the brief mid-credits scene showing his resurrection, and it is currently unknown if Welcome to Raccoon City will ever get a sequel, so it is currently unknown if Wesker has truly gained new powers or not.