After playing "Resident Evil 4 Remake", I believe that many players will be deeply impressed by Louis Serra. This one is also good and evil, but he helped Leon and Ashley a lot along the way, and it ended magnificently at the last moment. In Ida's DLC, we learn that Louis, the person Lyon met by mistake during the mission, met with his temporary partner Ida many years ago. It was as if the thread of destiny had already connected these seemingly unrelated people together.
So how did Ida and Louis meet, and what did the mission she came to the village have to do with Louis, and why did she betray her employer, Wesker, when the final mission was completed? It all starts with Louis's identity.
Louis's identity and the deal with Ida
In this game, after meeting Louis, Leon will ask his post-support Hanigan to find out Louis's identity, and in the report sent to us after Hanigan can learn that Louis is a former employee of the umbrella company. And in the Louis lab at the beginning of chapter 15 of this game, you can also see a group photo of the employees of the umbrella company, and Louis is among them.
Umbrella company employee photo
And Louis is not an unknown ordinary employee, he is also a capable, high-profile former umbrella star, and participated in the development of a variety of "over-the-counter drugs", it can be guessed that the virus and biological weapons research and development of Raccoon City Louis may also be involved. After the fall of the Umbrella Company, Louis's whereabouts are nowhere to be checked, and it can be learned that Louis should return to his hometown, the village in Biochemical 4, to continue his research.
In this way, it is easy to understand that Ida and Louis know each other. After all, Ida's purpose in coming to the village is also the Plaka virus and the so-called "amber", and Louis must have continued his research on Plaka after returning to the village to set up his own laboratory on the island. And we can also check Louis's email correspondence with Ida from his computer in chapter 15 of this game.
In the email, Louis asked the other party to exchange his research data and amber on the condition that he take him out of the village, and it was easy to learn from A.W., whose name was returned, that it was King Ida himself who made an agreement with him. And in the email, the two parties also agreed on the connector code: Can you help me bring a pack of cigarettes along the way? Any brand will do.
I believe that players with better memory should recall at this time that when Leon first arrived in the village and found Louis in the basement, the first thing Louis asked was this code word.
The same code word also appears at the beginning of Ida's DLC, and Ida's first words after finding Louis are also to the code.
But here I do have a doubt, that is, in the Ida DLC we can learn that she and Louis connected the night before Leon came to the village, that is, when Leon found Louis in the basement, Louis already knew that Ida was his connector, so why test the code again against Leon? Of course, it can also be considered that Louis felt that there was more than one contact.
At this point, we can learn the full picture of the transaction between Ida and Louis: Louis returned to his home island alone after the fall of the umbrella and set up his own laboratory. However, as the truth of the Plaka virus is revealed, he also has the idea of escaping this place, and when he learns of Ida's mission here, he takes himself to escape in exchange for helping Ida get the research materials and amber she wants.
Why did Ida betray Wesker in the end
At the end of the game, Ida actually completed the task smoothly, she successfully obtained Louis's research materials and Amber, but at the last moment chose to betray her employer Wesker and did not hand over Amber. Why Ida, as a mercenary, betrayed his employer at the last minute has to start with the efficacy of amber.
In Louis's laboratory in this game, we can see Louis's research report on Amber and the use scenario conjecture, clearly recording that Amber's biggest role is the highest level of control, he can control any Plaka parasite, so as to achieve the effect of controlling 6 billion people around the world by injecting Plaka parasites into the heads of different organizations, and kidnapping Ashley to control her is one of their plans. This is why he felt fear, so he learned that Sadler had this purpose and the idea of fleeing.
And Ida naturally knew these insiders in the end, and in the final communication with Wesker, Ida also obviously felt that in addition to Wesker had the same purpose as Sadler, that is, to sacrifice billions of people around the world to achieve his own goals.
From this, it can be seen that Ida has long been suspicious
From the fact that Ida learned of Wesker's true purpose, he chose to betray and take Amber, it can be seen that although Ida is a mercenary and takes money to do things, she still has her own principles. From the sixth chapter of Ida's DLC, Ida is unwilling to blow up the entire island, which shows that she is still ruthless in her heart, and she is unwilling to do anything harmful outside of her own task.
summary
Through the above, the general plot of Ida's DLC chapter, Louis's origin, purpose, and Ida's specific mission and final transformation in the face of Wesker's unscrupulous ambitions are clarified. It can be seen that although it is a short seven-chapter plot, it is no less exciting than this game, and it also echoes the content in this game. The images of Ida and Louis are also deeply portrayed, worthy of the best game of the year.