RESIDENT EVIL 3: NEMESIS

Story Walkthrough — 10 Chapters

CH 1UptownRaccoon City Uptown — the warehouse, Bar Jack and the road to the R.P.D.

Jill’s escape from the warehouse district. The whole chapter is a loop that ends at one locked barricade, and the key to it is a lighter you have to build from two halves found in two different streets. Two files are here — and two of the game’s most commonly mis-published file locations are not.

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Before you start. Run the completion attempt on Hard. Nemesis only drops item cases on Hard — on Easy that entire reward chain is switched off, which costs you the Eagle 6.0, the Western Custom and the assault rifle. The Mine Thrower is also Hard-only, and epilogues only come from Hard clears.

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How the files work. Files are numbered 1–30 by the in-game file list. Read every page of each one — backing out early may not register it. Collect all 30 in a single run and Jill’s Diary replaces Game Instructions A in the list.

'T' Dumpster AlleyUptown 100 — the opening street

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Jill comes out into the alley with a zombie already shambling toward her. On Hard she has only the M92F and 15 rounds — there is nothing to gain here, so run.

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Three zombies wander this street. Climb the dumpster at the dead end to trigger the escape scene, drop down, and go through the Warehouse door.

WarehouseUptown 101

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Dario Rosso is barricaded inside the shipping container and refuses to come out. This is a cutscene, not a choice.

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Missable. The container holds FILE File 16: Dario’s Memo — but you cannot get it now, because Dario is alive inside it. It only opens on the later return trip through Uptown. If a guide tells you to search the warehouse shelves for it at the start of the game, that is wrong.

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ITEM First Aid Spray behind the oil drums, ITEM Gun Powder A ×2 and ITEM Gun Powder B ×2. HARD ONLY Hand Gun Bullets ×30 near the forklift (Easy does not spawn these).

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Head up to the office door.

Warehouse OfficeUptown 102 — first save room

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SAVE ROOM Typewriter and item box. HARD ONLY Ink Ribbon ×3 on the table. On Easy an infinite ribbon sits permanently in the item box, so ribbons never spawn.

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KEY ITEM Warehouse Key on the wall hook beside the door — examine it in the inventory and the tag reads “Backdoor”, which renames it the Backdoor Key, and ITEM Gun Powder A ×2 in the locker.

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Save, go back to the Warehouse and unlock the Back Alleyway door.

Back Alleyway & Business Main StreetUptown 103–104

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The alleyway is a short connector. Business Main Street holds five zombies, some playing dead against the walls, and an explosive barrel by the crashed police car — wait for two or three of them to gather near it and shoot it.

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Return trip. There is a Gun Powder B inside the parked car here, but it is sealed until a zombie bursts out of that car, which only happens on the later return. Note it and move on.

Business Back StreetUptown 105 — the shotgun

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A man in a yellow vest — Brad Vickers — bursts out of the storage shed with zombies behind him and runs. Five zombies are in the street; ITEM 2 Green Herbs on the ground.

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Go into the storage shed: WEAPON Benelli M3S shotgun on the corpse inside — on Hard this is your first real weapon — and KEY ITEM Lighter Oil on the bench by the stairs.

Careful. The Lighter and the Lighter Oil are two different items in two different rooms. The oil is here. The lighter is in Bar Jack. You have to combine them by hand.

Residential StreetUptown 106

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ITEM Uptown Map on the wall by the fire escape — take it, the map makes the rest of this district much easier to navigate.

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Tip. Climb the fire escape now for ITEM 2 Green Herbs. The route up may close later in the game, so do not save it for a return trip.

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A man is being mauled on the west side. If you hang around a minute or two he gets back up as a zombie — there is no way to save him.

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The boutique. The boutique door here stays locked on a first playthrough. It is opened by the Boutique Key, which is a post-clear unlock, and inside there is nothing but a costume change — no items, no files. It has no bearing on 100% completion.

Private BackyardUptown 108

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Brad appears briefly, shooting a zombie near the steps. HARD ONLY Ink Ribbon ×3 in the dumpster.

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Return trip. The metal shutter here hides Grenade Rounds, but it needs the Square Crank from the Sales Office Patio — a return trip in Chapter 4, step 7.

Black Jack's BarUptown 109 — Bar Jack

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A zombie is attacking Brad as you enter. He shakes it off and leaves.

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KEY ITEM Lighter on the bench by the payphone, near the front door. It is out of fuel and will not light anything yet.

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FILE File 3: Clock Tower Postcard on the bar counter.

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ITEM Hand Gun Bullets behind the bar near the till — ×60 on Easy, ×30 on Hard.

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Combine the Lighter with the Lighter Oil. Now it lights — you need it for the barricade rope in the next room.

Barricaded Back PassageUptown 110 — burn the rope

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A barricade lashed shut with a rope blocks the way. Use the Lighter on the rope to burn it. There is no alternative.

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Zombies are massed behind the barricade with an explosive barrel among them — one shot clears most of the pack.

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FILE File 4: Photo A on the body lying where the barricade stood. ITEM Red Herbs here too.

Forked AlleyUptown 111

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2 Zombie Dogs — one is eating a corpse, the second leaps the fire as you pass. Deal with them before anything else; they are fast and they interrupt.

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Return trip. A fire blocks the western branch. It is doused later with the Fire Hose, which needs the Wrench from the cable car — Chapter 4, step 2.

Uptown Store RoomUptown 112 — save room

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SAVE ROOM Typewriter and item box. ITEM Gun Powder A and ITEM Gun Powder B on the shelf. Save — the police station is next.

Book Shop StreetUptown 113

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A straight run to the R.P.D. courtyard door.

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Missable. Note the locked door in the south-east corner. It leads to Zigzag Alley and it needs the Lockpick, which is inside the police station. Behind it is FILE File 8: Mercenary’s Diary. You come back here on the way out of the R.P.D., before heading Downtown.

CHAPTER 1 OF 10R.P.D. Station →

CH 2R.P.D. Stationthe Raccoon Police Department — 1F and 2F

A self-contained building with one exit condition: find the Lockpick. Along the way you pick up the Sapphire that opens Downtown, the S.T.A.R.S. Key, and one of the game’s two heavy weapons. Fight Nemesis in the courtyard rather than running inside — it pays twice.

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Careful. Once you are inside the station the courtyard door seals. You cannot leave the R.P.D. until you have the Lockpick from the S.T.A.R.S. Office, so bring ammunition.

CourtyardR.P.D. 201 — Live Selection 1

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Nemesis kills Brad Vickers in a cutscene, then turns on Jill.

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LIVE SELECTION NEMESIS 1 Fight with the monster or Enter the police station.

Take the fight

Fight (or simply let the timer run out, which does the same thing). Two reasons:
• On Hard, knocking Nemesis down leaves an item case with Eagle Parts A — the first link in the chain that builds the Eagle 6.0.
• It lets you take the Card Case from Brad’s body. Check the Card Case in the inventory and it turns into the S.T.A.R.S. Card — that is the card the reception computer reads to print the evidence-locker code, so you never have to guess it. Left as a case it does nothing.
Running inside skips both, and Brad’s body is gone for good once you are inside. If you only want the case you can lift it off Brad and run without finishing the fight, but then there is no Eagle part.

Main HallR.P.D. 202

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ITEM 3 Green Herbs by the main doors, ITEM Hand Gun Bullets on the reception desk (×60 Easy / ×30 Hard), and the ITEM Police Station Map on a bench. There is a typewriter in reception.

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The evidence locker code — randomised

Use a S.T.A.R.S. card on the reception computer and it prints the combination for this playthrough.

The code is always one of four: 0131, 0513, 4011, 4312 — but which one is re-rolled every run, so there is nothing to memorise.
• If you fought Nemesis you already have Brad’s card.
• If you did not, Jill’s own card does the same job — step 6, next.
• With no card at all you can simply try all four on the locker.

The locker itself is in the Evidence Room — go to step 11.

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KEY ITEM Jill’s S.T.A.R.S. Card — the second card, on the front desk in the Operations Room (R.P.D. 208). It reads the code on this same computer exactly like Brad’s does, so if you skipped the courtyard fight this is the card you need.

You do not have to detour for it. The Operations Room is already on the route below (step 17) — clear the rooms in order, pick the card up there, then come back to this computer for the code. The only thing that has to wait is the Evidence Room locker (step 11), because it comes earlier on the route than the card does.

West OfficeR.P.D. 203

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Four zombies — three roaming, one prone.

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FILE File 5: Marvin’s Report on Marvin Branagh’s body in the small office.

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RANDOM ITEM Shotgun Shells on the small office desk — 50% chance. The other half of the time they are on the Operations Room mantelpiece instead, so check both.

Evidence RoomR.P.D. 204

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KEY ITEM Blue Gem in the small locker on the west wall — examine it in the inventory and it becomes the Sapphire. You need it for the City Hall gate in Downtown.

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Enter the code on the north locker for the KEY ITEM Emblem Key — examine it in the inventory and it becomes the S.T.A.R.S. Key, which opens the S.T.A.R.S. Office.

The code is one of these four, re-rolled every run:
0131051340114312
Read yours off the reception computer in the Main Hall — back to step 5. With no card, four tries covers every possibility.

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Come back. The locker on the south side holds Gun Powder B and needs the Lockpick. Come back for it before you leave the station.

West Stairway 1FR.P.D. 205

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Four zombies.

Dark RoomR.P.D. 206 — save room

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SAVE ROOM Typewriter and item box. FILE File 6: David’s Memo on the centre table. ITEM Gun Powder A in the corner locker. HARD ONLY Ink Ribbon ×3.

Winding Corridor & Operations RoomR.P.D. 207–208

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RANDOM The corridor is a coin flip: either 5 zombies or 2 zombie dogs.

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RANDOM ITEM 2 Red Herbs at the far end by the barricaded door — a 50% spawn. If they are not here they are in the 2F Office Corridor instead (step 18) — one location or the other, never both.

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In the Operations Room: KEY ITEM Jill’s S.T.A.R.S. Card on the front desk (step 6 — take it now if you never got Brad’s), RANDOM ITEM Shotgun Shells on the mantelpiece (50%), and HARD ONLY Ink Ribbon ×3 on the east desk.

S.T.A.R.S. OfficeR.P.D. 211 — the payoff

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The door needs the S.T.A.R.S. Key. Up the West Stairway to 2F and along the Office Corridor.

RANDOM ITEM 2 Red Herbs can be in this corridor. It is the same 50% coin flip as the Winding Corridor (step 16) — whichever one was empty, check the other.

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KEY ITEM Lockpick on Jill’s desk. This one item opens the rest of the game — Zigzag Alley, the Restaurant’s Fire Hook locker, and the Park Office much later.

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RANDOM The weapons locker holds either the HK-P Grenade Launcher or the S&W M629C Magnum — a straight 50/50.

Tip. You get both in every playthrough. Whichever one is not here is waiting on the shelf in the Sub Station in Downtown. Only the order is random.

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ITEM First Aid Spray in the medical bag by Rebecca’s desk, and ITEM Hand Gun Bullets on Barry’s desk (×60 Easy / ×30 Hard).

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FILE File 7: Fax From Kendo Gun Shop on the fax machine by the door.

On the way out

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NEMESIS 2 Nemesis crashes through the windows in West Stairway 1F as you come back down. The Lockpick is what arms this — he cannot appear here before you have it. The fight is optional; you can run straight past him. HARD ONLY Beating him drops Eagle Parts B.

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Go back down to the Evidence Room and use the Lockpick on the south locker for the Gun Powder B.

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Save in the Dark Room, then leave through the Main Hall and the Courtyard.

← UptownCHAPTER 2 OF 10Zigzag Alley & Downtown →

CH 3Zigzag Alley & DowntownGrill 13, the Raccoon Press, City Hall and the substation

The Lockpick opens the game up. Grab File 8 on the way out of the police station, then work Downtown for the gem that opens City Hall, the statue chain that produces the Battery, and three of the four cable car repair parts. Two of this chapter’s puzzles are re-rolled every playthrough — the method is what matters, not an answer.

Zigzag AlleyUptown 114 — the corrected File 8

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Missable. Do this now, on the way out of the station. Go back to Book Shop Street and use the Lockpick on the door in the south-east corner. It is the only way into Zigzag Alley, and the file inside sits between the R.P.D. files and the Downtown files in the reading order.

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FILE File 8: Mercenary’s Diary on the dead mercenary in the north corner of the alley. ITEM Hand Gun Bullets on the same body.

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Drain Deimos (or Brain Suckers) crawl out of the windows here. They are fast — there is an explosive barrel in the southern corner, and running is a perfectly good answer if you are short on shells.

Straight Alleyway & Parking AreaUptown 115–116

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ITEM 2 Blue Herbs near the iron gate, and RANDOM ITEM 3 Green Herbs by the northern gate (50%; the alternative is Three Points Street).

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Return trip. The Fire Hose is bolted to the southern wall here and needs the Wrench from the cable car — Chapter 4, step 2.

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Parking Area: three zombie dogs, and ITEM Gun Powder B on the dead mercenary behind the wrecked bus. Head north into Downtown.

Garage & Garage OfficeDowntown 301–302

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Two zombie dogs. KEY ITEM Power Cable under the bonnet of the car on charge — the first of four cable car repair items.

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Tip. The planter by the office door grows Blue Herbs and it regrows indefinitely. Remember it — it is your free poison cure for the whole district.

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SAVE ROOM The Garage Office has a typewriter and item box, ITEM Hand Gun Bullets on the table, and HARD ONLY Ink Ribbon ×3.

Construction Street & Maintenance AreaDowntown 303–304

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Three zombie dogs. Nicholai appears briefly, machine-guns a zombie and leaves.

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ITEM Downtown Map on the wall next to the west door in the Maintenance Area — take it first. ITEM Gun Powder A on the mercenary’s body.

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2 Drain Deimos drop from the ceiling here.

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Return trip. The elevator in this room is the only way down to the Sub Station, and it needs the Battery from the Mayor Warren statue. It is the last link in a four-step chain — see the Water Feature Area below.

Water Feature AreaDowntown 305

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ITEM 2 Green Herbs beside the water feature. Carlos appears on the south side and kills a zombie.

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The Future Compass — do not grab it

The Future Compass sits in a wall indentation between two bronze statues. Taking it directly electrifies the water and hurts you.

Place the Book of Wisdom in the right-hand indentation first, then take the Compass safely. The Book of Wisdom is in Three Points Street — behind the City Hall gate — so this is a return trip once the gate is open.

The Downtown Fork — read this before you open either doorDowntown 306 & 311 — the choice that moves the Emerald

Two ways through Downtown, and the order is the choice

Downtown hands you two buildings and no fixed order: Grill 13, the restaurant, and the Press Office. Walk into either one and the same scene plays — Carlos is already inside, Nemesis comes through the wall, and the game stops for a LIVE SELECTION. The building you enter first is not cosmetic: it decides where the Emerald spawns, and the Emerald is one of the two gems the City Hall gate clock needs. You only get this scene once, so choose on purpose.

	Restaurant first	Press Office first
Where Carlos meets you	The kitchen of Grill 13 — he steps out behind Jill the instant she opens the floor panel	The main office upstairs — he is lying on the floor as you walk in
What has to be true first	This route has a prerequisite. The scene will not start until you use the Fire Hook on the kitchen floor panel — and the Fire Hook is in the back-door locker, which needs the Lockpick. No Lockpick, no restaurant meeting.	A small puzzle of its own. In the lobby you push the stepladder under the wall panel and switch it on, then use the panel by the shutter to raise it, before the stairs to the office are open.
The Live Selection you get	Hide in the kitchen  /  Run into the basement	Hide in the back  /  Jump out of the window
Where the Emerald ends up	Press Office — the small table beside the whiteboard, south-east corner of the main room	Restaurant Basement — on the body in the north-west corner
What that costs in walking	Nothing extra. Files 10, 11 and 12 already force a trip to the Press Office, so the gem is waiting on a visit you were making anyway.	The basement sits behind the floor panel that the Fire Hook opens, and the Fire Hook is in the restaurant’s back locker — so the restaurant stays a mandatory stop either way.
Anything exclusive	—	ITEM 2 Red Herbs in the side alley, reachable only by picking Jump out of the window

The Live Selection is a second, separate decision. It does not move the Emerald. What it decides is who is waiting for you at the Gas Station later, and whether Nemesis goes down for free.

1 — In the Restaurant, Grill 13
• Hide in the kitchen — Jill throws a lamp, the gas bottle ignites and Nemesis is knocked out. That is a full item drop on Hard without spending a single round. Afterwards Carlos is at the Gas Station and Nicholai at the Sales Office, which is the condition for Flame Rounds ×6 from Carlos at the cable car.
• Run into the basement — a pipe bursts and the basement floods. No free knockdown either way, but how you get out decides the rest: leave through the ventilation shaft and Nicholai takes the Gas Station, Carlos the Sales Office, and the Flame Rounds are gone. Climb back up the ladder instead — or just let the timer run out, which climbs it for you — and Carlos stays at the Gas Station, so you keep them.

2 — In the Press Office
• Hide in the back — an explosion knocks Nemesis out, the same free item drop. Afterwards Carlos is at the Gas Station and Nicholai at the Sales Office — Flame Rounds ×6 again.
• Jump out of the window — you land in the side alley, the only way to reach the ITEM 2 Red Herbs out there. No knockdown. Afterwards Nicholai is at the Gas Station and Carlos at the Sales Office, so no Flame Rounds.

The pattern is identical in both buildings: hiding buys the free knockdown and puts Carlos at the Gas Station; moving gives up both, whichever building you are standing in. Those two Red Herbs are the only thing moving ever buys you.

The short version: restaurant first, then hide. You pick up File 9 and the Fire Hook on the way in, the free knockdown is the best damage you will ever do to Nemesis for zero ammo, and the Emerald lands in a building you are already obliged to clear. Take the Press Office first only if you want those two Red Herbs — and know that reaching them is exactly what costs you the Flame Rounds. And if you do take the basement in the restaurant, go back up the ladder rather than through the vent and you keep them anyway.

Restaurant — Grill 13Downtown 306 — File 9 lives here

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Missable. FILE File 9: City Guide is on one of the tables near the phone box at the front of the dining area. No key needed.

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RANDOM ITEM Gun Powder A ×2 here 50% of the time; otherwise in the Press Office.

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KEY ITEM Fire Hook in the locker by the back door — needs the Lockpick. It opens the floor panel in this same room down into the basement.

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LIVE SELECTION NEMESIS 3 If you enter the Restaurant before the Press Office, this is where you meet Carlos and Nemesis crashes in.

Hide in the kitchen

Hide in the kitchen. Jill throws a lamp, the gas ignites, and Nemesis is knocked down for free — a full item drop on Hard without spending a single round. It also puts Carlos at the Gas Station, which is what earns you Flame Rounds on the cable car later.

Run into the basement floods the basement and costs you the free knockdown.

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Where the Emerald goes. You met Carlos here, so the Emerald is in the Press Office — the small table beside the whiteboard. Had you opened the Press Office first it would be in the Restaurant Basement instead. This is not random; you caused it (the Downtown fork).

Shopping District & Downtown StoreroomDowntown 308–309

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Up to six zombies in the Shopping District.

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SAVE ROOM The Downtown Storeroom has a typewriter and item box, KEY ITEM Rust Hex Crank on the boxes, and ITEM Shotgun Shells on the shelf.

It is supposed to break. The Rust Hex Crank snaps partway through opening the Gas Station shutter. That is scripted, not a mistake — you finish the job with the Wrench from the cable car.

Press Office & LobbyDowntown 311–312

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FILE File 10: Photo B on top of the payphone on the west wall of the lobby. ITEM First Aid Spray on the bench. HARD ONLY Ink Ribbon ×3.

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Get to the right of the stepladder and push it left along the wall until it stands under the control panel. Climb the ladder and switch the panel on.

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Now use the panel beside the shutter to raise it, and take the stairs up. A door’s glass blows out from the fire as you climb — keep going. The office at the top is where Carlos is.

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FILE File 11: Photo C on the main table and FILE File 12: Reporter’s Memo beside the radiator.

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The Emerald is on the small table by the whiteboard if you met Carlos at the Restaurant.

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LIVE SELECTION NEMESIS 3 If you reach the Press Office first, Carlos is here instead and this is where Nemesis breaks in.

Both options cost something. Hide in the back gives you the same free Nemesis knockdown as the kitchen option. Jump out of the window is the only way to reach the 2 Red Herbs in the Press Office Side Alley — but it skips the free knockdown and puts Nicholai at the Gas Station, costing you the Flame Rounds later.

City Hall GateDowntown 310 — the gem clock

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ITEM Hand Gun Bullets on the officer’s body by the gate.

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The two-gem clock — fixed, not random

A clock device stands beside the City Hall gate. Insert the Sapphire and the Emerald into it and the gate opens onto Three Points Street.
• Sapphire — R.P.D. Evidence Room, west locker.
• Emerald — Press Office or Restaurant Basement, depending on where you met Carlos.

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Do not stop in Three Points Street yet. The gate opens onto it, but the green door stays shut until you have been down to the cable car. Walk straight through to the Cable Car Area first, take the Wrench, and the door opens on your way back.

Cable Car AreaDowntown 322

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RANDOM Either 3 zombie dogs or 8 zombies. Two explosive barrels — one by the south door, one in the north-west corner. ITEM Shotgun Shells on the body by the Lonsdale Yard door.

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In the front carriage: Carlos and Nicholai. KEY ITEM Wrench on the seats — this is what finishes the Gas Station shutter and frees the Fire Hose. HARD ONLY Carlos also hands Jill the Side Pack, an inventory expansion, on Hard only.

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In the rear carriage: FILE File 13: Mechanic’s Memo on the rear dashboard, Mikhail lying on the seats, and Flame Rounds ×6 from Carlos if your branch put him at the Gas Station.

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Missable. Read File 13 now, before you go back to Uptown. In the file order it sits ahead of the Sales Office files (14 and 15) and Dario’s Memo (16), all of which are on the Uptown return trip.

Three Points StreetDowntown 314 — the statue chain

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Coming back from the cable car the green door finally gives: four zombies burst out of it as you approach, and two more come through the barricaded windows. RANDOM ITEM 3 Green Herbs behind the green door (50%).

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Book of Wisdom → Future Compass → Battery

1. Press the release on the base of the Michael Warren statue and take the Book of Wisdom from its arm.
2. Carry it to the Water Feature Area and place it in the right-hand indentation, then take the Future Compass safely.
3. Bring the Compass back here, put it in the statue’s arm and press the button on the base. The statue turns and reveals the Battery.

The Compass is consumed. The Battery is what runs the Maintenance Area elevator down to the Sub Station — there is no other route.

Gas StationDowntown — Stagla

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The way in is behind a metal security shutter. Use the Rust Hex Crank until it snaps, then finish with the Wrench.

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Depending on your earlier choices you meet either Carlos or Nicholai here. Meeting Carlos is what gets you Flame Rounds ×6 on the cable car later.

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The letter lock — randomised every run

Behind the counter is an electronically locked cabinet holding the Machine Oil, the second cable car repair item.

The panel shows a row of letters. One letter is highlighted, and a red square sits somewhere along the row. Press the button beside a letter to shift the red square along; keep shifting until the red square lands on the highlighted letter.

Both the target letter and the starting position change every playthrough, so there is no answer to memorise — only the method.

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ITEM First Aid Spray on the shelf behind the counter — it is always there. RANDOM ITEM Gun Powder A ×3 on the round table by the door (50%; if it is not here it is on the Sales Office Storeroom shelves instead).

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RANDOM ITEM 2 Red Herbs on the ground beside the pumps out front (50%). The other half of the time they are at the Sub Station gate area instead — one place or the other, never both, so sweep the forecourt before you take the lift down.

Sub StationDowntown 324 — the transformers

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Reached only by the Battery-powered elevator in the Maintenance Area. Seven zombies at the entrance; an explosive wall charge on the western building corner. RANDOM ITEM 2 Red Herbs in the gate area (50%) — the same coin flip as the Gas Station forecourt.

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Nothing responds until the power is yours. Use the big machine by the entrance first and switch the supply to manual control.

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First door. The panel showing the 15v–25v range → RED, BLUE, BLUE, BLUE. Its shutter opens on the room holding the KEY ITEM Fuse — the third cable car repair item.

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Second door. The panel showing the 115v–125v range → RED, RED, RED, BLUE. Its shutter opens on the room holding RANDOM whichever heavy weapon you did not find in the S.T.A.R.S. Office — Magnum or Grenade Launcher — and RANDOM ITEM Gun Powder B ×3 on the table (50%).

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Open both shutters before you pick anything up. The Live Selection fires the moment you take an item out of either control room — get the order wrong and you can leave without the heavy weapon.

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LIVE SELECTION NEMESIS 4 Head for the emergency exit or Increase the electricity output.

This choice moves a Nemesis encounter, it does not remove it.

• Emergency exit — Nemesis is waiting outside the Sub Station on the raised ground above the entrance, rocket launcher in hand. He only appears here if you have not already picked up the Oil Additive.
• Increase the electricity output — the zombies at the gate are electrocuted and Nemesis never appears outside. You meet him on the Uptown return trip instead, coming back from the Sales Office, with the same rocket launcher.

Either way he throws the launcher aside after five shots and comes at you bare-handed.

On to Uptownthe Wrench still has work to do

The Wrench is not finished with you. Up in Uptown it frees the Fire Hose from the wall mount in the Straight Alleyway, the hose kills the fire in the Forked Alley, and that opens the way to the Sales Office — where the Oil Additive, the fourth and last cable car repair item, is waiting. Only then do you come back here and take the cable car out.

← R.P.D. StationCHAPTER 3 OF 10Re-visiting Uptown →

CH 4Re-visiting Uptowneverything the Lockpick, Wrench and Fire Hose open

A cleanup loop rather than a new area. It contains the last cable car repair item, one randomised password, and the file that catches almost everyone out — Dario’s Memo, sitting in the very first room of the game, in a container that was occupied the first time you walked past it.

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What changed. You come back through Uptown with four things you did not have the first time: the Lockpick, the Wrench, the Fire Hose it frees, and eventually the Square Crank. Everything below was visible on your first pass and locked.

Straight Alleyway & Forked Alleythe fire

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Use the Wrench on the wall mount in the Straight Alleyway to take the KEY ITEM Fire Hose.

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Use the Fire Hose on the fire blocking the western branch of the Forked Alley. That opens the route to the Dark Alley.

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NEMESIS 4 Nemesis appears in the Forked Alley once you hold the Oil Additive. This is the same encounter as the one outside the Sub Station — you get it here if you never met him there. Optional, but on Hard he is carrying the next case in the chain.

Dark Alley & Sales Office Patio

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ITEM 2 Blue Herbs near the west door in the Dark Alley.

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RANDOM 2 Brain Suckers or 2 Drain Deimos on the patio. Explosive wall charge near the Sales Office entrance.

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KEY ITEM Square Crank among the sandbags by the north-east door. This opens the shutter back in the Private Backyard.

Sales Officethe TV puzzle

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A cutscene with Murphy Seeker; either Nicholai or Carlos is here — whichever one you did not meet at the Gas Station.

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FILE File 14: Manager’s Report on the table by the computer.

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FILE File 15: Business Fax in the filing cabinets.

Careful. Read both files before you take the Oil Additive. Taking it drops six zombies into this room.

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ITEM First Aid Spray in the north-east cabinet. HARD ONLY Ink Ribbon ×3 near the storeroom door.

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The storeroom password — randomised

The storeroom is behind a computer password.

Use the remote control on the television. A pharmaceutical advert plays and names a product. That name is the password — type it into the computer.

It is always one of ADRAVIL, SAFSPRIN or AQUACURE, but which one changes every run, so watch the ad rather than guessing.

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KEY ITEM Oil Additive on the storeroom shelves — the fourth and last repair item. RANDOM ITEM Gun Powder A ×3 and RANDOM ITEM Gun Powder B ×3 here (both 50%).

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Combine Machine Oil + Oil Additive → Mixed Oil.

Private Backyard & Business Main Streetcleanup

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Use the Square Crank on the metal shutter in the Private Backyard for ITEM Grenade Rounds.

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Explore the south-east side of Business Main Street to trigger the scream event. A zombie bursts out of the parked car, and the ITEM Gun Powder B inside it is now reachable.

WarehouseUptown 101 — File 16, at last

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Dario is no longer in the container. He is on the west side of the warehouse with three zombies eating him, and a fourth lies on the walkway.

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Missable. Go inside the now-empty container — FILE File 16: Dario’s Memo is on top of the boxes.

This file becomes permanently unobtainable the moment the cable car leaves. If you skip it here, the run is finished for Jill’s Diary.

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Sweep anything you left on the first visit, and use the Warehouse Office as your staging point.

← Zigzag Alley & DowntownCHAPTER 4 OF 10Get Out of Town →

CH 5Get Out of Townthe cable car repair and Mikhail’s sacrifice

A short chapter with a hard deadline attached. Everything in Uptown and Downtown is lost the moment the cable car moves, so treat this as your last sweep — then make the choice that shapes the whole Clock Tower chapter.

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The four repair items. Four parts repair the cable car. Machine Oil and Oil Additive combine first, so you install three things: Power Cable, Fuse and Mixed Oil.

Item	Where it is	What gates it
Power Cable	Garage — under the bonnet of the car on charge	Nothing
Fuse	Sub Station — behind the 15v–25v shutter	Battery → Maintenance Area lift
Machine Oil	Gas Station Shop — the letter-lock cabinet	Rust Hex Crank + Wrench
Oil Additive	Sales Office Storeroom, Uptown — behind the password	Fire Hose to clear the Forked Alley

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LIVE SELECTION On the way back toward Downtown, as you approach the van parked in the middle of the Garage, the room shakes, the floor cracks open and the crates start sliding out — the choice appears: Climb up or Jump off.

Climb up — you climb clear and simply carry on. No cost, no detour.

Jump off — you drop into the underground passage and have to work back up to street level the long way.

Doing nothing — the falling crates hit Jill for damage, and you end up on the underground route anyway. Climb up is the clean answer.

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If you took — or were knocked onto — the underground route: it is a dead-end detour, not a shortcut. RANDOM sliding worms hunt the west side of the passage, and they respawn every time you re-enter. They are fast, hit from below, and are worth neither the ammunition nor the time — run past them and take the ladder back up (it comes out by the dead soldier in the Parking Area); they give no time bonus or cash in Mercenaries either, which tells you how little the game thinks they are worth. Heal after, not during.

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Careful. NEMESIS 5 The moment you hold all four, Nemesis spawns at the northern end of Three Points Street. Plan your route back to the cable car around him — or take the fight, since on Hard he is still carrying drops.

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BOSS The giant worm. Crossing Lonsdale Yard with the parts, the ground crumbles under Jill and she falls into the underground passage — and the Grave Digger, the giant worm, bursts through. It attacks from either end of the tunnel as you move.

You do not have to kill it here. Bait its lunge, dodge, then run for the ladder switch, hit it and climb out. Save your heavy ammunition — the real fight with this thing comes much later, in Raccoon Park.

You surface in the Cable Car Area, right next to a corpse carrying ITEM Shotgun Shells — grab them and head straight for the cable car.

Cable Car Areathe last stop

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If you arrive holding only some of the parts you get a Mikhail cutscene — he is holding off zombies. Flavour, not a failure.

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Check the rear carriage one more time for FILE 13 Mechanic’s Memo and the ITEM Flame Rounds ×6 if you have not taken them — both were first reachable back in Chapter 3, step 34. The Flame Rounds only exist here at all if the Chapter 3 Downtown fork put Carlos at the Gas Station; if Nicholai is there instead, there is nothing to collect.

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Missable. Last call for Uptown and Downtown. Once this cable car pulls out, every file, item and room in both districts is gone for good — including FILE 16 Dario’s Memo, the one in the warehouse container in Chapter 4, step 18. Check your file count is at 16 before you board.

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Install the Power Cable, Fuse and Mixed Oil in the front carriage control panel. Carlos starts the mechanism.

Mikhail's last stand

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NEMESIS Nemesis boards the moving car and comes through the rear carriage. This is scripted and not a winnable fight — do not spend ammunition on it. It is not one of the seven.

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Mikhail Victor pulls the pin on a grenade and throws Nemesis clear of the car. There is nothing you can do to prevent or improve this.

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The blast wrecks the brakes and an earthquake hits.

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LIVE SELECTION Jump out of the window or Use the emergency brake. This is the biggest branch in the first half.

	Jump out of the window	Use the emergency brake
Where Jill wakes	Clock Tower bedroom, alone	Clock Tower courtyard, with Carlos
Winder Key	Bedroom	Chapel
Bezel Key	Chapel	Bedroom
Carlos	Meets you in the Small Library and gives you Freeze Rounds	Meets you in the Dining Room empty-handed
Courtyard enemies	50/50 crows or zombie dogs	Crows only
The courtyard Nemesis fight	Carlos arrives after it — Nemesis keeps his rocket launcher the whole fight	Carlos arrives during it and destroys the rocket launcher

Tip. Use the emergency brake. Losing Carlos’s Freeze Rounds hurts, but having him destroy the rocket launcher removes Nemesis’s most dangerous attack from a mandatory fight you cannot skip. Doing nothing gives the same result as the brake.

← Re-visiting UptownCHAPTER 5 OF 10Clock Tower →

CH 6Clock TowerSt. Michael Clock Tower — two keys, two gears, one bell

A compact mansion-style chapter built around a chain: two keys open two wings, the music box gives the chain, the chain makes the Chronos Key, the goddess clocks give the gear, and the gear rings the bell. Both of its puzzles are re-rolled per playthrough — and both are solvable from information the game shows you on screen.

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Where you wake up — two entrances, mirrored routes

The Live Selection you took on the cable car decides which end of the tower Jill starts in, and the whole chapter runs in the opposite direction depending on it. Nothing is missable either way — you cover the same rooms, just back to front — but the two keys swap rooms, the door the Winder Key opens changes, and Carlos meets you in a different room with a different scene.

Both keys are simply called Clock T. Key in your inventory. They only reveal their real names — Winder Key or Bezel Key — when you examine them on the status screen, so examine each one the moment you pick it up or you will not know which door it belongs to. The Winder Key is always the one you find first, because it is also the key that opens the door out of the wing you woke up in.

Cable car choice	Jump out of the window	Emergency brake, or nothing
Jill starts in	The Bedroom, beside the burning wreck	The Courtyard, outside the tower
Winder Key	Behind the crooked picture in the Bedroom	Cabinet by the altar in the Chapel
Bezel Key	Cabinet by the altar in the Chapel	Behind the crooked picture in the Bedroom
Winder Key opens	Living Room → Small Library	Piano Room → Dining Room
Carlos finds you in	The Small Library — and hands over Freeze Rounds	The Dining Room — empty-handed

The Bezel Key never opens a door. Its one job is the copper plate on the balcony wall that drops the ladder to the belfry, so carry it and do not leave it in a box. The Winder Key you keep to the very end of the chapter, because it is half of the Chronos Key.

BedroomClock Tower 1F

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A picture on the wall in the north-east corner hangs crooked. Examine it to open the compartment behind it and take the first Clock T. Key. Examine it on the status screen straight away: the first key you pick up is always the Winder Key — the one that opens the door out of this wing and later combines with the Chronos Chain.

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RANDOM ITEM Gun Powder A ×2 and Gun Powder B ×2 in the north-west cabinet — 50%. Otherwise they are in the Chapel.

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Four burning zombies climb out of the fire around the wrecked cable car. The room is narrow, so shoot them at range rather than letting one grab you.

You can skip this fight entirely if you came in from the Courtyard. They only wake up if you walk all the way to the wall of flames at the far end of the room and then turn to leave. Take the key from behind the picture, take the gunpowder off the table, and get out without approaching the fire — they never come. Jump-from-the-window players start next to the wreck, so they always get the fight.

Living Room & Small LibraryClock Tower 1F

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SAVE ROOM The Living Room has a typewriter and item box. Unlock the eastern door with the Winder Key.

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If you jumped from the cable car, Carlos meets you in the Small Library. He is relieved she made it out of the car, and he hands over Freeze Rounds — ×12 on Easy, ×6 on Hard — before heading off to look for a way to call for help.

Tip. Save these for Nemesis. Freeze Rounds are the single most effective ammunition against him in the game, and they slow him down as well as hurting him.

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FILE File 18: Art Picture Postcard on the small table with the lamp. HARD ONLY Ink Ribbon ×3 in that table’s drawer. RANDOM ITEM Grenade Rounds on the table by the bookcases (50%; otherwise the Dining Room mantelpiece).

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RANDOM The room holds either respawning small spiders or 4 zombies. If it is the spiders, do not try to clear them — they come back indefinitely. Run.

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Come back here. There is a locked door here inscribed with a reference to the God of Time. That is the Chronos Key door into the Spider Corridor. You come back once the music box gives up its chain.

Main HallClock Tower 1F

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FILE File 17: Operation Instruction in the dead mercenary’s hand.

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HARD ONLY Beside that body is the Mine Thrower — its only appearance in the entire game. On Easy the spot holds Shotgun Shells instead, so Easy players never get the weapon.

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There are two music boxes in this hall, and you need both. One sits in the alcove east of the main staircase and plays the melody correctly. The other is tucked in a nook on the other side of the staircase and plays the same melody out of tune. Play them both now and listen properly — the puzzle waiting for you up in the belfry is that off-key tune, and the box east of the staircase is the only reference in the game for what it is supposed to sound like. You can walk back down and replay it as many times as you want.

ITEM Clock Tower Map on the desk by the stairs and ITEM First Aid Spray on the desk west of them.

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Tip. The planter of Blue Herbs by the main double doors regrows indefinitely. Spiders and Brain Suckers poison you throughout this chapter — this is your free, unlimited cure.

Dining Room, Piano Room & ChapelClock Tower 1F

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RANDOM ITEM Grenade Rounds on the Dining Room mantelpiece (50%). If you used the emergency brake, Carlos meets you here instead of the Small Library, and the scene is a different one: he has lost his nerve about the escape plan and starts talking as though it is already over. Jill slaps him across the face and he pulls himself together and runs off. He gives you nothing on this route — the Freeze Rounds are attached to the other cable car choice, not to this meeting.

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RANDOM If you jumped from the cable car the Dining Room holds a three-way roll of 3 zombies, 3 Drain Deimos or 3 Brain Suckers. Brain Suckers latch onto Jill’s head and poison her — spend a Freeze Round rather than wrestling one off.

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The Piano Room is a connector. Five zombies smash in through its windows once you have explored the south side of the Chapel.

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SAVE ROOM The Chapel has a typewriter and item box by the door. The second Clock T. Key is in the cabinet by the altar — the second key is always the Bezel Key, the one that drops the balcony ladder and nothing else, and RANDOM ITEM Gun Powder A ×2 / B ×2 around the altar (50%).

CourtyardClock Tower 1F

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Missable. Harvest ITEM 3 Green Herbs and ITEM 2 Blue Herbs along the south-west edge now. Once the bell rings you fight here, and after that fight you cannot come back.

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Ten crows, and possibly three zombie dogs if you jumped from the cable car. Do not linger — it is a bad arena.

Second Floor & BalconyClock Tower 2F

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Three giant spiders roam the second-floor walkway. There is an explosive wall charge in the middle of it — line them up and shoot that instead of spending shells.

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ITEM 2 Red Herbs against the tower wall on the balcony.

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Examine the ornamental copper plate on the balcony wall and use the Bezel Key. A ladder drops.

Cog RoomClock Tower 3F — the belfry

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SAVE ROOM Typewriter and item box. HARD ONLY Ink Ribbon ×3.

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KEY ITEM Silver Gear on the south-east shelves, plus ITEM Gun Powder A ×2 — or, on Hard, a 50% chance of Mine Thrower Rounds instead.

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The music box — how to solve it without a lookup

Examine the music box in the far corner of the Cog Room to open the panel. The puzzle is six segments, each set up or down, and it asks you to retune the melody the box is playing badly. The machine plays your version back, so a wrong segment sounds obviously off. The reference is the music box east of the staircase in the Main Hall — if you cannot hold the tune in your head, walk down, play it, and come back. Nothing resets while you are away.

If you would rather not use your ear: on the PC release and on PlayStation disc revision 1.0 the answer is fixed at up, down, up, up, down, up. On PlayStation revision 1.1 the pattern is re-rolled every playthrough and only the listen-and-compare method works.

No file in the game gives you the melody, and there is no penalty for a wrong attempt, so the safe approach on any version is to flip one segment at a time, replay, and keep whichever setting sounds right before moving to the next. Six binary choices solved one at a time is at worst about a dozen replays.

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Solving it opens the compartment: take the KEY ITEM Chronos Chain, then combine Chronos Chain + Winder Key → Chronos Key. Heal, reload and equip a heavy weapon before you go back down the ladder — Nemesis is waiting on the balcony and there is no chance to shuffle your inventory once the scene starts.

Back down to the BalconyClock Tower 2F — Nemesis is waiting now

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LIVE SELECTION NEMESIS 6 Coming back down the ladder, walk toward the door to the second floor and Nemesis appears. This is the trigger — not the first visit. You can cross this balcony, drop the ladder and go up to the belfry without seeing him at all; he only shows up once you are on your way back with the Chronos Key. So pick your weapon before you climb down: whatever is in Jill’s hands when she steps off that ladder is what she fights with.

Use the cord, if you want the full drop chain

Use the light — Jill swings one of the balcony spotlights into his face, blinds him and shoves him over the railing. Clean, safe, and he stays away until you ring the bell. But it forfeits the item drop. The lamp is not something you switch on beforehand; turning it on is the choice.

Use the cord unhooks the power cable and throws the live end into the puddle at his feet. He goes down, so on Hard you get the next case in the chain — but he is only stunned and will ambush you again within the next few rooms on the way back down. That second knockdown pays nothing; the case for this encounter has already been spent, so shoot him only as far as you need to get past him.

Do nothing simply starts the fight, and it is the same rewardable knockdown as choosing to fight.

Fighting him outright is also a rewardable knockdown: about six Freeze Rounds puts him down the first time, twelve finishes the job. The technique that works is to knock him down, then circle behind him as he stands and keep firing from behind — that staggers him and denies him the charge and the grab.

For a completion run, take the cord or the fight. Skipping this knockdown shifts the whole drop chain down and you finish the game one item short.

Spider Corridor & Clock RoomClock Tower 1F

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Unlock the inscribed door in the Small Library with the Chronos Key. ITEM Grenade Rounds on the web-wrapped corpse in the eastern corner; three giant spiders in the corridor.

Nemesis stops following you at this door. If he has been chasing you since the balcony, the webbed corridor and everything past it are off limits to him — you can stop running and clear the spiders at your own pace.

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FILE File 19: Mercenary’s Pocketbook on the dead mercenary in the south-east corner of the Clock Room. ITEM Shotgun Shells on the back-room table (Easy) or HARD ONLY Mine Thrower Rounds (Hard).

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There is a huge bell sitting in the back room blocking the rear exit. Jill cannot shift it on her own and there is nothing to be done about it now — it is not a puzzle you have missed. Three maiden statues stand at the front of the gallery, each holding a tray. Take all three balls: KEY ITEM Amber, KEY ITEM Obsidian and KEY ITEM Crystal.

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The three goddess clocks — read the faces, do the arithmetic

Three statues — Past (left), Present (centre), Future (right). Each ball moves its clock by a fixed amount, and each ball is used exactly once. Only one clock has to end on 12:00: the Present clock in the centre. The two outer trays are not separate puzzles — a ball dropped on the Past or Future tray still moves the centre clock, just by a different amount, and each ball is used exactly once. So the whole thing is one sum: pick the arrangement whose three shifts add up to exactly what the centre clock needs.

Ball	Past	Present	Future
Crystal	−1 hour	+1 hour	+2 hours
Obsidian	−2 hours	+2 hours	+4 hours
Amber	−3 hours	+3 hours	+6 hours

Read the centre clock before you place anything — its starting hour is re-rolled every playthrough, and it is the only number you need. There are exactly six starting hours the game will give you, and each one has exactly one answer:

Centre clock reads	Past tray (left)	Present tray (centre)	Future tray (right)
5:00	Crystal	Obsidian	Amber
6:00	Crystal	Amber	Obsidian
7:00	Obsidian	Crystal	Amber
9:00	Obsidian	Amber	Crystal
10:00	Amber	Crystal	Obsidian
11:00	Amber	Obsidian	Crystal

8:00 never comes up. The six possible arrangements shift the centre clock by +1, +2, +3, +5, +6 or +7 hours — there is no way to make +4, so the game never sets the clock four hours short. If you ever read 8:00 you have misread the hand.

The clue is a file you already have. FILE File 18: Art Picture Postcard, from the Small Library, says to put the hands together — that is the instruction to bring the centre clock to 12:00, when both hands overlap at the top. Placing a ball moves the clock visibly, so you get instant confirmation; if it does not land on 12, take the ball back and try again. Nothing here can be broken or wasted.

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The centre clock striking 12:00 opens the Present Goddess statue: take the KEY ITEM Gold Gear, then combine Gold Gear + Silver Gear → Chronos Gear.

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Return to the Cog Room and use the Chronos Gear on the cog mechanism. The bell rings out over the city.

The CourtyardBOSS — Nemesis, mandatory

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NEMESIS A rescue helicopter answers the bell. While Jill is still celebrating, Nemesis puts a rocket through it; the wreck ploughs into the tower and burns. Then he drives his tentacle through Jill’s shoulder and infects her with the t-Virus — this is the moment the rest of the game turns on, and it is scripted, not something you failed to dodge.

Nemesis — Clock Tower Courtyard

This fight is mandatory, it is not one of the seven, and it drops nothing on any difficulty. Do not hold ammunition back hoping for a case.

The one thing that changes this fight is whether he keeps the rocket launcher, and that was decided back on the cable car.

If you used the emergency brake or did nothing, Carlos charges in at the start and shoots the launcher out of Nemesis’s hands — then is knocked out cold on the spot, so you still fight alone.
If you jumped from the window, Carlos is not there and the launcher stays in play.

Against the launcher. He carries five rockets and throws the weapon away once they are gone, so the opening is the dangerous part. He fires two almost immediately and will do it point-blank if you let him. Turn side-on to his line of fire before you move — running straight away from a rocket does not work. The lamp posts around the crashed cable car will absorb a hit, which is what they are there for. The consolation is that he cannot grab you while he is holding it.

Without the launcher. He trades it for reach: a horizontal sweep and a straight thrust with the right-hand tentacle at medium range — and he gets his left-handed grab back. Dodge around his right side, never his left. If he does grab Jill, mash buttons to be dropped and keep mashing to get up. If he lifts her and his free hand starts running with purple fluid, that is the killing blow winding up — you can still break out of it, but only from Fine or Yellow Caution, so keep her healed rather than saving sprays for later.

Freeze Rounds are the answer, as everywhere else: the slow they apply buys the evasion time this arena does not otherwise give you. Space yourself, fire once or twice, move. Two full heals in the inventory is the sensible minimum, and there is a typewriter one room away — save before you go down the ladder.

Jill fights this one under a unique Virus status. When Nemesis finally staggers off into the flames she collapses, and Carlos — arriving now, or coming round from being knocked out — carries her to the Chapel.

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Play switches to Carlos.

← Get Out of TownCHAPTER 6 OF 10Hospital →

CH 7HospitalRaccoon General — Carlos, the vaccine, and two Hunter species

Carlos takes over. The chapter opens back in the Clock Tower, walks him out to the hospital, and gives him one job: build the vaccine from two halves — the Vaccine Base locked in a wall safe on the fourth floor, and the Vaccine Medium made on a machine in the basement. The safe code is the one thing here that changes from run to run; everything else, including the machine, works the same way every time.

Chapel to the Clock RoomClock Tower — the way out, as Carlos

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Carlos’s run. Carlos plays this whole chapter alone while Jill lies dying in the Chapel, and the objective is two vaccine components — one on the fourth floor of the hospital, one in its basement. He carries his own kit: the assault rifle and the mercenary’s handgun. The rifle is the reason this chapter feels easier than Jill’s — short bursts flatten a crowd of zombies — but there is no resupply for it in here, so fire in taps rather than holding the trigger. He also has only eight inventory slots, two fewer than Jill on Easy, so leave the tower with space free.

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SAVE ROOM You start standing over Jill in the Chapel. The typewriter and item box are still here — take the knife out of the box if you want a no-ammo option, and save. You are heading for the Clock Room, right across the tower.

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Piano Room. Four fresh zombies. This is the room to learn the rifle in — short controlled bursts to the head.

The tower is damaged now. The helicopter came down into it, and several routes Jill used are blocked with rubble. The east exit of this room is gone — take the north door instead.

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Dining Room. Five more zombies. Same answer — keep your back to the door you came in by and burst-fire as they close.

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Main Hall. Debris everywhere; the room is a lot tighter than it was, so watch where you commit to a run. Cross it to the Small Library. The Blue Herb planter by the main doors is still growing if you need it.

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Spider Corridor. Three giant spiders — or three Drain Deimos instead, depending on the run. Both poison. The corridor is narrow and there is nothing here you need, so run it rather than clear it.

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The bell Jill could not move. In the back room of the Clock Room is the large bell that blocked the rear exit for Jill — she was not strong enough to shift it and there was no puzzle to solve. Carlos simply pushes it aside, and that is the whole point of it: it is a locked door that only opens once the game hands you the heavier character. Push it and walk out into Park Street.

Park Alleyway & Waiting RoomHospital 1F

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Down the alley, with four zombies coming at Carlos from the left and an explosive barrel in the middle of the street — wait for them to gather around it, then shoot it. Head west for the hospital’s front entrance.

2 Hunter Betas take over this street once Carlos has been inside the Reception Office, and they stay until he is holding both vaccine halves — then they are gone for good. They are a Carlos-only hazard; Jill never meets them out here.

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ITEM 2 Red Herbs in the north-west alcove of the Waiting Room.

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Careful. Two Hunter Betas attack as you approach the Reception Office door. Their leaping high slash can decapitate Carlos outright at close range — it is an instant kill, not chip damage. Keep your distance and use the assault rifle.

Reception Office & Doctor’s LoungeHospital 1F

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SAVE ROOM Typewriter and item box in the Reception Office, ITEM First Aid Spray on the shelf, HARD ONLY Ink Ribbon ×3.

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FILE File 20: Director’s Diary on the floor beside the dead doctor in the south-west of the Doctor’s Lounge.

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ITEM Hospital Map by the whiteboard, ITEM Hand Gun Bullets in the south-west locker, ITEM Blue Herb in the drawers by the south-east door.

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KEY ITEM Tape Recorder on the north-west desk — the key item of the whole segment.

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The voice-recognition elevator

The elevator is locked behind a voice lock. Use the Tape Recorder on the microphone — the recorded voice satisfies it and the doors open. You can then pick 4F or B3; both are required and the order is yours — but the order decides which of two completely different scenes you see, and where the Hunters wait. Read the panel below before you press a button.

The elevator choice — two routes, two different scenes

Both floors are compulsory and the ending is identical either way, so nothing here can be lost or failed. What the choice really decides is which death scene you watch for Tyrell Patrick, a U.B.C.S. mercenary you never meet anywhere else in the game. He appears on whichever floor you go to first, and the floor you leave for later gets 2 Hunter Betas in his place. You only ever see one of the two scenes per playthrough — the other is gone until you replay.

Route A — press 4F first: the betrayal in the Data Room. Carlos walks in on Nicholai standing over Tyrell, having just shot him. Challenged, Nicholai drops the act and admits he is not a squad-mate at all: he is one of Umbrella’s supervisors, planted in the U.B.C.S. to watch the outbreak and record how the mercenaries die. The unit was never meant to be rescued — it was the experiment. Before Carlos can do anything about it the dying Tyrell pulls the pin on a grenade, and the blast kills him and throws Nicholai out through the window. This is the only time in the whole game Carlos learns what Nicholai actually is, and it only happens on this route.

Route B — press B3 first: the booby-trapped safe in the Basement Storeroom. Carlos comes around the back of the shelving and finds Tyrell alive, working on a locked safe in the store room — a man who plainly knows more about what Umbrella is doing here than a rank-and-file soldier should. He gets it open, and the safe is rigged; the charge inside kills him where he stands. Carlos is left with a corpse and no answers. Nicholai never appears in the hospital at all on this route, so his true role stays hidden until much later in the story.

What changes mechanically.

You press	Data Room, 4F	Basement Storeroom, B3
4F first	Nicholai shoots Tyrell → grenade	2 Hunter Betas + an explosive wall charge
B3 first	2 Hunter Betas + an explosive wall charge	Tyrell and the rigged safe

The swap is retroactive: walk through the second room early and find it empty, and the Hunters will still be there when you come back after triggering the scene. Route A is the easier fight — the Hunters end up in the basement corridor where the explosive charge is easy to line up. Route B puts them in the Data Room, where the second one hides in the north-west corner behind the record shelves.

Fourth FloorHospital 4F — the Vaccine Base

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In the Data Room: KEY ITEM Sickroom Key and FILE File 21: Photo D on the north-east desk. RANDOM ITEM Hand Gun Bullets on the bench (50%; the alternative is the Basement Storeroom).

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If this is the first floor you chose, the Data Room is where Nicholai shoots Tyrell and the grenade goes off — see the panel above. If you came down from B3 first, the scene is already spent and 2 Hunter Betas are waiting in here instead: shoot the wall charge from the doorway for the first one, and check the north-west corner behind the record shelves for the second.

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Room 401 is the clue room — both halves of the answer are here

1. The safe code. Examine the dead doctor sitting against the right-hand wall. He is holding a slip of paper and Carlos reads a three-digit number aloud. That is your code for this playthrough — it is re-rolled every run. There are only four possible numbers in the game — 104, 253, 325 and 531 — so if you ever miss the slip you can simply try all four on the safe. Write yours down.

2. The cabinet position. Note exactly which corner the equivalent cabinet stand occupies in Room 401. There is a visible mark on the floor showing where something used to sit. That is your reference for Room 402.

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RANDOM Room 401 also holds either 2 zombies or 5–6 sliding worms, plus RANDOM ITEM 2 Green Herbs under the window (50%).

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Room 402 — the cabinet and the safe

Requires the Sickroom Key. There is a movable cabinet and four marked corner tiles.

Push the cabinet onto the correct corner. Room 402 is laid out as a mirror image of Room 401, so the answer is the mirrored corner: north-west in 401 means north-east in 402, south-east in 401 means south-west in 402, and so on. The corner tiles are electrified, but a wrong one only chips a little health, and walking out of the room and back in resets the cabinet, so this is completely recoverable.

When it is right the Arklay Mountains picture falls off the wall, revealing a safe. Enter the three-digit code from the doctor’s slip and take the Vaccine Base.

BasementHospital B3 — the Vaccine Medium

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Explosive wall charges are fitted to the hallway of whichever floor you visit second, and to the room that got the Hunters. Target one with the aim button and fire — it is the cheapest way to open a two-Hunter room.

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In the Basement Storeroom: either Tyrell and the rigged safe if this is the first floor you chose, or 2 Hunter Betas and an explosive wall charge in the north-east corner if you came from 4F, and the paired 50% spawns of ITEM 2 Green Herbs and ITEM Hand Gun Bullets.

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KEY ITEM Medium Base on the west shelf of the Experiment Room, and FILE File 22: Medical Instruction Manual on the desk opposite the machine — that file is the instruction sheet for the puzzle.

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The vaccine synthesiser — this one is NOT randomised

1. Flip the power switch first; steam vents as the system comes up.
2. Set the Medium Base into the device. The tanks drain.
3. Five levers control two gauges. The goal is to bring both needles to rest at the centre. The levers are a numbered set (I, II, III) on the upper board and a lettered set (A, B) reached by scrolling down.

Throw I, then III, then scroll down and throw A. Both needles settle centre and the machine produces the Vaccine Medium.

One catch: that sequence assumes the levers are at their default positions. If you have already been flipping things, leave the room and come back to reset the panel, then do it cleanly. If you would rather solve it by eye, the gauges update live — flip a lever, watch which way each needle jumps, flip it back, and build the combination that zeroes both.

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Careful. Two Hunter Gammas burst out of the cryo-tubes the moment you try to leave. They are the amphibious kind — weaker than Betas but with a much longer leap. The shotgun handles them in a few blasts, or you can simply run for the door.

The escapeand back to the Chapel

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Combine Vaccine Base + Vaccine Medium → Vaccine.

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Take the elevator back up to 1F. A bomb timer starts the moment you reach the lobby — do not stop to fight anything you can walk around.

Careful — the hospital saves its ambush for whoever is slowest.

The five-zombie group. One group of five zombies is waiting for the elevator doors to open, and the game rolls which floor it uses — the 4F hallway, the B3 hallway, or the 1F Doctor’s Lounge, one chance in three each. If it has not caught you upstairs or in the basement, it is here on 1F, and now it is standing between you and a burning building. Back into the car if you need the doorway to funnel them.

The Hunter Betas. Separately, once you are holding both vaccine halves, 2 Hunter Betas move into whichever hallway the zombies did not use. A floor you cleared on the way in is not clear on the way out — and a Hunter’s leaping slash still kills Carlos outright.

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Missable. NEMESIS Nemesis intercepts Carlos in the Clock Tower on the way back, in the Main Hall or the Piano Room. Do not fight him. If Carlos dies here it is an instant game over. Run for the Chapel. Nemesis carries nothing while you are Carlos, so there is no reward to lose here.

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Administer the vaccine. Play switches back to Jill, who wakes in the Chapel.

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NEMESIS 7 Stand and fight this one. Nemesis is waiting for Jill in his second form on the way out — the Piano Room, the Main Hall or the room beside the Chapel, depending on the route you took through the tower. This is the seventh and last rewardable knockdown in the game.

HARD ONLY Put him down and the case holds the M4A1 Assault Rifle on a first clear, or Infinite Bullets on any later one. Run past him and that weapon is gone for the run — there is no second chance at it.

What it takes. He is slower in this form than on the balcony but he hits harder and the rooms are tight. Freeze Rounds are the most efficient answer; a full Magnum cylinder followed by the shotgun also works. Heal and reload in the Chapel before you step out.

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Cross to the Clock Room and out into the Park Alleyway.

← Clock TowerCHAPTER 7 OF 10Raccoon Park →

CH 8Raccoon Parkthree keys, a fountain, and the thing under the graveyard

An outdoor chapter organised around three identically-named keys and one hidden room behind a fireplace. It ends on the bridge with the only choice in the game that changes who comes to rescue you.

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Three keys, one name. All three park keys are literally named Park Key in the inventory. Examine each one — the tag says Main Gate, Graveyard or Rear Gate. Mixing them up is the single most common way to get lost here.

Park OfficePark — needs the Lockpick

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Five zombies are loose in the Park Alleyway the moment Jill steps back into it — a different set from the four Carlos dealt with, and the explosive barrel in the middle of the street is still there. Do not stand and trade with them: SAVE ROOM the blue door straight ahead opens with the Lockpick, so get inside. Typewriter and item box, plus HARD ONLY Ink Ribbon ×3.

The Lockpick has no use left in the game after this door. Put it in the box and take the freed slot with you.

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FILE File 23: Photo E on the table next to the typewriter.

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KEY ITEM Main Gate Key on the wall hook — the first of the three. Back out in the alleyway it opens the iron gate up the short flight of steps to Jill’s left, which is the way into the park proper.

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ITEM Two ammunition spots here. On Easy both are Grenade Rounds ×12; on Hard each rolls 50/50 between Grenade Rounds ×6 and Mine Thrower Rounds ×6.

Main Park, Wooden Jetty & Forest Path

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RANDOM Main Park, first visit: a coin flip between 4 sliding worms and 2 Hunter Betas — one or the other, never both, and never zombies on this pass.

The zombies come later. Seven of them move into this same area, but only once you are carrying the Rear Gate Key — so you meet them on the walk back from the graveyard, not now. If you remember this park as full of zombies, that is the trip you are remembering.

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RANDOM Wooden Jetty: either 4 zombies — one standing right in front of you and three more further along — or, if the path looks empty, 2 Hunter Gammas that come up out of the water behind Jill.

An empty jetty is the bad roll, not the good one. Start running the moment you see no zombies. The first Gamma surfaces behind you and a second leaps as you turn the corner — the walkway is too narrow to fight two of them on, so take the gate and keep going.

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RANDOM Forest Path: a coin flip between 3 Hunter Betas and 3 zombie dogs. This is one of the few places worth clearing rather than running — the path winds and there is very little room to dodge on it, and you come back through here twice. There is an explosive barrel in the clearing to help.

Go to that small clearing in the north corner: KEY ITEM Graveyard Key and FILE File 24: Written Order to the Supervisors are both on the dead mercenary by the bin.

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ITEM Magnum Bullets on a second mercenary corpse near the east gate. That gate is the park’s rear exit and stays locked until you have the Rear Gate Key.

Fountainthe gear puzzle

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ITEM Park Map on the display board, ITEM 3 Green Herbs and ITEM 2 Blue Herbs opposite the entrance gate.

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The fountain gears — the answer is on the wall

The game shows you the target before you touch anything. The sign above the submerged tunnel entrance carries the arrangement you are aiming for — read it first and the panel stops being a guessing game.

The board is five slots and four gears, so one slot is always empty and gears only slide into the gap. Number them as they sit: 1 · 3 · 5 across the top row, and 2 · 4 tucked underneath between them on the bottom row.

What you want: the two black gears on the top row (slots 3 and 5), the two white gears on the bottom row (slots 2 and 4), and the empty slot at the top left (slot 1).

The short way there: slide the gears in slots 2 → 3 → 4 → 5 → 3 → 1. That is six moves, which is the minimum — there is no faster route and no penalty for wandering off it, so if you lose your place just work back to the picture on the sign.

Press the start button when it matches. The pool drains and the hatch in the basin opens. This puzzle is not randomised — the same answer works on every playthrough.

Drainage Passage & Graveyard

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Sliding worms respawn endlessly in the drainage passage. Do not fight them — run the length of it and climb the ladder.

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Five zombies claw their way up out of the ground as Jill walks past — in front of her as well as behind. Keep moving rather than trying to clear the field. ITEM 2 Red Herbs in the middle of the graveyard: at the T-junction go left for those, then come back and go straight, following the south and east edges round to the door. Unlock it with the Graveyard Key — the second of the three, off the mercenary on the Forest Path.

Graveyard Cabinthe hidden room

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ITEM Gun Powder A ×2 and Gun Powder B ×2 on the table. KEY ITEM Iron Pipe in the maintenance cupboard on the south wall.

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SAVE ROOM The storeroom through the side door has a typewriter, an item box and a ITEM First Aid Spray.

Take the Lighter out of the item box while you are standing here. It is the one Jill built back in Uptown — the Empty Lighter from Bar Black Jack combined with the Lighter Oil from Shotgun Alley — and by now most players have parked it in storage to free a slot. You cannot open the way forward without it, and this box is the last one before that door.

Missable. Save here. The Grave Digger is next and it is mandatory.

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Opening the secret passage

1. Stand in front of the fireplace and use the Lighter. It burns away the wood pile stacked in the hearth, and behind it is a bricked-up opening.
2. Use the Iron Pipe on the loose bricks at the back to knock them out.
3. Crawl through the gap.

Neither item is optional and neither is a puzzle — if nothing happens, you are missing one of the two. The Iron Pipe is in the tool cabinet in this same room; the Lighter is yours from Uptown.

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In the Secret Communications Room: KEY ITEM Rear Gate Key and FILE File 25: Supervisor’s Report on the table, FILE File 26: Fax From Headquarters on the map board, ITEM Grenade Rounds on the south-west shelves, HARD ONLY Ink Ribbon ×3 in the jacket by the fireplace.

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Turn back for the crawlspace and a scene fires as Jill goes through it — then a second one waits for her in the shack: Nicholai, the first time she has laid eyes on him since the tower. Between the two files and the two scenes, this is where the game stops pretending: the “rescue” operation is a data-gathering exercise and the surviving mercenaries are the subjects.

Do not leave the shack without the Rear Gate Key, and heal and save before you step outside. The Grave Digger fires the moment you head back toward the sewer pipe.

GraveyardBOSS — the Grave Digger

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BOSS Head back toward the sewer pipe and the ground gives way — a second Grave Digger comes up out of the graveyard. This is not the one from under Lonsdale Yard; that one is dead. Mandatory.

The Grave Digger

Reading it. It is underground between attacks. Watch the ground — it telegraphs with a tremor and the earth shifting toward you. When it surfaces it lunges with the mandibles open, and two hits in a row will kill a healthy Jill.

Movement. The worm turns the graveyard into a single U-shaped path, and that is all the room you get. Watch for the dust cloud that comes just before it breaches — break sideways when you see it. The real danger is being backed into a corner of the U with nowhere to break to; if that happens, put a couple of rounds into it to push it off rather than trying to squeeze past. Never stand still to reload.

The fast finish — this is the one to use. After roughly a minute of the fight a short scene plays showing one of the street lamps tilting and throwing sparks. That is your cue. Shoot both lamp posts so they come down into the pool of water beside them, then lead the Grave Digger over that water. The current kills it outright — two bullets and the boss is over.

If you would rather just shoot it. ITEM Acid Rounds are the best answer — they carry a damage bonus against soft targets like this and put it down in about 10 to 12 rounds. Grenade Rounds work, the Magnum works, the shotgun works but takes a long time, and every extra second is another pass of a creature that kills a healthy Jill in two hits.

Getting out. The fight wrecks the fence — climb the fallen section to leave the arena.

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The way back is the way you came, and it has been restocked. Drainage Passage: spiders or worms now — run it and take the ladder, same as before. Main Park: seven zombies scattered across it, so budget ammunition or plan a route through them. Wooden Jetty and Forest Path may still hold whatever you left alive. At the east end of the Forest Path, use the Rear Gate Key — the third and last of the three — on the chained gate.

Park Exit Walkwaythe ending choice

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LIVE SELECTION NEMESIS Nemesis drops onto the bridge and blocks it. This one is a cutscene, not one of the seven — there is no case either way.

Missable. This is the only Live Selection in the game that changes the ending.

	Push him off	Jump off
You enter the factory at	2F, via the Entry Corridor	1F, through the water tunnel
Facility Key needed?	Yes, for the door deeper in	No — that route bypasses it
Carlos meets you	In the Resting Room	In the Water Filter Passage, saving you from zombies
Nicholai Live Selection	Never triggers	You get it, in the Communications Tower
Who flies the rescue	Carlos	Barry Burton

There is a third option and it is not neutral. Doing nothing lands you exactly where Jump off does — Nemesis knocks Jill off the bridge himself and she takes damage on the way down. If the jump route is the one you want, choose it; there is nothing to gain by letting him do it for you.

Tip. Jump off if you want the fuller run — it is the only branch that includes the Nicholai encounter, and Barry’s arrival is the better scene. Take push him off on a later playthrough for the other ending; you need several clears anyway for the epilogues.

← HospitalCHAPTER 8 OF 10Dead Factory →

CH 9Dead FactoryIncineration Disposal Plant P-12A — power, water, and the acid room

Umbrella’s Incineration Disposal Plant P-12A, the last explorable area. One heavy door stands between Jill and the finale and it carries two separate locks — the facility power has to come up in the Steam Room, and the water check has to pass down in the Water Control Room. Which of those you do first, where you find the Facility Key, and whether Nicholai lives or dies all depend on how you left the bridge.

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What you are actually doing here. Everything in this chapter serves one door: the heavy shutter in the Control Room that leads to Nemesis and the way out. It has two locks — one released by the power console in the Steam Room, one by the water-quality check in the Water Control Room. Do both, in whichever order your route gives you, and the door opens.

Two entrances — the bridge decides the whole chapter

This is the deepest split in the game. The Live Selection you took on the suspension bridge does not just change which door Jill walks in through — it reverses the order of the entire factory, moves where two items sit, changes where Carlos finds you, and decides whether you ever see Nicholai again.

Everything is collectable on both routes. Nothing is lost by taking either one. But the route you are on changes what to pick up and when, so read your column and follow that one.

	Route A — you pushed him off	Route B — you jumped, or did nothing
Jill enters at	The Entry Corridor, through the front doors — the plant’s 2F	The riverbank, up a ladder into the water tunnels — 1F
You work	Top down: power first, then water	Bottom up: water first, then power
Facility Key	Early, in the Resting Room — so you can code it on the same trip you do the water puzzle	Late, after the water puzzle is already done — coding it means a trip back down
Gun Powder A×3 / B×3	Usually the Resting Room; if not there, the Water Control Room	Usually the Water Control Room; if not there, the Resting Room
Carlos calls in	In the Resting Room, right at the start	In the Water Filter Passage, on your way back from the water puzzle
File order	27 then 28 — in order	28 comes first. If you want them in order, leave 28 on the desk and come back for it after 27
Nicholai	Dies. He shoots at Jill in the Disposal Access and something off screen kills him. You never see him again	Lives. He shoots at Jill in the Entry Corridor and escapes behind the shutter — and comes back at the very end in a helicopter
Live Selections	None left in the game	One more — the helicopter, in the Communications Tower
Who flies the rescue	Carlos	Barry Burton

Both routes need both locks. The Steam Room console and the water-sample machine each release half of the heavy door in the Control Room, and the door will not open until both are done, whichever order you get to them in.

Route A — you pushed Nemesis off the bridgein through the front doors, Dead Factory 2F

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Entry Corridor. Jill comes in through metal double doors into a crooked corridor. Note three things as you walk it and then leave them alone: an explosives box on the wall, a metal shutter with a card reader (that is the last door of the chapter), and a locked door to the Control Room. Head for the door at the far end.

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SAVE ROOM Resting Room. Carlos calls in as you enter: there is a nuclear strike inbound on Raccoon City. Everything from here is a race.

Typewriter and item box. FILE File 27: Manager’s Diary and HARD ONLY Ink Ribbon ×3 by the typewriter, ITEM First Aid Spray and KEY ITEM Facility Key together in the back corner, and RANDOM ITEM Gun Powder A ×3 / B ×3 on the far table — if they are not here they are down in the Water Control Room instead.

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Steam Room. There is a small lift with a card reader in here; you cannot use it yet, so walk past it.

The steam jets — fixed layout, same on every run

Scalding steam blocks the routes to the power console, and each switch you throw closes one jet and opens another — that is the whole trick, and why walking straight at the console never works.

The route. From the door, turn right and walk round the square hole in the middle of the room — ITEM 2 Blue Herbs are on the floor on the way past. Carry on to the small panel with the red light and press switch 1. Round the corner, press 2 and 3, which sit side by side. Go back and press 1 again. Cross to the far side of the room for 4 and 5. Come back round for 1 once more, then 2, then 3 — and the console is open.

Use the console to release its half of the heavy door, then press switch 1 one last time so Jill can get back out. Forget that and you are stuck behind your own steam.

The layout is not randomised: 1 · 2 · 3 · 1 · 4 · 5 · 1 · 2 · 3 · console · 1 works on every playthrough.

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Back through the Entry Corridor — 2 Drain Deimos have moved in while you were busy. Then use the Facility Key on that locked door near the Resting Room end.

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Control Room. ITEM Dead Factory Map is on the wall right beside the door — but so are five zombies spread around the room, so clear before you browse. KEY ITEM System Disk on the big central workstation, ITEM 3 Green Herbs by the guard rail, and a Blue Herb planter along the rail past the lift doors.

The heavy door here is only half unlocked at this point — that is expected. The water check is the other half. Consider dropping the System Disk and spare herbs in the Resting Room box for now, but keep the Facility Key: you need it again in twenty minutes.

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Take the lift down. RANDOM The Water Pollution Pool at the bottom rolls four ways: 5 zombies, 3 Drain Deimos, 3 Brain Suckers or 3 Hunter Betas. There is an explosive barrel by the steps — walk up, get their attention, turn and shoot it from the doorway. ITEM Shotgun Shells ×2 on the metal shelf by the lit control panel.

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RANDOM Water Filter Passage. Knee-deep water with either 2 Hunter Betas or 7 worms in it. Drop into the channel, go right, then take the alcove in the left-hand wall back up to dry ground.

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SAVE ROOM Monitoring Room. Typewriter, item box and HARD ONLY Ink Ribbon ×3 immediately on the left. Round the bank of controls, examine the lit wall panel for the KEY ITEM Water Sample, and take FILE File 28: Security Manual off the desk beside it.

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Water Control Room. Down the stairs into the lab. ITEM First Aid Spray on the metal cabinet straight ahead, and RANDOM ITEM Gun Powder A ×3 / B ×3 scattered here if they were not in the Resting Room.

The water sample — four possible answers

Use the Water Sample on the testing machine on the far left. The sample is consumed and you get a bar chart: a white target outline, and three rows of coloured blocks labelled A, B and C that you can slide left or right. Stack the three rows so the combined height of every column matches the white outline.

The starting layout is re-rolled every playthrough, but there are only four of them. Identify yours by the two left-hand columns of the stack — how many blocks tall each one is — then read across:

First two columns	Row A	Row B	Row C
3 tall, then empty	Right ×1	Right ×1	Left ×2
3 tall, then 1	Left ×1	Left ×2	Right ×2
2 tall, then 1	Right ×1	Right ×3	Left ×4
2 tall, then empty	Left ×4	Right ×2	Left ×2

There is no timer and no penalty for a wrong attempt, so if you cannot tell which layout you have, just work down the four in order — the worst case is three wasted tries. Or ignore the table entirely: the target is drawn on the panel in front of you, so line A up against the leftmost part of the outline, then B, then C, checking as you go.

Passing the check releases the second half of the heavy door in the Control Room.

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Do this now, while you are standing here. The machine on the right filters water with ultraviolet light. Use the Facility Key on it to burn a code pattern into the fob — that turns it into the KEY ITEM Coded Facility Key, which is the only thing that opens the weapons locker later.

Skip this and you will be walking all the way back down here after the boss fight. It costs you ten seconds now and about five minutes then.

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Head back up: Water Filter Passage, Water Pollution Pool (the same enemies respawn, same numbers — the barrel may still be there), lift, Control Room. Collect the System Disk from the box on the way if you left it, and save.

Route B — you jumped, or did nothingin from the riverbank, Dead Factory 1F

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Factory Sewer Entrance. Jill hauls herself out of the river onto a bank beside a sewer mouth. Step up into the tunnel and climb the ladder.

Once you drop down the other side you cannot come back to the riverbank. There is nothing behind you, so this costs you nothing — but do not go looking for it later.

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SAVE ROOM Monitoring Room — take the first alcove on the right out of the water. Turn left for the semi-hidden typewriter, item box and HARD ONLY Ink Ribbon ×3. Straight ahead, the lit wall panel gives the KEY ITEM Water Sample, and FILE File 28: Security Manual is on the small desk to its right.

On this route you reach 28 before 27. If you are reading the files in order, leave it on the desk and come back for it after the Resting Room — it is not going anywhere.

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Water Control Room. Down the stairs. ITEM First Aid Spray on the metal cabinet straight ahead, and RANDOM ITEM Gun Powder A ×3 / B ×3 around the room — on this route they are usually here rather than in the Resting Room.

The water sample — four possible answers

Use the Water Sample on the testing machine on the far left. The sample is consumed and you get a bar chart: a white target outline, and three rows of coloured blocks labelled A, B and C that you can slide left or right. Stack the three rows so the combined height of every column matches the white outline.

The starting layout is re-rolled every playthrough, but there are only four of them. Identify yours by the two left-hand columns of the stack — how many blocks tall each one is — then read across:

First two columns	Row A	Row B	Row C
3 tall, then empty	Right ×1	Right ×1	Left ×2
3 tall, then 1	Left ×1	Left ×2	Right ×2
2 tall, then 1	Right ×1	Right ×3	Left ×4
2 tall, then empty	Left ×4	Right ×2	Left ×2

There is no timer and no penalty for a wrong attempt, so if you cannot tell which layout you have, just work down the four in order — the worst case is three wasted tries. Or ignore the table entirely: the target is drawn on the panel in front of you, so line A up against the leftmost part of the outline, then B, then C, checking as you go.

Passing the check releases the second half of the heavy door in the Control Room.

You cannot code the Facility Key yet. The ultraviolet machine on the right is the one that stamps it — but the key is upstairs in a room you have not reached. Note where this machine is; if you want the Rocket Launcher you are coming back to it after the boss.

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Back into the Water Filter Passage and a few steps down the hall Carlos calls in: a nuclear strike is scheduled on Raccoon City for daybreak. Carry on to the other alcove.

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RANDOM Water Pollution Pool. Four possible sets: 5 zombies, 3 Drain Deimos, 3 Brain Suckers or 3 Hunter Betas. Walk up the short steps to pull them toward you, turn round and shoot the explosive barrel from near the door. ITEM Shotgun Shells ×2 on the shelf by the lit panel. Then take the big lift doors up.

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Control Room. Blue Herb planter immediately on the left. Clear the zombies before you loot: KEY ITEM System Disk on the table, ITEM 3 Green Herbs by the guard rail, and ITEM Dead Factory Map by the north-west door on your way out. The heavy door in here is half open — the power is still off.

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Entry Corridor. Nicholai shoots at Jill the moment she steps in, then bolts and drops a metal shutter behind him. That is the shutter you open with the Card Key at the very end of the chapter — and it is the last you see of him until the roof. Take the north-east door, not the double doors.

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SAVE ROOM Resting Room. Typewriter and item box. FILE File 27: Manager’s Diary and HARD ONLY Ink Ribbon ×3 by the typewriter, and in the back corner ITEM First Aid Spray beside the KEY ITEM Facility Key. RANDOM ITEM Gun Powder A ×3 / B ×3 on the far table if they were not in the Water Control Room.

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Steam Room. The lift with the card reader is in here; you still cannot use it.

The steam jets — fixed layout, same on every run

Scalding steam blocks the routes to the power console, and each switch you throw closes one jet and opens another — that is the whole trick, and why walking straight at the console never works.

The route. From the door, turn right and walk round the square hole in the middle of the room — ITEM 2 Blue Herbs are on the floor on the way past. Carry on to the small panel with the red light and press switch 1. Round the corner, press 2 and 3, which sit side by side. Go back and press 1 again. Cross to the far side of the room for 4 and 5. Come back round for 1 once more, then 2, then 3 — and the console is open.

Use the console to release its half of the heavy door, then press switch 1 one last time so Jill can get back out. Forget that and you are stuck behind your own steam.

The layout is not randomised: 1 · 2 · 3 · 1 · 4 · 5 · 1 · 2 · 3 · console · 1 works on every playthrough.

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Back to the Resting Room to pick up the System Disk and save, then through the Entry Corridor — 2 Drain Deimos are waiting there now — and into the Control Room. Bring the Facility Key with you if you intend to fetch the Rocket Launcher later.

From here both routes are the samethe heavy door is open

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Disposal Access. With both locks released, the heavy door in the Control Room opens.

Route A only: a few steps in and Nicholai takes shots at Jill — and is then killed by something off screen. That is the end of him on this route. On Route B this corridor is quiet, because he is still alive and waiting for you on the roof.

Use the System Disk in the wall slot to unlock the next door.

Save and heal before you go through. The room beyond locks behind you and starts a countdown, and there is no way back to a typewriter.

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NEMESIS Mandatory.

Nemesis — the B.O.W. Disposal chamber

The door locks behind Jill and a four-minute clock starts. The intro scene eats some of it, so you have roughly 3 minutes 27 seconds of actual play — and when Nemesis goes down there is still a ten-second cutscene to sit through and the run to the door. Assume you need about 20 seconds left on the clock at the moment he falls, or you die anyway.

The room is the weapon. The opening scene shows you the answer: acid valves around the chamber. Lead Nemesis under one, aim at the valve and shoot it, and the acid comes down on him. Do not be standing in it yourself. Each valve has a green meter showing when it has recharged.

Three doses is the whole fight. The first hurts him badly. The second takes his head off — he keeps coming but his aim falls apart. The third finishes him. Nothing in your inventory competes with that.

Carry a fast-draw weapon — the handgun is fine — because you are shooting a valve, not him, and the time you save raising it is the time you need at the end. His tentacles reach a long way in this U-shaped room, so keep moving and do not let him corner you.

If the valves are not lining up, heavy weapons still work and Freeze Rounds are as good here as anywhere. But the acid is what beats the clock.

He drops nothing — this is not one of the seven. What you need is the KEY ITEM Card Key that falls out of a dead scientist’s coat. Take it, use it on the blinking panel by the door, and get out.

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Back out through the Disposal Access into the Control Room — six fresh zombies have spawned in it. Kill only what is in your way.

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The Rocket Launcher — worth the detour

The weapons locker off the Steam Room holds the WEAPON M66 Rocket Launcher, and it takes the Card Key to reach and the Coded Facility Key to open.

Route A: your key is already coded. Card Key on the Steam Room lift, ride it down to the Armory, take ITEM Grenade Rounds ×2 off the cardboard boxes, and use the coded key on the right-hand locker.

Route B: you still have to code the key. That means the full round trip — lift down, Water Pollution Pool, Water Filter Passage, Water Control Room, use the Facility Key on the ultraviolet machine, and all the way back up to the Steam Room. It is a long walk through respawned enemies, which is exactly why coding the key early matters on Route A.

Is it worth it? On Route B, yes — one rocket ends the helicopter Live Selection outright. On Route A there is no helicopter, so it is a trophy rather than a tool, and a speed run can skip it.

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SAVE ROOM Resting Room, one last time. This is the final typewriter in the game. Take two full heals and something for a handful of zombies. You will not be damaging the last boss with your own weapons, so do not agonise over ammunition — but do bring the Rocket Launcher if you fetched it.

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Entry Corridor. Use the Card Key on the reader beside the shutter. Three zombies are in the narrow passage behind it, and ITEM 2 Green Herbs sit by the door at the far end.

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Communications Tower. ITEM Magnum Bullets in the cabinet beside the door and ITEM First Aid Spray in a cabinet on the east wall. Take the KEY ITEM Portable Radar Receiver from the control panel by the window — it tracks the incoming missile and the finale needs it.

Route A: a radio call from Carlos — there is a helicopter behind the factory, ready to fly.

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LIVE SELECTION Route B only — Nicholai’s helicopter. As Jill turns for the door he drops in and opens fire through the glass.

Three options, two outcomes

Return fire — only offered if you are carrying the Rocket Launcher. One rocket and the helicopter goes down with him in it. Be quick: dither and he flies off, which is the same as negotiating.

Negotiate — the option you get when you do not have the launcher. They trade a few words and he leaves alive, taking the last helicopter with him.

Do nothing — Jill waits him out, but he fires a rocket at her as she stands. You get a split second to dodge, and then you are in the return-fire situation anyway. There is no reason to pick this.

The ending does not change. Barry comes for you either way; the only thing at stake is whether Nicholai lives. This is also the reason a playthrough has nine Live Selections on Route B and eight on Route A.

Carlos turns up afterwards and takes the news about the helicopter badly. Head for the ladder; examine the floor hatch to start the missile countdown and open it. The clock is generous — do not panic, but do not browse either.

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Emergency Tunnel. FILE File 29: Incinerator Manual on the wall by the ladder and ITEM Shotgun Shells ×2 on the shelving.

The floor is covered in bodies and only two of them get up. Walk past the rest rather than emptying a magazine into scenery.

Car Yardthe last file

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Missable. FILE File 30: Classified Photo File is on the floor just outside the door to the Rail Cannon Room. This is the last one — pick it up and all 30 are collected, which unlocks Jill’s Diary. Past that door there is no coming back for it.

← Raccoon ParkCHAPTER 9 OF 10Final Battle →

CH 10Final Battlethe rail cannon, the escape, and what you unlocked

One fight you cannot win with guns, one last choice that changes nothing but the scene, and a results screen that decides what your next playthrough gets.

Rail Cannon RoomBOSS — Nemesis, third form

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The room houses an experimental rail cannon powered by three industrial batteries that have to be pushed into their bays.

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NEMESIS Mandatory. Conventional weapons barely register — the cannon is the answer.

Nemesis — third form

Saturated with the disposal chemicals, he has lost all control and collapsed into a huge amorphous blob dragging itself across the floor. It spits acid at range and has long-reach attacks, but it is much slower than his earlier forms.

1. Battery one. Start the sequence at the computer and push the first battery into its bay. That is what summons him — he drops into the room as soon as it seats.
2. Survive. Do not try to shoot him down. He is slow, so circling works. Break line of sight behind the machinery when he winds up the acid spit.
3. Lure him into the firing line. The cannon fires toward the hole in the wall at the far corner. Stand in that line yourself to bait him in, then step out sideways at the last moment.
4. Batteries two and three. With him in the lane, seat the other two. The system finishes booting and an alert sounds when the cannon is charged.
5. Fire. A direct hit rips the creature apart. The cannon fires on a cycle of about ten seconds, so a missed alignment is not fatal — realign and let it fire again.

Do not burn your Magnum ammunition here. You want it for what follows.

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LIVE SELECTION A surviving lump of tissue drags itself after you as you try to leave.

The last choice. Exterminate the monster — Jill takes the Magnum off the floor and empties it into the remains. The fuller scene, but it costs time.
Ignore and evacuate — leave it for the missile. The right call if the clock is tight.
Do nothing — it spits acid on Jill and poisons her.

This does not change the ending, only this scene.

The escape

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Ride the maintenance elevator out to the landing zone. Carlos is waiting, and the Portable Radar Receiver tracks the incoming missile.

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They lift off, and moments later the missile passes overhead and detonates over the centre of Raccoon City.

Which ending you got

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One choice, three variants. The ending is decided entirely by the bridge choice in Chapter 8, step 22. Nothing in the Dead Factory changes it.

Ending	How you got it	Who flies the rescue
A	Pushed Nemesis off the bridge	Carlos
B	Jumped off, then negotiated — Nicholai escapes alive	Barry Burton
C	Jumped off, then returned fire — Nicholai’s helicopter is destroyed	Barry Burton

✓

Check your file count. All 30 collected in one run replaces Game Instructions A with Jill’s Diary.

✓

Each Hard clear on the same save data awards one epilogue, in order. Eight Hard completions unlocks all eight. Your rank does not matter for these, and using weapons bought in The Mercenaries does not block them.

✓

Rank is scored out of 300 — 100 points each for completion time, number of saves, and total health restored. The three are independent, so a slow but flawless run still grades well. A rank of A or better on Hard unlocks the extra costumes.

← Dead FactoryCHAPTER 10 OF 10

Live Selections — Branching Paths

Live Selections are timed choices that branch the game — they change item locations, who accompanies you, enemy setups and the ending. A single run hits most of these. The Restaurant and the Press Office are the same choice slot — you meet one or the other depending on your route. Every entry below is cross-checked across multiple guides; anything a source could not confirm has been left out.

1. RPD Courtyard

Context: right after Brad is killed, outside the police station

2. Restaurant (Grill 13) — or — Press Office (Raccoon Press)

Context: Nemesis bursts in. You get one of these two scenes depending on your route — it is the same slot, and it also decides who meets you at the Gas Station later

3. Sub Station

Context: after you deal with the power and Nemesis / zombies close in

4. Parking Garage

Context: on the way back toward the cable car

5. Cable Car

Context: during the cable-car sequence

6. Clock Tower Balcony

Context: Nemesis corners you on the balcony

7. Park Bridge

Context: Nemesis meets you on the walkway to the factory

8. Nicholai’s Helicopter (Dead Factory)

Context: Nicholai confronts you from a chopper

9. Final Battle

Context: Nemesis’s last form

Weapons — All 12

There are 12 weapons in Resident Evil 3. The Grenade Launcher and Magnum are mutually exclusive at the S.T.A.R.S. office — whichever you don’t pick appears later at the Substation. On Hard, defeating Nemesis yields the EAGLE 6.0 and Western Custom shotgun parts.

Gun Powder Mixing System

The Reloading Tool combined with Gun Powder lets you craft ammunition. Different powder combinations create different ammo types. Essential for Hard mode where ammo is scarce.

Gun Powder Types

Ammo Production Table (with Reloading Tool)

Grenade Rounds + Powder Mixing

Healing & Herb Mixing

Nemesis Encounters & Drops

Nemesis turns up eleven times across Jill’s run. Four of those are set pieces that give you nothing — the cable car, the Clock Tower courtyard, the Waste Disposal chamber and the rail cannon — and the Carlos leg in the tower gives nothing either. That leaves seven encounters where knocking him down leaves an item case, and they are numbered NEMESIS 1 to NEMESIS 7 in the walkthrough so you can see at a glance which one you are standing in. The cases only exist on Hard. On Easy he drops nothing at all, which is why the Eagle 6.0, the Western Custom and the assault rifle are Hard-only weapons.

The seven rewardable knockdowns (Hard only)

The set pieces that give you nothing

These are separate from the seven above. Three of them are mandatory, none of them leaves a case, and none of them advances the drop chain — so there is no reason to hold ammunition back hoping for a reward.

Nemesis Dodge Mechanic

Press R1 or R2 (PS1) just before an enemy attacks to perform a dodge. Timing is critical — too early or too late and you get hit. Press the Action button while aiming for an emergency dodge. Mastering dodge is essential for surviving Nemesis on Hard mode.

Puzzles & Key Items

Evidence Room Locker (204)

Vaccine Safe (506/507)

Substation Voltage Puzzle (324)

Switch the big machine to manual control first, then enter a four-step Red/Blue sequence on each panel.

Open both shutters before you pick anything up: the Live Selection fires on your first pickup.

Music Box Melody Puzzle (3rd Floor)

Six pins (A–F), each Up or Down. Solve it for the Chronos Chain. On the PC port and most worldwide PlayStation releases the answer is fixed: A Up, B Down, C Up, D Up, E Down, F Up. On many PlayStation regions the puzzle is randomized and the lid shows no letters (it only reads “An old music box. Its melody is out of order.”). The sequence varies from run to run — it is not limited to a short fixed list — so solve it by ear: play the correct tune from the right music box in the 1F Lobby, then at the 3F puzzle flip any pin whose chunk sounds out of tune until every note is clean.

Clock Tower Jewel Ball Puzzle (413)

Place the three jewel balls (Crystal, Amber, Obsidian) on the correct painting trays to set the center clock to 12:00. Stone effects: LEFT: Crystal = -1h, Obsidian = -2h, Amber = -3h. MIDDLE: Crystal = +1h, Obsidian = +2h, Amber = +3h. RIGHT: Crystal = +2h, Obsidian = +4h, Amber = +6h.

Park Fountain Gear Puzzle (606)

Move the 4 gears (2 white, 2 black) to drain the water in 6 moves. Original: white pair on top, black pair on bottom.

Sewer Water Testing Puzzle (705/709)

Adjust valves A, B, and C to match the water flow. Four combinations (puzzle is random):

Vaccine Synthesis Puzzle (510)

In the Virus Lab, put the Medium Base in the machine. In the first row, pull handles I and III. In the second row, pull handle A. This produces the Vaccine Medium.

Steam Room Switch Puzzle (707/703)

From the door: press switch 1, then switches 2 and 3, return to 1, then 4 and 5, return to 1, then 2 and 3 again.

Rail Cannon Batteries (716)

Push battery boxes in order: #1 first, then #2 and #3. Lure Nemesis into the cannon’s firing path. Two direct hits defeat him.

Key Items Reference

All 30 Files — Exact Locations

The numbering is the in-game file list order, and it also happens to be the natural route order. Two things trip people up: you have to read each file to the end for it to register, and three of them sit behind gates that are easy to walk past.

File 31 — Jill’s Diary

Jill’s Diary is not placed anywhere in the world. Collect and read all 30 files in a single playthrough and it appears — taking slot 1 in the file list, replacing Game Instructions A. It is Jill’s personal account of the two weeks around the outbreak.

The Mercenaries: Operation Mad Jackal

Unlocked after completing the main campaign. Play as one of three UBCS mercenaries trying to reach the warehouse from the cable car before a bomb detonates. Kill enemies and rescue survivors to earn time and money. Money earned purchases infinite ammo weapons for the main campaign.

Playable Characters

Survivors (6)

Rescue survivors before their time runs out. Each gives bonus time and items:

Enemy Time & Cash Bonuses

Kill Combo Multiplier

Mercenaries Rewards (Shop)

Epilogues & Unlockables

Epilogues (8)

Complete the campaign 8 times on the same save file to unlock all 8 epilogues. They are always earned in the same order. After the 8th (HUNK), a special screen appears.

Costumes (5)

Unlocked based on final rank. The Boutique Key (earned by completing the game once) gives access to the boutique in Uptown where costumes can be changed.

Rank System

Your final rank is determined by a point system based on clear time, saves, and healing:

Ranking Score Breakdown

Other Unlockables

100% Completion Checklist

Weapons (12)

• Knife
• Hand Gun (M92F Custom)
• Merc’s Handgun (SIGPRO SP2009)
• EAGLE 6.0 (NEMESIS 1 + 2, Hard)
• Shotgun (Benelli M3S)
• Western Custom (NEMESIS 4 + 5, Hard)
• Grenade Launcher (Hk-p)
• Magnum (S&W M629C)
• Mine Thrower (Hard only, Clock Tower)
• Assault Rifle (M4A1)
• Rocket Launcher (Mercenaries)
• Gatling Gun (Mercenaries)

Files (30)

• File 1 collected & fully read
• File 2 collected & fully read
• File 3 collected & fully read
• File 4 collected & fully read
• File 5 collected & fully read
• File 6 collected & fully read
• File 7 collected & fully read
• File 8 collected & fully read
• File 9 collected & fully read
• File 10 collected & fully read
• File 11 collected & fully read
• File 12 collected & fully read
• File 13 collected & fully read
• File 14 collected & fully read
• File 15 collected & fully read
• File 16 collected & fully read
• File 17 collected & fully read
• File 18 collected & fully read
• File 19 collected & fully read
• File 20 collected & fully read
• File 21 collected & fully read
• File 22 collected & fully read
• File 23 collected & fully read
• File 24 collected & fully read
• File 25 collected & fully read
• File 26 collected & fully read
• File 27 collected & fully read
• File 28 collected & fully read
• File 29 collected & fully read
• File 30 collected & fully read
• Jill’s Diary unlocked (hidden 31st file)

Nemesis Drops (7) — Hard Only

• NEMESIS 1 — R.P.D. Courtyard → EAGLE Parts A
• NEMESIS 2 — West Stairway 1F → EAGLE Parts B
• NEMESIS 3 — Grill 13 or the Press Office → First Aid Box
• NEMESIS 4 — outside the Sub Station or the Forked Alley → M37 Parts A
• NEMESIS 5 — Three Points Street → M37 Parts B
• NEMESIS 6 — Clock Tower balcony → First Aid Box
• NEMESIS 7 — Clock Tower interior, second form → Assault Rifle (1st clear) / Infinite Bullets (later clears)

Epilogues (8)

• Epilogue 1: Jill Valentine (complete game 1x on same save)
• Epilogue 2: Chris Redfield (complete game 2x on same save)
• Epilogue 3: Barry Burton (complete game 3x on same save)
• Epilogue 4: Leon Kennedy (complete game 4x on same save)
• Epilogue 5: Claire Redfield (complete game 5x on same save)
• Epilogue 6: Sherry Birkin (complete game 6x on same save)
• Epilogue 7: Ada Wong (complete game 7x on same save)
• Epilogue 8: HUNK (complete game 8x on same save)

Costumes (5)

• RE1 S.T.A.R.S. Uniform
• Regina’s Costume
• Biker Outfit
• Disco Suit
• Police Mini-Skirt

Mercenaries Mode

• Complete with Carlos Oliveira
• Complete with Mikhail Victor
• Complete with Nicholai Ginovaef
• Purchase Assault Rifle (Infinite) — $2,000
• Purchase Gatling Gun (Infinite) — $3,000
• Purchase Rocket Launcher (Infinite) — $4,000
• Purchase Infinite Ammo (All) — $9,999

Item Combinations

• Combine Lighter + Lighter Oil = fuelled Lighter
• Combine Oil Additive + Machine Oil = Mixed Oil
• Combine Chronos Chain + Winder Key = Chronos Key
• Combine Gold Gear + Silver Gear = Chronos Gear
• Combine Vaccine Medium + Vaccine Base = Vaccine
• Combine EAGLE Parts A + B = EAGLE 6.0
• Combine M37 Parts A + B = Western Custom

Miscellaneous

• Experience all Live Selections (both paths)
• See both endings (Carlos & Jill / Barry & Carlos & Jill)
• Obtain Boutique Key (complete game once)
• Complete on Easy and Hard difficulties
• Achieve Rank A (under 2:30, 0 saves, heal 1500% or less)