Loading Bay B

Loading Bay B is a fictional location featured in the Resident Evil multimedia franchise. It was seen in the 2002 film, Resident Evil, and played a pivotal role in one of the action sequences.

Loading Bay B was located in a top-secret underground scientific research facility known as the Hive, which was owned and operated by the Umbrella Corporation. It was a train platform and a cargo bay and provided access to the Hive from the above-ground Arklay Mansion via the Alexi-5000 underground train.

In September of 2002, a member of the mansion's security staff, Spence Parks, broke into Lab 13 at the hive and stole a suitcase containing vials of an antivirus to the deadly T-Virus contagion, which was being developed in the lab. He released one of the vials into the ventilation areas, contaminating the entire site, and thus had to make a hasty exit. The lab's artificial intelligence, the Red Queen, activated security measures, which included pumping nerve gas into all areas of the site. Spence had just boarded the train ready to return to the mansion when the gas hit him, rendering him unconscious. Five hours later, n Umbrella Security Service unit disembarked from the Alexi-5000 onto Loading Bay B on a mission to deactivate the Red Queen. They found Spence Parks, who was now suffering from temporary memory loss as a side-effect of the nerve gas.

Later, after having to fight through hordes of zombies created as a result of the T-Virus, Spence made his way back to Loading Bay B. The Red Queen guided one of the Hive's Bio Organic Weapons known as a Licker to his location to deal with him. The Licker accessed the loading bay through an upper shaft and pounced on Spence, tearing into him, and thus infecting him with the T-Virus.

Spence's former partner and lover, Alice, came down to the loading bay and found the now-zombified Spence Parks crawling across the floor. She finished him off with a blow to the head from an axe before boarding the Alexi-5000 along with Matt Addison, Rain Ocampo and Chad Kaplan.