BIOHAZARD 2 DRAMA ALBUM ~The Little Runaway Sherry~ (バイオハザード2 ドラマアルバム ～小さな逃亡者・シェリー～) is a 1999 audio play by Capcom's in-house sound department, Suleputer. A non-canon What If? sequel to Resident Evil 2, the play tells the story of Sherry Birkin, a supporting character in the game, who gets lost in the Arklay Mountains and finds herself in the small town of Stoneville.
Tracklist
- "First Night-Two Girls" (11:20)
- "Second Night-Raccoon City Once More..." (11:46)
- "Third Night-Demonic Child Sherry" (12:13)
- "Fourth Night-Sherry, Live!" (10:48)
Tropes
- Alternate Continuity: "The Runaway Sherry"; "Ada the Female Spy Lives", and "Fate of Raccoon City" parts 1-3 all take place in an alternate timeline. The purpose of these plays were to better explain the Resident Evil 2 story bible to fans, while still giving freedom for other writers to add new elements to the game story. For example, here the Military uses napalm to burn Raccoon City and Stoneville to the ground, whereas in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis its writer decided to destroy it with an experimental fuel-air bomb.
- Humans Arethe Real Monsters: Corrupt Mayors, violent soldiers and being chased by men in gas masks. The villains are certainly the living humans in this tale with the zombies as the plot device.
- Rodents of Unusual Size: The rats have become unusually large and are breeding rapidly from T-Virus infection. In "The Third Night", there are so many that they appear as a large black mass thick and wide enough to cover a stretch of road, and heavy enough to break trees. One character sees this from his car, and is never seen or heard from again.
- The Scapegoat: Both Sherry Birkin and her father William. While William was responsible for dumping the virus into the city in the first place, Umbrella's attack on him didn't exactly accomplish nothing. It plays out differently for Sherry, who has nothing to do with the virus escaping Raccoon City and contaminating the mountains.
- Small-Town Tyrant: Mr. Finch, the mayor of Stoneville. He is offered a new factory for the town by Umbrella provided he hands over Sherry to the company. Finch convinces the townsfolk the outbreak in Raccoon City was all Sherry's father's fault and that she is guilty by association, and prevents any real effort to evacuate the town from the oncoming Zombie horde.
