Albert Lester

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Albert Lester
Date of death:	September, 1998
Gender:	Male
Occupation:	Hospital administrator
Status:	Deceased

Albert Lester was the administrator of what would eventually be known as the Abandoned Hospital. He was the husband of Dorothy Lester, loved her very much and was very much devoted to her. After she contracted terminal cancer, she was injected by a last-ditch mutagen based upon the t-virus. While this successfully fended off the cancer, it caused her to develop the disease. Albert was left devastated and without answers as to what truly killed his wife.

Years later, he returned to the abandoned hospital (which still held his wife's cadaver, still in her room) and saw as a decorative plant grew due to the viral infection. This plant consumed Dorothy's body, causing Albert to envision it as a form of life after death, so took on the persona of the psychotic murderer known as the Axe Man, having noticed the plant grew even more when fed animals, and later, even took his obsession to the point of willing murder, feeding some campers to the monstrous being. By then, his physiology had started to mutate, too: he no longer felt pain or cold, even when shot point-blank by a shotgun. He eventually led Alyssa and the survivors from Raccoon to the hospital, intending to kill them and offer them to "Dorothy".

However, this proved to be a fatal mistake when Alyssa and the survivors were capable of driving him away with heavy fire power, and when they found about the process necessary to vanquish the insane anomaly that had consumed Dorothy. Upon weakening the plant enough, it released the true Dorothy's remains, and took down the hospital with it, as its root were the only thing truly keeping it stable.

He was killed by falling debris when the hospital collapsed, cradling the corpse of his wife.

[edit] See also

• Not to be confused with the name players call Resident Evil 5's The Executioner.