Ricardo Irving

Ricardo Irving was a researcher for Tricell Pharmaceutical Company and a villain from Resident Evil 4.

History
Ricardo Irving was a Tricell Researcher that came to work with Excella Gionne and Albert Wesker. He became the directer of the Kijuju oil fields belonging to Tricell and started to sell B.O.W.s on the black market. This earned Ricardo a place on Tricel's Resource Development Division, where he used the money he made from his illegal activities to fund the company. It is most likely that he supplied Excella and Wesker with Las Plagas when they appeared on the black market. Ricardo eventually received a tip from Patrick, Ozwell E. Spencer's butler, as to Spencer's location. He passed this information on to Wesker and possibly other people within Tricell, which may be how the information found it's way to the BSAA.

Eventually Irving's dealings in B.O.W.s came to the BSAA's attention and believed that he was closing another deal with some terrorists in Kijuju. They sent in Chris Redfield, who joined forces with Sheva Alomar and their African division. However their lack of information on Irving's location allowed him to set a trap by distributing Level 2 Plagas amongst the people in Kijuju Autonomous Zone. He then released a Uruboros B.O.W. on BSAA's Alpha Team, which wiped them out, but was destroyed by Chris and Sheva. They even managed to get their hand's on a disk containing the deal's true location as well as cluing them in to the big picture. Irving found the two pursuing him throught the village and the oil field with him attempting to constantly rid himself of them, even using the Popokarimu and Ndesu monsters, only for them to emerge victorious. Irving attempted to flee with his money, only for the controlled Jill Valentine to cut off his escape and order him to finish the two off, giving him a Las Plagas sample to do so. He confronted the two on his boat and injected the parasite into himself, mutating into an enormous swimming tentacled monster. However Irving was defeated and his semi human part fell from its monster body, where he told them that all their questions would be answered in the cave ahead.

Trivia

 * Irving has many similarities to Ramon Salazar. Both are twisted and corrupted by external forces and eventually mutated into giant monsters, with the semi-human parts of their bodies being their weak points.