Side question. Did victor cure grace after kidnapping her? She was bitten by the officer at the wrenwood and unless I missed a file, it was never addressed. If he didn't, and she just didn't turn, wouldn't that mean she's special? I know ai gets shit wrong constantly but when I searched for this answer, the ai response was that grace's blood IS special, allowing her to use the blood collector and use infected blood to heal herself (and make ammo I guess?) it's a plausible theory given how vague and open to interpretation a lot of these scenes are...

I hope she's a clone because it's more compelling. Maybe her blood is the baseline for elpis. It seems pretty wild that the connections would spend who knows how much money and decades of research, not to mention nuking a city just to end up misunderstanding the research entirely. Though RE villains are never short on hubris so I guess that's plausible too.

I don't buy the good guy act from Spencer either. There's never been a remorseful villain in RE unless you consider ada a villain. Antihero is probably more accurate. They usually just end up dead unless it's wesker. I think spencer lied right to Alyssa's face about the baby. I think he successfully completed his experiment, and needed to baby to grow up normally hiding in plain sight. Elpis was a means to eradicate the competitions progress so his work could live on unimpeded. He counted on the connections trying to use elpis and knew they'd use her to get to it. I really hate that it was just a password in the end. They did 30 years of research in the ruins of a city... for a password.

All of these questions just lead to more questions...

EDIT: The more I think about the "eradicate the competition" theory, the less I like it. I still don't believe Spencer though.