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Let us know in the comments below. The whole thing is shonky. With the live-action future of the franchise in a state of flux, Resident Evil marks an ambitious new direction to start charting the next phase.

The eight-part Netflix series, which acts as a sequel to the video games, is light on action and gore and heavy on clichés.

For a show about zombies, the walking dead are a peripheral plot device for the majority of these proceedings, taking a backseat to sisterly and parent-child conflicts, nefarious corporate machinations, and other dull end-of-the-world tropes. To that end, the series picks up toward the conclusion of its maiden run, if only because Reddick gets substantially more to do. His apprehensions are well placed, since things begin falling apart almost as soon as he and his brood get settled in New Raccoon City, courtesy of Billie’s decision to break into her dad’s lab to free its bunnies (because she’s a vegan) and, for her trouble, suffers a nasty bite from a T-virus-plagued dog. Nonetheless, the show strives to flesh her out by also concentrating on her 14-year-old self (Tamara Smart) and her sister Billie (Siena Agudong) in 2022. Frustratingly split between two time frames for reasons that never quite make sense—since this structure exacerbates the helter-skelter tone without enhancing suspense or intrigue—the action opens in gone-to-seed 2036 London, with Jade (Ella Balinska) using rabbits to conduct in-the-field tests on the city’s countless zombies, which are referred to as Zeroes for reasons too lame to explicate. Yet they’re not enough to compensate for a story that aims to head in a novel (and quasi-faithful) direction, only to stumble about in search of an exciting set piece, beguiling mystery or scary moment.

Capcom's survival horror granddaddy of a series Resident Evil is hitting the small screen at last today, with the arrival of Netflix's TV adaptation.

Its showrunner, Supernatural’s Andrew Dabb, has gone on record with Netflix’s winkingly named Tudum site to sell the connections to the Resident Evil games. He’s long-time series antagonist Albert Wesker, so of course he’s tinkering with Umbrella bioweapons that have something to do with the downfall of the world in the future. The Resident Evil show follows twins Jade Wesker (Tamara Smart) and Billie Wesker (Siena Agudong) across two timelines: present-day New Raccoon City and all over post-apocalyptic Earth in 2036.

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Lisa became a victim of human testing and the G-Virus in the games. Either way, I’m guessing we’ll find out in season 2 (fingers crossed for renewal) since the creature escapes from its tank at the end of the finale. The show zooms in on the creatures hands, with long nails growing from the fingertips, and that looks most like Birkin’s monster design to me.

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Much of her role in the show comes from her drive to change the world, rebuild the company, and use “Joy” to remove illnesses like depression. When Albert sets off a bomb in Umbrella, Evelyn narrowly escapes with her life. Therefore, Evelyn placed Diana on “Joy” in an attempt to keep the family together. Following a break-in and then a leak at Umbrella, Evelyn correctly guesses that Albert is responsible. And in her desperation to get it onto the market, she overlooks its potential dangers, despite several warnings from Albert. Much of her ambition likely comes from the downfall of her father, James Marcus, who, despite having founded the company, was ousted after his behaviour led to the downfall of the original Raccoon City. Outside of Umbrella, Evelyn is married to Diana, and together they have a teenage son called Simon. However, prior to the start of the season, it gets hinted that Evelyn learnt that Diana was going to leave and take Simon away from her.

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Hong Kong-born actress Rudolph portrays adult Billie. She worked on Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and The CW’s Riverdale. Balinska has worked side-by-side with Kristen Stewart and Naomi Scott in 2019’s Charlie’s Angels reboot, where she acted like the former MI6 agent Jane Kano. Jade is a character who doesn’t appear in video games, so information about her is very scarce. Reddick features the most experience in Netflix’s Resident Evil cast, a perfect choice for this pivotal character. Still, her introduction to the story will likely help the fans to know more whys and hows of Albert Wesker. But the more time they spend there, the more they come to realize that the town is more than it seems and their father may be concealing dark secrets. The eight-episode series hails from Supernatural executive producer Andrew Dabb. It will be the second installment in the Resident Evil franchise on Netflix, following 2021’s Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness anime series.

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In a show of real bravado, the episode cuts to black with her in midair. At first, Wesker seems a bit outmatched by his family situation: Jade, the more confrontational of the two sisters, resists everything about their move, while Billie (who shares both her first name and a general sense of style with the current musical superstar) struggles with a checkered past related to her anger issues, which Jade seems determined to goad her into expressing more directly. As bad as it looks out there, there’s a surprising current of domesticity when Jade video-chats with her family, promising them she’ll be careful out there and head back home soon — a far cry from the hopelessness of the movies. It’s their loss: Umbrella unceremoniously lays waste to the entire group, with their head honcho (who looks a bit like a young Peter Jackson, though not quite Dead Alive-era young) cornering Jade. She’s forced to go the Full Jovovich: She leaps off an impossibly high ledge into a sea of zombies below. She has the dutiful vibe of 12 Monkeys-style sample-collecting on a dead surface, keeping her ear quite literally to the ground to stay aware of her surroundings. But most of those movies take place in some wasteland, to the point where the show beginning in 2036, “14 years after the end,” feels reassuringly familiar.

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What else has Turlough Convery been in? What else has Siena Agudong been in? What else has Tamara Smart been in? Nuñez has starred in several films and television shows produced in her home country of Mexico, including long-standing roles in a number of telenovelas (Spanish-language soap operas). More recently, she appeared opposite Pierce Brosnan in the Western drama The Son, as well as bagging a role in season 2 of The Purge's TV spin-off. In 2022, she's pushing for an urgent launch of the potential miracle drug Joy, but Wesker insists that it is not ready to go to market yet. Who is Albert Wesker? A prominent figure from the video game series, Albert Wesker is a virologist working for the Umbrella Corporation. He has been developing a revolutionary new pill nicknamed 'Joy', which is designed to treat severe depression and other mental health conditions.

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Not that there's much reason to sweat the details or worry too much about the longevity of anyone other than her. That might be true strictly for Netflix's purposes in terms of connecting with fans. Balinska is a solid enough lead taking into account the confining nature of the writing, as Milla Jovovich could probably attest after her half-dozen action-laden outings.

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Since half the show is future-set, there are some twists later on — mostly “Who is still alive in 2036 and how did they survive?” — but the disparate zombie parts do not make a cohesive zombie whole. The “Resident Evil” franchise has been around for more than 25 years, launching as a horror game in the mid ’90s that terrified players with its grotesque monsters and haunting world. Netflix’s “ Resident Evil” series is no different, infusing its take on the undead with multiple timelines, teen drama and a sci-fi pharmaceutical company bent on world domination.

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The Netflix series also teases how the issue of Albert Wesker’s seeming ‘death’ in Resident Evil 5 will be resolved. The Raccoon City Incident does happen decades prior in 1998, confirming that everything that took place in Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 is part of the Netflix series’ world. The Netflix series may be set in New Raccoon City in 2022 and post-apocalypse Europe in 2036, but the events of the games are all part of this universe.

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The show does a lot of work building on the story of the games and laying the foundation for future seasons should the show get picked up again. This Resident Evil is a family drama first and foremost, which is sure to turn off fans with certain, well-warranted expectations of the franchise. Some of the teen drama the girls grapple with at school feels a little aimless as well, but thank goodness Smart, Agudong, and Reddick are terrific together and elevate some of the weaker moments just enough to pull us through. Again, this is a show made for fans by fans, and to experience the story in full effect, the viewer should at this point be asking themselves, “Wait…didn’t he die in a volcano?” And yet, this is precisely how we meet him in the show, which should raise the eyebrows of longtime fans and mean, well, absolutely nothing to newcomers. But as you get deeper into the season, it becomes clear that the show is a direct continuation of the Resident Evil saga, centered on none other than Albert Wesker.

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Although it sounds like there won't be full timeline centered around the events of the late 1990s, it is pretty exciting to hear that fans may get to see more of those moments and perhaps even see some other iconic characters pop up in this world. I don’t know that we’re looking to introduce a full third timeline - two is probably enough - but I think little pops and flashes here and there can be really fun and can present moments from the game which are obviously part of our lore to the audience in a way that informs the current story that’s going on. It's clear that everything that happened in the early games have shaped this world, but a lot of the details are left to the imagination and new fans would be able to follow along even if they have no idea what happened back around 1998.

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Family dynamics are another key focus of the show with the Wesker family, present and future, integral to the shape of the world as it unfolds. The second is the “current” timeline pre-disaster in 2022 where a young Jade and Billie Wesker (played by Tamara Smart and Siena Agudong) deal with the secrets that their father Albert Wesker (Lance Reddick) has kept from them their entire lives. The first timeline is set in the bleak landscape of 2036, opening with an adult Jade Wesker (played by Ella Balinska) on her own as she tries to study the zombies shambling around much of the world.

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But remember: The show already goes out of its way to build a story that's faithful to the events of the past. In all the ways that matter, though, the Netflix series is mindful of the world-building that preceded its arrival. It's important to remember, too: The last time gamers had any contact at all with Albert Wesker was in 2009's Resident Evil 5, which was set in the same year it came out. There's also a masked, chainsaw-wielding baddie who bears a striking resemblance to one of the threats players encounter in Resident Evil 4, but he serves a different purpose here and it's clearly not meant to be the same character. None of this is to say that the Netflix story is fully set within the same universe as all the games. There's even a "master of unlocking" gag, which plays with a widely mocked moment from the original Resident Evil. Totally different context on the show, but that's what makes it fun. But it's not subtle about referencing a fictional history that seems to tie in with the events of the games. The very first Resident Evil game is set in the fictional Midwestern town of Raccoon City, and the first Zero outbreak happened there in 1998. The giant centipede Zero that appears in the opening episode is almost identical to one that appears in a boss fight from the game Resident Evil 0. What I would say is there's nothing in the show's story so far making it utterly clear that Game Wesker and TV Wesker are separate people. The 2022 timeline introduces us to Albert, Jade, and Billie just as they're settling into New Raccoon City, a well-appointed company town established in South Africa, not too far from the capital city of Cape Town. But against all odds, the eight-episode live-action series from Andrew Dabb, a veteran of The CW's Supernatural story team, tells a riveting story about shady corporate maneuvering, the end of the world, and none other than Albert Wesker himself.

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Sleeper Star: Turlough Convery (Sanditon, Killing Eve) is a delight here as Baxter, a survivor of the T-Virus pandemic’s first wave and, just like in the Resident Evil video games, the leader of a squad of UC shock troops. But of course, the real connectivity here is in the casting, which is across the board brilliant. The scavengers have sold her out to the Umbrella Corporation for the bounty on her head, and Richard Baxter (Turlough Convery) is arriving to collect her with a chopper full of shooters. And that connects the world of 2036 back to 2022, where the dangers of the T-Virus are compared more than once to COVID in a savvy narrative update to our real world pandemic experience. “Stay the fuck away from me,” she tells them, and leaps from the compound’s wall. What Shows Will It Remind You Of? Netflix also features Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, a CGI-animated miniseries set between the storylines of the fourth and fifth video games in the series. Rescued from the mutated caterpillar by a passing team of scavengers, the Jade of 2036 travels with them to their roughshod compound in Brighton, which is surrounded on all sides by endless packs of zeroes. “If they’re hiding this, what else are they hiding?” But as it turns out, the answer to that question is far more nefarious than either of them imagined. But he’s preoccupied with work, where Paola is pressuring him to authorize the launch of “Joy,” a direct-to-consumer panacea infused with the T-Virus. Its side effects are volatile, and decidedly not stabilized. “Eli Lilly made three billion a year off Prozac,” a marketing flack tells Albert. “We can double that in the first month.” Firing up a satellite-linked tablet, Jade visits with partner Arjun (Ahad Raza Mir) and her adorable daughter Bea, whose reading list has expanded from Wrinkle in Time to Shakespeare. But the distance is a grind, and especially because mortal danger is always one wrong step away. Based on all of the game action through Resident Evil: Village, the series puts two timelines to work, before and after the T-Virus global fail, and features many familiar characters, human and otherwise.

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Twins Jade and Billie are shocked when they find out that their father Albert is a clone after Bert pretends to be him and gets unusually violent over Olive Garden’s unlimited breadsticks. The diabolical scientist actually cloned himself in a bunker in the Arklay mountains, creating Albert, Bert and Alby, who are much nicer versions of him. The second thing is, this show is very much about parents and children, whether it’s Albert and his daughters, or Jade and her daughter, but also the original Wesker and his children because they were raised by him.” There’s just one problem: Wesker died in 2009 after a fight that ended with him falling into a volcano and being hit with an explosion on top of that. Someone like Albert, he would argue he’s not like his dad at all. “He doesn’t want to change the world; he wants to take over the world.

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That 2022 versus 2036 divide is probably Resident Evil’s greatest challenge, given that it locks the series’s characters into paths that deny viewers the pleasure of narrative immersion and legitimate surprise. The series is better when it steps out from under the Umbrella instead of staying under it. As is often the case with an established property, showrunner, executive producer, and writer Andrew Dabb is tasked with finding a balance between what Resident Evil was and what it could be, and to do so, he puts a spin on established components. Of course!) The heroes are still women, but instead of Milla Jovovich’s often-cloned Alice or Kaya Scodelario’s Claire Redfield, they’re high-schoolers Jade Wesker (Smart) and Billie Wesker (Agudong), who in 2022 move to New Raccoon City with their father, Albert Wesker (Reddick), who works for Umbrella. And while the apocalypse that is integral to the whole Resident Evil universe is only starting to go down in 2022, it’s fully underway in 2036, when we see an adult Jade (Ella Balinska) traveling around and collecting data on the zombies to try and find some kind of reversal, cure, or immunity. There is a moment in the Netflix series adaptation of Resident Evil when Lance Reddick suddenly morphs into an action hero. Mid-fight, Reddick looks directly at the camera, which is aligned with the girls, and sends them and us an exaggerated wink and a goofy grin.

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You can find Adeline on Instagram @adelinerudo. She has close to 600k followers and more than 70 posts. Starring opposite Ella Balinska (adult Jade Wesker) in 2036, Adeline is excellent as Billie, although I won’t say much about that version of the character to avoid spoiler territory! Adeline Rudolph is a talented and charismatic performer who you might recognize as Agatha from the Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. In her latest role, the 27-year-old actress portrays the adult version of Billie Wesker in Netflix’s live-action Resident Evil series.

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But none of this means anything if you don’t watch the show and the only way to do that is by have an active Netflix subscription. If the stars properly align, he will talk about For Love Of The Game being the best baseball movie of all time. Connor Gosatti’s inclusion on the Resident Evil cast is perhaps the young actor’s biggest break yet. Smart first found success with the children’s fantasy drama series The Worst Witch in 2017, on which she took on the role of Enid Nightshade for the show’s four-season run. Portrayed by Siena Agudong, the younger version of Billie finds herself at odds with just about anyone and everyone in her path. Although her name may not be as recognizable as some of the other members of the Resident Evil cast, Balinska has proven she’s an up-and-coming star that needs to be followed. Since then, Rudolph has been featured on the podcast series Listening In, on which she voices a character named Sienna. Over the years, Convery has also found success on shows like Poldark, Les Misérables, Temple, Killing Eve, and Sanditon. In that same stretch of time, the Irish actor has popped up in a variety of movies ranging from Steven Spielberg’s 2018 adaptation of Ready Player One to Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical Academy Award winner Belfast in 2021. A prominent fixture of The Wire cast throughout the show’s five-season run, Reddick has long been one of the most prolific and interesting actors on TV, being able to play characters with a tremendous amount of range. The daughter of Albert Wesker is a hardened researcher who could very well be humanity's final chance at survival. But you won’t be seeing the return of Milla Jovovich’s Alice on this version of the Resident Evil cast since the show is taking a different direction than Paul W.S. Anderson’s successful film franchise of the same name. He has also played key roles in the Destiny and Horizon video game series the past decade.

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The game series it is based upon never went near any of these subjects, and, again, is primarily focused on the Umbrella Corporation and horrific villains like Albert Wesker. Now, we’re in a new age and Resi is on Netflix. In case you were ever curious, Zootopia porn is now canon in Resident Evil.

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Without getting into spoilers, you might imagine that the past storyline and the future storyline would converge, but the series ends with the clear indication that both of these separate time tracks are going to continue, and it’s just a litany of annoying cliffhangers that demand a second season. One major problem with Resident Evil is how it ends, with zero resolution and boldly confident it’s going to get a second season pickup to continue storylines. He’s great as Wesker for the first stretch of the show, but then after a late plot turn, really has the chance to expand his range and answer questions Resident Evil fans have had about why this version of the character exists at all. She feels like the most game-true character to me, lest we forget how bonkers most of the mainline Resident Evil games actually are. If the show focused purely on the “origin of the outbreak” storyline with the teens, there would have effectively been…zero zombies in a Resident Evil show. The tone of this show is just all over the place, threading in pop culture references like Elon Musk, Spongebob Squarepants and uh, Zootopia porn.

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The French actress and model has starred in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers and 2006’s Casino Royale. “But that being said, I’m sure there are actresses out there who would kill it that we’re not even thinking of. I would say it’s the No. 1 demand,” Dabb told Decider. “As the show moves forward, we will start to see more characters from the games show up. In an interview with Decider, showrunner Andrew Dabb revealed that he does know what we all want to see: yes, the writer’s room has talked about adding Lady Dimitrescu to this story, and yes, he has an actor in mind.

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The callbacks to iconic moments from the games are certainly cool for veterans, but accomplish little more than muddy the waters for newcomers to the franchise. There’s enough here, in theory, to draw in newcomers while keeping long-time fans entertained, but unfortunately this Resident Evil squanders much of its potential and proves itself to be a convoluted mess that focuses too much on the family drama surrounding the Weskers and not enough on the franchise staple: the monsters. Indeed, for much of its runtime, Resident Evil feels very much like a young-adult drama wrapped up in the visual style of Capcom’s classic franchise. It’s a commendable attempt to break away from the core narrative of the game series in a way that makes sense for newcomers (mostly), but at the same time it tries desperately to please long-time fans of the franchise, ultimately failing to nail down its target audience. Zombies (known as ‘Zeroes’ here) understandably play a prominent role throughout, and we also get to see Zombie Dogs, Lickers, Giant Tarantulas, Dr. Salvador, and even a Tyrant. The problem, though, is that none of them are afforded any significant screen time. When Netflix announced its own take on Resident Evil via an eight-episode series, fans were understandably sceptical that the streaming juggernaut could pull off what Anderson and Roberts failed to do.

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The critical reception of Resident Evil definitely reflects the mixed reactions from fans so far. The original Resident Evil videogames, particularly the first two, took much inspiration from the George A. Romero style of zombies, as seen in films like Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, with the first game even taking place in the classic gothic setting of a spooky mansion. However, not everyone had wall-to-wall negative thoughts about the show.

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Surrender is the only option — and for “Resident Evil,” it’s also the best. “Resident Evil” is consistent in its attempts to convey substantial scale (be it the physical sets or CGI-monsters that fill them), and the finale refutes its bland title (“Revelations”) by opening up the goofy floodgates. Bert lets Reddick play a joyful new song, but to explain Bert, “Resident Evil” has to introduce a full band of Reddicks. To kick off Episode 7, we learn that Albert used to work at a lab in the Arklay Mountains with Bert and Alby. All three are clones of the original Albert Wesker, who made them to conduct secret research on his behalf. Second, and arguably more significant, is that Bert’s introduction tips “Resident Evil” over the edge. Bert has to pretend to be Albert — to be the dad he never got the chance to be — and suddenly he’s at an Olive Garden with Billie and Jade, shouting about breadsticks. The unnamed seabeast justifies its star turn by noshing on zombies, swatting helicopters out of the sky, and even befriending a little girl. The ending is actually fun, in part because “Resident Evil” lets its finest thespian off the leash, but also because it’s forced to serve the story its created, rather than any other ideas of what it should be. Albert’s big conflict throughout Season 1 is that Evelyn wants to rush a mood-boosting super-drug (lazily named “Joy”) to market, and he doesn’t think it’s ready. (Side note: I absolutely love that “Resident Evil” keeps with the films’ focus on female action stars and even doubles down by revolving around two sisters’ fractured relationship. Rather than tell one story well, it tells two stories poorly, and in a rebuttal to Jade’s quest to housebreak 6 billion zeroes, it’s clear the living and the dead can’t coexist. Up until the opening of Episode 7, Reddick plays Albert Wesker, Billie and Jade’s father who happens to be the top scientist at Umbrella. Working directly underneath the villainous CEO Evelyn Marcus (Paola Nuñez), Albert has been up to some shady shit. (For example, some zombies dive-bomb victims, piercing body armor and skin in a single bite, while others politely move aside when the hero’s only shield is a trashcan lid.)

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We really love the games, and we want fans to know that.” The once shy, loving sister and daughter is now a high-ranking commander for Umbrella, relentlessly in pursuit of Jade and her comrades. She’s got her life partner and daughter to keep her sane, as well as her scrappy band of rebels. Being chased by giant spiders, caterpillars, and lickers was almost like a direct trajectory from playing the games to being in them.” Fans of the games will recognize her surname, as she’s the daughter of James Marcus, the former lead Umbrella scientist and head of training who pioneered t-Virus research. A tenured actor in Mexico, Paola Nuñez is best known to American fans for her role as Rita in Bad Boys For Life. In Resident Evil, she plays Evelyn Marcus, head of Umbrella Corp. and Albert’s boss.

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We know in the games that the Resident Evil timeline’s most recent entry point is 2021 (thanks to Resident Evil Village); with the Netflix series exploring the year 2036, a lot of it is open game in terms of the lore. Exactly how a second season and future titles could tie together has yet to be seen, but there is plenty of legroom here for the show to explore uncharted territory the games have yet to touch. It almost seemed like the crocodile had the intent of protecting the child before Umbrella blew it to hell, but we’ll have to wait until Season 2 (should we get one) for those answers! In a later scene, we learn that the person the Wesker twins and Bert are out to find is Ada Wong. In the games, Ada was employed by an Umbrella company known as “the organization.” The company would eventually merge with Tricell, a pharmaceutical company that was involved in the plaga outbreak that happened in Kijuju, which is a key event in Resident Evil 5. Before Albert blows up the lab, we see him give the girls a note and instructing his daughters to find someone.