Burned Cop is the tentative name for a member of the Spanish Police who was captured by villagers who were part of a cult named the
Los Illuminados which worshipped a parasite known as a
Plaga (referred to as Las Plagas by the cult). He was with a colleague,
Mario Fernandez Castano and their assignment was to accompany American agent
Leon S. Kennedy to a Spanish village where it was thought that daughter of the US President,
Ashley Graham was being held after being kidnapped and brought overseas.
At some point
Leon had separated from the cops who had gone on ahead, presumably to question the locals or to get directions. At some stage, he and his colleague were taken by the villagers, known as
Ganado. While Mario was taken to a nearby hunter's lodge and brutally murdered, this unfortunate soul was brought to a small village, hoisted onto a stake above a bonfire and then burned alive. It took just a few moments for him to go into a shock and then die while his body burned. The
Ganado which surrounded the bonfire appeared to be worshipping something as this occurred.
His name is not known at this point as
Leon only managed to find the ID card of his colleague.
In the original
Resident Evil 4, Burned Cop is known as
Beard Cop and while he is also lit on fire in the village, he is already dead by that point. Interestingly, Burned Cop wears glasses, where in the original game, it is
Glasses Cop which wears glasses and he is not the one which gets burned. So it appears that they may have switched roles.
