Resident Evil, Dagon, other stuff

[John]

>Methinks the point of it was to protect the secrecy of The Hive. It's top-secret,
>and only Umbrella employees and employers know of it, so why would the
>company want the guards to know about it and call the authorities, when all of the
>research being done is illegal?

 Yes, but the gas only works for a short time and the memory loss isn't permanent. It just doesn't make sense to just knock the people out for a short period of time.