Ash: There's something out there. That... That witch in the cellar is only part of it. It lives... Out in those woods, in the dark... Something... Something that's come back from the dead.
Ash: You're goin' down. Chainsaw.
Ash: Then let's head on down into that cellar and carve ourselves a witch.
Ash: Got you, didn't I, you little sucker!
Zombies: Dead by dawn! Dead by dawn! Dead by dawn!
Annie: The first passage will allow the demon to manifest itself in the flesh.
Ash: Why the hell would we want to do that?
Henrietta: I'll swallow your soul! I'll swallow your soul! I'll swallow your soul!
[Ash points his shotgun at Henrietta's head.]
Ash: Swallow this.
Ash: Groovy.
Answer: Sam Rami could not get the footage of Evil Dead to use in the sequel, so he remade the movie in a shortened form for the beginning. Since Linda was the only original character other than Ash to come back he included her in the recap but deleted the others as not to waste time. An in universe answer could be that trauma of losing his friends made Ash block them out and rewrite history in his head, except for Linda who comes back to haunt him in the movie so he is forced to deal with it.