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Episode 1 - Introduction

As a synopsis, this is an essay by Crichton that outlines that biotechnology and genetic engineering have been rushed with furious haste, for profits.

The biotechnology revolution differs in three important respects from past scientific transformations.

  1.  it is broad-based: 500 corporations spend $5 billion a year on biotechnology
  2.  much of the research is thoughtless or frivolous
  3.  the work is uncontrolled

Most concerning, “no watchdogs are found among scientists themselves.” Scientists are no more ethical in pursuing science than the capitalists pursuing the science (x).

The whimsical use of biotechnology should concern us all (ix). And everyone is a stakeholder (x).

Science is no longer pursued for the betterment of mankind (x). Galileo proceeded with “science as a free and open inquiry into the workings of nature.” Scientists traditionally operated above politics and war, rebelling against secrecy in research and frowning upon patents – working for the betterment of all mankind.

Crichton labels a clear moment when the betterment of all switched to patents for profit: April 1976. Venture capitalist Robert Swanson bankrolled biochemist Hebert Boyer (both real people) to launch Genetech, a real business who’s Wikipedia page includes no mention of Jurassic Park…

They, standing on the shoulders of giants (those giants being British researchers James Watson and Francis Crick, who deciphered the structure of DNA), launched a trend-setting, gene-splicing new world of genetic engineering enterprise (x). This led to a “significant shift in attitude,” says Crichton (xi).

We’re told of the “InGen Incident” where fewer than 20 people were on a remote island off the west coast of Costa Rica, in the final two days of August 1989, and only a handful survived. By Oct. 5, 1989, InGen was bankrupt.

Episode 2 – Prologue: The Bite of the Raptor

Our point-of-view character for this chapter is Dr. Bobbie Carter, who is shocked when a helicopter arrives through a horrible storm carrying a fatally wounded construction worker. She’s lied to about the injury, told that it’s a construction accident, when it’s clearly a mauling – and then the injured worker speaks: raptor before vomiting blood and spasming on the floor, to his death. Then the body and all evidence of the injury are whisked away by the InGen Construction Sikorsky, and they’re gone forever. The word raptor makes the not-usually-superstitious Costa Rican aides at the clinic extraordinarily superstitious, because it reminds them of the hupia, a vampiric spirit that kidnaps newborns. Carter looks up the word in the dictionary and see that it means: bird of prey.

First Iteration

Episode 3 – Almost Paradise

In July 1989, the Bowman family (Mike, Ellen and Tina) visit a remote beach during a two-week holiday. According to guidebooks, Cabo Blanco was unspoiled wilderness, almost a paradise (p. 11). The Bowmans squabble as they reach the isolated, pristine white beach. Tina runs off – to get away from her parents’ incessant bickering – and discovers a strange lizard, that bites her.

Episode 4 – Puntarenas

Dr. Cruz puts Tina in an oxygen tent, after she’s fallen desperately ill from a mysterious lizard’s bites. The doctor calls for a specialist (Dr. Guitierrez) to help identify the lizard that bit Tina, so they can apply any antivenin if necessary. After hearing the unusual description of the lizard, Guitierrez identifies it as a basilisk lizard. They’re not poisonous, but he explains Tina must be allergic to reptiles.

Episode 5 – The Beach

Guitierrez is puzzled by the mystery of the strangely described, biting basilisk lizard – and is interested in observing the specimen himself, so he visits Cabo Blanco. 

Episode 6 – New York

Dr. Richard Stone receives the lizard specimen at the Tropical Diseases Laboratory in New York, because the specimen’s intended recipient, Dr. Simpson, is unavailable for the summer. The sample comes with a picture drawn by Tina to help identify the lizard. X-rays and Polaroids of the sample are taken.

They test for communicable diseases, and finding none, answer Dr. Guitierrez that the lizard is safe, which Marty believes. Meanwhile, three of these green lizards prey upon a newborn baby at the Bahia Anasco clinic. 

Episode 7 – The Shape of the Data

Alice Levin notices Tina’s drawing of the green lizard, and suggests it looks like a dinosaur, and becomes excited that it may be the “rediscovery” of a believed-to-be-extinct species of dinosaur! Dr. Stone thinks Levin has an overactive imagination and refuses to indulge in her fantasies.

Second Iteration

Episode 8 – The Shore of the Inland Sea

Paleontologist Alan Grant is excavating the first complete skeleton of a baby carnivore in Snakewater Montana, when he’s visited by Bob Morris from the EPA, who has questions about the mysterious goings-on at InGen and the Hammond Foundation, which Grant may know something about. As Morris leaves, Grant receives a call asking to help identify some mysterious remains.

Episode 9 – Skeleton

Alice Levin’s X-Ray of the biting lizard shocks Grant and Ellie, who diagnose it as a procompsognathus, and consider if it’s a hoax or a rediscovery, before Hammond calls to invite them to inspect his new island.

Episode 10 – Cowan, Swain and Ross

Gennaro is instructed by his boss to accompany the consultants on their tour of Hammond’s resort, ensuring that the investments of theirs (and of the investors they represent) are safe.

Episode 11 – Plans

Grant and Sattler receive a package containing the blueprints to Hammond’s island resort, and it’s suspicious spaciousness and fortifications suggest it looks like a zoo with military upgrades. Before leaving on Hammond’s chopper, Grant must secure a fossil on Hill Four, and with the use of a CAST device, gets a good look at the velociraptor skeleton, and imagines what it must have been like in real life. Then he’s whisked away by Ellie to get to Choteau by five p.m.

Episode 12 – Hammond

Gennaro represents the investors for Hammond’s resort, who are worried that they will be financially and perhaps criminally liable for problems at the resort, so Gennaro has been instructed to lead a safety inspection by consultants to ensure the resort is safe.

Gennaro is instructed to pull the plug at the slightest provocation. We learn that Gennaro was integral to Hammond’s capital campaign entitled the Pachyderm Portfolio, raising the funds necessary to make Hammond’s dream a reality. The dream was highly speculative, unlikely to succeed – but Hammond in fact tells Gennaro – yes, they’ve achieved the impossible, and they’re going to make a fortune!

Episode 13 – Choteau

Grant and Sattler board Hammond’s jet to journey to his secret island resort, and meet Gennaro.

Episode 14 – Target of Opportunity

Biosyn’s board of directors wait impatiently and irritably for a final member to make their emergency meeting, the first they’ve ever called, so they can reach quorum, and therefore, they must be discussing something very important.

Nefarious corporate shyster Dr. Lewis Dodgson assembles an emergency meeting of Biosyn’s board of directors to notify them that InGen is on the brink of opening the greatest single tourist attraction in the history of the world.

There’s a fortune to be made, and Biosyn wants some of it for themselves, so they discreetly, off the books, agree to perform industrial espionage to get their hands on some of that turn-a-dinosaur-into-a-house-pet technology. 

Episode 15 – Airport

Dodgson meets his mysterious inside man, going over the details of the plan, showing that there are more nefarious deeds afoot this weekend on Hammond’s private island, during this safety inspection.

Episode 16 – Malcolm

Ian Malcolm introduces himself as a braggadocios, outspoken, and opinionated mathematician who’s openly defiant of Hammond’s island resort, believing whole-heartedly that Hammond has “a serious problem” (p. 73).

Episode 17 – Isla Nublar

Once in Costa Rica, our heroes, and the ill-motivated villains board a helicopter and depart the San Jose airport, rising above the countryside, taking in all the sights.

Episode 18 – Welcome

Sattler, Gennaro, Grant and Malcolm are suddenly faced with an Apatosaurus that Hammond has cloned, and are stupefied by what this means to reality as they know it. Hammond is proud, and he outlines their itinerary to his guests – and leaves them in the care of Ed Regis.

Third Iteration 

“Details emerge more clearly as the fractal curve is re-drawn” (p. 81).


After observing the Apatosaurus, they head towards the Safari Lodge, and Sattler becomes concerned that perhaps the designers at Jurassic Park haven’t been as careful as they should have been. They head to their rooms and get ready to take the tour.


The group enters the Visitor Center and Donald Gennaro presents the tasks set out for the consultants during their inspection of Hammond’s island. Malcolm’s mathematical principles reveal that they needn’t concern themselves with escaped dinosaurs.

Hammond and Malcolm have a tiff, just before Tim and Lex arrive for the tour.
  
Episodes 21, 22, 23 - The Tour 

Hammond selfishly, carelessly, unbelievably, invites his young grandkids to the park during its preliminary safety inspection – to the fury of Donald Gennaro. Tim and Lex join the tour, and offer their first impressions of all the characters. We learn about Tim’s relationship with his father, that his parents are divorcing, and that his little sister is “daddy’s little girl.” They meet Dr. Henry Wu who leads them through the extractions room, the gene sequencing room, the hatchery and the nursery, while moving past the control room and security guards. All the answers to how Jurassic Park clones its dinosaurs are answered here – and Ian Malcolm takes careful stock of everything on the tour, preparing his challenging remarks that the island is inherently unsafe.


Malcolm questions Wu on one of Gennaro’s big questions – whether the procompsognathus remains Grant and Ellie identified is an escaped animal from Jurassic Park (p. 111). Malcolm is told that the compys were released in a series of batches, and that they are dependant upon lysine which is provided to them by Jurassic Park in tablet form, without which the animals will fall into a coma and die within 12 hours.

The control room is busy helping the boat dock, so while the tour waits, they go visit the velociraptor holding pen, where the raptors attack the fence, further intriguing Malcolm’s suspicions.

Wu approaches Hammond to discuss restocking the park with Version 4.4. The dinosaurs are too fast, but he thinks he could tweak them so they meet the visitor’s expectations, but Hammond isn’t listening anymore, and dismisses him.


As Jurassic Park’s employees conclude their demonstration of all their systems of control, Grant and Malcolm find themselves uneasy with the park’s approach to controlling living, breathing animals in an artificial setting, which is aiming to recreate a natural park setting.


Amidst arguments and drama between Malcolm and Gennaro, the tour begins as the consultants and kids climb into the automated Toyota Land Cruisers and begin their park tour. They visit the Hypsilophodon Highlands, seeing the hypsilophodons and othnielia in their paddock.

Arnold and  Hammond quarrel over the difficulties the park must overcome to have Jurassic Park ready for its grand opening, because they have all the problems of a major theme park, all the problems of a major zoo, and the added difficulties of caring for animals nobody’s ever observed before. It’s revealed that Dennis Nedry is here to fix the bugs in the system this weekend. On the tour, the guests visit the venomous dilophosaurus

Episode 29 - Big Rex

They arrive at the tyrannosaur paddock, and the “shy and sensitive” Big rex is baited with a goat.

Episode 30 - Control

Wu, Hammond and Arnold begin to feel some anxieties of the consultants actually recommending that the park be closed for safety reasons, and become leery of Malcolm and Gennaro in particular – while our consultants tour through the sauropod paddock, enjoying the view of Triceratops, Apatosaurus and Hadrosaurs.

Muldoon, on the other hand, has anxieties of the consultants’ actual safety, and preps his Jeep with a rocket launcher just in case – which isn’t much of a vouch of confidence for the park’s safety is it?

At the same time, a large storm coming in jeopardizes the safety of the big supply ship, the Anne B, and since Hammond spared the expense of installing a storm barrier at the docks, this ship must depart early.

Oh, and unbelievably, contrary to everything they’ve been told so far on this tour, Tim spots a rogue velociraptor running amongst the hadrosaurs, and it’s so unbelievable everyone scrambles to find an explanation. 

The tour continues to the stegosaurus paddock, where the vet is tending to a sick stego, which Grant rushes to inspect. The stegos are “always getting sick,” but Sattler cracks the case! While consuming gizzard stones, the stegos were inadvertently also consuming toxic berries – explaining why there is no trace of the west Indian lilac bushes being eaten, nor in the stego spoors. Because it’s not the plants, it’s the berries. They find this evidence in a discarded pile of gizzard stones … as well as something else even more shocking!

Meanwhile, Gennaro quizzes Malcolm on why Chaos theory predicts that Jurassic Park is unsafe for people – or put differently, will have “very large consequences for human life.” Animal welfare and animal containment are predicted to fail at Jurassic Park – and no sooner has he said that, Grant and Ellie reveal their consequential discovery – a raptor eggshell, proving that dinosaurs are breeding in Jurassic Park.

Episode 32 - Control

Park officials believe the eggshells are avian, whereas Grant and Malcolm agree, they are dinosaur eggshells. To prove his point, Malcolm leads Wu through a series of data like procompsognathus height charts and an overall animal count, to demonstrate conclusively that multiple species are breeding in the park and have been for ages.

Wu can’t believe it – and is terrified: if the animals are breeding, it calls into question every security measure they’ve put in place! Grant concludes there are seven nesting sites on the island.

Episode 33 - Breeding Sites

The Tour in the Land Cruisers are surprised to spot velociraptors on the supply ship heading to the mainland, but they can’t radio Control to warn them, because a major tropical storm is hitting, causing interference with the radio.

Meanwhile, in Control, Nedry has enacted a scheme to turn off the park security measures so he can steal embryos for Lewis Dodgson and BioSyn.

Fourth Iteration 

“Inevitably, underlying instabilities begin to appear” (p. 179).

Episode 34 - The Main Road

Big Rex knocks down the fences in the storm, and ominously directs her terrifying attention upon everyone in the Land Cruisers. Ed Regis wets his pants and runs away, but everyone else is left in the tyrannosaur’s devastating path. Lex’s screams are cut off by the lowering of the tyrannosaur’s head, Malcolm is flung like a rag doll, Tim is trapped in the Land Cruiser, which the tyrannosaur throws into the top of a tree, and Grant has a moment of discovery, realizing that if he remains absolutely still, the tyrannosaur can’t see him – but then it kicks at him, and he blacks out upon hitting the ground.

Episode 35 - Return

Driving in the gas-powered jeep, Harding, Gennaro and Sattler are impeded by a large, fallen tree. The radios are down, and they can’t report the damage back to control. Meanwhile Arnold and Muldoon can’t find Nedry, nor the jeep.

Episode 36 - Nedry

Nedry gets lost in the park looking to meet his man at the east dock, and winds up being horrifically, wonderfully and memorably eaten by a dilophosaurus. 

Episode 37 - Bungalow

Wu wants to figure out if Grant's amphibian DNA hypothesis holds the answer to their breeding dinosaur problem, but he's sidetracked by Hammond's insistence to eat dinner first. They realize that the monitor is out in the dining room of Hammond's bungalow, and the phones are out. 

Episode 38 - Tim

A concussed Tim Murphy awakes from the tyrannosaur attack to find himself trapper in a car, atop a tree. He climbs out of the tree, as the Land Cruiser crashes down above him.

Episode 39 - Lex

Tim finds Lex hiding in a culvert under the road, and they climb out to find Dr. Grant. Meanwhile, Ed Regis climbs out from the bounders in which he’d been hiding, feeling great shame for having abandoned the kids during the tyrannosaur attack.

As Regis emerges, he’s tackled and eaten by the juvenile tyrannosaurus, which pushes Grant and the kids to escape further into the park, rather than following the road back to “safety.”

Episode 40 - Control 

Harding, Sattler and Gennaro follow the compys through the park, but just as they’re about to discover the compys were scavenging on Dennis Nedry, and find the stolen Jeep with the rocket launchers in it, they are summoned back to the Visitor Centre, so Muldoon can use the jeep. Meanwhile, John Arnold begins his unenviable task of searching through the computer’s code to undo what Dennis Nedry’s done.

Muldoon and Gennaro speed out to retrieve the tourists out in the park, but reach the grim realization that the tyrannosaur has attacked the Land Cruisers, dismembering Ed Regis and mortally wounding Dr. Ian Malcolm. They must return to the visitor area immediately or else Malcolm will surely die – but there’s hope that Grant and the kids are alive and hiding in the park, where the motion sensors will surely spot them in no time. 

John Arnold and Henry Wu search through the computer system to figure out what Dennis Nedry has done to the operating systems at Jurassic Park. They discover wht_rbt.obj, a command disguised as an object, that was Nedry’s trap door that links the security and perimeter systems and then turns them off, giving him complete access to every place in the park. 

Muldoon and Gennaro speed out to retrieve the tourists out in the park, but reach the grim realization that the tyrannosaur has attacked the Land Cruisers, dismembering Ed Regis and mortally wounding Dr. Ian Malcolm. They must return to the visitor area immediately or else Malcolm will surely die – but there’s hope that Grant and the kids are alive and hiding in the park, where the motion sensors will surely spot them in no time. 

Episode 44 - Control 

Arnold returns control to the island, and Muldoon wrangles a team to begin cleaning up after the storm. Gennaro then goes to recruit Harding for the cleanup mission, and finds Malcolm high on morphine, relating his memories of being attacked by the Tyrannosaur. Despite Malcolm putting on a brave face, Sattler makes it clear – he must get to a hospital as soon as possible if he’s to survive his injuries. 

Episode 45 - The Park 

Muldoon leads the cleanup crew in the park to repair the fences, meanwhile Harding and Hammond are out wrangling the dinosaurs which have escaped and returning them to their paddocks. They all return to Control where Muldoon argues with Hammond about not having any weapons strong enough to tackle the Big Rex. As their argument spills into the hallway, John Arnold explains to Donald Gennaro all the reasons why he believes Ian Malcolm and his chaos theory are wrong, and therefore, Jurassic Park is perfectly safe. 

Episode 46 - Dawn 

Lex and Grant meet Ralph the infant triceratops after awaking at 5 a.m. in Sauropod Maintenance Shed 04. And the phones still aren’t working. As Grant and the kids go to trip a motion sensor and get rescued, Arnold inconveniently taken the motion sensors offline.

Meanwhile, Arnold can’t get the phones back on, so Wu and Gennaro convince him reset the system. They need these phones back on to call for a doctor for Malcolm. During the system reset, the tyrannosaur attacks the hadrosaurs, causing a stampede. Grant and the kids are caught in the midst of the hadrosaurs, and escape up a tree to safety. As the systems come back on, restoring the phone lines, the control room notices that the tyrannosaur has made a kill. 

Episode 47 - The Park 

Grant, Lex and Tim scare away a maiasaura, climb down the tree and head back to the maintenance shed to get a raft to float down the Jungle River. Meanwhile, Arnold steps away from the monitors to meet with Hammond and Wu. Grant and the kids find a tranquilizer gun and head to the dock at the Lagoon. But the Big Rex is there, sleeping, so they sneak into the raft, but Lex blows their getaway by coughing, awakening Big Rex, and having her swim after them. 

Fifth Iteration 

“Flaws in the system will not become severe” (p. 269).

Episode 48 - Search 

Gennaro and Muldoon investigate the site of the hadrosaur stampede when Arnold radios them, saying that he’s found Nedry’s stolen Jeep! Meanwhile, Grant awakens in the raft flowing down the river to Lex and Tim quarrelling about their dad, while microceratopses bounce in the branches above them.

When Muldoon and Gennaro reach the second Jeep, they find Nedry’s corpse and don’t bother “collecting him,” but do prioritize the weaponry, before returning to the site of the stampede. But there’s no sign of the Big Rex, so they have to wait for her to reappear.

Meanwhile, Grant and the kids flow up to the Aviary, and they climb out of the raft in search of a telephone or motion sensors.

Episode 49 - Aviary 

Arnold and Malcolm suppose that Grant and the kids are having challenging navigating the park, because they’ve yet to successfully trigger a motion sensor, and Malcolm shows that the 92 per cent coverage of the motion sensors has decidedly insufficient, to Arnold. Arnold hopes that nobody has gone into the aviary, because the pterosaurs are too dangerous.

Then, Grant and the kids enter the aviary and find that the pterosaurs are too dangerous, and escape with their lives – thanks to Lex’s baseball glove.

Meanwhile, Malcolm waxes philosophical with Sattler over the way of the world, and how misdirected we as a civilization have become.

Finally, Grant and the kids find themselves with nowhere to turn as two dilophosaurs are at the riverside where they’d like to pass. The tyrannosaur distracts them, as the raft slips by unnoticed. 

Episode 50 - Tyrannosaur

Muldoon and Gennaro locate the Big Rex and head out to tranquilizer her. Meanwhile, Lex, Tim and Grant plummet over the waterfall where the Big Rex has been waiting to eat them. The tyrannosaur loses them in the water, but finds the life vest.

Meanwhile, Grant snags the kids, resuscitates Lex from drowning and leads them up a path behind the waterfalls to hide from the Tyrannosaur. Behind the falls, Grant finds a secured maintenance facility, golf cart, and juvenile velociraptor, but unfortunately, he gets separated from the kids by a locked door. He tranquilizes the raptor, discovering that it’s a male that was bred in the wild.

The kids, on the other hand, are locked out and the tyrannosaur bursts through the waterfalls, uses its tongue like an elephant trunk to catch Tim, and is about to eat him, when it falls asleep. 

Episode 51 - Control 

While considering what to do with the tranquilized Tyrannosaur and boasting that full control has been restored to Jurassic Park, the auxiliary power runs out. As the power goes out, the waterfall is halted, and the electric door separating Grant from the kids is unlocked and opened.

Arnold and Wu review the system printout and sees that they’ve been running on auxiliary power since they reset the system back at 5:14 a.m. 

Sixth Iteration 

“Sixth Iteration – “Systems recovery may prove impossible” (p. 315).


This chapter is huge – and so, please allow me to address this in portions, as we scheme to make this a multi-episode chapter. And indeed, it’s as consequential and meaningful as The Tour was, way back when we had to divide that chapter up into three parts.

In this first part: Grant drives back to the Visitor Center via the underground tunnel (p. 317), stashes the kids in the cafeteria at the visitor center, and then heads out to restore power at the generator shed. Meanwhile, Muldoon and Sattler conceive a plot to distract the raptors, ensuring Grant is free to move around.

But the raptors prove to be far more cunning than they could have imagined…


In this second installment, Grant turns the generators back on and finds Gennaro! Wu gets eviscerated and Tim and Lex confront a raptor in the kitchen!

In this final installment, Grant and Gennaro make it back to the visitor center; Tim and Lex make it to Control; and Ellie escapes with her life.


Tim struggles to get power restored, in order to save their friends in the Lodge, but three raptors leap up to the balcony and enter the second floor of the Visitor Center. Lex and Tim snag a key card from a dead security officer and escape into another room.


Malcolm relates the importance of showing humility before nature, as the raptors gnaw through the bars. Meanwhile, Lex and Tim escape the raptors into the nursery – sacrificing the infant raptor to the three other raptors pursuing them; before being reunited with Grant and Gennaro.

Grant weaponizes his knowledge of dinosaurs, and the toxins in Wu’s lab, to defeat the three raptors, before racing to the Control room.


Tim, Lex, Grant and Gennaro rush to the Control room to get the power back on! Tim takes control of the computer, racing and struggling with the system, while guided with information from Gennaro, to switch to main power, restore power and contact the Anne B.

Seventh Iteration 

“Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications” (p. 365).


Hammond believes they’ve saved the world by stopping the raptors from reaching the mainland, but Malcolm says that “life” would survive – that life finds a way to overcome all odds. “Life” is the greatest power; Hammond is deluded if he thinks otherwise.


Things are back under control. The computer’s functioning properly, the Visitor Center and Safari Lodge are secure, there aren’t any dinosaurs in the norther sector, and the authorities are on their way. Even the air-conditioning is working again! And a medic is coming for Malcolm.

The carnage has been measured: out of 24 people on the island, eight were dead and six were missing (p. 269). The National Guard is on its way – and the Costa Rican guard is surely speaking with Washington D.C., to discuss what these Americans are doing out on Isla Nublar. This international conversation may be slowing down the medical response, the novel suggests (p. 369).

Grant recruits Muldoon, Sattler and Gennaro to investigate the velociraptor nests, to inspect them and estimate how many animals have been born in Jurassic Park. Before they go, they discover a secret bunker at the maintenance shed equipping them with nerve gas for defense against the raptors.

They travel to the southern fields and follow a juvenile velociraptor to the nest.

Episode 60 - Almost Paradigm 

Hammond is uncomfortable with Malcolm’s sepsis, and leaves for a walk believing that the park is under control now, and is safe. On his walk back to his bungalow, he stews over how unfit everyone he’d hired to work at Jurassic Park had been, blaming them all for its downfall – and taking no responsibility of his own. Then he hears the roar of the juvenile tyrannosaurus, and panics. Out of fear and anger, he winds up falling down a ravine, landing in a river below, with a broken ankle. It turns out the tyrannosaur roar is just a recording being broadcast over loud speakers, as Tim and Lex are playing around on the computer in the control room, and there was no danger after all.

Episode 61 - Descent

Gennaro is forced down the rabbit hole where they land in the raptor nest. It’s filled with dozens of raptors, of various ages. Grant supposes there have been multiple generations born on the island, and then they get to counting the eggs, the egg shells, but are ultimately distracted by the animals’ conspicuous and unusual behaviour: why are they all lining up in this unusual northeast-southwest formation? Then, the raptors are sprint out of the nest and “into the darkness beyond.”

Yo, Hammond dies!


The nest invaders, Gennaro, Grant and Sattler, follow the velociraptors through subterranean tunnels, out a beach, and upon observing their strange behaviour, Grant is struck with an epiphany, that they are instinctually driven to migrate!

Episode 64 - Approaching Dark

Big helicopters burst through the fog, thundering and wheeling over the landscape, their underbellies heavy with armament, causing the raptors to scatter. The Costa Ricans question the survivors, eager to find who was in charge, but nobody is in charge. The island is bombed and destroyed, as Grant takes a final look back as Isla Nublar, which is a diminishing bright spot in the darkening night.

Episode 65 - Epilogue: San Jose

Several days have passed since the InGen Incident, and Costa Rica doesn’t know what to do with the Americans they’ve rescued from Isla Nublar. At a hotel where the Americans are being kept, Dr. Marty Guitierrez visits to speak with Dr. Grant to ask some questions. But the reality is, after what happened at Jurassic Park, nobody is going anywhere anytime soon!

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