My synopsis for JP4

JURASSIC PARK: BREAKOUT It's been 13 years since the escape of the Pteranodons from Isla Sorna (at the end of JP3). In those 13 years, the UN has raised awareness of the dinosaurs by instituting a program called Operation Genesis. Alan Grant heads this project, but finds himself insulted and attacked more for wanting to keep the dinosaurs safe, especially since the hit-and-run dino attacks on human cities/towns. Eventually, an all-out attack by Pteranodons at a Little League game in LA finally gets him fired from the operation. Meanwhile, John Hammond is also receiving criticism from the press due to his creation of the dinosaurs. After the Pteranodon attack, he is shown lying in a hospital-style bed, watching the news. It’s on CNN, and they’re broadcasting the attack. He changes the channel to NBC, and it’s showing the same thing. Same with ABC. He finally tells his grandson, Tim, to contact certain people: a mercenary named Daniel Harris, a biologist called Grace Rossart, a paleontologist named Richard Levine, and Ian Malcolm. As an afterthought, he includes Grant in the list. Subsequently, each member of the team is shown operating in the field and receiving a message from Hammond. Hammond invites the six to his house to discuss a proposition with them, but when they show up, he treats them to a lengthy story about the Biosyn and their history with inGen. The whole story is done in voiceover, with the story playing out on the big screen (maybe using some JP footage). He explains that, years ago, ingen hired two geneticists, Henry Wu and Lewis Dodgson (deviating quite a bit from the books here), and that Lew Dodgson ended up having his own lab, in effect a subsidiary company of inGen. While Wu was more preoccupied with perfecting the dinosaurs they already had (that's why the jp3 raptors weren't in the park, they were the first ones bred and were never introduced into a park setting because of their viciousness), Dodgson wanted to create more spectacular monsters, and to do this he decided to mix some DNA from different dinosaurs. Nothing truly outlandish (just within groups, but no theropods mixed with sauropods or anything crazy like that), but enough crazy mixes that the safety of the park was at risk, and, so, Dodgson was fired for refusing to follow company laws. He left with his whole lab and started his own company, the Biosyn Corporation, which became rivals of ingen. They coveted ingen's animals, however, and convinced ingen employee Dennis Nedry to betray Hammond and steal embryos. Nedry’s shutdown of the security so that he could steal the embryos led to the downfall of Jurassic Park. Hammond explains, that, as a final act of revenge, Dodgson released the DX virus among the last dinosaurs on both islands by going to the islands (before TLW) and feeding various animals sheep extract, which has prions that cause DX in the dinosaurs. The carnivores then infected each other, since the disease is transmitted by biting, and then infected the herbivores, although to a lesser extent. Dodgson later regrets his decision to create DX, since, by the failure of inGen, he could potentially breed his own dinosaurs from the inGen animals. But Hammond doesn’t know what Dodgson is up to, and he needs to send a team down there. At this point, Grant says that he is much too old to go on a trip to the islands, and, as a result of his recent disgrace due to the Pteranodon attacks, any contributions he makes won’t be well received by anyone. Hammond is displeased, but less so when everyone agrees to go to the islands, including Tim Murphy. He preps everyone on the situation, but as they leave, he murmurs, “I hope that they make it in time.” At the Biosyn headquarters in Palo Alto, California, Dodgson (Cameron Thor) briefs his board of directors on the situation. He explains that no doubt Hammond is aware of what Biosyn wants to do with the dinosaurs, and, therefore, they need to act now. The board asks him what he wants to do. Dodgson tells them that, due to more regulations regarding animal testing nowadays, the company is in jeopardy. Their labs have fewer animals to test their products on, and even mice now have advocates. He then states that he has an idea, and launches into a lengthy monologue on the downfall of the InGen Corporation. He recounts how their plan with Nedry failed, and how their subsequent attempts to gain control through Peter Ludlow (by paying him massive amounts of money) was an even greater failure. He believes that, if Biosyn were to gain control of the dinosaurs, they could use them as tourist attractions, and build their own Jurassic Park on the mainland. “Because, after all,” he says, “Ludlow’s revival of the San Diego Park was our idea in the first place. The right strings just had to be pulled.” A director says that the wrong strings must have been pulled back in 1997. Dodgson replies that they haven’t even heard the best part: that, secretly, Biosyn will test on small dinosaurs, specially engineered for testing. The raptors and compies in particular, as they are small enough for that, but other species are also good. If the animals are not even supposed to exist, then no one should complain about this. The board asks if he knows where to find the dinosaurs. He says, obviously. “This is your last chance,” he is told by the board. But they all vote on following through with Dodgson’s plan. Meanwhile, the inGen team is preparing to leave: Levine, Tim, Malcolm, Grace Rossart, and Daniel Harris. Grant bids them farewell as they leave on a helicopter that will drop them off on Isla Nublar. From there, the team should call the chopper on their phone to be taken to Isla Sorna. They take off, and Grant watches, a bit sadly, but also relieved. The Biosyn team is then shown landing in San Jose, Costa Rica, and preparing to sail for the island in two ships, one for a large dinosaur or two, and the other for the multiple smaller animals. The leaders of the team are: Dodgson, Howard King (an associate of his), a paleontologist named George Baselton, and three hired mercenaries that command a few men of their own. Dodgson tells them that their main mission is to get eggs. The eggs are essential, even if living animals might be, too, but the hatchlings from the eggs will be raised by Biosyn and be trained for a life of testing (or showing off, depending on which animals are chosen for which purpose. The BioSyn raiders then set sail for Isla Sorna, where their mission will begin. At that time, the team that Hammond sent is flying in the helicopter, talking about what to expect. Or, at least, Rossart, Levine, and Harris are. Tim and Malcolm just stay quiet, having experienced dinosaurs firsthand. Then the pilot announces that Isla Nublar is just ahead, and the Jurassic Park theme begins playing as they approach the island in a manner highly reminiscent of the arrival from the first movie. They then approach a ruined helipad, the same one from the first movie. They, however, have to continue on foot from there to the Visitor’s Center, where their search for truth, life, and Biosyn will begin. On the way, they encounter a pack of compies that howl and snarl at them. Harris fires at them with his semi-automatic AR-15, to scatter them (it’s a big pack, nearly 50 animals), and clears the road. But they now have to worry about other animals, since, after the first shots were fired, growls and dino noises are being heard for the first time. They make good time, coming across a Parasaurolophus corpse by the side of the road, and there’s some spit on it. Black spit. “Dilophosaurus,” Malcolm says. He explains the poison-spitting nature of the dilos, and then says, “Be on your guard. These animals have been isolated for over twenty years; no telling what they might have evolved into by now.” He means that latent genes in the animals, might have resurfaced in a new generation. Right after, they see a brown, hulking shape through the trees on either side of the road, and the Visitor’s Center is spotted for the first time. On Isla Sorna, the BioSyn team hovers over a map. They have made camp in a small clearing about a mile inland, and have three dune buggies, a Humvee, and a small helicopter. Dodgson tells Baselton, “The Edmontosaurus nest is about two miles away. We might as well set out first thing in the morning.” Baselton says that he saw no Edmontosaurus on InGen’s list, but he did see a Parasaurolophus on the list, and Corythosaurus. Dodgson says that he doesn’t give damn, that Operation Genesis’ forays onto Sorna had proven that there were at least three species of hadrosaurs on the island. Baselton shrugs, then leaves the tent. The three mercenaries (named Jackson, Alvarez, and Williamson) follow his lead. Howard King, however, stays and asks Dodgson what he plans to do when they finally get to the raptor nest. Or worse, even the Rex nest! Dodgson replies that, the rexes are no threat, and that the raptors are too busy with their gang warfare (there are two rival packs on the island, the JP3 raptors and the raptors from TLW). What he’s really concerned about is the massive marine reptiles that he’s heard stories about, or the Spinosaurus. Suddenly they hear some rustling in the bushes. A mercenary (remember, Biosyn took at least 30 with them) yells out, and starting firing his gun wildly as a velociraptor attacks him. It’s one of the raptors from Jurassic Park 3, and three more soon follow it. They cause absolute chaos as they ravage the cap, but, then a new roar is heard, and a lone, fully grown Utahraptor bursts into the camp. The raptors then ignore the humans as they attack the invader, and Dodgson says that they should just capture these five animals, since that would make their job easier. The mercenaries carefully get their tranquilizer guns, and shoot all five raptors down, then load them into some cages. The medicine will keep them knocked out for at least 24 hours, says, Dodgson, so they should be able to take these back to the ships before moving on to the Edmontosaurus nest. “Hell of a night,” he says. That evening, on Isla Nublar, the inGen team is exploring the ruined visitor center. The hole that the T-rex made in the side of the building is still there, as are three raptor skeletons with bits of skin still attached to them. Parts of the inside are overgrown with leaves and foliage, while the staircase that led to the second floor is mostly destroyed. Rossart investigates the raptor bodies, then asks Ian if these were on display. He says that, no, they must have crawled in here to die after the park was shut down. They explore the ruined facility a bit more, and find a way up to the ruins of the hatchery on the second floor. There are a few human skeletons there, too, showing signs of having been torn apart. Rossart stares at them, horrified, since they still have skin, more or less. Tim puts his arm around her impulsively; Harris glares at him. Levine goes to investigate the bodies, and concludes that this was raptor work. “It’s the lacerations, the tears, and stuff, “he tells Malcolm. “Like you said many of the raptor victims had.” They continue their exploration, staring at the small dinosaur skeletons inside the ruined incubators. Hadrosaurs of various kinds, raptors, sauropods, even a t-rex. They then exit the hatchery and make camp for the night on the ground floor of the building. On Sorna, the next morning, the Biosyn raiders are loading the raptors on the ships. They then head towards the Edmontosaurus nest via an old road, crossing the same plains from Jurassic Park 3 (where the hadrosaurs stampeded). There are only three triceratops grazing there, two parents and a hatchling, but their peaceful morning is shattered by a roar as two allosaurus emerge from the jungle. A battle ensues, leaving the baby trike and an allosaur dead. As the Biosynj team keeps traveling, though, they find evidence of larger predators, much larger. “Spinosaurus aegypticus, “Dodgson says. “I’ve heard that they’re the largest predators ever.” Baselton says “Not counting the marine reptiles. Particularly Predator X.” Dodgson ignores this, despite his statement earlier that he was worried about the marine reptiles. The raiders keep marching, even though the adult triceratops are snorting at them in anger. They don’t attack, though. Eventually, the raiders reach the Edmontosaurus nest, where at least two dozen Edmontosaurs graze and hover over their nests. King wonders aloud how the hell can they get the eggs, but Dodgson steps forward with a box that emits a loud squealing noise. The noise throws the hadrosaurs into chaos as they stampede, crushing eggs and trampling hatchlings. The mercenaries step forward and grab several eggs, each about the size of a pro-sized football. They load them into the truck, six in all, and leave the stampeding herd happily. “Next up, the sauropods,” says Dodgson. That same morning, on Nublar, the InGen team sets out from the visitor’s center to explore more of the island and document any sign of dinosaur life on Isla Nublar. Birds they have seen in plenty, and skeletons, and even a Parasaurolophus corpse, but no actual living animals save for the compies. They stumble through the trees; Harris helps Rossart step over a fallen log. Tim scowls, but makes no reply. Malcolm merely looks amused, while Levine is absorbed in scribbling a play-by-play account of the journey. As they stuble into a clearing, they hear a roar, and see three adult dilophosaurs staring at them. The animals hoot at them, and Malcolm yells, “RUN!” They stumble back the way they came, the dilos coming after them. Only, they end up in a densely surrounded clearing nowhere near the visitor’s center, with the dilophosaurs attacking them. They all pull on a pair of goggles that they had brought, just in case, but Tim gets bitten but an animal that Harris guns down. But his gun is out of ammo, and as he tries to find more in his pack to fill his magazines, an ear-splitting roar is heard, and a bull tyrannosaur bursts through the trees and grabs both dilophosaurs. It shakes them to death as the team runs out of the clearing and back into the woods. After some wandering, they find themselves on the edge of a huge plain, the plain where Grant first spotted the brachiosaurs in the first movie. There are parasaurolophus on the plains, and a pack of raptors far away, tearing up a parasaurolophus carcass. There are also a couple triceratops and gallimimuses, but more Pachyrhinosaurus, surprisingly, and even a stegosaur or two. But the real stars are the brachiosaurs that roam the plains. “No sign that BioSyn was here,” Levine says, gaping at the animals. “No,” Malcolm says. “Why would Hammond say that we had to get here before Biosyn?” Rossart says that, remember, he said that we would have to go to Sorna via helicopter. The helicopter that they would call. Tim checks his injured leg’s pocket, where the satellite phone was, and discovers that there is no phone there. It fell out when he was bitten by the dilophosaurs; his wound is turning a nasty shade of green. Poison. “I’m fine,” he says as Rossart pulls out some medical supplies and begins cleaning it up. She ignores him, and Daniel Harris turns away from the pair. Malcolm says, “We need to get off the island. There’s no hope of going to Sorna, or of a helicopter, but…” He consults a map of Isla Nublar. “There’s three docks. The closest one is about a mile to the east, through the jungle and over those hills. We should go there, see if there’s a boat left over. If there is, maybe we can sail back to Costa Rica.” The team agrees, and then gets up to move on, but, just then, the tyrannosaur bursts through the trees, roaring like hell. The ingen team runs for the trees on the other side of the plain as the rex attacks a Pachyrhinosaur and brings it down. It tears into the carcass, but then sees the humans. It roars again and runs after them into the jungle. At that same time, the Biosyn team is collecting some brachiosaurus eggs. This goes surprisingly well, but, after this, they drive towards the tyrannosaur nest. The three rex eggs are not guarded at all, surprisingly, but just as they load them into a Humvee, the ground shakes, and an ear-splitting roar is heard. Not a T-rex. A spinosaur. The spino bursts through the foliage and attacks a Humvee; the mercenaries keep shooting it, but nothing happens. Everyone scatters; those who could get into the cars scramble in, while those who are not so lucky are scooped up and devoured by the spinosaur. It follows the cars on the road, easily keeping up with them but not fast enough to actually get to them. Baselton shouts “Did you want one of those for testing?” and Dodgson curses as he swerved the wheel on a humvee. Suddenly, they see a group of stegosaurs crossing the road; the animals make noises as the cars hit them and go flying in all directions. Dodgson’s last sight is of a large tree branch hitting his face. The Ingen team plods towards the docks, making their way through the trees. Tim tells Rossart of how he was stuck in a tree at one point, when he was a kid, in the first movie. He recounts the story of how, after Dr. Grant saved him and Lex, they encountered the T-rex as it attacked a herd of Gallimimus. “Flock, Grant called it”, he chuckles. Rossart nods, while Harris grunts and looks sourly at the ground. Levine, of course, is absorbed in his journal, but Malcolm notices Harris’ face. He tells him not to worry, that there’s always other girls out there. Harris replies, “Yes, but mercenaries are supposed to be the ones getting the hot girls, not damned scientists!” Malcolm shrugs and says, that’s how life plays out, and that there’s always surprises. Harris merely grunts again, but, as if to prove Malcolm’s point (in the worst way possible), five velociraptors (like the ones in the first movie) run in front of them on the path, snarling. They just keep running through the trees, but Levine, of all people, suddenly looks up and says, “They’re hunting us. If we know, that makes the chase more exciting for them.” Malcolm looks worried, but looks at the map and says that the docks are only a few hundred meters away. After a while, they finally make it to the docks, where a battered sign with a Jurassic Park logo on it stands. JURASSIC DOCK, it reads. And beyond it, there is a boathouse, where, the team sees, sits a boat in perfect condition, a small boat with a cabin, even. A boat like the one seen in JP3. The next shot is an epic one, of a boat flying across the sea. We see Levine retching over the side, and Harris (not Tim) talking with Rossart. Malcolm is at the helm, carefully steering the boat. But where’s Tim? Rossart gets up, saying “I have to check on him, he’s been getting worse,” and walks into the small cabin. This reveals a sickly green Tim, whose leg gives off a bad smell. In just a few hours, the dilophosaur venom has created an effect similar to that of a rattlesnake bite. Rossart has been applying antivenin from her supply bag, but it’s taking a while for the effect to sink in, and the ocean isn’t really doing him favors. Tim says, “Thanks.” Rossart laughs and says, “Don’t mention it.” Then she qwalks out, leaving Tim with a bewildered expression, like “That’s it? That’s all I get?” On the deck, Malcolm says that there’s something in the water, and that’s when Predator X first comes into view. A gigantic, mutated version of Pliosaurus funkei that ingen bred bursts out of the water, its eyes filled with hatred. The animal roars, smashing the boat with its head. Rossart screams and Harris grabs her and pulls her away from the animal’s snapping jaws. The animal takes a huge chunk out of the back out the boat, and then picks the vessel up, shaking it like a dog might shake a toy. The animal then drops the boat from fifty feet above the ocean as it jumps out of the sea like Shamu. The boat hits the water with a massive splash; it’s followed by an even bigger splash as the Predator X smashes it into the water. Unbeknownst to them all, the northeastern coastline of Isla Sorna lies only about ten miles away (yes, the boat traveled 70 miles before the attack, since Nublar is 80 miles north of Sorna), so the wreckage soon washes up onto the shore, along with the team members. Miraculously, they all survived the Predator X attack, but while the men washed up on the extreme northern tip of the island, Grace Rossart washes up onto the northeastern shore, near where Biosyn will soon be. Dodgson wakes up and looks around. He sees a smashed Humvee lying on the road twenty feet below him (he’s in a tree), and then sees several body parts lying around. The spinosaur did destroy his expedition, after all. At least, he thinks it did. He climbs down from the tree and keeps walking on the road uneventfully, but then, all the birds in the area get quiet. He sees bushes moving, and three large shapes moving with them. He can’t tell what they are, but, in the sunlight, they are revealed to be three adult carnotaurus, green and black in color when not being chameleons. He runs for his life, but the animals are gaining on him. He reaches a small rise that he must get over to find safety, but the carnos are right after him. Over the rise are the remnants of the Biosyn Expedition, about 25 people in all. King and Baselton are among them, and two of the three mercenary leaders (Alvarez and Williamson made it, but not Jackson). They have the Humvee with the eggs, but no other vehicle. Dodgson runs towards them, screaming, and the mercenaries quickly notice the carnos. The yell and shoot, and bring one of them down, but then the other two move towards the treeline and start camouflaging again, leading the raiders deeper into the jungle (except for the guys with the egg Humvee). Eventually, the men wise up and move back to the road, but not before losing three more men to the now-vanished carnotaurs. They then decide that they should march for the northeast coast, only about two miles away. From there they can make their way back to the ships. Soon they come across an unconscious Grace Rossart, who is gray and pale. Dodgson bend over to administer mouth-to-mouth, but she coughs water and wakes up. Dodgson explains to her that he is part of Operation Genesis’ presence on the island (since he knows that she must be from ingen and will thus be inclined to hate Biosyn) and that he and his men were combing the beaches for any signs of the marine reptiles rumored to be living in the waters to the north. Rossat says that her team from ingen was on Isla Nublar, and that they were sailing back to Costa Rica with an injured team member when a giant marine reptile attacked them. Dodgson sucks in his breath as he realizes that the rumors are true. He asks if any other members of her team survived. She says that probably not. Dodgson and the other leaders briefly confer among themselves on whether or not to kill her, since she’s from inGen. They decide to let her live. The Biosyn raiders then travel south along the coastline, towards their ships, with their eggs and with Rossart. To the north, Tim, Harris, Malcolm, and Levine are slowly waking up, amazed to find themselves together…except for Rossart. They decide that she is most likely dead, and that they must be on one of the Five Deaths, to the south of Isla Nublar. The sight of a Pteranodon flock flying in the sky (pteranodons from Jurassic Park 3) and dinosaur tracks on the beach tell them that they are on Isla Sorna. Malcolm’s maps were lost in the wreck, but they also decide, like Biosyn, to follow the coast southeast until they reach the Isla Sorna marina (from Jurassic Park 3). They keep walking and eventually encounter two rival packs of raptors. They are battling on the beach and in the way of the travelers, who have decided against even straying into the jungle. They move as close to the treeline as they dare, without going into the jungle, until they’ve passed the raptor battle. Soon they arrive at a large river where several Edmontosaurus are drinking, but they don’t go near the sea, mainly because members of their kind have died that way (Predator X attacks and such). After they meet the Edmontosaurus herd, they spot the marina, from JP3, in the distance, and realize that they are almost at their destination. Meanwhile, Rossart is being given special treatment by Dodgson andhis men. They give her food, water and whatever she wants. She is mystified by this, but then overhears the Biosyn raiders talking about what to do with her. She hears Howard King say that their safest path is to “accidentally” toss her overboard when the ship sails. Dodgson agrees and says that this is a good idea. Rossart, horrified, decides to play the grateful rescued girl for the time being, especially since the marina is just over the ridge. The Biosyn team then breaks up camp and continues their trek towards the marina. Once they arrive at their ships, they load their eggs onto their ship, and demand that both ships cast off immediately. The captain of the ship agrees, and Rossart decides to try and escape right there. She runs for the docks, away from the gangway, but Dodgson grabs her and says, “Stop running, you damned-” Just then, Tim, Harris, Malcolm, and Levine run across the beach towards the docks and yell, “Let her go!” Harris uses his AR-15 to shoot Dodgson in the arm, while Tim pulls out a pistol and starts shooting random Biosyn raiders. Rossart runs to them, but, having torn Dodgson’s jacket off in her escape, she finds herself with a working satellite phone. She tosses it to Malcolm, who calls the helicopter. The helicopter pilot says that he is hovering over Isla Sorna right now, and immediately they hear the low thrum of a chopper. At that same moment, though, seven Pteranodons burst through the trees and attack the chopper, seeing it as an intruder on their territory. The pilot tries to maneuver out, but the animals are succeeding in breaking the back windows. Harris pulls out his gun again and carefully takes aim and hits a Pteranodon. He repeats the process until all the pterosaurs are lying on the beach, dead. The chopper lands, the ingen team climbs in, and it takes off again, heading not for San Jose, but for San Francisco, where Hammond lives. Dodgson is outraged as his ships leave the island, but is a bit more pleased to find that some of his mercenaries captured a young Spinosaurus, a baby t-rex, and a Pachyrhinosaurus (that species is also present on Isla Sorna), and put them in the cargo hold of the second ship. As they sail, the Predator X erupts from the water and attacks the ships, bursting out of the water and rocking the ships. Another one bursts out of the water and does another shamu flip in midair, except that it hits the ship carrying the Spinosaur and the other 2 large dinosaurs. Three mercenaries fall off the ship, and Dodgson decides to sail to the San Francisco bay (Biosyn’s headquarters are in Palo Alto) instead. His crew protests, amid the chaos of the attack, that this will take at least 3 weeks, but Dodgson says that, if they put both ships at full speed, they might make it in one. To ward off the Predator X’s, he commands a couple of mercenaries to shoot their RPGs into the water at the animals. This gives the Biosyn Raiders just enough time to sail away, out of reach of the sea monsters. The next shot is of the ingen team sitting around a table in a backyard in San Francisco with John Hammond, recounting their experiences. They have no photos to show him of the animals on Isla Nublar, but they say that Dodgson captured several animals and quite a few eggs from Isla Sorna. Hammond sighs, and looks over his fence at the bay, and sees two battered and bruised ships pulling into the harbor. He wonders where they came from, and then sees the large cages being unloaded from the ships. He motions for his team to come over and look, and Malcolm’s face curls in disgust. “They made it after all,” he says. Hammond pulls out a cell phone and calls for a car, to drive him and his team down to the bay. At the harbor, the Biosyn raiders are unloading the ships, carefully taking the large cages off. However, just then, one of the ships jerks up and rolls in the ocean, and we see the Predator X bursting out of the water and ripping open the ship. The second animal comes up not too far away, roaring and plucking tourists off the cruise ships that line the bay. The people on the docks scream and run, but a large cage bursts open and out comes a full-grown Pachyrhinosaurus, bellowing. It runs through the streets, knocking over cars and plowing through defenseless pedestrians. The mercenaries that Biosyn has all run off the ships as more cages burst open and the five raptors (the 4 velociraptors and the one Utahraptor that were captured on Isla Sorna) run off the ship, jumping on random people and tearing them to bits. At that same time, Hammond and the others pull up by the bay and climb out, staring in horror at the scene. “It’s San Diego multiplied by 10,” Malcolm says. The young T-rex and young Spino have gotten off the ship now, and are going off in separate directions. The Predator X’s are ravaging the bay, and destroying everything in sight. “Look what you’ve done, John,” Malcolm says. Another car pulls up, and Alan Grant climbs out. “Where did you come from?” Hammond asks. “I came as fast as I could as soon as I heard these guys were back,” he answers. The seven look out at the Jurassic carnage taking place, and the sound of gunfire are suddenly resounding throughout the city as military helicopters fly over the city. Paratroopers are landing, and for a second it seems as though the dinosaurs might be contained. But, just after the paratroopers land, a flock of Pteranodons fly over the city and start attacking everything and everyone. There’s at least twenty of them, and they bring down one helicopter by dodging an RPG shot and letting it hit the helicopter’s propeller. Right then, another chopper’s pilot says through a megaphone, “Across the bridge! Some are crossing the bridge!” The helicopters abandon their battle with the pteranodons and fly towards the Golden Gate Bridge, where the raptors and Spinosaurus are. Hammond’s team gets in the car (including Grant) and they drive towards the bridge. During this time, Lew Dodgson and his mercenaries and team are parking in Palo Alto at the BioSyn Corporation’s headquarters. They are unloading the eggs and DNA samples from their Humvee and taking them into the building, but they glimpse pteranodons flying in the sky. Nervously, they go in and take an elevator with all 16 eggs (three brachio, four triceratops, 2 t-rex, 4 raptor eggs, and three Edmontosaurus eggs) and their DNA samples (raptor, utahraptor, spino) down to a top-secret lab three stories under the facility. “I want them in the incubator,” Dodgson says, referring to the incubator that they built before leaving for Costa Rica. The eggs are put into the incubator, and almost immediately one begins to hatch. It’s a raptor egg, and it births a raptor similar to the adults that are heading towards Muir Woods even now. At the same time, one of the Edmontosaurus eggs hatches, and Dodgson says, “Gentlemen, I give you, the future of the BioSyn Corporation.” On the bridge, Hammond’s car is following the military vehicles towards Muir Woods, where the 5 raptors, the spino, and several Pteranodons have gone. They are not stopped, but they get out right behind the three military Humvees and watch as a true battle ensues in the forest. The soldiers are standing there with their weapons ready, the drone of the helicopters overhead as they search for the animals. Suddenly, a velociraptor jumps out of the trees – they can climb! Another jumps out, and all the weapons of 21 soldiers are not enough to counter the powerful hit-and-run attacks that the animals are carrying out. The ingen team, watching from safety at the entrance to the forest, decide to call the military and deal with the islands once and for all. Hammond gives Grant his cell phone, and Grant call the Pentagon to notify them of the attack on San Francisco. They pick up, and he says, “Kill them all. Send troops to Isla Sorna and Isla Nublar and burn the islands to the ground. Destroy them, nuke them, whatever you have to do. Just destroy them.” A shot is shown of the Pentagon staff looking bewildered, and then a general says, “You heard him, boys. We have to get rid of the animals now. It’s about time.” He contacts the military base in that was built in Costa Rica following the institution of Operation Genesis, and the military forces stationed there are shown flying over the islands and using napalm and nerve gas to destroy the animals. Huge fireballs are shown exploding over the dinosaurs, and when the smoke clears, nothing is left on either island. Absolutely nothing. In Muir Woods, the battle is still being fought. The Spinosaurus has killed several soldiers, and the raptors have too. But one raptor is dead, and the Spinosaur has run off into the forest, wounded. The fight is shown as being really epic, and the soldiers are defeating the dinosaurs at last. The Utahraptor runs off into the trees, and the remaining three raptors do the same. The Pteranodons finally fly off into the trees and don’t return. The soldiers cheer, and finally leave. Hammond’s team decides to leave as well, and they drive away from the forest. The final shot of the movie is at night. The raptors are emerging from the woods and looking out across the bay at the city of San Francisco. But there are more than three, because, remember, dinosaurs have been secretly getting off the islands for 13 years. Their anger is clearly displayed on their faces, and the alpha raptor calls out to its pack members. More raptors come, and it caws again. Subtitles of the raptor language are shown, reading, “We will return soon. And when we do, they will not be able to stand against us!” In a post-credits scene, a pack of compies is shown stowing away on a ship bound for China. Two raptors stow away on another ship, and then a map of the world is shown (kind of like in Rise of the Planet of the Apes), with silhouettes of various dinosaur species spreading across the globe. • This sets everything up for a sequel, called “Jurassic Park: Reconquest” In the 5th film, the dinosaurs will begin an all-out war with the humans, and there will be tons of fighting and dino vs. human warfare • Tim’s injured leg isn’t mentioned after the shipwreck because that’s a plot point to be explored in Reconquest. See, the dilo that bit him had DX, which is transmitted from dinosaur to human by biting, and from human to human the same way a common cold is transmitted between humans. But DX is very contagious and will seriously weaken the human race if something is not done about it. Tim, after all, is the carrier for DX. • For anyone who had hoped that the islands would be in the 5th movie, think again. They’re gone, along with every dinosaur on them. • The ingen team, along with Lew Dodgson and his newly hatched dinos, will be in the 5th movie. I might write a synopsis of that one, too.