Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park
With the advancement of technology in the 20th century, interest sparked in biotech research
With the deciphering of the double-helix in 1953, in 1976 two men named Robert Swanson (venture capitalist) and Herbert Boyer (biochemist) founded the first multimillion dollar company in molecular genetics called Genetech
Another company called International Genetic Technologies (Ingen) was involved in a scandal involving the death of a handful of people
Non-signatories of a non-disclosure agreement are willing to tell the tale of what transpired on an island west of Costa Rica
There have been sightings and incidents of a strange lizard on the west coast of Costa Rica
According to the description of an 8-year old girl named Tina who was bitten, professionals think it is a basiliscus amoratus (lizards that can run on water on hind legs)
A tested flesh sample determined the unknown lizard had no pathogens
Another incident occurs when the lizards attack and kill an infant
In the mid-80s, Alan Grant was approached by Ingen to be a consultant and received 12K for it
He learns from an Environmental Protection Agent that the Hammond Foundation who is funding his paleontology work leased a Costa Rican island called Isla Nublar
Donald Gennaro, a lawyer representing Ingen, called him and asked for dietary info of which Alan could not provide because he is strictly a paleontologist
Gennaro offers 50K to support Grant’s work for two years. They settle for 12. The Hammond Foundation, owned by John Hammond, then began to fund Grant’s work. Hammond is just a dinosaur enthusiast to Grant
The EPA is concerned why Hammond is stockpiling amber. They show Grant that the check he received for 12K from Gennaro/Ingen is connected to Nublar which connects to Hammond. They suspect Hammond of illegal activities
He also informs Grant that Hammond has invested in Crays and Hoods (3 supercomputers and 24 gene sequencers) sent to Nublar. Why is such sophisticated and advanced tech needed for a remote island?
Lewis Dodgson of Biosyn (Ingen’s competitor) experimented with rabies and even had it on a commercial flight
Gennaro told Grant he wanted the information for a museum exhibit but the EPA suspects otherwise
A technician named Alice Levin sends Grant a fax and when he looks at it, recognizes the illustration on it as a procompsognathus and is in disbelief
Hammond calls Grant about the agent sniffing around
He tells Grant about Nublar and insists he take a weekend to visit. He also invited Dr. Ellie Sattler as he needs a paleobotanist
Dodgson is known for industrial espionage against Ingen
He reveals that Ingen is planning to create a zoo of sorts for dinosaurs and they can patent them. He plans corporate espionage.
He meets with a man and gives him a can of shaving cream which can store 15 vials of embryos inside for $1.5 mil
Grant, Sattler, Gennaro, and Hammond convene with a mathematician named Ian Malcolm
Malcolm claims the island will fail due to chaos theory or unpredictable factors- Hammond’s zoo is a simple system but his animals will show unpredictability
They are taken to Hammond’s island, Isla Nubar. Once there, they witness a dinosaur, a sauropod
Hammond welcomes them to his facility- Jurassic Park
Grant fears that speculative and deductive paleontology is dead with dinosaur cloning now realized
Grant and Sattler realize the facility is built like a fortress of which they wonder why
Two of Hammond’s grandchildren arrive- Lex and Tim Murphy (Tex)
The group gets the tour of the facility
Ed Regis the public relations manager introduces the group to Henry Wu, the chief geneticist.
He explains that while they can extract 20% of DNA from fossils by grinding bones and extracting proteins, their main method is using fossilized amber with mosquitoes trapped inside which sucked dinosaur blood
The group is taken into the Hatchery and witness a six-week old velociraptor
Wu explains they control breeding by making the dinosaurs sterile through X-ray radiation making them all female
Malcolm has concerns that the wrong amount of radiation dosage may be distributed and how they know the dinosaurs are female. Wu answers that they make them that way by controlling their chromosomes
Wu made the procompys to deal with dinosaur waste which they eat. There are 50 of them
Malcolm asks what if one was to get off the island which Wu assures they cannot because of inventory checks and they cannot leave the island because of lysine dependency which exists outside and is only supplied by pills to keep them alive
The group is told about the 8 Velociraptors and head to the pen where they are
They are aggressively approached by 3 raptors who are held back by an electric fence
Malcolm deduces that like modern man-eaters such as lions, tigers, and bears (oh my), predators wouldn’t know that man is an easy target unless they’ve so before
Grant confirms this as a frightening truth is realized
Grant is troubled by Mr. Arnold’s (head engineer) admission that the animals are regularly patched up like software because they are creations
The tour begins. The first dinosaur on it is othnielia/nanosaurus, a small hypsilophodont/bipedal carnivore. Next are Dilophosaurus and Triceratops
The group witnesses an adult T-rex eat a goat
They stop by a sick Stegosaurus (Triceratops in the movie) which mistakenly swallowed West Indian lilac berries when swallowing gizzard stones which help digest tough vegetation
Malcolm explains to Gennaro that chaos theory dictates that just like mankind thought that computers could predict and control weather, so too does this park think it can predict and control dinosaurs but on the contrary
Grant finds a Velociraptor egg, disproving that the dinosaurs can’t breed
Malcolm and Grant tell Arnold to check his computer who sees that the number of expected dinosaurs went up from 238 to 292. Hammond blames Wu for this mistake but Wu doesn’t understand how it’s possible
Grant deduces there are 7 nests among the different species and each one has 7-12 hatchlings
Grant suspects that frog DNA was used to make the dinosaur gene and tells Wu to check
The power goes out during a rainstorm and the two land cruisers become stationary near the tyrannosaur paddock. A complete blackout
Dennis Nedry is the man who met with Dodgson. Ingen would not pay him extra for adding extra security features so he installed a bug
He was blackmailed with defamation when he refused the job so he took Dodgson’s offer
He steals fertilization embryos for each species and puts them in the can
Arnold and Muldoon (JP’s game warden) realize that Nedry turned off the security system and Muldoon sets out to retrieve the passengers since the electric fences are down and the animals could get out as well as someone deciding to leave the cruisers and possibly being left behind
Muldoon can’t find the Jeep because Nedry took it to the east dock where the boat that travels between the island and the mainland docks
The T-rex appears and its presence and roar is enough to make Ed Regis urinate
He flees the car. Lex exclaims “he left us!”. In the film, it is Gennaro who abandons them
Tim realizes that the T-rex is holding onto the fence without being electrified. It breaks the fence and steps out
Grant radios to Tex not to move or make sound
T-rex attacks Tex’s car and Lex is heard screaming
Malcolm and Grant think it got her but they cannot be certain
Malcolm runs and Grant watches as T-rex flings him in the air like a rag doll. Grant gets out and stands motionless in fear but it does nothing
Grant realizes it can’t see him but knows he’s there. T-rex tries to scare him but Grant doesn’t move
T-rex hits the land cruiser which makes Grant go flying and crashing back to the ground knocking him unconscious
Nedry takes a wrong turn and gets out of the jeep
He’s attacked by a dinosaur that blinds him with acid spit, eviscerates him, and takes his skull into its jaws
Tim is alone and gets out of the cruiser that fell into a tree
While getting out of the cruiser, it falls down and breaks through branches nearly crushing him
He uses night goggles to find his way back to the road. He does not find Malcolm or Grant
Wu checks the computers for DNA and sees rana which is frog DNA.
Wu knows internally that Grant is right about the breeding but is not sure how
Tim finds Lex and Grant finds them both
Regis is alive but feels shame
He hears Lex for a bit but then doesn’t. He makes his way back to camp
He’s attacked, killed, and eaten by the juvenile T-rex whom Grant and Tex witness from the top of the hill
Muldoon and Gennaro find Regis’ leg
Muldoon finds the jeep that Tim was in and deduces he’s alive because he took a watch off which he had time to do. They start looking for him
They find Malcolm, badly injured and wheezing and take him back
Wu and Arnold discover that Nedry off the security systems and that someone went into the freezer where the embryos are stored
Muldoon returns with Malcolm and Regis’ leg and tells Sattler there was an attack and Grant is still in the park with Tex
Tex and Grant find a maintenance building with bales of hay and sleep on them
Arnold finds the correct code to restore the power. It’s 9:30pm
Malcolm is being tended to by Harding and Sattler
Harding leaves to help Muldoon herd the animals and leaves Malcolm with Sattler and Gennaro
T-rex wanders into the sauropod paddock where Grant and the kids are (maintenance building)
Arnold has to turn off the safety systems to try and get the phones back online
T-rex chases hadrosaurs which stampede around Grant and kids. In the film they are Gallimimus
Motion sensors are back on and Arnold sees the commotion. He wants Muldoon to check it out
Grant and Tex find a tree to sleep in. In the morning they are surrounded by maiasauri (in the film it is brachiosauri)
They take a raft near the maintenance building and must sneak past a sleeping Rex
The Rex is awakened by sneeze and chases them in the water
The juvie Rex shows up and Rex defends its kill and chases little Rex off
Muldoon and Gennaro find Nedry’s corpse
Grant and Tex continue down the river and reacy an aviary housing cearadactyls. They are attacked. This was adapted for JP 3
They continue on the raft and Rex tries to attack them. They pass two dilophosauri
Muldoon and Gennaro try and tranq Rex but fail twice
Grant and Tex almost fall into Rex’s clutches at the bottom of a waterfall
They take a path that goes back around to the waterfall, hiding among the plants and manage to get behind the waterfall
They find a storage unit. Grant opens a door which leads down a flight of stairs to a stored car and a lone juvenile 2ft Velociraptor
Tex is almost taken by the T-rex when it attacks behind the waterfall. Tim is almost taken as the muscular tongue is too much for him to overpower
For some unknown reason it relents and lets go as its mouth closes on the tongue making it bleed then it leaves. Tex sees that it was tranquilized
Auxiliary power goes out which the park was running on instead of main power
The waterfall stops
Since aux power is not enough to power the electrified fences it means the raptors escaped
Dr. Arnold finds himself surrounded by them at the maintenance shed where he went to turn on the main power
Gennaro and Muldoon kill one and blow it to pieces. The remaining 7 raptors chase them
While being tended to, Malcolm explains that true power must be attained with time and discipline- neither of which Hammond did. He didn’t take the time to understand the product he packaged and patented and called it his
Muldoon gets stuck in a pipe with 3 or 4 raptors surrounding him
Arnold walks down a pitch black staircase in the maintenance shed with a raptor tailing him
The raptor jumps down to his landing and attacks him as he screams
Gennaro goes in next after Arnold doesn’t return. He also gets attacked
Malcolm philosophizes that scientific discoveries meant being able to understand and control scientific properties but that will never be true because nature is unpredictable. He says change is certain of which the result is unknown until it happens
Grant drives himself and Tex through a tunnel that leads to the visitor centre
They have the young raptor
Grant manages to get in contact with Sattler who is at the lodge with Malcolm, Wu, and Hammond
A few raptors are attempting to get inside through a skylight
Everyone agrees for Sattler to act as bait and distract the raptors while Grant attempts to get the power back. Lex and Tim are left in the cafeteria
The same raptor that attacked Arnold and Gennaro is now in the kitchen and goes after Tex. Tim manages to lock it in a walk-in freezer
Grant finds Gennaro and helps him out
A raptor gets Wu and eviscerates him as it eats his intestines while still alive
In the visitor centre, Tex attempts but fails to activate the main grid on the computer in the control room before the raptors get in
The raptors jump onto the 2nd floor where Tex who are forced to run
They run and hide and find a baby raptor in the nursery that is cannibalized when Tex throws it at two adults as a distraction, not expecting it to be eaten
They run into the DNA-extraction lab. They are found by Grant and Gennaro.
Grant manages to take down 3 raptors by injecting poison into eggs which the raptors ingest. They foam at the mouth and die slowly
Tim manages to get the park functioning again and the electricity running thereby shocking the raptors attempting to get into the lodge
Gennaro makes a call to the boat that is heading towards the town of Puntaneras and tells it to head back to the island
An ecosystem is created as the dinosaurs mix and create an equilibrium
Grant tells Gennaro that this island that he invested in is now a mess and must be cleaned up
They have to find as many raptor nests and destroy them
They deduce that that they are hidden in the southern volcanic pits since that is raptor territory
On the way, Grant explains about amphibian DNA and how western African frogs can change their sex from female to male. That’s his theory for the dinosaur breeding
Hammond is nervous about Malcolm dying and paradoxically doesn’t want him to die (he dislikes him) because if he does it’ll prove Malcolm absolutely right about everything. Malcolm’s death would be the final sign of admonishment and chastisement to Hammond
Hammond leaves and introspects. If Gennaro decides to shut the park down, he has more embryos in California at InGen
He blames Wu for the downfall since he engineered the dinosaurs
He hears a roar of a T-rex which startles him and tumbles down a hill. He realizes it’s a recording from the control room where Tex is
Grant, Sattler, and Gennaro climb down into a cave with 30 raptors. 3 nests with 3 sets of parents along with infants and juveniles
As Hammond is climbing up the hill, he’s attacked by Compies
They poison him through biting making him feel relaxed
One takes a bite of his neck. This is Dieter’s fate in The Lost World film
The raptors head off all together out of the cave through a tunnel and all mysteriously stand in 3 vertical lines like ducklings following their parent, staring out at the Pacific
Grant realizes they want to migrate
He did not have to use gas grenades on them in the cave
A helicopter arrives and picks up Gennaro, Grant, and Sattler.
Muldoon is on another helicopter with tex. He reveals that Malcolm did not make it and that the compies got Hammond
The island is bombed
Everyone is taken to San Jose, Costa Rica
A man named Marty Guttierez, the same man who found the first specimens of the compies, tells Grant that animals have been observed going into the northern mountainous jungle region of Ismaloya
Guttierez tells Grant that he isn’t going anywhere as he smiles