Fifteen years following John Hammond's death, Alan Grant and Ian Malcolm are contacted by a man named Lawrence Corliss. Corliss is the executor of Hammond's vast estate and has invited Grant and Malcolm to a meeting at Hammond's mansion in Edinburgh, Scotland. Once there, the two men are told that Hammond has left large sums of money for each of them in his will, as well as control over a certain location in the Sea of Japan called "Shima Same" which translates to "Island Shark." Hammond had stipulated that the men should not be contacted until fifteen years after his death. His goal was to prevent his nephew Peter Ludlow, the new head of InGen, from learning about Island C, so he kept the record of the island a secret (Ludlow died in JP2, by the way). Grant and Malcolm are keenly aware that Shima Same must be the site of another Jurassic Park that Hammond was working on in tandem with the one on Isla Nublar. In the will, Hammond encourages Grant and Malcolm to use their newfound wealth to fund further research in their fields. The island is a "gift" that Hammond did not want to reveal too soon for fear that it would be "spoiled" (destroyed).
The story cuts to a junk ship roiling over black waves during a major storm in the Sea of Japan. The sailors on said ship are smugglers that transport goods between China and Taiwan, who have a very strained political relationship. During the storm, the junk ship begins to take on water, and some of the sailors suggest landing on an island they call "Wakai Doragon," (Young Dragon). The island has earned its name for the terrifying noises coming from its depths, as well as the fact that it is manmade and thus relatively new. The older sailors refuse to land there, regaling the crew with urban legends of dangerous monsters and swarms of helicopters that arrive when anyone comes near the island. But the storm threatens to sink them then and there, so they make a last ditch effort to navigate towards the island for safety. On Shima Same, the ship is dashed against the rocks and only a handful of sailors survive. In the pitch black storm, with sheets of rain slashing down upon them, the younger survivors ignore one of the older survivor's pleas to stay on the beach. They head inland through large, exotic bushes, never to be seen again.
The story cuts back to Malcolm and Grant. They are in Washington D.C. testifying against Biosyn, a competitor of InGen who claims that InGen has been stealing their genetic patents. In fact, Biosyn had stolen the genetic technology from InGen in one of their many schemes to gain an upper hand against their biggest competitor. Later, they had patented the technology and began to file lawsuits against InGen to gain control over their assets (a sort of Apple versus Samsung situation, if you will). InGen, plagued by major class action lawsuits by victims of dinosaur attacks in mainland Costa Rica, is out of money and cannot find the funds to fight back against BioSyn. Thus, it becomes clear why Hammond willed both the island and his wealth to Grant and Malcolm following his death. As Island C (Shima Same) now falls under the ownership of Dr. Grant and Dr. Malcolm, they are responsible for making sure BioSyn does not get control of it. Malcolm and Grant testify that the research was started by Doctor Henry Wu (who survived Jurassic Park the film, but died in the novel). However, Dr. Wu is terminally ill with cancer and does not have access to his own research. It was all kept confidential by InGen during the creation of the first Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar. All records of the research were lost when the island was destroyed.
However, Henry Wu tells Malcolm and Grant that a second set of his research can be found on Shima Same. (Oh boy, here we go again). Malcolm and Grant need to go to Shima Same and find the evidence of this research (timestamped, of course) in order to prove that it belongs to InGen. If they cannot do this, BioSyn will win in court and gain control of the remainder of InGen's assets as well as a precedent to gain control over Shima Same. Before Henry Wu died, he said one word: sharks.
Shima Same turns out to be the most ambitious park that Hammond had begun work on. It is 10 miles long and 7 miles wide, covered in tall flora and fauna to conceal the secrets within. Malcolm and Grant wish to be absolutely careful in their approach to the island. Malcolm is as pessimistic as ever and thinks that no matter how careful they are, their plan is going to fall apart. When Grant asks him why he is agreeing to enter the island if he thinks things will go awry, Malcolm remarks that things will be much worse if Biosyn gets their hands on the remaining research.
Meanwhile, the people at Biosyn have their own plans. They know that Malcolm and Grant can ruin everything for them if they can prove that the work belongs to Wu and InGen. So they hold a secret meeting (a quorum just like in the first novel) and agree upon a covert operation to sneak into the island, obtain the information first, and destroy all record of it having been there. They assemble a small team: 3 ex-military mercenaries, 1 paleobiologist and 2 programmers (in case one of them gets eaten). Malcolm and Grant perform several flybys over the island to get an idea as to where they need to go. They have no blueprints or plans concerning the architecture of the park. They spot herds of herbivorous apatosaurs and barosaurs but they don't see a great deal of diversity from the air so they assume that Shima Same was not as fully developed as Islands A or B.
Malcolm and Grant also decide to assemble their own team, as neither of them are gifted with computers and neither of them wants to go without some firepower, so they contact Alvin Birch, who is an esteemed computer programmer from MIT, and studied under the same professors as Dennis Nedry. Birch is excited about going to the island as he is fascinated with the biogenetics of prehistoric creatures (in this universe, it's a popular industry). They also hire Sydney Hensen, a hunter with experience in the Safari. They assume Henson is a man, but upon meeting in person they are surprised that Henson is a woman. Hensen brings along 2 more people, Jackson and Cooney. Grant suggests getting more people but Malcolm believes this will create more complexity and increase the chances that something will go wrong.
The goal is to get in, find the archives, retrieve them, and get out as soon as possible without alerting any creature in the island of their presence.
When they arrive, they see that the interior fences of the island are nonfunctioning and have been torn away in several places, indicating that whatever separation InGen intended to create in the dinosaur population is now non-existent and has been for quite some time. The exterior structures are mostly incomplete rebar skeletons affording them no protection. The perimeter of the island contains no useful structures of any kind, forcing them to lurk ever deeper into the forests. The roadways are blanketed with years of dust and new plant life has broken through the asphalt. Immediately, the plan falls apart. Alvin Birch, the most important tool they have at their possession gets bitten by a fly. A bite that at first seemed innocuous begins to affect him, acting as a neurotoxin that paralyzes him and gives him a dangerously high fever. Grant and Malcolm conclude that the insect life here is incredibly dangerous and they agree to abort the mission.
They make their way back to the beach only to discover that their helicopter has been destroyed. It stands there, in flames. The Biosyn group, it appears, has arrived, and has removed their chances of escaping. The group is nowhere to be seen now, and has presumably made their way into the island to beat them to the punch. Grant uses a satellite phone to call for outside help, but there is no signal. It appears that something on the island is blocking the signal. Malcolm believes that InGen must have installed signal blockers all over the island to prevent workers from communicating information to the outside world, leaking secrets and such. This was something they should have noticed when they performed their preliminary flybys but Malcolm believes that at a high enough altitude they were outside the blocking field. Malcolm thinks the best option is to move to high ground and see if they can make a call for help. Grant concludes that if the signal blockers are still working, they must be receiving power from somewhere. He believes their best bet is to find the main power station and turn off the power there so they can make the call in safety. Or else they can try and send out an email if they find a computer. If they follow Malcolm's plan, they might run into a carnivorous dinosaur and get eaten. If they follow Grant's plan, they might run into the Biosyn group and be outnumbered and outgunned. Suddenly, the situation is very complicated. No matter how they slice it, they're in trouble. Henson intervenes and says in times like these, the fastest way to settle on a plan is to flip a coin.
Malcolm's plan wins out. They leave an unconscious Alvin with Jackson on the beach and head out towards higher ground. Hensen and Cooney are armed to the teeth with armor-piercing rifles, tranquilizer guns, and a laser guided tranq cannons for larger creatures. Along the way they notice that the island seems to have been abandoned in mid-construction. Cranes, bulldozers, jeeps, trucks, and all sorts of equipment are strewn about the place. Small groups of procompsognathids follow them from time to time out of curiosity. Grant advises Hensen and Cooney to stay on guard of them, but not to fire at them lest they arouse something larger. They come across the half-eaten bodies of a couple of the sailors from the junk ship and wonder how they could have gotten there; the marks on the bodies don't seem to come from any dinosaur Grant has ever studied, and their bloated nature suggests a more mysterious cause of death. Malcolm goes into one of his spiels about the utter lack of control that InGen had on the island, and doesn't see where he's going. He steps on a pile of leaves and falls into a trap. A large spider, the size of maybe 20 human faces, quickly crawls out of his trap and attempts to bite Malcolm but is shot to pieces by Hensen.
Malcolm sits numbly for several minutes, obviously frozen in shock. He doesn't speak for the rest of the trip up the mountainside. Grant suspects that InGen must have had a very different plan for Shima Same. Nothing else can account for the spider. They spot herds of dinosaurs never found on Isla Nublar, nor Sorna. For example, they spot a nest of the less dangerous Eoraptors, who run away at the sight of them. They also spot more birdlike dinosaurs, possessing feathers, such as the Sinosauropteryx, the Mononykus, and the Caudipteryx. Aside from the spider and the compys, Grant hopefully guesses that this island was not meant to house too many carnivores. By the time they reach the top of the mountain, they thank their lucky stars that they have not encountered any major setbacks, but Malcolm finally speaks and says this is usually the time when things start to go wrong.
A storm begins to brew as nightfall approaches. The group observes the erratic behavior of the local herbivorous creatures around them. They all seem to be running away from the area. What from? The mother of all carnivores. A gigantosaurus nearly 60 feet in length tramples down trees and gobbles up fleeing compys. Grant advises the group to hide behind trees and remain absolutely still, but Cooney panics and tries to flee. He loses his footing and rolls down a hill for some distance before reaching the bottom and landing right into a nest of Utahraptors (these are the big ones that Velociraptors are portrayed as in films). For a moment, two mother raptors do nothing but stare at Cooney. He slowly attempts to unsling his rifle but they pounce on him and begin to tear him apart. He screams audibly and Hensen shoots at them in a futile attempt to save Cooney. This draws the raptors' attention to her and the others and they give chase.
Though they are still deep in the island, they stumble upon a utility building built into a hill. Hensen expertly shoots the knob before even checking to see if it's locked and they pour inside the dark room and slam the door shut and press themselves against it as the raptors attempt to kick it in. Grant desperately gropes for a light switch and finds it. The lights turn on and they see they are inside a room with shelves of books lining the walls and a computer terminal at the far end of the room. Malcolm and grant press their weight against the door while Hensen pulls the shelves down and brings them closer to the door to create a barricade. Once that's accomplished, they move to the terminal to see if they can send an email or otherwise alert the outside world of their predicament. No cigar. The terminal has no internet access. But it does contain maps and schematics of the entire park. They see that they are approximately a mile away from a service tunnel that will lead them to the main structure of the park, which is located underground. They also see that in the center of the park there appears to the be a large lake called the "Shark Enclosure."
Unfortunately, there is no other way outside the utility room. They will have to take their chances with the front door in the morning. As the rain beats down throughout the night, Grant passes the time by trying to identify all the dinosaurs in the area by the noises they make. Hensen laments the loss of Cooney, who was carrying some of their better weaponry. Malcolm tells them about his lifelong spider phobia. Grant says if he leaves this island with his life, he will drive up to Ellie Satler's house, knock on her door, and ask her to marry him. When morning comes, the group risks opening the door and is relieved to see that the raptors have moved on.
They travel to the service tunnel without incident, but when they arrive there, they hear the echoing voices of the BioSyn group coming from the tunnel. From their distressed tones, Grant gathers that they too have had an unpleasant night. Two of their team members have been eaten. Grant, Malcolm, and Hensen decide to enter the tunnel but refrain from speaking. They follow close behind the Biosyn group. At one point, they notice something that the Biosyn group hasn't. A large spider web on the tunnel ceiling rests above the heads of the group, and wrapped up hadrosaur corpses are bundled on one corner of the web. A large tarantual, about 100 human faces in size, is slowly descending from its anal silk rope with its fangs rubbing against each other in anticipation of a tasty new morsel. Grant and Hensen decide to let the spider have its way with the Biosyn group before dispatching it, but Malcolm refuses to let them die like that. So he grabs the machine gun at Hensens side and tears into the creature with bullets. The tarantula lets out an awful shriek as some of its too many legs are torn off and some of its eyes are destroyed. The Biosyn group aids in the destruction of this fecal urgency-inducing creature.
After the massacre, they approach each other cautiously. The Biosyn group is upset with the company for lying to them about the dangers of the island. Their team leader has already been killed (eaten by a utahraptor), along with one of the programmers, and they don't feel like moving on with their mission. Malcolm and Grant convene for a moment and decide that they currently may have enough money to buy out this group to their side. They offer to double the money Biosyn is going to pay if the group will help them retrieve the research data and get off the island alive. Hensen is skeptical, but reluctantly agrees to the addition of new group members.
When they reach the end of the tunnel, the group discovers an entrance that leads further underground. The doors to the entrance are open and the group enters, wary of what they will find. Grant wonders how the main power could be on after all this time. The humming of all the machinery fills the group with tension and the suspense begins to build as they edge nearer to the main control room. With guns lifted, they push through the swinging doors and find.... One of the survivors from the junk ship. His name is Wan, and he has been on the island for three weeks. The rest of his friends were eaten by the giant spider that almost got Malcolm. The main building contains all the amenities necessary for survival. A large supply of canned goods and a place to stay. Grant spots the main computer terminal to the park. He asks Wan if he turned on the main power, but Wan doesn't speak English. One of the members of Biosyn, a man named Tezi, can communicate with Wan. He acts as the interpreter. Wan says that he did turn on the power by accident. He points at the wall behind him where the main power breakers are. Grant remarks to himself that at least Hammond put the power and the main controls in the same room this time. He asks Wan how he got here. Wan explains about the ship and the legends about the island. Grant asks him why he left the door open to the entrance. Wan, confused, says he made sure they were closed.
Wan changes subject quickly and tells them there is a room beyond a hallway that houses a great monster. The Biosyn group leaves the programmer (the other one died) at the terminal to gather the research data while Wan leads them to the room. When they get there, they see that they are in a hallway fully composed of glass. The walls and ground and ceiling are a continuous glass tubing that extends outward into a lake of some sort. This is the shark enclosure. Grant and the others stare in awe as they see all sorts of glorious prehistoric ocean life floating and swimming all around them. Giant jellyfish in ornate shapes, octopuses with earlobes, huge mollusks, etc. Suddenly, the group is cast in shadow. They look overhead and see the main attraction: a megalodon, a giant shark over 70 feet in length swims above them.
As the group stares, a couple of raptors enter the hallways, closing off escape. Grant hears the snorting when they get closer, but it's too late. One of the raptors slashes the back of a Biosyn mercenary. He reflexively whips around and shoots wildly with his gun, even has his legs give way and he falls. The bullets glance of the glass tubing but create pressure fractures. By this time, the other group members have turned and begun to shoot at the raptors. Despite their accuracy, some bullets still ricochet off the glass and create cracks that leak. The integrity of the glass begins to diminish. Malcolm, Grant, and Hensen run as fast as they can back to the computer room. The others follow along but the glass hallways is rapidly flooding and the commotion has captures the megalodon's interest. The water mixes in with the raptor blood and rushes back out toward the lake. The hallways collapses completely and water begins to flood the main structure. By this time, Malcolm, Grant, Hensen, Wan, and 2 Biosyn members remain (1 merc and the programmer).
The room is beginning to flood and more raptors are likely in the building. The Biosyn merc asks if the programmer has gotten all the data yet. The programmer replies yes and hands him a flash drive. The merc takes the drive and shoots him in the head. Hensen, Malcolm, Grant, and Wan duck behind the desk as the merc shoots as them.
"I thought we had a deal!" Grant yells.
"You can't afford me," the merc replies.
Suddenly, the merc is attacked by a group of raptors and drops the flash drive. Hensen starts picking them off with her rifle while Malcolm and Grant head to the main power breakers behind them and attempt to turn them off so the signal blockers will shut down and they can make a satellite call. Wan tells them he can do it but as soon as he pulls the main breaker he is electrocuted because he's standing in water. The entire room is flooding quickly. Hensen manages to kill the last of the raptors and they run toward the merc's body in an attempt to salvage the flash drive before it becomes submerged. Hensen grabs it but it's wet and no one's sure if the data is safe.
They run through the halls and get to the main entrance doors, which leads them into the long tunnel. By this time, the water is flooding the entire place, including the tunnel, at tremendous speed. And much smaller sharks have entered the main control room to feast on the dead bodies of the mercs and the raptors. While they run, Grant attempts to make a satellite call with Lawrence Corliss to send them air support. Corliss says he will do whatever he can. At the mouth of the tunnel they spot more raptors, but Hensen is running out of ammo and they decide to take a side door that may lead them out of the tunnel structure. They find themselves in another utility room, and this one leads out to a garage with gas-powered jeeps. They board the jeep and attempt to drive out of the garage, but after years of inactivity the battery is dead and won't start. Malcolm talks about the Malcolm effect, where just when things seem to be going right they skew off into chaos. Grant tells him to stuff it and find another battery on a shelf. They rush to change the battery; all the while Malcolm stands in the background and tells them it's futile. Why would the one on the shelf have any chance of working? To his surprise, when they turn the key in the ignition, the jeep roars to life. Grant calls it the Grant Effect. Not sure about which direction to head in since they never bothered to look at that area of the maps, they just drive.
Once out in the forest they pick a direction and keep driving. Hensen calls Jackson on the satellite phone but he doesn't respond. After a while they stop to reorient themselves. Grant remarks that this island was most definitely an experiment in size. Giant spiders, giant carnivores, and giant sharks. His spiel is cut short by a familiar rumbling. From behind them they hear a bone-chilling roar. The gigantosaurus from the night before has found them. Grant steps on the gas and they're off again. The giant creature gives chase and is close to catching up with them. Remember, this thing is 60 feet tall and leaves trampled trees in its wake.
Suddenly, the trio runs out of forest and arrives at the beach. The dinosaur is still at their heels so they drive around the perimeter of the island in desperate hope of tiring out the creature before running out of fuel. Malcolm gives his signature line, "Must go faster, must go faster, go go go go!"
Hensen gloomily informs them that they're about to run out of fuel. The jeep noticeably drops in speed. Malcolm says, "What now?"
Out of nowhere, the whirring of chopper blades signal the arrival of rescue. A shadowy figure leaning out of the helicopter's side fires a single shot from a missile launcher. The rocket propelled grenade impacts directly with the gigantosaurus' square head and it explodes into a million fleshy pieces of skull and brain matter (not so much brain matter). With a violent quaking thud, the creature's body crashes to the sandy ground.
The chopper lands and Malcolm, Grant and Hensen are glad to see that Jackson and Birch are aboard and alive. Birch had suffered an allergic reaction to the bug bite. It was not a genetically engineered poison as was initially featured. As to the man who blew up the dinosaur...
The story cuts to a junk ship roiling over black waves during a major storm in the Sea of Japan. The sailors on said ship are smugglers that transport goods between China and Taiwan, who have a very strained political relationship. During the storm, the junk ship begins to take on water, and some of the sailors suggest landing on an island they call "Wakai Doragon," (Young Dragon). The island has earned its name for the terrifying noises coming from its depths, as well as the fact that it is manmade and thus relatively new. The older sailors refuse to land there, regaling the crew with urban legends of dangerous monsters and swarms of helicopters that arrive when anyone comes near the island. But the storm threatens to sink them then and there, so they make a last ditch effort to navigate towards the island for safety. On Shima Same, the ship is dashed against the rocks and only a handful of sailors survive. In the pitch black storm, with sheets of rain slashing down upon them, the younger survivors ignore one of the older survivor's pleas to stay on the beach. They head inland through large, exotic bushes, never to be seen again.
The story cuts back to Malcolm and Grant. They are in Washington D.C. testifying against Biosyn, a competitor of InGen who claims that InGen has been stealing their genetic patents. In fact, Biosyn had stolen the genetic technology from InGen in one of their many schemes to gain an upper hand against their biggest competitor. Later, they had patented the technology and began to file lawsuits against InGen to gain control over their assets (a sort of Apple versus Samsung situation, if you will). InGen, plagued by major class action lawsuits by victims of dinosaur attacks in mainland Costa Rica, is out of money and cannot find the funds to fight back against BioSyn. Thus, it becomes clear why Hammond willed both the island and his wealth to Grant and Malcolm following his death. As Island C (Shima Same) now falls under the ownership of Dr. Grant and Dr. Malcolm, they are responsible for making sure BioSyn does not get control of it. Malcolm and Grant testify that the research was started by Doctor Henry Wu (who survived Jurassic Park the film, but died in the novel). However, Dr. Wu is terminally ill with cancer and does not have access to his own research. It was all kept confidential by InGen during the creation of the first Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar. All records of the research were lost when the island was destroyed.
However, Henry Wu tells Malcolm and Grant that a second set of his research can be found on Shima Same. (Oh boy, here we go again). Malcolm and Grant need to go to Shima Same and find the evidence of this research (timestamped, of course) in order to prove that it belongs to InGen. If they cannot do this, BioSyn will win in court and gain control of the remainder of InGen's assets as well as a precedent to gain control over Shima Same. Before Henry Wu died, he said one word: sharks.
Shima Same turns out to be the most ambitious park that Hammond had begun work on. It is 10 miles long and 7 miles wide, covered in tall flora and fauna to conceal the secrets within. Malcolm and Grant wish to be absolutely careful in their approach to the island. Malcolm is as pessimistic as ever and thinks that no matter how careful they are, their plan is going to fall apart. When Grant asks him why he is agreeing to enter the island if he thinks things will go awry, Malcolm remarks that things will be much worse if Biosyn gets their hands on the remaining research.
Meanwhile, the people at Biosyn have their own plans. They know that Malcolm and Grant can ruin everything for them if they can prove that the work belongs to Wu and InGen. So they hold a secret meeting (a quorum just like in the first novel) and agree upon a covert operation to sneak into the island, obtain the information first, and destroy all record of it having been there. They assemble a small team: 3 ex-military mercenaries, 1 paleobiologist and 2 programmers (in case one of them gets eaten). Malcolm and Grant perform several flybys over the island to get an idea as to where they need to go. They have no blueprints or plans concerning the architecture of the park. They spot herds of herbivorous apatosaurs and barosaurs but they don't see a great deal of diversity from the air so they assume that Shima Same was not as fully developed as Islands A or B.
Malcolm and Grant also decide to assemble their own team, as neither of them are gifted with computers and neither of them wants to go without some firepower, so they contact Alvin Birch, who is an esteemed computer programmer from MIT, and studied under the same professors as Dennis Nedry. Birch is excited about going to the island as he is fascinated with the biogenetics of prehistoric creatures (in this universe, it's a popular industry). They also hire Sydney Hensen, a hunter with experience in the Safari. They assume Henson is a man, but upon meeting in person they are surprised that Henson is a woman. Hensen brings along 2 more people, Jackson and Cooney. Grant suggests getting more people but Malcolm believes this will create more complexity and increase the chances that something will go wrong.
The goal is to get in, find the archives, retrieve them, and get out as soon as possible without alerting any creature in the island of their presence.
When they arrive, they see that the interior fences of the island are nonfunctioning and have been torn away in several places, indicating that whatever separation InGen intended to create in the dinosaur population is now non-existent and has been for quite some time. The exterior structures are mostly incomplete rebar skeletons affording them no protection. The perimeter of the island contains no useful structures of any kind, forcing them to lurk ever deeper into the forests. The roadways are blanketed with years of dust and new plant life has broken through the asphalt. Immediately, the plan falls apart. Alvin Birch, the most important tool they have at their possession gets bitten by a fly. A bite that at first seemed innocuous begins to affect him, acting as a neurotoxin that paralyzes him and gives him a dangerously high fever. Grant and Malcolm conclude that the insect life here is incredibly dangerous and they agree to abort the mission.
They make their way back to the beach only to discover that their helicopter has been destroyed. It stands there, in flames. The Biosyn group, it appears, has arrived, and has removed their chances of escaping. The group is nowhere to be seen now, and has presumably made their way into the island to beat them to the punch. Grant uses a satellite phone to call for outside help, but there is no signal. It appears that something on the island is blocking the signal. Malcolm believes that InGen must have installed signal blockers all over the island to prevent workers from communicating information to the outside world, leaking secrets and such. This was something they should have noticed when they performed their preliminary flybys but Malcolm believes that at a high enough altitude they were outside the blocking field. Malcolm thinks the best option is to move to high ground and see if they can make a call for help. Grant concludes that if the signal blockers are still working, they must be receiving power from somewhere. He believes their best bet is to find the main power station and turn off the power there so they can make the call in safety. Or else they can try and send out an email if they find a computer. If they follow Malcolm's plan, they might run into a carnivorous dinosaur and get eaten. If they follow Grant's plan, they might run into the Biosyn group and be outnumbered and outgunned. Suddenly, the situation is very complicated. No matter how they slice it, they're in trouble. Henson intervenes and says in times like these, the fastest way to settle on a plan is to flip a coin.
Malcolm's plan wins out. They leave an unconscious Alvin with Jackson on the beach and head out towards higher ground. Hensen and Cooney are armed to the teeth with armor-piercing rifles, tranquilizer guns, and a laser guided tranq cannons for larger creatures. Along the way they notice that the island seems to have been abandoned in mid-construction. Cranes, bulldozers, jeeps, trucks, and all sorts of equipment are strewn about the place. Small groups of procompsognathids follow them from time to time out of curiosity. Grant advises Hensen and Cooney to stay on guard of them, but not to fire at them lest they arouse something larger. They come across the half-eaten bodies of a couple of the sailors from the junk ship and wonder how they could have gotten there; the marks on the bodies don't seem to come from any dinosaur Grant has ever studied, and their bloated nature suggests a more mysterious cause of death. Malcolm goes into one of his spiels about the utter lack of control that InGen had on the island, and doesn't see where he's going. He steps on a pile of leaves and falls into a trap. A large spider, the size of maybe 20 human faces, quickly crawls out of his trap and attempts to bite Malcolm but is shot to pieces by Hensen.
Malcolm sits numbly for several minutes, obviously frozen in shock. He doesn't speak for the rest of the trip up the mountainside. Grant suspects that InGen must have had a very different plan for Shima Same. Nothing else can account for the spider. They spot herds of dinosaurs never found on Isla Nublar, nor Sorna. For example, they spot a nest of the less dangerous Eoraptors, who run away at the sight of them. They also spot more birdlike dinosaurs, possessing feathers, such as the Sinosauropteryx, the Mononykus, and the Caudipteryx. Aside from the spider and the compys, Grant hopefully guesses that this island was not meant to house too many carnivores. By the time they reach the top of the mountain, they thank their lucky stars that they have not encountered any major setbacks, but Malcolm finally speaks and says this is usually the time when things start to go wrong.
A storm begins to brew as nightfall approaches. The group observes the erratic behavior of the local herbivorous creatures around them. They all seem to be running away from the area. What from? The mother of all carnivores. A gigantosaurus nearly 60 feet in length tramples down trees and gobbles up fleeing compys. Grant advises the group to hide behind trees and remain absolutely still, but Cooney panics and tries to flee. He loses his footing and rolls down a hill for some distance before reaching the bottom and landing right into a nest of Utahraptors (these are the big ones that Velociraptors are portrayed as in films). For a moment, two mother raptors do nothing but stare at Cooney. He slowly attempts to unsling his rifle but they pounce on him and begin to tear him apart. He screams audibly and Hensen shoots at them in a futile attempt to save Cooney. This draws the raptors' attention to her and the others and they give chase.
Though they are still deep in the island, they stumble upon a utility building built into a hill. Hensen expertly shoots the knob before even checking to see if it's locked and they pour inside the dark room and slam the door shut and press themselves against it as the raptors attempt to kick it in. Grant desperately gropes for a light switch and finds it. The lights turn on and they see they are inside a room with shelves of books lining the walls and a computer terminal at the far end of the room. Malcolm and grant press their weight against the door while Hensen pulls the shelves down and brings them closer to the door to create a barricade. Once that's accomplished, they move to the terminal to see if they can send an email or otherwise alert the outside world of their predicament. No cigar. The terminal has no internet access. But it does contain maps and schematics of the entire park. They see that they are approximately a mile away from a service tunnel that will lead them to the main structure of the park, which is located underground. They also see that in the center of the park there appears to the be a large lake called the "Shark Enclosure."
Unfortunately, there is no other way outside the utility room. They will have to take their chances with the front door in the morning. As the rain beats down throughout the night, Grant passes the time by trying to identify all the dinosaurs in the area by the noises they make. Hensen laments the loss of Cooney, who was carrying some of their better weaponry. Malcolm tells them about his lifelong spider phobia. Grant says if he leaves this island with his life, he will drive up to Ellie Satler's house, knock on her door, and ask her to marry him. When morning comes, the group risks opening the door and is relieved to see that the raptors have moved on.
They travel to the service tunnel without incident, but when they arrive there, they hear the echoing voices of the BioSyn group coming from the tunnel. From their distressed tones, Grant gathers that they too have had an unpleasant night. Two of their team members have been eaten. Grant, Malcolm, and Hensen decide to enter the tunnel but refrain from speaking. They follow close behind the Biosyn group. At one point, they notice something that the Biosyn group hasn't. A large spider web on the tunnel ceiling rests above the heads of the group, and wrapped up hadrosaur corpses are bundled on one corner of the web. A large tarantual, about 100 human faces in size, is slowly descending from its anal silk rope with its fangs rubbing against each other in anticipation of a tasty new morsel. Grant and Hensen decide to let the spider have its way with the Biosyn group before dispatching it, but Malcolm refuses to let them die like that. So he grabs the machine gun at Hensens side and tears into the creature with bullets. The tarantula lets out an awful shriek as some of its too many legs are torn off and some of its eyes are destroyed. The Biosyn group aids in the destruction of this fecal urgency-inducing creature.
After the massacre, they approach each other cautiously. The Biosyn group is upset with the company for lying to them about the dangers of the island. Their team leader has already been killed (eaten by a utahraptor), along with one of the programmers, and they don't feel like moving on with their mission. Malcolm and Grant convene for a moment and decide that they currently may have enough money to buy out this group to their side. They offer to double the money Biosyn is going to pay if the group will help them retrieve the research data and get off the island alive. Hensen is skeptical, but reluctantly agrees to the addition of new group members.
When they reach the end of the tunnel, the group discovers an entrance that leads further underground. The doors to the entrance are open and the group enters, wary of what they will find. Grant wonders how the main power could be on after all this time. The humming of all the machinery fills the group with tension and the suspense begins to build as they edge nearer to the main control room. With guns lifted, they push through the swinging doors and find.... One of the survivors from the junk ship. His name is Wan, and he has been on the island for three weeks. The rest of his friends were eaten by the giant spider that almost got Malcolm. The main building contains all the amenities necessary for survival. A large supply of canned goods and a place to stay. Grant spots the main computer terminal to the park. He asks Wan if he turned on the main power, but Wan doesn't speak English. One of the members of Biosyn, a man named Tezi, can communicate with Wan. He acts as the interpreter. Wan says that he did turn on the power by accident. He points at the wall behind him where the main power breakers are. Grant remarks to himself that at least Hammond put the power and the main controls in the same room this time. He asks Wan how he got here. Wan explains about the ship and the legends about the island. Grant asks him why he left the door open to the entrance. Wan, confused, says he made sure they were closed.
Wan changes subject quickly and tells them there is a room beyond a hallway that houses a great monster. The Biosyn group leaves the programmer (the other one died) at the terminal to gather the research data while Wan leads them to the room. When they get there, they see that they are in a hallway fully composed of glass. The walls and ground and ceiling are a continuous glass tubing that extends outward into a lake of some sort. This is the shark enclosure. Grant and the others stare in awe as they see all sorts of glorious prehistoric ocean life floating and swimming all around them. Giant jellyfish in ornate shapes, octopuses with earlobes, huge mollusks, etc. Suddenly, the group is cast in shadow. They look overhead and see the main attraction: a megalodon, a giant shark over 70 feet in length swims above them.
As the group stares, a couple of raptors enter the hallways, closing off escape. Grant hears the snorting when they get closer, but it's too late. One of the raptors slashes the back of a Biosyn mercenary. He reflexively whips around and shoots wildly with his gun, even has his legs give way and he falls. The bullets glance of the glass tubing but create pressure fractures. By this time, the other group members have turned and begun to shoot at the raptors. Despite their accuracy, some bullets still ricochet off the glass and create cracks that leak. The integrity of the glass begins to diminish. Malcolm, Grant, and Hensen run as fast as they can back to the computer room. The others follow along but the glass hallways is rapidly flooding and the commotion has captures the megalodon's interest. The water mixes in with the raptor blood and rushes back out toward the lake. The hallways collapses completely and water begins to flood the main structure. By this time, Malcolm, Grant, Hensen, Wan, and 2 Biosyn members remain (1 merc and the programmer).
The room is beginning to flood and more raptors are likely in the building. The Biosyn merc asks if the programmer has gotten all the data yet. The programmer replies yes and hands him a flash drive. The merc takes the drive and shoots him in the head. Hensen, Malcolm, Grant, and Wan duck behind the desk as the merc shoots as them.
"I thought we had a deal!" Grant yells.
"You can't afford me," the merc replies.
Suddenly, the merc is attacked by a group of raptors and drops the flash drive. Hensen starts picking them off with her rifle while Malcolm and Grant head to the main power breakers behind them and attempt to turn them off so the signal blockers will shut down and they can make a satellite call. Wan tells them he can do it but as soon as he pulls the main breaker he is electrocuted because he's standing in water. The entire room is flooding quickly. Hensen manages to kill the last of the raptors and they run toward the merc's body in an attempt to salvage the flash drive before it becomes submerged. Hensen grabs it but it's wet and no one's sure if the data is safe.
They run through the halls and get to the main entrance doors, which leads them into the long tunnel. By this time, the water is flooding the entire place, including the tunnel, at tremendous speed. And much smaller sharks have entered the main control room to feast on the dead bodies of the mercs and the raptors. While they run, Grant attempts to make a satellite call with Lawrence Corliss to send them air support. Corliss says he will do whatever he can. At the mouth of the tunnel they spot more raptors, but Hensen is running out of ammo and they decide to take a side door that may lead them out of the tunnel structure. They find themselves in another utility room, and this one leads out to a garage with gas-powered jeeps. They board the jeep and attempt to drive out of the garage, but after years of inactivity the battery is dead and won't start. Malcolm talks about the Malcolm effect, where just when things seem to be going right they skew off into chaos. Grant tells him to stuff it and find another battery on a shelf. They rush to change the battery; all the while Malcolm stands in the background and tells them it's futile. Why would the one on the shelf have any chance of working? To his surprise, when they turn the key in the ignition, the jeep roars to life. Grant calls it the Grant Effect. Not sure about which direction to head in since they never bothered to look at that area of the maps, they just drive.
Once out in the forest they pick a direction and keep driving. Hensen calls Jackson on the satellite phone but he doesn't respond. After a while they stop to reorient themselves. Grant remarks that this island was most definitely an experiment in size. Giant spiders, giant carnivores, and giant sharks. His spiel is cut short by a familiar rumbling. From behind them they hear a bone-chilling roar. The gigantosaurus from the night before has found them. Grant steps on the gas and they're off again. The giant creature gives chase and is close to catching up with them. Remember, this thing is 60 feet tall and leaves trampled trees in its wake.
Suddenly, the trio runs out of forest and arrives at the beach. The dinosaur is still at their heels so they drive around the perimeter of the island in desperate hope of tiring out the creature before running out of fuel. Malcolm gives his signature line, "Must go faster, must go faster, go go go go!"
Hensen gloomily informs them that they're about to run out of fuel. The jeep noticeably drops in speed. Malcolm says, "What now?"
Out of nowhere, the whirring of chopper blades signal the arrival of rescue. A shadowy figure leaning out of the helicopter's side fires a single shot from a missile launcher. The rocket propelled grenade impacts directly with the gigantosaurus' square head and it explodes into a million fleshy pieces of skull and brain matter (not so much brain matter). With a violent quaking thud, the creature's body crashes to the sandy ground.
The chopper lands and Malcolm, Grant and Hensen are glad to see that Jackson and Birch are aboard and alive. Birch had suffered an allergic reaction to the bug bite. It was not a genetically engineered poison as was initially featured. As to the man who blew up the dinosaur...
