Jurassic Park The First Iteration Summary

How It All Goes Down

In a Land Rover, Mike Bowman drives his wife Ellen and daughter Tina to a beach in Costa Rica.
Tina spies what she thinks is a squirrel monkey crossing the jungle path.
The Bowmans arrive at a deserted beach.
Ellen worries about snakes, while Tina plays out of their sight.
A lizard chirps and jumps on Tina. Her parents hear her screams.

Tina is seen by Dr. Cruz.
Tina's bites are disappearing, and the doctor doesn't recognize the animal that bit her.
An American biologist named Dr. Guitierrez believes it was a basilisk lizard.
With the animal apparently identified, analysis of its saliva halts.
A sample is sent to San José (the one in Costa Rica).
Tina thanks Dr. Cruz and observes that he has changed his shirt but not his tie.
Dr. Cruz asks Tina how many toes the lizard had. She says three.
Dr. Cruz tells this to Dr. Guitierrez.
Dr. Guitierrez no longer sure that she was attacked by a basilisk lizard.

Marty Guitierrez looks into basilisk lizard bites and finds nothing. Reports come to him of other animal attacks on children in the area.
Guitierrez goes to the beach to see if he can find the creature Tina saw. He finds one being eaten by a howler monkey.

The lizard is sent to Dr. Simpson, but because he's on a field trip, the animal is forwarded to Dr. Stone at Columbia University.
Dr. Stone can't identify the animal, but he can check it for diseases.
The tests show nothing worth noting.
A fax is sent to Dr. Guitierrez.
Dr. Stone assumes (wrongly) the lizard is a basilisk and that the bites pose no major health concern.
Elsewhere in Costa Rica, a midwife discovers the baby in her care is dead, attacked by lizards.

Back at Columbia University, a technician named Alice Levin sees Tina's drawing and identifies it as a dinosaur.
Richard Stone explains that it's a present-day animal.
Alice wants Dr. Stone to send the animal to an expert, but Dr. Stone says no.