Jurassic Park Second Iteration Summary

How It All Goes Down

Alan Grant digs up dinosaur bones in the Montana badlands.
Grant is visited by Bob Morris of the EPA. They go inside and drink beer.
Ellie Sattler, a paleobotanist, is there.
Morris explains that the EPA is concerned about the activities of the Hammond Foundation, one of the funders of Grant's expeditions.
The Foundation has been buying a lot of amber and has purchased an island in Costa Rica.
Morris asks Grant about the company InGen.
Grant had spoken to Donald Gennaro and done some consulting for them.
Gennaro used to call in the middle of the night with questions about what dinosaurs would eat.
Hint! Hint!
Morris leaves, and Grant gets a call from Alice Levin.

Ellie gives the bones that have been unearthed an acid bath. She listens to Alan talk to Alice Levin on the phone.
Grant doesn't believe she's found a dinosaur, but he agrees to accept a fax.
The fax arrives.
It appears to be a Procompsognathus.
Hammond calls, and Alan puts him on speaker.
Hammond complains about the EPA guy and says he's on a one-man mission.
Hammond invites Alan and Ellie to the island for the weekend. They're hesitant.
Hammond says he'll pay them each sixty thousand dollars if they come.
Uh huh. Alan and Ellie agree.

Donald Gennaro meets with his boss, Daniel Ross.
Gennaro talks with John Hammond on the phone about the weekend assessment.
Gennaro doesn't trust that Hammond has everything under control on the island.
An inspection is overdue.
Gennaro is bringing in experts, but Hammond is inviting them.
Gennaro calls Grant, thanking him and Dr. Sattler for agreeing to visit the island. He asks about the specimen that Grant identified as a dinosaur.

A package arrives for Alan and Ellie. It's a schematic of the island; it looks like they're building a zoo.
Grant takes measures to protect the digging site and the new baby raptor skeleton he's begun to unearth.
Ross tells Gennaro that if there's a problem on the island they should burn it to the ground.
Hammond and Gennaro fly to Montana to pick up Grant and Sattler. They discuss the park and talk about when it will be ready to open.
Hammond says he has 238 animals on the island. He reassures the lawyer that everything is fine.

Ross tells Gennaro to burn the island to the ground if there is a problem.
Gennaro meets with Hammond, who acts as though the inspection is just a social outing.
Hammond will admit only that there are a few snags in the operation.

Grant and Sattler board the private plane and meet Gennaro. They don't like him on sight.
Hammond explains to the lawyer who the two scientists are.
They all head by plane to Dallas
Hammond says they'll be back in 48 hours.
LOL.

Lewis Dodgson begins a meeting with Biosyn staff. He explains the opportunity InGen offers them with their cloned dinosaurs.
The park is one opportunity, of course, but there is also the opportunity for pets. Dinosaur pets, folks. Who wouldn't want one?
Dodgson informs the participants at the meeting that he has a source in InGen who can obtain examples of the dinosaurs for him.
No one objects to this. Evil corporation trope?

Dodgson enters a coffee shop. He sits down next to his source.
The source wants to see the money. Dodgson shows him half and says the remainder is to be paid on return of fifteen embryos.
The man asks how he'll transport them.
Dodgson gives him a shaving cream canister—or what's designed to look like one.
The man says to have a boat waiting at the East dock.
The two plan to meet again on Sunday.

The group traveling to the island meets Malcolm, the mathematician.
Malcolm expects the project to fail. He gives everyone his report to read on the plane trip.
Gennaro asks why Malcolm anticipates failure.
Malcolm explains the basics of chaos theory.

Another passenger is picked up, a man named Dennis Nedry.
Grant looks at the mountains of Costa Rica.
The group lands on the island, which is called Isla Nublar, or "cloudy island." They meet Ed Regis, who welcomes them.
Grant sees a dinosaur.
He wasn't expecting that.