Jurassic Park: Sixth Iteration: Lodge Summary & Analysis

In the lodge, Malcolm breathes painfully. Hammond wonders aloud who could have imagined that they would end up a situation like this, and Ellie points out that Malcolm did. Malcolm corrects her. He didn’t imagine it; he calculated it. Hammond protests that he didn’t want any of this and that he’s tired of hearing Malcolm say different versions of “I told you so.” Malcolm wearily points out that the minute a person invites doom is the moment he believes himself master over nature. Nevertheless, Hammond didn’t just imagine that he could control nature, he deliberately engineered systems that required him to do so to avoid catastrophe. “He’s lost me,” Hammond says to no one in particular.

Grant and Gennaro find the visitor center’s rear door locked, requiring them to run around to the front where they can climb through the broken glass. But inside, they confront another set of locked doors separating them from Tim and Lex…and the raptors.

Tim falls to the floor screaming: as he passed through the door, he felt the touch of reptile skin. But it’s just the baby raptor: he and Lex have stumbled into the nursery. The scared baby jumps into his arms, chirping and squeaking in terror because the adult raptors have followed the children through the still-open door. Tim flings the baby in their direction. Much to his horror and distress, the adults immediately kill and start to eat it. In a blind panic, Tim and Lex run madly through the lab until they run into Grant, with Gennaro by his side. It took Grant longer than it took Tim to think of taking a security key off a dead guard, but once he did, he and Gennaro entered the lab in search of the kids. 

Grant tells Gennaro that he has a plan to dispatch the raptors and pushes him, Lex, and Tim, through a nearby door. He hopes it will allow them to access the control room, but it doesn’t have an exit on the other side. Slowly and cautiously, Grant leads the raptors from room to room until they reach the Fertilization Room. Remembering what Wu said on the tour—that the lab contained dangerous chemicals—Grant pokes around until he finds a collection of vials marked with skull and crossbones. He carefully draws some into a syringe. The raptors enter the hatchery, stealing quietly between the tables. Slowly and quietly, Grant injects an egg with the poison, then rolls it towards the raptors. The first egg stops short; the second rolls too slowly. But the third egg, which Grant rolls fast, activates one of the raptors’ chasing instincts.

One of the raptors bites the egg before catching sight of Grant and stalking toward him. Just before it pounces, the poison takes effect and the gasping, gurgling creature collapses to the floor. A second raptor seizes on its vulnerable state to take a nip at its hind leg, but the first raptor lashes out, sinking its teeth into the second’s neck. The poison quickly dispatches that dinosaur too, leaving only one, which turns its attention to Grant. Suddenly remembering the radio, Grant calls Ellie and asks her to keep talking, then he slides the radio across the floor. The raptor, distracted by the strange, disembodied voice, turns its attention from Grant to investigate, giving him the opportunity to plunge the needle with its remaining poison into the beast’s tail. Once the danger has passed, Grant, Gennaro, Lex, and Tim head back to the control room.