Isla Nublar- 120 Miles West of Costa Rica
The tropical air was crisp in the night and was beginning to cool down from the intense jungle heat. The silence was broken as the trees rustled and snapped as something moved in the jungle, unseen. A group of men in navy blue coveralls and red hardhats stared quietly into the jungle. A large majority of them were armed with Thompson submachine guns, as if they were expecting an opposing army to charge through the brush. Several others had long metal sticks which were in fact experimental cattle prods. Some of the prods were attacked to the Thompsons with wire.
Behind the men was a large concrete observation tower overlooking a walled in area filled with trees and other assorted jungle plants. It gave off the look of a small prison, which was not far from the truth.
Suddenly, a large cage emerged through the jungle on a forklift. It was not unlike a circus cage, except it was made of re-enforced steel rather than wood, and was dotted with several small holes to allow the animal inside to breath. It was a recent invention unlike any other cage of its type.
Another man stared sternly at the oncoming forklift. Unlike the other men, he was dressed in a khaki outfit, on his head was a slouch hat. He held a Browning Auto-5 shotgun. He looked as if he had been whisked from a safari in Africa. In fact, Robert Muldoon was a native Kenyan who was a renowned guide and big-game hunter. He had recently been employed to serve as a game warden at a new, upcoming park on this island. It contained exotic animals. But these animals were not the lions and tigers known around the world. The creature in the cage was much deadlier…and smarter. Muldoon looked at the forklift with extreme caution. One slip of judgement could cause a fatal error.
As the forklift approached the men and the building, a foreman shouted orders. "Everybody, heads up! Heads up! Keep it clear!" Another man shouted the same orders in Spanish.
The cage began to approach the building and the foreman shouted instructions to the driver.
The cage lowered to the ground. The creature inside made audible breaths that sound like calm snarls. Muldoon looked at the workers and said, "Ok pushing team, get in there!"
Several men jogged up to the cage and grabbed a hold of several handles along the side of the cage. Muldoon gave out orders to the remaining men, "I want cattle prods readied!"
Suddenly, a snarled erupted from the cage startling a worker. Muldoon chastised the man. "Steady! Steady. Go on, step back in."
More men went to the other side of the cage. Muldoon looked at the men, "…and push!"
The men began pushing the cage towards an opening in the enclosure. The cage rolled partway into the enclosure before metal rods were placed to keep the cage held in place.
"We're locked!" Muldoon confirmed. "Loading team, step away!" The men went back to join the others. Muldoon looked at a man standing next to him, "Gatekeeper!"
A black man went up to the cage and climbed on top. The creature inside stared at him and growled.
"Jophery, raise the gate!"
Jophery pulled up on the handles of the cage's gate as it began to lift up.
Suddenly, the creature roared and charged the back of the cage, bending the metal bars and pushing the gate back out, knocking several workers to the ground. Among them was Jophery who had fallen by the cage's opening.
He began to pull himself back up as he was suddenly dragged into the cage. Muldoon cried out, "It's open! Don't let it get out!" as he dropped his shotgun and grabbed Jophery.
Several men ran up to the cage and began shocking the creature with their cattle prods.
The night air was filled with screaming, roaring and the sparking of electricity.
Muldoon began to feel his grasp loosen. The creature was too strong. Muldoon and the creature made eye contact, and he was momentarily stricken with fear.
The workers continued prodding the creature, hoping to make it lose its grasp on Jophery, but it was to no avail.
Muldoon yelled out, "Shoot her! Shoot her!". Muldoon watched helplessly as Jophery was pulled into the gate as his screams died out.