Malcolm was in the control room of the Visitor's Center with Hammond, Muldoon, Ellie, and Arnold.
"No, no, no, that's crazy. You're out of your mind. He is absolutely out of his mind." Arnold said.
"Wait a minute, what exactly would this mean?" Ellie asked.
"We're talking about a calculated risk, my dear, which is about the only option left to us." Hammond said. "We will never figure out what Nedry did to shut the systems down. I think it's obvious now, that he's not coming back. So shutting down the entire system-"
"You can get somebody else, because I won't do it." Arnold objected.
"Shutting down the entire system is the only way we can get Jurassic Park back in operation" Hammond said. "Now, as I understand it, all the systems will then come back, reset, and ready to go, correct?"
"Theoretically, yes." Arnold said. "But we've never shut down the entire system before. It may not come back on at all."
"Will we get the phones back?" Ellie asked.
"Yes, again, in theory." Arnold said.
"What about the lysine contingency?" Muldoon asked. "We could put that into effect."
"what's that?" Ellie asked.
"That is absolutely out of the question." Hammond dismissed.
"The lysine contingency is intended to prevent the spread of the animals in case they ever get off the island. Dr. Wu injected a serum into the dinosaurs when they hatched that prevented an enzyme in protein metabolism. The animals can't manufacture the amino acid, lysine. Unless they are completely supplied with lysine provided by us, they slip into a coma and die."
"People...are...dying." Hammond said annoyed. "Will you please shut down the system?"
Arnold went to each of the twenty four computers and set all the switches and levers to default positions. He then went to a control box and flipped all the switches down. First the computers shut down. Then the table-map. And then the electricity.
Arnold waited several seconds. "Hold onto your butts." Arnold said.
He flipped the first switch. Nothing happened.
"Um." Arnold muttered.
He saw a lightbulb light up on each of the computers.
"It's okay. Look. See that? They're on. It worked." Arnold said.
"Wait a minute." Malcolm said. "What do you mean, it worked? Everything's still off?"
"Well, maybe the shutdown tripped the circuit breakers." Arnold suggested. "All we have to do is turn them on, reboot a few systems in here: Telephones, telescreens, half a dozen others, but it worked. System's ready."
"Where are the breakers?" Muldoon asked.
"Maintenance shed, the other end of the compound." Arnold said. "Three minutes, I can have the entire power back on in the entire park."
"Well, just to be safe," Hammond said, "I want everybody in the emergency bunker...until Mr. Arnold returns and the whole system is up and running again."