I don't own Jurassic Park.

First Flaws.

Ian Malcolm hated hospitals but thankfully his injuries sustained by stupidly trying to outrun that who'd thankfully, as horrifying as that might sound, devoured Gennaro rather than him, injured his leg rather than go for him were not as bad as they seemed.

He was limping around the room, watched by Ellie and Grant, while Tim and Lex were somewhere else.

"Take it easy, Ian," Ellie coddled him when she saw him grimace as he tried to move.

"Sorry, but I need to keep moving, keep my brain thinking," Ian replied before he sighed and looked seriously at Grant and Ellie. "Where's Hammond?"

Ellie and Grant glanced at each other. "We don't know; he went off with a few suits, they looked like lawyers."

"They probably were," Ian gasped and winced again, cursing his injuries. The doctors and nurses at the hospital had told him to take things easy, and not to put too much strain on his injured leg. At the same time, he wondered if Sarah would turn up, but Ian decided to find out what was going on. He was going mad. "InGen is full of them. Remember all of those forms we had to sign? InGen is going to be looking over us with a fine legal comb to make sure we don't talk about the Park. They would have kept that magnifying glass hovering over us for months before the opening of the park. It's one of the biggest flaws of the Park."

"What do you mean?" Grant asked.

Ian sighed and he sat down with Ellie's help. "When we saw the dinosaurs at the Park, I already knew what Hammond was doing. I could see flaws in the system from the start. Hammond and his people were bringing extinct animals back from the dead, but he was relying on a system, a web of security to keep them locked up in enclosures. He was depending so much on automation to make things cheap after spending so much money to make the park work."

Grant grunted. "I remember you saying the park was doomed to fail on the helicopter."

"Yes, I did, didn't I?" Malcolm shook his head, wincing again at some pain before he carried on. "When we saw that film and the laboratory, did you notice anything….wrong about it, especially the eggs?"

"No, why?"

"You should. The answer was all around you," Malcolm sighed as he tried to make himself comfortable to explain. "On that film and the tour of the laboratories, we were given a very washed down version of how the cloning process works. We saw the Dino DNA removed from amber-entrapped insects, mosquitos and flies, etc. We saw the scientists like Wu and some of his assistants map the DNA, but we didn't see the most important step of the process; the creation of the embryos themselves and the implantation of frog DNA to repair the gene sequence damage and implanting them into the artificial plastic eggs InGen use for the process. But how did he do it, how did he get a viable embryo? He couldn't have done it every single time. It just seemed like it was being done between rooms. But it couldn't have done."

"What do you mean?"

"You mean it never occurred to you?" Malcolm looked up at him and Ellie in surprise. "Use your logic. Hammond and his own people have pretty much admitted they didn't know what would come out of those eggs when they hatched. But where were the stillbirths? Where was the research actually taking place? There were a few computers capable of reading and mapping DNA strands, I'll give you that, but where were the rest of them? On top of that, that little hatchery where we saw that velociraptor peck its way out of the egg, that was too good to be true."

Ellie exchanged a concerned look with Grant. "What do you mean?"

"Where are the stillbirths? Where are the deformities? No difficulties of any kind? But in the presentation, it went off without any kind of hitch. But that couldn't be true. Hammond had this high-tech genetics lab, but when you manufacture anything new, the initial yields are too small. Always. It is only as you iron out the problems that production yields become higher. Hammond must have a second laboratory out there, growing dinosaurs at a massive rate and conducting research in secret away from public scrutiny. While there, Hammond could conduct any research he could want. That velociraptor you were holding, Grant, could have been the only viable embryo produced out of a batch of a million wasted embryos."

Grant and Ellie glanced at each other. They hadn't thought of anything like this, but they had to admit that it made a degree of sense, but the scale involved blew their minds.

"A factory creating dinosaur embryo after dinosaur embryo," Grant shook his head, "it is hard to imagine…."

"It's not. It's exactly like Hammond," Ellie replied grimly, "I spoke to Hammond while you were lost in the Park with Tim and Lexi; when we spoke, he hadn't seemed to lose his determination to build Jurassic Park, that his hiring of Nedry was a mistake."

Ian snorted. "Nedry was a bit of a rogue element; I came up with several potential possibilities for how the park could fall apart at Hammond's feet, one of them was down to human intervention, another human error."

"Okay, Ian, what were the main flaws of Jurassic Park?"

"Okay, on one hand, you have a genetic scientist who's programmed in safeguards like the Lysine deficiency where they can't stop eating Lysine in order to survive, but truthfully lysine is present in plant life, so there have to be sources of it around the island for the herbivores to eat. By now the herbivores are chomping down on the rich veggies of the island. The carnivores eat them, so they in turn survive. A contingency plan that ultimately fails. Wu had the perfect opportunity to study the genetics of the dinosaurs, but he couldn't be bothered to take it that far. As a result, it likely contributed to the problems of stillbirths. Wu made the dinosaurs female, but life finds a way. Life can't be contained or constricted. You know that for yourselves."

"We found a clutch of hatched eggs on our way back to the Visitors centre," Grant said grimly, "so the dinosaurs were breeding, but now you mention it, I have no idea how long it's been going on."

"It is likely been happening for a long time," Ellie commented, "but what are the other major flaws of the Park?"

"It's design. It was just too complicated, and even the tour was dangerous. Hammond made sure the entire system was automated, but I made up mathematical models using that as a base. The Park was full of flaws on that level, but the work of Wu was part of that equation. His beliefs in how infallible his genetic modifications added on; if the dinosaurs didn't break out of the park, they would have bred and bred and bred until they broke through the park's security measures. That was just the one model, but there was another which showed the Park systems just collapsed under their own weight."

Ellie snorted, "I can attest to that. No problem. I was in the control room, with Hammond, Arnold and Muldoon, and I can tell you their systems must be built on systems."

"As I said, Jurassic Park's systems collapsed under their own weight, but they were helped by Dennis Nedry," Malcolm turned to Grant and explained it for the palaeontologist's benefit, "Nedry was a computer scientist who'd been hired by InGen to help solve certain problems, but when he didn't get them all finished, they contacted his other clients and told them he was untrustworthy, forcing him to come back. Arnold told me about the details about his financial issues, but Hammond believed he could fight his own battles. I don't suppose it makes much of a surprise he turned to industrial espionage who paid him a large sum of cash to steal dinosaur embryos."

"Hold it, you're saying that a computer programmer deliberately shut everything down because he wanted to be paid more?! I don't suppose it ever occurred to him people would be killed!" Grant ranted.

Ian just shrugged. He was too full of pain medication to really say anything else, in any case, the drugs had made it hard to concentrate on his emotions. "Probably not, but that was one of the flaws of Jurassic Park; on one side, the dinosaurs could breed and breed until they overran the place, or the systems collapsed under their own weight, or someone just pressed a button and shut everything down. Really, Jurassic Park wouldn't have worked regardless because the dinosaurs lived in a totally different epoch, and we knew nothing about them."