5. MURPHY, OSWALD, & JOHNSON
The law offices of Murphy, Oswald, & Johnson had worked alongside Zinj Bioengineering for the past two years, helping them with getting everything together for their amazing park in the Congo.
Back in late 1999, Edward Campbell had came to them with documents stating that the long since bankrupted International Bioengineering Inc. had created a third site in the Congo back in early 1987. The documents had been found in the labs on Isla Sorna, Site B, and they stated that when John Hammond had bought Isla Sorna to create Site B, he thought that the island would be large enough to be able to do the testing and experiments that needed to be done on the animals. However, Hammond found out later on from his employees on Sorna that the island was just too small for the testing that they needed to do. Hell, Sorna was half the size that Isla Nublar was. Eventually Hammond had no choice but to chose another location for the animals to be tested, but he didn't want to keep bothering the Costa Ricans for more new locations, because they would start getting very suspicious of InGen and the Hammond Foundation. Hammond didn't like inspections and so far had been able to keep the Costa Ricans from conducting one, and he was sure that if he bought another island from them that they'd start wanting some inspections.
So Hammond started researching for the perfect places that he could create a new site for his testing when he came upon a very interesting article in an African newspaper from the late 70's that had an interview with a man named Charles Munro. Hammond had gone out to Tangier where he was reported to have lived and talked to him about the interview that Munro had conducted. Munro had told him of an amazing adventure in the Congo that he'd experienced at the Lost City of Zinj. Hammond had decided, later on, that since the city had been destroyed by Mount Mukenko, he was going to choose that area for his new site.
It had taken quite some time for the Zaire Government to agree to allow him to buy that area and a lot of questions were asked to him as to why he wanted to use an area so far away from the public, but his offer was finally excepted seeing as which Zaire needed the money that Hammond offered to them to try and rebuild their country. After the Zaire Government had finally overthrown General Muguru, they'd had a very hard time keeping the country united and with John Hammond's help they were able to get everything back in order.
So with his new investment, John Hammond created his Site C in the Congo around the ash ruins of what once was the Lost City of Zinj and from there Hammond's teams of geneticists and workmen were able to do their testing on the animals and they actually had the room to make everything work much better from there.
* * *
Tosha Johnson walked into Jim Murphy's office and sat down in the seat directly in front of Murphy's desk. Murphy smiled at Tosha as he continued to talk on the phone with someone on the other line. Finally, Murphy hung the phone up and then turned to face Tosha in the face. Jim Murphy wore a navy blue pin stripped suit and a smile for a man of 23. He was the original creator of this law office and had eventually became partners with Stephanie Oswald and Tosha Johnson, because of money problems during a huge law suit that eventually gave the firm millions of dollars. Murphy really liked Stephanie because. well, she was beautiful, wise, and an all around nice person. He had actually dated her for quite a long time and was thinking of asking her to marry him. Tosha Johnson, on the other hand, Murphy never really cared for. She was way too bossy and that was the sort of thing that Murphy had never cared for. Now she was sitting right in front of him.
"So what did the old man have to say," Murphy said finally breaking the silence.
"He has a Paleontologist now," Tosha replied. "His name is Dr. Coleman and he's apparently new in the field. I told Edward that we needed someone that was world re-known and very good in the field, but as always, he never listens to me."
"There's no need to worry about that," Murphy implied. "Perhaps it's better that we have a young scientist on the team."
"Why do you say that, sir?" Tosha seemed very irritated, as always.
"Because we might get a better result out of the reaction if we have some new blood to back us up."
Tosha sighed getting angry. "But sir, we need some people that have been in the field for years. Don't you see that Edward is trying to screw us?"
"Tosha darling listen to me," Murphy replied trying to calm her down. "We have Alex Ventral going and he's an expert in Zoology and-"
"I don't trust Dr. Ventral! I never have."
"I understand the way you feel about Alex, but you have to understand that he's very good in the field and has worked for this company for a good year now. I have all the faith in the world in him."
"Not under his own will," Tosha implied. "You remember that he stuck his nose where it didn't belong just as much as I do, and he's not one to be trusted by any of us."
"Mr. Campbell knows what he's doing," Murphy said.
"Bullshit," Tosha screamed. "If he knew what he was doing he wouldn't have gotten Alex involved in this investigation, he would've gotten a more experienced Paleontologist, and he would've tried a lot harder to get a worthy Jurassic Park survivor that we could put trust in besides some stupid kid!"
"That 'stupid kid' may be our best hope of what we're doing to not come out," Murphy screamed back. "Eric Kirby is the only one of those people that even I feel we can trust! We sure as hell would never be able to trust Ian Malcolm or Alan Grant. Those two have ran from dinosaurs one too many times and I'm sure it wouldn't interest them to possibly have to do it again! Not only are we dealing with those people, but we're also having problems with some of the old Biosyn employees. Hell, we even had to get Campbell to give Matt Rossiter a job after it somehow slipped about what we were doing! We still don't know who the backstabber was that did that little number."
"I still don't get why he wanted to be a part of this company," Tosha implied. "He was the one that shut Biosyn down."
"Biosyn was finished after the San Diego incident," Murphy replied. "Do you possibly think for one minute that Biosyn wouldn't have ended up with lawsuits coming out of their asses from death and destruction in San Diego? Hell, they had already taken a bad fall when Lewis Dodgson tried to go to Sorna. They were expected to fill for chapter 11 just a few months before Jeff Rossiter decided to buy the old Jurassic Park: San Diego location, and Matt knew that. He didn't want to have to take the downfall for his own father's mistakes, so he shut Biosyn down and blamed it all on the Biosyn Board of Executives."
"Yes, and now all of the board are spending life in prison thanks to Daniel Ben Talon and Bob Eugene Morris," Tosha replied. "You do remember the reason why they're doing that right?"
Murphy sighed. "Do we have to go through this again?"
"I just want to make sure you remember," Tosha said.
Murphy nodded.
"They were sent to jail for trying to take cloned dinosaurs off of a Biological Preserve owned by the Costa Rican Government. The Zinj Corporation and we are basically doing the same thing. If work of all this gets out, we could be in some deep shit. We even broke a law that Biosyn didn't break."
"Oh yes, the all mighty 'No Cloning Extinct Animals Law' right," Murphy asked laughing. "Don't worry Tosha. We have contacts all over the world. There is nothing that can stop this park from opening on time and this little invitation will prove it. We have a JP survivor, a Paleontologist, and a Zoologist going to the park observed by you, Edward, and Jeffery for the weekend." Murphy paused obviously thinking about something very important. "However, there is one thing that disturbs me."
"What's that," Tosha asked, concerned. When Murphy was disturbed about something, it wasn't good. The last time he'd gotten disturbed, three of the company's most trusted lawyers had been killed by agents from a large corporation that they had a huge law suit against.
"I'm actually shocked that you didn't catch it earlier. I said that we were having problems with some of the old Biosyn employees."
"I caught it," Tosha replied, confused. "I just knew that you were talking about Matt. Is there something that he's done?"
"No, it's not about Matt," Murphy said, shaking his head. "You remember the crew list from the second expedition that Biosyn sent out to Sorna right?"
"Yes," Tosha replied. "Why?"
"Apparently one of the surviving people somehow knows information about Jurassic Congo and is trying to prove it. Alex told me about it a few days ago. It deals with someone who's been on several of Alex's expeditions in Kenya."
Tosha showed no sign of real interest. "There was only three people that survived that expedition unless you count Jeff Rossiter, but he was killed during what happened in San Diego. Which one is it?"
"Roland Tembo."
"Roland Tembo," Tosha repeated, trying to be shocked about something that she already knew. Tosha remembered the only three survivors of that second Biosyn expedition were Ed James (who was a spy for the company), and Ajay Sidahu (who was a poacher in Africa that also worked with the guy in question for a very long time), They were even considered best friends. Tosha had already found out from some of her contacts in the African Countries that Roland was doing something that could cause the park to break down. She had eventually gone out to Tangier to meet with Charles Munro, someone that had survived an expedition into the Congo to see the Lost City of Zinj. She had told him all about the Jurassic Congo project and had asked him to watch Roland and make sure that nothing went wrong. Tosha wondered why she hadn't of thought to talk to Munro until now, and she seriously needed to call Munro and notify him immediately. "What does Mr. Tembo have on us?"
"Alex didn't want to tell too much as he was afraid that the guy would be able to put a face to the act that was going on. Roland is apparently going on trial tomorrow about him killing a cheetah and he'll probably try to spit out the knowledge that he knows about Edward's park. Alex left a few hours ago for Nairobi, Kenya to oversee the trial and he'll meet the rest of you at the park later. He even said that if he's lucky that he might beat ya there."
Tosha looked shocked. "Alex Ventral at the park without the rest of us? That's not going to be good at all. I have to get on out to San Francisco."
"San Francisco," Murphy asked.
"Edward has to go out there to get the Kirby kid and I've got to have a meeting with Eric's babysitter as well. I'd better get all of this done now and get on out there. It'll take several days to get everything set up. I'll try to make a call to you from the Satellite Phone in the main control room when we arrive at the park. If there is an emergency, I'll try another way to contact you. I've got to go."
Tosha started to get up. "Oh, one other thing," Murphy implied. Tosha sat back down. "That Guitierrez guy in Costa Rica called again today."
Tosha sighed. "Is he still trying to get us to come down there and get those raptors?"
"Yep."
"This is ridiculous," Tosha said. "How many times do we have to tell him that we don't need those damn things?"
Marty Guitierrez, a biologist from Costa Rica, had called Murphy's office about twenty times now, asking them if they wanted any loose raptors in Costa Rica. Guitierrez had somehow found out about the Zinj Corporation and what they were doing in the Congo. Guitierrez had agreed not to inform anyone about the park in exchange for several million dollars. However, he'd been recently calling over and over again just to see if Zinj wanted to take the raptors that had gotten off of Isla Nublar in 1989. Those raptors had lived in seclusion for the past twelve years, without the government destroying them. The only reason that Guitierrez wanted the animals out of Costa Rican was so that there was less chance of the animals killing people in the country. Zinj had denied the requests every time. They had plenty of raptors in the Congo, and they also felt that if they took animals that had escaped from Nublar that they'd somehow find ways to escape Jurassic Congo as well. It was kind of like the InGen curse in a way.
"Well I won't keep you any longer," Murphy smiled. "Have a good trip." Tosha jumped up to leave the office, but stopped when she heard Murphy call her name. "Be careful Tosha. If something goes wrong out there, and the animals get out, and start roaming free, I want you to deal with it. You know what I'm talking about. Have that place destroyed if something goes wrong. I won't have innocent people killed because of some of those creatures."
"I understand sir." Tosha turned back around and left the office.
Murphy shook his head and turned back to some of his papers. He then looked at his cell phone at the other end of the desk. He picked it up and dialed a number. He could hear the ringing through the phone and then heard the sound of someone picking up the receiver and saying "Hello?"
"Hey Ian," Murphy replied. "Steph and I are going out to eat tonight at Red Lobster. Can you make that meeting... Good. I'll see you then... Ok, bye." He hung up the phone and smiled.
The law offices of Murphy, Oswald, & Johnson had worked alongside Zinj Bioengineering for the past two years, helping them with getting everything together for their amazing park in the Congo.
Back in late 1999, Edward Campbell had came to them with documents stating that the long since bankrupted International Bioengineering Inc. had created a third site in the Congo back in early 1987. The documents had been found in the labs on Isla Sorna, Site B, and they stated that when John Hammond had bought Isla Sorna to create Site B, he thought that the island would be large enough to be able to do the testing and experiments that needed to be done on the animals. However, Hammond found out later on from his employees on Sorna that the island was just too small for the testing that they needed to do. Hell, Sorna was half the size that Isla Nublar was. Eventually Hammond had no choice but to chose another location for the animals to be tested, but he didn't want to keep bothering the Costa Ricans for more new locations, because they would start getting very suspicious of InGen and the Hammond Foundation. Hammond didn't like inspections and so far had been able to keep the Costa Ricans from conducting one, and he was sure that if he bought another island from them that they'd start wanting some inspections.
So Hammond started researching for the perfect places that he could create a new site for his testing when he came upon a very interesting article in an African newspaper from the late 70's that had an interview with a man named Charles Munro. Hammond had gone out to Tangier where he was reported to have lived and talked to him about the interview that Munro had conducted. Munro had told him of an amazing adventure in the Congo that he'd experienced at the Lost City of Zinj. Hammond had decided, later on, that since the city had been destroyed by Mount Mukenko, he was going to choose that area for his new site.
It had taken quite some time for the Zaire Government to agree to allow him to buy that area and a lot of questions were asked to him as to why he wanted to use an area so far away from the public, but his offer was finally excepted seeing as which Zaire needed the money that Hammond offered to them to try and rebuild their country. After the Zaire Government had finally overthrown General Muguru, they'd had a very hard time keeping the country united and with John Hammond's help they were able to get everything back in order.
So with his new investment, John Hammond created his Site C in the Congo around the ash ruins of what once was the Lost City of Zinj and from there Hammond's teams of geneticists and workmen were able to do their testing on the animals and they actually had the room to make everything work much better from there.
* * *
Tosha Johnson walked into Jim Murphy's office and sat down in the seat directly in front of Murphy's desk. Murphy smiled at Tosha as he continued to talk on the phone with someone on the other line. Finally, Murphy hung the phone up and then turned to face Tosha in the face. Jim Murphy wore a navy blue pin stripped suit and a smile for a man of 23. He was the original creator of this law office and had eventually became partners with Stephanie Oswald and Tosha Johnson, because of money problems during a huge law suit that eventually gave the firm millions of dollars. Murphy really liked Stephanie because. well, she was beautiful, wise, and an all around nice person. He had actually dated her for quite a long time and was thinking of asking her to marry him. Tosha Johnson, on the other hand, Murphy never really cared for. She was way too bossy and that was the sort of thing that Murphy had never cared for. Now she was sitting right in front of him.
"So what did the old man have to say," Murphy said finally breaking the silence.
"He has a Paleontologist now," Tosha replied. "His name is Dr. Coleman and he's apparently new in the field. I told Edward that we needed someone that was world re-known and very good in the field, but as always, he never listens to me."
"There's no need to worry about that," Murphy implied. "Perhaps it's better that we have a young scientist on the team."
"Why do you say that, sir?" Tosha seemed very irritated, as always.
"Because we might get a better result out of the reaction if we have some new blood to back us up."
Tosha sighed getting angry. "But sir, we need some people that have been in the field for years. Don't you see that Edward is trying to screw us?"
"Tosha darling listen to me," Murphy replied trying to calm her down. "We have Alex Ventral going and he's an expert in Zoology and-"
"I don't trust Dr. Ventral! I never have."
"I understand the way you feel about Alex, but you have to understand that he's very good in the field and has worked for this company for a good year now. I have all the faith in the world in him."
"Not under his own will," Tosha implied. "You remember that he stuck his nose where it didn't belong just as much as I do, and he's not one to be trusted by any of us."
"Mr. Campbell knows what he's doing," Murphy said.
"Bullshit," Tosha screamed. "If he knew what he was doing he wouldn't have gotten Alex involved in this investigation, he would've gotten a more experienced Paleontologist, and he would've tried a lot harder to get a worthy Jurassic Park survivor that we could put trust in besides some stupid kid!"
"That 'stupid kid' may be our best hope of what we're doing to not come out," Murphy screamed back. "Eric Kirby is the only one of those people that even I feel we can trust! We sure as hell would never be able to trust Ian Malcolm or Alan Grant. Those two have ran from dinosaurs one too many times and I'm sure it wouldn't interest them to possibly have to do it again! Not only are we dealing with those people, but we're also having problems with some of the old Biosyn employees. Hell, we even had to get Campbell to give Matt Rossiter a job after it somehow slipped about what we were doing! We still don't know who the backstabber was that did that little number."
"I still don't get why he wanted to be a part of this company," Tosha implied. "He was the one that shut Biosyn down."
"Biosyn was finished after the San Diego incident," Murphy replied. "Do you possibly think for one minute that Biosyn wouldn't have ended up with lawsuits coming out of their asses from death and destruction in San Diego? Hell, they had already taken a bad fall when Lewis Dodgson tried to go to Sorna. They were expected to fill for chapter 11 just a few months before Jeff Rossiter decided to buy the old Jurassic Park: San Diego location, and Matt knew that. He didn't want to have to take the downfall for his own father's mistakes, so he shut Biosyn down and blamed it all on the Biosyn Board of Executives."
"Yes, and now all of the board are spending life in prison thanks to Daniel Ben Talon and Bob Eugene Morris," Tosha replied. "You do remember the reason why they're doing that right?"
Murphy sighed. "Do we have to go through this again?"
"I just want to make sure you remember," Tosha said.
Murphy nodded.
"They were sent to jail for trying to take cloned dinosaurs off of a Biological Preserve owned by the Costa Rican Government. The Zinj Corporation and we are basically doing the same thing. If work of all this gets out, we could be in some deep shit. We even broke a law that Biosyn didn't break."
"Oh yes, the all mighty 'No Cloning Extinct Animals Law' right," Murphy asked laughing. "Don't worry Tosha. We have contacts all over the world. There is nothing that can stop this park from opening on time and this little invitation will prove it. We have a JP survivor, a Paleontologist, and a Zoologist going to the park observed by you, Edward, and Jeffery for the weekend." Murphy paused obviously thinking about something very important. "However, there is one thing that disturbs me."
"What's that," Tosha asked, concerned. When Murphy was disturbed about something, it wasn't good. The last time he'd gotten disturbed, three of the company's most trusted lawyers had been killed by agents from a large corporation that they had a huge law suit against.
"I'm actually shocked that you didn't catch it earlier. I said that we were having problems with some of the old Biosyn employees."
"I caught it," Tosha replied, confused. "I just knew that you were talking about Matt. Is there something that he's done?"
"No, it's not about Matt," Murphy said, shaking his head. "You remember the crew list from the second expedition that Biosyn sent out to Sorna right?"
"Yes," Tosha replied. "Why?"
"Apparently one of the surviving people somehow knows information about Jurassic Congo and is trying to prove it. Alex told me about it a few days ago. It deals with someone who's been on several of Alex's expeditions in Kenya."
Tosha showed no sign of real interest. "There was only three people that survived that expedition unless you count Jeff Rossiter, but he was killed during what happened in San Diego. Which one is it?"
"Roland Tembo."
"Roland Tembo," Tosha repeated, trying to be shocked about something that she already knew. Tosha remembered the only three survivors of that second Biosyn expedition were Ed James (who was a spy for the company), and Ajay Sidahu (who was a poacher in Africa that also worked with the guy in question for a very long time), They were even considered best friends. Tosha had already found out from some of her contacts in the African Countries that Roland was doing something that could cause the park to break down. She had eventually gone out to Tangier to meet with Charles Munro, someone that had survived an expedition into the Congo to see the Lost City of Zinj. She had told him all about the Jurassic Congo project and had asked him to watch Roland and make sure that nothing went wrong. Tosha wondered why she hadn't of thought to talk to Munro until now, and she seriously needed to call Munro and notify him immediately. "What does Mr. Tembo have on us?"
"Alex didn't want to tell too much as he was afraid that the guy would be able to put a face to the act that was going on. Roland is apparently going on trial tomorrow about him killing a cheetah and he'll probably try to spit out the knowledge that he knows about Edward's park. Alex left a few hours ago for Nairobi, Kenya to oversee the trial and he'll meet the rest of you at the park later. He even said that if he's lucky that he might beat ya there."
Tosha looked shocked. "Alex Ventral at the park without the rest of us? That's not going to be good at all. I have to get on out to San Francisco."
"San Francisco," Murphy asked.
"Edward has to go out there to get the Kirby kid and I've got to have a meeting with Eric's babysitter as well. I'd better get all of this done now and get on out there. It'll take several days to get everything set up. I'll try to make a call to you from the Satellite Phone in the main control room when we arrive at the park. If there is an emergency, I'll try another way to contact you. I've got to go."
Tosha started to get up. "Oh, one other thing," Murphy implied. Tosha sat back down. "That Guitierrez guy in Costa Rica called again today."
Tosha sighed. "Is he still trying to get us to come down there and get those raptors?"
"Yep."
"This is ridiculous," Tosha said. "How many times do we have to tell him that we don't need those damn things?"
Marty Guitierrez, a biologist from Costa Rica, had called Murphy's office about twenty times now, asking them if they wanted any loose raptors in Costa Rica. Guitierrez had somehow found out about the Zinj Corporation and what they were doing in the Congo. Guitierrez had agreed not to inform anyone about the park in exchange for several million dollars. However, he'd been recently calling over and over again just to see if Zinj wanted to take the raptors that had gotten off of Isla Nublar in 1989. Those raptors had lived in seclusion for the past twelve years, without the government destroying them. The only reason that Guitierrez wanted the animals out of Costa Rican was so that there was less chance of the animals killing people in the country. Zinj had denied the requests every time. They had plenty of raptors in the Congo, and they also felt that if they took animals that had escaped from Nublar that they'd somehow find ways to escape Jurassic Congo as well. It was kind of like the InGen curse in a way.
"Well I won't keep you any longer," Murphy smiled. "Have a good trip." Tosha jumped up to leave the office, but stopped when she heard Murphy call her name. "Be careful Tosha. If something goes wrong out there, and the animals get out, and start roaming free, I want you to deal with it. You know what I'm talking about. Have that place destroyed if something goes wrong. I won't have innocent people killed because of some of those creatures."
"I understand sir." Tosha turned back around and left the office.
Murphy shook his head and turned back to some of his papers. He then looked at his cell phone at the other end of the desk. He picked it up and dialed a number. He could hear the ringing through the phone and then heard the sound of someone picking up the receiver and saying "Hello?"
"Hey Ian," Murphy replied. "Steph and I are going out to eat tonight at Red Lobster. Can you make that meeting... Good. I'll see you then... Ok, bye." He hung up the phone and smiled.