Sorna, 4 Months Post-Nublar: Jake opened his eyes and groaned as a bright light shown down from above.
"Somebody, turn off that light!" he groaned. To his surprise the light did shut off and Jake bolted upwards before slamming back down onto a hospital gurney.
"Oh good you're awake," said Derek Waters, the last remaining physician on the island. "Guess that means no malpractice suit muwahahahaha!"
"How long was I out?" Jake asked. Stormy shrugged.
"I dunno a day maybe two," he said. "It took us a little bit to find you though."
"Where's my dino?" Jake asked.
"Resting comfortably in her cage in your office," said Derek. "I think it's a miracle you both survived this ordeal with only minor scratches and cuts. Well, no malpractice suit this time."
"I think it's a miracle you're doing your job," said Jake laughing. Derek shrugged and tossed the clipboard with Jake's diagnosis on it onto a nearby counter.
"Let's just say that Dillon's rebellion opened a lot of people's eyes around here. Between him rebelling and you stopping him, the people are afraid that you'll come after them if we don't do our jobs."
"Hooray," said Jake. "Where's Gerry?"
"He said he had to go out to the pteranodon cage, no idea why though," said Derek.
"What do you mean no idea?" Jake asked.
"Dillon blew up all of the boats on the island and left in the only remaining one, which he didn't realize was damaged and drowned," said Derek. "You tried to save him but it was too late and he drowned or at least that's what Gerry said happened."
"Oh yeah," said Jake still a little bit confused. Gerry then appeared and entered in through one of the doors.
"Hey Jake," said Gerry apprehensive.
"Thanks for your help," said Jake. Gerry nodded absently.
"We need to talk," he said. Jake nodded hoping that things would've calmed down but apparently no such luck.
"Let's go to my office," he said. Gerry nodded and the two left leaving Derek bewildered. The two emerged from the hospital/dentist's office/etc. and walked down the main road that was still vacant. After passing through the main entrance and walking through the still empty building, with the exception of a pair of scientists analyzing something on a computer, Jake and Gerry entered Jake's office.
"So what's up?" asked Jake sitting behind his desk. Steviesaurus was indeed still out cold on his desk so Jake picked up the cage and set it down on the floor.
"While you were out, me and a couple of the guys went into the pteranodon cage and recovered the remains of Dillon," said Gerry.
"Yeah, he didn't deserve to go out the way he did, score another one for the dinosaurs. So what's the damage to the island?" asked Jake looking at a piece of paper on his desk.
"Unfortunately that's the least of our problems right now," said Gerry. "We find him inside of a nest."
Jake dropped his papers and they flew everywhere. "A nest?"
"A nest," said Gerry. "And filled with these."
Gerry hauled a large box onto Jake's desk and opened it up to reveal a baby pteranodon.
"Oh my God," said Jake beginning to feel sick. "So they can breed."
"Yes, there were five in the nest along with a parent. We shot them all, but still where's there's one there's sure to be more," said Gerry.
"Damn I was hoping to put this off until later," said Jake holding his head in frustration. "You realize what this means don't you?"
"That the contingency plan must be implemented, island integrity has become compromised because of this," said Gerry. Jake sighed and rolled over to his safe and opened it. Inside were some weapons that he'd taken from the crate on Indigo, the others he'd put in his office back at the Hammond Research Center, and a single dossier. Jake pulled it out and looked at it apprehensively. The document had only three letters on it: E.L.E.
"I never thought we'd ever use this," said Jake. "Even after Jeffrey died I…I don't know."
"You have to open it," Gerry insisted. "This farce has gone on long enough. It's time for us to regain control of this island."
Jake nodded and pulled out a pocket knife and cut open the envelope. Inside was a single red key. Jake looked at it with remorse before getting up and following Gerry. The two left his office and proceeded to a door that was hidden in the side of the wall. On each side of the hidden door were two key slots.
"You know they're going to get warnings about this back in San Diego," said Jake.
"I doubt the equipment used to transmit that signal even works anymore," said Gerry. "And even if it does, we have the legal right to do this."
Jake nodded and inserted his key into the slot.
"Counter clockwise on three," said Jake as Gerry nodded. "One, two."
They both twisted their keys and the door pulled backwards and slid up. Jake and Gerry left their keys in the lock and entered into the sterile room. Jake pulled out a keycard and Gerry pulled out his. They both inserted them into a computer on the far wall and the screen came up: Command Code Authorization.
"Whitacre, Chief Scientist Jake L.," said Jake into a nearby microphone. "Command J-22-37."
"Harding, Veterinarian Gerry," said Gerry. "Command H-99-81."
The screen came up: Access Approved, ELE Execute Y/N?
"This is it, there is no turning back," Jake said.
"You know as well as I do that we have to do this," said Gerry. Jake sighed.
"I know," said Jake. He pressed the N button and the screen read: Access Approved. The screen shut off and a panel above it opened up.
San Diego: Alarms blared all over the Ingen Complex and on every computer a popup came up reading: PROJECT E.L.E. ACTIVATED. Everyone looked at it bewildered including the board in their office.
"What is Project Ellie?" asked Samantha.
"I don't know, but I am sure my esteemed uncle would know," said Ludlow. "Which is why I am going to ask him."
"Don't bother," said Mr. Hammond as he suddenly appeared hobbling in with his amber tipped cane.
"What's going on?" demanded Lucious as Hammond sat down. "What is E.L.E.?"
"Something that Jake Whitacre must be prevented from carrying out," said Hammond solemnly.
Sorna: Jake reached into the open compartment and pulled out a pair of notebooks, one with a red slip cover the other just a normal notebook. Jake handed the regular one to Gerry and took the red one.
"I bet they're shitting a brick right now," said Jake laughing.
"Probably," said Gerry. "But they deserve it for the hell they put us through."
Each notebook read E.L.E. and below it: Extinction Level Event.
San Diego: "E.L.E. is called an Extinction Level Event," said Hammond. "It's the name for any event that could cause the rapid loss of an entire species. One E.L.E. was whatever took out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago."
"And what does this have to do with Sorna?" asked Samantha. Hammond looked at her annoyed.
"It was also the name for the contingency plan designed to rid the islands of dinosaurs should containment be considered in danger," said Hammond. "Jake had it implemented following the incident with A-1."
"What does E.L.E. entail then?" asked Lucious.
"It has step by step instructions created by Robert Muldoon, Gerry Harding, Jake Whitacre, and Henry Wu to eliminate every dinosaur on the island," said Hammond amazed at the council's stupidity. "It lists their strengths, weaknesses, critical points to attack, what they eat, how to effectively poison it, etc. along with a timeline to implement it. We kept it carefully locked away so as not to fall into a rival company's hands where they could easily destroy everything that we'd worked so hard to create. As I said, it was to be implemented in the case that either containment was in danger or if the lysine contingency failed."
"So what changed?" asked Samantha.
"I don't know," Hammond confessed. "But what the hell have you done to my island!"
"Do not blame this on me," said Ludlow. "Your inaction has caused more damage than my actions ever could. I have been doing my best to keep Ingen afloat after your abysmal failure with that park idea."
"The park was not a failure," Hammond fumed. "Nedry betrayed me and then died to escape my vengeance. But there is still a chance the island can be recovered."
"Not with ELE in effect," Ludlow said silently. Hammond jerked his head to stare at him but before he could issue a retort, the fax machine went off printing a report from Isla Sorna.
Sorna: "Let them mull over that for awhile," said Jake as the fax machine was hard at work processing his report. Meanwhile Jake and Gerry were reading over the E.L.E. report.
"God I'd forgotten how comprehensive this thing was," said Jake shaking his head as he rifled through everything.
"It took us nine months of comprehensive research to get this much," said Gerry looking at a massive foldout chart of Sorna with the layout of all dinosaur pens each with a number over it. "So it'd better damn well be comprehensive."
"Touché," said Jake as he looked at a diagram of a velociraptor detailing its reaction time, speed, and areas of weakness.
"Guess we'd better start implementing this before Ingen gets PO'd and pulls the plug," said Gerry.
"They're not going to do anything," said Jake as he slapped the notebook closed. "They're a bureaucracy they won't be coming to a decision anytime soon. Now let's get to work."
San Diego: "How're we supposed to know if they're even going to do anything?" Samantha asked. "Maybe they're just doing it to rattle us."
"You read the report," said Lucious. "The dinosaurs can breed, if anything they're justified in what they're doing. We cannot afford to have assets unaccounted for on any island."
"They are destroying my property!" shouted Hammond. "We must do something!"
"And we will," said Ludlow. "But not in a way to draw attention to ourselves and our problems. We will send an HR representative to that island to assess what is going on. If it is a danger to our assets then we will decide what to do, not before then!"
"Then get that person onto that island fast," said Hammond harshly as he left with his butler.
Sorna: Jake was leafing through the timeline in the notebook when his phone rang. Jake hadn't heard the sound in so long that he dropped his notebook startled.
"I wonder who that could be?" said Gerry. Jake shrugged.
"This ought to be good," said Jake as he picked up the phone.
"Whit," he said.
"Hey Jay Dubya how's it going?" came the always cheerful voice of John Brown. "I see you survived that tropical storm."
Jake groaned. "What do you want?"
"Who is it?" Gerry whispered.
"John Brown," said Jake as he covered up the bottom part of the phone. Gerry started to leave when Jake waved his back down. Gerry shrugged and sat back down.
"Alright I'll cut the crap to keep this short. You told me to tell if you anything bad was happening in the outside world and I'm sticking to that promise," said John. "They buried him Jake."
"Buried who?" asked the scientist, opening Steviesaurus cage and laying the now awake dinosaur on his lap.
"Ian, he talked and Ingen buried him!" said John. Jake dropped the phone and it hit the desk. Gerry looked at him confused before Jake waved him to leave. Gerry nodded understanding and left.
"I-I'm sorry," said Jake.
"Don't worry about it, I'm going to go make arrangements for ELE," said Gerry leaving. Jake nodded and grasped for the phone.
"So what exactly happened?" asked Jake finding his voice.
"My people are still putting together the pieces but from the looks of it, but apparently Mr. Malcolm started using his class to begin discussing and arguing against what Ingen did on Jurassic Park," said John. "Needless to say Ingen wasn't just about sit idly by and let this happen."
"Was Hammond involved?" asked Jake.
"Not as far as we can tell," said John. "It looks like it was all Ludlow's idea. Hammond was still withdrawn from the company at the time."
"As opposed to now?" asked Jake. A soft chuckle was heard from the other end.
"Let's just say Project ELE isn't sitting too well with him," John said finally.
"Why am I not surprised you know about that," said Jake. "Just like you knew my phone number on this island; who're your sources?"
"You know I can't reveal that," John replied.
"I hate you," said Jake.
"I know, but I just thought you should know about Ian. At the moment his tenure is on the verge of being revoked and its possible Ingen may take up legal action," said John.
"I told him to say nothing," Jake said helplessly. "I warned him of the consequences."
"Well you know how Ian is," said John. "Listen I gotta go, but uh, don't do anything rash, you'll only regret it later on. So long Jake."
"Bye Brown," said Jake as he clicked the phone shut leaving Jake alone with his thoughts.
Auditorium: "So we'll start out with the hadrosaurs before moving onto the maiasaurs," said Gerry after outlining his plans.
"Wait," said someone. "First you tell us to stop hunting the dinosaurs and now we're going to be hunting them again, what gives?"
Gerry was hesitant to respond when Jake strode in.
"Containment is now facing imminent failure," he said as he took the podium.
"So we'll fix the fences," someone said.
"That doesn't matter anymore," said Jake. "The Lysine Contingency has failed."
"How?" asked another scientist. Jake held up the dead baby pteranodon.
"The dinosaurs can breed that's why," he said. Immediately uproar erupted from the crowd before Jake pulled out a gun and fired it at the ceiling.
"Calm down!" he shouted. Silence and fear immediately descended on the group.
"Now as you all well know we have a contingency plan for this sort of situation and if we follow it we'll all survive this ordeal," said Jake. "But if we don't we are royally screwed."
"So what do we do?" asked someone.
"We follow ELE to the letter and we eliminate every dinosaur on this island," said Jake bitterly. "And then we restart the project."
"That's a lot of work," said someone.
"Yes," Jake agreed. "But we don't have a choice anymore. If you people had listened to me at the start, we wouldn't be in this situation, but you didn't and now we are."
"So what's going to happen?" asked a scientist.
"This record is not complete," said Jake waving the file. "I need a complete biological and photo record of these dinosaurs' strengths and weaknesses. In order to do that we need specimens, both alive and dead, in order to complete it. Not only that, but we need to control their numbers so we'll split up, half of us will go get them and half of us will tear them apart. That way, when those fences finally fail, we will have the advantage, not them. But we have to do this because if we don't…"
"Yeah," said Gerry sadly. "Then dinosaurs will once again rule the Earth. So let's go, we have a job to do."
The others nodded fearfully and left with their assigned ELE packets. Gerry was about to leave when he noticed Jake still standing there in silence behind the podium.
"What're you thinking?" Gerry asked. Jake just shook his head as he hopped off of the stage.
"Beware the beast man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him, for he is the harbinger of death," said Jake disgusted.
"Meaning?" asked Gerry.
"Oh just something I've come to realize by spending too much time on this island," said Jake as he left the room with Gerry following him.
"So we're doomed is that it?" asked Gerry shaking his head as they emerged into the sunlight and the weather torn Workers Village.
"No," said Jake grabbing a rifle and hopping into the bed of one of the trucks as Gerry stayed behind on the ground. "Just that what happens in the next few months is going to have lasting repercussions for the rest of our lives."
Jake hit the side of the bed and the trucks roared off down the road.