Sorna: "It…it was horrible," said Ed terrified over his whole ordeal. He was sitting in the break room of the Operations Center covered with a blanket and holding a cup of coffee in his trembling hands. The other members of the research team and the mercenaries were corralled up in the lodge awaiting transport back to wherever they needed to go.

"Hey we were there, we can sympathize," Henry told him. He and Jake were with him as Sam was making calls back to the mainland to tell them what had happened. Kevin and Jennifer meanwhile were hauling in giant steel barrel on a dolly that looked really heavy as Kevin tried to set it down gently but instead it dropped with a thud and the helicopter pilot collapsed on top of it, winded.

"I-I t-told you th-that I'd g-get it u-up here," said the pilot with a weak thumbs up as he still lay hunched over the thing.

"My hero," said Jennifer dryly as she began undoing the straps holding the barrel to the dolly.

"What's in there?" asked Henry curious.

"The dilophosaur goo we hosed off the helicopter," Jennifer responded as Ed turned white at that statement. "We still need to do a check of the internal circuitry to make sure none got in there to foul up the works so it may be out of action for a few days."

"Oh," said Jake at a loss. "Why bring it here to us?"

"No reason, except to remind you that we risked our lives and equipment saving that team on Nublar. So if you're going to slash any budgets around here, IT'D BETTER NOT BE OURS!" Jennifer snapped at him and then hauled the still exhausted Kevin from the room. The trio watched them leave before looking at each in silence before Ed mustered a thought.

"What is it with you and women?" Ed had to ask of Jake.

"Just lucky I guess," the scientist groaned as he rubbed his eyes. And then he was abruptly startled as the sound of helicopter blades was heard overhead. The trio glanced at each other and then walked over to the window and pulled up the blinds to see workers and vehicles scatter as a Chinook helicopter with an InGen logo emblazoned on the sides landed in the main roadway.

"I think that's for you," said Jake tipping his cup at the helicopter as armed guards strode out of the back of the vehicle and to their surprise, Peter Ludlow exited as well. The group exited the building and down the steps and met the COO halfway across the bridge over the moat.

"Hey Pete," greeted Jake. "Welcome to Sorna. You know; the island you've chosen to forget."

"The Lost World," Henry quipped a little bemused.

"Oh I haven't forgotten anything," Ludlow promised them a little menacingly before sighing and silently apologizing for his tone. It seemed the situation with Nublar was getting worse with each passing day. "Let's go, Ed."

The Head of PR gave his goodbyes to the duo and headed after him as the investigation team and mercenaries were herded onto the vehicle. After a few moments the blades began turning again and it left back up into the sky.

"Was that Ludlow? Did he have anything to say?" Sam asked, rushing down the stairs to meet them.

"Nope," said Henry simply and then he and Jake headed off for the garage and Embryonics Administration. Fortunately, a truck carrying hay was headed that way so they hopped on the back and examined their technical journals on the dinosaur's DNA.

"I was thinking," said Henry after a few moments as he gazed out past an electrified fence where some maiasaurs were drinking at nearby river. "That maybe the problem lies in the frog DNA we used to complete the gene sequences. Assuming the dinosaurs are breeding."

"How so?" asked Jake confused as he looked up from his notes. Henry shrugged lightly as he rubbed his chin.

"I was reviewing our original research and remembered there are frogs out there that can change sex spontaneously in a single sex environment," Henry recalled. Jake tried to recall the early days of the project and found himself nodding his head.

"Yeah I remember," he agreed. "But Gustavius realized that as well and we stopped using them in our trials before the initial batch was created."

"You sure? InGen does like to cut corners," Henry reminded him, noting that they were now in a hay filled truck and not in one of the company cars. To further emphasize the point they passed a flatbed truck on the side of the road that had guided tracks on the bed that a group of workers were laying out.

"You wouldn't be cutting corners with something like this," Jake stated. "First of all, the frog DNA we did use is easily collected from assorted species and none of them are that rare. The other is that if someone swapped the frog DNA with another frog, the combination sequence may not have worked at all. The third reason being that if they could breed then we'd probably lose the patent over them. And the fourth would be that if you're going to start speculating that frogs could start simultaneously change sexes, then there's no reason the dinosaurs might not be able to either."

"Yeah I guess you're right," Henry had to concede. As far as he knew the DNA had never been switched and the dinosaurs couldn't change sexes either as far as he could tell. "You're also doing a good job of defeating your own argument that they are breeding."

"That's what I'm hoping," Jake confessed. "But we should still look into it at some point after we've exhausted all other possibilities."

"Agreed," said Henry as the truck came to a slow near the lab and the two hopped off and waved to the driver who continued on as they made their way to the lab.

"I swear we need some lawnmowers to cut this grass," Jake complained as they made towards the building. "All we need are a couple raptors in here and it's all over."

"It's not that high. At least nowhere near as some of it is getting closer to the village," Henry disagreed. They were about halfway to the building when the sound of rustling grass blades was heard. Looking around nervously, the two scientists noticed an object darting back and forth but they couldn't make out what it was.

"Jake?" said Henry concerned. "Should we make a run for it?"

"No, it'd on us in a minute," the other scientist replied. "Better brace yourself for a-."

"BOOOO!"

"AAAHHH!" shouted Jake and Henry who cowered in terror before the sound of laughter was heard. Looking up, the two saw a young blonde woman in red coveralls laughing mischievously at them.

"Damnit Katrice that's the fifth time in the last two months!" shouted Jake at her, irate at her seemingly habitual behavior. The young woman continued laughing even harder at that as a young brown haired scientist rushed to a halt nearby breathing heavily.

"Colin, you need to keep your sister on a shorter leash," Jake told the new arrival.

"I'm sorry," the scientist genuinely apologized. "I tried not to tell her you two were coming, but it accidentally slipped out."

Katrice was Colin Maken's younger sister and when the scientist had been recruited to join the team at InGen, his one request was to bring her along claiming he was the only one who could put up with her. That readily became apparent because while the twenty year old was amazingly meticulous and could keep track of even the most obscure detail, at times she had the emotional maturity of a five-year old. Sometimes it was endearing, other times it was annoying, and somehow most of her antics seemed to be focused on Jake and Henry. Mainly Jake as he would sometimes get riled up at her whereas Henry knew to be silent about it and would be largely left alone.

"Meh," said Jake not wanting to aggravate things with the young scientist. They all had a lot on their minds at the moment and this was the least of their worries. Besides, an idea for revenge crossed his mind and he held up one hand with the pointer finger extended.

"Hey, I'm still 'it' from the last time you tried to play tag with us and you know what that means!" said Jake in an overly malevolent voice. He then made a lunge at her and the woman yelled, spun around, and shot off for the Administration building looking like a yellow and red rocket. With her gone, the three scientists continued on their way to the building.

"You got those reports for me?" Henry asked of Colin after the trio finally made it to the building.

"Yes I do," Colin responded affirmatively as he grabbed a stack of documents off the front desk that he then handed over to Henry. The trio gave a brief wave to the secretary as they ventured into the complex itself. Inside the main bay, scientists were bustling down below as they continued walking on the catwalk above them.

"Those are the reports on the Lysine Contingency?" asked Jake. Henry nodded.

"I had Derrick, Abby, and Colin here conduct their own investigations into what happens when the lysine runs out for the dinos," Henry confirmed as he handed two of the reports to him and Jake opened one up and flipped through it.

"Are these preliminary analyses or actual test runs?" he asked.

"Prelims, only you and Dr. Wu are authorized to allow test runs," Colin reminded him.

"Then do it and see how your results pan out," Henry said immediately. "Grab anything small enough to fit in the cages here and deprive them of lysine."

"Okay," said Colin a little unsure of himself being in charge of a test, but ready to take on the responsibility. "Should I include a raptor in that study?"

Henry and Jake looked at each other concerned for a moment before Jake nodded his head.

"Do it," he ordered and the two lead scientists headed into Henry's office to once more pour over copious amounts of data. Colin nodded his head and left to find Abby and Derrick, two of his fellow scientists, formulate what dinosaurs they'd use and then contact the DRT team to bring them in. After he found his sister and lectured her once more on whom not to make mad on the island.

Indigo: "I understand that you were responsible for telling Stevens to forgo a more detailed check of Nedry's things," said Daniela to Foreman Michaels, the supervisor who had been in charge that day when the fat man had passed through. Her tone had a hint of iciness to it, but after Ludlow's pullout of the investigation team and the mercenaries had once again forgone her island and its checkpoints, she was getting a little fed up.

"That's right," confirmed Michaels unapologetically.

"You want to tell me, why? Running a scan through the x-ray machine is simple to do and doesn't waste time," Daniela pointed out as if that should be obvious. Michaels nodded his head.

"Oh I agree and I would've only been more than happy to send him through but…," began Michaels hesitantly.

"But what?" demanded Daniela. Michaels sighed.

"I was told not to," he told her finally. Daniela's jaw dropped at that as this was an eerie repeat of her conversation with Stevens.

"BY WH-By whom?" she asked, forcing herself to calm down.

"By Ross Daniels," answered Michaels as he gave the name of one of three managers on the island that were the only level between the supervisors and herself. So she forced herself to recollect herself and think about what had been said.

"Only Nedry," she remarked for clarification. Michaels nodded his head.

"I thought it sounded strange but orders are orders," he told her.

"And you were told this prior to his arrival?" she asked. Michaels nodded his head.

"That morning during prep for the ship's arrival," he responded. "I was told that Nedry was to be cleared no matter what."

"I suppose proof of this conversation doesn't exist?" Daniela pointed out. Michaels shrugged.

"If Ross denies it, then yeah," he said simply. Daniela sighed.

"Go and tell no one we had this conversation," she ordered and Michaels tipped his head at her and left. The leader of Indigo then stood up and looked out the window behind her showing a copy of the main gates at Jurassic Park and she leaned her head against the window as if the coolness of its touch would help her organize her thoughts. And then an instant later her phone started ringing and so she walked over and picked it up, hoping for no more surprises for the day.

"Hello?" she asked into it.

"Uh yes, hello ma'am, this is Thomas Rex of the Jurassic Courier and I'm following up on an anonymous report we've received that you're confiscated cans of shaving cream because you're too cheap to pay for your own while also secretly harboring plans of selling them back at outrageous prices," said the voice on the other end. "Can I get a comment on this?"

The whole weight of the world almost seemed to disappear for a moment as Daniela burst out laughing.

"You're absolutely right," she confirmed.

"See I told you!" said the voice to an unheard companion before the other person demanded the phone as Daniela shook her head in shame.

"Since we're no longer shipping dinosaurs to Nublar, are you that bored that you have to crank call me?" accused Daniela lightly.

"Not at all," said Jake with a modicum of false dignity. "Is it wrong that we are concerned about the welfare of shaving cream cans on this island?"

"Oh I see," said Daniela as the truth finally occurred to her. "Katrice got you again did she?"

"Don't change the subject!" said Jake refusing to back down.

"Oh you're just as bad as she is sometimes," Daniela pointed out. "So what's up?"

"Not much," Henry confessed. "How's the investigation going?"

Daniela blinked at that. While she instinctively thought the two scientists were spying on her with this timely phone call, she knew that in truth the two of them sometimes got so knee deep into their research that they'd forget what day it was.

"Well there've been some surprises, but I'll get it all sorted out," she promised. Just saying those words aloud to someone else gave her strength that it would come true.

"Ooh, sounds exciting," said Jake pleased.

"How're things on your end, found out why all the workers left Nublar?" Daniela asked.

"We're kind of busy looking into something else right now," Henry confessed.

"Really, what?" asked Daniela, her curiosity piqued.

"Oh complicated stuff involving genetics," the scientist answered offhand. "But the reason we're calling is because we wanted to get an idea of how much lysine you have stockpiled over there."

"Yeah, let me check," Daniela told him as he typed away at her computer and got the answer and then relayed that number over the phone.

"That's about what I expected thanks," said Henry.

"How long with that last?" asked Daniela.

"Long enough. But you don't need to worry about that just focus on your investigation," said Henry and hung up the phone. The leader of Indigo wondered what it was Henry and Jake were up to, but realized she couldn't afford to get distracted from her search. If one of her top managers had been bribed by Biosyn, she'd never live it down.

Sorna: "So what do you think will happen if they run out of lysine?" Jake asked. Henry thought about it briefly as he stopped going through the reports the young scientists had generated.

"Best case scenario they slip into a coma and die, worst case scenario absolutely nothing happens," he reasoned. "I mean vertebrate animals don't produce lysine to begin with so the contingency basically inhibits most of their ability to absorb lysine into their bodies at all unless they take the supplemental enzyme. But again, if it actually works or what would happen if the animals began taking more lysine from various natural sources than what we provide them artificially is anyone's guess right now. Not to mention that it's a mystery what will happen to the animals as they slowly lose lysine in their bodies."

"That's about what I thought," Jake agreed. "Course I was also thinking how Hammond didn't want the contingency in the first place."

"And then A-1 happened," Henry recalled. The deinonychosaurs involved hadn't had the contingency built into their genetic structures and so Hammond had immediately demanded the program put into full production to avoid another such incident.

"Okay, so-," began Jake and then the phone started ringing and Henry hit the speaker phone.

"What's up, Sam?" asked Henry as he turned around and fished in his mini-fridge for a soda and then tossed one to Jake as well.

"Guys I don't know where to begin but…," the head of Sorna said in an extremely depressed mood.

"Well out with it or we'll never know," Henry insisted as Jake nodded his head and then drank some of his soda.

"I just got a call from InGen Costa Rica care of Dr. Gutierrez," Sam continued. "There was another A-1 incident that occurred today. We need you two there right now."

Jake spit his drink out all over the side of Henry's office.

Costa Rica: The entire section of the beach was cordoned off by police and other personnel as Jake Whitacre and Henry Wu squatted over a decaying corpse on the side of the beach. They had been flown in by plane to the nearest airport and then hitched a ride to the coast.

"Yeah, it's a dilophosaur alright," Henry confirmed as he had a full surgical outfit on and he poked and prodded the dead animal. He then used some forceps and a knife to pry out a small tracking device and plugged it into a device that Sheila had whipped up and read the results. "And it's from Nublar."

"Well that confirms that the perimeter fencing surrounding the entire island is no longer intact," Jake groaned. "But I still don't see why these animals are so fixated on leaving Nublar. I mean the Deinonychosaurs sometimes would line up at the edge of their fence and stare out into the ocean, but we never understood why."

"Well understand this," Gutierrez cut in. "These animals are a menace and should be eradicated! All we need is a pack of raptors running around in the jungles and they'll become no man lands."

"We're dealing with it," Jake responded. "And at any rate, I wouldn't be too worried about Sorna. We're way too far away for anything to survive that crossing."

Gutierrez still wasn't pleased, but he kept his mouth shut as he took some photos as Henry collected some samples from the beast before a crew came in and soaked the carcass in gasoline and lit it on fire. InGen had a deal with the Costa Rican government where any remains were to be immediately disposed of after identification. Normally if Gutierrez had any photos they'd be confiscated, but Levine's arrangement with InGen had allowed some flexibility in that area.

"Let's go back to the field office, I think Ludlow probably need to chat with us," Jake remarked to Henry. His friend nodded and the two walked off towards a crowd of onlookers blocked off by police barricades and officers. The two walked through and kept walking as they noticed the strange looks of the tourists at two strangers dressed in lab coats. They were finally passed the crowd and were headed for their vehicle when their eyes fell on a familiar individual leaning against it.

"What are you dong here?" Jake and Henry both shouted. John Brown shot them a sly grin and chuckled at their reaction.

"Oh you know, I'm just here for the sun and the surf," the man responded jovially. "Plus I hear that they're discovering all new species of animals out here and some that are very poisonous."

Jake and Henry both shot a hardened look at the man who still maintained his smile.

"So how's the cookout going?" John continued noting the smoke rising up into the late afternoon sky.

"I'm afraid the food got burnt," said Henry sharply. John nodded his head.

"But shouldn't you know that?" Jake asked. "You seem to know everything so far."

"Not everything," John confessed as he crossed his arms. "That's why I'm here. I'm investigating some tantalizing new leads."

"About that?" asked Henry pointing his head at the fire. John shook his head.

"Not quite. My business lies in San Jose but when I heard about this, I felt I had to take a look and also see if I couldn't meet my two best buds," he told them.

"Well we're leaving, so happy trails," said Jake dismissively. John tipped his head at them and stepped to the side to let them pass. As Henry and Jake got in their jeep they took a look at the pharmaceutical executive who was watching them passively.

"Isn't this the part where you offer us some tantalizing but vague little morsel of information?" Henry asked. The man shrugged lightly.

"Let's just say that when it comes to InGen and its actions regarding that incident that occurred on Nublar, that something's rotten in the state of Denmark," John quoted to emphasize his point. "I haven't fully worked it out yet, but I'll let you know when I do assuming you don't reach the answer before me."

Jake rolled his eyes at that as Henry rubbed his chin thinking about it.

"Anything else?" inquired Jake annoyed with his habit to always be one step ahead of them, or Daniela in this case.

"Yeah," said John solemnly. "After today you'll have eighty-nine days left. Make 'em count."

The eyes on the two scientists bugged out as John Brown had quoted them the remaining number of days until the fences failed on Sorna. The two looked out onto the beach to demand how he knew that, but the executive had already left.

"What do you think?" asked Henry as he started up the engine and the jeep trundled off down the beach.

"You know him, he's always got a secret agenda," Jake complained. "Two truths and a lie."

Neither of them bothered to mention aloud that John Brown had only told them two things during that conversation, one of which they knew to be true.