Episode starts with a flashback to the Jurassic World Incident. We see Jacob in his attempt to get off the island.
Jacob was tending to an injured pachycephalosaurus for the third time in a week. Even though he had no formal veterinary training, he learned a few things about caring for the animals when they got hurt. And it happened a lot with the more territorial, and stubborn herbivores. Suddenly, he heard an announcement over the Park's PA system.
"Ladies and gentlemen, due to a containment anomaly, all guests must take shelter immediately," Jacob looked over to the ACU vet tech, Louis.
"Any idea what that's about?" He asked, while wrapping the pachy's leg with gauze.
"Must be related to the Code-19 that came through earlier. I wouldn't worry too much, a stegosaurus or something probably got out. Happens every few months," Louis replied. Jacob shrugged and kept tending to the pachy when he saw several dozen large winged shadows on the ground, and heard the park's siren blaring. He looked up and saw at least fifty to sixty pteranodons and dimorphodons overhead.
"That, uh, doesn't look like a stegosaurus," he said, getting up frantically. Louis looked up to see what he was referring to and his jaw dropped.
"Oh God," he said, also standing up. "Run! Get to main street! There's an emergency bunker by the docks! Go!" He said, grabbing his stun rifle.
"Wait! What about you?!" Jacob called as Louis ran in the opposite direction.
"I might just be a vet tech, but ACU's gonna need all the help they can get! Now get moving!" He said. Jacob nodded and sprinted through the woods to main street. What he saw there shook him to his core. Pterosaurs dive bombing and picking people up. He watched in horror as Claire Dearing's assistant, Zara, was grabbed by a pteranodon and dropped in the mosasaurus lagoon and picked up again. To his horror, the mosasaur leaped out of the lagoon, closed its jaws and took the pteranodon, and Zara, down with it.
"Shit!" Jacob said out loud. He frantically looked for an opening through the sea of people to the docks. There were dead bodies of both guests and Jurassic World employees everywhere. A glimmer of hope came when he heard ACU orders come over his walkie.
"—Tranquilizing rounds only, do not use live ammunition; repeat, do not use live ammunition,"
"Why the hell not?!" He said out loud, still running. He finally came around the corner with a straight shot to the docks. Out of the corner of his eye, he could see several ACU troopers, including the renowned Owen Grady, firing on the pterosaurs, which gave him an opening to run for the shelter. He also caught sight of Claire, to his relief. He was glad she at least made it out. While he was distracted and running he felt a sharp searing pain in his back and high pitched screech in his ear. A dimorphodon had latched on to him, and knocked him to the ground. It took every bit of his strength to attempt to shake it off. The dimorphodon kept trying to sink its jaws into Jacob's neck, and just when it looked like it was all over for him, he heard the unmistakable sound of several tranq darts being fired. He looked up out of to breath to see Owen Grady, rifle in hand and the dimorphodon knocked out on the ground behind him. Owen gave him a nod, and then ran to take out more pterosaurs. Jacob gave him a thankful nod back, and then made a beeline to the shelter…
(Intro)
The group is just outside the C.D.C. still standing in the light from the open doorway.
"Daryl, you cover the back," Shane said.
"Hello? Hello," Rick called out.
"Close those doors. Watch for walkers and dinosaurs," Jacob said. The group enters and looks around at the lobby. It's completely empty.
"Hello?" Rick called out again. Just then, an unshaven man walks into the lobby with a cocked rifle.
"Anybody infected?" Jenner asked.
"One of our group was. He didn't make it," Rick said.
"Why are you here? What do you want?" Jenner asked.
"A chance," Rick said.
"That's asking an awful lot these days," Jenner said.
"We know," Rick said.
"You all submit to a blood test. That's the price of admission," Jenner said.
"We can do that," Rick said.
"You got stuff to bring in, you do it now. Once this door closes it stays closed," Jenner said. They all run through the doors and follow Jenner into an elevator.
"VI, seal the main entrance. Kill the power up here," Jenner spoke to the computer.
"Rick Grimes," Rick said, introducing himself.
"Dr. Edwin Jenner," he said.
"Doctors always go around packing heat like that?" Daryl asked.
"There were plenty left lying around. I familiarized myself. But you look harmless enough. Except you, I'll have to keep my eye on you," Jenner said to Carl jokingly. Carl smiled at him. The elevator stops on another floor.
"Are we underground?" Carol asked.
"Are you claustrophobic?" Jenner asked.
"A little," Carol said.
"I know I am," Jacob said.
"Try not to think about it," Jenner said. The group comes to big room and they see only one other scientist working at a computer desk.
"VI, bring up the lights in the big room," Jenner said to the computer. The lights come up everywhere in the room. The other scientist had only been using a small desk lamp for his work.
"Welcome to Zone 5," Jenner said.
"Where is everybody? The other doctors, the staff?" Rick asked.
"It's just the two of us. Speaking of which, Dr. Wu!" Jenner called over the other scientist.
"This is my associate, Dr. Henry Wu. The two of us are the only ones who stayed," Jenner explained. Hearing this name, Jacob immediately recognized the man. And was less than thrilled to see him.
"Great. Him," Jacob thought. He was still, shall we say, bitter, about Isla Nublar.
"What about the person you were speaking with? VI?" Lori asked.
"VI, say hello to our guests. Tell them… Welcome," Jenner instructed the computer.
"Hello, guests. Welcome," VI said.
"The two of us are all that's left. I'm sorry," Jenner said.
"Dr. Wu, take some of our guests for a blood sample," Jenner said. Wu nodded and took Jacob, Zach, Glenn and T Dog to get blood. Jenner took everyone else. A few minutes later, after T, Glenn and Zach and gotten their blood taken, it was Jacob's turn. There was silence for moment before Jacob spoke up.
"You don't recognize me, do you?," Jacob asked, still getting his blood taken.
"Should I?," Wu asked, not looking up from the blood test.
"Of course you don't know who I am you self serving asshole," Jacob thought.
"I was there, you know." He said. Wu finally looked up.
"Where?" He asked.
"Where do you think? Where would I recognize you from, Dr.?" Jacob asked.
"You were at Jurassic World." Wu said, finishing up the blood test.
"I wasn't just at Jurassic World. I worked there. My lifelong goddamn dream. To work with real dinosaurs. Hell, we even crossed paths in the lab! I think my job was 'Asset Consultant,' or some other corporate bullshit label. Too bad everything you worked for came crashing down because you had to play god. I heard you had your credentials stripped from you and couldn't find work anywhere," Jacob said with a slight smirk on his face. Wu's expression didn't change.
"I take it you're not a fan of my work," he said, preparing the next test. Jacob and Wu looked at each other for a few seconds.
"That's one way to put it," Jacob said, not taking his eyes off of Wu. They stared each other down again before Glenn came in and broke the tension.
"Hey, um, Jenner—Jenner says dinner is ready," Jacob got up slowly and left the room, still fixing his gaze on Wu.
"What the hell was that about?" Glenn asked. Jacob sighed
"Watch yourself around Wu," and that was all he said as he, and a very confused Glenn walked to the dining room.
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Dining Room
The group goes into the dinning area and everyone, including Jenner, is seated at a large round table eating pasta and drinking wine. Everyone is laughing.
"Fine," Lori said, referring to the alcohol.
"You know, in Italy, children have a little bit of wine with dinner. And in France," Dale said.
"Never was big on wine myself. Always been more of a rum guy. Now that stuff will give you a really good time," Jacob said. Everyone laughed.
"Well, when Carl is in Italy or France, he can have some then," Lori said.
"What's it gonna hurt? Come on. Come on," Rick said laughing. Dale hands him a glass with half an inch of wine in it.
"There you are, young lad," Dale said. Carl takes a quick sip, while everyone watches.
"Eww!" Carl said spitting out.
"That's my boy. That's my boy. Good boy," Lori said.
"Yuck. That tastes nasty," Carl said.
"Just you wait buddy!" Jacob said. Everyone laughed again, including Zach.
"Well, just stick to soda pop there, bud," Shane said.
"Not you, Glenn," Daryl said.
"Keep drinking, little man. I want to see how red your face can get," Daryl said. As the laughing continues, Rick sees that Jenner isn't enjoying dinner. He taps his fork on his glass.
"It seems to me we haven't thanked our host properly," Rick said to everyone.
"He is more than just our host," T Dog said.
"He is our savior!" Jacob said, raising his glass.
"Hear hear!" Dale said, also raising his glass.
"Here's to you, Doc, booyah!" Daryl said.
"Let's not forget all the work that Dr. Wu has been doing either. Here's to you Wu!" Dale said. Dr. Wu raised his glass to them.
"Hear, hear!" Everyone, except for Jacob cheered. He just looked away and took another sip of wine.
"Thank you. Thank you, Doctors," Rick said.
"Booyah," T Dog said. Everyone Clinks their glasses. After everyone takes a drink, Shane stands up.
"So when are you gonna tell us what the Hell happened here, Docs? All the—the other doctors that were supposed to be figuring out what happened, where are they?" Shane asked.
"We're celebrating, Shane. Don't need to do this now," Rick said.
"Yeah man. Don't kill the mood," Jacob said.
"Whoa, wait a second. This is why we're here, right? This was your move—supposed to find all the answers. Instead we found them. Found one man and damn intern, why?" Shane said.
"Geneticist, actually," Wu said. Everyone ignored him.
"Well, when things got bad, a lot of people just left, went off to be with their families. And when things got worse, when the military cordon got overrun, the rest bolted," Jenner explained.
"Every last one?" Shane asked.
"No. There were more of us. But when one of the scientists stumbled upon a dilophosaur nest, it all went down hill from there,"
"Dilophosaurus nest? Wait, you mean there's more dinosaurs in the basement?" Jacob asked.
"No. We took care of them. But, when the basement doors opened, they came flooding out. Killed everyone that hadn't already barricaded themselves in the main room." Wu explained.
"Jesus..." T Dog said.
"So, everybody that didn't get eaten by dinosaurs left?" Shane asked again.
"No, many couldn't face walking out the door. They… opted out. There was a rash of suicides. That was a bad time," Jenner said.
"You two didn't leave. Why?" Andrea asked.
"I just kept working, hoping to do some good," Jenner said.
"I had my own research to attend to," Wu said.
"Of course you did," Jacob thought.
"Dude, you are such a buzz kill, man," Glenn said to Shane. After dinner is over, Jenner shows the group to their rooms.
"Most of the facility is powered down including housing so you'll have to make do here. The couches are comfortable, but there are cots in storage if you like. There's a rec room down the hall that you kids might enjoy. Just don't plug in the video games, okay? Or anything that draws power. The same applies—if you shower, go easy on the hot water," Jenner explained.
"Hot water?" Glenn asked.
"That's what the man said!" T dog said as the two men laughed.
"Rec room? Cool! Come on Carl and Sophia!" Zach exclaimed. Zach and the other two kids were about to run for the rec room when Jacob stopped him.
"Hold up Zach. Where do you think your going?" Jacob asked.
"To the play room," Zach said.
"Next time, let me know where you're going first. After what Wu said about dinosaurs, I want you to be careful where you go, okay?" Jacob said.
"Okay. I will. Sorry," Zach said.
"It's ok Zach. Go have fun," Jacob said. Zach nodded and followed Sophia and Carl to the rec room. Back in the rooms, everyone is enjoying the hot water. Lori stands under the running water, ecstatic, and Rick joins her. T-Dog lets the water run over his head in his shower while laughing and Glenn does the same. In his shower, Shane drinks straight from a whiskey bottle. Andrea sits in hers and cries. Jacob sits in his and lets the water run down his back while smiling. Dressed, Rick walks down the hallway, drinking from a bottle of wine. He smiles as he passes Jacob.
"Hey go easy on that officer Grimes," Jacob joked. Rick laughs and continues walking, so does Jacob. Dale passes Jacob in the hallway. They exchange hellos and continue walking. Dale turns to enter a shower but he stops when he hears Andrea inside the one across the hall.
She is crying and throwing up.
"That's it. That's it. Get it out. There you go," Dale said comforting her.
"Oh. Everything's gone," Andrea cried.
"It's always better going down than coming up, huh?" Dale said.
"I don't mean the wine, Dale. You know, it's over. There's nothing left. Don't you see that?" Andrea said staring at him.
"Oh, I—I see a—a chance to make a new start," Dale said.
"Oh my God, Dale. Dale, didn't you see the look on Jenner's face? Hear what I'm saying. There's nothing left. And now you've got dinosaurs running around! There's nothing left," Andrea cried. Rick and his bottle of wine join Jenner in the big room. Rick tries to lean against a console but instead he falls to the floor in a sitting position.
"You all—you all right?" Jenner asked. Wu shook his head and continued working. He didn't agree with letting everyone in. Except for maybe that kid that was on Isla Sorna.
"You don't know what it's like. Heh, heh, You don't know what it's like out there. You may think you do, but you don't. We'd have died out there. It was only a matter of time. There's too many of those things. Dinosaurs too. My—My boy…My—My wife, I never—I never told 'em what I really thought. I never even hinted, just—just kept it in. kept it in and kept us moving, you know. Just kept it in. Kept us..." Rick said in a driven state.
"It'll all be okay. It'll be okay," Jenner said. Back in the rec room, Carl and Sophia were playing chess and Zach was watching them. Carol was watching the kids and reading a book.
"Any good books?" Lori asked.
"Enough to keep us busy for years. All right. Come on, kids, it's bed time," Carol said.
"Baby, go say your prayers. I'm gonna browse a bit," Lori said. Carl nods and the other kids head to their rooms to go to sleep. After everyone else leaves, Shane comes in and him and Lori have another argument about Shane loving her. Shane gets too close to her and she scratches him. In anger, he walks out of the room, Lori crying. The next morning Rick walks to the table where others are having breakfast.
"Hello," Rick said.
"Morning," Dale said.
"Are you hung over? Mom said you'd be," Carl asked.
"Mom is right, Rick laughed.
"Mom has that annoying habit," Lori said.
"Eggs. Powdered, but—but I do 'em good," T dog said.
"Uuuggghh," Glenn moaned.
"I bet you can't tell," T-Dog joked. Dale laughs at Glenn's misery and T-Dog's teasing. Jacqui rubs Glenn's shoulders while T-Dog dishes out the eggs to all, including Glenn.
"Protein helps the hangover," T said.
"Damn right it does," Jacob chuckled. Rick holds up a bottle of aspirin.
"Where'd all this come from?" Rick asked.
"Jenner and Wu," Lori said.
"They thought we could use it," Lori said.
"Thank you," Rick said.
"Some of us, at least," Lori said.
"Don't ever let me drink again," Glenn said. Shane comes in and they all see the scratches on his neck.
"What the Hell happened to you? Your neck?" T asked.
"I must have done it in my sleep," Shane said.
"Never seen you do that before," Rick said.
"Me neither. [Looking at Lori] Not like me at all," Shane said. Then, Jenner walked in the room.
"Morning," Jenner said.
"Hey Doc," Shane said.
"Doctor: I don't mean to slam you with questions first thing—" Dale said.
"But you will anyway," Jenner said.
"We didn't exactly come here for the food," Jacob said. Everyone gets up from breakfast and Jenner leads everyone into the big room with doctor Wu at his computer.
"Wu, bring up the playback of TS-19," Jenner said.
"Sure thing," Wu flips a switch and the screen lights up with a black and blue picture of a brain.
"Few people ever got a chance to see this. Very few," Jenner said. Jenner shows them how a person becomes a walker with a view of the brain. The main screen changes to show the upper shoulders and head of the subject. The screen skews to a horizontal view then increases the magnification. The image becomes more and more detailed. The magnification shows the Inside the skull. It appears to be lit with bright blue threads of energy and some areas are denser with light than others but there are lighted threads throughout the skull. The detail zooms in until the threads become closer and pulses of light can be distinguished.
"What are those lights?" Shane asked.
"It's a person's life—experiences, memories. It's everything. Somewhere in all that organic wiring, all those ripples of light, is you—the thing that makes you unique and human," Jenner explained.
"You don't make sense ever?" Daryl said. Wu explained in a way that Daryl could comprehend it.
"Those are synapses. Electric impulses in the brain that carry all the messages. They determine everything a person says, does, or thinks from the moment of birth to the moment of death," Wu explained.
"Death? That's what this is, a vigil?" Rick asked.
"Yes. Or rather the playback of the vigil," Jenner said.
"This person died? Who?" Andrea asked.
"Test subject 19. Someone who was bitten and infected… and volunteered to have us record the process. VI, Scan forward to the first event," Jenner said sadly.
"Scanning to first event," VI said. The screen shows a message "Scanning Forward" The brain has lights still flickering in the outer areas but the center has become dark as if black roots were growing inside.
"What is that?" Glenn asked.
"It invades the brain like meningitis. The adrenal glands hemorrhage, the brain goes into shutdown, then the major organs. Then death. Everything you ever were or ever will be…gone," Jenner explained.
"Is that what happened to Jim?" Sophia asked her mother.
"Yes," Carol said. Andrea starts to cry and Jenner notices,
"She lost somebody two days ago. Her sister," Lori said.
"[To Andrea]: I lost somebody too. I know how devastating it is. [To VI] Scan to the second event," Jenner said.
"The resurrection times vary wildly. We had reports of it happening in as little as three minutes. The longest we heard of was eight hours. In the case of this patient, it was two hours, one minute… seven seconds," He paused slightly. A red glow flickers at the base of the brain. The rest remains dark. Random sparks shoot out into the larger area of the brain but no more lights grow.
"It restarts the brain?" Jacob asked.
"No, just the brain stem. Basically it gets them up and moving," Jenner explained.
"But they're not alive?" Rick asked.
"You tell me," Jenner said, gesturing to the monitor.
"It's nothing like before. Most of that brain is dark," Rick said.
"Dark, lifeless, dead. The frontal lobe, the neocortex, the human part—that doesn't come back. The you part. Just a shell driven by mindless instinct," Jenner said. The subject moves, its mouth opens and closes. The head moves side to side, the shoulders move as if the arms were being lifted. The barrel of a gun appears at the forehead pointing down. A bullet enters the brain and tears through the red cluster of embers. The brain goes completely dark, the subject stops moving.
"The hell was that?" Jacob asked.
"He shot his patient in the head. Didn't you?" Andrea asked.
"VI, Power down the main screen and the workstations," Jenner instructed.
"Wait, I wanna know what I think a lot of us wanna know. Why are there dinosaurs running around in the streets?" Shane asked. Jenner was hesitant to show them, but Wu stepped in.
"VI, bring up the Masrani Global Files," Wu instructed.
"Loading Masrani Global Files," VI said.
"What's Masrani Global?" Lori asked.
"They created Jurassic World. And about a dozen other subsidiaries. For all their power, they still couldn't stop what happened," Jacob said. Everyone stared at him. Wu did too, with an enhanced gaze.
Wu booted up the program. On the screen, archived security footage showed the exterior of Lockwood Manor
"What is this?" Rick asked.
"I think—I think it's Lockwood Manor," Jacob said.
"That mansion where they escaped from?" Daryl asked. Wu nodded and continued the playback. Everyone watched as all of a sudden, several dozen dinosaurs charged out of the large bay doors attached to the manor, taking out several InGen Security personnel. Wu stopped the playback just as Eli Mills was about to be devoured by the T. Rex, holding the Indominus Bone in his hand.
"Wait, what the hell was that?" Jacob asked referring to the bone in Mills' hand.
"Nothing of importance. Just some spare dinosaur DNA," Wu said. Jacob scowled. He wasn't convinced.
"So, that's how the dinosaurs escaped? They just ran out of a garage?" Andrea asked.
"They didn't escape, so much as they were let out," Wu said with a frown. Everyone had shocked looks on their faces.
"Who in their right mind would actually wanna let these things free?" Shane asked.
"People who do not consider the consequences to their actions," Wu said, looking at the screen.
"The irony of that statement," Jacob chuckled. Everyone shot him a look, as if to ask what he meant. He shrugged.
"Forget about it," he said.
"But, wait, wait. There were maybe twenty, thirty dinosaurs there. Why are there so many more now?" Glenn asked. Wu paused for a second before answering.
"The amphibian DNA in their genetic make up has had some…unintended abnormalities," he said, in an almost disappointed tone.
"What does that have to do with anything?" Lori asked.
"The dinosaurs at Jurassic World have DNA that's too old to fill in completely. So Dr. Wu and his scientists put frog DNA in their genetic makeup to fill in the holes. At least, that's what I've read," Jacob said, feeling proud of himself, but also not revealing too much that would suggest he worked at Jurassic World.
"Correct. And it is because of that frog DNA that they were able to breed. Frogs have been known to change gender in a single sex environment. All of our animals were female, at one point. It's due to this…regrettable oversight that the dinosaurs are able to breed. Hence, more dinosaurs being found in what remains of society," Wu explained, practically boring everyone to sleep.
"So, if we're talking about Jurassic World here, how in the hell did they get off that island? I thought it went up in smoke?" Shane asked, crossing his arms. That was actually a question Jacob was curious about as well.
"Yes doctor, how DID that happen?" He asked. Wu sighed.
"The dinosaurs on Isla Nublar were in danger of falling back into extinction. Many of them were transported to Lockwood Manor to await transit to a dinosaur sanctuary. Who let them out, is still not known to me," Wu said.
"He's lying through his goddamn teeth. There has to be more to it than that. Wu wouldn't have just let them escape," Jacob thought
"I'd sure like to meet whoever let them out and show 'em who'll be extinct next," Shane said.
"Good one," Glenn said. Before anyone else could say anything else, Andrea turned her attention back to Jenner as he commanded VI to shut down the room.
"You have no idea what it is, do you?" Andrea asked.
"It could be microbial, viral, parasitic, fungal," Jenner listed.
"Or the wrath of God?" Jaqui said.
"There is that," Jenner said.
"Somebody must know something. Somebody somewhere," Andrea said.
"I hope somebody knows how to get rid of the dinosaurs too," Zach said.
"So do I Zach," Jacob said to his brother.
"There are others, right? Other facilities?" Asked Carol.
"There may be some. People like us," Jenner said, referring to him and Wu.
"But you don't know? How can you not know?" Rick asked.
"Everything went down. Communications, directives—all of it. We've been in the dark for almost a month.
"So it's not just here. There's nothing left anywhere? Nothing? That's what you're really saying, right?" Andrea asked.
"Jesus," Jaqui said.
"Man, I'm gonna get shitfaced drunk again," Daryl said. Dale looks at the clock on the wall that is counting down.
"Dr. Jenner, I know this has been taxing for you and I hate to ask one more question, but…that clock—it's counting down. What happens at zero?" Dale asked.
"The basement generators—they run out of fuel," Jenner said.
"And then?" Rick asked. Jenner ignored the question and walked out of the room.
"Wu? What happens when the power runs out?" Rick asked.
"The facility will go into decontamination mode," Wu said.
"What does that mean?" Jacob asked. Wu didn't say anything. Several of the group runs down stairs looking for the generators. Lights automatically come on as they enter the basement. When they get there, they find that the generators are almost empty. In Lori's room, the AC stops. Back in the big room, Jenner sits at a desk looking at a photograph of a beautiful woman.
"I did the best I could in the time that I had. I hope you'd be proud of that," he sighed to the photo.
"We always think there's gonna be more time..." He said to himself. The power starts to shut down.
"…Then it runs out," Dale is out in the hall, Lori is, too, so is Jacob. Jenner walks out a door and down the hall past them.
"Why is the air off?" Carol asked.
"And the lights in our room?" Lori asked. Daryl sticks his head out, he's still got a liquor bottle in his hand.
"What's going on? Why is everything turned off?" Daryl asked. Jenner takes the whiskey bottle from Daryl without slowing down.
"Energy is being prioritized," Jenner said.
"Air isn't a priority? What about lights?" Jacob asked.
"It's not up to me. Zone 5 is shutting itself down," Jenner said.
"Hey! Hey, what the Hell does that mean?" Daryl asked. Jenner keeps walking, everyone follows. Meanwhile, the power starts to shut down even more.
"Hey, man, I'm talking to you. What do you mean it's shutting itself down? How can a building do anything?" Daryl asked, starting to panic. Rick, T-Dog, Glenn and Shane come running to join them.
"You'd be surprised," Jenner said.
"Rick?" Lori called down the hallway in a worried state. He motions her to wait. Jenner walks down the stairs past Rick and the others and up the steps to the big room.
"Jenner, what's happening?" Rick asked worriedly.
"The system is dropping all the nonessential uses of power. It's designed to keep the computers running to the last possible second. That started as we approached the half-hour mark. Right on schedule," Jenner explained. Jenner takes another drink from the bottle. He pauses at the steps that lead up to the work stations in the big room. Everyone has followed and is grouped around. Jenner hands the bottle to Daryl who angrily snatches it out of Jenner's hand.
"Jenner. You assured me I could retrieve my samples from the supply room before the start of the decontamination!" Wu said walking up to Jenner. This really caught Jacob's attention.
"Wait, what samples?" He asked. Wu ignored him and continued speaking to Jenner.
"My life's work is behind those locked doors," he said getting more irritated.
"What samples?!" Jacob yelled.
"DNA samples from the Indominus rex! I saved some as a contingency when the virus hit!" Wu yelled back. Jacob had a look of surprise on his face, that quickly turned to anger.
"You—you were going to make another indominus? After everything that happened?! Everything you destroyed?!" He said. Everyone was looking in shock at the shouting match between the two.
"It was a contingency plan! In case the dinosaurs migrated farther than California. I was going to create it to—" Jacob cut Wu off.
"To what? Cull the dinosaurs? The walkers?! After all the people it killed?!" Jacob was getting belligerent.
"Wait. What the hell are you talking about? That thing that attacked Jurassic World? You were just gonna make another one?! And how the hell does Jacob know about it?!" Daryl yelled. Jacob pulled his gun on Wu and held it against him. Everyone else jumped at this.
"I worked at Jurassic World, I'm sorry I didn't tell you all sooner, but I saw the nightmare that this bastard and his lackies made. Twenty-two people, Wu! That's how many died because of that thing! That blood, IS ON YOUR HANDS! I had friends there! I nearly died! And you want to make another one, in the hopes that, what? It kills a few other dinosaurs spread throughout the country? Any surviving people be damned! Might as well doom what remains of society!" Jacob didn't even realize he was close to pulling the trigger, until Glenn calmly lowered the gun. Wu looked terrified. As did Zach and everyone else.
"You think I don't know that? I have tried to make things right. But Masrani didn't make it easy! For any of us! There are other Masrani Global scientists out there. If I don't create another Indominus, they will find a way to! We all agreed on the contingency plan!" Wu said. Jacob sighed. He had never really considered that Simon Masrani was pulling the strings. Though, he wasn't doing much of anything now.
"Masrani may have given the order, but you made the damn thing. I hope those samples never see the light of day," he said, backing away from Wu. During their argument, Jacob didn't realize that the clock was close to hitting 30 minutes. Wu looked defeated and grabbed the whiskey bottle from the Jenner's desk.
"Thanks to Jenner," he took a big gulp. "Now they never will,"
"Did you know about this, Jenner?" Jacob asked. Jenner shook his head.
"If I had, I would have thrown him out the second he got here," he said, looking at Wu, who simply looked away. There was another moment of silence before Jenner spoke up again.
"It was the French," Jenner said to Andrea.
"What?" She asked.
"They were the last ones to hold out as far as I know. While our people were bolting out the doors and committing suicide in the hallways, they stayed in the labs till the end. They thought they were close to a solution," Jenner said.
"What happened?" Asked Jaqui.
"The same thing that's happening here. No power grid. Ran out of juice. The world runs on fossil fuel. I mean, how stupid is that?" Jenner said, glancing over to Wu. Wu took another drink.
"Let me tell you—" Shane was cut off by Rick.
"To Hell with it, Shane. I don't even care. Lori, grab our things. Everybody, get your stuff. We're getting out of here now!" Rick said, about to head out the door. Before he could, and alarm started going off marking the 30 minute mark on the clock.
"What is that?" Jacob asked.
"What's that noise?" Carl also asked.
"Doc, what's going on here?" Daryl asked. Jenner scans his badge and enters code into a security pad.
"Everybody, y'all heard Rick," Shane said.
"Get your stuff and let's go! Go now! Go!" Rick commanded.
"Let's go," T dog said to Jaqui.
"Come on!" Glenn yelled. Before anyone can do anything, the door to the big room shuts, trapping everyone inside.
"No. Did you just lock us in? He just locked us in!" Glenn yelled.
"We've hit 30 minutes. I'm recording," Jenner said.
"What? What are you recording?" Jacob asked. He didn't say anything.
"Asshole," Jacob said angrily. Carl runs to his mom and Zach runs to Jacob. Suddenly, Daryl makes a run at Jenner but Rick and Shane hold him down.
"Jenner, open it now!" Rick yelled.
"There's no point. Everything topside is locked down. The emergency exits are sealed," Jenner said. Rick turned to Wu.
"Wu, please. We're begging you," Rick said. Wu tried to get the doors opened as Jenner watched him feeling irritated.
"I can't get it I'm sorry. The system overrided everything. The doors, the controls, I can't do it. I'm sorry," Wu said.
"Open the damn doors!" Jacob yelled.
"Henry's right. That's something the computers control. Neither of us can do anything. I told you once that front door closed, it wouldn't open again. You heard me say that. It's better this way," Jenner said.
"How the hell is this better? You're holding us against our will!" Jacob said.
"I didn't do anything. The computers did, I told you," Jenner said. Suddenly, Wu spoke up.
"They're right, Jenner. This is wrong and you know it. I know that you lost everything in that lab and then some. Now so have I. For better or worse. But give them a chance," Wu said with sympathy, seemingly feeling guilty for his actions
"What happens in 28 minutes? Rick asked.
"Come on!" Daryl yelled at Jenner.
"What happens in 28 minutes?!" Rick yelled at Jenner. Suddenly, Jenner became hostile.
"You know what this place is?! We protected the public from very nasty stuff! Weaponized smallpox! Ebola strains that could wipe out half the country! Stuff you don't want getting out! Ever!" Jenner yelled. Everyone went quiet as he sat back down in his chair.
"In the event of a catastrophic power failure—in a terrorist attack, for example—H.I.T.s are deployed to prevent any organisms from getting out," Jenner explained, more calmly.
"Um, w-what are H.I.T.s?" Jacob asked.
"VI, define," Jenner said. VI explains that HITs are the second most powerful nuclear weapon in the world, and that the power of the heat it emits is between 5,000-6,000 degrees.
"It sets the air on fire. No pain," Jenner said softly. Carol and Sophia start to cry.
"An end to sorrow, grief…regret. Everything," Jenner said.
"You'd let it all end? Just like that? Let all of us people who actually want to stick it out and live another day, you'd just let us die?" Jacob asked.
"It's better this way, I promise," Jenner said.
"No. It's not!" Jacob said. A shatter of glass was heard on the floor as Daryl threw another bottle of whiskey.
"Open the damn door!" Daryl yelled. Shane runs at the door with a fire axe. T-Dog tosses one to Daryl. He catches it and they both try to destroy the door.
"You should've left well enough alone it would have been so much easier," Jenner said.
"Easier for who?!" Lori asked.
"All of you. You know what's out there. A short brutal life and an agonizing death and those prehistoric monsters chasing you everywhere you go. You, your sister. What was her name?" Jenner asked Andrea.
"Amy," Andrea said.
"Amy. You know what this does. You've seen it. Is that what you really want for your wife and son?" Jenner asked Rick.
"I don't want this," Rick said. Daryl and T dog were hitting the door with axes and suddenly, Daryl goes for Jenner's head with the axe, but Rick and Shane hold him back.
"There's always hope. Maybe it won't be you, maybe not here but somebody somewhere," Rick said.
"What part of 'Everything is gone' do you not understand?" Andrea asked.
"Listen to your friend. She gets it. This is what takes us down. This is our extinction event," Jenner said.
"Only if you choose to give up!" Jacob said.
"But giving up is so much easier right? That is not what I believe. Not for me, and certainly not for my brother!" Jacob said, pointing towards Zach.
"This isn't right. You can't just keep us here," Carol cried.
"Listen to them!" Wu yelled. Jenner ignored him.
"One tiny moment—a millisecond. No pain," Jenner said.
"My daughter doesn't deserve to die like this!" Carol cried again.
"None of us do!" Jacob yelled in agreement with Carol.
"Wouldn't it be kinder, more compassionate just to hold your loved ones and wait for the clock to run down?" Jenner said. He talks to Carol and Jacob, but Jacqui seems to agree with what she hears. Shane gets angry and comes at him with a shotgun. He starts shooting the computers, but before he can hurt anyone, Rick stops him.
"I think you're lying," Rick said, catching his breath.
"You're lying about no hope. If that were true, you'd have bolted with the rest or taken the easy way out. You didn't. You chose the hard path. Why?" Rick asked.
"It doesn't matter," Jenner said.
"It does matter. When everyone else ran, you stayed. Why?" Rick asked.
"Not because I wanted to. I made a promise. To her. My wife. Test subject 19. It was her. The real Einstein of this project." Jenner said, pointing to the screen. Jacob walks over to Jenner.
"I made a promise too. To my brother. To keep him safe, no matter what. And if I decide that even in a shitty world like this, I'm going to give up because the future looks bleak, That promise will have been broken, and me saving my brother will have been for nothing. So please let us have that chance that we asked for. Let us keep going. We're begging you," Jacob pleaded. Rick and Lori chimed in.
"Your wife didn't have a choice. You do. That's—that's all we want—a choice. A chance," Rick said.
"Let us keep trying, as long as we can," Lori said.
Everyone looked on as they were speaking. Jenner pondered their words for a moment and waved his key card, opening the door.
"Come on!" Daryl yelled. Everyone starts to rush out the door, everyone except Jaqui. Wu gets up from his desk.
"Wu. Listen, I know we exchanged some harsh words back there, and we may not see eye to eye on a lot of things. But you don't deserve to die here. Not like this. No one does. Come with us, please," Jacob said. Wu paused for a second and nodded as he and Jacob and Zach ran out the door of the big room.
"There's your chance. Take it," Jenner said to Rick.
"I'm grateful," Rick said.
"The day will come when you won't be," Jenner said.
"Let's go!" Yelled Glenn. Before Rick leaves the room, Jenner pulls him in close and whispers something to him. Lori then runs back and drags Rick out.
"Keep moving! We've only got four minutes!" Jacob yelled. T-Dog is leading Jacqui.
"Let's go! Let's go," T Dog said.
"No no. I'm staying. I'm staying, sweetie," Jaqui said to him.
"That's insane!" T Dog yelled.
"No, it's completely sane. For the first time in the long time. I'm not ending up like Jim and Amy. There's no time to argue. And no point, not if you want to get out. Just get out. Get out," Jaqui said. Everyone stops when they hear T-Dog yelling at Jacqui. She says this last to all of them. Jacqui pushes T-Dog away. Andrea decides she's going to stay and Dale tries to convince her otherwise. When she tells him to go, he stays. At the last minute, she and Dale decide to get out. Meanwhile, the rest of the group is trying to bust out of the CDC. They were trying to bust the doors open by banging on them.
"Get them doors open!" Daryl yelled.
"It doesn't work!" Glenn yelled. They tried the keypad next to the door, but nothing happens.
"Electricity's out! That won't work!" Jacob said. T-Dog makes a run at the window with a chair.
"Look out!" T Dog yelled. Still no use. Shane tries to shoot the window, but to no avail. Carol reaches in her bag.
"Rick, I have something that might help," Carol said.
"I don't think a nail file is gonna do it," Shane said sarcastically. She just ignored him. Carol hands Rick the grenade he found at the start of the apocalypse. Rick pulls the cord on the grenade.
"EVERYBODY DOWN!" Jacob yelled
"Get down!" Daryl yelled. Rick jumped to cover as he left the grenade by the window. The window shatters and everyone runs for the vehicles. Outside, the raptors and walkers are waiting for them. Everybody is shooting at the dinosaurs and walkers while running back to the vehicles. In the distance, Jacob sees the dilophosauruses that Wu was talking about(Wu did get out by the way).
"Dilophosaurs! Run! Don't shoot! Just run!" Jacob said. Nobody argued, they just ran as fast as they could, with Raptors and Dilos right on their tails. Luckily, everyone makes it to the vehicles. Dale and Andrea jump out of the building. Thankfully, the dinosaurs don't pay much attention to them because while going after the humans, each pack began fighting each other.
Inside The CDC
Jenner and Jacqui watch them on the monitor.
"They got out," Jenner said smiling. Back inside Jenner and Jacqui share a smile. Andrea and Dale run for the R.V. Rick checks his watch. In the big room the clock counts down to less than ten seconds. Jacqui takes Jenner's hand and they spend their last moments looking into each others eyes.
Back outside
"Dale, get down! Down!" Lori yelled across the walker filled field. Dale and Andrea quickly jumped behind sandbags to avoid getting caught in the explosion.
"Get back! Everybody down! Down!" Rick yelled. T-dog, Shane, everyone ducks down in their vehicle. A huge fireball builds up inside the C.D.C. building until it fills the entire place. The heat blasts out the windows, setting fire to everything around it, exploding tanks, cars, trucks, everything it touches. The explosion expands until the roof disintegrates and the building implodes on itself. Glenn, Rick, Lori and Carl get up from the R.V. floor and see the remains. Dale peers over the sand bag wall. T-Dog rises up from his seat. Carol and Sophia look up from the Cherokee, Daryl from his truck, Jacob, Wu and Zach from his car. The explosion scares the dinosaurs off into the city somewhere and attracts the walkers to it. Dale and Andrea run for the RV from the sandbags and Glenn let's them in.
"Get in, get in, get in!" He said, rushing them inside. Lori is speechless at the destruction. Andrea sits down, crying and gives Dale a look of anger. Dale looks back at her but has to look away, sorry for the grief she feels. Rick drives the R.V. away, and looks shaken. Lori sees this and gets scared. Rick looks at her, collects himself and concentrates on driving, determined. Zach looks at Jacob with tears in his eyes. He gives him a rub on the shoulder letting him know it'll be ok. Jacob looks in the back seat and sees Wu staring sadly at the burning CDC while Jacob drives away, knowing his only colleague to cure this thing, is dead. The six cars turn around and drive back up the road they'd come down on, and look for somewhere, where they can find a glimpse of hope. Wu secretly pulls an exceptionally large dinosaur tooth out of his pocket, looks at it, and tucks it away with a look of shame on his face…
End.
Hey everyone! I really enjoyed this re-work! I know that there's a lot of hostility between Wu and Jacob, but from Jacob's perspective, Wu is responsible for everything that happened at Jurassic world. Will that hostility remain? You'll have to wait and see! I also wanted to have their argument about the indominus mirror Jenner yelling at everyone about why they needed to decontaminate the CDC with the explosion. Reworked season 2, coming soon! Anyways, thanks for reading all!
~JPfan