Jurassic Park Incident (films)

"But, John. If the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists." - Ian Malcom

Also known as the "InGen Incident", the Isla Nublar Incident was one of the biggest catastrophes in the Jurassic Park series and takes place during the first film/novel. According to the game Jurassic Park: Trespasser, it took place on August 27th 1989.

The Cause


After Dennis Nedry shuts the park's security down in order to steal Dinosaur embryos for a rival genetics company, the loss of power causes the dinosaurs to escape and wreck havoc in the park. John Hammond's dream park quickly transformed into a nightmare as the rest of the endorsement team struggle to battle the parks restless carnivores while the park's control staff vainly tries to restore the park to normal.

As Nedry tries to transport the stolen embryos he is killed by a venomous Dilophosaurus passing through to the dock in a jeep borrowed from the Visitor Center garage. The jeep he borrowed also contained a Rocket Launcher that Muldoon was preparing to use in case something went wrong with the tour. The lost embryo canister resembling a shaving/whipped-cream can was never found after Nedry dropped it during the attack. Nedry's body was later found being eaten by one of the Procompsognathus groups that roamed the island.

Film
After the T-Rex saved the survivors from a pack of Raptors in the Visitor Center, Hammond showed up in a Gas-powered Jeep and took the survivors to the helipad to bo resucued.

They all then fly safely back to the mainland (Costa Rica), where Ian Malcolm is taken to a hospital to be treated for his injuries. Sarah Harding, his future girlfriend, would later travel to the hospital to ask if his story was true.

Sortly after the Incident, Isla Nublar is quarantined by the Costa Rican government. The fate of the dinosaurs remains a mystery, though it is possible that they all died from lack of lysine (the amino acid they were bred to be deficient to).

Novel
The park was dismantled and the dinosaurs were left to die due to lysine necessity because they required a dose of lysine every day. The Costa Rican Air Force moved in to destroy all the dinosaurs on Isla Nublar. The island was suddenly and violently 'cleaned' through tactical bombing and other air-based attack methods.

The remaining survivors are told that Ian Malcolm has died as a result of his injuries (from the T-rex stepping on him), although he is shown to have survived in the sequel The Lost World. In the novel John Hammond fell twisting his ankle and was later eaten by a group of Procompsognathids.

Survivors of the incident are indefinitely detained by the United States and Costa Rican governments. However, reports have surfaced from a Costa Rican doctor named Martin Guitierrez that an unknown pack of animals (presumably Procompsognathus) has been eating crops rich in lysine (the molecule the animals were designed to be deficient to) and killing livestock as they migrate deep into the Costa Rican jungle.

This was all followed by the events of The Lost World.