Dennis Nedry

"Dennis, our lives are in your hands and you've got butterfingers?"

- John Hammond

Dennis T. Nedry was a computer programmer at Jurassic Park. Due to his financial problems and low salary, he accepted an offer from Biosyn to smuggle dinosaur embryos off the island. His last name is an anagram of nerdy.

He is the only character in the film series to be killed by a Dilophosaurus. He coincidentally did not know a lot about dinosaurs, nor what InGen was planning on Jurassic Park. He was directly responsible for the events that happened in both the novel and feature film.

He also appears in Mr. DNA's tour as someone who can "steal" the DNA from the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park: Paint and Activity Center.

Novel canon
Nedry's body is later found by Muldoon and Gennaro, with Muldoon remarking "They blinded him, then ripped him down the middle. Not a nice way to go. Maybe there's justice in this world after all." His remains were presumed to be destroyed due to the napalm bombing by the Costa Rican Air Force.

Jurassic Park
Nedry appears in both the novel and the movie, in the same role and performing much of the same actions.

An employee of Biosyn, Lewis Dodgson, hired him to steal embryos from Jurassic Park while on Isla Nublar, so that Biosyn could clone its own dinosaurs and catch up on InGen's 20 years of research (in the movie, it was 10 years of research).

Dodgson met with Nedry in San Jose, Costa Rica to discuss the arrangement and give him the equipment to complete his task: a can of shaving cream with a secret compartment that could hold 15 species of dinosaurs. Using his skills, he engineered a series of computer errors to get him past security and to cover up his tracks. Unfortunately, he shut down all the electric fences in the process, except those keeping the Velociraptors inside their pen, throwing the park into chaos and causing the deaths of much of the Jurassic Park staff, ironically including himself.

Due to a tropical storm, he crashed his gas-powered Jeep and while trying to sort the problem out, was confronted by one of the dinosaurs he had released: a young Dilophosaurus. He anxiously tried to get away from the seemingly harmless dinosaur, but it soon afterward revealed its true colors by getting aggressive and opened its frill.

The dinosaur spits on his chest, then his eyes. When he finally does get back in the car, Dennis Nedry can be seen opening his eyes again after the poison is out of his face. The Dilophosaurus is also in the car, and he savages Nedry as the Jeep shakes. He screams as the dinosaur feeds on him. The shaving cream container was lost during the scuffle.

Jurassic Park: The Game
Nedry's failure to bring the embryos to the dock resulted in Nima and Miles (two employees of Biosyn) being sent into the island to retrieve them. Nedry makes a short cameo appearance in the game, in which his partially devoured corpse is found still sitting in his Jeep.

Jurassic Park: Trespasser
Some of Dennis's background is revealed in Trespasser through Hammond's Memoirs. Hammond apparently found him in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Which is also stated in the novel). His compensation for working in exile on Site B was computer time, and money. He apparently left a Medival Mace on Site B in the InGen Labs which Anne can use as a powerful Melee weapon.

Jurassic Park-inspired games

 * Nedry gives players advices in the Jurassic Park (SNES game), though they are deliberate lies.
 * In Jurassic Park Interactive, the player's objective was to complete mini-games programmed by Nedry.
 * In Jurassic Park: The Game, Nedry's body can be seen.
 * Jurassic Park: Trespasser provides indepth detail on Nedry's backround.