Control IX

In the chapter Control IX Jurassic Park experiences an unexpected problem after Rexy is sedated.

Plot
In the Control Room, John Arnold confirms that Jurassic Park's adult Tyrannosaurus rex, Rexy, has successfully fallen unconscious. The second shot from Robert Muldoon's tranquilizer launcher actually did hit Rexy, it only took an hour for it to take effect. With the only task left being to transport Rexy back to her paddock, Arnold promptly proclaims that Jurassic Park is now under control again.

However, soon after making this statement, Donald Gennaro sees that the system's auxiliary power is low for some reason when it was thought that they were running on main power. When John Arnold decides to print the system status log per Dr. Henry Wu's request, the auxiliary power suddenly fails. Meanwhile at the waterfall in the Jungle River Cruise, Tim Murphy and his sister Lex go outside of Maintenance Building 04 to see if Rexy is still there.

They find her sedated with Tim noticing the tranquilizer stuck in her head, but he also notices that the waterfall they are under is no longer producing water, a sign that the power is out again. After these discoveries, Dr. Alan Grant returns from the room inside the building that he was locked out from, apparently the door having somehow gotten unlocked, believing it to be one of the Murphy kids. Tim tells him that it was not him nor his sister that had gotten the door unlocked and that power is out, but Dr. Grant does not consider the recent news to be serious, apparently wanting to show the children something he found in the room he was in.

Back the Control Room it is plunged into total darkness from the power outage. Using natural light from the outside, Dr. Wu reads off the printout system log to reveal that John Arnold had forgotten to turn on the system's main power when he rebooted it in the chapter "Dawn". More alarming is that from the system log read to them by Dr. Wu, all of the park's electrified fences have been off, to which deeply worries Rober Muldoon that the Velociraptors might have escaped while they were disabled.

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