Jophery Brown

''"Jophery, raise the gate!"

- Robert Muldoon '' Jophery was the gatekeeper of Jurassic Park's holding pen for the Raptors. His death lead the main investors of InGen to question the safety of the park. He only appears in the opening scene of the movie.

Inspiration
Jophery's character is loosely based on the unnamed Jurassic Park Maintenance Worker, who appears in the prologue of the first novel. He was severely injured by a Velociraptor. Ed Regis brought him to a local hospital in Costa Rica. Doctor Bobby Carter tries to treat the boy. Ed lied and said he'd been injured in a maintenance accident, but Carter knew this was an lie due to him having claw marks and flesh wounds. His last word is "...raptor..."

Construction of Jurassic Park
Jophery, like many other workers, was a security guard for Jurassic Park.

He was the gatekeeper of the Raptor Pen, which was temporarily replacing the Velociraptor Paddock because the alpha-female killed all but two of her subordinates and was attacking the fences.

Death
When the Big One was being transferred to the holding pen, she attacked the cage, sending it backwards and causing Jophery to fall over. Robert Muldoon tried to rescue Jophery, while shouting at the other workers to shoot the Raptor. Robert's grip started to slip and Jophery was pulled into the pen to his death, mauled by the Big One.

Post-Mortem
His family filed a $20 million lawsuit against InGen as a result of his death, the first of soon-to-be many.

Trivia

 * Jophery was the Big One's first human victim. Muldoon was the second.
 * In the Topps comic, he is much younger and named "Jose" and appears to be Caucasian (despite his Hispanic name). Donald Gennaro states he was only injured and not killed.