Lodge (chapter)

In the chapter Lodge, Dr. Alan Grant and Donald Gennaro enter the Visitor Center where the reunite with the Murphy children, but Grant stays behind to combat the Velociraptors inside the center.

Plot
The survivors inside the Safari Lodge listen intently to the radio for any commutation from Tim Murphy, but there has still been no word from the boy to the point that his grandfather, John Hammond, wonders about Timmy's whereabouts. A bedridden Dr. Ian Malcolm replies that he does not know and notes that Velociraptors trying to get inside the lodge are ugly. Hammond further wonders who could have predicted that Jurassic Park would result in a disaster, to which Dr. Ellie Sattler responds noting that Malcolm did. Malcolm then proceeds into another delirious rant where he scolds John Hammond for believing that he could take control of nature rather than continue to be at mercy of it and that he can never control it. Hammond in turn ignores him and continues to wonder about Tim's whereabouts as well as those of Dr. Alan Grant.

Grant attempts to enter the Visitor Center through its rear door that he previously used to leave the building twenty minutes when he went to restore the park's power, but finds that it is locked because it is a security door and its lock has been reactivated due to the return of the power. Grant decides to go through the front doors next and goes to the kitchen where he last left the Murphy children, though the children are nowhere to be found. He then goes up the stairs but encounters a closed area that requires a security card to unlock, a card that Grant does not have. He then hears the raptors in the hallway.

It is revealed that the room Tim and his sister Lex entered is the Nursery they had previous entered in the chapter "The Tour". They also encounter the Velociraptor infant from said chapter.