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"Prometheus got gored. So will you, you rapacious rat bastard!"

—Ian Malcolm^(src)

Lewis Dodgson
Appearances	Jurassic Park Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Jurassic World: Chaos Theory Jurassic World: Dominion
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Portrayed by	Cameron Thor (Jurassic Park) Adam Harrington (Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous/Jurassic World: Chaos Theory) Campbell Scott (Jurassic World: Dominion)
Role	Employee of Biosyn (Jurassic Park) Head of Research for Biosyn (Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous) CEO of Biosyn (Jurassic World: Dominion)
Status	Deceased
Died	2022
Game Appearances	See here
Comics Appearances	See here

Dr. Lewis Dodgson was the main antagonist of the Jurassic Park franchise, serving as the overarching antagonist of Jurassic Park, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Season 5 and Jurassic World: Chaos Theory Seasons 2 and 3, and the main antagonist of Jurassic World: Dominion.

He was the scientist that hired Dennis Nedry to steal dinosaur embryos from Jurassic Park. He made his return 29 years later as the CEO of Biosyn with mysterious ambitions.

History

Early life

Nothing is currently known about Lewis Dodgson's early life, including his place and date of birth; the actor chosen to play him, Campbell Scott, was born in 1959, which may provide an approximation of the character's birth date. He was most likely born in the United States and lived there for much of his life. As an older adult, he described his younger self as an idealist driven to right injustices and as someone who started out with few opportunities available to him. However, actual evidence suggests that he came to remember his youth poorly, painting himself in a better light in his own memory.

Employment at BioSyn

Sometime before 1991, Dodgson was employed by BioSyn Genetics, an American biotechnology company and one of the leading competitors in its field, led at the time by Bill Steingarten. BioSyn's main rival was International Genetic Technologies, Inc., based in Palo Alto and San Diego, which at the time was headed by Scottish entrepreneur John Hammond.

Dodgson would eventually learn that InGen had cracked the secret of de-extinction, obtaining viable ancient DNA to clone organisms that had been extinct for millions of years, and that it planned to display said organisms in a tourist attraction called Jurassic Park. BioSyn intended to obtain this technology for itself, but InGen's research was being conducted in remote locations: Isla Nublar, a volcanic island 120 miles west of Costa Rica, and the Las Cinco Muertes archipelago, even farther west. This safely isolated its secrets from the prying eyes of rival corporations. For its part, BioSyn acquired land in Italy's Dolomites to extract amber samples that might contain fragments of ancient DNA, but they were unsuccessful.

Jurassic Park

Isla Nublar Conspiracy and Incident (1993)

Jurassic Park - "Dodgson, we've got Dodgson here!" Scene - HD

By 1991, Dodgson had formulated a plan to obtain viable embryos of some of the prehistoric species InGen had cloned. He learned that Jurassic Park's chief programmer, a man named Dennis Nedry, was growing dissatisfied with his treatment at work and with his pay. The first contact took place on March 12, 1992, and Nedry was easily persuaded to participate in corporate espionage in exchange for a handsome reward. Dodgson bribed him to steal viable dinosaur embryos from cold storage at the Jurassic Park facility and deliver them to a contact on Isla Nublar's East Pier; this was planned to occur on June 11, 1993, a period when most of the park's employees would be on shore leave for the weekend and senior staff would be busy with a sponsorship tour of the park.

Dodgson met with Nedry at a restaurant in San José, Costa Rica, on June 10, 1993, to discuss the details of the plan. He was wearing a hat and sunglasses to conceal himself from anyone who might recognize him, but Nedry exposed him; it seems that no one at the restaurant knew Dodgson by sight or last name, so he was safe. To enable Nedry to smuggle the embryos off Isla Nublar without alerting customs agents or InGen employees, the cryopreservation container intended to hold the samples was designed to look like a can of Barbasol shaving cream, complete with a functioning dispenser. There was enough coolant inside for 46 hours, ensuring that the embryos would remain alive and viable when they arrived at BioSyn. Nedry assured Dodgson that he had a plan to smuggle the embryos to the East Pier before InGen noticed anything was amiss; This plan involved the whte_rbt.obj command, which would disable keylogging and allow him to shut down Jurassic Park’s security systems. Dodgson paid Nedry $750,000 USD upfront, with an additional $50,000 secured for each viable embryo delivered, for a total of $1,500,000 (over $2,660,000 as of 2019 after adjusting for inflation).

After the meeting, Nedry returned to his work at Jurassic Park. Ship C-3208 was scheduled to take all non-essential personnel to the mainland at 7:00 p.m. CST, but the departure time was moved up due to inclement weather. By June 13, Dodgson remained without any updates from Nedry, and it became clear that she would not be returning, having either died or betrayed him. Nedry's death was listed as an animal attack in InGen's official reports, and the cryopreservation device was never found.

The Isla Nublar incident resulted in the deaths not only of Nedry (killed by a Dilophosaurus), but also of two other senior InGen staff members (John Arnold and Robert Muldoon) and a legal advisor from the firm Cowan, Swain & Ross (Donald Gennaro). The incident severely delayed the Jurassic Park project and caused a financial disaster that left InGen on the brink of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Dodgson himself lost over $1 million, presumably from BioSyn, and had not made any profit.

Dodgson scrambled to follow up on the incident and determine exactly what had gone wrong. According to public records, Nedry was considered a missing person; no one at InGen knew what had happened to him yet. With Isla Nublar abandoned, the dinosaurs were left to their own devices and, according to InGen records, would have been extinct by now due to a genetic glitch programmed into them by geneticist Henry Wu. Dodgson's failure likely landed him in hot water with his superiors, but he and other employees quickly began working on a way to catch up with InGen and learn its secrets. Thus began Project Footprint and a long-term infiltration of the company. The ultimate goal of the project was to obtain viable samples of ancient DNA from InGen.

In 1994, Bill Steingarten was replaced as CEO by his business partner Jeff Rossiter, though it is unknown if Dodgson's failure the previous year had anything to do with this. Rossiter kept Dodgson on board at BioSyn, and Dodgson remained in charge of Project Footprint to make up for the losses from 1993. Throughout 1994, InGen was able to return to Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna, picking up the pieces of their abandoned project and trying to determine if there was anything left to salvage. BioSyn's corporate spies also made their way to the islands, uncovering some startling truths: InGen's animals had survived, unaffected by the purported genetic failsafe, and some had even begun reproducing in the wild despite claims that only female animals were introduced to Isla Nublar. Nedry's cause of death was attributed to an animal attack; Their plan to shut down the security systems had evidently let the creature loose, and they had underestimated how quickly the island would descend into chaos without the restraint technology. InGen's cleanup operation concluded in November, as had Project Imprint; the latter met with some success, as BioSyn's spies recovered viable samples of de-extinct DNA. There was still hope that BioSyn could catch up, but InGen would still present stiff competition.

De-extinction goes public

One of the survivors of the 1993 incident, American mathematician Ian Malcolm, spoke publicly about what had happened on Isla Nublar in a 1995 televised interview, but it was widely discredited and regarded as a fraud. In late 1996, InGen began proceedings to remove John Hammond as CEO, replacing him with Peter Ludlow, who enacted plans to reopen the originally planned Jurassic Park location in San Diego. In 1997, a male Tyrannosaurus rex was accidentally released in the city, revealing the reality of de-extinction to the public.

Ludlow died during the San Diego incident, bringing InGen even closer to disaster, only to be saved by a corporate takeover by Masrani Global Corporation. Despite legal regulations regarding de-extinction and genetic engineering implemented in 1998 with the Genetic Guard Act, InGen wasted no time in resuming its illegal research; Henry Wu was part of the team that returned to Isla Sorna to attempt to restart the research. BioSyn, for its part, would not be far behind: some of the new employees involved in this secret and illegal InGen project were corporate spies, and Dodgson was likely involved. Codenamed Project Regenesis, this was another effort by BioSyn to catch up with its rival, and the first spies were put to work in 1999; during the operation, the company's plans to resurrect Jurassic Park and Dr. Wu's discovery of new avenues for genetic engineering were uncovered. At least four new species, and likely new variants of preexisting ones, were bred on Isla Sorna during this period. InGen had grown wary of the UN patrols monitoring the island's surroundings, abandoning the project and evacuating Sorna by the summer of 1999, unaware that BioSyn had been there all along. BioSyn would conclude Project Regensis in 2000, and also learned a great deal during that time. A period of financial growth began for the company, and Dodgson finally found redemption for his failures in 1993.

Simon Masrani, the CEO of Masrani Global, announced in 2003 that InGen was in the process of rebuilding Jurassic Park, this time called Jurassic World. One of BioSyn's spies, still embedded within Masrani Global, helped bribe the United States government to reverse restrictions on genetic engineering; Dodgson ensured that his tracks were covered well enough that, should the bribe be revealed, the paper trail implicated only Masrani Global. The park opened on May 30, 2005, to worldwide acclaim. Not much is known about Dodgson's career during the Jurassic World era, but InGen maintained its position at the top of the genetic engineering pyramid thanks to Masrani Global's seemingly bottomless coffers, billions of dollars in oil and telecom revenues funneled into the facility on Isla Nublar, and even billions of dollars in oil and telecommunications revenues funneled into the facility on Isla Nublar. Infiltration of the park would also have become more difficult, as InGen Security was significantly strengthened under the direction of American war veteran Vic Hoskins. Like the dinosaurs, InGen had returned from extinction, and BioSyn was left in the dust. Nonetheless, Dodgson continued to spy on his company's rival, controlling its operations through any channel he could. He rose through the ranks at BioSyn, being selected as next in line to take the helm of the company. Rossiter stepped down as CEO in 2013, and Dodgson took his place. While this gave him more power than ever, there are some signs that Dodgson didn't enjoy the spotlight; in 2022, he described his rise in terms that suggested he wasn't very excited about it.

Jurassic World faced behind-the-scenes problems from the start; revenue began to level off in 2008 after the public became accustomed to dinosaurs as part of their reality. Rumor had it that Dr. Wu was tasked with working on something new and unprecedented to increase the park's appeal. This was InGen's best-kept secret, but had he dug deeper, Dodgson would have learned of Wu's 1997 scientific breakthrough, the flowering plant Karacosis wutensis. This wasn't just a de-extinction achievement, but a form of artificial hybridogenesis: by assembling genes from multiple plant species into an unprecedented genome, Dr. Wu had created an entirely new species. Dodgson may have assumed that Wu's secret project was related to this, and he would have been right. By 2015, InGen announced that a new theropod would be entering the park in the near future, and only a select few knew its name: Indominus rex.

Due to issues that were not described to the public, the opening of the Indominus attraction was delayed several times, as was the public reveal of the animal's nature. It is unknown whether Dodgson knew exactly what type of theropod this creature was, but the world would learn of it anyway on December 22, 2015, when a gross incident of corporate mismanagement allowed the animal to escape from its isolated enclosure. Reports from the island throughout the day grew increasingly horrific; within hours, the park went from closing its northern attractions to a full-scale evacuation. The animal was killed that evening, but not before killing several staff members due to its alarming level of intelligence and the lack of knowledge given to lower-level InGen staff about its behavior and physiology. To make matters worse for InGen, several other animals had been involuntarily released during efforts to recover or kill the Indominus, and by the end of the day, the park had suffered too much damage to realistically recover. Faced with a storm of lawsuits and negative publicity, Masrani Global opted to abandon Isla Nublar altogether rather than attempt to rebuild.

InGen had been brought to its knees once again, this time without BioSyn's help.

BioSyn takes the lead

InGen became destabilized over the following months, never quite getting back on its feet. According to eyewitnesses, Hoskins had died during the incident and was also behind a conspiracy to engineer the Indominus as a military animal. Wu had allegedly been involved in this conspiracy from the beginning, and his mysterious disappearance during the incident provided strong enough evidence of his complicity that the US government could build a case against him. Almost immediately, there was a debate about what to do with the animals, now living abandoned on Isla Nublar; Masrani Global denied any responsibility for their welfare, and Claire Dearing, the park's former operations manager, was at the forefront of advocacy for the abandoned creatures. BioSyn was not involved with the politics surrounding the rights of de-extinct animals at this time, but Dodgson quickly began taking steps to replace InGen as the dominant company in the world of genetic engineering. Renovating the former mining facility in the Dolomites, located in a region now known as the BioSyn Valley after the company that owned the land, was now a priority. While the amber mines hadn't been the key to BioSyn's success initially, they could now form the basis for something bigger.

However, the fall of Jurassic World had been a double-edged sword. While it left a gap in the logistical race for genetic engineering for BioSyn to fill, it had also soured public opinion on the field and de-extinction. BioSyn had invested a considerable amount of money in dinosaurs, and while its other subsidiaries (in fields like agriculture and nanotechnology) could keep them afloat, moving forward with a de-extinction project might scare away investors. Dodgson needed to prove there was still promise in that field of science, and to do that, he would need new assets, both property and personnel; in simpler terms, he needed new tools and new allies.

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous

To begin with, he forged connections in the criminal underground, particularly with a woman named Lana Molina. She was an investor in another of InGen's rivals, Mantah Corp, whose most recent president, Daniel Kon, had been an old friend of the now-deceased Simon Masrani. Kon even had a residence on Isla Nublar, putting him in a better position than anyone else to spy on Jurassic World right under its owners' noses. Through Molina, Dodgson learned that Mantah Corp. had built its own facility on an uninhabited island east of Isla Nublar, closer to the Costa Rican mainland but still far from prying eyes. There, Kon's employees had been covertly working on technology that would allow for a greater degree of control over animals than Jurassic World had achieved. Through a business associate, Dodgson obtained an invitation to a demonstration of this technology, the V-55 Neural Interface. This implant used electrical stimulation to mimic the signals sent by the brain to the nervous system to move the body, and with the encyclopedic knowledge of dinosaur neurology recorded by Mantah Corp scientist Dr. Mae Turner, this technology was able to achieve an unprecedented level of control. Dodgson began talks with Kon to purchase the V-55 chips and other Mantah Corp. assets.

Season 5

In 2016 Dodgson, now the Head of Research at Biosyn, arrives on Isla Nublar where Kenji Kon gives him a demonstration of Mantah Corp's mind control chips using Toro. Taking control himself, Dodgson notes that Toro has clearly been through a lot, but "he'll do fine." When Mae Turner asks what he means, Dodgson explains that Biosyn put a lot of money into dinosaurs, but they were left looking like fools when Jurassic World crashed and burned. They need to prove to the world that dinosaurs aren't the bad investment, Masrani and John Hammond were. Daniel Kon is sure that when the world sees a mighty Carnotaurus eating right out of Dodgson's hand, he'll prove his point. However, Dodgson has a wish list of dinosaurs that they must first capture and prove the mind control chips work on before they have a deal including a Dimorphodon, a Carnotaurus and an herbivore of some kind that's not too frightening for the kids. However, Kenji is slightly disturbed to see a Velociraptor on the list, but he knows where Blue likes to hang out. Dodgson is dubious about taking orders from Kenji, but Daniel points out how well his son knows both the island and the dinosaurs.

In the jungle, Dodgson witnesses Kenji's reunion with Bumpy the Ankylosaurus and reluctantly agrees to Kenji's please to find another dinosaur to capture. Kenji leads the group to the ruins of the old Visitor Center, but they find no sign of Blue. Kenji warns them to be on their guard as this is Blue's territory and she knows where to hide and where to hunt. Dodgson is surprised to learn that there's only one Velociraptor on the island and asks about the others that Owen Grady was working with. Kenji tells him that they're gone, pointing out that raptors are pack animals and that Blue wouldn't be alone if there was more. Dodgson demands that they find her then and not waste any more of his time. Hawkes begins making noise in a successful effort to draw Blue out, but Blue flees into the jungle chased by the group.

Dodgson finally finds the embryos Nedry stole for him during the Jurassic Park incident

While pausing after hearing a noise, Dodgson crouches on the ground and touches what turns out to be the old Barbasol can that he gave to Dennis Nedry 23 years ago, which is now half-buried in the sand. Finding the embryos inside, Dodgson comments that he really could've used it 23 years ago before the group is attacked by a pack of Dilophosaurus. Dodgson narrowly avoids getting hit by the venom of one and becomes cornered by another one behind a tree before Daniel scares it off with a flare. However, they succeed in capturing and mind controlling Limbo and a Dimorphodon. Pleased with the outcome, Dodgson begins discussing with Daniel the terms of their deal for the mind control chips. However, Lana Molina attempts to escape with Dodgson's bag containing the Barbasol can and Biosyn's entire prospectus. Molina is stopped by Kenji and then eaten alive by Compys, much to Dodgson's relief as the things in his bag would fetch a fortune on the black market. Dodgson promises to double Daniel's asking price if he will deliver the assets and mind control chips to Biosyn in two weeks instead of three and Daniel accepts the deal.

Dodgson watches the loading up of the captured dinosaurs for transport to Mantah Corp Island and admits that he's impressed with Daniel Kon's work. Daniel promises that he'll have the assets and mind control chips ready for him in two weeks, but for the price that he's quoted Daniel, Dodgson demands DNA samples from some of the dinosaurs as well. Dodgson doesn't see the point of control chips if Biosyn doesn't also have the dinosaurs to use them on and Daniel promises to get him the DNA samples as well before they leave. Dodgson thanks Daniel, noting that you never know when someone's gonna turn around and stab you in the back. As he passes Kenji, Dodgson compliments Kenji on his loyalty. Dodgson then boards a plane and leaves the island.

However, since all of the dinosaurs were later released from the mind control by Kenji and the other campers after Kenji had realized his father's true nature by enslaving Bumpy, despite promising Kenji that he wouldn't and Daniel was arrested Dodgson never got the control chips or any dinosaurs delivered to him.

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory

Season 2

Soyona Santos reveals to the surprised Brooklynn that her operation is going to be partnering with Dodgson and Biosyn.

Season 3

Professor Chuck Desai talks on the phone with his wife about not being fooled by Dodgson and Biosyn. Desai is terrorized by the Handler and Tiger, and shortly afterwards comes out publicly in support of Biosyn having dominion over all dinosaurs on Earth. This draws the suspicions of Ben Pincus and Gia who know how outspoken Desai was about the DPW and one organization having too much power, meaning that he would never support a private company having that kind of power.

In the Malta catacombs, Brooklynn and Santos meet with Dodgson himself to finalize the partnership between Biosyn and the Broker's smuggling operation with Brooklynn secretly recording the meeting. Dodgson vaguely recognizes Brooklynn from his dealings with Mantah Corp, but Santos simply introduces Brooklynn as her colleague and Dodgson cracks a joke about Brooklynn's arm. Dodgson explains that people don't like to come down into the catacombs because of all of the ridiculous superstitions, making it the perfect place to create his own dinosaur underworld. It's located directly below the Amber Clave Night Market, meaning that both the dinos and Dodgson can be transported undetected. Brooklynn is surprised to learn of the existence of a market for dinosaurs and Dodgson reveals that Santos and Brooklynn are here to take it over, something that Santos hadn't told Brooklynn before. Now that Desai is on their side, they're one step closer to sealing the deal.

Dodgson receives a call and has to leave, promising to retrieve the cases with dinosaur eggs and DNA samples on his way out. As Dodgson has forgotten his bag, Brooklynn volunteers to go and get it for him, looking up Desai once she's alone and digging through Dodgson's files for information without any success. Brooklynn contacts Ben who reveals his suspicions that someone had gotten to the professor, but he doesn't have proof.

Dodgson is pleased with the case of eggs that Santos gives him and the DNA samples. Dodgson tells Santos that he's still having trouble securing a special land permit because Biosyn Valley's local regional counsellor keeps getting in the way, so he wants Santos to send the Handler to kill him. Dodgson has tried everything else so he sees no other choice, but Santos feels that now is a time for discretion. They swayed Desai to their side through intimidation and she's sure that the regional counselor can be convinced through the same method. After a tense moment Dodgson seemingly concedes, then notices that Brooklynn hasn't yet returned.

As the Handler is about to have the Atrociraptor pack kill Brooklynn, she's stopped by Santos who tells the woman off for using her whistle against Santos' orders when Santos has spent good money on having them trained with her laser. Santos pointedly aims the laser at the Handler before using it to send the Atrociraptors back into their cages. Santos has Brooklynn help her move Red over with the other raptors, telling the Handler that they have a new assignment from Dodgson, the details of which they will discuss later. Santos threatens to demonstrate the laser's other use on the Handler if she ever attacks Brooklynn again. As Santos and Brooklynn leave, Dodgson collects his dropped bag, urging the Handler to have patience and telling her that the raptors will be hers.

Shortly thereafter, Santos sees a breaking news report on TV revealing that Italian Regional Counsellor Corso is dead of a dinosaur attack. A furious Santos realizes that Dodgson had used the Handler and her Atrociraptor pack to kill Corso behind her back and yanks the TV off of the wall.

Dodgson enters moments later, distracted by his phone, stating that he's juggling a lot of things. Dodgson tells Santos and Brooklynn that he has another project for them, namely the location and extraction of invaluable assets. Dodgson wants them to find Maisie Lockwood and an adolescent Velociraptor, although the latter may or may not exist. Santos agrees that it sounds like a good challenge and since her Handler is busy on other tasks, she will have to call in Rainn Delacourt instead. While Delacourt is a little seedy, that might be best for a job like this. Dodgson is so distracted that he fails to notice how pointed Santos is being in her remarks, suggesting that if they can find Owen Grady, he'll probably lead them to one or both of the targets. Opening Dodgson's candy bar for him, Santos promises him an update in less than 48 hours. Abruptly leaving with Brooklynn, Santos tells the confused man that he needs a new TV.

Outside, Santos explains that she had chosen not to confront Dodgson about his despicable actions because the payoff of their deal regarding the black market is too great. Brooklynn suggests that Santos can't trust Dodgson to keep up his end of the deal, pointing out that he had already gone behind her back once, used the Handler to do his dirty work and now has assets that he wants Santos to get. However, maybe they can get some info on Dodgson and even the score a little. Brooklynn proposes that she goes to the black market, asks around, and see if she can find out what Dodgson is really up to. Such information could come in handy to them in the future and Santos agrees.

Santos later tells Brooklynn that Dodgson has yet to pay her for the DNA samples and taking care of Desai for him.

Jurassic World: Dominion

In the 29 years since the events of the first film, Dodgson became the CEO of Biosyn Genetics, which still spells a rivalry with InGen. Dodgson first appears as a seemingly friendly figure that comes out to personally greet Ellie Sattler and Alan Grant when they arrive at Biosyn after being invited there by his hired consultant, Ian Malcolm. Leaving them in the care of his trusted employee, Ramsay Cole, Dodgson goes down to his laboratory in Biosyn's lower sublevel to speak with his chief scientist, Henry Wu, whom he had hired after the events at the Lockwood Manor.

Unbeknownst to almost everyone, Dodgson had prehistoric locusts engineered by Dr. Wu to spread genetic modifications to crops. Wu, who was concerned after everything he had been through and perturbed by the insects' rapid breeding and failure to die off, grew frustrated with Dodgson's immorality and irresponsibility, but Dodgson assured Wu that they could fix the problem once they had obtained Maisie Lockwood and the juvenile Velociraptor, Beta, that they could solve the problem.

To that end, Dodgson had Maisie and Beta captured, causing Owen Grady and Claire Dearing to enter the frame. Dodgson successfully had her transported to Biosyn via his underling, Soyona Santos, where she was met by Dr. Wu, but Dodgson became paranoid that Wu, who treated her as a person rather than a science experiment of unparalleled success, began showing her classified information relating to her mother, Charlotte Lockwood. When Maisie escapes after releasing Beta, Dodgson begins trying to find her, and discovers that Alan and Ellie have discovered his locusts. Not wanting to be caught and arrested for his crimes, Dodgson stops the hyperloop train to prevent their escape, leaving them stranded in the Dimetrodon habitat, and orders Claire and Owen to be killed by unleashing the local pterosaurs on them.

Dodgson then burns the locusts to destroy the evidence, causing the insects to escape their enclosure and set fire to the sanctuary, whereupon he is confronted by Malcolm, who calls him out for his bioterrorism and convinces his staff not to listen to his ideas. As the Biosyn staff evacuates and rescues the dinosaurs, Dodgson prepares to make a getaway and start anew with Ramsay and the old Barbasol can (which he found on Isla Nublar 6 years ago), presumably containing embryos in case of an emergency where Dodgson needed to start over. However, Ramsay, the true spy in his ranks, reveals that he was the one who gave Ian the information on Dodgson's misdeeds, and had grown disgusted with Dodgson and his methods.

A Dilo spits venom at Dodgson

Dodgson uses a hyperloop car to attempt to escape, only for it to break down when Claire and Ellie deactivate the primary systems. Exiting the train car, Dodgson tries to run down the tunnel, only to run into a group of Dilophosaurus, causing Dodgson to drop the Barbasol can and his other personal belongings. Dodgson tries to hide in the hyperloop car, but the Dilophosaurus sneaks in and as he tries to defend himself, Dodgson meets the same end as his former spy Dennis did nearly thirty years before. The Dilophosaurus trio bombard Dodgson with their paralyzing venom and maul him to death.

Personality

When he first appeared in Jurassic Park, Lewis Dodgson was a very secretive and humorless man, as shown by the fact that he wore a hat and sunglasses to make himself look inconspicuous, and told Nedry not to use his name, only for Nedry to announce him at the outdoor restaurant because no one cared about who he was. Dodgson was also very impolite and rude, as he coldly left the car door open when he walked out which prompted another person in the car to shut the door for him while glaring, and also chuckling at the thought of Nedry getting past the InGen security to steal all of the fifteen dinosaur embryos from Isla Nublar.

However, despite this, Dodgson was also a shady manipulator toward people he knew - as he bribed Nedry with 1.5 million dollars to persuade him to steal the embryos for him and used a gadget like ones from sci-fi movies to further pique his interest.

After becoming CEO of Biosyn, in Jurassic World: Chaos Theory and in Jurassic World: Dominion, he was also able to fool people all over the world into believing that he was a benevolent authority figure trying to stop the spreading famine across the world caused by swarms of an unidentified species of locust, and is creating GMOs to combat the famine, but even this is a façade as Dodgson is a shady and untrustworthy man; who was hiding his criminal background to the public, seeing as to how he maintained this position for nine years as well as the fact that his actions are what led to the locusts spreading and devouring half of the crops in the United States. He also unassumingly was responsible for the Amber Clave Night Market where he partnered with Soyona Santos who wanted to take over the market in exchange for helping Dodgson secure Biosyn's power over all dinosaurs.

Not even the employees working at his facility seemed to know the full scope of his plans, as Malcolm had to tell Dodgson what he was doing in front of them for them to realize the truth. Even when Dodgson may have a respectful admiration towards Henry Wu due to his pioneering in genetics, this is merely a ruse as he only thinks of Wu as a mere pawn to his goals; plus Wu himself is greatly afraid and disgusted by Dodgson's actions.

In Jurassic World Dominion, Dodgson also had sociopathic and obsessive tendencies, which is shown when Malcolm confronted Dodgson about how he is bringing about humanity's extinction through his grandiose plans, that he didn't care, and that he knows precisely what his actions will result in, yet refuses to stop due to being blind by his zealous ambition and pride. In retrospect, Malcolm was showing Dodgson's employees that, while his original plan was just to use the locusts to leave competitors without a chance to make more money than him, Dodgson was willing to go through any means necessary to destroy the reputation of his corporate rivals, even if it meant letting the giant locusts devour all crops and possibly all plants in the world and cause a global famine, in which humanity would be forced to either die out or rely on Dodgson's GMOs in order to survive. His lack of care for anyone but himself has extended to the point that he was willing to let billions of innocent people and animals starve to death, putting the entire food chain and balance of nature near the point of complete eradication, proving himself to be a greater threat than even the deadliest of dinosaurs. In Chaos Theory, Dodgson had no trouble with killing a local regional land counselor just to secure his special land permit, a length that even Santos didn't think was necessary despite her own ruthlessness.

Ironically, despite Dodgson's disregard for life, he seems to hold the dinosaurs in high regard and hold great respect for them, seeing them as the first step in genetically bringing back extinct animals for a variety of purposes other than to build another theme park. This was also hinted to as he told the Handler that the Atrociraptors (Ghost, Tiger and Panthera) will be hers with patience. It's currently unknown if he understood her emotional connection to them of if there was another reason he said this. It's possible that seeing how upset she was with the way that Santos was treating her, Dodgson was manipulating the Handler since soon afterwards, she went behind Santos' back and killed someone for him. This was something that Santos had disagreed with Dodgson about doing and thus Dodgson may have taken the opportunity to get the Handler onto his side.

However, he doesn't share the benevolence and moral standards that John Hammond, Benjamin Lockwood, and Simon Masrani held, wanting to share the wonder and majesty of the dinosaurs with the world, prior to their deaths, as Dodgson only thinks of the dinosaurs as a great means of generating profit for himself as his company. He is also implied to be a bit of a misanthrope who hold humanity in very low regard, while also feeling great disinterest when around people and often prefers to seclusion away from human interaction unless necessary, focusing more on the dinosaurs and his company rather care for the lives of his own species.

Beyond all the charm and charisma, he had yet three other defining traits that would ultimately lead to his downfall: his pride, his dislike for humanity and obsessively toxic ambition for greed. With InGen defunct and no longer a threat to his plans, Dodgson was confident that his plans were going to work the way he intended them, as Malcolm even said that when Dodgson sees his machinations, he goes for them while ignoring everything else, and when he sees someone that he perceives as a threat, he couldn't bring himself to admit. Part of his big ego is shown early on when Dodgson only didn't want his name used back when he was a spy, yet when he became CEO, he wanted his company to be superior to all his rival companies so he could make even more money than before.

Dodgson was also a hypocrite, as he accuses Ramsay Cole of setting him up even though he did the same with Nedry almost a few decades ago, something that he holds no remorse for. When his plans went awry, Dodgson attempted to escape in the tunnels to start over with his plans again, which left him trapped there after Ellie and Claire reverted the power from the tunnel to the Aerial Deterrent System, ultimately leading him to his unexpected, yet well-deserved death by a pack of hungry Dilophosaurus, sharing the same fate with his paid spy Dennis Nedry 29 years ago.

Gallery

Dodgson smiling while meeting Nedry.

Concept art of Lewis Dodgson for Camp Cretaceous

Dodgson at Biosyn's lab

From an extended scene of Dominion

From an extended scene of Dominion

Trivia

• In a drastic deviation from the book, Dodgson did not return in the second film, and is instead being written out and replaced with a completely original antagonist, Peter Ludlow. This is due to Biosyn being omitted and the main antagonists and story being switched to InGen-leading mercenaries to capture dinosaurs for a theme park in San Diego.
• In one of the first scripts for Jurassic Park, Lewis Dodgson had been replaced by a new character named William "Bill" Baker.
• His name is derived from Charles Dodgson, who wrote under the pseudonym "Lewis Carroll". Carroll is most famed for writing the fairy tale Alice in Wonderland.
• Dodgson is widely considered to be one of the most dangerous villains in the Jurassic Park franchise alongside the IDW version of Peter Ludlow, Irene Corts, and the Computer Interface, as all four of them have an endgame goal that would result in a massive number of casualties. He commissioned the Giant Locusts that if left unchecked would have led to worldwide ecological collapse. He is even worse than Vic Hoskins, Eli Mills, Ken Wheatley, Kash D. Langford, and Daniel Kon, who were all also pretty bad and destructive.
• Dodgson in his Jurassic World: Dominion appearance somewhat resembles Apple CEO Tim Cook.
• In the extended version of Dominion, when Dodgson tries to delete research files about Hexapod Allies on his computer, an error message shows up on the computer, stating he doesn't have permission to do it remotely and he should go to the main server. Once he arrives at the server, he is approached by Ramsay, who asks him if he sent a rescue team for Grant and Sattler whose hyperloop stopped at the Amber Mines. Ramsay notices he's deleting research files about Biosyn's secret project. He goes on explaining the project's original goal, but it eventually failed, endangering the world's food supply and independent farmers. Dodgson replies that the solution is Maisie and using her to change the locusts' DNA. He then leaves with a hard drive. On the theatrical release, however, Dodgson browses news about locusts spreading worldwide and manages to delete the research files remotely on his computer.