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Lewis Dodgson
Appearances	Jurassic Park The Lost World
Species	Human
Role	Dept. Head of Biosyn
Status	Deceased
Born	1949-1950
Died	1995

Lewis Dodgson is the main antagonist of the original novel series by Michael Crichton, and is a major character in the Jurassic Park novel and the main antagonist of The Lost World novel.

He was the ruthless and humorless head of research at Biosyn known for his law-breaking studies and being in charge of corporate espionage for the company. In the original novel, Dodgson appoints Dennis Nedry to steal dinosaur embryos from Jurassic Park. He returns in The Lost World leading an expedition to steal dinosaur eggs only to meet his demise at the jaws of a Tyrannosaurus rex.

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Background

Lewis Dodgson began his controversial career as a graduate student at Hopkins. He had been dismissed for planning human gene therapy without FDA permission. Later, Dodgson went from one criminal activity to another and kept on doing experiments on genes and animals, until joining Biosyn. He worked his way up, manipulated many scientists from other companies, and established a network of people who work for him, until eventually becoming the head of research. Arguably his most notable crime was a rabies vaccine test conducted on farmers in Chile without their knowledge or consent, which led to at least ten casualties.

Jurassic Park

Dodgson met with Biosyn's board of directors to discuss the opportunity of stealing InGen's dinosaur embryos and bringing them back to Biosyn, so they can create dinosaurs just like InGen's, only evading their patents. Dodgson meets Dennis Nedry in a San Francisco airport coffee shop and reveals a briefcase of $750,000 and Dodgson tells Nedry that that's only half of the money Nedry will get for stealing the embryos. Nedry says he wants all the money on Sunday and tells Dodgson to have a boat by the East Dock. Dodgson agrees and gives Nedry a shaving cream can, revealing a secret compartment to collect all the embryos and get past security.

The Lost World

When Nedry failed, Dodgson prepared to locate InGen’s Site B and steal dinosaur eggs using information from a spy named Ed James. This is when he is at his most evil and antagonistic. His team included doctors Howard King and George Baselton. When Dr. Sarah Harding was trying to get to Isla Sorna, Dodgson gave her a ride on the fishing boat Dodgson and his gang had hired from Gandoca. He threw her overboard, attempting to drown her after learning she travelled to Costa Rica alone and told no one else.

Upon arriving on Isla Sorna, Dodgson and his team started collecting dinosaur eggs using a sonic device Dodgson used to deter the dinosaurs away. However, during the attempt to steal Tyrannosaurus eggs, the plug for the machine came out, shutting off the contraption. Baselton was ripped apart by the angry parents, and Dodgson fell off a small cliff, knocking himself out in the attempt to escape being devoured.

His vile plot and evil scheme to steal the eggs were practically undone by the angry T-rex parents. It was believed that Dodgson had died when he fell off the cliff. However, he awoke later to find Procompsognathus attacking him and was able to seek refuge from them in a shed. Upon waking the following morning, he discovered the electric car that Sarah Harding was hiding under. While attempting to steal it and escape the island, Dodgson saw the adult T. rex and dove under the car as well, but Harding, to save herself and remembering how he nearly killed her, pushed him out, allowing the Tyrannosaurus rex to grab him, carry him away and drop him into her nest, where he was devoured by the T. rex babies. Witnessing him carried by the T. rex, Malcolm cynically declared it as proof that God exists.

Personality

At first glance, Dodgson appeared to be a charismatic, sophisticated, polite, and attentive, yet humorless and often serious man, but in reality, he was a cold-blooded, shady, manipulative, and ruthless man. Unlike other scientists, who use their creativeness to invent new things, Dodgson's creativity was used almost exclusively on espionage and ruthless planning by stealing other people's ideas. He was willing to pay any price, whether in money or human lives, for achieving his goals. Despite this, Dodgson is a quiet and subtle master pragmatist who usually prefers to thoroughly operate in the shadows, knowing that any evidence of Biosyn's involvement could potentially destroy the company and his own reputation in the process. One of those examples includes hiding his real name in public to avoid drawing attention.

While some of the Jurassic Park villains cared for their family members, Dodgson didn't even care about his own parents. He compared shooting his own parents to shooting a tiger, which indicates he saw them as no better than the animals whom he cruelly experimented on. The novel heavily implies that Dodgson has a history of abusing children, starting from sending at least one child to the hospital due to experimental marketing of genetically engineered food products, to killing at least one child in the rabies vaccine's experiment, implying a general distaste for humanity's status on the food chain. Ironically, Dodgson seems to have an admiration and fascination with the dinosaurs (the carnivores in particular), viewing them as superior to not only modern animals but also human beings. Despite this, Dodgson is not above exploiting them for his company's gain as he intended to create a hunting preserve where the Dinosaurs could be hunted for sport as well as trying to steal eggs from various species of dinosaurs on Isla Sorna.

Other pages

Lewis Dodgson on the Villains Wiki

Lewis Dodgson on the Near Pure Evil Wiki

Lewis Dodgson on the Hate Sink Wiki