Palo Alto is the fourth chapter in the First Configuration. It centres on an early morning meeting led by Lewis Dodgson. It recalls many characters from Jurassic Park.
Plot[]
Meeting at a Marie Callender diner at 2 AM, Lewis Dodgson and George Baselton await the arrival of Ed James, who has been gathering information for them. Dodgson is a geneticist working for Biosyn while Baselton is a biology professor that has been frequently hired to fix Biosyn's image problems. James arrives, and an impatient Dodgson insists James present his findings. James pulls out a manila envelope with files on the individuals involved with the incident on Isla Nublar: Alan Grant is on leave in Paris giving lectures on new findings regarding Tyrannosaurus while his former pupil Ellie Sattler has married a physicist at Berkeley and has two young children and is lecturing on topics like the Campanian-Maastrichtian boundary. He informs Dodgson that most of the rest have dead: Donald Gennaro died of dysentery while on a business trip and both Dennis Nedry and John Hammond died during the incident at InGen's park. Finally he mentions that Hammond's grandchildren are both living with their mother: Tim recently started college while Lex is attending prep school.
Dodgson inquires if anyone from InGen has been in contact with them and James states that no one has contacted them and that InGen filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy shortly after Hammond died and that its been in the legal system ever since. Recently, InGen's hard assets had finally started to be sold off and Baselton inquires if "Site B" was involved in the sale but neither him nor Dodgson clarify what "Site B" is when asked by James. Dodgson then asks about Ian Malcolm and Richard Levine and James mentions that Malcolm has taken up a visiting lectureship at Berkeley in the biology department while Levine has been forced to teach a high school class as community service due to an outstanding speeding ticket. James then tells Dodgson that Levine recently left for Costa Rica and was due back earlier today, but never got off the plane he was due back on. Dodgson demands that James find Levine immediately.
Trivia[]
You can find a definition of Chapter 11 here.
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