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Soyona Santos
Appearances	Jurassic World: Dominion Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Portrayed by	Dichen Lachman
Role	Dinosaur trafficker
Status	Alive (Incarcerated)
Family	Unnamed Uncle Unnamed Mother

"Those idiots making hybrids had it all wrong. You can't engineer loyalty. You have to nurture it."

—Soyona Santos^{([[Jurassic World: Dominion|src]])}

Soyona Santos, also known as The Broker, is the secondary antagonist of Jurassic World: Dominion and the main antagonist of Jurassic World: Chaos Theory, serving as the unseen overarching antagonist of Season 1 and the main antagonist of Season 2 and 3.

She is the leader of the illegal dinosaur smuggling group based in Malta and a dinosaur breeder. She is a powerful elite criminal that takes on jobs for bigger groups such as Biosyn and hiring lower ranked criminals such as Rainn Delacourt. In 2022, Santos came into conflict with Claire Dearing and Owen Grady when she orchestrated the transport and capture of Maisie Lockwood and Beta. She was eventually taken down by Barry Sembène and the Nublar Six.

Biography

Background

Soyona Santos' origins are unknown, but she is of apparent upper class. The daughter to a woman that had been involved with archeology, her mother had been part of an expedition to Mongolia that had discovered the Fighting Dinosaurs fossil in 1971, discovering the preserved remains of a Velociraptor mongoliensis and a Protoceratops andrewsi that were locked in eternal battle. Just as her mother worked to research dinosaurs, Soyona later claimed to have always loved the creatures. Santos also had an uncle who had been born without a leg, and she observed that his missing appendage would swell during plane flights. Sometime prior to 2022, Soyona Santos gained notoriety for smuggling and breeding dinosaurs for the right buyers. At a point she became aware of the attempts to weaponize dinosaurs through genetic hybrids such as the Indominus rex and the Indoraptor. Santos, however, believed that these projects were a folly and that true loyalty couldn't be designed but rather "had to be bred" and nurtured. To that end, she bred four Atrociraptor (Ghost, Red, Tiger, and Panthera) that were absolutely loyal to her and commanded via laser sight command (in a similar fashion used on the Indoraptor).

From the beginning, Santos noted that the Department of Prehistoric Wildlife was a reliable source of dinosaurs, not only collecting them from the wild, but also from illegal breeding operations, laboratories and private properties that housed the animals. Most of the captured or rescued dinosaurs were sent to warehouses for later transportation to DPW-run sanctuaries around the country. Santos devised a plan to divert some of them.

She hid in the shadows, working primarily through intermediaries to keep her true identity hidden by becoming known as “The Broker.” She holed up in a luxury suite in Dubai, and discovered that the United Arab Emirates was a friendly country for the rich, powerful and unscrupulous. From here, she coordinated her subordinates to work their way into the DPW and identify weaknesses. Soon, she was able to convince one of her regional managers, Dudley Cabrera, to supply dinosaurs to the Amber Key. Cabrera never met Santos and had no idea anyone was pulling the strings. As far as he knew, he was in charge of smuggling, believing her buyers to be petty criminals. Santos' key figures in working with Cabrera and other corrupt DPW workers in the American West were Jensen, a DPW operative but loyal only to Santos, and a woman known only as the Handler, to whom Santos entrusted her Atrociraptor.

With Jensen keeping tabs on Cabrera and discreetly manipulating the regional director's decisions, and the Handler equipped with Ghost, Panthera, and Tiger while Red acted as Santos' watchdog, the DPW fell under Santos' control. Throughout the American West, dinosaurs captured from the wild or taken from illegal owners were taken to holding facilities. Illness and death were inevitable, of course, and Santos took advantage of this fact: any dinosaur that was presumed dead could be sent anywhere in the United States and no one would question its absence from the designated sanctuary. These smuggled dinosaurs were taken to an isolated warehouse in southern Louisiana, where they were held until it was time to ship them overseas. A port on the Gulf Coast served as Santos' personal cargo port, where from the captured dinosaurs were transported to clientele scattered across the world. Santos also hired Doctor Sarr to oversee studies into genetic replication, intending to establish a means for her to acquire a limitless supply of fresh live merchandise through cloning processes. To conceal these activities, the Broker built the facilities where the research was conducted below several farms across the United States, which enabled her to hide their existence while maintaining easy access to raw genetic material. However, these facilities became victims to multiple attacks that were launched by Dinosaur Liberation Now, an extremist vigilante group. Another lab complex - which was placed under the directorship of Sarr - was located in Senegal and supplied with dinosaurs that a cargo freighter commanded by Captain Lang transported from America to Africa.

For quite some time, Santos worked with Lewis Dodgson of Biosyn, organizing the capture and transport of dinosaurs via various smugglers and hunters. One such hunter who worked with Santos was Rainn Delacourt, who captured dinosaurs out in the field illegally. A cargo smuggler who frequently worked with Santos was the down on her luck pilot Kayla Watts. She had built up enough of a reputation to earn the ire of other smugglers. However, while working for Dodgson, an event occurred that earned the displeasure of Santos, who later demanded payment in advance from Biosyn after "what happened last time".

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory

Season 1

When Santos learned that Nublar girl Brooklynn was investigating the black market and corruption occurring at the DPW, she made plans when Brooklynn was about to disrupt that supply chain, causing she to become the victim of a tragic accident. One of her incoming assets, a half-blind Allosaurus designated Asset 09, was used as bait to try to kill Brooklynn, where she was at a delivery point, where she had posed as a buyer to discover a source of smuggled dinosaurs. Santos planned all of this after hacking the account of one of Brooklynn's Dark Jurassic reports to lure her into a trap. But, although the Allosaurus failed to kill the young woman, Handler was on site to finish the job with the help of the Atrociraptor. Believing the job was done, Brooklynn was left unconscious and bleeding from the loss of an arm, and was pronounced dead shortly after.

When one of Brooklynn's friends became suspicious of her death, this reached Santos, when it became clear after Cabrera's attempts to scare them away from investigating had failed, Santos targeted the Nublar Six for assassination, so he sent the Handler with her Atrociraptor to hunt them down. Although Darius Bowman, Kenji Kon, Ben Pincus, Yasmina Fadoula and Sammy Gutierrez had managed to evade her and the raptors all this time, Cabrera was no longer useful to her and she gave the order to kill him. When the Nublar Six disrupt the shipment of dinosaurs and eggs to the Broker and expose the operation, a case of dinosaur eggs is loaded onto the Broker's cargo ship to be sent to them and Jensen attempts to make a phone call before being eaten by an Allosaurus. After the battle was lost, the Atrociraptor Handler flees with her three Atrociraptor to join The Broker.

Determined to find answers and stop the Broker, Darius convinces his friends to join him in boarding the cargo ship that is heading to the Broker's location.

Season 2

It was not long before the DPW was completely shut down and its functions assumed by national governments. Santos remained in Dubai in early fall, awaiting the arrival of the last shipment from Louisiana to Senegal. Ship Captain Lang was working with a skeleton crew due to the emergency exit, so it would be a difficult trip.

Santos was staying in her penthouse in Dubai, with Red at her disposal, where her schedule was strict; She had guests from time to time, always at the same time, and went out for an hour-long meeting every Tuesday afternoon. It is not known who she met with, but sometimes they gave her bouquets of flowers and other things. In her hobby she painted, and sometimes found models to pose for her. Santos was also aware that someone was watching her from the penthouse under construction across the street from hers. This potential spy had been there for several weeks and Santos had his suspicions about who he could be. One Tuesday, when she returned from a meeting a little earlier, she discovered in her apartment a young woman with brightly dyed hair with a bag of food, who was none other than Brooklynn. It is revealed that Brooklynn has survived after her assassination attempt, and under a new identity, has continued her investigations into smuggling, which ultimately led her to the Broker.

Brooklynn claimed to be a food delivery girl who had mistakenly arrived at the fifty-fourth floor penthouse while trying to make a delivery on the fifty-third floor. Santos knew that her downstairs neighbor was a vegetarian, so they certainly didn't order the meat kebabs she brought, which cemented her suspicions. She noticed that Brooklynn was missing an arm, Brooklynn lied by saying that she had lost it in a skiing accident, to which Santos told her that she had an uncle who was born without a leg. Santos pretended to believe Brooklynn's story, even pretending to believe her name was "Sydney." Before Brooklynn could leave, Santos stopped her and asked if she could use her time to paint a portrait of her, to which Brooklynn hesitantly agrees.

As Santos paints Brooklynn's portrait, she asks her what brings her to Dubai. Brooklynn lied again as she told Santos she wanted a change of scenery, saying that she couldn't handle people looking at her with one arm. Santos then asked Brooklynn if she likes dinosaurs, to which Brooklynn replied that she wasn't a fan of them. Upon hearing this, Santos was disappointed and explained that her mother was a paleontologist, one of the paleontologists that dug up the famous fossil of a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops in Mongolia, locked in a eternal battle. As Santos was painting, she felt like something was missing, and after talking about dinosaurs did she realize what it needed, Santos opened a hidden door as the Atrociraptor, Red, entered the room from behind, slowly sniffing and circling around Brooklynn as the young girl is petrified with fear. Santos tells her that she's perfectly safe as she explained Red won't attack her, unless she tells her to, and pulled out a laser pointer, saying how amazing it is to control the creatures when you really take the time to earn it. She demonstrated this by pointing the laser at a blank canvas, catching the dinosaur's attention, before clicking another button that told it to attack. As Red was shredding the canvas, Santos told Brooklynn to hold the terrified expression and explained how much more useful a laser is compared to a whistle, asking Brooklynn if she agrees. It was revealed here that Santos knew who Brooklynn was the whole time.

Santos has already been aware of who Brooklynn was despite the hair dye and her missing arm. Threatening Brooklynn, Santos pointed the red laser onto her, causing Red to focus her attention on her. Santos also explains that she was aware that Brooklynn had been watching her from the unfinished building across the street. Santos even went on to say that she was smart to go underground while her friends did all the work, shocking Brooklynn even more. She stated that she'll catch up to them soon.

After getting distracted, Brooklynn attempted to flee, only for Santos to use the laser pointer on her, sending Red to chase her all over the room. Red then jumped on top of Brooklynn, who held her missing arm up to shield herself, but Red stopped mid-way keeping her jaws open. Santos walked up to them, kneeling down saying that 'she moved', petting Red. Santos admits that Brooklynn is impressive since no one has able to track her down, but mockingly gives her advice to do more better research. Brooklynn, however, managed to knock Red off and then fled to the elevator, desperately trying to escape as Santos ordered Red to eliminate her. But before Red could attack her, the doors closed as Brooklynn escaped.

Later that night, Brooklynn returned to the apartment after hacking Soyona's security system and taking her laser pointer which she used to bring in Red and made mock attempts to have Red attack Soyona before she proposed to Soyona that she wanted to learn from her and sell dinosaurs. Soyona snickered not believing her at all before she said she'd help her find the rest of the Nublar Six. Soyona was impressed with her audacity but still didn't trust her but she'd give her the chance to prove it in Senegal, Africa.

Soyona and Brooklynn landed in Senegal after Brooklynn tried to call Ben to warn him and the others to leave Senegal before driving Soyona to the hidden facility but they nearly ran into a Brachiosaurus that was let loose before she took her to the farm when they met with Captain Lang. Soyona was not pleased to see her dinosaurs roaming free and Lang said he's delivered the eggs to Dr. Sarr before they entered the facility through a large underground ramp for the van right before the Campers and Zayna appeared on the hill. In the lab, Brooklynn met Dr. Sarr whom was working on genetic cloning. Brooklynn realized that Soyona had more facilities under the farms that the DLN raided to which she says they provided the perfect distraction.

When asked why she was making her own dinosaurs when she had the DPW, Soyona replied that the DPW provided unreliable and that supply wasn't infinite. With her model she could take dinosaurs from the wild and use their DNA to make more to meet the demand for dinosaurs that would only increased. Sarr, Lang, Brooklynn and Soyona went to see the DNA specimens collected from the latest shipment before Sarr said that the eggs brought over might be compromised in transport and revealed that the Nublar Six took the eggs and escaped in a lifeboat but he used a tracker to track them down and captured a few runaway dinosaurs that Sarr and his team let loose including Geba the Gallamimus and losing the Majungausaurus as well.

Soyona, very displeased, ordered Red to kill Lang which Red succeeded in doing before Soyona and Sarr went to see Sarr's experiment. Brooklynn took pictures of the specimens before she went to the control room where she saw Darius, Yaz, Sammy and Zayna with the Leucistic Baryonyx. Brooklynn used the controls to place the container in between the two groups and helped them escape by opening the container allowing Yaz and Sammy to drag Darius inside before she lifted it up above the dinosaur before she went to the lab where Darius, Sammy and Yaz saw her and realized that she was alive.

Sarr explained the genetic cloning of the Baryonyx removing her eyes entirely to Brooklynn's horror while Soyona figured it could be used for military applications. When Soyona asked if Sarr could repeat the modification, Sarr remarked saying his time was spent more on his genetic experiments. Soyona frowned saying that he could easily be replaced and aimed the laser pointer at him asking where her operations clue was and Sarr revealed that he fed them to the Baryonyx saying that they couldn't comprehend the magnitude of his work and suffered accordingly before he attacked Soyona and tried to push her into the pit with the dinosaur. Soyona fought back and pushed him but Sarr grabbed her however, before they could both go over, Brooklynn grabbed Soyona saving her life and pulled her back up.

Soyona seeing that she was wrong about Brooklynn's intentions said that she earned her trust and told her to get the eggs from the Observation Room and to meet back up with her to which she agreed and lowered the container with her friends inside of before running off. Entering the room, she was shocked to find Ben inside whom was about to get Bumpy's egg. Brooklynn hissed that he shouldn't have followed her and that Soyona was cloning and experimenting on dinosaurs and that this was much bigger than what she first thought. She added that is Santos sees him, he'd be dead and so would her and that she just needed enough evidence to send Santos to jail before she took the egg case and told Ben to wait for her before she left. Brooklynn ran into Red whom spooked her before she and Santos walked along with Santos saying that she would blow the facility up to leave no trace behind but that also meant potentially killing her friends to Brooklynn's silent horror.

Soyona and Brooklynn were both confronted by Sarr and his Baryonyx and Soyona sent Red to attack while she and Brooklynn escaped. Red learned to mimic Sarr's clicking moves with her tongue and took control of the dinosaur. In the control room, Brooklynn saw the Baryonyx and Red killing Sarr to her horror as she turned away before Soyona found the detonation remote and saw her friends and Geba on the camera and switched the view and turned off all the lights to have Red and the Baryonyx hunt them as she used her Night Vision Goggles to help her and Brooklynn through the hallways. As the two predators chased the group, Brooklynn could hear them. When Santos opened the door to the outside, Brooklynn went back and pulled the fire alarm which made the Baryonyx roar in pain as the group escaped and she ran into Red right after that. They both escaped along with the others as Soyona drove to the airport.

There, Soyona revealed that she partnered with Biosyn's Head Researcher Lewis Dodgson, surprising Brooklynn before she exited the van to follow her only for Kenji to grab her arm. Brooklynn stunned seeing him again saw the rest of her friends approaching her. Brooklynn looked at the plane, knowing she had to complete what she set out to do, no matter how hard it was. She pulled away from Kenji, saying that she wasn't going with her friends. Darius said they weren't leaving without her to which she responds with, 'I'm not the same Brooklynn you know. I have a job to finish."

However, before Brooklyn could fully enter the plane, Ben said that Bumpy's egg was in the case to which she almost cried. Off screen, Brooklyn gives the egg to the campers and them sits down next to Soyona saying they won't bother them anymore before the plane takes off to Biosyn, leaving the Campers and Bumpy's egg behind as the campers starred in a mixture of sadness, shock and concern at the turn of events.

Season 3

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Jurassic World: Dominion

By 2022, Santos was hired to handle Biosyn's illegal dinosaur smuggling operations in Malta's Amber Clave Night Market. As Biosyn was interested in the clone girl Maisie Lockwood and the asexually produced Velociraptor Beta, she had alerted Rainn Delacourt's team of poachers to help acquire the two. Delacourt was eventually successful, and brought in both Maisie and Beta. Under the precaution of the entire load being caught if an investigation was held on a plane, she had Delacourt's crew fly Maisie and Kayla Watts fly Beta to the Night Market simultaneously, although she demanded payment in advance, telling Lewis Dodgson that she did not like "what happened last time". As she got both safely on their way to Biosyn Research Facility, Santos organized a meeting with Delacourt's in order for them to ship a trained pack of Atrociraptor into Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Before the transaction could finish, a team of French Intelligence agents lead by Barry Sembène conducted a breach with Maisie's adoptive parents, Owen Grady and Claire Dearing. While the truck carrying the Atrociraptor had initially attempted to escape, more agents ambushed it and laid a spike strip on the road, causing it to veer out of control and into a nearby building, sending the raptor cages flying off the truck. As the French Intelligence surrounded the truck and its cargo, Santos ordered the driver to release the Atrociraptor, before tagging the agents for the raptors to kill them. As Santos attempted to escape, she informed her boss, Biosyn CEO Lewis Dodgson, that Maisie's parents had followed her and promised to deal with them for a higher fee. Claire then caught up with Santos and engaged in a brief fight until Claire managed to tase Santos with a shock gun. Claire then interrogates Santos with a taser to tell her where she took Maisie, where she revealed that they handed her over to Biosyn. Then an Atrociraptor named Tiger arrived in the room and defended from Claire, which gave Santos the opportunity to target with her laser and attempt to escape again. This escape path led her back into the room where the Atrociraptor were released, where she ran back into Barry, the only surviving agent, and Owen, where the former promptly arrested her at gunpoint. As she was being held, she secretly sent two of the Atrociraptor to attack Owen as he was leaving but regardless the dinosaurs failed to kill him and Claire. Later that day, Santos managed to contact Biosyn and warn them that Kayla may have brought Owen and Claire with her.

Appearance

Soyona Santos is a slender woman with long blonde hair, smooth facial features, dark brown eyes, and standing at 5'7". She appears to be of wealth as she wears a fine white button up shirt (similar to Claire's outfit in Jurassic World) highlighted by a white gold belt, dark leather slacks, and black high heeled boots.

Personality

Santos was shown to be a calculating and intelligent woman. Though not entirely cold, she did not hesitate to be brutal or to commit questionable acts, such as the capture and transport of Maisie and Beta to Biosyn. She also did not balk at openly murdering human beings, but wanted to be paid if requested to. However, Santos seemed to prefer not to unless necessary as she argued for intimidating Corso instead of killing him. At best, she could be described as amoral. Despite her ruthless nature, she demonstrated shock and outrage when Doctor Sarr revealed that he had enlisted her work crew to act as live prey for the Leucistic Baryonyx, as well as a sense of gratitude, gaining greater trust - which she deemed a rare commodity - for Brooklynn after the girl saved her life.

Santos is extremely cruel and unhesitatingly sends a pack of Atrociraptor onto people, such as Owen Grady, Claire Dearing and Barry Sembène. However, while she mostly relies on her Atrociraptor pack, Soyona is also shown as a fierce fighter, as demonstrated when she was chased and cornered by Claire Dearing, viciously attempting to stab the latter. She is also very persistent , scornfully sending her Atrociraptor to attack Owen and Claire even after being arrested by Barry.

The one time that Santos' cool exterior broke was when she discovered that Dodgson had gone behind her back and used the Handler to kill Corso. This resulted in Santos tearing down a TV in a fit of rage and then making pointed remarks to Dodgson. This was so rare that Santos told Brooklynn that she would never see something like that again. Santos explained that she maintained a cool exterior to keep her emotions from giving away her true motives and intentions, something that she reminded Brooklynn on several occasions to practice herself. Santos also chose not to confront Dodgson directly despite her anger because of the greater payoff to completing her deal with him.

Relationships

Brooklynn

Being her slave, Brooklynn's relationship with Soyona was complex and fraught with tension. When they first met, Soyona already recognized Brooklynn, despite her attempts to conceal her identity, and even nearly had her pet dinosaur, Red, attack her. Impressed by Brooklynn's ability to track her down—something no one else had managed to do—Soyona began to take notice of her. This impression deepened when Brooklynn broke into Soyona's apartment and stole her laser pointer, reminding Soyona of her own rebellious youth.

Initially, Soyona was suspicious of Brooklynn's intentions in wanting to learn from her. However, after Brooklynn saved her life in *Lab Partners: Part 2*, Soyona acknowledged her misjudgment and began to trust her. Despite this newfound trust, Soyona remains quick to resort to aggression; she is ready to use Red against Brooklynn at the slightest hint of insubordination. For instance, when Kenji was seen holding Brooklynn's arm by the plane, Soyona instinctively prepared to attack but then slipped her bracelet back under her sleeve when Brooklynn turned away from the group.

Brooklynn, on the other hand, is horrified by Soyona's ruthless behavior toward those who fail her. This is exemplified when Soyona ordered Red to kill Captain Lang after he revealed that the eggs had been stolen by the Nublar Six, despite Lang having successfully recovered them. Brooklynn is unsettled by Soyona’s willingness to resort to violence, particularly in light of the chaos caused by Sarr and his team, which led to the escape of dinosaurs like Geba and the loss of Major and other Majungasaurus. This dynamic underscores the tension between Brooklynn’s moral compass and Soyona’s ruthless pragmatism.

Their relationship turned back to enemies when Santos understood that Brooklynn had been tricking her the whole time in order to put her behind bars and keep her away from Brooklynn's friends. Furious, Soyona taunts Brooklynn in that she always will be a broken, pathetic little girl after the loss of her left hand. Brooklynn tells Santos she doesn’t need her prosthetic arm or Santos to be a whole woman and that she doesn’t need her friends for it either. But unlike Soyona, Brooklynn wants to have her friends in her life. As soon as Brooklynn turns her back on Soyona to return to her friends’ side, Soyona tries to attack Brooklynn as revenge for fooling her, but Brooklynn manages to turn around and knocks down the evil woman with her prosthetic arm, putting an end to the illegal dinosaur trade and gets revenge for her lost hand when Santos is arrested.

Red

Soyona's relationship with Red is shaped by a delicate balance of control and risk, heavily influenced by the technology she uses, such as the wrist-mounted device and laser pointer. This dynamic is protective yet precarious; while Red is a fierce predator capable of attacking if the laser is misdirected—something Brooklynn demonstrated—Soyona effectively maintains control over her through the device.

The technology allows Soyona to safely interact with Red, even petting her head, which reinforces their bond. However, Red primarily acts as an imposing bodyguard, always by Soyona’s side, ready to protect her at a moment’s notice. This constant presence serves as a reminder of both the power and danger inherent in their relationship. Living in Soyona's apartment, Red embodies the security she provides, while also highlighting the risks that come with having such a formidable companion. Ultimately, their bond illustrates Soyona’s reliance on Red for protection, alongside the careful navigation of the dangers that their connection entails.

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Jurassic World: Dominion

Being arrested by Barry

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory

Toys

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Santos appears LEGO Jurassic World line for Dominion.

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A figure of Santos is featured with Ghost in the Release 'n Rampage Pack from the main line.

Trivia

• Soyona Santos' exact background remains a mystery, but it is hinted she comes from wealth or is of the upper class given she speaks in a refined RP accent, as well as her demeanor and role compared to the blue collared Delacourt and Kayla Watts.

• Due to her mistreatment of her henchmen, her violent temper and her persistence to send her Atrociraptor after Claire and Owen even after being arrested, Soyona can be considered the cruelest and most evil character to ever appear in the film canon as well as being the first villain to not suffer any consequences during their final moments.

• Interestingly, Soyona Santos is the second character portrayed by Dichen Lachman in a dinosaur film after the 2008 SciFi channel movie Aztec Rex.
• Soyona is the first cinematic female human villain, and the fourth female human villain overall (predated by Dr. Irene Corts, Dr. Laura Sorkin and Tiff.
• She is also the first blonde cinematic villain and the third overall (preceded by Dr. Laura Sorkin & Tiff).
• After the Atrociraptor Handler’s death, Soyona is the only human villain known still alive.
• Soyona Santos is the first guest character in both Camp Cretaceous and Chaos Theory whose movie actor reprises her role in the series. Other guest characters from the films like Henry Wu, Mr. DNA, Lewis Dodgson and Barry Sembène were voiced by different actors in the series.
• In "Undercover," it's suggested that the previous time that she was not paid by Dodgson for her services as mentioned in Jurassic World: Dominion was when Santos sent the Handler to intimidate Chuck Desai in "Excess Baggage" and the DNA samples that she sold to him in "The Queen's Court."