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on something, fine.

But stop putting it

on other people's headstones.

She'll be fine. She's spent years

studying African predators.

Sleeping downwind and all.

She knows what she's doing.

And, believe me, the research team will...

It's not a research expedition anymore.

It's a rescue operation and it's leaving now.

I can't shave three days off my deadline

and expect to be ready.

I'm not supplied.

I haven't tested any of this.

Why give her a satellite phone

if it doesn't work?

Could be solar flares, the satellite,

or maybe she turned it off.

I need half air on the tires.

We're flying pressurised.

- Does she know how to use it?

- You kidding?

She's faxed me refinements

on half the plans for this stuff.

Don't do that. You have to baby it.

Love it.

- I'll love it when it works.

- It'll work when you love it.

- You coming along?

- I don't usually, but I can't resist.

Thanks for the two-minute warning.

Nick van Owen, Ian Malcolm.

Nick's our photographer.

How do you do?

- You do wildlife photography?

- Wildlife, combat, you name it.

When I was with Nightline,

I was in Rwanda, Chechnya, Bosnia.

I do volunteer work for Greenpeace

once in a while.

What drew you to Greenpeace?

Women.

Greenpeace is 80-percent female.

Noble.

Noble was last year.

This year I'm getting paid.

Hammond's check cleared,

or I wouldn't go on this wild-goose chase.

You're going to the only place

where the geese chase you.

Dad! Dad!

Kelly, honey, you found it.

What took you so long?

Couldn't get a cab.

Sweetie, that's okay.

I've got to tell you something.

- I don't even know this woman.

- You've known Karen for 10 years.

She doesn't have Sega.

She's such a troglodyte.

Cruel, but good word use.

Why can't I stay with Sarah?

She's out of town. Karen's fantastic.

She'll take you places.

You'll have a fantastic time.

Stop saying "fantastic".

Where are you going?

It's only for a few days.

I wouldn't be going if it wasn't important.

I'm your daughter full time. You can't

abandon me whenever opportunity knocks.

That hurts. Your mom tell you to say that?

Dr Malcolm, downstairs, please.

I know we've had some hard going.

But in the last few years,

we've started to work things out.

Yeah, but crack on me a bit. Ground me

or something. Send me to my room.

You never do any of that stuff.

Why would l? You turned out so...

beautiful, brilliant, powerful,

funny and generous.

The queen, goddess. my inspiration.

Dr Malcolm.

I could come be your research assistant,

like in Austin.

This is nothing like Austin.

Anyway, you have your own stuff.

Your gymnastics competition.

You've been training for months.

Gymnastics?

I scrubbed out, got cut from the team.

Thanks for knowing.

I'm sorry, honey.

I know how much that meant to you.

You like having kids.

You just don't want to be with them.

It wasn't me who dumped you and split

for Paris, so don't take it out on me.

Dr Malcolm, downstairs!

Honey, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

You want some good parental advice?

Don't listen to me.

How are we doing here?

The specs say it can't deform at 12,000 PSI,

so we'll test it.

- Let's clear. We clear?

- What's this?

A high hide.

A high hide.

You know, you go up and hide, high.

It goes up to where the trees are and

keeps the researchers out of harm's way.

Actually, it puts them

at a very convenient biting height.

Do you have the time?

- Why?

- We're leaving in three hours.

This is so cool.

Lindstradt air rifle.

Fires a subsonic Fluger dart.

- It work better than your satellite phone?

- Funny.

I loaded it with enhanced venom from

Conus purpurascens: South Sea cone shell.

most powerful neurotoxin in the world.

Acts within 0.002 of a second.

Faster than nerve-conduction velocity.

So the animal's down

before it even feels the dart.

- Is there an antidote?

- Like if you shot yourself in the foot?

Don't do that.

You'd be dead before you realised it.

He says he's unloading us here.

He won't go further up the river.

He's heard too many stories.

He'll drop us off and anchor offshore.

What kind of stories?

Stories of fishermen that came too close

to the island and never returned.

He has a radio. He has a satellite phone.

When you need him,

call and he'll be here in two hours.

But he will not stay here.

He won't stay anywhere near these islands.

They call the islands "Las Cinco Muertes"?

What does that mean?

"The Five Deaths"...

he says.

I put a location sensor in Dr Harding's

phone, so we should get a reading.

- I'm so relieved.

- Don't push my buttons.

We're almost on top of her dot.

She should be around here.

Over there.

Sarah!

Sarah Harding!

How many Sarahs do you think

are on this island?

What?

Something big.

This is magnificent.

Yeah. "Ooh, ah",

that's how it always starts.

But then later

there's running and screaming.

Nick!

I guess you got the jump on us,

didn't you, Sarah?

Yeah.

Ian, I never thought Hammond

could get you to come here.

- Hi, Eddie.

- Hi, Sarah.

Got a granola bar or something?

I'm starving.

Did you see those animals?

A family group, a pair-bond and a subadult,

long after the juvenile was nest bound.

Every egg clutch I've seen has crushed,

trampled shells.

Hatchlings stay in the birth environment

a long time. That's conclusive.

I can end that controversy

if I get a shot of the nest.

Have you been attacked?

No, that's my lucky pack.

That's how it always looks.

Okay, Sarah...

Is that a Nikon? Can I borrow it?

I'll be right back, I promise.

When Hammond called you,

why didn't you say something to me?

I knew you would have stopped me

from coming.

I would have tied you to the bed.

- I know how they survived without lysine.

- I don't care.

The herbivore species that are thriving...

eat mostly agama beans, soy,

anything lysine-rich.

And the carnivores eat

the herbivores, so....

Wait.

Stay there. Be quiet. I'll be back.

Stay there.

She's much too close.

- What is she doing?

- Too close.

She has to touch it. She can't not touch.

- She's going right up to it.

- Once she sees something, she has to....

Is this even possible?

What?

This? What did you think you'd document?

What did you think you'd see?

Animals. maybe...

big iguanas.

Fruitcakes.

He got very angry.

Shoot him!

They're protecting their baby.

So am I!

I think they're leaving.

Incredible. Guys shoot their whole life

and never get stuff half this good.

Just give me the Pulitzer right now.

The competition's over, close the entries,

I'd like to thank everyone who lost.

Don't light that!

Dinosaurs pick up scents from miles away.

We're here to observe and document,

not interact.

Which is a scientific impossibility.

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

What you study, you change.

I'll risk it. I'm sick of scratching around

in rock and bone...

making assumptions about

the nurturing habits of animals...

that have been dead for 65 million years.

Then you fill my head with stories.

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