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The sign said ELECTRIFIED FENCE 10,000 VOLTS DO NOT TOUCH, but Nedry opened it with his bare band, and unlocked the gate, swinging it wide He went back to the Jeep, drove through the gate, and then walked back to close it behind him

Noas inside the park itself, no more than a mile from the east dock He stepped on the accelerator and bunched forward over the steering wheel, peering through the rain-slashed windshield as he drove the Jeep down the narrow road He was driving fast-too fast-but he had to keep to his tile, but soon he should be able to see the beach and the ocean off to his left

This da Because if Dodgson&039;s boat wasn&039;t waiting for hiot there, the whole plan would be ruined Nedry couldn&039;t wait very long, or he would be missed back at the control room The whole idea behind the plan was that he could drive to the east dock, drop off the embryos, and be back in a few ood plan, a clever plan Nedry&039;d worked on it carefully, refining every detail This plan was going toThat was ten years of incoe his life Nedry&039;d been dason meet him in the San Francisco airport at the lastto see the money, Actually, Nedry wanted to record his conversation with Dodgson, and son wouldn&039;t forget he owed the rest of thea copy of the tape with the e

Except this da dashed across the road, a white flash in his headlights It looked like a large rat It scurried into the underbrush, dragging a fat tail Possu that a possuet an animal like that

Where was the da fast, and he&039;d already been gone five minutes He should have reached the east dock by now Had he taken a wrong turn? He didn&039;t think so He hadn&039;t seen any forks in the road at all

Then where was the dock?

It was a shock when he caray concrete barrier, six feet tall and streaked dark with rain He sla traction in an end-to-end spin, and for a horrifiedto s to smash-and he spun the wheel frantically, and the Jeep slid to a stop, the headlamps just a foot from the concrete wall

He paused there, listening to the rhythmic flick of the wipers He took a deep breath and exhaled slowly He looked back down the road He&039;d obviously taken a wrong turn somewhere He could retrace his steps, but that would take too long

He&039;d better try and find out where the hell he was

He got out of the Jeep, feeling heavy raindrops spatter his head It was a real tropical storlanced at his watch, pushing the button to illuone Where the hell was he? He walked around the concrete barrier and on the other side, along with the rain, he heard the sound of gurgling water Could it be the ocean? Nedry hurried forward, his eyes adjusting to the darkness as he went Dense jungle on all sides Raindrops slapping on the leaves

The gurgling sound beca hie and felt his feet sink into soft earth and saw the dark currents of the river The river! He was at the jungle river!

Daht At the river where? The river ran for ain Seven one "You have a problem, Dennis," he said aloud

As if in reply, there was a soft hooting cry of an owl in the forest

Nedry hardly noticed; he orrying about his plan The plain fact was that time had run out There wasn&039;t a choice any inal plan All he could do was go back to the control rooson, to set up the drop at the east dock for the following night Nedry would have to scraht he could pull it off The coh to Dodgson, he&039;d have to go back into the co was sure-he couldn&039;t stay out in the park any longer, or his absence would be noticed

Nedry started back, heading toward the glow of the car&039;s headlights He was drenched andcry once more, and this time he paused That hadn&039;t really sounded like an owl And it seeht

As he listened, he heard a crashing sound in the underbrush Then silence He waited, and heard it again It sounded distinctly like sole toward hi near A big dinosaur

Get out of here

Nedry began to run He made a lot of noise as he ran, but even so he could hear the ani

It was co over tree roots in the darkness, clawing his way past dripping branches, he saw the Jeep ahead, and the lights shining around the vertical wall of the barrier made him feel better In a et the hell out of here He scrambled around the barrier and then he froze

The animal was already there

But it wasn&039;t close The dinosaur stood forty feet away, at the edge of the illumination from the headlamps Nedry hadn&039;t taken the tour, so he hadn&039;t seen the different types of dinosaurs, but this one was strange-looking The ten-foot-tall body was yelloith black spots, and along the head ran a pair of red V-shaped crests The dinosaur didn&039;tcry

Nedry waited to see if it would attack It didn&039;t Perhaps the headlights fro it to keep its distance, like a fire

The dinosaur stared at hile swift ainst his chest He looked down and saw a dripping glob of foam on his rain-soaked shirt He touched it curiously, not co

It was spit

The dinosaur had spit on hiht He looked back at the dinosaur and saw the head snap again, and iainst his neck, just above the shirt collar He wiped it aith his hand

Jesus, it was disgusting But the skin of his neck was already starting to tingle and burn And his hand was tingling, too It was almost like he had been touched with acid

Nedry opened the car door, glancing back at the dinosaur toto attack, and felt a sudden, excruciating pain in his eyes, stabbing like spikes into the back of his skull, and he squeezed his eyes shut and gasped with the intensity of it and threw up his hands to cover his eyes and felt the slippery foa down both sides of his nose

Spit

The dinosaur had spit in his eyes

Even as he realized it, the pain overwhel He collapsed onto his side, his cheek pressed to the wet ground, his breath co pain that caused flashing spots of light to appear behind his tightly shut eyelids

The earth shook beneath hi, he could hear its soft hooting cry, and despite the pain he forced his eyes open and still he saw nothing but flashing spots against black Slowly the realization came to him

He was blind

The hooting was louder as Nedry scraainst the side panel of the car, as a wave of nausea and dizziness swept over hi close, he was di breath

But he couldn&039;t see

He couldn&039;t see anything, and his terror was extreme

He stretched out his hands, waving the

And then there was a new, searing pain, like a fiery knife in his belly, and Nedry stue of his shirt, and then a thick, slippery ly war his own intestines in his hands The dinosaur had torn hiuts had fallen out

Nedry fell to the ground and landed on so scaly and cold, it was the animal&039;s foot, and then there was new pain on both sides of his head The pain greorse, and as he was lifted to his feet he knew the dinosaur had his head in its jaws, and the horror of that realization was followed by a final wish, that it would all be ended soon

Bungalow

"More coffee?" Hammond asked politely

"No, thank you," Henry Wu said, leaning back in his chair "I couldn&039;t eat anythingrooalow, in a secluded corner of the park not far froalow Haant, with sparse, almost Japanese lines And the dinner had been excellent, considering the dining room wasn&039;t fully staffed yet

But there was so The old man was different in so dinner, Wu had tried to decide what it was In part, a tendency to ramble, to repeat himself, to retell old stories In part, it was an eer one moment, maudlin sentimentality the next But all that could be understood as a natural concoe John Hammond was, after all, almost seventy-seven

But there was so his way And, in the end, a complete refusal to deal with the situation that now faced the park

Wu had been stunned by the evidence (he did not yet allow himself to believe the case was proved) that the dinosaurs were breeding After Grant had asked about ao directly to his laboratory and check the computer records of the various DNA asse, then everything about Jurassic Park was called into question-their genetic develop Even the lysine dependency ht be suspect And if these animals could truly breed, and could also survive in the wild

Henry Wu wanted to check the data at once But Hammond had stubbornly insisted Wu accompany him at dinner

"Now then, Henry, youback froer ice creaht" Wu looked at the beautiful, silent serving girl His eyes followed her out of the roole video monitor mounted in the wall The monitor was dark "Your monitor&039;s out," Wu said

"Is it?" Halanced over "Must be the storm" He reached behind him for the telephone "I&039;ll just check with John in control"

Wu could hear the static crackle on the telephone line Haed, and set the receiver back in its cradle "Linesdata transs to fix this weekend Nedry&039;s a genius in his way, but we had to press hiht"

"Perhaps I should go to the control room and check," Wu said

"No, no," Hammond said, "There&039;s no reason If there were any problem, we&039;d hear about it Ah"

Maria came back into the room, with two plates of ice cream

"You must have just a little, Henry," Haer, from the eastern part of the island It&039;s an old man&039;s vice, ice cream But still"

Dutifully, Wu dipped his spoon Outside, lightning flashed, and there was the sharp crack of thunder "That was close," Wu said "I hope the stor the children"

"I shouldn&039;t think so," Hammond said He tasted the ice cream "But I can&039;t help but hold some fears about this park, Henry"

Inwardly, Wu felt relieved Perhaps the oldto face the facts, after all "What kind of fears?"

"You know, Jurassic Park&039;s really made for children The children of the world love dinosaurs, and the children are going to delight-just delight-in this place Their little faces will shine with the joy of finally seeing these wonderful animals But I am afraidI may not live to see it, Henry I may not live to see the joy on their faces"

"I think there are other proble

"But none so pressing on my mind as this," Hahted faces This is our triumph, this park We have done e set out to do And, you re technology of genetic engineering to make money A lot of money"

Wu knew Hammond was about to launch into one of his old speeches He held up his hand "I&039;m familiar with this, John-"

"If you were going to start a bioengineering company, Henry, ould you do? Would you ht illness and disease? Dear me, no That&039;s a terrible idea A very poor use of new technology"

Hammond shook his head sadly "Yet, you&039;ll re companies, like Genentech and Cetus, were all started to s for s face all kinds of barriers FDA testing alone takes five to eight years-if you&039;re lucky Even worse, there are forces at work in thefor cancer or heart disease-as Genentech did Suppose you noant to charge a thousand dollars or two thousand dollars a dose You e After all, you invented the drug, you paid to develop and test it; you should be able to charge whatever you wish But do you really think that the government will let you do that? No, Henry, they will not Sick people aren&039;t going to pay a thousand dollars a dose for needed ed Blue Cross isn&039;t going to pay it They&039;ll screa will happen Your patent application will be denied Your per will force you to see reason-and to sell your drug at a lower cost Fro mankind a very risky business Personally, I would never help uineered pharmaceuticals had indeed suffered inexplicable delays and patent problems

"Now," Ha entertainment, Nobody needs entertainoverne five thousand dollars a day forto stophighway robbery, a costly price tag actually increases the appeal of the park A visit becomes a status symbol, and all Americans love that So do the Japanese, and of course they have far more money"

Hammond finished his ice cream, and Maria silently took the dish away "She&039;s not from here, you know," he said "She&039;s Haitian Her mother is French But in any case, Henry, you will recall that the original purpose behind pointing my company in this direction in the first place-was to have freedoovernment intervention, anywhere in the world"

"Speaking of the rest of the world"

Hae tract in the Azores, for Jurassic Park Europe And you knoe long ago obtained an island near Guam, for Jurassic Park Japan Construction on the next two Jurassic Parks will begin early next year They will all be open within four years At that time, direct revenues will exceed ten billion dollars a year, and hts should double that I see no reason to bother with children&039;s pets, which I&039; to make"

"Twenty billion dollars a year," Wu said softly, shaking his head

"That&039;s speaking conservatively," Hammond said He smiled "There&039;s no reason to speculate wildly More ice cream, Henry?"

"Did you find hiuard walked into the control room

"No, Mr Arnold"

"Find him"

"I don&039;t think he&039;s in the building, Mr Arnold"

"Then look in the lodge," Arnold said, "look in the , look in the utility shed, look everywhere, but just find hiuard hesitated "Mr Nedry&039;s the fat ht?"

"That&039;s right," Arnold said "He&039;s fat A fat slob"

"Well, Jio into the garage"

Muldoon spun around "Into the garage? When?"

"About ten, fifteen o"

"Jesus," Muldoon said

The Jeep screeched to a stop "Sorry," Harding said

In the headla across the road There were six anie as a full-grown horse The apatosaurstoward the Jeep and its glowing headlamps At one point, the baby stopped to lap water from a puddle in the road, then moved on

A comparable herd of elephants would have been startled by the arrival of a car, would have trumpeted and circled to protect the baby But these animals showed no fear "Don&039;t they see us?" she said

"Not exactly, no," Harding said "Of course, in a literal sense they do see us, but we don&039;t really ht, and so they have no experience of thee, s no threat, and therefore no interest I&039;ve occasionally been out at night, visiting a sick animal, and on my way back these fellows blocked the road for an hour or more

"What do you do?"

Harding grinned "Play a recorded tyrannosaur roar That gets the Not that they carethey don&039;t really have any predators They can break a tyrannosaur&039;s neck with a swipe of their tail And they know it So does the tyrannosaur"

"But they do see us I et out of the car"

Harding shrugged "They probably wouldn&039;t react Dinosaurs have excellent visual acuity, but they have a basic amphibian visual syste things well at all"

The ani put the car in gear "I think we can continue now," he said

Wu said, "I suspect you may find there are pressures on your park, just as there are pressures on Genentech&039;s drugs" He and Ha the storlass s

"I can&039;t see how," Hammond said

"The scientists may wish to constrain you Even to stop you

"Well, they can&039;t do that, " Haer at Wu "You knohy the scientists would try to do that? It&039;s because they want to do research, of course That&039;s all they ever want to do, is research Not to accoress Just do research Well, they have a surprise co to the of that," Wu said

Ha for the scientists, to do research But you arrive at the point where these animals are simply too expensive to be used for research This is wonderful technology, Henry, but it&039;s also frightfully expensive technology The fact is, it can only be supported as entertained "That&039;s just the way it is"