Dr. Valerie Cammon

Dr. Valerie Cammon is a main character in the 2009 syfy film, Hydra (2009) / Hydra - the lost island. She was a member (possibly the leader) of a four-person archaeological team. She and her colleagues planned to search for ancient Greek artifacts on a newly discovered uninhabited island, but they were attacked by the Hydra. 
She is portrayed by Polly Shannon.
==Biography==
At the beginning of the movie, Valerie and three other colleagues discovered an uninhabited island. They believed that valuable ancient Greek artifacts might be hidden here, and took a boat to the island on a rainy day. During this period, an earthquake occurred on the island. Valerie's colleague Scott felt the danger, but Valerie remained unmoved and insisted on continuing the investigation. Then the Hydra appeared, and all three of Valerie's colleagues were eaten. Valerie was hiding in the corner of the cave. Hydra was about to discover her, but fortunately, a sudden earthquake drew Hydra's attention away, and Valerie took the opportunity to escape from the cave, then hid in a bush. After confirming that Hydra was gone, she planned to return to the boat and escape, but when she escaped to the beach, she found that the boat had sunk due to heavy rain, and she could only cry desperately in the grass.
Surprisingly, Valerie did survive on an uninhabited island with few resources and the presence of the Hydra. Two months later, while escaping from the Hydra, she met Tim Nolan, Gwen Russel and Ronnie Kaplan, and reminded them to escape as soon as possible, otherwise they would be eaten by the Hydra. The four of them fled to a safe place and began to explain each other's origins. Valerie learned that the three people in front of her were kidnapped criminals, the reason was that a group of billionaires prepared a human hunting game, and these criminals Being hunted as prey by billionaires. Valerie then naturally joined up with the three criminals, while explaining her origins, she also transferred the knowledge about the Hydra to the criminals, and provided the location of the materials left by the archaeological team. Under Nolan's instructions, Valerie and Ronnie went to the location of the materials to sort out the materials and waited for the return of Nolan and Gwen. After a while, Nolan brought a walkie-talkie that originally belonged to one of the billionaires. The walkie-talkie was broken, but Nolan successfully repaired the walkie-talkie with the supplies provided by Valerie.
Then Nolan successfully contacted "Captain Sweet", one of the game designers. Nolan originally wanted to anger the wealthy people on the boat, lure them to an uninhabited island, and let three other people, including Valerie, steal that boat secretly. However, after talking to Sweet, Nolan learned that himself, Gwen and Ronnie has been implanted GPS , and they are unable to carry out their original plan, Nolan also revealed his identity as a former soldier and his personal grudge with Sweet. When Nolan was thinking about his next plan, he thought that Valerie's body had not been implanted with GPS, and hoped that Valerie could use this advantage to help them, but Valerie refused. She thought that she had lost everything on this island, and she was also survived for a long time on this uninhabited island, so she doesn't want to waste her life on these criminals. But in fact, Valerie wants to use her advantage to negotiate terms with Nolan. She can help Nolan and others, but Nolan must first help her kill the Hydra and avenge everything that happened to her. In order to escape from the uninhabited island with others, Nolan could only agree to Valerie's unreasonable request.
Later, Valerie brought Nolan, Gwen and Ronnie to the cave entrance at the beginning of the movie. Valerie told Nolan only the "Sword of Hercules" could completely kill the Hydra, and he must first pass the "test of faith", do something he thinks is impossible. Valerie doesn't know the details of the test, she want go into the cave with Nolan. But Nolan asked Valerie to stay outside the cave to guard against Sweet who might come to hunt them down, and himself and two others went into the cave to find the sword. Valerie agreed and stayed outside the cave, watching the three criminals enter the cave.
Nolan and others found a small hole in the cave, which was full of lava. Nolan guessed that this might be the test of faith. When Nolan hesitated to put his hand into the hole, Sweet took the gun and standing behind the three criminals. Sweet shot Ronnie in the stomach first, Gwen was frightened and knelt on the ground trying to stop Ronnie from bleeding. Just as Sweet was about to kill Nolan, Valerie rushed over again, followed by the Hydra. After Hydra chased Valerie into the cave, it attacked Sweet who was closest and slowly gnawed away at Sweet's body. Valerie ran to Nolan and found Nolan looking at the lava hole and hesitating. Valerie also realized that the Sword of Hercules was probably in the hole. She kept urging Nolan to get the sword, but Nolan was still hesitant. Meanwhile, Sweet had been devoured, and the Hydra turned its attention to the others. Then Gwen became the new target of the Hydra.
In order to buy time for Nolan and Gwen, Valerie made a difficult decision - she jumped out and stood between Gwen and the Hydra, faced the Hydra directly, her sudden appearance also caused the Hydra to pause briefly. At the same time, Valerie continued to urge Nolan to take out the sword, if he could successfully take out the sword, he would have a chance to save others. Unfortunately, Valerie miscalculated this time. When Nolan finally plucked up the courage to reach into the lava, the Hydra had already opened its five bloody mouths to her. Realizing that her death was imminent, Valerie let out a scream of fear and unwillingness, then her screams were soon silenced as the Hydra quickly tore her into pieces and ate her body clean.
==Quotes==
==Trivia==
*Valerie was the most pivotal female character in the movie, and ironically, she's also the first female character to die in the movie.
*Valerie looked like she had plot armor at first. She managed to escape from the massacre at the beginning of the movie, and survived for two full months on an uninhabited island haunted by Hydra, but she still died randomly in the end like a minor character.
*Although Valerie was willing to cooperate with the three criminals and even chose to sacrifice herself in the end, these were actually the result of her bargaining with the criminals. Moreover, considering that three of Valerie’s colleagues were indirectly killed by her persistence. It can be said that Valerie is not such a pure hero.
*Valerie has some similarities with Susan McCallister in Deep Blue Sea: they're both key roles in the play, both are female researchers who are obsessed with something, and have caused some people to die indirectly because of their persistence. And in the end, they both paid the price - torn apart and devoured by monsters.
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