Camp Cretaceous S2 E2

## Plot

The kids are trying to pick a place to hide out until help arrives, but dinosaurs are everywhere. They would stay in Kenji's dad's penthouse, but he changed the locks after his son failed algebra. It's been days since they activated the emergency beacon, but no one has shown up yet. Darius suggests staying in what remains of camp. There's a stream for fresh water, plus trees and mountains will protect them from harsh weather and the worst dino attacks. Plus, if the rescuers are looking for campers, camp would be the first place they look, and they can use supplies to build a shelter. Darius and Kenji assume that Brooklynn knows how to do that, since they think that all she does is videos. She claims that she does other things besides make videos, but admits that she did help build a barn once. Darius suggests that Yaz sit this one out due to her ankle. She wants to pull her own weight, but Sammy tells her to rest. She, Brooklynn, and Darius will head to a nearby clinic to try and find something for her ankle. Kenji stays behind to make sure Yaz rests and start sorting through the debris. They grab wooden planks to use as makeshift weapons. Darius and Sammy find a stegosaurus plate on the ground. They shed them as they grow, like how deer shed antlers. It reminds Sammy of home. There are marks on the trees from the stegos using them to help shed their plates. This is more new dinosaur behavior. Brooklynn hears a whirring sound, but it stops after a second, and Darius and Sammy don't hear anything. Yaz scolds Kenji for being lazy and not doing what the others told him to do. He says everyone else will do it later. The best things in life are the things you make other people do for you. He's never even cleaned his room. He just waits for it to get messy enough that his dad orders one of the maids to clean it for him. Despite this, when he notices that Yaz is gone, he decides to look for her. Yes, he's lazy, egotistical, irresponsible, etc., but he cares about his friends. Brooklynn, Sammy, and Darius find canned food, and Darius takes a journal. They also find a compression bandage… that's 20 feet long. They see dinosaurs stuck in cages. This is a veterinary clinic for herbivores. When everyone was evacuated, they were left behind, just like the kids. They're all out of food and water. If they let the dinosaurs out, they could rejoin their herds. Sammy and Darius are all for it, but Brooklynn is annoyed that they've lost track of what they came here to do. There's also a baronyx in a cage too. It has far more energy and is a lot meaner, likely because it's a predator, and in movies and TV, almost all predators and/or carnivores are bad, and all herbivores are good. Tying morality into what someone eats seems really weird. Sammy still wants to free it, but Darius wants to leave it. Kenji finds Yaz with a branch, trying to pull a vine from a tree. It's to move the camp debris. They'll use the sticks as levers, toss the vines over a branch, and use them to move everything. Kenji points out that she's supposed to be resting, and asks her to give the tough woman act a break already. She tells him that she's a three time state track champion, she placed four times at nationals, and twice in the international competition. She's competed in all kinds of brutal weather, and each time, she medaled. Unlike Kenji, she doesn't give up. He takes her walking stick away to try and make her come back and rest, but she refuses. She trips and hurts it even worse though when she tries to walk on it. Darius and Sammy ask Brooklynn what she thinks about freeing the predator, but she's more focused on the whirring sound. Darius tells Sammy that baronyxes are carnivores, not omnivores, so they can't feed it canned fruit. They eat more than 100 pounds of meat per day, and the herbivores they just freed are what they eat, and they probably wouldn't mind eating them either. Sammy says they should get to go home, because they didn't ask to be here. They are though, and now they're trapped, away from their families. They're interrupted when Brooklynn tells them to run. Kenji is carrying Yaz back. He's tired after just ten minutes and tells Yaz that she can crawl back if she wants to. They're nowhere near camp, but he tells her that she should've thought of that before she went off into the jungle. She wouldn't have if he had just pulled his weight. She gets upset when he tells her that she can't do anything here. He apologizes to her and they finally have a heart to heart talk. She's the person that everyone back home relies on, but now she's not. If she's not strong anymore, than what good is she? Kenji points out that none of them would've been able to make it this far on their own. He tells her to let someone else do the work for a change, like him. He carries her back to camp. Meanwhile, two more baronyxes have shown up at the clinic and try to break their friend out, but can't. Sammy frees the stegos so they can distract them. Before the kids can leave, Darius decides to free the baronyx, since they're a family. Everyone reunites and hides in the trees. They decide to make their new shelter a treehouse, and Yaz draws it as the others give suggestions for things they need, like a place for storing food so the dinos don't get it, a lookout tower, etc. By sunset, they've made decent progress. Sammy finds and returns Darius's raptor tooth necklace to him, and they hug. Aw! Brooklynn hears the whirring sound again and finds frozen flowers.