Samson Quell

"*I'm the very foundation of the company. Without me, this whole project will crash... And you'll be caught under the debris*"

Samson Quell is the grandson of the great Hobard Quell. Due to his greed and selfishness, he lacks any care for the dinosaurs, instead using them as guinea pigs to experiment on. He later was killed by Irritators during the Quell Laboratories Disaster.

## History

Samson Quell was born to his father Jonathan Quell in 1964. Because his family spent so much time at Tierra Olvidada, Samson never made friends and never built up his social skills. He was awkward and angry, and whenever the opportunity to get to know somebody came, he pushed it away. He grew up as a recluse, hating company and preferring to be in his own world. At some point in his life, he took helicopter lessons and obtained his own personal helicopter, which he used to travel to and from Tierra Olvidada.

After his father passed away, in 1989, he took control of his company, Quell Laboratories, and subjected the dinosaurs to cruel experiments. Dr. Jonah Onyx, CEO and founder of OnyxoCore, threatened to expose him, but his head scientist, Dr. Dimitri Lambros, was seeking to take control of OnyxoCore and offered to help Quell eliminate Onyx. They poisoned him gradually, making it look like heart failure. However. Miguel Onyx, Jonah's nephew, took over OnyxoCore. Out of gratitude for what Dimitri has done for him, Quell made him his unofficial head scientist and gave him his own bungalow.

Unfortunately for Quell, a mole at Quell Laboratories exposed the company for animal abuse, bringing many problems to the company and harming public relations. The government declared that a member of the Paleo Patrol, an extremist prehistoric animal protection group, must have a presence at the Tierra Olvidada facility at all times. Quell, looking for ways out of this dilemma, ordered Miguel Onyx to create and hatch hybrids as a loophole.

In 2001, Quell had invited some investors to form partnerships, hoping to pay for the costs of creating these hybrids. Unfortunately, during that weekend the mole sabotaged the facility, letting the dinosaurs inside, causing chaos. After losing 4 of his ranger teams, including Mike Doyle, two of the investors dying, and unable to keep control of his employees, he reluctantly ordered an evacuation. When Dimitri berated him for it, he threatened to turn him into the police for Jonah's murder, where Dimitri counter-threatened to take him with him. Later, he discovered that Dimitri hadn't left yet, so he sent his V.P., Victor Martinez, to go get him, before he drove off toward his helipad.

Unfortunately for him, a hunting Giganotosaurus frightened a herd of Lambeosaurus, causing them to stampede into his car and push it down a ravine and into a swamp. As it sunk into the water, he quickly got out before it completely submerged. Soon, however, he was ambushed by a trio of Irritators. Before he could escape, he was dragged underneath the water and devoured by them.

### Legacy

After the Quell Laboratories Disaster, Tierra Olvidada and its facilities became abandoned. Quell Laboratories could barely recover from the fiasco, and it took all the effort from its new CEO, Gladys Quell, to keep it from being shut down.