Camp Cretaceous S1 E4

## Plot

While the first three episodes were prequels to the 2015 film *Jurassic World*, the rest of the episodes this season are interquels to the film, meaning that they happen at the same time as the events of the movie, and the remaining episodes of the series are sequels to the movie, and also distant prequels to most of *Fallen Kingdom* and *Dominion*. This isn't like most Marvel movies and shows, where there's continuity lockout if you haven't seen certain other things in the franchise. This makes it far easier to jump into, especially for a newcomer or a casual fan. This episode starts with a flashback of Darius and his dad, Frederick Bowman, geeking out about Dr. Alan Grant's latest dinosaur article, which was posted to the Jurassic World forums. They can't wait to see dinosaurs for real at Jurassic World. Frederick gives his son his raptor tooth necklace. It turns out that he has a matching one. However, Darius notices that his hand is shaking, and asks him if he's okay. He claims that he's just a little tired. Jurassic World will be incredible, and not just because of the dinosaurs, but because the two of them will be there together. In the present day, Darius is looking at a photo of himself and his dad. Mr. Masrani's helicopter has just arrived at the park. Roxie is trying to leave a voicemail for Claire Dearing. It turns out that her nephews, Zach and Gray Mitchell, were supposed to join the campers today, but then the events of the film happened. They've had two life threatening incidents in the past two days. Roxie tries to request more staff immediately, or they need to send the kids home, but Claire's mailbox is full. She and Dave decide to do it in person. They think they'll be back in an hour or two. The kids were supposed to go kayaking today, but Roxie and Dave left a note telling them to stay inside. Ben drew a picture of himself and Bumpy. Brooklynn is furious, because someone stole her phone. It turns out that everyone has used it at some point to check the weather, look up a new dinosaur article, take photos of themselves, etc. Sammy nervously claims that she hasn't seen it either, but Brooklynn doesn't believe her. Yaz fiercely defends her new friend, and Darius tries to calm them all down. They hear a dinosaur roar and decide to head to the observation tower to see it. They left the radio behind though, which reveals that an asset, likely the Indominus Rex, is out of containment, and warning everyone to stay indoors. Kenji wonders where everyone is, since there's usually park personnel around, but he doesn't dwell on it. Brooklynn picks the lock to the observation tower. She has a lot of skills due to the variety of her many unboxing videos. They feel and hear the ground rumbling. Luckily, it's just a brachiosaurus. However, Darius says that doesn't make any sense, because brachiosauruses don't roar like the one they heard earlier. Two men show up and try to tell them that there's an asset out of containment, so they can't be up there, but the kids can't hear them. Something kills the brachiosaurus, and then eats the two men. The kids start freaking out. Brooklynn and Sammy both recognize it as the Indominus Rex. Brooklynn asks her how she knows that name, but she says they need to leave right now. Darius says there's no such dinosaur called Indominus Rex. It starts tearing down the observation tower. Sammy almost falls to her death, but Yaz, Kenji, and Darius save her. They try to escape by using the zip line, but the emergency brakes activate and force them to stop. Darius has Yaz catch him so the extra force will make them move. Before they can get back to the treehouse though, the Indominus Rex finally tears down the tower, and they all fall into the jungle. Okay, even with the trees potentially softening or at least slowing down their fall, I feel like they should be dead from that. Darius has another flashback of his dad in either a hospital room or hospice care. He's in denial about his deteriorating condition at first and still planning their trip to Jurassic World. His father sadly tells him that he won't be able to keep his promise to him about getting to see dinosaurs together. Life doesn't always go the way you want it to. Things fall apart. What matters is how you choose to keep moving forward. What matters is that you keep going, for the people who need you the most. That's the promise they make every day they get. That despite all the hardships, they never give up. In the present day, the group wakes up after spending an indeterminate amount of time unconscious. Sammy is about to apologize and give Brooklynn her phone back, but then she sees that it's broken and hides it again. Darius realizes that he left his raptor tooth necklace in his bunk back at the treehouse. By the time they get back there, it's been destroyed. Sammy thinks everyone else got away, but Ben finds the remains of a dead body that proves otherwise. Yaz finds the radio, but it doesn't work. They're on their own. Brooklynn snaps and demands that Sammy give her her phone back so she can call for help. She doesn't care about her sneaking into Dr. Wu's lab or whatever she did with the skin samples she took from the sinoceratops. Sammy denies ever doing anything like that, Yaz defends her, Ben wants them to keep it down in case they attract the attention of another dinosaur, Kenji points out that there's always one, Ben calls him a loud mouthed jerk. etc. Everyone except Darius starts yelling at each other. Ben points out that they just saw people get eaten. They're alone. They're defenseless. They're dead. I'm surprised that they're even willing to say it, since this is still a children's show that's rated TV-Y7. I'm just saying, lots of people die in horrible ways, but it's always just offscreen, and they're usually horrible people who arguably deserve it for threatening and trying to kill a bunch of kids. Darius tells them that they're not giving up, and makes an inspirational speech based off of his dad's to convince them to keep going and never give up. The only way they'll make it is if they work together. From now on, they're a team. They need to head south to the main park and get help. Kenji immediately agrees to join Darius, and the others soon follow. The episode ends with the Indominus roaring at Toro, the scarred carnotaurus.