Camp Cretaceous S1 E2

## Plot

Continuing immediately where the series premiere left our characters off, Darius and Kenji are saved from gruesome fates by Dave and Roxie. Some time later in the treehouse, Darius asks Kenji how he could do something so stupid. Kenji tells him that girls love a grand gesture. He admits that it wasn't his best idea, and he doesn't want to get kicked out either. He's been trying to make his dad proud his whole life. If he finds out that he messed up again, then he might finally give up on him for good. Dave and Roxie just gave Brooklynn a warning since she only snuck out, but Roxie is prepared to give Kenji an earful and call their parents for putting everyone's lives in danger with his recklessness. Darius takes the blame for him and tells them that he jumped into the pit first and Kenji was trying to save him, instead of the other way around. Don't these pens have cameras? Can't they just check those to see if he's telling the truth? Roxie does point out that that makes no sense because Darius is a genius when it comes to dinosaurs, whereas Kenji doesn't even know how they became extinct in the first place. There's also the fact that Brooklynn's account of what happened is different. Kenji claims that it was dark and she was confused. What's important is that he'll keep looking out for Darius. Roxie agrees not to call their parents, but one more misstep, and there will be serious consequences. The next day, they have to clean up a huge pile of dinosaur droppings while the others get to tour Dr. Henry Wu's genetics lab. This character had one scene in the original film, but they brought him and his actor back for the *Jurassic World* film trilogy. Brooklynn is upset that she's losing followers and getting rude comments about "not seeing cool stuff", even though she just got there yesterday. If I may go off on a bit of a tangent here, the amount of famous people they got for the big and small roles is crazy. Jenna Ortega as Brooklynn, Ryan Potter as Kenji, Raini Rodriguez as Sammy, Jameela Jamil as Roxie, James Arnold Taylor, Andrew Kish, Stephanie Beatriz, Bradley Whitford, Dave B. Mitchell, Roger Craig Smith, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, THE Bill Nye, and Haley Joel Osment actually sounding like an adult for once. Roxie mentions Claire Dearing while speaking to Dr. Wu, but he refuses to give them a tour, since the park's founder, Simon Masrani, has moved up the timetable for their newest exhibit yet again. Anyone who has seen *Jurassic World* knows that he's referring to the Indominus Rex. Brooklynn gets Dr. Wu to change his mind about the tour by appealing to his ego. Meanwhile, Darius is yelling at Kenji for his stunt making him miss out on it, and says he's all talk. Kenji decides to show him a dinosaur that they've stopped showing to the public. He's been to the park before a million times. He knows things about it that others don't. For example, there's an underground network of tunnels that connect the whole island. Dr. Wu normally doesn't allow filming in the lab, but he's willing to allow it if Brooklynn focuses on him. His private office is down the hall. It's restricted. A baby ankylosaurus hatches early. It's only been incubating for ten weeks, when it should have done so for 13, with no noticeable defects, and then go through an accelerated growth rate. But wouldn't that mean that they'd also die early too, thus necessitating the need for more "assets" sooner? This place is like a giant zoo, carnival, and testing lab all rolled into one, with all of the potential animal cruelty that may entail. I've never been to a carnival, I haven't been to a zoo in years (and since I live in an area with severe winter weather, they're all closed right now anyway), and I don't wear makeup. According to societal beauty standards though, I have to if I want to be successful, because I am a woman, cost and risk of PFAS be damned. I'm honestly surprised that Wu doesn't end up trying to cull the baby ankylo, given his ego, his perfectionist streak, and his control freak tendencies. Kenji reveals that he's taking Darius to see a place where they quarantine dinosaurs that have become too aggressive. The last one he saw was a carnotaurus. He reveals that he personally knows Simon Masrani, or at least he claims to. Brooklynn bumps into Sammy while they're both in the restricted dark hallway that leads to Dr. Wu's office. Sammy claims that she got lost and has to pee, so she leaves to look for a bathroom. Brooklynn gets into Wu's office to do some snooping for her fans. She sees something called E750, takes a USB drive, and learns about the Indominus Rex from some papers lying around. Foreshadowing! And then Wu catches her. Meanwhile, Kenji and Darius are clearly lost. Darius thinks they should head back. He doesn't want him to get in anymore trouble with his dad. Kenji asks what his father has to do with anything, since he's barely around. He admits that he was lying earlier because he didn't want to get sent home and spend another summer alone in a huge mansion with luxurious amenities and his dad's employees. Now Darius thinks he's been lying about everything, including the carnotaurus. Luckily, before the two can storm off, they finally find the carnotaur pen. It turns out that they're actually inside the pen with the aggressive predator, and somehow didn't notice. I guess it's possible that they came out of a tunnel that led to the inside of the pen, but still. Wu throws everyone out for not respecting his lab. Ben has bonded with the baby ankylo and named her Bumpy after her asymmetrical head bumps. Wu reveals that she, or rather, the asset, will soon be released into a herd of other anklyosauruses, and then she'll be their problem. Darius and Kenji barely evade the carnotaur thanks to Darius's knowledge of dinosaurs. They get out through a small hatch, and Kenji saves Darius. The carnotaur only succeeds in getting a scar across its face. They name it Toro because of its horns. They barely make it back in time before the others return. They can't tell anyone about this or they'll definitely get sent home, but at least the experience led to them bonding and becoming friends. After lights out that night, a drone lands in the jungle, and someone plugs a USB drive into it.