Jurassic Park

The scene opens as Dr. Alan Grant, a paleontologist, digs up the jawbone of an infant velociraptor in the Montana badlands. Grant’s partner, Ellie Sattler, announces that they have a visitor: a man from the Environmental Protection Agency named Bobo Morris. They take him inside, and he marvels at the way the baby dinosaur bones look like chicken bones. Morris explains to Grant that the foundation which funds much of Grant’s research, the Hammond Foundation is engaging in shady dealings.

Morris reveals that Grant was paid a consultant’s fee “in connection with this island” (39) and Grant admits that he did work with them. A legal consultant named Donald Gennaro from the InGen Corporation contacted Grant in the 1980s to learn more about infant dinosaur eating habits and offered him a rate of $50,000 to write a paper on the subject. Gennaro contacted Grant day and nightfor information. Eventually Grant quit the contract and lost contact with them. Morris concludes that Hammond is evading environmental law and reveals that InGen transferred several huge generators as well as 24 genetic sequencing machines called Hoods to the island. Morris expresses concern for what the Hammond Foundation could be doing in regard to genetic testing in a “country with no regulations” (43).