Sorna: The four vehicles made their way down the road, with the three tour vehicles in front, Tammy, Steven, and Kelly in the first vehicle and the Interceptor in back with Henry and Danni driving in silence.

"Why was he so stubborn? What would possess a man to sacrifice his own life for the sake of others?" asked Danni after awhile. Henry sighed.

"It's a combination of things," he said. "Jake lost his parents at an early age and as a result, constantly felt that he couldn't rely on anyone else to do anything and that if he didn't do it no one else would. Gradually he got over it by working on this island, but those feelings sometimes still resurface in him from time to time. It's his greatest gift and his greatest curse."

"This is hard to ask," said Danni. "But do you think he's dead?"

Henry sat in silence for a few moments following that question as he continued driving the car down the road.

"I honestly don't know," he said. "I'm still trying to come to grips over the deli exploding in a large fireball. If Jake is dead, I'm happy for him as he went out the way he probably would've wanted, saving others in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. If he's still alive, then somehow I see us running into him again before all of this is over."

"Since Jake is not here, can you at least tell me what's going on in Costa Rica?" asked Danni.

"No," said Henry. "I'm as committed to Jake on this one and as such you're never going to find out. Just leave it alone, it'll drive you insane thinking about it."

"Fine," said Danni defeated. "So tell me about yourself? How did you come to work for Ingen? When did you meet Jake?"

"Why do you want to know?" asked Henry curious.

"It'll pass the time," said Danni simply. "We've still a three hour journey ahead of us and I'm getting bored staring at all these trees and waiting for something to leap out and get us."

"Alright," said Henry amicably. "I was born in San Francisco to two wealthy doctors. We lived in a fairly wealthy suburb of the city, but strangely my parents insisted that I go to public school and not some private school. When I asked them why, years later, they said that that was how they'd both been educated and that since they persevered there was no reason why I shouldn't be able to do the same. So I went to school like any normal kid and progressed from grade to grade doing very well, just like my parents did. But when high school rolled around, my parents transferred to another hospital in Frisco and we moved. As a result, I had to go to a different high school where I didn't know anybody. The first day I wound up getting lost inside the building on my way to science class. Everyone else seemed to busy meeting old friends and talking about their schedules that I began becoming overwhelmed. Before I could completely loose my senses, I bumped into a student who at first was angry at me for my clumsiness before he noticed my science textbooks. He asked me just how interested I was in science and I responded saying that it the only subject I found remotely interesting. He then asked me if I was a nerd and I said, 'It depends, are you?' The student laughed and held up his science book, which I had just noticed just prior to him asking me if I was a nerd and responded that nerd wasn't an element so he didn't know. We both chuckled at that and he welcomed me into his group of friends."

"And this is important because?" asked Danni confused.

"The student's name was Jake Whitacre," said Henry simply. Danni's eyes widened.

"Talk about coincidences," she said. Henry shrugged.

"Science can't explain coincidences," he said. "Jake and I became best buddies over the following years in high school, and we both excelled in science, specifically showing an incredible aptitude for genetics. We both went to the same college and were roommates and both graduated at the top of our class with degrees dealing with genetic research and manipulation. Right after college, within twenty four hours, both of us were contacted by International Genetics and offered a high paying salary if we were to join them on a special top secret project."

"You're talking about Ingen trying to resurrect the dinosaurs aren't you?" Danni said. Henry nodded.

"Yes," he said. "At the time we didn't know the specifics of the project, but we did know about Ingen. They were hiring the best and the brightest researchers in the world to work for them for a hell of a lot of money and Jake and we couldn't say no to an offer like this. 48 hours later we were in Africa testing out newly acquired amber deposits for usable dinosaurs DNA."

"Interesting," said Danni gazing out the window. "So when did you first succeed?"

"July 6, 1990. In Kenya we successfully cloned a tyrannosaurus rex and it managed to survive," said Henry.

"So it grew to adulthood in only three years during the Park's unveiling, that's really something," said Danni trying to recall what little information she knew about Ingen and its operations.

"No it didn't. We couldn't wait that long, we do work for an international conglomerate after all and it needs results. So we accelerated its growth substantially along with all the other initial dinosaurs. The only downside was they would've shortly burned out following the tour. That's why only the larger dinosaurs had their growth substantially accelerated, the velociraptors received a little bit of growth spurt, and the dilophosaurs we pretty much left alone in terms of growth due to both their ferocity and lack of selling point," said Henry. "That's really all there was to it. From there I worked mostly at Nublar and San Diego while Jake stayed on Sorna to oversee dinosaur development there. We did stuff that would be worthy of a Nobel Prize, but all of our work was deemed classified by Ingen and never released to the public. In compensation, Jake and I were both made head scientists and were making upwards of 800,000 a year plus stock options."

"And then Nublar fell," said Danni. Henry nodded reluctantly not wishing to reexamine those events.

"Yes," he said. "It's a miracle I wasn't on the island when the power fell. I wasn't planning on leaving, but Jake needed some help back on Sorna and things were getting boring on Sorna so I took the boat along with everyone else to Sorna right before the power failed. We braved it through the tropical storm and arrived at Sorna in one piece only to learn that all contact with Nublar had failed."

"Why didn't you go back and investigate?" asked Danni as the trees pulled away for a moment revealing a valley filled with all sorts of herbivores in it.

"We were thinking about it, but Jake wrote it off as just another communications failure. After all, JP was rife with all of those problems since Hammond came up with this bizarre idea of running everything through a single supercomputer in order to have minimal staff on the island in the event of…something," said Henry before noticing Danni's questioning look. "I don't know; Jake and I never really understood computers that well to figure out what Hammond was really up to and since Nublar fell it hardly seems important anymore."

"At least it's not classified," said Danni with a snort. Henry cracked a smile.

"Yeah I guess that is one way of looking at it," said Henry. Danni sighed.

"I miss Sam," she said after a few moments had passed. "I wish Jake hadn't lied to us about what had happened on this island."

"I lied as well in my own way," Henry reminded her. "I should've pieced together Jake's nervousness with the reports I'd heard earlier about what happened on this island, but I didn't. Then when I did, I kept quiet just like Jake did. We're both to blame and yet can you blame either of us for wanting you people not to know the truth. 'Ignorance is bliss' as Jake put it and sometimes it's for the best."

"Yeah but," Danni was about to argue.

"You haven't told Tammy, Steven, and Kelly what happened back at the village. Why not?" demanded Henry cutting in. Danni's eyes snapped wide open when she realized the full impact of what he'd said.

"Damn," she said shaking her head. "You're absolutely right and you're also right, I'm not going to tell them. Shit."

"So you see, his choice wasn't any easier than yours was," said Henry. "Just like it isn't any easier for him to live with the guilt of what happened on this island. Yet he has to because everything on this island has been deemed classified. I can't reveal much about this, but the reason he was going to Costa Rica was to make up for what happened on this island."

"Go figure," said Danni sighing. Henry shrugged and the convoy moved on.

Later: The group stood outside of the plane with barrels of fuel lying all over the place. The tour vehicles had made it within a half mile of the plane before they track wouldn't let them get any closer so the group had rolled the drums to the plane while Henry drove Danni to the plane in the Interceptor so she could get to work sooner on the damaged engine. Danni was grateful for the distraction as it helped her avoid thinking about those that had been lost on the seemingly routine trip from Guam to Costa Rica.

"I'm amazed we haven't seen any dinosaurs or experienced any dino attacks since leaving the village," said Steven.

"Yeah it is strange," agreed Kelly. "What do you make of it Henry?"

"We're just lucky I guess," said Henry lying. "Maybe the wind operates here in such a way that our scent is lost before any dinos can pick it up."

"I guess that would explain why we didn't really encounter any when this trip first started out," reflected Tammy.

"Yeah so let's count our blessings for now and hope nothing goes wrong from now until we take off," said Henry.

"Speaking of which," began Steven. "How long until we're outta here?"

"About another half hour to fix the engine and push the tree off of this plane plus another fifteen minutes to use the Interceptor to drag the plane backwards so we can turn it around and then another fifteen minutes of prep for take off and then we're gone," said Danni.

"An hour," said Kelly nodding. "Good, I don't want to spend another minute on this island if we don't have to."

"I hear that," said Steven nodding. "Although it seems kind of pointless now since our hotel reservations are probably gone."

"Yeah," agreed Kelly. "Unfortunately I take it that by voting on the issue of braving the storm or not that automatically voids your liability in this matter."

"You got that right," said Danni sighing remembering her conversation with Sam right before taking the vote.

"Damn," said Kelly and Steven.

"Are you sure you two are supposed to be together?" asked Henry with a grin. "After all, first your cruise goes bust and now you've been stuck on an island with bloodthirsty carnivores. It sounds like someone's trying to tell you something."

Tammy began laughing for perhaps the first time since they'd landed on this island while Steven and Kelly declined to answer the question. The rest of the time went quietly as Tammy began grilling Henry for answers regarding the Interceptor to which he didn't know the answers to and Steven and Kelly just decided to lay down on the ground and get some rest.

"Look for the thousandth time," said Henry. "I don't know how fast it can go. All Jake told me when I used to ask him was that 'Speed is just a question of money, how fast can you go?' Considering he poured nearly 80,000 dollars into this car, I'd say she'd go pretty damn fast."

"Engine's fixed," said Danni breaking into their conversation as the tree that had been resting on top of the plane crashed to the ground..

"Finally," said Steven sitting up. "Let's go."

Kelly, Tammy, and Steven all piled into the plane leaving Danni and Henry outside.

"So how're we gonna drag that thing back?" asked Henry looking at the rear of the plane.

"We'll use the massive rope that normally ties this thing to the waterfront and instead tie it to the Interceptor and let her go," said Danni.

"How do we know that thing won't tear off the bumper?" asked Henry. "This car is still a work in progress and I don't know how well either bumper is attached with all of Jake's modifications."

"That's why we're not going to use the bumper," said Danni hauling the large rope over to the car. Henry groaned and helped her drag the rope over to the Interceptor before laying it down on the ground.

"And we're going to attach it how?" asked Henry. Danni shook her head at his pessimism as she got underneath the rear bumper of the car and pulled out a winch attached to a steel cable.

"I noticed this, this morning when I woke up. Don't know what Jake was planning on hauling, but I guess it was in an anticipation of some scenario he couldn't predict. Either way, it's our savior," she said. Danni took the winch and looped it around the end loop of the massive rope and tightened both up.

"Let 'er rip Henry," said Danni. "Let's see if this car can love up to its iconic image."

"You are aware that in the process we may severally damage this car and thereby our only means of dragging that plane backwards?" asked Henry.

"It'll be fine," said Danni confidently.

"And potentially attract unwanted attention?" Henry completed. "This is essentially an Australian Muscle Car with a V-8 supercharger on top and we're in a large open area. Dinosaurs could easily pick up on it and come to investigate it."

"If we stay here any longer the same thing will happen, we've got to go now," said Danni. Henry sighed and got in the car and turned the car on. He revved the engine a couple times for good measure and hit the accelerator. The car leapt forward and was immediately ground to a halt as the rope reached its end. Henry continued accelerating and moving up through the gears as the car tried desperately to move forward and hopefully not snap the tow cable. Unfortunately, the car just couldn't go fast enough to move the plane and the front of the car rose straight up so the vehicle was doing a wheelie. Sighing, Henry through the vehicle in reverse and it hit the ground with a thud.

"The hell're you doing?" Danni demanded. "Use the supercharger otherwise the plane won't move!"

"Jake said the thing was twitchy, it might blow up in our face," said Henry.

"And the dinosaurs could do considerably worse so do it," said Danni walking off to the cockpit. Henry sighed, muttered a prayer, and accelerated the car again. This time when the wheels started rise up, he cut in the V-8, which seemed to a roar at a challenge to the world as the car accelerated even faster. The front wheels lowered and the car found purchase and slowly began dragging the plane behind it.

"Finally," said Henry with a sigh of relief. After another few minutes, the plane was nearly clear enough to be able to turn itself around when suddenly the ground started shaking.

"Oh hell," said Henry looking at the nearby rocks begin rocking back and forth from the trembles as across the large field, a pair of trees came crashing down revealing the Spinosaurus.

"Damn it," said Henry as he shut off the engine. Danni suddenly appeared from plane and ran to the car to see the massive beast looking over the meadow for the source of the challenge it had heard earlier.

"We're not far enough to turn the plane around," she said. "Just get us a little bit farther…"

"And what?" demanded Henry. "That thing came because of the roar of the V-8. If I turn this car on again, it'll come straight at us. If you turn on the plane engines, it'll be here even sooner. The Spinosaurus doesn't back down from a challenge even if it doesn't know what the challenger is. We need to sit tight and pray it goes away."

"I don't want to take the chance that it still comes and we've done nothing to get any closer to leaving. Get us back another couple feet, then run back here and uncouple the winch, and take off with the car. Loose it, come back, and we'll take off leaving this island far behind us," said Danni.

"That's not much of a plan," said Henry beginning to fear for his own life.

"The way I see it, we don't have a choice," said Danni. "Now go do it because I've got to complete the flight checklist."

Danni ran back to the front as Henry sighed contemplating his choices.

"'…Because it's judgment that defeats us'" Henry recalled Jake saying on the videotape. "You're right Jake, you're absolutely right."

Henry turned the car back on and revved the engine and immediately pulled the V-8 lever. The car roared to life stronger than ever and the Spinosaur responded faster than ever. It tore across the meadow straight for the two vehicles on the other end. Henry just shook his head as he continued pushing the car forward and forward until finally those feet passed and Henry stopped the car. He ran around to the back to unhook the winch when he noticed the Spinosaurus was nearly on top of him.

"Guess this is it," thought Henry as he began trembling. "Never was a hero, just a scientist with a string of bad luck."

THWAP! THWAP!

Henry thought he heard two stabbing noises before the Spinosaurs crashed to the ground right in front of him. Henry walked over to the thing incredulously as to what could've happened to it. The thing was unconscious and only on a closer inspection did he notice two darts sticking out of its neck.

"What the?" wondered the scientist.

"Hey Henry," said a familiar voice. "What's up?"

Henry spun around to see Jake Whitacre leaning against the Interceptor with his now empty Lindstradt air rifle.

"Jake?" asked Henry not believing it. "Is that you?"

Jake shrugged. "Probably not, I'm probably just a ghost sent to haunt you from beyond the grave."

"Always the nerd," said Henry shaking his head.

"Nerds and ghosts aren't elements," said Jake pointedly. Henry walked up to him and the both shook hands vigorously before Henry went to undo the winch.

"So what the hell happened to you?" asked Henry. "We saw Rupert's blow up and then what?"

"I got flung away by the force of the explosion and slammed into a nearby tree. By the time I came to the half hour was nearly up," said Jake walking with him to the plane that was just starting up.

"You knew we'd wait longer," said Henry.

"Yeah," Jake agreed nodding. "But I knew that as long as I stayed with you, the dinos would come after us every step of the way. So I walked to the nearest garage and appropriated a still working gas powered jeep and headed for the plane. Once I got there, you guys had yet to show up so I just hung out in the wooded area hoping not to attract any dinosaurs. Later you guys showed up, but still I waited. Then when the Spino showed up, the waiting was over."

"Good thing you did show up otherwise I would've been a goner," said Henry.

"I always knew that car would be trouble," said Jake shaking his head. "Too bad I'll never see her again."

"You can always come back with her," said Henry. "Or attach the winch and have us drag it back with us."

"A la Con Air?" Jake asked with a laugh. "No I don't think so. She's just a demon of the past, one of many in my life that I've had to deal with over time. C'mon, let's blow this island."

"Best news I've heard all week," said Henry. Both entered the plane to the shocked looks of Tammy, Steven, and Kelly.

"Hey all," said Jake sitting down in his seat as the engines grew louder and louder.

"Thought you were dead," said Steven.

"No such luck," said Jake. "On an island of extinct dinosaurs that I helped create, I'm not about to go down that easy."

"No I guess not," said Steven, although he didn't look particularly happy about it. Jake just sighed and shook his head as he stowed his rifle underneath the seats. An instant later, Danni appeared from the cockpit.

"Alright, we're all prepped to go so if there's no further…Oh My God!" she shouted finally noticing Jake.

"What?" Henry demanded.

"Jake…you're alive," said Danni in shock. Henry looked at Jake then back to her.

"The hell're you talking about?" he teased. "Jake's dead remember? He died saving us from those dimetrodons."

"So that's what happened to him," said Steven not at all upset to pretend Jake was dead. "And here I thought he did something noble."

"But…but," Danni said, beginning to believe she was loosing it.

"I'm just a ghost," said Jake. "Plain and simple. Go back to the cockpit and get us out of here."

Danni's jaw dropped as everyone began laughing at her.

"You're all assholes," she said shaking her head. "You are alive, right Jake?"

"I like to think so," said Jake. "But it's really up to you."

"I'm going to take off before things get any weirder," said Danni. She headed back for the cockpit and slowly but surely the plane turned around and was soon running down the bumpy meadow.

"C'mon, c'mon," Danni was heard saying from the cockpit through the open door. Kelly and Steven grabbed each other's hands and held onto it tightly while Tammy pulled out a photo of her parents and began whispering a prayer. Henry meanwhile pulled out the tattered piece of paper with the letters and numbers and began going over it with Jake. At the last second right before the plane would hit the point of no return, it lifted up and over the trees and straight into the midday sky. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief as Danni turned on the comm.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we're back on course for Costa Rica, ETA three hours. Sit back and hopefully it'll be an uneventful trip," she said. The others all began clapping save for Henry and Jake who looked very solemn.

"One devil for the next I suppose," Jake said.

"Yeah," said Henry holding his head in frustration. "It never ends."

"At least now we'll get paid," Jake reminded him.

"Yeah and thank God for that. If your company hadn't bailed out Ingen, I'd be out of a job," said Henry. Jake nodded before shifting in his seat.

"Henry, this was supposed to happen when we were supposed to be in Costa Rica, but being here has delayed you in finding out," said Jake. "Pacific Pharmaceuticals was planning to finally buy out Ingen so it didn't have to deal with all the legal paperwork of all of these contracts between the two companies. Right now Pacific Pharmaceuticals is now the parent company of International Genetics."

"Oh," said Henry not knowing how to take it. "So…what are the changes?"

"None actually," said Jake. "It's all under the table. Pacific Pharmaceuticals will continue acting just like before with all the contracts not being completely fake. It doesn't want other corporations to find out about The Project."

"So long as I've still got a job I've got nothing to complain about," said Henry. "Now back to the matter at hand…"

The rest of the trip was uneventful, mostly filled with recollections of having been on the island. Finally San Jose appeared in the distance and Danni brought in the plane for a landing. As they finally came to a halt, ambulances, police cars, and fire trucks all rushed out to the plane to make sure everyone was alright.

"After your plane went missing, we feared the worst," said Scott Masterson, head of her flight company.

"In a way it was," said Danni as she walked with the group as they were being escorted to the ambulances for a mandatory check up back at the hospital. "We crashed at Sorna and barely made it out alive."

"Yes, we're sorry for the loss of your copilot and passenger. Thankfully we've got both lawsuits under wraps and with your decision to poll the passengers for what to do have thankfully gotten rid of any liability issues. Good work," said Scott.

"Hooray," said Danni still upset that it had to happen at all. She looked back at Jake and Henry who were walking along the road discussing heatedly discussing something when a massive wind began buffeting them as a military helicopter flew by low overhead and landed nearby. Military troops began pouring out along with a man with dark sunglasses and a black suit. He ran over to Jake and Henry who were walking to meet up with him.

"Gentlemen," said the man. "It's good to see you're still alive, otherwise we would've had to temporarily abandon the project and find someone who possessed even half the knowledge you two have."

"Did you capture AA-23?" shouted Jake over the copters blades.

"We caught it just a few moments ago. Now that you're here you'll be going straight to it," shouted the man.

"Not without me you're not!" shouted a voice. The trio turned to see Danni standing across from them with her arms crossed as her hair whipped around her. Behind her was Scott looking very confused.

"Who is this?" demanded the man.

"Danni Steferson, she was the pilot of the plane and went with us on our journey through Sorna," said Jake.

"How much does she know?" the man demanded.

"Enough," said Henry. "All of which she discovered on her own. She saw the room."

"Can she be trusted?" demanded the man.

"Probably not," said Jake with a grin. "But I don't think she can be bought off or silenced if she doesn't find out."

"You got that right," said Danni smiling.

"She's coming with us," said Henry. "We'll deal with the repercussions."

"No," said the man. "I'll work it out somehow."

"Then I guess we'll see you in hell Regis," said Jake as he boarded the helicopter.

"I'll be waiting," said Ed Regis shaking his head in defeat. He slammed the door shut and walked away from the copter as it lifted off into the sky.

"Nice company you've got here," said Danni looking at the armed soldiers with determined expressions on their faces.

"Our work is here is sanctioned by the Costa Rican government and they work hand in hand with us regarding our operations here," said Jake as he began reviewing a dossier he had been handed by Regis.

"What operations?" demanded Danni.

"You'll find out," said Henry as the helicopter roared over the trees.

"Can't you tell me?" asked Danni.

"This is our first day here, so no," said Jake. "But don't worry we'll be there soon."

A couple minutes later the helicopter landed amongst a wave of floodlights and tents as troops began running all over the place in the midst of a badly destroyed village.

"Ah, Mr. Whitacre, Mr. Wu, it's good to finally meet you," said a scientist in a lab coat running up to them.

"Where is it?" said Jake. "We've got to get it out of here and be gone before anybody's gets near this place."

"Yeah we're preparing to torch it now," said the scientist. "AA-23 is this way."

"What's the latest count on it?" asked Henry as they started walking with Danni staring wide-eyed at the whole operation.

"30," the scientist said grimacing. "It got to two villages before we finally caught it here finishing up its handiwork."

"Damn," said Jake. "But I guess it doesn't matter now."

"Yeah," said the scientist. "The government is suppressing all knowledge now and the transport is on its way."

"Good," said Jake as they approached a tent with guards surrounding it.

"It's in there, I'll see you later," said the scientist leaving. Jake and Henry nodded and approached the guards.

"Jake Whitacre and Henry Wu so see AA-23," said Jake to the guards as they flashed their ID. "Ms. Steferson is with us."

The guards said nothing but pulled back the flaps of the tent. Jake and Henry went in immediately but Danni hesitated wondering what was inside that would require two biogeneticists.

"You coming?" asked Henry a moment later as he stuck his head outside the tent.

"Yeah," said Danni shivering. She stepped inside and found the tent filled with scientists and soldiers. They walked to the center and looked down.

"My…God," said Danni covering her mouth. Jake leaned down.

"Behold AA-23," said Jake solemnly. "One of many that've popped up over the years."

"This one took out thirty people," said Henry pulling out the tattered sheet of paper. "These letters refer to a certain species and the number refers to how many people they've taken out. That's what Jake and I were working on the whole trip."

"This secret is just as deadly as what is at Sorna. But Sorna is contained here it is not," said Jake.

"What is it doing here?" asked Danni looking at the thing.

"It swam here just like many before it have done. They're tired of confined living, they want to experience the rest of the world and we can't let that happen," said Jake. "The Costa Rican government doesn't want to have to deal with them and we're only too happy to help in order to clean up the mess we left behind."

"What do you do with them?" asked Danni.

"We ship them off to Indigo," said Jake.

"Indigo? I heard that name mentioned on the tape," said Danni. "What is it?"

"It was a processing facility on the island Indigo in the South Pacific and everything that was shipped from Nublar to Sorna, whether technology or specimens, all passed through there. As a result, it has all the facilities of the two islands but none of the specimens. Pacific Pharmaceuticals set up operations there to monitor, observe, and collect data on what we've captured here in order to see if it can't use that information to create new designer drugs to help humans," said Jake.

"Why those that come here, why not those on Sorna?" asked Danni.

"Because Sorna is off limits to the public, but those that come here are fair game," said Jake.

"I…I want to join you," said Danni. "I've seen too much and done too much not too."

"You have to promise never to reveal anything here on Sorna, anywhere!" said Jake. "Everything is classified and none of this exists or has ever happened. Do you understand?"

"I do," said Danni nodding solemnly.

"Then welcome to the team," said Henry. A scientist ran up to them.

"The transport is here," said the man. Jake stood up.

"Then tag it and bag it. Ship it off to Indigo and then let's try and locate the next specimen," said Jake.

"Rumors of demonry in the countryside hints to one raiding villages on the eastern side of the country," said the scientist.

"Then let's move in five," said Jake. "C'mon you two, we have work to do."

Danni and Henry nodded and together the three left the tent. The scientist prepared to leave as well, but right before he left the tent, he stared back at AA-23.

"Life did find a way," he said and left the drugged Velociraptor behind.

The End.