The fences go dead. The power fails. And the park’s crown jewel—the —breaks out of its enclosure.
The story shifts from a wonder-filled adventure into a terrifying survival thriller. Grant and the children must trek across the predator-infested island on foot, while Ellie and the park's warden, Robert Muldoon, race to get the power back online. They soon discover an even greater threat than the T-Rex: the , pack-hunting predators that have escaped their holding pen and are stalking the humans through the maintenance sheds and kitchens.
The year is 1993. On the remote Isla Nublar, eccentric billionaire John Hammond has achieved the impossible: using DNA found in prehistoric mosquitoes trapped in amber, he has cloned living dinosaurs.