- Symposium Leader: [Dr. Grant is giving a lecture] Now, does anyone have a question?
- [many people in the audience raise their hands]
- Dr. Grant: Fine. Does anyone have a question that does not relate to Jurassic Park?
- [most people lower their hand]
- Dr. Grant: Or the incident in San Diego, which I did not witness?
- [nearly everyone else lowers their hand]
- Billy Brennan: You have to believe me, this was a stupid decision, but I did it with the best intentions.
- Dr. Grant: With the best intentions? Some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best intentions. You know what, Billy? As far as I'm concerned, you're no better than the people that built this place.
- Billy Brennan: So Mr. Kirby, when you climbed K2, did you base camp at twenty-five or thirty thousand feet?
- Paul Kirby: Thirty thousand feet, we were pretty close to the top.
- Billy Brennan: You were about a thousand feet above, actually.
- Dr. Grant: I have a theory that there are two kinds of boys. There are those that want to be astronomers, and those that want to be astronauts. The astronomer, or the paleontologist, gets to study these amazing things from a place of complete safety.
- Erik: But then you never get to go into space.
- Dr. Grant: Exactly. That's the difference between imagining and seeing: to be able to touch them. And that's... that's all that Billy wanted.
- [a field of beautiful dinosaurs comes into view]
- Charlie: [Making toy herbivores fight] Rawr! Rawr Rawr!
- Dr. Grant: Actually, Charlie, those are herbivores. They really wouldn't be interested in fighting with each other, but these ones here are carnivores, and they really like fighting with each other. They'll use their teeth and claws to rip each other's throats out.
- Ellie Degler: Alan, he's three. Let's wait till he's five.
- Dr. Grant: Why me?
- Paul Kirby: He said we needed someone who'd been on the island before.
- Udesky: Yes, but I did not tell you to kidnap somebody!
- Dr. Grant: I have never been on this island.
- Paul Kirby: Sure you have, you wrote that book.
- Billy Brennan: That was Isla Nublar. This is Isla Sorna - Site B.
- Billy Brennan: [Referring to Spinosaurus] I don't remember that one being on InGen's list.
- Dr. Grant: It wasn't on their list. Which makes you wonder what else they were up to.
- Erik: [being rescued] Wow. You have to thank her now. She sent the Navy and the Marines!
- Dr. Alan Grant: God bless you, Ellie.
- Paul Kirby: [a loud roar rocks the jungle] What was that?
- Billy Brennan: It's a Tyrannosaurus.
- Dr. Grant: I don't think so. It sounds bigger.
- Paul: [in abandoned complex]
- [goes up to snack machine and takes coins out]
- Paul: Ahem... I need change here, it only takes quarters, I think I've got... I've got about ten...
- [Billy breaks the glass on the snack machines with a kick and then reaches in and takes some things out]
- Paul: [Paul attempts to do the same, glass doesn't break; Paul limps away]
- Erik: That lady you called.
- Dr. Alan Grant: Hmm?
- Erik: Who is she? How do you that she can help us?
- Dr. Alan Grant: She was the one person I could always count on. I owe her a lot. Although I don't think I ever told her that.
- Erik: You should.
- [first lines]
- Enrique Cardoso: Here you go, my friend.
- Ben Hildebrand: Make sure you get as close as you can! I'll give you something extra if you make it a good trip!
- Enrique Cardoso: Hey, I'm gonna get you close, my friend, but not too close, eh. You don't want to be eaten.
- Paul: [Paul and Amanda are having an argument] Fine, go ahead and scream and when that "Tricyclatops" attacks you, don't come crying to me.
- Billy Brennan: Alan, I want to thank you for bringing me along.
- Dr. Alan Grant: Yeah, well, the bones will still be there when we get back. That's the great thing about bones; they never run away. The truth is, you got me into this, and I have no intention of being on my own with these people. Don't get too excited, Billy. Chances are we won't see a thing. Your turn to be nice. Wake me when we get there.
- Ellie Degler: So, what are you working on now?
- Dr. Alan Grant: Raptors, mostly.
- Ellie Degler: [sardonically] My favorite.
- Dr. Alan Grant: Do you remember the sounds they made?
- Ellie Degler: I try not to.
- Dr. Alan Grant: Ellie, all our theories about raptor intelligence, what they were capable of... we weren't even close.
- Ellie Degler: Tell me.
- Dr. Alan Grant: Well, we did cranium scans of a fossil skull. We found what looks like a very sophisticated resonating chamber.
- Ellie Degler: Wait a second. So we were right? I mean, they had the ability to vocalize?
- Dr. Alan Grant: I'm convinced that's the key to their social intelligence.
- Ellie Degler: Which explains why they could work together as a team.
- Dr. Alan Grant: Yeah, and coordinate their attacks so their prey wouldn't know what was going on.
- Ellie Degler: They could talk to each other.
- Dr. Alan Grant: To a degree we never imagined. Ellie, they were smart. They were smarter than dolphins or whales. They were smarter than primates.
- Paul: No matter how this turns out, it wasn't your fault. Eric's always been a strong-willed kid. Always. Then you throw someone like Ben Hildebrand into the mix and... well...
- Amanda: Well, what?
- Paul: All I'm saying... it's not your fault.
- Amanda: No, if he'd been with you, he'd be completely safe. You drive five miles under the speed limit, Paul. And I've totaled three cars in three years.
- Paul: Well, not three. The Buick wasn't really totaled. I just said it was 'cause I wanted to get the SUV.
- Amanda: I am so sorry that you have to be here.
- Paul: I'm not.
- Hannah: Ellie?
- Ellie Degler: Yeah.
- Hannah: It's Tom again. He says he has to talk to you about the last chapter.
- Ellie Degler: Just tell him I'm not gonna lose the Jack Horner quote.
- [to Alan]
- Ellie Degler: My editor thinks he's a paleontologist.
- Billy Brennan: [Alan returns from giving an academic presentation] So, how'd it go?
- Dr. Grant: Well, it's not too late to change your major, Billy.
- Billy Brennan: Not good, huh?
- Dr. Grant: Worse. We're gonna have to pack up in four weeks.
- Billy Brennan: Three. I had to rent some equipment. Come here, I gotta show you something. You like computers, right?
- Dr. Grant: I like the abacus, Billy.
- Dr. Alan Grant: What are you doing?
- Billy Brennan: [Breathing heavily] I was photographing the nest.
- Dr. Alan Grant: Don't do that again.
- Billy Brennan: [laughs] Sorry.