After ending his lecture Malcolm leaves the Institute to have lunch with his friend, a young field biologist named Sarah Harding. On their way through the parking lot, they are approached by Levine who invites himself to lunch. Levine talks about persistant rumors of unknown animals turning up in Costa Rica and the Congo, though he admits there is no photographic evidence and in the case of the Costa Rican animals the remains are destroyed. Despite Malcolm's insistance that there are no such "Lost Worlds" where dinosaurs exist, Levine persists. He tells Malcolm and Harding of a persistent rumor he's heard that, several years ago, a genetics company called InGen managed to genetically re-create dinosaurs and placed them on an island off the coast of Costa Rica. Something went wrong, and a l