Meeting at a diner at 2 AM, Lewis Dodgson and George Baselton await the arrival of Ed James, who has been gathering information for them. Dodgson is a geneticist working for Biosyn while Baselton is a biology professor that has been frequently hired to fix Biosyn's image problems. James arrives, and an impatient Dodgson insists James present his findings. James pulls out a manila envelop with files on the individuals involved with the incident on Isla Nublar; Alan Grant is on leave in Paris giving lectures on new findings regarding tyrannosaurs while his former pupil Ellie Satler has married a physicist at Berkeley and has two young children. He informs Dodgson that most of the rest are dead; Donald Gennaro died of dysentery while on a business trip and both Dennis Nedry and John Hammond d