Control

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A high-tech control room consisting of numerous consoles and workstations facing a huge wall of monitors, the center most of which displays a map of the island. Technicians work diligently.

MAN #1:(radio chatter)Two juvenile arsinotherium are goin' at it again. Should I tranq 'em or are your comin' over to take care of this?

MAN #2: (radio chatter) Yeah, got ahead and tranq 'em--

MAN #2: (radio chatter) Uh, they're rutting.

Claire enters holding a Starbucks coffee cup and addresses two of the technicians, VIVIAN KRILL and LOWERY CRUTHERS. Lowery's desk is covered with toy dinosaurs and he's wearing a Jurassic Park shirt instead of a Jurassic World one.

 Lowery's desk is covered with toy dinosaurs and he's wearing a Jurassic Park shirt instead of a Jurassic World one

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CLAIRE: What's the live count?

VIVIAN: Twenty-two thousand, two-sixteen

CLAIRE: Any incidents?

LOWERY: Yeah, six kids in the lost and found, uh, 28 down with heat stroke, and some idiot tried to feed ice cream to a placerias

Claire notices his shirt of the ill-fated and famous Jurassic Park.

CLAIRE: Where did you get that...?

LOWERY: (gushing) Oh, this? I got it on eBay. Yeah, it's pretty amazing. I got for 150 dollars but the mint condition one goes for 300, easy--

CLAIRE: (annoyed) Didn't it occur to you maybe that's in poor taste?

LOWERY: (contrite) The shirt? Yeah, no, it did. I understand people died. It was terrible, but...
(gushing again) That first park was legit! You know, I have a lot of respect for it. They didn't need these genetic hybrids--

Claire sighs.

LOWERY: They just needed dinosaurs, real dinosaurs! That's kind of enough--

CLAIRE: Okay, please don't wear it again.

LOWERY: (contrite) Yeah, wasn't gonna...

Vivian changes the subject.

VIVIAN: Did you close the deal?

CLAIRE: Looks like it. Verizon Wireless Presents the Indominus Rex.

Lowery exhales and lowers his head.

LOWERY: (exasperated) Ugh, that was so terrible! (raises his head) Why not just go the distance, Claire? Let these corporations name the dinosaurs. They've got all the ballparks. Why stop there?

Claire notices something, interrupting him.

CLAIRE: Why are the West Plains closed?

VIVIAN: Another Pachy roaming outside his zone, but he's fully sedated and ready for relocation.

LOWERY: (still on his earlier tangent) Pepsisaurus. Tostitodon.

CLAIRE: Security said the invisible fences were a no-fail. That is the second time this month.

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