Jurassic World: Chaos Theory

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
Genre	Science fiction Action-adventure Conspiracy
Based on	Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Developed by	Scott Kreamer Zack Stentz
Showrunners	Scott Kreamer Aaron Hammersley
Voices of	Paul-Mikél Williams Darren Barnet Sean Giambrone Kausar Mohammed Raini Rodriguez Kiersten Kelly
Theme music composer	John Williams
Composer	Leo Birenberg
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	20
Production
Executive producers	Aaron Hammersley Scott Kreamer Steven Spielberg Colin Trevorrow Frank Marshall
Producer	Mathias Dougherty
Running time	23–24 minutes
Production companies	Universal Pictures DreamWorks Animation Television Amblin Entertainment
Original release
Network	Netflix
Release	May 24, 2024 (2024-05-24) – present (present)
Related
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory is an American science fiction action-adventure animated television series on Netflix and is the second television series in the Jurassic Park franchise. It serves as a direct sequel to Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous (2020–2022), and takes place between the events of the films Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022). Aaron Hammersley and Scott Kreamer serve as showrunners and executive produce the series along with Steven Spielberg, Colin Trevorrow, and Frank Marshall. It features Paul-Mikél Williams, Sean Giambrone, Kausar Mohammed and Raini Rodriguez reprising their voice roles from Camp Cretaceous, with Darren Barnet and Kiersten Kelly joining the main cast.

The first season premiered on May 24, 2024, followed by a second season on October 17, 2024.

Premise

Six years after Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous, members of "The Nublar Six" reunite and find themselves on an adventure to unravel a conspiracy that threatens dinosaurs and humankind alike and learn the truth about what happened to one of their own.

Voice cast and characters

Main

• Paul-Mikél Williams as Darius Bowman, a member of the Nublar Six and a dinosaur fanatic who aids the Department of Prehistoric Wildlife (DPW) in capturing and protecting dinosaurs
• Darren Barnet as Kenji Kon, a member of the Nublar Six and Darius' adoptive brother who is a skilled climbing instructor
• Sean Giambrone as Ben Pincus, a member of the Nublar Six who became a conspiracy theorist after discovering that his friends are in danger and attempts to bring them back together
• Kausar Mohammed as Yasmina "Yaz" Fadoula, a member of the Nublar Six who is recovering from severe PTSD while attending college following her encounters with dinosaurs on Isla Nublar
• Raini Rodriguez as Sammy Gutierrez, a member of the Nublar Six and Yaz's girlfriend who runs her family's ranch
• Kiersten Kelly as Brooklynn (season 2; recurring season 1), a member of the Nublar Six and Kenji's ex-girlfriend who is presumed to have been killed by an Allosaurus under suspicious circumstances while conducting an investigation

Recurring

• Sumalee Montano as The Handler (season 1; guest season 2), a woman hired to kill the Nublar Six using a trio of Atrociraptors under her control
• Eugene Cordero as Mateo (season 1), a DPW truck driver who aids the Nublar Six
• Steve Blum as Jensen (season 1; guest season 2), a corrupt DPW officer who illegally transports dinosaurs to sell on the black market
  • Blum also voices Carl (guest season 1), Sammy's ill tempered neighbor, who has a strong hatred for dinosaurs
• Philip Anthony-Rodriguez as Dudley Cabrera (season 1), a corrupt DPW regional director
• Carmen Moore as Ronnie (season 2; guest season 1), a DPW sergeant, paleo-vet, and Darius' former boss. She is revealed to be the person who saved Brooklynn's life on the night of the attack.
• Anaiya Asomugha as Zayna Mballo (season 2), a teenage girl who lives on a rice farm with her parents in Senegal
• Cherise Boothe as Aminata Mballo (season 2), Zayna's mother who runs their family farm
• Dichen Lachman as Soyona Santos / The Broker (season 2), the leader of an illegal dinosaur trafficking ring who runs international black market operations that involve cloning and weaponizing dinosaurs. Lachman reprises her role from Jurassic World Dominion.

Guest

• Benjamin Flores Jr. as Brandon Bowman (season 1), Darius' older brother. Flores reprises his role from Camp Cretaceous.
• Alan Trinca as Mike (season 1), a DPW trainee and Ronnie's partner
• Brock Powell as Mo (season 1), a gas station attendant in Texas
• Andrew Kishino as Daniel Kon, Kenji's estranged father and the former president of Mantah Corp who was placed under house arrest after his crimes were exposed by the Nublar Six. Kishino reprises his role from Camp Cretaceous.
• Luis Bermudez as Bobby Nublar (season 1), the proprietor of a dinosaur-themed roadside attraction
• Chris Jai Alex as Jared (season 1), a corrupt DPW officer working with Jensen
• Stephen Fu as Captain Lang (season 2), the ship captain of a cargo ship who smuggles dinosaurs out of North America for the Broker
• Gideon Emery as Sullivan (season 2), the first mate onboard Lang's ship
• Skyler Gisondo as Earnest (season 2), the leader of Dinosaur Liberation Now (DLN), a group of vigilantes who set captive dinosaurs free
• Samba Schutte as Ousmane Mballo (season 2), Zayna's father, who works away from his family's farm
• Ike Amadi as Dr. Sarr (season 2), the head of a secret dinosaur cloning facility in Senegal who works for the Broker

Notable dinosaurs that appear in the series include a blind-eyed Allosaurus that is responsible for Brooklynn's suspected death; the quartet of trained Atrociraptors Ghost, Panthera, Tiger, and Red who were first introduced in Jurassic World Dominion; Major, a Majungasaurus held captive on Captain Lang's cargo ship; Geba, a Gallimimus who lives on the Mballo family farm; Gordon, a one-legged Compsognathus under Ronnie's care, and a blind leucistic Baryonyx with a hyperacute sense of hearing created by Dr. Sarr. Additionally, Bumpy, an Ankylosaurus with an asymmetrical face who befriended Ben, and Big Eatie, a mother Tyrannosaurus rex from Mantah Corp Island, were first introduced in Camp Cretaceous.

Episodes

Series overview

Season	Episodes		Originally released
1	10		May 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
2	10		October 17, 2024 (2024-10-17)

Season 1 (2024)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
1	1	"Aftershock"	Michael Mullen	Scott Kreamer	May 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
Six years after escaping Isla Nublar, the Nublar Six have lost touch with one another after their friend Brooklynn was killed by a blind-eyed Allosaurus. In California, Darius Bowman feels guilty about Brooklynn's death and works with the Department of Prehistoric Wildlife (DPW) to find and capture dinosaurs in the area, specifying targeting the distinctive Allosaurus to lock it away. After Darius helps his former boss Ronnie calm a Pachyrhinosaurus, the Allosaurus attacks but is quickly driven off and manages to escape. Darius receives a call from his brother Brandon Bowman who is concerned that Darius is isolating himself and becoming obsessed with catching the Allosaurus. Darius then reminisces about when he and the rest of the Nublar Six were still together after they were rescued. Later that night at his cabin, Darius is visited by Ben Pincus who speculates that Brooklynn's death was intentional after he obtained data from the online forum Dark Jurassic that made him believe in a potential conspiracy. Before Ben can elaborate further, the cabin's power is cut and a pack of Atrociraptors attack.
2	2	"Rest Stop"	Zesung Kang	Bethany Armstrong Johnson	May 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
Darius and Ben narrowly avoid the Atrociraptors and escape the cabin before fleeing the area in Ben's van. Now believing that they are being hunted, they decide to drive to Texas to visit Sammy Gutierrez and warn her of potential danger before finding the other remaining members of the Nublar Six. In a flashback, Ben gives Brooklynn a tour of his university campus and she discusses her work as an investigative journalist. In the present, Ben becomes paranoid that they are being followed and they soon stop at the gas station for supplies. They encounter a sleeping juvenile Nasutoceratops which soon awakens and becomes trapped in the gas station piping. Hoping to avoid setting the entire station ablaze, Ben attempts to calm the juvenile. After a herd of adult Nasutoceratopses arrive, the juvenile breaks out of the piping to join them which starts a fire but Darius quickly extinguishes it. Thankful for saving the station, the gas station attendant gives the duo free supplies before they set off to continue their journey but are oblivious to a car discreetly following them.
3	3	"Down on the Ranch"	Dan Forgione Zesung Kang	Travis Gunn	May 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
Darius and Ben arrive at Sammy's family ranch to reunite with their friend. Sammy leads them to a nearby field so Ben can see his Ankylosaurus companion Bumpy, who was moved to the ranch from Mantah Corp Island. Sammy's neighbor soon arrives to complain about Bumpy breaking his fences but is accosted by Ben before leaving. Darius and Ben then explain to Sammy their concerns about someone hunting them and they make plans to visit Kenji Kon, despite Darius' reservations due to them not being on speaking terms. The power to the ranch is suddenly cut, and while checking the breaker box, Darius and Ben discover that Sammy's neighbor has been killed. The pack of Atrociraptors attack the ranch, and Ben frees Bumpy from her pen who fights off the raptors. Sammy retrieves a map from Brooklynn's jacket that was left at the ranch when they last spoke, and she joins Darius and Ben in the van before they drive away. An unseen figure later arrives at the ranch and uses a whistle to direct the raptors into a trailer before leaving.
4	4	"Brothers"	Michael Mullen	Sara Karimipour	May 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
During their journey to Colorado to reunite with Kenji, the trio witnesses the DPW transporting the blind-eyed Allosaurus, causing Darius to relive the events surrounding Brooklynn's death. They soon arrive at Kenji's trailer where Kenji happily greets Ben and Sammy but refuses to speak with Darius. They try to warn Kenji about the danger they're in, and he notes that a location marked on Brooklynn's map is where his father Daniel Kon is under house arrest. Sammy tries to call her girlfriend Yasmina "Yaz" Fadoula but is unable to get through. After expressing concern about the difficulties of her long-distance relationship, Ben agrees to take Sammy to find Yaz in his van. Darius and Kenji are left alone, and Kenji quickly climbs up a cliff to avoid him. In a flashback, Kenji ends his relationship with Brooklynn as she was not physically present during their time together and had become fixated on her investigation. In the present, Darius reaches the top of the cliff and confesses to Kenji his guilt about not being there for Brooklynn. Reluctantly, Kenji decides to visit his father to find out why Brooklynn met with him. In Texas, the DPW manage to capture Bumpy.
5	5	"Halfway Home"	Robert Briggs Zesung Kang	Nick "Rocket" Rodriguez	May 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
Ben and Sammy take a break during their journey to reach Yaz and witness three Stygimolochs being mistreated by the proprietor of a roadside attraction. They manage to free the Stygimolochs but are caught by the proprietor and the dinosaurs wreak havoc. After Ben and Sammy flee the area, having recognized them as members of the Nublar Six, the proprietor reports them to his contact. In Colorado, Darius and Kenji arrive at the halfway house where Daniel is confined, and Kenji accuses him of being responsible for Brooklynn's death. While speaking with his son in private, Daniel attempts to persuade Kenji to help revive his company Mantah Corp but Kenji sees through his deception and declines. Before Kenji can leave, Daniel relents and confesses that Brooklynn visited him asking for information about the dinosaur black market so she could get involved in dinosaur smuggling. A woman known as the Handler soon arrives and commands the pack of Atrociraptors to attack. Daniel tackles one of the raptors to allow Darius and Kenji to flee but is killed in the process. The duo are then rescued by a stranger before fleeing the area.
6	6	"Free Fall"	Dan Forgione	Travis Gunn	May 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
In a flashback, Brooklynn helps convince Yaz to work on her dinosaur-induced PTSD by attending college and taking dinosaur immersion therapy. In the present, Sammy manages to finally call Yaz who is hesitant about her visiting. Ben and Sammy soon arrive at the island sanctuary in Wyoming where Yaz is attending college. They attempt to convince Yaz to leave with them due to the potential danger they're in, but she declines and shows them the hologram simulations she is working on as part of developing new dinosaur immersion therapy techniques. Sammy expresses her frustrations with Yaz not returning her calls, and Yaz becomes upset due to Sammy treating her like a child because of her PTSD. Sammy storms off to leave on her own but the island's defenses are suddenly taken offline. A pair of Becklespinaxes attack the campus and Ben and Yaz quickly flee in Ben's van and pick up Sammy while the dinosaurs pursue them. After reaching a bridge, two DPW officers arrive and shoot the van's tires, allowing a Becklespinax to push it off the bridge and into the water below.
7	7	"That Night"	Michael Mullen	Sara Karimipour	May 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
Submerged underwater, Ben, Sammy, and Yaz escape the sinking van, but their phones become damaged. The trio witnesses the DPW officers, Jensen and Jared, leading the Becklespinaxes into a truck for transportation and they sneak onboard. In Colorado, as Kenji grieves his father, Darius recognizes the man who saved them as Mateo, who was at the scene the night Brooklynn died. Mateo was a DPW truck driver and was transporting the blind-eyed Allosaurus. He delivered the Allosaurus to a marked location, but it was remotely set free and attacked Brooklynn while Mateo cowered in fear until Darius arrived. Feeling guilty about the incident, Mateo returns Brooklynn's phone to Darius, which he took from the scene. Darius and Kenji unlock the phone and discover that Brooklynn had a secret apartment to which Mateo takes them before departing. Darius and Kenji investigate and find that Brooklynn had been keeping track of the DPW's operations using the Dark Jurassic forum. After discovering a duffle bag full of Daniel's money, now believing that Brooklynn was intent on purchasing a dinosaur, Darius and Kenji leave the apartment to head to a nearby DPW drop point.
8	8	"The Drop"	Robert Briggs Zesung Kang	Nick "Rocket" Rodriguez	May 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
Darius and Kenji reach the drop point and begin waiting. Darius becomes defensive when Kenji wants to listen to the dozens of voicemails left on Brooklynn's phone, only to discover that Darius sent them all. Darius admits that he had secret feelings for Brooklynn when she lived at his cabin after her breakup with Kenji. They watch an unsent video taken moments before the Allosaurus attack where Brooklynn was saddened that Darius never showed up. Darius admits he never went after Brooklynn did not reciprocate his feelings and had felt guilty since. A DPW truck driver soon arrives and the duo witnesses a Baryonyx being exchanged and begin to follow it. After hiding in the back of a truck with a sedated Becklespinax, Ben, Sammy, and Yaz arrive at a DPW base. They discover that the regional director, Dudley Cabrera, is secretly working with the smugglers but was unaware why Jensen and Jared were sent to kill them. The trio attempts to escape but finds Bumpy locked up. Sammy and Yaz are pursued by Jared until he crashes his truck and is killed by a Becklespinax. They then witness Ben sneaking onto the truck carrying Bumpy before it drives away.
9	9	"Into the Fog"	Dan Forgione	Annie Arjarasumpun	May 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
Sammy and Yaz follow the truck carrying Ben and Bumpy from a distance until it reaches a large loading dock used to ship dinosaurs. Darius and Kenji also arrive and discover Big Eatie, a Tyrannosaurus rex from Mantah Corp Island, being held captive. Darius frees a Pachyrhinosaurus to cause a distraction so he and Kenji can sneak inside a large warehouse which inadvertently allows Sammy and Yaz to do the same. The container containing Bumpy is loaded into the warehouse and Ben discovers that she has become unwell and refuses to move. Darius and Kenji reunite with Sammy and Yaz while Ben avoids being detected by Jensen. Darius discovers the blind-eyed Allosaurus in one of the containers and Kenji concludes that Brooklynn was planning on purchasing it with Daniel's money. They run into Ben, who had grown increasingly concerned about Bumpy's condition and believes that she is dying. They break into Bumpy's container and Sammy and Ben attempt to calm Bumpy down as she becomes increasingly unsettled, only for her to lay an egg. Bumpy begins to calm down as everyone celebrates the birth but Cabrera arrives and corners them.
10	10	"The End of the Beginning"	Michael Mullen	Bethany Armstrong Johnson	May 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
Cabrera reveals that he sent the Allosaurus to scare Brooklynn and stop her investigation into the dinosaur smuggling operation but that her death was not intentional. The Handler arrives with her pack of Atrociraptors and the Nublar Six learn that the Handler's boss, known as the Broker, is who ordered their deaths. After Jensen is revealed to also be working for the Broker, the Handler commands her raptors to kill Cabrera. She then discovers that the Nublar Six are hiding in the warehouse, but Mateo crashes through the door and rescues them. In the chaos, several dinosaurs including Big Eatie are released, who fights off the raptors after Darius frees the Allosaurus to help. Jensen delivers a case containing Bumpy's egg to a cargo ship and as he attempts to call the Broker he is killed by the Allosaurus. With the authorities arriving, and her raptors injured, the Handler decides to retreat. Mateo stays behind to inform the authorities of what transpired while the Nublar Six board the departing cargo ship full of dinosaurs. Sometime later, Ronnie sends an article on Cabrera's death to Brooklynn, who is still alive and continuing her investigation, albeit missing her lower left arm.

Season 2 (2024)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
11	1	"Batten Down the Hatches"	Robert Briggs	Nick "Rocket" Rodriguez	October 17, 2024 (2024-10-17)
The Nublar Six remain hidden in a makeshift cabin on the cargo ship having spent over a week at sea. Kenji acts distant from the others and sneaks onto the bridge. He learns from a news broadcast that Cabrera's involvement in dinosaur smuggling led to the DPW being disbanded and overhears that Lang, the ship's captain, is heading into a storm despite only having a skeleton crew. The crew soon discover the Nublar Six but Lang allows them to help. Kenji and Yaz find the case containing Bumpy's egg but lightning strikes the ship starting a fire which Kenji charges into to retrieve the case. Several containers are opened by the storm, freeing a Majungasaurus who cannibalized another. It begins stalking Darius and Lang until Darius uses himself as bait to lead it into a container. The case is knocked overboard, and Kenji recklessly jumps after it. Lang allows the Nublar Six to take a lifeboat to retrieve Kenji and the case. The following morning, Ben uses Brooklynn's phone to watch a video on the Dark Jurassic forum from the vigilante group Dinosaur Liberation Now (DLN) and notices Brooklynn in the background before the phone runs out of power.
12	2	"The Marooned Five"	Dan Forgione	Travis Gunn	October 17, 2024 (2024-10-17)
On the mainland, teenager Zayna Mballo and her mother Aminata Mballo work on their family farm until Zayna leaves to feed her pet Gallimimus Geba. The Nublar Six reach land and leave the lifeboat only to discover that dinosaurs are in Africa, despite having previously only been found in North America. While Ben heads off to try and get a signal on Brooklynn's phone, Darius and Kenji hide the case of eggs and lead a herd of Stegosauruses away from the Mballo farm while Sammy and Yaz greet Aminita and learn they are in Senegal. Zayna runs into Darius and Kenji who together return to the farm to find a Suchomimus that was kept away by the Stegosauruses until Darius and Kenji moved them. The Nublar Six work together to distract the Suchomimus, with Kenji putting himself in danger to do so. Zayna and Aminata retrieve the Stegosauruses and lead them back to the farm to drive the Suchomimus away. Having climbed a tree to finally get a signal, Ben verifies Brooklynn's identity in the DLN video but withholds this information from the others when he returns to the farm.
13	3	"C13v3rGr186"	Michael Mullen	Peter Lee	October 17, 2024 (2024-10-17)
In a series of flashbacks, Brooklynn works with Dark Jurassic user "C13v3rGr186" to investigate the dinosaur smuggling operation. She meets with Daniel but learns he is not involved although he expresses interest in working together. Brooklynn's absence from Kenji's life leads to their breakup, and that night she receives the bag of money from Daniel. She goes to California to stay with Darius and receives a DPW drop point location from "C13v3rGr186" and asks Darius to meet her there. Darius accidentally confesses his feelings for her but she rejects him. That night, Brooklynn waits at the drop point and leans from "C13v3rGr186" that their account was hacked. The blind-eyed Allosaurus chases Brooklynn, who runs into the Handler and loses her lower left arm to the Atrociraptor Ghost. Having been saved by Ronnie, Brooklynn later awakens in her home and learns she is "C13v3rGr186". Brooklynn allows the world to believe she is dead while recovering and learns that Darius quit the DPW in grief. Brooklynn plans to reveal her survival to her friends and family but changes her mind after hiding from Jensen when he breaks into Ronnie's home. Ronnie later returns home to find that Brooklynn has left.
14	4	"The Adjustment"	Robert Briggs	Sara Karimipour	October 17, 2024 (2024-10-17)
Sometime after leaving California, Brooklynn aids the DLN under the alias of "Sydney" and works alongside its leader Earnest to raid dinosaur farms. She remains in contact with Ronnie, and they discover that the farms are frequented by the same plane originating from Dubai. During another raid, Earnest is discovered by some workers and tries to get rid of them but Brooklynn intervenes and rescues the workers, allowing them to escape. Brooklynn convinces Earnest that they should continue the DLN's work overseas in Dubai but after he arranges a boat for them, she instead cuts contact with him and leaves alone. In Senegal, the Nublar Six prepare to leave the Mballo farm and head upriver to find where the dinosaurs are coming from. Aminata tries to convince Zayna to join them since she never leaves the farm, which will allow her to visit her father. As Ben gathers supplies from the abandoned lifeboat, he discovers a hidden tracker. While gathering fruit for their journey, Yaz witnesses Geba being poached and Kenji is knocked out while the case of eggs is stolen. With a newfound determination to rescue Geba, Zayna agrees to join the Nublar Six on their journey.
15	5	"Troubled Waters"	Dan Forgione	Nick "Rocket" Rodriguez	October 17, 2024 (2024-10-17)
The Nublar Six and Zayna begin their journey downriver in two separate boats, but Ben remains distracted while monitoring the Dark Jurassic forum after messaging the user "3sth3r St0ne" who he believes is Brooklynn. They soon find a herd of Brachiosauruses which quickly become spooked and Kenji recklessly puts himself in danger to retrieve a flare gun to lead the dinosaurs away. Yaz and Darius discuss Kenji's impulsive actions and his refusal to deal with the recent losses of Brooklynn and his father. In Dubai, Brooklynn monitors a person she believes is the Broker and contemplates replying to Ben. She sneaks into her target's apartment and is confronted by its occupant, Soyona Santos, who asks Brooklynn to stay so she can paint her portrait. Santos summons the Atrociraptor Red to torment Brooklynn before revealing her knowledge of Brooklynn's identity and her plan to deal with the Nublar Six for disrupting her operations. Realizing that Santos is indeed the Broker, Brooklynn fights back and narrowly escapes Red using an elevator. She calls Ben to warn him not to tell anyone she is alive and to stay away from the Broker before deleting her Dark Jurassic account so she cannot be contacted.
16	6	"Up the River"	Michael Mullen	Annie Arjarasumpun	October 17, 2024 (2024-10-17)
The Nublar Six and Zayna continue their journey but are followed by a hippopotamus which becomes enraged and attacks. Kenji puts himself in danger to drive off the hippo, but Yaz stops him, and the hippo swallows Brooklynn's phone and damages both boats. Zayna brings them to a riverside restaurant that her father Ousmane Mballo frequented only to find it empty. After calling her father, he mentions that a carnivorous dinosaur is in the area. Ben acts paranoid about needing Brooklynn's phone back while Sammy helps Zayna with her confidence but finds the corpse of one of Lang's crewmembers before a Suchomimus attacks. Kenji and Darius get separated from the others and the hippo returns and charges Yaz. The Suchomimus and hippo soon attack each other allowing Darius and Kenji to flee, although Kenji dislocates his shoulder and they unknowingly leave Yaz behind who gets knocked unconscious. In Dubai, Brooklynn destroys evidence of her investigation and blocks contact with Ronnie to protect her. She then breaks back into Santos' apartment to confront her directly and proposes that they work together. Although hesitant to believe Brooklynn's sincerity, Santos requests that Brooklynn prove herself by joining her in Senegal.
17	7	"All Night Long"	Robert Briggs	Travis Gunn	October 17, 2024 (2024-10-17)
Yaz awakens at the riverside restaurant and finds the Suchomimus feasting on the hippopotamus. After the dinosaur goes to sleep, she sneaks around it to retrieve a flashlight before climbing a tree. After turning on the flashlight, she spooks a flock of Dimorphodons, waking up the Suchomimus which begins hunting her. Yaz tries to sneak away with a new boat, but the dinosaur destroys it before Yaz escapes across the river where she sees the Majungasaurus from the cargo ship kill a lion before it gives chase. Further downriver, Sammy becomes desperate about finding Yaz and lashes out at Zayna who demands they stay on the water where it is safer. The flock of Dimorphodons attack the boats, until a pride of lions kills one and Sammy apologizes to Zayna. They soon find Yaz but both the Majungasaurus and the Suchomimus arrive and fight each other, giving the Nublar Six and Zayna time to escape on the boats as the Majungasaurus kills the other dinosaur. They soon find debris from the cargo ship and begin to follow it. In Dubai, Brooklynn tries to call Ben and warn him about Santos's impending arrival before leaving with her.
18	8	"Lab Partners: Part 1"	Dan Forgione	Sara Karimipour	October 17, 2024 (2024-10-17)
The Nublar Six and Zayna leave the river and find an abandoned chicken farm. They discover a pair of chained-up Monolophosauruses and Kenji needlessly charges at them until Yaz stops him. The dinosaurs soon break free, causing Ben and Kenji to be separated from the others. Both groups escape the Monolophosauruses and find separate entrances to a secret underground facility. Darius' group finds several dinosaur incubators and realizes that the Broker is also cloning dinosaurs. They are soon interrupted by Lang running toward them with the Atrociraptor Red in pursuit which kills him while Darius' group climbs into an arena to hide. A blind leucistic Baryonyx with a hyperacute sense of hearing enters the arena before a container containing Geba is also lowered. Yaz, Sammy, and Zayna get inside, but as the container is raised, Darius falls back down. Meanwhile, Ben and Kenji find themselves on separate sides of an observation room. Brooklynn enters on Ben's side and admonishes him for being at the facility before leaving with the case of eggs. Kenji witnesses the exchange from the other side of a one-way mirror and becomes angry when he realizes that Ben knew that Brooklynn is alive.
19	9	"Lab Partners: Part 2"	Michael Mullen	Peter Lee	October 17, 2024 (2024-10-17)
Brooklynn and Santos arrive in Senegal and drive to the abandoned chicken farm. They find Lang outside, who recounts how he lost his crew transporting dinosaurs to the facility. They soon meet Dr. Sarr, who details cloning new dinosaurs from those smuggled from North America while Brooklynn takes secret photos as evidence. For his failure in not dealing with the Nublar Six, Santos commands Red to kill Lang. Brooklynn sneaks off and finds the security room where she lowers Geba's container into the arena before raising it again, saving her friends. She then rejoins Santos, inadvertently allowing Darius, Yaz, and Sammy to learn of her survival. Santos considers the military applications of the leucistic Baryonyx before Sarr admits to having fed the facility's staff to the dinosaur to hone its skills. Sarr attempts to push Santos into the arena, but Brooklynn saves her, causing Sarr to fall in and flee from his own creation. Brooklynn earns Santos' trust and retrieves the case of eggs, but informs Ben of her plan to expose the entire operation. As Brooklynn returns to Santos, she remarks that the facility will be destroyed to cover her tracks.
20	10	"Reunion"	Robert Briggs	Bethany Armstrong Johnson	October 17, 2024 (2024-10-17)
Having learned that Brooklynn is still alive, Kenji lashes out at Ben for hiding the truth while Darius' group also comes to terms with Brooklynn's survival. Brooklynn and Santos are confronted by Sarr who controls the leucistic Baryonyx by clicking his fingers. Santos commands Red to kill Sarr, but Red communicates with the Baryonyx by mimicking the clicking, turning it against Sarr, and together they kill him. After reaching the security room, Santos discovers that the Nublar Six are inside the facility and turns off the power. The Baryonyx uses echolocation to find the Nublar Six and corners them. Santos recalls Red and Brooklynn activates an alarm, allowing her friends to escape. Brooklynn and Santos drive away from the facility and detonate it, killing the Baryonyx and anything still inside. Ben and Kenji chase them down, while Zayna's father Ousmane sees the explosion and picks up the rest. The Nublar Six say goodbye to Zayna while Santos informs Brooklynn that she has struck a deal with the genetics organization Biosyn. The Nublar Six catch up to Brooklynn and ask her to stay, but she sternly declines and gives them Bumpy's egg before boarding Santos' plane and leaving with her.

Production

Development

As Camp Cretaceous finished production, executives at DreamWorks Animation Television and Netflix were interested in developing a follow-up. While Camp Cretaceous showrunner Scott Kreamer initially turned down the offer, he decided to work on a second series after he and co-showrunner Aaron Hammersley were given "an early rundown" of the film Jurassic World Dominion (2022), which inspired him to create a direct sequel starring older versions of the Camp Cretaceous cast in the vein of the later Harry Potter films. After deciding to work on the series, they reunited with story editor Bethany Armstrong Johnson to conceive the story for the series.

In November 2023, at Netflix's Geeked Week virtual event, the follow up titled Jurassic World: Chaos Theory was announced. In June 2024, Netflix announced a second season of the series.

Writing

The series is set shortly before the events of Jurassic World Dominion. Kreamer was intrigued by the world depicted in the film, in which dinosaurs have established themselves on the mainland, and wanted to explore "what does that look like for an everyday person?" The producers also wanted to emphasize the characters now being older and "at that uncertain age where one is trying to figure out who they are and where they fit in the world," while facing their trauma, the proliferation of dinosaurs on the mainland, and a recent loss. The writers also made the show a conspiracy thriller in contrast to the more adventurous tone of Camp Cretaceous.

The series starts with the assumed death of Brooklynn, which the showrunners wrote into the story in response to criticism that Camp Cretaceous didn't put its main characters in enough danger. The series introduces holographic immersion technology that serves as "a great way to expose people to their fears [of dinosaurs] without having to face them up close and personal". The main intention of including this aspect was to explore Yaz's post-traumatic stress disorder from her time on Isla Nublar and how she copes with it as dinosaurs enter the mainland. The showrunners also established Yaz as having studied psychology because they liked the idea of her using the immersion technology to "help herself and others".

Casting

In November 2023, alongside the announcement of the series, Paul-Mikél Williams was confirmed to reprise his role from Camp Cretaceous as Darius Bowman. In March 2024, it was announced that Sean Giambrone would reprise his role as Ben Pincus. In April, it was announced that Raini Rodriguez and Kausar Mohammed would be reprising their roles as Sammy Gutierrez and Yasmina "Yaz" Fadoula respectively, with Darren Barnet replacing Ryan Potter as Kenji Kon. The showrunners originally wanted Jenna Ortega to reprise her role as Brooklynn, but she was unable to commit due to scheduling issues and was replaced by Kiersten Kelly.

Animation

Animation services were provided by CGCG in Taipei, Taiwan. Production on a single episode took place over 17 months, with 12 weeks of animation. Visual inspirations for the series include conspiracy thrillers such as The Parallax View and All the President's Men, seeking to "evoke a similar uneasy vibe, putting the main characters at a disadvantage as they try to figure out what's coming next before it's too late".

Release

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory premiered on May 24, 2024 on Netflix. The second season premiered on October 17, 2024.

Reception

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating with an average rating of 7.9/10, based on 6 critic reviews for the first season.

External links

• Jurassic World: Chaos Theory on Netflix
• Jurassic World: Chaos Theory at IMDb