While often called Jurassic Park 2 , the official title is The Lost World: Jurassic Park . Opening & Setup Four years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) is disgraced and his company, InGen, has been taken over by his nephew, Peter Ludlow (Arliss Howard). Ludlow plans to salvage the failed theme park’s assets. Hammond learns that a second island, Isla Sorna ("Site B"), was used as the factory floor where dinosaurs were actually cloned and raised before being shipped to Isla Nublar (the original park). The dinosaurs there have been living wild for years, creating a self-sustaining ecosystem.

Meanwhile, Ludlow arrives with a larger, well-armed team led by big-game hunter (Pete Postlethwaite). Their goal: capture adult dinosaurs to open a "Jurassic Park: San Diego."

Ludlow, having survived, captures the adult male T. rex and takes the injured baby to a ship, planning to open an attraction in San Diego. But on the voyage, the crew is killed (implied by the raptors that were also aboard). The ship crashes into a pier in San Diego.

Malcolm’s group finds Sarah, who is studying a family of . They also witness Ludlow’s team capture several dinosaurs, including a Parasaurolophus , a Pachycephalosaurus , and a young Tyrannosaurus rex (which they injure to lure its parents).

The male T. rex escapes and rampages through the city: eating a dog, drinking from a swimming pool, smashing cars, and destroying a video store. Malcolm, Sarah, and Ludlow track it.

The parents track the baby’s scent to Malcolm’s trailer. They push the trailer over a cliff, dangling it. Eddie Carr heroically tries to pull them up with a rope, but both adult T. rexes turn on him and violently tear him apart. Malcolm, Sarah, and Nick barely escape as the trailer falls into the sea.

That night, Nick and Sarah secretly release the captured dinosaurs from Ludlow’s camp. The chaos attracts the adult T. rexes, who destroy the camp, kill several hunters, and eat Ludlow’s right-hand man, Dieter Stark. In the confusion, the injured baby T. rex (kept in a trailer) is brought to Malcolm’s trailer for treatment.

Stranded and without equipment, they cross the island to an abandoned InGen facility, where they contact Hammond’s boat, The Venture , for rescue.