Warning! Spoilers for Jurassic World: Dominion ahead.
The release of Jurassic Park, but he was indirectly responsible for the chaos that ensued.
In Jurassic Park, Lewis Dodgson gives Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight) a bag full of cash and a modified Barbasol can, with a promise of more money for each dinosaur embryo he can sneak off Isla Nublar. The fake shaving cream can has a screw-off bottom and can hold up to 15 embryos. The first part of Nedry's plan works and the embryos are sealed into the Barbasol can, but he crashes before he can reach the dock to escape. He is killed by a Dilophosaurus, and the Barbasal can falls down a waterfall and is buried in the mud. The Barbasol can is not seen again in the canon of the Jurassic Park franchise until Jurassic World: Dominion.
How Dodgson exactly got his Barbosal can back is not answered in Jurassic World: Dominion, but the franchise has not seen the last of the old red and blue shaving cream can. The Barbasal can makes its appearance in the movie after the Biosyn research lab begins to burn. Dodgson grabs a few things to take with him from his office as he makes his escape. One of the items he grabs is Nedry's Barbasal can. Dodgson may view the can as a trophy since it was possibly his first step in developing BioSyn as a rival company to InGen, the bioengineering company responsible for the cloning of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. Especially since, according to Dodgson, the embryos would only last for 36 hours in the can.
Though the embryos would no longer be viable by the time the Barbasol can was recovered, they may have contained important DNA for Biosyn in Jurassic World: Dominion. If that's the case, Dodson may have risked anything to go to Isla Nublar himself after the events of Jurassic Park. He also clearly had money at his disposal, so he may have paid someone else to find the can, similar to the way he had paid Nedry.
When asked how Dodgson managed to retrieve the can, director Colin Trevorrow revealed that the Jurassic World: Dominion mystery may be solved in the next season of Netflix's spinoff animated series, animated series, which has already linked to Dominion, premieres its fifth season in July, and the trailer has already shown the infamous Barbosal can. What can't be seen is who is holding it. In the Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous trailer, however, a watch band on the person's left wrist hints at who could be holding the can.
Dodgson originally gave the Barbasal can to Nedry as a possible start to his company, Biosyn. He may have viewed the can as an important trophy signifying its success, or it might have actually contained extractable DNA that Biosyn could use. While Jurassic World: Dominion doesn't answer how and why Lewis Dodgson got the embryo carrier, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous will hopefully give insight into how Dodgson got his hands back on the Barbasal can.
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