Ramsay Cole is an African-American business professional known for his employment at Biosyn Genetics, as well as being the chief whistleblower during the hybrid locust plague of 2022. Prior to this incident, he was the Head of Communications at the company and worked very closely with its CEO at the time, Lewis Dodgson.
Cole was instrumental in revealing Biosyn’s complicity in the hybrid locust plague, working behind the scenes to get evidence (which Dodgson was actively attempting to cover up) to people who could expose the company’s wrongdoing. He accomplished this without Dodgson discovering it until the last minute, at which point Dodgson’s own mistakes had brought disaster to Biosyn whether or not the truth got out. While Cole’s current status in canon is not known officially, the game Jurassic World: Evolution 2 features him taking the helm at Biosyn, purging it of corrupt executives who had supported Dodgson, and reshaping the corporation to comply with ethical principles.
Name
The given name Ramsay is a variant of “Ramsey,” a gender-neutral name of British origin. It also occurs as a Scottish surname, and the two may have similar origins. It is usually translated to mean “low-lying land,” and is thought to refer to an area in Essex or Huntingdonshire. The Scottish version is sometimes translated as “wild garlic from Ram’s Island,” or more simply, “garlic island.” Ram’s Island is located in Lough Neagh, a freshwater lake in northern Ireland. A handful of sources claim it means “Raven Island,” but this is more questionable.
His surname, Cole, has a much clearer origin: it refers simply to coal, specifically the color of coal, which would often be seen on the clothes and skin of mine workers. This name, too, originates from England. Some other surnames have been anglicized as “Cole,” including the German name Kohl, the Dutch name Kool, and the Scottish and Irish name McCool. Though all of these origins are European, such names have nevertheless become common in people of African descent as well due to the trans-Atlantic slave trade during the later half of the first millennium.
Biography
Early life
Cole was said (or at least implied), in late 2022, to be twenty-eight years old; this would mean he was born in late 1993 or 1994. While his exact place of birth is not known for sure, his accent suggests the Eastern United States. The actor chosen to portray Ramsay Cole, Mamoudou Athie, was born in Mauritania but moved to Maryland in the United States at six months old. Whether his film character lived on the temperate Atlantic coast or has Mauritanian ancestry is unknown, though.
Not much is known about Cole’s family or childhood, but he seems to have always held a strong sense of justice, which he maintained as he grew older.
In the spring of 1997, when Cole was only a few years old (and possibly too young to remember a time before it), wild news reports from San Diego, California showed a living, breathing Tyrannosaurus rex wandering the city streets with the authorities in pursuit. It did not take long for the truth to come out, that this dinosaur had been genetically engineered by a company called International Genetic Technologies and that it was far from the only one. InGen had kept the animals hidden away on Isla Sorna, an island in a remote Costa Rican archipelago, while working on a theme park called Jurassic Park on nearby Isla Nublar. Four years prior to this the Park’s construction had halted due to a corporate disaster, and InGen had covered up the mess. Now, however, the secret was out, and it could never be contained again.
InGen was practically ruined by the numerous disasters they had struggled to cover up over the years, and their founder and former CEO John Hammond urged the world to let the dinosaurs live out their natural lives and protect them from exploitation in the final months of his life. Within a year, however, the floundering InGen was bought by Masrani Global Corporation, which sought to rebrand Jurassic Park as Jurassic World and finally open the Isla Nublar attraction. They succeeded in 2005, when Cole would have been around twelve years old.
It is not known whether Cole ever visited Jurassic World. He ended up with a career in business, a world known for its loose ethics and shady backroom deals. At this time his reason for pursuing this career is not known, but his one-time employer Lewis Dodgson seems to have believed Cole was hoping to use corporate power to fight injustice rather than thrive off it as successful businessmen do. If he attended college, it was most likely during the 2010s, when he would have been a late teenager entering his twenties; at this time, Cole’s only confirmed employment is at Biosyn Genetics.
Career at Biosyn
A longtime competitor of InGen’s, Biosyn had once hoped to get into the de-extinction industry as well, but failed in its efforts to do so. In 2013, its CEO Jeff Rossiter left the position and was succeeded by Lewis Dodgson, a man who had worked at the company since the early years of de-extinction technology and remembered the competition well. At this point, though, Biosyn’s main focus was in agriculture. Genetic engineering had progressed in leaps and bounds over the past few years, and bioengineered crops were a major area of research, especially as the effects of climate change became more pronounced. While InGen continued to stay far ahead of the game in de-extinction (in no small part due to the work of their brilliant chief geneticist, Dr. Henry Wu), Biosyn advanced in other fields.
Ramsay Cole was not among the scientists, though. His specialty was people, and so he worked in Biosyn Communications, facilitating coordination between the company’s divisions, communicating with corporate partners and regulating authorities, and developing public relations materials. While employed in this sector, he caught the attention of the company’s CEO, who took a liking to Cole. Dodgson viewed his enthusiastic communications specialist as a younger version of himself, and openly considered him smarter. Cole was soon promoted, and before long, he was the head of the communications department. Dodgson put in efforts to give Cole all the opportunity he needed to succeed, and Cole ensured not to waste any of them.
It is quite likely that, as Head of Communications, part of Ramsay’s duties included keeping tabs on other companies in the same business as Biosyn. Paramount among these was InGen, of course, and Jurassic World was just one of their ventures. Even within the park their goals were staggeringly diverse. InGen Security had for some years been working on animal training programs, with the secretive I.B.R.I.S. Project a favorite to many Security employees. While it was not open to the public, most higher-ups at InGen and probably its competitors were aware that it involved the Velociraptors, a species whose intelligence and distaste for captivity had made them difficult to integrate into the park. Numerous attractions were perpetually in the works, with new science and technology emerging to support them. InGen was planning for a new theropod attraction to open in 2016 featuring something never seen before; a privileged few knew that it involved groundbreaking genetic engineering techniques developed by Henry Wu over the past few decades. Cole may have been in touch with public relations personnel or other employees at InGen, especially if Biosyn ever had interest in buying assets from its competitor.
Near the end of 2015, though, disaster took InGen once again. After ten years of successful operation without a major incident, Jurassic World’s upcoming theropod attraction was horrendously mismanaged by InGen executives, leading to widespread chaos and several employee deaths. The park’s closure was revealed to be the result of an animal InGen had named the Indominus rex, an apex predator created through intricately complex gene splicing. The company had built an animal from the genome up for entertainment, though it soon came to light through whistleblower Claire Dearing—once the park’s Operations Manager—that InGen Security had wanted to test this hybrid creature, along with the raptors, as a military animal and had persuaded Henry Wu to oblige their whims. Now disgraced, the geneticist had gone into hiding and was wanted by the authorities; his creature had died during the incident, but Jurassic World would never recover from the bad press that ensued. There were even rumors of Masrani Global cutting ties with InGen altogether.
As horrific as the Jurassic World incident of 2015 was, it did have a silver lining for Biosyn. InGen, the company’s biggest rival for nearly thirty years, was out of the game. This time it appeared they were gone for good. Dodgson was very quickly interested in becoming the world’s new leader for de-extinction technology. There was, however, the problem of publicity, as the Jurassic World incident had greatly soured the public’s opinion of de-extinction, dinosaurs, and genetic engineering on the whole. Dodgson remained confident that with the right programs publicized, Biosyn could win over the disillusioned public. Cole, too, was excited about what the future would hold for Biosyn now that InGen no longer had Henry Wu to give them the edge. In fact, with the man wanted for bioethical misconduct by the U.S. government, it was unlikely any company would have that advantage anytime soon. Cole was critical of InGen’s hybridization research, considering that the wholesale manufacturing of brand-new organisms for entertainment purposes was a gross misuse of the technology. He understood that the animals as nature had evolved them millions of years ago held value of their own, value that InGen had failed to appreciate. In fact, by genetically altering their creatures to make them more entertaining or to fit the public’s preconceived notions, they had missed out on undiscovered potential held in the organisms’ ancient genomes.
Biosyn was quick, but cautious, about moving in on these new possibilities. The public was heavily divided on whether to grant the animals rights or to exterminate them, with environmentalists and conservative alarmists clashing not just in government but in protests and online. While debate raged and escalated, Biosyn set out to relocate its headquarters to a new research facility which Cole and Dodgson oversaw being constructed in Italy. Biosyn had already owned land in a valley here, now renamed Biosyn Valley, having leased it for amber mining during the de-extinction arms race of the 1990s. For decades the land had sat unused after Biosyn failed to crack de-extinction, but now it could be put to use.
In 2016, while the new headquarters was under construction, Dodgson began looking into ways to acquire de-extinction technology from the practically-defunct InGen. Isla Nublar was strictly under United Nations quarantine protocols, with no unauthorized access permitted, but somehow Dodgson managed to find a way. By 2017, Dodgson brought the first de-extinct animals to the valley: a group of creatures from Isla Sorna, where InGen had bred its first dinosaurs. The public, and even most InGen employees, had believed the island fully depopulated, but Dodgson learned otherwise and used his connections to transport the dinosaurs to Italy without any outward trouble. These first arrivals included a male and female tyrannosaur, a mated pair; these were not just some of InGen’s oldest animals, but the male was the exact one who had been loosed in San Diego twenty years prior.
During that time, the de-extinct animal rights debate had been inflamed by volcanic activity on Isla Nublar, which threatened to cause a local extinction event. As far as the public knew, these were all the remaining de-extinct animals, and this natural disaster could kill off their abandoned populations. While plenty of people supported the animals’ right to live, most of those in power did not: the stage of world politics had shifted, and not in the dinosaurs’ favor, since Jurassic World had closed. In the summer of 2018, the United States Congress declared no responsibility to safeguard the animals from the impending eruption, citing Isla Nublar’s private lease from the Costa Rican government by Masrani Global as grounds to take no action. It was the corporation’s responsibility, and if they chose to do nothing, that would be the end of the dinosaurs. The following day, Isla Nublar experienced the long-anticipated eruption, and the animals were gone.
Very quickly the assumption that Biosyn now contained some of the world’s last dinosaurs was proven false. They already knew other parties had been poaching animals, but the scale at which it was revealed to have happened was astounding. In the days before the eruption, a private operation had quietly stole away to the island, taking advantage of the lack of government monitoring, and captured hundreds of animals from dozens of different species. During the night of June 23, an illegal closed-door auction was held at the estate of Benjamin Lockwood, an old business partner of John Hammond’s; Claire Dearing, now an animal rights activist, was implicated in releasing the captured animals from the estate and was branded an ecoterrorist by the U.S. government. Many animals were let loose into the Northern California woodlands, but many more had already been bought by auction attendees and were now in the hands of wealthy criminals worldwide. Not only this, but InGen’s once-secretive technological innovations had also been stolen and sold, meaning that anyone with enough resources at their disposal could engineer whatever new forms of life they could get the DNA for.
Biosyn’s competition had suddenly gone from a small number of corporate powers to a motley crew of renegade genetic engineers working for all manner of people. Godlike power over the genome was now open-source, and this meant potential problems for Biosyn. Dodgson, though, kept his cool, appearing as though he had anticipated such obstacles and already had a plan to deal with them. Soon enough, new animal species were being rerouted from hastily-assembled government sanctuaries into Biosyn Valley, and this was only the beginning. Within a short amount of time, Biosyn had struck a deal with the American government, and the company was awarded sole collectors’ rights to de-extinct animals captured in the country. The government had its hands full with the crisis, and the animals were being rounded up by a combination of well-meaning citizens and hired poachers faster than the Fish and Wildlife Service could keep up with. Biosyn became a hero in America’s time of need, and in turn, their profits soared. Many other countries soon followed suit, and Biosyn began receiving animals from around the world.
At the same time, their scientists began working on de-extinction too. With the technology readily accessible and no longer a hoarded secret, it was in Biosyn’s best interest to keep up with their scattered but numerous competitors. Brand-new kinds of animals soon began to populate the valley, including some species InGen had not ever announced from their own labs. Caves beneath the valley’s mountain border became populated by primitive Dimetrodons, while the alpine rivers that fed the valley were inhabited by red-feathered Pyroraptors. Gargantuan species like Dreadnoughtus and Therizinosaurus browsed in the lowlands, alongside the valley’s largest predator, the Giganotosaurus. Only one known specimen of this huge theropod was bred, bullying even the tyrannosaurs. Some species, such as Moros intrepidus, were engineered to be as close to their prehistoric ancestors as scientifically possible, with minimal genetic alteration. Between the newly-engineered creatures and those being shipped in from troubled countries outside Biosyn Valley’s borders, the valley’s population was soon burgeoning. To ensure they stayed within the sanctuary, the animals were outfitted with neural interface technology that Dodgson had purchased some years ago. Instead of using electric fences, which could hurt the animals, they could simply remotely activate the implants to temporarily override the brain’s signals to the animals’ bodies, controlling their movements if needed. Generally this was only done to keep workers safe, or to move the animals in case of emergency. The carnivores were supplied with an imported red deer population to discourage preying on other dinosaurs, but aside from this, the valley was little interfered with, and the animals’ behavior was not controlled. Workers observed them from research outposts connected by an underground hyperloop network, and if the animals fought each other, the reactions of their immune systems would provide valuable research to Biosyn’s biomedical scientists. The valley facility was flourishing under Dodgson and Cole, and with it the company’s profits and public image.
At some point around this time, Biosyn gained one new highly valued asset, this one of the human variety. Renowned mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm, a longtime critic of InGen and of progress without precaution, was hired as an in-house lecturer at Biosyn’s headquarters. Malcolm had been the sole witness to the Jurassic Park incident all the way back in 1993 who spoke out about it before the 1997 incident made it public knowledge; he had been ridiculed and ostracized for his whistleblowing, but was eventually vindicated. His wry sense of humor and openness about his opinions made him either loved or hated by millions, and Cole was definitely among those who admired Malcolm’s tenacity. In his lectures, Malcolm cautioned Biosyn employees against their own hubris, vociferously opposing some of their more revolutionary aims. Although company objectives did not seem to change regardless of Malcolm’s criticism, Dodgson appreciated the scientist’s commentary and took it into consideration when anticipating problems. Cole, who had grown up with Jurassic Park already engrained into the public consciousness, finally had the chance to meet a real-life witness to the original incident. Over time, they became acquainted with each other, and Malcolm considered Cole one of the most forward-thinking and trustworthy people at Biosyn.
Hexapod Allies
During the de-extinction crisis of the late 2010s and early 2020s, Biosyn continued to forward its other research investments, particularly agriculture. Here, they did manage to gain the upper hand over competitors. Dodgson somehow managed to track down Henry Wu, who had been hiding out at the Lockwood estate until the 2018 incident forced him out once more, and conscripted him to work for Biosyn. Cole was among the few Biosyn employees outside of the classified research on Sublevel 6 of the research facility who knew Wu was living and working there. Dodgson believed that Biosyn had advanced by such great amounts that they even exceeded Wu in some capacities, but nevertheless, he placed Wu in a highly secretive program where his gene-splicing skills would benefit Biosyn’s agricultural divisions.
Cole was not officially involved in the projects that Wu had been conscripted into, but rumors floated around Biosyn of something called Hexapod Allies. The project was rather an open secret, but with Dodgson’s popularity and the good working conditions at the company, no one was interested in prying where they weren’t supposed to go. Cole, ever inquisitive, did at least ask around, learning that Biosyn was on the verge of another fantastic breakthrough. With Wu’s assistance, Biosyn scientists had been able to succeed at something genetic engineers and agricultural researchers had dreamed of for years: the creation of insects that could spread genetic modifications to crops, enabling Biosyn to endow its own seed in the field with resilience traits. Frost damage would be a thing of the past, as would other climate change threats. They would be able to keep pace with disease, meaning even monoculture crops would not be vulnerable to plagues. Biosyn had engineered a hybrid locust for this purpose, using genes recovered from fossil species to bolster the modern migratory locust into a formidable and fecund agricultural aid with the ability to cross vast distances in a short time. In order to ensure the insects did not devour the very crops they were meant to modify, Biosyn scientists had engineered them to be incapable of digesting plants bearing Biosyn’s proprietary genomic modifications. Although Cole disagreed with the kinds of genetic hybridization InGen had pursued, the science behind Hexapod Allies was world-changing. He was concerned, though, that Dodgson was keeping this project so quiet. A breakthrough such as this had countless applications beyond just this one program, and by hiding it away, Dodgson could be holding back a scientific revolution.
As the early 2020s began, locusts began to appear in the American Midwest, evidently released into the wild by Dodgson’s orders to test out their potential. Much to Cole’s horror, he learned that the locusts were indeed not eating Biosyn crops—but were instead turning their voracious appetites on any other plant life in their path. Their lifespans were several times longer than anticipated, and their reproductive rates were even higher than their template species. With their enhanced size and strength they had no natural predators, meaning they would populate unchecked across the continent. Dodgson had been made aware of the problem, but did not go public, choosing to seek a quiet way to resolve it without causing a panic. Though he understood why his CEO had chosen this strategy, Cole’s sense of justice was awakened, and for the first time he doubted Dodgson’s judgment.
The 2020s were the beginning of a catastrophic change in the world, and the looming agricultural crisis was easily swept under the rug as war, political extremism, disease, and climate change occupied the news cycles; the dinosaurs, which were still struggling to adapt to the modern world and fueling a massive black market, were a crisis all of their own. Other, stranger stories found their way to the news as well. The Lockwood incident was four years old by 2022, but new details were still coming out about it. Benjamin Lockwood, who had passed away from natural causes during the night of the auction, was now believed to have cloned his own daughter Charlotte Lockwood after her death in 2009. The young girl, Maisie, would now be about fourteen, and her location was unknown—though Dodgson suspected that she was living with Claire Dearing, who had also vanished from the estate during the incident. It is unknown if Cole was aware of the reasons Dodgson was interested in locating Maisie.
As time went on, the locusts spread, and still Dodgson did not admit his role in the crisis. If he were to come clean, he would not only be doing the right thing, he could end the disaster before it became any worse and share his scientists’ research with the world. But he did not, instead keeping his company’s secrets close to his chest, hoping that he and Wu could end the disaster without being implicated even if it led to more widespread suffering. Right now, independent farmers were being hit the hardest by the locusts, and the American government seemed barely aware of the insects. They had yet to even become a major news item despite swarming in their tens of thousands in the heartland of the United States. It was only a matter of time before they spread beyond American borders and consumed the world’s crops, leaving untold millions to face death by starvation. Biosyn, it seemed, would be the only entity left unscathed by the plague.
Cole finally drew up a line in the sand to define his morality, and realized that Dodgson had crossed it long ago. In fact, the more he looked into Dodgson’s past, the shadier things seemed, and the more Biosyn’s good public image and workplace environment began to look like a façade hiding far darker secrets. Cole himself was culpable in making Biosyn look benevolent to the public and governments of the world, and he had even believed it. But in reality, they were no better than InGen had been. Complacency allowed corruption to flourish all throughout Biosyn’s executive ranks. People like Dodgson knew just how bad things were, but they ignored their own moral responsibilities and grew rich off their wrongdoings. Cole, shaken by this awakening, chose to take action.
There was not much he could do to confront Dodgson directly, at least not on his own. He needed to stay on Dodgson’s good side until the truth could be revealed. In order to expose his CEO’s crimes, he would need help. Wu was clearly unhappy at Biosyn and wanted the locusts dealt with before they could cause a worldwide famine, but the disgraced geneticist was too intimidated by Dodgson and the threat of legal consequences to be Cole’s aid. There was, however, another veteran of the de-extinction debate who Dodgson had delivered right to headquarters: Dr. Ian Malcolm, who had been vocally opposed to InGen’s practices and now brought that same outspoken opposition to Biosyn. He had been a whistleblower once before, in spite of seemingly-unbearable public humiliation. Now he was a respected figure who people instinctively listened to. Malcolm had not been in a position to stop the Jurassic World incident and its aftermath, but here at the valley, he had the chance to prevent a different, far more serious crisis.
In the fall of 2022, Cole met with Malcolm, who was astonished to hear about the scale of the disaster and impressed by Cole’s willingness to sacrifice his career for the greater good. Malcolm agreed to help, and he knew precisely who to contact. His old colleague, the paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Sattler, had also been at Jurassic Park and had spoken out against InGen’s misuse of genetic technology. She was now studying agricultural science and ecology, so if there was anyone Malcolm knew who would be eager to expose Biosyn and prevent an apocalyptic famine, it was her. To prove that the locusts were engineered by Biosyn, Dr. Sattler would need a specimen from the wild and a specimen from Biosyn’s headquarters. Obtaining a wild specimen would be a simple enough process considering the insects were everywhere now, but getting one from the lab would be more of a challenge. Cole and Malcolm planned to invite her to the facility under the premise that this was a publicity event for Biosyn, then have Malcolm quietly slip her a wristband that would grant her access to Sublevel 6 and the arthropod laboratory. Then, it was just a matter of getting her on her way back to the United States before Dodgson caught on to the trespass.
It took six weeks for the plan to be put into action. Malcolm reached out to Sattler on social media, proposing that she come and visit the valley. She accepted, and Dodgson signed off on the publicity event, eager to have more celebrities bringing attention to his good work. Sattler was not coming alone, either; she was bringing along her colleague Dr. Alan Grant, a vertebrate paleontologist and a third Jurassic Park incident eyewitness. Grant preferred less of a spotlight than Sattler or Malcolm, but was nevertheless world-famous for his involvement with Jurassic Park, and he too was happily granted the freedom to visit Biosyn’s headquarters. That winter, a Biosyn jet departed from the U.S. Wildlife Relocation Facility in Pennsylvania carrying Drs. Sattler and Grant on a nonstop flight to Biosyn Valley.
2022 incident
The plane landed at the airfield just southeast of the valley, upriver from the colossal hydroelectric dam that Biosyn had acquired from the Italian government. Cole arrived to greet the visiting scientists, who were unaware of his involvement in Malcolm’s plot to expose Dodgson. He acted anything but suspicious—not that it was difficult, with the thrill of meeting two highly respected Jurassic Park eyewitnesses. Like Malcolm, these two were legendary at Biosyn. Cole noted Grant’s apparent distaste for Malcolm when Cole praised the mathematician, but he brushed it off, and they boarded one of the company’s experimental modified Eurocopters to fly into Biosyn Valley. Along the way, Cole described the valley’s history and some of the facility’s security features: the neural implants designed to control the animals’ movements, as well as the Aerial Deterrent System, which was in place to prevent flying species from coming too close to aircraft or ascending high enough to pass the mountain barrier. Grant and Sattler at first expressed concern that the implants were cruel, but Cole countered that this did not hurt the animals and was thus more humane than the electric fences they would have seen firsthand at Jurassic Park thirty years ago. As they flew over the dam and into the valley proper, Grant spotted one of the dinosaurs, a Dreadnoughtus; both scientists expressed astonishment. Cole talked about their protocols for research and animal care, the hyperloop and outposts, as well as some of the animals living in the valley. The Giganotosaurus, of course, was of particular interest, but he also made mention of InGen’s oldest Tyrannosaurus, an aged predator who had arrived to the valley on the immediately preceding flight.
Crossing the valley to the northeast, they reached headquarters and landed in a small hangar. From here they walked to the central courtyard, where Lewis Dodgson came out to meet them and pose for photos. Sattler and Grant were both surprised to see Dodgson himself, but he was quite happy to have more famous faces at the research facility. Dodgson took a moment to praise Cole, favorably comparing the younger man to himself; while he was clearly pleased, his awkwardness became grating quickly, especially as Cole, Sattler, and Grant were all there specifically to take Dodgson down without his suspicion. Dodgson did not linger long, asking Cole for a snack bar before apparently forgetting about this and leaving for a meeting. With that uncomfortable encounter out of the way, Cole led the scientists to the Brusatte Lecture Theatre where Malcolm was wrapping up a speech to an audience of Biosyn staff.
While Malcolm caught up with his colleagues, Cole gave them some space, not wanting to blow his cover yet. They went to the commissary for coffee, which was a part of Malcolm’s plan: Biosyn Security had eyes and ears everywhere, and it would not be easy to slip Sattler the wristband for access to the restricted sublevels. While Cole busied himself elsewhere, Malcolm put his part of the plan into action, ordering coffees from the barista Tyler and quickly conferring what he knew to Sattler while the noise of the milk steamer covered his hushed voice. He managed to get her the wristband, playing it cool once the noise died down. Although it was not perfectly stealthy, Malcolm had succeeded. Now it was up to Cole to get them in and out of the Hexapod Allies lab before security caught on.
Still acting as their chaperone, Cole led them from the commissary to the habitat development lab, where their young animals were hatched and reared before being released into the valley. Grant was particularly impressed by the small tyrannosaur Moros intrepidus, a species with exceptional genomic similarity to its prehistoric equivalent. Cole described its genome as “untouched.” Sattler wanted to know about gene splicing and creating new species through hybridization, Wu’s specialty, but Cole dismissed this as outside Biosyn’s goals—a lie, considering Hexapod Allies, but one that Cole knew was necessary to maintain his cover. He had to pretend he did not know about the program. But he had brought them to the habitat development lab for a reason. Nearby was an elevator which could be used to access the sublevels, including the one with the arthropod lab. Malcolm should have told Dr. Sattler how to find it. Cole made a point of checking the time, stating that they were ahead of schedule and that the scientists could go off to tour the facility at their leisure before meeting at Hyperloop Station 3 for a ride out to the airfield through the abandoned amber mines. Cole pointedly mentioned the decontamination room and elevator leading to the restricted sublevels, describing those as off-limits and accessible only by key card—like the wristband Malcolm had given Sattler.
Cole left the scientists to do as they would, trusting that Sattler would follow Malcolm’s directions to obtain a DNA sample from one of the locusts. At this time of day, there would be fairly few people in the restricted sublevels, so they would have their best shot at getting in and out without being seen except by the security cameras. As Sattler and Grant went on their mission, not suspecting that Cole had given them directions on purpose, Cole went about his day as scheduled in order to avoid raising suspicion.
A wrench was thrown into the works, however, as a completely unrelated security issue arose that afternoon. The hydroelectric dam was nearly struck by a crashing airplane, which had apparently been involved in a pterosaur strike, meaning it either did not have an ADS beacon or the beacon had been shut off. Not long after this, a security alarm was raised, although it was not an intruder alert; an asset was out of containment. With unauthorized aircraft and loose dinosaurs, the day was very quickly turning chaotic. Cole hurried to the hyperloop station where Sattler and Grant were waiting, now disposing of his cover and revealing his involvement with the conspiracy to expose Dodgson. To his surprise, not only had Sattler and Grant succeeded at retrieving a DNA sample, they had also gained a new member of their party: the mysterious Maisie Lockwood, somehow here at Biosyn rather than in California where she had allegedly vanished. Cole appeared unaware of Dodgson’s efforts to kidnap the girl, so he could offer only astonished acknowledgement when Maisie revealed herself. Cole sent off the trio in the hyperloop with their precious cargo. A plane was already waiting for them at the airfield, Malcolm and Cole having arranged for a quick getaway.
They were not yet in the clear, though. Cole was summoned to the control room high in the building, where technicians oversaw valley operations. He brought up the security alarm, hoping to distract attention away from his whereabouts and the conspiracy he was now barely holding together, but Dodgson dismissed his concerns. Thankfully, Dodgson’s demeanor indicated he did not suspect Cole of betraying him. Malcolm, on the other hand, was caught. All three scientists were now in Dodgson’s sights.
As if on cue, technician Denise Roberts announced that the hyperloop pod containing Grant, Sattler, and Maisie stalled out before reaching the airfield, and coincidentally it found itself parked right in the disused amber mine station. Dodgson acted surprised, but not convincingly. Malcolm echoed Cole’s concerns: there were animals in the mines, and that meant the pod’s occupants could be in danger. They were not protected by the automated security in there. Cole urged Dodgson to send a rescue team, but Dodgson attempted to pacify the growing panic in the control room. Malcolm was unceremoniously fired, though he took the opportunity to give Dodgson a scathing rebuttal. He tasked Cole with escorting Malcolm to his quarters to pack up his things, and then turn him over to Security for removal from the premises.
Cole, of course, did not do this. He took Malcolm from the control room as instructed, but brought him instead to the garage, getting him access to a Jeep Gladiator that he could use to reach the northeast entrance to the mines where Sattler and the others would likely end up. Before Malcolm left, he expressed pride in Cole’s gumption and bravery. Cole downplayed this, describing the day as a disaster, but Malcolm would not hear this. The day was going wrong indeed, but it was not over yet. He departed from headquarters into the dusk before Security knew he was gone, bearing in mind Cole’s warning to drive quickly despite the roads’ supposed protection.
Knowing that the mission was coming to a close, he met with Dodgson one more time. He found him in the server room. He had gone to ask about the rescue party sent for Sattler and Grant, but found that Dodgson was tampering with the servers, locating Hexapod Allies data and scrubbing it from the facility’s computer system. Surprised but not shocked that Dodgson was erasing evidence, he urged his employer one final time to admit that he had made a mistake and share the research findings with the wider scientific community, revealing that he knew more about Hexapod Allies than he had let on, and that knowledge was leaking. Dodgson was not surprised at all, and dismissed the threat: the locusts, once dealt with by Henry Wu’s plan to introduce fatal flaws into their DNA using a viral vector vaccine, would be shuffled out of the news cycle by the next big disaster and be quickly forgotten by the world. This made things clear. Dodgson was unconcerned about being exposed, nor did he show remorse for the harm he had caused. In fact, Dodgson shared his “wisdom” with Cole, that being in charge meant accepting that the injustice of the world was not something to be fixed but merely survived. Cole was instructed to stay on his phone in case Dodgson needed him to help cover up anything else, but Cole internally accepted the truth, that Dodgson was beyond redemption.
Back at the control room, Cole kept tabs on everyone’s location via the surveillance cameras. Malcolm reached the entrance to the mines, which had been gated and electronically locked after the hyperloop tunnels were built. Although the mines had been sealed off initially, construction had broken through a wall and into an adjacent cavern where carnivorous Dimetrodons sheltered during the night, and Sattler’s party had run afoul of the ancient creatures. Malcolm was trying to help his companions escape, but Cole had made a critical error: he had failed to give Malcolm the code to the gates. Acting quickly, he remotely unlocked them, allowing Sattler, Grant, and Maisie to get out of the mines. Relieved that he had fixed his blunder in time, Cole finally had a moment to feel as though things might go right.
This feeling proved premature. As evening turned to night, a containment chamber failure alert was issued from Sublevel 6, the level where the arthropod labs were located. A vast burning cloud erupted from a ventilation duct, spreading out over the valley and raining fire upon the forest and its animals. Dodgson, it seemed, had tried to incinerate the locusts to further erase evidence, but this evidence had been living, breathing creatures with the instinct to survive. They had battered their way out of the chamber and were now flying freely. Within a short time, the dying insects had sparked wildfires across the valley, threatening both the animal life and Biosyn infrastructure. The power grid was taxed past its limits, causing much of the automation to shut down as the available power was seized by the primary system. An evacuation was issued, removing Biosyn staff from the facility’s exterior and to shelters as the animals’ neural interfaces were activated to summon them into emergency containment for their own safety. The dinosaurs’ plight was pitiable, as was that of the unsuspecting Biosyn staff who knew nothing of Dodgson’s corruption, but Cole’s worries lay elsewhere for now: Sattler and her allies had not reached the plane, and with the phones among the downed power systems, there was no way to hear from the airfield if they arrived. Waiting for the situation to be resolved was not an option. Cole went to find Dodgson.
In his office, Dodgson was preparing to flee himself, but not to an emergency shelter with the other staff. Still expecting that Cole was on his side, Dodgson proposed disappearing and funding a new venture somewhere else. He hoped that Cole would succeed him as Biosyn’s CEO, allowing Dodgson to vanish and avoid consequence. When Cole did not respond, realization slowly dawned on Dodgson that Cole had been the one to engineer the whole conspiracy. Dodgson was more disappointed than angry, and baffled that Cole would betray his trust and admiration. Cole, not interested in talking, simply left Dodgson to his cowardly retreat.
Cole quickly headed for the control room, now abandoned due to the evacuation, where he would have the best chance at helping the others. Instead, he found them there already, and their party had doubled in size. They were now joined by Claire Dearing, former InGen animal behaviorist Owen Grady, and a pilot named Kayla Watts; Dearing in particular was investigating how to turn on the ADS in order to make an aerial escape using the helicopter in the headquarters’ hangar. She had noticed the Error 99 message, which Cole quickly explained signified that the system did not have enough power to execute the command. Due to the breakdown, the primary system was hoarding the power, keeping the most central and vital automated processes up and running. There was no way to squeeze more electricity out of the grid, but they could reroute power if they manually shut the primary system down. The server room was one floor up, and Dearing and Sattler teamed up to take care of this. Maisie, meanwhile, pointed at Sublevel 8 on a schematic, indicating that she had escaped from captivity through the water treatment center alongside a juvenile Velociraptor named Beta, who had evidently been kidnapped from near Dearing and Grady’s property at the same time as Maisie. The young raptor was probably still down there, and Grady intended to return the animal home. He and Maisie went to find her, convincing Grant to come too. Watts headed off for the hangar alone, promising to meet them for evacuation in ten minutes. She would signal them.
By now, all living assets were in containment, inside the subterranean emergency shelter or at least within headquarters in some capacity. Cole and Malcolm remained in the control room, communicating with the other groups as they took care of their respective missions. The group going after Beta needed little help, though the group in the server room encountered a minor obstacle in the form of dead and dying locusts piling up through a shattered ventilation duct. Cole relayed to Malcolm how to shut down the primary system, though Malcolm was less than perfect in communicating this over the radio. Nevertheless, Sattler and Dearing did succeed in turning the system off, though moments later it began to boot itself up again automatically. This was unexpected, but they were able to defeat the computer by physically severing a power cable. The ADS was successfully activated. Soon they returned, and Grady’s team came back with a sedated Beta in tow. They prepared to meet Watts for evacuation.
As they did, they encountered a lone figure in the hallway. Henry Wu, having not evacuated with the others, appeared and begged to go with them. He showed no loyalty to Dodgson, having seen his science abused and perverted for years and desperate to stop the locust plague before it caused irreparable harm. Wu explained why Maisie and Beta had been taken; Maisie’s mother, Charlotte Lockwood, had used a revolutionary viral vector vaccine to cure Maisie of a genetic disease that had ultimately caused Charlotte’s death. If he could replicate her methods, he could apply the same principle to the locust swarms. Maisie and Beta had been vital to this research. The group was opposed to letting Wu join, but Maisie showed him mercy, much to his gratitude.
Watts, true to her word, arrived with the helicopter to evacuate everyone. She aimed to land in the courtyard, the only place in the valley not on fire; Cole warned her against this, informing her that evacuation protocols had funneled all the animals into headquarters. She had no choice about landing in the courtyard, though. The dinosaurs might harm them, but the fire absolutely would. Cole and the others made their way through the frightened animals to the helicopter, but before they could make it, their way was blocked by one of the last stragglers: InGen’s old Tyrannosaurus, her first day in the valley proving an eventful one. It was not the humans she was interested in right now, though. The Giganotosaurus was also among the last dinosaurs evacuated into shelter, and the two apex predators were forced into a bottleneck. A fight was unavoidable. Realizing that they were about to be caught in the crossfire, everyone scattered.
Cole ran along with Dearing, Grady, and Maisie, while the older scientists took a different route. Their group almost made it to the helicopter before the fight unexpectedly shifted toward them. The tyrannosaur was thrown down by her rival, landing heavily on a copper tree sculpture and toppling it. Cole and the others were trapped underneath; if they ran now, the victorious Giganotosaurus would surely give chase, but if they stayed put, they might be crushed if the metal gave way. Sattler made to run for them, drawing the titanic theropod’s attention. To save everyone’s lives, Watts fired off a flare, distracting the animal. As the flare settled down next to a third huge theropod, this one a blind but curmudgeonly Therizinosaurus, the predator’s attention strayed to this new potential enemy. Cole and his companions were able to safely flee, reaching the helicopter without further danger. The overcrowded vehicle lifted off as a thunderstorm rolled in. As they flew, they got one last look at the fallen tyrannosaur. For a moment, she appeared dead, having finally met her match after all these decades. But then, she showed signs of life, struggling to her feet. With her enemy distracted, she had the upper hand, and was able to charge back into battle. As the helicopter retreated to the southwest, they witnessed the tyrannosaur grapple her foe and throw him at the blind Therizinosaurus, impaling the Giganotosaurus on the herbivore’s three-foot claws.
Aftermath of the incident
Rain extinguished most of the wildfire as the night wore on, and the Italian authorities responded to the crisis in a timely manner. Dodgson was nowhere to be seen, but Cole was met by reporters who were eager to hear the names of other Biosyn executives who knew about Dodgson’s corruption. He and Malcolm gave their testimonies while Maisie and Wu had injuries treated, Beta was prepped for transport, and Dearing and Grady were briefed by American and United Nations authorities arriving on the scene in the morning. Sattler prepared to send her DNA sample to a contact at the New York Times after getting it vetted at her university laboratory. She and Grant would be going off together; it seemed that a long-dormant romantic spark had been reignited between them.
At the end of the evacuation, Maisie and her family were allowed to return home, Dearing cleared of her criminal charges thanks to aiding the authorities in this operation. Beta somehow made it back with them, though how Maisie’s parents managed this is unknown (and very likely off the record, in any case). Once back in the United States, Ellie Sattler made good on her mission to prove Biosyn’s culpability in the locust plague, disgracing Dodgson’s name for good. She, along with Alan Grant and Ian Malcolm, testified before the United States Congress as witnesses supplementing Ramsay Cole’s case against Biosyn. He was the first whistleblower to come out against the company, but thanks to the ragtag team he had built up along the way, he was far from alone. Lewis Dodgson had vanished during the evacuation, but an investigation of the valley facilities would have revealed he did not make it far: although he had escaped legal justice, a far crueler kind of justice had been dealt by nature. Dinosaurs had gotten into the hyperloop tunnels while the primary system was shut down, and Dodgson had been killed by a trio of Dilophosaurus. With the evacuation and power failures a result of the wildfire Dodgson had caused while trying to hide evidence of his wrongdoing, he had effectively brought about his own death. There were plenty of other Biosyn executives to arrest, though, and Cole named them before Congress. Henry Wu, too, had his role to play. He succeeded at replicating Charlotte Lockwood’s viral vector vaccine, which she had been forced to keep a secret due to the illegality of human cloning. Now her discovery was public knowledge, and was quickly used by Wu to curb the locust threat. It would soon go on to become the biggest revolution in genetic medicine the world had yet seen.
As for what will become of Cole and Biosyn, the future is still uncertain. Biosyn Valley was not decommissioned, as Dodgson had suspected would happen if he were exposed. Instead, the United Nations stepped in to maintain the valley’s sanctuary, opening it to animals from around the world. Biosyn may still have some involvement there, but the UN has taken up a regulatory position, ending Biosyn’s exclusive access to the animals and the secrets they still hold. According to the game Jurassic World: Evolution 2, Ramsay Cole did actually end up becoming CEO of Biosyn after Dodgson’s death, expunging the corruption his predecessor had encouraged to fester there. If the game is to be believed, Cole has reformed the company, taking on scientists like Grant and Sattler as consultants for the sanctuary, and now strives to be a role model in business and bioethics for the world.
Views
On genetic engineering
Cole was young when the world learned about de-extinction, a science pioneered by International Genetic Technologies in the years before he was born. In fact, like many younger millennials, he is probably unable to remember a time before this was a fact of life. But de-extinction involves far more than cloning; ancient DNA is deteriorated due to its age, and DNA from as far back as the Mesozoic is often especially fragmentary. To recreate these prehistoric life forms, scientists must splice in compatible genes from other species. The idea is that, because evolutionary divergence is responsible for much of the diversity of life on Earth, related species have genes in common, and so a segment of ancient DNA can be repaired by inserting completed versions from donor organisms. In theory, this would restore the functionality of the genome, but InGen scientists quickly discovered that sometimes the repaired sequences yielded unpredictable results. Under the esteemed Dr. Henry Wu, this discovery was refined from an accident into the deliberate construction of hybrid species, organisms that would never have evolved naturally, from hand-selected genes inserted into a receptive genome used as a base.
Ramsay Cole is split on the issue of genetic engineering. On the one hand, he is wholly supportive of de-extinction, considering it a valuable way to learn about Earth, its life forms, and its environmental history. Many of the world’s medicines come from nature, from the natural products of living things, and by bringing back species that have gone extinct the possibilities for biopharmaceutical research increase almost infinitely. However, Cole is firmly against the use of techniques discovered throughout the history of de-extinction to engineer unnatural species through gene splicing. He has not elaborated on precisely why he opposes this, but he takes pride in Biosyn’s efforts to restore organisms with minimal genetic alterations, calling this goal “more evolved.” This suggests that his opposition to artificial hybridogenesis may be rooted in a sense of respect for nature and evolution, though in a more practical sense, de-extinct organisms that are truer to their ancestors are more predictable and yield more reliable information about Earth’s past. They may also be easier to research for this same reason. Hybrid species made for human use are also prone to exploitation due to the nature of their origins, being designed by people with a particular purpose in mind rather than having evolved to live in an ecosystem. His active opposition to Hexapod Allies, a classified Biosyn hybridogenesis program, was rooted much more clearly in its demonstrable potential to cause severe harm to the world’s agricultural and ecological systems.
Cole has not commented on the use of cloning technology for other purposes, such as human reproduction as in the case of Maisie Lockwood. However, he showed no ill feelings upon meeting her, only surprise, and readily aided in her escape from Biosyn’s headquarters during the 2022 incident. He also helped Henry Wu escape headquarters with his life in order to execute an emergency contingency plan to end Hexapod Allies, making use of a revolutionary viral vector vaccine. This new technology has the potential to be used for a staggering range of purposes, both beneficial and harmful, and its full potential has yet to be seen; Cole was not aware of its existence until nearly the end of the 2022 incident, and by that time it was considered the only viable quick solution to the hybrid locust plague.
On business ethics
Despite working for a major corporation, Cole has always maintained a strong sense of ethics and fairness. To him, doing the right thing is not just a moral choice; it forms the core of his sense of self. Although he and Lewis Dodgson worked closely together for many years at Biosyn, this facet of Cole’s personality was a source of conflict between them. Dodgson had long given up on any idea of making the world a better place, despite the altruistic and benevolent face he presented in the company’s public relations material and to most of the employees. Dodgson firmly believed in Social Darwinism, survival of the fittest as applied to capitalism—which invariably meant survival of the richest and most powerful. Cole wanted Biosyn’s scientific discoveries to be shared with researchers around the world, thereby increasing the output that their knowledge generated and potentially leading to even more discoveries that might help people. Dodgson, on the other hand, wanted to keep Biosyn’s discoveries proprietary and closely guarded. This not only kept their profitable technologies from rivals, it also meant Dodgson could easily hide his mistakes.
Cole’s sense of ethics ultimately led to one side of the 2022 Biosyn Valley incident, the side in which he worked with a small team of scientists to expose Hexapod Allies and thus Dodgson’s role in the hybrid locust plague. Dodgson had been working on a solution and hoped to implement it once complete, but it had been his decision to release the locusts without testing them properly first, and so he was not truly solving a problem but merely doing damage control. The plague was his fault, and by curbing it before it became any worse, he would be covering his tracks. Cole wanted him to come clean and admit what he had done; this, of course, was not an acceptable solution to Dodgson. After giving him numerous chances to make himself accountable for his actions, Cole came out as a whistleblower before the United States government to name the Biosyn executives responsible for supporting and helping to hide Dodgson’s disastrous experiment. Had it not been for yet another series of devastating mistakes on Dodgson’s part, Cole’s time at Biosyn would have been over in no time, and this was a consequence he was happy to suffer if it meant doing what was right for the world and everyone living in it.
A happier ending, however, is suggested by the game Jurassic World: Evolution 2, in which Cole becomes a new leader at Biosyn following the death of Dodgson and arrest of nearly all the executive staff. Here Cole is shown applying his ethical principles from his new leadership position while the company recovers from its decapitating blow, cleaning up Dodgson’s messes and ensuring more humane treatment of the animals. The game depicts him hiring Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler as scientific consultants due to their experience not just with paleontology and de-extinction, but with the corporate corruption that so often accompanied the latter in the past. Between listening eagerly to criticisms from outsiders and the valley’s new regulation by the United Nations, Cole has the facility shaping up to be the moral opposite of Dodgson’s Biosyn.
Skills
Communication and social skills
Cole’s people skills earned him a top spot in Biosyn Communications, and he was quickly noticed by the CEO Lewis Dodgson himself. As a communications officer, Cole was responsible for managing the transfer of information not just within the company but also with corporate partners, regulatory officials, and the general public. Maintaining a good public image in particular was vital to Biosyn after the failures of companies like InGen, its longtime rival, left many people with a negative perception of genetic engineering. When Biosyn began getting into de-extinction, InGen fumbled its world-famous de-extinction attraction Jurassic World, creating another obstacle that Cole and the communications team would need to surmount in order to win over skeptics.
By all accounts, this effort was immensely successful. Dodgson was perceived as a benevolent leader in the effort to humanely deal with escaped dinosaurs and combat the de-extinction black market, despite the reality—that he was profiting from the crisis. Stock in Biosyn soared, climbing ever higher every time they helped resolve a high-profile dinosaur issue somewhere in the world. Although some people did notice the correlation between animal conflict and Biosyn stock increases, these complaints largely came from the political far left, and so were underreported in popular news media. There was no entity that most countries’ governments trusted more than Biosyn to help them with the issues they faced post-Lockwood incident.
Cole generally has excellent rapport with everyone he works with. This included Lewis Dodgson, who considered Cole not just a right-hand man but a potential successor. When Dodgson became concerned that he might have to flee the authorities, he put his trust in Cole to lead Biosyn in his absence. This was all in spite of Cole’s open opposition to Dodgson’s policies on proprietary material, hoarding knowledge and technology rather than sharing it with the scientific community.
In the later months of 2022, Cole was actually aware that Dodgson was responsible for a massive agricultural and ecological crisis, and alternated between trying to convince his CEO to confess and trying to plot a conspiracy to expose him. Both efforts required immense exercise of Cole’s skill with people: he needed to stay in Dodgson’s good graces if he had any hope of making the man see morality, as well as hiding his plotting from him, and on the other side of things he needed to find which Biosyn employees and outside help would be most willing to join and most effective at keeping it secret. This led him to recruit Dr. Ian Malcolm, himself a former whistleblower. Malcolm was hardly the cloak-and-dagger type, but Cole’s trust in him was not misplaced. Malcolm and Cole succeeded in keeping the plan secret from Dodgson up until the day its final stage was executed; Malcolm was exposed, but Cole was never even suspected. In fact, had he not deliberately made Dodgson realize his true intents just before leaving him, Dodgson would have died thinking Cole had been on his side all along.
After the incident, Cole has further used his people skills as a whistleblower, convincing the press and world governments to turn on Biosyn’s corrupt executives. Dodgson did not survive, but many other white-collar criminals are now facing consequences because of Cole’s persuasion before the United States Congress. According to Jurassic World: Evolution 2, he has gone on to take Dodgson’s place as Biosyn rebuilds from the ashes, sculpting the company into the morally upstanding entity that its advertisements had once claimed. He is quite skilled at deducing the intents and beliefs of others by speaking with them and listening to what they have to say in response, so as long as he remains in a position of leadership, he will stave off the corporate corruption that Dodgson had flourished in.
Skill with technology
In the modern age, communication requires more than just being good with people; it also requires adeptness with technology, and at the headquarters of a powerful company like Biosyn, technology is always on the cutting edge. Much of what it uses is likely proprietary, though during his time as CEO, Lewis Dodgson was no stranger to buying tech from outside his own corporation. For example, the operating system that Biosyn Valley’s facilities run on was actually developed by Masrani Global Corporation, and was used in Jurassic World. The animals’ neural interfaces are based on technology developed by Mantah Corporation and bought by Dodgson in 2016. Some of these systems were not strictly a part of Cole’s job, but he encountered most of them in his day-to-day work, and now as a senior leader in the company (as shown in Jurassic World: Evolution 2, though not the film canon proper as of yet) he will likely work much more directly with all of Biosyn’s computerized systems.
Even before this point in time, he was quite familiar with the complex automation that kept Biosyn’s headquarters and sanctuary running. Cole was well-versed in the system’s error codes, emergency protocols and safety features, and maintenance practices. He also had memorized many of the security passwords for accessing various facilities, even some that were generally not used by employees on a regular basis. This knowledge was all showcased during the 2022 incident, in which he (in order) directed saboteurs into a restricted area without detection using electronic key cards, identified Dodgson’s efforts to erase research files manually in the server room, remotely unlocked a disused security gate, identified a technical obstacle posed by the facility’s primary system and its safety features, and guided allies in shutting down the primary system to overcome this obstacle. Cole’s knowledge of Biosyn’s many technologies, as well as how to manually manipulate them when they do not act as needed, is clearly high-caliber. Combined with his rote memorization of the valley and its facilities in precise detail, he is very much at home managing just about anything in Biosyn Valley.
Scientific knowledge
Most of Cole’s job entails working with people and technology, rather than animals, but it is impossible to work in a place like Biosyn Valley and not learn at least a passable amount of information about biology. Topics such as paleontology, pharmacology, genetics, biochemistry, zoology, botany, and ecology are all vital to the facility’s missions. Cole is particularly interested in the actual process of genetically reconstructing extinct organisms, as well as the roles of those organisms in the ecosystem of Biosyn Genetics Sanctuary. He can identify most of the animals and plants (both de-extinct and native) on sight, as well as give basic information about their ecology such as diet and trophic level.
Some of his comments about the science at Biosyn’s headquarters are strange, but not unusual for someone with just a bit more than a layperson’s understanding of it. He refers to some animals, like Moros intrepidus, as having “complete, untouched genomes,” meaning they are exactly as their ancestors were millions of years ago. In reality, this is not totally true; all DNA molecules deteriorate over time, no matter how well preserved. Some amount of reconstruction using donor genes is always necessary, though unexpected traits can be reduced in frequency by utilizing well-understood, very close relatives. However, even if a prehistoric animal’s genome remained fully intact until its discovery, some modifications would still be needed in order to ensure its survival in the modern-day biosphere. Features of the climate such as atmospheric chemistry change over geologic time, and the animals’ prehistoric microbiomes cannot be rebuilt. Because of this, a genetically pure species would have little chance of long-term survival in today’s world, and at least minor genetic alterations are necessary in order to ensure it can live. Cole also uses the phrase “mezzanine species” to refer to imported red deer as an ideal prey species for apex predators, but it is unclear what this term means, as it does not appear to be a common scientific term. The word “mezzanine” generally denotes something intermediate between two larger stages, such as an intermediate floor of a building between two main floors, so Cole might have meant that the deer are large enough to sustain big carnivores but not large enough to pose a threat during hunts; therefore, an intermediate prey item. Alternatively, he may have simply misheard the deer referred to as a “Messinian species,” which would mean they are imported from near the city of Messina, Italy. The truth remains unknown so far.
Relationships
Biosyn Genetics
Cole’s career brought him to the corporate giant Biosyn Genetics, a globally-renowned research and development firm specializing in bioengineering. Cole had grown up after the end of the de-extinction arms race, in which Biosyn was one of the major competitors; the company had not come out on top then, but with the fall of InGen in 2015 (around which time Cole would have been about twenty-two, and was already succeeding at Biosyn according to Jurassic World: Evolution 2), the stage was set for Biosyn to rise. The company had been rejuvenating for years now, and with InGen out of the way they quickly became a dominant force in the bioengineering industry. One of their aims was to restore extinct species with as few modifications as was feasible, resurrecting the past in a way InGen had never truly tried. Cole, who generally found distaste for InGen’s hybridization practices, appreciated this goal.
Rather than working with genetic engineering, Cole was employed in Biosyn Communications, playing a vital role in the flow of information—just as much a lifeblood to the corporation as money. Naturally a people person, Cole excelled at his job, and was met with a quick succession of raises and promotions by his superiors. This was far from uncommon at Biosyn, but Cole’s successes led to him becoming the head of Communications by the time Biosyn relocated its headquarters into the Italian Dolomites. A huge complex was constructed to serve not just as the company’s global nerve center, but as a state-of-the-art research facility. It was here that Cole would make his home.
He was well-liked by his coworkers during this time, even those ranking considerably above him; he was widely considered to be the CEO’s right-hand man. While most of his working relationships are not known, he probably worked with communications officers such as Denise Roberts the air traffic controller, as well as control room technicians Angus Hetbury and Sundar Kumar, who played a major role in communicating between different parts of the facility. Biosyn’s chief of Security, Jeffrey, probably was also significant to Cole’s job. He likely spent time around other employees at mealtimes in the commissary, and may have known food staff such as Tyler the barista. At some point after late 2018, he also learned that Biosyn was secretly sheltering the former InGen geneticist Henry Wu, who was wanted by the U.S. government for bioethical misconduct. While Cole disapproved of much of the research Wu had pursued, there is no evidence that he directly met the geneticist during his time in exile prior to 2022. Cole was probably also aware of a construction worker who went missing in the caves beneath the valley, where the old amber mines were being used to build the valley’s hyperloop tunnels. This man was later confirmed dead, but this tragedy never made the news. It is unknown if Cole had been familiar with the victim beforehand, whose name has been obscured in Biosyn paperwork.
Cole’s experience at Biosyn was mostly positive, but unlike many of the other employees, he was unwilling to turn away when the company did something unethical. When he learned about the Hexapod Allies program, which many of the company’s scientists had toiled on for some years before Wu joined the team, he became concerned that the project was moving too quickly and without regard for safety. When the insects created for the program were released into the wild, they caused unanticipated destruction of crops and wild flora, leaving only Biosyn crops untouched as they had been designed to do. Cole wanted the company to immediately fess up to what it had done, but he was in the minority, other corporate executives instead choosing to protect both their profit and stellar reputation. Cole, in fact, was likely responsible at least in part for that reputation, considering that as lead communications officer he would be in charge of public relations. All the work he had done was now protecting Biosyn from suspicion and bad press when it made mistakes it did not want to admit.
This did not sit right with Cole at all, and he planned to sabotage Biosyn from within, exposing the crimes that it would refuse accountability for. It is unknown if anyone else at Biosyn, aside from tenured lecturer Ian Malcolm, was involved with Cole’s conspiracy. After weeks of planning, he brought his operation into action, leaking access to restricted areas where evidence could be obtained. To accomplish this, Cole had to stay out of sight of Jeffrey and the rest of Biosyn Security. The operation was impacted by unexpected complications, but despite numerous setbacks, Cole did succeed at ensuring evidence reached the press and authorities. This resulted in Biosyn’s executive ranks being purged; Cole described the leadership as experiencing “complete systemic corruption” to the media. Many of his former coworkers and supervisors who contributed to the coverup are likely now facing jail time for the damages they caused.
In the game Jurassic World: Evolution 2, Ramsay Cole is given something of an epilogue at Biosyn. With the executives gone in their entirety, the company was left in shambles, and Cole stepped up to the plate to rebuild. The employees who remained were likely all low-ranking staff members like Cole had once been when he started out. Fortunately, as Cole himself readily claimed, Biosyn made a habit of employing the “best and brightest,” so even though the staff was badly fragmented, reconstruction was doable. New employees were hired to replace those complicit in Hexapod Allies. As the highest-ranking staff member not involved with the coverup, Cole now appears to be CEO of the company, and has made it his mission to reshape Biosyn into the beacon of ethics that he had once believed it to be. Like the ancient DNA upon which an entire industry was built, the decay has been eliminated from Biosyn and filled in with something fresh to give it new life.
Lewis Dodgson
From 2013 until 2022, the CEO of Biosyn Genetics was Lewis Dodgson, who succeeded Jeff Rossiter. It was Dodgson who was behind the policies that saw employees like Cole promoted again and again so quickly, and Cole in particular caught Dodgson’s eye. He saw this younger man as a kindred spirit, full of youthful enthusiasm and a drive to fix all the world’s evils much as Dodgson had once been (at least in his memory; there is evidence to suggest Dodgson was romanticizing his own past here). Ramsay Cole was promoted to the lead position in Biosyn Communications, and by the mid-2010s they worked directly together on major projects such as the construction of Biosyn Valley facilities.
There is every sign that Dodgson hoped Cole would become his successor. While Cole’s sense of justice was an impediment to his becoming an effective capitalist, Dodgson dismissed this as a symptom of youth and believed he would grow out of it as he experienced life in the real world. Cole, however, considered ethics to be the very core of his person, and not something he could let go. Incidents were generally covered up at Biosyn, and other employees were made complacent by the generous benefits the company offered: while these had once seemed benevolent, it gradually became obvious to Cole there was an ulterior motive. There was a stark difference between the Biosyn he advertised in his public communications and the Biosyn that existed in reality. When Cole learned of Hexapod Allies and the damage it was accidentally causing, he came to realize just how thoroughly Biosyn was corrupted, and Dodgson was at the rotting heart of it all.
Despite his disgust at the Hexapod Allies coverup, Cole remained cordial to Dodgson, and even tried to talk him into coming clean several times. On every occasion, though, Dodgson rejected the offer, preferring to keep his good public standing even if it meant blatantly lying to the world. As it became increasingly obvious that Dodgson would never admit what he had done wrong, let alone share the groundbreaking science developed through Hexapod Allies with the world, Cole plotted against him. He managed to remain completely off Dodgson’s radar, the one person the paranoid CEO really did trust, during this conspiracy. In the end, after Dodgson attempted to destroy all evidence of his crimes, Cole offered him one final chance to redeem himself, and again Dodgson vehemently refused. He outright stated that neither he nor Cole should apologize for their mistakes and that they should erase them instead. There was no saving Dodgson’s soul, and the conspiracy moved on to its final stage.
Dodgson’s attempt to destroy evidence led, through a sequence of mishaps, to a massive forest fire threatening the lives of the dinosaurs as well as Biosyn staff and anyone else in the valley. During the evacuation, Cole met with Dodgson one last time, finding the man preparing to flee the now-inevitable consequences of his actions. It was Dodgson’s plan to disappear and for Cole to take his place as Biosyn began anew, using its ill-gotten gains to rebuild; when Cole wordlessly refused, it slowly dawned on Dodgson that he had been betrayed. He was surprised, but more disappointed than angry, professing that Cole was making a mistake by rejecting the power Dodgson had served to him on a silver platter. It was not what Dodgson would do, if their positions were reversed. Cole said just one thing during the exchange: that he was not Dodgson. Then he turned and left his CEO behind.
This was the last Cole and Dodgson ever saw one another. Dodgson did indeed vanish during the evacuation, not taking to shelter with the rest of the staff, but he did not come out of hiding alive. Due to the wildfire, herding protocols were activated to bring the animals to shelter, and the power overload caused security systems to fluctuate and fail. Some dinosaurs got into places where they were not meant to go, including some which broke into a hyperloop pod Dodgson was trying to use to reach the airfield. He was killed and eaten; his remains were probably found by investigators in the following days. Cole would never be able to bring Dodgson himself to legal justice, the law of the jungle having done that job for him. But he was still able to name the other complicit executives, leading to many arrests and a full purge of Biosyn’s top brass. Dodgson’s name, once synonymous with benevolent wealth, was forever tarnished.
Dr. Ian Malcolm
In the mid-1990s, the mathematician and lecturer Dr. Ian Malcolm made a startling announcement on a television interview, claiming that International Genetic Technologies had used advanced cloning and genetic engineering techniques to recreate long-extinct animals and plants on a remote Costa Rican island. He was, of course, laughed out of academia, but two years later he was proven completely truthful when an InGen vessel accidentally released a living dinosaur into San Diego. From that point onward, Malcolm was admired by many for his courage as a whistleblower and staunch refusal to change his views on bioethics. Ramsay Cole was only a few years old during these events of the 1990s, but he too grew up to consider Malcolm a celebrity of the highest caliber.
Over the years Malcolm continued to oppose new advancements in de-extinction technology, and he was consistently ignored by InGen and its holding company Masrani Global Corporation. As the damages caused by misuse of this technology built up, Malcolm’s warnings became more and more pertinent, and he eventually did gain the respect of the United States government to a degree. Shortly after this, as Biosyn Valley was being populated with the authorities’ blessing, Malcolm was hired by Dodgson as a guest lecturer, giving Cole a chance to meet his hero.
At the research facility’s lecture hall, Malcolm openly criticized Biosyn to rapturous attention and thunderous applause from the very people he spoke out against. His eye for detail was considered valuable by Dodgson and Cole alike, and where InGen had ignored Malcolm’s warnings, Biosyn paid heed. Cole met Malcolm in person on a few occasions, and over time, the two men became friends. Malcolm’s tales of corporate corruption and hubris without regulation stuck with Cole as valuable lessons.
When Cole needed an ally to expose Hexapod Allies, he turned to Malcolm. This was an obvious choice: Malcolm had loudly opposed the capitalist abuse of science for many years, and while he had been unable to prevent the disaster at Jurassic World, there was still time to stop Dodgson from getting away with his crimes. Malcolm had been a whistleblower before, sticking to the truth despite threats endangering his career. Cole now did the same. If he was exposed, his time at Biosyn would be over. He understood that taking down Dodgson was more important, and for this courage, Malcolm admired him too. Together, they assembled a plot to gain evidence of Dodgson’s complicity, and in the autumn of 2022 they put their plan into action.
There were more setbacks than Cole was comfortable with, including Malcolm being caught and fired, but Cole managed to avoid suspicion. While maintaining his cover, he aided Malcolm and their other allies in surviving the dangers Dodgson put in their way and helped them find an escape route. Mostly, they worked as an effective team; the most difficult part was directing allies in deactivating the headquarters’ primary computer system, which was inadvertently making their escape route hazardous. Malcolm gave unclear instructions over the radio, hindering their efforts. Cole started to become frustrated, but they soon succeeded, and this source of irritation was forgotten. The rest of the evacuation was successful despite the threats they faced.
Following the evacuation, Malcolm served as a key witness in Cole’s whistleblower testimony before Congress regarding the corruption at Biosyn. While the game Jurassic World: Evolution 2 suggests that Malcolm and Cole are now living their own lives separately after the incident and its immediate aftermath, it is likely that after going through such an experience together, they will remain friends.
Other 2022 incident survivors
To help with exposing Hexapod Allies to the press and authorities, Ramsay Cole and Ian Malcolm needed help from outside, and they found it in another veteran of the de-extinction debacle: renowned paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Sattler, who was an old friend of Malcolm’s. Like the mathematician, she was also greatly admired by Cole and other Biosyn staff for her decades of experience with de-extinction. When she was given a formal invitation to Biosyn Valley in late 2022, she extended the invitation to her colleague and former romantic partner, the vertebrate paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant, a third survivor of Jurassic Park in 1993. Both scientists were authorized to visit the valley and see the facilities there, which for Lewis Dodgson would be an excellent publicity opportunity. Ramsay Cole would often arrange such publicity events as a part of his job as a communications officer, so no suspicion was raised here.
During the operation, Cole kept his cover maintained even around Drs. Sattler and Grant. Malcolm was the only one to expose his intents as a saboteur. Once Sattler had the access card for the L4 laboratory, Cole casually mentioned where the lab was located before allowing his guests to tour the facility without him; this was a surreptitious effort at sending them to the hidden lab without them realizing he was helping them. As the day went on, though, things began to fall apart, and Cole revealed himself as an ally while sending them to the airfield via the hyperloop system. While he was doing this, he discovered that they were accompanied by Maisie Lockwood, a human clone who until recently had been little more than an urban legend. Somehow she had gotten to Biosyn, no doubt another of Dodgson’s nefarious acts.
The hyperloop pod containing the three made for the airfield, but shut down while passing through the hazardous amber mines, forcing its occupants into peril. Cole helped Malcolm escape from Biosyn Security to rescue them, but failed to give him the access code to the gate across the mine’s entrance; remotely, Cole entered the code into a control room terminal, saving them from the mine. By the time he met them again, they had accumulated even more allies. Two of them were former staff at Jurassic World; one was Claire Dearing, once the Operations Manager and now an animal rights activist wanted for ecoterrorism. The other was Owen Grady, an animal behaviorist who had worked for InGen Security. They had evidently become Maisie’s unofficial adoptive parents. While both of them were partly responsible for the crises Jurassic World had brought into the world, they were clearly both trying to make amends and do better; Dearing in particular had become a whistleblower speaking out against InGen and its holding company Masrani Global, much like Cole was trying to do now at Biosyn. For this, he understandably admired her. The third member of their group was Kayla Watts, a pilot who Cole would likely not have known.
There was little time to get acquainted, as the valley was becoming a disaster zone and they needed evacuation quickly. Watts was skilled enough to fly just about anything with wings, and headed for the hangar to retrieve a helicopter. Dearing aided Dr. Sattler in shutting down the primary computer system. Grady, along with Maisie and Dr. Grant, went to the water treatment center in Sublevel 8 to capture a juvenile Velociraptor he intended to bring home; this animal was the offspring of one he had trained at the park. Cole and Dr. Malcolm coordinated these efforts, ensuring that everyone was able to accomplish their goals and evacuate in time.
Before they made their escape, they were joined by Henry Wu, who finally made clear why Maisie and the raptor had been kidnapped. He needed to use their genomes for research in order to replicate Charlotte Lockwood’s revolutionary viral vector vaccine techniques, which were his best bet at stopping the locust plague Hexapod Allies had caused. While everyone was understandably suspicious of Wu, Maisie made the choice to spare him; together, the group was able to get out of the valley alive.
Though they were only together for a short time, their experience gave them all great respect for each other. Grady and Dearing were willing to sacrifice their lives to protect their daughter, and Grady was also putting himself at great risk to protect an animal he cared for. Maisie, in turn, was submitting to genetic research conducted by Wu in order to save millions of lives from starvation, and Wu was going to expose himself to the authorities in order to accomplish this. Grant and Sattler, of course, had put their safety on the line to help get proof of Dodgson’s crimes, and both Cole and Dr. Malcolm sacrificed their jobs to ensure Biosyn was held accountable. Kayla Watts had given up everything she had except her life to help Maisie’s family reunite, and she understood Cole’s sacrifice just as well, giving him a nod of understanding as they boarded the escape helicopter.
Cole’s efforts to expose Dodgson and the other corrupt Biosyn executives would have been impossible alone. Malcolm gave him a glimmer of hope, and the help of Sattler and Grant put his objective within reach. But the harder Cole worked at doing what was right, the more allies he encountered. By the time he left Biosyn Valley in the winter of 2022, he had gone from a single man with nothing but his own moral compass to a member of a nine-person (and one-dinosaur) collective whose goals all aligned. At that point, there was little that could stop them. In the end, he stood before Congress and told the world the truth about Hexapod Allies and Lewis Dodgson, his allies ready to support him. From the day he decided to take a stand against what he knew to be wrong, he had never truly been alone.
De-extinct life
Ramsay Cole learned about the truth of de-extinction in much the same way as most people his age: through tales of a living, breathing dinosaur running amuck in San Diego in the spring of 1997. The story would have been unbelievable if it had not been recorded by eyewitnesses. At the time of the San Diego incident, Cole would have been about three years old, so he more likely than not learned about San Diego some years after the fact. He was part of the first generation for whom de-extinction was simply a fact of life, never a wild rumor discredited by the masses.
He was about twelve when Jurassic World opened, though it is not known whether he visited. Considering his employment at Biosyn and close working relationship with Lewis Dodgson, he may have gone to the park during its later years and seen its wondrous creatures for himself. Dodgson wanted to build a park for Biosyn, but Cole was more interested in seeing what could be learned from the ancient species now walking the earth again. In December 2015, when Cole would have been twenty-one or twenty-two, Jurassic World was catastrophically closed: one of their upcoming attractions, a theropod dinosaur created through gene splicing, was accidentally loosed on the island by corporate mismanagement. Damages and bad press ensured that Jurassic World would never reopen. Biosyn, meanwhile, took advantage of the vacant niche and sprung to the forefront of the bioengineering industry. They had learned some amount about de-extinction, but in 2017, they obtained their first animals: not created by Biosyn, but shipped from Isla Sorna, a kind of factory floor InGen had used long before Jurassic World. These included the tyrannosaur from San Diego, now an older animal, and his mate.
Soon enough, Biosyn was creating new species of its own. These are known to have included Dimetrodon, Pyroraptor, Dreadnoughtus, Therizinosaurus, Iguanodon, Giganotosaurus, and Quetzalcoatlus; later on, Moros was added to the menagerie. Some of these, including the latter, were as genomically unaltered as possible given the limitations of de-extinction technology, a fact of which Cole was quite proud. With the animals virtually indistinguishable from their ancestors, they would provide far more accurate information about the ancient Earth and its environments. Biosyn was studying these creatures for biopharmaceutical purposes, and medically-significant products once lost to time could now be discovered and put to use to benefit people’s health. This, Cole believed, was far superior to engineering hybrid animals to the specification of human creators, as InGen had attempted.
After 2018 saw the release of dozens of de-extinct animals onto the American mainland, as well as into the black market, Biosyn stepped in to aid the United States government in dealing with the problem. Animals began to arrive from Fish and Wildlife facilities in North America that were struggling to manage the creatures. Soon, the United States Congress issued Biosyn sole collectors’ rights to any animals found on U.S. soil, and new species poured into the Biosyn Genetics Sanctuary. Cole did not work directly with the animals, but he was quite interested in them. He learned much about the creatures as they were introduced. To manage their movements, they were all implanted with neural interfaces that could be used to stimulate the brain with electricity, using it to control the animals’ bodies in an emergency. Cole considered this much more humane than electric fences. By late 2022, the valley had become home to around twenty displaced species, including Brachiosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Triceratops, Dilophosaurus, Nasutoceratops, Stegosaurus, Pteranodon, Velociraptor, Compsognathus, Gallimimus, Parasaurolophus, and others. These supplemented the animals Biosyn had created on its own. Some materials describe fifty species total inhabiting Biosyn Valley. No nonnative modern species were imported, and in fact the only imports at all were herds of European red deer for the carnivores to feed upon.
As the valley grew more populated, conflict arose between the dinosaurs, which Biosyn administration did nothing to prevent; if they fought, their immune systems would be stimulated, which meant more research. Cole became aware of Hexapod Allies in the early 2020s, a program which Biosyn intended to use to boost its dominance in the world of agribusiness; by using insects as vectors, they could spread genetic modifications to crops using viral particulate, enhancing the crops’ hardiness and other traits. The ideal insect was created by supplementing the modern-day migratory locust with genes from its extinct Cretaceous relatives, resulting in a large, powerful hybrid. This was the kind of scientific research Cole frowned upon, but it was not until the project went wrong that he turned against it. The insects were released into the wild before Biosyn scientists understood how they operated, resulting in an out-of-control population boom that devastated cropland in the American Midwest. Lewis Dodgson tried to cover up his own guilt while seeking a way to control the swarms, leading to the incidents of 2022.
While Cole and Dodgson both independently reacted to the crisis, operations continued at Biosyn Valley. InGen’s oldest Tyrannosaurus was imported to the valley on the same day that Cole’s conspiracy took action, and unbeknownst to him, a parthenote Velociraptor called Beta was also brought in for research purposes. Cole would later encounter Beta after confirming her location in the hydroelectric power plant underneath the research facility, where she had escaped. He also played a role in rescuing some of his allies from Dimetrodons living in the amber mines under the mountains in the west. Dodgson’s attempts to cover up his crimes involved incinerating the locusts, but they were able to escape by battering through ceiling tiles and using the ventilation as an escape route; this led to a forest fire which forced Biosyn to evacuate the animals.
Cole and his allies had to escape the valley by helicopter as quickly as possible if they wanted to stop Dodgson before he escaped and vanished, so they met their pilot Kayla Watts in the nearest landing site—the courtyard in the middle of headquarters, right in the animal evacuation route. Most of the creatures were already in containment, but the stragglers were lingering around, including the old tyrannosaur and Biosyn’s only Giganotosaurus, who were forced into proximity by the evacuation. Unable to flee each other, the predators fought violently, nearly crushing Cole in their clash. He was saved by Watts, who distracted the animal with a flare. This caused it to notice a blind Therizinosaurus, another straggler, and as these titanic theropods confronted each other Cole was able to escape. The Giganotosaurus ultimately died, having been killed by the tyrannosaur.
After the incident, Beta was successfully returned home to her mother, and Henry Wu was able to implement his plan to exterminate the hybrid locusts. Biosyn Valley’s animals inadvertently helped Cole by preventing Dodgson from escaping, having been let into the hyperloop tunnels by accident during the evacuation; a group of Dilophosaurus had killed and eaten Dodgson, who otherwise was well on his way to escaping justice. As for the animals that survived the incident, the valley was saved by a chance rainstorm, and with the United Nations now supervising goings-on in the sanctuary, their lives will return to normal. If Jurassic World: Evolution 2 is to be believed, Cole has reformed Biosyn after the purge of its corrupt executives, taking a leadership position to ensure the animals are treated humanely. Biosyn Genetics Sanctuary is now open to troubled animals from around the world, an isolated environment where they can live their natural lives without fear of mistreatment.
General public
During his tenure as head of Biosyn Communications, Cole was responsible for passing information not just within Biosyn but outside of it too. Messages to corporate partners, regulating government agencies, and the public at large were all within his responsibilities; Biosyn often dealt with governments to retrieve animals that had been causing problems, and this was an important source of income for the company. The public, especially Biosyn’s investors, were another one. Biosyn performed well at the stock market during the de-extinction crisis, and its consumer products were sold far and wide. It was especially dominant in agribusiness, producing lines of genetically-modified corn and other crops. Ramsay Cole was very likely involved with public relations in the course of his job, ensuring that Biosyn’s image remained pristine and favorable.
Over time, Cole came to realize that the company was not as benevolent as its advertisements implied. Behind the scenes there were coverups, dangerous mistakes, and criminal acts. Hexapod Allies was likely the worst, creating locusts that were meant to bolster Biosyn’s agribusiness division but instead ended up devouring the crops of independent farmers. With the poor impacted first, this disaster was largely ignored by the government and media, but Cole knew it would not stay this way; if no one brought attention to it, millions would face death by starvation. He had no plan to stop the locusts, but he did have a plan to expose Dodgson’s role in the crisis. Weeks of undercover sabotage eventually culminated in success, with evidence leaked to outside scientists. Cole became a whistleblower, speaking to the press after the disastrous incidents of 2022 and eventually testifying before the U.S. Congress about corruption at Biosyn. Thankfully, his efforts inadvertently allowed a resolution to the locust epidemic to come to light as well, preventing a global famine from taking hold. Cole may now be the leader of Biosyn Genetics, as per Jurassic World: Evolution 2, ensuring through his ethical principles that the public is never again harmed by the company’s products and that its discoveries are fairly shared with the scientific community around the world.
Portrayal
Ramsay Cole is portrayed by Mamoudou Athie. He is not based on any particular character from Michael Crichton‘s books, but is instead an original character created for Jurassic World Dominion. During promotion for the film, Ramsay Cole’s role was only alluded to and not elaborated upon, instead just describing him as a Biosyn employee who comes to realize that his company is far from the benevolent corporate power it portrays itself as. Cole’s pivotal role in the story was kept a secret from audiences despite the near-omniprevalence of plot leaks in the modern filmmaking industry, this twist successfully surprising most viewers.