Jurassic World "Whatever It Takes" Camp Cretaceous TV episode Written by Joanna Lewis and Kristine Songco Directed by Eric Elrod Release date: May 21, 2021

The campers' escape from Isla Nublar is delayed when Dr. Wu returns to the island.

Read the story summary at the Jurassic Park Wiki

Didja Know?

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous is a CG-animated TV series that aired on the Netflix streaming service from 2020-2022 for five seasons and one special. While the first couple of episodes take place before and during the events of Jurassic World, the rest of them take place shortly after that film, and about three years before the events of Fallen Kingdom. Netflix is currently producing episodes of a sequel series, Jurassic World: Chaos Theory, whose first season began in May 2024.

   Each episode of the series opens with the words "A Netflix Original Series" over what appears to be a T. rex footprint in the jungle mud. 

    The Universal Pictures logo that appears after this is altered from the usual to have the Earth globe with a continent that looks very roughly like the supercontinent Pangaea may have looked in the Triassic-Jurassic periods of the Mesozoic era, 200-150 million years ago.

    As the Universal Earth globe spins, a second "continent" seen is actually a stylized DreamWorks Pictures logo (a boy sitting with a fishing pole on the crescent Moon), followed by the Amblin Entertainment logo.

The dinosaur that bursts out of the Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous gates at the beginning of the opening titles of each episode is a Tyrannosaurus rex, possibly the infamous Rexy herself, but we don't see its right side close enough to see if it has Rexy's raptor scars incurred in Jurassic Park.

Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode

Kenji Kon

Darius Bowman

Yasmina Fadoula

Brooklynn

Ben Pincus

Sammy Gutierrez

mercenary helicopter pilot

Hansen (dies in this episode)

Rexy

Pteranodon

mercenary soldiers

Mosasaurus

Dr. Wu

Hawkes

Reed

Dawson

Brachiosaurus

Compsognathus

Scorpios rex (mentioned only, deceased)

Eli Mills (mentioned only, as "the boss")

Didja Notice? 

Darius, Brooklynn, and Yaz observe a scene from the beginning of Fallen Kingdom, where the mercenary known as Jack is eaten by the Mosasaurus as he tries to scale a rope ladder to a hovering helicopter.

This episode introduces Hawkes, a mercenary who works under Eli Mills for Dr. Wu in this and the following episode and who later goes on to appear throughout Season 5. Eli Mills is only mentioned (as "the boss") here, but finally appears in Fallen Kingdom).

Ben and Kenji tell the mercenary pilot to turn out the helicopter's spotlight because the attacking Pteranodons are attracted to light. They learned this aboard the monorail in "Last Day of Camp".

The pilot informs Kenji, Sammy, and Ben that it has been about 6 months since the evacuation of Isla Nublar during the so-called Jurassic World Incident.

The fall of the helicopter through the tree while the kids cling to a vine to escape it, is similar to the scene of the "motor home" falling off the cliff in The Lost World (which itself is very similar to a scene in "Heirs to the Thunder" Part 2).

At 18:00 in the episode, numerous claw marks are seen on the interior side of the door of the building that holds Wu's lab. These were made by the Scorpios rex sometime after it thawed and escaped from cryogenic suspension in "Chaos Theory".

Successfully escaping the plunging helicopter and making it out of the tree, Sammy exclaims to Kenji and Ben, "I love it when we're all alive!" She said something similar in "View From the Top".

Notes from the junior novelization Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous - The Deluxe Junior Novelization Volume Three by Steve Behling Cover illustration by Patrick Spaziante 2021

Didja Know? 

Oddly, this episode and the following one "Stay on Mission" (the last two episodes of Season 3) are not covered in the novelization. They are also not covered in Volume Four of the series novelization, except for a one page summary of the events of these two episodes to set the stage for Chapter One of that volume!

Memorable Dialog

heading to rendezvous point.mp3

when are we going to get off this island?!.mp3

whatever it takes?.mp3

the idea is to avoid threats.mp3

I've got up close experience with this sort of thing.mp3

about six months ago.mp3

the doctor here is afraid of his own creations.mp3

I love it when we're alive.mp3