The penultimate episode of Jurassic World: Chaos Theory has retconned the death of Jurassic Park’s original villain, three years after he was initially killed off in Jurassic World Dominion. A brief aside in the Chaos Theory episode “Lights Out” reframes this critical moment in the franchise in a different context.

32 years after his minor role in the first Jurassic Park, another twist has been added to the story of Jurassic franchise villain Lewis Dodgson, who serves as the main antagonist in Chaos Theory season 4. While we don’t see Dodgson’s actual death in the final season of Netflix’s animated TV series, we do see the events immediately leading up to it.

In this way, the show makes another significant change to a Jurassic Park character who was completely different in the books on which the screen franchise is based. What’s more, it does so after the fact, since Dodgson’s initial death scene already happened in a previous big-screen installment of Jurassic World.

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory Just Retconned Lewis Dodgson’s Death

After four seasons of thrills and dinosaur discoveries, Jurassic World: Chaos Theory ends with the Nublar Six, Bumpy, and Smoothie all safe and sound, via the surprise intervention of the Jurassic franchise’s most iconic Tyrannosaurus Rex. Their escape from Biosyn Valley comes just hours after the death of Jurassic Park’s original villain.

In the second-to-last episode of Chaos Theory, Nublar Six member Darius Bowman spots Biosyn CEO Lewis Dodgson through a security camera, entering Biosyn’s Hyperloop subway system. Moments later, Dodgson will be dead.

It’s he who introduces two other members of the Nublar Six, Kenji and Sammy, to the Hyperloop earlier in the season. His transport recommendation turns out to be a trap, which leads the pair into the path of several hungry Dilophosaurus. These are the very same dinosaurs who will soon dispose of Dodgson himself.

Dodgson Was Killed By Dilophosaurus In Jurassic World Dominion

The actual scene depicting Lewis Dodgson’s death takes place in Jurassic World Dominion, the 2022 movie in which he serves as the primary villain. This scene begins the moment immediately after Dodgson enters the Hyperloop in Chaos Theory’s penultimate episode. We see him climb out of the Hyperloop’s hatch and into the subway tunnel, before coming face-to-face with a Dilophosaurus.

He runs back to the hatch and climbs into the train, only to find two more Dilophosaurus waiting for him there. They spit venom onto his face, after which he collapses, and the screen goes black before an open-frilled Dilophosaurus can finish him off.

Prior to this scene, the last thing we see Dodgson do in Jurassic World Dominion is attempt to incinerate some transgenic locusts he’s created to destroy evidence. He then flees with a briefcase full of dinosaur embryos, and the next time we see him he’s climbing through the Hyperloop hatch.

We can only assume that these scenes take place between when he traps Kenji and Sammy in the Hyperloop, and when Darius spots him on the security camera, according to the timeline retconned by Chaos Theory. In this way, his character arc remains more or less coherent across the movie and the TV show.

Lewis Dodgson Was Jurassic Park’s Original Movie Villain

If John Hammond were Jurassic Park’s movie villain, as he is in the book the original movie is based on, the entire Jurassic franchise would look very different. However, the movie instead presented Hammond simply as a misguided billionaire with overreaching ambitions. The actual villain of the story only appeared very briefly.

He was none other than Lewis Dodgson, Hammond’s main rival. Dodgson enlists Jurassic Park employee Dennis Nedry to steal secrets about Hammond’s venture, for the benefit of his own dinosaur-cloning company, Biosyn. Of course, Nedry fails in his mission, coming to a sorry end between the teeth of a Dilophosaurus, just like Dodgson himself 29 years later.

Dodgson became a more prominent franchise villain through Michael Crichton’s sequel novel to Jurassic Park, The Lost World. Then, in 2022, the third Jurassic World movie finally made him its main villain. Now, at long last, it looks as though Chaos Theory has completed his story.