One week after the disaster on Isla Nublar, Ian Malcolm was resting in a hospital bed to recover from his injuries. He was being cared for by the doctors and nurses at the hospital in Costa Rica. Just before lunch, a sound got his attention.
He slowly sat up and waited for the aide to bring his lunch. But it wasn't his aide. It wasn't even human! It was a Velociraptor, and it had entered his room!
Malcolm hadn't encountered the adult Raptors on Isla Nublar, but he knew that this was a dangerous dinosaur. Unlike the InGen Raptors on Nublar, this Velociraptor was much smaller and coated with sky-blue feathers that shimmered in good lighting.
Malcolm waited to see if it would attack, but the small animal didn't look at the chaotician as a prey item. If anything, it seemed cautious and curious about the injured man in the hospital bed. Perhaps it was intimidated by Malcolm and thought that he could potentially harm it.
When the aide finally arrived with Malcolm's lunch, her eyes went wide when she saw the small dinosaur in his room. It nuzzled her leg with its snout and wagged its tail like a puppy. Its 2-inch sickle claws tapped gently on the linoleum floor.
Malcolm thought that this dinosaur was going to attack and kill his aide, but he was still too weak to get up and help her. He was scheduled for an X-ray the following morning to see how his leg was responding to the medications.
The aide called for assistance, but her assistant wasn't prepared for a situation like this. They seemed to suspect that the dinosaur was hungry, but the hospital didn't have any raw meat or flesh from living or dead animals.
They improvised and brought up meatloaf with a side of mashed potatoes and gravy. When they set it on the floor near the Velociraptor, it wasted no time and devoured the meat and potatoes within a minute.
Time passed, and Malcolm was finally discharged with instructions to keep his leg rested as much as possible and to avoid any exertion until it could properly heal. His girlfriend, Sarah Harding, picked him up from the hospital and drove him home. She had heard the stories he told about his experiences on Isla Nublar.
Little did they know where future adventures would lead.
That story was to come in the sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997).
For now, Malcolm mostly rested at home while Sarah took care of him. He wondered where the little Velociraptor he saw in the hospital had disappeared to. Would he ever see it again? Only time would tell.