Maisie Lockwood (S/F)

Maisie Lockwood, age 14 (2022)

Maisie Lockwood (2007 – present) is the daughter of Charlotte Lockwood, and the granddaughter of Sir Benjamin Lockwood. She is notable for being the first confirmed human clone to be born, and for her involvement with both the 2018 Lockwood Manor incident and 2022 Biosyn Valley incident. Her DNA was altered at the age of roughly one year using a viral vector vaccine, which led to her becoming a vital part of the research which ended the 2022 hybrid locust plague.

Name

The name Maisie is of Scottish origin, dating back to the sixteenth century. It means “pearl,” denoting something precious and deserving of protection. This certainly reflects the way Maisie’s family members have felt about her, including her mother Charlotte, who created her in secret and loved her dearly.

Her family surname, Lockwood, is an old Anglo-Saxon habitational name; it refers to the village of Lockwood, located in what is now a suburb of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. All members of the Lockwood family tree can trace their ancestry back to here. The name dates to the seventh century.

Biography
Creation and birth

Maisie’s mother, Charlotte Lockwood, was a biomedical geneticist who studied human cloning like her father (Maisie’s grandfather) Sir Benjamin Lockwood. The latter had been one of the founding fathers of International Genetic Technologies, a company which performed extensive genetic research; however, Lockwood had a falling-out with his business partner John Hammond over human cloning and left the company in the 1990s. Charlotte had long wanted a child, and as she studied human cloning for medical purposes, she also began to consider it for reproduction. Ultimately, she succeeded at cloning herself, giving birth in August 2007 to Maisie. Since human cloning is illegal in Charlotte’s home state of California, where her family’s manor is located near the town of Orick, she had to do this in secret. Maisie was probably born in the subbasement laboratory in the manor where Charlotte conducted much of her research. Charlotte probably created Maisie using somatic-cell nuclear transfer, the most common form of human cloning at the time.

Though Charlotte wanted a child, she also wanted that child to live a full healthy life. She discovered that she carried a genetic flaw, a rare but serious type of BRCA2 mutation with a high potential to cause terminal breast cancer. Not only this, but it was heritable, meaning that her child would likely carry the mutated gene as well. Maisie, being a clone, certainly would. Charlotte began research into curing the supposedly irreversible condition, but a cure would mean genetically modifying every cell in the body. At the forefront of genetic research for most of her life, Charlotte stood a better chance than most at succeeding.

When Maisie was around a year old, Charlotte began showing symptoms. Fortunately, she had completed a viral vector vaccine, using a pathogen to administer the genetic treatment throughout the body using the same mechanisms normal viruses use to propagate. On February 2, 2009, she vaccinated eighteen-month-old Maisie. After some time of monitoring, she determined that Maisie was completely cured, but there was no time left for Charlotte to cure herself. She had known this going in, that her secretive research meant that she would have no support team of scientists and technicians, and that it was very likely that she could only produce one dose. Charlotte had no hesitation of giving it to Maisie. When she passed away that year, she entrusted Maisie’s safety to Sir Benjamin and the family housekeeper Iris Carroll, who had helped raise Charlotte too.

There were many reasons to protect Maisie, ranging from the illegality of human cloning to the biomedical significance of her modified genome, as well as Charlotte’s posthumous reputation as a scientist. Only Lockwood and Carroll knew the truth behind Maisie’s creation. Other manor staff who knew Maisie was a clone were taught that Charlotte had died in a vehicle accident in 2008, and that, in an act of grief, Sir Benjamin had turned to InGen’s technology to recreate her. Maisie herself was taught that she had been born naturally to both a mother and father, but that both of them had died in the same car crash, leaving her an orphan. Ideally, outsiders would not learn of Maisie at all, but if they did, that was the story they would be told as well.

Early life

After she was born, Maisie was raised as though she were Lockwood’s natural granddaughter. Maisie’s existence could not be explained to outsiders, and so she was kept a secret within the walls of the Lockwood mansion. Aside from her grandfather and estate staff such as Carroll, her existence was unknown to the world. She most likely lacks legal documentation as of 2022.

It is unknown how much her existence was even known to her family. Lockwood’s wife does not appear to have been alive for much or all of Maisie’s life (the family photo album contains a picture of a young toddler playing with her grandmother, but this photo was more likely of Charlotte than Maisie). Carroll was her main caretaker, as Lockwood’s health slowly declined.

By the beginning of the 2010s, Lockwood had hired an estate executor named Eli Mills to manage his fortune and the Lockwood Foundation. Mills eventually learned that Maisie was a clone, though Maisie herself was never told. Lockwood did not so much as allow Maisie to look at photographs of her mother for fear that she might discover her identity before she was ready. Mills was taught that Maisie was Sir Benjamin’s doing, as per the secondary cover story. In this way, Lockwood implicated himself in order to protect both his daughter and granddaughter.

Lockwood was, however, entirely open about his own past. Many years ago, he was one of the founders of International Genetic Technologies, Inc. along with Dr. John Parker Alfred Hammond. They had collaborated to build a safari park called Jurassic Park on the island of Isla Nublar in the East Pacific Ocean near Costa Rica, using advanced genetic engineering techniques to bring to life animals and plants that had gone extinct millions of years ago. Maisie grew up learning about how these dinosaurian facsimiles had been engineered into existence, and spent her days playing in the mansion’s library and diorama room. She would often hide within the dinosaur dioramas and behind fossil displays, pretending to be a predatory creature in the ancient past (much to the consternation of Carroll, who was often the target of her “attacks”). Lockwood strongly encouraged Maisie’s love of dinosaurs, which she shared with her late mother.

Before Maisie was born, InGen had succeeded in creating a second de-extinction theme park on top of the ruins of the old one. Called Jurassic World, this park was operating at its peak when Maisie was born and Lockwood got involved with it again during her early childhood. Although her mother had visited the original Jurassic Park’s construction site before the Park closed prematurely, Maisie was never able to visit Jurassic World because she could not safely go out in public. This did not stop her from dreaming of one day seeing a real dinosaur in person.

Jurassic World closed to the public permanently on December 22, 2015 due to a severe breach of security that resulted in numerous deaths. Maisie would have been six years old at the time, and so she was probably shielded from the more grisly aspects of the incident by Lockwood and the estate staff members. Over the ensuing months, many people came to the manor, including dozens of scientists and security staff. They, and the equipment they brought, disappeared into the sub-basement; most of them did not work in the manor itself. Maisie must have assumed that they worked for her grandfather, but in reality, he did not know they were there. These included Dr. Henry Wu, an evolutionary geneticist. Maisie did not know him, but he was the man responsible for virtually all of Jurassic World’s creatures.

2018 incident

All was not well on Isla Nublar following its abandonment. Beginning in 2017, volcanic activity increased on the island, threatening the lives of animals living there. Political controversies raged over whether or not the island’s inhabitants were worth saving; Lockwood was firmly of the opinion that humanity had an obligation to protect its creations, and Maisie adopted the same sentiments as her own. Lockwood predicted that the U.S. and Costa Rican governments would allow the dinosaurs to die, and so came up with a plan of his own to illegally move the dinosaurs to Sanctuary Island where they would be separated from human influence. Maisie, who turned ten years old in 2018 when these plans were formulated, spent much time around Lockwood’s diorama of Sanctuary, envisioning the dinosaurs living in peace. Lockwood assured her that her mother would have wanted the same thing.

Maisie Lockwood, age 10 (2018)

On June 22, 2018, the U.S. government announced that no action would be taken regarding Isla Nublar’s imperiled animals, just as Lockwood had predicted. Mills had been tasked with hiring personnel to move the dinosaurs to safety. As soon as the government’s non-action policy was announced, Lockwood summoned Claire Dearing, the head of the Dinosaur Protection Group, to his estate to discuss the mission with Mills and himself. Maisie was supposed to keep herself hidden from outsiders, but still chose to listen in on Dearing and Mills discussing the operation from the library balcony above the diorama room. She was spotted by Dearing and retreated from sight; Mills covered for her by giving the usual explanation of her being Lockwood’s granddaughter.

The rescue mission departed the following morning, on June 23. Maisie eagerly awaited news of the dinosaurs’ safe arrival to their new home, intruding on Mills’s study at around midday to ask how the rescue was going. She was shocked when he acted surprisingly angry at her intrusion, though he quickly calmed down and assured her everything was fine. Maisie left his study as he asked, but began to suspect that he was not telling the truth.

Later that day, a stranger came to the manor. The man, named Gunnar Eversoll, visited with Mills to ask where the dinosaurs were. Maisie had continued to listen in on Mills to figure out what was really happening out at sea, and overheard him talking with Eversoll about selling the dinosaurs for money instead of releasing them onto a safe island. She saw them depart in an elevator using a secure code to reach the sub-basement laboratory, where she knew her grandfather had once performed the research necessary to create the dinosaurs. Maisie tried to warn Lockwood that Mills was betraying them, but Lockwood reassured her that she had probably misheard.

Maisie, however, was not reassured at all. The following day, she sought to uncover evidence of Mills’s plot and prove that he was going to sell the dinosaurs. She recalled the security code Mills had used to access the sub-basement and entered it in, heading to the bottom floor. There she found the laboratory; the staff was not there yet, with the place practically empty. She looked through the lab for evidence. Among it, she found a computer terminal that Wu had been using to study Jurassic World’s I.B.R.I.S. Project, a program that InGen had used to research the highly intelligent Velociraptor. She learned about the project’s most intelligent raptor, a dinosaur named Blue, who was raised by a man called Owen Grady along with her three sisters.

While she was watching the videos, distracted from her mission, she overheard Mills approaching with another man. She hid, sneaking away through the lab as Mills and Wu walked through arguing about their work. Maisie overheard Wu complaining that their “prototype” needed a mother, and that they needed to use a raptor to teach this mysterious prototype empathy and loyalty. As she continued to try and evade them, she strayed into a dark corner of the sub-basement and crossed a safety line near a cage. From within, a creature reached out and gently touched her hair, causing her to whirl around in alarm. A bizarre, emaciated dinosaur screeched at her as she screamed, apparently delighting in frightening her. She fled from the unknown creature, running into Mills. She demanded to know what manner of animal the dinosaur was, since she had never seen or heard of anything like it, but he took her to her room and locked her inside to keep her from telling Lockwood of what she had found. Carroll was instructed to keep Maisie locked in, and though she was baffled by his order, she did not dare defy him.

Spending the day locked in her room, Maisie had a few hours to mull over what she had learned so far. One, Mills did not intend to save the dinosaurs, but to sell them instead. Two, he and Wu had created a frightful dinosaur like nothing she had ever seen, and it was living in her basement. Three, Wu and Mills were not satisfied with their monster, and wanted a mother to raise more of them. Four, this mother needed to be a raptor that could teach it empathy, and the I.B.R.I.S. raptor Blue from the video logs was said to show that trait better than any other. From what she had seen and overheard, Maisie now had a rough idea of what Mills and Wu were planning: by betraying Lockwood and using his money to capture the dinosaurs, they could sell them all to make an even bigger fortune, and with Blue as a mother figure they could create a new generation of monsters that understood loyalty—though for what sinister purpose, she could not know.

That night, the mansion became swarmed with vehicles arriving from outside. Some, a convoy of huge trucks carrying dinosaurs in crates, went to a loading dock to send the captured creatures into the sub-basement’s lowest level. Others, a fleet of cars arriving to the front, delivered passengers who were greeted by Mills and Eversoll. Maisie was able to unlock her room by pushing the key out of the lock and onto a piece of paper which she could pull under the door, but Carroll had been replaced by an unfamiliar man who blocked the stairway. Not wanting to be caught, Maisie instead climbed out from the balcony overlooking the mansion’s entrance, shimmying across the high outer walls to her grandfather’s bedroom.

When she entered to warn him of the new arrivals, she was horrified to find that he was dead. She took from him a photograph of her mother and Carroll from many years ago, the first picture of her mother she had ever seen. She heard someone approaching and hid inside the dumbwaiter, narrowly avoiding Mills as he entered the room. Mills summoned Carroll, dismissing her from service at the manor and asserting that he was Maisie’s caretaker now. Inside the dumbwaiter, Maisie realized that the last trustworthy adult she knew was now being forced out of her home, leaving her alone with Mills and his men. She used the dumbwaiter to escape to the sub-basement.

Arriving in the lowest level of the building, she left the dumbwaiter only to run into two more outsiders. One was Claire Dearing, the woman who had agreed to help save the dinosaurs. The other was Owen Grady, who she recognized from the I.B.R.I.S. videos in the lab. She tried to run from them at first, not knowing whether she could trust them, but stopped before taking the dumbwaiter back upstairs. The adults coaxed her back out, Grady promising that they were both here to help the dinosaurs and stop Mills’s auction. Since Grady had raised the raptors from the videos, Maisie understood that he would want to protect Blue from harm, so she decided he and Dearing were telling the truth. She told them that her grandfather was dead, and they promised they would get her out of the mansion and to safety.

Placing her trust in Grady and Dearing, she helped them navigate the building’s maze of maintenance corridors that ran behind the scenes. They made their way to the garage, which had been retrofitted into an auction hall where the dinosaurs were being sold. To her horror, the monster from the basement was brought out: it was introduced as the Indoraptor, and its purpose was finally revealed. Once the new generation was bred, they would be sold off as living weapons, trained to kill with precision and accuracy. The situation became even more dire when attendees began to bid on the creature. While Dearing kept Maisie safe in the maintenance corridor above the auction hall, Grady disrupted the auction and stopped the Indoraptor from being taken out of the mansion. He rejoined Maisie and Dearing and the three resumed their escape.

They were confronted by Mills and his armed guards as they tried to flee through the corridor. Dearing and Grady immediately protected Maisie, though Mills assured them that they could never understand her needs the way he did. He told them about Maisie’s origins, the fact that she was a clone of her mother created through artificial means. Before this could fully sink in, Mills’s guards were attacked and killed by the Indoraptor, which had somehow escaped. Mills fled for his life while Maisie ran the opposite direction with her newfound friends.

The creature encountered them again as they stumbled across its trail of carnage in the diorama room. They managed to get to the second floor with the Indoraptor in hot pursuit, hiding in a closet while it listened for them and tried to sniff them out. They sneaked into the displays back on the first floor, turning the lights off to hinder the Indoraptor‘s hunt. When they had made it part of the way through, the power unexpectedly reset and turned the lights back on. Maisie spotted the Indoraptor on the other side of the glass, the creature having found them, and barely avoided as it broke into the display. Dearing was wounded, but Maisie escaped and her screams lured the Indoraptor away from her friends. She fled upstairs as the animal chased after her, using another dumbwaiter to reach her bedroom where she locked the door and hid.

For a few minutes, she was safe in her bed, but the Indoraptor soon appeared from the balcony. It figured out how to open the doors, approaching her slowly and deliberately, relishing in the fear it caused her. As it reached for her one final time, Grady broke into the room and confronted the beast, drawing its attention away. Even his gunshots had little effect, as the animal’s dense skin protected it. They were then joined by Blue, who leapt into defense of her father figure. Grady took Maisie out of the way of the ensuing fight, though the Indoraptor kept making efforts to reach her. Blue relentlessly pummeled her larger foe, and as its attention was split between Blue and Maisie, it could not focus enough to properly attack either of them.

Maisie led Grady out her trusted escape path from the balcony across the building’s front. Before they could make it to one of the other rooms, they were forced down onto the roof over the diorama room as the Indoraptor was knocked out a window and resumed pursuit. Grady and Maisie took shelter on the diorama room’s sun roof, but due to a thunderstorm they nearly fell from the edge. Grady managed to protect Maisie from a dangerous fall off the roof. The dinosaur carefully made its way toward them, being careful not to step on the glass and break through the sun roof’s windows. It was distracted by Dearing, who used a gun it had been trained to obey; she instructed it to leap in Grady’s direction, causing it to land on the glass as he dodged it. The creature clambered back to safety, but was ambushed by Blue. Their combined weight broke the metal supports of the sun roof and they both fell through, the Indoraptor landing on a fossil display where it sustained devastating injuries and quickly died from them.

From here, the three joined with Dearing’s colleagues Zia Rodriguez and Franklin Webb to assess the situation. They were informed of a second disaster unfolding beneath the manor: deadly hydrogen cyanide gas had leaked from the upper level of the lab due to an explosion, and was now seeping into the lowest level where the dinosaurs were kept. Maisie was brought back to the lab and finally witnessed the dinosaurs of Isla Nublar in person, but it was not the meeting she had anticipated. With a few minutes at most before the gas began killing them, Dearing at first released the dinosaurs from their cages, but Grady cautioned her against opening the lab’s larger vehicle access doors that led to outside. While it was a painful decision to make, Dearing ultimately decided after all her efforts to allow the dinosaurs to succumb rather than risk the unpredictable consequences of letting them run free.

Maisie, however, had just experienced by far the worst day of her life, and was not willing to watch her beloved dinosaurs die. She made the executive decision to release the frightened animals, allowing them to escape extinction and flee into the wild. While she understood that the adults would never have made the same decision, she genuinely believed that it was the only moral choice to make.

The five survivors left the manor by the front gates as the last dinosaurs were leaving the area. Grady attempted to convince Blue to come with them to safety, but Blue chose to depart and live in the wild instead. Maisie comforted Grady, understanding his feeling of loss.

Life in hiding

Maisie was taken north along U.S. Route 101 by Dearing and Grady following the events of June 24, seeing the outside world for the first time. Already, the signs of change were around them; as they traveled north along the coast, they were accompanied by a small group of Pteranodons for part of the way.

Grady would travel with Dearing and Maisie, evading the authorities and other interested parties, until finally settling down in a cabin in the Sierra Nevadas. Realizing Maisie’s status as a clone made her very potentially vulnerable to unscrupulous people, Grady attempted to create a makeshift family unit for the three of them. He and Dearing would set rules for Maisie, that she could not leave the immediate vicinity of the cabin. While not shown directly, Dearing and Grady may have participated in homeschooling Maisie as she could not attend a traditional school. This state of affairs continued for four years.

By the early months of 2022, Maisie had become completely fed up with her situation. She was now fourteen years old, on the cusp of discovering who she was as a person, but had spent the opening years of her adolescence hiding from the government and chasing after dinosaurs after losing her entire family and her home. She was not turning out to be what one might call a normal teenager. She could not attend school, see friends in person, or engage with contemporary culture in any direct way. She also became quite aware of how the world might view her, especially after information about her existence became widespread public knowledge. Maisie was viewed by the public as nothing more than Charlotte Lockwood’s clone, a fascinating yet abhorrent science experiment; she expressed feelings of not being a real person. Believing her creation to have been a selfishly emotional act on the part of her grandfather, she felt as though her existence was not truly justified. She longed to know who her mother had really been. All throughout her childhood she had been a kind of replacement for Charlotte, but she had never truly been allowed to know Charlotte, which left her with no guidance as to what sort of person she might want to grow up to be. The Lockwood family photo album, one of the few keepsakes from her old home she had managed to retrieve before fleeing, was her sole link to her mother’s life.

Dearing and Grady were trying their best, and Maisie understood this, but their abundance of caution grated on her too. They were also the only people around for her to lash out at, and so she did, and often. She had the run of Grady’s remote property, but the only road away from the cabin was off-limits. Beyond an old disused truss bridge was a small logging town, and Maisie was not allowed to go past that bridge. The town, however, fascinated her. The people in town were not wealthy or powerful, yet they were still allowed more freedom than she had ever been granted, and she would sometimes take her bicycle and sneak into town under her adoptive parents’ noses. Maisie was careful, knowing that her mother’s face had been on the news, but considered these brief tastes of a normal life to be worth the risk. The townsfolk were curious about this strange homeschooled girl from the woodlands, but she told them little about herself.

Her parents were often away, and it was during these times that she would most often sneak off. Dearing was still involved with the underground dinosaur-rights movement, traveling with Rodriguez, Webb, and other allies to document evidence of animal cruelty and free abused dinosaurs. She, like Maisie, was a person of interest, so she had to keep her profile minimal as well. Grady, who had not been associated with the 2018 incident, was the only one who could safely go out in public, so he got a job with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. His expertise in handling dinosaurs was now a great asset to the service as they struggled to deal with unfamiliar animals appearing in the country.

The dinosaurs’ situation was changing too. After years of chaos, a company called Biosyn Genetics had risen to the forefront and was given the right to collect any dinosaurs captured in the United States; most of the animals Grady rounded up would end up sent to Biosyn property in Italy. According to the company, the dinosaurs were valuable for medical research, so they were allowed to live in a pristine sanctuary far from civilization. Not all of the dinosaurs were headed overseas to safety, though. Plenty were still in the wild, and news reports told of a blossoming black market—although Mills had died, the criminal trade he had dabbled in was alive and well without him. Many of the dinosaurs he had sold were now being trafficked around the world.

2022 incidents

One winter day, Maisie returned from one of her secret trips into town—in which she advised local mill workers in relocating a pair of Apatosaurus—to find that Dearing had returned home from a secretive trip of her own, burning old blankets. She denied having been up to anything, though Maisie knew this was an obvious lie. Maisie, too, tried to deny that she had sneaked into town, but could not hide the truth either. Dearing confronted her, reprimanding her risk-taking behavior but trying to comfort Maisie in her struggle for a sense of self. That night, Grady sat around the campfire with her, teaching her proper knife-handling techniques; at Dearing’s prompting, he tried to talk to her about sneaking into town too, but his direct approach put her on the defensive and she stormed off. She spent the night looking through her photo album, wondering if she could ever learn what kind of person she was meant to be, or if she had any choice in the matter.

In the morning, she ate breakfast outdoors, and there she encountered a dinosaur. She knew that Blue was still living in the woods nearby, though Grady had not seen her nest; Blue sometimes kept an eye on the family. But this small raptor was not Blue, though she greatly resembled her. Maisie suspected that Blue might be this little creature’s mother, though she did not understand how that would be possible when no other raptors lived nearby. She fed the inquisitive raptor some of her toast, but was suddenly confronted by Blue herself, who summoned her daughter back to her side and behaved defensively. Grady, who had spotted the scene unfolding, quickly came outside to calm Blue down. Using the techniques he had mastered in the I.B.R.I.S. Project, he convinced Blue to back off, and the raptor departed into the woods with her daughter. Grady was concerned about both Maisie and his dinosaurs now: with hunting season having started, Blue and her daughter could be easily targeted by poachers. Grady left in haste to locate Blue’s nest, and though Maisie insisted on going with him, he told her to stay at the cabin for her safety.

Put out at being denied the opportunity to help the dinosaurs she loved so much, Maisie took her bike and opted to head into town to blow off steam. Dearing tried to confront her, but Maisie was too frustrated to listen; declaring that Dearing was not her real mother, she headed off down the road.

When she reached the bridge, she found that a car was parked there, blocking the way across. Maisie had never seen anyone come up this way except the occasional hunter, so the appearance of a woman in professional dress stepping out of a car clearly built for cities rather than dirt roads was both strange and suspicious. The woman, who Maisie would later learn was named Carolyn O’Hara, knew who Maisie was and requested that she come with her. At first Maisie had no interest in obeying and was ready to turn around and head home, but she found her escape route was blocked too: a beaten-up truck occupied by a rowdier gang, led by the poacher Rainn Delacourt, pulled onto the bridge coming down the road from the woods. Noises from the truck bed suggested a captured dinosaur in tow.

The junior novelization describes O’Hara claiming to be a U.S. government official tasked with safely retrieving Maisie and getting her to a proper home, whereas the film implies that Delacourt played a role in forcing Maisie to go with O’Hara. Whatever actually transpired, Maisie was put in the car with O’Hara and her driver, being told by the woman that she would be brought someplace safe, and Delacourt disposed of Maisie’s bike by throwing it into the river to dispose of the evidence.

Despite O’Hara’s promise of safety, Maisie remained deeply suspicious as she was driven to an airstrip and flown out from California on a small airplane. The flight was many hours long, not landing at its destination until the following morning. When it touched down, Maisie could tell they were no longer in the United States. In fact, they were no longer in the Western Hemisphere at all: they had landed just north of Valletta, the capital city of the island nation of Malta. Upon taking note of this, Maisie quickly suspected that O’Hara was not an appointed authority of any sort, and that what was happening now was something more sinister. O’Hara maintained that Maisie was indeed being brought to safety, but her reassurances were unconvincing. Maisie was removed from the plane and presented to a mysterious blonde woman, who Maisie would later learn was the black-market crime lord Soyona Santos. Though Maisie was resistant to joining Santos’s underlings in their vehicle, she was given no choice. As she slowly approached, she noticed an animal crate being moved to an older plane, and the noises coming from it sounded like a juvenile raptor. Clearly Blue’s daughter (who Maisie had begun to think of as Beta) had been brought here too, no doubt for the black market.

Surrounded by armed men and in an unfamiliar country, Maisie’s sheltered life was now abruptly brought to an end. She looked around for anyone who might help as she made her way toward Santos. She briefly made eye contact with the pilot of the plane taking Beta, but while the woman looked unnerved by Maisie’s presence at the illegal hand-off point, she did not take any action to stop the kidnapping.

Maisie was driven through Valletta to a private airfield within the port city, and she was mildly surprised to see a jet waiting for them bearing the Biosyn logo. Unsure what the international biotechnology corporation would want with her, but knowing it must have something to do with her being a clone, Maisie was again forced to board and was flown north out from Malta toward Biosyn’s headquarters in northeastern Italy, far into the Dolomite Mountains.

Arriving to Biosyn Valley around midday, Maisie was transported into the headquarters and taken down to Sublevel 6, a restricted area where only certain scientists were permitted. Here she was greeted by none other than Henry Wu—though the scientist looked worse for wear, appearing disheveled, disheartened, and desperate. Despite this, he greeted Maisie warmly as he would an old friend, expressing regret that he had to acquire her this way. Maisie, understandably, was not so friendly with Wu, the man who had hidden in her home and created monsters in her basement.

After the Lockwood Manor incident, Wu had been out of options, and was taken in by Biosyn’s CEO Lewis Dodgson. In the past, Biosyn had competed with InGen for advances in genetic engineering technology, but Wu had always kept InGen a step ahead. Now with InGen shuttered, Biosyn was the top company in its field. When Wu had been brought into Biosyn, they had already gotten de-extinction technology thanks to Mills’s auction and their own independent illegal dealings, but Dodgson had wanted Wu for something more.

Now, Wu told Maisie a deeper secret about herself. She was indeed a clone of Charlotte Lockwood, but not created by her grandfather out of grief as Mills had claimed. Instead, she had been created in secret by Charlotte herself, who had not died in a car crash but due to a genetic disorder. Maisie, as a clone of Charlotte, had also inherited the same disorder, but she no longer was at risk: Charlotte had developed a revolutionary form of viral vector vaccine, using gene therapy to transform Maisie’s biology and eradicate any risk of the disease. Forced to work in secret due to the illegality of human cloning, Charlotte had only been able to produce one dose, using it on Maisie rather than herself. Wu had also orchestrated the kidnapping of Beta, who was also brought to Biosyn headquarters. Wu explained that Beta, like Maisie, was a genetic copy of her mother; Blue had been engineered with genes from a lizard that could reproduce without mating using a naturally-occurring form of cloning.

Wu then explained to Maisie why he needed them both: he had been responsible for a disaster of greater scope than anything he had done with the dinosaurs. Biosyn had employed him in Hexapod Allies, a program that was meant to revolutionize agriculture by using genetically-engineered insects to spread genetic modifications to crops. He showed Maisie the carcass of an enormous locust, and revealed how Dodgson had released a swarm into the American Midwest to test it before Wu was ready. The insects turned out to be hardier, more fertile, and longer-lived than Wu had expected, and now they were devouring cropland across the country—and were spreading to other parts of the world.

While poring through old research data from Site B, InGen’s production facility on faraway Isla Sorna, in desperate hope for inspiration, he had come across some of Charlotte Lockwood’s video logs. Charlotte had lived on Isla Sorna during her childhood and was tutored by Wu, learning genetics from him and InGen’s other scientists. This was where Charlotte’s love of dinosaurs had come from, and why she eventually became a geneticist herself. She had worked at Site B right until it was shut down during a hurricane. After the storm and InGen’s troubled years, Charlotte had pursued research on her own, studying human cloning to develop new medical treatments. While InGen worked on Jurassic World in the ensuing years, Charlotte pursued groundbreaking genetic medicine, and in the course of her research, Maisie was created. Wu learned all this from the video logs, and about the vaccine Charlotte had developed to save Maisie’s life. Try as he might, though, Wu could not replicate Charlotte’s methods, and so he had turned to more extreme measures. Maisie contained the secret of Charlotte’s work in her very DNA. Beta would act as a control group, allowing Wu to compare their genomes and determine what sections of Maisie’s DNA were natural and which were Charlotte’s handiwork. While Wu stepped out to meet with Dodgson, he allowed Maisie to continue viewing Charlotte’s video logs and Wu’s own research notes.

This was, putting it lightly, a lot for Maisie to take in all at once.

After so many years, she had finally made a real connection with her mother, only to learn that it was Charlotte and not Sir Benjamin whose whims had brought her into existence. Now she had been kidnapped by a man who had been Charlotte’s teacher and friend, but who Maisie only knew as a villain, and he expected Maisie to participate in his research in order to avert a global famine that he had made possible. Overwhelmed, unwilling to trust Wu or Dodgson, and fed up with the powerlessness she had become so acutely aware of during these past few years, Maisie took a wristband ID from a desk and freed Beta, allowing them both to escape. Alarms blared, and Wu begged for Maisie to come back, but she had already slipped away down a ventilation shaft like she would have done with the dumbwaiters in her childhood home. Beta fled with her, both of them descending to Sublevel 8 and its maze of water treatment systems where they could evade Biosyn’s security guards.

Not long after, Maisie returned to Sublevel 6 to make an escape attempt, but came across an unexpected scene. Two older scientists had stumbled out of the lab where Wu had raised the locusts, a few insects escaping alongside them. She recognized them from the stories about Jurassic Park her grandfather had told: they were Drs. Ellie Sattler and Alan Grant. Maisie introduced herself as well, easily recognizing that these two scientists were not supposed to be here either. An enemy of Biosyn’s was a friend to Maisie, and so she joined them, seeking a way to evade Dodgson and his minions. They fled to a hyperloop station in order to access the Biosyn airfield outside the valley.

Before they could gain access, they were approached by a Biosyn representative named Ramsay Cole, who had apparently been chaperoning the scientists around on a tour of the facilities. Maisie hid behind a pile of supplies while Sattler and Grant played it off as though they had gotten lost during their tour, but Cole quickly revealed that he was actually on their side and wanted to help them expose Hexapod Allies. He had worked with another Jurassic Park veteran, Ian Malcolm, to get Sattler and Grant into the facility so they could find evidence against Biosyn. It had been Cole who recognized Dodgson’s corruption in the first place. He got them access to the hyperloop pod to escape and advised them of a plane waiting to take them back to the United States, and Grant encouraged Maisie to come out of hiding and join them. Cole was shocked that Maisie was in the facility, evidently having been totally unaware of Wu’s plot to kidnap her for research.

Upon boarding the hyperloop pod, Maisie finally had a moment to gather up her thoughts. After a day and a half of harrowing experiences, she had met allies, and people who had known John Hammond like her grandfather did. As they talked and shared their stories, Dr. Sattler revealed that she had also met Charlotte Lockwood when she came to lecture at the university where Sattler worked. This was not long before Charlotte passed away, but they had become close friends, and Sattler was able to reassure Maisie that she was far more than an experiment. Charlotte had truly wanted a child, and had expressed to Sattler her desire for any child of hers to live a full life. Maisie came to understand that Charlotte had never thought of Maisie as simple research. She had genuinely loved her like any caring parent, knowingly giving up her own life so that Maisie would have a chance at one.

As they traveled west toward the airfield, the pod suddenly shut down, coasting to a stop at a disused subterranean station. They found themselves in the abandoned amber mines, where Biosyn had once fruitlessly tried to recover ancient DNA the way InGen had done. Maisie was hesitant to leave the pod, fearing that there might be threats lurking in the dark, but Grant assured her that they needed to keep moving. The pod was shut off and not easily defensible, and besides, they had Dr. Sattler, who he praised as the best person to lead them out of a bad situation. Maisie, convinced, joined them as they found tools to light their way and proceeded through the mines in search of an exit. Along the way, Sattler fretted about having brought Grant into danger, and Grant revealed that he was happier being in peril by her side than he would have been fading into obscurity in a career no one cared about anymore. Maisie assumed that they were in a relationship and asked if they had children together; awkwardly, they revealed that Sattler had children, but with someone else, and claimed to be nothing more than good friends. Maisie found this latter statement doubtful, openly questioning whether they were telling the truth about their feelings.

After a while of searching, they detected a breeze, suggesting there was an exit nearby. Grant climbed a ladder to a higher cave shelf, but when his torch was passed up to him, he gave a yell and lost his grip, falling and hitting his head. Thankfully he was not badly injured, but the cause of his alarm quickly became clear. The chamber they had entered was the home of several Dimetrodons, which turned aggressive at the intruders. Maisie, Sattler, and Grant fled down a different cave, following a mine cart track that would hopefully lead to the exit. They managed to find the way out, but it was barred shut and electronically locked. Outside, a Jeep Gladiator pulled up and Sattler’s other ally Dr. Ian Malcolm emerged, rushing to their aid. While Maisie and the paleontologists struggled to hold off the angry animals, Malcolm struggled to guess the code to the lock. After several failed attempts, it opened, and Maisie, Sattler, and Grant escaped into the open, shutting the door before any of the carnivorous creatures could follow. Relieved to have escaped with all their limbs intact, the group boarded Malcolm’s Gladiator and sought out an overland escape route.

As they crossed the valley northeastward at high speed, they witnessed a strange and frightening phenomenon. The night sky was turning bright again, and what looked like a burning cloud spread overhead. As this turned to a rain of fire, it became clear what was really happening: a swarm of hybrid locusts had escaped from the lab. Sattler reasoned that Dodgson had tried to incinerate them to destroy evidence of his crime, but his botched attempt had allowed the insects to escape, and now they had become a living inferno. The whole valley was endangered by Dodgson’s rash actions, including the four humans trying to escape with their lives.

The burning insect carcasses pelted the forest in the hundreds and then the thousands, setting fires centered around headquarters in the northeast—which was unfortunately where Malcolm needed to drive them. As a dead locust landed on the hood of the Gladiator, his view was obscured and he nearly drove them over a steep embankment. With the front right side of the vehicle dangling over the ledge, Maisie suggested that they all lean to the left; despite this effort, the conditions surrounding them were anything but stable, and the Gladiator took a tumble downhill. Mercifully they were only stunned by the crash, and not badly injured, having rolled to a stop near Biosyn Research Outpost 04.

Maisie noticed three other people standing near the outpost, silhouetted by the fire. One she did not immediately recognize, but two were unmistakable. Owen Grady and Claire Dearing were somehow here, having come halfway around the world to rescue her. She called for help, and they quickly realized their daughter was in the Gladiator and came to her aid. She and her three scientist allies were pulled from the wreck, Maisie’s family joyfully reunited. Sattler, Grant, and Malcolm were thanked for their help. Maisie finally recognized her parents’ traveling companion as the pilot from Valletta who had taken Beta, and learned that her name was Kayla Watts. It was evidently thanks to her that Dearing and Grady had been able to trespass into Biosyn Valley, and Maisie expressed her gratitude.

Now a group of seven, they had more hands and minds to find a way out safely. Watts had been trying to break them into the outpost but had lacked a tool for the job; if they could get inside, they would be able to use the hyperloop tunnels to access headquarters safely and find a way to escape. The right tools would be in the Gladiator. Before they could get to work, though, they heard the sound of something large approaching, and a gargantuan theropod dinosaur entered the clearing chasing after dying locusts as they fluttered to the ground. Grant identified it as a Giganotosaurus, the largest of the theropods, and now its predatory gaze was focused on them.

As the dinosaur approached, more investigative than hostile at first, they all hid behind the overturned Gladiator. Maisie stuck close to her parents. Together they slowly made their way around, trying not to provoke the huge carnivore into attacking with any sudden movements. Once they were close enough, Watts made for the outpost ladder with a crowbar in hand to pry the door open. Maisie was ushered along behind her urgently by the others, all the adults in unspoken agreement to protect her first. But as she clambered up after Watts, the Giganotosaurus made its move too, charging her. Its massive maw clamped around a protective cage around the ladder’s upper half, sparing Maisie from certain death, but she was frozen in terror, surrounded by teeth. Watts tried to embolden her into climbing the last few rungs, but Maisie’s fear kept her immobilized. Suddenly the fasteners on the cage broke, causing the dinosaur to pull away before its jaws could crush the cage and Maisie within. Snapped out of her paralysis, Maisie rushed the rest of the way up the ladder, followed quickly by Dearing. Grady stayed on the ground to ensure that everyone else made it up safely before he followed too.

On the catwalk platform outside the outpost, Watts led them in their break-in attempt, but the dinosaur soon had them cornered. They were now at level with its head, and it closed in on Watts, Maisie, and Dearing. With nowhere to run, they were done for—but the animal was suddenly distracted by something in the corner of its vision. Malcolm was still on the ground, having hidden inside the Gladiator rather than flee up the ladder, and he had impaled a still-burning dead locust on some debris and was waving it like a flare. The Giganotosaurus approached, forgetting about the outpost for a moment, and loomed over Malcolm. At the last second, the mathematician threw his makeshift flare like a javelin, sticking in the back of the theropod’s opened mouth and scorching its throat. As it roared in anger and pain, Malcolm joined the others, Grant helping him up the ladder. Watts got the outpost open and they all piled inside. Grady, once again, lingered behind to ensure the others were all safe.

The dinosaur was not quite done with them yet. Maisie was the first to notice as it reared up its head behind Grady, and it was her facial expression that gave him the split-second warning to get out of the way as the animal’s snout forced its way through the glass. In the chaos, the dinosaur’s teeth snagged a cable which had gotten wrapped around Dearing’s leg, and she was pulled into danger. Grady sprang to her aid, cutting the cable and stabbing at the theropod’s snout with his hunting knife. Maisie pitched in, retrieving Watts’s taser and passing it to Dearing so she could defend herself. Finally the dinosaur was hit with tranquilizer darts from a rifle Watts armed herself with, and discouraged, it stalked off to find easier prey.

Now that the danger had passed, everyone took a few minutes to get their bearings, treat each other’s injuries, recover their energy, and share what they knew about the situation. Sattler, Malcolm, and Grant had conspired to steal evidence of Biosyn’s complicity in the locust plague, which was vital in taking legal action against the corporation. Protecting the evidence they had collected was vital. Grady, Dearing, and Watts had come to rescue Maisie, but upon learning that Beta was also at headquarters, this became a part of their mission too; Grady had promised Blue that he would get her daughter home alongside Maisie, and he was not about to betray the trust of the animal he had raised. And, of course, they had to accomplish all this and escape with their lives. Malcolm confirmed that they could not reach help using the outpost’s phone, since the forest fire had damaged the valley’s infrastructure and pushed its power grid past its limits. This also meant that the hyperloop system was shut down, so they had to walk through the tunnels rather than catch a ride. As a silver lining, though, the tunnels would be free of animals and fire, making it the safest part of their journey yet.

The situation in the valley had worsened by the time they reached headquarters. Smaller wildfires had now combined into a vast, raging inferno, prompting emergency measures to be implemented. Biosyn’s staff had been evacuated to shelters, and the dinosaurs were being remotely herded to an underground bunker. The control room was abandoned. Dearing recognized the valley’s operating system as one originally designed by InGen for Jurassic World, and found ease in navigating it. To escape the facility, they would take a helicopter, since Watts knew how to fly one. However, this would be easier said than done. Biosyn had implemented a beacon system to deter flying animals from approaching aircraft, but with so many systems down, this security measure was offline too. Dearing encountered an error message while trying to reboot the Aerial Deterrent System, and they were now joined again by Ramsay Cole, who informed them that the reboot command would not execute because there was not enough power to run the ADS while keeping the primary system online. To override this, they would have to manually shut down the primary system from the server room.

A plan took form. Cole and Malcolm would coordinate from the control room as Dearing and Sattler shut down the primary system to requisition power for the ADS, and Watts would go off to the helipad on her own to get their escape vehicle. There was still the matter of rescuing Beta before they made their bid for freedom, and Maisie pointed out the water treatment center on Sublevel 8 where she and Beta had evaded their captors. In all likelihood Beta was still holed up down there. This time, Grady had no protest against bringing Maisie with him to save the young raptor, and they managed to convince Grant to accompany them too, valuing his expertise with raptors. The group split into teams.

Maisie, Grady, and Grant descended to the water treatment facility, tracking signs of Beta’s presence. Grant warned them about a raptor’s likely attack patterns, ensuring that they kept their eyes peeled; his wariness unnerved Maisie, but she still paid heed. Grady tracked Beta down before long, and the raptor reacted defensively, still stressed from her ordeal. She alternately threatened them with aggressive posturing and darted in and out of cover, making it a challenge for Grady to stick her with a tranquilizer dart. Maisie, having watched Grady’s techniques, put these lessons to use. Using her hand to mimic the shape of a dominant raptor, and lining up this hand between Beta’s line of sight and Maisie’s own eyes, she struck an authoritative pose and captured Beta’s attention. Grady was impressed, and advised Grant to do likewise. Between him and Maisie, Beta was cowed into standing still, and Grady was able to get a fix on the veins in her neck. Beta broke free of her instinctual submission and charged Grant, the oldest and most vulnerable, but Grady had already taken aim. She was hit with a dart, knocked over by the force of the impact and succumbing to the effects of the drug.

They returned to the control room with Beta in tow, and with Maisie having demonstrated her newfound capability with the skills she was learning from her adoptive parents. She had now proven herself to Grady, and he finally came to realize that as she grew up she would need to be given a level of independence befitting her maturity. She was no longer as scared or vulnerable as she had been at the manor, cowering from monsters in the basement. She was becoming old enough to face the things that lived in the dark, and with help, overcome them.

Dearing and Sattler had succeeded at rerouting power to the ADS, and they prepared to meet Watts for evacuation. As they did, though, they suddenly encountered one more human straggler. It was Henry Wu, begging to be taken with them so that he could undo the damage his work at Biosyn had caused. He needed Maisie and Beta; he could not do it without their help, and he was willing to give himself up to the authorities if that was what it would take. Most of the group was openly willing to leave the disgraced scientist behind, and Grady even threatened him with his tranquilizer gun. Maisie, as she had done four years prior, made the executive decision to change the outcome of this conflict. She had decided what kind of person she wanted to be. She told the adults to stand down, that she was willing to help Wu fix his mistakes. Charlotte had been Wu’s friend, and she would have chosen to give him a chance at redemption. Charlotte was not here, but Maisie could act in her stead—in fact, no one else had that privilege. She chose to act on it.

Watts had now arrived with their helicopter, but they were not out of danger yet: the dinosaurs were being herded into a bunker for their own safety, but the bunker entrance was at headquarters, meaning the frightened animals were passing right through the courtyard. Despite the risk, Watts had no choice but to land amidst them; the dinosaurs might be dangerous, but the fire was without mercy. Maisie and the others made to board the aircraft.

Before they could get there, they found their way blocked. They had drawn the attention of one of the last dinosaurs to enter the courtyard on the way to safety: an aging Tyrannosaurus rex, the oldest of her kind brought back to life. Her gaze did not linger on them for long, though, as the Giganotosaurus also entered the courtyard. The two apex predators had been forced together into a space far too small for the both of them, and there was nowhere for either to run. Biosyn’s safety protocols had created a deadly powder keg, and in moments one of these animals would set it off.

Maisie, Dearing, Grady, and Cole fled one way, while the group of older scientists ran in the opposite direction. They were beneath the great theropods’ notice, but one wrong move would get the tiny humans crushed. Maisie’s group ducked behind tree-shaped sculptures in the Biosyn courtyard to avoid being caught in the crossfire. This almost got them to safety, but suddenly the Giganotosaurus gained the upper hand in the fight, throwing its older foe onto a sculpture and toppling it. Maisie and her companions were trapped. The tyrannosaur was down, and the victor was placing all its weight onto both its fallen rival and the toppled sculpture. Metal groaned under the weight of both huge animals. If Maisie and the others stayed put, they would likely be killed when the sculpture finally broke. If they ran, the victorious Giganotosaurus would see them, and with no foe to fight, they would become a target.

At the helicopter, Kayla Watts solved both these problems at once by firing off a flare. The immense theropod was distracted by the light, stepping off the fallen tyrannosaur and the sculpture and following the light to the other end of the courtyard. It settled near a third large theropod, this one a long-armed Therizinosaurus with intimidatingly large claws. Though the herbivorous biped was blind, it was fiercely prepared to defend itself, and a new clash began. As the animals brawled, Maisie and the others were able to board the helicopter safely, and the overloaded craft lifted off with its entourage of ragtag survivors on board. A thunderstorm reached the valley as they departed, subduing the blaze, and they caught sight of the tyrannosaur regaining consciousness and making one final, fatal strike against her enemy.

Return to the United States

Landing at the airfield to the west of the valley, Maisie and her companions were met by the Italian authorities responding to the incident. Before long, international aid and press began to appear. Their injuries were treated, and they were debriefed while giving their stories in return. Wu was taken in by the authorities, but was permitted to finish his research in order to exterminate the locust swarms. Maisie allowed DNA samples to be taken. She was also happy to see that Grant and Sattler finally admitted their feelings for each other, and Cole was ensuring that the full extent of Dodgson’s corruption would be told to the world. As Maisie had her injuries tended to, a paramedic referred to Dearing and Grady as her parents; she did not correct this, knowing it was as true as it could be.

Life changed permanently for Maisie after the incident in Biosyn Valley. To start with, her existence was no longer a sheltered secret or a mysterious urban legend. She had been discovered; she could never hide from the world again. But she had also played an irreplaceable role in saving millions of lives—possibly more—around the globe, and thus had ingratiated herself to all of humanity. Her mother, too, got posthumous credit, thanks to Wu. Rather than accept the honor of having saved the world himself, he told the media that it was Charlotte’s research that had guided his own, and that she deserved to be hailed as a hero.

While becoming known to the world was complicated, life became easier for Maisie on a more personal level. She and her family helped bring Beta home to her mother, the two raptors running off into the wilds of the Sierra Nevada to live their own lives. Maisie returned home too, her relationship with Grady and Dearing having grown healthier as a result of the incident. They knew she was no longer a scared child, and that she was learning how to take care of herself. She, in turn, understood that she could always rely on them for support if she needed it, and that as she grew into a young woman she had plenty more to learn from them.

The world was open to Maisie, and the future was more unknown than ever. But she had learned much about herself and Charlotte thanks to people like her parents, Dr. Sattler, and even Dr. Wu, all of whom had provided her with guidance as she developed a sense of self. Maisie had come to understand her original family better, too, and though none of them were alive any longer, she strove to become someone who they would be proud of. All around her the world was experiencing a transition from one era to another, and so too did Maisie begin a new era of her own life.

Skills
Stealth

Living mostly alone with her grandfather and caretaker during her childhood, Maisie’s favored pastime was to sneak about her home and pretend-ambush her loved ones. This honed her stealth abilities, helped by her naturally small frame, and by the age of nine she was able to easily evade the watchful eyes of her caretaker Iris Carroll. Maisie learned all of the hidden ways through Lockwood Manor’s interior, including the maintenance corridors and dumbwaiters; by the summer of 2018, the only area that remained unknown to her was the sub-basement laboratory, which was protected by security access codes and separated from the rest of the house. She became an expert at moving stealthily and silently around, hoping to catch Carroll unawares and surprise her.

Maisie’s intimate knowledge of her home’s layout and ability to sneak through it undetected changed from a game to a survival strategy during the 2018 incident. First using her skills to investigate the plotting of her grandfather’s estate manager, she later escaped a locked room by pushing the key out from the other side and pulling it under the door using a piece of paper. Finding the way guarded, she tried a riskier method and climbed across the exterior wall of the house to her grandfather’s room. The situation became more dire following the escape of the Indoraptor, and Maisie used all her abilities to avoid the predator and reach her bedroom. While living with Grady and Dearing in rural California, she could afford to be a little more lax with sneaking around; the consequences of being caught were less dire. Still, she remembered how to actually evade capture, and used these skills to become a nightmare for Biosyn to keep contained during the 2022 incident. With her evasive maneuvers and stealth keeping her safe until help arrived during both incidents, Maisie understands the full value of these skills and will keep them honed and ready in today’s changing world.

Knowledge and skill with animals

Since her early childhood Maisie has been highly interested in animals, particularly prehistoric creatures and those that have been brought back from extinction. Growing up in the Lockwood estate allowed her the chance to learn about these creatures, both through the mansion’s private museum and library as well as her grandfather Benjamin Lockwood. As a child, Maisie already showed a fairly comprehensive understanding of prehistoric life, the geologic time periods of the Mesozoic era, and the basics of ecology (such as the fact that most animals throughout history were herbivores, with carnivores in the minority).

Since the introduction of de-extinct life into the wider world, Maisie has had more hands-on experiences with these animals. Between 2018 and 2022, she was homeschooled by her adoptive parents Claire Dearing (the former Senior Asset Manager at Jurassic World) and Owen Grady (the lead animal trainer in InGen Security’s I.B.R.I.S. Project), meaning that her education had a strongly dinosaurian emphasis. This was just the best frame of reference that Grady and Dearing had to work with, but it proved useful, especially in Northern California where the greatest number of wild dinosaurs were still living. In encounters with wild dinosaurs, Maisie has proven knowledgeable. As of 2022, her latest developed skill was how to establish authority with deinonychosaurs such as Velociraptors, which Owen Grady pioneered in the early 2010s. She has formed a connection with the parthenote raptor Beta, although this animal still lives in the wild.

Art

Crayon illustrations could be seen in Maisie’s bedroom as of 2018, indicating an interest in drawing and other forms of art. Her drawings are mostly of dinosaurs, outer space settings, and other scientific and fantasy themes. Her bedroom was uniquely decorated in a haphazard but deliberate manner, suggesting that she was responsible for its layout. In her smaller home with Grady and Dearing she also created an array of artwork, which has become increasingly refined as she grows older.

Household and outdoor skills

While living with Owen Grady and Claire Dearing, Maisie learned skills necessary for living in a rural area. Grady’s cabin was off the grid and away from civilization; he had built it here for himself, wanting to live away from people, but it proved vital to keeping Maisie away from those who might want to exploit her once the world learned about her origin. With just three people living alone and their closest neighbor being a reclusive dinosaur, Maisie could not rely on attending house staff to take care of the work and learned to contribute. She learned how to cook, chop wood, and tend to fires; Grady taught her some knife skills such as whittling. He also advised her on how to win in a knife fight, but she has not yet been seen to use his tactics.

This change in lifestyle also helped Maisie become physically stronger. Along with chopping and carrying firewood, she spends a lot of time riding her bicycle.

Views
On animal rights

Maisie’s love of animals, as well as the influence of her grandfather, greatly shaped her view on animal rights from an early age. She never visited Jurassic World, but was invested in the welfare of its animals as political debate raged over their fate. Maisie firmly believes that all creatures have the right to live, and will act to protect vulnerable animals regardless of risks. She appears to have a special fondness for theropods, particularly Tyrannosaurus rex, a popular favorite among many children. During her childhood she would sometimes pretend to be a tyrannosaur stalking prey through ancient forests.

The 2018 incident showed the extent of Maisie’s love for animals. When Isla Nublar’s dinosaurs were on the verge of death in a cloud of toxic gas, she took the initiative to release them into the wild to save them. She had just spent several minutes narrowly avoiding being killed by another dinosaur, the genetically-engineered Indoraptor, but this did not curb her empathy for the rest of the animals. Since then she has been involved in a handful of threatening situations with wild dinosaurs, but while these can be terrifying experiences, Maisie understands that these animals are following their instincts and that if she conducts herself correctly she can avoid being harmed most of the time.

Her willingness to trust other people is also greatly tied to her love of animals. She considers people who also love and care for animals to be trustworthy. Since 2018, Maisie has allied herself with the founder of the Dinosaur Protection Group, Claire Dearing, and animal handler Owen Grady.

On herself as a clone

Maisie Lockwood’s status as the first human clone to be created for purely reproductive purposes makes her unique, but this also means that there are unique philosophical, ethical, and legal challenges surrounding her. Human cloning is explicitly outlawed in California, where Maisie’s mother Charlotte Lockwood created her, so her very existence is a violation of the law. As of 2022, the United States government has chosen to allow her to live a normal life with her adoptive parents, but for several years her fate was up in the air. Shortly before the 2022 incident, Maisie had come to view herself as less than a real person, being nothing more than a copy of someone else; this was because, at the time, she believed that her grandfather had created her to replace his own daughter after her death. In reality, this cover story was meant to preserve Charlotte’s reputation and keep Maisie safe from exploitation, and had Sir Benjamin Lockwood not died when he did, it is likely Maisie would have eventually learned the truth from him. Instead, she learned it from Henry Wu, who had known Charlotte years ago. At first Maisie believed that Charlotte had created her as an experiment, but with Ellie Sattler’s testament to Charlotte as a person, Maisie came to realize that she had been genuinely loved.

Now knowing that she was not created through a selfish act of grief, or out of mere scientific ambition, and that she had always been viewed as a real person has greatly benefited Maisie’s self-worth. She strives purposefully to be like her mother, but not because she feels as though she must: she does this as a deliberate choice, having found a desire to be someone Charlotte and Benjamin Lockwood would be proud of. Her specific views on human cloning are unknown, but one can assume they have softened as she finds a sense of personal validity too.

Fears

Maisie has an irrational fear of bats (she describes this as simply hating them, but it appears to be a phobia).

Since the 2018 incident, she has developed psychological trauma surrounding dark enclosed spaces, large predator animals, and the idea of being eaten. When faced with these triggers up close, she sometimes freezes in terror and is unable to react. However, during the 2022 incident, she successfully faced a (small) predatory dinosaur in a (relatively) dark (partly) enclosed space, suggesting that she has the capacity to overcome her trauma by exposing herself to triggering stimuli in manageable doses with the proper support.

Dietary preferences

Maisie enjoys toast for breakfast with a variety of spreads such as marmite. She also enjoys roasting marshmallows.

Music preferences

During her time living with Grady and Dearing, one of Maisie’s most reliable companions was music, as she only met other people for short times and could not have many in-person friends. Many of the songs that she came to enjoy during that time were older (“Moon River” by Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini was one of her favorites). As of early 2022 her time spent among people her own age has been limited, so her music preferences are influenced by the adults in her life.

Relationships
Sir Benjamin Lockwood

Maisie was largely raised by her grandfather, the British billionaire philanthropist Sir Benjamin Lockwood. He doted on her and kept her sheltered from the world, both for her own safety and to keep her existence a secret. Although Maisie did not know it until after her grandfather’s death, his desire to keep her hidden was also to protect her from exploitation, as she was a clone of her mother and had been given a genetic treatment to save her life whose valuable data was contained within her DNA.

Lockwood adored Maisie, but also sheltered her from information as much as from the outside world. He was entirely willing to discuss Jurassic Park and the welfare of the dinosaurs with her, and talked openly about her mother, but did not allow her to view pictures of her mother. Anything that might lead to her discovery that she was a clone, and not his natural-born granddaughter, was hidden. He instructed his staff members to follow suit. Lockwood also tried to dissuade her from thinking about the possibility that Eli Mills would sell the rescued dinosaurs during the 2018 incident, though this only ended up encouraging her to investigate further.

Although he hid information from her, Lockwood was still the person Maisie trusted most. She was very close with him, and was anguished to discover that he had died during the 2018 incident. After his death, she learned that she had been supposedly cloned at his behest, which led to her developing doubts about her own personhood. Later, however, she learned the truth—it was not Sir Benjamin who cloned her, but Charlotte Lockwood herself, and her grandfather had told people a cover story to protect Maisie and the memory of Charlotte. Given this new information, it can be assumed that Benjamin Lockwood once again holds a place among Maisie’s happier memories.

Charlotte Lockwood

Because she died before Maisie was old enough to remember, she mostly knew Charlotte Lockwood from the memories her grandfather shared. She was very curious about what her mother was like and often asked questions about her. Lockwood, for fear of Maisie discovering that she was a clone and not her mother’s natural-born child, did not allow her to look at pictures of Charlotte, but he did describe her openly as having a personality like Maisie’s and resembling her. He taught Maisie the same story for Charlotte that he told outsiders: that she had died in a car crash, rather than from a genetic disorder.

On June 23, 2018, Maisie finally was able to see a photograph of her mother following her grandfather’s death. She viewed a photo of her mother from when she was the same age, noticing their striking similarity. Later that night, she learned that she was her mother’s clone, created supposedly at her grandfather’s whim. For the next four years, Maisie held some feelings of resentment over this, but finally learned the truth in 2022. She had not been cloned by her grandfather in an act of grief, but by her mother directly and intentionally. Charlotte Lockwood had always wanted a child, but an incurable and invariably fatal genetic disorder meant that her child would not live long. After creating Maisie, Charlotte used a novel method to cure every cell in Maisie’s body, but was only able to produce one dose. She administered it to Maisie when the latter was about a year old and died shortly afterward.

For years Maisie had longed to know more about her mother, and when she first learned the truth, she was deeply conflicted, believing that Charlotte had cloned herself as a kind of science experiment and that Maisie was essentially a guinea pig for a major genetics breakthrough. However, some time after discovering the truth about Charlotte, Maisie heard testimony from Charlotte’s friend Dr. Ellie Sattler, who spoke to Charlotte’s kind personality and genuine desire to give her love to her child. Between this testimony and the video logs she was shown by Henry Wu, Maisie developed a clear idea of who Charlotte was as a person, and realized that she had always viewed Maisie as her real daughter. No longer burdened with expectations of being Charlotte’s replacement, Maisie chose to view Charlotte as a role model. Her first act in this regard was to recognize Henry Wu’s repentance and help him escape Biosyn Valley to fix his mistakes, and to submit to DNA testing in order to share Charlotte’s research with humanity. Maisie aims to live up to Charlotte’s legacy not out of obligation, but because Charlotte inspires her, and she wants to do as much good for others as Charlotte would have done.

Iris Carroll

In her early childhood, Maisie’s primary caretaker (along with her grandfather) was Iris Carroll, who had cared for her mother a generation ago. Carroll was one of the very few people who knew of Maisie’s existence as well as the illegal means her mother had used in order to create her. This made Carroll more than a maternal figure, but a guardian, protecting Maisie from the danger of being discovered by outsiders. Carroll cared for Maisie’s health and wellness, especially as her mother passed away and Lockwood’s health declined in his old age. Carroll was also presumably in charge of most aspects of Maisie’s education; she attempted to teach her to speak using Queen’s English, though hints of American English are still present in Maisie’s dialogue.

Despite Carroll’s strict attitude, she allowed Maisie to call her by her first name.

Maisie was a spirited child and far from obedient, taking delight in teasing Carroll and hiding from her as a game. Likewise, Carroll’s approach to raising her was strict and authoritative. Nonetheless, they clearly had a loving relationship; even while Carroll reprimanded Maisie’s behavior, she found it endearing, and Maisie’s teasing always had an affectionate intent. When Benjamin Lockwood was found dead during the 2018 incident, Carroll was fired by the estate manager Eli Mills; she never had a chance to say goodbye to Maisie, who was hiding from the traitorous Mills. The normally stern and stoic Carroll showed rare signs of becoming emotional at having to leave Maisie on such short notice, and Maisie was despondent at losing not only her grandfather but the only other adult she knew she could trust.

Now that Maisie’s existence is known to the public and she is no longer in hiding, she may be able to find where Carroll has ended up after her assignment at Lockwood Manor was terminated, and hopefully reconnect.

Eli Mills

The Lockwood Foundation’s estate manager Eli Mills was hired sometime before roughly 2010, at which point Maisie would have been around two years old. This means that Mills was one of the main adults in Maisie’s childhood. While she mainly was raised by Iris Carroll, Mills was familiar to her as he was always around the house working with her grandfather. Mills was set to become her primary guardian after Lockwood’s death.

Mills, however, was more concerned with making money than being a father figure to Maisie. However, he gladly accepted the role as guardian since this would place him one step closer to acquiring the Lockwood fortune (since Maisie did not legally exist at that point, it is unlikely Lockwood could have willed his wealth to her directly, leaving it with a guardian instead).

During the 2018 incident, Maisie became suspicious that Mills was hiding something about the dinosaur rescue operation. She investigated, learning that he planned to bring the dinosaurs to the mainland and sell them on the black market. Mills eventually discovered her investigation and locked her in her room, but she continued to plot against him and escaped. She was unable to reach her grandfather, who she found dead in his room, or Carroll, who was fired by Mills while Maisie hid and watched helplessly from inside a dumbwaiter. Instead, to defeat Mills, Maisie ended up finding help in the form of Owen Grady and Claire Dearing. The last she saw of Mills, however, was his revelation that she was a clone of her mother; the escaped Indoraptor interrupted this confrontation, and she never saw him again.

Although Maisie was separated from Mills for the rest of the incident, her decision to save the dinosaurs from extinction directly led to Mills’s death. When the stressed animals fled from the estate, Mills was targeted by the angry tyrannosaur and thrashed to death. Maisie, of course, had no way of knowing that Mills was in the dinosaurs’ path and had not intended to kill him.

Other Lockwood Manor staff

While the Lockwood estate was mainly staffed by Iris Carroll and Eli Mills, it employed other people as well. Lockwood employed a chauffeur, and since Carroll was occupied taking care of both him and Maisie, it is likely that other staff were brought in to clean the mansion and prepare food for its inhabitants. If any of these staff members lived there long-term, they would have presumably had some interaction with Maisie, though there is no evidence that any of Lockwood’s employees other than Carroll and Mills knew about her origin (and even then, people such as Mills were given a secondary cover story rather than the real truth). Lockwood did hire tutors for her education, but the story they were told about her is unclear. In any case, Lockwood would have had to pay them for their silence.

Between 2015 and 2018, Mills employed numerous scientists including Henry Wu as well as many security personnel at the estate. These were to help service and safeguard Wu’s military bioengineering projects, such as the Indoraptor. Presumably, the lab equipment would have had to be installed by outside employees as well. It appears that at least some of these new staff, such as Wu, were living at the estate, but many probably commuted there. Lockwood was mostly unaware of these newcomers and did not know what was being done beneath his home, but Maisie did not become suspicious until the 2018 incident and had probably assumed that the new staff were employed with her grandfather’s knowledge. Mills openly discussed Maisie’s origin in front of two security guards during the 2018 incident, and they did not show signs of surprise; this suggests that Mills’s employees knew about her origin. They, like Wu, were all at the estate on illegal business, reducing the chances that they might disclose Maisie’s existence to outsiders.

Maisie’s choice to release the imperiled dinosaurs resulted in the deaths of at least two of Mills’s security guards, who were attacked and killed by the stressed animals as they fled.

De-extinct animals

Maisie never visited Isla Nublar; her creation violated the law, so Lockwood could not permit her to leave the estate. However, she grew up learning about the animals and how her mother and grandfather loved them. During 2017 and 2018, the dinosaurs’ lives were put under threat as Isla Nublar experienced an increase in volcanic activity. The U.S. government, which had become increasingly indifferent to animal welfare and environmental concerns, opted to do nothing and allow the animals to die; even Masrani Global Corporation made no effort to help. Lockwood funded an illegal mission to save the animals, much to Maisie’s excitement.

The mission turned sour when Lockwood’s estate manager Eli Mills brought the animals to the mainland, rather than to Sanctuary Island as promised, to sell them on the black market. Maisie took great concern upon discovering his betrayal and attempted to stop him, though she was caught and locked in her room by Mills. While she was investigating, she learned about the I.B.R.I.S. Project and the four Velociraptors it yielded, including a particularly empathic individual named Blue.

The dinosaurs were delivered to the Lockwood estate on June 24. Maisie managed to escape into the sub-basement where the dinosaurs were being held during the auction, joining with Dinosaur Protection Group members to try and save the creatures. A Stygimoloch had already been released, but many other dinosaurs were being sold as the night went on. The auction was halted by Maisie’s newfound allies, but the remaining dinosaurs were put in mortal peril due to a hydrogen cyanide gas leak that occurred during the battle in the manor. Although the adults decided that saving the dinosaurs was too risky, since it would put them forever outside of human control, Maisie could not bear to watch them die and released them into the wild. Some of these animals were the last of their kind, so Maisie’s act of empathy saved them from a second extinction.

In the course of the incident, she did meet the raptor Blue that she had seen videos of. Blue had been brought to the manor and sought out her father figure, animal trainer Owen Grady. She protected him from the attacking Indoraptor, and by extent protected Maisie from the creature as well.

Maisie had rescued most of the dinosaurs from certain death, but their troubles were far from over. Those that lived in the wild would now struggle to find a niche in a world that was no longer theirs, and there were also many dinosaurs which had been sold during the auction to criminal buyers around the world. Poachers targeted those in the wild as the government floundered trying to find a proper solution. Alongside Dearing and Grady, Maisie tried her best to help dinosaurs where she could; during the summer of 2020 she aided in relocating a group of Brachiosaurus as well as juvenile Triceratops named Tri and Pi, and then later in the fall she encountered a group of six dinosaurs near Yosemite National Park including Apatosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Parasaurolophus, and Gallimimus. A juvenile female Allosaurus was in the area too, though it proved more of a threat. Blue was eventually relocated to the Sierra Nevadas near Owen Grady’s cabin, and in early 2022 she had produced a single offspring through parthenogenesis, which Maisie named Beta.

During 2022, Maisie’s sheltered life meant that her interactions with de-extinct animals were sometimes more personal than her interactions with people. She advised some local mill workers on how to relocate a pair of Apatosaurus from a lumber yard, but could not spend much time in town; later when she first met Beta and was accosted by Blue, she was forbidden from seeking the nesting site by Owen Grady, who feared for her safety. She stormed off in frustration and ended up stumbling into the arms of kidnappers hired by Biosyn Genetics, and Beta was taken as well. Both of them were transported to Biosyn Valley for research. The dinosaurs’ original creator, Henry Wu, needed them both for determining how to undo a disastrous mistake of his: hybridizing modern-day migratory locusts with larger, stronger orthopterans from the Cretaceous period, yielding a destructive invasive species. Maisie made an escape attempt and freed Beta in the process, eventually teaming up with scientists investigating Biosyn’s corruption.

During their efforts to flee, they were forced into the Biosyn Genetics Sanctuary where they encountered other animals. Maisie was threatened by Dimetrodons in a cave system, and later by a male Giganotosaurus near the research outpost. As they planned their evacuation, Maisie was allowed by Grady to come along on the mission to rescue Beta, who Maisie knew had fled into the water treatment center. She was able to lead the way to the young raptor and, having watched Grady use specialized body language gestures and vocal commands to pacify Blue before, established herself as an authority figure to Beta. This helped slow Beta down long enough for Grady to tranquilize her.

The Giganotosaurus would make another appearance later on, when a wildfire caused by Biosyn trying to incinerate the locusts and hide evidence forced all the dinosaurs into Maisie’s path. She also got to witness Dreadnoughtus, Pteranodon, and Iguanodon up close during this incident, and then was caught in the crossfire between the Giganotosaurus and InGen’s oldest surviving Tyrannosaurus rex as they battled for territory. She was imperiled by the larger of the two carnivores, but was saved when it was distracted by a third large theropod, a blind female Therizinosaurus.

Along with Beta, Maisie was able to yield the data needed for Henry Wu to end the locust plague he had caused, which saved the lives of countless humans and animals alike. The dinosaurs of Biosyn Valley were able to return home after the fires were extinguished, and the sanctuary was made more accessible to animals from troubled parts of the world. Some, such as Beta and Blue, were able to remain in the wild; Maisie oversaw Beta’s return home. The dinosaurs had become a part of Maisie’s world, and everyone else’s too, with no single catch-all solution to return things to the way they had been. Ultimately, Maisie saw best to follow Charlotte Lockwood’s foresight and find ways to coexist.

Claire Dearing

Maisie first encountered Dinosaur Protection Group founder and leader Claire Dearing on June 22, 2018 when she was summoned to the Lockwood estate to discuss the rescue mission. Maisie listened in on their discussion from above the diorama room, but hid herself when Dearing spotted her. This made Dearing one of very few outsiders to know of Maisie’s existence, though Eli Mills covered up her origins with the usual explanation.

Due to the ensuing events, Maisie did not see Dearing again until the night of June 24 after she discovered her grandfather had died and the black-market auction was well underway. By that time, she no longer knew whether she could trust Dearing, since Dearing had agreed to work with the traitorous Mills. Dearing promised that she was a friend, but Maisie attempted to run away. However, she also recognized animal trainer Owen Grady, who she knew loved dinosaurs and wanted to keep them safe. Since Grady trusted Dearing, Maisie reasoned that Dearing’s desire to protect the dinosaurs was genuine too, and opened up to the both of them.

Since the events of 2018, Dearing has become a surrogate mother figure for Maisie, taking on the role of keeping her safe from the world as she grows and matures. They do have their differences; the incident in 2018 showed this much, as Dearing believed the morality of saving the dinosaurs was not worth the risks of having them exposed to the outside world. Maisie believed just the opposite, considering the risks entirely worth it if it meant the dinosaurs could live.

Dearing has since taken up the role of a mother figure to Maisie, the first person to truly do so since Charlotte passed away. This has been far from easy for both of them. During the years between the 2018 and 2022 incidents, Maisie was being sought after by a wide range of parties, as information about her leaked to the public and she was considered an asset of high value. While Maisie understood the danger of being a wanted person, she considered Dearing’s protection to be overbearing. After all, if Dearing was still going on risky missions for the underground dinosaur-rights movement, Maisie biking into town and getting glimpses of a normal life was fair. Dearing did not agree, and tried to enforce rules restricting Maisie’s freedom to roam.

The 2022 incident was a major turning point for both of them. Maisie’s last interaction with Dearing before being kidnapped was to declare that Dearing was not her real mother before storming off into town on her bike, and this seems to have weighed heavily on Maisie when she was Biosyn’s captive. She learned about her own lost relationship to Charlotte, who had genuinely loved Maisie, and once she and Dearing reunited they were glad to see one another safe. Maisie no longer hesitated to call Dearing her mother. The incident proved to Maisie that Dearing truly loved her as much as she would her own biological daughter, and proved to Dearing that Maisie could indeed be trusted with more freedom than she had been allowed. With Maisie’s existence known and the government willing to let her stay with Dearing and Grady, there was less risk, which has helped their relationship too. Today they remain a loving, if strange, family.

Owen Grady

During her investigation of Eli Mills, Maisie discovered video logs from InGen Security’s I.B.R.I.S. Project that Henry Wu had been using for research. In the videos, a man (who she later learned was named Owen Grady) documented the lives of four young Velociraptors as he raised them from eggs. Maisie recognized Grady’s love for the dinosaurs, a love that she also felt.

The day after this, she met Grady in person while fleeing from Mills after discovering that her grandfather had died. While she did not immediately know if his friend Claire Dearing could be trusted, she believed that since Grady cared about dinosaurs and wanted to keep them safe, it meant he was a good person. Since Grady trusted Dearing, Maisie chose to trust her as well. Grady helped them all escape from the basement and stop the auction of the dinosaurs, and after the Indoraptor escaped its cage, Grady risked his life to protect her from the creature.

Like Dearing, he actually did not consider freeing the dinosaurs to be worth the unpredictable risks it would create, a position that Maisie strongly disagreed with as she opted to save the dinosaurs’ lives anyway. This decision did not impact Grady or Dearing’s sense of responsibility in caring for Maisie, nor did Maisie lose any affection toward her newfound surrogate family for it. When Blue chose to leave Grady for the freedom of the wild, Maisie was quick to comfort him over his loss.

Since the 2018 incident, Grady has become a surrogate father figure for Maisie, taking on the task of keeping her safe from both human and animal threats. He has also taught her many of his own skills, including how to safely work with knives and how to properly act around different kinds of animals. Maisie’s personality took on a rougher edge in adolescence and she seems to have picked up some of Grady’s less polite traits (one can only imagine that he is responsible for Maisie learning to flip a middle finger at an enemy). They mostly got along, though Maisie would make fun of him for smelling like horses after coming back from his job with Fish and Wildlife. However, Grady took a fairly direct approach to discipline, and by coming on too roughly, he could agitate Maisie if she was already feeling uspet. He still viewed her as the small child he had met at Lockwood Manor, and like Dearing, his protectiveness overwhelmed Maisie as she got older and sought independence.

She got a chance to prove herself during the 2022 incident. When she was kidnapped by Biosyn, Grady and Dearing tracked down her location and found her in Biosyn Valley among all kinds of threats, which she had both evaded and survived. Before the kidnapping, Maisie had stormed off because Grady would not allow her to go with him to search for Blue and Beta’s nest, but when it came time to rescue Beta from Biosyn this changed. Grady did not hesitate to allow Maisie to come with him this time, knowing that she was far from helpless and that she had learned many of his tricks during their time together. Now working as a team, they tracked Beta where Maisie had seen her go to hide, and Maisie succeeded in establishing authority over Beta the way that Grady had done with Blue. This impressed him, and their teamwork did the trick; they captured Beta to bring home.

These two have a healthier understanding of one another now that they have returned home. Maisie learned firsthand precisely what kind of threats are waiting for her in the world, and now that her existence is publicly known and the government is aware of where she is, she can no longer rely on secrecy. She can, however, rely on Grady to be on the lookout for trouble. And for his part, he witnessed for himself just how capable Maisie is growing up to be, including how much she has learned from him. He can protect her far better by being a good role model than he ever could by sheltering her from the outside world, and much like with Blue, he must allow her the freedom she needs to flourish. With the incident in Biosyn Valley behind them, they have forged a new relationship, one based on mutual respect.

Indoraptor prototype

When Maisie was investigating Eli Mills to find evidence of his betrayal, she overheard him talking with Henry Wu about a mysterious “prototype.” She would soon discover a bizarre creature lurking in a dark cage within the sub-basement when she hid from Mills and Wu, backing too close to the cage and drawing the creature’s attention. It lightly tousled her hair, apparently delighting in frightening her.

That night, she joined with DPG activists to disrupt the black-market auction happening within the estate. At the auction’s halfway point, the monster from the basement was brought out and put on display, introduced as the Indoraptor: a combination of the hybrid Indominus rex and the Velociraptor created by Wu as a living weapon. While her allies succeeded in preventing it from being taken out of the estate, it was released at some point during the night. It soon found Maisie and her allies, chasing Maisie throughout the mansion. Although she evaded it, the animal tracked her to her room where it entertained itself frightening her again. She was saved by the intervention of Owen Grady and the Velociraptor Blue, who fought off the creature.

Ultimately, the Indoraptor was killed by Blue with assistance from Dearing and Grady. Maisie was terribly shaken but unharmed, and her love of dinosaurs was unscathed. The incident with the Indoraptor, while frightful, was extremely out-of-context for Maisie since she had very little background on its history and no idea that it existed. It did leave her with intense psychological trauma which she is still working to overcome.

Henry Wu

Although Maisie might have heard about the brilliant evolutionary geneticist Dr. Henry Wu from her grandfather’s stories about Jurassic Park, her first experience with the man was far from positive. He was taken in by Eli Mills after his efforts at Jurassic World resulted in disaster, and at Lockwood Manor he was instructed to push his research into genetic hybridization farther still. Maisie first saw him when he was arguing with Mills about the prototype Indoraptor, so Maisie came to know him as the man who had created this monster. Wu also argued that the prototype’s behavioral issues were due to it lacking a maternal feature to teach it, which had uncomfortable implications for Maisie.

Wu’s creation would come to traumatize Maisie, leaving her with psychological scars that would take years to start healing. The next time that Maisie encountered Henry Wu, it was again deeply negative: he was the one who proposed locating and acquiring Maisie for the biotechnological secrets contained in her genome. This encounter, however, was not quite what Maisie might have expected. For one, Wu was no longer the haughty and arrogant man she had seen at the Lockwood Manor auction. The past four years had broken him. He looked tired, and depressed, having accidentally created a crisis that he lacked the power to resolve on his own. Wu also treated Maisie almost like someone he knew personally, and it was not long before Maisie learned why.

Her mother, Charlotte Lockwood, had been tutored by Henry Wu in the 1980s on Isla Sorna where InGen had done much of its de-extinction research after moving out of Lockwood Manor. They had been friends, and Wu had been looking through her video logs in the hope of finding biomedical research information he could use to exterminate the locust swarms. What he found was the truth about Maisie’s creation—and how Charlotte had sacrificed her own chance at survival to ensure that Maisie was cured of a deadly BRCA2 mutation. The treatment had been revolutionary, and Wu had been humbled by the realization that not only had Charlotte succeeded where he was now failing over and over, she had not even done it for accolades. She had done it purely to save Maisie’s life at the cost of her own.

At first Maisie remained understandably hesitant to help Wu, kidnapper and maker of monsters. She fled from Biosyn, trying to escape their clutches without giving up her DNA for them to inspect. After a failed escape attempt brought her back to Biosyn’s headquarters, though, she encountered the desperate Wu one last time. Between these two encounters, she had come to learn that Charlotte genuinely loved her as she would have any normal child, and at seeing Charlotte’s former friend looking so penitent and sorrowful, she took pity on him. She also came to understand that it was entirely in her power to make his plan to save the world possible at all. To Maisie, it was obvious what choice Charlotte would make, and she had come to know Charlotte’s morality as something to aspire to, so Maisie advised her allies not to abandon Wu.

In the end, Maisie helped Wu to curtail the spread of the locusts and stop the destruction. Wu had proven a more complex figure than what Maisie had originally seen. While his later career had seen the fabrication of frightening creatures designed to subjugate the weak, he had begun as simply wanting to amaze the world with dinosaurs brought back from the dead. It had always been his employers that demanded monsters, not his vision for the future. And once, he had been the kind of person who befriended Charlotte and taught her everything he knew, allowing her brilliance to surpass even his. It is unlikely that Wu and Maisie will have any further interaction, as Wu will probably be spending many years facing consequences for all the harm his hubris caused, but their brief interactions did give Wu the one thing he had come to want above all else—a chance to right his wrongs.

Zia Rodriguez

After being rescued by Claire Dearing and Owen Grady during the 2018 incident, Maisie became acquainted with two of Dearing’s coworkers including paleoveterinarian Zia Rodriguez. She, along with her coworker and friend Franklin Webb, alerted Dearing, Grady, and Maisie to the disaster unfolding beneath the mansion in which the dinosaurs were about to die of hydrogen cyanide poisoning. Rodriguez appeared more conflicted than Dearing or Grady about whether to rescue the dinosaurs by releasing them into the wild, and comforted Maisie when it appeared that they might all perish. However, she did not stop Maisie from freeing the dinosaurs, even though she would have noticed the girl leaving her side and heading for the emergency button. After the events of 2018, Rodriguez helped Dearing and Grady keep Maisie hidden from the authorities.

Although they did not interact much between 2018 and 2022, now that Maisie is living in the open, Rodriguez may be able to play more of a role in her life. Her knowledge of paleoveterinary medicine would definitely be of interest to Maisie, who has shown a desire to help humans and animals the way Charlotte did before her.

Franklin Webb

Along with Dearing’s colleague Zia Rodriguez, former Masrani Global IT worker Franklin Webb alerted Dearing, Grady, and Maisie about the threat to the dinosaurs beneath the mansion. He appeared conflicted about the morality of releasing them, like Rodriguez. Although the adults chose to let the dinosaurs succumb rather than risk the unknown, Maisie disagreed and released the frightened animals into the wild. After this, Webb helped Maisie’s adoptive parents keep her hidden, and aided them tracking her down in 2022 when she was kidnapped by Biosyn agents. Despite his own misgivings about Dearing unofficially adopting Maisie and hiding her from the authorities, he had risked his job to keep their secret up until the 2022 incident.

While he did not have direct contact with Maisie during the years between 2018 and 2022, he indirectly helped her stay with her family by keeping her location hidden. Now that Maisie’s existence is publicly known and the U.S. government is allowing her to stay with Grady and Dearing, it will be easier for Webb to visit if he so chooses.

Biosyn Genetics and criminal underground

Unbeknownst to Maisie, the secret contained in her DNA thanks to Charlotte was discovered by Biosyn Genetics as a result of Henry Wu’s research. Wu believed that he could replicate Charlotte’s methods, so long as he could get a DNA sample and a control group to compare it to, and use them to curb the growth of hybrid locust swarms that were destroying cropland in the American Midwest. The locusts were his own creation, but they had been requested and eventually released by Biosyn’s corrupt CEO, Lewis Dodgson. While it was Wu’s idea to take Maisie in for research, it was Dodgson who signed off on the plan and organized the kidnapping.

Maisie was cornered by two groups of people, a gang of poachers led by Rainn Delacourt and a pair of supposed authority figures led by Carolyn O’Hara. The latter pair promised to bring Maisie to safety, though their apparent cooperation with a posse of roughnecks cast doubt upon this claim. All of these people had been employed by Soyona Santos, who ruled the underground markets of the Mediterranean. While Maisie spent only a short time with Santos before being chauffeured to an airport by one of her underlings, it does seem that Santos was interested in taking Maisie for more than just Dodgson’s payout; when confronting Dearing later on, Santos angrily asserted that Maisie had never rightfully belonged to Dearing. The meaning of the emotion behind her outburst remains unclear.

All the same, Maisie was passed from O’Hara to Santos and finally to Dodgson, where she learned why Biosyn had taken an interest in her. Though Wu tried to be sympathetic, Maisie had been thoroughly put off being helpful by the way she had been captured against her will and hauled halfway around the world, and fled from Biosyn. She evaded their Security head, Jeffrey, and his men by descending through the ventilation into the water treatment plant and emerging at a different location. Later she would meet a helpful Biosyn employee named Ramsay Cole who had discovered Dodgson’s corruption and was working to expose his crimes. Cole aided Maisie in escaping the headquarters and provided remote assistance until she ultimately returned after a failed escape attempt. After that, Cole directly helped coordinate Maisie and all her allies in getting out of Biosyn Valley, exposing Biosyn’s corruption, and stopping the locust swarms.

While Dodgson died during the incident and most of his supporters in Biosyn were fired and arrested, the black market remains an open problem. Delacourt died and Santos was arrested during a confrontation in Valletta shortly after Maisie was trafficked through the Maltese city, but there are many other poachers and smugglers out in the world who know what Maisie is worth. She does have one prominent ally in the black market, though. The smuggler Kayla Watts, who flew Beta from California to Malta, spotted Maisie being handed off to Santos at the airfield. At the time she had chosen to look the other way, but fate had other plans, and she soon found herself aiding Dearing and Grady in rescuing Maisie at great personal risk. Ultimately Watts was glad she had chosen to do the right thing, no matter the cost. Should trouble arise in the future, Maisie has a friend who knows the underground well.

Government, corporate, and scientific groups

In the U.S. state of California, human reproductive cloning is specifically outlawed by California Health and Safety Code Division 20, Chapter 1.4, Section 24185, line (a), effective January 1, 2003. Laws prohibiting human cloning were also established before this. As of 2022, human reproductive cloning is still illegal in California. This means that Charlotte was in violation of state law when she cloned herself to create Maisie, though as she is now deceased (as is Benjamin Lockwood, probably the only other person who may have been directly involved) it may be that no legal consequences will actually be dealt out. However, once Maisie’s existence was leaked to the press after 2018, the United States government began searching for her. The reasons for their search have not been publicly elaborated on, but the legal and ethical consequences of her existence and medical ramifications of her creation are likely motivators.

The search for Maisie Lockwood was a worldwide one, meaning that governments other than the American one may have been involved. It is known for a fact that non-governmental parties were also attempting to track her down, and their motives were almost certainly unethical. As the first successful attempt at human reproductive cloning, Maisie was a potential treasure trove of biomedical data, and so any company that could study her would possibly find itself at the forefront of a scientific revolution. Only Biosyn Genetics was aware of the groundbreaking methods Charlotte Lockwood had used to eliminate Maisie’s BRCA2 mutation, though if this had been public as well it would probably have only increased the efforts of various companies and institutions to find Maisie.

Though there were many people trying to find her, it was ultimately Biosyn that succeeded, having put the greatest amount of resources into tracking her down. This was because Biosyn had unique insight into Maisie’s scientific value. When she was kidnapped, her adoptive parents contacted Franklin Webb of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Dangerous Species Division, and they were brought into a sting operation being conducted in collaboration with the French Directorate-General for External Security against trafficker Soyona Santos in Valletta, Malta. During the sting, Dearing and Grady went off on their own, but the following day the authorities caught up after Italian rescue services reported Maisie having been found at Biosyn Valley.

With Maisie’s rescue from Biosyn, the international manhunt was concluded. Maisie was able to provide invaluable research data which spared the lives of millions from famine and starvation, which seems to have ingratiated her with the American government; they permitted her to return to Grady’s cabin without further harassment, and he and Dearing are now apparently recognized as Maisie’s rightful adoptive parents. It is most likely that, knowing where she lives, the government will be keeping an eye on her to some degree. It is also likely that non-governmental parties may still have interest in exploiting Maisie for one purpose or another, presenting a challenge for her in the future.

Portrayal

Maisie Lockwood is portrayed by Isabella Sermon, except for scenes of her as a baby where she is instead portrayed by an uncredited baby. She is not based on any specific character in Michael Crichton‘s novels. Because the issue of human cloning drove apart Hammond and Lockwood in the story, many fans assumed that Charlotte Lockwood died prior to 1993 and that attempts to clone her had been going on for decades; however, unused film props confirmed her date of death in 2008. Colin Trevorrow, who directed the first Jurassic World and advised on Fallen Kingdom, confirmed via Twitter that Maisie was not born until 2009 and that Hammond and Lockwood’s controversy was over the concept of human cloning rather than a specific instance of its application. Jurassic World: Dominion revised these dates to have Maisie’s birth in August 2007 and Charlotte’s death in early 2009.

The character of Maisie Lockwood appears to have been at least partially inspired by the youth and child climate activists who rose to prominence in the late 2010s. Like them, Maisie is portrayed as young and idealistic, with a conviction for righteousness in her heart. Ultimately she is the one who saves the dinosaurs when the adults cannot, a parallel to the youth activists taking responsibility for the environment when adults fail to do so. Like many aspects of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, this political symbolism endeared Maisie to more liberal fans, while infuriating far-right conservative fans who oppose both youths and environmentalism. In the sequel Jurassic World: Dominion, Maisie’s character is less based on activists as the story seeks to explore her identity and relationship to her mother as a coming-of-age tale.

According to early reports, Maisie’s name may originally have been planned to be Lucy.