The time in the lab seemed to stop. Claire looked on nervously at Keira and Owen. Keira just stood in shock and Owen looked like he'd smack the living hell out of President Segura.

"Let me get this straight," Owen said resting both hands on a table before him to restrain himself going across in rage. "You came here, to a sanctuary to ask us to provide you with dinosaur meat?!"

"Yes." President Segura nodded calmly.

"You can't be serious?" Keira said. "We do not breed these dinosaurs to be slaughtered!"

"Not these ones, but new ones. You said they grow fast, you can breed separate ones."

Keira just looked on in horror. "No." she said. "These were extinct animals..."

"Keyword, were." Segura pointed out. "I understand you are personally attached to the ones here on the island. But perhaps we can use the other island specifically for the breeding of consumable dinosaurs."

"Consumable dino..." Owen couldn't even finish his sentence as he shook with anger.

"With all due respect," Keira began, " we have created the majority of dinosaurs in a lab, and the ones you're talking about will be lab created due to timing. You don't know the side effects of any of that and you're willing to feed people that?"

"So we'll run a few human trials, it's not a big deal." he said. "You two are missing the big picture here, because Costa Rica will be the only export, the economy for the island will boost dramatically. The dinosaur meat will be cheap because there will be mass quantities just from one dinosaur. Poverty will vanish overnight."

Theo sat there listening to the reasoning of the president, if anything it sounded logical to him but his parents weren't listening to a single word. If dinosaurs could end hunger and boost an economy, what was the problem behind it.

"Mr. Segura, we're going to ask you to kindly leave this island, right now." Keira said.

Segura's face dropped. "What?"

"We have no interest selling dinosaur meat on the market." Owen added. "There's no deal."

"After all the Costa Rican government has done to assist you..." Segura raised a brow.

"It's not like you did it out of the kindness of your heart....you were paid." Owen pointed out.

Segura's face darkened for a moment. "Well, I guess that's it then. No deal?"

"No deal." Keira and Owen said together.

"Ma, I don't understand what the big deal is." Theo said as he walked with his mother in the plains.

"About?" she asked.

"The whole selling dinosaur meat. It sounded like a good idea."

His mother flinched at the thought before looking over at him.

"Honey," she began, "I know it sounded like President Segura had the best intentions but I assure you he didn't."

"How could you even tell, you guys don't know him."

"When you've been around this world for as long as your father and I have been, trust me you'll know." she said.

"What could go wrong!?" Theo asked irritated at his mother's know it all tone.

"A lot of things Theo."

"I just think you and Dad are paranoid over the island and new people because of the past."

His mother stopped before him but didn't say anything before continuing.

"One day, Theo, you'll understand."

Owen was sitting on the couch when Theo walked in quietly going to his bedroom and closing the door. Keira walked in with a sigh and grabbed some water.

"Something happen?" he asked standing up and walking over to her.

"Our son believes we overreacted with President Segura and should have considered the offer."

"What?!" Owen said. "We raised him better than that."

Keira rubbed the back of her neck. "No, Owen, he just sees the good in it, he doesn't see what we see. He sees a politician wanting to do good for his country."

"Well, all I saw was a typical politician lying through his teeth." he said.

Keira sat down at the table. "He's young Owen, and innocent, he hasn't seen the darkness of the world. "

Owen sat across from her. Her eyes were full of stress and anxiety. He took her hand in his.

"He's lived a sheltered life on this island." Owen began, "but he will learn about the world and how it works. Hopefully, he just won't learn it the hard way."

"Hey Tag." Doug entered the computer room where Theo was working on his school work.

"Hey Doug."

"Dude, you looked bummed out, what's wrong?"

Theo shook his head. "Nothing."

"Nothing means something..."

Theo just sat there for a moment before his computer.

"What do you think about the whole President Segura thing?" he asked him.

"It's sick, bro. Who would eat dinosaur meat?" Doug made a face. "Gross."

"People who are hungry enough would." Theo pointed out.

"There are other things to eat besides dinosaur meat Tag. We've never tasted it, how do you know it's even marketable, it could taste like death for all we know."

"I still people would eat it. I mean, it would feed so many people."

Doug sat down beside him. "I don't think we brought back extinct animals in order to sell them on the meat market little man." he said. "We brought them back to learn about them and observe them."

"And once they die, what happens all that meat goes to waste?"

"No, it goes to the Mosasaurus tank or it fertilizes the land. It doesn't go to waste."

Theo turned back to his work. "Whatever." he said.

"You have to have some faith in your parents." Doug told him. "They know what they're doing. No one knows these dinosaurs better than them."

"Because they don't want anyone to."

Doug frowned before leaving the room with a small wave.

Owen had Blue in her halter standing before him in the extended private area of the raptor paddock to work. Blue watched him with a couple of chirps. He placed his hand in the middle of her head.

"Just when we thought we were passed all the drama on this island, Senor Mustache shows up." he grumbled.

Blue let out a grunt.

"My thoughts exactly." 

"Do you think he will retaliate?" Barry asked him coming over with Yin and another female of the pack.

"He better not." Owen said. 'Or we'll just handle it like we always do, isn't that right Blue?"

Blue bared her teeth.

Keira sat beside the Dino statue watching the Apatosaurus herd. She thought back to the massacre of the previous herd caused by the Indominus Rex all those years ago, how she felt seeing their bodies in the field and how devastating it was to her. She saw young dinosaurs moving around, it seemed like they were playing in their own terms. She couldn't picture isolating them on an island, showing them life and then taking it away.

She didn't even believe that President Segura only wanted them for strictly meat either.

She sighed before looking to the dog. "I miss you buddy, I know you would have just bit him right then and there."