Jurassic World "Brave" Camp Cretaceous TV episode Written by Lindsay Kerns Directed by Eric Elrod Release date: January 22, 2021

Ben's story of survival alone in the jungle is told in a flashback.

Read the story summary at the Jurassic Park Wiki

Notes from the Jurassic Park chronology

This episode tells the story in flashback of how Ben survived his fall from the monorail in "End of the Line" and how he went from nerd to badass on the island.

Didja Know?

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

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

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

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

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

Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode

Darius Bowman

Ben Pincus

Bumpy

Toro

Mitch

Tiff

Hap 

Didja Notice? 

Toro shows up in this episode, skin largely burned black. It was caught in an explosion by the kids in "End of the Line".

At 9:35, as Bumpy is sleeping in the dirt, a two-tone chime is heard for no reason. It sounds like the notification tone of an instant message arriving on a digital device. Of course, neither Bumpy nor Ben have such a device in the jungle! Was it a stray sound in the studio during the dialog recording that got missed by the editor? Listen to the tone (at about 4.5 seconds in the clip): message tone.mp3

The amount of dirt on Ben's clothes and skin varies from shot to shot, especially in the second half of the episode.

When he's shouting at the compys that they're afraid of him now, Ben reveals his middle name is Fitzgerald.

At about 18:28 in the episode, notice that Ben has made a new fanny pack out of his blue shirt. His original pack was left behind on the monorail when he plummeted from the passenger car in "End of the Line" and now in the possession of Kenji.

Notes from the junior novelization Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous - The Deluxe Junior Novelization Volume Two by Steve Behling Cover illustration by Patrick Spaziante 2020

The novelization does not adapt this episode, probably because it is a flashback story.

Memorable Dialog

go away, I'm mad at you.mp3

that's right, you're scared of me now!.mp3