Lewis Dodgson will return in Jurassic World: Dominion, but could face a grim fate. The third film in the Jurassic World continuation of Jurassic Park is set to arrive on June 10, 2022. The movie picks up in a world where dinosaurs roam freely in the world of humans after the ending of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. With the premise that it's starting from, Dominion seems set to be the biggest scale story yet in the Jurassic Park franchise.
Dominion will also have nostalgic elements, with Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) returning. They join fellow returning Jurassic Park alumni Dr. Ian Malcom (Jeff Goldblum) and Dr. Henry Wu (B.D. Wong), both of whom also appeared in Fallen Kingdom, alongside Lewis Dodgson's (Campbell Scott) return in Dominion. However, the picture of what's in store for Dodgson doesn't look as rosy as his fellow returning characters.
Dodgson first appeared in the original Jurassic Park, played by Cameron Thor, as a rep from InGen's corporate rival, BioSyn. Dodgson hires Denis Nedry (Wayne Knight) to steal dinosaur embryos for BioSyn, which leads to the Park's breakdown and dinosaurs getting loose on the island. Going by the track record of the Jurassic Park franchise, villainous behavior driven by greed or ill intent tends to not go unpunished.
Nedry himself was killed by a Dilophosaurus, while the villainous InGen CEO of The Lost World: Jurassic Park Peter Ludlow (Arliss Howard) met his end in a young T-Rex's attack. More recently, the Jurassic World movies have followed this pattern. Vic Hoskins (Vincent D'Onofrio) was killed by a Velociraptor in Jurassic World, having made ardent proposals in the film about wanting to weaponize the Velociraptors of Jurassic World for the military. Fallen Kingdom's villain Eli Mills (Rafe Spall) would later be killed by a T-Rex during an auction to sell living dinosaurs to wealthy buyers.
The pattern in the Jurassic Park franchise has long been "greed equals death", and the Jurassic World movies have carried this over. The Jurassic World films have even tended to be more stringent in this regard, with their villains more over-the-top and cartoonishly sinister, with their deaths portrayed in the same way. Dodgson is one of the few Jurassic Park villains to have escape unscathed, and the tradition of the series hints to him finally getting his comeuppance. It may have taken almost thirty years for it to happen, but Dodgson seems likely to die by one of the genetically engineered dinosaurs in Jurassic World: Dominion, as foreshadowed by his fellow villains of the franchise.
