‘Jurassic World: Chaos Theory’ S4 Ending Explained: Do the Nublar Six Make It Out Alive?

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory season 4 puts the Nublar Six in mortal danger as they cross over with the events of Dominion. With the story now over, let’s take a look at how the characters fared when facing dinosaurs, fiery locusts, and more. We also discussed alternate plans with the showrunner and why that character’s fate could have been very different. Here’s our ending explained!

The fourth and final season of Chaos Theory finds the Nublar Six trapped in the BioSyn complex during the events of Dominion, with the team split up on two missions: Brooklynn, Ben, Yaz, and Darius head to Biosyn HQ to put a stop to the illegal dinosaur assassin program once and for all. Meanwhile, Kenji and Sammy journey through Biosyn Valley to save Bumpy, the Ankylosaurus the group befriended back at Camp Cretaceous, and reunite her with her newborn dino, Smoothie. Although they manage to delete the dinosaur assassin program files with Dr. Wu’s help, they quickly find themselves alone and surrounded by various dangers. 

Even if the main characters of Dominion don’t show up here, their presence is felt throughout, mostly in how their actions end up jeopardizing the Nublar Six — like Dodgson unleashing fiery locusts that spark a wildfire, or Claire and Ellie rerouting power and messing up the Hyperloop. In all the chaos, Ben gets fatally gored by a stegosaur thagomizer. Desperate to save him, the group races back to the main Biosyn building in search of their vet wing, right as every dinosaur in the valley rushes to safety, pushed to by a herd command triggered by Biosyn.

If that wasn’t enough, the kids race against the clock to get out of the valley and reach the last medical helicopter available, which they managed to call right before the power went out throughout the facility. Oh, and there is also a pack of atrociraptors on the hunt after the kids. It is only thanks to the arrival of Rexy and two other T. rexes that the raptors get distracted long enough for the Nublar Six to escape and reach the airfield just in time. Ben and Kenji are flown to the hospital while the others stay behind to help with the many injured dinosaurs, while the doctors look at Ben with concern. Just like in the first Camp Cretaceous, it is Ben who gets killed, at least momentarily.

Luckily, Ben does make it out alive, as the show’s epilogue jumps forward in time and we see the Nublar Six gather at Darius’s cabin in California. We learned Darius stayed in Italy after the Biosyn disaster to help with the dinosaurs. Yaz and Sammy started working with Dr. Wu to help with the fallout from the giant locusts that destroyed crops around the world. Brooklynn, having lied to everyone in her life about being alive, is slowly reconnecting with her family, and Kenji now lives with Darius. It is a rather happy ending after a dark season full of perils, and even if Ben was technically only clinically dead for a minute, it could have been permanent if showrunner Scott Kreamer had his way.

When What’s on Netflix caught up with Kreamer ahead of the final season’s release, he revealed that Ben’s fate was “very much up in the air” for a while.

“Going in, when we started writing the final season, that decision hadn’t been made. And so that just was one of those things that we were constantly going back and forth on whether or not he should survive,” Kreamer explained. “I’ll be honest, I go back and forth on whether or not we did the right thing or not. But at the end of the day, we put these kids through so much over 90 episodes. I wasn’t opposed to the idea that they deserve a happy ending.”

As Kreamer puts it, even if this show was definitely older and darker than Camp Cretaceous, there are still kids watching. “You still have to make sure, even though it doesn’t seem like we do, that we dial back the intensity at times.” But don’t blame Kreamer for not trying, after all he admits he tried to kill Ben back in the first season of Camp Cretaceous. “I’m so glad I didn’t, because he turned out to be a wonderful character and really, the catalyst of this entire series. He deserved to pull through. So that’s where we ended up.”

Really, this does feel like a proper Jurassic Park ending, with the main characters going through hell but otherwise making it out alive while the bad guys all get eaten by dinosaurs. Would Ben’s death have given more gravitas to the show? Sure, but if they didn’t kill Brooklynn in the first season of Chaos Theory after making the audience and the characters believe she was dead for a full season, why start now at the end of things? Since we know all dinosaurs will be dead in a few years by the time of Jurassic World Rebirth, let these kids have a happy life, at least.

Did you enjoy the final season? Are you disappointed we won’t be getting a season 5 of Jurassic World: Chaos Theory? Let us know in the comments.