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There have been six sequels to the original Jurassic Park, but none of them played with an unresolved thread from the 1993 film beyond using it as an Easter egg

When Dennis Nedry tries to smuggle dinosaur DNA out of the park, he uses a small coolant system disguised as a Barbasol can. As Nedry attempts to smuggle the Barbasol can to his contact at the dock, he’s killed by a hungry Dilophosaurus. During the confrontation, Nedry drops the Barbasol can, and the camera lingers on it while the computer engineer is being mauled.

The way the camera focused on the can, you would think it was setting something up. At least that’s what Dennis Nedry actor Wayne Knight thought. “It is pretty damn depressing. It was a great prop. What I don’t understand is why it was a MacGuffin that was planted in the first movie and never came back. Neither did I,” Wayne Knight muses during an appearance at Indiana Comic Convention.

“It deserves to be found,” moderator Paul Draper said. “So do I,” Knight jokingly adds.

Wayne Knight is half-correct. The Barbasol can was seen again as an Easter egg in Lewis Dodgson’s office in Jurassic World Dominion. There’s a quick scene in the Camp Cretaceous animated series that explains how he found it.

 However, these instances were quick Easter eggs rather than plot points. Watch Nedry’s death scene again, and you’ll see what Knight is talking about, because Spielberg frames the Barbasol can as if it’ll be important later.

Maybe Jurassic World Rebirth will finally do something with it, but I doubt it.

How to watch the Jurassic Park movies and TV series in order.