Lex Murphy
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Lex Murphy was John Hammond's granddaughter and Tim's older sister who accompanied the group on the tour because her parents were getting a divorce.
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[edit] Jurassic Park (novel)
Lex Murphy is first seen in the novel coming out of a helicopter with her brother, Tim Murphy. Grant guessed she was no older than eight years old. Donald Gennaro expressed his outrage that John Hammond would allow children on the test tour. Regardless, the children tagged along. Lex accompanied her brother and Ed Regis in the first car as they began the tour. She quickly became bored watching the dinosaurs do nothing and was glad to hear they were going back.
Unfortunately, Dennis Nedry took that opportunity to cut the power off and the T-Rex seized that opportunity to break through the fence. Lex and Tim stayed in the car as the dinosaur picked it up. Lex fell out of the car and was knocked unconscious. Lex awoke in the middle on an empty road to find Alan Grant at the edge. They eventually found Tim and Ed Regis, but Regis was killed before they could do anything about it.
The three began to walk through the park, trying to trip the motion detectors. The three spent the night in a storage room where Lex befriended a juvenile triceratops. The group eventually found a raft and managed to out-paddle the T-Rex. The group follows the river back to the main entrance and finally, after one final encounter with the T-Rex, made it back to safety.
Alan Grant put the two kids in the kitchen while he worked with the other adults. The kitchen was surprisingly ambushed by a single velociraptor at the siblings managed to trap inside a meat locker. Knowing that there was nowhere safe, they began to help and were met up with Grant and Gennaro as they finished off the raptors.
The building was finally safe as they returned to the Control Room and managed to call for help. Lex and her brother were picked up by one of the helicopters before the island was bombed. Lex appeared playing in the hotel pool with her brother while Dr. Marty Guitierrez explained that the children would be allowed to go home, but the rest would be staying in Costa Rica indefinitely.
[edit] Jurassic Park (film)
In the movie, the roles of Tim and Lex were more or less reversed; Lex was now the older sibling, and she was given Tim's skills as a hacker. Nevertheless, Tim became the younger sibling, but still kept his fascination for dinosaurs.
She along with Tim are first seen when they happily greet their grandfather as he brings the other guests down to take the tour car from the park. Outside, she becomes fascinated at the interface the car had for the tourists.
[edit] The Lost World (film)
She and her brother are briefly seen by Ian Malcolm as he comes to visit John Hammond. They seem to know what their cousin, Peter Ludlow is up to about making another dinosaur theme park. In the poll, she voted no, not to rebuild the park.
[edit] Jurassic Park IV
Steven Spielberg has said that Lex will be in the next JP movie. It is rumored that Ariana Richards will reprise her role.
