Robert Muldoon
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Robert Muldoon was Jurassic Park's game warden. He was also the game warden at John Hammond's park in Kenya. He was shown to be proficient with weaponry and was a skilled hunter. He was portrayed in the film as a cautious man and a bit of an alarmist. It can assumed that he had worked with Hammond for a considerable amount of time and had gained Hammond's confidence as Hammond trusted him enough to let him bring back his grandchildren.
[edit] Jurassic Park (Novel)
In the novel he was an alcoholic. After the power to the fences was restored, he and the maintenance crew went to repair the fences. When John Arnold went and shut down the power then went to fix the power shed to restore all of the parks systems, Muldoon and Gennaro both went to see why John was taking so long. They were separated and Muldoon got trapped inside of a large pipe by the raptors. He eventually made it back to the visitor lodge with Hammond, Wu, Sattler, Malcolm, and an assortment of other employees. He was later rescued by a helicopter while trying to locate the raptor nest. He made it out of Jurassic Park safely.
[edit] Jurassic Park (Film)
In the movie he was not an alcoholic, and was much more serious than his novel counterpart. He expressed great concern over the Raptors, significantly as a result of one of his workers, Jophery, being killed by a Velociraptor when they were transferring it to the raptor pen. He put more concern in the safety of the guests too, as he was worried that a tropical storm a few miles away from Isla Nublar would hit.
By the time the power went out around the island, Hammond requested that he go and find his grandchildren, a task that he took up. When he and Ellie arrived at the T-Rex paddock, their worst fears were realized: the T-Rex had broken out of its paddock, severely damaged one of the tour cars, and disappeared into the forest.
After finding the grisly remains of Gennaro, they looked further in the debris and found Malcolm, injured. As Muldoon helped put Malcolm in the Jeep, Ellie looked everywhere for the first Park drive Land cruiser. Muldoon impatiently told Ellie to hurry up, as the T-Rex could be anywhere and stated that with the electrified fences being offline, the T-Rex could wander in and out of any paddock it likes, and he didn't want to be around when it came back. It was then that Ellie the other Land cruiser, battered and tossed over the edge. They hurried down towards it but Grant Lex and Tim were already gone, and the only clue to their whereabouts were their footprints.
It was around this time that Malcolm started to hear the familiar footsteps of the T-Rex near. He yelled for Ellie and Muldoon, who were just coming up from below the security moat, to hurry up and get out of there. After a lengthy chase from the T-Rex, the trio made it back to the Visitor's Center, where Muldoon and Satler tended to Malcolm's wounded leg, giving him a dose of morphine.
Sometime Sunday morning, Muldoon, Hammond, Arnold, Malcolm, and Satler gathered in the control room. The situation looked bleak; Arnold still hadn't figured out how to get past Nedry's bug, and Malcolm needed help. That's when Hammond suggested a calculated risk: turn off the main switch, turning off all the systems in the park, thereby erasing everything that Nedry did. Arnold argued that they never did anything like this, and it may cause the systems to shut down completely. Muldoon suggested that they put the Lysine Contingency into effect but was denied harshly by Hammond, so the choice was made to switch off the power.
After seeing that the systems did in fact turn back on to their start-up screen, Arnold went off to the power shed to turn back on the power. Muldoon led the others to the visitor center security bunker, where they would wait for Arnold's return.
After a few minutes, Arnold still hadn't returned from the shed which prompted Ellie to go and turn the power on herself, but Muldoon replied that "you can't just stroll down the road, you know?". He then volunteered to go with her as well, as he was the only weapons expert and park ranger on the island at the time. Taking his favoured SPAS-12 shotgun with him, he and Ellie made their way out of the bunker and towards the shed. As they passed the Raptor Pen, his worst fears came true; the power had switched off all the fences including those of the Raptor pen and the wires had been chewed through, and three velociraptors had escaped into the woods. As they slowly made their way through the woods, Ellie wodered and noted how quiet it was. Muldoon howeverk new the exact reason why: they were being hunted. He volunteered to stay behind and fend off the raptors, telling Ellie to run to the shed.
Afterward, he moved deeper into the jungle. After a few minutes, he saw a raptor move towards a log near him. He quietly removed his hat and locked his shotgun's sight onto the velociraptor in front of him to rectify his past failure. He was determined to destoy the velociraptors, something he thought he should have done a long time ago. However just as he was aiming at the dinosaur he realized his error. Raptors had an attack pattern: One raptor was to sit out in the open to distract the prey whilst 1 or 2 more raptors were to wait in the bushes and ambush their prey. Before he had time to swing his shotgun around, a second raptor burst from the trees and tackled him to the ground, promptly killing him shortly after he uttered his famous last words: "Clever girl...". After the incident Muldoon's family filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against InGen for his death.
