After the events of the ending first Dino Crisis, the dimensional shift damages the ecological cycle of the Cretaceous Period, threatening to erase humanity from existence. To avoid this fate, the US Senate approves the "Noah's Ark Plan" whereby the experimental Third Energy is used to send the displaced dinosaurs three million years into the future, where they would no longer be a threat; they would then be sent back to their appropriate times once the crisis passed. Eventually, Mike sees Paula is trapped in a ravine and is able to save her. After, they escape in a jeep through an empty town,