Elijah "Eli" Mills is the central antagonist in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
Biography[]
Mills first appears in the film as a kind and supportive resident of Benjamin Lockwood's Manor, as he was employed by Lockwood to be entrusted with the mansion. He was also eager to help Claire Dearing with her plan to rescue the dinosaurs off of Isla Nublar, noting they can only save 11 species (but more if there's time). He also suggested recruiting Owen Grady for the mission, as he can help save Blue, the last living Velociraptor.
The mercenaries under his employ initially cooperate with the Dinosaur Protection Group but turn on them the moment Blue is found and captured. Mills has them left behind on the island to be left for dead by the erupting volcano, having outlived their usefulness and to eliminate witnesses. He was shown becoming increasingly abusive towards Maisie Lockwood due to her always sneaking into his business. He also intended to use dinosaurs as a template for creating deadly bioweapons with help of Henry Wu.
Before the auction begins, he contacts professional auctioneer Gunnar Eversoll to help run it, who is initially reluctant due to the late arrival of the dinosaurs. Unknowingly, Maisie Lockwood discovers this and tells Benjamin about it. Despite Benjamin initially brushing the information aside, he later reprimands Mills in his bedroom about selling off the dinosaurs instead of relocating them. While Lockwood commands Mills to calls the police on himself for his action of betrayal, he instead smothers his master with a pillow, causing his amber cane to shatter onto the ground.
In the mansion's underground laboratory, Mills and Henry Wu discuss the newly created hybrid, the Indoraptor. Wu warns him that the Indoraptor is not a viable product as he is unstable due to his hated for Blue; however, Mills refuses to listen to him (he is helping the Indoraptor with his plan: killing Blue in revenge for the Indominus Rex). He and Ken Wheatley later confront a captured Owen and Claire in the manor's holding cells where he mocks their efforts to save the dinosaurs and not seeing the potential they hold as weapons. They are furious at being manipulated and almost killed by him, as well as disgusted by the fact that he only sees the helpless dinosaurs as money to be made. Owen at one point threatens to break Mills' arm by grabbing it through the bars, but Claire stops him only so that she can hurt Mills herself, which she does by yanking him face-first into the bars by his tie. Following this exchange, Mills implies that he doesn't intend to let either of them live, stating that, as far as the outside world is concerned, they both died on Isla Nublar when Mt. Sibo erupted.
As the auction rolls out, Mills and Henry both observe the auction taking place, with the former focusing on the millions generated by the event. At the auction's halfway point, Eversol decided to tease the weaponized hybrid, causing a rift between Mills and Wu. Despite Henry warning Mills about the dangers of selling the Indoraptor, Mills continued with the process after a bidder made a hefty bid of $20 million for the prototype. This was actually planned out; the Indoraptor would pretend to be sold, kill the buyers, escape, and Mills would still be rich. After the final bid, the Indoraptor was sold. But suddenly, an escaped Stygimoloch named Stiggy, sabotaged the event, causing a panicking frenzy. Mills was shocked that Owen escaped and sabotaged the auction. Mills ordered his men to try to have the Indoraptor delivered to the buyer, but Owen prevented it by reversing the track and stopping the cage. As Owen deactivated the circuitry to the track, Mills fled the scene.
Mills and his two men ran into Owen, Claire, and Maisie during his escape attempt. Furious over Owen and Claire spoiling his plans, he intends to kill them, but demanded them to hand over Maisie to him first. When they refused, Mills cruelly reveals that Maisie is actually the clone of Lockwood's deceased daughter and the reason John Hammond and Lockwood ended their partnership was because Hammond never believed in human cloning. Before his men can kill Owen and Claire, the Indoraptor blindsides the mercenaries and takes off with them, causing Mills to retreat.
Death[]
Accompanied by two mercenaries with Mills holding the Indominus rex DNA sample, he attempted to make his escape from the Lockwood Manor with the intention of continuing the hybrid program. However, he was soon to learn the hard way that tangling with nature was unwise. A battered Mills narrowly escaped a stampede of captured dinosaurs released by Maisie by hiding under a van, though his two subordinates were killed. After the threat passed, he tried to retrieve the Indominus sample only to be ambushed by the T. rex of Isla Nublar, which grabs him with its mouth and crushes him between her jaws. As Mills screams in pain and terror and pounds at the Tyrannosaur's lower jaw, he is finally killed when the Tyrannosaur delivers one final crunch, separating his legs from the rest of this body. Then a Carnotaurus then appears and snatches his leg. The T. rex then scares the Carnotaurus away by headbutting it, forcing it to drop Mills' leftover leg, which then attracted several Compsognathus. The T. rex then roars in triumphant victory.
Eli's Death
After devouring Mills, the T. rex tramples the Indominus' DNA samples, crushing it, and carelessly fleeing into the wilderness, ensuring an end to all future hybrids once and for all.
His death won the Golden Chainsaw award because James thought it was awesome despite being similar to Eddie Carr's death in the second film, which also won a Golden Chainsaw.
Trivia[]
- He is played by Rafe Spall, who was Rafe Millburn in Prometheus, and Noel in Shaun of the Dead.