Post by Night Bear on Feb 12, 2012 18:31:59 GMT -5
For a while, I've been working on a small essay of sorts, with a description of changes that could be made to the show to make it better, and I also wrote summaries for all the episodes, changed of course. Here's what I came up with-
Veloci and Moynihan come from an isolated valley where dinosaurs lived into modern times. He and Moynihan are the last ones to survive when a mysterious plague wipes the others out. They took up an interest in human science and experimented themselves until they accidentally obtain human forms. Veloci and Moynihan go on seperate paths, with Veloci wanting to bring back the age of dinosaurs and Moynihan wanting to educate humans on how to live in harmony with nature.
Kids get perfect dinosaur forms due to extra materials that were accidentally spilled in. The identity of these materials was never discovered, leaving Veloci scrambling to find the right chemicals to make more perfect dinosaurs.
Moynihan refuses to de-ooze the children because the new materials made it too dangerous to do so. Plus she wants their help to fight Dr. Veloci, who had gotten harder for her to combat. Moynihan comes off as mysterious and the Dino Squad do not know how she knows Dr. Veloci so well. She does not tell them that she's a Velociraptor herself until in the finale.
Veloci uses threats and promises of power to entice people to his side. He despises humans due to their large numbers and how they are affecting the planet. Despite his hatred of humans, he doesn't mind if his primordial ooze infects them or not. He sometimes even engages in experimenting on his own men. Dr. Veloci is not fully aware of everything about the Mesozoic, resulting in experiments that are far too risky. He injects a special syrum that acts somewhat like a mind controller, making his men more obedient and more willing to go along with his schemes, no matter what they involve.
The primordial ooze is filled with tiny nanobots that work one a molecular level. They bind with the host's body, more efficiently in the Dino Squad, and can be activated by mere thought. The nanobots are capable of transforming cells to dinosaurian versions and back again an infinite amount of times. The nanobots repair themselves and use the host body temp as a fuel source.
Max elected himself leader because of his form being a T-Rex. He dislikes being a dinosaur but makes the best of it by guiding the others. He is often bossy, thinking only he can get the job done right. This results in him giving the others very easy jobs while he hogs all the hard work for himself.
Buzz is a lone wolf who doesn't want to be in the Dino Squad at first, despite loving his pteranodon form. Overtime, he comes to appreciate the others as friends and becomes protective of them. He is sometimes cowardly, but when his new friends are in danger, he'll swoop in to save them. He has a love of animals, preferably insects.
Fiona has a love of speed and is an accomplished technician. Her love of the environment entices her to work with the other Dino Squad members to stop Dr. Veloci's plans. She builds each member a motorbike that has two forms, a normal motorcycle-look and a stylized version that represents their dinosaur forms. The normal form is used if Veloci and his men are nearby.
Caruso is very egocentric and often only thinks for himself. He wants to use his dinosaur form as a means of getting fame and fortune, despite the consequences it will bring. Despite his selfish nature, he has come to enjoy being with the others and will even give up fame for them. He can be very clever and is the best strategist of the team.
Rodger is the smartest of the group, but is not a good strategist as he tends to lean more towards brains than muscle, creating an imbalance. He puts his talents to creating new weapons for the Dino Squad to use. He spends a lot of time with Ms. Moynihan. They work together to track new mutantsaurs and to improve de-oozing.
The Dino Squad use a multitude of weaponry, the most common being the chiller and the spiller. The nanobots' weakness to cold due to their reliance on heat causes them to surface and the spiller sucks them in, reverting the animal back to normal. Other weapons include nets, guns to defend themselves, and miniradars to help locate mutantsaurs or alert them of Veloci's approach.
Veloci is aware the perfect dinosaurs are human. He suspects this very early on. But with no leads as to who they are, he has no way of finding out who they are. He has his men try to obtain blood samples from them or capture them whenever they see him. He is equally interested in all 5 of the Dino Squad members. He doesn't want to kill them, but will if he has to. He wants to force them to join him and help him create more perfect dinosaurs. He promises a huge reward if they join, which entices Caruso, who only holds back because he doesn't want to betray the others.
The Dino Squad are cold-blooded in dinosaur form, as well as Moynihan, Victor, and Rump. They all require a special device attached to their bodies to keep their body temps regulated in cold weather months. Moving around helps the device to operate more efficiently.
The families are initially unaware of their children's condition. Overtime, they all find out. Fiona, Caruso, and Rodger's family is understanding and supporting. Buzz's family is suspicious but promise not to act unless something terrible happened to their son. Max's family is outraged and end up as antagonists, working with Veloci to have the Dino Squad captured and taken to his lab. Victor promises them to de-ooze the kids, but is secretly planning on forcing the Dino Squad to join him. He is unaware the parents are related to any member of the Dino Squad.
Terri is jealous of her sister and often tries to join missions to prove her worth. While Moynihan does allow her to help, she forces Terri to stay at the lighthouse and keep an eye on the equipment. Terri disobeys one day and tries to help the team, but this results in her getting hurt. She is temporarily banned for a few weeks until the Dino Squad is captured and Moynihan needs Terri's help. Terri is an accomplished hacker and is the only one tenacious and brave enough to hack into Veloci's system. Over time, due to second-hand exposure to ooze, she eventually develops a baryonyx form. Even after this, she is forced to stay back most of the time by the others because they underestimate her fighting ability. She proves them wrong later.
Veloci's men are well trained in combat and have a lot of items useful for capturing mutantsaurs and dinosaurs. They do not have a lot of fear and will go up against the Dino Squad or mutantsaurs no question. The Dino Squad often run into trouble with them and are forced to attack them to escape. Several times, Veloci's men managed to capture them and they barely escape. Peter is one of the most fiercely loyal to Dr. Veloci. He is Veloci's second-in-command and often leads capture attempts against the Dino Squad or mutantsaurs. He got hit with the same ooze that transformed the Dino Squad, giving him an apatosaurus form. Veloci genuinely respects Peter.
Veloci's vehicles tend to consist of whatever is up-to-date at the time, and he has everything from submarines to helicopters to huge trucks. He uses a distinctive marking on them so he can recognize them from the other vehicles around him. While he does have red dino-like vehicles, they are more for show. He drives those around when he's off duty as a way to divert attention. The people are unaware the normal-looking vehicles are where he does his real business. The Dino Squad themselves have had a hard time telling if the next vehicle they saw was Veloci or his goons or not. That is, until Rodger was able to identify the symbol, though they did their best to make Veloci believe they didn't know how to recognize it was him.
A lot of the devices Moynihan and Veloci create tend to have a dino-like head on the front. This draws attention and that was their purpose. They didn't want to lose their creations and found a way to make them stand out from the crowd. They aren't as worried about these being discovered by people because they both have a remote they can press to make the devices transform into something inconspicuous. The reason they both have this is because this was one of their last projects together before they split off from each other.
At one point, the Dino Squad meet two other people they reluctantly share their secret with: Liam and Ms. Krell.
Liam is a high school student suffering from Asperger's Syndrome, making him behave in ways the Dino Squad, especially Max, see as abnormal and they are not able to understand it. Liam is smarter than he appears to be and has a quick wit. After he helps the Dino Squad deal with mutant bees, he's declared an honorary member of the Dino Squad and he promises to keep their secret. Moynihan is especially happy because she had felt bad for the kid not having many friends before this. Liam, however, is hiding a secret, and it's later shown he was acting as a spy.
Ms. Krell is the Flagstaff's neighbor. She's grumpy and cold from years of taunting from fellow peers, causing her to become mostly a hermit. Without much outside world contact, she becomes a great painter, which Terri sees for the first time and comes to admire. Ms. Krell had been friends with Moynihan in the past, and when she learns of what has been going on, she is shocked but still willing to resume friendship with Moynihan as she was the only person willing to stay friends with her after her "I saw a dinosaur" mishap.
Moynihan is able to keep her dino form a secret from the kids until one mission where the Dino Squad go to contend with mutant puppies that are unusually hostile and powerful due to enhanced mutations. With the help of Max's own parents, Veloci is able to capture the Dino Squad and informs them he intends on finding out who they are so he can properly contend with them. Moynihan jumps in to save them, but even after a particularly nasty fight with Veloci, she ends up captured herself.
The sudden reveal of Moynihan's dino form shocks the team. Some are confused as to why she never told them before, while others become angry and distrustful towards Moynihan, wondering why she would keep this secret from them and even wonder if she had ulterior motives. Moynihan tells them that she didn't want them to fear her and apologizes for not telling them before.
After a series of events, the team does manage to escape, but not before doing huge amounts of damage to the lab. Veloci is pissed off about this, seeing his precious equipment destroyed and setting him back many years. Interest in recruiting the Dino Squad fades and he is now only interested in destroying them after acquiring samples of their blood.
Episodes:
Episode 1-Eager to try out new nanobots designed by Peter, Veloci unleashes a batch that seeps its way to a tide pool where Moynihan is conducting a class. Five of the teenagers, who don't particularly get along well with each other, are exposed, forcing Moynihan to train them how to control their new found abilities, which she said would take a few weeks to completely master. In the mean time, the ooze infects a shark and turns it into a kronosaur. Without full control of their dino forms, the teens must work together to restrain and revert the beast to normal.
Episode 2-A week has passed and the teenagers have gained some control over their dinosaur forms. Enough to finally make use of them went contending with squirrel mutants and aggressive mutant plant life. Rodger has not been feeling appreciated lately after the team criticizes him for his inventions failing in their mission. He momentarily leaves the group to do some thinking, but encouragement from Moynihan makes him go back to help his team mates just as they're being overwhelmed by the mutant plants.
Episode 3-Veloci is getting more curious about the group of five dinos that have been interfering with his plans lately. He begins to wonder if they are really human with how they disappear and reappear so quickly. As a method of trapping one, he has one of his female employees host a fake TV show revolving around talent to see if at least one of the dinosaurs was interested in fame. The plan almost works when Caruso tries out, but an escaped spider mutant appears, ruining not only Caruso's chance at fame, but also Veloci's plan. Caruso's parents find out the truth.
Episode 4-Caruso is determined to win a football game to impress his parents, so he uses his dinosaur abilities, despite still not having full control of them. This attracts the attention of Veloci, who sees the signals on his radar. Thinking this further supports the idea of the dinosaurs being human, he goes to Kittery Point to locate the human in hopes of recruiting them. Unleashing mutant raptors, he's able to flush out the dinosaurs, but is unable to capture them and his helicopter is destroyed in the process.
Episode 5-On one particularly bad day, the team's personalities clash so strongly against each other that they refuse to speak to one another for the rest of the day. However, when Fiona forgets to shut the door, Rump runs loose. The team's refusal to cooperate becomes a problem, and they all wind up captured by Veloci's goons. Veloci himself confronts them and tells them he knows they are human and offers a huge reward in exchange for their services, with Caruso showing interest. Interference afar from Moynihan helps them to escape.
Episode 6-Buzz was never much of a team player. After he is the first to gain full control of his dinosaur morph, he becomes disinterested in taking orders from the others. However, he begins to see things differently when he is bullied by McFinn, a new kid in school. The experience leaves Buzz to feel guilty about his treatment of the others and begins to make an effort to change. In the mean time, Veloci experiments with mutating seagulls to see if he could recreate ancient birds species.
Episode 7-The kids confront Moynihan about how she knows Veloci so well. Instead of answering, she takes them, except Buzz, to a frozen lake where she has the team try out her thermal regulators so they can operate fine in the cold. Buzz is playing an online game unknowingly with Veloci. Suspicious of the kid, Veloci uses a special sound that causes Buzz to mindlessly go dino and fly to a designated spot. When the others return and find him missing, they must track the sound before Veloci gets Buzz.
Episode 8-Max's bossy nature is not something the others are used to. It causes Caruso to get in contact with O'Reiley, believing that the famous reporter could get him a spot on the show so he wouldn't have to listen to Max anymore. But when O'Reiley turns out to be even more controlling and gets footage of Max transforming, Caruso must choose between his new potential life or go back and help Max. Things get worse when Veloci shows up in the area to study his recent rat mutations.
Episode 9-Angry at how the others laughed at him when his invention failed in front of the class, Rodger explores practical jokes to get back at them. But despite scolds from the others, including Moynihan, Rodger finds himself unable to stop. His addiction to practical jokes causes their plan against Veloci's infected rain to fail. Feeling guilty, Rodger apologizes to the others. They find another way to stop the rain and are successful, although just barely. Rodger swears off practical jokes after that.
Episode 10-After hearing Fiona talk negatively about his favorite reporter, Zoom, Buzz decides to enter a contest to prove her wrong. He alters a photo of himself with the head of a famous singer. But when he and the others learn the photograph has an image of their lighthouse, they race to where Zoom will meet Veloci to get it back. Buzz ends up meeting the singer and finds that she's not as bad as he had believed her to be. He confesses what he did and apologizes. The photo is obtained and destroyed.
Episode 11-Fiona is upset that she's not able to join the others in the latest mission against Veloci as she's stuck on a family trip with her family into the woods. Fiona's sister, Terri, is especially difficult, asking her why she's suddenly hanging out with the very people she had once seemed to despise so much. When mutant moles show up, Fiona is forced to call the Dino Squad over to their place, where, despite efforts, her family finds out she's a spinosaurus. Surprisingly, they are understanding.
Episode 12-The Dino Squad, with Veloci seemingly inactive, decide to take a vacation in the woods. But a mishap causes their equipment to fry. Left defenseless except for their dino morphs, which they all finally have full control over, the team are unaware that Veloci is also in the woods, observing a fossil remain. When Buzz, Caruso, and Rodger transform out of fear, Veloci smells them and begins to track them down. Max and Fiona, who often clashed for leadership, must work together to save them from Veloci's clutches.
Episode 13-Veloci becomes determined to flush out the dinosaurs and infects a store full of pets. In response, the Dino Squad, in dinosaur forms, show up to take care of them. But circumstances lead to Max accidentally exposing his secret to his parents. Outraged, his parents tell him they're going to disown him until he gets rid of his dinosaur self. They join forces with Veloci to stop the dinosaurs and Max is forced to move in with Moynihan, who has an extra room available.
Episode 14-Moynihan takes pity on Liam, a student with Asperger's Syndrome, after he's constantly bullied by a couple of other students. She assigns Max to help Liam out, although the jock is unwilling at first due to not understanding anything about the condition. Things are complicated when a leftover ooze spill mutates a local bee colony. Due to the sheer numbers, the Dino Squad are unable to contain the mutants until Liam, having found out their secret, offers assistance, proving himself to be more intelligent than they realized.
Episode 15-The Dino Squad are growing wary of Rump's increasingly wild behavior, which Moynihan attributed to the dog slowly losing control of his mutant side. After Fiona yells at Rump for a mishap, the dog escapes, losing his tracking collar in the process. Taking responsibility, Fiona heads out to locate Rump. While she's gone, Veloci, upon suggestion of Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell, unleashes mutant seaslugs near the Kittery Point lighthouse to draw out the Dino Squad.
Episode 16-Peter creates a new type of ooze for his boss, but the ooze has an unexpected dangerous side effect and he ends up dumping it. The ooze ends up hitting a cargo ship full of zoo animals that were in transport. The resulting chaos causes the ship to eventually crash on a deserted island. When Moynihan finds out, she sends the Dino Squad out. But the mission won't be easy when Rodger gets a huge ego from both Moynihan's praise and a science award he had won the previous week.
Episode 17-Although an honorary Dino Squad member for her computer knowledge, Terri is jealous and upset that the others won't let her go on any missions with them. To prove her with, she sneaks out one day when the team is dealing with mutant beavers in a local park. She encounters one of Veloci's men and, in an attempt to get away, she ends up hurt. Shocked by what Terri did, Moynihan banishes Terri from the lighthouse as punishment. But when, a couple weeks later, the Dino Squad is captured, Moynihan calls upon Terri's help.
Episode 18-Max has gotten unusually bossy lately. During a mission to the Arctic Circle where Veloci is attempting to melt the ice caps and growing mutated vegetation, Max becomes so controlling over the others that they are caught off guard when a mutant walrus shows up and attacks them. Things are further complicated when they realize they've wandered into a trap and are infected by a virus engineered by Veloci himself. Slowly getting sicker, they must defend themselves when Veloci comes to 'collect' them.
Episode 19-Terri hates her neighbor, Ms. Krell, and the old woman isn't exactly fond of her either. During a party, the Dino Squad learn that a spider had been mutated by one of Veloci's henchmen and has wandered into Ms. Krell's house. However, during an attempt to capture and de-ooze it, Fiona is bitten and the others become trapped. Terri must work with Ms. Krell to stop Veloci and to rescue the others. Terri eventually learns that, due to secondhand exposure, she has a dino mode of her own.
Episode 20-Veloci has taken a break from trying to capture the Dino Squad and sends Peter out to infect a randomnly chosen farm with ooze that he hopes will recreate, as close as possible, something like a tyrannosaurus out of the farmer's chickens. The Dino Squad respond to this, however, and arrive to take care of the chickens. Things are complicated when Max and Caruso get into a competition with each other and a pet parrot is oozed as well and flies off in another direction.
Episode 21-Veloci mutates a swarm of locusts, but when they accidentally escapes, he lets them go to see what they are capable of, in hopes of producing better mutations. Fiona and Rodger are forced to work together on a science project involving alternative fuel transportation, and their equally stubborn natures make them clash constantly. When they are separated from the others on a mission, they have to deal with the locust mutants by themselves.
Episode 22-When Moynihan realizes Veloci is conducting strange experiments in Hawaii, she sends the Dino Squad to investigate. The team splits off in different directions. During their scuba diving to look for clues, Fiona and Max happen upon Veloci's submarine and are captured by Veloci. While their masks protect their identity for now, it's only a matter of time before Veloci learns their secret identities. With their leader figures missing, the remaining team members must learn to work together.
Episode 23-Caruso accidentally messes up his friends' school projects and, feeling guilty, decides to go leave for the day. While at the mall, he notices that Liam is there talking with one of Veloci's men. Suspecting Liam of being a spy, Caruso informs the others, but they find it hard to believe. When the others fall for a trap laid out for them and with no way to contant Moynihan, Caruso must track them down and rescue them by himself, all the while avoiding being spotted by Liam.
Episode 24-Rodger is feeling down due to his recent experimental failures. He feels especially awful when he accidentally gives Buzz an infected snake Moynihan had been studying. With the worry of the snake mutating and Veloci locking onto its location, the Dino Squad must race to locate the train and intercept it before its too late. Veloci showing up only makes things worse. Assistance from a rogue Raptor Dyne operative, the same one Liam was talking with, provides the edge they need.
Episode 25-Liam comes up with a plan to capture one of the Dino Squad members, but before he can give names to Veloci, he hits his head and loses parts of his memory. Going on what he has, Veloci sets up a meeting and has one of his henchwomen host it. Random names gathered up are announced and one of the names drawn is Buzz. Although he's nervous, he attends, with help from his friends. When they spot Veloci there, they realize it's a potential trap and must try to get out before suspicion falls on them.
Episode 26-The Dino Squad respond to a strange signal in a pet show area and find that Veloci has unleashed hostile mutant puppies in the area. With their claws full, they're unable to properly defend themselves against Veloci's men, who, under Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell's orders, are ultimately captured. Moynihan hears the commotion and, realizing what has happened, transforms and reveals to the Dino Squad that she's also a raptor and attempts to free them, only to be captured herself.
Veloci and Moynihan come from an isolated valley where dinosaurs lived into modern times. He and Moynihan are the last ones to survive when a mysterious plague wipes the others out. They took up an interest in human science and experimented themselves until they accidentally obtain human forms. Veloci and Moynihan go on seperate paths, with Veloci wanting to bring back the age of dinosaurs and Moynihan wanting to educate humans on how to live in harmony with nature.
Kids get perfect dinosaur forms due to extra materials that were accidentally spilled in. The identity of these materials was never discovered, leaving Veloci scrambling to find the right chemicals to make more perfect dinosaurs.
Moynihan refuses to de-ooze the children because the new materials made it too dangerous to do so. Plus she wants their help to fight Dr. Veloci, who had gotten harder for her to combat. Moynihan comes off as mysterious and the Dino Squad do not know how she knows Dr. Veloci so well. She does not tell them that she's a Velociraptor herself until in the finale.
Veloci uses threats and promises of power to entice people to his side. He despises humans due to their large numbers and how they are affecting the planet. Despite his hatred of humans, he doesn't mind if his primordial ooze infects them or not. He sometimes even engages in experimenting on his own men. Dr. Veloci is not fully aware of everything about the Mesozoic, resulting in experiments that are far too risky. He injects a special syrum that acts somewhat like a mind controller, making his men more obedient and more willing to go along with his schemes, no matter what they involve.
The primordial ooze is filled with tiny nanobots that work one a molecular level. They bind with the host's body, more efficiently in the Dino Squad, and can be activated by mere thought. The nanobots are capable of transforming cells to dinosaurian versions and back again an infinite amount of times. The nanobots repair themselves and use the host body temp as a fuel source.
Max elected himself leader because of his form being a T-Rex. He dislikes being a dinosaur but makes the best of it by guiding the others. He is often bossy, thinking only he can get the job done right. This results in him giving the others very easy jobs while he hogs all the hard work for himself.
Buzz is a lone wolf who doesn't want to be in the Dino Squad at first, despite loving his pteranodon form. Overtime, he comes to appreciate the others as friends and becomes protective of them. He is sometimes cowardly, but when his new friends are in danger, he'll swoop in to save them. He has a love of animals, preferably insects.
Fiona has a love of speed and is an accomplished technician. Her love of the environment entices her to work with the other Dino Squad members to stop Dr. Veloci's plans. She builds each member a motorbike that has two forms, a normal motorcycle-look and a stylized version that represents their dinosaur forms. The normal form is used if Veloci and his men are nearby.
Caruso is very egocentric and often only thinks for himself. He wants to use his dinosaur form as a means of getting fame and fortune, despite the consequences it will bring. Despite his selfish nature, he has come to enjoy being with the others and will even give up fame for them. He can be very clever and is the best strategist of the team.
Rodger is the smartest of the group, but is not a good strategist as he tends to lean more towards brains than muscle, creating an imbalance. He puts his talents to creating new weapons for the Dino Squad to use. He spends a lot of time with Ms. Moynihan. They work together to track new mutantsaurs and to improve de-oozing.
The Dino Squad use a multitude of weaponry, the most common being the chiller and the spiller. The nanobots' weakness to cold due to their reliance on heat causes them to surface and the spiller sucks them in, reverting the animal back to normal. Other weapons include nets, guns to defend themselves, and miniradars to help locate mutantsaurs or alert them of Veloci's approach.
Veloci is aware the perfect dinosaurs are human. He suspects this very early on. But with no leads as to who they are, he has no way of finding out who they are. He has his men try to obtain blood samples from them or capture them whenever they see him. He is equally interested in all 5 of the Dino Squad members. He doesn't want to kill them, but will if he has to. He wants to force them to join him and help him create more perfect dinosaurs. He promises a huge reward if they join, which entices Caruso, who only holds back because he doesn't want to betray the others.
The Dino Squad are cold-blooded in dinosaur form, as well as Moynihan, Victor, and Rump. They all require a special device attached to their bodies to keep their body temps regulated in cold weather months. Moving around helps the device to operate more efficiently.
The families are initially unaware of their children's condition. Overtime, they all find out. Fiona, Caruso, and Rodger's family is understanding and supporting. Buzz's family is suspicious but promise not to act unless something terrible happened to their son. Max's family is outraged and end up as antagonists, working with Veloci to have the Dino Squad captured and taken to his lab. Victor promises them to de-ooze the kids, but is secretly planning on forcing the Dino Squad to join him. He is unaware the parents are related to any member of the Dino Squad.
Terri is jealous of her sister and often tries to join missions to prove her worth. While Moynihan does allow her to help, she forces Terri to stay at the lighthouse and keep an eye on the equipment. Terri disobeys one day and tries to help the team, but this results in her getting hurt. She is temporarily banned for a few weeks until the Dino Squad is captured and Moynihan needs Terri's help. Terri is an accomplished hacker and is the only one tenacious and brave enough to hack into Veloci's system. Over time, due to second-hand exposure to ooze, she eventually develops a baryonyx form. Even after this, she is forced to stay back most of the time by the others because they underestimate her fighting ability. She proves them wrong later.
Veloci's men are well trained in combat and have a lot of items useful for capturing mutantsaurs and dinosaurs. They do not have a lot of fear and will go up against the Dino Squad or mutantsaurs no question. The Dino Squad often run into trouble with them and are forced to attack them to escape. Several times, Veloci's men managed to capture them and they barely escape. Peter is one of the most fiercely loyal to Dr. Veloci. He is Veloci's second-in-command and often leads capture attempts against the Dino Squad or mutantsaurs. He got hit with the same ooze that transformed the Dino Squad, giving him an apatosaurus form. Veloci genuinely respects Peter.
Veloci's vehicles tend to consist of whatever is up-to-date at the time, and he has everything from submarines to helicopters to huge trucks. He uses a distinctive marking on them so he can recognize them from the other vehicles around him. While he does have red dino-like vehicles, they are more for show. He drives those around when he's off duty as a way to divert attention. The people are unaware the normal-looking vehicles are where he does his real business. The Dino Squad themselves have had a hard time telling if the next vehicle they saw was Veloci or his goons or not. That is, until Rodger was able to identify the symbol, though they did their best to make Veloci believe they didn't know how to recognize it was him.
A lot of the devices Moynihan and Veloci create tend to have a dino-like head on the front. This draws attention and that was their purpose. They didn't want to lose their creations and found a way to make them stand out from the crowd. They aren't as worried about these being discovered by people because they both have a remote they can press to make the devices transform into something inconspicuous. The reason they both have this is because this was one of their last projects together before they split off from each other.
At one point, the Dino Squad meet two other people they reluctantly share their secret with: Liam and Ms. Krell.
Liam is a high school student suffering from Asperger's Syndrome, making him behave in ways the Dino Squad, especially Max, see as abnormal and they are not able to understand it. Liam is smarter than he appears to be and has a quick wit. After he helps the Dino Squad deal with mutant bees, he's declared an honorary member of the Dino Squad and he promises to keep their secret. Moynihan is especially happy because she had felt bad for the kid not having many friends before this. Liam, however, is hiding a secret, and it's later shown he was acting as a spy.
Ms. Krell is the Flagstaff's neighbor. She's grumpy and cold from years of taunting from fellow peers, causing her to become mostly a hermit. Without much outside world contact, she becomes a great painter, which Terri sees for the first time and comes to admire. Ms. Krell had been friends with Moynihan in the past, and when she learns of what has been going on, she is shocked but still willing to resume friendship with Moynihan as she was the only person willing to stay friends with her after her "I saw a dinosaur" mishap.
Moynihan is able to keep her dino form a secret from the kids until one mission where the Dino Squad go to contend with mutant puppies that are unusually hostile and powerful due to enhanced mutations. With the help of Max's own parents, Veloci is able to capture the Dino Squad and informs them he intends on finding out who they are so he can properly contend with them. Moynihan jumps in to save them, but even after a particularly nasty fight with Veloci, she ends up captured herself.
The sudden reveal of Moynihan's dino form shocks the team. Some are confused as to why she never told them before, while others become angry and distrustful towards Moynihan, wondering why she would keep this secret from them and even wonder if she had ulterior motives. Moynihan tells them that she didn't want them to fear her and apologizes for not telling them before.
After a series of events, the team does manage to escape, but not before doing huge amounts of damage to the lab. Veloci is pissed off about this, seeing his precious equipment destroyed and setting him back many years. Interest in recruiting the Dino Squad fades and he is now only interested in destroying them after acquiring samples of their blood.
Episodes:
Episode 1-Eager to try out new nanobots designed by Peter, Veloci unleashes a batch that seeps its way to a tide pool where Moynihan is conducting a class. Five of the teenagers, who don't particularly get along well with each other, are exposed, forcing Moynihan to train them how to control their new found abilities, which she said would take a few weeks to completely master. In the mean time, the ooze infects a shark and turns it into a kronosaur. Without full control of their dino forms, the teens must work together to restrain and revert the beast to normal.
Episode 2-A week has passed and the teenagers have gained some control over their dinosaur forms. Enough to finally make use of them went contending with squirrel mutants and aggressive mutant plant life. Rodger has not been feeling appreciated lately after the team criticizes him for his inventions failing in their mission. He momentarily leaves the group to do some thinking, but encouragement from Moynihan makes him go back to help his team mates just as they're being overwhelmed by the mutant plants.
Episode 3-Veloci is getting more curious about the group of five dinos that have been interfering with his plans lately. He begins to wonder if they are really human with how they disappear and reappear so quickly. As a method of trapping one, he has one of his female employees host a fake TV show revolving around talent to see if at least one of the dinosaurs was interested in fame. The plan almost works when Caruso tries out, but an escaped spider mutant appears, ruining not only Caruso's chance at fame, but also Veloci's plan. Caruso's parents find out the truth.
Episode 4-Caruso is determined to win a football game to impress his parents, so he uses his dinosaur abilities, despite still not having full control of them. This attracts the attention of Veloci, who sees the signals on his radar. Thinking this further supports the idea of the dinosaurs being human, he goes to Kittery Point to locate the human in hopes of recruiting them. Unleashing mutant raptors, he's able to flush out the dinosaurs, but is unable to capture them and his helicopter is destroyed in the process.
Episode 5-On one particularly bad day, the team's personalities clash so strongly against each other that they refuse to speak to one another for the rest of the day. However, when Fiona forgets to shut the door, Rump runs loose. The team's refusal to cooperate becomes a problem, and they all wind up captured by Veloci's goons. Veloci himself confronts them and tells them he knows they are human and offers a huge reward in exchange for their services, with Caruso showing interest. Interference afar from Moynihan helps them to escape.
Episode 6-Buzz was never much of a team player. After he is the first to gain full control of his dinosaur morph, he becomes disinterested in taking orders from the others. However, he begins to see things differently when he is bullied by McFinn, a new kid in school. The experience leaves Buzz to feel guilty about his treatment of the others and begins to make an effort to change. In the mean time, Veloci experiments with mutating seagulls to see if he could recreate ancient birds species.
Episode 7-The kids confront Moynihan about how she knows Veloci so well. Instead of answering, she takes them, except Buzz, to a frozen lake where she has the team try out her thermal regulators so they can operate fine in the cold. Buzz is playing an online game unknowingly with Veloci. Suspicious of the kid, Veloci uses a special sound that causes Buzz to mindlessly go dino and fly to a designated spot. When the others return and find him missing, they must track the sound before Veloci gets Buzz.
Episode 8-Max's bossy nature is not something the others are used to. It causes Caruso to get in contact with O'Reiley, believing that the famous reporter could get him a spot on the show so he wouldn't have to listen to Max anymore. But when O'Reiley turns out to be even more controlling and gets footage of Max transforming, Caruso must choose between his new potential life or go back and help Max. Things get worse when Veloci shows up in the area to study his recent rat mutations.
Episode 9-Angry at how the others laughed at him when his invention failed in front of the class, Rodger explores practical jokes to get back at them. But despite scolds from the others, including Moynihan, Rodger finds himself unable to stop. His addiction to practical jokes causes their plan against Veloci's infected rain to fail. Feeling guilty, Rodger apologizes to the others. They find another way to stop the rain and are successful, although just barely. Rodger swears off practical jokes after that.
Episode 10-After hearing Fiona talk negatively about his favorite reporter, Zoom, Buzz decides to enter a contest to prove her wrong. He alters a photo of himself with the head of a famous singer. But when he and the others learn the photograph has an image of their lighthouse, they race to where Zoom will meet Veloci to get it back. Buzz ends up meeting the singer and finds that she's not as bad as he had believed her to be. He confesses what he did and apologizes. The photo is obtained and destroyed.
Episode 11-Fiona is upset that she's not able to join the others in the latest mission against Veloci as she's stuck on a family trip with her family into the woods. Fiona's sister, Terri, is especially difficult, asking her why she's suddenly hanging out with the very people she had once seemed to despise so much. When mutant moles show up, Fiona is forced to call the Dino Squad over to their place, where, despite efforts, her family finds out she's a spinosaurus. Surprisingly, they are understanding.
Episode 12-The Dino Squad, with Veloci seemingly inactive, decide to take a vacation in the woods. But a mishap causes their equipment to fry. Left defenseless except for their dino morphs, which they all finally have full control over, the team are unaware that Veloci is also in the woods, observing a fossil remain. When Buzz, Caruso, and Rodger transform out of fear, Veloci smells them and begins to track them down. Max and Fiona, who often clashed for leadership, must work together to save them from Veloci's clutches.
Episode 13-Veloci becomes determined to flush out the dinosaurs and infects a store full of pets. In response, the Dino Squad, in dinosaur forms, show up to take care of them. But circumstances lead to Max accidentally exposing his secret to his parents. Outraged, his parents tell him they're going to disown him until he gets rid of his dinosaur self. They join forces with Veloci to stop the dinosaurs and Max is forced to move in with Moynihan, who has an extra room available.
Episode 14-Moynihan takes pity on Liam, a student with Asperger's Syndrome, after he's constantly bullied by a couple of other students. She assigns Max to help Liam out, although the jock is unwilling at first due to not understanding anything about the condition. Things are complicated when a leftover ooze spill mutates a local bee colony. Due to the sheer numbers, the Dino Squad are unable to contain the mutants until Liam, having found out their secret, offers assistance, proving himself to be more intelligent than they realized.
Episode 15-The Dino Squad are growing wary of Rump's increasingly wild behavior, which Moynihan attributed to the dog slowly losing control of his mutant side. After Fiona yells at Rump for a mishap, the dog escapes, losing his tracking collar in the process. Taking responsibility, Fiona heads out to locate Rump. While she's gone, Veloci, upon suggestion of Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell, unleashes mutant seaslugs near the Kittery Point lighthouse to draw out the Dino Squad.
Episode 16-Peter creates a new type of ooze for his boss, but the ooze has an unexpected dangerous side effect and he ends up dumping it. The ooze ends up hitting a cargo ship full of zoo animals that were in transport. The resulting chaos causes the ship to eventually crash on a deserted island. When Moynihan finds out, she sends the Dino Squad out. But the mission won't be easy when Rodger gets a huge ego from both Moynihan's praise and a science award he had won the previous week.
Episode 17-Although an honorary Dino Squad member for her computer knowledge, Terri is jealous and upset that the others won't let her go on any missions with them. To prove her with, she sneaks out one day when the team is dealing with mutant beavers in a local park. She encounters one of Veloci's men and, in an attempt to get away, she ends up hurt. Shocked by what Terri did, Moynihan banishes Terri from the lighthouse as punishment. But when, a couple weeks later, the Dino Squad is captured, Moynihan calls upon Terri's help.
Episode 18-Max has gotten unusually bossy lately. During a mission to the Arctic Circle where Veloci is attempting to melt the ice caps and growing mutated vegetation, Max becomes so controlling over the others that they are caught off guard when a mutant walrus shows up and attacks them. Things are further complicated when they realize they've wandered into a trap and are infected by a virus engineered by Veloci himself. Slowly getting sicker, they must defend themselves when Veloci comes to 'collect' them.
Episode 19-Terri hates her neighbor, Ms. Krell, and the old woman isn't exactly fond of her either. During a party, the Dino Squad learn that a spider had been mutated by one of Veloci's henchmen and has wandered into Ms. Krell's house. However, during an attempt to capture and de-ooze it, Fiona is bitten and the others become trapped. Terri must work with Ms. Krell to stop Veloci and to rescue the others. Terri eventually learns that, due to secondhand exposure, she has a dino mode of her own.
Episode 20-Veloci has taken a break from trying to capture the Dino Squad and sends Peter out to infect a randomnly chosen farm with ooze that he hopes will recreate, as close as possible, something like a tyrannosaurus out of the farmer's chickens. The Dino Squad respond to this, however, and arrive to take care of the chickens. Things are complicated when Max and Caruso get into a competition with each other and a pet parrot is oozed as well and flies off in another direction.
Episode 21-Veloci mutates a swarm of locusts, but when they accidentally escapes, he lets them go to see what they are capable of, in hopes of producing better mutations. Fiona and Rodger are forced to work together on a science project involving alternative fuel transportation, and their equally stubborn natures make them clash constantly. When they are separated from the others on a mission, they have to deal with the locust mutants by themselves.
Episode 22-When Moynihan realizes Veloci is conducting strange experiments in Hawaii, she sends the Dino Squad to investigate. The team splits off in different directions. During their scuba diving to look for clues, Fiona and Max happen upon Veloci's submarine and are captured by Veloci. While their masks protect their identity for now, it's only a matter of time before Veloci learns their secret identities. With their leader figures missing, the remaining team members must learn to work together.
Episode 23-Caruso accidentally messes up his friends' school projects and, feeling guilty, decides to go leave for the day. While at the mall, he notices that Liam is there talking with one of Veloci's men. Suspecting Liam of being a spy, Caruso informs the others, but they find it hard to believe. When the others fall for a trap laid out for them and with no way to contant Moynihan, Caruso must track them down and rescue them by himself, all the while avoiding being spotted by Liam.
Episode 24-Rodger is feeling down due to his recent experimental failures. He feels especially awful when he accidentally gives Buzz an infected snake Moynihan had been studying. With the worry of the snake mutating and Veloci locking onto its location, the Dino Squad must race to locate the train and intercept it before its too late. Veloci showing up only makes things worse. Assistance from a rogue Raptor Dyne operative, the same one Liam was talking with, provides the edge they need.
Episode 25-Liam comes up with a plan to capture one of the Dino Squad members, but before he can give names to Veloci, he hits his head and loses parts of his memory. Going on what he has, Veloci sets up a meeting and has one of his henchwomen host it. Random names gathered up are announced and one of the names drawn is Buzz. Although he's nervous, he attends, with help from his friends. When they spot Veloci there, they realize it's a potential trap and must try to get out before suspicion falls on them.
Episode 26-The Dino Squad respond to a strange signal in a pet show area and find that Veloci has unleashed hostile mutant puppies in the area. With their claws full, they're unable to properly defend themselves against Veloci's men, who, under Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell's orders, are ultimately captured. Moynihan hears the commotion and, realizing what has happened, transforms and reveals to the Dino Squad that she's also a raptor and attempts to free them, only to be captured herself.