Two weeks after the rescue of the purussaurus and kelenken, Drew takes Leon and Jack on their first mission back on active rescue duty after the end of their suspension to rescue the park's first abelisaur species; majungasaurus. But while they're gone, tensions continue to rise to dangerous degrees back at the park.
- Amphibian at Large: Amongst the animals rescued is the house cat sized frog beelzebufo.
- Animal Stampede: The final climactic scenes in Cretaceous Madagascar begin with a large stampede of two species of sauropod and a herd of undiscovered herbivorous crocodilians.
- Big Sister Bully: In an especially brutal incident that leaves the park staff no choice but to have them separated, Matilda subjects her brother Terrence to an especially vicious attack that leaves him heavily injured on his head and neck.
- Campfire Character Exploration: Jack and Leon engage in one of these during night watch at the rescue team's campsite during the rescue team's time in the past. Over the course of it, they continue to improve relations between them and also give each other the beginnings of an idea as to just why they initially had such antagonism between them.
- Chekhov's Gun: The 'roar' made by the majungasaurus proves very useful when Leon records it on his broadcasting device and subsequently uses it to first help rescue an adolescent male majungasaurus from a larger adult male that tries to kill and eat it and then later help Jack rescue Drew from a larger pack of adult females.
- Continuity Nod: Colette proves to be considering to have Hannibal the argentavis trained to work alongside the security division for the sake of helping to capture escaped flying animals after how useful Cirrus proved in capturing the escaped Rocco back in Extras episode Dogfight. John Willoby similarly proves willing to consider training a pterosaur or two for similar purposes to the point of asking Adrian for assistance in as much in the future.
- Defeat Means Friendship: After being defeated in a mating rights battle by Cirrus, Zephyr finally starts to respect and accept him.
- Enemy Summoner: A non video game example occurs when the first dahalokely the rescue team encounters lets out a cawing noise that proves to be a signal for the others in its pack to come out of hiding.
- Gentle Giant Sauropod: Vahiny and rapetosaurus are amongst the animals rescued, and both sauropod species prove fairly friendly and amicable.
- Head-in-the-Sand Management: Drew's tendency for this is once again mentioned. Furthermore, the consequences of as much are also heavily shown to becoming increasingly at risk of coming back to bite him in the future by virtue of how several potentially serious issues that he's largely dismissed and done absolutely nothing to resolve (i.e. Kyle and Nikolai's Teeth-Clenched Teamwork and several vicious looking rivalries starting to take shape between several of the park's animals) are only showing signs of getting worse precisely as a result of Drew's refusal to listen to his fellow park staff members when they express their concerns about as much to him, let alone do anything to resolve the issues in question.
- History Repeats: Much like with the kelenken in the previous episode Drew finds himself getting surrounded and mobbed by a group of carnivores (in this case majungasaurus) that end up not pursuing their prey through the portal as he initially was banking on them doing. And naturally, he once again ends up needing assistance from his teammates with him in order to avoid getting killed and eaten.
- Honorable Elephant: Babar the Columbian Mammoth is shown getting a veterinary checkup in this chapter for the sake of the vets determining if he's been recovering properly from a recent surgery. He proves very well behaved and amenable over the course of it all.
- Huggy, Huggy Hippos: While not truly hippos, the overall spirit of this trope is fulfilled by the friendly newly discovered in-universe herbivorous crocodilian species kibokosuchus, who behave in rather friendly fashion in the scenes featuring them and have heads that closely resemble those of hippos.
- Mama Bear: The mother majungasaurus proves quite protective of her offspring when she battles against an adolescent male majungasaurus that tries to go after them while she's still right there in the area.
- Mighty Roar: The majungasaurus prove to have a rather shrill sounding 'roar' that sounds like a mixture between the screech of a bird and hiss of a snake.
- Mythology Gag: This episode takes heavy inspiration from the Monsters of Majunga Basin chapter of DaDog's Extinction World mythos story Back From the Ashes.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: The miadanasuchus rescued in the Cretaceous Period Maevarano formation prove very territorial, and the mahajangasuchus likewise prove eager to attempt to prevent the rescue team's engineered theft of the carcass they're feasting on alongside a pack of masiakasaurus and flock of undiscovered azhdarchids.
- Ship Tease: Jack and Colette receive dosages of this twice via Colette wishing Jack (and the rest of the team) luck before he departs for his work on the day's mission and being present to welcome him back home when the rescue team finally returns. There is also a very subtle instance of this between Leon and Yolanda when the latter is present to welcome the former home as well.
- Shout-Out: According to
Word of God, one of the rescued male beelzebufo is named Kermit. And back at the park, Adrian's La Brea caracara hatchling introduced back in Extras is revealed to be named Hayabusa and Alice's own similarly introduced in Extras theriodictis pup is revealed to be named Mdogo (with the alpha male and female of the larger theriodictis pack even being named Reirei and Goigoi). - Spiritual Antithesis: To Devils of the Deep. In Devils of the Deep, Leon and Jack were constantly butting heads and at each other's throats to the point that they very nearly got Drew killed (or at the very least maimed) at a crucial moment. Here, they work together swimmingly, have shed their prior antagonism altogether, and save Drew's life at a crucial moment.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Unlike in Prehistoric Earth where Drew's moments of Head-in-the-Sand Management seemed to largely only cause minor annoyance in the rare moments in which as much is even mentioned at all, here his similarly lackadaisical and carefree style of management and tendency to mostly ignore negative issues going on at the park and dismiss attempts by the other staff members to report said issues to him and get him to either assist them in resolving or give them the all clear to look into them are shown to be causing several staff members to be immensely annoyed and develop a very real lack of confidence in him as a leader.
