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　　After serving two years on a military outpost in the middle of an ocean – four soldiers are waiting for a new crew to replace them. When the long-awaited boat finally appears, it’s empty with no relief on board. When trying to find out what happened to the boat and the missing crew, they realize they’ve lost all communications with home. Cut off from the rest of the world and no one coming to get them, Baines, Sullivan, Cassidy and Hendryx must fight with suspicions about each other and find a new way to get home. If home still exists.

　　高中三年级学生朝仓晓生是个车迷，这天他在车行里发现了一辆深蓝色的日产FairladyS30Z。这正是传说中的“恶魔Z”，号称速度最快的改装车。据说“恶魔Z”仿佛有着自己的意志，能够根据情况做出反应，它的高速令人生畏，却又深深地吸引着追求速度之梦的人们。“恶魔Z”曾经的拥有者都出了事故，这辆车在世上销声匿迹了一阵，竟然又出现了。晓生迷上了“恶魔Z”，为之投入了全副精力，试图去完全掌控它。　　绘梨子的哥哥晶夫也因为“恶魔Z”而死，绘梨子非常讨厌这辆车，反对让它复活。然而晓生的热情感染了她，她在晓生身上看到了哥哥的影子，渐渐地开始支持他。　　绘梨子的男朋友岛达也曾经是晶夫的赛车朋友，他认为应该把“恶魔Z”销毁，阻止再有人牺牲。达也将爱车黑色保时捷911重新改装，向晓生发出了战书。　　恶魔Z与黑鸟的对决拉开了序幕……

　　The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...