Primeval - Episode 7

Season 1, Episode 7







The opening scene has two secruity guards monitoring survillance cameras at a local shopping mall, when something on the CCTV monitor grabs the attention. One guard heads to the bowling alley to investigate, only to be attacked by a ferocious Jurassic-era Utahraptor. The second guard goes in search of the first guard, only to also be attacked. Anomalies? They're back ...

At the future anomaly site from last week, Cutter grapples with Claudia Brown's disappearance. No one but Cutter has any idea who Claudia is, or was. Cutter finds a new second-in-command has taken Claudia's place in the team - the oily Oliver Leek. Not only that, but the team now has a headquarters. A hi-tech, highly sophisticated operations base called the Anomaly Research Center, or ARC.

No one believes Cutter - although Conner does start to believe - when he tries to explain that the present has altered, resulting in Claudia's disappearance. In fact, they think he has gone crazy. But there is not time for talk, as the team gets a call reporting the creature incursion at the shopping mall.

Again, Conner and Abby provide the comic relief in this wonderful series. Pouting because Abby and Stephen won't let him carry a tranquilizer gun, Conner is the first to encounter the Raptor, barely escaping under a security door. Later, while escourting a cleaning person from the mall, Abby finally gives in to Conner and allows him to search the locker room with the gun. Bet you can guess what happens?...Conner ends up shoting Abby in the leg with a tranquilizer, before subduing a baby Raptor. Abby spends a large portion of this episode unconcious.

In the end, the Raptors are returned to the anomaly, and Cutter has every intention of staying in the past. But Stephen follows Cutter into the anomaly and convinces him to return. As the anomaly starts to close, Cutter makes it through, but Stephens foot is caught by a Raptor in the past. The team manages to pull Stephen through and the anomoly closes, cutting off the Raptor's head.

Back at ARC, the team learns Lester has hired a PR person to help with the publicity surrounding the anomolies and the subsequent creatures. Jenny Lewis is the new PR person - and she looks exactly like Claudia Brown.