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.

Primeval - Episode 5

Tonight's episode was the most exciting - and funny - so far of the series!

When a golfer cuts his hand on a thorn during a day on the course, he is chased down the green by a mysterious flying object and dragged into the air. Claudia arrives on the scene and instructs Special Forces to seal the perimeter. Cutter and Stephen arrive on the scene, and from the state of the golfer's body, it looks like another dangerous predator is on the loose. They manage to track down the location of this latest anomaly, but it is many feet up in the sky. As they ponder how to cordon it off, a Pteranodon swoops through.



That was an awesome episode! The one liners were funny as usual and Connor losing Rex was hilarious.

Connor: ‘Rex! I swear, when I catch you, you're gonna be the first animal to become extinct twice!’

Talk about busted!

Nick, Stephen and Claudia on the roof top was so funny! The scene with Stephen and the dung - priceless. Him looking at and tasting the dung as Ryan and the soliders cringe - too funny! And in a twist of fate, Helen turns up at the right moment, happily surprising Claudia. Just when I thought Helen was a selfish person, she does something to change my mind.

On a romantic note, Cutter admits his feelings for Claudia - is he falling in love with her? From the goodbye kiss he gives her, I think the feelings may be mutual.

This show just keeps getting better and better!

Primeval - Episode 4

Episode 4





A flock of dodos come squawking through an anomaly under a football stadium but they may not be as innocent as they look. Lurking deep inside them is a deadly parasite just bursting to get out. Why is it there is never a nice, safe prehistoric animal?

Helen Cutter - now in custody at the Home Office - is refusing to co-operate with Lester and is furious with Cutter for helping to entrap her. Lester is such a bastard - he's the character you just love to hate! Helen is the only one who understands how the anomalies work but for now she's keeping her secrets safe.

Claudia dislikes Helen, wary of her motives and deep down jealous of her apparent hold over Cutter. You can see the attraction growing every week between Cutter and Claudia. However, Claudia puts her skepticism aside, giving Helen the chance to redeem herself. But instead of helping, Helen uses the anomaly to escape, leaving in her wake, not a pack of vicious carnivores as everyone expected - but a flock of dodos. Contrary to reputation, these birds are far from harmless as Connor's suspicious friends are about to discover.

Connor's secret life, full of late night excursions, mystery phone calls and friendships with girls is really starting to bug his friends. They set out on a covert mission to discover what's really going on. They steal a dodo, unaware that it's carrying a deadly parasite and with one bite, Connor's friend Tom is infected. Can the others find him before a pandemic is unleashed?

Tom finds himself struggling with the urge to attack. A staunch conspiracy theorist - even worse than Hodgins on the FOX series BONES - he seeks out Abby for answers. Time's running out and Lester's livid. Did Cutter know of Helen's planned escape? Did Helen unleash the contaminated birds on purpose? Cutter knows she's ruthless but surely she's not capable of this? He wants answers more than anyone but will he ever see Helen again?

A frantic race ensues to find Abby before it's too late... Will they make it? Can Tom be saved? The dangerous reality of the anomalies is about to hit Connor hard. Is he strong enough to go on?

After only 4 episodes I am totally in love with this series. Part time travel, part mystersy, all action, suspense and romance rolled into one great show!

Primeval Series Premiere

With the deterioration of American television into the drivel that is reality TV hell, the BBC is giving the world of the televeision drama a run for it's money. Following the succes of Robin Hood, MI5, Hex, Doctor Who and Top Gear, our friends from across the pond are now giving us Primeval. This series first aired in England in February 2007, but had its American debut tonight on BBC America.

A rip in the time-space continuum allows prehistoric creatures from the past to enter the 21st century. Professor Nick Cutter (Douglas Henshall) and his team are investigating the sighting of what seems to be an extinct dinosaur. They travel to the Forest of Dean, where it was seen, to explain how it appeared and discover an even stranger phenomenon, while the escaped creature is on a killing spree.

While Cutter and his team struggle to keep the looming disaster under wraps, Cutter also has to deal the fact that his wife, Helen (Juliet Aubrey), a fellow scientist who disappeared eight years ago, is not dead as he believed. In fact, she's been traveling through time. However, now she's back, and she holds the key to the riddle of the anomalies. But is it something she's willing to share? If not, what does she really want? Why did she come back?

Cutter, his research assistant Stephen Hart (James Murray), , zoologist Abby Maitland (Hannah Spearritt), and student paleontologist Connor Temple (Andrew-Lee Potts) race to understand what's happening, while government bureaucrats James Lester and Claudia Brown (Lucy Brown) insist they have to keep the danger secret from the public. As the past threatens to invade the present and destroy the future, Cutter's crew faces a life-and-death race against time.

But the first question which needs answering is where on earth are these creatures coming from? Are they an evolutionary throwback? Or an experimental hybrid perhaps? The truth is even more incredible than they first theorized. As they follow a creature through the forest, the creature inadvertently leads the team to the answer. A shimmering in the air, a distortion in the light, and, suddenly, the creture disappears before them.

They have found the truth, but how can it be possible? Can they really be looking at a rip in time - an anomaly, which leads back to prehistoric times? Can creatures come through from their own era into ours, and if so, can humans go the other way? There's only one way to find out and Cutter is determined to make the trip, convinced that the answer to his wife's disappearance could lie on the other side...

After the first episode, I'm hooked! I can't wait for next week's installment. Primeval looks to have a long life on our side of the pond.