Primeval - Episode 13 - Season Finale

The team realizes they are in a facility designed by Leek to capture and control creatures from the anomalies - especially creatures from the future.

Cutter is separated from the team and brought before Leek. This is when he realizes Helen has been on Leek's side all along.

In a separate area, Caroline is thrown in with Abby and Conner. Caroline and Abby proceed to have a "chick fight" over the fate of Rex. Later, Jenny is brought to the confinement area as the four await their fates.

Cutter manages to pour water on Leek's main computer, forcing him to connect with his laptop. Unknown to Leek, Conner had rigged Leek's laptop to download all it's info to the ARC when Leek activates it.

At the ARC, a creature has been reported on a family beach, and Lester is forced to call Stephen to take care of the problem. After Stephen captures the creature, he receives a call from Helen. Helen claims she was kidnapped by Lester and that Cutter and the gang are dead. She convinces Stephen to come get her (remember, she is with Leek), and to not trust Lester.

Just as Leek is ready to feed Abby, Conner, Jenny and Caroline to the creatures, they make a miraculous escape. They run into Rex who shows them the way out of Leek's building.

Stephen realizes at the last minute that Helen lied to him, when he discovers that Cutter is alive. I'm not going to give away the ending, because it was such a shock to me, you should see it for yourself.

The season finale leaves me with the following impressions:

--Helen is still a bitch and is only out for her best interests.
--Because of the research done by Helen and Leek, all is not what it seems and the future can be changed.
--Cutter may be over his feelings for Claudia Brown, but now he has feelings for the recently un-engaged Jenny.
--Abby and Conner have a tighter bond.

I can't wait for the next season to start. I know that taping is underway, but I have no idea when the new season will air in America.

Primeval - Episode #12

(from BBC) You may remember from last week, Cutter discovered conclusive evidence that someone has been following the team and spying on them. He has long suspected that someone on the team has a hidden agenda; his suspicions fall on either Jenny or Lester.

At the same time, Stephen is visited by a very unwelcome guest - Helen. Swearing him to secrecy about her presence, she tells Stephen she needs his help with a project that will affect the whole future of the world. Stephen is suspicious and reluctant, and he wants to tell Cutter, but Helen swears him to secrecy. Helen gradually begins to win Stephen over.

After a routine malfunction, Connor investigates the anomaly detector and finds it has been sabotaged. Cutter takes the opportunity to set a trap, letting only Connor, Stephen, and Abby in on his plan. They fake the appearance of an anomaly to see who will go to it first, knowing that whoever it is must be the traitor. Cutter is shocked when it is Jenny who arrives. When the team confront her Jenny claims to have no idea what they are talking about, but Cutter does not believe her....

Primeval - Episode #11

(from BBC) Taylor, an eleven-year-old girl, and her dog are sent to get fish and chips, but she gets more than soggy batter when she sees an anomaly in a nearby alley. She enters it and finds a whole new world of rocky terrain, desert and twinkling stars. But her wonderment quickly turns to horror when the sand rises up like a monster and starts chasing her dog. The terrified little girl screams.

Meanwhile, things in our world seem pretty quiet. Leek is alone at headquarters, and the gang are enjoying a "normal" night off in their respective lives. That is until the detector alerts them to the new anomaly. By the time the gang congregate at headquarters, however, the detector has crashed, and they have no idea where the anomaly has formed...nor where Leek is. Cutter suspects foul play, but there is no time for conspiracy theories - they must get the detector working and find the anomaly before any incursions occur.

As Cutter waits impatiently for Connor to fix the machine, Leek is at the site instructing heavily armed mercenaries to carry out some kind of secret mission. The men pass through the anomaly and see Taylor waving frantically at them. They ignore her - but Taylor isn't asking for help, she's trying to warn them. She's too late. The men's screams and gunfire echo in the darkness until the desert swallows them, leaving nothing but their scattered weapons and a deathly silence...

Primeval - Episode 9

This episode starts out in a paintball field at an amusement part; something is prowling the undergrowth. The hidden animal makes low growls and finally charges its prey.

Connor and Cutter have finally developed an anomaly detector using the principals they learned from the radio signals. Lester and Leek are not impressed, because the detector appears to be a failure. A report comes in about a supposed creature attack, but the detector shows no sign of an anomaly. Connor has faith in his detector, so he tries to find other reasons for the alarm failing to go off.

Along the perimeter of the amusement part, the woods have been cordoned off by police investigating the paintballer attack. Valerie, the deputy manager of the resort, paces nervously. Jenny coaches her in what to tell the media, and Valerie is keen to evacuate the guests - but her management bosses will not let her. Cutter comes to the conclusion that the creature is some kind of large cat.

This is the first episode that did not have a current anomoly. Without giving away too many spoilers, the creature in this episode did indeed come from an anomoly, but it happened years before these attacks.

In other storylines, Connor's new "girlfriend" appears to be in league with Leek. I can't figure out what she is up to. Stephen has been receiving text messages from Helen - what the hell is that all about? Does Helen keep popping into the current world to borrow a cell phone? And we learn that Abby can drive a mean backhoe and handle a tranquilzer gun in an emergency. With only 4 more episodes left of this season, I hope some of the storylines are wrapped up, because I don't know how long it will be before we can start watching Season 3.

Primeval - Episode 8

Cutter and the team are joined by a new PR guru, Jenny Lewis (who looks exactly like Claudia Brown). Sharp, cynical, and witty, she almost immediately develops a sparky and adversarial relationship with Cutter.

Meanwhile, Connor is picked up in a video store by a beautiful young woman called Caroline. Poised, well-connected, and effortlessly sexy, Caroline is everything Connor is not, and her interest in him is all the more surprising for it. I am already suspcious of her, so I'm curious to see what she is after! Obviously, Abby is feeling the same way I do because right from the beginning she is uneasy around Caroline, for reasons even she herself doesn't quite understand.

But on to this week's story, a gleaming new skyscraper in the center of the city has quickly developed a reputation for teething problems in its electronics, so no one is surprised when smoke is spotted creeping out from the server room. On inspection, the janitor finds a thick layer of mist hugging the floor and a foul sulfurous smell - but no fire. Then something moves in the mist and he is suddenly yanked out of sight by a shadowy creature. The mist continues to spread through the building and huge ancient worms are lurking in the mist.

These are easily the ugliest creatures so for on this show - huge, long bodies with spikes and a retractable head that suck onto its prey - eghhhhh! Several of our team members get physically attacked by these icky worms.

On other insteresting news, Helen is a bitch! I don't like her and I don't like the fact that she is still after Stephen. She's been gone for 8 years, why doesn't she stay gone? Also, remember the janitor from the Rapter episode? The one who was attacked in the throat just before Connor shot Abby with the tranquilizer? He has showed up as one of Lester's drones at the ARC. What is that all about? Hopefully, all these questions will be answered in later episodes.