02x01 - Episode 1

[bunniefuu]

Yes!

My name is Professor Nick Cutter.

Eight years ago, my wife Helen disappeared.

I discovered she had stepped into the past
through ruptures in time called anomalies.

Now creatures from the past thr*aten
the future of the human race.

There's only a small group
of people who know the truth

my research team.

Stephen Hart

Connor Temple

and Abby Maitland

and government officials James Lester

and Claudia Brown

I returned from the past to find
something has gone terribly wrong

and Claudia Brown has vanished

as though she was never even born

I've come back to a different world.

And Helen and I are the only
two people who know it.

Oh, my God!

It's closing!

No

I have to go!

I have to make things right!

Don't be stupid!
You'll get marooned there.

Come on

Something's happened.

Something happened
while I was in there

something's changed

The world's evolved differently.

On my way

I think we're done here, aren't we?

No, no Claudia Brown...

Claudia Brown

She's been with us since the beginning

She was in charge of the
day-to-day running of the operation.

No, that's Leek.

Oliver Leek

You can't have forgotten him.
You saw him at the ARC today.

The what?

The ARC. The Anomaly Research Centre.

No, you mean the Home Office?

No

we moved from that place ages ago.

Is he having a nervous breakdown?

If someone can call an ambulance...

He's fine.

You're getting a little old for
imaginary friends, Professor.

Castle Cross Shopping Mall

A quiet night?

What the...

Spoke to soon

probably kids.

All right, fun's over.

I need back up.
We've got an intruder.

Don't make me come in there and get you.

ANOMALY RESEARCH CENTER

Evening, Professor.

What have we got?

A new creature report.

Erm, intercepted emergency call at
the Castle Cross shopping mall.

A security guard screaming
something about a monster.

A shopping mall....

God help us.

I've instructed the police to stay
out until we've investigated.

Ah Professor

glad to see you back well and safe.

Though I gather your...
wife won't be joining us?

Who the hell are you?

Ah, yes, Professor Cutter's suffering
from some kind of stress-related amnesia.

He seems to have forgotten...

pretty much everything, really.

No

I haven't forgotten a thing.

I wish I could.

And now he's being enigmatic as well.
What a vivid repertoire.

Are you really telling me you don't
know who this man is?

Nah, course it's Leek.

Oliver Leek.

I know exactly who he is.

Is this industrial action
or did no-one hear...

that we have a creature
in a shopping mall?

Guys

I'm on it.

Cutter's always been eccentric

but I now think he's just deranged.

I suppose all very brilliant men
are a little bit... unusual, sir.

I'm brilliant, Leek,

and I'm not the least bit unusual.

You didn't have a clue who
Leek was, did you? Uh-uh.

OK, you're officially freaking me out.

Let me get this straight.
You're saying something's changed

because of what happened
in the Permian anomaly?

Like evolution has just
what, altered course?

I'm glad somebody was listening.

You believe me?

All right. I'll buy it.

I could kiss you, Connor.

That's very sweet, but maybe not
while there's people watching.

One thing, though.
How do I know how I'm different

when I don't know what I was like before?

Apparently some people never change.

Is that a bad or a good thing?

What are we using?

Ketamine for now. But it would help

if I knew what size
creature we were dealing with.

I've had to guess the dosage.

Where's my g*n?

Abby's got one.

She knows how to use it.

How many animals have you tranquilized?

I've played darts.

Well, sometimes I think you don't
trust me with firearms.

I don't know what gives you
that idea. You ready? Yes.

So what now?

We go in.

Who are you?

Duty manager.

Tell us what happened.

We got a call from one of our operatives.

We haven't been able to raise him since.

What did he say?

He didn't really say anything.
He just sort of...

screamed

Did you see anything in there?

I want you to close
these shutters behind us

and I don't want you to open them
again, until I tell you it's safe.

Because whatever happens,
it mustn't get out.

What mustn't get out?

Hang on, who the hell are you lot?

Are we OK?

About what?

We can't ignore what happened.

Oh, you mean the fact that
you slept with my wife?

Stephen, if you're looking
for closure, I'm a little bit busy.

I don't blame you for being angry.

Helen never cared about either of us.

She's mad.

Mad?

She took off through an anomaly for eight years.
Does that strike you as well-balanced?

Just forget it.

I'm finished with the past.It's just...

I don't know if it's finished with me.

Don't you hate it when people bring
their personal lives to work?

Can you get any closer?

Come on, show us what you are.

What's that?

Not sure.

A Cretaceous era therapod dinosaur.

The genuine article.

A raptor.

I always hoped we'd get one someday.

It's beautiful.

I said it was beautiful.
I didn't say it was friendly.

Oi, where are you going?

I'm gonna get a slushy, ssh!

It gets me every time.

Do you think the raptors
have gone back through?

When was life ever that simple?

I hope you're going to pay for that.

Yeah...

if you can lend me a fiver.

Thank you, Abby.

Abby!

What?

Close the shutter!

OK.

Really quickly!

Connor, run!

Come on!

Oh, I hate that.

What?

Brain freeze from the...slushy.

Right go check the atrium, make
sure we can contain it.

We need more firepower.

This is a raptor.

I've just lost a friend

because we disrupted nature once too often.

I don't intend to let it happen again.

You're sure you're OK?

Under the circumstances I'd say
I was doing pretty well.

Whoa.

Abby, give me your g*n. Stay here.

You good?

Go!

Don't sh**t.

Abby, Connor...

get this guy out of here.

Hello.

Come on

you'll be fine.

Lester wants to know what's going on.

We've got a confirmed anomaly
and one very angry raptor.

I'll put armed back-up on standby
and say there's a security scare.

They'll stay closed
as long as it takes. Leek

has the concept of personal
space ever been explained to you?

Sir, it's from the Ministry
and is marked top priority.

Private sector PR Manager?

What am I supposed to do with them?

The minister thinks that we
need more help with the media.

He feels that the situation
is kind of getting out of hand.

His words, not mine.

The last thing I need is some greasy
PR supremo sucking up to the press.

This isn't a reality TV show.

Let me know the minute
it's safe to re-open.

Keep in touch.

You know how I worry
when I don't hear from you.

A raptor in a shopping centre.
How can I explain that to the owners?

I think a PR person might
not be such a bad idea after all.

- I haven't got my jacket.
- You can get it later.
- I need my wallet and my keys.

Smashed clean off its hinges.

Cutter!

In your own time!

sh**t it!

Just sh**t the damn thing!

You all right?

The g*n jammed.

Wait. Did you leave that door open?

I...I don't remember.

Give me the g*n.

- What?
- Come on.

No.
Please.

No.

Just for a minute.
What, do you want to go first?

Thank you.

Clear!

Clear, guys.

Connor...

- You're ridiculous.
- What?

I said you're ridiculous.

What you mean ridiculous?
I'm just doing my job.

- sh**t it!
- All right, fine.

Got it, got it. It's fine.

Come on

It's not exactly staying
still for me, is it?

sh**t it, Connor!

- It's fine, I got it.
- Argh!

You idiot.

Erm, Abby, I'm sorry...

Sorry.

OK, I'm just gonna have to just do this.
I'll be back with you in a minute, all right?

Now, hold on.

So you think that I would just have stood
by and watched you get torn to pieces?

That depends on how much you resent
me for what happened with Helen.

Yeah, you're right, I do.
I resent you.

But if I wanted you dead...

I'd have sh*t you myself.

Stephen!

Run!

It's jammed.

Stephen, wait here!

You all right?

Look at it.

Just the perfect k*lling machine.

Do you know, in a fair fight,
mammals wouldn't stand a chance.

Well, speaking as a mammal,
I'm all in favour of cheating.

About the g*n, erm...

..I was wrong.

Ah, never mind.

Listen, you could have gone with Helen,

you could have left, and you didn't.

And right now...
..that's all that really matters.

So...

..so just...forget about the rest.

Do you think she'll be back?

Is she finished messing with us?

I seriously doubt it.

Helen never handled rejection
particularly well.

Professor!

Stephen!

What happened?

I sh*t her.

Collateral damage, though,
cos I got the raptor too.

You brought down a full
size raptor on your own?

Yeah.

He's nearly full size.
Is she gonna be all right?

She will have a nasty headache
but she should be fine.

She'd better come around soon

cos I need all of you to get
the raptors back alive.

Alive?

Yeah.

These things are trying
to make sushi out of us

and we have to play nice.
That doesn't seem fair.

The cleaner was att*cked,
he was badly injured. I...

I don't get it - he was right there.

He was in a really bad way.

Well, he must have
recovered and got himself out.

One raptor is a problem.
Two means we've got an infestation

and God knows how many
running around down there.

I want you to take this to the
bowling alley and meet us in the store.

On my own?

It's unconscious.
You've got nothing to worry about.

What if it's just playing dead?

- Playing dead?
- Yeah.

You know, as Cretaceous era predators
go, this creature's pretty smart.

So yeah, you probably...
Watch out for that.

Yeah.

Really?

Interference.

Seems odd.

She's gonna k*ll me when she wakes up.

The first Security Guard was
att*cked here. The second one here.

Both att*cks happened within seconds,

Which means there's at least two.

And we've only found one.

And a baby.

What are you doing here? You're
supposed to be looking after Abby.

I thought you were doing that.

Look!

Oh, God! Abby!

Stay here, tell us where it's going.

Right,

stay here, tell 'em where it's gone.

Where's it gone?

Come on, come on, where are you?

I can see it, Cutter.
It's on the level beneath you.

I repeat, on the level below.

I can't see it, it's disappeared again.

Where's it gone?

Oh for crying out loud, how hard can it
be to see a raptor in a shopping centre?

Oh, my God! Guys it's heading
towards the bowling alley.

It's going towards Abby.Be quick -

it's moving pretty fast.

Come on, come on, you can do this.

Connor she's fine.

Oops, she's coming around again.

I'll just give it a quick...

No, hang on, just wait a minute.

There are three raptors, one of them's a baby.

So the chances are they're a family unit.

So maybe we don't have to go looking for daddy.

Maybe this little fellow will bring him to us.

That's right, you shout for your daddy.

Now, let's just hope they're a close family.

Where do you want me?

I want you in there with Abby.

Give me that. Go.

What's going on?

Tell you later.

What happened?

That's two doses of tranquiliser.

We have to up the amount.

They're too dangerous.

We can't keep taking stupid risks.

Stephen, everything we do has an impact.

How do you know for sure?

Maybe the strain of going through
the anomalies has got to you.

Maybe you only think these changes took place.

What, do you think I dreamed Claudia Brown?

The whole pattern of evolution
changes but just one person disappears?

One person who happens
to be a friend of yours.

No, it's not that simple.

The Arc didn't even exist before I left.

There's a whole team of people
in there I've never even met.

There might be countless
other things, big and small!

I don't know yet!

I'll only use it if I have to.

Hey! Hey! Have you seen
an animal pass this way?

A dog? A polar bear? What?

No, trust me, you'd know if you'd seen it.

We've got to get it back to the mall.

What the hell was that?

A radio controlled Cretaceous era raptor.

Probably be in the shops by Christmas.

Chase me!

You've got to admit,
that's pretty awesome.

Pretty cool, but you could
tell it was a model.

Yeah, course.

Oi, what about my bike?

Connor! Where the hell are you? We're
on our way up to the second floor.

Professor! Out of the way!

Bet you boys are glad you gave me a g*n now

huh?

Yeah.

- How are you feeling?
- Terrible..

Do you want me to get you something?
I could get you a glass of water.

Stop fussing, Connor, I'm fine.

Abby, I want you to know something.

If I wanted to sh**t anyone
you'd be the last person I'd sh**t.

Apart from my mother, obviously,

you'll be bottom of the list with her.

In fact, I don't think
I'd sh**t either of you.

Can we stop this?
Can you move the g*n...

out of the Abby area.

-Sure.
-Thanks..

I've got your back.

What can you feel?

It's strange.

It's bone structure feels more like
a bird's wing than anything reptilian.

So, guys, let me get this straight.

All we have to do is drag two of the
angriest creatures in the known universe

through a hole in time,
back into an ancient world

where we don't know what's waiting for us.

Put like that, it sounds so easy.

I'm going to do this on my own.

We'll help.

Who's "we"?

I didn't say I wouldn't.

I just prefer to do
my own volunteering. Thank you.

I'm doing this on my own.
I don't want any arguments.

Connor.

How long have I got?

Er, I don't know.

You know, it's so hard to say.

90% of the anomalies are gone within hours.

This one's been here most
of the night already.

Come with me.

OK, what I want you to do is... I want you to
tune every one of these radios to 87.6 on FM.

Now, doesn't that sound strange to you?

Interference.

Why?

Come on.

You think it's something
to do with the anomaly?

It could just be a technical
problem at the radio station.

Well, then, I want you to get
on to that and find out.

Sure.

But if it is the anomaly that's causing this,

that means there could be
interference anytime one opens.

Which would explain why Helen
was always one step ahead of us.

She must have some receiver to spot them.

We could build a detector.

Something that traces the anomalies
within seconds where it appearing

If the interference stops when the anomaly
disappears, then maybe we're onto something.

Now, if I don't make it
back this time, Connor...

..it's down to you.

Cutter, I've been meaning to ask you...

This Claudia Brown.

What was she like?

What does it matter? I mean

to you she never even existed.

Tell me anyway.

Well, she was OK. She...

Good at her job.

Loyal.

Team player.

But not as tough as she pretended to be,

but she was strong when it mattered.

She meant a lot to you?

Yeah.

Sorry.

What for?

That I didn't know her and...
cos you lost her.

I want to believe you.

I really do, but it's hard.

I know.

These two won't be
asleep for much longer.

OK...

this is as far as you go.

Yeah...

I thought you might
try something like this.

So I followed you through,

just in case you had some crazy
idea about not coming back.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

OK. I know what you're talking about.

But so what? Maybe it's for the best.

What? Dying out here
in this Godforsaken place?

I figure if I travel
through enough anomalies,

then maybe I can fix it,

maybe I can change things
back the way they were.

What if there's no way back?

What if this world
is the only one there is?

I mean look, it's su1c1de.

I don't want to die, Stephen.
I just want to try and make things right.

OK.

OK, well, let's suppose
that you do change things.

How do you know that this time round
we're not all just going to get wiped out?

I don't.

You could change a million things
and still not get Claudia back.

All you know is what's
happening right here, right now.

You know, for once in your life,
forget about the past.

Cos you've got a job to do.

Yeah, all right.

Just don't overdo it.
You haven't been right for a while.

Is it just me or is that anomaly closing?

- You all right?
- Where's Stephen?

The anomaly's closing!

Pull! Aaaargh!

pull!

Argh! Pull

Well, you were right.
It was the anomaly causing the interference.

Yeah.

We don't have to sit around
waiting for the creatures any more.

We'll know the anomalies
are open before they do.

Now all we have to do is find out what's
causing the anomalies in the first place.

That might take a wee bit longer.

The place is clean and the anomaly's
gone. You can give the all clear.

Excellent.

We'll handle it from here.

Oh, good work, by the way.

That could have been very nasty.

Indeed.

You know you deserve a rest

and a chance to recover.

Take an hour.

No, let's not be mean, take two.
I'll see you back here at nine.

Forget it. I'm going home to bed.

Well, there's someone I'd like you to meet.

A new member of the team.

Who?

Oh, some sort of PR wizard.

Basically, he'll be
our cover-up specialist.

Protecting the public from what
they don't need to know and so on.

An unpleasant job but it has to be done.

Fine. Whatever.

What's this?

Erm, revised details
on the new recruit, sir.

Seems that the new man
is not actually a man.

Hm. Well, her qualifications
seem impressive enough anyway.

Morning.

- You're late.
- So fire me.

We can all dream.

Now you're finally here,
perhaps we can get going.

Hello.

I'd like you all
to meet your new colleague.

This is Jennifer Lewis.

Claudia Brown

Jenny.

Nice to meet you.

There's something inside.

What are those things?

They're worms.Just a bit less
friendly than the ones in your garden.

Will someone tell me what
the hell is going on?

Get it off!