Episode Guide: Series 1 Episode 1

Episode: Series 1 Episode 1

Anomaly site: Forest of Dean

Past Anomaly: Permain Era

Monsters: Gorgonopsid, Scutosaurus and Rex

Main Cast:

Helen Cutter = Juliet Aubrey
Nick Cutter = Douglas Henshall
Stephen Hart = James Murray
Connor Temple = Andrew Lee Potts
Abby Maitland = Hannah Spearritt
Claudia Brown = Lucy Brown
James Lester = Ben Miller
Captain Ryan = Mark Wakeling

Guest Cast:

Dave Greene = Mike Goodenough
Tim Parker = John Voce
Ben Trent = Jack Montgomery
Mary Trent = Gail Kemp
Ben's teacher = Jane Cameron

My Review:

I thought this episode was one of the best ever, it was in my opinion the scariest and creepiest, as we didn't know about the anomalies or what was really going on. All the characters were well portrayed and well introduced. I like the back story concerning Nick's wife vanishing, and I like the mystery of Helen throughout the series.

I'd give it 5/5


Story:
The first episode opens with Helen Cutter being chased by a Gorgonopsid. She manages to escape into the forest...

Eight years later Nick Cutter and his lab technician Stephen Hart arrive at the Central Metropolitan University where they work. Connor Temple shows them a paper with the headline 'Monster Hoax or Truly Beastly', at first Nick doesn't believe the sighting but when Connor tells him that it's in the Forest of Dean, which is where Helen vanished eight years previous, Nick decides to investigate. Claudia Brown is also investigating the sighting and meets Nick at the Hotel they are both staying at. Claudia does not believe that the creature is real, but Nick, who has seen a smashed metal fence and a wrecked lorry, gives it some credability. They go in search of the creature and find a dead cow, that has been dragged into a tree.

Meanwhile, Abby Maitland, who works at Wellington Zoo, has gone to the Forest of Dean to buy a lizard from a boy for the Zoo. Abby does not recognise what the lizard is and asks Ben, the owner, to show her where he found it. Ben and Abby see the dead cow and Ben runs off. Ben discovers an anomaly, which he looks through and sees the past. Abby trips and Rex, the lizard, escapes. Abby chases Rex, but sees another creature. Ben is chased by the creature and when Ben gets home the creature smashes his bedroom window and attacks Ben. Ben manages to fight it off with his toys.

Abby discovers a Scutosaurus in the Forest and she meets the others in the Forest too. Claudia, Nick and Abby talk to Ben and his mum, but they had to keep the creature a secret. They scare the Scutosaurus so it goes to where it thinks it's safe. It runs through the anomaly. Special forces troops are then called inClaudia, Abby, Nick and Rex then go to the Home Office, leaving Stephen and Connor to find the creature. James Lester meets them and tells them he's in charge. Rex escapes and causes havoc, but Abby manages to capture him. Nick tells Lester he's going through the anomaly because he wants to know what happened to his wife.

Connor works out that the creature is a Gorgonopsid and leaves Stephen to find it. Ben and his teacher manage to stop it from getting into the classroom, while Stephen distracts it, but is knocked out by it. Nick goes through the anomaly with Captain Ryan and they discover the Earth millions of years ago. Nick takes Rex through the anomaly too. Captain Ryan finds a camp and a skeleton, which Nick first thinks is Helen, but on further inspection turns out to be a male. Nick finds a camera that belonged to Helen, and he decides he wants to stay, but Captain Ryan persuades him not to and they go back through the anomaly.



Suddenly, the Gorgonopsid turns up and almost attacks Claudia when Stephen turns up and kills it. Rex, meanwhile, escapes through the anomaly, and Abby captures him, but doesn't tell anyone. The film in the camera is produced and it turns out to be Helen's...