Tuesday, 8 June 2010

Monster Page: Gorgonopsid

Species: Gorgonopsid

Home Era: Permaid Period

Appearances: Series 1 Episode 1 and 6.

Kills: One Gorgonopsid killed a Future Predator and some of its babies in the Permain era.

Fate: The Gorgonopsid that came through the anomaly was killed by Stephen Hart.

Monster Page: Rex



Species: Coelurosauravus

Home Era: Permain Period

Appearances: Series 1 Episodes 1, 2, 4-6, Series 2 Episodes 2, 4, 5 and 7, Series 3 Episodes 1, 6, 8 and 9.

Kills: None

Fate: Unknown, with Abby and Connor trapped in the past, will someone know to feed Rex?

Story:

Rex is an intelligent and active Coelurosauravus from the Permain Era. Rex went through an anomaly into the present day, where a boy called Ben found him and kept him as a pet. When Ben decided to get rid of Rex, Abby Maitland arrived to take him to the zoo. When the Home Office got hold of him, Rex escaped, but Abby managed to lure him back. Nick Cutter tried to return him to the Permain, but Rex sneaked back and Abby decided to keep him, secretly.
Connor later found out about Rex, and accidentally brought him to an anomaly site, where a Pteranodon tried to eat Rex. After that the rest of the team knew that Abby had Rex.

In Series 2, Rex took a dislike to Connor's girlfriend, Caroline, who trapped him in a fridge, but pretended Rex had flew in there without her knowledge. Later, Connor dumped Caroline by text and Caroline stole him, and gave him to Leek, who kept Rex with the other creatures he and Helen had been taking from time periods. Rex, along with the other creatures escaped, and Rex was shot by a guard. Caroline, who felt guilty, returned Rex to Abby, who said he'd be fine.

In Series 3, Abby's brother Jack gambled Rex away in a card game, and Jack's friend Tony put him up for auction on the internet. Connor, however, managed to get him back with help from Captain Becker and some armed ARC soldiers. Rex made friends with Sid and Nancy, Connor and Abby's pet Diictodon.

Monday, 7 June 2010

Series 4

On this page I will have all the information I can find on Series 4/5. Please be patient!

Series 4 and 5 will be broadcast in 2011. Series 4 will be broadcast on ITV on January 1st 2011, and Series 5 will appear later in the year on Watch and then ITV in 2012. This series promises to be the best yet, with all new cast members, shocking storylines, new monsters and revelations about the anomalies.

With Abby and Conner still stuck in the Cretacious, and Danny stuck in the Pliocene, the ARC has to struggle on in its fight against the anomalies. The government loses faith in James Lester, and Philip Burton becomes partial owner of it. Meanwhile, Matt and Jess join the ARC team, but Matt hides his real reason for joining very well.

Characters


The new team.

Returning:
Jason Flemyng as Danny Quinn - Will apparently return in Episode 7
Hannah Spearritt as Abby Maitland
Andrew Lee-Potts as Connor Temple
Ben Miller as James Lester
Ben Mansfield as Captain Becker
Lucy Brown as Jenny Lewis or Claudia Brown (unknown)
Duncan

New:
Matt - The new field leader, an ex-soldier and zoologist, with an uncanny ability to understand animals. He is a private man, who guards the secrets of his past, and the real reason he joined the ARC team.

Jess - Will be played by Ruth Kearney. She is unconventional, highly efficient and organised and is in charge of running operations at the ARC Control Centre. Her work ethic is second to none, though she is human enough to nurse an unrequited crush on Captain Becker.

Philip Burton - Will be played by Alexander Siddig. He is a scientist, who helps Lester in his role at the ARC. When the government loses faith in Lester, he becomes partial owner of the ARC.

Emily Merchant - Played by Ruth Bradley. A woman out of time, born in the Victorian era but then transported through time via the anomalies. She is strong, resourceful and brave but conditioned by her experiences with the anomalies to be suspicious of human contact, and she can appear standoffish, even fierce at times.

In her own time she felt out of place – too defiant for a Victorian wife, she tried to do what was expected. Married just before she went through the anomaly, she hasn’t seen her husband since. She’s a beautiful woman, but her terrible experiences and the responsibility of leading a nomadic group through the anomalies has made her almost indifferent to notions of romance or relationships.

Only with Matt does she begin to find another, more tender side of her character; these two have a fiery relationship, tempered on both sides by their secrets. Emily is patient, kind, generous and compassionate, determined and strong-willed. Though she belongs to our era far more than she ever did to her own - her strong moral conscience dictates that she must go back to her own time... but will she?

Gideon - Played by Anton Lesser. An ongoing mystery, we don’t know who Gideon is or what he and Matt are up to, but whatever it is, it’s definitely serious. Gideon is full of concern for Matt, but his real worries are far wider-reaching.
What does he know that we don’t?

Ethan Dobrowski - Played By Jonathan Bryne. Ethan has been travelling through anomalies for a long time – sometimes alone, sometimes as part of the group where he met Emily. But unlike, Emily who thrived in her new found family, Ethan found it hard going.
The constant travelling, the fear of the unknown, the creatures they encounter have slowly worn him down. His uncertain journey through the anomalies has turned him into a violent man - Ethan has a temper and a mean streak. But overwhelmed by despair, Ethan has become a man whose anger and grief will drive him to seek revenge. His desperation will not only threaten Emily’s life, but the whole ARC operation.

It has been confirmed that Sarah, played by Laila Rouass, will not appear in the next series, but it is unknown how they will explain her exit. Duncan, Connor's nerdy friend from Series 1, is set to appear in the series, but it is unknown what his role will be.
Three other cast members have been confirmed, Peter Hanley may be playing a comic character, and Rory Keenan and Brian Gleeson are also appearing.


Monsters:

Episode 1 will feature the Raptors and the Dracorex, alongside a huge Spinosaurus

Episode 2 will feature a Kaprosuchus - The Kaprosuchus or Boar crocodile is named in reference to its large front teeth, which resemble that of a boar. It possesses three sets of tusk-like teeth that project above and below the skull.

Episode 3 will feature an Arboreal Dinosaur / 'Tree Creeper' - There's very little evidence and few descriptions of what arboreal dinosaurs might have looked like, therefore, we've created our own idea of how it might have looked. Its main skill is that it's able to scale trees (and consequently other high-rise structures) whilst remaining ferocious.

Also appearing:
Rex(we hope!! Apparently he's safe)
The Diictodon (Apparently not appearing, but are to be mentioned)
Pliosaurs (A pod will appear in one episode, possibly episode 7, as that is when Danny returns)

Episodes

Series 4 will consist of 7 episodes and Series 5 will consist of 6. Although each episode will still be about a different anomaly and monster, there is more of a serial format to the series, according to Adrian Hodges. Also, he says that there will be a big revelation about the anomalies at the end of Series 4.

Episode Synopsis'

Episode One

After a year in the Cretaceous, Abby and Connor finally escape through an anomaly to their own time after finding a lost anomaly device in a raptor's bower, only to be followed through by a giant Spinosaurus, the largest of all known carnivorous dinosaurs. Soon accosted by a brand new ARC team, they manoeuvre the creature into a massive arena, where, dangling from the roof, Connor accidentally drops the device into the Spinosaurus, imploding it from the inside. But being away for so long has left Connor and Abby out of the loop, and they soon find their ARC jobs in jeopardy...

Premieres Saturday, January 1, 9:00pm ET/PT

Episode Two

When Connor looks up old friends Duncan, he doesn't expect to find him obsessed with creature sightings. Warning him of the elusive dock creature, the pair track it down to the docks, only to find evidence of a fresh kill. With Abby and Matt arriving to help, they find the creature after a tense chase through a container yard. Will Connor's quick-thinking and bravery earn him back his place on the team?

Premieres Saturday, January 8, 9:00pm ET/PT

Episode Three

A mysterious group comes through an anomaly in a theatre, unknowingly followed by deadly tree creatures. As they attempt to escape, Matt inadvertently brings one of the group - Emily - back against her will. She promises to help him find the creature, in return for going back through the anomaly. In a frantic chase through the city, they track the creature down, only to discover the anomaly has closed, leaving Emily stranded.

Another episode will feature Danny on board a submarine, with a Captain and someone called K.P, which is attacked by a pod of Pliosaurs, possibly Liopleurodon.

One episode will feature a creature attacking a seaside village, and another will feature a creature attacking a castle.

Pictures


Arc Soldiers

Abby back in the Present

Abby and Connor cornered by ARC soldiers

Abby and Connor hug, as Hilary Becker is smiley

Connor in the Cretacious



And some promotional pics:

Matt and Emily Merchant, probably from Episode 3

Matt running, again probably from Episode 3

Connor in the new ARC

Philip Burton and Matt

Lester and Burton power share...

Jess and Matt

Abby and Connor, possibly in ARC uniforms?

Abby with her new haircut...

Becker in action

Jess in control

Speculation

Many rumours can be found on the internet about what Series 4 and 5 will contain. Here are just a few:

- Duncan tries to reveal the anomaly operation to the public. This has been done before, but I have no idea why Duncan's being brought back, maybe he's had to play the Dinosaur nerd for the ARC in Connor's absence.

- Abby and Connor are killed in Series 4.

- Claudia Brown returns. (Lucy Brown is, according to a post on Digital Spy)

- The Pliosaurs that appear in one episode will be Liopleurodon.

- James Lester leaves the series.

- Danny is killed on his travels through the anomalies.

Tuesday, 9 June 2009

Episode Guide: Series 3 Episode 9

Episode: Series 3 Episode 9

Anomaly Site: Campsite and Go Kart track

Past Anomaly: Eocene

Monsters: Embolotherium, Rex, Sid and Nancy, Future Predator

Main Cast:

Danny Quinn = Jason Flemyng
Connor Temple = Andrew-Lee Potts
Abby Maitland = Hannah Spearritt
Sarah Page = Laila Roauss
Captain Becker = Ben Mansfield
With James Lester = Ben Miller
Christine Johnson = Belinda Stewart-Wilson (Last Appearance)
And Helen Cutter = Juliet Aubrey

Guest Cast:

Eve = Kate Magowan
Captain Wilder = Alex McSweeney
Joe = Tom Mckay
Randy = Marcus Onilude

Continuity:

This episode follows on from episode 8, Danny has gone to investigate the mysterious woman he saw with Captain Wilder in the future. Embolotherium appeared in another Impossible Pictures Production called 'Walking with Beasts' although in that they were known as Brontophere. Claudia Brown, who appeared in series 1, gets a mention. Helen Cutter returns last seen in episode 3 of series 3. Christine Johnson is killed by future predators.

My Review:

I really liked this episode. I liked the Guest Stars, Eve was a great character. I'm glad that Helen is back, finally, but how long will she stay? There's a lot of mystery about what Helen is up to at the end, what does the artifact do? So many questions! The Embolotherium were really good, really well animated, the baby was cute! It looked amazing when they were running across the plain towards the camp. The scene with Rex, Sid and Nancy was hilarious, as were Lester's usual sarcastic comments. A great episode! One of the best in the series!

I'd give it 5/5 (Excelent!)

Story: Coming Soon

Episode Guide: Series 3 Episode 10

Episode: Series 3 Episode 10

Anomaly Site: Racetrack, Christine Johnson's Headquarters

Future/ Past Anomaly: Future-Cretacious-Pliocene

Monsters: Future Predators, Megaoptran, Raptors, Pteranodon, Australopithicus

Main Cast:

Danny Quinn = Jason Flemyng
Connor Temple = Andrew-Lee Potts
Abby Maitland = Hannah Spearritt
Sarah Page = Laila Roauss
Captain Becker = Ben Mansfield
Helen Cutter = Juliet Aubrey

Continuity:

This episode is based straight after Series 3 Episode 9. It is the second episode in series 3 not to feature Lester and the 5th to feature Helen. We find out what 333 is. The team travel to the future, which we have already seen in series 3, where they encouter Future Predators and Megaoptran. They travel to the Cretacious, where they encounter the Raptors that appeared in Series 2 Episode 1 and the Pteranodon, which appeared in Series 1 Episode 5. Whether or not this is where one of the anomalies that appeared in those episodes is, is unknown.

My Review:

I thought this episode was good, but in my opinion it didn't have everything a final should have. The cast was small with only 6 members, Lester and the ARC failed to appear. Sarah and Captain Becker were only in it for the first half and when they do appear again they have very minor roles. I was very glad to finally find out what the artifact is and I think Helen's anomaly opening device is cool. I'm glad that Helen has finally died, I think it was about the right time for her to die, finishing the Helen/Stephen/Cutter storyline. Yay Connor is moving back into Abby's flat, but that was one of the few emotional scenes in this episode.

I'd give this episode 3/5 (Good)

Story:

Coming soon...

Primeval Fanfic

This is the Primeval Fanfic Page. Here you can see the upcoming fanfictions from Primeval Anomalies:

Anomaly in the Shopping District

After a huge Dinosaur called a Diplodocus comes through an anomaly in the centre of one of London's central shopping districts, the anomaly busting team are called in. Nick Cutter, Stephen Hart, Abby Maitland, Connor Temple, Claudia Brown and Captain Ryan attempt to force the Dinosaur back through the anomaly, but the path is soon blocked by a feisty Stegosaurus, who will not be shoved easily...


The House was just New

A Lord from the Georgian times steps through an anomaly to find his house in ruins...


If anyone would like to write a Primeval Fanfic for Primeval Anomalies, you would be most welcome and I would be very grateful.

Monday, 8 June 2009

Monster Page Menu

Series 1 Creatures:

Rex
Gorgonopsid
Scutosaurus
Arthropleura
Giant Spiders
Hesperornis
Mosasaur
Dodo
Parasite
Pteranodon
Anurognathus
Future Predator

Series 2 Creatures:

Rex
Raptors
Pteranodon
The Worms
Smilodon
The Mer
Future Shark
Silurian Scorpians
Millipede
Columbian Mammoth
Future Predator
Scutosaurus
Arthropleura

Series 3 Creatures:

Rex
Pristichampus
Future Predator
Gremlin (Camouflage Beast)
Diictodon
Sid and Nancy
Velociraptor
Gigantosaurus
Fungus Creature
Terror Bird
Dracorex
Larvae
Megaoptran
Embolotherium
Raptor
Pteranodon
Australopithecus

Series 4 Creatures:
Dracorex
Raptors
Spinosaurus
Rex
Mammoth
Kronosaurus
Tree Creeper
Koolosuchus
Hyaenodon
Terror Bird

Sunday, 7 June 2009

Character Page: Jack Maitland




Name: Jack Maitland

Played By: Robert Lowe

First Appearance: Episode 17

Last Appearance: Episode 21

Reason: He decided to move out of Abby's flat

Number of Episodes: 4 (did not appear in episode 18)

Spouse(s): Unknown

Job: Unknown

Talk: 'I don't want to hurt you Abby'

Story:

Connor Temple was surprised when he took a call for Abby, from a mysterious Jack. Connor thought that Abby had a boyfriend, however, when Connor returned to Abby's flat and found Jack in only a towel, Abby explained it was her baby brother and asked Connor to move out for a bit. Jack is the only family Abby has.

When Abby went out to work one day, Jack invited his friends round. Jack gambled away Rex in a game, but didn't tell Abby. Connor and Sarah Page saw Rex on ebay and Connor decided to help Jack get Rex back. Connor managed to get Rex back with help from Captain Becker. Jack was interested in what Abby did at work, she told him she was still working at the zoo. Jack stole her detector and went through an anomaly, where he fell down a hole and was attacked by Giant Maggots. Danny, Abby, Connor and Becker went through the anomaly to rescue Jack. Danny helped him up, but they found that Becker had distracted the Future Predators and they thoguth he had been killed. Jack did not care and said he was annoyed that they had not rescued him sooner.

After this Jack decided to move out of Abby's flat, he also told Abby that Connor had helped Jack get back Rex from his friends.

Friday, 29 May 2009

Character Page: Danny Quinn




Name: Danny Quinn

Played By: Jason Flemyng

First Appearance: Episode 15

Last Appearance: None

Reason: None

Number of Episodes: 8 (didn't appear in series 3 ep2)

Spouse(s): Unknown

Job: Police Officer now team leader

Talk: 'Nice...'

Story:

Danny Quinn's brother vanished when Danny was young, so Danny became a police officer so he could try and find out what had happened. Danny met Jenny, Abby and Connor at the house where Danny's brother vanished. Danny doesn't like them at first and thinks they are crime tourists. However, Danny later finds out that strange creatures from the future killed his brother and he decided that he should leave the police force.

Danny decided that the Anomaly Research Team could use his skills and he could help them. He followed Jenny first to Christine Johnson's headquarters and then to the airport, where Jenny and Connor had been locked in a room, by a journalist. Danny later lured a Gigantosaurus through the anomaly with the helicopter, but before Jenny could ask him to return to the ARC. He went away again. He then broke into the ARC and demanded to join the team, which he did against Lester's wishes. However, when Danny proved he was worthy Lester hired him as replacement for Nick, to Christine Johnson's disgust.

Danny escaped a group of terror birds after Christine took over the ARC. Danny lured the terror brids back through the anomaly using a record. Danny returned to the ARC and found that Becker had managed to get Lester back in control. Danny went with Abby and the others to the future in search of Abby's brother, Jack, who they rescued, while Danny was there he saw one of Christine's men Captain Wilder and a mysterious woman. Danny broke into Christine's headquarters and took 'Eve', to help with the embolotherium attack at a campsite. Danny then brought 'Eve' to the ARC, where she revealed she was Helen Cutter. After following Helen back to Christine's headquarters, he failed to save Christine who was pushed through the anomaly by Helen. Danny decided that they must follow Helen wherever she goes and stop whatever she is doing.

Danny, Abby and Connor went through the future anomaly at the race track, while Becker and Sarah went to deal with Johnson's anomaly, that had just reopened. Danny found the way to a future version of the ARC, where they found Helen and realised that she was using the artifact to find a path via anomalies to the Pliocine, where the first Hominids were around. She planned to kill them all and stop humankind from evolving. Danny followed her to the Pliocine, while Abby looked after Connor who had been hurt in the Cretacious. Danny was followed, however, by a raptor who killed Helen. Danny saw that Helen had killed some of the first hominids, but saw more groups of them on his way back to the anomaly, but when he got to the anomaly, it closed, trapping him in the Pliocine.

Episode Guides

Here are the Primeval Anomalies Episode Guides. For each guide there is a cast list, a factfile, a Mini-review by me, and of course the Guide for the Episode...

Just a small thing, each episode has a rating out of 5. 0/5 is terrible, 1/5 is poor, 2/5 is OK, 3/5 is good, 4/5 is very good and 5/5 is excelent!

Please enjoy the Episode Guides.

Seb (admin)


Series 3:

Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Episode 7
Episode 8
Episode 9
Episode 10


Series 2:

Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Episode 7


Series 1:

Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6

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...

Thursday, 28 May 2009

Character Page: The Cleaner and the Clones




Name: Unknown, but one clone was a clone of Nick Cutter

Played By: Tim Faraday

First Appearance: Episode 7 as the Cleaner (Clones first seen episode 13, while Nick Cutter clone was first seen in episode 16)

Last Appearance: Episode 16 ('The Cleaner' apparently died in episode 11)

Reason(s): The Cutter clone blew up the ARC with all the clones inside ('The Cleaner' was apparently killed by Silurian Scorpians)

Number of Episodes: 8 (The Nick clone appeared in one)

Spouse(s): None

Job: 'The Cleaner' seemed to be the leader of the men working for Oliver Leek, the clones were Helen's slaves, who did everything she said.

Talk: 'I'm a proffessional, I never talk'

Story:

In episode 1 of series 2 Abby and Connor help a Cleaner escape from some raptors in a shopping mall, he was attacked by a baby raptor, but when Connor and Abby returned to him, he had vanished. They saw him again at the ARC, where he was dressed as a soldier. Nick Cutter followed 'The Cleaner' when he saw him acting suspiciously. Nick was then knocked out by 'The Cleaner'. It turned out 'The Cleaner' was working for Leek. He was attacked by Scorpians in the Silurian, but survived the attack and took the anomaly detector and all the food and water off Nick and Stephen who had rescued a girl who had come through the anomaly. The Cleaner was then apparently killed by the Scorpian and Nick and the others took back the things he had taken.

After Stephen's funeral Helen turned up with an army of clones of 'The Cleaner'. Helen and the Clones are next seen in series 3 where they arrive at Helen's new headquarters. Helen later attacked the ARC thanks to her clone of Nick Cutter. The Clones all responded to Helen's voice and only obeyed her. One of the Clones died because Helen told it to jump off the edge of a building. However, Connor and Becker managed to transmit a recording of her voice around the ARC, so they got all the clones to stop what they were doing. Helen planned to blow up the ARC, and when she told the Nick clone to do it he told the real Nick to run. The clones all died in the fire at the ARC, but Helen survived and killed Nick.

Monday, 25 May 2009

Character Page: Captain Becker




Name: Captain Becker

Played By: Ben Mansfield

First Appearance: Episode 14

Last Appearance: None

Reason: None

Number of Episodes: 10 to date (And 5 webisodes)

Spouse(s): Unknown

Job: Special Opperations Captain

Talk: 'Don't ever call me soldier-boy again'

Story:

Captain Becker was made the teams 'Bodyguard' in episode 1 of series 3. Becker helped get the Pristichampus back through the anomaly, but really did not want to bow to it. He and Connor managed to capture a Diictodon in a hospital, but then went on to find where Nick and Abby were. Captain Becker helped on many other missions too. When the ARC was taken over by Christine Johnson in episode 6 of season 3, Becker pretended to be loyal to her and captured Abby, Danny, Sarah and Connor, who had hidden with the artifact. Becker recorded Christine abusing the minister, and sent the recording to Lester who sent it to the Minister, who put Lester back in charge.

Becker, like Captain Ryan from series 1, was told off my other members of the team for shooting the creatures that came through the anomalies. These included a Dracorex and a herd of Embolotherium. When Abby's brother Jack went through an anomaly, Becker went with the others to rescue him. Becker distracted the future predators when they closed in on the others who were saving Jack. The others thought Becker was dead, but he survived and turned up later to save their lives again. Becker met Helen Cutter and attempted to save Christine Johnson from the future predators when Helen kicked her through an anomaly. However, the anomaly closed after Christine was dragged through. Danny decided that they must follow Helen through the anomalies, to stop her changing time.

Becker and Sarah went to investigate Johnson's anomaly, which had reopened, while the others followed Helen. Becker and Sarah managed to defeat the Megaoptra which came through Johnson's anomaly, but the others did not return from the future. Sarah and Becker tried to find them in the future, but all rescue attempts failed, and after Sarah was killed the ARC's activities were suspended. Becker resigned, but reconsidered after Lester said that he wanted Becker back and was welcomed to the new half privately owned ARC by Jess. He was at first hostile to Matt, the new team leader, but later accepted him.

Saturday, 23 May 2009

Character Page: Sarah Page




Name: Doctor Sarah Page

Played By: Laila Rouass

First Appearance: 3.1

Last Appearance: 3.10

Reason: Was killed sometime after the episode in the future

Number of episodes: 10

Spouse(s): None

Job: Egyptologist, member of the Anomaly research team

Talk: 'The points where the lines crossed, it looks exactly like...'

Story:

Sarah Page was working at the British History Museum, when her boss was attacked by a creature. Sarah had been teaching school children at the museum, but used to study egyptology. She thought she saw an egyptian Goddess which was actually a Pristichampus. She helped Connor experiment with the anomaly, when they moved the sun cage, the anomaly moved too. Nick was impressed with her skills and hired her to find the routes of all mythical beasts and try to link them with prehistoric creatures. Her pass was once stolen by Helen Cutter so she could break into the ARC, with her clone army.

Helen shot Nick, who had stolen the artifact off her. Nick gave the artifact to Connor. Together Connor and Sarah managed to find out that it was a key to predicting anomalies. When Christine Johnson found out that the artifact was at the ARC, Danny, Connor, Abby and Sarah went into hiding with the artifact. Unfortunately an anomaly appeared near the house they were at. The team had to fight off terror birds. Captain Becker, meanwhile, managed to put Lester back in charge of the ARC.

When a Knight followed a dinosaur that looked like a dragon through an anomaly to the present Sarah went through the anomaly to find out about the knight, who was causing trouble in the present. Sarah managed to persuade the knight to return through the anomaly, thanks to her field trip to the past. Sarah stayed in the present and looked after the machine that closed anomalies, while the others went through to find Jack. Sarah was terrified of the baby insect, but she managed to trap it in a box and throw it through the anomaly. When Danny brought a mysterious woman, 'Eve', to the ARC, Sarah looked through Eve's journal and found the name 'Claudia Brown'. Connor realised that Eve must be Helen in disguise. Helen vanished through a future anomaly with Christine Johnson, who was killed. The anomaly closed, but another led to the same place. Danny decided that they must follow Helen.

However, Johnson's anomaly reopened and Sarah and Becker went to investigate, leaving the others to follow Helen. Sarah and Becker found that three Megaoptra had come through the anomaly. Sarah and Becker managed to defeat them, but when they returned to reopen the anomaly Danny and the others did not come through. Sarah then said she had a plan and they attempted to rescue the others from the future. After several attempts, Sarah was killed, and the ARC's activities were suspended by the government pending an investigation...

Character Page: Christine Johnson




Name: Christine Johnson

Played By: Belinda Stewart-Wilson

First Appearance: Episode 14

Last Appearance: Episode 22

Reason: Kicked through anomaly by Helen, Christine was then killed by a future predator.

Number of Episodes: 6 (Series 3 episodes 1, 4-6, 8-9)

Spouse(s): Unknown

Job: Government official

Talk: 'This isn't over'

Story:

Christine Johnson first appeared in episode 1 of series 3. She had sent soldiers through an anomaly to retrieve an artefact. The soldiers had all been killed by future predators. There was an anomaly alert at the ARC, so Jenny, Connor, Abby and Captain Becker went to investigate it. When they got to the building where the anomaly was they found that it was Christine's headquarters. She insisted that there was no anomaly, although there was an anomaly which was normally under a cloaking device. Her team were experimenting on the future predator.

Christine found out that Sarah Page and Connor had the artefact at the ARC. So she took over the ARC with permission from the Minister. Abby, Danny, Sarah and Connor escaped with the artefact so Christine sent soldiers to get them. The soldiers were killed by Terror Birds that had come out of a nearby anomaly. Becker had recorded Christine abusing the minister and sent the recording to Lester who gave it to the minister. The Minister then put Lester back in charge.

When Jack Maitland went through a future anomaly, Abby, Danny, Connor and Becker went after him. Danny saw one of Christine's men, Captain Wilder, escorting a woman called 'Eve' somewhere. In episode 9 Danny infiltrated Christine's headquarters and took Eve with him to help with the anomaly opperation. Christine marched into the ARC with a warrant for Danny's arrest and she also wanted the artefact and Eve. However, Eve, who was actually Helen, pointed a gun to Christine's head and took her back to her headquarters. Helen blamed Christine for the destruction which she had seen in the future. Apparently it all started at Christine's ARC. Helen kicked Christine through the anomaly, where she was killed by future predators.

Character Page: Tom and Duncan




Names: Tom and Duncan

Played By: James Bradshaw (Duncan) and Jake Curran (Tom)

First Appearance: Episode 2

Last Appearance: Episode 4

Reason: Tom was killed by a parasite, unknown why Duncan never appeared again.

Number of episodes: 3

Spouse(s): None

Job(s): Students

Talk: 'Maybe he's got a girlfriend'

Story:

Duncan and Tom didn't believe Connor at all when he said that he'd signed the official secrets act and that he'd seen a gorgonopsid. They thought that it was very sad. Duncan and Tom pretended to be a dinosaur when Abby and Connor went to look for an anomaly.

Tom and Duncan put a tracker on Connor's bag, so they could find out what was really going on with him. A Dodo which escaped from an anomaly ate the tracker so they stole the Dodo. The Dodo bit Tom, which caused Tom to act fierce and dangerous. Tom had actually been infected by a parasite which had already killed one of the four Dodos. Tom scared Duncan away who told Connor what had happened. Tom then went after Abby because he wanted to know what was really going on. Tom died in Connor's arms having only infected a Doctor at the hospital.

What happened to Duncan after this is unknown, Claudia Brown told Duncan he'd committed treason for stealing the Dodos, but it is unlikely that he went to jail.

Character Page: Caroline Steel




Name: Caroline Steel

Played By: Naomi Bentley

First Appearance: Episode 8

Last Appearance: Episode 13

Reason: Caroline wasn't anything to do with the team and Connor didn't really fancy her anymore so she never appeared.

Number of Episodes: 6

Spouse(s): Connor

Job: Unknown, hired by Leek to go out with Connor

Talk: 'Oh that's a shame'

Story:

Caroline met Connor in a DVD shop. Caroline seemed to take an interest in Connor and Connor invited Caroline to come and watch a film at Abby's flat. Abby and Connor had to go and Caroline wrote her number on Connor's hand. Caroline and Connor's dates kept getting interupted by Connor's work, Caroline did not seem to mind that much. Caroline disliked Rex, so when Connor dumped Caroline by text she attacked Rex and stole him.

In actual fact Caroline was working for Oliver Leek and giving him information. Caroline did not know what Leek's plans were, so when she gave him Rex and he offered her the chance to find out what was going on, she accepted. Caroline was freaked out by the creatures that Leek had but he would not let her go and put her in a cell with Abby and Connor. Caroline and Abby had a fight which Connor stopped. When they escaped with Jenny Lewis, they found Rex. However, Rex was shot and Caroline carried Rex up to Abby. Caroline attended Stephen's funeral although she had never met him, and she said that if Connor wanted to get in touch, he knew her number...

Character Page: Jenny Lewis




Name: Jenny Lewis

Played By: Lucy Brown

First Appearance: Episode 7

Last Appearance: Episode 18

Reason: Left after she almost died

Number of Episodes: 12

Spouse(s): Fiance, Nick Cutter

Job: PR woman, temporary team leader

Talk: 'Jenny Lewis actually'

Story:

Jenny Lewis was hired by James Lester to work as a PR woman for the ARC. She met Nick Cutter, who scared her by calling her Claudia Brown and saying that she may think she's Jenny but she's actually Claudia. Jenny wouldn't believe anyone about the creatures she'd be working to cover up. She went against Nick's instructions and was nearly killed by a giant prehistoric worm. From then on she believed everything about the creatures.

Jenny could be flirtacious and stubborn to get her own way. Sometimes she got into a lot of trouble, like when she was almost eaten by a future shark and when she was almost shot. Her fiance thought she was seeing another man, so he left her, but this was because she had to drop everything whenever an anomaly opened. She was kidnapped by Leek with Abby, Connor and Nick. Helen Cutter commented that Jenny looked exactly like Claudia. Jenny had already told Nick that she hated this name. Jenny helped get Abby, Connor and Caroline out and she stole a gun from a guard that had been run over by a Scutosaurus. Stephen and Leek were both killed by the creatures Leek and Helen had captured and Jenny attended Stephen's funeral.

In Series 3 Jenny was still PR for the team working alongside new member of the team Captain Becker. She went to a house with Abby and Connor where Nick predicted an anomaly would appear thanks to his 3D diagram. Jenny was very sad when Nick died as she had admitted to Sarah Page, new member of the team, that she loved him. Jenny became temporary team leader after Nick was killed by Helen, when the ARC was invaded by clones. Jenny met Danny Quinn first at the house where Cutter predicted an anomaly and then she was later rescued by him when she was locked in a room by Mick Harper, a journalist, while investigating an anomaly. She had also discovered that Christine Johnson, a member of the government, was up to something to do with the anomalies.

Jenny found a picture of Nick and Claudia together, which had been stuck back together, in Cutter's things. From then on she believed that Claudia Brown had existed. Jenny almost died when a fungus creature infected her with spores, but luckily the freezing cold air managed to kill them. Jenny then decided to leave and get on with her life.

Character Page: Oliver Leek




Name: Oliver Leek

Played By: Karl Theobald

First Appearance: Episode 7

Last Appearance: Episode 13

Reason: Killed by Future Predators

Number of Episodes: 7

Spouse(s): None

Job: Lester's assistant

Talk: 'You're all on your own James'

Story:

When Cutter returned from the anomaly, he found that instead of Claudia Brown, Leek was in charge of the day to day running of the anomaly opperation. He was Lester's assistant. He informed Lester that they needed a PR person, who turned out to be Jenny Lewis, who, according to Nick, looked and sounded just like Claudia.

Leek was fed up of being bossed around by Lester. He and Helen Cutter had decided they would change the world for the better. Leek captured creatures with the help of 'The Cleaner'. He also hired Caroline Steel to keep an eye on the team, especially Connor. Leek captured Nick, Jenny, Caroline, Connor and Abby and held them prisoner in his bunker. He almost had Abby, Connor, Jenny and Caroline killed by a Smilodon, who he had pretended had died earlier in the series. Leek attempted to kill Lester using a future Predator but a Columbian Mammoth kiled the future predator in the end. Leek was also killed in the end when trapped in a room full of future predators, all his plans having failed.

Character Page: Helen Cutter




Name: Helen Cutter

Played By: Juliet Aubrey (And by Kate Magowan as Eve)

First Appearance: Episode 1

Last Appearance: Episode 23

Reason: Killed by a Raptor

Number of Episodes: 17 to date (all of series 1, episodes 2 and 4-7 for series 2 and episodes 1-3 and 8-10 for series 3))

Spouse(s): Nick Cutter, Stephen

Job: Palaeontologist until she vanished

Talk: 'I offer you the key to time Nick, the key to time'

Story:

Helen's strange theories formed a barrier between Nick and Helen. Helen turned to Stephen and they secretly had an affair. Helen went to investigate a creature sighting in the Forest of Dean and completely vanished. She had found the anomalies and travelled around time for eight years until she decided she wanted to share it with Nick, who had recently found out about them along with the government,who he was now working for.
When Nick found Helen he asked her to come back to the present with him, but she declined and he declined her invitation to travel with her. However, Lester ordered a team of special forces troops to go through the anomaly and bring her back. She refused to cooperate but told them where an anomaly would appear. When they went to investigate Helen escaped and when Captain Ryan and Stephen followed they found a green field with sevral anomalies on it, but Helen was nowhere to be seen. Helen later saved Claudia Brown from a swarm of pterasaurs and then told the team that a future predator had come through an anomaly.
Using the baby future predators to find the future anomaly in the Permain era, Helen, Nick and some special forces troops went on an expedition. However, another future predator appeared and killed all the troops. Nick returned to the present to find that things had changed. Helen also revealed that Stephen and her had had an affair.
In series 2 Helen went to Stephen for help after she was injured. She managed to presuade him to help her reveal to the papers all about the anomalies. She was actually working for Oliver Leek and had helped capture creatures which were kept in a bunker. After kidnapping Nick, Connor, Abby and Jenny. The creatures escaped, she managed to survive and call Stephen to come and get her. Stephen sacrificed himself to stop the creatures from escaping. After Stephen's funeral Helen appeared with an army of clones.

In series 3 Helen found a mysterious artefact in the future with her clones. Helen later cloned Nick Cutter to help her get in the ARC. She had recieved information that the ARC had created the future predators so she wanted to destroy it. She attacked it with her army of clones, but her plan went wrong when Connor managed to use a recording of her voice to stop the clones. The Cutter clone set off a bomb and the ARC was set on fire. The real Nick went to find Helen, but was shot by her, but he had stolen the artefact off her. She told him that she had seen the future, that the ARC had created Future Predators and that if she killed Nick the future would be changed for the better. She then ran off leaving Nick to die.

A mysterious woman called 'Eve' was seen with Captain Wilder, one of Christine Johnson's men, by Danny Quinn, who replaced Cutter as the ARC'S team leader. Eve told Christine that she wanted to go to the ARC. Danny managed to get into Johnson's HQ and he met Eve, who he took with him to a campsite where a herd of Embolotherium were on the loose. Eve managed to close the anomaly and then she went to the ARC. Christine turned up at the ARC, but Eve put a gun to Christine's head and then she revealed herself to be Helen. Helen took the artifact from Connor and returned to Johnson's HQ with Christine. Helen kicked Christine through the anomaly, where she was killed.

Helen planned to kill off the human race, by killing the first hominids. She went to the ARC and used the artifact to find a route to Site 333, where the first hominids were found. Danny, Connor and Abby found her, but she closed the anomaly before they could follow her. Helen travelled to the Cretacious, where she opened another anomaly, which lead to the Pliocene. Helen was attacked before she could go through the anomaly, by a Pteranodon, and she dropped her anomaly opening device. Helen went through the anomaly and killed a group of 13 hominids, by poisoning the lake they were drinking from. Helen then saw Danny, who had followed her, she told him that there was more to kill, before being pushed off a cliff by a raptor who had followed Danny to the Pliocene.