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.

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...

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.

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.

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...