Primeval Series 2 :Episode 4
Episode 4
An anomaly opens underwater, dragging a teenage boy into a flooded drain. Professor Nick Cutter and the team launch a frantic search that leads them from the drain to a nearby canal.
Jenny narrowly escapes a grizzly end when the boat she is in comes under attack by a shark, but a strange discovery during the creature's post-mortem suggests it may not have come from the past. The creature's secret weapon is a giant proboscis that shoots from its jaws to trap its prey, clear evidence of an unusual evolutionary development. It is from the future.
The team are confronted by some sinister creatures from the future - strong and intelligent, the mermaid-like beings are a formidable bunch, giving the team their toughest challenge yet.
Stephen Hart (is convinced that there must be a second shark in the water and that's what killed the teenage boy, but Cutter isn't convinced. He thinks there is a different creature out there and he feels certain they are looking for it in the wrong place. Cutter disobeys the orders from James Lester and follows his hunch.
With the help of Connor Temple and Abby Maitland he records some strange "singing" sounds coming from below the water. They then play them back, hoping to lure the creature to them. The plan works a little too well when a creature jumps out of the water and grabs Abby, dragging her beneath the water.
THE MER-CREATURES
THE FICTION
In programme four we dive into the future literally when a group of terrifying mer-creatures slip into the city’s canal system after floodwaters pour through an anomaly to the future. The team is called in when a young man is dragged down a flooded drain. At first they find and kill a strange looking shark thinking they have dealt with the problem but Cutter is not so sure. When Abby is grabbed off the side of a boat it becomes clear he was right. Eventually they find a group of mercreatures in the flooded basement of a wharf building connected to the canal by pipes. Fortunately Abby and the young man are still alive but just as Connor is about to save her a huge merqueen arrives, through the newly reopened anomaly, and takes Abby back to the future. Connor follows her through and, on a volcanic beach in the future covered in a colony of mercreatures, he saves Abby with a little help from Stephen and Cutter.
THE FACTS
Any creature from the future is, of course, pure speculation but the look and shape of these mercreatures is part seal or walrus and part mandrill or baboon. The combination makes an unpleasantly intelligent looking sea mammal. This is based on the idea that in a drier world one primate survival tactic might be to return to the water and live off the bounty of the sea while sleeping, mating and giving birth on the shore. In the show Cutter jokes that that might be the future for humans but if it were to happen there are many other species of primate that would be there before us – such as the crab-eating macaques that already live among the mangroves and feed in the water as well as the trees. |
