Primeval Series 2 :Episode 7
Episode 7
While Cutter is reeling from the revelation that Helen helped Leek capture creatures from anomalies, Connor and Abby come face to face with Caroline. Abby demands to know the whereabouts of Rex but Caroline confesses she doesn’t know and she pleads with Connor to forgive her.
Meanwhile Leek releases a Silurian scorpion at a busy beach and tells Lester to back off or there will be creatures released throughout the UK. Lester doesn’t know that Cutter and the rest of the team are captured, and the only person he can reach is Stephen. Stephen responds but he tells Lester this will be the last time.
Whilst Stephen battles the scorpion, Abby, Connor and Jenny face a hungry sabre tooth cat. Cutter watches on in horror. In a desperate attempt to save them he makes Leek plug his laptop computer into the mainframe. By doing so the systems all suddenly fail and Cutter reveals Connor planted a virus in Leek’s laptop which he just uploaded. The doors open allowing Connor, Abby and Jenny to escape, but so too do the doors of all the animal cages.
The team try to find their way out but in a bunker filled with rampaging creatures and the going is tough. Abby finds Rex and with his help they find a ventilation shaft to ground level and alert Lester to their whereabouts.
Cutter is being hunted through the bunker by one of Leek’s future predators. In a gruelling fight Cutter manages to defeat the predator, but his relief is short lived when Leek reveals he has a whole army of future predators, all under his control via neural clamps devices implanted in their spinal columns.
Faced with certain death Cutter manages to destroy one of the neural clamps. It short circuits all of the other and in so doing releases the future predators from Leek’s control. As the creatures from the future turn on their former captor, Cutter takes his opportunity to escape the immediate danger. With the future predators now on the loose, the team realise that if they escape the safety of humanity in the present is under threat and one member is forced to make the ultimate sacrifice. The race is on to save the world but who will survive to continue the fight?
Read an interview with Tim Hanines and Adrian Hodges about the future of Primeval.
FICTION
Future Predators made their first appearance in episode 6 of series 1. The creatures have no names because they come from the future, following the logic that if holes can open to the past, so holes in the future can open up. The animal that came through was, unfortunately, a predator that was drawn through while hunting Helen Cutter. Genetic tests revealed it was a type of wingless bat with lightning-fast reactions and the ability to stalk its prey using high-frequency sonar. Cutter managed to kill the predator, when it cornered him in a greenhouse, by confusing its sonar with smashed glass. However, it turned out there was a mated pair and he was saved from the jaws of the female by the prehistoric gorgonopsid from programme one that killed her and her young in the climax to the series.
THE FACTS
This creature is obviously not based on any real animal but it is assumed that, as long as the Earth’s climate remains as seasonal as it is, mammals will continue to be the dominant group of animals. If that is so, rats and bats are by far the most common groups of mammals (accounting for three quarters of all mammal species) and any large predator could well evolve from them.
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