Abby Maitland
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| Abby Maitland | |
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 Abby Maitland |
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| First appearance | Episode One |
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| Species | Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Zoologist |
| Episode count | 6 |
| Portrayed by | Hannah Spearritt |
Abby Maitland is a fictional character played by Hannah Spearritt in the ITV sci-fi drama Primeval.
[edit] Characterization
The official site says that while Abby has a chronic fear of spiders she developed a love of reptiles when her parents took her on holiday to the Galapagos Islands as a child and has had a love affair with lizards ever since. Although she started university she later left after only one term when she got a job as a Zoo Keeper. Her hobbies include yoga (Ashtanga), karate and kick boxing and keeps gym equipment in her flat.
She openly admits to falling in love with the wrong type of men - moody and dangerous. She also appears to have her feeling hurt easily but struggles to remain upbeat and positive.[1] She lives in a flat in London with fellow workmate Connor Temple, although her affections mainly focus on Stephen Hart, whom Connor dislikes (to a certain extent) for this reason.
She can also be remarkably deceitful in order to get her own way as she lies to the government and to her team mates about her experiences with spiders so they will take her with them and also makes a lie of omission by not telling anyone that Rex came back through the anomaly with Nick Cutter.
[edit] Character history
She is a zoologist who first appears in the series when a small boy called Ben who alerts the zoo she works at about an escaped lizard he misidentifies as a modern day lizard named Draco Volans.[2]
She later angers Cutter when she and Connor go off to find an anomaly by themselves but is allowed to stay because he admits he needs her skills. She later allows Connor to move into her flat on a purely platonic basis. She then remains as the team lab assistant and sidekick up until Episode Four when she is almost contaminated by a deadly parasite by a student friend of work/flatmate Connor Temple.[3]
Her love/hate relationship with Connor then reaches a peak in Episode Five[4] when she is enraged that he let everyone know that she's been keeping Rex in secret but later says that if he makes her breakfast on the weekends and does the washing up for a month then he can stay. She then admits that this compromise is really because she actually likes having him around. Connor then hugs her, prompting Abby to say she likes having him around as a friend.
[edit] References
- ^ "Episode Two". Primeval. ITV. ITV One. 2007-02-10. No. 1, season 1.
- ^ "Episode One". Primeval. ITV. ITV One. 2007-02-10. No. 1, season 1.
- ^ "Episode Four". Primeval. ITV. ITV One. 2007-03-03. No. 1, season 1.
- ^ "Episode Five". Primeval. ITV. ITV One. 2007-03-03. No. 1, season 1.
| Primeval |
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| Primeval main pages |
| Impossible Pictures Productions | Time anomaly |
| Main characters |
| Nick Cutter (Douglas Henshall) | Connor Temple (Andrew-Lee Potts) | Abby Maitland (Hannah Spearritt) Stephen Hart (James Murray) | Claudia Brown (Lucy Brown) | James Lester (Ben Miller) | Tom Ryan (Mark Wakeling) |
| Primeval lists |
| Episodes | Creatures | Minor characters |
