Episode Five (Primeval)
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 5 |
| Written by | Chris Lang |
| Directed by | Jamie Payne |
| Production no. | 5 |
| Original airdate | 10 March 2007 |
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Episode Five of the ITV sci-fi drama Primeval was broadcast in the UK on 10 March 2007.
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[edit] Synopsis
A Pteranodon arrives from 70 million years ago, and trouble begins at a country house when a golfer is killed.
[edit] Plot
Two men are playing golf at a golf course. One is stuck in a bunker; the other hits his ball into a lake. The latter goes to retrieve his ball; the audience sees that the ball rests in front of a dinosaur skull. He hits it again and knocks it into the woods. While searching for it he cuts his hand and shakes it around blowing on it. Blood is shown to fly off it and onto a nearby tree.
Connor and Abby are talking at Abby's flat and Rex is standing on a table.
Back at the golf course, something attacks the bleeding golfer; the other runs to him only to discover what little is left, and runs away in fear, dropping his club.
In the flat Connor plays Oblivion on an Xbox 360 and talks with Abby. Eventually Abby leaves to do yoga.
A security team goes to the golf course. Someone says that Lester is impatient for results. Nick and Claudia argue over how things should be handled on this mission. Claudia states that she doesn't want to take Nick or Lester's side.
In the flat, Connor's mobile phone rings. He leaves quickly, leaving a window open, and Rex flies out through it.
On the golf course, the dead golfer has had his flesh shorn off of him. The team cannot find an anomaly, but there is a very strong magnetic field. An electricity pylon is suspected as the cause, but there are none near. Then they see the anomaly overhead. They wonder how to cordon off the air. A Pteranodon then swoops in, barely missing the team.
Rex flees into Connor's car and hitches a ride to the golf course. Connor arrives and discovers he has inadvertently brought Rex with him. Rex flees from Connor towards the team on the golf course.
The Pteranodon and Connor both try to catch Rex. After some chasing, Connor and Rex jump down a hill as the Pteranodon swoops and flies above them. The rest of the team witness this and Nick has to shove Ryan so that he shoots wide when trying to hit the Pteranodon. The Pteranodon flies away. Nick and Claudia both scold Abby for keeping Rex, and Abby gets angry with Connor when he comes over to them after the attack. Abby tells Nick that she didn't want the Home Office to keep Rex and do tests on him in a lab, and asks if she can keep him. Nick tells her she should probably find him first. The team get a satellite view of the area hooked up, and with it see the Pteranodon on top of an abandoned office building. Connor and Abby begin to look through the woods for Rex.
Claudia, Nick and Stephen arrive at the building before the special forces. Nick and Stephen have the intention of tranquilizing the Pteranodon so it will not be killed. They ascend to the roof; the Pteranodon flies away before Stephen can shoot it. Nick sees that the Pteranodon's head crest is red, so he makes a red flag with Stephen's red shirt and a pole from a television antenna to attract the Pteranodon, and Stephen on the third attempt shoots the Pteranodon with the tranquilizer gun. When crashing onto the roof the Pteranodon narrowly misses Claudia. Claudia is infuriated and shouts at Stephen and Nick saying that all orders will now come from her. In its tranquilized stupor the Pteranodon turns its head quickly and knocks out Claudia with its crest.
In a room, Claudia Brown wakes from the blow with an oxygen mask on. She rises from the stretcher with a start and knocks a blood drip to the floor (although she was never bleeding, so the exact use for this is probably to prompt the final scene). Nick and the medic look at her and come to the conclusion she only has a mild concussion. The medic leaves to get something from the ambulance and Nick flashes the medic's small flashlight in Claudia's eyes claiming that since the doctor's do it, it must actually do something. He asks Claudia how she feels and if anything hurts, Claudia reveals that she cannot see anything. Nick tells her that temporary blindness is a symptom of concussions and that it will pass shortly.
In the wood, Connor and Abby are looking for Rex; all the while Connor is trying to apologize to Abby who refuses to hear it. They finally find Rex, who goes and cowers behind a tree stump looking past the two. They turn around to see a swarm of Anurognathus in the tree behind them. The anurognathus smell the blood from the fallen blood drip in the hotel and fly away through the trees causing Abby and Connor to duck.
The Pteranodon is carried from the office block to the golf course on a trailer under a tarpaulin. Stephen tests the Pteranodon's feces (including taste) and finds that it contains bones from fish and small reptiles but no human remains, proving that it did not kill the golfer. Stephen calls Nick on his cellphone and tells him of the feces discovery, but Nick tells him that his phone is running out of batteries and shuts it off.
At the golf course, the group of Anurognathus attack and kill the medic. Nick and Claudia hear the medic's scream and Nick hurries to close all the doors and windows in the rooms close to them. Blood attracts the Anurognathus like piranhas, so they head towards Nick and Claudia next, both of whom have blood on them from the drip. Nick tries to find a phone in the building, only to discover that an Anurognathus has bitten through the telephone line. He goes back to Claudia just in time as the Anurognathus are beginning to break through the windows of her room. Nick tells Claudia to take off her red (thus blood-coloured) shirt. They run through a few rooms, with the Anurognathus following, shutting the doors behind them. The Anurognathus break in through a skylight. They go into another room. Nick leaves Claudia, with a kiss, to go to the ambulance as he suspects there is a phone inside it.
Soot and noises come down a chimney in the room. An Anurognathus comes out of the fireplace. She swats it with a golf club and calls "Hole in one!". She swats more that come in. Nick barely jumps into the ambulance before it gets swarmed and begins searching. He find the phone and calls Ryan and informs them of the attack, asking for help. Nick then tries to find something in the ambulance that will allow him to fight back and finds a small cylinder of cyclopropane. He opens its valve and lights the gas with a cigarette lighter (also found in the ambulance, and needing many strikes to make it light) and uses the cylinder as a flamethrower to fend off any Anurognathus that attack him.
Helen Cutter comes in and leads her to a corridor, and into a kitchen, and tells Claudia to stand by a door and to go out when told. Helen had to lead Claudia about because Claudia's vision had not yet recovered completely. Helen adds a metal pot to a microwave oven after turning on the gas. The Anurognathus fly in. Helen tells Claudia to go out, and then goes out through another door. There is an explosion and fire in the room, killing all the Anurognathus.
Outside, Nick (who has just expended his improvised flamethrower) sees some windows of the building blow out and hears the explosion. Stunned he stares at the building while Claudia comes up from behind him and tells him that Helen saved her and again disappeared.
Back in the woods Connor tries to apologize to Abby again, but she is still mad and he tells her that he will move out of her flat tomorrow. Abby finally relents and tells him that if he does the washing up for a month and serves her breakfast on the weekends that he can stay. She says that she actually likes having him around. Connor is excited by this and hugs her, prompting Abby to say she likes having him around as a friend.
On the golf course the Pteranodon wakes and flies off, but they attract it with the red flag and it flies up and back away through the anomaly to its own time. The anomaly disappears.
[edit] Cast
- Nick Cutter — Douglas Henshall
- Abby Maitland — Hannah Spearritt
- Stephen Hart — James Murray
- Connor Temple — Andrew-Lee Potts
- Claudia Brown — Lucy Brown
- Helen Cutter — Juliet Aubrey
- Captain Tom Ryan — Mark Wakeling
- Andy — Ike Hamilton
- Jeff — Mat Curtis
- Medic — Adam G. Goodwin
[edit] Animals seen
The anomaly led to North America, 70 million years ago.
- Pteranodon (one came through the anomaly, returned home.)
- Anurognathus (a flock came through the anomaly, all were killed in an explosion.)
[edit] Errors
- Pteranodon lived in the Cretaceous but Anurognathus lived in the Jurassic.
- The Pteranodon is much larger than in reality. It is stated to have had a wingspan of 40 feet, although their real wingspan was 30 feet at most.
- The Primeval official website consistently misspells Anurognathus as Agnurognathus.
- The Radio Times wrongly referred to Claudia Brown as "Helen" and the pterosaurs as "flying dinosaurs."
