Episode 9 (Primeval)

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“Episode Nine”
Primeval episode

Valerie calls off her Smilodon's attack on Cutter.
Episode no. Season 2
Episode 9
Written by Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle
Directed by Jamie Payne
Guest stars Gillian Kearney[1]
Original airdate January 26, 2008
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Episode Nine of the ITV sci-fi drama Primeval is set to be broadcast on 26 January 2008.

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[edit] Synopsis

A sabre-tooth cat rampages across Blue Sky Park, but the team suspect human involvement in the creature's attacks.

[edit] Plot

Connor has managed to create a new piece of equipment for the team: the A.D.D, or Anomaly Detection Device. However, it fails on its first test when a young paintballer named Warren is fatally injured at Blue Sky Park. At first, the team examine the body, with Abby concluding that the boy was killed by a British big cat, of which several hundred sightings are seen each year. Jenny Lewis provides information on a local man called Robert West, who illegally kept lions on his farm. Nick and Jenny go to investigate, but West denies any knowledge of the creature. The cat is then seen by a child in the forest, and the team head off after it.

Only Connor is left behind to guard the visitors. When he spots a large cat-like animal scaring the tourists, he shoots at it, before he realises it was the park manager dressed as a mascot and how close he came to killing the man. The team head off into the forest during the night and look for the cat again. Using thermal imaging, Stephen discovers a ranger named Valerie lost in the forest. She shows signs of being interested in Stephen, and Stephen also shows reluctance at having to conceal from her what he is doing.

As he drives her home, the park manager, on his way to the park office to explain the shooting incident, is attacked and killed at a train station by a large sabre-tooth cat. A trainspotter captures the attack on camera, and the team identify the creature from the pictures as a Smilodon (although Jenny has to bribe the man to surrender the photgraphs). The team realise what the creature is and begin setting traps. Valerie arrives at the scene and becomes visibly agitated at what they are doing. While digging a trap, Cutter discovers the remains of a man buried in a ten-foot deep trench, having been torn apart by the cat a month before. The fact that the body was savaged by the Smilodon and then buried leads the team to conclude that someone knows of the creature's existence and is covering it up. Cutter is then chased by the cat, and Abby fights it off with a JCB. Cutter escapes via a zip-wire and the Smilodon peculiarly doesn't kill him but leaps straight over him and runs off into the forest.

Cutter discovers that the body he found in the trench was Valerie's boyfriend, and goes round to her home to confront her. However, Valerie surprises him with a tranquilizer gun, threatening him, believing the Smilodon was created by a genetic experiment and Cutter has come to reclaim it. She explains that she found the Smilodon unexpectedly as a cub in her garage (suggesting it strayed through a now-closed anomaly) and that she kept and raised it. She also admits that the body was her boyfriend, who underestimated the creature and was killed by it. Cutter tries to warn her that the Smilodon is a wild animal and is beyond her control, but Valerie believes the cat has imprinted on her as its mother and won't harm her. She tries to shoot Nick with the tranquiliser gun, and when she misses, she apologises and releases the Smilodon, locking it in the same room as Nick.

After Cutter desperately fends the Smilodon off with a table, a can of deoderant and a rake, Valerie calls the cat off the attack, saying to Nick that she's convinced it won't hurt her. In a fit of frenzied anger, however, the Smilodon leaps at her and kills her. The team arrives and the cat is tranquilised by Stephen. Frustrated and angry, Stephen turns on Cutter, asking how many more Valeries there will be before they give up and just tell people. Cutter than accuses Stephen of telling Valerie of what they were doing. Stephen replies that he didn't, but that "I wish that I had".

Back at the ARC, Cutter is confronted by Oliver Leek, who says that the Smilodon died during transportation of a stress-induced heart attack. Cutter does not believe this, saying it was a perfectly healthy animal and dismisses Leek's feeble excuses of a mistaken tranquiliser dosage. When he demands the right to do a post-mortem, Leek explains its remains were destroyed to prevent the spread of possible disease. However, at that moment, alarms begin sounding and the A.D.D lights up. Connor excitedly explains this is not a demonstration: a new anomaly has been detected. the team quickly leave to investigate.

Caroline Steel and Oliver Leek are seen, meeting in a car, exchanging money and making deals, revealing that the two of them are working together to get close to Connor and Abby.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Creatures Seen

  • Smilodon (one specimen seen all around the park)

[edit] Production

  • Location scenes for the fictional "Blue Sky Park" were filmed at Thorpe Park, Surrey.


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