Connor Temple quotes from Primeval

Connor

Abby...? Are we alive?

Abby

We're alive.

Connor

That's good then.

Nick

It was one step ahead of us all the time. It knew what we were going to do before we did it!

Helen

I warned you it was smart!

Nick

It would be more useful if you could tell us how to catch this thing.

Stephen

What we need is some kind of edge, a weakness in its defences that gives us an advantage, otherwise it's just gonna pick us off one-by-one!

Connor

Dogs. The dogs went crazy before it attacked. What would make them go off like that?

Stephen

Can't be smell. If there was a scent trail, they would have followed it.

Nick

Hearing. They heard something.

Connor

Sound. It's using sound.

Nick

That's why it was able to remain one step ahead of us! It can detect physical movement before it's within visual range!

Connor

And the dogs, they detect a higher frequency, therefore they know when it's nearby!

Ryan

Like echolocation?

Nick

High frequency sound waves, it's like a sonar system. Some animals use it to detect prey.

Stephen

Like a bat. Well, you said there was bat blood in the lion enclosure.

Connor

That's it. This thing must be some kind of...I dunno, super-bat.

Helen

He's right. Three quarters of all mammal species are bats or rats; maybe the future belongs to them.

Connor

I thought I was going to die then.

Nick

But you didn't.

Connor

No. Quite chuffed about that.

Nick

Maybe you should go home.

Connor

Nah, I'm gonna stay. I mean, Han Solo, he wouldn't give up before a job's done, would he?

Nick

I always thought of you more as R2-D2 myself, but I take your point.

Connor

The creature's autopsy proves beyond any doubt that it was definitely a male.

Stephen

It's gotta have been female; it was nurturing its young.

Connor

Maybe in this species, that's a job for the boys?

Stephen

Better be, cos if not...it means the mother's still out there!

Nick

I could kiss you, Connor.

Connor

That's really sweet, but maybe not while there's people watching.

Connor

So, guys, let me get this straight... all we have to do is to drag two of the angriest creatures in the known universe through a hole in time back into an ancient world where we don't know what's waiting on the other side for us?

Stephen

When you put it like that, it sounds so easy.

Nick

I'm going to do this on my own.

Abby

We'll help.

Connor

Who's "we?"

Connor

Where's my gun? Abby's got one!

Stephen

She knows how to use it.

Abby

How many animals have you tranquillized?

Connor

I've played darts! Sometimes I think you don't trust me with firearms!

Stephen

Don't know what gives you that idea.

Abby

Oi! Where are you going?

Connor

I'm going to get a slushie. Shhh.

Abby

You first.

Abby

Foggy?

Connor

A bit foggy, yeah.

Nick

[to Connor] Are you all right?

Connor

Yeah, never been swallowed by a giant worm before, but I suppose it's all a learning experience, isn't it?

Connor

(talking very fast) I'd like you to meet the Anomaly Detection Device, or A.D.D. for short... actually that's probably not the best acronym, is it?

Nick

Connor, breathe.

Don't shoot me! Don't shoot me! Don't shoot!

You! You! You shot me! You shot me, look!

[muffled by glove held in mouth] OH MY GOD!

Connor

[awkward pause] You all right, though?

DO I LOOK ALL RIGHT?! YOU SHOT ME! [screams in frustration]

Jenny

How long has the body been here?

Nick

I don't know. A week; a month.

Connor

If it's been that long, the anomaly could have formed before the detector came online, which would mean there's nothing wrong with it, guys.

Nick

Yeah, there's one problem. The sabretooth may well have killed the guy, but it sure as hell didn't dig a trench ten feet deep and bury his body.

Connor

(regarding Jenny) She looks amazing.

Nick

Mm. So does a Velociraptor.

Connor

High CO2, low oxygen.

Nick

It's pre-Carboniferous. Maybe Ordovician or Silurian. There's no dinosaurs, no mammals, and no birds... wait a minute, what's that?

Connor

It's a little girl.

Jenny

What is she doing?

Nick

She's looking for her dog.

Abby

She might be injured.

Connor

There's nothing really in the Silurian to injure her. We're talking a few basic plants and some bugs.

Abby

How big are the bugs?

Connor

Bug size, I think. As far as periods go, it's a pretty safe one to get lost in.