Nick Cutter quotes from Primeval

Nick

We'd better ship this lot back before we upset Darwin. Everybody, um... grab a dodo.

Nick

Have I ever let you down before? [immediately] Don't answer that. Just trust me, please.

Nick

Wait, something's wrong! This isn't right... something's happened. Something's changed. We've done something. We've- something we did has changed the past, and she isn't here anymore. [Future Predator chatter is heard through the anomaly, which is starting to close] Oh, God... Oh my God!

Nick

(voiceover) My name is Professor Nick Cutter. Eight years ago, my wife, Helen, disappeared. I discovered she had stepped into the past through ruptures in time called 'Anomalies'. Now creatures from the past threaten the future of the human race. There's only a small group of people who know the truth. My research team: Stephen Hart, Connor Temple, and Abby Maitland, and Government officials James Lester, and Claudia Brown. I returned from the past to find that something has gone terribly wrong, and Claudia Brown has vanished, as though she was never even born. I've come back to a different world, and Helen and I are the only two people who know it.

Nick

[on a Velociraptor] It's beautiful. [The Raptor destroys a security camera, everyone looks at Nick in shock] I said it was beautiful, I didn't say it was friendly.

Nick

[to the Deinonychus] Chase me.

Nick

I'm finished with the past. I just don't know if it's finished with me.

Nick Cutter

Something unusual happens, it's a good bet Helen's behind it. Trust me, she's back.

Nick

[throws a stack of paper on his desk into a rubbish bin]

Connor

Oh... actually, that's my dissertation. Yeah.

Nick

[retrieves the stack of papers from the rubbish bin and begins paging through it]

Connor

See, I argued that all life on Earth derived from organisms carried here by alien spacecraft. It's pretty sexy stuff.

Nick

[throws stack of papers back into the rubbish bin]

Connor

...It's a work in progress, really...

Connor

[introducing himself] Professor? Connor Temple.

Nick

Sorry, never heard of it. I think you want Archaeology.

Nick

[to Claudia] Maybe there is something here, maybe there isn't. Frankly, I doubt-

Stephen

Cutter!

Nick

[sees a dead cow lodged in a tree] Okay, now I'm getting interested.

Lester

Still, at least the immediate crisis is over.

Nick

Some... force out there ripped the boundaries of space and time to shreds. Maybe it's happened before, in which case every single thing we thought we knew about the universe is wrong. Or, this is the first time, in which case what changed? What happens next? Believe me: it's very, very far from over.

Nick

[protesting as Special Forces enter the London Underground] They don't even know what they're looking for.

Stephen

There can't be that many types of venomous monsters under the Aldridge.

Claudia

You should see the last tube home on a Friday night.

Capt. Ryan

They were like spiders, but with pincers, not fangs. Some of them over a meter long. Horrible little...

Nick

Look, how do you feel?

Capt. Ryan

Sick. My ears are ringing...

Nick

Any blurred vision?

Capt. Ryan

No. But there's something else. The gunshots were too bright, like fireworks.

Stephen

That's classic signs of excess oxygen in the atmosphere.

Nick

Richer, more heavily oxygenated air must be seeping through from another anomaly. But we're not talking about the Permian era any longer. This is much, much earlier.

Claudia

How much earlier?

Nick

Maybe the Carboniferous, about three hundred million years ago.

Connor

The reservoir is land-locked right? So allowing for condensation and rainfall, the depth should be pretty consistent.

Nick

Yeah.

Connor

I made this mark of water level earlier. [Dips a measuring stick into the water] The water level has fallen forty centimetres since then. This isn't a reservoir anymore—it's a tidal lake!

Nick

The water must be flowing out through the anomaly... which means it's still down there somewhere.