Stephen Hart quotes from Primeval

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

Stephen

Cutter!

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

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[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.

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Capt. Ryan

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

Look, how do you feel?

Capt. Ryan

Sick. My ears are ringing...

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.

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?

Maybe the Carboniferous, about three hundred million years ago.

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[Stephen kicks a football directly into a "No Ball Games" sign]

Fluke.

Stephen

Jealous.

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[The team prepares to release the Pteranodon and guide it back through the Anomaly]

So you're absolutely confident that this creature doesn't eat mammals?

Stephen

Dung never lies. And if I'm wrong about that, at least you'll always have a special place in the history books.

I always wanted to be famous.

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[having snuck up on Stephen] In most eras of the world's history, you'd be dead by now.

Stephen

Helen. Now what the hell are you doing here?

You know, all this urban living has made humans such lazy animals... secondary hearing, no sense of smell, no worthwhile instincts.

Stephen

Man has no predators. We have nothing to be afraid of except... each other.

Well that used to be the case; but times are changing, aren't they, Stephen?

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[After the group narrowly survive an attack from the future predator]

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

I warned you it was smart!

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!

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.

Hearing. They heard something.

Sound. It's using sound.

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

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

Ryan

Like echolocation?

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.

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

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

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[After Connor receives a phone call from the lab]

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.

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!

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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.

I'm going to do this on my own.

Abby

We'll help.

Who's "we?"

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[Inspecting a Deinonychus knocked unconscious with a tranquilizer gun] Look at her. She's a perfect killing machine. You know in a fair fight, mammals wouldn't stand a chance.

Stephen

Well, speaking as a mammal, I'm all in favour of cheating.

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

Stephen

She knows how to use it.

Abby

How many animals have you tranquillized?

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

Stephen

Don't know what gives you that idea.

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Stephen

[after learning Helen has lied to him] I so badly wanted to believe you. [to Nick] BUT THAT DOESN'T PUT YOU IN THE RIGHT!

Stephen, there's a whole army of predators down here! If even one of them makes it above ground level, there's gonna be no one left! Now if you want to help people, we have to do this!

They're too powerful, Nick! Nothing you can do!

Well then, you're gonna have to think of something, or else we're all gonna die! Now you brought them here, you know them! [pause]

The siren...the creatures associate the sound with food. They'll come back to the cage room whenever they hear it.

And if we can lock them in with the predators, then they'll destroy each other! Come on then!

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WAIT! I can't close the door! Well otherwise they're gonna get back out!

We can only do that from in there now. The control's on the other side, but whoever does it will be locked in. [as they speak, the creatures are racing towards the room].

Then one of us has got to go back in. [resigned] I'll do it.

Stephen

You'll never make it out!

Get out of here. [whispers in Stephen's ear] Just remember Lester's not the enemy.

[pleadingly] Nick, please!

[Stephen shakes his head. As Nick turns back to face Helen, Stephen punches him in the face, knocking him to the floor. As he recovers, the sound of the door slamming is heard. Nick leaps back to his feet and looks through the door's viewport]

[horrified] STEPHEN!

Stephen

Sorry mate, I'm doing this one.

No, open the door! OPEN IT!

Stephen

[smiling sadly] Can't do it, Nick. Can't take the risk.