Primeval quotes

Nick

Why do you want me now, after so long?

Helen

I'm human. I want company. I want to share this... incredible gift, but only with you. Nick, I have seen such wonders. Things you wouldn't believe...

Nick

You're asking me to abandon my life. Leave behind everything I know. People are dying back home, and you want me to just run away with you?

Helen

Animals die, Nick. Species die. [Nick scoffs] You know I'm right. One day humanity will disappear just like the dinosaurs, and nature doesn't care; something else will take our place. Nick, just leave all the other stuff behind. Come with me.

Helen

I offer you the key to time. The key to time, Nick. And you turn your back on it. Call yourself a scientist?

Nick

I call myself a human being.

Lester

Who's that idiot?

Nick

Connor Temple. He looks like a half-wit, but he has a very good brain.

Lester

We may stand on the brink of Armageddon, but at least we have an irritating student on our side. How reassuring.

Claudia

Do you know what I miss? Those soul-crushingly dull Civil Service meetings which made suicide seem like an exciting career option. I used to sit there, praying that something would happen with my life.

Nick

Be careful what you wish for!

Helen

Presumably there are still laws against kidnapping?

Lester

Hmm. Though officially you're dead. We can't have kidnapped someone who doesn't actually exist, can we?

Connor

Fluke.

Stephen

Jealous.

I didn’t expect the SAS.

Nick

The town council takes pest control very seriously, Mrs. Davis.

Nick

Relax, everyone. It’s only a python.

[shrieks] Only a python? What the hell were you expecting?

Connor

[holding his ear] Ow.

Lester

[about Helen] I trust her about as far as I can throw a stegosaurus.

Nick

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

Capt. Ryan

[On dead dodo] Professor, we have a dodo down.

Claudia

Oh, no.

Abby

How did that happen?

Connor

Maybe he ate one of the pies.

[on the captured dodo in their flat] What’s he got there?

Oh no! Not my Converse All Stars!

Oh, that stinks! I think I’m gonna hurl...

No, no, no. Don’t contaminate it because we can sell dodo sick on eBay.

They tried to take me over, Con. But I fought them. I fought them.

Connor

You did a really good job.

I'm a hero. [dies]

Connor

(answering Abby's phone) Abby Maitland's love shack, number one stud speaking.

Connor

Rex! I swear, when I catch you, you're gonna be the first animal to become extinct twice!

Nick

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

Claudia

What are you doing?

Nick

[Shining a light in Claudia's eyes] I've absolutely no idea, but I've seen them do it on ER, so there must be something to it.