[Stephen touches the Pteranodon dung and licks it as the other soldiers cringe] That's just not right.
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[strikes an Anurognathus with a golf club] Hole in one!
[Claudia, menaced by a swarm of pterosaurs, is intercepted by Helen]
You're going to have to trust me. Either that or a radical make-over from our friends back there.
Maybe just this once!
[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?
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.
Abby...? Are we alive?
We're alive.
That's good then.
[having snuck up on Stephen] In most eras of the world's history, you'd be dead by now.
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.
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?
You have a serious creature incursion. A highly-evolved ambush predator. Intelligent, adaptable, and ruthless.
If there was a creature on the loose, we'd know about it!
At least three people have gone missing in the last 48 hours.
Missing.
Killed. The creature has a lair nearby. It's taken them for food.
And how do you know that?
Because it almost got me too. [pause]
What is it?
It has no name.
Then which era is it from?
It doesn't come from any era... at least not one that can be identified yet.
I'm sorry; I don't understand.
Yes, you do, Nick. You knew it had to happen one day. You've known it ever since you first stepped into the past.
...The future? Are you saying we're being attacked by a creature from the future?
[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.
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?
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!
Like echolocation?
High frequency sound waves, it's like a sonar system. Some animals use it to detect prey.
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.
[After escaping from the Future Predator]
I thought I was going to die then.
But you didn't.
No. Quite chuffed about that.
Maybe you should go home.
Nah, I'm gonna stay. I mean, Han Solo, he wouldn't give up before a job's done, would he?
I always thought of you more as R2-D2 myself, but I take your point.
[As Nick prepares to enter an anomaly to the Permian period]
Do you think I should make a speech; one small step for man, that sort of thing?
Maybe another time. [kisses Nick]
That wasn't very professional.
Oh, stuff professionalism.
[After Connor receives a phone call from the lab]
The creature's autopsy proves beyond any doubt that it was definitely a male.
It's gotta have been female; it was nurturing its young.
Maybe in this species, that's a job for the boys?
Better be, cos if not...it means the mother's still out there!
We don't have to go back, Nick. The future anomaly must be here somewhere, we can still find it.
[sarcastic] The future: Helen Cutter's last great frontier.
[Nick returns from the Permian to find that Claudia Brown no longer exists]
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!
(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.
I could kiss you, Connor.
That's really sweet, but maybe not while there's people watching.
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