Primeval (TV Series)

Future Foe (2007)

Juliet Aubrey: Helen Cutter

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• Claudia Brown : What can you tell us about this creature?

  Helen Cutter : It's fast, incredibly fast. And it can camouflage itself in almost any environment. To survive in the Permian it had to be highly adaptable, which is bad news for us. Who knows? Maybe that's how humanity meets its end, by becoming the food source for a more successful species.

• Helen Cutter : [after sneaking up on Stephen]  In most eras of the world's history, you'd be dead by now.

  Stephen Hart : Helen. Now what the hell are you doing here?

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

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

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

• Professor Nick Cutter : [about the loose predator]  What is it?

  Helen Cutter : It has no name.

  Professor Nick Cutter : Then which era is it from?

  Helen Cutter : It doesn't come from any era... at least not one that can be identified yet.

  Professor Nick Cutter : I'm sorry; I don't understand.

  Helen Cutter : Yes, you do, Nick. You knew it had to happen one day. You've known it ever since you first stepped into the past.

  Professor Nick Cutter : ...The future? Are you saying we're being attacked by a creature from the future?

• Stephen Hart : What we need is some kind of edge, a weakness in its defenses that gives us an advantage, otherwise it's just gonna pick us off one-by-one.

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

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

  Professor Nick Cutter : Hearing. They heard something.

  Connor Temple : Sound. It's using sound.

  Professor Nick Cutter : 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 Temple : And the dogs, they detect a higher frequency, therefore they know when it's nearby!

  Captain Ryan : Like echolocation?

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

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

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

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

• Helen Cutter : I've seen a lot of amazing creatures but nothing like this one. It has human levels of intelligence, and an almost supernatural ability to stalk its prey. It could be right here now watching us and we'll never know.

• Claudia Brown : How did it get here?

  Helen Cutter : I have no idea. It was only when I got back I found out that it was on the loose. Obviously my first thought was to do as much as I could to help.

  James Lester : How public spirited of you.

• Helen Cutter : All bats have extraordinary homing instincts. They'll know their own environment, they can lead us to it.

  James Lester : And what happens to them then?

  Professor Nick Cutter : We kill them.

  [They look at him] 

  Professor Nick Cutter : We kill them. To let even one of them loose in the Permian era could be a potential catastrophe. They could wipe out whole species. They could change things in ways we can't even conceive.

  James Lester : And afterwards we keep a permanent guard at the future anomaly?

  Professor Nick Cutter : The threat's too serious to be ignored.

  Claudia Brown : Serious enough to warrant a permanent intrusion into the past?

  Professor Nick Cutter : With the correct restrictions, yes.

  James Lester : [sighs]  I suppose just bombing somewhere is out of question.

• Helen Cutter : SPOILER: This is it, Nick. We found it. We found the future.

  Professor Nick Cutter : That's all you cared about. You just wanted to find the future for yourself.

• Helen Cutter : You see, I don't want to be on my own anymore. You once said you'd do anything for me if I gave you the chance. Well, here it is. Come with me.

  Stephen Hart : Don't do this.

  Helen Cutter : Falling for one of your students is never a good idea, but sometimes these things just happen, you know?

  Professor Nick Cutter : [to Stephen]  How could you keep that from me for so many years?

  Stephen Hart : There wasn't a point in saying anything. It was a long time ago, in the past.

  Helen Cutter : The past has the habit of coming back these days, doesn't it?

• Helen Cutter : Well, are you coming?

  Stephen Hart : You know what I forgot, Helen? Sometimes you can be a real bitch.

• Helen Cutter : We don't have to go back, Nick. The future anomaly must be here somewhere. We can still find it.

  Professor Nick Cutter : The future? Helen Cutter's last great frontier. No. If you wanna stay here and look for it, it's fine. It's fine. But you're gonna have to do it on your own. Cause I'm leaving.

  Helen Cutter : What do you got to get back for? That girl? Please don't tell me you're in love with her.

  Professor Nick Cutter : Maybe, you know, maybe. That's not really the point.

  Helen Cutter : And what is the point professor?

  Professor Nick Cutter : The point is that I know where I belong.