- Philip Burton: [Speaking to Abby about the animals in the menagerie] I think we seriously have to consider putting them down. It's the only humane solution. It's the safest, the kindest course of action.
- James Lester: Abby, you've got to stop this now. Please don't make me call security. There's no chance whatsoever of you getting those creatures out of here.
- Abby Maitland: How did you know?
- James Lester: Don't blame Jess. She was frightened of you getting hurt.
- Abby Maitland: This is wrong. No human being in history has seen these creatures alive before us... we've been given the most amazing gift. And how do we repay that? That privilege? By killing them because they're... inconvenient. What does that say about humans? About us? Lester, after all we've done here, is this how we're going to be remembered?
- Abby Maitland: You know what, underneath it all, you're actually quite nice.
- James Lester: Repeat that disgusting slander again and you'll be hearing from my lawyers.
- [pause]
- James Lester: You know that overfed mammoth of yours saved my life once. Be rude of me not to return the favour.
- Mr. George: You'll both be coming back here every week until all traces of that smell that you concocted in the science lab has been eradicated. Now ask yourself, was it really worth it?
- Steve: Yes, sir.
- Darren: Definitely.
- Mr. George: Beth, one day you'll find that merely being pretty doesn't get you quite as far in life as you think.
- Beth: I'm going on X Factor and then I'll be famous. I don't need exams for that.
- Mr. George: A succinct, if depressing, mission statement.
- Connor Temple: Philip rocks. He's like the smartest man I have ever met.
- Abby Maitland: You're beginning to sound like a groupie.
- Connor Temple: I am a groupie, just without the sordid bits and the low self-esteem.
- Abby Maitland: All I need is 20 minutes. Just order them to clear out the loading bay while I get the creatures out.
- Jess Parker: What are you going to do with the mammoth? Put it on a leash?
- Philip Burton: You haven't co-signed this executive order yet.
- James Lester: Ah, yes, and I don't intend to.
- Philip Burton: You do realise I don't actually need your signature? Scientific policy is directly under my control.
- James Lester: That's perfectly true, so go ahead. Don't let me hold you up. Of course, what posterity will make of all this is anyone's guess.
- Philip Burton: What's posterity got to do with anything?
- James Lester: Well, I dare say we can't keep the anomalies secret forever. One day it will all come out, whether we like it or not. After all you've achieved, to be remembered simply as "Burton the dinosaur killer" does seem rather a cruel fate. Not quite the legacy you had in mind, I'd imagine.
- Philip Burton: Are you threatening to leak this?
- James Lester: Certainly not. No, I'm simply saying that if this should somehow ever become public knowledge, the world outside these walls is going to come looking for a scapegoat. I assure you, it won't be me.
- Connor Temple: Why do all schools smell the same? Like spot cream and misery.
- Captain Becker: I quite liked school.
- Connor Temple: Yeah, that figures.
- Captain Becker: What the hell was it?
- Matt Anderson: It's a therocephalian. Half-reptile, half-mammal.
- Captain Becker: All ugly.
- Connor Temple: What took you so long?
- Matt Anderson: First day in a new school, you can never find the right classroom.
- Matt Anderson: Jess, I can see cameras.
- Jess Parker: There's a central system, it controls the CCTV and all the doors. I'm hacking it right now.
- Matt Anderson: You'd make a great bank robber, Jess.
- Jess Parker: I'll consider it.