Primeval (TV Series)

Helen Makes Contact (2007)

Douglas Henshall: Nick Cutter

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• Detective Inspector : Pretty obvious she killed her boyfriend but we don't know what she did with the body. Just keeps babbling on about monsters and sea serpents.

  Professor Nick Cutter : Would you like me to talk to her?

  Detective Inspector : What about? Monsters? I'm conducting a serious murder investigation here...

  Professor Nick Cutter : It wasn't a murder. Anthony Barton was killed by an ancient marine predator which then returned to its home millions of years in the past.

  Detective Inspector : Who are you people?

  Claudia Brown : I'm sorry; thanks for your time, Inspector. Cutter! Wait...

  Professor Nick Cutter : The girl's innocent.

  Claudia Brown : I know.

  Professor Nick Cutter : We can't let her go to jail for something she didn't do.

  Claudia Brown : Leave that with me; I'll do what I can for her.

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

  Professor Nick Cutter : Call myself a human being.

• James Lester : Who's that idiot?

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

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

• James Lester : The previous anomaly proved to be temporary. As you've just heard this one shows no sign of weakening.

  Professor Nick Cutter : The anomalies may be intermittent. And they fade from time to time but they never completely disappear.

  James Lester : If that were true, creatures would have come through it before.

  Professor Nick Cutter : Maybe they have. Ancient civilizations spoke of monsters and dragons. Perhaps they weren't as naive as we assumed. The anomalies are conclusive proof that the past exists. In a fourth dimension as real and solid as those we already know. Our job is to predict and contain them.

• Professor Nick Cutter : What you should be asking yourself is how the remains of a boy who was attacked in the swimming pool ended up 20 miles away in a reservoir.

  James Lester : Maybe there never was an anomaly. Maybe the girl murdered her boyfriend in the swimming pool and dumped his body in the reservoir.

  Professor Nick Cutter : Very likely, provided you also believe she swallowed him whole and then drove 20 miles down the motorway to regurgitate his remains.

• Claudia Brown : Do you know what I miss? Those soul-crushingly dull civil service meetings, that made suicide look like an exciting career option. I used to sit there praying something would happen in my life.

  Professor Nick Cutter : Careful what you wish for.

• Professor Nick Cutter : The anomalies are times equivalent of an earthquake. Strong enough to rip apart the boundaries between dimensions.

• Professor Nick Cutter : Why didn't you come back?

  Helen Cutter : What are you really upset about Nick? That I stayed away, or that I didn't tell you what I was doing?

  Professor Nick Cutter : I'm not upset Helen. I just don't know who you are anymore.

  Helen Cutter : Do you want to know why I didn't come back? Because I knew your conscience would make you throw all this out there for everyone to trample over and I wasn't ready to share it then.

• Helen Cutter : I'll answer all your questions, Nick. All you have to do is come with me. There are more anomalies than you can possibly imagine. I know how to find them

  Professor Nick Cutter : I asked you a question. Why do you want me now, after so long?

  Helen Cutter : 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...

  Professor Nick Cutter : 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 Cutter : Animals die, Nick. Species die.

  [Nick scoffs] 

  Helen Cutter : 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.