Primeval (TV Series)

Helen Makes Contact (2007)

Ben Miller: James Lester

Quotes 

• Claudia Brown : The police have charged Diane Johnson.

  James Lester : I know.

  Claudia Brown : We have to intervene!

  James Lester : We're not going to do that.

  Claudia Brown : Why not?

  James Lester : Because I won't allow this story to become public property. At least in prison the newspapers can't get hold of her.

  Claudia Brown : So you're just going to let them lock up an innocent and traumatized girl!

  James Lester : Of course it's undesirable, but it would be far worse to release her to cause panic and disorder. I'll see that the charges are dropped when the immediate crisis is under control.

  Claudia Brown : But that could take months!

  James Lester : And would you rather tell the police that an ancient sea monster is cruising our swimming pools consuming life-guards? I know the injustice stinks, but, um, the correct decisions are often painful. That's the burden of government.

• Claudia Brown : We haven't clarified the exact picture yet, but it looks like a plumber was attacked in some womans cellar.

  James Lester : I'm not surprised. Have you seen how much these people charge?

• 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.