Primeval (TV Series)

Helen Makes Contact (2007)

Lucy Brown: Claudia Brown

Quotes 

• 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.

• 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?

• 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.