Primeval (TV Series)

Dodo Madness (2007)

Ben Miller: James Lester

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• Helen Cutter : Presumably there are still laws against kidnapping.

  Sir James Lester : Mmmm, though officially you're dead! We can't have kidnapped somebody who doesn't actually exist, can we? The only way you can get out of here is by telling us everything you know about the anomalies.

  Helen Cutter : I'll tell you one thing: you're the spitting image of a Utah raptor I once met in the Jurassic.

• Sir James Lester : I think I trust her about as much as I could throw a Stegosaurus.

• Sir James Lester : You told your husband you knew how to find the anomalies.

  Helen Cutter : Whatever I said to Nick is between me and him.

  Sir James Lester : Prior knowledge of the anomalies location will be priceless. If you can give us that information, it's your absolute duty as a citizen to do so.

  Helen Cutter : But as you pointed out I don't even exist. Then how can I be a citizen?

  Sir James Lester : I have the power to make your live extremely unpleasant.

  Helen Cutter : [to Claudia]  How can you bear to work with this man?

  Claudia Brown : At the end of the day this is about something very simple. Saving lives. And you can do that. So if you know anything at all, just tell us.

• Professor Nick Cutter : According to Helen, a large pride has established its territory near an anomaly and it's only a matter of time before they find their way through it.

  Claudia Brown : London is a big place. Where exactly is this going to happen?

  Professor Nick Cutter : Well, that's your problem. She won't tell us. She wants to take us there herself.

  Sir James Lester : It's a trick.

  Claudia Brown : I agree.

  Professor Nick Cutter : That's possible. But maybe she wants to prove to you that she's not as callous as you imagine.

  Sir James Lester : She could do that without moving a muscle.

  Professor Nick Cutter : She might well be selfish. But she's not evil. I know her.

  Claudia Brown : You mean you *used* to know her.

• Professor Nick Cutter : It's some kind of giant cestode. It's destroyed the internal organs and attacked the central nervous system.

  Sir James Lester : I thought the trick of being a good parasite was to live of the host creature without killing it.

  Professor Nick Cutter : No, this one doesn't compromise. It enters the blood stream as larva, it feeds of the host and then it moves up the body to lay its eggs.

  Stephen Hart : Keeping itself alive just long enough to reproduce itself.

  Professor Nick Cutter : And then, mission accomplished, they both die together.

  Sir James Lester : Isn't nature wonderful?

• Sir James Lester : So how exactly does the parasite passes itself on?

  Professor Nick Cutter : Biting. In this case, but kissing would do just as well.

  Sir James Lester : Well, from the look of him, kissing isn't likely to be much of an issue.