Primeval (TV Series)

Future Foe (2007)

Mark Wakeling: Captain Ryan

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• Stephen Hart : What we need is some kind of edge, a weakness in its defenses that gives us an advantage, otherwise it's just gonna pick us off one-by-one.

  Connor Temple : Dogs. The dogs went crazy before it attacked. What would make them go off like that?

  Stephen Hart : Can't be smell. If there was a scent trail, they would have followed it.

  Professor Nick Cutter : Hearing. They heard something.

  Connor Temple : Sound. It's using sound.

  Professor Nick Cutter : That's why it was able to remain one step ahead of us! It can detect physical movement before it's within visual range!

  Connor Temple : And the dogs, they detect a higher frequency, therefore they know when it's nearby!

  Captain Ryan : Like echolocation?

  Professor Nick Cutter : High frequency sound waves, it's like a sonar system. Some animals use it to detect prey.

  Stephen Hart : Like a bat. Well, you said there was bat blood in the lion enclosure.

  Connor Temple : That's it. This thing must be some kind of... I dunno, super-bat.

  Helen Cutter : He's right. Three quarters of all mammal species are bats or rats; maybe the future belongs to them.

• Captain Ryan : What happens when we find this thing?

  Professor Nick Cutter : We kill it.

  Captain Ryan : I thought we only killed these creatures in self defence.

  Professor Nick Cutter : This one's too dangerous. And if we kill it, it can't affect the past or the present.

  Captain Ryan : Shoot to kill. That makes a refreshing change. I was beginning to feel like a social worker.

• Captain Ryan : SPOILER: The first time we came here that body we found that was me, wasn't it? I was looking at myself.