Primeval (TV Series)

Future Foe (2007)

Lucy Brown: Claudia Brown

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Quotes 

• Claudia Brown : What can you tell us about this creature?

  Helen Cutter : It's fast, incredibly fast. And it can camouflage itself in almost any environment. To survive in the Permian it had to be highly adaptable, which is bad news for us. Who knows? Maybe that's how humanity meets its end, by becoming the food source for a more successful species.

• James Lester : [after Claudia kisses Nick]  That wasn't very professional.

  Claudia Brown : Oh, stuff professionalism.

• Professor Nick Cutter : I gave up trying to predict Helen's behaviour when she swapped our marriage for a packaged tour into the Permian Era.

  Claudia Brown : Maybe it was just a cry for help.

  Professor Nick Cutter : Counselling would have been simpler.

  Claudia Brown : Nick Cutter talking about his feelings? I don't think so.

  Professor Nick Cutter : Try me. Ask me anything, anything you like.

  Claudia Brown : Do you still love her?

  Professor Nick Cutter : ...Ask me another one.

  Claudia Brown : Coward.

• Claudia Brown : If we're gonna defend ourselves more effectively then we've got to do something more than just react. We've got to discover why these anomalies are opening, and then predict when the next one will appear.

• Claudia Brown : How did it get here?

  Helen Cutter : I have no idea. It was only when I got back I found out that it was on the loose. Obviously my first thought was to do as much as I could to help.

  James Lester : How public spirited of you.

• Helen Cutter : All bats have extraordinary homing instincts. They'll know their own environment, they can lead us to it.

  James Lester : And what happens to them then?

  Professor Nick Cutter : We kill them.

  [They look at him] 

  Professor Nick Cutter : We kill them. To let even one of them loose in the Permian era could be a potential catastrophe. They could wipe out whole species. They could change things in ways we can't even conceive.

  James Lester : And afterwards we keep a permanent guard at the future anomaly?

  Professor Nick Cutter : The threat's too serious to be ignored.

  Claudia Brown : Serious enough to warrant a permanent intrusion into the past?

  Professor Nick Cutter : With the correct restrictions, yes.

  James Lester : [sighs]  I suppose just bombing somewhere is out of question.

• James Lester : [as Nick and a team are about to enter an anomaly]  Do you think I should make a speech; "One small step for man", that sort of thing?

  Claudia Brown : Maybe another time.