Primeval (TV Series)

Silurian Sands (2008)

Douglas Henshall: Nick Cutter

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• Taylor : Would you rather die of thirst, or be eaten? I think I'd rather be eaten. At least it's quick. Two bites, done. You're like four or five bites, so it'd be worse for you.

  Nick Cutter : Can you not try and be positive for five minutes? You know, hopeful?

  Taylor : We're probably the best food around. Imagine you're a giant sand beast, living on nothing but millipedes. Then you get to taste people for the first time, all gooey and warm. We'd be like a delicacy. Who do you think they'll eat first?

  Nick Cutter : Why don't you sing a song, or whistle, or... something, damn it, just don't talk?

• Connor Temple : She looks amazing.

  Nick Cutter : Mm. So does a velociraptor.

• Nick Cutter : [Viewing the anomaly through a camera probe]  It's pre-Carboniferous. Maybe Ordovician or Silurian. There's no dinosaurs, no mammals, and no birds... wait a minute, what's that?

  Connor Temple : It's a little girl.

  Jenny Lewis : What is she doing?

  Nick Cutter : She's looking for her dog.

  Abby Maitland : She might be injured.

  Connor Temple : There's nothing really in the Silurian to injure her. We're talking a few basic plants and some bugs.

  Abby Maitland : How big are the bugs?

  Connor Temple : Bug size, I think.

• Jenny Lewis : This better not be another false alarm.

  Nick Cutter : Why, were you busy?

  Jenny Lewis : Engagement party.

  Connor Temple : Very nice. Anybody we know?

  Jenny Lewis : Mine, actually. Not my idea. Future mother-in-law. It's all rather dreary, you see.

  Nick Cutter : So you'd rather be with us?

  Jenny Lewis : I was going to say, any excuse. So yes, even you.

• Taylor : Are you gonna rescue me?

  Nick Cutter : Yeah. Any objections?

• Taylor : So, is this some kind of giant wind-up?

  Nick Cutter : What?

  Taylor : One minute I'm in Hackney and the next I'm in the desert. The way I look at it, I've probably been hypnotized or something and you've brought me here as this big joke. I bet there are cameras everywhere.

  Nick Cutter : Yeah, and the public gets to vote which one of us gets eaten first.