"Primeval" Jurassic Mall (TV Episode 2008) - Douglas Henshall as Nick Cutter

Professor Nick Cutter : [watching security video] A Cretaceous era therapod dinosaur. The genuine article.

Connor Temple : A raptor. I always hoped we'd get one someday.

[the raptor eats the camera and the team turns to stare at Nick]

Professor Nick Cutter : I said it was beautiful; I didn't say it was friendly.

Professor Nick Cutter : [staring at an unconscious raptor.] Look at it. It's a perfect killing machine. In a fair fight, a mammal wouldn't stand a chance.

Stephen Hart : Speaking as a mammal, I'm in favor of cheating.

Boy 2 : [the team is chasing a raptor through a parking garage] What the hell was that?

Professor Nick Cutter : Radio-controlled Cretaceous-era raptor. Be on the shelves by Christmas.

Professor Nick Cutter : [Narration] My name is Professor Nick Cutter. Eight years ago my wife Helen disappeared, I discovered she had stepped into the past through ruptures in time called anomalies. Now creatures from the past threaten the future of the human race. There's only a small group of people who know the truth, my research team; Stephen Hart, Connor Temple and Abby Maitland and government officials James Lester and Claudia Brown. I returned from the past to find that something has gone terribly wrong and Claudia Brown has vanished as though she were never even born. I've come back to a different world and Helen and I are the only two people who know it.

Connor Temple : Let me get this straight. You're saying that something's changed because of what happened in the Permian anomaly? Like evolution has just what, altered course?

Professor Nick Cutter : I'm glad somebody was listening. You believe me?

Connor Temple : [thinks for a moment] Alright, I'll buy it.

Professor Nick Cutter : I could kiss you, Connor.

Connor Temple : That's really sweet, but maybe not while there's people watching. One thing, though. How do I know how I'm different when I don't know what I was like before?

Professor Nick Cutter : Apparently some people never change

Connor Temple : Is that a bad or a good thing?

Stephen Hart : Are we okay?

Professor Nick Cutter : About what?

Stephen Hart : We can't ignore what happened.

Professor Nick Cutter : Oh, you mean the fact that you slept with my wife? Stephen, if you're looking for closure, I'm a little bit busy.

Stephen Hart : I don't blame you for being angry.

Professor Nick Cutter : Helen never cared about either of us. She's mad.

Stephen Hart : Mad?

Professor Nick Cutter : She took off through an anomaly for 8 years. Does that strike you as well-balanced? Just forget it. I'm finished with the past. It's just I don't know if it's finished with me.

Connor Temple : [to Abby] Don't you hate it when people bring their personal lives to work with them?

Professor Nick Cutter : Listen, you could have gone with Helen, you could have left, and you didn't. And right now that's all that really matters. So so just forget about the rest.

Stephen Hart : Do you think she'll be back?

Professor Nick Cutter : Do you mean do I think she's finished messing with us? I seriously doubt it. Helen never handled rejection particularly well.

Professor Nick Cutter : [about the tranquilized baby raptor] I want you to take this back to the bowling alley and come meet us in the store.

Connor Temple : On my own?

Professor Nick Cutter : It's unconscious. You've got nothing to worry about.

Connor Temple : What if it's just playing dead?

Professor Nick Cutter : Playing dead?

[pause]

Professor Nick Cutter : Yeah. You know, as Cretaceous era predators go, this creature's pretty smart, so yeah, watch out for that.

Connor Temple : [laughs] Yeah. Wait. really?

Professor Nick Cutter : There are three raptors, one of them's a baby. So the chances are they're a family unit. So maybe we don't have to go looking for daddy. Maybe this little fellow will bring him to us.

[the baby bleats]

Professor Nick Cutter : That's right, you shout for your daddy. Now, let's just hope they're a close family.

Professor Nick Cutter : Hey! Have you seen an animal pass this way?

Boy 2 : A dog, a polar bear, what?

Professor Nick Cutter : No, trust me, you'd know if you'd seen it.

Connor Temple : So, guys, let me get this straight... all we have to do is to drag two of the angriest creatures in the known universe through a hole in time back into an ancient world where we don't know what's waiting on the other side for us?

Stephen Hart : When you put it like that, it sounds so easy.

Professor Nick Cutter : I'm going to do this on my own.

Abby Maitland : We'll help.

Connor Temple : Who's "we"?

Abby Maitland : Cutter, I've been meaning to ask you. This Claudia Brown. What was she like?

Professor Nick Cutter : What does it matter? I mean, to you she never even existed.

Abby Maitland : Tell me anyway.

Professor Nick Cutter : Well, she was OK. She... Good at her job. Loyal. Team player. Not as tough as she pretended to be, but she was strong when it mattered.

Abby Maitland : She meant a lot to you.

Professor Nick Cutter : Yeah.

Abby Maitland : Sorry.

Professor Nick Cutter : What for?

Abby Maitland : That I didn't know her and 'cause you lost her.

Professor Nick Cutter : The place is clean and the anomaly's gone. You can give the all clear.

James Lester : Excellent. We'll handle it from here. Oh, good work, by the way. That could have been very nasty.

Professor Nick Cutter : Indeed.

James Lester : You know you deserve a rest, and a chance to recover. Take an hour. No, let's not be mean, take two.