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Five years ago.

A woman wakes up, hearing noises. Her husband does not wake up. She picks her way through the house and finds a small Creature. When it tries to bite her, she flushes it down the loo. Bad form, that woman.



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In a forest somewhere. It's all very pastoral.

Until a quad bike races through on its way to a campsite. People set up tents or race around or rescue bikes.



Something cries. A biker stops to investigate. It's a sort of rhino. The parent finds him with the baby and isn't happy.




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It's possibly helpful to know that Tony Curran, here playing Sir William, also played Vincent van Gogh on Dr Who.




In a medieval church people are hiding out from something that's roaring outside. Vincent Van Gogh, playing a knight called Sir William, is blessed by a priest as he heads out to fight it.



A Lady gives him a favour as he goes.

"Will you take this for your protection? It will keep you from fear."



He rides through a forest until he comes across a dragon-looking thing.



It runs off into the

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(Yes, I know - a lot of Connor. But I am very proud of the mushroomifying sequence. And I think it's hard to have too much Connor, right?)

A business man – some kind of stock market guy? – yells on the phone to his assistant. The assistant is picking up papers from Stock Market Guy's flat when he sees an Anomaly, mistaking it for an art piece. As you do.



His phone gets sucked into the Anomaly and he goes after it, coming out in a forest. On a mountain. He touches some fungus – as you do – and it spits spores at him.



He steps back through the Anomaly, already sick, and chokes down the phone at SMG. (His name is actually Sir Richard, but I shall continue to call him SMG, because it makes me think of Buffy.) The assistant then throws up a strange black dust all over the floor before falling back through the Anomaly, which closes. Behind him, fungus starts spreading all over the apartment.




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A Clone soldier listens to his radio, nods, and orders "Go!" Other soldiers pile up stairs, holding guns. They burst onto a roof and cock their guns.

Helen turns off a stopwatch. It took them one minute twenty two. "Not bad." Ordering one soldier to follow her, she goes to the edge of the roof.

Several floors down are raised roofs over what might be greenhouses. Helen orders the soldier to jump; he considers it. Helen repeats, "Listen to my voice. I said jump."

He takes a run and smashes into the roof. Helen smiles. "Death means nothing to you, does it? You're lucky."

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A quick recap of Primeval's first two seasons. A team in Britain, based in London, have discovered Anomalies, rips in space/time. Creatures can and have come through; usually prehistoric, but some from Earth's future as well. The team identifies and contains these Incursions.

The team currently consists of Nick Cutter, a evolutionary scientist, Connor Temple, his former student and now the project's go-to tech guy, Abby Maitland, a zoologist specialising in lizards and animal behaviour, Jenny Lewis, their PR manager, and James Lester, their long-suffering Home Office boss. Former members of the team are Stephen Hart, Nick's right hand man, and Captain Tom Ryan, their military minder. Both were killed, separately, in Creature attacks. Their main opponent is Helen Cutter, Nick's wife. She left him to explore the Anomalies and currently has some rather apocalyptic views on evolution.

Tom Ryan's death was relatively early on in what's known as the ARC project – Anomaly Research Centre – but Stephen's death is very fresh.

( So. On to Season Three. )

On a busy motorway, traffic is basically stalled. A mother entertains her son by explaining where his father is. The kid seems more interested in his toy dinosaurs.

There's a lot of noise coming from somewhere up ahead, and people are fleeing in terror. ( A mammoth is trashing things. )

Sorry it's been so long since the last one! Health issues.





Some kids are playing basketball, ignorant of the pipe cover nearby that keeps lifting and spewing out water. One of the kids, Lucien, misses the ball and is sent to get it. It's landed in the now uncovered pipe and is floating. Lucien picks his way over the very marshy ground and rescues it. Then he's grabbed by a thing.

The kids have found another ball and ignore his yells for help, even though one looks over and he's clearly in trouble. ( Nice friends, Lucien. )

Helen Cutter gets injured in the Cretaceous – those pterosaurs are nasty – and as part of her master plan...hurts herself worse?

( Whatever you're into, lady. )