A shopping trolley rolls across the screen.
A Gorgonopsid walks out of the trees, growling.
A woman runs across an ASDA car park and hides in a large metal bin.
More growling, we see the woman, Helen Cutter, as the bin she is hiding in is rammed repeatedly by the gorgonopsid.
Inside of ASDA a cleaner is buffing the floor. Helen runs across the car park and bangs on the store window.
Helen: Hey! Let me in!
Cleaner looks at Helen, but can't hear what she's saying and goes back to cleaning. Helen runs off as a bunch of trolleys are thrown at her.
Helen runs across the car park, tries to hide between 2 cars, and is almost squashed as several other cars are tossed about by the gorgonopsid.
Helen runs back into the trees. The gorgonopsid follows, roaring.
EIGHT YEARS LATER.
A silver 4x4 pick up truck (with a Department of Evolutionary Zoology logo on the door) pulls up outside CENTRAL METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY. Nick Cutter, Stephen Hart and Hilarie Eliot get out.
Nick: I think there's something seriously wrong with her...
Hilarie: I think you're just delusional.
Nick, Stephen and Hilarie are walking along a wooden walkway alongside one of the buildings when they are approached from behind by Connor Temple.
Connor: Professor Cutter?
Nick: Careful there
Connor drops an armful of papers; Nick, Stephen and Hilarie keep on walking.
Connor: Professor! Professor Cutter!
Connor catches up to Nick, Stephen and Hilarie and extends a hand to shake.
Connor: Connor Temple
Nick: Sorry, never heard of it. I think you want archaeology, If you go around up there to your right and keep on walking, it's on your left
Nick and Stephen both point to the right. Connor looks confused.
Hilarie: That's his name geniuses
Connor: Um, yeah. I'm one of your students
Nick stops and turns to face Connor
Nick: Really
Connor: Uh-huh
Nick: Well why...why don't i recognise you?
Connor: Well, you've never actually turned up for the seminars
Nick nods and he, Stephen and Hilarie start walking again.
Nick: Uh-huh
Connor hesitates for a second before following them.
Connor: Professor!
Nicks Office. A desk is covered with various skulls, a leather bound journal, a couple of gems and 2 pictures of Helen Cutter.
The door opens; Nick, Hilarie, Stephen and Connor come in and go down a set of stairs.
Nick: Don't touch anything. This is my labortory technician, Stephen Hart
Stephen: Hi
Connor: Hi
Nick: and my niece Hilarie Eliot
Hilarie: Hello
Connor: Hi
Nick walks around to stand behind his desk. Connor stands in front of the desk and Stephen walks over to a side table. Hilarie sits on Stephen's table. Nick picks up a pile of paper in a pink folder and throws it in the bin. Connor points to the papers.
Connor: Oh, actually, that's my dissertation
Nick straightens up and gives Connor a questioning look before retrieving the dissertation
Connor: Yeah. You see i argues that all life on Earth derived from organisms carried here by alien spacecraft. It's pretty sexy stuff.
Hilarie: I agree, very sexy
Nick purses his lips and tosses the dissertation back in the trash.
Connor: It's a work in progress, really.
Nick picks up a piece of stone, which contains a fossilised fish skeleton.
Nick: Tell me what this is
Connor: A fish?
Nick: Obviously. It's a sarcopterygian. There's no trace of them in the fossil record for 70 million years, and then suddenly one of them just pops up in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Totally inexplicable in modern evolutionary terms. See, Darwin provides most of the answers, it's the pieces that don't fit that interest me
Connor: See, that's why i was wondering if you'd seen this
Connor holds up a newspaper with the headline 'Monster Hoax or Truly Beastly'.
Nick moves around his desk passing the fossil fish over to Hilarie before moving to take the paper from Connor. Hilarie passes the fossil to Stephen after doing fish impersinations.
Connor: Some sort of gigantic, undiscovered predator.
Nick unfolds the newspaper and we see a blurry picture (CCTV). Nick looks at Connor with disbelief before handing the paper to Stephen.
Connor: Oh, no, no, no, no, no. This...this is the real thing.
Nick: Connor, you should get out more. Go to a bar. Meet a nice girl. Life will seem a lot less confusing.
Connor: I've already got a girlfriend. Sort of.
Nick moves back behind his desk and takes his jacket off.
Connor: That's not really the point. There's an eyewitness, claimed to have seen it
Nick: People claim to have seen the Loch Ness monster, that doesn't mean it's there
Connor: 'Not now, obviously, because it died years ago
Hilarie and Stephen share disbelieving looks
Connor: The government, they took the body away and covered up the whole thing.
Nick: This is just a hoax. Forget it.
Connor: Your wife wouldn't have ignored it
There is a moment of silence as Nick freezes. Stephen squeezes Hilaries hand.
Nick: My wife was a serious scientist. She wasn't a gullible monster hunter.
Connor looks remorseful
Connor: Sorry
Nick: It's ok
Connor: I just thought you might like to check it out, that's all
Connor puts the newspaper back in his bag and starts to move towards the door.
Connor: It's not as though the Forest of Dean is far away enough
Hilarie: The Forest of Dean?
Stephen suddenly straightens from where he has been looking at something with a microscope and turns to Nick. Slowly Nick turns to Stephen.
Stephen: If we leave now we could be there by lunch.
Hilarie: Great, a road trip.
Forest of Dean.
Nick, Stephen, Hilarie and Connor walk up to a damaged truck with the eyewitness, a security guard in a reflective jacket.
Guard: I'd just finished my rounds when i caught a glimpse of it on the monitor
The body of a red truck has been slashed open, leaving great gashes in its steps back as she comes across a dead chicken.
Connor: Can you imagine how much forve it took to rip this thing open? Look at the size of the marks. If you want my opinion, i think it's...
Stephen picks up the dead chicken, and Nick gives Connor an amused look. Hilarie is looking at the chicken in disgust.
Connor: You don't, do you?
Stephen: Well, if i found these gouges in the wild, i'd be certain we were looking for a large predator.
Nick: But we're in the Forest of Dean.
Guard: It was huge and it was so fast. It was gone across the yard in a second.
Hilarie approaches the truck and looks at a red, liquid substance splashed across its side.
Hilarie: There's blood
Nick moves closer to the actual forest. Stephen follows him.
Nick: Stephen. Come and give me a logical explanation for this.
Stephen: It's a hoax, obviously.
Stephen catches up to Nick and stops as he too see the twisted metal fence at the edge of the trees. Hilarie stares at the gate too, as she came to a stop by Stephen. Connor walks up behind them.
Stephen: Just a difficult one to pull off
Hilarie: (to Stephen) You do know you're wrong, right?
Connor: Can i say something?
Nick moves closer to the fence, leaving Connor, Stephen and Hilarie behind.
Connor: Is he alright?
Stephen: Helen Cutter came to this area eight years ago to investigate a creature sighting. She disappeared in the forest. The body was never found. Just a rucksack. No blood, no clues, nothing. She just vanished.
Outside. Eddington Hotel. Stephen, Connor and Hilarie are at the 4x4. Connor has his laptop open and is showing Stephen is database. Hilarie is thinking.
Connor: This database contains constantly updated information on all non-extinct vertebrate. I've been building it every spare second since i was 14.
Stephen: It's impressive
Connor: It's pretty cool, huh
Stephen: And slightly sad
Connor: You know we're not talking about a wild cat, don't you?
Nick and Claudia arrive before Stephen can respond.
Nick: This is Claudia Brown from the Home Office. She'll be coming with us.
Connor: I knew it. It's a cover-up.
Claudia: What's he talking about?
Nick: Connor never met a conspiracy theory he didn't like.
(Nick, Claudia and Connor get in the car)
Stephen: Hil, you ok?
Hilarie: Just being here, you know?
Stephen: Yeah. Come on
(Hilarie and Stephen get in the car)
Forest of Dean. Stephen. Claudia, Hilarie, Nick and Connor are travelling through the forest.
Claudia: If there really were some creature around here, wouldn't the jouranlists have found it by now?
Nick: They wouldn't know what they were looking for
Claudia: But you do?
Nick: Hmm. I've seen Stephen track wounded animals through the rainforest for up to 10 days at a time
Connor: Not to mention wrestle an anaconda and save a whale
Connor moves forwards so he is walking with Stephen. Hilarie is slightly in front. Claudia and Nick are behind them.
Nick: Maybe there is something here, and maybe there isn't. Frankly, i doubt it.
Hilarie came to a stop as she looked up slightly.
Hilarie: Stephen!
Stephen came and saw what Hilarie was looking at.
Stephen: Cutter!
Hilarie has found a dead cow in a tree
Nick: Okay, now i'm getting interested.
Connor: Professor, the compass is going haywire.
Connor passes the compass to Nick. The compass needle is spinning around madly.
Hilarie: Why is there always a carcus?
(Stephen laughed at her, bringing her into a one armed hug)
Forest of Dean. Abby Maitland. A young keeper at Wellington Zoo had managed to reclaim a dinosaur named Rex, it had gotton dark and she had gotton lost in the forest.
Abby: Okay, Rex. Which way now?
She stops in a clearing, and hears a growl behind her. She turns around to see a Scutosaurus. She backs up as it turns towards her and roars. Rex jumps out of her arms again as the scutosaurus repeats itself.
Abby: Rex!
Nick and the others come up behind her.
Nick: Don't move.
Abby: Is it real?
Nick: Some kind of experiment, maybe. Hybrid, throwback. Who are you?
Abby: Abby Maitland. I'm a keeper at Wellington Zoo.
Nick approaches the scutosaurus, shining his torch at it.
Nick: It's a reptile. Five or six tonnes at least. Large supratemporal bosses. Huge oesteoderms on it's back.
Stephen and Connor also start to approach the scutosaurus as well. Hilarie and Claudia stayed where they were.
Hilarie: It must be some kind of anapsid.
Abby: A tortoise?
The scutosaurus roars, Nick backs up, as do Stephen, Hilarie, Connor and Claudia.
Abby: Stay in his field of vision, you're making him nervous.
Connor: I was right. It was a dinosaur in that warehouse
Connor takes a picture of the scutosaurus with his camera phone. Claudia snatches it off him.
Claudia: Whatever is is, it's classified until i figure out what the hell to do about it.
Rex comes out from where he was hiding. Nick shines his torch on him as he and Stephen crouch down to get a better look.
Stephen: Bloody hell, there's two of them.
Hilarie: Aww, he's cute
Nick: Where did that come from?
Forest of Dean. Stephen, Connor and Hilarie are in the forest, watching the scutosaurus. Stephen is sitting against a tree as is Hilarie, she is leaning her head against him. Connor is standing next to him, staring at the scutosaurus.
Connor: You know this is going to win me the Nobel Prize
Stephen: You don't know what we're dealing with yet
Connor: Come on. It looks like a dinosaur. It behaves like a dinosaur. It's a dinosaur. It's the missing link to the ancient past. And i discovered it.
Hilarie: Don't get your hopes up.
Nick: Stephen!
Nick and the others come running towards them, waving their torches. The scutosaurus gets scared and starts to walk away. Connor, Hilarie and Stephen scramble out of its way.
Hilarie: Whoa, where's it going?
Nick: Let him go! It's scared. Let's see where it thinks it's safe.
They follow the scutosaurus until it goes through the anomaly. They slow down and stare at the anomoly.
Claudia: Where's it gone?
Nick: Home.
Forest of Dean. The next morning.
The area around the anomoly has been secured by Claudia's backup. Nick, Hilarie and Connor are watching the anomoly, it's obvious they haven't been home. More soldiers arrive.
Random soldier: Come on lads. Look lively.
Scientific equipment is taken out of jeeps, Abby is sitting on a pile of it, she hasn't been home either. Connor's pen starts being pulled towards the anomoly.
Connor: My pen
As Nick, Claudia and Hilarie watch, Connor lets go of the pen, and it flies into the anomoly.
Connor: That explains the compass going crazy
Nick: What could cause a magnetic field so powerful?
Connor: Maybe it's an alien spaceship
Hilarie: Were you dropped on the head as a baby?
Connor: Ha, funny.
More soldiers unloading jeeps under the supervision of Captain Ryan. Stephen brings Abby a hot drink.
Stephen: How are you feeling?
Abby: Confused, frightened. Exhilarated.
Stephen: Snap
Rex gets taken away in a cage
Abby: You don't think they'll hurt him?
Stephen: Of course not.
Stephen watches as Hilarie fidgets. She hates the Forest of Dean.
Stephen: I'll be back.
Stephen walks up to Hilarie. Hilarie nervously smiles at him.
Hilarie: Hey
Stephen: You ok?
Hilarie: Sure. Why wouldn't i be?
Stephen: Maybe because you don't like this place. Hil, this is the first time in eight years you have set foot in the forest.
Hilarie: I know that. Don't you think i know that?!!
Stephen hugs Hilarie, kissing her on the head.
Hilarie: I'm sorry. It's just that my aunt disappeared here and i've never felt comfortable with the place
Stephen: You don't need to apologise.
Hilarie backs up a tiny bit so she could look at him.
Hilarie: Thanks
Stephen: No problem
Stephen kisses Hilarie.
Nick: Everything we've seen about the animals so far is consistent with vertebrates that last appeared in the fossil record hundreds of million of years ago.
Claudia: You mean they're like creatures from the past?
Nick: No, i mean they are creatures from the past
Connor lets something else fly through the anomoly with a giggle.
Connor: Brilliant. Just brilliant. Oh, that was my front door key.
Connor grimaces
Claudia: Cutter, we have to go now
Nick: You've got your own experts.
Claudia: They didn't see what we saw, and they don't know what you know.
Claudia walks off and Stephen approaches Nick
Stephen: You're thinking about Helen, aren't you?
Nick: It explains everything
Stephen: Except why she didn't come back
Home Office. Nick, Hilarie and Abby are in an office, doing some paper work. Claudia is standing outside the office, watching them through the glass walls. Claudia is approached by James Lester.
Claudia: Claudia Brown, Home Office.
Lester: Yes, i've seen your file. James Lester, i'll be in charge of co-ordinating our response. You shouldn't have brought them here. They have no security clearance. I don't like civilians in these situations.
Claudia: How many situations like this have you had?
Lester: How do we know they're not responsible for all this in some way?
Claudia: That's not possible
Lester: You spend your entire carere planning for just about every crisis imaginable, up to and including alien invasion, then this happens. So much for thinking outside the bloody box.
Home Office. Lester, Nick, Hilarie, Claudia and Abby are walking through the Home Office building into a room where they can view the tests being carried out on Rex.
Lester: This phenomenon Professor, Claudia tells me you have an explanation.
Nick: A theory. The boy's experience proves that there's a concrete landscape on the other side of the anomoly. And i think it's the Earth millions of years ago
Lester: And this, anomoly, as you call it, is a door between time zones in the world's history?
Nick: Hmm
Lester: Suppose this remarkable theory is correct, what are the immediate risks?
Hilarie: Famine, war, pestilence. The end of the world as we know it. You know, the usual stuff.
Lester: I think i could do without the facetiousness.
Nick: Well i could do without standing in some anaemic office in Whitehall, talking to a civil service pen pusher, when i should be exploring the most significant phenomenon in the history of science.
Lester: Technically, i'm not actually a civil servant. More a troubleshooter without a portfolio in the PM's office.
Nick: You mean you're a Government hatchet man.
Lester: Colourful, but surprisingly accurate
Nick: And there's something else you should know. I intend to find out what happened to my wife, whatever the risks, so i'm going through the anomoly, and if you want to stop me, you're going to have to shoot me.
Lester: I hope it won't come to that.
Forest of Dean. Stephen and Connor are looking for the creature. Connor is having sinus issues.
Connor: So, what do you think of Abby?
Stephen: She's okay. Why?
Connor: I was picking up some heat between us. You get an instinct for these kinds of things.
Stephen: I thought you already had a girlfriend.
Connor: She;s more of a pen pal really. She, um...She lives in the Gambia.
Stephen: That's practical for a night out
Connor: Yeah. So do you think Abby likes me.
Stephen turns and steps in front of Connor, forcing him to stop.
Stephen: Why don't you ask her yourself
Connor: All right. I might.
Stephen starts walking again, Connor goes into a little daydream.
Connor: It's not everyday you meet a potential girlfriend. And find a dinosaur.
Connor realises that he has lost sight of Stephen for a second.
Connor: Stephen? Stephen!
Home Office. Rex is being examined by a bunch of people in white suits. Nick, Abby, Hilarie, Claudia and Lester are watching through a window.
Abby: You really shouldn't handle a lizard like that.
Lester: Let the experts do their job
Abby: They don't know what they're doing.
A scientist is poking at Rex with a swab, trying to get a saliva sample, and failing, and getting Rex annoyed.
Hilarie: Uh, oh. He's angry. You shouldn't mess with an angry lizard.
Lester: I'm terrified
Abby: Do they even know he can fly?
Lester: Fly?
Rex starts flying around the lab
Lab guy: Watch the door!
Another lab person accidently opens the door and Rex flies out. Nick is amused. Hilarie, Abby and Claudia go to try and catch Rex.
Abby: Rex!
Lester: He can fly
Nick: Hmm. Pretty well.
Rex flies down to the bottom floor, and gets in an elevator going up, just as Hilarie, Abby and Claudia arrive on the bottom floor.
Claudia: its going up
Hilarie: And this is why i prefer dogs
Rex gets out of the elevator, scaring the people who are waiting for it. Lester is on the phone as Rex flies through the room he is in.
Lester: Well, we'll really have to take a view on that...Christ, look out!
Rex flies through several offices, followed by Claudia, Abby and Hilarie.
Man: Where did that come from?
Hilarie: Private zoo.
Claudia, Abby and Hilarie spot Rex on a windowsill, about to leave the building. Abby tries to coax him down with words and treats. Nick and Lester join them.
Abby: Rex. Don't do it Rex. It's not your world out there anymore. Try some of this [a treat], you'll love it. I promise. Rex, come back! That's it, oh, hello. Good decision Rex.
Rex has of course, landed in Abby's arms.
Nick [to Lester]: Oh, those risks you were talking about. There's one i didn't tell you about running down your back.
Lester sees what Rex has done to his jacket, sighs and leaves.
Nick: It's so perfect,
Forest of and Connor, still walking through the forest looking for the creature. Stephen finds a footprint in the mud, and whistles Connor over.
Stephen: What's this?
Connor: I think the scientific term is 'really bad news'
Home Office. Lester, Nick, Hilarie and Claudia are in Lester's office.
Lester: The lizard's DNA confirms your theory. The creature's a living fossil. Under the circumstances, i'm going to allow both your exploratory missions into the anomoly.
Nick: I'm taking the lizard back. Creatures that don't belong here should be returned to their natural habitat.
Lester passes over a piece of paper to both Hilarie and Nick.
Lester: It's a disclaimer. We don't want any nasty lawsuits if you don't come back
Forest of Dean. Connor is sitting on a log, his laptop on his knee. Stephen is crouched next to the footprint.
Connor: Okay. My best guess? The creature we found was some kind of scutosaurus, late Permian era. That footprint? Definately not the same animal. If we are talking late Permian, then this little charmer is the prime suspect.
Stephen stands up and goes to crouch next to Connor, who shows hiim the page of his database that he has brought up.
Connor: It's a gorgonopsid. It's a compact killing machine, and it's got incredible power. Stephen, if it is still out there, then you have to find it. Fast.
Stephen: What about you?
Connor: You, mighty hunter. Me, i'm more logistics and, you know, backup.
Connor pats Stephen on the goes off by himself, and tracks the gorgonopsid, following a trail of broken logs.
Forest of Dean. Everyone but Stephen and Lester are at the anomoly site. It is raining, and several tents have been set up. Hilarie is on the phone, and Nick is being checked over by a medical person.
Nick: Will you call Stephen again?
Hilarie: He's not bloody answering. The one time he's not answering!
Claudia: It's 18.55. I want you both back no later than 20:00 hours. If the first contact works out, we'll go from there.
The group are approached by Captain Ryan, who is wearing full gear and is carrying a big gun.
Nick: What's he doing here?
Claudia: This is Captain Ryan. He's a Gulf war veteran with extensive desert experience. We don't know how dangerous it will be on the other side of the anomaly. No arguments, Cutter. He goes as well.
Nick and Ryan shake hands as Abby approached Rex. She hands him over to Hilarie as Claudia and Ryan move away.
Abby: Please take care of him. Look after yourselves too.
Hilarie: Yeah, we'll be fine.
Claudia [to Ryan]: Whatever happens, bring them back
Ryan moves away from Claudia and he, Nick and Hilarie walk towards the anomaly. Ryan accets a canvas bag from someone. Nick glances back, and then the three of them step through the anomaly. They step through into the prehistoric landscape. Boiling hot. Full of black volcanic rock, few trees and bits of scrub bush.
On the other side of the anomaly, Claudia, Abby and Connor are watching the anomaly. Connor gets a note pad out of his pocket, dropping his pen. It falls to the floor rather than being attracted to the anomaly.
Connor: My pen. The magnetic field didn't take it. The anomaly is getting weaker.
Through the anomaly. Hilarie has released Rex. Ryan has dumped most of his gear and is sorting through it whilst Nick and Hilarie stares around in amazement.
Nick: Give me an hour. One hour on my own.
Ryan doesn't look sure.
Nick: I've got a radio.
Nick walks off. Ryan doesn't look pleased, but lets him go. Hilarie smiles at Ryan.
Hilarie: Bye.
Ryan isn't pleased about this either, but lets her go too. Hilarie walks around looking at the landscape, she cou;dn't believe her eyes. She sits down on a cliff to look over a pretty impressive view. Rex flies past, along with others of his species. Hilarie smiles up at him.
Hilarie: Helen! Aunt Helen!
Ryan: Eliot!
Hilarie turns to see Ryan shouting for Nick, walks towards Ryan, Nick joins them. Ryan shows them what he has found. There is a ruined campsite there.
Hilarie: My god.
Nick crouches down by a metal tin and opens it. Inside are food and medical supplies. Hilarie picks up a Yorkie bar and opens it, to eat it.
Nick: People. Somebody's been here before us.
Hilarie: It's not off either.
Ryan: Well whoever it was they didn't get far. Over here.
Ryan takes Nick and Hilarie to the other side of the camp and shows him a skeleton; Nick crouches down by it. Ryan spots something and unearths a camera, in its case, from the ground. The leather camera case has the initials HC on it.
Nick: It's 'HC'. It's 'Helen Cutter'.
Nick, Ryan and Hilarie stand. Nick looks shocked whilst Hilarie looks mortified.
Hilarie: It's not her is it?
Nick crouches down again and appears to count the skeletons ribs.
Nick: No, it's a man.
Ryan: How did he die?
Nick: I don't know, uh...
Ryan checks his watch.
Ryan: It's time to go.
Nick: Yeah, i can't help that. I've got to find my wife.
Hilarie: We have to go, Nick.
Nick: I'm staying
Ryan: Sorry Professor.
Ryan takes a pistol out of a side holster and hits Nick over the head with it, knocking him looks on with widdened eyes
Hilarie: Was that called for?
Ryan: Whatever means necessary.
Ryan carries Nick back to the anomaly over his shoulder. Hilarie follows holding the camera. As they near the anomaly, Nick regains consciousness. Ryan helps him the rest of the way. They stop when they get there and catch their breath. Nick takes a swing at Ryan, misses and Ryan punches him in return, knocking him over. Hilarie just watches shocked at Nicks behaviour.
Ryan: Don't do that again. The anomaly! It's disappearing!
Ryan and Hilarie run towards the anomaly but Nick stays where he is. Both Hilarie and Ryan stop when they notice.
Ryan: Quick! Do you want to be trapped here forever?
Nick: I'm staying here to look for my wide.
Hilarie: Nick get your ass back through that anomaly! I want to look for her too, but being stuck here is not the way!
Ryan: I'm not leaving you behind.
Nick: Well what do you want to do? Shoot me?
Ryan goes to kneel next to where Nick is kneeling. Hilarie stands before him with her hands on her hips. Waiting impatientaly.
Ryan: All right. You stay, i stay.
Hilarie: You both are acting really childish.
Nick looks between the anomaly and Ryan.
Nick: Oh God. All right.
Hilarie who is still holding Helen's camera runs through the anomaly, Ryan and Nick close emerge on the other side and hit the ground. It has gone dark. Claudia, Connor and Abby run towards them to help them up. Everyone is talking over the top of each other.
Connor: Cutter?
Abby: Look!
Connor: Hilarie.
Abby: They're back.
Claudia: You okay?
Abby: You okay?
Claudia: Can i have a medic?
Abby hears a chirruping noise. Rex runs out from the trees. Hilarie moves away getting her phone.
Claudia: Well done Ryan. [To Nick] What did you see?
Abby moves away from the main group towards Rex, who no one else has noticed.
Ryan: There's a camp. Looks like a military camp. You're not going to believe it.
The anomaly disappears.
Connor: What was it like?
There are laughs of relief. Abby goes and picks up Rex. The gorgonopsid watches from the trees growling. Hilarie returns slamming her phone shut with annoyance.
Hilarie: Still not answering.
Ryan: God, you've got to see it.
Claudia: Well done Ryan
A roar sounds. Everyone starts running, military personnel towards the sound, civilians away from it, as the gorgonopsid races out of the trees towards them.
Abby: Oh my god! Run!
Claudia: Run!
There is gunfire. The soldiers have really bad aim.
Soldier: Moving target! Hold your fire!
Claudia: Ryan! Clear the area!
Connor trips, but scrambles back on his feet. Everyone is running now, Connor and Abby in one direction, Hilarie in another, Nick and Claudia in another. A soldier screams as the gorgonopsid tosses him. Rex is hidden under the scarf that Abby was using to pick him up when the gorgonopsid arrived. The gorgonopsid knocks over one of the floodlights. Claudia trips over and Nick goes back to help her.
Claudia: Cutter!
Nick: Claudia. Quick.
Nick pulls Claudia to her feet as the gorgonopsid turns towards them and starts to advance. Headlights and a car horn distract the gorgonopsid as Stephen arrives in the 4x4. He meets the gorgonopsid in a head on collision. The gorgonopsid goes down and the front of the 4x4 is severely dented, but Stephen gets out unharmed. Stephen walks towards Nick and Claudia, who are looking at him in shock. Hilarie notices the gorgonopsid's eyes open and it roars.
Hilarie: Stephen! Catch!
Hilarie tosses a discarded machine gun to Stephen, who uses it to kill the gorgonopsid. Stephen chucks the gun, just in time to catch Hilarie who hugged him. She kissed him also for a while thanking god that Stephen was alright.
Hilarie: Pick up your damn phone! You had me worried.
Stephen chuckled pecking Hilarie on the lips.
Home office. Next day. Lester, Claudia, Nick and Hilarie are in an office in the Home Office. There is a screen showing several pictures of Helen Cutter in the prehistoric landscape.
Lester: We developed the film in the camera you brought back.
Nick: It's her. It's Helen.
Lester: I'm sorry for your personal loss, Professor and Miss Eliot. This camp that you discovered. There were no clues as to who made it, or what it was for? The thought that someone was there before us is far from reassuring. And i used to think the EU Common Agricultural Policy was far-fetched. Still, at least the immediate crisis is over.
Nick moves over towards the window, gesturing. Hilarie watches in amusement.
Nick: Some, force, out there, ripped the boundaries of space and time to shreds. Maybe it's happened before, in which case, every single thing we thought we knew about the Universe is wrong. Or, this it the first time. In which case, what changed? What happens next? Believe me, it's very, very far from over.
Nick brushes past Lester and Claudia and leaves the office. Hilarie gets up, saluting them before leaving too, with a smirk on her face. Abby, Connor and Stephen are waiting for them outside the office. They fall into step with them.
Stephen and Hilarie's apartment. Hilarie is on the couch watching Bones, with a mug of hot chocolate in her hands. Stephen walks over grimacing at what Hilarie is watching.
Stephen: You've seen this episode.
Stephen attempts to take the remote control off her, but she just slaps his hand away.
Hilarie: So? Besides i like David Boreanas.
Stephen: So? Hand me the remote, drool over him when your boyfriend isn't here.
Hilarie: Where's the fun in that then? and no! I got it first!
Hilarie sticks her tongue out at him. Stephen takes her mug out of her hands and places it on the table besides the couch. He starts tickling her, which he knows is her weakness, and finally manages to obtain the remotes. Hilarie pouts. Stephen smirks.
Hilarie: That's no fair! And now i'm stuck with watching some sports
Stephen changes the channel to The Wire. Hilarie smiles.
Hilarie: Oh! I like this.
Hilarie leans onto Stephen and they watch the show.