Primeval: New World s01e09 Episode Script

(GRUNTS) HAJ: Spyder, are you okay? Check this.
What the hell? We've got to go find it.
Damn it! Okay, I'll go find it.
You get that video out there.
(BEEPING) (EXHALES) I'm not sure it's good for company morale for people to see you staring into space.
Not to mention your morale.
I'm doing okay.
And the company? Well, I think I can stave off bankruptcy, if I devote myself full-time for the next three months, to updated products and aggressive sales calls.
Well, your enthusiasm is inspiring.
Thanks.
Truth is, I'm not much of a cheerleader.
That was always Ange.
Doing this without her just feels weird.
Have you talked to her at all? She's not coming back, if that's your question.
Do you have a plan to replace her? You know what I mean.
The job.
Yeah, I'm getting resumes.
But anyone smart enough to do that job will be smart enough to find out that that old chem bunker has been converted into the headquarters of my dinosaur-hunting team.
Well, that just makes us sound glamorous.
Have you called Mac? No.
I'm giving it some time.
How much? I don't know.
I mean, what am I supposed to do? Give him a call? Leave him a voice mail explaining that the real reason we're friends is that because in some alternate reality, he went back in time and saved my life? I think his frozen body in the basement is actually the harder part to explain.
Do you know anything about cost reports? Not a damn thing.
Hey, guys? We got a problem.
- A dinosaur problem? - A Triceratops in West Van.
Looks like the cost reports will have to wait.
Wait, how do you know what kind of dinosaur? TOBY: Did you notice the hit count? When I first came upstairs, it was under 9,000.
Now it's over 35! That's a lot of eyeballs.
No chance it's a hoax? TOBY: No, I'm pretty plugged in to the homebrew animation community.
This isn't a fake.
This is a freaking real dino.
- And it was taken today? - A couple of hours ago.
I've got a sniffer running on all dino stuff.
I caught it early.
So, a few thousand people click on a dinosaur video in between piano-playing cat and faceplant-of-the-week.
No one'll take it seriously.
I'm not worried about some guy in Singapore tweeting it to his friends.
I'm worried about locals recognising that skate park, and going out there to check it out.
Can you take this down? Yeah, with a little effort.
I mean, I'm on it.
I'll grab the gear.
Let's get out there.
What's the status on the Anomaly detector? Oh, we're still 12 hours away from operational.
Any way I can help? No.
We'll be okay.
(EXHALES) Once we're in the general vicinity, the handheld can get us the rest of the way.
What about Mac? Are we going to call him? No.
Let's leave him alone.
Okay.
Not sure how much these'll do against a full-grown Triceratops.
This is bigger than anything we've been up against before.
Well, that's comforting.
It's a prey animal.
An herbivore.
There's a good case that it'll just stand down if it can find a safe spot.
Somewhere with edible plants and water.
Just so long as it doesn't spew magic mushrooms all over me, I'm good.
(DEVICE CHIRPING) There.
Just past the baseball diamond.
That's where it was.
Maybe we can pick up its trail.
I think we know who shot the footage.
EVAN: You all right? BOY: I'm good, man.
DYLAN: Hey! You're the "FreakingRealDino" guys, right? Yeah, cool, huh? Want me to sign your shirt? (LAUGHS) You guys know which way it went? I tried going after it, but it was gone.
(CAR HORN HONKS) (INDISTINCT TALKING) Hey, Toby.
Two news crews just showed up.
This thing's getting out of hand.
TOBY: What do you mean "getting"? The video is mirrored on over a dozen different websites.
FreakingRealDino is trending on Twitter.
I can't shut down the whole Internet and the local news.
EVAN: Okay.
Um Call Ken Leeds.
See if he can help.
TOBY: Copy that.
TOBY: Hi, yeah, can I speak with Ken Leeds? What is it regarding? Uh Tell him that I need help containing a situation.
What is the nature of the situation? Can I just talk to him? This is sensitive.
All matters that this office handles are sensitive.
You'll have to be more specific.
Who are you? I'm Warrant Officer Lisa Merriweather.
I'm the Lieutenant's new assistant.
Oh.
Okay, great.
So assist him and let him speak with me.
Not until you tell me what it's regarding.
Fine! A TVcrew is about to interview people who have seen a live Triceratops for a special report on the news tonight.
Now can I speak with him? LISA: I'll be sure he gets your message.
That thing is so big, I'm surprised no one's found it yet.
(DEVICE BEEPING) You're right.
It's huge.
There.
It came this way.
I'm getting a reading from this direction.
Great.
We've left the crowd behind, and now we're trespassing.
Why is it that some people feel they need 10,000 square feet of personal space? Well, a lot of tech guys live in this area.
We're not the most sociable bunch to begin with.
This is pushed outward.
It looks like there are tracks here going back and forth.
Well, maybe they're on vacation.
When do we ever get that lucky? The Anomaly should be just past that arch somewhere.
What kind of address is that? Alpha.
The first letter of the Greek alphabet.
That's not an address.
Unless the guy who lives here is trying to make a serious statement about his position in the pack, in which case, just peeing on the door every morning might be quicker.
It's the symbol for the fine structure constant of the universe, and that right there is bad news.
Why? EVAN: This place belongs to Howard Kanan.
Guy's a legend.
Key patents in mobile communications, medical imaging, remote oil-field sensing.
Every arena he worked in, he was brilliant.
Certifiable genius.
Genius? Like he could understand how that thing works? We've got to find that creature and get it out of here before Kanan sees it.
If he knew, he'd want in.
Do you know that he buried every single company that got in his way? You know a lot about him.
Yeah, we've crossed paths.
I'm lucky I still have my company.
HOWARD: Evan Cross! You thieving prick.
(EXHALES) So, you two know each other.
Mostly from court.
He tried to sue me for patent infringement, but he didn't have a case.
I lost.
Doesn't mean I'm not right.
And you are? Dylan Weir.
I don't hold any patents.
Hmm.
Why are you on my property? Bird watching.
I heard there was a rare specimen out here.
Likes to roost near water.
Would that be the black oyster-catcher, or the long-billed curlew? Hermit thrush.
(INHALES DEEPLY) You, I like.
Conditionally.
How about you, Cross? You here to watch the birds or just steal them? You know what, I think it's about time you and I straightened out this whole misunderstanding.
You did not pioneer photonic circuitry.
I did.
So, which part am I misunderstanding? I invented it, and he stole it.
If you'd like - I can prove it.
- He can't prove that.
Yes, I can.
Come on in.
Hang on, if you think you have proof, I should be the one that you show.
- Call me if you need anything.
- Back at you.
TOBY: How can he be busy? Unless a flying saucer has landed downtown, we're the only thing that Project Magnet does! (DOOR OPENS) Yeah, great, awesome.
Why don't you give him another message? Mac! Hey, Tobes.
Wow, affection really doesn't work for us, does it? I love you on the inside.
Where's Evan? We need to have a serious chat.
He's on another dino-hunt, along with every other lookie-Ioo in Vancouver.
- So the dinosaurs are finally out of the bag? - Yeah.
And I have to figure out a way to put them back in the bag, but I don't have a bag.
Leeds is AWOL, Ange quit, Evan and Dylan are doing the fun stuff.
And if I don't figure out a way to stop this, then we're going to have a lot of people asking a lot of questions, - that we don't want to answer.
- Like, why is my body in a freezer? Forgive me if I'm having trouble getting worked up about public relations, but I'm not sure if I'm alive or dead.
(GROANS) - What was that? - You're alive.
So, how can I be downstairs on ice? Oh, come on, do you really want a discourse in comparative theory of time displacement right now? Can you summarise? That's not you in the cryo chamber, Mac.
You are you.
No, I'm not.
I'm Evan's me.
The version he created when he pulled me out of that life and brought me here.
(EXHALES) - Well, come on.
- What? Where? Hey Keep your eyes to yourself.
EVAN: Howard? How long have you been living like this? Like what? Like a Junk food survivalist? Minimising my distraction so I can focus on my next innovation.
EVAN: In harmonics? Hey.
I didn't bring you in here so you could steal more patents.
All right, that makes two of us.
So what's your so-called proof? See? Operational Photonics.
I was working on the manufacturing specs when you came out of nowhere.
Geared up in three months, cornered the world market before anyone knew what happened.
It's just business.
- A lot of people were doing parallel research.
- Yeah.
Sure, maybe.
And you just happened to have the breakthrough.
- Yeah.
I did.
- And the fact that you couldn't use a uniform superconductor? How did you solve that one? The nano wire? Coated that with gold.
(LAUGHS) That's a cute trick.
But I had teams running manufacturing tests on every option.
After 20 months of trials, we were finally narrowing in on a solution, and boom! Evan Cross comes in out of nowhere, and you go into production without one single trial? How do you explain that? I don't have to explain it.
Check my patents.
I did! And what it shows is that you knew the right answer right from the beginning, no sweat equity at all.
So I come to you in a dream? - It happens.
- Yes, it does.
Most definitely.
But here's the thing.
If you're that brilliant, if you're that much of a genius, it would happen again and again.
And since then Nothing.
I don't understand.
Either you're a patent thief Or whatever you've been working on for the last five years is so big you're keeping it What, under wraps? Or maybe things just didn't go as expected.
(SOFT GROWL) Oh, my God! HOWARD: There's a bright line, isn't there, between then and now? Between everything so full of promise And everything so dark.
Howard? What happened to you? You've got this huge house, and you're holed up in here obsessing over what went wrong.
Maybe things just didn't go as I expected.
Evan.
I'm out by the pool.
You've got to see this.
Excuse me.
I have to check on my friend.
The birdwatcher? Don't suppose you're going to tell me what she's actually looking for? You wouldn't understand.
(CLEARS THROAT) If this wasn't here, would you have believed Evan even if he did tell you? You're saying he kept it for me? I don't know.
But, I mean, if he planned on keeping this a secret forever, then storing your body was a pretty stupid move, and Evan Cross isn't stupid.
He stole my life.
He saved your life, and he was ready to die to do it.
Think about it.
The moment he changed your future, he must have known that your future self wouldn't be there to stop him from getting killed by a dinosaur.
So, if I wasn't there to save him, why isn't he dead? I don't know, and you know what, I don't care, because you're both alive, and if what he did is responsible for that, then I'm glad that he did it.
Because of the choices available, this one's a hell of a lot more fun.
(MAC EXHALES) So, where do you suppose I came from? Out of an Anomaly, apparently.
So, that must have been my job then, saving people? I mean, I'm wearing a uniform.
That's not really that much to go on, Mac.
You know, everyone around here seems to think you're pretty clever.
I'll bet you could figure out what that ARC symbol means if you put your mind to it.
I might consider helping you.
But only if you help me put that Triceratops back in the bottle.
Well, I might have an idea about that.
(SOFT GROWL) Look at what I found.
Great.
Now we just need to find out where it goes.
I've got this.
You get that.
Where's Crazy Eyes? Inside With his PowerBars and regret.
DYLAN: Isn't it magnificent? I've never had a chance to just sit and watch one.
Evan, come on.
They're not all vicious killers.
This one doesn't mean any harm.
He's just out of place, is all.
EVAN: It's still dangerous.
Look at it.
The thing's bigger than an elephant.
And those horns, they're like spears.
Not to mention the little problem we'd have trying to explain it if someone else saw it.
Wait.
We don't want to have to carry it.
(GROWLS) Move! (ROARS) That's one hell of a hermit thrush.
That's it, right? I mean, this is it! This is the big secret that you've been working on for the last five years, right? Am I right? The great breakthrough by the great Evan Cross! Not exactly.
This is huge! I mean, you're no genetic engineer, my friend, which means that thing came from a distant past.
(EXCLAIMS IN DELIGHT) I mean, I knew you guys were hiding something, right? Right.
But Triceratops? That wasn't even on the list! And I love surprises! What happened to that thing not meaning any harm? We must've frightened it.
Or else it thinks the pool is its home, and it was just defending its territory.
I'll find it.
You find the Anomaly.
EVAN: Find the Anomaly DYLAN: Oh.
Is it dead? Yeah, it might need a little CPR.
Need help? And that, where did you get it? I built it.
No, it's way too sophisticated.
It's a pet project.
You want me to believe that you found doorways through time, and yet your breakthrough secret project isn't from the future? Maybe stolen? Maybe from my future? Or mine? Do you realise the implications of that? Confirmation of Feynman's postulate of branching timelines.
Look, nothing's been confirmed.
And this isn't going to help your case in court.
Oh, forget court! This is Nobel territory! Beyond Nobel territory! Howard, no.
None of it can leave this room.
None.
Are you None of it.
Okay.
You want my silence? Tell me the truth.
Come on! This has got to be killing you! You have to be desperate for someone to talk to who can actually understand.
No.
Not really.
Evan Knowledge like this isn't power.
It's isolation.
Yes, Miss Nance, I'll be sure he gets the message.
Now, was that Triceratops with one R? Hello? (GASPS IN FRUSTRATION) (MOBILE CHIMES) Mac, I thought you were going to help me.
And so I have.
What the hell? His name's Spikey.
There you are.
Okay.
Slowly this time.
(GROWLS SOFTLY) Yeah, see? There's nothing to worry about.
(ROARS) What is going on with you? You can't think all of this is your territory.
It's the red.
You think I'm a rival.
Okay.
Let's try this again.
You're just scared.
Why wouldn't you be? I'm just going to make sure you don't get into any more trouble.
EVAN: This is fried.
I'd have put in a limiter to stop it from overloading.
Oh, really? Well, thanks for the advice.
Do you have anything? Yeah.
Yeah, I've got something you could kludge in there, get it up and running.
For a price.
This isn't a joke, Howard.
No, I get that.
This is the space-time continuum.
It has world-ending potential, and you don't want to be the next Oppenheimer.
Exactly.
EVAN: Hmm.
So why are you messing with it? I don't have a choice.
As dangerous as these anomalies may be, it's the only thing we have to put these creatures back.
Have you ever been through one? To the other side? Yeah.
- Once or twice.
- And Was it amazing? And frightening.
Look, the only thing I'm trying to do is keep every single thing where it belongs.
How did that get to be your job? You know that bright line you talked about between then and now? That happened for me when a dinosaur killed my wife.
I get that.
When my wife died, if I could have gone after ovarian cancer with your rifles, I would have.
DYLAN OVER EARPIECE: Evan.
Dylan.
You all right? Better than all right.
I got me a dinosaur.
- Where? - Tennis court.
The creature's fenced in, not that that'll matter if it decides to take off.
But I'm going to find it some food and water.
Get it to hunker down.
How long till we've got an Anomaly detector? We're working on it.
Work faster.
I've gotta find enough food to fill a school bus.
Roger that.
I have to get this thing finished.
We have to put that Triceratops back through that Anomaly before it closes.
How long do you have? No idea.
You don't know? I don't have a timer.
I've been working on one, but Evan, I can help.
You and I working together, there's very little we can't solve.
I want in.
DYLAN: Perfect.
Hey (SOFT GROWL) And I think I know what you like to eat.
It was, like 20 feet tall, with these big, massive horns, and There it is! There's the dinosaur! (PEOPLE CLAMOURING) (PEOPLE SHOUT EXCITEDLY) (CROWD GROANING) Oh, no.
Hey! Stop! Hmm? Oh.
- (FIRING TRANQUILISER DARTS) - (GROWLS) What the hell are you doing? (STUTTERS) Dylan, I hadn't realised you were already on the scene.
Well, we are, and I have everything under control.
If you'll just get these people to back off.
Yeah, lower your weapons, and pull back.
- Uh I'm here to help.
- Yeah, well, you're not helping, okay? If you tranq that thing here, we're going to have to drag it all the way to the Anomaly, which, let me tell you from experience, is harder than you think.
Yeah, I have a truck.
That's not the point.
This is a docile animal, and it can move under its own power.
Understood.
I thought that Toby sent you to the skate park.
Real-time satellite imagery revealed a remarkably large mobile heat signature on this property.
I'm here to offer full operational coordination with your field efforts.
We are on the same team.
Then I have just the job for you.
(BEEPING) The portals, you call them Anomalies, right? Yeah.
You like that? Sure.
Then this is your theory on how they work? Yeah, they appear, they fluctuate, they disappear.
There's a pattern to it, but it's different every single time.
I haven't been able to figure out the Fourier series for it yet.
That's because you're going about it wrong.
You're trying to find a value lost in chaos.
That can't be predicted.
Elaborate on that.
What if it's not about overlapping sine waves? What Let me explain.
The Anomalies, they're magnetic, right? So every time they appear, there's going to be a unique signature, caused by an interference with the Earth's magnetic field.
Done.
So it's not a pattern you're trying to predict.
- Of course.
It's a harmonic signature.
- Right.
It's not the standing field I should be trying to measure.
It's the initial event.
It's like a musical note that fades.
Yes, and when it decays past the critical threshold - The Anomaly collapses.
- Exactly.
Predictably.
So, all we need to do is suspend a crystal in a fluid matrix.
We don't have time for that.
I have to find the Anomaly.
But thank you, Howard.
Thank you.
Excuse me.
Excuse me! What the hell do you people think you're doing? I'm sorry, ma'am.
I have official authorisation to commandeer these flowers for reasons of national security.
But they're my prize-winning flowers! Yes, I understand that they're beautiful.
Gentlemen, that's plenty.
- Thanks, great.
Yup.
Just - Oh! (CLEARS THROAT) In these uncertain times, ma'am, we all have to make sacrifices for freedom.
You look lovely today.
WOMAN: Oh, my goodness (SIGHS) (DEVICE CHIRPING) (STATIC) You think this will work? The only better lure than food is sex.
Yeah, truer words.
(CHUCKLES) When Evan tells us where to go, we'll just walk it back, nice and slow.
There's no need for all that excitement.
For once.
(DEVICE BEEPING) My God! My God! - Look at - Howard, don't get too close.
Look at the shard layer.
It's the edge of space and time Blown apart.
I think it's from the impact of colliding four-dimensional surfaces.
I think it might just be the way the human eye perceives it, but it is beautiful.
Yeah.
It's the bright line.
Between then and now.
May I? It's okay.
Your timer, sir.
- How did you make that so quickly? - (HOWARD CHUCKLES) I just tweaked a resonator I've been working on for over a year.
It's almost like it was destiny.
(BEEPS) And it works.
And we have less than two minutes.
DYLAN: Two minutes? You're sure? A minute and 50 seconds.
Assuming this thing is accurate.
The calculated margin for error is.
006%, give or take.
- Where are you? - Uh 200 metres east of the bowling green.
Be there in 90 seconds.
- What are you doing? Where are you going? - Anomaly.
No time to explain.
- How can I assist? - Get out of the way.
This baby's going home! Is this analogous to a bullfighter's cape? Because bulls are colour-blind.
- They're more attracted to - Shut up.
Hey! (GROWLS) Hey! (SCREAMS) Evan! It's 15 seconds.
She's not gonna make it.
EVAN: She will.
DYLAN: Look out! - Move.
- DYLAN: Look out.
HOWARD: And with seconds to spare.
EVAN: You okay? - Howard - Three, two, one.
Who was that? How long has he been here? Be nice.
He was very helpful getting fodder for the big guy.
(PANTING) There was a man here.
Where did he go? It was Howard Kanan.
And you know where he went.
- Interesting development.
- Why would he do that? I don't know.
Curiosity? Arrogance? Complete stupidity? Or all of the above.
He's going to die in there.
Or worse.
Thanks, Mac.
You really saved my ass.
All of our asses, really.
Well, it was your ass that I did it for.
You might want to rephrase that.
Um - No.
- (CHUCKLES) - Don't tell Evan about this.
- Why? I need to get some answers first.
With your help.
Okay, a deal's a deal.
But I will say that it's not the same here without you.
And Oh, my God, I can't believe I'm saying this.
(EXHALES) I miss you.
Then do me a favour and visit me from time to time.
- I must get Ionely down there in the freezer.
- (LAUGHS) I'd like to think you were checking up on me.
Deal.
EVAN: Toby, what the hell's this? Oh, it's Uh It's just that Never mind.
You get the Internet shut down? Actually, I did better than that.
WOMAN ON COMPUTER: And on the lighter side, an elaborate dinosaur hoax swept the Internet today following a prank at a local skate park.
There it is! There's the dinosaur! (TOBY CHUCKLES) So remember, if someone shows you footage of a "freaking real dinosaur", think twice before you believe it.
Over to you, Sam.
- Nice.
- Yeah, well, I figured, it's not the last time someone's gonna get a video of a dinosaur, right? So, might as well make them all seem fake.
You called Mac in.
Um Sort of.
But, you were right.
He's gonna need some time.
Good work.
Hey, show me that thing one more time.
Yes.
massive horns, and There it is! There's the dinosaur! Any calls? Just Colonel Hall.
He'd like an update.
Oh, terrific.
Something's bugging you.
Is that where I'm headed? Am I the next "Crazy Eyes" living alone in a mansion somewhere? You going down this road because of Mac? You know he'll be back, right? I was thinking about this, actually.
Three years I've been working on this tech, thinking it would solve everything, make up for everything.
Fix everything.
But what if it doesn't, hmm? The first time I saw you, you had one of those things in your hands.
You couldn't keep your eyes off it.
I thought you'd kept your phone from the '90s or something.
(CHUCKLES) Yeah, well, I always make a good first impression.
But that thing, it gave me a gift today.
I've I've been really struggling with this work, because it isn't like Predator Control.
This isn't mostly harmless animals with the occasional killer.
These creatures are almost all killers.
But today we finally had one that wasn't, and all we had to do was show it the way home, and we did that.
We did it.
You have a feel for these things that I don't have.
I'm not sure if I'll ever have it.
I used to coil razor wire back home.
We had wolves that would come down out of the forest and try to eat our sheep.
My dad said we had to keep them out, but every month or so, I would come out, and I would (EXHALES DEEPLY) They would get tangled in the wire sometimes.
They'd chew their own paws off.
That's really when I got it, you know? It isn't their fault, right? They're just being who they are.
We're the problem.
We're the ones who want everything to be human.
Now we've covered the whole damn world in razor wire, so where are Where are the animals supposed to go? But today, you came up with a better way to help them, to get them back to a time with no humans in it.
Hey, that thing that Howard made, you can make that again? Then do it.
The tech isn't just to help you.
It's to help them.
It's the least we can do, right? The mission objective was compromised by circumstances, sir.
But on the positive side, the specimen was returned to its natural habitat.
And there was an interesting development.
I'll have that in my report.
Uh, yes, sir, that goes without saying.
We are on the same team.
Yes, sir.