Primeval Quotes

Nick: Have I ever let you down before? [immediately] Don't answer that. Just trust me, please.

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Claudia: What are you doing?
Nick: [Shining a light in Claudia's eyes] I've absolutely no idea, but I've seen them do it on ER, so there must be something to it.

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Ryan: [Stephen touches the Pteranodon dung and licks it as the other soldiers cringe] That's just not right.

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Claudia: [strikes an Anurognathus with a golf club] Hole in one!

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[Claudia, menaced by a swarm of pterosaurs, is intercepted by Helen]
Helen: You're going to have to trust me. Either that or a radical make-over from our friends back there.
Claudia: Maybe just this once!

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[The team prepares to release the Pteranodon and guide it back through the Anomaly]
Nick: So you're absolutely confident that this creature doesn't eat mammals?
Stephen: Dung never lies. And if I'm wrong about that, at least you'll always have a special place in the history books.
Nick: I always wanted to be famous.

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Connor: Abby...? Are we alive?
Abby: We're alive.
Connor: That's good then.

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Helen: [Having sneaked up on Stephen] In most eras of the world's history, you'd be dead by now.
Stephen: Helen. Now what the hell are you doing here?
Helen: You know, all this urban living has made humans such lazy animals... secondary hearing, no sense of smell, no worthwhile instincts.
Stephen: Man has no predators. We have nothing to be afraid of except... each other.
Helen: Well that used to be the case; but times are changing, aren't they, Stephen?

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Helen: You have a serious creature incursion. A highly-evolved ambush predator. Intelligent, adaptable, and ruthless.
Claudia: If there was a creature on the loose, we'd know about it!
Helen: At least three people have gone missing in the last 48 hours.
Lester: Missing.
Helen: Killed. The creature has a lair nearby. It's taken them for food.
Nick: And how do you know that?
Helen: Because it almost got me too. [pause]
Nick: What is it?
Helen: It has no name.
Nick: Then which era is it from?
Helen: It doesn't come from any era... at least not one that can be identified yet.
Nick: I'm sorry; I don't understand.
Helen: Yes, you do, Nick. You knew it had to happen one day. You've known it ever since you first stepped into the past.
Nick: ...the future? Are you saying we're being attacked by a creature from the future?

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[After the group narrowly survive an attack from the future predator]
Nick: It was one step ahead of us all the time. It knew what we were going to do before we did it!
Helen: I warned you it was smart!
Nick: It would be more useful if you could tell us how to catch this thing.
Stephen: What we need is some kind of edge, a weakness in its defences that gives us an advantage, otherwise it's just gonna pick us off one-by-one!
Connor: Dogs. The dogs went crazy before it attacked. What would make them go off like that?
Stephen: Can't be smell. If there was a scent trail, they would have followed it.
Nick: Hearing. They heard something.
Connor: Sound. It's using sound.
Nick: That's why it was able to remain one step ahead of us! It can detect physical movement before it's within visual range!
Connor: And the dogs, they detect a higher frequency, therefore they know when it's nearby!
Ryan: Like echolocation?
Nick: High frequency sound waves, it's like a sonar system. Some animals use it to detect prey.
Stephen: Like a bat. Well, you said there was bat blood in the lion enclosure.
Connor: That's it. This thing must be some kind of...I dunno, super-bat.
Helen: He's right. Three quarters of all mammal species are bats or rats; maybe the future belongs to them.

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[As Nick prepares to enter an anomaly to the Permian period]
Lester: Do you think I should make a speech; one small step for man, that sort of thing?
Claudia: Maybe another time. [kisses Nick]
Lester: That wasn't very professional.
Claudia: Oh, stuff professionalism.

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[After Connor receives a phone call from the lab]
Connor: The creature's autopsy proves beyond any doubt that it was definitely a male.
Stephen: It's gotta have been female; it was nurturing its young!
Connor: Maybe in this species, that's a job for the boys?
Stephen: Better be, cos if not...it means the mother's still out there!

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[Nick returns from the Permian to find that Claudia Brown no longer exists]
Nick: Wait, something's wrong! This isn't right... something's happened. Something's changed. We've done something. We've- something we did has changed the past, and she isn't here anymore. [Future Predator chatter is heard through the anomaly] Oh, God... Oh my God!

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Nick: I could kiss you, Connor.
Connor: That's really sweet, but maybe not while there's people watching.

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Lester: Cutter’s always been eccentric, but I’m beginning to think he’s just plain deranged.
Leek: Well, I suppose all very brilliant men are a little bit unusual, sir.
Lester: I’m brilliant, Leek, and I’m not the least bit unusual.

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Lester: Is this some kind of industrial action, or did no one hear that we have a creature-sighting in a shopping mall?

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Nick: [on a Velociraptor] It's beautiful. [The Raptor destroys a security camera, everyone looks at Nick in shock] I said it was beautiful, I didn't say it was friendly.

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Nick: [to the Deinonychus] Chase me.

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Nick: I'm finished with the past. I just don't know if it's finished with me.

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Connor: 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: When you put it like that, it sounds so easy.
Nick: I'm going to do this on my own.
Abby: We'll help.
Connor: Who's "we?"

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Nick: [Inspecting a Deinonychus knocked unconscious with a tranquilizer gun] Look at her. She's a perfect killing machine. You know in a fair fight, mammals wouldn't stand a chance.
Stephen: Well, speaking as a mammal, I'm all in favor of cheating.

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Connor: Where's my gun? Abby's got one!
Stephen: She knows how to use it.
Abby: How many animals have you tranquillized?
Connor: I've played darts! Sometimes I think you don't trust me with firearms!
Stephen: Don't know what gives you that idea.

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Abby: Oi! Where are you going?
Connor: I'm going to get a slushie. Shhh.

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Abby: Okay, can you move the gun out of the Abby area? Thanks.

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Nick has just saved Jenny from a giant worm.
Nick Next time I say take the stairs, take the stairs!
A giant worm attacks him, Jenny cuts off its mouth part with a sword, narrowly missing Nick's crotch.
Nick: Watch where you're swinging that thing!

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Abby: You first.
(Connor opens the door to the server room, coughs, and promptly closes it)
Abby: Foggy?
Connor: A bit foggy, yeah.

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Nick: [to Connor] Are you all right?
Connor: Yeah, never been swallowed by a giant worm before, but I suppose it's all a learning experience, isn't it?

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Jenny: Let me help. I want to do something.
Nick: Okay. I want you to go and bully a few traumatized bystanders, and then I want you to come up with some spin to just smooth all this away.
Jenny: You don’t approve of me, do you?
Nick: No, I used to think you were really something, but you’re not that person.
Jenny: Am I supposed to understand that?
Nick: No, I guess not.

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Connor: (talking very fast) I'd like you to meet the Anomaly Detection Device, or A.D.D. for short... actually that's probably not the best acronym, is it?
Nick: Connor, breathe.

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[Connor shoots a man in a lion costume mistaking him for a creature]
Campbell: Don't shoot me! Don't shoot me! Don't shoot!
[recognizes Connor]
Campbell: You! You! You shot me! You shot me, look!
[indicates a bullet hole directly in the center of the lion mask's forehead]
Campbell: [muffled by glove held in mouth] OH MY GOD!
Connor: [awkward pause] You alright, though?
Campbell: DO I LOOK ALRIGHT!? YOU SHOT ME! [screams in frustration]

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