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Episode 6.2 is the second episode of the sixth series of Primeval.

Synopsis[]

An underwater anomaly pits the team against a dangerous Orthocone. Will they outsmart the ancient cephalopod or will they become its next meal? 

Plot[]

A pack of sea scorpions are peacefully swimming around when they are suddenly attacked by an Orthocone. As they flee, an anomaly opens, and the scorpions go through it. They exit the anomaly, only to be attacked, once again, by the Orthrocone, which had followed them through the anomaly. As the scorpions flee, the Orthocone grabs one of the scorpions and kills it.

Meanwhile, at the A.R.C, Abby gives Jack a tour around the Menagerie while Rex,Sid, and Nancy happily play with each other, which they chuckle at the sight. Suddenly, the Anomaly Detector goes off and Jess informs the team that the anomaly is at the nearby seaside bay. Abby leaves Jack in charge of the Menagerie as she heads off to join the field team.

At the bay, Abby, Connor, Becker, and Danny meet up with Matt and Emily and the five get their EMDs ready. However, Jess tells them that the anomaly is several metres out at the sea. Matts tells Danny to get the lifeguards to close down the beach, so no one can get into trouble, and get them a boat. Once Danny returns with a boat and news that the beach had been closed, the team take their scuba gear onto the boat.

Back at the A.R.C, Lester goes down to the Menagerie to see how Jack is doing and as they watched the Mammoth walk around its enclosure, he tells him about the time the Mammoth saved him from a Future Predator. Jack tells him about his hatred for the Predators, after having a near-death encounter with them while in the Future. As Lester listens to Jack, he notices the Dracorex wailing in distress and points it out to Jack. Curious, the pair go down to investigate.

Back at the seaside bay, Becker and Danny, who already got their scuba gear on, are sent out to find the anomaly. Before they jump into the water, Abby gives them some spearguns, in case they needed to protect themselves. Becker and Danny take the spearguns before jumping into the water. Once they enter the water, they successfully locate the anomaly, but then, the Orthocone attacks them. It grabs Becker by the back and tries to kill him, but Danny uses his speargun on the creature, causing it to flee through the anomaly. The two head back to the surface, where Becker is given a check-up and Danny tells everyone what had happened. After finishing, he spots a young girl in the water and a dark shape swimming toward her. He realizes that there's another Orthocone and jumps into the water to save her, but the currents make it difficult for him to quickly get to the girl on time. The team, after spotting the girl after Danny had suddenly jumped back into the water, try to reach the girl, but the Orthocone grabs her and drags her under the water by the time Danny reaches her. The team is distraught by the girl's death and while the team mourns the girl's death, Connor solemnly tells Jess about what had happened over the comms.

At the A.R.C, Jess gets the news and tries to find Lester, but she doesn't find him in his office. Confused, Jess asks Jenny and Michael, who are talking at a nearby table, but they, too, don't know where Lester is. Meanwhile, in the Menagerie, Jack and Lester enter the Dracorex enclosure and discover that its leg has been caught in between some pipes. Lester calls Jess on his phone and tells her that he needs help at the Menagerie. Jess goes down there to help, but when she gets there, she accidentally locks herself, Lester, and Jack in the pen by shutting the door. Lester has a go at her, but Jack defuses their quarrel, telling them that getting the Dracorex unstuck from the pipes is more important than fighting each other. Lester apologizes to Jess, which she accepts before the three of them try to free the Dracorex from its predicament.

Back at the bay, Matts says that due to the girl's death, the bay must be closed well after the incursion, which the others agree. Meanwhile, Danny, who's still swimming in the sea, spots some of the sea scorpions going towards land and warn the others. As the scorpions come onto the shore and begin digging in the sand, Connor deduces that the scorpions are females and are laying their eggs in the sand. Danny swims back to the boat, but as he is swimming over to the boat, the Orthocone swims toward him. However, Emily notices it and warns Danny before tossing him Becker's speargun, which he then uses on the Orthocone. The spear hits the Orthocone, injuring it and causing it to retreat. Danny then pulls himself onto the boat, saying that the spearguns aren't going to work in the long run. Matt, agreeing to Danny's concerns, orders Abby's to tell the A.R.C everything.

Meanwhile, back at the A.R.C, Abby tries to call Jess but gets no response from her. However, Jenny hears Abby's calls and goes to the detector before answering Abby's calls. Both sides fill each other in on their situations, with Abby asking Jenny to come up with a cover story for the dead girl and Jenny telling Abby about Jess's current whereabouts before getting Michael to go find her.

Back at the bay, Connor gives the team a rundown about the Orthocone and sea scorpions, such as the Orthocone's love for deeper water, where there's barely any light, and how sharp the scorpions' claws are, being able to cut through normal fishing nets with ease. With this information, Matt sends Becker and Danny off to go get torches and prods to use against the Orthocone and metal nets and thick gloves to use to capture the sea scorpions.

Meanwhile, at the A.R.C, Michael finds Jess, Lester, and Jack in the Dracorex enclosure and unlocks the pen door before reluctantly helping Jack free the Dracorex while Lester unwillingly distracts it. Jess, meanwhile, runs back to the detector, thanking Jenny for covering for her before getting resituated at her station. At the same time, Jenny gives Jess a rundown of the situation after she had disappeared before returning to her station.

Meanwhile, back at the bay, Danny and Becker return with their new gear and gives Connor and Emily the net before gearing up for another dive. Connor, Emily, Abby, and some soldiers run down to the beach and round up the scorpions, joining the others at the boat once they've captured all of the scorpions. They then return to the anomaly site, where Danny and Becker jump in to release the sea scorpions. All of the sea scorpions return to the Ordovician through the anomaly and both men swim toward the surface to pass the news. However, before they can return to the surface, the Orithocone suddenly appears and attacks Becker, causing him to drop his prod and torch. However, Danny uses his prod and torch to blind and poke at the Orthocone, annoying the shelled cephalopod to the point that it lets go of Becker and flees back through the anomaly.

Later, once the anomaly had closed, the team returns to the A.R.C, where they discover the reason why Jess was not at the detector. Emily makes a joke out of it as Jack, Michael, and Lester return from the Menagerie, where Jack informs Abby that the Dracorex will be fine. Jess then leaves her station and follows Lester to his office, where she jokingly tells him that if they ever end up stuck in a Menagerie pen again, she will leave and will only return if she gets a pay rise. Meanwhile, Matt goes to the Menagerie to check up on the Dracorex when the second Matt suddenly appears behind him. Matt demands the second Matt tell him what he wants, to which the second Matt tells him that the A.R.C wasn't supposed to be the organisation that discovers the anomalies' secrets. Matt is left with more questions as the second Matt tells him that he must find the information soon before "they" arrive.

Characters[]

  • Matt Anderson
  • Connor Temple
  • Abby Mailtland
  • Captain Hilary Becker
  • Emily Merchant
  • Jess Parker
  • James Lester
  • Jenny Miller
  • Michael Miller
  • Danny Quinn
  • Jack Mailtland
  • Unnamed Girl
  • Second Matt Anderson

Creatures[]

Setting[]

  • Ordovician Sea
  • Seaside Bay
  • Beach
  • A.R.C
  • A.R.C Menagerie

Trivia[]

  • The Orthocone and sea scorpions resemble their counterparts seen in Chased by Sea Monsters, a documentary mini-seires that producer Tim Haines also helped produce.
  • The anomaly in this episode resembles the series 1 & 2 anomalies look like than the series 5 anomalies.

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