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Episode 8.2 is the second episode of the eighth season of Primeval.

Synopsis[]

The team is sent to the Shard after an anomaly opens up in one of the skyscraper's hotels, but when they arrive, they run into someone who has a bit of history with Connor.

Plot[]

A man enters checks in to one of the hotel floors in the Shard and is given a key to his room. However, upon entering his room, he comes face to face with an anomaly. However, before he can investigate the anomaly, he hears a noise. He investigates and, upon locating the source of the noise, is attacked and killed by a trio of Oviraptors.

Meanwhile, at the A.R.C, Eve is helping Abby with feeding Rex, Sid, Nancy, and the Dracorex in the Menagerie when the anomaly detector alarm goes off. The two women calm down the frightened creatures before joining the others in the main hub, where they grab their black boxes and head to the armoury. However, while grabbing an EMB, Darren gets a call from one of his mates and excuses himself. Matt reluctantly allows Darren to meet up with his friends but is clearly annoyed by the turn of events. As Darren puts his EMD away, the rest of the team rush to the garage and drive off toward the Shard.

Upon arriving at the Shard, Jenny and Michael are tasked with keeping the media away from the Shard while the team heads up to the anomaly site. They arrive at the hotel room the anomaly is in, but upon opening the door, two of the three Oviraptors run out of the room. Matt sends Becker, Eve, Jack, and Ryan after the Oviraptors while everyone else secures the room. As Connor and Emily set up the anomaly locking device, Sarah finds the hotel patron's partially dismembered body. However, before she can alert the team about the body, she is attacked by the remaining Oviraptor. It gives her a nasty bite on her arm before getting kicked off of Sarah by Danny, who quickly tends to Sarah's wound. Meanwhile, Abby, Kieran, and Matt try to capture the Oviraptor, but they keep missing it and it flees the room. Abby chases after it, but as they run toward the elevator, Abby fires her EMD, just as the elevator doors open and a woman walks out. The EMD charge misses the Oviraptor, which escapes into the stairwell, ricochets off of a metallic display piece by the elevator, and hits the woman. The woman falls onto the ground and Abby quickly rushes over to check on the woman as Matt, Kieran, Connor, Emily, Danny, and Sarah catch up. Upon flipping the woman onto her back, Abby and Connor are shocked to find that the woman is none other than Caroline.

Meanwhile, at Hyde Park, Darren meets up with his friends Steve and Darren (From Episode 4.4) and they catch up on each others' lives before getting to why Steve and Darren had called Darren (Lake) to meet up. They start by asking Darren (Lake) if Matt has been acting strangely (they know that Darren works with Matt because they convinced him to tell them about his new job after he joined the A.R.C), which Darren says no before asking them why they are asking. Steve and Darren (Fisher) then tell Darren that they've been having nightmares about a scarred-up version of Matt, who keeps says that they are "part of the plan" in a sinister voice until they wake up. They ask Darren if he's experienced such dreams, to which Darren says no. However, he adds that he thinks he knows what their dreams could be referring to. Steve and Darren (Fisher) then ask Darren (Lake) what he means, leaving him with a tough choice.

Back at the Shard, after the Millers and Becker's team, who had lost track of the Oviraptors, had regrouped with the rest of the team and Caroline had woken up, everyone (minus Connor, Abby, and Jenny) is introduced to Caroline, who introduces herself to everyone as well. Sarah then asks Connor, Abby, and Jenny (mainly the former two) how they met Caroline, leaving Connor to tell them that he and Caroline had dated each other before he realized his feelings for Abby and broke things off via text. He also adds that Caroline also stole Rex after the breakup and took him to Leek, which makes the atmosphere awkward. Jenny and Abby then tell Connor to shut up, with Abby elbowing him in the side after he tries to make the atmosphere less awkward before Matt gets everyone to focus on the task at hand. He then assigns Kieran, Ryan, and Jack with escorting Caroline to safety and Sarah, Danny, and the Millers with guarding the anomaly while everyone else searches for the Oviraptors. They then split off and while Kieran, Ryan, and Jack escort Caroline down the stairs, they hear a scream and exit the stairwell. They then see one of the Oviraptors ripping a female teacher's throat open as three of her students watch in horror. It hears the three A.R.C field agents and Caroline approaching before getting shot by Jack.

Back at Hyde Park, Darren tells Steve and Darren (Fisher) that he can tell them what he meant, but only if his boss (Lester) allows him to. Steve and Darren (Fisher) agree and Darren tells them to wait before walking a ways away and speed-dialling a phone number on his mobile.

Meanwhile, at the A.R.C, Jess is giving Lester a status update on the Shard incursion when the latter's desk phone rings. Lester picks up and Darren explains the situation to Lester. Despite his reservations, Lester reluctantly allows Darren to tell Steve and Darren (Fisher) about the Second Matt situation, but under the condition that he tells them under his supervision. Darren thanks Lester and as he gives Lester his location, he turns around and gives Steve and Darren a thumbs-up.

Meanwhile, back at the Shard, Matt's team had split into two teams, with Matt and Becker leading each team. Becker's team, which consists of him, Eve, and Connor, is scouring one of the floors when one of the Oviraptors, a large male, ambushes them and attack Eve. It manages to break Eve's forearm with a powerful bite before Becker and Connor knock it out with their EMDs. They then check on Eve and determining that she won't be able to continue helping with the mission, Becker contacts Matt to give him the news. Matt, who was still trying to track down the other Oviraptor with Emily and Abby tells him that he, Emily, and Abby will be at their position before running away. However, little did they know, the Oviraptor they were tracking had been hiding in a storage room not far from where Matt was before he received Becker's call. It then creeps out of its hiding spot and wanders to the floor's elevator before pecking the up button. Suddenly, the elevator doors open revealing a waitress, who was riding the elevator to her designated floor. She looks up at her phone and is initially confused as to why the elevator had stopped, but upon seeing the Oviraptor, she screams in terror as the Oviraptor attacks and kills her.

Meanwhile, at Hyde Park, Lester arrives in his Jaguar and meets up with the boys. After introducing himself to Steve and Darren (Fisher), they sit down at one of the outdoor tables at one of the park's cafes and get to business. After Steve and Darren (Fisher) give Lester some background on their nightmares, Lester allows Darren (Lake) to tell them a little bit about the Second Matt situation. After a short explanation, Lester gets a phone call from Jess, who tells him that Eve had been injured. Lester thanks Jess for the update before informing Darren (Lake) of the situation. Darren, knowing the team will need his help, rushes off to join the team and as Lester, Darren Fisher, and Steve are parting ways, Lester tells them to be careful and to call Darren if they encounter "a creepy Matt."

Meanwhile, at an abandoned warehouse, Ethan is soldering some wires to a circuit board when the Minister and Elizabeth enter. They ask Ethan if they had missed anything while they were gone, but before Ethan can reply, the second Matt enters and tells the Minister and Elizabeth that the plan is still going strong. After some small talk, Elizabeth gets a phone call from Jess, who tells her that Eve has been injured and that the team had encountered Caroline Steel at the anomaly site. Elizabeth thanks Jess for the update and, after hanging up, tells the Minister, the second Matt, and Ethan everything Jess had told her, to which the second Matt says that "everything is falling into place."

Meanwhile, back at the Shard, Kieran, Ryan, and Jenny, who was called down from the anomaly site, check up on the three students while Caroline helps Jack tie up the Oviraptor. After some careful questioning, they are able to identify the three students as Luke Wood, Lisa Donald, and Sasha Peter, who all came from a senior high school in Essex. After making sure that they are alright, the three are escorted away by soldiers while Special Forces medics haul their teacher's dead body away. With the situation sorted, they haul the Oviraptor back to the anomaly. However, as they pass the elevator on the way to the hotel room the anomaly is at, the elevators open to reveal the third Oviraptor feasting on the waitress' corpse. It then attacks them, but thanks to Caroline's kickboxing skills, it is swiftly knocked out. As Sarah, Danny, and Michael rush outside to see what the commotion was about, the others and Darren return with the second Oviraptor and the team sends the Oviraptor trio back through the anomaly.

Later, once the A.R.C team had returned to the A.R.C, everyone and Caroline meet in Lester's office. Lester makes a comment about Sarah and Eve's injuries before begrudgingly thanking Caroline for her help, but adds to not disclose anything she saw today. Caroline agrees to the terms before Lester, to everyone's shock, offers her a job at the A.R.C, pointing out that her skills and her former job within Leek's organization. Caroline is rather reluctant and asks Lester if she can think about it, to which he agrees. He then shoos everyone out of his office and as they head back to their offices, Abby enthusiastically expresses her position against working with Caroline to Connor.

Meanwhile, Darren goes to his locker and as he's grabbing some of his things, Jack arrives and tells him that they must tell the others about Elizabeth and the Minister's betrayal before it's too late when Elizabeth and the Second Matt enter the locker room. The atmosphere is tense, and Darren asks the two if they're here to kill them, but Elizabeth reassures the two that she and the Second Matt aren't here to kill them (yet). Jack then asks why she and the Second Matt are here, to which she tells them that Darren's friends, Darren (Fisher) and Steve, are in danger and that they are part of a plan that will involve more familiar faces that the A.R.C had encountered in the past. Darren and Jack share a worried glance at each other before asking why they're telling them this. Elizabeth and the Second Matt don't respond to their question and bids the two boys goodbye. However, before he leaves, the Second Matt turns around and tells the two that they will regret escaping from them and that they will die. Once the Second Matt leaves, Jack and Darren share another worried glance, unsure about their next course of action.

Characters[]

  • Matt Anderson
  • Connor Temple
  • Abby Maitland
  • Jess Parker
  • Captain Hilary Becker
  • James Lester
  • Emily Merchant
  • Danny Quinn
  • Patrick Quinn/Ethan Dobrowski
  • Jack Maitland
  • Jenny Miller
  • Michael Miller
  • Kieran Coles
  • Ryan Backer
  • Eve Lake
  • Darren Lake
  • Dr Elizabeth Carter
  • Sarah Page
  • The Minister
  • Second Matt Anderson
  • Caroline Steel (Reappearance)
  • Darren Fisher (Guest, Reappearance)
  • Steve Waters (Guest, Reappearance)
  • Luke Wood (Guest, First Appearance)
  • Lisa Donald (Guest, First Appearance)
  • Sasha Peter (Guest, First Appearance)
  • Hotel Patron (Only Appearance, Death)
  • Teacher (Only Appearance, Death)
  • Waitress (Only Appearance, Death)
  • Oliver Leek (mentioned)

Creature[]

Locations[]

  • A.R.C
  • A.R.C Menagerie
  • A.R.C Men's Locker Room
  • The Shard
  • Hyde Park
  • Abandoned Warehouse

Trivia[]

  • Though unconfirmed, this episode most likely takes place several hours after Episode 8.1 due to the clothes the A.R.C team was wearing.
  • This episode has the highest number of cast members than in previous episodes.
  • This episode reveals the full names of Steve and Darren; Steve Waters and Darren Fisher.

Rumours[]

  • Steve and Darren from Episode 4.4 were to appear in this episode: This was proven true
  • Steve and Darren were added in a last-minute script change: This was proven false in an interview with producer Tim Haines. According to Haines, Steve and Darren were planned to appear during the early stages of the episode's development.

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