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Previously on Primeval.

Opening titles.

OPENING SCENE:

A tube train, busy but not packed, pretty much everyone has a seat, but it looks hot. People are fanning themselves. The train stops.

Driver: London Underground apologises for the delay to the journey due to signalling problems at Parsons Green.

A girl gets up and opens the window on the emergency exit to try to cool down. She is standing there, reading her book, when something taps her on the neck. She turns and sees a giant spider. She slams the window shut, slicing off one of the spider’s legs. She screams.

CENTRAL METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY TAKE 1:

CONNOR TEMPLE is in the cafeteria, talking to 2 of his friends, TOM and DUNCAN.

Connor: They’re called anomalies, but I can’t say any more. Official Secrets Act. But I will tell you this, I’ve seen a gorgonopsid. Face-to-face. And trust me, it’s not pretty.

Tom: Just how stupid do you think we are Conn?

Connor: But it’s all true. All right, I swear on my Empire Strikes Back first edition poster, signed by Luke Skywalker and David Prowse.

Tom: Ooh, careful. That’s invoking a sacred relic.

Duncan: Yeah. Like the Bible.

Connor: Yeah, I know what a sacred relic is, Duncan. I have seen Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Tom: Space-time anomalies and dinosaurs. Sounds like someone’s been over-doing the Playstation.

Connor: I can prove it… Only I’m not allowed to.

Tom: Right.

Connor: You know, one day you’re going to be gutted you didn’t believe me.

Connor walks off.

Duncan: He’s lost it.

Tom: Totally. That’s the saddest thing I’ve seen since Matrix Revolutions. What’s weird is he actually seems to believe it.

Tom nudges Duncan and they both get mischievous looks on their faces.

CENTRAL METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY TAKE 2:

NICK CUTTER and STEPHEN HART are in Nick’s office, going through some papers.

Stephen: There’s ten years of Helen’s work here.

Nick: Keep looking.

Stephen: You’ve read every word she ever wrote.

Nick: Yes, but we didn’t know about the anomaly then. There might be references to it in Helen’s work that we overlooked.

Stephen: If she knew about it, she would have told you.

Nick doesn’t look so sure. Flashback sequence to the end of episode one. Cutter coming out of his lab after hearing a noise. The anomaly disappearing. Helen under a streetlight.

Nick is staring at a photo of Helen on his desk.

Stephen: Are you alright?

Nick: Just haven’t been sleeping very well.

CENTRAL METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY TAKE 3:

Connor is sitting at a table with his laptop. He appears to be on the internet. The computer beeps, and Connor grins.

ABBY’S FLAT:

ABBY MAITLAND is dancing around her flat to a rock song, in just a t-shirt and pants. She looks in one of the glass tanks dotted around the room, at an albino python.

Abby: Hi Fred.

REX, the lizard from episode one, appears on a nearby table. Abby keeps dancing, and laughs at Rex’s chirruping. There is a banging on her front door.

Connor: Abby, open up! I think I’ve found another anomaly.

Abby: Two secs!

Abby grabs Rex and puts him in an empty tank.

Abby: You’ve just got to be quiet.

She then covers the tank with a blanket. She then goes and opens the door, which slides across to reveal Connor.

Abby: Huh.

Connor: Hi. Wow!

Abby: Come in.

Connor: (whistles) This place is super cool. I mean it is… wow.

Connor has noticed that Abby is only in her underwear.

Connor: Is it me or is it just really hot in here.

Abby: Um, I’ll get changed.

Connor: Here you should read this.

Connor hands Abby a piece of paper as she goes upstairs and pulls on a pair of jeans.

Abby: Where did you get this?

Connor: Internet. On the weird sightings forum. It looks to me like another anomaly. We should check it out.

Abby: What does Cutter say?

Connor: I haven’t actually told him yet. You know, I could be wrong, and I don’t want him to think I’m an idiot.

Abby: He already thinks you’re an idiot.

Connor: Thanks very much. Come on, think how impressed he’ll be if I’m right.

Abby: I still think you should tell him.

Rex chirps. Connor hears and twitches aside the blanket covering the tank as Abby comes down the stairs.

Connor: Rex?

Abby: Um, he came back.

Connor: Kidnapping helpless lizards?

Abby: I didn’t want Lester’s people getting hold of him again.

Connor: That explains why you’re keeping the place so hot.

Abby: You won’t tell anyone?

Connor: No, I mean, you can rely on me. So how’s about it. You in?

Abby: Um, maybe we should just let someone know.

Connor: Come on, this is our chance to show him that we’re useful. Come on Abby. We’re pals now right? Right?

Abby: Mhmm.

Connor: You never know. We could find a new little playmate for Rex. They could get together and talk about really old times.

UNDERGROUND TUNNELS TAKE 1:

A worker is going along, spraying the tracks and the sides of the tunnel, muttering to himself. He hears a strange noise and turns, but there is nothing there. He continues, the noise sounds again, and once more, there is nothing there. A rat crawls out of a side tunnel as the worker carries on. As he moves away, a GIANT SPIDER attacks the rat.

HOME OFFICE TAKE 1:

CLAUDIA BROWN is talking to JAMES LESTER as they walk through the building.

Claudia: The Forest of Dean is completely clear. I’ve left Ryan in charge of mopping up. There’s been a lot of internet chatter, but we’ve got natural disbelief on our side.

Lester: Eyewitnesses?

Claudia: The schoolteacher’s in shock. I’m positive we can keep her away from the papers. And the boy will be no problem. Thank you.

Lester opens the door to an enclosed walkway and lets Claudia through first.

Lester: Pity the monster didn’t eat them both. That would have been the neatest solution. Joke.

They stop in the middle of the walkway and Lester turns to Claudia as another office worker hands Lester some papers to sign before she leaves.

Worker: Sir.

Lester: What about Cutter?

Claudia: What about him?

Lester: I don’t like anyone to whom the adjective ‘maverick’ might be applied. Cutter virtually owns the copyright.

Claudia: He may be a little unconventional in his methods, but he’s the closest thing we’ve got to an expert.

Lester: You’ve taken to him, haven’t you?

Claudia: I trust him, if that’s what you mean?

Lester: Of course, what else? Very well, keep him on side for the time being. I’d rather have him inside the proverbial tent than out.

BY THE RIVER TAKE 1:

Connor and Abby are walking by a river. They are both carrying rucksacks.

Abby: Maybe this wasn’t such a great idea.

Connor: You can hold my hand if you’re frightened.

Abby: And how is that going to make me feel better? I just don’t think we should be doing this on our own.

Connor: Stop worrying. If it’s another gorgonopsid, just run like hell.

Abby: Shut up Connor.

Connor: I was just saying…

A bird calls, making them both jump.

UNDERGROUND TUNNELS TAKE 2:

The worker from before has taken a break and is eating a packed lunch. He drops his apple and jumps down from where he was sitting to pick it up. As he does so, a large spider rears up and runs away, unnoticed. The worker sits back down and takes a bite out of his apple.

CENTRAL METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY TAKE 4:

Nick takes a bite of an apple. He is still at his desk, going through some more papers, but Stephen is not with him. There is a knock on his door and Claudia enters.

Claudia: You didn’t reply to any of my messages, so I came in person.

Nick: You know, I’ve been going through some of Helen’s papers. Please.

Nick moves some papers off a chair and Claudia sits down. Nick sits at the other side of his desk.

Nick: It was my fault she disappeared.

Claudia: Why?

Nick: I was supposed to go with her on that last field trip, but we had a row. Another row. She’d become obsessed with theories that I found, well, ridiculous.

Claudia: You mean she was onto the anomaly?

Nick: No, not as such, but she’d become convinced that there was no conventional scientific answers to certain evolutionary puzzles. And, well, obviously she was right.

Claudia: Nobody could have guessed that.

Nick: Yes, but she did.

Claudia: You’re not to blame for her death you know.

Nick: What makes you so sure she’s dead?

Claudia: She was lost 200 million years ago in the past. What else could she be?

BY THE RIVER TAKE 2:

Abby walks from where bunch of canoes are stored to where Connor is sitting at the base of a tree. She sits next to him.

Abby: The tent’s only big enough for one. You should have brought your own.

Connor: I like sleeping out.

Abby: Don’t really look the type.

Connor: I did the Duke of Edinburgh award, you know. For a morning. Until I sprained my ankle.

Abby and Connor both snigger a bit.

Abby: I’m freezing.

Connor: We should huddle together for warmth.

Abby gives Connor an incredulous look.

Connor: Or not.

Abby: Can I ask you a personal question?

Connor: Go ahead. Anything.

Abby: Is Stephen seeing anybody?

Connor: Stephen?

Abby: Has he said anything about me?

Connor: Uh, no. Not that I can remember, no. Actually I’ve never seen him with a woman. He might not like them. Could be gay.

Abby: He’s gay?

Connor: Well, I never said he was. I just said he could be.

Abby: But you don’t know.

Connor: Not conclusively. No.

Abby gets up and goes to the tent.

Connor: I’ll keep first watch then, shall I?

Abby zips up the tent, Connor settles back against the tree.

CENTRAL METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY TAKE 5:

Nick and Claudia are still in his office, talking at Nick’s desk.

Nick: So, tell me the plan.

Claudia: What plan? What else can we do?

Nick: Well, we could start off by telling everyone the truth.

Claudia: Uh, no.

Nick: Why?

Claudia: Right now, this is just a rumour mill for Internet conspiracy freaks and we can contain that. The alternatives are panic, hysteria and potential lawlessness. Simply unviable.

Nick: A cover up. Connor will be thrilled.

Claudia: It’s not a cover up. Well, okay, it is. But we have to do it.

Stephen enters the office.

Stephen: Text from Abby. Connor thinks he’s onto another anomaly. They’ve gone to investigate.

Nick: Where are they?

Stephen: New Forest. She’s not exactly sure where.

BY THE RIVER TAKE 3:

Connor is pacing by the river as the Sun sets. Music is playing on a radio. Abby is in the tent. It goes dark. Connor has fallen asleep against a tree. His phone is ringing on its vibrate setting, but doesn’t wake him. There is a rustling in the bushes and a growling noise. Abby wakes up and gets out of the tent, waving a torch around. She goes over to Connor and wakes him.

Abby: Connor, wake up!

Connor: What?

They see something moving around in the trees.

Connor: Oh my god. Quick.

They try to get away but their exit is cut off, they retreat back the tent, and Connor places himself in front of Abby. There is an electronic whirring noise and the creature collapses. Connor and Abby approach it carefully. It appears to be an electronic dinosaur torso on a trolley.

Tom: Careful, it bites!

Tom and Duncan are in the trees, laughing at the prank.

Connor: You idiots!

Police sirens approach and Tom waves as he and Duncan run off. Connor sighs in disbelief.

UNDERGROUND TUNNELS TAKE 3:

The worker is still in the tunnels; he appears to be looking for any damage. He spots a hole in the wall and examines it. As he turns moves away he sees a giant spider and screams as it jumps at him.

BY THE RIVER TAKE 6:

Daylight. Nick is talking to a police officer whilst Stephen looks at the dinosaur model. Abby and Connor are standing by the river looking apprehensive.

Police officer: Take care and make sure it doesn’t happen again.

Nick approaches the others as the police officer rejoins his colleague.

Connor: Look, I know what you’re going to say.

Abby: We’re sorry.

Nick: The police aren’t going to prosecute you for trespassing. Supposing it had been a predator. What were you going to do? Tame it? You knew exactly what was at stake but you just couldn’t keep your mouth shut.

Connor: It’s just so big. I had to tell somebody. I’m sorry. I am. I blew it.

Nick: Go back to college. Get on with your work. I’ll find you another supervisor.

Abby: I’m just as much to blame as he is.

Nick: Just as stupid, maybe. But you didn’t shout your mouth off and you’ve still got skills I can use. You stay.

Nick and Stephen leave. Connor turns away, looking like he’s about to cry.

HOSPITAL TAKE 1:

A nurse is checking the underground worker that was attacked earlier. He is pale and shaking and appears to be having breathing difficulties. DR LEWIS is talking to Nick and Claudia.

Lewis: This kind of thing doesn’t normally interest the government.

Claudia: We like to keep an eye on violent crime, Dr Lewis. Especially when there’s unusual circumstances.

Lewis: Well, he was found early this morning in the Underground. He’d been spraying the tunnels for vermin. Judging from the size of the wound, he’d been attacked with a knife or an axe, but it makes no sense.

Claudia: Why not?

Lewis: It’s not the wound that’s killing him, it’s poison.

Claudia: Are you suggesting that someone took an axe to him, and then injected poison into the wound?

Lewis: Venom, to be precise.

Claudia: As in snakes and insects?

Lewis: We’re running every test we can think of, but the truth is, we just don’t know what we’re dealing with.

Claudia: Did he say anything before he lost consciousness?

Lewis: He was babbling about monsters.

Nick has walked over to the man and is looking at the wound.

Nick: It looks like a single puncture mark, but it’s not a knife and it’s not an axe. It’s more like a bite.

Lewis: From what?

Nick: Good question.

HOME OFFICE TAKE 2:

Nick is talking to Lester as they and Claudia walk through the building.

Lester: I can’t close the underground on a wild hunch.

Nick: Something injected a fatal dose of venom into his bloodstream.

Lester: There could be a perfectly rational explanation.

Nick: Oh, now that I’d love to hear.

Lester: And how do you suggest I explain this to the Mayor. ‘Excuse me sir, would you mind terribly throwing the whole bloody underground into chaos because with think there may be a fare-dodging creepy-crawly on the loose somewhere’?

The three of them reach Lester’s office.

Claudia: We’re not talking about shutting down the whole system, just the area where the attack took place. There’s a whole network of disused tunnels down there.

Lester sighs and moves around his desk and sits down.

Lester: Yes, very well.

OUTSIDE THE STATION TAKE 1:

Claudia arrives at the station with CAPTAIN TOM RYAN and a load of soldiers. The soldiers rush around making preparations. Getting guns out of cars, setting up perimeters etc.

Solider 1: Get them out. Right, follow me.

Soldier 2: Come on, come on, come on!

Station intercom: All passengers please vacate the station.

The passengers leave as the soldiers enter the station. The Nick, Stephen and Abby arrive.

UNDERGROUND TUNNELS TAKE 4:

Ryan and his men enter the tunnels.

Ryan: Vision on lads.

OUTSIDE THE STATION TAKE 2:

Nick is with Claudia.

Nick: We should be down there with them.

Claudia: Special Forces go in first. You didn’t think Lester was going to let you have it all your own way?

UNDERGROUND TUNNELS TAKE 4:

Ryan and his men are making last minute preparations – checking weapons, putting on night vision goggles etc.

OUTSIDE THE STATION TAKE 3:

Nick: They don’t even know what they’re looking for.

Stephen: Well, there can’t be that many different types of venomous predator under the Aldwych.

Claudia: You should see the last tube home on a Friday night.

UNDERGROUND TUNNELS TAKE 5:

Ryan and his men enter the tunnels. They find a spot where a door has been covered loosely by some corrugated metal.

Ryan: Here, clear it.

One of the soldiers moves the metal, exposing the entrance.

Ryan: Ready, go.

The soldiers enter a short tunnel and approach the door at the other end.

Soldier (over the radio): Last one in.

Ryan: Clear so far. Keep it really tight lads.

We see some shots with natural light, and some as though we are looking through night vision goggles, making everything green.

The first soldiers reach the door and open it, entering some sort of large storeroom.

Soldier (over the radio): Moving in.

The soldiers enter, when Ryan looks up, he sees lots of glowing eyes.

Ryan: Push forward, cover the exit.

They pause near the centre of the room and look around. A spider comes around the corner and scuttles towards them. The soldiers train their weapons on it.

Solider 1: Pull tight!

Ryan: Keep it tight.

The spider runs off and the soldiers regroup, forming a circle that covers everyone’s back.

Ryan: Close in!

Ryan looks up, and removes his night vision goggles (it’s not really dark enough to need them) and sees loads of giant spiders on the ceiling. Some of his men follow his line of sight. Some of the spiders start to drop.

Ryan: Above! Above!

A spider lands on one of the soldiers.

Soldier: Get off!

Ryan knocks the spider away. He and his men start defending themselves as more spiders drop on them.

Soldier 2: What are they?

Soldier 3: They’re everywhere!

One of the soldiers takes aim at a spider.

Ryan: Hold your fire!

Too late, the soldier fires and the bullet ricochets around the room.

OUTSIDE THE STATION TAKE 4:

Claudia is listening in on a radio. Nick is nearby and joins her as a scream is heard over the radio.

UNDERGROUND TUNNELS TAKE 6:

Most of the men are crouched on the floor. The spiders seem to have retreated somewhat.

Ryan: Withdraw.

The soldiers leave through the tunnel, Ryan bringing up the rear.

OUTSIDE THE STATION TAKE 5:

A medic is examining the soldier who had a spider dropped on him. The medic shows Nick a puncture wound on the soldier’s neck. Stephen, Claudia and Ryan are with him.

Ryan: They were like spiders, but with pincers, not fangs. Some of them over a meter long. Horrible little…

Nick: Look, tell me how you feel.

Ryan: Sick. My ears are ringing…

Nick: Any blurred vision?

Ryan: No. But there’s something else. The gunshots were too bright, like fireworks.

Stephen: That’s classic signs of excess oxygen in the atmosphere.

They leave Ryan to prepare his men. Abby joins them.

Nick: A richer, more heavily oxygenated air must be seeping through from another anomaly. We’re not talking about the Permian era any longer. This is much, much earlier.

Claudia: How much earlier?

Nick: Maybe the Carboniferous about 300 million years ago. We really need to see exactly what these creatures look like. I need to see this for myself.

Claudia: Okay, go.

Nick: Lets get some gear.

Nick, Abby and Stephen leave to get suited up.

CENTRAL METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY TAKE 6:

Connor is sitting by himself on a bench in a garden area at the University.

OUTSIDE THE STATION TAKE 6:

Abby is lacing up her boots. Ryan walks past her to where Nick and Stephen are standing.

Stephen: Oh, you wear it well. You look good.

Nick and Stephen laugh as Ryan walks up and offers a gun to Nick.

Nick: Ah. No, we need torches. The most powerful you can find.

Ryan: Take night vision goggles.

Stephen: Vision isn’t the issue.

Claudia approaches them.

Claudia: Well, the pest controller died a few minutes ago. They’re running tests on our casualty now.

Abby approaches, adjusting her belt.

Claudia: What’s she doing?

Nick: Abby’s got more practical experience with animals than the rest of us put together.

Claudia: I don’t care if she’s Doctor Dolittle. Sorry, it’s just too risky.

Abby: I can help. I’ve just finished a study in insect behaviour.

Nick: Torches.

Claudia, Nick and Ryan walk off.

Stephen: Is that true?

Abby: Kind of. To tell you the truth, spiders aren’t really my thing.

Stephen: Yeah, well, technically these are probably scorpions.

Abby: I feel better already.

UNDERGROUND TUNNELS TAKE 7:

Nick, Stephen and Abby enter the underground tunnels, armed only with torches. They enter the tunnel to the storeroom. A spider is in there, the torches scare it away.

Nick: On the ground. That’s what I thought, they’re sensitive to the light.

The three of them enter the tunnel, Nick first, Abby last. There is another spider on the wall above them. They only notice it when it moves as Abby goes past.

Abby: Oh! Does anyone have a really big slipper.

They enter the room, spiders are scuttling around on the floor.

Nick: I don’t like this.

They move further into the room. Stephen gags as he stands on one of the spiders. Abby finds a fence at the side of the room, there is a fairly large hole in it.

Abby: Cutter.

Nick and Stephen follow Abby through the fence. An ANOMALY is on the other side. They go and stand in front of it.

Nick: What’s happening to us?

As they watch, several spiders run back through the anomaly into their own time. Abby drops her torch. She turns and picks it up. As she straightens, she sees something moving at the back of the room.

Abby: Guys.

Nick and Stephen turn, and see the same thing she did.

Abby: What is it?

Stephen: I don’t know.

Nick: It’s not a spider.

They jump back as an ARTHROPLEURID bursts out from behind a set of metal bins. Stephen and Abby dive back through the fence, but the Arthropleurid blocks Nick off from that exit. He throws a box at it and it momentarily backs off.

OUTSIDE THE STATION TAKE 7:

Claudia has been listening in on the radio.

Claudia: Cutter, what’s going on?

Nick (over the radio): There’s another creature down here.

UNDERGROUND TUNNELS TAKE 8:

Nick (continued): But don’t worry, we’re coming out. Stephen, Stephen can you see it?

Stephen: No!

There is a strange noise, Stephen looks up to see the Arthropleurid crawling across the ceiling above him.

Abby: Stephen!

Stephen pushes Abby out of harms way and grabs a box, throwing it at the Arthropleurid. The Arthropleurid doesn’t back off and now has Stephen and Abby backed into a corner. Nick whistles, attracting the Arthropleurid to him.

Nick: Go!

Stephen: Nick!

Nick: Go, go. Get Abby out of here!

Stephen: Come on!

Abby: No!

Stephen and Abby make it to the tunnel and close the door. Leaving Nick alone in the room with the Arthropleurid, which turns towards him.

Nick: Damn.

Nick runs to the back of the room where there is another door. He goes through and slams it behind him. He braces himself against the door as the Arthropleurid crashes into the door a couple of times. He is in a series of tunnels.

After the banging stops, Nick steps away from the door. A woman’s voice is heard. HELEN CUTTER.

Helen (whispering): Nick.

Nick: Hello?

Helen: Nick.

Nick: Who’s there?

Nick leaves the door and heads into the tunnels. Following a shadow.

Nick: Helen!

OUTSIDE THE STATION TAKE 8:

Claudia is trying to raise Nick on the radio, Abby and Stephen are with her.

Claudia: Cutter? Come in. All I’m getting is interference. Look.

Claudia spreads out a map to show Stephen and Abby.

Claudia: There’s no other way out. This tunnel was blocked 30 years ago.

Abby: What? Then why isn’t he back here?

Stephen: Look, he’s got to be trapped, okay? I’m going back in.

Claudia: No-one goes anywhere until we know what we’re dealing with.

Stephen: He could be injured.

Claudia: I don’t want to leave him down there anymore than you do, but I’m not losing anyone else in this wild goose chase. We don’t even know for sure where he is. Did you see what kind of creature it was?

Stephen: It was some kind of centipede.

Abby: But huge!

Claudia: Any more? Like preferred habitat, behavioural patterns, strengths, weaknesses?

Abby: We don’t know. No one does!

Stephen: Connor might. He’s like a walking encyclopaedia of this stuff. He probably has giant bug fridge magnets.

Claudia: Okay, I’ll get him here.

Claudia hands Stephen the map and walks away.

Claudia: Ryan, we need to get Connor…

Stephen: I can’t leave him in there.

Abby: You can’t go down there without back up.

Stephen: Watch me.

Abby: Stephen.

Stephen runs off back to the station.

UNDERGROUND TUNNELS TAKE 9:

Nick is walking through the tunnels, looking for Helen. He comes to multiple dead ends.

Nick: Hello? Hello?

Stephen arrives at the entrance of the main tunnel.

Stephen: Cutter?

Stephen looks through the boxes on the station platform looking for a weapon. He finds a flamethrower. Stephen enters the tunnels and goes into the storeroom. He uses the flamethrower to scare the giant spiders.

Stephen: Cutter!

He goes through the fence and sees the door at the back of the room that Nick escaped through. As he approaches the door, the Arthropleurid comes up behind him. Stephen spins around and uses the flamethrower to make the Arthropleurid retreat.

Stephen: Cutter!

He walks around the room, but as he goes past the anomaly, the magnetic forces suck the flamethrower through the anomaly, leaving Stephen defenceless. The Arthropleurid advances again.

Stephen: Oh god.

Stephen runs towards the exit, but is cut of by the Arthropleurid, which then attacks him.

OUTSIDE THE STATION TAKE 9:

Abby is trying to raise Stephen on her radio. She doesn’t notice Claudia and Ryan come up behind her.

Abby: Stephen. Where are you? Stephen?

Claudia: What’s he done?

Abby gives Claudia a sorrowful look and Claudia takes the radio from her.

Claudia: Stephen, where the hell are you?

Abby: He was trying to help.

Claudia: Well, he’s done a really great job, hasn’t he? Stephen, come in. Stephen? That’s the problem with heroic gestures. Succeed and you look wonderful. Fail, and all you do is leave everybody else with a bloody mess to clear up. Well done. [To Ryan] Get down there.

Ryan goes and gets his men ready to go back into the tunnels. Connor has just arrived.

Abby: Connor!

UNDERGROUND TUNNELS TAKE 10:

Stephen is lying on the floor, suffering from the effects of the venom. He is shaking and sweating and having breathing difficulties. Helen enters the room and steps through the fence, towards Stephen. He can’t tell who she is at first.

Stephen: Over here. Help me. Why don’t you say something?

Nick is still travelling the tunnels.

Nick: Helen!

Stephen: Helen?

Nick finds the door that he entered by and goes back into the storeroom. He sees Stephen on the floor and rushes over.

Nick: What happened?

Stephen: Argument with the bug. The bug won.

Nick: Where is it now? All right, lets get you out of here.

Stephen: Hey. I don’t have any feeling in my legs.

Nick: Yeah, shock.

Nick helps Stephen to sit up and gives him the torch.

Nick: Here take this.

Nick then helps Stephen to his feet. Stephen leans heavily on Nick and limps as they leave the room.

Stephen: There’s something I have to tell you.

Nick: Ah, you’re not dying. It can wait.

Stephen: Helen’s alive? She was here. She gave me a message.

Nick: What’s the message.

Stephen: She’s waiting on the other side of the anomaly. She said… she said if you want to know the truth, you’ve got to come and find her.

Nick brings Stephen out of the tunnel just as the soldiers arrive on the platform.

Nick: Help! We need a medic!

OUTSIDE THE STATION TAKE 10:

Connor is on her computer, looking up possible creatures. Claudia and Abby are with him, looking over his shoulders.

Connor: Okay, Carboniferous. So it’s probably an Arthropleurid. That’s a centipede on steroids, basically. It’s more or less blind, good sense of smell and touch. I mean, this thing’s pretty big and scary looking, but it’s more or less timid. It’s the kind of bug that’d stick to the kitchen at parties.

Claudia: This one must have a personality disorder. How dangerous is it?

Connor: According to this, it would have eaten dead wood and leaves.

Claudia: So it’s not poisonous.

Connor: No way.

Claudia: That’s a good thing then.

The soldiers arrive with Nick and Stephen. Claudia, Abby and Connor rush over.

Soldier: Medic! Stretcher!

They load Stephen onto a stretcher and the paramedics take over.

Paramedic: We’ve got it.

Abby: Stephen!

Someone pulls Stephen’s collar back to expose the wound.

Nick: He’s been bitten by the Arthropleurid. Same wound, same symptoms as the pest controller. We need to do something before it destroys his central nervous system.

Connor: Poison?

Nick: The spiders are off the hook. It’s the centipede that’s the killer.

Claudia: Not poisonous you said.

Connor: Look, I was only speculating.

Stephen: Tell them about Helen. She was there.

Nick, Connor and Claudia fall back, away from the stretcher.

Claudia: What’s he talking about.

Nick: I don’t know. He must be hallucinating.

Claudia: He looked seemed fairly lucid to me.

Stephen is being loaded into the ambulance, the paramedics pause to open the doors.

Stephen: You know, you look really beautiful.

Abby: You’re delirious.

Stephen: Have dinner with me.

Abby: We’ll talk about it when you’re better.

Stephen: I can’t wait that long.

Abby: Of course I will. And I’ll have coffee at your place later and stay for breakfast in the morning.

Stephen: Good result. It’s amazing how much easier this stuff is when you’re dying.

Abby: You’re not dying!

Stephen is loaded into the ambulance and Abby jumps in to ride to the hospital with him.

HOSPITAL TAKE 2:

Stephen is wheeled into hospital by a team of nurses and Dr Lewis. He is wearing a breathing mask.

Lewis: Who did this to him?

Abby: Not who, what. It was a centipede.

Lewis: What kind of centipede?

Abby: It’s hard to explain.

Lewis: If we don’t find out exactly what bit him, he will die.

Abby: Okay, tell me what you need to find a cure and I’ll get you all the information I can.

Lewis: There are no obvious treatments. People just don’t die of centipede bites. But if we can get hold of a good sample of the venom, we might be able to find an anti-venom that matches it.

Abby: Will that make him better?

Lewis: Anti-venoms are a last resort. Toxic in their own right. The survival rate can be as low as 50%, but without it, his chances are nil.

Abby: Just keep him alive.

UNDERGROUND TUNNELS TAKE 11:

Ryan and his men are back in the storeroom, using the torches to scare the spiders back through the anomaly.

Ryan: It’s working. They’re going back through.

OUTSIDE THE STATION TAKE 11:

Claudia, Abby, Nick and Connor are talking about how to save Stephen.

Claudia: Can’t we run some more tests and find a match for the venom somehow?

Abby: It would take to long. He’s dying.

Nick: No, the only way to shortcut the process is to collect a pure sample of venom from the creature that bit him.

Claudia: How the hell are we going to do that? Ask it to fill a specimen jar?

Nick: In a way.

Connor: Oh, come on.

Nick: No. It’s the only option. [Into a radio] Ryan, Ryan are you there?

UNDERGROUND TUNNELS TAKE 12:

Ryan: First line’s clear. Moving into second bunker.

Nick (over the radio): Have you seen the centipede yet? If we lose it Stephen’s dead.

OUTSIDE THE STATION TAKE 12:

Nick (into radio): On no account let it return through the anomaly. Repeat, do not let it go back. [To Connor] Find me something that will do the job.

Claudia: What are you going to do?

Nick: I’m going to invite a very angry centipede to bite me.

UNDERGROUND TUNNELS TAKE 13:

Nick, Abby, Connor and Claudia enter the storeroom where Ryan and his men are standing guard. They go through the fence to where Ryan is.

Ryan: Bunker’s clear. And it hasn’t been through the anomaly on my watch. There’s nowhere else for it to go. Either it’s already gone through, or it’s behind that door.

Nick: We go in there.

Nick leads everyone through the door into the tunnels beyond.

Nick: Keep your eyes open, this thing’s fast.

They go through the tunnels, checking each dead end.

Ryan: Clear.

Nick: It’s gone back. We must have lost it. Damn it.

They go back to the storeroom. Nick is standing in front of the anomaly with Claudia.

Nick: If Stephen hadn’t come back for me, then he wouldn’t have got bitten.

Claudia: It wasn’t your fault.

Connor rushes into the room.

Connor: Professor! I’d forgotten. Arthropleurid, they were supposed to be burrowers, so look for a hole, in the floor, in the walls, anywhere.

Connor goes back through the fence and he and the soldiers start looking for a hole. Connor finds it hidden behind a load of junk and does a little victory dance.

Connor: Cutter! I found it!

Nick rushes into the room.

Connor: I was right, it is still here.

Claudia: Good work.

Nick: How deep could this be?

Connor: A creature that size? 50 feet, maybe.

Nick: All right, fine, I’m going in.

Claudia: That’s crazy.

Nick: There’s no other way of finding out where it’s gone.

Connor: I’m going to come too.

Nick: Aye.

Connor: Right.

Nick runs off to grab a glass bottle full of turpentine.

Connor: Cool, okay, um… [To Abby] Look, if I don’t come back, you can have my Star Trek Next Generation top trumps.

Abby: I’ll treasure them.

Connor: You know what, on second thoughts, maybe you should bury them with me.

Nick (to Connor and Ryan): Here, put this on your clothes. It’s turpentine. Bugs hate it. All right?

Ryan and Connor do as instructed and then the three of them enter the tunnel. Connor glances back once before he enters, and after he has gone, Claudia crouches by the tunnel entrance. Nick and Ryan have torches, but Connor doesn’t. The tunnel is just wide enough for them to crawl through and there are loads of roots coming out of its sides.

Connor: I won’t have a panic attack. I will not have a panic attack.

They come out the other end into an area that looks a bit like an underground building site. The walls are concrete and there is a structure made of large steel girders, which is several storeys high.

Connor: Could it really have climbed up there?

Nick: Let’s find out.

Ryan starts to go up the stairs first, but Nick stops him.

Nick: Just got to give it a chance to get to me first.

Connor: Claustrophobia and vertigo on the same day. This is, um, fabulous.

Nick: Whatever happens, don’t shoot until we’ve got the venom.

The reach the top storey. There was a fence around the platform at the top, keeping people out, but there is a hole in it, which Nick, Ryan and Connor go through. This area is electrified, as shown by a ‘Danger of Death’ sign on the twisted ruins of the fence. The Arthropleurid is on one of the girders above them. They don’t notice until Connor accidentally knocks over a stool and they turn around. It comes down the girders towards them and Nick steps forwards.

Nick: Come on.

The Arthropleurid lunges at Nick, who raises his arm. The Arthropleurid releases Nick and he stumbles back. Ryan shoots at the creature but it has not effect apart from making it angry. The Arthropleurid lunges at Ryan and knocks him back, but doesn’t bite him. Connor grabs the stool that he knocked over earlier (a metal stool in an electrified area, that’s clever), and he lunges at the Arthropleurid with it.

Nick: Careful, Connor.

The Arthropleurid grabs hold of the stool and pulls it out of Connor’s grasp.

Ryan: Let it go!

The stool has become jammed in the Arthropleurid’s mouth and it tries to get rid of the stool by thrashing around. The stool accidentally hits one of the electrified areas, electrocuting the Arthropleurid, which then falls off the platform and to the ground. The guys all take a couple of deep breaths before Nick and Ryan start to laugh in relief (Connor is mildly shocked that he saved the day). Nick pulls back his sleeve, revealing the plastic bag full of Arthropleurid venom.

Nick: Lets get this back to Stephen.

HOSPITAL TAKE 3:

Stephen is unconscious, but looking a lot better. Abby is sitting in a chair by his bedside when Connor enters.

Connor: How is he?

Abby: The convulsions have stopped. That’s something.

Connor: You really like him, don’t you?

Abby: I don’t know him.

Connor: When has that ever stopped people from fancying each other before. You see, the same thing happened to me once. With Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I admit she’s a fictional character, but, you know, when it feels real… Then she starts hanging around with this badly animated dog and it all got a bit weird. Always break your heart in the end though, eh?

Stephen starts to cough, and his eyes open. Connor goes to the door as Abby leans closer to Stephen.

Connor: Doctor! I think he’s back.

HOSPITAL TAKE 4:

It’s later that day. Stephen is sitting up in bed, reading a book and looking a lot better. Claudia enters.

Claudia: Hi.

Stephen: Hi.

Claudia: How are you feeling?

Stephen: Like I gargled with sand and slept inside a tumble dryer.

Claudia: So, tell me about Helen.

Stephen: What about Helen?

Claudia: You saw her.

Stephen: I saw her? When?

Claudia: In the tunnel. That’s what you said.

Abby arrives at the door and listens in.

Stephen: I… I was gone, you know. I don’t remember anything. I was probably just seeing things.

Claudia: Yeah, probably.

Claudia leaves and Abby enters.

Stephen: What was all that about?

Abby: You really can’t remember a thing after you were bitten? None of the things you said in the ambulance?

Stephen: What did I say?

Abby: Oh, just stuff. I just thought some of it might of stuck, that’s all.

Stephen: Was it important?

Abby: Nah,, nah. No, not really.

Stephen: Thanks for looking after me, Abby.

UNDERGROUND TUNNELS TAKE 13:

Nick is sitting in front of the anomaly, looking sorry for himself. Connor enters via the hole in the fence and goes to sit next to him.

Connor: Hi. Hey, um… Does this mean I’m back in?

Nick: Any way we can keep you out?

Connor: I just want to help.

Nick: You did a good job.

Connor: Oh my god. You know what? All my life I’ve wanted to be in a crime-busting gang. And now I am. Sort of. I don’t suppose you would consider giving me a cool nickname, would you?

Nick: No.

Connor: Oh well. I thought not.

Connor leaves, but Nick is looking marginally less sorry for himself. Until he turns back to the anomaly. He gets up and walks closer to it and reaches out a hand.

Nick: Where are you Helen? What do you want?

Trailer for next episode.

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