- Connor Temple: [about the Camera Probe he designed to go through the Anomaly] It's a prototype. Not meant to be sexy.
- Stephen Hart: That thing's not gonna make it through the pipe, let alone the anomaly.
- Connor Temple: Could we just have a little bit of faith, please? And a little bit of silence? Thank you.
- Abby Maitland: Is that my hair dryer?
- Connor Temple: ...Might be. Now I know what Galileo had to put up with.
- Taylor: Would you rather die of thirst, or be eaten? I think I'd rather be eaten. At least it's quick. Two bites, done. You're like four or five bites, so it'd be worse for you.
- Nick Cutter: Can you not try and be positive for five minutes? You know, hopeful?
- Taylor: We're probably the best food around. Imagine you're a giant sand beast, living on nothing but millipedes. Then you get to taste people for the first time, all gooey and warm. We'd be like a delicacy. Who do you think they'll eat first?
- Nick Cutter: Why don't you sing a song, or whistle, or... something, damn it, just don't talk?
- James Lester: Daphne and... Scrappy will have to take charge of the anomaly operation.
- Connor Temple: You mean us?
- James Lester: Unfortunately, yes. God help us.
- Oliver Leek: Sorry, sir. Terrible loss. Such a brilliant man and, of course, a good friend.
- James Lester: Are you out of your mind? Cutter and I loathed each other.
- Oliver Leek: Oh, I didn't realize.
- James Lester: If there's one thing I despise more than stupidity, it's sentimentality.
- Nick Cutter: [Viewing the anomaly through a camera probe] It's pre-Carboniferous. Maybe Ordovician or Silurian. There's no dinosaurs, no mammals, and no birds... wait a minute, what's that?
- Connor Temple: It's a little girl.
- Jenny Lewis: What is she doing?
- Nick Cutter: She's looking for her dog.
- Abby Maitland: She might be injured.
- Connor Temple: There's nothing really in the Silurian to injure her. We're talking a few basic plants and some bugs.
- Abby Maitland: How big are the bugs?
- Connor Temple: Bug size, I think.
- Jenny Lewis: This better not be another false alarm.
- Nick Cutter: Why, were you busy?
- Jenny Lewis: Engagement party.
- Connor Temple: Very nice. Anybody we know?
- Jenny Lewis: Mine, actually. Not my idea. Future mother-in-law. It's all rather dreary, you see.
- Nick Cutter: So you'd rather be with us?
- Jenny Lewis: I was going to say, any excuse. So yes, even you.
- Helen Cutter: You don't mind, do you? I got slimed in the Devonian. The smell would make your eyes water.
- Stephen Hart: And this was the only shower you could find within a million years?
- Stephen Hart: [about Abby] What did you say to her, exactly?
- Connor Temple: Well, you know, I I think I said I loved her.
- Stephen Hart: You think?
- Connor Temple: I did say that. It's just, you know, she was a bit busy. She might have forgotten.
- Stephen Hart: Women don't forget things like that. She'll be waiting for you to make the next move.
- Connor Temple: Really?
- Stephen Hart: Yeah.
- Connor Temple: Right. So what's that?
- Stephen Hart: That's up to you. But whatever it is, be confident. Confidence is sexy. If you love Abby, just tell her
- Connor Temple: Just tell her?
- Stephen Hart: Yeah.
- Connor Temple: You wouldn't do it for me, would you?
- Taylor: So, is this some kind of giant wind-up?
- Nick Cutter: What?
- Taylor: One minute I'm in Hackney and the next I'm in the desert. The way I look at it, I've probably been hypnotized or something and you've brought me here as this big joke. I bet there are cameras everywhere.
- Nick Cutter: Yeah, and the public gets to vote which one of us gets eaten first.
- Connor Temple: I don't think it's working out with me and Caroline. Never really had that chemistry.
- Abby Maitland: Chemistry, yeah. It's important.
- Connor Temple: Yep... So, do you think I should finish with her?
- Abby Maitland: Ahh, I think you should do what's right for you.
- [Connor Takes out his phone]
- Abby Maitland: What are you doing?
- Connor Temple: Dumping her.
- Abby Maitland: By text? You can't do that. That's horrible.
- Connor Temple: I thought you just said I should do what's right for me.
- Abby Maitland: I didn't mean that way!
- Connor Temple: [a millipede runs out of the Anomaly] What was that?
- Abby Maitland: I don't know.
- Connor Temple: Oh please tell me it's not rats, they really freak me out.
- Abby Maitland: [Spots some tracks] No. Too many legs for a rat.
- Connor Temple: How many legs are we talking?
- Abby Maitland: Plenty.
- James Lester: [to Cutter] You know I never thought I'd say this, but given the choice between you and Connor, I'm really glad to have you back.