- Professor Nick Cutter: [watching security video] A Cretaceous era therapod dinosaur. The genuine article.
- Connor Temple: A raptor. I always hoped we'd get one someday.
- Professor Nick Cutter: It's beautiful.
- [the raptor eats the camera and the team turns to stare at Nick]
- Professor Nick Cutter: I said it was beautiful; I didn't say it was friendly.
- Professor Nick Cutter: [staring at an unconscious raptor.] Look at it. It's a perfect killing machine. In a fair fight, a mammal wouldn't stand a chance.
- Stephen Hart: Speaking as a mammal, I'm in favor of cheating.
- Boy 2: [the team is chasing a raptor through a parking garage] What the hell was that?
- Professor Nick Cutter: Radio-controlled Cretaceous-era raptor. Be on the shelves by Christmas.
- James Lester: Cutter's always been eccentric, but I'm beginning to think he's just plain deranged.
- Oliver Leek: Well, I suppose all very brilliant men are a little bit unusual, sir.
- James Lester: I'm brilliant, Leek, and I'm not the least bit unusual.
- Connor Temple: Where's my gun? Abby's got one!
- Stephen Hart: She knows how to use it.
- Abby Maitland: How many animals have you tranquilized?
- Connor Temple: I've played darts!
- Professor Nick Cutter: [Narration] My name is Professor Nick Cutter. Eight years ago my wife Helen disappeared, I discovered she had stepped into the past through ruptures in time called anomalies. Now creatures from the past threaten the future of the human race. There's only a small group of people who know the truth, my research team; Stephen Hart, Connor Temple and Abby Maitland and government officials James Lester and Claudia Brown. I returned from the past to find that something has gone terribly wrong and Claudia Brown has vanished as though she were never even born. I've come back to a different world and Helen and I are the only two people who know it.
- Connor Temple: Let me get this straight. You're saying that something's changed because of what happened in the Permian anomaly? Like evolution has just what, altered course?
- Professor Nick Cutter: I'm glad somebody was listening. You believe me?
- Connor Temple: [thinks for a moment] Alright, I'll buy it.
- Professor Nick Cutter: I could kiss you, Connor.
- Connor Temple: That's really sweet, but maybe not while there's people watching. One thing, though. How do I know how I'm different when I don't know what I was like before?
- Professor Nick Cutter: Apparently some people never change
- Connor Temple: Is that a bad or a good thing?
- Stephen Hart: Are we okay?
- Professor Nick Cutter: About what?
- Stephen Hart: We can't ignore what happened.
- Professor Nick Cutter: Oh, you mean the fact that you slept with my wife? Stephen, if you're looking for closure, I'm a little bit busy.
- Stephen Hart: I don't blame you for being angry.
- Professor Nick Cutter: Helen never cared about either of us. She's mad.
- Stephen Hart: Mad?
- Professor Nick Cutter: She took off through an anomaly for 8 years. Does that strike you as well-balanced? Just forget it. I'm finished with the past. It's just I don't know if it's finished with me.
- Connor Temple: [to Abby] Don't you hate it when people bring their personal lives to work with them?
- James Lester: Leek, has the concept of personal space ever been explained to you?
- Oliver Leek: Sorry Sir, it's from the Ministry and it is marked top priority.
- James Lester: Private sector Public Relations Manager? What am I supposed to do with one of those?
- Oliver Leek: The minister thinks that we need more help with the media. He feels that the situation is kind of getting out of hand. His words, sir, not mine.
- James Lester: The last thing I need is some greasy PR supremo sucking up to the press. This isn't a reality TV show.
- [On the phone with Cutter]
- James Lester: Let me know the minute it's safe to re-open. And keep in touch. You know how I worry when I don't hear from you.
- [Hangs up]
- James Lester: A raptor in a shopping centre. How can I explain that to the owners? I think a PR person might not be such a bad idea after all.
- Professor Nick Cutter: Listen, you could have gone with Helen, you could have left, and you didn't. And right now that's all that really matters. So so just forget about the rest.
- Stephen Hart: Do you think she'll be back?
- Professor Nick Cutter: Do you mean do I think she's finished messing with us? I seriously doubt it. Helen never handled rejection particularly well.
- Professor Nick Cutter: [about the tranquilized baby raptor] I want you to take this back to the bowling alley and come meet us in the store.
- Connor Temple: On my own?
- Professor Nick Cutter: It's unconscious. You've got nothing to worry about.
- Connor Temple: What if it's just playing dead?
- Professor Nick Cutter: Playing dead?
- [pause]
- Professor Nick Cutter: Yeah. You know, as Cretaceous era predators go, this creature's pretty smart, so yeah, watch out for that.
- Connor Temple: [laughs] Yeah. Wait. really?
- Professor Nick Cutter: There are three raptors, one of them's a baby. So the chances are they're a family unit. So maybe we don't have to go looking for daddy. Maybe this little fellow will bring him to us.
- [the baby bleats]
- Professor Nick Cutter: That's right, you shout for your daddy. Now, let's just hope they're a close family.
- Professor Nick Cutter: Hey! Have you seen an animal pass this way?
- Boy 2: A dog, a polar bear, what?
- Professor Nick Cutter: No, trust me, you'd know if you'd seen it.
- Connor Temple: [after accidentally tranquilizing her] Abby, I want you to know something. If I was gonna shoot anyone you'd so be the last person I'd shoot. Apart from my mother, obviously, but you'd be right down the bottom of the list with her. In fact, I don't think I'd shoot either of you.
- Abby Maitland: Can we drop this?
- Connor Temple: Yeah.
- Abby Maitland: Okay, can you move the gun out of the Abby area? Thanks.
- Connor Temple: 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 Hart: When you put it like that, it sounds so easy.
- Professor Nick Cutter: I'm going to do this on my own.
- Abby Maitland: We'll help.
- Connor Temple: Who's "we"?
- Abby Maitland: Cutter, I've been meaning to ask you. This Claudia Brown. What was she like?
- Professor Nick Cutter: What does it matter? I mean, to you she never even existed.
- Abby Maitland: Tell me anyway.
- Professor Nick Cutter: Well, she was OK. She... Good at her job. Loyal. Team player. Not as tough as she pretended to be, but she was strong when it mattered.
- Abby Maitland: She meant a lot to you.
- Professor Nick Cutter: Yeah.
- Abby Maitland: Sorry.
- Professor Nick Cutter: What for?
- Abby Maitland: That I didn't know her and 'cause you lost her.
- Professor Nick Cutter: The place is clean and the anomaly's gone. You can give the all clear.
- James Lester: Excellent. We'll handle it from here. Oh, good work, by the way. That could have been very nasty.
- Professor Nick Cutter: Indeed.
- James Lester: You know you deserve a rest, and a chance to recover. Take an hour. No, let's not be mean, take two.