Episode 8 (Primeval)

Infobox Television episode
Title = Episode Eight
Series = Primeval


Caption = Jenny Lewis is attacked by a worm.
Season = 2
Episode = 8
Airdate = January 19, 2008
Production =
Writer = Adrian Hodges
Director = Andrew Gunn
Guests =
Episode list = List of episodes
Prev = Episode 7
Next = Episode 9"Episode Eight" of the ITV sci-fi drama "Primeval" was broadcast on 19 January, 2008.

ynopsis

While Cutter tries to adjust to Lester's PR executive, who looks identical to Claudia Brown, giant worms attack a local office block.

Plot

Cutter and the team are joined by a new PR guru, Jenny Lewis, who looks every inch like Claudia Brown, but has no recollection of her doppelganger. She is also somewhat skeptical about her new job, unwilling to believe in the existence of dinosaurs and the severity of the anomalies.

Meanwhile, a thick layer of mist with a foul sulphurous smell takes over a skyscraper. An anomaly has opened on the 15th floor and the fog has spilled out from it. The building staff discover giant carnivorous worms moving inside and only just manage to escape with their lives, although the creatures still manage to kill several people. Jenny, who has been appointed as operations manager, nearly breaks down with horror when she realises what she is dealing with.

Meanwhile, Connor meets a girl called Caroline in a video store. The pair seem to get on quite well, and Connor brings her back to the flat, much to the annoyance of Abby and even Rex. Abby seems to show signs of jealousy: when she and Connor have to leave to help deal with the worms, she doesn't show much sympathy for Connor's having to leave Caroline suddenly. Caroline writes her phone number on Connor's hand.

At the same time, Stephen returns to his flat to find Helen Cutter, badly injured, having returned to the present day after being injured by a pterosaur. After treating her wounds, Stephen leaves to help Nick and the team, leaving Helen in bed and telling her he wants her gone by the time he gets back (it is hinted they may have carried on with their affair).

Nick and Stephen enter the building and rescue a fire-fighter trapped inside, being attacked by the worms. In the confusion, Stephen and Nick become separated with Nick moving down to the lower levels of the building and Stephen forced to the upper levels. Stephen gets trapped in a lift shaft and Cutter realises the worms can’t survive outside the fog: as they are Pre-Cambrian creatures, they are used to a sulphurous atmosphere, making oxygen highly poisonous to them. Cutter is also forced to rescue Jenny when she rashly enters the building in an effort to find out what is going on for herself. She is attacked by one of the worms, but Nick rescues her, beheading the creature with a katana.

At the same time, Connor and Abby are at the A.R.C, trying to find something to use against the worms: however, Oliver Leek's efforts to provide them with equipment prove of little use. Realising that conventional weapons won't work, the pair go to a garden centre to get leaf-blowers to clear the fog. However, in the corridors of the A.R.C, Connor encounters a soldier with a scarred throat, who looks exactly like the cleaner attacked by the infant Deinonychus in the previous episode: however, Abby is sceptical.

Connor and Abby eventually arrive at the skyscraper, and Nick sends them to the 15th floor to turn the heat up, in an effort to clear the fog, kill the worms and expose the anomaly; however when they turn the heat up, the worms explode, releasing small parasites which attach themselves to Jenny, Stephen and Nick. Nick uses a lighter to set off the sprinkler system, lowering the heat and killing the parasites

Afterwards, Connor and Abby return to their flat: however, Caroline returns shortly afterwards, having left her mobile behind. Connor asks her to go for a drink, leaving a disappointed Abby behind. Cutter goes to Jenny's home and tries to explain what he thinks has happened with her and Claudia but is met by her boyfriend/husband. Making his excuses, he leaves. Unknown to him, watching in a car a short distance away is Helen, a malicious smile on her lips.

Cast

*Nick Cutter — Douglas Henshall
*Abby Maitland — Hannah Spearritt
*Stephen Hart — James Murray
*Connor Temple — Andrew-Lee Potts
*Helen Cutter — Juliet Aubrey
*James Lester — Ben Miller
*Oliver Leek — Karl Theobald
*Claudia Brown/Jenny Lewis - Lucy Brown
*Caroline Steel — Naomi Bentley
*Mysterious Man / Security Guard — Tim Faraday
*Fire Chief - Sidney Cole

Creatures Seen

*Giant worms (a large infestation came through and were killed)
*Rex (briefly seen in Abby's flat, attempts to bite Caroline before flying off)
*"Pteranodon" (seen attacking Helen Cutter and injuring her after she steals an egg)