Primeval (TV Series)

The End of the Future: Part 1 (2011)

Ciarán McMenamin: Matt Anderson

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• James Lester : So I leave you for a matter of days and in that time, you

  [to Conner] 

  James Lester : Nearly destroyed the ARC, and you

  [to Matt] 

  James Lester : Turn out to be either a visitor from the future or, in fact, and I think this is the more likely option, clinically mad.

  Matt Anderson : The former, but then I would say that if I was clinically mad right?

  James Lester : Don't you have security checks for this sort of thing?

  Captain Becker : Sorry, sir, the machine that checks whether people are from the future was out of order.

  James Lester : I'll do the sarcasm, if you don't mind.

• James Lester : So, Philip was in league with Helen and the machine he's building is the trigger to the end of the world?

  Matt Anderson : In a nutshell.

  James Lester : I'll talk to the Minister, see if I can get a DA25, get him shut down.

  Connor Temple : Well, as daring, last-minute attempts to save the world go, that's really... bureaucratic.

• Emily Merchant : What if you're not supposed to stop the machine? What if it's actually your intervention that makes everything go wrong?

  Matt Anderson : I deal with that every day.

• Captain Becker : What the hell is Convergence?

  Matt Anderson : Multiple anomalies opening simultaneously all over the world.

  Emily Merchant : Can you stop it?

  Matt Anderson : No. I'm not supposed to, no one is. Convergence is a natural phenomenon. I'm supposed to stop New Dawn, which has been designed to interrupt Convergence.

  Emily Merchant : But what if you don't?

  Matt Anderson : Then it's the start of the end.

  Captain Becker : ...Can't I just shoot something?

• Matt Anderson : Every million years or so, the magnetic poles of the earth reverse. Anomalies are part of this transition. In order to survive, life on earth has to adapt to the new conditions. And it *can*. As long as Convergence is allowed to run its natural path, which it has done every time until now.

• James Lester : I've just come from the Minister's office.

  Matt Anderson : How did it go?

  James Lester : His exact words, "The world's in chaos, we've got dinosaurs rampaging the streets and you're worried about Philip's research, have you gone completely insane?"

  Matt Anderson : That well, huh?

  James Lester : The official line is our only priority is managing the anomalies and the creature incursions.

  Matt Anderson : Unofficially?

  James Lester : Stop him. Do whatever you have to.

• Matt Anderson : Shut it down now, Philip!

  Philip Burton : Have you seen outside? It's chaos. This machine will stop all that.

  Matt Anderson : Nature has to be allowed to run its own course. You're about to destroy the world. I've seen the results of your work. Is that what you want for your legacy?

  Philip Burton : There are dinosaurs roaming the streets.

  Matt Anderson : That's what the ARC's for!

  Philip Burton : The ARC has failed. We don't need containment, we need radical solutions.

• Philip Burton : The only problem is you believe the world will be destroyed when I switch this machine on. And I believe it will be destroyed if I don't.

  Matt Anderson : Philip, you've got to listen to me, I've seen this! You're going to kill everything!

  Philip Burton : Only one of us can be right.