Series 4 Episode 7
"Muddy Waters"
Guest Starring: Ruth Kearney
“Morning!”, Jess Parker excitedly said as she burst through the doors to the ARC Main Operations Room. Jess was a morning person, unlike most of the team. Mia and Connor waved back. Connor yawned. 8 o’clock in the morning was too early for him. Half the team weren’t even in yet. It was only those three and Abby.
DING DING! DING DING! DING DING!
“Nice early start”, Connor sighed. He hated early morning anomalies.
“Wait! Where’s everyone else?”, James Lester called down from his office.
“Not here yet”, Abby replied.
“Not even Cutter?”, Lester shouted back.
“Nope”, Mia told him.
“Well, you three can’t just go”, Lester didn’t want Mia, Connor and Abby going on their own.
“I could go?”, Jess timidly said.
“Any objections?”, Lester asked. No-one spoke up. Lester nodded. Jess was excited at the prospect of getting away from the desk.
Jess wasn’t really wearing the right gear. She had a short, green chequered skirt, and a green blouse to match. Her long, silky hair was down. And what’s more, the anomaly was at a swamp. Mia wasn’t dressed the best either.
“Oh, my new shoes!”, moaned Mia.
“Well, your birthday’s coming up soon”, hinted Connor. They smiled at each other and kissed as they were walking along.
“What’s that?”, Jess asked, a little scared. They ran up to something covered in mud.
“There’s a creature incursion”, Connor spoke into his earpiece
“Have you seen it?”, Cutter was doing Jess’ job while she was out with the team.
“Not yet”, replied Connor. Jess was terrified looking at the dead body on the ground. Little did she know she was being watched from the long grass nearby…
Back at the ARC, Cutter was getting quite relaxed in Jess’ red chair. The armrests move up and down. Cutter found himself playing with it. Despite it being fun watching over everything, it was also quite boring. He was meant to go out with the team that day. He gets very protective over the anomalies sometimes and always likes to be there investigating them. But he had every faith in Connor, Mia, Abby and even Jess who he’s known for around two weeks.
“Cutter!”, Sarah Page came over to Cutter, “I’ve got an idea”.
“Aha”, Cutter swivelled round in the chair.
“Remember the anomaly model we made, which tracked all of the anomalies? The one that was lost when Helen bombed this place?”, Sarah told him.
“Yeah, I remember”, Cutter replied.
“Well, I was thinking earlier on. I tried to redraw it from one of the Anomaly Openers. I got this”, she showed him her diagram, “We need to start thinking about re-making the model. We could then start predicting anomalies”.
“Sounds good. But haven’t you got to work on that other theory of yours?”, Cutter reminded Sarah about her genes theory. She proposed that whenever you go through an anomaly, any other anomalies that open are drawn to you. And it’s something to do with the genes in your body. It explains why most of the anomalies open nearby, with a few exceptions.
“Connor said he’d conduct an experiment”, Sarah explained, “He needs a blood sample from a dead normal person, and a dead person who has been through an anomaly”.
“Why aren’t you doing it?”
“Connor volunteered. He knows I don’t like the gory stuff”
The soldiers arrived at the anomaly location. The anomaly was across the lake. Due to its location, it could not be reached so it could be locked. That means it would have to be guarded 24/7.
“We’ll go explore”, Connor decided, “Mia, you take Jess and go that way. I’ll go with Abby”.
“Why can’t I go with you?”, Mia asked.
“Because I think you’d be perfect to show Jess the ropes”, Connor explained.
They all wandered off in the right directions. Mia started explaining to Jess how she got onto the team.
”I was out shopping. And suddenly, a dinosaur or two were roaming the streets. Just like that. It all sounds so stupid, I know. Abby spotted me, and called me into a shop where the team were hiding. They told me Helen Cutter had gone through anomalies and prevented the extinction of certain deadly creatures. They were going to reverse the actions. They took me with them as they didn’t want to leave me, helpless and terrified, amongst all the dinosaurs. So we went through the anomalies and each time, they stopped Helen. But when it came to the T-Rex one, they found it too dangerous. But I was brave and did it myself. That’s how I earned my place. And also because Lester couldn’t bare a member of the public knowing”. They both laughed.
“So, I guess you and Abby got along?”, Jess continued the conversation.
“Not at all. I developed a relationship with Connor. Well, I fell in love. And he did the same. But she was jealous. She had been eyeing up Connor for the previous two or three years. But never had the guts to make a move. When she noticed how stupid she was being, it was at our wedding”
“You and Connor are married?”, Jess sounded surprised. She hadn’t read the files hard enough.
“Yeah. But I keep my surname as Turner for work. Any other time it’s Temple”, Mia told her, “But Abby ended up…”
Mia was cut off by the sound of something moving through the long grass. It showed itself as it emerged from the grass.
“Oh my god…”, muttered Jess, “What do we do?”.
“We…we…we…RUN!”, Mia shouted. They ran for their lives as a crocodile creature, about 1 metre long, started chasing them.
Meanwhile, at the ARC, something strange happened. The ARC went into lockdown for no apparent reason. All doors and shutters closed and locked. Lester walked down from his office into the Main Operations Room, where Cutter, Danny, Claudia, Jenny and Harry were.
“What’ve you done?”, Lester moaned.
“I didn’t touch anything”, Cutter replied.
“Where’s Sarah?”, Danny asked.
Sarah was in fact in her lab, completing the diagram for the anomaly model, mainly from some destroyed pieces of paper. She was confused when the doors slammed shut. She tried to open them but she couldn’t. She tried using the comms.
“Hello?”, Sarah said into the comm.
“Sarah! You OK?”, Harry asked.
“I’m fine. What happened?”, Sarah wondered.
“Hello sweeties”, came a voice from the top walkway of the ARC. It was Helen Cutter.
Mia and Jess caught up with Abby and Connor.
“There’s a crocodile!”, Jess quickly shouted, sounding out of breath. Speak of the devil and it shall appear. The “crocodile” came round through the grass.
”Looks like some sort of Protosuchus”, Connor analysed, whilst stepping backwards slowly with the team.
“Is it deadly?”, Abby asked.
“Yup”, Connor broke the bad news.
“So this killed the man?”, Mia posed the question to Connor,
“I guess so. Is now really the time?”
The Protosuchus was gaining on them. Closer, and closer. Until they were at the edge of the lake and had no-where to go…
“This is Jess’ system, I don’t know her password. I can’t break through it”, Cutter was getting frustrated with the Anomaly Detector.
“While you’ve not been watching, I’ve installed loads of firewalls to the Detector”, Helen told them, “Oh, and by the way, the air in all other rooms is being drained slowly”.
“SARAH!”, the team all cried in unison. Helen smirked. Getting rid of one of the braniacs on the team was a good day’s work, if you asked her.
The team were slightly terrified. They had no guns with them, and the soldiers weren’t nearby. Mia moved to the side and started luring the Protosuchus away. She backed up, being careful not to anger it. But then she tripped over a log and crashed to the floor. The Protosuchus saw it’s chance and came up next to her.
“NO!”, yelled Jess. She ran up and past the creature, attracting its attention. It decided to follow her. Jess started walking into the lake. It wasn’t that deep, but it was ruining her lovely outfit. She went straight through the anomaly, and it followed her. The other three just watched. Jess took a while. The anomaly started to close, but Jess ran through at the last minute. Connor helped her out of the water. They made their way to the car and left it in the hands of the soldiers.
When they arrived back at the ARC, they found out that they couldn’t get in. The ARC was in lockdown. Seeing as it was from Jess’ station, she managed to type in her password from the outside scanner and unlock lockdown. They ran inside, and met Cutter and the rest of the team as they ran out.
“Sarah’s been in there as air was being drained”, Jenny updated them as they burst into Sarah’s lab.
“It was Helen”, Claudia said. Cutter checked Sarah was OK, then ran back into the Main Operations Room to find Helen. But she was gone…
DING DING! DING DING! DING DING!
“Nice early start”, Connor sighed. He hated early morning anomalies.
“Wait! Where’s everyone else?”, James Lester called down from his office.
“Not here yet”, Abby replied.
“Not even Cutter?”, Lester shouted back.
“Nope”, Mia told him.
“Well, you three can’t just go”, Lester didn’t want Mia, Connor and Abby going on their own.
“I could go?”, Jess timidly said.
“Any objections?”, Lester asked. No-one spoke up. Lester nodded. Jess was excited at the prospect of getting away from the desk.
Jess wasn’t really wearing the right gear. She had a short, green chequered skirt, and a green blouse to match. Her long, silky hair was down. And what’s more, the anomaly was at a swamp. Mia wasn’t dressed the best either.
“Oh, my new shoes!”, moaned Mia.
“Well, your birthday’s coming up soon”, hinted Connor. They smiled at each other and kissed as they were walking along.
“What’s that?”, Jess asked, a little scared. They ran up to something covered in mud.
“There’s a creature incursion”, Connor spoke into his earpiece
“Have you seen it?”, Cutter was doing Jess’ job while she was out with the team.
“Not yet”, replied Connor. Jess was terrified looking at the dead body on the ground. Little did she know she was being watched from the long grass nearby…
Back at the ARC, Cutter was getting quite relaxed in Jess’ red chair. The armrests move up and down. Cutter found himself playing with it. Despite it being fun watching over everything, it was also quite boring. He was meant to go out with the team that day. He gets very protective over the anomalies sometimes and always likes to be there investigating them. But he had every faith in Connor, Mia, Abby and even Jess who he’s known for around two weeks.
“Cutter!”, Sarah Page came over to Cutter, “I’ve got an idea”.
“Aha”, Cutter swivelled round in the chair.
“Remember the anomaly model we made, which tracked all of the anomalies? The one that was lost when Helen bombed this place?”, Sarah told him.
“Yeah, I remember”, Cutter replied.
“Well, I was thinking earlier on. I tried to redraw it from one of the Anomaly Openers. I got this”, she showed him her diagram, “We need to start thinking about re-making the model. We could then start predicting anomalies”.
“Sounds good. But haven’t you got to work on that other theory of yours?”, Cutter reminded Sarah about her genes theory. She proposed that whenever you go through an anomaly, any other anomalies that open are drawn to you. And it’s something to do with the genes in your body. It explains why most of the anomalies open nearby, with a few exceptions.
“Connor said he’d conduct an experiment”, Sarah explained, “He needs a blood sample from a dead normal person, and a dead person who has been through an anomaly”.
“Why aren’t you doing it?”
“Connor volunteered. He knows I don’t like the gory stuff”
The soldiers arrived at the anomaly location. The anomaly was across the lake. Due to its location, it could not be reached so it could be locked. That means it would have to be guarded 24/7.
“We’ll go explore”, Connor decided, “Mia, you take Jess and go that way. I’ll go with Abby”.
“Why can’t I go with you?”, Mia asked.
“Because I think you’d be perfect to show Jess the ropes”, Connor explained.
They all wandered off in the right directions. Mia started explaining to Jess how she got onto the team.
”I was out shopping. And suddenly, a dinosaur or two were roaming the streets. Just like that. It all sounds so stupid, I know. Abby spotted me, and called me into a shop where the team were hiding. They told me Helen Cutter had gone through anomalies and prevented the extinction of certain deadly creatures. They were going to reverse the actions. They took me with them as they didn’t want to leave me, helpless and terrified, amongst all the dinosaurs. So we went through the anomalies and each time, they stopped Helen. But when it came to the T-Rex one, they found it too dangerous. But I was brave and did it myself. That’s how I earned my place. And also because Lester couldn’t bare a member of the public knowing”. They both laughed.
“So, I guess you and Abby got along?”, Jess continued the conversation.
“Not at all. I developed a relationship with Connor. Well, I fell in love. And he did the same. But she was jealous. She had been eyeing up Connor for the previous two or three years. But never had the guts to make a move. When she noticed how stupid she was being, it was at our wedding”
“You and Connor are married?”, Jess sounded surprised. She hadn’t read the files hard enough.
“Yeah. But I keep my surname as Turner for work. Any other time it’s Temple”, Mia told her, “But Abby ended up…”
Mia was cut off by the sound of something moving through the long grass. It showed itself as it emerged from the grass.
“Oh my god…”, muttered Jess, “What do we do?”.
“We…we…we…RUN!”, Mia shouted. They ran for their lives as a crocodile creature, about 1 metre long, started chasing them.
Meanwhile, at the ARC, something strange happened. The ARC went into lockdown for no apparent reason. All doors and shutters closed and locked. Lester walked down from his office into the Main Operations Room, where Cutter, Danny, Claudia, Jenny and Harry were.
“What’ve you done?”, Lester moaned.
“I didn’t touch anything”, Cutter replied.
“Where’s Sarah?”, Danny asked.
Sarah was in fact in her lab, completing the diagram for the anomaly model, mainly from some destroyed pieces of paper. She was confused when the doors slammed shut. She tried to open them but she couldn’t. She tried using the comms.
“Hello?”, Sarah said into the comm.
“Sarah! You OK?”, Harry asked.
“I’m fine. What happened?”, Sarah wondered.
“Hello sweeties”, came a voice from the top walkway of the ARC. It was Helen Cutter.
Mia and Jess caught up with Abby and Connor.
“There’s a crocodile!”, Jess quickly shouted, sounding out of breath. Speak of the devil and it shall appear. The “crocodile” came round through the grass.
”Looks like some sort of Protosuchus”, Connor analysed, whilst stepping backwards slowly with the team.
“Is it deadly?”, Abby asked.
“Yup”, Connor broke the bad news.
“So this killed the man?”, Mia posed the question to Connor,
“I guess so. Is now really the time?”
The Protosuchus was gaining on them. Closer, and closer. Until they were at the edge of the lake and had no-where to go…
“This is Jess’ system, I don’t know her password. I can’t break through it”, Cutter was getting frustrated with the Anomaly Detector.
“While you’ve not been watching, I’ve installed loads of firewalls to the Detector”, Helen told them, “Oh, and by the way, the air in all other rooms is being drained slowly”.
“SARAH!”, the team all cried in unison. Helen smirked. Getting rid of one of the braniacs on the team was a good day’s work, if you asked her.
The team were slightly terrified. They had no guns with them, and the soldiers weren’t nearby. Mia moved to the side and started luring the Protosuchus away. She backed up, being careful not to anger it. But then she tripped over a log and crashed to the floor. The Protosuchus saw it’s chance and came up next to her.
“NO!”, yelled Jess. She ran up and past the creature, attracting its attention. It decided to follow her. Jess started walking into the lake. It wasn’t that deep, but it was ruining her lovely outfit. She went straight through the anomaly, and it followed her. The other three just watched. Jess took a while. The anomaly started to close, but Jess ran through at the last minute. Connor helped her out of the water. They made their way to the car and left it in the hands of the soldiers.
When they arrived back at the ARC, they found out that they couldn’t get in. The ARC was in lockdown. Seeing as it was from Jess’ station, she managed to type in her password from the outside scanner and unlock lockdown. They ran inside, and met Cutter and the rest of the team as they ran out.
“Sarah’s been in there as air was being drained”, Jenny updated them as they burst into Sarah’s lab.
“It was Helen”, Claudia said. Cutter checked Sarah was OK, then ran back into the Main Operations Room to find Helen. But she was gone…