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Evolutionary zoologist Professor Nick Cutter has still not come to terms with the disappearance of his wife Helen eight years ago. She is on his mind when he goes to the Forest of Dean with his friends Stephen Hart (an expert tracker) and Connor Temple (an archaeology student and avid conspiracy theorist) to investigate some reports of a large animal at large there. After finding some damage done by something large with claws they retire to a local hotel bar where Cutting is approached in a matter sure to get his immediate attention by Claudia Brown, a young employee of the Home Office, and the four set off back into the forest to try to find whatever made those claw marks and did that damage. Coincidentally, peroxide blonde Abby Maitland, a zoo keeper devoted to reptiles (especially lizards, iguanas, and chameleons), hears that day from her boss that, despite her dedication to her work, she'll soon be out of a job because of budget cuts. Meanwhile she takes on a visit to a local household on the edge of the Forest of Dean where a young boy has an unusual reptile pet that he found in the forest. This turns out to be a hitherto unknown species of flying lizard, so she sets off with the boy who intends to show her where he found it. Thus the protagonists of this series meet up in the forest and encounter their first Anomaly, and one or two of the dinosaurs that have arrived in the present day by walking through it. Brown has to call in the authorities and we meet James Lester, the arrogant Downing Street troubleshooter who "will be leading the response" of the British government to these discoveries. Indue course, Nick Cutter and a Special Forces minder step through the Forest of Dean anomaly, and discover that more than one person, including Helen Cutter, had indeed been in the prehistoric landscape on the other side and that at least one of them had not survived. Meanwhile, a carnivorous dinosaur rampages through a local school after hours, when the only people about are one small boy in detention, and the teacher minding him who (of course) is dismissive when he says "Miss, there's a dinosaur in the playground!" --- until, that is, it starts trying to smash its way into the classroom where they are cowering.
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Connor and Abby join forces to investigate another anomaly suspected of being in the New Forest (Hampshire/Dorset). Meanwhile gigantic bugs (beetles? spiders? ancient...) attack people on the London Underground and Professor Cutter concludes that another anomaly has opened up, to a much earlier prehistoric era --- the carboniferous. After a special forces sortie, he is persuaded to allow Abby to join the team as they go to see for themselves after Lester has agreed (under protest) to stop trains through the affected tunnel section.
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A prehistoric aquatic creature like a huge crocodile appears in a London swimming pool, eats a life guard, then vanishes. Later a special forces diver vanishes, but then the diver's bones turn up in a flooded basement in a town some way to the south west. Nick Cutter predicts that incidents will occur at places on a straight line through these two locations on the map of southern England. Eventually Cutter is allowed to go through an underwater anomaly, tethered by a safety rope a mile long. Finally, amid a prehistoric landscape, he meets his long missing wife.
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Lester begins interrogating Helen Cutter in a high-tech Home Office maximum security wing, but gets nowhere; she demands that Nick be brought to her. Meanwhile Connor achieves his dream and moves in with Abby, to the amazement of his friends Tom and Duncan, who decide to put a tracker on him and thereby follow the team to a sport stadium where another anomaly has opened in the restaurant kitchens. Tom and Duncan manage to take a dodo home with them before they realize it has a very nasty bite.
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Tension between Cutter and Lester continues, with Claudia Brown, as ever, caught in the middle. Stephen Hart reveals his connoisseur's ability to analyse by taste exotic animal dung. A golfer is savaged on the green at a deserted country hotel. Connor is still lodging with Abby, still at arm's length even after outstaying his one-week welcome by three more weeks, but still hopeful of romance. When summoned to the new scene of action, he accidentally takes Abby's tame flying green dinosaur Rex with him. This is not good, because the team soon discover that the prehistoric threat is now from the air. It is also greatly attracted by the scent of blood.
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Helen reappears to offer her help in tracking down a super-predator that she claims came from the future through the Permian anomaly. The creature is extremely fast, intelligent and has the potential for altering the current time line, so Lester agrees to an expedition to the Permian to guard the anomaly to the future.
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While Cutter grapples with Claudia Brown's disappearance, and tries to make sense of his confused mind, the anomalies make another appearance. This time a shopping mall has been targeted by ferocious Raptors and the team is called in to deal with the situation. Faced with an unknown terror, Cutter and the team rely on their wits to get the monsters back through the anomaly.
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When an anomaly to a period when the atmosphere was sulphur based opens on the 15th floor of an office building, out pours both the poisonous atmosphere and a great number of gigantic worms. This is Jenny's first taste of what she is trying to shield the public from.
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Connor has tested his anomaly-detector, but it seems to have failed to detect one near an amusement park when a guest if killed by a creature that appears to be a giant cat. Thinking a local man who used to import lions for sale is behind the attack, the team assembles in case it is something else. When the manager of the park is killed in sight of a trainspotter (with a camera), it's clear a sabertooth tiger is roaming about, but it also appears that someone is hiding it during the day.
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An anomaly under water unleashes a creature that might be a much-evolved shark from the future; but killing it doesn't end the problem, since at least one other creature is lurking in the depths, and takes Abby while she is on a boat looking for the thing. This sets off more tension in the team as Connor blames Nick for abandoning the search for Abby and Steven thinks they are looking in the wrong place.
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Taylor is a young girl whose dog runs off and through an anomaly. She follows and is trapped in the past in a sand-strewn world inhabited by giant scorpions that burrow underground and attack prey through surface vibrations. When part of Leek's army goes through the anomaly they battle the creatures; Nick and Steven soon follow and attempt to bring Taylor back to her own time.
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When a mammoth tramples commuters on a busy motorway, the secret of the anomalies seems to be out -- hundreds of people have seen the carnage. The creature is captured but when the anomaly closes it is brought back to headquarters. Through misdirection everyone but Lester is lured away from headquarters and Leek attempts to kill Lester with one of his future creatures. Meanwhile the rest of the team is captured by Leek and discover he and Helen are working together to control the anomalies, and have assembled a zoo of ancient and future creatures.
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As her plot to control the anomalies and the future of the human race begins to fall apart Helen continues to play Steven and Nick against each other. Nick and Leek have a confrontation surrounded by Leek's future creature horde (his "Praetorian Guard") and most of the rest of the team manages to escape the compound which is overrun with creatures from the zoo that have been unleashed by a computer crash.
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A crocodilian, a creature from the Eocene period which was mistaken for a god and worshipped in ancient Egypt is released through an anomaly whist on display at an Egyptian exhibition at the British Museum. It kills the curator, Marion and flees across London, diving into the Thames. Cutter recruits Dr. Sarah page, Marion's assistant, to help his team retrieve it.
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The team must dispose of a number of diictodons, cute-seeming but malevolent burrowing creatures who appear via an anomaly in a hospital, where they cause a power failure by biting through cables. Mick Harper, a nosey journalist, takes an interest in the team's work. The diictodons are disposed of but Helen Cutter makes a clone of her husband in order to enter the ARC and find out more about an artefact she has stolen. SPOILER! SPOILER! SPOILER!A confrontation ensues after a bomb goes off, causing a fire, which, to all intents and purposes, claims the life of the real Nick Cutter.
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Whilst Lester appoints Jenny as temporary leader and Connor perfects his machine to close anomalies a giganotosaurus, a huge carnivorous dinosaur, appears in an aircraft hangar and eats a television crew summonsed by greedy reporter Harper and his editor. To the team's initial annoyance Danny Quinn arrives but proves his worth when they have to save a besieged air crew from the monster. Lester is suspicious that his boss Christine Johnson is conducting secret experiments in the Ark.
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HERE BE SPOILERS!An anomaly appears in the luxury flat of unsympathetic millionaire Sir Richard Bentley, reducing his young aide to powder. When Bentley touches it he is gradually taken over by a flesh-eating fungus, turning him into a mushroom-like monster, the same fate befalling one of Johnson's spies seeking the artefact in the ARC. Sir James finally appoints the enthusiastic Danny as Nick Cutter's replacement to track down the erstwhile Sir Richard whilst Connor discovers that the only way to dispose of the creature is exposure to extremely low temperatures. The job is done but Jenny sees an old photograph which reminds her of her previous identity as Claudia, prompting her to move on.
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Sarah establishes the purpose of the artefact - it can predict the whereabouts of anomalies. Johnson, anxious to claim it for herself, deposes Sir James, causing the team to flee with it to a ramshackle safe house in deep woodland, where large and carnivorous prehistoric birds emerge through an anomaly to pursue them. Good teamwork sees off the predators and Johnson but Abby gets a shock due to her imbecile brother.
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An odd-looking, wounded dinosaur leaps through an anomaly in a scrapyard, pursued by a medieval knight, who thinks it is a dragon and causes havoc in the high street during a carnival, believing he is in Hell. Whilst Abby patches up the creature's wounds, Sarah steps back in time through the anomaly to discover that the knight is William de Mornay, seeking redemption for his sins by slaying a dragon and on her return persuades him to spare the dinosaur and return home. Connor meanwhile takes drastic action to retrieve Abby's pet Rex, lost in a card game by her stupid brother Jack.
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A giant ant from the same future location as the artefact comes through an anomaly and kills two guards. Jack, Abby's daft brother,from whom she has kept her job secret and is anxious to know what she really does, arrives at the site and is chased through the anomaly by the ant and its offspring. The team follow him into an urban wilderness where they are besieged in a bus by carnivorous monsters but manage to escape. Jack atones for his bad behaviour by telling Abby how much Connor loves her but Danny and James are disturbed to find that Johnson and her henchman Wilder also have access to anomalies and have brought a young woman back through one.
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A herd of rhinoceros-like creatures, embolotherium, come through a rift at a camp-site. Danny rescues Eve, the young woman Johnson and Wilder have brought from the future and takes her to the site where she saves the day with a device which creates an anomaly, through which the beasts return home. She is taken to the ARC where she is not who she first appears to be. SPOILER! SPOILER! SPOILER! SPOILER! SPOILER! SPOILER! SPOILER! SPOILER! SPOILER! She is none other than the deranged Helen Cutter using future technology to disguise her appearance. She escapes, dragging Johnson through a new anomaly that she has made.
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Sarah and Becker battle giant insects who have come through the rift at Johnson's H.Q. whilst Abby, Connor and Danny pursue Helen Cutter through the anomaly she has created. Her plan is to travel back to Africa in the year four million B.C. in order to stop the evolution of human life. With Connor injured Danny faces her alone but has an unexpected ally to help him save the world. Can he make it back to his own time before the anomaly closes?
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After being trapped in the Cretaceous period for a year Abby and Connor finally return home through a portal but there is no news of Danny. Philip Burton,a millionaire inventor,is financing the ARC,to Sir James' disapproval,and Captain Becker is none too thrilled with Matt,Cutter's successor with his love of developing gadgetry. Scatty computer operator Jess completes the new team. A giant spinosaurus has followed the couple through the anomaly and is eventually trapped in an arena and sent back to its own time.However Abby and Connor are told that their services at the ARC are no longer required,though the mysterious Gideon tells Matt he feels they should remain.
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Sir James reluctantly implements Burton's dismissal of Abby and Connor as they do not have the military background required of new ARC personnel,though Abby stays on as menagerie curatrix. Connor tracks down geeky pal Duncan,who is doing his own research into anomalies,locating a huge carnivorous lizard which has been living in the sewers for five years and is now at large in the docklands.The beast is killed,due to the efforts of Abby and Connor,who are officially reinstated,and move in with Jess.
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After an enigmatic conversation with terminally ill Gideon Matt is called to join the rest of the team at an empty theatre. Three time travellers in Victorian costume have come through a worm hole. One woman,Charlotte,dies of small pox whilst Matt rescues another,Emily,who has been followed through the anomaly by two arboreal raptors. Whilst Abby and Becker take down one,Emily helps Matt kill the other before explaining to him that her male companion,Ethan,who has gone missing,is a very dangerous man. Back at the ARC,Connor's computer skills impress Burton who almost lets slip to him about a secret project called New Dawn.
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The ARC is quiet and their has been no anomalies for months.Philip Burton and James Lester discuss shutting down The ARC and ending the anomaly operation because with the current status of the government they need to spare every penny they have and when an operation looks complete it usually is.However,Matt has been experimenting with the security systems for some reason and accidentally turned off the anomaly detector a few months ago.Fortunately,their has only been one anomaly they would have missed and one that is about to open.Matt suddenly realises and turns on the anomaly detector to discover a new anomaly as well as a anomaly they missed.Out came a Future Snake and a Wolly Mammoth.The team are looking for the Wolly Mammoth unaware that a Future Snake,which came through the anomaly they missed, is killing people, with Venom, for its dinner.Can they discover the creature before it continues its killings and stop the governments plans to shutdown the arc and end the anomaly operation?
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Lester sacks Matt because he fully believes that it was his fault for the shutdown of the ARC and the end of the anomaly operation.He also informs Matt that the anomalies are no longer his concern because if they are not the governments concern then they are no longer his concern.Hearing about the shutdown of the ARC and anomaly operation Jenny is concerned when reading newspaper reports about a creature attack at a seaside village she contacts Connor,Abby,Becker and Jess to meet them at the location.When they enter the village they discover the worst thing they have ever seen loads of creature from the future including large killer Future wasps and the bat like Future Predators.Jenny with the agreement of Connor,Jess,Abby and Becker decides to reveal everything to public.
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Doglike Hyenadons come through an anomaly in the basement of a stately home and when the team go to investigate they meet ex-ARC worker Jenny Lewis,who is about to get married in the hall. It is a true epiphany for Jennifer's groom,unaware of her background,as he and other terrified guests watch Jenny and her old colleagues push the creatures back through the portal. Jess saves Becker from being killed by a booby trap rigged up by Ethan,whose police record from 1900 shows him to be a wanted assassin and anarchist in his own time. Matt learns that Emily was once the subject of a marriage of convenience before promising his expiring father,Gideon,that he will catch Ethan.
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The ARC team gets called to a prison where they find themselves unable to control the anomalies and suspect that Ethan is manipulating them. Suddenly Danny emerges from one of the worm-holes and it transpires that Ethan is his brother Patrick,who went through an anomaly as a boy and for whom Danny has been searching ever since. He had assumed the name Ethan and appeared in different time schemes to wreak havoc and,as he returns through an anomaly,Danny goes after him to keep an eye on him. Before this Danny has warned that Burton knew Helen Cutter and is not to be trusted. This ties in with a revelation Matt makes to Emily before she returns to her own time.
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