Stephen appears to have undergone the least change of all the characters since the changes in the timeline, with most of his history remaining the same including his affair with Helen. Claudia Brown is played by Lucy Brown. Cutter attempts to stall her until his friends neutralise the Cleaner clones, forcing Helen to order the Cutter Clone to detonate a bomb in spite of the original's attempt to talk him out of it. When Caroline asks what the job was about, Leek offers to show her and takes her to see his secret facility, knowing that Cutter's team will attempt to retrieve Rex by triangulating the signal from Caroline's mobile phone – thereby leading them into Leek's trap. A Giganotosaurus came through the anomaly and attacked, and the car Mick and Katherine hid in was flipped over. Later, he almost leaves the team after one of his friends is killed by a parasite from the past in episode 1.4, but is persuaded to stay by Cutter. In episode 3.9 her attempts to get information from her were interrupted by Danny, who escaped with Eve. Head of ARC for one episode [3.6], Former Police Officer She features in episode 5.3, where she has been trying to find a raptor that has been killing people in 19th-century London, while being forced back into a subservient role by her husband Henry. Oliver, who at the time chaired the bank’s advisory board, confirmed he linked Origin and Harper’s firm for this venture. In the Series 3 finale he, Abby and Danny Quinn (Jason Flemyng) go in pursuit of Helen and he discovers that Helen will be the cause of Site 333, the location of the First Family, a group of thirteen homonids who all died mysteriously at once, from Helen poisoning them. How Abby has been changed by the changes in the timeline is unknown. In episode 1.5, his team accompany Cutter to a golf course where a flying creature is killing people. . In episode 1.3, he firstly helps operate the rope on Cutter when he dives through the underwater anomaly and helps pull him out when a Mosasaur destroys his oxygen tank then leads the special forces into the anomaly to capture Helen Cutter and forcibly bring her back. Abby begs him to let her go and escape, but he refuses, finally bursting out, "I can't! In episode 4.5 Ethan took her to a cemetery and left her tied and gagged in a coffin, until she was rescued by Matt. In late 2016, in the consultancy’s early days, Harper & Associates appeared in Chinese-language ads declaring that Toronto-based Northland Power, a $4-billion natural gas, wind and solar power producer, was seeking a buyer. [9] In episode 2.6, Lester is trapped alone inside the ARC by Oliver Leek, who attempts to kill him using a Future Predator controlled by "neural clamp" (some kind of external control) on its spinal column. In one of the final scenes, Connor is seen in the back of Cutter's car with a gun, suggesting that Cutter is trusting him with guns. He killed six people, gaining a police record, and eventually left through another anomaly. In episode 4.1, it is highlighted that Connor and Abby have been living in the Cretaceous period for a year. In the Series 2 finale, Abby is captured with the rest of the team and held captive. Katherine Kavanagh appeared in episode 3.3 and episode 3.4 played by Ruth Gemmell. It’s also quite possible he is smiling. Former prime minister Stephen Harper arrives at a ceremony marking the one year anniversary of the attack on Parliament Hill on Oct. 22, 2015 at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. They were joined by Janice Byrne as April Leonard, Philip Burton's assistant. He returns in the finale The Sound of Thunder, Part 2, chasing an Albertosaurus through the streets of London, using the new "Type V" EMD, and follows new ARC member Kieran through an anomaly into a Spaghetti Junction. After a raptor steals Abby's blanket, Connor goes to retrieve it from the raptor's nest and finds Helen's anomaly device that she dropped in the series 3 finale. He was also very trusting of Helen, despite her comments and the others' suspicions that she may have intentionally set the parasitic dodos on mankind in episode 1.4,[2] although he was angry to discover Helen's real reason for returning the baby Future Predators to their own time. Although she did not want to bump into them she invites them to the wedding. He remains a cold and aloof individual, but one with surprisingly loyal and brave tendencies as he willingly braves the jaws of a Gorgonopsid[6] and an Arthropleura[1] in order to save his friends and innocent bystanders. Mick Harper is a journalist who is played by Ramon Tikaram. Tom, played by Jake Curran, should not be confused with Tom Ryan (Mark Wakeling), an SAS soldier. The more he has to say, the more he influences rhetoric from Scheer and Trudeau, the more the drama consumes Harper’s critics and galvanizes his fans—and the longer it takes Canada’s political discourse to move beyond the Harper decade. [1] She later angers Cutter when she and Connor go off to find an anomaly by themselves but is allowed to stay because he admits he needs her skills. In episode 4.7, he realises Ethan, in fact Danny Quinn's (Jason Flemyng) brother Patrick, is not involved as he and Gideon suspected. In episode 1.6, Claudia jokingly accuses Cutter of sexual harassment, noting that it is a serious offence in the civil service. In episode 5.3, she wasn't happy when Connor's new assistant April Leonard (Janice Byrne) suggested that she was nothing but a distraction for him, and this emboldened her to copy Connor's hard drive, despite refusing Matt Anderson (Ciarán McMenamin) earlier requests. But look closely. For most episodes he remains a sedentary leader and problem-solver; everyone has to go to him at Whitehall, and he operates through agents like Claudia and Captain Tom Ryan (Mark Wakeling). Nick Cutter (Douglas Henshall) is impressed with her skills and asks her to join the team, which she accepts. There, the Harpers are building a new home on a wooded two-acre lot they purchased in 2012, when he was still in government. She only gave his assistant one chance to find a Diictodon and when Mick gave the picture to her, she said "No, not really, you bring me a blurry picture of a Gopher with false comedy teeth, a child of ten could've faked that. Here, too, Harper told the Toronto Sun, he wants to ensure that “we address the concerns of frustrated conservatives and that they do not drift to extreme options.” One of his visible duties atop this fairly low-profile organization is to publicly congratulate member parties on election wins—even if that did mean Harper tweeted praise to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban “for winning a decisive fourth term!” This, despite critics widely decrying Orban’s “illiberal democracy” approach, weakening of civil institutions and anti-migrant stance. passionately committed to wildlife conservation, Primeval 2:Primeval ITV Series 2: ITV Publicity Q & A, Radio Times interview with Andrew-Lee Potts, Telegraph and Argus interview with Andrew-Lee Potts, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Primeval_characters&oldid=997580650, Lists of British television series characters, Lists of science fiction television characters, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2008, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Civil servant. He managed to spear the creature and left it for the ARC (or Leek as it is hinted later that Leek's collection includes the presumed dead Smilodon from episode 2.3) to deal with after which he received a call from Helen who told him her location, telling Stephen that Cutter and the others were dead and that Lester had kidnapped her. READ: Inside Stephen Harper’s efforts to extend Canada’s Afghanistan mission. It was her reluctance to climb stairs in her high heels that first led her, in episode 2.2 to learn the truth about the ARC's purpose. Cutter rejects this, insisting that Helen has no right to meddle. In episode 3.8, he stole Abby's anomaly detector and found out she worked in a dangerous place and while playing around in a sports car, he went through the anomaly. At the conclusion of the episode, Helen sets up an operational headquarters in the present day, assisted by the clones. [1] Whether or not she is the former girlfriend who broke his heart is unclear but it is shown in episode 1.6 that it was a short lived affair which he has regretted ever since, mainly because of his guilt over betraying his friend and partly because Helen is, as he calls her, "a real bitch". He is also not afraid to stand up to Cutter as he confronts him about the way he withheld information about his wife, Helen Cutter (Juliet Aubrey) from them. Along with having something to say, Harper also has something to sell. Cautionary tales abound: Britain’s Tony Blair controversially made millions advising Kazakhstan’s dictator and other questionable governments; some European politicians want sanctions against former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder for his lobbying for Russia’s Vladimir Putin; and Harper knows well the tale of Brian Mulroney and arms dealer Karlheinz Schreiber. He also discovers the secret locations of Leek's menagerie, and mops them all up one by one. He takes an active role in several episodes and is Christine's choice to succeed Nick Cutter (Douglas Henshall) as leader of the anomaly response team, as part of her plot to seize control of the ARC from James Lester (Ben Miller). Her love/hate relationship with Connor reaches a peak in episode 1.5[4] when she is enraged that he let everyone know that she's been keeping Rex in secret but later says that if he makes her breakfast on the weekends and does the washing up for a month then he can stay. He is also admittedly unsettled and afraid of some of the more dangerous creatures. Any questions raised by these glimpses into Harper’s consultancy business will go unanswered. As much as Harper remains on Team Democracy and Team Trade, he’s sticking with Team Conservative—in fact, he’s become its global captain. He disliked responding to such scrutiny while in office, and his post-politics career is also largely post-accountability. after she makes a remark, Cutter sets her the task of finding out if the old myths and legends of the past could have a link with the anomalies. She also seemed to disapprove of her husband's budding relationship with Claudia Brown (Lucy Brown) and it is hinted she may have had a hand in Claudia's disappearance. It is unknown if he knew of Abby's year-long disappearance. “He’s not going to sell his soul for a mess of pottage.”, In addition to swearing off dealings with Russia or Iran (Harper was recently criticized for speaking at an event sponsored by MEK, an Iranian dissident group once considered a terrorist group by the Canadian government), a source says Harper also approaches work in China cautiously, as he did as prime minister. She admits that this compromise is really because she actually likes having him around. When one aide was slow with some client correspondence, Harper quipped: “I mean, we’re not in government anymore. This confuses the team a lot, and while Connor and Abby Maitland (Hannah Spearritt) both show some sort of support they find it hard to accept what he is saying. Throughout the beginning of the fourth series, it is implied that he and Matt Anderson (Ciarán McMenamin) were working on a secret mission involving the ARC. In episode 3.3, Jenny confessed to Sarah Page (Laila Rouass) that she has fallen in love with Cutter. He risks his life to go in the frozen room to distract the creature, thus saves Jenny's life. In episode 2.1 Abby and Connor seem to spend a lot more time together than they did in the previous series. In his western business speeches, Harper touted an industry-commissioned poll that suggested Quebecers support more energy development—research he’d heard about at Questerre’s annual meeting, Binnion says. Cutter started out as a somewhat aloof individual; for example he initially rather briskly brushes off Connor Temple (Andrew-Lee Potts) who comes to him with suspicions of a prehistoric creature being loose in modern times, telling him to go and get a girlfriend instead. However he is confronted by another version of himself who tells him to return to his home. Philip is more interested by the Anomalies than the creatures. In episode 3.10, she and Becker are the only two members of the team to be in the present day, with Connor, Abby and Danny stuck on the other sides of different anomalies. He later tracks it to a school and is wounded trying to lure it away from a teacher and her student. He is a businessman. An affiliation is better suited to the control-loving former leader—Harper and staff have office space in the Dentons Calgary office, but he’s freer to pick and choose work. He is a private man who guards the secrets of his past and the reason he has joined the ARC team. He then gives him the mysterious artefact that Helen Cutter (Juliet Aubrey) was trying to work out what it was. ITV's official site says that while Abby has arachnophobia she developed a love of reptiles when her parents took her on holiday to the Galapagos Islands as a child and has had a love affair with lizards ever since. The anomaly that Christine has is normally cloaked from the ARC's Anomaly Detection Device (presumably by radio jamming on the frequency used by the detector), but the existence of the anomaly is revealed to the ARC team when the cloaking device goes offline. He led Connor to the docks where homeless people had been going missing, and with Abby Maitland (Hannah Spearritt) they discovered the Kaprosuchus that had been living there for five years. When Stephen arrives, she attempts to convince him to leave into the Anomalies until it is safe but he is determined for revenge. Connor then reopens the anomaly after locking it and releases two prehistoric carnivorous mammals, Hyaenodon, on the loose causing havoc. At the "New Dawn" facility she threatened April with her EMD, and tried to go after Connor when he was pulled through the anomaly as it opened. “Does he have a lot of contacts? Danny decided to follow him, unwilling to risk Patrick making it to another human inhabited era. Upon returning to the Junction, Connor is taken into Colonel Hall's custody. Danny returned in the episode 4.7, having survived his time in the Pliocene. This is witnessed via the Anomaly Detector by Lester and several of the ARC staff, though only Lester can bring himself to watch before turning to one of the staff, Lorraine Wickes, and casually asks her to switch the device off. In episode 3.10 he and Sarah Page (Laila Rouass) fought the Megopteran in the present day, and as a result was one of only three main cast members to be in the present at the end of Series 3 (the others being Sarah and Lester). Abby later confronts Connor about this, but due to embarrassment, did not re-approach the matter, and went on a date with Caroline, leaving Abby upset and confused. She ends by saying she has an idea although it is unexplained what this is. She joins after witnessing a Pristichampsus attack the British History Museum in the first episode. He gambled Rex and put him up for auction and neither Connor or Abby were happy with him. He is known to have killed several camouflage beasts in order to survive, and was left psychopathic by the experience. He is revealed to know Latin fairly fluently. In the third season his and Abby's relationship continues to grow stronger, though neither continue to do anything about it. He’s got very sensible conservative instincts.”. She reunites with Matt, and refuses to hear what Matt has learned about her future until Henry arrives. At the beginning of series one, Connor is seen as a student of Cutter's, but one who does not attend many lectures, although he has already completed his dissertation. Earlier in the week, Harper had bounced from Mitt Romney’s political retreat in Utah to the Fox News studio in New York to an Israeli college’s $1,000-a-plate fundraiser in Toronto to a Saskatchewan-Alberta border town’s chamber of commerce dinner. However, it is apparent she has other objectives. Connor succeeds in breaking up the fight but when Caroline thanks him, he says "I didn't do it for you" and seems to remain close to Abby throughout the episode. When Cutter and Helen started to leave, she asked him not to go as she thought it was a mistake, but he assured her that it would be okay. He plans to burn it but Sarah Page (Laila Rouass) phones Jenny Lewis (Lucy Brown) to warn him not to use the flamethrowers. He somehow manages to survive the implosion and returns to the ARC. You know, the circuit. In episode 4.4 she was kidnapped by Ethan from Matt's flat. [1] – "And I thought the Common Agricultural Policy was far-fetched. Abby has a much better flat in the second series, and the reptile species that she keeps includes Rex the Coelurosauravus, a corn snake, a milk snake, leopard geckos, bearded dragons and a boa constrictor. Harper spent his buttoned-down decade as prime minister living out a credo: When I have something to say, I’ll say it. He is friendly with Jess Parker (Ruth Kearney), but is unaware she has feelings for him. He discovers that the creature was the one that murdered his brother. It is during this time he is visited by Helen, although she also left him for dead, she gave him a message for her husband. Connor tried to make up for what he had done, and came up with a plan to kill all the beetles by closing his anomaly and unleashing a gamma ray, though only after Abby and Matt Anderson (Ciarán McMenamin) revealed they possessed a copy of his laptop's hard drive (which Matt had earlier blasted) in order to allow this. She has had no significant relationships since. When she was unavailable, his board (whose chairman is Stockwell Day) opted for Harper. Although, he ended up dating a girl named Caroline Steel (Naomi Bentley) in the new timeline. guru Jenny Lewis (Lucy Brown) "Claudia" after her doppelgänger. She is 28 years old. She would later confront him about the matter but at this point Caroline comes for her date with Connor. Before he went through an anomaly to the Pliocene he ignored Emily's attempts to get him to stop, and left her at the mercy of a terror bird. “Nothing strange or weird is going to happen with Andrew. You can’t take forever to do nothing.”. After learning that acid was what was affecting an unstable anomaly, he believed that a Labyrinthodont had killed Abby he attacked it in a rage, only to learn she was okay and asked her not to make him worry like that again. Joining the cast was Ciarán McMenamin as Matt Anderson, the new team leader, Ruth Kearney as Jess Parker, team coordinator, Alexander Siddig as Philip Burton, an industrialist who is put in charge of the ARC, Anton Lesser as Gideon, Ruth Bradley as Emily Merchant and Jonathyn Byrne as Ethan Dobrowski. The series 1 cast is made up of Douglas Henshall as Professor Nick Cutter, James Murray as Stephen Hart, Andrew-Lee Potts as Connor Temple, Lucy Brown as Claudia Brown and Hannah Spearritt as Abby Maitland, with Juliet Aubrey as Helen Cutter, Ben Miller as James Lester and Mark Wakeling as Captain Tom Ryan. Although she started university she later left after only one term when she became a zookeeper. Captain Hilary Becker is portrayed by Ben Mansfield. Lester works for the British government, and is leader and ultimately responsible for the team of scientists, led by Nick Cutter (Douglas Henshall), charged with investigating the appearance of time anomalies. And you are a tremendous friend, and still are.”. What was the Indian residential school system? He later helps prepare Cutter for his trip into the underwater anomaly, arming him with a spear gun. In Series 3, she and Connor continued to grow closer, though they were reluctant to do anything about their attraction. Lester arrives at the scene of the false alarm to find only a note reading "BAD LUCK". Finally, Connor is seen at the end of the episode at Stephen's funeral. Like Cutter, Lester has slowly mellowed out over the course of the series and become far more active and reasonable when dealing with the team. He went as far as buying suits from exactly the same tailor as Lester, a feeble attempt to impress his boss. In episode 4.4, he saved two students from Therocephalians, and didn't support Abby's campaign to save the menagerie creatures following Philip's plan to kill them all. In episode 3.5 she visits the ARC and attempted to convince Lester to replace the deceased Nick Cutter (Douglas Henshall) with Captain Wilder (Alex McSweeney) so that she could control the ARC team, and blamed Lester when one of her men was killed by a fungus creature. In the second series, Connor also gets a new girlfriend called Caroline. He was sympathetic towards her and kept her in his flat because he believed the ARC would treat her like a criminal and agrees to help her find her companion Ethan Dobrowski (Jonathan Byrne). When the ARC is attacked by Helen Cutter's (Juliet Aubrey) Cleaner Clones (Tim Faraday) in episode 3.3, she is captured along with Jenny Lewis (Lucy Brown) and James Lester (Ben Miller). As Connor and Abby themselves leave, Abby makes to hold Connor's hand, but Cutter receives an urgent call of a high-priority anomaly. He appears to have had a long relationship with Cutter going back at least eight years as he states that he knew Helen himself, in the last episode it is revealed that he had an affair with her. He learns of her intent to change the timeline by killing him after learning he ordered the cloning of Future Predators in the ARC sometime in the future, but only once he translates the strange artefact from the future she possesses. When Cutter refuses to leave towards the end of the expedition he knocks Cutter out with the handle of his pistol. Danny Quinn is a former police officer and team leader, and is played by Jason Flemyng. After Charlotte died she returned to the Cretaceous, but Matt Anderson (Ciarán McMenamin) brought her back thinking she was from the present and been attacked by a "tree creeper". We also offer funeral pre-planning and carry a wide selection of caskets, vaults, urns and burial containers. Despite feeling betrayed by Helen, Stephen showed anger towards Cutter as well believing that he was wrong on how he dealt with the Anomaly crisis. Harper’s travel itinerary may be more loaded than it was when he was prime minister, but he’s liberated from the deluge of action items, urgent priorities and top-of-question-period news stories that used to dominate his days.