Primeval Episode Thirteen (Episode 207)

Important Stats:
Terrifying Dinosaur Count: Same as last week
Anomalies: 1 (Unseen)
Species of Beasties We’ve Seen Before: Same as last week
Big breasts Beastie: Helen
Little man Beastie: Leek

Before the credits we get a recap of last week in 1 minute.  It includes: a mammoth, Bob, a punch, a kidnapping a little man with big aspirations and a scorching hot man so gullible you can tell him anything and he’ll believe you.  (Fangirls line up everywhere to say “You want to sleep with me.”) Last week, I brought it to you in 2.7MB (yes, I checked).

It also features the most painful case of obvious Retcon, ever, unless you count the whole Not!Claudia thing.  At least over in Torchwood, the Retcon comes in a nice pill form and often is given to you by a sexy Welshman.  Although, I should avoid talking about the Whoniverse because 1) Primeval is on a different network a 2) the Whoniverse is depressing me at the moment, so this show had better cheer me up!

This Retcon features a rewritten line about Connor installing a virus that Leek will not catch until “it turns around and bites him.”  Replace “Leek” with “no one” and remove the whole virus part with something about “both parts” and we’ve got what we watched last week. 

This obvious case of Retcon pisses me off because it completely takes the wind out of what was a spectacular scene last week – the Jenny and Cutter standoff.   Am I supposed to believe Jenny was in on Cutter and the B Team’s plan?  Are the Primeval people rejecting Whoniverse writing?  What am I supposed to believe now? Dear me: stop talking about the Whoniverse! Love, me.

Credits.  I would just like to take this opportunity to mention how much hotter the credits are because Stephen is in them.  No reason.

We begin at Leek’s facility, specifically, Nick and Jenny’s cell.  He’s all reassuring about how Helen isn’t interested in her I will not make fanfic comments. I will not make fanfic comments which leads into who else is not interested in Not!Claudia: her fiancé.  He thinks she met someone and she’s not allowed to tell him that what she’s seeing is millions of years old.  Plus, Jenny’s been feeling “different.”  Different is a word which here means, more like Claudia did towards Cutter.

Except now is so not the time since “imminent death” (Jenny’s words, not mine) might be a damper on things.  They should be more worried about why people are collecting terrifying dinosaurs and other big beasties in one place like some anti-Darwinian Noah’s Ark.

Helen’s been watching Jenny and Nick but Leek turns off the free show when Cutter assures his cellmate that Helen’s got to be in charge, since Leek’s such a little man, in more ways than one. Leek rises to the bait, horribly offended at being belittled.

What’s weird is that Helen has some sort of deal to make sure Nick isn’t harmed, which just leads me to believe it’s really one of those deals where the bad guy says “this one’s mine.”  There’s no way she’s letting him out of this unscathed.

As for Caroline, she gets some first hand knowledge about how curiosity KO’d the feline, because as much as she’s into prostituting herself, kidnapping and general insanity is just going too far.  Her good intentions don’t last very long as within a couple of minutes she’s used to humiliate Connor and gets into one hell of a kick-ass smack down with Abby over the fate of Rex.

While I’m sure the girl fighting is the favourite part for some people, (like Leek) it’s Leek’s commentary that says so much about what Leek thinks of Connor and what Leek thinks of himself that I like.

“You see, people like me and you, we don’t get the pretty girls, Connor.  We’re the nerds, the losers, the uncool,” Leek tells him.

“Speak for yourself,” Connor confidently snarks back.  “I do all right with women.”  If he’d just stopped talking there, Connor would’ve verbally bitchslapped the little man, but no, he has to add on about how he’s “choosy” which is said with absolutely no confidence. He then gets punched in the middle of the fight.  Sometimes, I just wish Connor would win.

I get my wish, when Connor drags Abby off Caroline, only to tell her, “I didn’t do it for you.”  For once, Connor knows when he’s said enough to pwn someone.

ARC:  Lester has lost everyone he’s used to bossing around.  Now he’s lonely.  Oh yes, he also wants to know what Leek’s planning.  

Beach:  Speak of the Leek’s plan and Leek’s plan appears!  One of his men releases a Sarlacc onto a busy beach.  Considering it responds to vibrations above ground, volleyball players, kids, dogs, parents stupid enough to let their kids bury them in the sand and women in bikinis, this has got to be a cacophony of noise and a smorgasboard of choice for the overgrown scorpion.  Every footstep is like the sound of bass drums in a tattoo.  

Cell:  To be perfectly honest, the content of this conversation doesn’t matter; it’s the meaning.  Cutter’s says he’s “probably” still in love with Helen.  He even tries to justify her involvement with the team’s abduction.  Jenny’s just hinted that she may be developing feelings for him, yet he’s stuck on his ex-wife?

This better be part of some plan because we’ve already had enough Retcon in this episode.  That conversation had better translate to “hell no, I’m immune to being hypnotized by her breasts.”

Helen’s fascinated by the idea that Nick might still want her.  In fact, her absolute buying of this conversation, without question, reminds me a lot of Caroline.  Both women truly believe in their own attractiveness.

Beach:  The Sarlacc, apparently offended by some guy’s loud radio, eats that man first, sending everyone scurrying off the beach like – okay I don’t have a simile other than they run like hell.

Once everyone’s off the beach, there’s only one person left: the father stupid enough to let his boys bury him in the sand.  So his children left him there in mortal peril?  Cold.

ARC/ Stephen’s flat:  In order to save everyone from the Sarlacc, Lester had to call the recently fired Stephen.  The problem is that Lester thinks Stephen’s angry because Cutter fired him, meanwhile, Stephen, under the hypnotism of Helen’s boobs, thinks Lester’s a traitor.  I hate to say anything too mean about my favourite scorching hot assistant / pit bull / bloodhound / bodyguard / excuse for slash, but why does he agree to go?  At least Lester’s misconception doesn’t leave him open to thinking he’s being set up, but Stephen’s does.  Why then, does Stephen agree to go solve the Sarlacc problem?  Please don’t let that be an indication I’ve been so blinded by Stephen’s hotness that not only did I miss how malleable he was but also how stupid.  I’d rather believe it’s Stephen’s subconscious telling him to trust Lester so that he can be welcomed back into the bosom of the team, instead of the bosom of Helen.

The deal is that Stephen will take care of the Sarlacc, on the beach, alone.  Is it too much to ask to have had the scorpion released on a nude beach?  Is it?

Leek’s Facility of Evilness:  Cutter and Jenny are released from the cell and taken to meet Helen.  Completely fascinated with how much Jenny looks like Claudia, Helen completely creeps the other woman out.  It also gives us a bit of information about the characters in a really subtle way.

Jenny tries offering Helen a deal; her help in exchange for help with Lester.  All this does is separated Nick from Jenny and that makes me sad as it’s the season finale.  I don’t have much time left to enjoy some good Jenny/Nick banter.

What’s interesting is that Helen thinks Jenny et al are quite safe, and I’m waiting for the universe to give Helen a sign that she’s not the centre of it.

When Jenny is reunited with Connor and Abby, there isn’t much time for pleasantries as Leek’s too determined to make sure he’s the centre of attention.  Hmm, Helen thinks she’s the centre of everything and in charge, but so does Leek.  That won’t be a problem later, will it?

Since Leek doesn’t have the history’s best supporting bra to entice people, he brings out his big beasties, literally, as he escorts Jenny, Abby, Connor and Caroline into the holding pen.  I wonder why none of the cages seem to have roofs, electronic or otherwise because I’m fairly sure the raptors, from what we’ve seen, could jump out the top, if they felt like it.

While the rest of the team is being forced into a “this is your life in the last two years” trip, Helen is spouting her theories about time and nature. Jenny proves that the timelines can be changed, what Helen wants to do now is control the anomalies.  Okay, Helen’s megalomania is running rampant here, particularly when she isn’t the least bit perturbed about Bob’s arrival.  She thinks the neuro-clamps will keep the future predator completely under control.

Nick realizes that it was Helen who gave the neuro-clamp technology to Leek, after she brought it back from the future.  Yes, giving a method of absolute control to a control freak would seem like a good idea to Helen, as she would never assume that Leek would turn against her.  She’s the centre of the universe, you know.

Downstairs, Leek shows the team what dinner is like in his anti-Darwinian Ark.  It involves a loud plot point siren and a bunch of food dropped from the ceiling.  Each piece of meat should really just have a team member’s name carved on it. His moment of triumph (and terror for everyone, including Caroline who has no realized you can’t prostitute yourself without getting royally screwed) is ruined by a moment of happiness.

Speaking of food dropping from above, if Cutter and Helen are watching, from above, how simple would it be to drop Helen into one of the cages?  She just keeps prattling on about experimenting with time, so why not shut her up and feed her to two of the three stooges.

Caroline is about to have a breakdown.  I know this not because she’s talking to herself, or not acknowledging Jenny’s requests to shut up, or not reacting to Connor revealing how much Caroline let him do in the name of getting paid by Leek.  Hell, she doesn’t even laugh when Abby asks Connor if he could tell when Caroline was faking it.  Okay, maybe she wouldn’t laugh anyway; I just wanted to point out the biggest laugh in the scene.  So if it isn’t any of the above, nor her confession that she feels bad about what she did, what’s the clue I have about her finally breaking down?

Thank God Helen’s rambling about playing with nature is interrupted by Leek.  Who knew I’d ever be grateful for the little man, but the Cutter and Helen conversation was becoming less philosophical and more repetitive.

He’s there to taunt Lester some more, and gives an empty threat to Cutter about being quiet about where the Facility of Evilness is. If Cutter reveals the location, Leek will kill the rest of the team.  Like Leek wasn’t going to kill everyone anyway.  The deal is that Leek will release more creatures, like the Sarlacc, unless Lester calls off the search.  What’s weird is that Leek has a whole bunch of other creatures standing by and ready to be released, but the only demand he makes is for the search to be called off.  He doesn’t ask for money, power, or anything.  Even I can come up with a few things I would ask for, if I were Leek.

Beach:  While we’re left wondering how Leek can be an evil mastermind without an endgame, I get completely distracted by Stephen.  I’m allowed, I just lost one of my major drool staples on television, so I’m going to take comfort in still having Stephen.  I’ll always have Stephen, right?

There’s a lot of stomping, banging (not like that) and general stalking around looking so scorching hot, I melt into a pile of fangirly goo.  There’s a lot of staring, and then a lot of running around the supports of a pier, as the Sarlacc chases him.  In truth, it looks a little funny, as I’m not sure, exactly, what Stephen is doing besides giving me some really nice scenery.  

Instead of trying to get Stephen from below, the Sarlacc tries to sneak up on him by hiding under the pier, which just gets him shot in the gut with a harpoon, so epic fail on the stealth there.  As Stephen calls Lester to come pick the creature up, the harpoon releases from the wood of the pier, and for a second, the Sarlacc looks to be victorious, until there a dog-tied-at-the-end-of-its-rope moment.

Leek’s Facility of Evilness: Finally, Leek’s true desire is revealed.  He equates knowledge with power, and he wants to be the most powerful man on the planet by using the anomalies.  Oh, lord, I share Leek’s belief that knowledge is power, and I hate having to agree with him on anything.  On the other hand, Helen would agree with Leek only to be given the chance to conduct her god-like experiments without any interference from people who like evolution as it is.  Okay, maybe evolution took a bit of a detour in the betterment of mankind with people like Leek and Helen, but nothing can be perfect can it?

While the rest of the team is ushered into a really big room resplendent with the same loud plot point siren that indicated food earlier.  This time, they are the steaks.  

Trying to save his friends, and trick Leek into revealing his plan, Nick Cutter shows a surprising understanding of character that we’ve only seen glimmers of previously.  Leek walks into one of the oldest how-to-catch-a-bad-guy traps.  He talks about how easy it was to find out about the spyware and the back trace to his lair.  Plus, he adds how everything was backed up on his laptop which, ding, ding, ding, gives Cutter some hope but not much, since all of his friends are about to be eaten by Sabretooth.

This time, even Helen learns the hard way when she can’t get Leek to stop.  Well, lie down with dogs, Helen and it usually means two things.  1) You’re a bitch.  2) You get bitten.

In a moment I find more weird than heroic, Abby, who just gave the advice to Caroline that they should all stick together, steps forward, recognizing Victor/Sabretooth and trying to stare him down.  Besides, if she thinks eating her will sate Victor’s hunger, she needs to realize she doesn’t make up much more than a light snack.

At least there’s a purpose to this week’s painful Retcon without hot Welshmen.  In order to save his friends, Cutter pours a glass of water onto the keyboard, but Leek isn’t worried, he still has his laptop.  The problem is the Retcon caused a virus to be downloaded to Leek’s laptop that not only destroys the Facility of Evilness’s system, but also releases all the animals.  

There’s a really quick but important moment, as the zoo animals escape their cages (and this sure as hell ain’t Madagascar)  where Victor leaps at Abby, only to hit the electrical panel behind her.  Wow, a couple of months in captivity and he’s completely forgotten how to hunt.

As Leek escapes, a guard tries to attack Nick, only to be taken down by Helen.  She still believes her husband’s in love with her.  Oh, Helen, did you learn nothing from Leek’s overconfidence a minute ago?  

She’s shocked when Nick tells her the conversation in the cell was all an act for her benefit.  I guess she's never realized that guys can wake up after being hypnotized by her boobs.

“I don’t believe you,” she says, trying to hold onto her belief that every man must want her.

“I don’t care,” Cutter replies.  Point: Cutter.

She only manages to escape because the guard she knocked out grabbed Cutter before he could shoot her.  She may have gotten away, but at least Cutter is still armed.  He’s going to need it.

ARC:  Oh yes, one last thing about Connor’s virus, it sent all of Leek’s info back to his ADD (the technological one.)

Leek’s Facility of Evilness:  Victor isn’t the only one who has lost his ability to hunt.  So has Moe, since the Raptor walks right by Cutter’s head.

Elsewhere, the rest of the team, and Caroline, get a blast from the past, as it’s Snowball!  For some reason, the team, who obviously doesn’t share my fear of dinosaurs, is happy to see him.  They completely forget that Snowball could easily stomp on their heads and barely notice a change in the terrain.

When Leek’s guards catch up with the rest of the team, Jenny justifies her wearing of inappropriate footwear for the whole season.  Yes, she justifies falling off a boat, nearly getting killed by Slimey and almost gets me to take back my snarky comments on her footwear all season (not all things are possible and my not apologizing is the least of her worries).  She hits Snowball on the butt with her heel, causing a Scutosaurus to scoot, right in the direction of the guards.  After Snowball tramples the one man, Jenny takes his gun.  Sadly, I realize she’s the best candidate for carrying a gun, considering what we’ve seen Connor do with one.

As Helen makes her way to safer quarters, Cutter is confronted by Bob.  As we learned last week, Lester is either the worst shot in history, or guns can’t really hurt Bob, unless he’s shot directly in the forehead.

Bob’s got several advantages.  The first is his bat-senses, where he can follow Cutter using the sound of his heart.  The second is that the room is completely dark, so Cutter can’t see what’s about to eat him.  When Cutter’s thrown against a wall, because Bob likes to play with his food, his heartbeat slows.  At first, I thought Cutter was about to keel over, but no, it’s for an entirely different reason.  With epic music as a supporting role, and an extreme close-up, I learn the truth.

He fires in the direction of Bob, which also tells Helen where her husband is, but now that he’s confessed to not loving her, she won’t help.  She has a different plan entirely.  With Helen, she’s always got to have a man and when one fails her, she has not other choice.

I roll my eyes as she feeds him a fish tale large enough to cover every single one of the fish in the ocean he’s looking at.  Her story is that Lester kidnapped her and the rest of the team, Cutter included, is dead.  After she tells him to meet her (and throw his mobile away to make sure none of the other team can call him and say, “Hey, we’re not dead and you’re one really hot sucker”) she smirks.  I want to crawl through the TV screen and strangle her.  Unfortunately, that’s not possible as she’s fictional, and even if I could, she could totally kick my ass.

The rest of the team is making its way through the catacombs of the Facility of Evilness and find Rex.  The mascot has found a way out, through a shaft to the surface.  Now all the team needs to do is make their way up the ladder and they’re free!

Abby’s the first one to head up but Rex, for some reason, comes back down, only to get shot at by one of Leek’s guards.  When the guard takes a shot at the show’s mascot, Jenny proves she’s the best choice for holding the gun.  Without blinking, she takes out the guard earning a whole new level of respect from me.  She can wear those shoes and be a markswoman?  Seriously?  

Caroline, in an attempt to prove to me she’s human, stops to rescue Rex, who was shot by the guard.  

Any guilt Jenny might’ve had over killing a person has to be assuaged as she was rightfully defending this show’s adorable mascot!  With assurances that Rex will be fine, and the team now free, that leaves Cutter, Helen, Leek, and soon to be, Stephen, left in this maze, both literally and figuratively.

Cutter’s made his way into the same room where the team almost became lunch, and, just in case we forgot earlier, the electrical panel Victor hit is still smoking.  Geez, I wonder if that’ll be important?  

Cutter turns around, to see Bob waiting behind him.  He drops the gun, for reasons I don’t understand, since he’s made the kill shot before, and the gun he has now is a hell of a lot bigger.  Once Bob is right up in his face and distracted by some blood on Cutter’s hand, Cutter stops him in what I think has to be the most awesome way possible – by ripping the neuro-clamp right out of his head.

Watching, Leek assures Cutter that he’ll get that whole easy to rip out thing fixed in the future.  I wonder how the hell you test how easy it is to rip something out of something’s head.  I wouldn’t want the job to test that.  As for Leek, it’s not as if he’s short of subjects upon which to experiment.

Yet again proving how smart he is, Leek alludes B.O.B. is his own Praetorian Guard, which might not be the best allusion, since they weren’t so successful with Julius Caesar.  Cutter agrees with me, since he doesn’t the neuro-clamps will hold them forever, at which point B.O.B. will kill us all.  Quite the optimist, our Cutter is.

Leek, on the other hand, is quite optimistic as he thinks Lester won’t attack as long as he has Cutter.

Helen gets ready to defend herself from whatever creature is snarling outside the door, but everything suddenly goes silent.  Why?  Stephen, in a fit of rage and grief, has killed everything he’s come across.  Usually, I don’t find violence the least bit attractive, but I’ll make an exception in this case.

Reiterating her story about Lester’s betrayal and Cutter’s death, which she claims to have seen, she tells him they have to run.

As for Leek, his master plan is falling apart and Lester is all too happy to tell him all about it.  They’ve found all the creatures waiting to be released, and in just a few minutes, Lester’s soldiers will arrive.  In fact, Lester’s so bored with the little man that he wants to watch snooker on the other channel.

Wow, Leek’s facility is rather impressive.  Considering most of his system was knocked offline, he’s not only managed to threaten Cutter’s life with B.O.B. (as Cutter will be torn to pieces, right on screen) but also managed to get the security cameras working in such a way that when he needs dramatic emphasis to show B.O.B to Lester, he can.  The rest of his plan might not be working out, but his dramatic effect mojo is still going strong.

Leek makes another classic bad guy mistake by making the countdown long enough that Cutter can come up with a way of saving himself.  He takes the neuro-clamp he pulled out of Bob and shoves it into the electrical panel.  I have to give Leek credit.  He may be a very bad man, but he doesn’t lie.  Lester does get to watch a man torn apart on live television, except it’s of B.O.B. killing Leek, not Cutter, as originally scheduled.  His Praetorian Guard turned on him.  Et tu, B.O.B.?

Can I just say that even though it’s really cold, I love how Lester, unlike everyone else around him, just walks away from the screen like it bores him, while everyone else looks like lunch is about to revisit.

As all the big beasties, like Murcus, Moe, and Skip , run rampant, Helen is still trying to convince Stephen to leave with her but the hypnotic power of her boobs cannot overcome his grief.  The other problem is that she caught herself in a lie she can’t work her way out of; she said she saw Cutter die.

So now Stephen is standing directly between Helen and Nick.  Ouch!  Either I was just hit on the head with the dead, stinky and obvious trout of symbolism, or I was just crushed by a pile of plot bunnies.

In fact, I’m so happy I get to look at Stephen, let me visually explain everything he’s going through while Helen and Cutter argue.

Cutter wins, but not Stephen, he wins over Helen, as I think Stephen’s been completely overloaded with the realization of his own gullibility, he just stands there, mute.  The only solution she can come up with is the loud plot point siren – as it’ll draw all the predators back to the holding pens thinking it’s time for dinner.

I love how the dynamic shifts.  A moment ago, Nick and Helen were battling for Stephen, but as soon as Helen realizes she’s lost both men in her life, it’s almost as if she falls into line.  Now there’s a weird character quirk. I don’t think it’s weakness on her part.  It’s more like how she’s always survived in the past and the future: borrowing technology here, stealing eggs there, or sometimes falling in line when it saves her from being shot in the head.

That’s the thing about Helen Cutter.  She may frustrate the hell out of me, but she’s never without her surprises.

In the main holding pen room, Cutter calls all the animals back using the loud plot point siren.  They all come back and get there food.  After that, they’re all safely locked in where they turn on each other for a food source.

That’s what happened right?  How about we leave it there?  Please? Please?  Seriously, I just lost my adorkable Doctor.   I can’t take losing anyone else.  I mean, seriously, what’s next?  My fictional Welsh boyfriend dies because Gareth David-Lloyd quits acting to open for Joaquin Pheonix?  Therefore, I refuse to acknowledge what I’m about to write.  I’m going to assume there’s going to be another shift fixing everything at the start of series three.

Okay, so the animals and terrifying dinosaurs do go back to the holding pen.  Just as they’re about to seal the door, in homage to the start of the second series, Moe gets a hold of someone’s boot.  Instead of Stephen’s, this time it’s Helen’s.  Thus the struggle of Stephen and Nick to save Helen leads my brain to only one thought.

The electronic door closing thingy (technical term) is broken in the struggle, even though Stephen shoots Moe, thus saving Helen.  Considering what happens next, I was all for Cutter and Stephen to lose the battle to save Helen.

Afterwards, there’s a lot of rolling around on the floor before they notice the broken door closing thingy.  In order to get the door to shut, someone has to do it from the inside.  I totally volunteer Helen!

Nick Cutter, who has a very, very odd suicidal streak that we’ve seen before, insists he must do it.  Is no one listening to me?  I said, send HELEN!

All right, I may have been mocking Stephen for not being able to make his own decisions over the last few weeks, but really, when he does make his own decisions, they suck!  Just as Cutter’s about to go into the holding pen (after telling Stephen that Lester’s not the bad guy – who knew he would ever say such a thing!), Stephen punches him, and not in payback for last week either.

Cutter does what I would do, tell his scorching hot assistant / pit bull / bloodhound / bodyguard / excuse for slash, Stephen Hart to get his ass out of the room of big beasties.  Unfortunately, the days of Stephen being so easily swayed are over, along with the rest of his days.

Neither my pleas, nor Cutter’s are answered, as Stephen moves into the centre of the room.  The big beasties, who really earn their name by doing something so horrific, get a fresh meal today.

I’m horribly depressed that this scene wasn’t reshot with Helen being the dinner, I realize, as Stephen says his goodbyes, I didn’t get one last sibling scene, or that Cutter and Stephen didn’t work out their differences.  There were so many things Stephen was supposed to do!  He wasn’t naked once!  

We don’t actually see the end of Stephen.  What we see is the horror on Cutter’s face as he watches his friend torn to pieces.  As he mourns, Helen turns and slips out the door.  Nick Cutter, having lost his wife all those years ago, Claudia in the last series, and now Stephen, his best friend, he is as alone as he’s ever been.

Fade out.

Graveyard:  At Stephen’s memorial, I can’t even work up the amusement over Abby’s completely inappropriate funereal wear (and how she colour coordinated with Connor).  

I barely notice how much Jenny looks like Claudia here – I mean in style.  I take a brief look at how good Cutter can look when someone forces him to wear a properly tailored jacket.  

As they leave the gravesite, Caroline offers Connor a chance at a real relationship.  It’s weird because she realizes how nice he really is, but at the same time, I don’t think Caroline knows how to deal with things other than in that fashion.  Is it possible to be offering pity sex and a genuine relationship at the same time?  The question is moot as we all know Connor won’t call, not now that he’s coordinating outfits with Abby.  There’s a really sweet moment as they walk away where Abby almost reaches out to take his hand and my heart, frozen by the recent events, melts slightly.

Jenny and Cutter head off in a different direction, with Jenny making a similar, but less complicated off than Caroline.  She asks Cutter out for a drink.  He can’t, at the moment, for obvious reasons, plus Lester interrupts with the news of a new anomaly.

When Jenny is gone, he tears up the picture he’s been carrying of himself and Claudia.  Does that mean he’s moved on to Jenny, or accepted that be it Jenny or Claudia, they weren’t meant to be?  Damn you ambiguity!

As the team drives away, sans Stephen, Cutter pauses before getting in, seeing something in the distance.  I’m going to assume that something is Helen who has come to pay her respects, and save herself from me wishing her dead all next series.  “Be patient, Stephen.  Things can change, more than you’ll ever know.”

Apparently, Helen’s been playing with time much more than we first assumed, as she’s brought somebody back from the dead.  It’s the wrong somebody.

Thus we’re left with Helen, and 15 Fugly Dudes.  I just lost Stephen.  This isn’t going over well.

And now I have to wait until the next series.  

Recapper’s Note:  Both David Tennant and James Murray will be looking for employment soon.  They could always try something, you know, together?  I wouldn’t protest.  I’m just throwing out a suggestion.

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