After a year in the Cretaceous period, Abby and Connor find a lost anomaly device in a raptor’s bower and finally escape back to their own time - only to be followed by a giant Spinosaurus. They soon meet up with a brand new ARC team, but being away for so long has left them out of the loop and they find their jobs in jeaprody.

Episode 2

When Connor looks up his old university friend, Duncan, he does not expect to find him obsessed with creature sightings. The pair track down and elusive beast prowling the docks, only to find evidence of a fresh kill. With Abby and Matt arriving to help, the manage to locate the creature after a tense chase through a container yard. Will Connor’s quick-thinking and bravery earn him his place back in the team?

Episode 3

A mysterious group come through an anomaly in a theatre, followed by deadly tree creatures. As the group attempts to escape, matt inadvertently brings back one of them against her will. She promises to help him track down a rogue creature in return for letting her go back through the anomaly. In a frantic chase through the city, they track the creature down - only to discover the anomaly has closed.

Episode 4

Saturday detention is thrown into disarray when a deadly Therocephalian attacks a teacher, allowing the kids to run riot. The team are soon faced with not only tracking down the creatures, but fighting against the antics of a group of terrified students. Finding a Therocephalian nest in the school canteen, Connor enlists the help of the kids to stun the creatures into submission before returning them through the anomaly.

Episode 5

Connor and Abby are sent to investigate an odd anomaly signal, and uncover the existence of an ancient Labyrinthodont in a small coastal town. While trying to track it down, they discover a group of farmers smuggling dangerous fuel. Back at the ARC, Matt sets out to find Emily after her mysterious disappearance.

Episode 6

An anomaly alert calls the team to a stately home, where they come across a grand wedding. Though Matt has persuaded Philip to allow Emily to come out on the incursion, Becker and Jess are kept behind – they must find Ethan before he can kill again. Arriving at the location, they soon realise that this is no ordinary wedding; as they come across Jenny Lewis, trying her best to forget her old life at the ARC

Episode 7

After living in the rift valley for many years Danny finally finds a way back to the present when he finds an anomaly which leads from the rift valley to the Jurassic ocean.He then discovers an anomaly leading from the Jurassic Sea to a submarine in the present but i pursued by a pod of pliosaurs which enter the present searching for food.He contacts Connor to tell him his status and he informs him that he knows how to stop the future predators ever coming through the anomaly in the seaside village because he knows a location of a future anomaly which leads to the future minutes before the creatures went through the anomaly leading to a seaside village.The team must be quick because the anomaly will open in 12 hours.

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ITV’s Primeval Episode Guide Series Four

ITV’s science fiction series brings prehistoric monsters to the present

Starring Hannah Spearritt, Andrew Lee Potts, Ben Mansfield, Ruth Kearney, Ben Miller, Alexander Siddig & Cieran McMenamin.

Photograph of Hannah Spearritt and Andrew Lee Potts from the cast or ITV’s Primeval

Photograph of Hannah Spearritt and Andre Lee Potts from the cast of ITV's Primeval