Episode 9 (EP9)
Résumé de l'épisode 9
A cocky young paint-baller in a holiday adventure park is being stalked through the undergrowth. His screams echo through the wilderness as he is torn to shreds by a terrifying creature (of which we see only glimpses). Cutter and Connor unveil the new anomaly detector. Everything appears to be in working order, but the machine apparently fails at the first time of asking when reports come in of the new creature attack. Lester is furious, but Cutter is convinced there is nothing wrong with the machine. Cutter and the team arrive at the adventure park. Valerie, the nervous deputy manager, agrees that the park should be evacuated, but Jenny is having none of it – this will be the surest way of drawing more attention from the press – and she is backed up by Lester. Reluctantly, the team has to accept that the holiday park will not be evacuated. Cutter comes to believe that the attack, although horrible, could be relatively conventional. The animal to blame could be a rogue big cat. As the team goes in search of the animal, Connor is left to look after the safety of the holiday-makers. He disgraces himself when he shoots the furry park mascot, thinking it is a real beast. Unbeknown to him, the real menace is lurking very nearby. On his way home, the unfortunate mascot is attacked and ripped apart at a railway station. Stephen, who is with Valerie, hears the attack and rushes to investigate. He sees the huge animal but is forced to let it flee, as he looks after the terrified Valerie. He is convinced it is too big to be any surviving species of big cat; it must be a creature from an anomaly. But with no firm evidence and no clear sighting, the team is baffled. To Jenny’s horror, a train-spotter has caught the attack on camera and has uploaded pictures to the internet. While she deals with the media fall-out, Cutter is more concerned by what he finds on the pictures. The creature is a Smilodon, or saber-tooth cat. There can be no doubt, this is an ancient creature. But why did the anomaly detector fail to work? While Cutter and the team prepare traps for the creature, they find a mutilated body buried in a shallow grave. The man was clearly mauled by the Smilodon and, equally clearly, there must have been human intervention to bury him. Before Cutter can work out the implications of this, the cat attacks them, drawn by the scent of the fresh meat they have put out as bait. Cutter is forced to take refuge on an adventure walkway slung between the trees, only to find the gigantic cat following him. Left clinging by his fingertips, he finally manages to cut the rope bridge and send the cat tumbling to the ground, but it rights itself and lands gracefully before escaping. Cutter now realizes the answer to at least one riddle: the cat must have come through as a cub and the anomaly has long since disappeared. The saber-tooth was marooned and someone has been looking after it.