Andrew Lee Potts credited as playing...
Connor Temple
- Connor Temple: [running after Nick and Stephen] Professor! Professor Cutter!
- [Connor catches up to them and extends a hand to shake]
- Connor Temple: Connor Temple.
- Nick Cutter: Sorry, never heard of it. I think you want archaeology. If you go around up there to your right and keep on walking, it's on your left.
- Connor Temple: No, its not... it's not a place, it's my name. I'm one of your students.
- Nick Cutter: Really?
- Connor Temple: Uh-huh.
- Nick Cutter: Well why... why don't I recognise you?
- Connor Temple: Well... you've never actually turned up for the seminars.
- Nick Cutter: Uh-huh.
- Nick Cutter: This is Claudia Brown from the Home Office. She'll be coming with us.
- Connor Temple: [to Stephen] I knew it. It's a cover-up.
- Claudia Brown: What's he talking about?
- Nick Cutter: Connor never met a conspiracy theory he didn't like.
- Connor Temple: I'm one of your students.
- Nick Cutter: Really?
- Connor Temple: Uh-huh.
- Nick Cutter: Well why don't I recognize you?
- Connor Temple: You've never actually turned up for the seminars.
- Connor Temple: [Cutter throws a stack of papers into the trash] Oh... actually, that's my dissertation.
- Nick Cutter: Yeah?
- [Picks the papers back up and scans them]
- Connor Temple: See, I argued that all life on Earth derived from organisms carried here by alien spacecraft. It's pretty sexy stuff.
- [Cutter throws it back in the trash]
- Connor Temple: ... It's a work in progress, really.
- Nick Cutter: [Holds up a fossil] Tell me what this is.
- Connor Temple: A fish?
- Nick Cutter: Obviously. It's a sarcopterygian. There's no trace of them in the fossil record for 70 million years, and then suddenly one of them just pops up in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Totally inexplicable in modern evolutionary terms. See, Darwin provides most of the answers, it's the pieces that don't fit that interest me.
- Nick Cutter: Connor, you should get out more. Go to a bar. Meet a nice girl. Life will seem a lot less confusing.
- Connor Temple: I've already got a girlfriend... sort of.
- Connor Temple: There's an eyewitness, claimed to have seen it.
- Nick Cutter: People claim to have seen the Loch Ness monster, that doesn't mean it's there.
- Connor Temple: Not now, obviously, because it died years ago. The Government took the body away and covered the whole thing up.
- Connor Temple: You know, if you want my opinion, I think it's -
- [Stephen gives him a look]
- Connor Temple: ... You don't, do you?
- Connor Temple: [Watching the Scutosaurus] You know this is going to win me the Nobel Prize.
- Stephen Hart: You don't know what we're dealing with yet.
- Connor Temple: Come on. It looks like a dinosaur. It behaves like a dinosaur. It's a dinosaur. It's the missing link to the ancient past. And I discovered it.
- Nick Cutter: What could cause a magnetic field so powerful?
- Connor Temple: Maybe it's an alien spaceship.
- [Cutter gives him a look]