Primeval (TV Series)

In the Good Old Days (2011)

Ciarán McMenamin: Matt Anderson

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• Matt Anderson : I want you to come back with me. Emily, I mean it. You might have been born here, but you don't belong here any more.

  Emily Merchant : Matt, I won't end up in an asylum. I can look after myself. I'll leave here, travel abroad.

  Matt Anderson : Come with me to the ARC. That's where you belong now, Emily.

  Emily Merchant : This is my home and you have your own commitments.

  Matt Anderson : I was wrong to tell you to come back here. I've really missed you.

  Emily Merchant : [Tearing up]  And I you.

• Abby Maitland : You want me to break into his lab?

  Matt Anderson : If I get caught, it's a disaster. I lose Philip's trust. If you get caught-...

  Abby Maitland : I'm just the jealous girlfriend, right? You're asking me to lie to him. To risk our whole future together.

  Matt Anderson : He's already risking it, Abby, and it's not just your future, it's everyone's.

• Matt Anderson : [Watching a raptor]  Don't shoot.

  Captain Becker : What?

  Matt Anderson : I think it likes you.

  Captain Becker : It doesn't like me. It's threatened by me. It can sense that I'm the alpha male.

• Matt Anderson : [In 1868]  Emily. What are you doing here?

  Emily Merchant : I live here. What are *you* doing here?

• Emily Merchant : Neither of you move or I will kill him.

  Matt Anderson : Put the gun down and we'll let you go home.

  Lord Henry Merchant : Get up! Now! I'm not going anywhere without my wife. She will pay for her crimes.

  Emily Merchant : I didn't kill anyone, Henry. And I'm not your wife, not any more. And I'm not coming back with you. This is my home now.

• Captain Becker : Video installation, a bit old and tired. I'm more of a post-Impressionist myself. The anomaly is this way.

  Matt Anderson : [to Abby]  You know, the more I get to know him, the more frightened I get.