As this episode opens Tayler, a young girl, takes her dog for a walk; it runs off and goes through an anomaly in a pipe. Tayler follows and finds herself in a prehistoric desert. Back at ARC the anomaly detector sounds then crashes before it can be located; when it restarts there is no sign of it. Connor is convinced that it is working properly so checks the code and discovered it has been hacked and somebody else has the data. That somebody is Oliver Leek and he is sending a trio of mercenaries through the anomaly; they see Tayler in the distance but ignore her shouts as they 'aren't social workers'
this is a fatal mistake as she is trying to warn them to get to the rocks before creatures in the sand kill them! With the device fixed Nick and Stephen go to the anomaly and find Tayler. The anomaly closes before they can return but soon after another appears
if they are get to it they will have to evade giant burrowing scorpions, sit out a sandstorm and deal with a survivor from Leek's goons. Meanwhile Connor is planned to end his relationship with Caroline; Abby tells him he can't do it by text; but he does it anyway leading to her taking it out on poor Rex.
This was a fairly exciting episode; it made a nice change to have most of the action take place on the other side of an anomaly rather than having creatures from other eras entering our time. The fact that the creatures attacked from under the sand made them more menacing as for much of the episode we have no idea what they look like; we only see movement in the sand and parts of the creatures in earlier scenes. While these creatures were pretty scary they weren't as unpleasant as 'The Cleaner'; at least they are just creatures looking for a meal. There is still little clue what Leek is trying to do that can't be revealed to other members of ARC. Some humour is added to the episode by having Jenny turn up dressed for her engagement party and Connor's gauche dumping of Caroline his behaviour is pretty appalling but since we know that Caroline is using him it is hard to feel any sympathy for her. As usually the regular cast goes a solid job and Mabel Rogers, the young guest star, impresses as Tayler; she could so easily have been an annoying character but instead she made her likable and believable in the context of a show where people confront prehistoric creatures on a weekly basis. Overall I found this to be a good episode.
This was a fairly exciting episode; it made a nice change to have most of the action take place on the other side of an anomaly rather than having creatures from other eras entering our time. The fact that the creatures attacked from under the sand made them more menacing as for much of the episode we have no idea what they look like; we only see movement in the sand and parts of the creatures in earlier scenes. While these creatures were pretty scary they weren't as unpleasant as 'The Cleaner'; at least they are just creatures looking for a meal. There is still little clue what Leek is trying to do that can't be revealed to other members of ARC. Some humour is added to the episode by having Jenny turn up dressed for her engagement party and Connor's gauche dumping of Caroline his behaviour is pretty appalling but since we know that Caroline is using him it is hard to feel any sympathy for her. As usually the regular cast goes a solid job and Mabel Rogers, the young guest star, impresses as Tayler; she could so easily have been an annoying character but instead she made her likable and believable in the context of a show where people confront prehistoric creatures on a weekly basis. Overall I found this to be a good episode.
