Primeval: Volume 3 (Blu-ray)

The hit show Primeval returns for its third action-packed volume containing the complete UK seasons four and five! Volume Two concluded with the end of Helen and a revelatory look at humanity's past. But can Danny, Connor and Abby return to the right time? Meanwhile, back in the present, new characters emerge, and it's only a matter of time before it is known whether they are allies, or enemies. Primeval combines the action, thrills and dazzling special effects of Walking With Dinosaurs with a haunting love story, and continues to ask a terrifying question - has mankind come to the end of the evolutionary road?

Season 4
Season 4, Episode 1
Connor and Abby struggle with life in the Cretaceous Period, meanwhile the A.R.C. has been rebuilt and updated with two new members.

Season 4, Episode 2
When Connor looks up old friends Duncan, he doesn't expect to find him obsessed with creature sightings. Warning him of the elusive dock creature, the pair track it down to the docks, only to find evidence of a fresh kill. With Abby and Matt arriving to help, they find the creature after a tense chase through a container yard. Will Connor's quick-thinking and bravery earn him back his place on the team?

Season 4, Episode 3
A mysterious group come through an anomaly in a theatre, unknowingly followed by deadly tree creatures. As they attempt to escape, Matt inadvertently brings one of the group - Emily - back against her will. She promises to help him find the creature, in return for going back through the anomaly. In a frantic chase through the city, they track the creature down, only to discover the anomaly has closed, leaving Emily stranded.

Season 4, Episode 4
Whilst Abby is arguing with Burton,who wants to kill the menagerie,the team gets called to a school where a Therocephalian has come through a gateway and killed a young teacher. Unaware of his fate two nerdy boys in weekend detention accidentally lock the school's security system so that the ARC lads are unable to reach the anomaly. By the time Connor has rectified the system a a whole tribe of the creatures appear and have to be killed with a smoke bomb. Sir James stops Burton from disposing of the animals,making him Abby's hero though she is annoyed at Connor's lack of support,whilst Emily gets taken prisoner by Ethan.

Season 4, Episode 5
Abby and Connor travel to coastal Witchfield Cove,home to the legendary giant worm,after the death of a camper. They find the worm is no myth but a Labyrinthodont,come through a portal in a cave,accidentally opened by a farmer and her son,tipping waste acids. After its disposal Connor accepts a role in Burton's secret project. Matt traces Emily via the black box he has given her and saves her from being buried in a vault,the former burial place of Ethan's sweetheart Charlotte. However Ethan escapes .

Season 4, Episode 6
Doglike Hyenadons come through an anomaly in the basement of a stately home and when the team go to investigate they meet ex-ARC worker Jenny Lewis,who is about to get married in the hall. It is a true epiphany for Jennifer's groom,unaware of her background,as he and other terrified guests watch Jenny and her old colleagues push the creatures back through the portal. Jess saves Becker from being killed by a booby trap rigged up by Ethan,whose police record from 1900 shows him to be a wanted assassin and anarchist in his own time. Matt learns that Emily was once the subject of a marriage of convenience before promising his expiring father,Gideon,that he will catch Ethan.

Season 4, Episode 7
The ARC team gets called to a prison where they find themselves unable to control the anomalies and suspect that Ethan is manipulating them. Suddenly Danny emerges from one of the worm-holes and it transpires that Ethan is his brother Patrick,who went through an anomaly as a boy and for whom Danny has been searching ever since. He had assumed the name Ethan and appeared in different time schemes to wreak havoc and,as he returns through an anomaly,Danny goes after him to keep an eye on him. Before this Danny has warned that Burton knew Helen Cutter and is not to be trusted. This ties in with a revelation Matt makes to Emily before she returns to her own time.

Season 5
Series 5, Episode 1
A vicious burrowing creature brings chaos to the city, forcing the team to race from location to location to try and trap it. In the creature's final attack one of their own is in the line of fire and the team must fight to save their life.

Series 5, Episode 2
When a nuclear submarine encounters an anomaly and Liopleurodon in the sea, the team are called aboard to help. They soon find themselves under attack and get sucked back through an anomaly, with Liopleurodons damaging the outside of the sub. The team must not only capture the panicked Eustreptospondylus aboard, but fix the sub exterior in order to get home.

Series 5, Episode 3
Following a displaced raptor through an anomaly, Matt ends up in Victorian London. Realising its to blame for several gruesome murders in the area, he tracks it down only to find Emily attempting to do exactly the same thing. Meanwhile, back at the ARC, Abby knows she has to try and reconnect with Connor; they've been spending too much time apart. But a nasty encounter with April on the way to his lab makes her wonder if Matt is right - Connor is up to something in his lab that she isn't meant to know about.

Series 5, Episode 4
Philip and Connor secretly open an anomaly within the ARC, only to be invaded by a mass of scurrying future-beetles, who force the ARC into lockdown. The team have just moments to save the day before the ARC and the beetle threat is destroyed when Philip threatens to incinerate the building.

Series 5, Episode 5
The exhausted ARC team struggle to cope as more anomalies are opening. As the whole team lets Lester in on the secrets of Matt's mission, they're interrupted by worrying news - anomalies are opening everywhere and there are reports of a huge creature loose on the streets. Matt knows this is something important - the time he's been waiting for is now.

Series 5, Episode 6
Connor has disappeared through Philip's anomaly, and Matt thinks that his mission is over, Philip has won. But he can't leave Connor to his fate and jumps through the anomaly only to find himself in a barren desert world, with Connor struggling in the immense heat and deadly sun's rays. It's the world of Matt's nightmares, and they are soon being stalked by mutated Future Predators.

Directed by Cilla Ware, Mark Everest, Robert Quinn
Written by Tim Haines, Adrian Hodges, Paul Mousley, Steve Bailie
Produced by Tim Bradley
Executive Produced by Tim Haines, Adrian Hodges
Original Music by Stephen McKeon
Cinematography by Donal Gilligan
Film Editing by Richard Cox, Yan Miles, Emma Oxley
Costume Design by Gaby Rooney

Matt Anderson
(Ciarán McManamin)
The newly installed field leader, Matt hates conformity and is indifferent to authority. More than just an ex-soldier, he is also a zoologist, with an uncanny ability to understand animals.

Jess Parker
(Ruth Kearney)
Pretty, lively, funny, flighty at times, Jess is definitely not as daft as she may seem. In fact, she's a fiercely professional and highly competent administrator.

Philip Burton
(Alexander Siddig)
Handsome, charismatic, charming-Philip is a man who seems to have it all. To his employees, he's tough but firm. He certainly doesn't suffer fools.

Emily Merchant
(Ruth Bradley)
Born in the Victorian era and transported through time, Emily is strong, resourceful and brave-and extremely suspicious of human contact.

Ethan Dobrowski
(Jonathan Byrne)
Constant journeys through the anomalies have turned him into a violent man, with short temper and mean streak.

Jenny Lewis
(Lucy Brown)
A ruthless PR professional-feisty and always speaks her mind. After Cutter's death, Jenny had decided to leave the ARC. But now she's back.

Danny Quinn
(Jason Flemyng)
Back from the Rift Valley, Danny is quick to pick things up, but clever enough to know his limits.

Abby Maitland
(Hannah Spearitt)
Gutsy zoologist and reptile expert Abby dropped out of college when she was offered her dream job in the lizard house. With the exception of spiders, she prefers the company of animals to humans.

Connor Temple
(Andrew-Lee Potts)
A paleontology student by training, Connor is geeky by nature. He loves conspiracy theories and secretly hopes to be abducted by aliens.

James Lester
(Ben Miller)
The Home Office official responsible for the ARC team, Lester is still as dry and sarcastic as ever this series. Beneath Lester's sardonic exterior, he cares about his people, even if he rarely shows it.

Captain Becker
(Ben Mansfield)
The Home Office official responsible for the ARC team, Lester is still as dry and sarcastic as ever this series. Beneath Lester's sardonic exterior, he cares about his people, even if he rarely shows it.