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Cutter returns from the Permian to find there have been huge changes in the timeline. Claudia Brown has never existed and the team have their own headquarters: the ARC (Anomaly Research Centre). Still reeling from this (and the news of Stephen and Helen's affair) Cutter has to lead a mission to deal with a raptor invasion of a shopping mall. Along the way, he learns something which could help them in their fight against the anomalies.
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* BehindAStick: The first raptor encountered by Connor and Abby was somehow hidden entirely behind a roughly three-foot-wide post that was less than ten feet away from them. May also count as BehindTheBlack, as they somehow didn't see or hear the raptor until it knocked over a candy machine.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Connor trying to apologise for shooting Abby with a tranquilizer dart.
* EpicFail: Connor, while trying to tranquilize a baby Raptor, misses the dinosaur and shoots Abby in the leg.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: This line from Cutter to Stephen: [[Recap/PrimevalS2E7 "You think I would just have stood by and watched you get torn to pieces?"]]
* MonstrousCannibalism: The baby raptor gets eaten by an adult.
* PortalCut: The male Raptor is killed when the Anomaly closes on it with its body on the Cretaceous side and its head on the present side.
* RaptorAttack: Featherless, mindless aggressive and oversized Raptors.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Oliver Leek, who runs the day-to-day operations at the ARC. {{Justified}}, thanks to the CosmicRetcon.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Cutter insists on this, though it's more to preserve the timeline than out of sympathy for the raptors.
* UpsettingTheBalance: Cutter is convinced that the alternate timeline where Claudia is RetGone came about because the team weren't careful enough about keeping history intact when it came to avoiding killing the creatures and returning them to their native time periods, and throughout the episode he's determined to try and get all the Raptors back through the Anomaly ''alive'' despite how exceptionally dangerous they are. It's gone by the next episode however, where Cutter has no problem wiping out dozens of creatures that come from an even ''earlier'' ancestral time period.
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