Primeval: Season 5

2011 · 6 episodes · ★ 8.5

Series 5

What Season 5 of Primeval

Season five kicks off with a secret. Matt is on a hidden mission: to track down the ARC member who will destroy the future. Philip, meanwhile, moves forward with New Dawn, a project focused on the anomalies. When Abby discovers what's going on, Matt recruits her for his search, while Connor joins Philip's project. The clashing loyalties of Abby and Connor put more and more strain on their relationship. The team's scientists must keep facing creatures from other eras, while doubts about who is on whose side grow within the group.

6episodes

Feb 10, 2011premiered

Jun 26, 2011latest episode

5.2 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 Matt's Secret
Feb 10, 2011 · 52 min · ★ 8.4
The team attempt to track a giant, underground insectoid predator from the future, and there is something about the creature that Matt isn't telling the team. Meanwhile, Philip shows Connor the true purpose behind New Dawn, and Abby becomes more suspicious of Matt and grows closer to discovering his secret, while Lester struggles at the ARC to make a good impression to Ms. Reece of the Cabinet Office for a knighthood.
Directed by: Mark Everest · Written by: Chris Lang · Starring: Patrick Murray
5x02 The Submarine
May 30, 2011 · 52 min · ★ 8.4
When a Navy submarine in the North Sea discovers a giant underwater Anomaly, Matt, Connor and Abby join the Navy crew aboard, but things go awry when the submarine is pulled through the Anomaly into a prehistoric sea inhabited by giant pliosaurs. The team subsequently attempt to get the submarine back through the Anomaly to their time, while Lester struggles to stop an Admiral from nuking the Anomaly and potentially altering history.
Directed by: Robert Quinn · Written by: Steve Bailie · Starring: Allen Leech
5x03 In the Good Old Days
Jun 5, 2011 · 52 min · ★ 8.4
When the team send a Raptor at an art museum back through the wrong Anomaly, Matt goes through into Victorian London in pursuit of the Raptor, and there he reunites with Emily and attempts to help her escape her grim fate of incarceration at Bedlam Asylum by her shallow husband. Meanwhile, Abby infiltrates Connor's lab to capture Connor's files on New Dawn for Matt.
Directed by: Robert Quinn · Written by: Gabbie Asher, Paul Mousley
5x04 The Prototype
Jun 12, 2011 · 52 min · ★ 8.2
The team learn the truth about New Dawn when Connor creates an artificial Anomaly in the ARC, and trouble soon erupts when the Anomaly unleashes swarming, carnivorous beetles from the future into the ARC, which trigger the lockdown but threaten to burrow out and swarm onto the modern world. The situation is only exacerbated when the beetles trigger Jess' deadly allergy to insect bites, and when Philip threatens to incinerate the entire ARC to stop the beetles.
Directed by: Robert Quinn · Written by: Helen Raynor
5x05 The End of the Future (1)
Jun 19, 2011 · 52 min · ★ 8.3
With Convergence having finally arrived, while Becker and the entire ARC struggle to contain an increasing outbreak of numerous Anomalies and creatures, New Dawn begins to power up for its final phase, as the team struggle to stop Philip from activating New Dawn before it's too late.
Directed by: Cilla Ware · Written by: Michael A. Walker
5x06 The End of the Future (2) Season Finale
Jun 26, 2011 · 52 min · ★ 9.0
Matt and Abby go through New Dawn's Anomaly on a rescue mission for Connor into the barren, Predator-ruled wastelands of the future, while back in the present, the future apocalypse looms closer as New Dawn spirals out of control. Meanwhile, Jess and Lester face problems of their own when the ARC is invaded by Mutated Future Predators.
Directed by: Cilla Ware · Written by: Adrian Hodges, Steve Bailie