Helen Cutter
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| Helen Cutter | |
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 Helen's new look for the second season. |
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| First appearance | Episode One |
| Portrayed by | Juliet Aubrey |
| Episode count | 11 |
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| Species | Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Palaeontologist Time traveller |
| Spouse(s) | Nick Cutter (ex-husband) Stephen Hart (boyfriend) |
Helen Cutter is a fictional villainess played by Juliet Aubrey in the ITV science fiction television series Primeval. It is implied that she may be responsible for a string of anomalies in time and space through which prehistoric and extinct animals are passing. At the very least, she clearly has an understanding of the phenomenon which exceeds that of any other character in the series and is able to use the anomalies for her own purposes, ranging from basic time travel and exploration to actively changing timelines and creating clones.
[edit] Character history
Before her disappearance, Helen had an affair with Stephen Hart, Nick Cutter's best friend and right-hand man. She led Nick to believe she was dead after passing through an anomaly eight years before the beginning of the series. She appears to have knowledge of most of the threats facing her husband and his team, but does not appear to wish to divulge this information. However, she did save the life of one of the members of Nick's team when piranha-like Anurognathus attacked. She is thought by the Home Office to hold clues into why the anomalies form, and is therefore one of the focuses of attention in the storyline. Helen Cutter has told Nick that she does know a fair amount about the anomalies, but has so far refused to divulge this information. Nick Cutter, her ex-husband, also has a personal wish for her to return, and for her to stop escaping.
She also seems to disapprove of her husband's budding relationship with Claudia Brown and it is hinted she may have had a hand in Claudia's disappearance.
At the end of Episode 10, Helen is shown directing the team that is spying on the ARC members. During Episode 11, Helen visits Stephen again and imparts some information about the group spying on the ARC members, but rewords it to sound like Cutter is involved and Lester is in charge.
In episode 12 Helen starts showing her feelings about Stephen and they share a passionate kiss.
In the final episode, she eavesdrops on a conversation in Nick's cell to Jenny about how Nick still cared for Helen. Although this is later revealed to be a ploy on Cutter's part, Helen still believes that he does care for her. She demonstrates the fact that she was aware of Claudia in the time before the Crisis and tels Nick that her alliance with Leek was to experiment with the Anomalies in order to alter history. She implies that she was responsible for the neural clamp technology used on the Future Predators as something she found in the future. When told that interfering with the Anomalies might destroy Humanity, she simply states that she could change the timeline to reverse such an effect.
Despite being shown as the brains of the operation, Leek begins to challenge her after being ordered around by Helen which forces him to act on his own. At this point, the cages for the creatures contained in Leek's base are destroyed, releasing them. At the same time, Nick frees himself and threatens Helen who manages to escape. In order to save herself, she calls Stephen and lies to him saying that she was kidnapped by Lester and that Cutter was killed. She asked Stephen to rescue her and not to trust Lester. When Stephen arrived, she attempted to convince him to leave into the Anomalies until it was safe but he was adamant for revenge. He would encounter Nick and learn that Helen lied to him.
Stephen, Helen and Nick would work to contain the predators contained in Leeks base by luring them into the centre where the cages were located by ringing the bell that they associated with feeding time. This was to trap the creatures where they would kill each other. While accomplishing this goal, Helen would be attacked by a Deinonychus but saved by Stephen. However, the door mechanism was damaged requiring a person to shut it from the inside. Nick volunteered, something that Helen protested and Stephen punched his mentor and took his place where he was killed by the assembled creatures. Helen would escape while Nick was grieving over his best friend and student.
Helen would return shortly after the funeral was held for Stephen and stated that the timeline can change, at which point a mercenary approaches her with several duplicates of him clearly working for Helen. This implies that Helen intends to meddle with the Anomalies and possibly resurrect Stephen in the next season.
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