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| Profession | Palaeontology or Evolutionary Zoology student |
| Organisations worked for | Home Office Anomaly Research Centre Prospero Industries |
| Age | 27 |
| Height | 5'9 |
| Place of Birth | Blackburn, Lancashire, England |
| Hobbies | Computer games, watching Star Wars |
| Skills | Computer, technology, anything anomaly-related |
| Mission Status | Active |
| Appearances | See full list below |
| Actor/Actress | Andrew-Lee Potts |
- "We may stand on the brink of Armageddon, but at least we have an annoying student on our side. How reassuring."
- ―James Lester's thoughts on Connor[src]
Connor Temple (born ca. 1983) is the technological brains behind the entire ARC operation, creating the gadgets as well as uncovering the truth behind the anomalies. He's classified as active, but until recently was classified as MIA following a mission to capture Helen Cutter. With the deaths of Nick and Helen Cutter, Connor arguably knows the most about anomalies.
He is currently the fiance to Abby Maitland.
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Pre-Anomalies
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Connor is born in around 1983, at age 8 he stays behind in a museum to see if the exhibits come to life at night, he only manages to get locked in the toilet for three hours. (Episode 3.1)
Connor Temple is one of Nick Cutter’s Palaeontology or (more strictly accurately in relation to what was Nick Cutter's Evolutionary Zoology Department) Evolutionary Zoology students at the Central Metropolitan University. He is geeky by nature – he spent "every spare moment since he was fourteen" compiling a database of prehistoric creatures and writes software programmes to relax. At one point he had a crush on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. His favourite food is pizza. After watching Scooby Doo as a kid he decided he wanted to join a crime busting gang. Years later his dream came true – sort of.
He loves conspiracy theories and harbours an ambition to be abducted by aliens. In Connor’s world UFOs are real; it’s just that governments have hidden the evidence. He has a girlfriend, well, more of a penpal, but all thoughts of her are forgotten upon meeting Abby Maitland. Conner has a close friendship with his college mates, Tom and Duncan. They played video games, watched Sci-Fi shows and ate pizza.
Episode 1.1
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- Stephen: "What about you?"
- Connor: "You mighty hunter. Me, I'm more logistics and... backup"
- ―Connor isn't up for a deadly encounter yet
Connor was first seen approaching his professor at the University with an article about a mysterious sighting of a creature. Despite the initial skepticism he encountered, he inadvertantly convinced Cutter to go when he mentioned the sighting was near the Forest of Dean. When investigating an attack on a truck, Cutter's lab assistant Stephen Hart mentioned that Cutter's wife Helen had disappeared withou a trace in the forest eight years earlier. While Cutter was taking a break at a hotel bar, Connor showed Stephen the database of prehistoric creatures on his laptop, which he had been building for years and Stephen noted was slightly sad. Cutter returned with Claudia Brown, a Home Office official Cutter had just met and invited along, and Connor assumed she was there to make a cover-up. The group was surprised to find a dead cow in a tree, and Connor showed Cutter that the compass they were using was going haywire. Later they came across a dinosaur-like creature in the forest, as well as Abby Maitland, a Wellington Zoo keeper. Connor took a picture of the creature, but Claudia deleted it. He stayed with Stephen to kee an eye on the creature while the others went to sort things out with another creature Abby had taken from a local boy. Upon their return they scared the larger creature to see where it would think it was safe, and discovered a hole in time which Cutter called an Anomaly.

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Connor was elated to be able to know such a big secret, and tried to tell his friends Tom and Duncan, but they didn't believe him. He decided to look on a 'wierd sightings forum' for incidents like the Anomaly, and found one. He went to Abby's flat to ask for her help, and saw that she had kept Rex after he had come back through the Anomaly, but agreed to keep her secret. The pair went to a nearby forest, where Abby asked if Stephen had mentioned her, to Connor's disappointment, and replied that he thought Stephen was gay. While keeping watch during the night, they were attacked by a dinosaur, only for it to be revealed a fake made by Tom and Duncan who fled as the police arrived. Cutter, who had learned of what the pair were up to, wasn't happy with Connor for blabbing about the Anomaly and creatures, and told him to go back to studying and leave the situation to the rest of them. But later, Claudia called Connor and told him they needed his help with a new Anomaly discovered in the London Underground. Connor identified a creature they were having problems with as an Arthropleura, as Cutter returned with Stephen, who had been poisoned by the giant centipede. In order to find an anti-venom to cure Stephen, the team searched for the creature and Connor pointed out it might be a burrower, and found its tunnel. He offered to help Cutter get the venom, and asked Abby to bury his Top Trumps with him if he died. After the venom was obtained he fought against the creature with a metal stool, which got caught in its mandibles and conducted electricity from a generator, killing the creature. He seemed to accept Abby's feelings for Stephen and asked Cutter if he was back in. Cutter confirmed he was, and Connor noted he'd always wanted to be in a crime-busting-gang of sorts, and asked if her could have a nickname, but was denied.
Episode 1.3
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- "I can do the action stuff as well you know. I'm not just a massive intellect."
- ―Connor trying to convince Abby that he is as good as Stephen.

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A new creature attack was reported, bt it turned out to be an illegally imported snake. While containing it, he asked if he could move into Abby's flat for a while because he was haing problems with his own. Tom and Duncan gave him a lift to the flat, unaware that they had slipped a tracking device in the form of a keyring onto his bag in an attempt to find out why he was being so secretive. He blackmailed Abby into kissing him so that his friends would assume they were together, and began settling into the flat, taking off some of his clothes to avoid the heat Rex needed. This made it awkward when Stephen came to tell them that Helen was talking and was going to lead them to a new Anomaly. Helen escaped through the Anomaly into what Connor called the Spaghetti Junction of Anomalies. Then Dodos started coming through the Anomaly, and while helping round them up, one swallowed the keyring with the tracking device, and it was caught by Tom and Duncan. Before the team left the stadium, Connor noted the Anomaly was getting weaker. Duncan came to Connor after Tom had begun acting strangely following been infected by a parasite in the Dodo. Connor called the others who began searching for Tom so that they could prevent him spreading the parasite. Connor and Duncan were 
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Connor was playing video games in Abby's flat when she left for yoga, but soon Cutter called and said there was a new creature attack, so he hurried to leave and left a window open which Rex escaped through (which Abby had warned him about earlier) and unknowingly took him to the Golf Course. When he realised what he'd done, he tried to recatch Rex before the others spotted him and tried to warn him of the Pteranodon coming for him. He and Rex ran and escaped death, but Rex fled into the forest. Abby was furious with Connor and demanded he help find the creature. When they did they were attacked by a swarm of smaller pterosaurs, which had killed a golfer and attacked the club house Cutter and Claudia were in. Afterwards, he offered to move out of the flat, but Abby had gotten used to having him around and said he could stay on a few conditions. He watched as the Pteranodon returned home through the Anomaly.
Episode 1.6
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- Nick: "Apparently some people never change."
- Connor: "Is that a bad or a good thing?"
- ―No change for Connor in the new timline
The team returned to the Anomaly Research Centre , which to everyone except Cutter had existed prior to the change. Connor watches as Cutter struggles to accept the changes and lies about knowing Oliver Leek, Claudia's replacement in the new timeline. Connor confronted Cutter as they headed off to a new creature sighting, and had seen that he'd had no idea who Leek was. Despite some doubts, he believes Cutter about the change in the timeline and asked if he'd changed, but Cutter said some things never change, although Connor didn't know if that was good or bad. He complained about not been allowed to use a gun as they entered the Mall. As they searched for the anomaly Connor borrowed money from Abby to pay for a slushi, but a Dromaeosaurus was only metres away from him. Connor fled and threw the slushi at the raptor to distract it as he slid under the closing door. The team soon ancountered a Cleaner and Conor and Abby escourted him to the locker room, which Connor insisted on checking using the gun. Despite his search a baby raptor attacked the Cleaner from the locker and cut his throat, and Connor tried to shoot it with the tranquillizer but instead shot Abby in the leg. On his second attempt he managed to get the baby raptor and took Abby to Cutter and Stephen, who had brought down an adult rapor, and though he showed Cutter where the Cleaner had been he'd vanished. During a trap intended to lure the second adult out, Abby woke up and distracted it, and she and Connor prepared to fend it off with pool cues, but it ran off. Cutter and Stephen confronted it but were defenceless, however Connor arrived and kept them from being killed by shooting it. Cutter then showed Connor that there was interference on a radio frequency which he suspected was being caused by the anomaly. Connor realised they could track anomalies using this discovery, and once the Anomaly closed he and Cutter started making preperations to create an anomaly detector. At the ARC the team were introduced to Jenny Lewis, and Connor watched as Cutter made the assumption she was Claudia Brown.
Episode 2.2
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Connor convinced Cutter to forget about Claudia Brown until they could figure out what was going on. While he and Abby were in a DVD store, she left him to pick one, and then he met Caroline Steel. After an awkward 
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Despite organising another date with her, Connor had to present his new Anomaly Detection Device to the others and explain how it works. However Leek thinks it useless when it fails to detect an Anomaly after a creature kills a paintballer at an amusement park. While Cutter, Stephen and Abby searched for the creature, and Connor was left alone to guard the amusment park. While texting Caroline the guests screamed and Connor saw what looked like the creature. Taking a large rifle fom the guns case, he shoots the cat, but it was really a man in a lion suit and had nearly killed him. Connor was reprimanded, and while searching for the real creature at night he was forced to stay close to Abby since she was allowed a gun. However the creature killed the park manager at a nearby train station, and using a photogeraphers picture, Connor managed to identify it as a Smilodon. Upon the discovery of a burried body likely to have been killed by the big cat, Connor realised the Smildon had been around for some time, so the Detector couldn't have detected it. Once the creature is dealt with at the expense of a woman hiding it, Connor rechecks the ADD and it picks up a signal, and Connor sees that becase it isn't a demo, it has detected a real Anomaly. Connor wasn't happy with the timing since he had arranged another date with Caroline.
Shadow of the Jaguar
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The Lost Island
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Connor is working on the Detector without telling Cutter and Lester, attempting to boost it. When it picks up several anomalies on Guns Island the team head to Ireland to prepare to head there by boat. The journey makes Connor seasick, and witnesses a Liopleurodon nearby. The morning after landing on the island he spots a dying Iguanodon but it is dying from the cold and is put down. When the team head to a base on the island they are attacked by Eotyrannus, and Connor makes it to the base. While in there they find an anomaly to the Cretaceous, and hoping to escape the predators they go through. While searching for another anomaly to get back to the island, Connor is part of a search party and uses the dying handheld detector to locate one. Surviving the Dromaeosaur attack he and the others make it back.
Episode 2.4
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- Abby: "Just let me go."
- Connor: "I can't. I love you."
- ―Connor finally tells Abby how he feels

Added by Spamalot360when they discovered a possible lead to the creatures' location. They discovered the Anomaly had reopened and a missing boy who was still alive, who also mentioned that Abby had just been dragged down a pipe. Connor went after her and spotted her still alive, and said she was safe now. However the MerQueen knocked him in to the water and took Abby through the Anomaly. Connor followed them through the Anomaly and arived in a Future Beach. He soon spotted Abby on a ledge below and tried to pull her up, but started slipping over the edge. Abby insisted he let her go, but he said he couldn't and that he loved her, and then Cutter arrived and helped them both up before he and Stepehn killed the Mer-Queen. When he and Abby returned to the flat, he acted like he hadn't said anything but before he could admit the truth Caroline arrived for their date and he left behind a confused Abby.
Episode 2.5
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At the ARC, Connor discovered the detector had been tampered with, to which Connor suspected the Cleaner, and he and Cutter set to work repairing the problem to locate an anomaly they'd picked up. After solving the issue and heading to the anomaly site, he asked Stephen for advice about what to do, and he decides to tell Abby how he feels and to dump Caroline. After dumping Caroline by Text despite Abby's warnings about how humiliating it was, Caroline not taking it too well after recieving the text, kidnaps Rex. While Cutter and Stephen were trapped in the Silurian after the anomaly had closed, a reluctant Lester named him the new team leader along with Abby, but fotunately both returned with the girl they had gone to save by coming through a new anomaly.
Episode 2.6
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- "I don't do mistake. Often."
- ―Connor on his tech skills
Connor has supreme computer abilities and managed to hack into the records of Oliver Leek, he also accidently admitted to Abby he had been looking at her personal file. This happened as she asked him what her middle name was, and idiotically he said, straight away, Sarah. He was right of-course but made a complete clown of himself by doing so. He was scared when a bomb was found in the ARC and he and Cutter had to deactivate it. It was a close shave, as he was under the white van counting the timer down out loud for Cutter, while Cutter was trying to remove the battery out of the front bonet. He later used the Anomaly Detector to trace Caroline's mobile, and upon arriving at the location, he, Cutter, Jenny and Abby were apprehended by Leek and his men.
Episode 2.7
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- "For someone really smart, you can be amazingly thick sometimes."
- ―Abby on Connor
When held in a cell with Abby, Leek took Caroline in there and, after Abby told him when he couldn't figure it out, learned she was his spy. Connor attempted to stop the fight between the girls, initially getting hit by Abby accidentally, but then he managed to stop them by restraining Abby, and despite Caroline's thanks, he said he didn't do it for her. When they were locked up with Caroline, she was clearly sympathetic when she realised she hadn't known what was going on. Afterwards they were placed in an arena with Jenny and were faced with a Smilodon. While trying to find a way out they found the escaped Rex, and Connor followed Rex to a ventilation shaft and allowed the girls to get out first and Caroline to carry the wounded Rex out when he realised she was truly sorry for what she had done. Later, at Stephen's funeral, he and Abby make their peace with Caroline, and when they headed off to another Anomaly, he was given a gun as a sign that he could now be trusted with them.
Extinction Event
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Connor noticed that the anomalies were begining to become more eratic in their behavior, and he and Cutter attempted to find out why. He was later kidnapped by Nikolai Medyevin and Koshkin, along with Cutter and Abby. When they realise the Russians have their own Anomaly problem Connor builds a crude Anomaly Detector to track it. When a Torosaurus attacks the jeeps, Connor gets injured and his improvised Anomaly Detector is damaged. He spend most of the rest of the mission being taken care by Natacha Antila. He sends a message to the ARC to tell the where they are, and when he learns the asteroid that causes the K-T Extinction is going to happen while the Anomaly is open he hacks into the Russian Military computers and uses a prototype weapon to close the Anomaly. He is sent back to England at the end.
Episode 3.1
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- "I am so cursed!"
- ―Connor has the luck of a broken Sun Cage

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When Cutter made a prediction with his new matrix, he, Abby and Jenny were sent to an abandoned house to see if an anomaly would open. Abby pretended to be in danger and he went to rescue her but she ambushed him and kissed him on the check for putting himself in harm's way for her. As they were leaving they ran into detective Danny Quinn, who assumed they were murder tourists and told them to stay away, Connor trying to be nice and saying the police do a good job but this fell on deaf ears. He and Jenny go to find out what happened to the house and learn from a real estate agent that two kids went missing out of the three that went in fourteen years earlier. Tracking down the third they learnt a creature had attacked him and that an anomaly had been unstairs. While Jenny takes Abby to get a check up after being ambushed by a Camouflage Beast and falling down the stairs, he goes inside to get his mobile, which he accidentally dropped after Abby's joke, only to get arrested by Danny. While in a cell he tried to get his phone call and refused to tell Danny why the government was interested in the house. After being sprung by Jenny they learn Ryan went inside the house and so did Abby. After Danny shoots the creature through the reopened anomaly Connor tells Cutter he was right.
Episode 3.3
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- "I won't let you down, Professor."
- ―Connor vows to continue on with Cutter's work

Added by Spamalot360get it working. After the bomb goes off, he heads outside, but after Cutter hadn't come back out he went back inside to try find him. However upon finding him, he had been shot and mortally wounded by Helen. Connor tried to take him outside for help but Cutter was in too much pain so he stayed with him. Before Cutter died he gave Connor the Artefact Helen had with her and told him to figure out why it was important. Cutter leaned on his shoulder and died. He takes Cutter's body outside and promises not to let him down, and held a crying Abby in his arms to comfort her as he himself wept.
Episode 3.4
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Following Cutter's death, and being very upset, Connor wants to find out what the Artefact is, however he works to repair the detector and finish his Anomaly Locking Mechanism. Picking up Abby's phone, he learns that she is hanging out with someone named Jack and becomes worried that she may have someone else in her life. After being imprisoned in an airport hanger by journalist Mick Harper 
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Connor, who is staying in the ARC with Sid and Nancy, chases after the escaped Sid, and discovers the detector cable has been chewed through, meaning the team missed an anomaly. After gaining a fungus sample from the apartment where the anomolay was detected, Connor realises it is highly contagious and after one of Christine Johnson's men touches it, goes in with Danny in hazmat suits to check to see if he's alive, only to be attacked by the fungus host. Despite initial thoughts of being able to burn the creature, Connor discovers it will only cause it to spread and is forced to endure freezing temperatures while trying other methods to kill it. At the end, Lester, who is displeased with Connor's breach of health and safety guidlines, allows him to stay with him until he can find somehwere else.
Episode 3.6
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Connor and Sarah discover the artefact is a key to predicting anomalies, but before they can repeat the process they are forced to take it and escape from the ARC with Danny and Abby when Johnson takes over to search for the artefact. When they are attacked by a Terror bird, Connor drives the car, but is knocked out when he drives into a fallen tree, Abby is reluctant to leave him unconsious but Danny promises to look after him. Then Danny uses him as bait so as to be able to trap the creature and when the house was attacked by a flock of them, he again used himelf as bait so Danny could get the bunker where the anomaly was and return the creatures to there rightful time.
Episode 3.7
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After realising Rex is up for sale on the internet, he confronts Jack and learns that he lost him in a poker game and demands he get the lizard back before Abby finds out. When Abby was helping the injured Dracorex, he gave her a hand, though he expected it to just be for comfort. When the knight William de Monay threatened to kill Abby as well as the 'dragon', he was prepared to allow Becker to shoot him to keep Abby safe. After learning Jack doesn't have the money to get Rex back, he takes Becker and his soldiers to the house Rex is at and forces the boy to give him back.
Episode 3.8
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- Connor: "I'm being weird, aren't I?"
- Abby: "Yeah."
- ―Things are always weird after a first kiss with someone though
When Abby brings Rex over to play with Sid and Nancy, they talk about how they don't want any wierd feelings between them, though Connor does act strangely. At the anomaly site he uses a racing cart to keep the bull Embolotherium away while Abby and Sarah rescue a baby from inside a tent to prevent the females from getting nervous. However before he can get to the anomaly it closes and the pursuing bull causes the rest of the herd that were left behind to stampede toward a campsite. After the mysterious woman with Danny named Eve used a bizzare device to open and close a new anomaly, he and Sarah look over her notebook and find the name Claudia Brown, despite the fact only two people know of that name; Cutter and Helen. When Eve reveals herself to be Helen, she demands the artefact from them, and Connor asks how she could kill her own husband rather than why the artefact is important.
Episode 3.10
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Danny, Abby and Connor go back to the Future to stop Helen. After she escapes through an Anomaly she opens with her Anomaly Opening Device, Connor manages to work out what Helen is up to and (using an older device than the one Helen used) gets a new Anomaly to open to the Cretaceous using an advanced computer. 
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- Abby: "Are we home?"
- Connor: "One good thing; I don't think we're gonna get eaten here."
- ―Connor and Abby upon their return

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Connor is interviewed by Matt and says he doesn't want to give up the burden Cutter set on him. He is fired from the ARC, despite Abby getting a low-ranking job looking after the creatures in the ARC's menagerie. Lester tells him he'll try to do something for him, but asks him to keep a low profile. He is left out in the cold, and Jess offers for him and Abby to stay at her flat until they find somewhere else. While searching for new apartments on the net, he decided to look up creature sightings and found that his old friend Duncan had a 
Added by ZEMHowever the creature wakes up from its unconscious state, and rattles the container it is in violently and the beast escapes and runs off in search of the fleeing Duncan. Connor, scared of losing another friend, chases him into the maze of containers. He frantically pulls out the walke-talkie Duncan gace him, and talks to a scared Duncan. He puts him in a container to keep him safe, but after the creature devours one of Beckers men, it sets its eyes on Connor and after a brief chase, Connor encounters the team, who give him an EMD, and force the creature towards Becker, but are forced to kill the creature when it nearly kills him. Connor shares his goodbyes with Duncan, and has a amusing chat about Abby and his relationship, before heading back to the ARC. Lester isn't happy about Connor not keeping a low profile like he asked, but Connor says he will never stop doing the ARC's work. But Connor had already been put back in the team when Matt and Lester persuaded Burton to let him back on, and jokingly asked for a raise too. He and Abby tried to relax at Jess' flat after the incident, but she had many questions about the old ARC and team, particularly Becker.
Episode 4.3
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Philip asked Connor to remain behind at the ARC when a new Anomaly was detected, asking for his help with his new security system, and Connor reluctantly agreed. Connor was told it scans the ARC for creature activity in case one from the menagerie escaped, and Connor thought it was something a technician could do, but did it anyway. Once finished he was told to start the scan, but Philip ordered him to stop as Rex had escaped and was in the same room as him, but was too late to prevent the ARC going into lockdown mode. Jess told him what the lockdown entailed, and Connor thought Philip was an idiot for not explaining the whole system to him, 
Added by ZEMthe heavily updated system he had built for the original ARC before remembering he had built a back door, but couldn't remember the password. Realising it would be something important to him, he remembered it was ABBY TEMPLE, and the lockdown ended. While medics attended to the unconscious Philip, Connor resusitated Rex. Afterwards, Philip thanked him and told Connor to keep Rex away from him in the future. He asked if Philip was going to tell him what New Dawn was, but Philip said it could wait for another time.
Episode 4.4
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- "I am a groupie, just without the sordid bits and low self-esteem."
- ―If Connor were a bigger fan of Philip...
Connor asked Abby about what Matt was doing with Emily Merchant, a Victorian era woman who had come through the last Anomaly. Philip was beginning to show an interest in the creatures, and Connor assumed this was good, while Abby called him a groupie for Philip, though Connor said he was like one. However, Philip had instead decided to have the creatures being contained put down due to the inconvenience and supposed cruelty of allowing them to live in a world they didn't understand, brought on by his experience, and asked Connor for his thoughts, but didn't reply. A new Anomaly was detected, and Abby decided to stay behind, and Connor, Becker and Matt arrived at the McKinnon School. Connor wondered why all schools smelled like spot cream and misery, and asked Matt about his school days, but Matt was reluctant to talk about himself. A creature incursion was found, but Connor was blocked off from the others when the door security locks were activated. Connor opted to fix the problem on the server, and soon went to find two boys who were in the school. Connor saw them in another part of the building, and attempted to warn them of the Therocephalian heading towards them before they fled. He caught up to them and Matt told him to get them out. However Becker and Matt weren't faring well against the large number of creatures, so Connor and the boys made gas bombs in the science lab that put all the creatures to sleep, except for one which Connor shot with his EMD. After returning to the ARC he heard that Philip had changed his mind about the creatures, and Abby scornfully told him that it was changed for him without his help, and she ignored Connor's protests.
Episode 4.5
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Philip was trying to recruit Connor into his own team studying the anomalies, however Connor was reluctant to decide without talking to Abby first. The ADD picked up a new anomaly, but its signal was fluctuating, something Connor had never seen before so he Abby and Matt went to investigate. After an awkward moment in the local bar of the seaside village, Connor and Abby try to locate the anomaly. They find slime near a farm, but the owner catches them snooping. When she demands to know what they're doing, Connor tells her the truth knowing she won't believe him, but they manage to escape. Matt reports finding a body near the river, and though Connor and Abby are too late to see the creature, he agrees with Matt's description of it being a Labyrinthodont. Matt leaves to help Emily, while Philip somehow managed to loock onto the Anomaly's exact loocation. Despite Lester's orders to go after the creature he agrees with Philip that the fluctuating anomaly signal could prove vital in their research, and went to go find it and warned Abby to wait for backup while she dealt with the creature.Locating it in a seaside cave, Connor found the remnants of a fuel-smuggling operation in the seaside cave, and saw that there was a metallic substance near the anomaly in the cave, and he and Philip realised that acid created by the dumped fuel was causing the anomaly to become weakened. He discovered another Labyrinthodont being hurt by the acid, but before he could do anything he was attacked by the farmers. He tried to convince them to let him go, but the larger creature arrived and killed both of them. Connor was told that Abby's Black Box signal was in front of him, but all he saw was the creature. 
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Connor went with the others to the Stately Home where a new anomaly was detected, and while searching the basement asked Matt about what would happen to Emily. Abby was annoyed by his questions by he shot a Hyaenodon with his EMD, saving her life. He soon encountered Jenny Lewis, who was getting married the next day, and both equally shocked to see each other. Jenny began fretting about there being an anomaly and telling her fiancee, and it decided that the team would stay to ensure nothing happened. Connor noted that Jenny seemed happier and agreed that he'd worked with Jenny on a team-building paintballing PR project when meeting Michael. Connor blurted out that he thought he and Abby should get married there (theoretically), and Jenny told him he needed to propose before planning the wedding. He later tried to talk to Abby about what he'd said but was distracted by a cry from the basement. Finding two Hyaenodon pups in the wine cellar, he tried to call the others and was trapped in the cellar by the adult. He used wine to distract the pups as he trapped them in a box and attempted to escape. Spotting another pup outside he popped a wine cork into its side, with the adult Hyaenodon leaving to respond to its cries. Connor sent the trapped pups through the unlocked anomaly and attempted to get the third through too, only to hear the growl of more adults on the other side. He rushed to warn the people at the just-begun wedding, but they only saw the pup and didn't believe him before two adults burst in. Once all the creatures were returned, Connor held the laptop Lester was using video link on to get Jenny and Michael married.
Eye Strain
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Connor, along with Abby and Matt, has to coax a pterosaur back through an anomaly on London's south bank.
Episode 4.7
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- "I said the anomalies were getting more frequent. I was right."
- ―Connor begins explaining what he's learned
Connor's new lab was completed and showed it off to Abby, introducing her to the Anomaly Dating Calculator he had made. As they left to deal with a new Anomaly he told Philip the anomalies were getting more frequent, and was told that his new lab was part of Prospero and off limits to everyone else. At the prison, Connor awaited results from his Calculator, eventually arriving at 1867. However the anomaly unlocked itself and despite Connor's insistance there wasn't any danger from the Victorian era he re-locked it. But it unlocked again and a Terror Bird attacked. After returning it, Connor realised his Calculator didn't work and tried to see if the Locking Mechanism was malfunctioning and asked for another to be sent down. Soon Danny came through the anomaly and the team shared a happy reunion. Ethan Dobrowski then arrived and while Matt and Becker dealt with him, Connor, Abby and Danny went after the Terror Bird again. When it was returned he was present as it was revealed Ethan was Danny's missing brother Patrick.
He stayed at the prison and tried to lock the Anomaly with a new unit, but it also failed as more satellite Anomalies opened. Connor tried using both Locking Mechanisms at the same time and learned it was in fact two that had opened on the exact same
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Sometime upon returning to the ARC, Connor continued to work on his convergance theory as Abby brought him a coffee. Philip arrived and told Connor that his work on the anomaly convergence is a waste of time, and took Connor to see a top secret Prospero project. At another facility, Philip showed Connor a large machine, explaining that it was designed to get sustainable energy from the anomalies, solving all of humanity's problems. Philip assigned Connor an assitant named April Leonard, who complimented his genius. But when a group of vicious burrowing insects from the future come through an anomaly, Connor, along with Abby, Matt, and Becker, went to take care of the situation. After creating a 3D map showing the creature's tunnel to locate i
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Connor was busy at work when an alert sounded, and told Abby that he was working on something he couldn't tell her about, and wanted to continue working until Abby reminded him that some were starting to notice his absence. As the anomaly was in the North Sea, the team were going to use a navy submarine that had encountered the anomaly to get there. While Connor worried about his sea-sickness, he and Matt worked on modifying a torpedo to fire an electronic charge to lock the anomaly. When the power went out and the sub was pulled through the anomaly he worked on getting the power back online using the schematics. Abby almost attacked him while searching for the Swimming Raptor that was loose inside the sub, which they then encountered and Connor electrocuted to knock it out. After activating the final fusebox, they took the creature to be ejected from the sub while they went back through the anomaly and locked it with their torpedo. After they got back on land, Connor called Philip immediately, and later at the ARC Abby tried to convince Connor that Philip was bad news and to trust her. However Connor asked her to trust him, certain that what he was doing was going to make her proud, however as she left she told him that she'd always been proud.
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Philip arrived to inspect Connor's work, but the anomaly had closed, and Connor said it was only a prototype. He managed to get it open again, this time setting off the ADD and bringing the rest of the team into his lab. Connor was disappointed that the others didn't see the greatness of his achievement in creating the first man-made anomaly until Philip ordered them away. He later explained to Abby Philip's New Dawn plan, citing that this kind of experimentation would be what Cutter wanted, though 
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As Matt informed everyone of his mission, Connor said he'd given Matt the nescessary information to infilitrate New Dawn and sabotage the machine while he kept Philip away. When Philip arrived, Connor pretended he needed Philip's help with his prototype machine, which delayed them for a short while. When several anomalies began opening up all over the world, Connor asked Philip why he hadn't been surprised with the data he had given him about the Convergence, and Philip admitted that he hadn't wanted Connor distracted by contingency plans when they could instead work on New Dawn. En-route they took a shortcut through an underground parking lot, where a Kaprosuchus charged into the car, flipping it. Connor's leg was trapped, but Philip opted to leave Connor and start New Dawn, and when Connor told Philip that the machine wouldn't work and that Matt was from the future, he thought that it was a lie. Connor was prepared to shoot Philip with his EMD to stop him, however Philip had taken a piece out of it, and left it out of his reach and to the creature's mercy. He attempted to use a magnet to reach the piece, but the attacking Kaprosuchus wouldn't allow let his reach it, so he called in Abby, who brought it down and freed him. Connor apologised for n
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Over the course of the Primeval seasons Connor has invented several devices that revolve around the anomalies.
Anomaly Detection Device
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The Anomaly Detection Device (ADD) is a device whose concept was originally composed in Episode 2.1, and first seen on screen in Episode 2.3. The ADD tracks anomalies by monitering the 87.6 FM frequency and locating the exact location of the interferance created when Anomalies open. A hand held Anomaly Detector was created by Connor along with the full size ADD permanantly situated in the operations area of the old ARC. The ADD was temporarily unoperative in The Lost Island, and between Episode 3.3 and Episode 3.4 when Helen set a bomb in the ARC.
The ADD was upgraded between Series 3 and Series 4 when the New ARC was established and is now monitered by Jess Parker.
Anomaly Locking Mechanism
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In Episode 3.1 Connor discovered that applying an electrical 'shock' to the Anomalies causes them to reverse their polarity and, effectively 'lock' so that nothing can pass through them. The first locking mechanism was a massive machine which didn't even work without Connor having to rebuild it in the field.
In between Series 3 and Series 4 the Locking Mechanism was modified and rebuilt down so that it could fit into a small briefcase.
Anomaly Dating Calculator
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The Anomaly Dating Calculator was created by Connor betweenn Episode 4.6 and Episode 4.7. It is a simple device to use, all you have to do is point it at an anomaly and it will tell you where it leads to. It is unknown how it figures out the date, but is likely to be something to do with the air being expelled from the anomaly.
New Dawn Prototype
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This machine was created by Connor during the course of Series 5. It creates anomalies. It created the first manmade anomaly in the ARC. Unfortunately, it let through a swarm of Future Beetles, who invaded the ARC. (Episode 5.4)
Creatures Encountered
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Appearances
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Canonical
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- Episode 1.1 (first appearance)
- Episode 1.2
- Episode 1.3
- Episode 1.4
- Episode 1.5
- Episode 1.6
- Episode 2.1
- Episode 2.2
- Episode 2.3
- Shadow of the Jaguar
- The Lost Island
- Episode 2.4
- Episode 2.5
- Episode 2.6
- Episode 2.7
- Extinction Event
- Primeval Evolved Intro
- Episode 3.1
- Primeval Evolved Week 1
- Episode 3.2
- Primeval Evolved Week 2
- Episode 3.3
- Primeval Evolved Week 3
- Episode 3.4
- Primeval Evolved Week 4
- Episode 3.5
- Primeval Evolved Week 5
- Fire and Water
- Episode 3.6
- Primeval Evolved Week 6
- Episode 3.7
- Primeval Evolved Week 7
- Episode 3.8
- Primeval Evolved Week 8
- Episode 3.9
- Primeval Evolved Week 9
- Episode 3.10
- Primeval Evolved Week 10
- S4 Prequel Episode 1 (mentioned)
- S4 Prequel Episode 2 (mentioned)
- S4 Prequel Episode 3 (mentioned)
- S4 Prequel Episode 4 (mentioned)
- S4 Prequel Episode 5 (mentioned)
- Episode 4.1
- Episode 4.2
- Episode 4.3
- Episode 4.4
- Episode 4.5
- Episode 4.6
- Eye Strain
- Episode 4.7
- Episode 5.1
- Episode 5.2
- Episode 5.3
- Episode 5.4
- Episode 5.5
- Episode 5.6
Non-Canonical
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Trivia
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- Connor is tied with Lester for being the longest running male character in the show however Conner has been in more episodes.
- He is the only character from the UK confirmed to apper in New World.
- In Series 2, he admits he doesn't like rats.
- Cutter once described him as the R2-d2 of the team in Episode 1.6 .
- Connor's trademark porkpie hat style disappears in Series 3 except in Episode 4.6 where he is wearing one while holding the laptop that is streaming James Lester .
- In the Episode 3.3 commentary Andrew Lee-Potts mentioned that on Connor's wrist, could be seen a compass which would help find anomalies that he wanted his character to keep, but the produces did not approve of it so that was its first and last appearance.
- Connor seems to have a habit to getting himself into trouble (compared to the other characters); being attacked by a Mosasaur, a Pteranodon, a Future Predator, a Fog Worm, a Pristichampus, Danny Quinn, a Giganotosaurus, Future Fungus, Terror Birds, stun grenades, Spinosaurus, a Labyrinthodont, Hyaenodon, Giant Burrowing Insects, a Swimming Raptor and a Kaprosuchus.
Gallery
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- Also see: Category:Images of Connor Temple
| Series 1 Main Characters |
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| Nick Cutter • Stephen Hart • Connor Temple • Abby Maitland • Claudia Brown • Helen Cutter • James Lester • Tom Ryan |
| Younger Storybooks Main Characters |
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| Nick Cutter • Stephen Hart • Connor Temple • Abby Maitland • Claudia Brown • Jenny Lewis • Helen Cutter • James Lester • Tom Ryan • Oliver Leek • Caroline Steel • The Cleaner |
| Series 2 Main Characters |
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| Nick Cutter • Stephen Hart • Connor Temple • Abby Maitland • Jenny Lewis • Helen Cutter • James Lester • Oliver Leek • Caroline Steel • The Cleaner |
| Older Novels Main Characters |
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| Nick Cutter • Stephen Hart • Connor Temple • Abby Maitland • Jenny Lewis • James Lester • Helen Cutter • Jake Hemple • Danny Quinn • Hilary Becker • Sarah Page |
| Series 3 Main Characters |
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| Nick Cutter • Connor Temple • Abby Maitland • Jenny Lewis • Helen Cutter • James Lester • Hilary Becker • Sarah Page • Danny Quinn • Christine Johnson • Joseph Wilder |
| Primeval Evolved Main Characters |
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| You • Helen Cutter • James Lester • Connor Temple • Abby Maitland • Sarah Page • Jenny Lewis • Danny Quinn |
| Series 4 Main Characters |
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| Connor Temple • Abby Maitland • Hilary Becker • James Lester • Philip Burton • Matt Anderson • Jess Parker • Gideon Anderson • Emily Merchant • Patrick Quinn |
| Series 5 Characters |
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| Matt Anderson • Connor Temple • Abby Maitland • Hilary Becker • Jess Parker • James Lester • Philip Burton • Emily Merchant • April Leonard |