Per policy, Recaps are Spoilers Off and contain unmarked spoilers. You Have Been Warned
When someone is killed by a creature without an anomaly opening, the team finds themselves facing a bigger challenge then expected.
- Androcles' Lion: Valerie raised the Smilodon from when it was a cub, and, as a consequence, is treated as one of its pack mates. However, this doesn't save her when it is in a rage after being shot.Valerie: I went into my garage one day and he was just somehow, magically there. A tiny cub, frightened, alone, half dead. I had to take care of him.
- Asshole Victim: Peter Campbell, the Obstructive Bureaucrat in charge of the amusement park who gets fatally mauled by the Smilodon.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: West, a local animal breeder who previously faced charges for importing lion cubs, and is currently breeding dogs for dog fighting. While he's not responsible for the Smilodon or covering up its kills, he still pulls a gun on Jenny with full intention of murdering her.
- Buy Them Off: Jenny bribes a trainspotter who witnessed the Smilodon attacking Peter Campbell to stop him from taking the story to the press.
- *Click* Hello: Cutter finds evidence that Valerie is the one who's been covering up for the Smilodon, and then turns around to find her holding him at gunpoint.
- Disposing of a Body: The team find the corpse of a man who's clearly been mauled to death by the Smilodon, but given how deep the body's buried, that raises another issue...Cutter: The sabretooth might have killed the guy, but it sure as hell didn't dig a trench ten feet deep and bury the body.
Abby: Someone knows. Someone's covering up for it. - The Dog Was the Mastermind: Who'd have thought the Shrinking Violet would have a sabre-toothed cat at her beck and call?
- I Did What I Had to Do: How Valerie justifies covering up her boyfriend's death at the Smilodon's hands; she believes the creature is the result of some manner of horrific experiment and doesn't want to see it handed back to the people who created it.Cutter: What are you going to say? That you buried your boyfriend after your pet killed him?
Valerie: That was an accident. Dave got careless, he didn't know how to handle him!
Cutter: And you do?
Valerie: He trusts me. I'm the closest thing to a mother he's ever had. - It's All About Me: West, an illegal animal breeder who is currently breeding fighting dogs and previously tried to keep lions, begins to go on a rant to Jenny about how "you people" (ostensibly, the government) keep ruining his "livelihood" - said livelihood that is built on exploiting and harming animals and putting people at risk.
- Lethally Stupid: Whoever left Connor in charge of keeping an eye out in the park with a gun.
- Killed Offscreen: Apparently, the Smilodon died from overdose of tranquilizers.
- Never Found the Body: We never see the Smilodon body after its death, though Leek says it was disposed of. There's a reason for this...
- Oh, Crap!: Cutter when he realises Valerie has lured the Smilodon to her house with the express intention of getting rid of him.
- Red Herring: The local criminal who used to deal in animal smuggling and is clearly breeding fighting dogs seems like an obvious suspect for housing and hiding the Smilodon, but it turns out he's innocent.
- Too Dumb to Live:
- Despite being warned that a big cat that has already killed one person is on the loose around his amusement park, Peter Campbell decides to dress up in a lion costume to scare the tourists... and narrowly avoids getting his head blown off by a panicking, trigger happy Connor.
- Jenny has a moment herself, when she decides to go confront West, a local criminal who was previously involved in importing exotic animals into England and who is clearly now breeding dogs for fighting, and essentially tell him he needs to admit to being the one responsible for the big cat attacks or else face criminal charges for breeding fighting dogs (a considerably lesser offence than keeping a lion, especially one that has supposedly led to at least two human deaths). And she does this alone. She's lucky that Stephen, Abby, and Connor arrive in time to prevent him killing her or worse.
- Wham Shot: Valerie turns on a light in her house to reveal the Smilodon curled up in a corner.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Valerie is genuine in her belief that she's protecting the Smilodon, who she believes is the victim of a government genetics experiment who's creators are now here to recapture it and either kill it or perform experiments on it. But she's willing to cover up killings, points a gun at Cutter, and tries to feed him to the Smilodon.
