In this cheeky literary mash-up of Flaubert's classic novel Madame Bovary, life imitates art in uncanny ways when earthy British beauty Gemma Bovery and her husband move to the Norman village where the novel was written a century earlier.

On the busiest day of the year, long-simmering tensions between Chef Andy Jones (Stephen Graham), his staff and management threaten to boil over into full scale war. Adding to his shift from Hell, a former mentor's attempted hostile takeover of the restaurant threatens to derail his livelihood and his life.

An evolutionary zoologist discovers prehistoric creatures alive and well in the present day. Unexplained anomalies are ripping holes in the fabric of time, allowing dinosaurs to escape the past and roam the modern world.

A herd of Embolotherium comes through an anomaly at an off-road motor course. The team arrives, but these seven ton rhinoceros like beasts from the Eocene era do not budge easily. The pressure is on to lure the lumbering creatures back through the anomaly without causing a stampede or being crushed in the process. Danny finally arrives, with Eve, a mysterious woman from the future.

The team is investigating a mysterious artefact when the ARC is invaded by a Government official backed by the military in search of it. Taking refuge in a mysterious old hut in some woods, the team finds itself besieged by birds from the Pliocene era when an anomaly opens nearby. Phorusrhacids may look like armored ostriches in shape, but they are infinitely more dangerous.

Breaking the curfew, Archer stays the night and Barbara convinces him not to turn the Resistance down - he knows too much, they could kill him. Archer's call for a police car home is intercepted by Huth and he is driven through early morning London to a huge aerodrome. There he finds a guarded hanger and Huth together with his superior, Professor Maximilian Springer.

When an exhibition of ancient Egyptian relics comes to the British Museum, an anomaly opens in a mysterious monument called the Sun Cage. A creature emerges from it - a kind of monstrous crocodile that can run on two legs. The team is joined by the ARC's new Head of Security, Captain Becker, and an archaeologist from the Museum, Sarah Page. The race is on to track the creature down before it hits the streets of London.

Cutter's research leads to a prediction about where the next anomaly will appear. But when Jenny, Connor and Abby check out the location, all they find is an abandoned house. They wait to see if an anomaly will appear, but get more than they bargained for when they discover a camouflage beast from the future is living in the house. They also have to deal with a cop, Danny Quinn, who takes an instant dislike to them.

Barbara faces the ruthless Kellermann in his cells, desperate to know not only what is going on between Huth and Archer but also what was on the burnt film found at her house. Despite knowing the horrendous repercussions of staying silent, Barbara refuses to give Kellemann any information.

The largest anomaly the team has yet encountered opens at an airport and a Giganotosaurus comes through. Affectionately known as a G-Rex, it is like a T-Rex but bigger, meaner and more dangerous. The team has their work cut out as they try to rescue a crew trapped in a 747 and get this mighty predator back through the anomaly.