List of Primeval Characters - C - Helen Cutter

Professor Helen Cutter is played by Juliet Aubrey. 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.

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 2.4, Helen is shown directing the team that is spying on the ARC members. During episode 2.5, Helen visits Stephen again and imparts some information about the group spying on the ARC members, but states it in a way to make it sound like Cutter is involved and Lester is in charge. In episode 2.6 Helen starts showing her feelings about Stephen and they share a passionate kiss and is revealed to be working with Oliver Leek in attempting to experiment on the anomalies to see how they affect the future. In episode 2.7 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 was aware of Claudia in the time before the change and denies being behind it. Despite being shown as the brains of the operation, Leek begins to challenge Helen and when their creatures are released, 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 arrives, she attempts to convince him to leave into the Anomalies until it is safe but he is determined for revenge. He encounters Nick and learns that Helen lied to him. Stephen, Helen and Nick work to contain the predators contained in Leek's base by luring them into the centre where the cages are located by ringing the bell that they associated with feeding time, to trap the creatures together so they will kill each other but Stephen is killed. Helen appears at Stephen's gravesite shortly after his funeral and states that the timeline can change, at which point several duplicates of "The Cleaner" appear, the result of her obtaining future cloning technology to create loyal minions.

In episode 3.1 she is seen in a future time period stealing an artefact from Christine Johnson's military force and barely escapes with her life as predators are in the building. At the conclusion of the episode, Helen sets up an operational headquarters in the present day, assisted by the clones. In episode 3.3, after taking ARC with her clones, she attempts to explain herself to Nick that she can prevent future atrocities (such as the rise of the Future Predators) by actively altering timelines in the past so that evolution and history take a different path. Nick rejects this, insisting that Helen has no right to meddle. Helen also seems to believe that Nick's work with the ARC is in some way responsible for the atrocities she has seen in the future and thus intended to kill him in order to avoid it once he translates the artefact for her. She is caught in the blast from the bomb in the ARC and Nick returns to rescue her only for her to shoot him and leave him to die. Donning the alias of Eve (played by Kate Magowan), she uses Danny to get into the new ARC headquarters to regain the artefact, now believing that the only means to ensure the Future Predators' timeline never occurs is by negating humanity itself. She attempts to do this in the finale of Series 3 and is responsible for the death of the so-called "First Family". She briefly confronts Danny Quinn in the Pliocene, stating that when humanity is gone, other species will be able to develop in peace with no war or pollution. Helen is killed by a raptor before she can complete her mission.

Her presence is still felt strongly in the fourth series, as the ARC team speculate her fate; when Danny returns in the finale, he confirms that Helen is dead 'as a dodo' to Lester, who responds happily: "Excellent". Danny also tells Matt and Emily that Helen and Philip Burton worked together studying the anomalies, and that Burton is not to be trusted. In the fifth series, Connor discovered an audio of Helen encouraging Philip to find a way to make the future better by using the anomalies. However in the series finale Philip realised Helen had tricked him by stroking his ego, having intended for his attempt at making green energy with the anomalies to wipe out humans much like her later plan, likely done in case she failed in her attempt to wipe out early humans.