Night at a local shopping mall. Something on a CCTV monitor grabs the attention of the security guards. They investigate, only to be attacked by a ferocious Jurassic-era Utahraptor. The anomalies are back?
At the original anomaly site, as Cutter grapples with Claudia Brown's disappearance, a new second-in-command has taken her place in the team - the oily Oliver Leek. Not only that, but the team now has a headquarters. A hi-tech, highly sophisticated operations base called the Anomaly Research Center, or ARC. No one believes Cutter when he tries to explain that the present has altered, resulting in Claudia's disappearance. In fact, they think he has gone crazy. But there is not time for idle chat, as the team get a call reporting the creature incursion at the shopping mall.