So how did the Raptor get to the present? The only anomaly was to 1860s London so did the raptor originally go through an anomaly from the Cretaceous to the 1860s, started to be called Spring-heeled Jack, then went through the anomaly to the present, only to end up being sent back to the 1860s?

While it was interesting to have the raptor be called Spring-heeled Jack, looking up information on Jack it doesn't quite match up to reports.

Also I don't think there were any reported sightings of Jack in the 1860s (at least, none listed on Wikipedia). Since the first reports of Spring-heeled Jack come from the 1830s the raptor & it's attacks were probably assumed to be Jack rather than the raptor being the source of Jack's legend.

Keith, I think your first paragraph is absolutely right. Emily also mentions that she tried to find the raptor’s original anomaly but that it must have closed.

I had to smirk somewhat at the way that the show’s Victorian London was way more convincing than their modern London. For one thing, either all the anomalies open in the same place, or London is suddenly full of buildings that have that chequerboard layout of windows and look like a Grand Prix chequered flag.

Poor editing: as Matt, Abby and Becker step into the Intimidation area, we see their footage on the big screen. Matt says, “Motion detector,” and he and Becker move away, then we see exactly the same big screen footage again of the three of them close together.

Matt and Becker take a very long time deciding whether to shoot the raptor when they first find it, especially when it’s scrabbling to keep its footing on the railing and is therefore a sitting duck. It’s not even that big, so they can’t be concerned about how difficult it might be to drag/push through the anomaly.

Why does Becker dive across the front of the raptor as it leaps towards the anomaly? His dive doesn’t alter its direction and it’s heading straight for the anomaly anyway, so it seems rather pointless.

How very convenient that it just happens to be the Spring-heeled Jack edition of the newspaper that comes through the anomaly.

I don’t recall ever seeing anyone’s hair being ruffled by breeze coming from an anomaly before.

I’m not even going to get into the what-are-the-odds debate over Emily being in the same place as Matt shortly after his arrival or I shall just get cross.

The editing of this episode is odd, perhaps brought about by them not having enough footage to fill the 42 minutes, but there seems to be far too much unnecessary footage of horses and carriages on the move.

If New Dawn hasn’t even got a prototype of the energy device to work yet, why was there a massive version of it already built?

And why is Connor working at the ARC and not at New Dawn itself?

Even if no time passes between Henry bundling Emily into the coach and us next seeing it after the intervening scene at the ARC, the coach is moving at a fair lick. Why would the raptor pursue it through the streets – apparently unseen by anyone – when there are much easier slower-moving targets right outside? Does it like Emily’s perfume or something? Or – considering how fast Matt arrives – are they going round in circles?

“Quick, let’s split up,” says Matt as he realises that he has just shut himself and Emily into a room with the raptor, strangely not adding, “Then at least only one of us is likely to get eaten straightaway.”

When Emily first goes head to head with the raptor, I like the nice touch of it being unbalanced on top of its box and half falling off it before getting its footing again. However, she could really do with longer knives than the ones she’s chosen, ’cause she’s likely to get her fingers bitten off getting so close to the creature.

That rope doesn’t look anywhere stiff enough to work like a whip, and on one of the longer shots of Matt wielding it, it looks like he almost lashes his own feet.

Poor raptor! I winced for it as it repeatedly bounced off the bannisters as it fell down the stairwell!

But if only they’d send more than a minimal team to each incursion, or they didn’t keep going off on tea breaks, Becker could have got some of his minions to tie the raptor up before it regained consciousness.

Henry shoots Emily and the squib goes off above her right breast but she stumbles through the anomaly holding her stomach.

“I’m shot,” Emily tells Matt, and Becker says, “I’ll get the medical kit.” No, Becker, you idiot, she’s been shot, not bruised. Get a bloody ambulance and some proper paramedics!

What sets off the Intimidation recording? Henry hasn’t moved Matt into a position anywhere near the motion detectors.

This series just cannot decide what age it is catering for. Sometimes there are quite graphic deaths, and in this episode the sight of Henry’s dead face is actually rather horrific, yet the editor decides not to show him actually being killed – and edits it so poorly that there isn’t even time for the raptor to kill Henry before Becker fires.
[ETA: Actually, I forgive the editor: footage was deleted from the episode shown at 8 p.m. on a week night, despite the fact that ickle kiddies shouldn't have been watching that late. In the DVD version we do get to see the raptor chomping onto Henry's head.]

“This is my home,” Emily told Matt in the past, but once her husband is dead and she’s safe from being locked up and can live happily there, she suddenly changes her mind.

Considering that something that happened in our near future wiped out humanity – which is why Helen was taking such drastic steps to try to stop Nick and the ARC and their experiments – why would Helen and Philip have been in league? If anything, Philip seems to be working on stuff that’s more likely to bring about the future devastation, so I can’t see why they would ever have been linked.

I would imagine that someone as nerdy as Connor would password the hell out of all his files, so the hard drive that Matt now possesses may be totally useless.

Callie - “Quick, let’s split up,” says Matt as he realises that he has just shut himself and Emily into a room with the raptor, strangely not adding, “Then at least only one of us is likely to get eaten straightaway.”
You should put that on the MiSTing board.

I would imagine that someone as nerdy as Connor would password the hell out of all his files, so the hard drive that Matt now possesses may be totally useless.
Sadly Connor's been carrying the Idiot Ball ever since he met Philip soooo...
(I want to hope the writers are just having him pretend to be clueless to lull Philip into a false sense of security & allowing him to access his secrets, buuuuuuut the writers don't fill me with enough confidence for that.)

Sadly Connor's been carrying the Idiot Ball ever since he met Philip

True, which probably means that his password for all his files is still "MrsAbbyTemple".