Christine Johnson was one of the two main antagonists (alongside Helen Cutter) in Series 3 of Primeval. She was the officially appointed military liaison to the Anomaly Research Centre, though on the side she led an operation on an Anomaly to the future in her headquarters without consent from the Minister.
She was portrayed by Belinda Stewart-Wilson.
Biography[]
Academically gifted, Christine showed an affinity for science and math, she also excelled in bioengineering and biophysics. Christine Johnson was enlisted by MI6 and showed extraordinary leadership skills throughout her training. She was a favourite of her mentors, but her ambition and competitiveness resulted in her having few and far-between friends. After a string of successful missions in Jamaica, she was then enlisted as the Home Office’s military liaison officer to the Anomaly Research Centre.
After arriving back in London she called James Lester to let him know of her new position, and organised for them to have a lunch meeting. When he appeared at White Hall, the two spoke on what they believed should be the ARC's main goal. Their meeting was cut short as she noticed Captain Ross waiting to report, and had Lester escorted away. She learned from Ross that they had failed to procure a mysterious artefact due to an attack from Future Predators. Christine was furious and unsympathetic regarding the death of all soldiers that had accompanied Ross, demanding that the artefact be found and retrieved.
At her headquarters, she and her right hand man, Captain Wilder, were observing a team of her scientists examining an unconscious Future Predator. Wilder informed her that the artefact had ended up in the ARC's hands, having been found and left there by Helen Cutter. She was intrigued by the Predator's abilities, and wanted to harness their power in the hopes of creating better soldiers. When the Predator woke she ordered it to be killed by electrocuting him. Wilder reminded her that the ARC would pick up her anomaly's signal, but Christine said they would deal with them when they arrived.
Wilder and his men surrounded the ARC team, and Christine confronted Jenny Lewis, Connor Temple, Abby Maitland and Captain Becker, telling them there was no anomaly and dismissing their insistence on investigating. Before they departed, Christine noted Becker had once worked with Wilder, and implied she could give him an opportunity to again. Lester contacted her later, and Christine assured him that she had nothing that would affect the ARC, but Lester didn't believe her in the slightest and gave his own assurance that Christine wouldn't be getting anywhere near the ARC operation before terminating the call. Christine later observed the anomaly she was, in fact, keeping secret within her facility, deep in thought and contemplating future ambitions.
Later, she, Wilder and a spy went to the ACR where Christine asked for a private word with Lester, and asked if he had any knowledge of the artefact, wich he claimed to not know anything about. She also advised Wilder as the new team leader. When an alarm went off, Christine found that her spy had been attacked by a strange fungus, and blamed Lester for his death, though Lester pointed out that he had been within a security zone. As they were leaving she ordered Wilder to set up surveillance inside the ARC. Lester later called her to the ARC to say she had been right about needing a man like Wilder, and though he actually meant Wilder before Lester revealed he had chosen Danny Quinn, and had invited her to spite her.
She discovers through her surveillance cameras that the ARC team had the Artefact and that its purpose was to predict anomalies. She then staged a hostile takeover of the ARC; her soldiers captured Lester and most of the ARC staff, but Danny, Abby, Connor, and Sarah manage to escape with the Artefact as they had advance warning due to discovering Christine's secret surveillance. Determined to retrieve it, Christine sends first Captain Ross and then Becker to get them. No sooner than she gets her hands on the Artefact, however, Christine is summarily fired as Becker had secretly recorded her insulting the Minister and Lester had sent it to Whitehall, leading the very upset Minister to summon her for a reprimand.
She then briefly appeared talking to Wilder about Eve, a young woman Wilder found in the Future City. She examined her possessions (including a journal and an odd device) before ordering Wilder to alert her the moment she woke up.
After Eve woke up, Christine interrogated her about what the future is like, and where the Predators came from. Later, when Eve escaped Johnson's HQ with Danny Quinn, Christine came to the ARC, demanding Danny's immediate arrest. She also found Eve there, but at that moment, Eve revealed herself to be Helen Cutter and took Christine hostage.
Christine tried to bargain her freedom, but Helen asserted that she was not doing this for power. Helen returned to Johnson's HQ with her and kicked her through her anomaly into the future where Christine was immediately attacked by a Future Predator and tried to escape back through the anomaly. Despite the team's attempts to save her, the Predator dragged Christine back and killed her.
Personality[]
Christine Johnson was a highly ambitious, cold, competitive, determined and ruthless civil servant, who was hungry for power and willing to use highly unscrupulous methods to get what she wanted - including kidnapping, illegal experimentation on creatures and Anomalies, spying on her potential enemies, and even trying to take control of the ARC. Johnson generally tried to boost her soldiers' morale with mild favouritism and promises of great reward, particularly when she had high faith in them, but when her men failed to get what she wanted, she could be very cold, ungrateful and callous; she was entirely uncaring when Ross came back the sole survivor of a failed mission into the future to get the Artefact, only caring about the fact that "[she] told [Ross] not to come back here without [the Artefact]," and berating him that his men's deaths were his responsibility and not hers.
Johnson apparently also made enemies much easier than friends, and didn't seem to forget when an opponent like Lester in any way directly or indirectly humiliated her. Though very cold, ambitious and cunning, Johnson's weakness was that she relied on intelligence, bribery, favouritism and political manipulation more than anything else; which was how her bribes and threats failed to save her life when she was taken hostage by someone as ruthless as Helen Cutter.
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