Patrick Quinn also known as Ethan Dobrowski is the secondary antagonist in series 4 of Primeval. He was the brother of Danny Quinn, a major caracter of the series. After becoming lost through the Anomalies as a teenager, he joined the Time Tribe, but became murderously damaged and unbalanced by his experiences.
He was portrayed by Jonathan Byrne as an adult and Jack Bence as a teenager.
Biography[]
At age 14, Patrick broke into the Brooks house with his two friends, for a laugh. Unknown to them, an Anomaly had opened upstairs and a Camouflage Beast from the future came through and attacked them. Matt was killed, Ryan survived and remained in the present while Patrick escaped through the Anomaly before it closed.
His loss greatly affected the Quinns who had previously held him in high esteem (higher than Danny at least). He spent an unspecified amount of time in the home era of the Camouflage Beasts. He had to kill many of them to survive; so frequently he began to enjoy it. He eventually went through another Anomaly, travelling for some time alone. He once appeared as an anarchist in 1902 Russia by the name of Ethan Dobrowski, murdering at least half a dozen people before disappearing, presumably through another Anomaly.
After departing, he continued to use this name and later joined the Time Tribe where he met Emily Merchant and Charlotte Cameron. But, unlike Emily who thrived in her new found family, Patrick found it hard going although he did fall in love with Charlotte, and she was apparently able to keep him under control. The constant travelling, the fear of the unknown and the creatures they encountered left Patrick a cruel and unstable man. While in the Cretaceous, living off an Arboreal Dinosaur species they called 'Tree Creepers' Patrick and Emily took a sick Charlotte and split off from the main group of fifteen, through an Anomaly to 2011, to get medicine for Charlotte as she was dying from some sort of infection. Unfortunately, Charlotte soon died shortly after they arrived. Patrick immediately blamed Emily for her death. Despite Emily's reassurances, he refused to believe her and remained hidden from the Anomaly Research Centre team when they arrived to deal with the Anomaly and the Tree Creepers that come through it, watching one soldier get killed. Patrick escaped undetected and later broke into an old apartment and killed the owner by snapping his neck. He watched Emily and Matt Anderson on the balcony at Matt's flat across the street. While Matt was away, Patrick broke into Matt's flat and confronted Emily on the balcony. Holding her at knifepoint he kidnapped her, tying her up in the old apartment and ignoring her pleading not to hurt her.
Patrick told Emily that it was her fault Charlotte died, and that as they were the only two people that era who knew her, they were going to hold a funeral for her before he killed Emily for revenge. He revealed that he could drive, and that he was from the present, something Emily wasn't aware of. He was determined to make his family suffer the way he had, so he was pleased to have made it back to his home time. He was also convinced that he could do anything. He took her to the Cameron section of the Tower Hill Cemetery, and later locked Emily in one of the coffins alive. As he was leaving, Matt arrived and the two fought, but Ethan escaped, but not before telling Matt it wasn't over and that he was the past and future.
Patrick set up a bomb in the flat, looking at a photo of him and his brother. Ethan left the flat as Captain Becker arrived, and later returned to lure Becker into his trap. He later visited his old house, and met an old woman who remembered him before he ran off.
Patrick used a wind-up radio to locate an Anomaly at a prison , just like how the Time Tribe use them to locate them at a certain frequency. At the prison, he entered and knocked out one of the soldiers. While he was searching for the Anomaly, Connor Temple interfered with the Anomaly signal and exposed his position, he then smashed the radio in frustration. Patrick then fired his gun at the ARC team, and used a Terror Bird's distraction to continue his search, but was followed by Matt. Matt eventually had him, and demanded to know what he'd done to the Anomaly, but Patrick wasn't sure what he was talking about, and asked where the Anomaly was, telling Matt that despite his original thought of wanting to stay in the present he had changed his mind. The Terror Bird arrived and distracted Matt, allowing Patrick to escape into the courtyard, and held Danny at gunpoint. However, the two recognised each other from their childhood and hugged, and the team learned Patrick's true identity.
He was taken into custody and questioned by Matt, who realised he didn't interfere with the Anomaly and just wanted revenge on Danny for leaving him alone for eighteen years. Danny soon came in and Patrick explained how he had to kill many Camo Beasts while he was in their future home, and eventually started to enjoy killing. Danny questioned his killing of people too, and Patrick claimed that they were just animals and weren't any different. Patrick asked Danny to let him go through the Anomaly, and when he refused, he took the EMD off a guard and shot him before luring Danny in to knock him out. He considered shooting him at point-blank range then reconsidered. After shooting Becker with the EMD, Patrick travelled back to the prison. He stepped through one of the two Anomalies, once he unlocked it. Later, Danny followed him through to prevent him from killing anyone else.
Personality[]
Having been long ago damaged and unbalanced by his brutal experiences in the future and then in the past through the Anomalies, Patrick Quinn was sociopathic, violent, deranged, sadistic and unpredictable, and wanted to kill his family more than anyone else for failing to ever find and rescue him while he was lost in time and alone. As noted by Emily, while all of the Time Tribe were in some way damaged from being so far from home for so long, Patrick was "something else." Murderous and remorseless, after having being forced to kill many creatures to survive, Patrick not only had no aversion to killing but actually enjoyed killing and causing death to humans and creatures alike; being unable to value life or discriminate humans' lives from creatures', and believing that humans and animals were no different and that there was no problem with killing both for little or no reason.
With his extreme survival experience from his travels through the Anomalies combined with his previous knowledge of modern technology, Patrick was highly capable, cunning and independent; able to evade and mislead the ARC team and stay one step ahead of them for a while in the present, leave traps for them, and quickly adapt to and set himself up in whatever time period he arrived in. Due to this, Patrick was just as much of a danger and threat in humanian time zones as he was in prehistoric eras, if not even more so. Despite his dangerous instability and murderous sociopathy though, Patrick was not incapable of caring about those who were able to get his killing tendencies under control, as he truly cared about Charlotte, and wanted her given (his own twisted idea of) a funeral. Patrick also tried to sever all ties with his childhood before becoming lost through the Anomalies, angrily insisting whenever his real identity was discovered that the boy he had once been was long dead.
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