Continuum airs on Mondays at 8 PM ET on the SyFy channel. Per Borg.com, Kierra Cameron (Rachel Nichols) is a Vancouver BC cop from 2077 who gets transported back in time to the present where she tracks down a group of rebel terrorists who have come to the past with her. The terrorists, who go by the name Liber8, were sentenced to death and at their execution someone smuggled in a device that created a warp field that spun the convicts back in time and sucked in security officer Cameron.
At first I thought it was the Terminator storyline where good guy (er girl) goes back in the past to stop the baddies. However after seeing the future I'm not so sure who I should root for to win. The future doesn't seem so great.
Characters:
- Kiera Cameron has her standard Central Protection Service equipment: Suit - with enhanced strength, bulletproof, invisibility with color-changing camouflage, a taser system, an energy shield and an advanced computer with viewscreens on her wrists. Kiera is enhanced with Cybernetic visual implants including functions that detect biorhythms, heat and telescopic vision. While wearing the suit, Kiera gains additional functionality, including complete dossiers on targets, forensic data processing and computing. Kiera also has a hand-held device that features wireless frequency generation to open electronic locks and other devices, afingerprint sensor that is linked to her visual implants, and a magnetic field generator.
- Carlos Fonnegra (VPD Detective) and Kiera's partner in the present.
- Alec Sadler as a teenager. When he grows up he becomes the Smoking Man (from X Files). Before rising to the owner of a large corporation of the future, Alec is a social recluse preferring to spend time in his computer lab in the barn on the farm owned by his step father. Alec was able to communicate early on with Kiera when she first came through from the future. As yet, he is the only person who knows who she really is and where she is from and as such becomes an ally.
- Various other Liber8 and Vancouver PD people.
Wikipedia Season 1 (2012)
Episode 1 "A Stitch In Time"
In the year 2077, eight dangerous terrorists from the group Liber8, facing execution for an act of terrorism that killed thousands of innocents, manage to avoid execution by attempting escape into a time jump, transporting themselves from 2077 back to 2012. In doing so, however, they also transport Protector Kiera Cameron; a law enforcement officer who tries to intervene and is sucked into the jump too. Soon after her arrival, she gets into contact with, and befriends, young Alec Sadler; the 17-year old who will one day grow up to create the technology that her world is built upon, and will control future society. One of the terrorists, Lucas Ingram, is arrested soon after their arrival, but the remainder arm themselves and hope to blend into society while carrying out their agenda: to start a war. They begin stealing arms and robbing banks and Kiera, who has lost everything she has, finds herself on a new mission - to hunt down the insurgents. Subsequently, she takes on a new identity and manages to infiltrate and join the Vancouver Police Department, posing as a Portland police officer, and works with local Vancouver officer Carlos Fonnegra to track them down and stop the terrorists' reign of violence - beginning with an attack on the local police station, which frees Ingram.
Episode 2 "Fast Times"
Kiera tries to find the members of Liber8 before they do more damage. The Liber8 freedom fighters are trying to return back to their own time. Kiera knows this, and has every intention of using this opportunity to travel along with them so she can reunite with her family. Their first attempt fails but when Liber8 kidnap a university physicist, Kiera knows exactly where to find them. Meanwhile, Kiera's pretense of being a Portland police officer doesn't last very long - her cover is blown, and she soon finds herself under arrest by her partner on the VPD; Carlos. When Kiera discovers Liber8's plan to make a second attempt, she manages to get free and has to escape, and then approach her sworn enemies alone. Ultimately the attempt fails, and a despondent Kiera is forced to accept she may be stuck in 2012, although, with Alec's help, she creates a profile for herself that convinces the police that she is a government agent so deep undercover that that they can't possibly figure out who she really works for. One member of the terrorist group; Matthew Kellog, has decided to stay and not return to his own time.
Episode 3 "Wasting Time"
Kiera and Carlos investigate a series of mysterious murders; where two victims have had large cylindrical holes incised into the backs of their necks, and were drained of endocrine fluid - in fact, the victims' pituitary glands have been removed. A review of the victims' DNA reveal a special gene, one that would be used in a futuristic super-soldier; and so they discover that the crimes were committed by Liber8. Unknown to Kiera, Liber8 is making the effort to save Travis, their leader (in the absence of Edouard Kagame; who is believed to have not survived the jump), who is quite ill and the glands are needed to synthesize a cure. He's on his death bed however leading some in the group to start jockeying for position in the hopes of replacing him. Kellog, one of the group who is going rogue from Liber8, arranges to meet Kiera and tries asking for a cease-fire with Kiera; by bringing her a gift, one that could cost her and Carlos their lives, but it may just be a trap. Ultimately both survive, and it leads to Kellog's expulsion from Liber8.
Episode 4 "Matter Of Time"
Kiera and Carlos investigate the murder of a Professor Martin Ames; a scientist that was working to develop a source of clean energy, which will be fruitful to all humanity, who was found slain while experimenting with a high energy device. It's apparent that the weapon used to kill him is quite advanced and Kiera believes that it could be the work of Liber8. His graduate student, Shane Mathers offers to help them but finds that all of the professor's files were stolen. They suspect Dr. Melissa Dobeck, a former partner who split with Ames after a disagreement over ownership of the intellectual property, but she denies having anything to do with it. They hit a brick wall when the military takes over their case on national security grounds. Meanwhile Liber8's leader, Kagame, suddenly arrives in the present. He's taken to hospital but quickly sets out to find others in his group. No one knows why he didn't arrive at the same time as the others and for that matter if anyone else from the future may also be here. Kellog has made a fortune in the stock market - a little advance knowledge can go a long way - and is enjoying his new-found wealth. He extends a helping hand to Maddie, paying off the mortgage on her house. She thinks he may be coming on to her but he assures her that's not the case - in fact, Maddie is his grandmother, though he doesn't tell her that. The list of possible suspects in Ames's demise leads Kiera to a precarious place in her personal journey; where she must decide between doing the right thing to do and the preservation of the future she so desperately wants to go home to.
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