As you may remember each episode title last season contained the word "time". For season two, each contains the word "second". Since "Continuum" moved to its new Friday time slot, I haven't been able to catch the show each week. The episodes I have seen have been very enjoyable (especially "Second Opinion" and "Second Truths"). Question though, SyFy, why don't you offer any full episodes of "Continuum" on your website? Most other shows have at least a few episodes listed. From Wikipedia:
Episode 1 "Second Chances"
Following the events of the Season One finale, Kiera decides to work on the edge of the law, getting support and resources from her friends at Vancouver P.D., while keeping their hands clean of her tactics. Alec is at odds over the death of his step father, arrest of his step brother, and the message from his future self. He moves in with some buddies, gets a job at a Memory Express hi-tech store, and refuses to answer Kiera's calls. When Vancouver's mayor is assassinated, Kiera works on the case with her former police department partner, Carlos Fonnegra, with CSIS Agent Gardiner dogging her for answers about her forcefield and invisibility. Kiera eventually gets Alec to call her and help out, also returning to the police when Carlos points out that her recent capture of a gang member may be jeopardized when the case goes to court due to her unaffiliated status. Gardiner catches up with Kiera when she is investigating the apartment from which the assassin fired the shots and demands answers with a gun. Kiera tells him that she is a time traveler from 2077, but before the conversation can go further, Fonnegra shows up with backup. Kiera tells Alec she will confront and destroy Liber8, and its growing band of 2013 followers, to preserve the future. Alec is uncertain, asking if they should trust the message from his future self (Kiera says it is 50/50). A flash forward finally reveals the message that Alec and Kiera have seen - Alec 2077 is proud of the tech-smart legacy that "their" father taught them, he regrets his part in helping the corporate-dominated future unfold, and young Alec is the only chance to stop it. Unknown to Kiera and Alec 2013, we then see that Alec 2077 had loaded data directly into Kiera 2077's brain chips (CMR).
Episode 2 "Split Second"
Travis survived his shooting by Sonja at the end of Season 1 and was jailed in the same prison as Julian. A group of skinheads try to intimidate Julian and Travis defends him. As a result, he is to be transferred to a different location. This is a part of a plan by Sonja to kill him. The Vancouver PD is worried about an attempt to free Travis during the transfer, so a decoy convoy is sent out, with Keira and Fonegra travelling with Travis in the real paddy-wagon. Both the decoy and the real prisoner transfer vehicle are attacked, by remotely detonated bomb and remotely controlled machine gun in the case of the decoy. While Keira is trying to drive the wagon after the driver is shot by a pursuing vehicle, Travis breaks free of his restraints and fights with Fonegra in the back. After shaking off an attack by men in a car, they are chased by a helicopter and take refuge in a road tunnel. The helicopter lands in front of them and the car approaches from behind. The men in the helicopter fire a rocket-propelled grenade at the car, killing its occupants and then proceed to attack Keira and Carlos with automatic rifles. After running out of ammunition, Keira uses her suit to provide a force-field to protect her and Carlos as they flee. Travis is freed and Garza turns out to be part of the helicopter team. Meanwhile, Kellogg approaches Alec with a proposed partnership, which Alec at first refuses because he is worried that it would lead to helping create the future that his future self asked him to avoid. In the end, he reconsiders after being told by a customer to clean up the customer's child's spilled slushie. Gardiner thinks Keira is the mole feeding Liber8 information from the police department and confronts her. Keira suggests to Carlos that Gardiner might be the mole.
Episode 3 "Second Thoughts"
Liber8's internal power struggle takes a mega-violent turn as Sonya and Travis recruit gangs as their weapons. Kiera investigates a new (to 2013) street drug that she recognizes from the future. The drug, called "flash" in 2013, is administered by eye drops and allows the user to remember vividly events from the past. Alec is part of a group in a car in which the driver had taken the drug. It crashes and Alec ends up with an arm in a sling. He was also given a plastic ampule of the drug but had not taken it. Kiera learns that Sonya is paying the gang she had recruited to kill Travis with flash. Kiera and Carlos track one of the gang members to the lab where it is being produced and a gunfight ensues in which many of the gang members present are killed. Sonya is there and targets Keira, but neither is successful in their attempts to kill the other. Travis calls members of various gangs together for a meeting and presents them with the heads of their former leaders. He unites them to fight together. Kiera is also meeting with Jason, the other time traveler she met in "Endtimes" (the final episode of Season 1), who tells her that there are other time travelers present and that they are trying to kill him. Alec, desperate to remember something that his late father told him, takes flash, and sees his mother with his father, and when he turns around, Alec recognizes him as Jason.
Episode 4 "Second Skin"
The discovery that Kiera's old partner went back to 1975 leaves Kiera with a shock when she learns of the life her partner has lived, while also forcing her to find her partner's old suit before it falls into the wrong hands after it is accidentally sold in her son's garage sale.
Episode 5 "Second Opinion"
From dire to worse; Kiera suffers a nervous breakdown, which triggers a hidden psychiatric protocol in her CMR that will erase her memories if she cannot cope with the psychological hardships she has been experiencing lately (A matter complicated by the fact that the protocol does not acknowledge Kiera's time-travel). Also, Vancouver, a city on the ropes from Liber8's actions, gets itself a new police chief that attempts to identify the mole in the department.
Episode 6 "Second Truths"
A serial killer is stalking Vancouver's streets who may or may not be from the future. Kiera needs to put all her future smarts in play to stop the killing while trying to keep Carlos at bay about those insights.
Episode 7 "Second Degree"
Kiera and Carlos desperately try to thwart Liber8's vow to attack Julian's trial as an accomplice to the City Plaza bombing. Fork-in-the-road time for Alec; it's come to the point where he must lie about his step-brother's case – or tell the truth and betray his family.
Episode 8 "Second Listen"
Kiera's suspicions are confirmed; there were time jumpers before she and Liber8 came to the present. Now they're popping up dead and she must find out who's behind it. Alec is kidnapped by Garza, acting on orders from Alec's future self.
Grade: 4 Monsters (out of 5). I didn't think I would like season 2 since let's be honest, what else are they going to do that they havent already done before, run around, save the world, try to get back to the future. I was pleasantly surprised though.
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