Continuum Season 3 Episodes 2-9 Recaps: Red Or Green Or Blue Or Yellow

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Red Alec (Or Is It Green Alec) Doing Something To Green Kiera's Body

I dont review "Continuum" on a weekly basis but have seen most of the episodes. Since season 3 ends on 6/22/14 I wanted to catch up. See my other previous reviews of "Continuum" at Continuum Recaps

"Continuum" is not the easiest show in the world to follow but that is what makes it interested. You have multiple characters jumping back and forth in time and affecting future outcomes. The show begins in 2077 (when everything is controlled by big corporations). People have very few personal freedoms. Members of Liber8 (a terrorist group) and Kiera travel back to 2013. Alec and Kiera also travel back to an earlier week in 2013.

The Freelancers have been guarding time for some 1000 years so there are other travelers at different points. In order to keep track of everything, the characters are denoted with either Green (current timeline) or Red (traveled back in time). They may also denoted by T1, T2, T3 (where T= timeline). All this movement may not affect the outcome of the original character but may start a different "branch" with a different outcome on the time travel tree.

This is how Wikipedia explains it:

"Green Alec" = Alec that didn't travel through time and is now in control of Piron.
"Red Alec" = Alec who travelled back a week, creating the alternate timeline
"Green Kiera" = Kiera who came into being with the new timeline who was shot and killed in Alec's lab (by Curtis)
"Red Kiera" = Kiera who travelled back a week and is currently alive

The main characters of the show include:

Alec Sadler is the owner of one of the largest corporations in 2077 (Sadtech)
Kiera's husband Greg works for Alec.
Liber8 is a group focused on bringing down the big corporations in 2077. Their main members include Kagame, Kellog, Garza, Sonya, Travis, Curtis, etc. After traveling back in time to 2013 they focus on trying to bring down the corporations before they can begin (so they're after Alec).
In 2013 Kiera joins the Vancouver PD and works with partner Carlos Fonnegra. He eventually learns that she's a time traveler.
We also learn to Alec sent Kiera back on purpose. It seems he did this to stop himself as a teenager because he's not happy with the current state of events in 2077.
Mr Escher (Marc Sadler) eventually turns out to be Alec's father.
Jason Sadler is Alec's son.
Roland Randol is Alec Sadler's step-father in 2012. He is killed in a police raid.
Julian Randol is Alec's step-brother in 2012. Later known as Theseus, he is the founder of Liber8 and mentor to Edouard Kagame.
Emily Hartwell is Alec's girlfriend in 2012. She murdered Escher/ Marc Sadler in the alternate time line. And she is also killed. This is what prompts Alec to jump back one week.
The Freelancers (led by Katherine) are the self appointed guardians of time and enlist Kiera to travel back a week to stop Alec. They tattoo her between the fingers so they can identify her.

Below are the Wikipedia episode overviews since they do a much better job of keeping track of all this than I can:

Episode 2: "Minute Man"
With two Alecs in one timeline, Red Kiera is faced with a major problem, as the timeline changes more and more by the minute. At the same time, Carlos discovers there are two Keiras, and when a body turns up in Alec's lab, the situation gets worse. With Liber8 reunited, they turn their attention to the Mayor, Jim Martin, and capture him, causing political chaos.

Episode 3: "Minute To Win It"
In an attempt to drastically alter the future, and prevent the corporations from gaining control, Liber8 starts pulling bank heists using remote controlled corporate executives. After Red Kiera and Carlos get caught in a heist, they discover a cop is involved too. Kiera's truce with Garza comes to a sudden and painful end, but not before she discovers a device from yet another future, something even the Freelancers don't recognise. Meanwhile as Red Alec grows closer to Emily, Green Alec discovers the truth about her after he inherits the controlling stake in Piron from his father, Escher.

Episode 4: "Minute Changes"
Kiera and Carlos investigate the deaths of 3 students killed during a student protest in support of Liber8 and discover that an officer had shot the students and that his actions were being covered up by fellow officers at the scene. Meanwhile at Piron Corp Green Alec's first board meeting does not go as he expected, but he then later receives advice from Kellog. During the investigation Carlos discovers that Betty was the mole working for Liber8 and then has her arrested. Alec then asserts his authority at the next board meeting at Piron Corp and offers up several ideas to move the company forward. Later that day Betty is released from custody and is allowed to resume her duties under strict supervision and has to wear an ankle monitor, and is then informed she will be used as bait to catch Liber8. Back at the lab Green Alec comes to face to face with his alternate timeline self after earlier discovering his presence via the security footage from the anti matter lab at Piron Corp. Red Alec then returns to his apartment and discovers Emily there waiting for him.

Episode 5: "30 Minutes To Air"
When Inspector Dillons daughter Christine is arrested and has multiple charges brought against her for her protest against Fermitas, her actions are seen by some as being in support of Liber8. Faced with scrutiny in how they deal with her, Dillion appears on a live broadcast of Firing Point with Diana Bolton to reaffirm that she will be treated no differently to anyone else, but during the broadcast Liber8 takes the studio hostage. Meanwhile at Piron Corp Green Alec attempts to sever his ties with Kellog and makes life difficult for Red Alec by canceling his bank cards. Travis then demands the satellite codes for the TV stations satellites, but during the investigation they discover that Fermitas had bought the TV station. Kiera, while attempting to disarm the explosives placed by Liber8 inadvertently reveals to Green Alec that she knew of Red Alecs existence. With the hostages now rescued, Garza meanwhile manages to steal sensitive data from Fermitas Corp that indicates that they were spying on other corporations, and have implicating data on many others, including Piron Corp. The next day Dillon tells his daughter that he will use his influence to get her a lighter sentence, and together they come up with a plan for her to infiltrate Liber8.

Episode 6: "Wasted Minute"
Kiera is faced with uncertainty when the Freelancers inform her that she needs to make a choice as to which Alec should be killed to ensure the future they both desire. Meanwhile Red Alec, not wanting to become the Alec of 2077 considers leaving the city with Emily, but before they can leave Emily informs him that they need to recover the information about her that was held by Escha at Piron Corp, and together they come up with a plan to retrieve it. Kiera and Carlos then investigate a Liber8 raid on Evergreen chemical plant and learn that the stolen chemical can be used to create a bioweapon identical to the one that was used and infected Kiera in 2066. Fearing the worst, Kiera tasks Green Alec with creating an antidote and Red Alec with locating Liber8. When a Liber8 follower protests outside Sonmanto Corp using the stolen chemical, Kiera and Carlos learn that Sonmato had created the weapon and were planning to sell it to terrorists. Back at Piron Corp Kiera is forced to intervene when Red Alec holds Green Alec at gunpoint and forces him to delete the Emily related files. Sonya and Travis meanwhile discuss the fact they had changed history with their actions against Sonmanto Corp, and Sonya decides to recreate the antidote, similar to the one that saved Kiera in the future, with the help of Travis. Red Alec is then later handed over by Kiera to the Freelancers who take him away to be detained. While discussing Red Alec with the Freelancers, Kiera learns that Curtis Chen was the one who had killed Green Kiera thanks to Red Alec's programme successfully separating the two conflicting CMR video feeds.

Episode 7: "Waiting Minutes"

When Red Kiera and Stefan Jaworkski, a Liber8 member are captured by gleaners, a group that lives apart from the corporate society. Kiera is faced with difficulty when her CMR loses functionality due to the prisoner transport crash, and the CPS believe her to be dead. Meanwhile a Sadtech employee makes her husband a compensation offer should he absolve the company of all responsibility for the crash. Meanwhile Edouard Kagame makes his presence at the gleaner camp known to Old Alec who responds by ordering a missile strike on the encampment. Kagame, believing betrayal by the gleaners to be imminent escapes the encampment along with Sonya, after earlier talking with an unwell Red Kiera in the infirmary. Now recovered Red Kiera learns of Stefan's escape and pursues him along with a pregnant woman, but when Stefan takes the woman hostage, Kiera's CMR regains functionality, and with the CPS now on the scene, she recaptures him. Kiera meanwhile returns to the CPS to be debriefed, but when the missiles hit the gleaner encampment, Sonya despairs. With Kagame's words offering comfort to Sonya, she agrees to help him. In the past, Curtis Chen escapes confinement by faking a suicide attempt. Red Kiera after earlier recounting her ordeal to Katherine, the Freelancer leader, takes solace in the words spoken to her during her ordeal, and tells her she has now awakened.

Note: This episode takes place prior to the events of the first episode of Season 1 and is based almost entirely in the future.

Episode 8: "So Do Our Minutes Hasten"
Kiera and Dillon investigate a nerve gas attack on Fermitas Corp which caused the deaths of 12 people, but when they learn that Liber8 denies all involvement, Dillon tasks Betty with investigating further. Meanwhile at Piron Corp, Green Alec unveils a new, but unfinished healthcare device called the Halo to the board, and takes dishonest measures to gain their support. Back at the lab, Kellog decides to send Jason to Piron Corp to reconnect with Alec, to Alecs delight. Carlos however is approached by Julian and learns that he had been investigating Sonmanto Corp with the help of Adele Mason, who he believed to be a former employee of Sonmanto and someone he has a personal connection with. But when he learns that the documents shown to him were falsified by Sonmanto to discredit Julian, Adele later confesses her involvement to him. When Garza reiterates that Liber8 weren't involved in the attack to Kiera, she learns of another group which Liber8 have concerns about. The next day, Kiera and Carlos learn that Sonmanto had failed in a takeover bid of Fermitas, and that Sonmanto had bought Greypoint Security, who they believe were behind the nerve gas attack. When Kiera and Carlos decide to voice their concerns to Dillon, they grow suspicious when he refuses to listen, and instead blames Liber8. That night, Betty celebrates the end of her probation with Kiera and Carlos at a bar, but when Betty decides to meet her source to gather more information, she is shot dead.

Episode 9: Minute of Silence
Red Kiera and Carlos, reeling from the cold-blooded murder of Betty, haven't time to grieve as they hunt down a ring of high-tech thieves, even as a handsome, yet distant amnesiac begs for help in discovering his identity.

Grade: 3 1/2 Monsters (out of 5). If you can keep track of who's who and all the time jumping, its an interesting show that provides a very Orwellian look at the future.