Alec is all angsty over his break up and Jason tries to
tell him that Emily isn’t his mother so not the woman he’s supposed to be with.
Alec is angry that Jason drove Emily away and lashes out –he isn’t the man Jason
remembers, he isn’t Jason’s father, that isn’t him and he doesn’t actually want
to become him.
On to Lucas’s funeral with Kiera and Alec discussing the
whole complexity of what Lucas was fighting for and how Kiera has swapped sides
and he went from an enemy to a missed ally and the general hugeness that is the
development of this show.
Brad comes to the funeral and Kiera and Brad argue – he blames
her, she blames him. Kiera finally starts asking some questions about what Brad’s
people are doing. He says he knows nothing – but wants the key Kiera stole and
Alec now has.
Uh-huh this sounds like a terrible idea – give him the
key to their tech when he doesn’t know what it does.
Kiera goes to see Carlos after yet another high tech
theft. More distrust. More secrecy. They hope Alec will have more information
while Alec is busy trying to patch up with Jason (and the general awkwardness
of “parenting kids twice your age”). Alec wants to know who his mother is but
Jason is reluctant because it’s not the time yet... it’s a whole matter of whether
Alec’s destiny is fixed or not
Brad and Soren raid a blood bank to steal… blood. Still
lots of distrust going round. Of course, Brad on the security camera makes
Carlos angry and adds to the distrust between Kiera and Carlos. Carlos finally
has a time limit for Kiera to actually come up with something in the next day. Looking
at the synopsis of what Alec things the future soldiers are building (a time
travel device) Alec makes it clear he also doesn’t trust Brad. But he does
worry that the future soldiers have made a super weapon
Kiera confronts Brad about this but he assures her that
it’s not a bomb and they totally wouldn’t do that. He does have an address of a
storage facility where they were storing something unknown. Mission talk then
goes on to relationship talk – all watched by Curtis.
She checks the warehouse with Carlos – inside which is a
dialysis machine.
Kellogg is also getting tired of his bodyguard, Vasquez,
not telling him anything and tries to seduce her. She decides to strangle him
since future him had already warned her that he is hella creepy when it comes
to women.
Kellogg also insists on seeing what they’re building –
and Soren refuses to tell him what the device is and even pretends Marcellus is
still alive. He’s deeply suspicious (you can’t con Kellogg) and he’s not
following any more intructions unless he gets more
Meanwhile Alec and Jason go stalking Jason’s future
mother, along with the hasty revelation that his mother died when he was a
child due to being ill and he doesn’t really remember her. She’s a waitress
and, despite Jason’s objections Alec decides to have lunch at her café and talk
to her.
Alec meets up with Kiera and has a lot of angst about the
fact his choices change the future – and he’s not paralysed by every decision
having dire consequences. Which is when Curtis steps in – which he has a habit
of doing whenever someone gets all time travel scared. He talks about how he
comes back from the dead by moving his consciousness from on alternate reality
to the other – thanks to the Traveller. We get some exposition on this guy
The Traveller is from waaaaay in the future sent back to
record history without changing it. Which he then screwed up by changing the
past and destroying his future. He then formed his own cult, the Freelancers,
to try and stop time travel. But now he thinks he can fix the whole time line
here and now – fixing time. Alec isn’t buying it so the Traveller pulls some
whammy – touching his head and showing him, trapping them in a room together.
Yes, he’s used magic to have Alec meet himself – future Alec
from before he invited time travel. They decide that they’ve altered the time
line by meeting his future wife Amy long before he should. Oh and she didn’t
die of a disease, she committed suicide to try and escape him and his corporate
evilness. Which is what prompted the whole rewriting he time line in the first
case. Alec is suddenly moved by this and tells his older self to definitely invent
time travel and change the past, presumably banishing his doubts.
Alec returns to the presence full of confidence with
their new path. First step is seeing Carlos who is really sick of all the
secrecy. He also sees Jason to explain that, no, he’s not going to have a
relationship with his mother because he doesn’t want to become himself. Which
is all kinds of complex. But Jason has also examined the future soldier tech
and has the answer
Back to Kellogg who is having Dylon dig up all the information
he can about the super soldiers, which includes getting his hands on classified
police files (which makes his usually very silent and non-existent conscience
all sad). He insists that he needs his access with the police to be revoked
since the police haven’t done it yet. Of course he doesn’t do it because he’s a
terrible person.
Kellogg also learns from Vasquez that his future self is
dying from kidney failure which they can’t treat in the future – suddenly all
the dialysis machines et al make sense. This makes Kellogg super nervous
(probably suspecting he’s going to be harvested for spare organs) and he calls
Kiera appealing for help and offering her time travel in exchange.
Brad has another tense talk with Soren and he finally
reveals the big plan – to build a portal. They’re going to bring back the
people from the dystopian future to the present. Including his sister and her
children.
So when he confronts Kiera, both of them have had enough and Brad sums it up with “maybe we don’t want the same things any more”. He promises her that their plan is awesome and she needs to not interfere – but refuses to tell her what the plan is
But Carlos has followed Kiera (thanks to Alec) and points
a gun at Brad. Kiera distracts Carlos – because she needs Brad to get home.
Carlos, Kiera and Alec gather to finally share
information: Jason knows they want to make a portal and Alec tells them – and why
they need to build a portal in that location. Though Kiera has heard them
stealing blood and medicine and decides that this is an invasion. Oh and they
can use the portal to send Kiera home.
Alec and Jason are… difficult but I like the difficulty
of it. Their age difference yet the parental element – it’s yet another
complicated relationship from Continuum.
I also loved Alec’s speech about the pressure of time travel – of being so
blatantly confronted by the epic consequences of your actions.
Which is part of why Brad and Kiera is so annoying
because it came out of nowhere and has no foundation. I don’t believe it, it
hasn’t been established for me, there isn’t sufficient chemistry there… but
this relationship is now the cornerstone of the show. All the conflict that
most of the characters are involved in at least touches the future soldiers and
the whole storyline of dealing with those soldiers keeps running aground on
Kiera and Brad’s unsold relationship. But from that other relationships are
breaking and I still don’t buy Brad and Kiera as being close enough or
important enough that Kiera would value this over any other relationship.
And looo the Traveller has broke the world – we’ve gone from sci-fi to weird weird woo-woo. Worse, think this may be the answer to my question in the beginning of the season – how do they wrap up all the storylines in the last season. Answer? Woo-woo.
