Continuum Review Ep 104 – Matter Of Time

By: Robert Prentice
Continuum syfy time travel

Continuum - Season 1

Kiera and Carlos investigate the death of a scientist who appears to have had many enemies. His research into dark matter containment was of special interest to the military who end up sand bagging their investigation just as Kiera and Carlos get close to solving the crime. Just as that happens an old friend makes an appearance, the leader of Liber8 Eduoard Kagame.

Alec is searching hard to find Kagame after he was last seen at a hospital along with all of Vancouver PD. In the mean time, Kiera finds an angle to take on the death investigation in order to continue without the interference of the military. It turns out the current assistant to the professor was in love with the former partner. She is hiding information from Kiera but she is on to her. Carlos pushes on the kid to give up what happen and he takes the fall for the professors death, despite the fact that Kiera is fairly sure his death wasn’t at his hands.

Kagame is sighted at a temple in downtown and Kiera splits up with Carlos to find him. She seems the rest of Liber8 on the other end of the gardens when Kagame comes up behind her. After a little back and forth fighting, she comes to a stand off. Liber8 has a baby at gun point, while Kiera has Kagame. The choice while difficult if you know the future like Kiera, is an easy one to make, allowing Kagame to go and sparing a blood bath. They will meet up again.

It turns out Kieras suspicion of the former partner was correct. Alec found out she had a 2nd backup of the files and was getting ready to board a plan to Costa Rica. Kiera meets up with her at the airport knowing she has the files. Just as she hands them over to Kiera, she makes Kiera promise not to ever let them get into the hands of the military. Her fiancée shows up and kisses her and when Kiera hears her name, a flashback occurs. At the start of the episode we saw a power outage in the future. Kieras husband comments about a large energy firm who runs the worlds power grids using small fusion reactors scattered all around the world, rather than 1 spot. That made it harder for terrorists. The ability to run such small reactors would require a containment technology. Technology like the very files Kiera holds in her hands. Knowing what it would mean to the future if she kept them, she handed them back and said “you will need these”.

Many questions are left open after tonight and the more Liber8 interacts with the past, the more damage that is done in the future. So far Kiera has made choices to protect the future she is from but Kellog is being reckless. I have to wonder what impacts his actions will have on the future, not unlike in back to future when Marty tries to take the spots almanac with him.

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