Continuum (season 1)

Continuum (season 1)

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Country of origin Canada
No. of episodes 10
Release
Original network Showcase
Original release May 27 (2012-05-27) – August 5, 2012 (2012-08-05)

The first season of the Showcase television series Continuum premiered on May 27, 2012 and concluded on August 5, 2012. The series is created by Simon Barry. The series centers on Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols) as she time travels from 2077 to 2012 with a group of terrorists, and attempts to find a way home. All the episodes in this season use the word "Time."

Cast

Main cast

Recurring cast

Episodes
No.
overall		 No. in
season		 Title Directed by Written by Original air date Can. viewers
(millions)
11"A Stitch In Time"Jon CassarSimon BarryMay 27, 2012 (2012-05-27)0.90[1]
In the year 2077, eight dangerous rebels from the group Liber8, facing execution for an act of terrorism that killed thousands of innocents, manage to avoid execution by escaping into a time jump, transporting themselves from 2077 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 who 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. 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 down the terrorists and stop their reign of violence - beginning with an attack on the local police station that frees Ingram.
22"Fast Times"Jon CassarJeff KingJune 3, 2012 (2012-06-03)0.67[2]
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 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.
33"Wasting Time"David FrazeeSimon BarryJune 10, 2012 (2012-06-10)0.53[3]
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.
44"A Matter of Time"Michael RohlSam EganJune 17, 2012 (2012-06-17)0.39[4]
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 the 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.
55"A Test of Time"Patrick WilliamsJeff KingJune 24, 2012 (2012-06-24)0.47[5]
Kagame’s return begins with a reset of Liber8’s agenda, away from violence and towards blending into the community and fostering their revolution through co-opting existing structures. But they have a vulnerability - the possibility that if their ancestors, living in this time, are murdered, they might cease to exist. Due to Kiera's interference, Liber8 have decided to deal with her, and Kagame has a plan: by killing her grandmother Lily Jones, Kiera will never be born - getting rid of Kiera once and for all (as eliminating her grandmother means Kiera will never exist), and also testing the theory, with Kiera and her grandmother as the guinea pigs. The first woman they kill by the name of Lily turns out to be the wrong woman and when Kiera hears the news she knows exactly what Kagame's up to. She sets out to find her grandmother but isn't quite ready for the pregnant and homeless punk she finds living on the street. Kellog gives her a heads up, but a suspicious Kagame has already taken out insurance against him - Kellog's grandmother, Maddie. The game they are playing soon becomes tit for tat with no possible winner.
66"Time's Up"Rachel TalalayJeremy Smith & Jonathan Lloyd WalkerJuly 8, 2012 (2012-07-08)0.40[6]
Kagame pursues step one of his new agenda - win the intellectuals and the grass roots dissenters. The Liber8 freedom fighters actively support and encourage violent protests, using present-day anarchists to riot outside the company headquarters of a major corporation; Exotrol. During the protest, the CEO of Exotrol, Henrietta Sherman, is kidnapped by Liber8. Kiera suspects Liber8 was behind the violence at the protest, to provide cover for the kidnapping. A video of Sherman is soon on the Internet and her kidnappers demands, for $20 million in cash, is revealed. Kagame decides to put the decision to kill or free her to an Internet vote - confirming to Kiera that Liber8 have changed their tactics and are trying to get the public on their side by getting them to vote whether she lives or dies and to expose the truth. Kiera and Carlos race a literal ticking clock in order to save Sherman from the public's wrath. It later turns out that someone inside Exotrol may be working with Liber8. While Kiera is away, Kellog breaks into her apartment and steals the piece of the time travel device. Alec faces his own dilemma when he realizes that his step-brother, Julian, is one of the violent protesters.
77"The Politics of Time"Patrick WilliamsSara B. CooperJuly 15, 2012 (2012-07-15)0.43[7]
A high-stakes Port of Vancouver Union Election gives Kiera her first taste of contemporary political intrigue. First, the issue of Kiera's trust and loyalty of her partner come into question as evidence points to Carlos in the death of an investigative reporter: Carlos finds himself investigating the murder of journalist Alicia Fuentes, who he slept with the night before her death. He had received a call from Carlos's lifelong old friend, Jim Martin, who is running as the leading candidate in the polls for election as the head of the local dock workers union, on a platform of cleaning up the union's corrupt practices. Martin was having an argument with Alicia, who was about to blow the lid off a dirty secret Martin may have been hiding. Carlos knew Alicia, picked her up and after dinner spent most of the night at her apartment. When they find her dead the next morning, he tells no one, not even Kiera, that he was there until about 1:30. Meanwhile, Alec is trying to fix Kiera's suit, and with some of its capability restored, she gets a lead on the killer, and also finds that the piece of the time travel device is missing, and knows Kellog has to be the one who took it. While covertly and desperately trying to clear both men and find out who killed Alicia, Kiera will learn first-hand the lengths one will go to get elected - and the allies they associate with once victory is achieved.
88"Playtime"Paul ShapiroAndrea StevensJuly 22, 2012 (2012-07-22)N/A
Kiera and Carlos investigate when two murder-suicides happen in the same day - where the killers immediately committed suicide after eliminating their victims. The only tie between the two is a local computer gaming company, where both were software testers, that's been doing more than just developing video games; it's developing an immersive holographic program and Kiera decides to try it out. The effects on her are devastating - Kiera's HUD system short circuits and her internal electronics go haywire. Kagame and Liber8 attempts to take control of her, while she is in this bad state. Alec works frantically to reboot her processors and manages to save Kiera from killing her partner. At the same time, Liber8 discovers who is behind Kiera - Alec, while Alec also finds a previously unknown file in Kiera's systems - discovering it is actually a message from his future self, addressed to him.
99"Family Time"William WaringFloyd KaneJuly 29, 2012 (2012-07-29)N/A
Alerted to a bulk purchase of alarming quantities of ammonium nitrate (a fertilizer used in explosives and agriculture), Kiera and Carlos visit Roland Randol's farm to check up on such an excessively large purchase of farm fertilizer and identify who's been purchasing it. Having tracked the source to Roland's farm, Kiera is somewhat taken aback to find Alec there, not realizing that Randol is his step-father. Kiera is shown that her CMR suit is about to be restored to full functionality by Alec. Randol assures them that there has been a mistake and that he never purchased as much fertilizer as they claim. When they check the storage shed, however, they find a truck rigged with the chemicals and ready for use as a bomb. It's Randol's son Julian and his friends who are looking to make a statement, even though the elder Randol has never preached violence. Events spiral and mushroom into a tense armed standoff - Carlos is shot and he and Kiera are taken prisoner - but Kiera and Alec try to gain control of the situation.
1010"End Times"Patrick WilliamsSimon BarryAugust 5, 2012 (2012-08-05)N/A
The morning after sleeping with Kellog, Kiera steals back his piece of the time travel device. Kiera meets Jason, who convinces her he was in the 2077 control room when the time travel device went off, sending him back to 1992. Jason informs Kiera that privateers, other parties from the future, are at work in the present. As a student of history he has been waiting for this particular day - when a bomb in an office building will kill many people and start the evolution into the world of the future. Kagame temporarily captures young Alec, telling him that future Alec had guided his actions. When CSIS Agent Gardiner and his team join with Vancouver police to deal with the bomb threat, they evacuate the office building they think will be targeted by Liber8. Kagame enters the building across the plaza and activates a suicide bomb, destroying the tower. CSIS Agent Gardiner sees Kiera and Alec protected from the blast by a forcefield, then makes eye contact as she activates her invisibility system. Kagame left instructions for Sonya to deliver cash to his mother (bomb day is also Kagame's day of birth), succeed him as leader of Liber8, and eliminate Travis. A flash forward reveals that the bombing is part of a plan that was hatched by the Alec of 2077, who specifically masterminded both Liber8's and Kiera's transport to the past. Kiera is despondent when she learns that Jason can not return them to the future. Alec calls to say he has finally decrypted the message from his future self.

DVD release

Continuum: Season One
Set details:
  • 10 episodes
    • Region 1, 2 & 4 – 4-disc DVD set

Features:

  • Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)
  • Dolby Digital 5.1 English audio
  • Subtitles: English
 Bonus features:
  • Featurette
    • Meet the Makers, Protectors and Terrorists
    • My Scenes
Release dates: Region 1 Region 2 Region 4
March 26, 2013[8] January 28, 2013[9] April 24, 2013[10]

References

  1. ↑ Seidman, Robert (May 28, 2012). "Sci-Fi Drama 'Continuum' Crushes the Competition (in Canada) in Its Premiere". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
  2. ↑ Brioux, Bill (June 7, 2012). "The Brioux Report: Rookie, Listener back strong". TV Feeds My Family. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
  3. ↑ Brioux, Bill (June 13, 2012). "The Brioux Report: Kings become Canada's team". TV Feeds My Family. Retrieved June 18, 2012.
  4. ↑ Brioux, Bill (June 19, 2012). "The Brioux Report: Wallenda walks over Stanley". TV Feeds My Family. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
  5. ↑ Brioux, Bill (June 27, 2012). "The Brioux Report: soccer Canada's No. 1 show". TV Feeds My Family. Retrieved June 28, 2012.
  6. ↑ Brioux, Bill (July 10, 2012). "The Brioux Report: weather hot, ratings not". TV Feeds My Family. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
  7. ↑ Brioux, Bill (July 18, 2012). "The Brioux Report: Big Brother is watched". TV Feeds My Family. Retrieved July 18, 2012.
  8. ↑ "Continuum: Season One". Amazon.com. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Continuum - Season 1". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  10. ↑ "Continuum - Season 1". JB Hi-Fi. Retrieved June 23, 2013.

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