I know Continuum
has a theme going with these episode titles – but they’re really really
struggling now.
Flashback time – Kiera and her fellow fascist storm
trooper protectors go into an “illegal political meeting” with big guns; the
locals are committing the dastardly crime of trying to preserve a historic
building. And Kiera’s mother is part of the group. Kiera tries to get her out
before she’s arrested, but mother is awesome and so much better than her
daughter – and protests that Kiera isn’t the only one who gets to take a stand
for what she believes in.
Oh awesome mother, how did you produce Kiera? She tells
Kiera there are other ways to rebel against her mother – and it’s ok to be
wrong but eventually you’ve got to own up.
To the present with Curtis calling Kiera to taunt her
with his escape for random reasons. And on television both Julian and Dillon
being interviewed on television by Diana the sound bites reporter. Dillon tries
to justify selling out the police to Piron and further how he cannot possibly
show his budget to the public. Of course, there’s absolutely no real challenge
to Dillon’s corruption and Dillon uses his reputation as police chief to
silence Julian.
To the board room of Fermitas with a man making a big
corporate speech to his fellows – and then gas coming through the vents. They
try to leave but every door is sealed – they collapse, coughing then into
unconsciousness.
At Piron, Alec has his own speech to sell a new product –
Halo. Something you wear that constantly monitors your health and body and
updates the information to Piron servers to help treat diseases as soon as they’re
detectable (and, of course, cache all kinds of data about you). To prove his
invention does what he claims, Alec has a doubting board member put it on and it
diagnoses many basics and colon cancer which he had 2 years ago. Though he says
he’s in remission – so Alec hopes. He leaves abruptly. Another board member
proposes 2 months funding though Alec says 2 months is not nearly long enough.
After the meeting Dillon praises Alec for his performance
– because it was a lie. Halo doesn’t work, Alec check the man’s insurance file
to discover the man’s cancer.
To the crime scene, Dillon, Kiera and extras, Dillon is
sure that the dead board room was caused by Liber8 but Kiera realises it doesn’t
make sense – not with the good PR Liber8 has been working on. Carlos is on
another case (a whistleblower case with Sonmanto) – it’s just Kiera and Dillon.
Speaking of that whistleblower case, Betty shows Carlos
that his whistleblower was in touch with Julian. Betty’s also happy to show off
her ankle tracker because she’s not even going to pretend to hide. Carlos
decides the way to handle this is to go and try to arrest Julian for stealing
Sonmanto property – huh, even Dillon was calling this a whistleblower case 5
minutes ago.
She tells Kiera and Dillon that Liber8 has released a statement
denying all involvement with the Fermotas gas attack – and there has been no
online planning of it that Betty could find at all. Kiera and Dillon still
thinks the technological expertise to pull it off was Lucas so want her to be
active in chat rooms in the hope Lucas will reach out to Betty again.
Kiera has her own task for Betty – use her contacts to try and find and track Curtis. Betty claims she first got involved with Liber8 because she was a hacker who got in over her head. She adds that doing the right thing matters to her which makes me laugh since it doesn’t matter all that much to Kiera and certainly not to Dillon.
