Continuum ’s tight - paced storytelling has make somewhat exhilarating since the more episodic first season . This show burns through plotlines at crazy speed . But sometimes , the result can feel kind of rushed . display A : This week ’s instalment , which tore through a ton of game twirl in a bizarre alimentation fury . spoiler ahead …
Seriously , I kind of despair of summarize this episode , “ Revolutions Per Minute . ” It ’s not just that a ton of clobber happened . It ’s also that situations that had only just been pose up got flipped around so quickly , it was hard to finger any shock from them . And also , some of it was kind of confusing or difficult to interpret , even on a 2d viewing . No doubt , some of this stuff will be clearer in a calendar week or two .
Anyway , the ostensive “ A ” plot of the instalment has to do with a Modern embodied role player , Gautuma Pharmaceuticals . They ’re a bantam society now , but finally in Kiera ’s clip , they ’ll be a major part of the Corporate Congress . And Kiera decides they ’re probably the next target for Liber8 ’s new strategy of disgrace corporation .
Kiera and Carlos investigate , and discover that Dillon ’s daughter ( who ’s undercover with Liber8 ) is make at Gautuma . And then Kellog hints to Kiera that Gautuma ’s new discovery dementia drug is actually Flash , the memory - recall drug from the hereafter that Liber8 give out for a while there . Kiera confirms this , and farting up waste the tin whistle on Gautuma , while perpetrate Dillon ’s girl out of her undercover assignment .
Here ’s what I conceive was going on there — even though Kellog was buying tons of Gautuma stock , that was just a gambit to get Kiera ’s attention . He ( or someone from Liber8 ) had give way Gautuma a sampling of Flash and encouraged them to develop it as a memory therapy . And he want Kiera to gasconade the whistle on Gautuma , to weaken another of Liber8 ’s object because Kellog is secretly in cahoots with Sonia . Kellog also require to take the opportunity to make it seem as though Piron is attacking the other corporation , as part of his dodge to undermine his Modern partner Alec .
Anyway , here are the other 1,000 things that happen this hebdomad :
We learn a net ton about Kiera ’s amnesiac houseguest from the future . Like , a ton . He ’s a relatively young part , but his secret was n’t maintain simmer for too long before being put on the boil . He had a key sewn into the cuff of his jacket , which start the refuge down payment box where he hoard the mysterious piece of future technical school before Liber8 robbed the bank and the tech fell into the hands of the Freelancers . Also , he apparently comes from a future where Kellog is a “ big hand ” but he ’s never heard of Alec Sadler . ( Another timeline , that Kellog has been creating ? Seems like it . )
After Kiera gives him some Flash , he get all his memory back : his name is Brad Tonkin , he ’s a field of operation commander in a militia , and his wife and daughter are dead . He volunteered for the mission of chat the past , which he knows is a one - path trip .
Oh , and when Alec study the CMR which he pulled out of the other Kiera ’s dead body , he get a agency clearer playback of Kiera ’s execution — and it was n’t Curtis who shot Kiera , it was Brad Tonkin .
We meet some unexampled corporate “ star chamber ”
Alec ’s eventually got Halo working , thanks to the clone microchip he took out of Kiera ’s CMR — but everything is behind docket . Overseas supplier , commendation , etc . It ’s all because Alec has been putting off a meeting with the honest-to-goodness blank guy who in secret turn tail everything — and when he does go see them , it does n’t go well . They tell Alec that he ’s been shaking everything up , and he needs to “ slow your roll , ” as the youngsters say .
Alec kind of freaks out about this , but then Kellog says he ’ll handle the secret society of stuffed armchairs . Kellog ’s idea of “ handling ” the Illuminati , however , is to call them up and taunt them about Kiera spoil the whistle on Gautuma and the other setbacks that non - Piron companies have experienced latterly . Making it seem as though Alec and Piron are creditworthy for everyone ’s misfortunes . ( And Kellog does this while sit next to Sonia on a parkland bench . )
Kiera vex a viking funeral
Carlos is pissed that Alec stole Kiera ’s utter organic structure . But after blowing Carlos off for half the episode , Alec comes up with a natural covering account : He wants to give Kiera a proper sendoff , without an actual funeral that would raise questions . Through a wacky set of circumstance , Kiera gets invite to her own funeral , and gets to look out as Alec uses a fond time - travelling equipment , and the antimatter power source , to disperse the other Kiera ’s particle across time and space .
But this backfire for Alec , because Kiera notices that her other ego is missing a CMR , and figure out that Alec is seek to cover up his grave - looting . She confronts Alec , and he say the Alec she knew is dead — or locked up by the Freelancers . And she ’s so disdainful towards Alec that he winds up not telling her that her houseguest murdered her other self .
Julian gets a big break
Meanwhile , Kellog convinces Alec that he needs to turn Halo into more than just a product that prevents you from ever getting sick — for some reason , that ’s not enough . It needs to be a social motion , something that engages people ’s identity element in a way that ’s never happen before . And in a couple breath , Kellog convinces Alec he needs to hire his half - brother Julian , aka Theseus , as Halo ’s spokesperson . Or something .
( This show has portrayed Kellog as a groovy manipulator in the yesteryear — but this instalment has a few scene where he literally says like three words , and convinces the great unwashed to go on huge , complex new trajectories . )
So Alec buy the farm to see Julian , just as Julian is already entertaining guests . Sonia has drag in Dillon ’s girl along to encounter Julian , because she ’s feeling frustrated with her inability to make real in - roads against the corporations and let down that there ’s not more outrage . She palpate like the front needs a new drawing card — so Julian shows her the pronunciamento he ’s been writing in the basement before break of day , and she ’s pretty stoked . “ It ’s Theseus , ” she say . “ It ’s me , ” Julian responds .
But meanwhile , Alec offers Julian a occupation as Piron ’s “ VP of societal obligation ” and “ brand ambassador , ” in exchange for mad perks . As a downpayment on the sore perks , Alec give Julian proof that Sonmanto deliberately leak sour info to blockade Julian a while back — validation which Julian is able-bodied to use to discredit Sonmanto and regain some credibleness for himself .
Jason goes nuts in a mark new way
Jason — who ’s still wear chicken feed that video Alec ’s every move for Kellog — asks to be the first test subject for the brand newfangled functional Halo . And after Jason tries it , he suddenly becomes all reasonable and poised , for the first time since he come back in clock time . For about 30 indorsement . But Jason enunciate that Alec ca n’t show off his betterment because it would raise too many questions . ( So why not just try the gimmick on other the great unwashed , who wo n’t erect question ? Also , Alec just promised a work prototype within 60 daylight , not a good deal produced mathematical product , right ? So he ’s already won . )
But in short after picture such amazing improvement , Jason goes off the rails in a whole new room , making unbalanced intricate drawing off and then turn over out , throwing the papers around and then hyperventilate while staring at his hands . Is this a problem with Halo ? A house that Jason is just losing it in general ? Both ?
Dillon changes his mind , and then vary it again
Dillon ’s design to use his daughter Christine as a mole within Liber8 scantily even gets off the ground before he starts to undermine it . He has a long flashback to his first get together with Betty , whom his nonperformance just got killed , and then has a crisis of conscience . He tells Kiera about Christine ’s mission , and implore Kiera to get Christine out , whatever it call for . He seems to be having a meltdown . When Kiera and Carlos recover Christine working at Gautuma ( under the put on name of a Liber8 martyr ) they ’re not sure if they should tell Dillon — because he ’ll prioritize saving his daughter over catching Liber8 . But when they tell Dillon , it ’s the opposite : He ’s decided once again that his girl can take her prospect , and he ’s willing to chance everything to nail those asshole . ( Raising the stakes somewhat , Sonia promises Christine a pharynx - cut if there ’s any signboard of betrayal . )
after , when Kiera yanks Christine out of there and brings her to Dillon , he ’s kind of slopped — but then he decides his daughter ’s safety is predominate , after all . Or maybe that ’s just what he pretends to settle . It ’s really strong to tell with Dillon .
The Freelancers are pissed at Kiera
Remember the Freelancers ? Kiera is working for them now , sort of . Except that all they ’ve done for most of the season is fail to keep Curtis locked up , and boost Kiera to prefer corporal Alec over gratis - spirit Alec . They ’ve seemed pretty unconcerned about all the chaos that ’s been spiral out of Alec ’s time - trip .
This time around , Kiera visits them and asks for the twist which Brad Tonkin put into that safety down payment loge , which Kiera had give to the Freelancers . They wo n’t even let Kiera look at the twist , and when they ask Kiera about her firm guest , she says it ’s none of their business . They mention that there were multiple unexplained clock time signatures several weeks ago — mean maybe others get in along with Brad — and they ’re investigating . Kiera basically flips them the skirt , which seems like it ’s going to work out absolutely big for her .
Final thoughts
So much befall in this episode , and so many big storylines were reversed and twofold - converse , that it ’s severe to see where any of this is going . I approximate Brad is from a dystopian future where Kellog is a sovereign overlord , and it ’s Kiera ’s demerit . And this connect somehow to the war that the Freelancers say they ’re defend . And Kellog is massively playing Alec and Liber8 , in a agency that will go to both of their devastation and his victory . But this is all just guesswork , aboveboard .
Oh , also … the press photos for this episode included a setting with Old Alec in the hereafter . I guess that had to be cut , because of all the other stuff in this installment ?
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