Continuum (2012–2015): Season 1, Episode 4 - Matter of Time - full transcript

Previously on Continuum...

Edouard Kagame

He's the leader of this cell
and the most dangerous.

He didn't make it through.

We'll be okay without him.

With our knowledge of
the future, we can operate here

virtually unchallenged.

I like it here.

My suit is damaged.

You may have led
them right back to us!

Run!



I'm home.

Kiera.
We're in the kitchen.

We?

Are "we"
celebrating something?

You're looking at
the new project leader

on SadTech's
latest and greatest.

Promotion.

Congratulations.
Mmm, such good news.

Thanks for the beer.

Okay. I'll walk you out.

Bye, Oscar.
Kiera.

Bye, Sam.

Oh, I missed you all day long.
Yes, I did.

Project leader?



Now we can
afford this new place.

YOU still like it?

We love it. Don't we?

Oh, seriously?

It's not just us.
The whole city is dark.

The terrorists again?
I'm so sick of this.

Don't stress.

The last time they
took out the reactor,

it took them four hours
to get it back up.

Baby, relax, okay?
The power will be back right away.

It's okay.

It's just street punks taking
advantage of the blackout.

If they get into
this building...

They won't have time.

Power will be
back in 10 seconds.

Ten seconds?

Trust me. Ten.

Nine. Eight. Seven...

Just watching you hurts me.

Then don't watch me.

Didn't they have
makeup in 2077?

Let's just say the future has
changed some things for the better.

How?

A mascara wand with
an electrostatic charge

preset to release the
perfect amount every time.

Describe it to me.
What...

Oh, shit. The power's out.

Mmm.

Yup. Garbage truck backed into a
pole around the corner from you.

Of course it did.

Cameron.

Good morning, Kiera.

You busy?

No. Not really. Why?

I'm not sure.

I got something here I think
is right up your alley.

Could be
the work of your gang.

I'll text you the address.

Thank you.

In all my years as a broker,

I've never seen
anything like this.

Just lucky, I guess.

Your timing has
been spectacular.

Well,
maybe I'm from the future

and know what's
about to happen.

Yeah. Well, future or not, you, my
friend, are now a very rich man.

Here are the new companies
I want you to invest in.

Synthetic food production?
Disaster insurance bonds?

What are you expecting,
the end of the world?

Something like that.

Lab Assistant found Professor
Ames here at 0810.

Nobody moved the body
or touched anything.

Single entry through the
front, left of the mid-line.

Oh, clean hole.

Seventy-five
millimeters in diameter.

Through and through?

Help me turn him over.

Entry wound is the same
as the exit, 75 millimeters.

Give or take.

Whatever went through him
went through the damn floor.

Let's go.

What the hell
penetrates a body,

and then five stories
of a building?

2077.

My time, my city, my family.

When terrorists killed
thousands of innocents,

they were condemned to die.

They had other plans.

A time-travel device
sent us all back 65 years.

I want to get home,
but I can't be sure

what I will return to
if history is changed.

Their plan, to corrupt
and control the present

in order to win the future.

What they didn't
plan on was me.

So you think
the gang is involved?

Maybe.

There was
an unusual energy signature

on the device that
killed the professor.

If I'd had my suit I could have
captured a clearer optical pattern.

You know I can fix whatever's
wonky on your suit.

I do know a little
about electronics.

They don't rewire
these things like machines.

They regenerate them
like living tissue.

Mitotic circuitry.
Like electronic stem cells...

Carbon nanotubes for structure.
Millions of micro reefs.

All right.

Come on.

At least that's the theory.

Whose theory?

My father's.

So far it's just a theory.

Have you seen my partner?

There you are.

I got Ames' grad student to
come down to the precinct

to answer a few questions.

I'm going to head there now.

Good idea.

Shane. Thanks for coming in.

You were one of
how many assistants

that were working
for Professor Ames?

Well, there were drones,
undergrads.

But at my level?

I was it.

Okay, so then you'd pretty much
know everything there is to know

about this contraption that
the professor was working on.

Everything except
why it backfired.

Backfired?

Something must have
gone wrong with Calisto.

Sorry. That's the machine.
Ames named her.

Why don't you tell us
what this thing does?

We were working on
antimatter containment.

You have to break
that down for me

because I don't
really speak scientist.

Okay, well, our world
is made up of matter.

There's also antimatter.

And when you contain
and harness antimatter,

if that's even possible,

you would have access
to unlimited clean energy,

provided that you
could figure out

how to sustain it
beyond a few milliseconds.

Yeah.

We've had ours at
seven to eight hours.

What?

Ladies.

Can I help you?
Yeah.

There's a really creepy guy
in the neighborhood

who's been giving us trouble.

Where is this creepy guy?

What's the address here?

It's clear.

I think we'll
be right at home here.

Spearheading a competitive
new technology like this,

you're bound to
make a few enemies.

Yeah.
We had threats all the time.

Threats?

I mean, probably
the machine just backfired.

These threats, were they credible threats?
Did you report them?

Yeah. We logged
them with the police.

Especially this one group, um,
"Stop Mad Scientists."

They threatened to burn down our lab.
The leader's name was Vincent.

Can you think of anybody else?

Well, I know the military was always
offering to finance this project.

But the professor
wouldn't accept it.

Although, I think towards the
end he may have been buckling.

Shane. How easy would it be
to rig Calisto to backfire?

Well,
that person would have to be

pretty advanced
in the technology,

but, yeah, I suppose
someone could do it.

Is there a way
for us to access

the professor's
files on Calisto?

Well, you can't, but I can.

His files are on a back-up
system that I designed...

What the...

No. No.

Problem?

Um, the files are gone.

There must be another back-up.

No, no.
You don't understand.

This was the back-up.
This is the safest form of storage.

Pretty good design
you got there.

It's just...
Whoever could do this...

Shane? Are you okay?

Focus, Shane.

Somebody must have hacked in.

I know this may sound crazy,

but whoever killed Ames,
could they be after me next?

Oh, he's hiding something.

You think?

What's your guess?
Motive?

Too early to tell.

Oh, play along.

You clearly have a theory and
you clearly want to tell me.

You first.

Fine. You think he murdered
Ames and covered up his crime.

Based on what evidence?

Based on listening to my gut.

You should try it some time.

I listen.

No.

You watch and you calculate.

Which is a good tactic,

but I think you should
trust your instincts a little.

So, uh, what made you ask him
if the research was stolen?

Seemed like a good possibility
so I went with it.

Why?

Put yourself in my position.

You get a new partner
who's got her nose

buried into
classified intelligence.

I mean I don't know what you
know or how you know it.

Smart and secretive.
Doesn't get any worse than that.

Well, look at you.

Wondered when you were
gonna come around.

Don't try to get up.

Let me get the doctor.

Yes. That's $10,000
on the Leafs to win.

Yeah, I know it's a long shot.

Wow!

You like it?

It's freakin' beautiful...

Let's go try it on.

Wait!

You know my mom and I, we're
really grateful for you helping

to fix up the house and paying
off the mortgage, but...

You're, like,
old enough to be my dad.

It's not like that.
Nothing like that at all.

I told you.
Your father looked out for me.

He was kind of
like an older brother.

I know how hard you and your
mom have had it since he died.

I'm just paying it forward.

Okay. Good.

Okay.
Let's go try on some dresses.

Hey.
Just do me one favor, okay?

What's that?

When you have
a grandson one day,

and you will, promise me
you'll let him jump on the bed

and eat lots of candy. Okay?

Okay, I promise.
Great.

It's not like I wanted to
hire a skywriter

to write "I told you so"
over Yaletown,

but, yeah, I felt a little
vindicated by Ames' accident.

Now maybe people
will finally wake up and see

one more technological miracle
on its way to being weaponized.

So, is that what you think Ames was
doing, Mr. Vincent, making weapons?

You don't?

I used to be in this field
before I realized

the lie they were
trying to sell us.

Clean energy? Bullshit!

Clean genocide is more like it.
The first green war.

Thank you.

Look. The only people scarier than
the scientists who invent this stuff

are the people
ready to cash in.

And who might they be?

Military,
weapons manufacturers,

contractors,
freelancers, you name it.

It's all about the violence.

But not for you.

I mean,
you did threaten Ames' life.

No. I said we'd
burn down his lab.

Sounds like somebody
saved me the trouble.

But you just told us
you were in that field.

You could have programmed
the machine to backfire.

Look. You don't get it.

Okay, we are
a peaceful organization.

We're trying to
stop the people

who are using
technology as a weapon.

It's not the science.

It's the user whose
motivations are suspect.

Look. If you two want someone to pin
this on, check out Melissa Dobeck,

Ames' partner in crime.

We weren't told
of any partner.

Well, former partner.

She grew unhappy
with the division

of intellectual property
and had a falling out.

If anybody wanted him dead,
it was her.

Did you get that?

Yeah. I got it.

Searching connections.

Melissa Dobeck
and Martin Ames.

His vitals are stable
but his memory is gone.

He doesn't seem to
know where he is.

Melissa Dobeck and Martin Ames'
association goes back to 2007.

Both were professors in the
same university department

before they left to
form their own companies.

So what are you thinking?

I'm thinking there is more to their
relationship than six proprietary patents,

including one covering the production
of thermal anti-neurons...

Well, antimatter.

Did anybody ever tell you you watched
too much Star Trek as a kid?

Martin and I pioneered nano materials
for antimatter containment.

Nuclear residue won't go away, but
antimatter, it wants to disappear.

So containment is everything.

Okay. So you... You and Professor
Ames, you found a way to contain it?

The scale was very small.
I wanted to take it slow.

But Martin had a much more
ambitious agenda.

I thought it was reckless.

When you left the university
and your company split up,

it looks like Ames
held onto all the patents.

Even in death
he got the better of you.

Do you want me to dance on his grave?
I won't do that.

Our differences
were very public.

I thought Martin's work
would eventually kill someone.

I just didn't
know it would be him

A suspicious person would say that
there are only a handful of people

knowledgeable
enough to program

this device to
backfire on him.

And that you'd be one of them.

If you're suggesting that I was
involved, that's completely false.

I don't think
anybody was accusing you.

Actually, I was.

Someone took
critical research files

from
the professor's laboratory.

I didn't take them.

And the worst I ever did to
Martin was wish him dead.

That's not a crime, is it?

Not yet.

Fonnegra.

Yeah. Okay.

We have to get back to the precinct.
Dillon wants to see me.

We'll be in touch, Ms. Dobeck.

Inspector,
you wanted to see me?

Yes, thank you.

Detective Fonnegra, this is
Lieutenant General Rogers

with the Judge
Advocate General's Office.

Is there something I can do
for the Department of Defense?

You can cease the investigation
into the Martin Ames matter,

and turn whatever you have over to my office.
We'll take it from here.

With due respect,
sir, I have leads that are

gonna go cold
if I just walk away right now.

We're not being
given a choice.

I admire your sense of duty, but we
consider the death of Professor Ames

and the theft of his work to be
a matter of national security.

You are to hand over your case
files to the General and his team.

Is that clear?

Yeah, it's clear.

Well, what do you think?

At this price, it's a steal.

Hmm.

It's very nice.
It's very, very nice.

Yeah. I'll take it.

Why aren't you talking to me?

You think I had
something to do

with this case being
taken away from you.

Your business is secrecy,
right?

Cover-ups,
plausible deniability.

I bet you even know that General in there.
Am I right?

I'm not the enemy, Carlos.

And if the government wants to
take charge of this investigation,

then I'm sure they have
a very good reason.

Oh? That wouldn't bother you?
Why would it?

Because they took my case,
Kiera.

You take this personally.

And you don't?

Look.

Maybe we can find
another angle on this.

Find another way to fight
our way back in somehow.

Ames' grad student, Shane Mathers,
we need to talk to him again.

General tight-ass over here
closed that door.

We need to find a new lead.

Mathers said that
the military was interested

in funding Ames'
project and Ames said no.

Maybe there was
other interest.

Like your gang?

You think you could
buy me some time

to get Section 6
working on this?

Oh, I'm sure I could probably
work that out for you.

I mean, it's going to take me
until at least tomorrow morning

until I can turn all
this over to the military.

Thank you.

Mr. Mathers.

Look,
I told you everything I know.

Did anyone aside
from the military

express interest
in Ames' research?

Not that I know of.
Can I go now?

Please?

I gotta go.

Boy, Mr. Paranoid or what?
Think he's hiding something?

Alec...

I was kid... Never mind.

I need to know
who sent that text.

Approximate time received,
10:23. Checking...

Melissa Dobeck
texted Shane Mathers

while we were
interrogating him.

I'm guessing you didn't get a court
order for a phone records search?

I didn't have to.

While I was speaking with him today,
she texted him a second time.

And I saw her name
come up on his phone.

YOU did?

No, but if you knew how I really
found out you'd be upset.

Why would the victim's
assistant be getting a text

from a bitter rival on the
morning after the murder?

Guys!
I had an RSS out for anyone

in a red jumpsuit
just like our gang

This just started
airing on TV.

Hospital officials are asking for
your help in locating this man,

who wandered away from St.
Paul's Hospital this afternoon.

The unidentified patient was found
disoriented this morning...

That's Edouard Kagame.
The leader of the gang?

Its heart and soul.
He's the one behind all their activity.

We need to stop
this broadcast.

It's already been in rotation,
like 40 minutes.

Then it's only
a matter of time

before the killing
begins in earnest.

Unless we find him first.

You know, it's not so bad.

There's lots of space,
a nice TV.

And hydroponics
in the basement...

Hospital officials are asking

your help in
locating this man,

who wandered away from St.
Paul's Hospital this afternoon.

Oh, my God.

Kagame...

He made it.

How will we find him?

The rally point. Kagame set one
in case we became separated.

If I'm right,
that's where he'll head.

He didn't just disappear.

I'm monitoring RSS.
Patrol cars are running a street sweep,

spiraling outward
from St. Paul's.

Alec?

I've got feeds in
all the CTV cameras,

ATM and security cameras.
There's no sign of Kagame so far.

Keep looking.

Oh, they will.

I also have
another piece of news

that you may or
may not want to hear.

Problem?

Help yourself.

Wow. Kiera taking a note.
I'm impressed.

No. Melissa Dobeck.

How close are we to
Melissa Dobeck's office?

Not far, why?

This is bordering on
harassment, Detectives.

I told the military
investigators I have no idea

what happened
to Martin's work.

Anything else you want to
know, you can ask my lawyer.

Like, for example, why you failed
to disclose your legal challenge

to your ex-partner's patents?

Or should we ask
you about that?

He may not know
since you withdrew the claim

and had the record sealed as a
condition of your settlement.

Not that it's any of your business,
but I didn't see the point.

I withdrew that challenge on
advice of my then-attorneys.

So you just shrugged
and let it go?

I find that hard to believe.

Oh, believe what you want.

Why did you text
Shane Mathers yesterday

just hours after
the body was found?

I expressed my sympathies,
my shock.

I don't remember
the exact words.

And then again this morning.

Were you
synchronizing your stories?

We're done.

Failing to
mention your involvement

with Professor Ames
closest assistant

is a pretty serious
omission of fact.

Is that what he told you?

No. Actually,
that's what you just told us.

How long have you
been sleeping with him?

Shane and I had a fling.
I'm not proud of it, but it's over.

I'm engaged.

That's awkward.
Mmm.

Does he know
that he's odd man out?

Did you ask him that?

I thought not.

Goodbye, Detectives.

Don't come back
without a warrant.

You say you're free.

You point to your Constitution,
your bill of rights.

What rights?

You were born into crushing
debt, to parents without hope.

And your only right
is to work for the corporation

until you pay it off.

Except that can never happen,

because everything
you need, they provide.

Your shelter,
your food, your water,

and it all sends you deeper
into the abyss of slavery.

But all that can change,
my friends.

We have the power
to free ourselves.

To take back what we've lost,
our independence, our dignity,

our very souls,

to take back our liberty.

Liberate yourselves,
my brothers and sisters.

Liber8. Liber8. Liber8.

Liber8.
Liber8. Liber8. Liber8.

This is an illegal assembly.

You are in violation of the
penal code Section 12318.

Remain calm.
This is a place of refuge.

This is an illegal assembly.

You are in violation of
the penal code Section 12318.

No! We have the right to be here,
this is a peaceful assembly!

I will not go.

Daddy! Daddy!

Hey. Any word on Kagame?

Still monitoring.
Everyone's on alert.

Dillon wants to see you.

Patent infringement?

It has only recently
come to my attention

that there may have been a prior
theft of intellectual property

that is unrelated to the
murder of Professor Ames.

Unrelated?

Mm-hmm.

I see. Well, then, if in fact your
totally unrelated investigation

happens to lead you
to Professor Ames' murderer,

I want to be
the first to know.

Because I'm going to enjoy
calling that dumb-ass

from National Defense to tell
him we just solved his case.

I took the liberty of having
the unit pick up Mathers.

They're en route.

How long were you involved
with Melissa Dobeck?

Is that why I'm here?

Are you accusing me
of dating my former boss?

We know she texted you
hours after Ames' death.

Mm-mmm.

All right, look, I just...

I didn't want to
implicate her for no reason.

What about that text
would have implicated her?

Did you kill Professor Ames?

What? No.

The device killed him.

He brought this on himself.

He was pushing a new
technology too aggressively.

I understand.

It wasn't just himself
he was putting at risk.

No.

I came very close to
quitting several times.

It got to the point
where I couldn't sleep,

thinking about what
we might be unleashing.

You were creating
something powerful,

something you didn't
fully understand.

But Melissa did.

Melissa had
nothing to do with this!

To do with what, Shane?

The plot to kill Ames?

She's a good person.

And Martin couldn't hold a
candle to her as a scientist.

But he took all the patents,
he took all the credit.

If you really cared about her,
you would have done something.

You'd help her get justice.

No.

It would've been easy
for you to sabotage Calisto.

You knew the experiment,
you helped design it.

Did you know
Melissa was engaged?

You didn't, did you?

Oh, she played you
the whole time.

Did you hand
the files over to her?

I don't know what
you're talking about.

I'm talking about charging you with
conspiring to kill Martin Ames.

I didn't conspire with anyone!

But you admit to killing him.

We have all your communications.
The truth will come out.

You are both going down.

No...

Look, I acted alone.

Shane, come on.

You don't have to fall
on your lightsaber for her.

She's behind this.
We both know that.

No. You're wrong about her.

You wanted a confession and you
got one, but I acted alone.

What did you do
with the research?

I deleted it so no one
could ever use it again.

Why is he protecting her?

I don't know. I've seen guys do
a lot of crazy things for love.

There has to be a way to get
to her without his testimony.

Kiera, we've bent
the rules to breaking.

We have to let the military
take it from here.

Kiera. I found him.

Phone call, sorry.

Repeat?
Kagame.

On a cloud-based photo back-up
from a tourist.

He's at
Sun Yat-Sen Gardens.

We've got a confirmed sighting
of your Edouard Kagame.

The Buddhist Temple
at the Sun Yat-Sen Gardens.

That's five minutes from here.

Call us back-up.

You take the west entrance,
I'll take the east.

And we'll meet up in
the temple in the middle.

Right.

Carlos, you've got company
moving towards your position.

Back-up's on the way.
Let's get to Kagame first.

You're under arrest!

For what?

For what you're going to do.

How do you know
what I'm going to do?

Given your past history
and your indiscretions,

play God, change history.

I've spent my entire life making
decisions that could affect millions.

That's what I do.

Release him and I'll
spare the child's life.

We both get what we want
before the bloodshed.

I'm glad to see you, Travis.

I guess we get to shoot
our way out after all.

Another time.

Count on it.

Let's move.

Thank you.

Kiera! What the hell happened?
Where is Kagame?

He was here.

We were too late.

We had them.

So what do we do?

We let them add
to their numbers.

By all accounts, you avoided
a public bloodbath.

That's something.

Kiera.

Excuse me.

What is it, Alec?

I checked the surveillance footage
at the temple, like you asked.

There's no images
of you and Kagame

having your little
tete-a-tete.

Thank you.

I also thought
you should know,

Melissa Dobeck just booked herself
on a flight to Costa Rica.

That case is over, Alec.
Professor Ames' murder was solved

with the arrest
of Shane Mathers.

We don't have
the evidence to charge her.

Yeah. Until now.

Would it interest you to know
there's actually a second back-up

of Ames' research after all?

Mathers thought
he had the only one.

Guess who has the other?

Final boarding call

for Air South America,
Flight 155

to Costa Rica.

Dr. Dobeck.

Off on a getaway, so to speak?

Long-standing travel plans.

Well, I'm afraid they're
going to have to change.

I don't understand.

Your sometime-boyfriend,
Shane Mathers?

He's just been arrested in the
conspiracy to kill Martin Ames.

He admitted rigging
Calisto to backfire.

Whatever Shane may have done,
I had nothing to do with it.

That's exactly what he said.

Until he found
out that you were,

how should I put this,
otherwise engaged.

If he misconstrued
my rants about how

dangerous Ames'
experiments were,

I can't help that.

So you deny any involvement
in the conspiracy?

Absolutely.

You just slept with
your rival's assistant

because he was
devastatingly attractive?

Here is that warrant
you requested.

Just tell me,
did you want Ames dead

because he was
selling it to the military,

or because you wanted
the research for yourself?

It's all there.

Please do not turn that data
over to the military.

You know what
they'll do with it.

And it won't be
about renewable energy.

Melissa!
Hey. I'm so sorry I'm late.

There was a stall on the
bridge, and my phone is dead.

Who's this?

Uh, Drew, my fiancé.

Passengers
Melissa Dobeck and Drew Laroche

report to Gate 34
for immediate boarding.

Doors are closing on Air South
America Flight 155 to Costa Rica.

You're gonna be
Melissa Laroche.

Sweetheart, this isn't going
to be easy to explain.

Can we have a moment?

Wait.

You're going to need this.

MELISSA; Thank you.

Six, five, four, three,

two, one...

Dad's crazy.

Security grid's up.

How did you do that?

Promotion, remember?

SadTech's latest rollout in
partnership with Laroche Energy.

Thousands of redundant mini fusion
reactors linked in a network.

No more centralized reactors means no
more easy targets for the terrorists.

They will just find
something else to target.

Another part of
the infrastructure.

No. They're scrambling.

A bunch of
revolutionary malcontents

that think an insurgency
will change everything.

They're on the run.

If you really want to do
something about them,

you should join the CPS.

They're recruiting.

With your military service
you'd be a lock for Protector.

Well, I have always wanted to.

I'm ready when you are.

I know.

But let's be honest, it's gonna
take more than a few blackouts

to tear me away from
my most important job.

The fact that you
were slightly further

from the device
when it went off

may have accounted for your
different arrival time.

Makes you wonder who else
might be coming through?

Or who already has.

It doesn't matter.

What matters is
we've all been given

the most precious
gift life offers.

A second chance.

Who has been in
charge in my absence?

I have.

You've lost soldiers.

We've become more vigilant.

We'll have to be.

There's a war coming.

How can you be so sure?

Because we're
going to start it.

No, no, no, no! It's okay.
It's me. It's Alec.

Alec?

The guy in your head.

Did you really think
breaking into my apartment

was the best way to
introduce yourself?

I'm sorry.
I just got tired of waiting.

I found your suit.

So, you were going
through my things?

It's way ahead of
anything that I've imagined.

It's even better
when it works.

Well, I was going
through my dad's notes.

There may be a way to trigger
the self-repair mechanism.

Look. I told you I didn't
want you to get involved.

Well, I guess I'm like you.

A little stubborn.

How long will you need it for?

It's not like dry cleaning.

Do you have dry cleaning
in the future?

Clean water's at a premium, so
all cleaning is dry cleaning.

Pulse vibration.

Eight seconds, 30 credits.

This'll take longer.

I noticed today, you turned off
your HUD a couple of times.

I don't get it.

I was curious.

Yeah. But doesn't that
make your job harder?

Your tech can tell
you so much more.

Alec, I have to
confront the possibility

that if my suit
can't be repaired,

I have to do my
job without it.

I thought maybe you were trusting
your gut instead of your tech.

Like Carlos?

I was.

Felt good.

Why did you let that woman go?

I had no choice.

But you knew Ames' assistant
wasn't acting alone.

That's not the point.

Then what is the point?

Every student in the union learns
about Melissa Laroche in school.

She solved
the global energy crisis

with her development
of clean fusion.

She's going to do great things with
Ames' research. Important things.

So important
she gets away with murder?

I'm not happy about it.

But if I make the wrong decision,
millions could be affected.

So if these scientists
are playing God,

in a way, so are you.

That's messed up.