Continuum (2012–2015): Season 1, Episode 7 - The Politics of Time - full transcript

Previously on Continuum...

My suit is damaged.

You told my dad about
me being at the riot.

You sold me out.

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

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

I don't know why
you trust that guy.

I don't trust him.

Okay! To SadTech's new Cascadia,
resident evil genius.

It's not every
day my best friend

gets access to
billions of credits.



Just a slip of
the decimal point

could erase our
life debt completely.

All right, come on now.

Another bottle!
We've had enough.

You're no fun.
She is no fun.

Excuse me,
I'll be right back.

Cheers.

Cheers.

Hey, tiger, the men's
room, back that way.

I'm exactly where
I wanna be.

What are you doing?

Don't tell me you haven't felt
the same way. I've seen...

You call yourself
Greg's best friend?

Get out!



So, big plans tonight?

I'm gonna go home,
I'm gonna take off my shoes,

I'm gonna order dinner,
and I'm gonna go to bed.

You?

I'll order a pizza,
crack a beer.

Probably watch the sports channel
and fall asleep on the couch.

Need a ride home?
Oh...

Hold on. Fonnegra.

Hold on a second.
Sure.

You should ask
him out to dinner.

What? No!

I'm married.

I'm not talking about a date.

I'm talking about socializing
with a co-worker.

You know, breaking bread,
letting your guard down.

It's something we humans did in
2012, it's called friendship.

I have friends.
In 2012?

Uh.
Ask him out.

So if you're not
doing anything tonight...

Sorry, that was a friend. You'll
be okay to find your way home?

Oh, yeah. No problem.

See you tomorrow.

That sucks.
I'm sorry.

Great.

Okay, so you got me home.

Give me my keys.
I can make it in myself.

Mmm-mmm.

A gentleman always
walks a lady to the door.

Okay, you can go now.

Don't even wanna tell me
your side of the story?

I just had a few
quick questions.

Jim's the one who's all, "Get out
of here or I'll call the police."

Wait, you went over there as
a reporter, not as a friend?

I can't talk about it.

Come on, what?
Is this an election story?

Something about
Jim's campaign?

You wouldn't understand.

Of course I wouldn't.

Better?
No.

Alicia, just don't
go there, okay?

I'm going there.

Tall mocha
macchiato, right?

Is it poisoned?

Can't a guy just
buy a girl a coffee?

That's the thing.

It's never just a coffee.
What do you need?

I have procured
the access codes

to several government and
private telecom feeds

that cover the West Coast.

Satellite, cellular,
imagery data. The works.

I'm thrilled.
Why do I care?

You know, once we figure out
how to use the codes,

you can track down Kagame and the
gang before they come after you.

Don't you mean
come after you?

What? Well, since we happen
to be in the same boat...

You need me to
make the codes work.

No!

But I did write down the name of a...
You mind?

A guy who knows a woman that
might know a programmer...

KIERAI Really?

Well, what do you know.
He's early.

You making some friends?

He was lost.

Those for me?

How was it last
night with your friend?

Oh, fine. I didn't stay long.
Went home, watched the game. You?

It was good. There's
a place near my house,

and it has the best pizza...

...so I just...
Wait, wait.

What address
did they just say?

Uh, dead body,
126 Venables Street.

KIERAI 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.

Cleaning person found the
body about 8:00 a.m.

Can't say how long
she's been dead.

Five to seven hours.

I'd like to take
primary on this, sir.

We were first
on the scene.

Okay, you got primary-

Just remember,
a reporter is dead.

This could be
a very high profile case.

I want everything
done by the book, okay?

Yes, sir.
I'll keep you informed.

She's been dead about
five to seven hours,

but you probably
already knew that.

Hey! You, uh, wanna
put one of these on?

Thanks.

Ligature marks on her neck,
petechial hemorrhaging.

Death is probably
due to strangulation.

Maybe it was after sex.

There are some pretty kinky
sex toys in the bedroom

and the bed's a mess.

Witnesses?

Neighbors said
no one heard or saw anything.

Hey, your dad wants us to fix
the fence in the back acre.

Yeah, well, why don't you
do it yourself, traitor.

I'm not the one who ran off
and joined the demonstrators.

Yeah, and you couldn't just
wait to tell him about it.

Now he took the keys to my
truck and my cell phone.

You blame me? You're the
one who screwed up.

So much for brotherly love.

Jim, we've
been friends for 20 years.

I need you to explain exactly
what happened last night, okay?

I get a call from you to
come over to your house

and pick up Alicia.

I get there, I find you two
screaming at each other,

and then Alicia's dead.

Alicia said she had some dirt on
me that she was going to publish.

I asked her to leave,
she refused.

She threatened to make a scene.
You know how she gets.

She's like her mother.

What kind Of dirt?

Election financing
irregularities.

So this wasn't true,
what she had on you?

No, of course
it wasn't, Carlos.

I can see the headline now. "Union
President nominee Jim Martin

"fights with reporter
the night she was killed."

I'm gonna lose this
election tomorrow.

Look, I can keep you out of this, okay?
For a couple of days.

Carlos, I don't want...
Jim...

I'll handle it.

Alicia Fuentes, she was an investigative reporter for The Post.

Cause of death
was strangulation.

And there's no signs of forced
entry, but there was a struggle.

As of now there is
no DNA from the perp.

I heard she was
sexually assaulted.

Perp was wearing a condom.
Did she have enemies?

She was an
investigative reporter.

If she was doing her job,
she had enemies.

She was always
dissing Nelson Barnes,

saying he was in
the pocket of management,

ignoring the welfare
of his constituents.

Nelson Barnes...

Incumbent union president,
runs the ATSU.

Amalgamated Transport
and Shipping Union?

The biggest union
in the country?

It's got almost
300,000 workers

and controls a pension
worth billions of dollars.

You know, if she did
in fact have some proof

that Barnes was cozying
up to management,

that could cost him the upcoming election.
There's your motive.

Okay. Jansen, Everheart. I need
you to canvass the neighborhood.

Betty, I need you to get all the
surveillance footage from the building

and surrounding CCTV cameras.

Concentrate on all the
footage from 2:00 a.m. on.

On it.

Let's go talk to Barnes.

Okay. Kiera, you have a second?

This case really
isn't in your wheelhouse

and I'd rather
not take you away

from your investigation
of gang activity.

Actually, sir, the gang
has been known

to organize
union sympathizers.

If Miss Fuentes was
investigating a union election,

well, there may be a tie-in.

Okay. If there's no tie-in,
I want you back at your desk.

Yes, sir.

Kiera? I've got a suit update.

I'll be right there, Carlos.

I managed to reanimate most
of the circuitry at a basic level.

Is it usable?

Uh, not quite.
There's still a lot of

interface files
I'm trying to access,

but I'm running some tests.

This baby should be
running pretty soon.

Keep me posted.
Don't break it!

"Don't break it."

Whoa!

You knew Alicia.

You two were friends.

You're the one who told me to
start trusting my instincts.

Am I wrong?

My family left Colombia with a group
of other families and their kids.

Alicia was one of them.

I've known her since...

Since before I can remember.

Alicia was beyond family.

Look, thanks
for staying on the case.

I know you... I know you lied about
the involvement of the gang.

I just stretched the truth.

It's what friends do, right?

Yeah.

Alicia Fuentes was trying to fabricate
dirt on my campaign finances.

But she found nothing
that was illegal.

So you weren't taking
money from management

and selling your
constituents down the river?

Contributions come into my
campaign fund from all over.

But I answer only to my members
when it comes to voting.

I wasn't the only one Miss
Fuentes was investigating.

You should check
out my opponent.

I heard Jim Martin
runs a clean campaign.

Nobody slides up the political
ranks without a little grease.

Are you speaking from
experience, Mr. Barnes?

Miss Fuentes found out Jim had
a big campaign contributor

with the kind of funds that
grassroots can't provide.

Jim is selling himself as the
candidate that can't be bought,

so there's a story there somewhere.
At least there was.

Oh, and I'm sure she got that
from a reputable source.

Mr. Barnes, where
were you last night?

Campaign rally,
lots of witnesses.

But a man in your position,

you must know people that
can get things done.

Make people go away-

My assistant will get you
that list of witnesses.

Thank you, sir.

So, I've been
trying to figure out

how to repair
the injured circuits.

I'm just gonna cut
out the damaged parts.

Don't cut it!
It'll only make it worse.

Shoot
What?

Holy moly.

Oh, God. Alec,
what did you do?

So I know that Carlos said he wanted
to see footage after 2:00 a.m.,

but I was thinking,
what if someone

was waiting for her
or followed her home?

Can this wait for
just one minute?

Just watch.
Okay.

I couldn't find anything
on the CCTV feeds,

but then I realized Alicia's
apartment was on a bus route.

Buses have cameras
on them and voila!

We've got something.

There's Alicia and her car.
Someone drove her home.

Maybe it's her murderer.

Are you getting this?

Yeah.
What?

Are you getting
a better resolution?

Yeah, I'm waiting on a hi-res
download from the bus company

which they promised to have
to me by 10:00 tonight.

So I should have
it in the morning.

Thanks.

Alec? Normally I'd be in
the same boat as Betty.

But?

But since I hooked
your suit up to the system

it's become super charged.

Houston, we have an upgrade.

I can give you
a clear-res image in...

Three, two, one.

Crap.

How can you be so
sure Carlos isn't guilty?

I mean, you've only known
him for a few months.

It's the same amount
of time I've known you.

Yes, but, I'm different.

For all we know, Carlos
dropped her off at the door,

he may not even have come
in here last night.

It ain't just
a river in Egypt!

Denial, get it?

No.

Oh, that's trippy.
What did you do?

I used a bio-enhancement mist,
it interacts with DNA.

It helps my HUD
ID fingerprints.

Each color represents a
different individual's prints

and the intensity

tells me how recently
those prints were made.

First thing we do is cancel
out prints older than a week

and then we cancel
out the victim's prints.

Well, he's definitely
been in there.

We were both in here this morning.
Let me just...

I'm guessing that
leads to the bedroom?

Oh, man, it doesn't
take too much to imagine

how those prints
got there.

Alec, I've got
prints with no ID.

Well, you're connected
to the national database.

Whoever it was
doesn't have a record.

You think there
was a three-way?

I think that's
enough for today.

What? It's just getting good!
Goodbye, Alec!

Come on, baby,
show me what you can do.

You saw the union
candidate last night.

Can I talk to you?

Why didn't you tell me you
were at Jim Martin's place,

or that you went to see
Alicia Fuentes after that?

Who told you that?

You just did.

How'd you find out?
That is not the point.

You lied about sleeping with a woman
on the night she was murdered.

I had nothing to do
with Alicia's murder.

You were the last person to see her
alive and that makes you a suspect.

Plus, it is definitely
a conflict of interest

since you are
the primary on this case!

Listen to me, if I admit
to being with Alicia,

then the focus of the investigation
immediately turns on me.

They stop looking for the real killer.
You know that!

That's your excuse?

What about Jim Martin? You
didn't tell me you knew him.

What is it that
you are covering up?

Jim is an old friend, okay? He
grew up with Alicia and I...

That is not
enough of a reason.

Okay, he called me up, he said
he was arguing with Alicia.

He wanted me to come over
and help and I did.

What were they arguing about?

It doesn't matter, okay?

Whatever happened
between Alicia and Jim

had nothing to do
with her murder.

He's a good guy, Okay?

He's just in the middle of
an important union election.

So important that
you are willing to

put your own
career on the line?

You don't understand.

Jim is a reformer in one of the
most corrupt locals in the country.

He will fight that corruption and
make it better for the members.

There's a lot of people in
management who won't like that.

Besides, he's a friend.

And you trust him?

Yes, with my life.

Okay-

So someone could've framed Jim to
sabotage his chances at this election?

He has made a lot of enemies in the
old boys club, including Barnes.

I just need
a little bit more time.

I don't know how
much I can give you.

Betty found footage
of you and Alicia.

It's too grainy to
make out your face,

but she's working on
resolving the image.

And when she does, she'll...

Okay, I'll handle it. Okay?

I need to know
that I can rely on you

to keep me and
Jim out of this.

Okay? Just for now.

Fine. Jim is off-limits.

Thank you.

Can I help you?

Agent Kiera Cameron. I have
some questions for Jim Martin.

Sara Davidson,
his campaign manager.

Uh, let me see if
Jim has a minute.

Sara, get in here and tell
Heather she has to...

Jim, this is Agent Cameron.
She has some questions.

How can I help you?

I'd like to talk
about Alicia Fuentes.

Yes. I heard
about the murder.

I don't know,
I don't trust him.

Uh, this is
my wife, Heather.

Agent Cameron.

I don't trust her, either.

I heard about Alicia.
It's horrible.

What can we do to help?

When was the last time
you saw her, Mr. Martin?

I don't remember
how long it was, um...

Sara?
One, two months ago.

Are you sure?

I know she was writing
an article about you.

Well, we've, um, talked
on the phone a few times.

Really?

I also happen to know that
she was here last night

and that you spoke with her.

It was only for
a brief moment.

She came here about an
article that she was writing

with accusations
of financial fraud.

What she had was all fiction,
but she wouldn't leave.

Mrs. Martin, did
you witness this?

Actually, no,
I was at a fundraiser,

helping legitimate donors
give to Jim's campaign.

Sara was there with me,
she can confirm that.

Greg sent me
to see if you were okay.

What happened to the painting?

Rikki, I don't know
how to do this.

We've been friends with
you and Trevor for so long.

I know he was drunk, but...

Trevor came in here
and made a pass at me.

Oh! What an ass!

I feel terrible.

Oh, you shouldn't.
It was just a pass.

Besides, you never let what
happened with Greg and I

affect our friendship,

and I'm not gonna let a
little pass affect it either.

What are you talking about?

When Greg and I
had a little fling

before your wedding?

Kiera! I thought...

Greg never told me.

He never said a word.

Because it meant nothing!

He was just sowing his oats
before the marriage.

He loves you,
you know that.

I'm surprised you
never found out.

I mean, you're
a CPS officer,

you have access
to all the records.

Why would I spy on Greg?

I never had a reason
not to trust him.

If I had your tech, I'd be scanning
to see what Trevor was up to

every minute of the day.

Do you need me
here for this?

I need to get back to, uh, getting
ready for the rally tonight.

Yes, actually I have some
questions for you as well.

Agent Cameron, I'm gonna
have to ask you to leave.

If you have any
further questions,

you're gonna have to contact
Mr. Martin's attorney.

I'll show myself out.

You think this Jim guy knows
something about the murder?

I think he had an affair with
Alicia, I think his wife knows.

How'd you figure that out?

I just know.

I need you to get me everything
you can on Heather Martin,

including her whereabouts
for the last 36 hours.

I may have a suspect
to exonerate Carlos.

Kiera, do you know
what your suit can do?

It's online, it's accessing
every single visual

and audio feed within
a 100-kilometer radius

on its own. It's like it's
taking its own bearings,

its own sensory
proprioception.

Thanks, Alec. Good work.

But, uh, did you find
anything on Heather Martin?

Her maiden name is Heather Axelrod,
a real jock in high school.

Gymnastics, women's lacrosse,

went to University of Alberta
on a sports scholarship.

Uh, married to Jim Martin
for 13 years, no children.

Oh! And did I mention she also
made several calls to your victim

in the past two weeks?

Most of them hang-ups.

Where was she last night?

At a fundraiser until 10:30
p.m., just like she said.

Election money.

If Alicia was writing an article
about campaign contributions,

we need to look into
both candidates' finances.

I'll follow the cash.

Damn it!
What?

The piece of the time
travel device is missing.

What, someone took it?

There's only one person
that could've done this.

Kellog.

What's he gonna do, sell
it to the gang? No.

He's gonna use it as
leverage against me.

Now what?
Now?

I'll just have to get it back.

That's not what it looks like, okay?
I didn't kill her.

I know that.

I can say there was an internal
glitch in my computer,

that the information
was lost...

No.

I have to take care of this.

Yeah, you do.

Yeah?

Got anything on
that murder case?

Okay, what am
I looking at?

It's surveillance
camera footage.

I knew the victim,
Alicia Fuentes.

Excuse me?
I was with her that night.

I met her for dinner, I
took her back to her place.

I had sex with her and then
I left about 1:30 a.m.

Sir, I didn't kill her.

You have any idea
what you've done?

Taking primary
on a murder case

where you just had
sex with the victim?

Sir, I...
Shut up! You don't talk!

This violates half the laws in
the book, you know that, pal?

I want your badge and your
gun, and from this moment on,

you are suspended
indefinitely.

Okay,
what have you got?

Except for the bus
footage IT girl found...

Betty.
Yeah, that's it.

There's no security
footage, no nothing.

So no way to see what went
on inside the building?

What, do they
do that in 2077?

Sort of.

Alec, if I could get you
a complete spectrum analysis

of the cellular array
from the night of the murder,

would you be able to analyze it
for wavelength and strength?

That's a fixed
point near the scene?

There's a cellular array on
the top of Alicia's building.

It's perfect. Those towers pump
out a strong, steady signal

like a waterfall.

Any people in the building might
register as a disruption in the field,

like putting your hand
under a running tap.

I could, theoretically,
map out the areas

where the signal's
interfered with by humans

and then separate that from the
architecture of the building.

Then you could feed the
information through my CMR

and we can simulate the
LIDAR function on my suit.

Yeah, it might paint
a perfect picture for you

but it's a ton of
data to sift through.

But you'd have my suit
to process the data.

Sure. That should work.

Great, so then all
you have to do

is hack the cell phone
company's servers.

No, I need raw data streams
from the night in question.

Access to private and
government satellites

and top secret
measuring equipment

that's listening to us
or watching us 24/7.

The eye in the sky,
Big Brother stuff.

That's a realm I can't
get into, nobody can.

What if you could?

This is very high tech
surveillance for this era.

I need
those satellite codes.

In exchange, I will
set up a surveillance net

that will alert you if anyone comes
within 50 feet of your yacht.

You can do it?

I know a guy
who knows a guy...

Look at you! Inspector
Cameron making a joke.

I'm not just a pretty face.

Um, just... You know what? Send me
the codes, I'll see what I can do.

It's true I knew
Alicia Fuentes.

Out of respect for her
I didn't wanna go public,

or comment on their
relationship until now.

Mr. Martin! Detective
Fonnegra was suspended

and is considered
a suspect in the murder.

You were also friends,
correct?

All I can say is
that I refuse to believe

that a highly decorated officer
like Detective Fonnegra

could do anything so heinous.

Totally beyond cool.

So I assume this
means that you tapped in.

Can you access the radio spectrum
data from the time of the murder?

Uh, yeah, let me
just figure this out.

And be sure that you
feed it through my suit.

It looks like your
suit's already doing it.

It's just that it's
way too much data.

Okay, I think I've got it.

Now, patch it into my CMR.

Whoa.

It's working.

I can see the shapes of people
moving through the cell signals.

Carlos said he left at 1:30,
let's fast forward to there.

What? Miss the
bow chicka wow wow?

I have no idea
what you're doing.

What, don't they
have porn in your time?

Alec, just fast
forward to 1:30.

Okay. She was
alive when he left.

Did you see
that off to the left?

Yeah, the thing that looks like
spaghetti outside the apartment?

That's how he got in.

Look again.

That's not a he, it's a she.

Oh, man.

Carlos definitely
didn't do it.

Ah!

Carlos! Why haven't
you answered my calls?

Are you okay?

Yeah,

there's somebody who'd like
you to think that I wasn't.

Let's say, hypothetically,
it was Heather,

that still doesn't explain
why she'd go after me.

She set it up to appear that
you killed yourself in guilt

over strangling Alicia.

That way all the loose ends
are tied up nice and neat.

What motive would she have
for killing Alicia?

I think I'll let
Jim tell you that.

Oh, man.

Kiera? I found something.

I continued looking
through satellite footage,

and I followed the murderer
after she left the scene.

She gets into her car,
the kind with

the driver's wheel
on the right side,

I think it's
a Figaro or something.

Alec, that car you mentioned
is sitting in the driveway.

Whoa.

You can't come in here.

I'm calling our lawyer.

Yeah, you should
probably do that.

Jim, I gotta talk to you.

Sara, I'll talk with Carlos.

We're just heading to the campaign
office to see the election results.

I've got a few minutes,
what's going on?

Mrs. Martin, would you mind
rolling up your sleeve, please?

Excuse me?

What is this about?

We have proof that someone was
on top of Alicia's building

and rappelled
down to her window.

Someone small,
lithe, athletic?

Are you saying I killed her?
Are you crazy?

Your prints are all
over Alicia's apartment

and you made several
phone calls to her.

You were at her apartment?

What is going on here?

She asked me to stop you
from pestering her.

Alicia wanted it to end
but Jim wouldn't let her.

She kept asking him
to leave her alone,

but he kept calling, texting,
showing up at her doorstep...

That's not true. She knew I
didn't love her anymore.

She was the one who
kept showing up here.

Whoa. You had
an affair with Alicia?

That's what this is about?

That's why you
wanted her dead?

Don't be ridiculous. Jim's
indiscretions are his own.

Whoever killed Alicia
tried to kill me today

and I managed to
cut her right arm.

Roll up your sleeve.

Fine.

There. Are you happy?

That's your car
out front, isn't it?

Ask her about the secret
$10 million contribution

that was made to
Jim's campaign.

Tell him about
the money, Sara.

You've got the integrity, the
intelligence, and the balls

to go as high as you want.

All you needed was the extra
financing to get there,

but you stubbornly refused to
deal with any large contributor,

so I did it for you.

Alicia found out.

She assumed you knew.

She was gonna ruin your reputation
and destroy your future.

But murder?

I didn't know they
were gonna kill her,

I thought they were
gonna scare her.

They said they had as much to lose as
you did if anybody ever found out.

Who had as much to lose?

Sara, who gave
you the money?

Tell them.

Tell them!

I'm scared that if I say anything
else, they're gonna kill me, too.

I wanna speak
to my attorney.

I'm gonna need you
to come down to the station,

I'll need a statement
from the two of you.

I'm already late. They're waiting
for me at the campaign office.

That's too bad, they're gonna
have to wait a little longer.

Carlos, please. I'll return the money.
I didn't know.

You know, I protected
you, and you lied

to me about Alicia,
about everything.

It was politics, okay?

It wasn't personal.

We're done.

So did Sara give up the source of
the illegal contributions yet?

No, and my guess is she won't.

She knows we don't have
any physical evidence

tying her directly
to the murder.

She'll admit to the financial
fraud, she'll make a plea deal...

Her political
career will be over,

but I doubt she'll
see any jail time.

At least you got
Carlos off the hook.

Yeah.

Uh, I gotta go.

They dropped the
obstruction of justice charges.

That's great.

Are you okay?

Yeah. Jim won the election.

This whole thing
has been one big lie.

Man, how could I
have been so stupid?

Rikki told me
about the affair.

Look, it was a long time ago,
it was before we were married,

and as soon as it happened
I realized it was a mistake.

What other secrets
are you keeping from me?

Do I need to pull
all of your digital files?

Kiera...

We have this technology

scanning our every move,

keeping us honest
so we don't have any secrets.

But I always thought that if
you really loved someone,

your husband,
your best friend,

that you wouldn't
have to rely on tech.

How naive is that?

No, that's not naive.

That's how it should be.

Look“.

I was afraid that
if I told you,

you'd never agree
to marry me.

I don't think I
could risk losing you.

You can always come up with
an excuse to justify lying.

Kiera, I love you.

What can I do to
make this right?

I swear I will never keep
a secret from you again.

You really think
you know somebody

and you think they'll
never betray you...

You were just
being a good friend.

Speaks highly of you
and poorly of them.

Yeah, I guess.

Look, I'm sorry that I kept
information from you on the case.

I'm sorry that I went to
Jim behind your back.

Let's,uh“.
Let's make a pact, huh?

No more secrets from each
other, 100% honesty.

What do you think?

I think that's where
we get into trouble.

Sometimes you have to do the wrong
thing for the right reason,

and I would rather keep a secret from
you than break a promise to you.

I get it.

We do have a loose end.

Our killer.

We know she was a woman.

Strong, agile.

She was quite a fighter.

And your friend Jim, now that
he's won the election...

He controls everything that
goes in and out of the ports.

And from there it's just
a quick jump to mayor.

This is the gentleman
I told you about.

Congratulations
on your win.

Now let's talk
about the future.

This just got
a lot more complicated.