Continuum (2012–2015): Season 3, Episode 4 - Minute Changes - full transcript

Vancouver PD investigate after an attempt by campus police to break up a free speech party leads to violence. A gun belonging to the campus police is now missing and Insp. Dillon tasks Carlos and Kiera to interview some of the more vocal students. As far as Carlos is concerned, these are just university kids acting up but Kiera seems to take a much tougher line. As the police take a harder line and shoot some protesters, Kiera begins to modify her views. Alec from the new time-line is still having issues with Emily now that he knows she worked for his father. He also realizes that he has limited authority at the company. Julian Randol is released on parole and Carlos suggests that he lay low. He goes on the offensive however and Carlos is his target.

Previously on Continuum

Which one of you is my partner, my friend?

Emily, I traveled through time for you.

He doesn't know, but I'm leaving
that decision up to you, ok?

You're in control.

Who was that?

There are forces at work

that see great value in
letting us do our jobs.

He's got some interesting ideas.

Mr. Escher, your father.

Alec's inheritance is what?



A controlling interest in the company.

You have a destiny to full fill.

Welcome home, Theseus.

If you want to be a leader, then lead.

Alright, fire suppression
system is still offline,

brigade is eight minutes out.

We just lost our team on twelve.

Copy that, completing my first sector.

We're not supposed to have
fires like this anymore.

Sector one red line.

Cameron, get out of there.

Hi.

My name is Kiera.

I'm gonna get you both out of here ok,



but I can only take you one at a time.

I am ok.

She's really scared.

Hold it right up against your mouth

and take long, deep breaths, ok?

Come here, Jilani.

Hang on tight.

I'm going to be right back.

It's ok, we're outside.

This is Jilani.

Her vitals are elevated, but
smoke inhalation isn't too bad.

You are going to be fine.

Where's the brigade?

Five alarm blaze on Commercial.

Personnel and equipment in this sector

were right sized last month.

Well, they got it wrong on this one.

Cameron.

Floor 17-2, west stairs, two
directors and a life credit manager.

Sir, there's a child
on the eighteenth floor.

Negative.

Proceed to 17-2.

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What're you doing here?

After the shit you
pulled with Luca's Ingram?

You're lucky to get a
short haul on probation.

Who do you think got you
into that half-way house?

Why would you do that for me?

You're part of an argument
that I'm having with myself.

About what?

About the whether.

Whether or not people can change.

Got you something.

Ten bucks on Commercial Drive.

Lay low, otherwise the next conversation

we have won't be so friendly.

Remember, names on the list only.

What the hell is that?

I'm authorized, I completed the training.

You shouldn't be carrying it.

This is an unauthorized assembly.

The college has warned you before.

This is a free speech protest.

You're under age, you're over capacity.

Hey, this is on campus!

We need help!

So, the campus' cops got their
buts kicked by a bunch of kids.

And they say young people today are soft.

Lion's Gate University has instituted

a zero tolerance policy.

They are shutting down
any gatherings, postings,

or clubs that promote terrorism.

The VPD is cooperating to id students

at high risk of seditious activity.

Profiling.

That'll get them good and riled.

So we just let them tear down the system?

They're college kids, they're not Liber8.

They try on ideologies
like t-shirts.

That's enough.

One of the campus cops was
carrying a semi-automatic.

That gun is now in the wind.

Oh, shit.

What were these guys even doing with guns?

They're scared.

Expecting an escalation,
more militant behaviour.

I've seen this before.

Betty has a list of the students
who have been most vocal,

maybe we get lucky and the minnows lead us

to the bigger fish.

And I want that gun.

Twenty bucks says the only ideology we find

is beer pong and weed.

College campuses are where
it all starts, Carlos.

First the Theseus riots

and then they close down schools for years.

Enough future doom and gloom.

I'll get the black list from Betty.

I liked your old lab, but
this is something else.

Makes total sense that
you would camp out here

instead of some slick executive office.

I guess you've been in that
slick executive office before.

You wanted to talk.

So do I.

You know, I think you had
a more honest relationship

with my father than you ever did with me.

He at least knew who you really were.

You know me, Alec.

If you look in your heart, you know you do.

The heart is a feeble instrument.

Easily fooled.

You haven't met that part of yourself yet.

The part that will do anything to survive.

There's an upside to it.

It makes you strong.

It makes you strong enough
to save somebody else.

To put them first.

You could use that.

Why don't you stop telling
me about my experience?

What I've been through, what I felt?

You have no idea what I felt!

You're right.

I don't.

Mr. Sadler.

It's time.

Good luck, Alec.

I'm sorry.

You still think they're harmless?

There's no sign of the missing gun.

Are you guys gonna be done soon, or...?

Hey, are you Duncan Federoe?

Uniform said this was your shindig?

Yeah, until the jack boots showed up.

Campus police were assaulted.

I'd lose the attitude.

Ok.

I got some more garbage
bags from campus services,

but they said if we want to...

Hey!

I didn't do anything!

What are you doing!
Let her go!!!!

No!

Get back and sit down!

Kiera!

You still think this is a joke?

I remember you.

How's Theseus?

Kiera! Kiera!

Alec, I believe you already know

the newest member of
the board, Jack Dillon.

Hi.

I know this may seem very strange,
but my father had vision.

Sorry, a vision.

A vision he shared with me before he died.

Now, it was always my father's intention

to bring me into the world...

his world.

Bring me into Piron.

Sorry.

What I mean to say is that my
father always told me that...

Alec.

No need to worry about any of this.

There is a detailed road
map in place for transition.

And you can rely on myself
and the others assembled here

to make sure that transition is smooth.

Of course.

Right now your skills
are needed in lab seven

with our lithium air project.

And R and D needs a mind of your calibre.

Ok, I'll let you know what I find.

Next item: components in our
factor are coming up short.

Rebecca's story checks out,

she was on security video
in the library last night.

She wasn't anywhere near the party.

Sid Elcos, faculty adviser.

Anything we can do to
have this place reopened?

It's the San Mantos student
center during the day,

they like to see their money working.

Nobody's pressing charges.

The professor here was
very helpful with that.

I cut them loose.

You have a problem on this campus.

The student body is riled up, that's true.

Liber8 is a terrorist organization.

So is Sinn Fein, the ANC
and the founding fathers

of the United States to the Redcoats.

We're just looking for
anybody that crossed the line.

That line is moving by the day.

Last week one of our papers
was shuttered for publishing

a pro-Liber8 cartoon.

Why don't you look at this list,

tell us who would be worth talking to

and who would be a waste of our time.

I'd like to get out of here
sooner rather than later,

wouldn't you?

I talked to some of the students,

I've never heard so much complaining.

What?

They've got a legitimate beef.

They have no jobs when they graduate,

and now they're being kicked around

for just mentioning Liber8?

What's next, we're gonna
bust them for full sleeve tats

and ironic t-shirts?

Oh man, that's not good.

Uniforms are busting up a protest.

Let's go.

They tell you not to talk about it.

Not about the debt...

You are subject to expulsion.

Or the regret...

Disciplinary charter!

Disband immediately!

Resistance will be grounds for arrest.

Liber8, Liber8, Liber8!!

Clear them out.

When we say "Liberate".

Gun!

Gun!

Witch direction were you
facing when you saw the shooter?

That way.

That way.

And how many shots did you hear?

Two I think.

Two probably.

What about the shooter?

Can you describe them?

I don't um...

I

I can't...

Ok.

You should stop.

Dillon's gonna want a report.

You gonna tell him that you had
a beef with one of the victims?

How is that relevant?

It's not.

There's no powder residue.

Not on anybody's hands.

Can't find any shell casings, either.

That's not right.

Does this feel a little Kent State to you?

The old student revolution?

Nevermind, I don't even
know why I brought it up.

Mr. Randol.

Do you have any reaction to the shootings

at Lion's Gate University?

Several of the victims were your followers.

Where's your outrage?

You're gonna twist this anyway.

LGU students face a curriculum
driven by corporate needs,

not by educational ones.

When the students try to point
this out, the police roll in.

Where's my outrage?

Where's yours?

Did you walk in there, do
your adorable boy genius thing,

and the board of directors
was less than impressed?

I bet you had notes.

How far did you get?

First card.

Alec, did you really think

they were gonna let you march in here

and play Steve Jobs without a fight?

Do you even own a turtle-neck?

You need a shark to take on these sharks.

I suppose you have a suggestion?

Well, I wouldn't presume, though
it would be nice to be asked.

Alright, look.

The board has a weak hand.

You know what you do
when you have a weak hand.

You front.

You bully.

You do anything you need to to
convince the other guy to fold.

And stop buying suits off the rack.

Listen to me.

I've read the dossiers
on these board members.

There's no Kirk.

There's no Picard.

They barely have a Jordy.

Stop playing their game.

How?

I guess that's for you
to figure out, genius.

You're the one with the oil.

Convince them.

Or find yourself a shark.

No lead on the missing gun
or proof of Liber8 plots.

Early days.

Witnesses deny any shots
came from the crowd.

Who's taking the lead on Cantor's debrief?

I am.

One of the dead girls
was definitely Liber8?

Yes, I can confirm that personally.

That's terrible, but
it's something at least.

And I canvassed for cell
phone video and photos

from the scene.

They were all disabled.

I mean, that's what it looks like.

You're right.

How would somebody do that?

Well, you can thank Piron.

It's an experimental
geo-fencing solution.

When the orders got given to
break up the demonstration,

GPS automatically disabled all
recording and photo functions

in the area.

Well that's a nice trick.

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

These are more names from the university.

I want you back there.

We're widening the net.

I want that gun.

Let's clear our men.

Hey.

Hey.

You want me to book that in?

No.

No, I got it.

Ok, well I'm just gonna try
to narrow those names for ya.

Ok, thanks.

May I sit?

Yeah.

How many?

They won't tell me.

Three.

Two at the scene.

One was taken to the trauma
center but he didn't make it.

What happens now?

You haven't been debriefed yet?

Lieutenant said he wanted
to talk to me first.

I want to um...

Cameron, I need you to give me the room.

Yes sir.

I think Cantor was about
to tell me something.

Stop right there.

I can see the struggle
you're going through, Carlos.

It doesn't have to be like this.

And how's it supposed to be?

The system protects the people, right?

It's supposed to.

Then in order to protect the people,

we must protect the system.

What about the truth?

Where does that fit in?

In 2077 when you're on a CPS call,

the whole thing is recorded right?

Everything you see, start to finish?

Sent straight into evidence and judgment.

Well, we don't have that certainty here.

Believe me, that kind of certainty

creates it's own problems.

Cantor has a family and a
future and there are consequences

for what he did or didn't do.

Now, whatever you suspect,
before you run it up the ladder,

you have to be sure of what you believe in.

A slogan from 2077, or what's in here.

Aren't you tired of being distorted?

Why don't you have a little bit of respect?

I don't have anything to say.

Honey, you don't know
who you're talking to.

I know exactly who you are.

I've seen your show.

Of course you have, I'm huge in prisons.

Six minutes, you say what you want.

I get it, another failed revolutionary,

your feet got held to the fire.

A follower of yours is dead,
but you want to lay low.

Stirring.

What if I wanted to say
that the victims this morning

were murdered?

Because that's exactly what it would be

if the shooter wasn't wearing a uniform.

Are you suggesting Officer
Cantor was ordered to kill them?

By who?

Detective Carlos Fonnegra.

Get up, get up!

The video was uploaded
last night at 11:46 pm.

Get up, kid.

Come on, get up!

Party's over, get up.

Are you guys cops?

What do you want?

This will be a whole lot easier for you

when you realize how
much trouble you're in.

Ok.

This doesn't look like it belongs to you.

Where'd you get it?

Where's the gun, Mike?

Somebody just...

Wait, did you say "gun"?

Somebody shot at a cop yesterday.

People died.

Hell of a video, though.

Look, I swear.

I found that in the common room.

Sit down.

Stay put.

What the hell is this?

I haven't done anything!

Get your hands off of me!

This is bullshit, I haven't done anything!

What's this?

It's not my gun.

Shut up.

Got it.

His name is on the list.

They found the gun under his pillow.

I've never seen that before.

There's residue on it.

It's been fired twice.

Got any priors, PJ?

The charges were dismissed!

I swear, I haven't done anything!

Get him out of here.

What?

Cameron.

Nora.

What brings you down here?

Officer involved shooting.

Heard you were at the
scene when they apprehended

the suspect.

And just now I found out
from Officer Cantor that you,

Fonnegra and Dillon were
the first to debrief him.

I didn't speak with him very long.

How did he seem?

Fine.

Sure of his story?

I have statements from the
other officers at the scene

practically word for word.

I'm not sure what you're getting at.

I think you are.

One of the victims was Liber8,

we got some cover there, but still.

Two more dead.

Good thing we have such a tidy story.

Bit of friendly advice.

When the truth finds its way to the light,

it's gonna go down fast.

Scurrying out of the shadows then?

Way too late.

Well, Batista finally
decided to lawyer-up.

We're gonna keep him overnight.

What?

I saw him at the demo, I
scanned him with my CMR

and there was no residue on his hands.

What you know can't be proved.

Not yet.

That's what we do next.

No, that's what you do.

I've got multiple statements

corroborating a single
version of the event.

And I know that he is innocent!

I can't count on that.

I'm going to work the case.

Every angle.

And when you've got something
that I can use, we'll talk.

You need to go home, Alec.

I know, I'm just trying to get up to speed

on Piron's current slate.

I served as your father's
council for three years.

No one is expecting you to be him.

Yeah, I know they don't.

Thanks, Jacqueline.

You can go.

I have the oil.

I have the oil.

Hi, it's Alec Sadler.

I need your help.

Officer Cantor has two young daughters.

He served our nation proudly

for two years overseas in Afghanistan.

Today, he is a hero.

I'm joined in studio by the
man some credit, or blame,

as an inspiration for this
college violence, Julian Randol.

Welcome, Mr. Randol.

What's your take on that report?

I think you're turning
a murderer into a hero

and the bodies aren't even cold yet.

Murder is a strong word.

Yeah, so is "hero".

One of the victims, Rebecca Barton,

a follower of yours, correct?

I wouldn't call her that, no.

Why not?

Because it takes courage
to think for yourself.

She did.

Maybe she was there as
an agent provocateur.

Maybe she was there
getting her masters degree.

It took a bullet to finish
what Detectives Cameron

and Fonnegra started.

Are you seriously suggesting
Rebecca Barton was assassinated?

Yes, I am.

But they have someone in custody.

Come on.

Of course they do.

See?

It changed the entire conversation.

Hero cop, roll to commercial.

Rebecca Barton dared to say
that corporations aren't people.

They killed her for that.

More with Julian Randol after this.

We're gonna have him back.

You've got the gift, son.

Wow, you are electric.

I don't even know what I'm
doing half the time anymore.

I sure as hell don't know why
I trust you more than I do her.

You?

Agent Cameron?

Thank you for meeting me.

Can we walk?

You said you had information
vital to the case.

We can't debate Liber8's aims
because it upsets endowments.

Lobbyists write the laws,
companies drive the research.

Isn't that inevitable?

That's a good question.

Look at the history of your profession.

I'm not getting out of here
without a lecture, am I?

London, 1829, Robert Peele
forms the metropolitan police,

the first modern force
responsive to the people.

The whole nineteenth
century is a whole story

of the police freeing themselves
from the political machines.

Only when they are independent

are they free to ask the right questions.

Research is the same, that's
what we're fighting for.

That's why Liber8 finds a sympathetic ear.

The answers that you're looking
for, they're right over there.

He has something to tell you.

I found the gun.

I thought I'd hold onto it, maybe sell it.

Rebecca told me I had to get rid of it.

Did you?

He brought it to me.

I dumped it here, called the police,

tipped them off and
waited for them to arrive.

Look, I know you two had history.

Rebecca wasn't bad, she was an idealist,

and now she's a dead terrorist.

She only gets to be that one thing.

I'm sorry for your loss.

The gun didn't find it's
way under that boy's pillow

until they put it there.

Why did you call me?

Something about you

tells me you want to
ask the right questions.

Carlos, do you have any idea
why there's a bunch of reporters

outside looking for us?

I had to come through the prisoner dock.

Yeah, I meant to call you about that.

Julian's been busy.

Thanks for the heads up.

The gun was a plant.

Batista's innocent.

I have to re-evaluate
my position.

We need to do the right thing here.

Carlos?

What is it?

There was a calling pattern
on Rebecca Barton's phone.

Same number kept cropping up.

Untraceable.

Check out the dates.

I took it back a year.

This was when we were looking
for a mole in the department.

And, more recently, when
Liber8 took Jim Martin.

Yeah.

Betty found his location pretty quickly.

I don't know what to do.

Yes you do.

The number jumped out at me.

You ran it last year.

Said it was a dead end.

I switched the SIM card in your phone

to make sure it matched.

Why were you in contact
with Rebecca Barton?

Carlos, please.

I...

Some tech genius you are.

You used the same secret
SIM card for a year.

Listen, Liber8 wanted
me on the hook and I...

Save it, Betty.

Carlos, I just need you
to give me this one...

Desk duty?

It stands until the case is closed.

Do you have any idea
what's going on in there?

Betty was caught in a big lie.

A life-changer.

Can you imagine that?

Lying to your brothers and
sisters in blue every day.

I didn't ask for any of it.

I'm going to ask you one question, ok?

Are you going to tell the truth?

Cantor admitted he was confused.

It was a tragic mistake.

He shot first, there
was no gun in the crowd.

This is one of Cantor's
friends planting the evidence.

They could have just recovered the gun,

but they wanted to corroborate
Cantor's version of events.

Nora and internal investigation
are going to be all over this.

They're gonna say I put
people up to cover for Cantor.

Did you?

Excuse me?

Ok, we have been asking
the wrong questions.

So concerned with this Liber8 hot bed

that we missed the traitor
in our own department?

Are we gonna compound that mistake now?

Just tell Cantor to come clean,
make the other statements go away.

So throw him to the wolves.

I think he wants to take
responsibility for what he did.

And then we get to let
an innocent man go free.

Ok.

I want a statement from the professor,

the pictures will go to Nora,

she'll be thrilled to get scalps.

Obviously none of this means anything

if Cantor doesn't admit fault.

What about Betty?

What's going on?

You'll be fitted with an ankle tracker

that you will wear at all times.

No one else has to see it,
including your co-workers.

All of your work will be supervised,

all of your communications
will be monitored.

But I'm not going to jail.

We're going to use you as bait.

Wait for Liber8 to contact you.

When you're here, you work as normal.

When you're home, you're
under house arrest.

For how long?

As long as it takes.

You know me, Carlos.

You know I would never...

You did.

And now she gets to be only that one thing.

Actually, I'd like to hear
what Mr. Sadler has to say.

I've reviewed 96 active projects,

52 in which are
military-focused.

I suppose you think that's too many.

Too many that haven't
been exploited properly.

Now, I propose that we
fast-track civilian versions

of 33 of these technologies
and provide law enforcement

with advanced prototypes for field testing

and eventually for sale.

Front line policing is the new military.

The advanced troops, so to speak.

And every police force around the globe

will need new solutions
for crime and civil unrest.

Piron is ready to grow
that market with technology

that we already own.

We increase our profits,
positively affect community values

and free up capital that we can use

to make people's lives better.

Now, should we discuss
the affected projects?

Dillon will make a powerful ally.

First time I've seen your father in you.

Is that a good thing?

Very.

Listen.

I need your help with the insurance claim

for the anti-matter lab.

They're denying payment
because of video evidence

of your experiment.

My experiment?

What's this?

Oh, well, you see, you're
actually part of an argument

I'm having with myself.

Cantor, Batista, Rebecca.

I mean, you certainly
talk the talk, detective,

but I haven't seen any walking.

You're lecturing me.

Some may see me as misguided,
revolutionary maybe,

but nobody can call me a hypocrite.

So go ahead, you keep
doing what you're doing,

but the next conversation that we have

is not gonna be so friendly.

I'm happy to see you here.

You are doing the right thing.

I was taught to believe
we all had a responsibility

to protect the system,

but I'm starting to think that's
the wrong way to look at it.

Each of us has our own
responsibility to the truth.

I changed my mind.

I'm not going to say anything.

They told me they'd probably
rule it "inconclusive".

I've got a family.

I'm sorry, Agent Cameron.

Jilani would like to thank you.

Me too.

You two were so brave.

I'm so proud of you!

Hey.

I hope you girls are grateful.

You just erased sixteen
quarters of sustained growth.

You know what?

You two can go and join
the others over there.

Your parents are gonna
be here really soon, ok?

Bye.

Directors up on
17-2 didn't make it.

They're calculating
sunk costs for education

and projected output.

It'll be added to your life debt.

Yes sir.

Now, muster up!

The suppression system was
deliberately compromised.

This was a Liber8 job.

Now they're worried about
heat damage to your CMRs,

so they're doing a diagnostic...

How about you, Cameron?

Ship shape, sir.

I disabled your tracking app.

It's what I would have done, too.

This is very Marty McFly right now.

What was it like?

Did you black out?

Did you see a light?

Did it hurt?

Wait, hold on.

I knew it.

Suck at nerds.

This is awkward.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Ok, so what do you want to talk about?

You first.

Fine.

What do you want?

What do I want?

Why are you here?

I don't think you'd understand.

Try me.

Emily.

No, really.

See? I told you.

You don't think I have the right to know?

I'm landlord of this time line.

You're a squatter.

Where's the device you used?

It's safe.

It's safe from who, from me?

You're really not gonna tell me anything.

You know, if this was Star
Trek, we'd fight right now.

Except it isn't.

How'd you get that?

Shaving.

You see?

You and me, we're the same.

I promise you, we're not.

Emily is a liar, and a crook.

I mean, you didn't travel
through time for that.

You're not half as smart
as you think you are.

Oh, that's real rich coming from you.

Real burn there, Alec.

Don't push me, Alec.

I've seen things that you wouldn't...

So I guess we're not gonna be pals then?

I don't see how.

Have it your way.

You scared me.

I know what you mean.

Hey, that's my shirt.

Do you mind?

Do I mind?

Hi.

Hi.

You.

I choose you.

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