“Endtime” is episode ten of season one of Continuum and the season finale.
So, in the previous episode, “Family Time”, things did not go well. Carlos and Kiera went out to the farm of, as it turned out, Alec’s stepfather, Roland, chasing up a large purchase of fertiliser. Roland hadn’t, as it turned out, purchased it – Julian and some friends had to build a bomb. In the ensuing mess Carlos got seriously shot, Roland was killed by the police who thought he was the one behind everything rather than a hostage, Kiera had to kill (with it looked like a fatal shoulder wound – bit inaccurate if it was) one of Julian’s friends who wanted to become a martyr and Julian got away to be contacted by Kagame. It also seemed like Cameron’s relationship with Kellog may have got a whole lot closer, due to him being about the only person she could properly relate to. In this time anyway. There were also references to someone called Theseus.
As always, the episode starts in the future with Travis and Curtis running out onto a balcony. They’re waiting for Garza to turn up so that they can get out of there, and they’re under attack. She arrives and they get out just in time as the building blows up – the attack seen in the first episode, “A Stitch in Time”, just as Kagame was being arrested by Kiera and the others. Kagame is taken into prison where an unseen person tells him to wait, and that their chance to change things will come.
In the present (past? Time travel can be confusing) it’s Kagame’s birthday and Valentine is giving him a gift. He gives her something in return (a key to a safe deposit box), saying it will answer her questions and to keep this between the two of them. Kiera wakes up on Kellog’s yacht. She uses the opportunity to break into Kellog’s safe and take something. What, isn’t shown, but it’s probably the piece of the time travel device he took from her place in “Time’s Up”. She leaves the yacht and gets a call from Carlos – who is back at work. The timeline seems a bit odd; Kiera appeared to have gone to the yacht immediately after the events in the previous episode, but Carlos is healed enough to get back to work. Some military grade explosives have gone missing. Alec is getting his systems back up and running and is about to tell Kiera about the message he found in “Playtime” when Travis takes down the cell network. Liber8 are planning something. Travis gets concerned about where Valentine is, and why Kagame isn’t telling him. This looks to be causing friction.
In the way into work, Kiera gets accosted by a man who seems a bit unstable, who claims that today is the day everything changes. The man, Jason (Ian Tracey, who plays a role in Sanctuary), says he recognises her – from the execution. He claims to be from the future too. He was monitoring the power couplings when the event happened in 2077, sending him back to 1992. He also says that there are freelance time travellers in the past as well. Alec is looking for Julian, but isn’t willing to share the information with the police, given what happened to Roland. Julian is actually meeting up with Liber8. Which causes problems for Alec when he finds Julian. Kiera goes with the man who accosted her, because he says he has built a working time machine. Well, working once the piece from the other time machine is used with it. Jason also says that only one person he knows could have developed it (guess who). He says that the time travel was an inside job.
At the police department, a representative of another agency, Gardener (played by Nicholas Lea, who played Alex Krycek in The X-Files), involved in the hunt for the missing explosives gets concerned about Kiera, as she works for an agency he’s never heard of. There is going to be a terrorist attack today, with the missing explosives, the first big one. Kiera wants to warn people.
It seems events are unfolding in the past the way they were known to have done in the future, but they’re being instigated by people from the future. This all suggests that someone sent everyone back in time deliberately. That someone may be older Alec. So, is everything unrolling the way it did before, or are things actually being changed?
Matters are getting a whole lot more complicated. Some questions are answered and they create whole new ones. One of which is left hanging at the end, presumably to be answered next season.