“Lost Hours” is episode one of the fourth and final season of Continuum.
In the season three finale, “Last Minute”, everything seemed to be going fine. Alec Two had been killed in a fight with Original Alec and the latter was taking over Piron as him in order to dismantle it. Liber8 were moving into the former headquarters of the Freelancers. Kiera and Brad had planted a beacon belonging to the latter which would signal his terrible future, if it existed. If that future didn’t exist, nothing would happen. And nothing did.
Then, when Original Alec tried to get rid of Kellog from Piron, it didn’t work. Kellog knew which Alec it was but, worse, had been getting Alec Two to sign documents over the past few weeks that put Kellog in charge of the company (doesn’t Alec have enough shares to stop that?). So Alec was escorted out of the building.
After this, power went out across the city, soldiers from the future wearing some type of powered armour appeared on the site of Brad’s beacon and he told Kiera to run. The Traveller also spoke to Curtis – neither of whom had been heard from in the episode until that point – telling Curtis that it had begun.
This episode opens in the police station where Emily was taken into custody for attempting to kill Alec Two (which she didn’t directly, and that was never the intention). Original Alec is there to see her, and is dropping the charges (which were done by Alec Two). Next, Brad and Kiera plant the beacon again. Alec tells Carlos that he has been kicked out of Piron. Then the lights go out again and the soldiers appear once more.
The lights come back on, whilst the Traveller appears to be watching, and the soldiers are pursuing Brad and Kiera. Brad says he will slow them down because they won’t hurt him. Which they don’t, but one continues pursuing Kiera. Despite the fact that she is cloaked the soldier can still detect her and shoots, but fortunately her CPS uniform saves her. The technology levels seem somewhat similar, although the soldier’s equipment is far bulkier. And his gun is a bit more destructive – it’s a military weapon not a police sidearm. The soldier hits, but doesn’t kill, Kiera, who is knocked unconscious and apparently wakes up in a med bay in 2080. She’s supposedly been asleep for three years – unconscious since the event in the execution chamber at the very beginning, “A Stitch in Time”. So, has she been dreaming everything? The doctor says that her CMR creates a realistic virtual experience if brain trauma is detected.
Kiera is delighted to see her son – who doesn’t look a day older. Then Mr. Fairweather, the program that caused her so much trouble in “Second Opinion”. Then Older Alec. Then Original Alec and Carlos appear and Kiera wakes up. Yes, her CMR did go into simulation mode, but waking up in the future was the simulation.
Brad and the future soldiers are in a building, and those from the future want to know what he was with one of the targets, Cameron.
Kiera tells Alec that she has realised that she has completed her original mission, to prevent her future from happening. Now, it is time to concentrate on herself. Kiera wants to go back to her home and wants Alec to send her. Which could be difficult. Kiera didn’t know that Kellog had taken control of the company. Alec, with help from Jason, Emily and Lucas, is planning to take it back – for one thing, the only person who possesses the technology needed to send Kiera back to her future is Kellog. Alec goes to see Julian for help regarding Piron.
Curtis is meeting with Kellog and the latter doesn’t see how the former can help him. So Curtis tells him that his soldiers from the future, when Kellog is a warlord, are in the present/past now.
Dillon has apparently fully recovered from Sonya’s, failed, attempt to kill him in “The Dying Minutes”, but it’s said that he doesn’t want to return to the police.
Things have changed yet again; Kellog seems to be becoming the prime enemy now.