“Minute to Win It” is episode three of season three of Continuum.
In the previous episode, “Minute Man”, Kellog had guessed that there was more than one Alec Sadler, and had it accidentally confirmed by Kiera. She also told him that Escher, who Kellog had Emily kill in “Minute by Minute”, was Alec’s father. Kellog used this information to blackmail Emily into working with him. Alec Two doesn’t yet know Escher was his father, even if Original Alec does. Carlos doesn’t appear to be taking the death of his Kiera very well; sure, Original Kiera may be essentially identical – they may even have shared most of the same experiences – but it still isn’t quite the same. Carlos’ friend Jim, after being elected mayor, wound up being threatened by Liber8, so he went to the police to make a deal. Foolishly, he also left police protection, got caught by Liber8 and was forced to give a speech admitting a bunch of things. It now looks like he’s killed himself.
Once again opening in the future, Kiera and some other Protectors are performing an assault when Kiera comes across someone who is apparently a Liber8 informant that they were looking for. However, his information is no longer needed, making him expendable. When Kiera doesn’t kill him as instructed, she is remotely overridden to kill him.
In this present Kiera is meeting with Catherine, the head of the Freelancers for this timeline (as she was in Kiera’s), as she was promised help with the murder of Kiera Two. Kiera suspects that Curtis may be involved, given that he was not her biggest fan.
Lucas, who was captured and locked up in “Second Guess” (in this timeline too, with a couple of changes), would appear to have recovered some of his sanity and is performing an elaborate escape plan involving cockroaches and a dog. It succeeds and Garza picks him up outside the facility where he was being held.
Men wearing suicide vests and wielding guns are robbing a bank. Interestingly, they would appear to being controlled by someone else. After successfully robbing the vault, but before leaving the bank, to thieves all commit suicide; the vests only kill them. This is not the first bank robbery of its type, and all the thieves were white collar thieves, not bank robbers. Some safety deposit box owners are making insurance claims for the robberies whilst others are claiming that nothing was stolen. Liber8 is behind the bank robberies; they are somehow getting dirty secrets belonging to corporations from the robberies. Lucas still doesn’t seem entirely himself. The people being overridden is rather like what happened to Kiera at the beginning.
Alec Two is at Piron with his mother, meeting with Escher’s assistant. At this point he finds out that Escher was actually his father. Alec is surprised, but his mother confirms it. Escher’s will leaves Alec a controlling interest in the company (in Kiera’s future, Piron and Sadtech are separate, not both owned by Alec Sadler). Alec Two also discovers that Emily is not called Emily and has a criminal record, which causes problems with Alec Two but Original Alec already knew that. It’s getting hard to know which Alec is being interacted with at any particular time. Emily gets a shock as a result.
It looks like there may be a new player in the mix as well.