Continuum - 'Minute by Minute' and 'Minute Man'

Fancy meeting you here.

Season 3 of Continuum begins where 2 left off; with all of the time travelers in Freelancer cube prison apart from Alec Sadler, who has jumped back a matter of days to save Emily from the Freelancers. In short order Kiera is offered a deal; by taking himself out of the equation, Alec has basically turned the timeline she is in - dubbed the 'Red' timeline - into a doomed multiversal cul-de-sac. To restore any semblance of order, she needs to cross into the over-Sadlered 'Green' timeline and clean up the mess.

Oops.

What follows is a pretty patchwork of paradox, as Alec's attempts to save Emily's life lead first to Escher being assassinated and then to his discovery of 'Green' Kiera's corpse in his lab. This leads straight into episode 2, 'Minute Man'.

Red Alec and Red Kiera - who is not unreasonably pissed at Alec - show Green Kiera's corpse to Carlos, then start to work on fixing the royally fucked timeline. It's only after that that they learn of Escher's death, and that Kellogg planned it. Kiera uses her knowledge of Escher's identity to keep Kellogg away from Alec, but Kellogg then uses that information to hook Emily into working for him. Meanwhile Liber8 are going after the Mayor to make themselves more likable and considering how to go after Kiera without the supersuit that Alec got rid of until Garza - who was released from the Freelancer cube farm by Red Keira - shows up and tells them it's all more complicated than they think.

And that's kind of the theme of this season, to judge by the opening episodes: 'It's all more complicated than you think.' From Liber8's new touchy-feely approach and Kiera's continuing slide towards monomaniacal bitch, I wouldn't be entirely shocked to see her played as the villain for at least some of this season, and the same is true of Red Alec.

As yet, the question of how the Freelancers have dead members of Liber8 in custody has not been touched on. Maybe next week.