Continuum Episode Guide

Kiera arrives with powerful technology and a clear understanding of who the criminals are. The opening season establishes her partnership with Carlos, her connection to Alec and the first uncomfortable signs that protecting the future may not mean doing the right thing.

Episode 1: A Stitch in Time

Kiera is transported from 2077 to 2012 alongside escaping members of Liber8. The opening combines an urgent pursuit with genuine disorientation, establishing a heroine whose impressive equipment cannot replace the life she has lost.

Episode 2: Fast Times

Kiera’s police cover collapses just as Liber8 explores a possible route home. Her professional mission and personal desperation pull in different directions, while Carlos needs considerably more reassurance than a mysterious stranger’s confidence.

Episode 3: Wasting Time

Unusual murders suggest that future medical knowledge is being put to disturbing use. Kellog also offers an alternative to outright hostility, introducing the useful distinction between someone being helpful and someone being trustworthy.

Episode 4: Matter of Time

A scientist’s death draws Kiera into an investigation involving potentially transformative energy research. The case gives her foreknowledge an uncomfortable edge: pursuing justice today could interfere with developments she expects tomorrow.

Episode 5: A Test of Time

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Liber8 targets Kiera’s ancestry, turning a familiar time-travel paradox into a very personal threat. The episode works because the people caught in the experiment are not theoretical possibilities; they have lives, vulnerabilities and no idea why strangers are hunting them.

Episode 6: Time’s Up

A kidnapped executive’s fate becomes the subject of an online vote. Liber8’s campaign moves into public persuasion, and the investigation exposes the ugly distance between encouraging political participation and inviting a crowd to endorse violence.

Episode 7: The Politics of Time

A murdered journalist leaves Carlos facing suspicion and questions about an old friendship. This more grounded investigation tests the partnership from the other direction: Kiera is no longer the only person withholding important information.

Episode 8: Playtime

Deaths connected to a gaming company lead Kiera towards technology that can interfere with her implanted systems. Her usual advantage becomes an alarming vulnerability, making control of her own actions more urgent than control of the investigation.

Episode 9: Family Time

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An inquiry into possible bomb-making materials brings Kiera and Carlos to Alec’s family farm. The confined setting turns simmering resentment into immediate danger, giving the season’s political arguments faces that cannot simply be filed under “suspect”.

Episode 10: Endtimes

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A threatened bombing brings Kiera’s investigation into collision with events she believes she understands. The finale gathers the season’s scattered clues into a much larger picture, making the original time jump look considerably less straightforward.

The pursuit becomes more complicated as Liber8 fractures, Alec confronts his future legacy and Kiera struggles to keep her personal mission separate from her police work. Knowing what happens next increasingly looks like a burden rather than an advantage.

Episode 1: Second Chances

The mayor’s assassination pulls Kiera back towards Carlos while Alec withdraws from their usual arrangement. The reopening case reveals how much she depends on relationships that cannot remain unchanged simply because she needs them.

Episode 2: Split Second

A prison transfer becomes a dangerous moving target as rival interests converge on Travis. The action is immediate, but the shifting loyalties explain why identifying the attackers does not necessarily reveal what they want.

Episode 3: Second Thoughts

Kiera recognises a new street drug from her own time as Liber8’s divisions fuel gang violence. Its connection to memory adds a personal temptation to an investigation already complicated by competing versions of the future.

Episode 4: Second Skin

A signal from familiar technology suggests another traveller may have reached the past. Kiera’s search becomes more than a race for equipment, raising the unsettling possibility that being stranded does not mean life simply waits for rescue.

Episode 5: Second Opinion

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An emotional crisis activates a psychiatric programme inside Kiera’s implanted technology. One of the series’ strongest character episodes, it makes supposedly protective systems frightening when their definition of recovery conflicts with the person they are meant to help.

Episode 6: Second Truths

Kiera recognises details of a serial-killer case from records she studied in the future. Her knowledge could save lives, but using it forces increasingly difficult conversations about how she knows things nobody has discovered yet.

Episode 7: Second Degree

Julian’s trial attracts outside interference while Alec faces conflicting obligations to his family and the truth. The courtroom setting gives the larger struggle a practical focus: controlling the outcome does not always require controlling the evidence.

Episode 8: Second Listen

Missing bodies deepen the mystery surrounding other time travellers, while Garza takes a dangerous interest in Alec. Instructions originating in the future become especially troubling when the people expected to obey them cannot question their source.

Episode 9: Seconds

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An attack on Julian forces Kiera to consider how far she will go to prevent his future actions. The episode puts her moral certainty under exceptional pressure: does knowing someone’s possible destiny justify treating them as already guilty?

Episode 10: Second Wave

An attack by the Freelancers leaves Kiera caught among people she has treated as enemies. Meanwhile, a technological attempt to track Travis carries its own risks. Being able to locate a threat is not the same as containing it.

Episode 11: Second Guess

Cyberattacks disrupt Vancouver, with evidence pointing towards technology associated with Alec. A strong escalation of the show’s technological anxieties, where an invention’s usefulness offers no guarantee that its creator controls who benefits from it.

Episode 12: Second Last

Travis acquires equipment capable of challenging Kiera’s advantages as the Freelancers close in elsewhere. Several storylines become immediate threats at once, leaving very little room for the characters to manage one crisis before confronting another.

Episode 13: Second Time

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Alec’s priorities collide with Kiera’s chance of returning home. The finale earns its time-travel complications through an emotional conflict: two people can care deeply about each other and still want changes that cannot comfortably coexist.

The consequences of changing history become impossible to contain. Familiar identities no longer guarantee familiar loyalties, corporate influence grows more visible, and Kiera must reconsider whether preserving her original future should remain the point of the mission.

Episode 1: Minute by Minute

Alec’s attempt to change the recent past forces Kiera into a dangerous arrangement with the Freelancers. The premiere establishes new complications without removing the original problem: everybody believes their preferred intervention is the necessary one.

Episode 2: Minute Man

Two versions of Alec create an immediate dilemma, while Carlos struggles with Kiera’s changed circumstances. The science-fiction puzzle becomes personal because shared memories no longer provide a simple way to establish whom somebody actually knows.

Episode 3: Minute to Win It

A series of bank robberies suggests that the apparent perpetrators are being controlled. The investigation turns questions of corporate power into something horribly literal, while Carlos’s new understanding of time travel complicates his work.

Episode 4: A Minute Changes Everything

An investigation into violence surrounding a student protest exposes possible police misconduct. Kiera must examine the behaviour of people wearing the right uniform, making this an important challenge to her inherited assumptions about legitimate authority.

Episode 5: 30 Minutes to Air

Liber8 takes hostages at a television station, trapping Dillon inside a highly public crisis. The broadcast setting makes perception part of the confrontation: what an audience sees can be as valuable as what the attackers seize.

Episode 6: Wasted Minute

Stolen chemicals raise fears of a large-scale attack as Kiera faces pressure over the two Alecs. The parallel problems make this an uncomfortable decision-making episode, with urgent action offering little time to examine supposedly reliable advice.

Episode 7: Waning Minutes

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A prisoner-transport crash in 2076 leaves Kiera outside the protection of familiar institutions. This substantial return to her original world gives the corporate future a human cost, making its injustices harder to dismiss as someone else’s interpretation.

Episode 8: So Do Our Minutes Hasten

Julian investigates corporate wrongdoing while Alec advances a potentially influential new device. Ambition, public credibility and commercial power intersect, showing how easily an attractive technological promise can overshadow questions about the organisation delivering it.

Episode 9: Minute of Silence

An amnesiac stranger knows Kiera’s name, while sophisticated thefts demand her attention. The quieter mystery offers a different kind of uncertainty: someone without a usable past may still have an important connection to her future.

Episode 10: Revolutions Per Minute

Kiera’s relationship with the Freelancers deteriorates as Alec makes increasingly consequential choices for his project. The tension comes from watching justifications accumulate, with each apparently practical compromise making the next boundary easier to cross.

Episode 11: 3 Minutes to Midnight

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New information about the mysterious stranger challenges what Kiera and Liber8 believe their actions can achieve. A particularly rewarding mythology episode, because its revelations change the argument rather than merely adding another name to the conspiracy.

Episode 12: The Dying Minutes

Kiera and her new ally target the Freelancers’ prison while Carlos challenges corporate influence within the police. The episode turns dissatisfaction into action, forcing characters to risk the arrangements that have previously offered them protection.

Episode 13: Last Minute

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Kiera assembles an unlikely coalition against a future that is taking shape around them. The finale pays off the season’s shifting allegiances, then demonstrates why even a carefully considered attempt to change history deserves a substantial warning label.

The final season narrows the focus to Kiera’s journey and the immediate struggle over the future. Its compressed length leaves less space for supporting mysteries, but brings the conflict between getting home and changing the world to the foreground.

Episode 1: Lost Hours

New arrivals from the future place Kiera’s relationship with Brad under intense pressure. The season begins with a practical test of trust: sharing a personal connection does not mean two people understand the same mission.

Episode 2: Rush Hour

Kellog exploits Alec’s vulnerability while Kiera attempts to negotiate through competing agendas. The episode makes relationships a source of leverage, with affection giving determined manipulators something more useful than a straightforward threat.

Episode 3: Power Hour

Alec joins the police effort as Kiera and Garza investigate the soldiers’ operation together. Their uneasy cooperation shows how far the series has travelled: former enemies can share an objective without suddenly sharing a history they are comfortable with.

Episode 4: Zero Hour

Alec confronts unsettling questions about his future family, while Kellog examines the intentions of his older self. This more reflective chapter gives the endgame additional weight by making legacy feel personal rather than abstract.

Episode 5: The Desperate Hours

The soldiers prepare a raid as Kiera and Carlos clash over her plans. Their disagreement gives the escalating action its emotional foundation, exposing the strain between supporting a friend and endorsing what that friend is prepared to risk.

Episode 6: Final Hour

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Kiera and Alec face a final confrontation over the time-travel technology and the future it could enable. The conclusion returns to the series’ central emotional question: can reaching a better tomorrow restore the particular life somebody wants back?