She trumpets a freedom that’s actually allowance. Her sympathies for order and collective sacrifice (even when a lack of volunteered participation dilutes the line between “sacrifice” and oppression) ring militant. But the times when she’s seemed most strange to us-as an artifact-are the points at which her moral compass twitches closest to her South. Kiera’s always seemed an agent of her world. Being conflicted is different than coming to realize you’ve been a sheep. These aren’t granules of salt but buckets being dumped onto Kiera’s wound. It’s arrogant and lazy, which indicts the public’s compliance even more than the governing entity’s corruption. But with a monopoly on power, the Corporate Congress would have made themselves impervious to truth: anyone seeking it could be crushed. How to prevent that? Layers of intimidation and obfuscation. Half a day’s investigative work dismantles the pretense of public interest. The public face of her world has turned out to be an incredibly fragile one. That future-Somantos stuck everyone with a dirty needle then happily sold them the cure is seismic. That these businesses in the present are “still competing” is a minor revelation to Kiera. They’re the ones who vaccinated the sick-who saved Kiera. The company excreting this weaponizable sludge, Somantos, is a future member of the Corporate Congress. Carlos gets to explain Bizarro World this week, but there’s no confusion over who the baddies are. (Which is a pat on the back to Harrison-his pages may not have been Saul Goodman-pumpernickel, but he crumpled them up and swallowed them whole.) Liber8’s lawyer, on the other hand, was a throwaway and Continuum did just that with him. He can’t actually think the police department is this stupid or his clients that invulnerable. This guy is all smarminess and insincerity. Matthew Harrison’s played it with nothing underneath. Somantos’s corporate lawyer Richardson has had quite the successful run with dick-ish deflection. This is how you play politics: with attack ads. Their lawyer shows off a truck-bed-sized chemical bomb to the media. In the present, Liber8 is concocting the poisonous cocktail with stolen bio-waste and toilet cleaner. The vaccine arrives just in time to interrupt her plea for lead euthanasia. Kiera’s one of them, her veins inky and bulbous. “Wasted Minute” warns us of the dangers to come with the cold open. She stuns him and hauls him back to the Freelancers. Our Alec may have lost Kiera’s trust, but he’d remained the show’s most sympathetic character, further dramatizing the tragedy of Kiera’s decision. He’s holding the other him at gunpoint, demanding Emily’s freedom from blackmail as Kiera bursts in. When she overhears the Alecs arguing about our Alec breaking into the Piron office, she bolts. But she does argue for her priority to keep him alive. Kiera doesn’t have you thinking his death is entirely unreasonable plan of action. To steal from young Sadler, “Scratch that loyalty and it’s subterfuge underneath.”Ĭatherine declares Alec A’s visa expired. She’s grasping at so many straws and watching them all tumble between her fingers. Not even Kellog’s yacht offers dubious sanctuary. Carlos has quarantined her to the colleague-zone. In “Wasted Minute,” she condemns one of them to Plexiglass hell. If season three of Continuum has done anything with Kiera, it’s chipped away at her ideas of loyalty.
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