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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Terra Nova: Occupation/Resistance (Season 1 - Episode 11) - Season 1 Finale


Centers on the Shannons, an ordinary family from 2149 when the planet is dying who are transported back 85 million years to prehistoric Earth where they join Terra Nova, a colony of humans with a second chance to build a civilization.



Occupation
In part one of the two-part season finale, as the 11th pilgrimage begins arriving, a suicide bomber appears and sets off an explosion, killing Kara and seriously injuring Jim Shannon. Three days later, Jim awakens, only to learn that mercenaries called the Phoenix Group have captured Terra Nova. Cut off from Taylor and outnumbered, Lt. Washington surrendered the colony. Harsh martial law is imposed, while Taylor and his forces remain isolated in the jungle. Malcolm, who has been conscripted into service, is forced to repair the time portal. Weaver, Lucas Taylor's superior who arrived from 2149, orders the mercenaries to start stripping the new world's resources using pyrosonic bombs that will decimate half the continent and its wildlife. Shannon locates the test bomb and Taylor has Reilly disarm it, enraging Lucas. Meanwhile, Jim, Washington, and other colonists have been coordinating with Taylor in waging guerilla warfare against the Phoenix Group. Josh, working at Boylan's bar to gather intelligence, physically attacks Lucas after witnessing Lucas' unwanted amorous attention towards Skye. As Josh is restrained and beaten, Jim arrives on the scene to protect his son. Josh is freed due to Skye's influence but Lucas tortures Jim for information. Elisabeth intervenes, and forces Weaver into securing Jim's release. The Shannons escape Terra Nova with Lt. Washington's help, but she is captured and executed by Lucas. Meanwhile, Mira was sent to the badlands to retrieve an unknown item.

Resistance
In the second half of the two-part season finale, Commander Taylor and Jim Shannon continue disrupting the Phoenix Group's operations, but the damaged terminus has finally been repaired. The first shipment of new world resources is readied for transport to 2149. Jim relays Washington's final message to Taylor about Cù Lao Chàm, an island they once fought on: the bridge to 2149 must be destroyed from inside Hope Plaza to halt further enemy invasion into Terra Nova. Meanwhile, Skye, who deceived Lucas into believing she has joined his side, accompanies him on the Phoenix convoy, then tricks him into an ambush. Lucas escapes, but is shot by Skye as he is about to kill Taylor. Lucas, however, apparently survives and disappears. Taylor has the captured shipping container swapped with one concealing Jim, the bomb, and a drugged carnotaurus. Taylor's soldiers, disguised as the mercenaries, deliver it to the terminus. Once the container is inside Hope Plaza, Jim sets the awakened raging carnotaurus loose; it kills Weaver and his associates. Jim detonates the bomb, destroying the facility, barely making it safely back to Terra Nova. Cut off from 2149, the Phoenix Group and the Sixers evacuate Terra Nova and head for the badlands. The mysterious cargo Mira discovered there is revealed to be an 18th century ship's prow and figurehead, with no clues as to how it arrived in Terra Nova or what else is in the badlands.

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