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Terra Nova Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2011 - 2011
Episode 1
Genesis: Part 1
Mon, Sep 26, 201160 mins
In the dawn of the Twentieth-Second Century, Earth is depleted with the environment completely destroyed. The cop and family man Jim Shannon is happily married with Dr. Elisabeth Shannon, and they have the teenage son Josh; the teenage daughter Maddy; and the three-year-old daughter Zoe. However, the law only allows two children per family and when the police officers find Zoe, Jim hits the commander of the operation and is arrested. He is sentenced to six years in the prison, but two years later, Elisabeth visits him and says that she was invited to go to Terra Nova, a settlement 85 million years in the prehistoric Earth. The problem is that he is in prison and Zoe is not allowed to go. Elisabeth plots a scheme and Jim flees and is transported with his family to the past. On the arrival, they meet the leader, Cmdr. Nathaniel Taylor, who gives an opportunity to Jim to stay in Terra Nova.
Episode 2
Genesis: Part 2
Mon, Sep 26, 201145 mins
Jim saves the life of Cmdr.Taylor from a Sixters' member attempt and is assigned by Tayler to work with him in his security force. He also explains to Jim who the Sixters are. They have a confrontation with the Sixters and Taylor negotiates with their leader, Mira, the release of their prisoner Carter. Meanwhile, Josh, Skye, Max, Hunter and Tasha are trapped in a Sixers' armored car under siege of Slashers.
Episode 3
Instinct
Mon, Oct 3, 201143 mins
When Terra Nova comes under attack from a legion of Pterosaurs, Jim and Taylor must find a way to save the colony before it's completely overtaken. Elisabeth discovers a former flame is also living in Terra Nova and may have been responsible for her recruitment. Syke tries to make Josh feel at home and Reynolds get protective of Maddy.
Episode 4
What Remains
Mon, Oct 10, 201145 mins
When Elisabeth, Jim, Malcolm and Taylor investigate radio silence at a nearby scientific outpost, they discover an outbreak of a mysterious virus causing memory loss, paranoia and eventually death. The group must work together to find a cure before they lose their sanity and all of Terra Nova is infected.
Episode 5
The Runaway
Mon, Oct 17, 201145 mins
Commander Taylor immediately grants sanctuary to little runaway Sixer girl Leah Marcos. He's even prepared to fight off a return claim, but Miera gives in suspiciously easily when Leah chooses to stay in Terra Nova. Jim lets her stay in the Shannon home, at least until a permanent foster family is selected. Jim can stop Leah just before she could flee the camp with a mysterious item she dug up from Mira's former home. Taylor mistrusts her story she had to fake having ran away because her kid brother is kept hostage, but Jim sets out to the Sixers side. He's captured and released with assurances the boy was never in real danger and a vague claim the Sixers serve the real, secret present-world purpose of Terra Nova, after an invitation to change side. To Josh's mild amusement, Maddy fails her medical training apprenticeship, being unable to stand disgusting symptoms.
Episode 6
Bylaw
Mon, Oct 31, 201145 mins
Jim discovers that the raptor-killing of soldier Foster, from Mark's unit and their illegal gambling organizer, was arranged as murder. Howard Milner confesses, but Jim soon realizes there's more to the case. Commander Taylor proves ruthless in punishment. Meanwhile bar owner Tom Boylan's price for helping Josh's girlfriend Kira on the next space-trip goes up. Skye helps Josh on the errand to Mira, who makes him promise a marker 'no questions asked'.
Episode 7
Nightfall
Mon, Nov 7, 201145 mins
A crashing meteor wipes out all technology and wreaks havoc on the colony. Meanwhile, Maddy and Reynolds are stuck out in the wilderness, Elisabeth and Skye work together to save a life and Taylor tries to prevent Mira and the "Sixers" from invading Terra Nova. Also, a mystery man makes his presence known.
Episode 8
Proof
Mon, Nov 14, 201145 mins
Josh grudgingly admits to Boylan he must honor Mira's marker-calling when asked to steal a drug from mother's hospital. Skye's skepticism makes him demand proof first that Kara can be contacted, which he gets. Boylan promises to wipe good-for-nothing Willy's debt if he takes the blame, but Jim soon sees trough that ploy. Taylor meanwhile finds banished Curran, saves him form a Komodo-dino and promises leniency if he brings a message to the Sixers camp. Famous scientific explorer Ken Horton visits the colony, on a mission for Dr. Malcolm Wallace, but fan Maddy soon gets him too to doubt Ken's identity.
Episode 9
Vs.
Mon, Nov 21, 201143 mins
It's the colony's founding day. Josh asks dad Jim to check up on Boylan, whom commander Taylor grills mercilessly about the Sixers' mole, then uses a truth serum overdose. Thus Jim hears about a secret buried under the pilgrims tree, which Malcolm knows to be Taylor's alleged first home as colony founder. There Jim finds a corpse, which misses an arm, just like missing general Philbrick. Meanwhile a smashed giant dragonfly is found to be chip-bugged by the Sixers. Malcolm repairs it to trace their mole's communication line. When it enters the Shannon home, Jim is arrested as suspect of being Mira's mole, but he's soon released after hearing Taylor's story about his own son Lucas's part in the ignoble true motives for founding the colony.
Episode 10
Now You See Me
Mon, Nov 28, 201145 mins
Taylor and Mira square-off in the jungle where he learns more about her plans and about his son. But then they both face a pre-historic enemy they must conquer together. Meanwhile, the "Sixer" mole scrambles to cover its tracks as Terra Nova goes on lockdown and Jim closes in. Also, Zoe faces a difficult decision as the Ankylosaur she has been caring for grows rapidly.
Episode 11
Within
Mon, Dec 12, 201144 mins
Assuming her no serious suspect, Josh promises to cover for Skye during Jim's questioning in the search for the Sixers mole, but seeing father suspects so comes clean. After another near-disaster, Jim makes Taylor consider it looks like she tried to minimize the damage. By the time they arrest her and learn her motive is her sick mother being held medical hostage, Skye has also met Taylor's son Lucas, helped him do supercomputer-calculations and learned about the Sixers' employers somehow sinister plans now two-way communication with the future is possible. Curran redeems himself.
Episode 12
Occupation
Mon, Dec 19, 201145 mins
As feared, the 11th Pilgrimage actually amounts to an overpowering invasion by Lucas, a private 'Phoenix' army and Mira's band. Jim is captured, but can play confused by a concussion. Malcolm is blackmailed to collaborate, but procrastinates. Only when Josh, who resumed his waiter job to spy on Lucas, gets abused, Jim breaks his cover. Lucas now also discovers how he communicates with Taylor, who is on the run in the forest. The Phoenix militia commander prepares to wipe clear the dinosaurs-infested valley with mega-bombs.
Episode 13
Resistance
Mon, Dec 19, 201145 mins
The Phoenix team overwhelm the Terra Nova campsite while Taylor's remaining men hide in the forest. For mysterious reasons, the next step is clearing out the southern desert with mega-bombs. Lucas ultimately finds, traps and fights father Taylor, who is amazed the grudge goes deeper and weirder then he feared since he let his wife die to save Lucas's life. Jim decides the only hope for a lasting defense in shutting off the time portal.