A complication has appeared at the station in the form of Agent Gardiner (from an agency I didn’t catch the name of).
He's from CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service, pronounced "See-Sis") which is basically the Canadian version of the CIA and NSA combined. They are an intelligence agency that deals with our federal security issues both domestic and international.
I love that this show is not only filmed in Vancouver, thus allowing all my old favorite Canadian actors (it was practically an X-Files reunion last night, yay!) to have guest spots, but it is also actually set in Vancouver. Not since Forever Knight have I been this keen about the location of a show. It's awesome!
And this is where I have my first crackpot theory - Mr Esher is Kiera’s husband
I don't think it could be her husband, if only because the guy comes off as a very incompetent patsy to me. The mysterious Mr. Esher would have to be someone with influence and power. I have no idea who, mostly because we don't know enough about 2077 yet. We need more flashbacks... er, flash forwards. Heh.
Kagame pretty much tells her that she has to let him blow up the building if she wants her future preserved and she hesitates - it’s that mess with Melissa Le Roche from a few episodes back writ large. Her conscience and her desire to protect her future and her son warring with each other.
I'm not so sure it was her own future she was worried about, so much as the implication that future!Alec is the one pulling all the strings. Kagame, afterall, told her to ask Alec why he was doing it, implying it was basically under his orders. I think she was overcome by the shock, and possibly sudden doubt, of learning she is just a puzzle piece on someone else's chessboard. Especially if that 'someone' is the one person she felt she could trust in this time. Really, it's just all so convolutedly complicated. I don't always know what's going on, but I'm enjoying the ride!
Does she knows about Alec’s part in bringing them to 2012, or does she know just the bare bones of the plan - and what the heck were those little glass pebbley things in the safetybox?
I don't think anyone but Kagame even knows about Alec's presence in this time.. Well, the techie guy might have an idea since he lost the fight over Keira's CMR to him, but not one I think he'd understands the consequences of. And Kagame was very careful, conspicuously so, never to say either Alec's name or hint at his importance around the rest of Liber8 when they caught him.
Also, I thought they were diamonds? Like the money, to ensure he grows up with everything he could need? Maybe even to fund his future rebellion, who knows!
I think there’s still a piece of the puzzle missing. At the moment I’m speculating that it’s something along the lines of the future Alec getting a glimpse of a further future and seeing something pretty terrible. Something so terrible, it puts Kagame and him on the same side. I’m guessing the privateers/ freelancers and Mr Escher are involved in creating this terrible future.
I like this theory! Mostly because I've been having trouble all along matching up how the sweet, kind Alec of today could become the ruthless villain of the future. But that he's just manipulating events to oversee the better world he always envisioned? I can buy that.
Thoguh I'm not sure I get how the privateer/freelancers got back into the past in the first place, since Alec is one who invented the technology? And, if the flash forward between him and Kagame is any clue, only just in time to send Kagame (and Keira) back into the past in the first place. Thus fulfilling his own memories of events, idek.
He's from CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service, pronounced "See-Sis") which is basically the Canadian version of the CIA and NSA combined.
Thank you! it was bugging me :-)
I don't think it could be her husband, if only because the guy comes off as a very incompetent patsy to me.
Valid point! I was pretty much coming from the viewpoint of 'what character's betrayal would cause the most emotional angst for Kiera?
I'm not so sure it was her own future she was worried about, so much as the implication that future!Alec is the one pulling all the strings.
Hmm, interesting, I think you may be right. I think I was caught by Kagame's opening line (If you shoot me, you risk losing everything) and didn't give enough weight to what he said afterwards.
And Kagame was very careful, conspicuously so, never to say either Alec's name or hint at his importance around the rest of Liber8 when they caught him.
True, but Sonya wasn't there when they caught Alec, she was at the bank reading his letter of instructions - although it seemed to be a very short letter!
And of course the glass beady things were diamonds [Headsmack!] My mind was making up all sorts of scifi reasons for shiny glass beady things!
He's from CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service, pronounced "See-Sis") which is basically the Canadian version of the CIA and NSA combined. They are an intelligence agency that deals with our federal security issues both domestic and international.
I love that this show is not only filmed in Vancouver, thus allowing all my old favorite Canadian actors (it was practically an X-Files reunion last night, yay!) to have guest spots, but it is also actually set in Vancouver. Not since Forever Knight have I been this keen about the location of a show. It's awesome!
And this is where I have my first crackpot theory - Mr Esher is Kiera’s husband
I don't think it could be her husband, if only because the guy comes off as a very incompetent patsy to me. The mysterious Mr. Esher would have to be someone with influence and power. I have no idea who, mostly because we don't know enough about 2077 yet. We need more flashbacks... er, flash forwards. Heh.
Kagame pretty much tells her that she has to let him blow up the building if she wants her future preserved and she hesitates - it’s that mess with Melissa Le Roche from a few episodes back writ large. Her conscience and her desire to protect her future and her son warring with each other.
I'm not so sure it was her own future she was worried about, so much as the implication that future!Alec is the one pulling all the strings. Kagame, afterall, told her to ask Alec why he was doing it, implying it was basically under his orders. I think she was overcome by the shock, and possibly sudden doubt, of learning she is just a puzzle piece on someone else's chessboard. Especially if that 'someone' is the one person she felt she could trust in this time. Really, it's just all so convolutedly complicated. I don't always know what's going on, but I'm enjoying the ride!
Does she knows about Alec’s part in bringing them to 2012, or does she know just the bare bones of the plan - and what the heck were those little glass pebbley things in the safetybox?
I don't think anyone but Kagame even knows about Alec's presence in this time.. Well, the techie guy might have an idea since he lost the fight over Keira's CMR to him, but not one I think he'd understands the consequences of. And Kagame was very careful, conspicuously so, never to say either Alec's name or hint at his importance around the rest of Liber8 when they caught him.
Also, I thought they were diamonds? Like the money, to ensure he grows up with everything he could need? Maybe even to fund his future rebellion, who knows!
I think there’s still a piece of the puzzle missing. At the moment I’m speculating that it’s something along the lines of the future Alec getting a glimpse of a further future and seeing something pretty terrible. Something so terrible, it puts Kagame and him on the same side. I’m guessing the privateers/ freelancers and Mr Escher are involved in creating this terrible future.
I like this theory! Mostly because I've been having trouble all along matching up how the sweet, kind Alec of today could become the ruthless villain of the future. But that he's just manipulating events to oversee the better world he always envisioned? I can buy that.
Thoguh I'm not sure I get how the privateer/freelancers got back into the past in the first place, since Alec is one who invented the technology? And, if the flash forward between him and Kagame is any clue, only just in time to send Kagame (and Keira) back into the past in the first place. Thus fulfilling his own memories of events, idek.
Damnit, time travel is confusing! :P
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Thank you! it was bugging me :-)
I don't think it could be her husband, if only because the guy comes off as a very incompetent patsy to me.
Valid point! I was pretty much coming from the viewpoint of 'what character's betrayal would cause the most emotional angst for Kiera?
I'm not so sure it was her own future she was worried about, so much as the implication that future!Alec is the one pulling all the strings.
Hmm, interesting, I think you may be right. I think I was caught by Kagame's opening line (If you shoot me, you risk losing everything) and didn't give enough weight to what he said afterwards.
And Kagame was very careful, conspicuously so, never to say either Alec's name or hint at his importance around the rest of Liber8 when they caught him.
True, but Sonya wasn't there when they caught Alec, she was at the bank reading his letter of instructions - although it seemed to be a very short letter!
And of course the glass beady things were diamonds [Headsmack!] My mind was making up all sorts of scifi reasons for shiny glass beady things!
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