This is a recap of the ninth episode of Terra Nova, entitled Vs. Spoilers ahead if you have not seen it!
Taylor is convinced Boylan is the Sixer spy he’s been looking for. He must be interrogating him in a futuristic sweat lodge cause Boylan is perspiring like a champ. Much to his disappointment, Boylan continues to deny his involvement with the Sixers and maintains his only dealings with them was to trade medical supplies. Obviously, Taylor’s angry “I want the truth!” declarations aren’t making any headway. Guess it only works when it’s Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men.
While hallucinating from the heat and lack of hydration, Boylan lets some information slip to Jim, which leads him to an unidentified skeleton with one arm, buried underneath the tree where Taylor first lived before Terra Nova was built. Liz’s autopsy reveals that the skeleton isn’t anyone from any of the pilgrimages. It dawns on Jim during the Harvest Festival play (where Zoe adorably plays Taylor, complete with a fake beard) that the one armed skeleton was Taylor’s commanding officer who came from 2149 to relieve him of command.
Here is where the story gets weird for me. Taylor is the good guy! His son, Lucas has been tasked by the big wigs in the future to find a way to use the temporal gate not only to come to Terra Nova but to return to the future as well. They plan to strip Terra Nova of its natural resources to take back with them. Based on this scenario, it would seem logical that Mira and her Sixers are helping Lucas.
Taylor truly believes that Terra Nova is a chance for humanity to start over. He believes in it so thoroughly, that he killed his commanding officer and banished his beloved son from the colony. However noble this is, it still doesn’t change the fact that Taylor is a crazy fanatic who’s obsessed about the colony and his guardianship of it.
Meanwhile, it’s discovered the Sixer spy is not a person but a huge prehistoric dragonfly that is controlled by sonic vibrations. Maybe finally Taylor can put the witchhunt to rest now. He’s got Harvest Festival to celebrate!
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