During their time in captivity, Josh forgives his father for flying off the handle all those years ago and getting himself put in prison, before Lucas arrives to free Josh at Skye’s request. Jim’s punishment is far from over however, as Lucas pulls a taser to aid in getting information about his father. Meanwhile, Elizabeth treats Weaver’s increasingly itchy bug bites, only to inform him him that she’s actually injected him with a small amount of parasite larvae, and won’t provide the antidote until he helps free Jim. Meanwhile under torture from Lucas, Jim refuses to break, and learns that Lucas hates his father for an incident back in Somailia where Taylor was forced by rebel invaders to choose the life of his son rather than his wife, something Lucas believes his father always blamed him for. The revelation is short-lived, as Weaver arrives with a ruse to smuggle Jim out of captivity.
When the man helps Jim and Elizabeth pack to her house, she provides the antidote, only to reveal that he was never infected with parasites, and the “antidote” was in fact a sedative. The entire family of Shannons attempt to sneak out of Terra Nova as the alarms sound, and Wash elects to stay behind to aid in their escape. A large explosion across the camp covers their escape as Wash eventually finds herself caught by the guards and brought before Lucas, who shoots her dead in front of everyone when she refuses to give up Taylor’s location or the Shannons.
The next day while the rebels in the jungle mourn Wash, Mira returns to Terra Nova from her mission in the badlands wanting to see her daughter, but Weaver and Lucas seem far more interested in whatever off-screen artifact she managed to bring back with her. Back in the jungle, Taylor mourns the loss of Wash as young Zoe Shannon comforts him, offering hugs whenever he might need. Meanwhile, Jim accidentally breaks up a makeout session between his daughter and Mark Reynolds on his way to deliver Wash’s last message to Taylor. Wash’s last message was to remind her Commander about a past mission where they succeded by cutting off enemy access in spite of themselves, meaning Taylor and Jim should destroy 2149’s access to Terra Nova even if it means stranding themselves in the past.
The next morning Lucas and Weaver share a drink to celebrate their victory in mining meteoric ore, as Skye arrives to inform her pseudo-brother that she’s come along to his way of thinking on Taylor. They then take a rover out toward the newly restored portal, only for Skye to reveal she knows how to find Taylor, stopping Lucas cold. He radios that he will return to the colony and send someone else to deliver his cargo, but Taylors forces then capture Lucas, as part of Skye’s ruse. They swap out Lucas’ truck with one of their own, containing Jim. The decoy truck with Jim inside arrives, and get pushed through the gate to 2149 as Lucas manages to escape his bonds and incapacitate Skye. Malcolm then sabotages the gate, as in 2149 Weaver attempts to show his employers what they’ve brought back from the past, only for a giant dinosaur to emerge from the crate and eat most of the bad guys!
Jim works to set the pyro-sonic charge in 2149 with guards shooting and a dinosaur stomping around him, while back in the past Taylor catches his own son and lays the smackdown for his attempt to destroy the colony. They come to a tender emotional resolution about the loss of their wife and mother, only for Lucas to stab his father in the side mid-hug! He prepares for the killing blow, until Skye manages to put him down with a few well-placed gunshot wounds. In 2149 Jim just manages to escape both fire and being eaten to make it back through the portal to Terra Nova, as Taylor and Skye realize that Lucas’ bullet-ridden body has vanished.
Jim reunites with her family as Mira learns from the Phoenix group soldiers that the portal to 2149 has closed forever, cutting her off from her daughter, and the good guys triumphantly return to Terra Nova. There, they learn that the soldiers have disappeared up north, and wonder why as they unveil the relic that Mira retrieved from the badlands: the prow of a ship from the 18th century. Taylor and the Shannons agree to keep the mysterious object under wraps for now, as the family observes a nearby meteor shower and peace returns to Terra Nova.
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