Watch Terra Nova - Instinct
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Watch Terra Nova
Airs: 10/03/11
FOX Broadcasting has teamed with Steven Spielberg Peter Chernin, Brannon Braga, René Echevarria and Aaron Kaplan to bring a new series, Terra Nova. In the year 2149, the planet Earth is a disaster, and most of the plant and animal life has become extinct. Scientists can't reverse the
damage, but have found a way to travel back to prehistoric times to save the human race.
Among the Tenth Pilgrimage of settlers in Terra Nova is the Shannon family. Jim Shannon, played by Jason O'Mara, is a loving father with secrets in his past. His wife, Elisabeth, is a trauma surgeon who has been recruited to join Terra Nova's medical team. Their three children join them on this journey: Josh is 17 and is not happy about leaving the life he knows. Maddy is 15 and is looking forward to a new life and a chance to make changes. Zoe is 5, and there is a secret involving her that could create problems for the Shannon family.
Commander Nathaniel Taylor warns the new arrivals of the dangers that surround them in Terra Nova. There are not only dinosaurs but other settlers who have left the colony to start their own. The outcast colony is led by Mira, who left because she disagreed with Taylor as a leader. The Shannons soon discover that not all of the danger exists outside the walls of Terra Nova. Some of the members of their group disagree on how to save mankind and some may even be trying to destroy the new world before it can get started.
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Watch Terra Nova - Instinct
In the first part of the two-part series premiere, the police raid the Shannon home and arrest the father, Jim Shannon. Shannon realizes he must take drastic measures to keep his family together after his wife, Elisabeth, is selected to travel back to prehistoric times to create a new civilization and, hopefully, help change the future.
It's the year 2149 and Earth is at the verge of environmental ruin. People wear special masks called rebreathers in order to survive outside, and families are required by law to only have two children. However, hope comes in the form of a fracture in reality. The crack is a portal to the distant past, and humanity has already begun sending people through the portal, to a new human colony called Terra Nova.
Jim Shannon arrives home with a precious gift, a real orange. He doesn't give an explanation of where the rare fruit came from, but he offers it to his kids. Son Josh starts peeling it for his younger sister, Zoe. Things take a turn for the worse when population control pays a visit. The family hides Zoe but she's found anyway. Jim takes blame for the violation and is sentenced to prison.
Two years after the incident, Jim's wife Elizabeth sneaks into the prison to deliver two pieces of good news. She has been recruited to Terra Nova, which means their family has a chance for a new beginning. The other piece of good news is a rebreather for Jim, and the device also contains a tiny laser, which Jim uses to escape.
Elizabeth, Josh, and his other sister Maddie are readying to go to Terra Nova on the Tenth Pilgrimage. Josh is leaving behind a girlfriend. Jim joins his family after strong-arming his way to the portal facility. He carries with him a backpack containing some precious cargo. He fights his way through the portal, attacking guards and rushing through the gate into the past.
The guards at Terra Nova surround Jim after noticing he brought a gun through the gate, and they're about to slash open his pack. Jim and Elizabeth panic and hurriedly open the backpack, with their daughter Zoe hiding inside. The Shannons join the rest of the colonists and are welcomed by Terra Nova's leader, Nathaniel Taylor.
After the speech, Jim and Elizabeth are brought to Taylor. Jim tries to take on all the blame, but Taylor's certain the man couldn't have done it alone. Taylor's aware that Jim escaped prison, but he doesn't care about the laws from another time. Taylor just wants people who are of use. Since Elizabeth was recruited, the colony needs her. Taylor assigns Jim to agricultural duty.
The Shannons are shown their new home, which is gigantic compared to the cramped apartment they shared in the future. Zoe is worried because there isn't a separate room for her, but Maddie agrees to share her room with her sister. Zoe is excited when she encounters dinosaurs for the first time, as a group of sauropods are busy chewing on the leaves right outside the fence near the Shannons' new home.
The kids are sent off to orientation and Maddie is excited to spot the probe that scientists sent into the past. She tells a disinterested Josh that the scientists were unable to find the beacon's signal, which indicated that the portal opened into an entirely separate timestream than the future they came from. Therefore Terra Nova can avoid influencing Earth's future.
Jim is assigned to do some weeding, which means hacking down a gnarled collection of vines from a section of fence. One of Elizabeth's patients suddenly turns on her, attacks her, and steals supplies and a gun from a guard. Jim's cop instincts kick in and he notices the man acting suspiciously. He captures him, impressing Taylor.
Josh blows off orientation and meets a girl named Skye, who offers to show him around. She and her friends take Josh outside the gates without permission. Skye and Josh end up near a waterfall, where she shows him some mysterious markings carved into the rocks. Skye says that Taylor doesn't want people to know that these exist.
Taylor takes Jim aside and explains that there is a splinter group of colonists who broke away from the main group. They're called Sixers because they all came to Terra Nova on the Sixth Pilgrimage. The Sixers brought weapons with them but their motives are unclear. The man whom Jim captured is a Sixer.
Sixer vehicles are spotted outside the perimeter of the colony. Apparently, they want their captured comrade back. Taylor and Jim race after them in their own vehicle, but things grow complicated when a few carnotauri begin hunting them. The chase ends with Sixer vehicles barreling through the gates of Terra Nova. A woman (Mira) climbs out of the vehicle, and notices a new face: Jim. She welcomes him to paradise.
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