9. Seconds

Complete story — includes the ending

Alec's mother is gunned down by a bullet meant for Julian, while Dillon's new Liber8 task force is tested when Kiera must decide how far she'll go to prevent Julian's future as "Theseus," the spiritual father of Liber8. Kiera insists that Theseus's future terrorist attacks will kill tens of thousands, and by 2077 his name is used to scare children at night. Carlos and Betty begin to question Dillon's technique when it comes to handling Liber8, and Kiera finds herself torn over what action to take when she is left alone with just Julian and her gun for company. In 2035, years before Kiera was born, the world has fallen into social chaos. Major corporations prop up remaining government structures to maintain control. The corporations institute a form of debtors' prisons, in which people who cannot afford to pay their debts to the corporations are officially stripped of their citizenships and implanted with mind-control chips, permanently making them brain-dead zombies who serve as worker-drones in corporate factories. Julian/Theseus's followers stage coordinated attacks on such factories all across North America, while Theseus himself leads an attack on the factory at New Pemberton. Before blowing up the facility, Julian orders his men to shut off the mind-control chips in the thousands of zombie factory workers, killing all of them. His rationale is that the corporations already functionally killed them, and their deaths will strike a blow against the corporations which will ultimately save millions.