By Daniel | Season 1 | Episode 1 & 2 | Aired on 2011.09.26
Outside the gates, Skye and Josh are slicing more fruit using some sort of spiny skin or appendage or whatever to a dinosaur that "mostly hunts at night," which naturally means it's coming for them very soon, and when they get back to their transport, they find it's been stripped of power cells by the Sixers who just left Terra Nova. Fortunately, the Sixers' own transport is still there, but it's now occupied by a badly wounded Sixer who only lets them hide from the menacing slasher when he recognizes Skye and/or would like to sleep with her. Josh acts like a big baby the entire time and freezes up every time something freaks him out, which is every time something happens.
And back at Terra Nova, the kids sneaking out has been spotted on the extra-special holograph security cameras that people check only after several HOURS, apparently, and Elizabeth blames this on Jim, who is going to run on out to get his son back before dark. Taylor's security chief, Guzman, has a daughter with the group as well, and Elizabeth persuades her way into the rescue excursion by pointing out they'll need a medic. Instead of saying, "How about we don't take BOTH parents in a family," Taylor just brings everyone along.
The rescue party makes radio contact with the kids, who are fending off the gathering crowd of slashers with their rifles, but Tasha (Guzman's daughter) gets freaked out and insists on making a run for it back to camp. When no one else agrees, she grabs a gun and heads out into the dark woods on her own, and gets attacked by a slasher. The rescue party finds her, so Elizabeth tends to Tasha while the rescue party uses her info to pinpoint where the rest of the kids are -- not that there's not enough time for Jim and Elizabeth to decide that Josh is exactly like his old man: a rule-breaking ass-hound.
Back in Terra Nova, Maddie's love interest shows up at the door to make sure they're OK, and Maddie pretends Zoe is scared so he'll stick around and look all hunky for her.
Meanwhile, the kids -- as we learn that Skye's parents died of some sort of fever -- have decided to take one of the power cells and sprint back to their own vehicle with it. That choice becomes a little less under their control when a slasher rips open the Sixer vehicle and starts chewing on (the ironically named) Hunter. The kids gamely try to fight off the slashers, but they're moments away from being dinosaur chow when the rescue convoy shows up to send the slashers scattering. Hey, how long does Jim have to be on security detail before he gets a helmet and a vest and the other badass equipment that everyone else gets? At any rate, he's firing these rifles like he had marksmanship classes on them. Security gathers up the kids -- Max has been injured -- while they go to find the Sixer left behind, only to discover that Mira has managed to spirit him away in all the confusion. Really? All the slashers and the Terra Nova crew there? Mira's some kind of Cretaceous ninja.
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