By Daniel
A couple of Terra Novians (Terra Novites? Terra Novigonians?) on a supply run are attacked and killed by some sort of new pterosaur that Terra Nova has never seen before. Even worse, the screechy creatures are preventing Jim and Elizabeth from having sex! The other thing preventing them from doing the Terra Nasty is the fact that just a couple of days after arriving, they seem to be practically running the place. How did Terra Nova survive without them?
Anyway, the colony figures out that all the eggshells they found when they were digging their geothermal well years ago hatched these pterosaurs, who are coming back in the millions to spawn. So it’s great that in this big plan to go back in time and recolonize the earth in a more planet-friendly way that it occurred to no scientist that a crapload of eggshells equals some sort of hatching ground. Jim goes out and captures a couple of the killer dinobirds (this happens off-screen) so Elizabeth can stare at 3D computer models to synthesize a pheromone so that the birdosaurs can be led away to a new breeding ground. She’s doing this old squeeze Malcolm, who requested Elizabeth’s presence there, which Jim decides is not because she’s an amazing doctor who graduated first in her class at Earth Medical School or whatever, but because he wants to get into her pants. So the doctors figure out the pheromone and Jim and Taylor take it out into the jungle successfully luring the dinobirds away. THIS ALSO HAPPENS OFF-SCREEN.
What does happen on-screen are the two stupid teenagers at home worrying more about their new crushes than Zoe, who gets left in the living room with a menacing dinobird, which is known to eat the faces off armed security forces but Josh defeats it by kicking it. Oh, and then Jim and Elizabeth have sex, which is what longtime Terra Nova fans have been waiting for.
There’s an odd lack of action in this episode.
Daniel is a writer in Newfoundland with a wife and a daughter. He wants to know why Terra Nova has touch-screen hologram computer defense systems, but what amounts to a gappy log fence surrounding the colony. Follow him on Twitter (@DanMacEachern) or email him at danieljdaniel@gmail.com.