By Daniel
Maddy geeks out over a famous scientist returning to Terra Nova after having been out in the field for several months, and manages to finagle an internship with the guy who turns out to be not what he seems. And not in the usual "idol turns out to be some douchebag" but he's literally not who he claims to be, and Maddy figures it out, almost getting herself and Maddy killed in the process. Fortunately, the guy impersonating the scientist is really stupid and is foiled easily (although he's stupid to the point that I find it ridiculous he was able to impersonate a great scientist in the first place).
Meanwhile, Taylor and Jim are buddies who go on fishing trips now (just wait until Elisabeth opens Jim's tackle box and finds the note she left for him undisturbed) and out in the wild they run into Curran, the soldier-killing soldier who has been banished. Jim heads back to Terra Nova while Taylor stays around to help save the guy from a vicious dinosaur, and then orders Curran to infiltrate the Sixers' camp, with a promise to let him return to Terra Nova later.
And then there's Josh. Poor, stupid Josh. When he made the deal with Mira, he never thought he'd have to do something disagreeable for the return favor. But here he is, being asked to steal some medicine from the infirmary to help the Sixers battle a disease. He tries to get out of it -- and Skye urges him not to do it -- but in the end he breaks in and delivers the medicine. A lament from his mother about how the stolen medicine is needed to help people not die gets to him -- did it only just occur to him that that's what medicine does? -- and he returns a vial of the stuff to help tide the infirmary over until more can come through in the pilgrimage. His parents are upset, and Boylan's in trouble too. I'm starting to get the sense that the Shannons risked having Zoe because Josh is such a waste of space that they figured no one would begrudge them having another child.
Daniel is a writer in Newfoundland with a wife and a daughter. If he had one bullet in a gun while watching Terra Nova, he knows exactly what he would do. Follow him on Twitter (@DanMacEachern) or email him at danieljdaniel@gmail.com.