Fox says of “Bylaw”:
The colony falls victim to its first murder, and Jim and Taylor must find the perpetrator. Also, Skye helps Josh find a way to get Kira, his girlfriend from 2149, to the past, while Elisabeth and Zoe race to help an unborn Ankylosaurus survive.
Since the last episode of “Terra Nova” aired my old pal James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly interviewed showrunners René Echevarria and Brannon Braga. Excerpts:
EW: Will we see more of 2149?
RE: We don’t see a lot of 2149. We come to see the conspiracy with the Sixers is being orchestrated in 2149, and as we get toward the season finale we will go to 2149 and see that more explicitly. But most of our storytelling takes place in Terra Nova.
BB: When we do go there, it’s very cool.
EW: I hear you have a big cliffhanger planned for the finale?
RE: It’s kind of a cliffhanger. Everything is played out. All the elements come to a head, it’s a two-hour finale. The 11th Pilgrimage is scheduled to arrive — and who’s going to show up? The Sixer stuff gets answered and explained. We also tee up a new mystery, so in that sense it’s a cliffhanger.
RE: [Tonight’s show] is kind of a murder mystery. The week after [“Nightfall”] that is a big disaster movie. The next [“Proof”] is an intimate chamber piece that’s almost exclusively about Josh and Maddy–
BB: It’s a Hitchcockian thriller involving the kids.
RE: — And then next week [“Vs.”] is a big mythological show where Jim and Taylor go head-to-head.
EW: Clearly Taylor can communicate with the future. Is how that happens something we’re supposed to know, or is that deliberately being held back?
BB: When the portal is open, we can talk to the future. We can exchange data. So every four to six months we can talk. But in between we’re cut off.
So I guess we now know pilgrimages occur every four to six months. (Maybe the wormhole to the past works like Old Faithful?) Since the Shannons came through on the 10th pilgrammage, I gather Taylor first jumped through three to five years ago?
The series hit a big uptick in adults 18-49 before it was pre-empted by The World Series last week:
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Find all of Hibberd’s interview here.
8 p.m. Monday. Fox.
