Terra Nova Episode 1.07 Nightfall

Elisabeth and Josh are off to work. Jim is taking Zoe for a surprise. Maddy claims that she'll be doing homework, but when Reynolds arrives she leaves with him. Meanwhile, Malcolm discovers that the mystery object was designed to be opened only by one person, so Taylor orders him to lock it away.

Skye brings Hunter, who drank some unfermented root beverage last week and is still hungover, to the hospital. Elisabeth determines that Hunter has a 30-foot-long parasite growing inside him and needs immediate surgery.

Jim and Zoe enter "The Eye," an electronic library where all history can be experienced virtually. Zoe asks to see where she was born, then she wants to ride a roller coaster.

Outside Terra Nova, Reynolds takes Maddy to a meadow filled with flowers that live only one day. They share childhood stories, laughs, and an attempted first kiss. But they're interrupted by a huge white contrail shooting across the sky.

Taylor explains that it's a meteor. As it explodes into the atmosphere, the meteor creates an electromagnetic pulse that fries all of Terra Nova's electronic equipment and weaponry. Then when the meteor crashes, it causes a sonic wave that tears through the colony, leaving destruction and wounded in its wake.

Now they'll have to rely on chemical lighting and candles, Taylor says. He adds that the land mines on the perimeter are inactive, so there's nothing to keep the dinosaurs at bay. Without electricity, Elisabeth will have to extract Hunter's parasite by cutting him open, Jim and Zoe are trapped inside The Eye, and Maddy and Reynolds are forced to walk back to the colony, hoping to make it by nightfall.

Malcolm tells Taylor that if a chip which runs a fabricator can be repaired, they can quickly replace the damaged chips with new ones. Washington says that Boylan can fix this chip. But Boylan wants something in return; Taylor offers him a beat-down instead. Boylan says OK, but it'll take hours. Taylor wants the first chip to go the hospital; he also wants another line of defense.

Meanwhile, Jim discovers an access hatch that leads outside The Eye, Elisabeth is slowly pulling the parasite out of Hunter, and a Sixer tells Mira that the meteor's electromagnetic pulse left Terra Nova without electricity. This news gives Mira an idea.

Maddy and Reynolds realize that they won't make it back before nightfall, so Reynolds starts covering Maddy with a horrible smelling mud that will keep the dinosaurs away, and she returns the favor. But a nykoraptor suddenly appears, forcing Maddy and Reynolds to take refuge in a tree - apparently, the smell doesn't always work - and stay there until sunrise. There they manage that first kiss.

Elisabeth has to attend a wounded soldier, so she asks Skye to help extract the parasite. This is difficult for Skye, because Hunter is like a brother to her.

Although Jim discovers that the access hatch is too small for him to fit, Zoe can make it. But Zoe's afraid that the hatch contains spiders, so Jim improvises a "go-away, spider" song to calm her fears. Meanwhile, the Sixers run through the jungle, using torches to force a huge dinosaur directly into Terra Nova.

As Hunter tells Skye he wants to be more than her "brother," the parasite snaps in two and disappears back inside him. Elisabeth returns and sends Skye to Boylan's for a chip so she can perform an electronic surgery. Then Zoe makes it though the access hatch and opens the door manually, setting Jim free.

As the dinosaur bears down on Terra Nova, Jim and Taylor use crossbows to launch torches into a newly dug trench that erupts into a wall of flames, stopping the beast in its tracks. Taylor notices a spear stuck in the reptile's hide and realizes that the dinosaur attack is just a diversion so that the Sixers can sneak into the colony. Meanwhile, Boylan has created the replacement chip, which Skye races back to the hospital.

Taylor and Jim find a Sixer named Carter removing the mystery object from Malcolm's laboratory safe. When Carter shoots Taylor with an arrow, Jim disarms the intruder. But there's a second Sixer, who counterattacks, kicking off a fierce hand-to-hand battle that enables Carter to run away with the object. Jim gives chase. Taylor and the Sixer draw knives and square off.

Boylan watches Jim chase Carter across rooftops, then he finds Taylor battling the Sixer. Boylan kills the Sixer with the only bullet in his vintage revolver, but Carter escapes Jim and hands the object to Mira. Meanwhile, Elisabeth inserts the replacement chip, completes the surgery that kills the parasite, and saves Hunter.

The next morning, Maddy tells Reynolds that it's been a great first date. At Terra Nova, Taylor says he believes Mira knew where the object was hidden, and he orders Jim to determine who gave her this information.

Back at their home, Elisabeth suggests having Skye over for dinner. Josh doesn't want this. When Jim wonders where Maddy is, she strolls in, acting like nothing's happened. But what's that foul smell? Maddy blames the garbage incinerator and they believe her. She smiles.

That night outside Terra Nova, Mira and Carter deliver the object to a man named Lucas, who then apologizes for not thanking them, admitting that he's been alone in the jungle for too long. Mira warns Lucas to be careful, because Taylor knows he's getting close to an answer. Lucas says that Taylor will have to kill him to stop him and that'll be a choice between Taylor's own flesh and blood - Lucas is his son! - and Terra Nova.