Bethany Joy Lenz | Colony

• Genre: Drama, Science fiction, Dystopia
• Created by: Carlton Cuse. Ryan J. Condal
• Starring: Josh Holloway, Sarah Wayne Callies, Peter Jacobson, Amanda Righetti, Tory Kittles, Alex Neustaedter,Isabella Crovetti, Jacob Buster, Ally Walker
• Composer: Clinton Shorter
• No. of seasons: 3
• No. of episodes: 36
• Executive producers: Wes Tooke, Josh Holloway, Nelson McCormick, Juan José Campanella, Ryan J. Condal, Carlton Cuse
• Production locations: Los Angeles, California, Vancouver, British Columbia (season 3)
• Cinematography: Checco Varese, Jeffery Jur
• Editors: Rick Shane, Russell Denove, Sarah Boyd
• Christopher Nelson
• Running time: 50 minutes
• Production companies: Carlton Cuse Productions (2016), Cuse Productions (2017), Genre Arts (2018), Universal Cable Productions, Legendary Television
• Network: USA Network
• Release: January 14, 2016 – July 25, 2018

The series begins less than a year after the arrival of aliens who occupy Earth. It follows the Bowmans and their extended family in Los Angeles. Their son, Charlie, was on a school sports trip and was separated from them when alien walls sectioned off part of the city. The father, Will Bowman, is a former FBI agent and retired Army Ranger who reluctantly joins the Redhats (humans collaborating with the aliens) and is tasked with tracking down members of the Resistance, after being threatened that he and his family would be sent to "the Factory" if he did not comply. Unbeknownst to Will, his wife, Katie, is an operative in the Resistance. She later reveals this, and they begin to trade information. Their son, Bram, discovers a way under the wall, and later joins a rival resistance group.

"Company Man"

Broussard and his cell immobilize a drone long enough to attach a camera. They discover that the wall houses a hangar for thousands of drones and record sounds that could be their communications. Will returns to Homeland where he is collected in the lobby and taken to his new boss, Dan Bennett, chief of special police, who is suspicious of Will's activities. He is given a new partner, Burke, who frames Broussard for a Red Hand attack to turn the public against him. Will searches for Jennifer who seems to have disappeared. Bram becomes a double agent, reporting to Snyder only what Maya wants him to know, which leads to the deaths of innocents. Katie throws Lindsey out of her home for disciplining Charlie, then visits Maddie for help, taking the opportunity to steal a file from Nolan's computer.

"Fallout"

Katie and Will realize the file containing information about Bram can only be accessed from an Authority computer. Will pressures Betsy for help which results in her reassignment. Morgan turns to Katie for assistance when Butch falls ill during Broussard's absence. Will coerces Dr. Weisman to examine the man, who exhibits signs of terminal radiation sickness from exposure to the gauntlet, the alien artefact of unknown significance captured by the resistance. Eckhart slips out of the bunker and sees missing-persons posters for his mother. Nolan and Maddie visit the labor camp, where Nolan demands to see a shipment going off-planet: person-sized pods. Bram is brought baked goods by a well-meaning but clueless Maddie, and later sees the cell making a suitcase bomb.

"Free Radicals"

Frankie seduces young men and recruits them for Red Hand suicide missions. Will and Burke capture her cell, but Burke executes the others and tortures Frankie to gain information; when Will intervenes, she commits suicide. Katie asks Broussard to access the file and the technologists find it contains census data which shows a trend of collapsing populations, with LA vacant in 830 days. This coincides with a countdown discovered in the drone communications. Bram should be released in six months. Maya has sex with Bram before asking him to steal Snyder's keycard and inform Snyder of an escape attempt. They use this as a diversion to reach the secure cargo, where pods are holding humans in stasis. They open one pod, killing the occupant to make room for the bomb. Jenkins finds them and overpowers Bram but is killed by another cell member. The ship lifts off and explodes during ascent, creating an explosion visible across the colony. Bram learns afterwards that Maya was on the ship to manually detonate the bomb.

"Good Intentions"

There is a manhunt for Emmet Halstead, spotted escaping the raid on the Red Hand. Will let him go, so Broussard and Katie race to find him first, but he panics and is swept into custody. Emmet does not mention Will but identifies the leader of the Red Hand as Frankie's mother, Karen, who Will encountered earlier. That night, the Red Hand attack the Bowman home in revenge, killing Lindsey, though the family survives. Broussard decides to give the gauntlet to Hennessey, against the wishes of his team. Eckhart tells Morgan of an offer for their safety if they hand over the gauntlet and Broussard. However, Morgan betrays Eckhart, who is executed by Broussard. Snyder races to destroy evidence that could link the explosion to his facility. He makes Bram name the other three members of the cell, though Bram recants as they undergo execution. Snyder does this in hopes of saving the facility but, in the end, the entire facility is leveled by airstrike with only Snyder and Bram escaping. Snyder reunites Bram with his family.

"Tamam Shud"

Two Resistance members parachute into the bloc. One dies on landing with an encrypted radio, which Will sabotages. Katie and Broussard go to contact Hennessey but find him dead, his home burgled for the gauntlet. Burke investigates Katie and links her to Broussard. The Bowman children are held at the safehouse apartment and Will is apprehended and threatened. He offers to deliver the pilot, drawing her out to a public meet. Broussard and Katie attack the safehouse and recover the children. When Burke realizes he has no leverage on Will, he tries to abort the operation, but Will stabs him with a bottle and runs. The pilot, who spotted the trap, comes to Will's rescue and they escape together. Broussard takes the family to his bunker then meets with the pilot, Noa, who came for the gauntlet.

"The Garden of Beasts"

Katie asks Maddie to flee the sector with her. Maddie rejects this and blames Katie for her and Nolan's problems, which soon include an interrogation by the Global Authority Intelligence Directorate. While Noa goes to contact the Red Hand for the gauntlet, the others look for a way through the wall. Broussard threatens a gateway shift supervisor who is only aware of one exemption to inspections: the Blackjacks, men-in-black who work for the Global Authority. To get a vehicle, they give themselves up as bait and wait for Maddie to sell them out. They succeed in getting a vehicle, but it is laser-targeted for a drone strike and they barely escape. Within the vehicle, Broussard saw a pod with Will's biometrics and feels they should lie low. Bram sneaks out and contacts the Red Hand, meeting Karen. Snyder asks Bennett to inform for him.

"Seppuku"

Broussard tries to negotiate, but Karen will not deal with those who work with collaborators. They attack the Red Hand's base to wipe out the dangerous fanatics and recover the gauntlet, but Noa is killed and the others do not know how to find her cell. Broussard deploys the tracker from the gauntlet, calling drones which exterminate the Red Hand fighters but ominously leave him alive. Nolan disavows Maddie, who is arrested. Snyder intervenes for leverage on Nolan, who in turn provides evidence against the ambitious LA proxy. Nolan is sent to the Factory and Goldwyn puts her house in order, with Snyder convinced that the moderates will calm the bloc in the absence of the Red Hand and Greatest Day extremists. However, Goldwyn receives a call from the Global Authority: LA has been scheduled for total rendition.

"Ronin"

Orders are given to evacuate the LA bloc to San Fernando, ostensibly as part of the Intelligence Directorate's search for the gauntlet. Snyder learns it is a cover for total rendition: the entire population is being sent to the Factory. Blackjacks follow Will and Katie to Broussard's bunker which is overwhelmed, but the agents try to take Will and Broussard alive and are themselves killed. With no way to get the gauntlet out, Will suggests trading it to Snyder for safe passage. Snyder instead asks to go with them, unsure he can live as a collaborator. They waylay Snyder's security detail but, at the gateway, the shift sergeant is suspicious and is about to search the gauntlet container. Will reveals himself and a standoff ensues, Will telling them the truth about the evacuation, which is confirmed by Snyder. They are let through and see ships descend; Snyder quietly activates an electronic device. Broussard remains in the bloc. Maddie is turned away at the Greatest Day temple she founded and taken to an evacuation center, her fate unclear.