Recaps

It's New Years Eve 1921, in a busy speakeasy in Los Angeles. Suddenly a fire breaks out -- commotion all around. People struggle to get to the exits, as we...

Land in the present. Late night at the Connor house where John searches the internet for more information on the three-dots. He tells Sarah that he's found hundreds of companies with three-dots in the logo but none of them sound like they'd bring the end of the world. "Keep looking," she tells him.

"Tomorrow." John's headed to sleep. Sarah hands off the laundry to Cameron: "You never sleep."

Somewhere on a college campus, Cameron buzzes at a door. A wheelchair-bound grad student greets her -- she's brought him doughnuts. "You never forget." As she enters, it's clear these two know each other well.

In the library, the grad student, Eric, questions Cameron about the most recent in her life like a friend who's familiar with her "normal" world. He asks about her trip to Mexico, John's girlfriend, the Connor house robbery. Clearly, he's attracted to her. Cameron notices he's not eating his doughnuts and asks if he has any books on artillery. After all she's a computer, an ever-growing database of information.

While Eric gets the book for her, Cameron glances at the old photos on the mantle. One catches her eye -- an old black and white of a man on a street, looking upwards. She knows him. "Not unless you're about, oh, a hundred and ten years old." He tells her the photo's from the famous New Years Eve speakeasy fire in 1921, as she imagines:

1921. Outside the speakeasy, firefighters douse the building with water. Bodies accumulated on the street, a woman cries on the curb, and the man from the photo paces through the smoke and ash methodically and glances up. He is a machine. In 1921. "I need to know what happened to him," Cameron insists.

John's awoken by his ringing cell phone. It's Riley. "John can you come get me?" she pleads desperately. He seems annoyed, but reluctantly agrees to go pick her up.

Back at the campus library Eric shows Cameron slides of periodicals from the time of the fire. We learn that Eric is in the wheelchair after suffering from bone cancer, but he's now in remission. Still, he's cold. On a slide they find a surprising photo of the Terminator, Myron Stark, with silent film star Rudolph Valentino outside the premiere of his film, The Sheik! We flash to:

The Sheik premiere -- the red carpet. Stark (the Terminator) compliments Valentino on his film. Back in the library, Cameron points out that Stark is actually looking at someone other than Valentino in the photo -- Rupert Chandler, the caption tells us.

Cameron wants to search the city and county records for more information on Stark, but Eric warns her that they are in the basement and it's locked up (she can't be allowed in right now). She heads down there anyways...

John enters a house party looking for Riley. He stumbles into the kitchen where he meets the home's host, Mike, a jerk from John's old high school. Riley shows up and is surprisingly alright and ready to party. But John is annoyed, after all she sounded like she was in trouble. Reluctantly, he agrees to stay.

An annoyed Eric finds Cameron in the basement going through the records. He's angry that he let's her in after hours whenever she wants and now she's broken his trust. He really needs this job but she insists that she really needs the information from the files. As he stumbles to return everything to its place, he falls out of his wheelchair. Eric rejects Cameron's offer of help.

Back upstairs, Cameron apologizes to Eric, insisting that she's sorry because they're friends and she doesn't have a lot of friends. Cameron couldn't have found any record of Myron Stark from before the fire. Eric suggests that maybe he was an immigrant pursuing the American dream. Either that or he robbed banks.... as Cameron imagines:

1921. Myron Stark exits a bank, Tommy gun in hand, firing away...

Cameron wants to see police records: yes, he did rob banks. It was an effective strategy. Days after the heist, Stark bought land all around Los Angeles and built houses. Stark took on Rupert Chandler, one of Los Angeles's big construction moguls of the time, in business and came out ahead. Eric tells Cameron that Fred Jeffers, Chandler's main man, went missing back in 1925 and was never found.

Eric is surprised to stumble upon a gun in Cameron's stuff. He tells her that he's seen cuts on her face before. "Sometimes I get into fights." He wonders why they're going to all this trouble -- why Myron Stark is so important? "He was doing something and I need to find out what it was." To distract him, Cameron shows Eric a little fun and teaches him to fire the gun in the library.

Riley plays video games with Mike and some others at the party. She hands it off to John who is clearly not invested in it. John decides to leave -- "this was a mistake" -- and Riley tells him she's coming with him. But when Mike claims Riley stole his lighter, he starts pushing on her, inciting a fight. John takes him down, punching his face in before she pulls him off and they leave.

Cameron and Eric watch a news report from 1985 -- a witness found the long-missing car of Fred Jeffers off a cliff on Mulholland Drive. Cameron imagines Stark confronting Jeffers in his car, throwing him over the edge...

Eric reads that Jeffers's death was the start of a bad time for Rupert Chandler, that continued with the death of his only son that New Years Eve in the fire... as Cameron imagines:

1921. Again, the street outside the speakeasy, post-fire. Chandler's boy, indeed, dead on the sidewalk. There must be a connection.

John drives Riley to a secluded spot on Mulholland and parks the car. John confronts Riley about her hot and cold behavior (pretending to be in trouble, flirting with Mike, etc), and she responds that she was just trying to get his attention like any teenage girl. He questions her why she even likes him, the loner weirdo... In their heart to heart, John reveals a lot about himself and his family -- that Sarah was in a mental institution, that she was once engaged and that his wife died when he helped tried to help them. John doesn't think he should be around people, it's dangerous...

At the library, Cameron interrupts Eric in the bathroom. She believes Stark killed Rupert Chandler's son.

Cameron carries Eric up the stairs and into the film vault to check out a documentary with an interview with a flapper who was at the speakeasy during the fire. Watching Ruby Demarco's interview, Cameron quickly realizes the speakeasy fire was actually an accident...

...electricity from a time bubble! Stark's time bubble! As he grabs clothes, Stark exits again into the ashy street and looks up.

Cameron exits the library and looks up at the sky. She's figured out what he was looking at -- the placement of the stars as it relates to the date. Stark was calculating what year he had wrongly traveled to! "Myron Stark was in the wrong place at the wrong time."

Back in the library, Cameron reads Chandler's kid's eulogy, where he talks of his dream to build Pico Tower. With his death, he plans on planting a memorial garden and leaving the property undeveloped. "That can't be right," Eric insists, "there is a Pico Tower in downtown LA." Someone built it anyways. Cameron imagines:

Stark offering Chandler money for the Pico Tower property on the red carpet of The Sheik premiere. "That land's not for sale." But Myron Stark bought it anyways. And designed the Tower. "It's about the building." Eric figures out that Stark disappeared two weeks before the property opened.

Cameron wonders what's happened at Pico Tower since it opened. Anything important on any New Years Eve? "Not that I can see," Eric responds. He tells her they had to close and retrofit after the last earthquake. He's not sure when they're reopening.

Cameron breaks into the Pico Tower which she discovers is reopening on New Years Eve 2010 with an event with the Governor! She checks out the place, imagining the grand reopening and the assassination of the Governor!

Cameron checks the walls and discovers STARK! Powered down with his Tommy Gun, Cameron accidentally awakens him, fighting him throughout the building and down the elevator shaft before pulling the chord so that the elevator demolishes him...

Back in the library, Eric discovers that Cameron has returned with bruises. She announces that she's come back to tell him that his cancer is back. He didn't eat his doughnuts, he's lost weight, and he had trouble pulling the trigger on the gun. She's actually been examining him throughout the night. Eric erupts at her. "No wonder you don't have any friends."

"You have no idea what it's like to have something inside of you that's damaged," he tells her. But she does and replies that "it's like a bomb waiting to go off..." Eric sends her away.

Night has given way to morning as John slips back in to the house, hoping to remain undetected. Cameron approaches, laundry in hand and questions him: "Where were you all night?" She wipes lipstick off his collar and knows immediately that he was with Riley. But he doesn't know about her secret night out...

The next night. Cameron buzzes the library door but Eric doesn't answer. It's a female grad student. "Is Eric here? He works the night shift. He lets me in." But the female grad student doesn't know who Eric is. Cameron offers her doughnuts, and as the female grad student let's her in, we know a new possible adventure awaits Cameron...

After all, she's a machine. She never sleeps.

James Ellison is digging up a grave -- Cromartie's grave. As he brushes the dirt off the machine's face, his eyes open... it's all been a dream. Or has it?

He hears the exact same digging noise coming from his backyard. Upon investigation, he finds Cameron! "Go back to bed," she exclaims. Clearly, she didn't believe him.

Downtown Los Angeles. Sarah and Derek leave the truck with the valet out front a nice restaurant. In the same building, they sneak into the offices of DAKARA SYSTEMS -- a tech company who's logo is the three-dot symbol. They grab the hard drives out of the company's computers and bring them home to...

John. But there isn't much on the hard drives. He does uncover that Dakara Systems has a design for an AI, but lacks the appropriate server to run it.

Derek believes Sarah's chasing shadows, but Sarah insists that there's something to the three-dots. Were the three bloody fingerprints on the wall the same symbol she's been dreaming about or just that -- bloody fingerprints on a wall? Derek reiterates that Dakara's design isn't The Turk. Sarah's barking up the wrong tree...

Meanwhile, Cameron returns home with the news that Cromartie's body isn't buried in Ellison's yard.

In the morning, Sarah wakes to find John slaving away at the computer. He's been up all night looking at Dakara's hard drives and found that the company is looking for startup money. Investors. And he's put together a cover story and pulled research for her. John recognizes that it's a small program right now, but "so was Cyberdyne once." And Andy Goode's Turk.

Jesse hops out of the shower to find her surveillance photos of the Connors spread out on her bed. And a pissed off Derek. "You've got thirty seconds. Go." Jesse tells him that she was sent back to find him. Derek's angry she lied to him, but she's equally as angry that he didn't tell her that he was living with them: Sarah, John, Cameron.

Jesse reveals that she's come back to stop Cameron -- in the future John's making questionable decisions and getting people killed. Cameron has taken over; he only listens to her. "Imagine if he spends the next twenty years with her." Jesse has come back to save John Connor.

Police have taken over ZeiraCorp. Ellison talks to the Lead Detective and learns that there's been a death in the building. The heat wave blew a transformer over the weekend and someone got trapped in the elevator and overheated to death. But who?

"His name is Dr. Boyd Sherman," Weaver reveals. She informs Ellison that Sherman's been consulting on the project in the basement: Babylon. She's open and honest with him, explaining that Babylon is an artificial intelligence. Over the weekend the AI borrowed power for itself from the ZeiraCorp building, effectively shutting down the rest of the place and trapping Sherman in the basement lab. Weaver's AI has access to the building's power in order to help it grow... but what were it's intentions? That is what they must find out.

Dressed up and undercover, Sarah and Cameron meet Alex Agagi and his son, Xander, at Dakara Systems. Alex explains that Xander is the mastermind behind the technology -- dubbed "Emma." The Air Force is interested in this technology.

While Cameron and Xander talk, Alex tells Sarah that he'd do anything for his son. "Tell me what you need," Sarah asks. But they need more than Sarah has.

John goes to visit Riley at her foster home where he meets her foster parents. Upstairs in her room, John tries to open up to her about his life, his destiny. "Back in Mexico, I promised to explain everything. The truth." But John goes on, "But the truth is, there's nothing I can explain. Nothing I can say." Riley is understanding, but John freaks out and leaves anyways...

Back at the Connor house, Sarah and Cameron go through the evidence: an AI, the three dots, an the United States Air Force. It must add up to something. But Cameron insists that it isn't the Turk -- Xander doesn't play Chess, he prefers the game Go. Sarah knows this could still be a piece of the puzzle like Barbara Chamberlin's street lights program, but Cameron reminds her that Dakara has no money so they'll miss the Air Force's deadline. "They'll find the money, everything they need," Sarah knows. Because Judgement Day happens.

Riley browses shirts at a clothing store. Then, from behind her: "Cute top. You wanted to talk?" It's Jesse.

Jesse pulls Riley into one of the store's dressing rooms. There's a clear familiarity between these two, frequent touching, almost sisterly. Riley informs Jesse that John almost opened up to her today but then... nothing. John left. Jesse encourages her to get closer to him, to be his rock. "I don't think I can do this anymore," Riley confesses to Jesse. Jesse recognizes that Riley may have developed real feelings for John now but reminds her there's no way out, nowhere to go. "You can do this. You have to do this."

John and Derek unload the truck. Derek tells John even he has been seeing the three dots everywhere now. Because it's easy to think you're seeing things if you are looking for them. John defends Sarah, but Derek isn't talk about her.

Derek knows how crazy their whole purpose to stop Skynet can make them. He wants to make sure John's head is in the game. That he's seeing clearly, that he remembers. "I remember. I always remember," John insists. Does he?

Sarah joins Alex for coffee and talk about parenting, music, and Dakara. He brings up the chess tournament that the Air Force sponsored -- Andy Goode's chess tournament. The winning team -- the Japanese -- developed a tiny microchip and now want to license it to Dakara. But he needs a deposit. Half a million dollars. "It's the future," says Alex.

Murch shows Ellison around the basement workroom that holds the Babylon AI -- otherwise known as the Turk. Ellison quickly learns that the AI broke the rules when taking power away from the building, a first. He asks about the computer's feelings for Dr. Sherman, but Murch doesn't think it's even possible that the AI knew it was killing Sherman when it stole the building's power.

Cameron doesn't think they have enough money to buy the Japanese chip for Dakara. "What would be enough?" Sarah wonders. Everything. The Connors' entire stash of diamonds and cash.

Sarah and Cameron join Alex, Xander, and the Japanese representative, Minamoto, for dinner and the big exchange. Sarah pays him out in cash and receives the chip.

Riley comes home to find her foster siblings arguing. When they try to get her involved, she flips. Riley blows up at them all, screaming that "it's all gonna burn and you're gonna be nothing but bleached skulls." It's a heavy moment. Riley then shoves her Foster Mom across the room before running off...

With his father, Sarah and Cameron in tow, Xander tests the Japanese chip and quickly learns that it's useless. Cameron confirms that the chip is an older design that is disguised to appear more advanced. They've all been had.

Alex tells Sarah that he'll make it right. He'll pay her back. But Sarah says she'll talk to Minamoto. She doesn't care that he's a Yakuza gangster. She's not afraid. Sarah gets a text message that her targets been acquired and exits...

Ellison reports to Weaver that Murch couldn't guess as to the AI's intent. "Why did you ask him?" she retorts. "Ask the Babylon AI. Ask John Henry." The AI's name, compliments of Dr. Sherman himself.

And so they do. Murch explains that John Henry communicates through images and binary code but has voice recognition. It's able to identify Ellison and Sherman and recognize what happened to Sherman -- as the computer sees it, Sherman went offline.

Weaver and Ellison learn that John Henry attempted to call the paramedics for help, but not until after Sherman's death. John Henry doesn't not understand death or feelings. "You taught it procedures, you taught it rules, but it's got no ethics, no morals," Ellison recognizes. "Someone killed the man and it wasn't John Henry."

Before he leaves Weaver asks him what he would teach it? "You want to teach it commands? Start with the first ten."

Sarah, Derek, and Cameron force their way into a crappy apartment and interrupt Minamoto's poker game. Sarah kicks him to the ground at gunpoint and demands answers. Shades of crazy reminiscent of her stint in the nut house, Sarah gets Minamoto to admit that he isn't real -- he's just an actor hired by Alex.

Sarah expresses that they all need to deeper. Everything adds up. "Listen to yourself," Derek says. "Whatever you've needed it to be, that's what it is." He knows she's been played. But she's not done yet.

Sarah surprises Alex at Dakara Systems. She attacks him, beating him half to death, tossing him across the room, threatening him for answers. Alex admits that he's a con artist, but his son doesn't know. "The three-dots?" she asks. "It's just a logo, you crazy bitch," he screams before Sarah hits him again and drags him out of the room.

Sarah holds a bloody Alex in front of Xander (held by Cameron) and threatens him to admit the truth. He does and Sarah gets her money back before leaving...

Jesse returns to her room at the hotel to find Derek waiting. "John Connor's my nephew," he admits to her, knowing very well that very few other people know that. Derek's very clear -- he plans to stop Skynet. He wants to know everything and tells her that now is her time to come clean about everything. But she doesn't. She doesn't mention Riley.

Exhausted, Sarah returns home to John.

Then, Riley shows up at the Connor house. "I reject your rejection," she announces charmingly. And as they head off, she recomposes herself, and we see a hint of the truth and pain in her eyes...

Sarah faces off with the bathroom mirror. Upon close inspection, blood on her face. In the shape of three dots. It isn't over, not by a long shot. Sarah smashes the mirror in anger, closer to crazy than we've seen her since Pescadero...

Weaver's been thinking about what Ellison said. He's right about John Henry. As she brings him down to the basement, Weaver tells Ellison the tale of John Henry, one he's familiar with. "John Henry defeated the machine, but he couldn't stop progress." She brings him down to the basement workroom...

...to meet the new and improved John Henry: Cromartie! Or rather, his body.

With the look of horror and history in James Ellison's eyes, John Henry casts a glance up at him.

"Hello, Mr. Ellison. My name is John Henry. How are you today?"

We're back in the Mexican desert, at Cromartie's grave to be specific. Sarah looks in. Cameron waters three cacti which grow rapidly. What? As the cacti turn to metal and wrap around John, Sarah WAKES UP.

In the car. On the way back from Mexico. She's going to be sick. Outside the car, Sarah throws up. Before getting back in the car, Sarah sees a baby turtle on it's back -- she flips it over and it sets it out of the road.

Back in bed at the Connor house, Sarah's worse for the wear. Sarah tells John they have to go back to Mexico to retrieve Cromartie's body and burn it, but he knows she's in no shape to go anywhere.

Derek gets an emergency call from Jesse: "I need to see you. Now. Bring a gun." He goes to meet her at a shipping container facility. There, Jesse tells him about a man she spotted at the mall this morning -- Charles Fischer -- but Derek doesn't know who he is. "You know him. Charles Fischer, sent back from the future and he works for the machines." Jesse has him bound up. She plans to kill him.

Cameron and John drive back to Mexico together to retrieve Cromartie's body. She tells John that she is "feeling what it's like to get away from it all," but he insists that she doesn't have feelings. "I'm not sure you understand how we work." She goes on to tell him that she has sensation and that she can feel... but is this just more of her leading him on? Pulling him away from Riley?

Jesse tells Derek about Fischer. She explains that in the future, he is a Grey -- human traitors that work for Skynet and teach the machines to act more human. But the man bound up denies that he is Fischer and has no clue what she's talking about. He claims to be Paul Stewart, but Derek isn't sure what to believe...

Derek checks the man's ID. His license confirms his name is Paul Stewart and he tells them he works on watches. "What are you doing here, Fischer?" Jesse asks before she slaps him. She wants to know why Skynet sent him back but the man continues to deny that he is Fischer. Derek interrogates him as he pleads for his life.

Outside the shipping container, Derek talks with Jesse. He doesn't remember anyone called Fischer, but Jesse reminds him that Fischer was the worst of the Greys, the one they never caught. "You really don't remember?" Derek thinks that if this man really is who Jesse says he is, they better find out why Skynet sent him back. He wants to hear the man admit everything. Jesse has a plan to prove it.

Sarah's eyes open in bed to a strange sound on babies crying on a baby monitor. She follows the noise through the house, leading her into a room -- full of baby cradles. Clearly she's dreaming. Each cradle is full of three turtles (setup in the same shape as the cacti in her dream earlier). Sarah turns around to find Cameron nursing a turtle. Cameron hands the baby turtle off to Cromartie, a manifestation of Sarah's worst nightmare...

...as Sarah wakes with her gun drawn, alarms blaring, facing off with her own reflection. Sarah contemplates the set of three's -- the cacti, the turtles, drawing the triangular design on paper. What does it mean? What does it represent?

Cameron and John dig up Cromartie's body, but only find his boot. With his chip destroyed, someone came and beat them to Cromartie. "There's only one other person who knew about this," John confirms.

Derek frees the bound-up man's hands and offers him a burger. He takes time to interrogate the man without Jesse. While sitting with him, Derek spots a tattoo on the man's arm -- a clock with no hands. "So what'd they get you for? It's prison ink." The man denies that he ever went to jail, but Derek doesn't believe him. He knows the tattoo means 'till the end of time -- life sentence. Derek ties the prisoner's hands back up.

John and Cameron drive back from Mexico. Derek checks in with Cameron and sends her a picture of the man tied up; she doesn't recognize him.

Sarah stops by to visit Dr. Sherman, the therapist from the bloody list on the wall. He remembers her, but reminds her that she came to him a month ago for help and he hasn't heard from her since. She tells him she has an emergency, but he suggests she make an appointment. Sarah bombards him with the news of her nightmares and sleep walking. "Where are you walking to?" He invites her in to talk...

John and Cameron stake out Ellison's house. In the car, Cameron asks John about the turtle and why Sarah flipped it over in Mexico. "She was helping it." But why? John explains to her that when people see something or someone that's in pain or trouble, you try and help them. "Empathy?" Cameron asks. She knows that not everyone would turn the turtle over... but she also explains to John that it wasn't a threat and they (the machines) weren't built to be cruel.

As Ellison arrives home, Cameron and John break in. She pins him against the sofa, asking about Cromartie's body. Ellison is as surprised as they are -- "What could I possibly want it for?" Cameron believes he's lying. She throws him around the house, but he continues to deny that he knows anything. John tells Cameron to let him go, but when she does she flips him over like the turtle. Before he leaves, John finds the polaroid of his mother, younger, made famous by Kyle Reese. He takes it with him...

Jesse returns to the shipping container with another person, bag in a head. "I brought proof." It's a Charles Fischer, present-day and younger, with a matching mole! Jesse binds him up too. Young Charlie Fischer tells Jesse that he doesn't know why he's there, he's just a technician. But the other man still denies that he is Charles Fischer from the future...

Jesse and Derek reconvene outside the container. Derek reiterates that they need to find out what he's doing here. They can't just kill him. Quite a long way from the guy that shot and killed Andy Goode without hesitation... perhaps his time here is getting to him? Jesse agrees that he's been sent by Skynet for a reason. She encourages Derek to beat him down until he talks. But Derek's got another idea; he grabs a pair of pliers and begins plucking off the finger nails of the younger Charlie Fischer, one-by-one...

..."Stop it, stop it, stop it. My name is Charles Fischer." Jesse was right. Derek inquires as to why he's here. Charles Fischer tells him he wasn't sent back on a mission. This is his reward from Skynet -- when the bombs dropped he was locked up in prison and survived. After Judgement Day he was given a choice -- teach them everything he learned inside prison or be killed. "What'd you learn?" "I learned what makes people tick."

Dr. Sherman asks Sarah what she was doing in Mexico. She claims it was a family vacation, but he clearly knows something traumatic happened since last she saw them. He believes that dreams tend to mirror the central conflict in reality and correctly deduces that the central conflict in her life is her relationship with John. He needs her to be honest --- honest about the three dots in her life. Sherman believes that the three dots in her dreams represent her, John, and Cameron...

Older Charles Fischer and younger Charlie Fischer speak privately. It's an odd meeting where the younger Charlie Fischer encourages him to tell them everything he knows.

Jesse still believes Charles Fischer is playing with them, making them believe that he's weak. She insists they need to kill him. "What did he do, what did he do to you?" Jesse explains that prisoners were taken to a place where he tortured them in front of an audience of machines -- teaching them how to get to them. "How long did it go on?" Weeks, months, she insists. We see Fischer torturing Jesse, breaking her down, all in front of this audience of machines.

"How'd you get out?" Derek asks her. "I don't know. You never told me." AH! Turns out it wasn't actually Jesse Fischer used as the example, but Derek.

Derek beats up Fischer. "You remember, you remember now." Fischer mocks him. But Derek doesn't remember, Jesse does and that's good enough for him. As Derek sets to kill Young Fischer to stop any of it from happening, Jesse takes out the older one instead.

John returns home to find Sarah resting on the couch. She asks him if he recognizes the three-dot symbol, but it doesn't mean anything to him. She explains that she keeps seeing it in her dreams. John tells her that Cromartie's body is gone and that Ellison doesn't have it. "Cromartie was in my dreams. It's connected, it's all connected," Sarah insists. Sarah feels guilty for leading Cromartie to John; she tells him about the boy in the bowling alley and how she made a mistake by letting him go. "We are not murderers," John believes. But Sarah knows the boy is dead anyways...

After burying Fischer's body, Derek and Jesse wonders about young Fischer. Even she knows that he's not the monster that the older Fischer became. "Do you remember any of it?" she asks. But he doesn't. Nothing. It's strange to Jesse because Derek was obsessed with finding him, ending him. "It's a trauma, you've blocked it," Jesse believes. But Derek's not sure. Maybe the future's changed slightly, things he's done in the present may have effected the future...

"Do you think there's a version of the future where we're not together?" Jesse asks. "No."

As young Charlie Fischer heads to work the next day, he's scans himself in and is greeted by the FBI. In an interrogation room, he's told that he broke into the building late at night two nights ago, but he denies it. There was an unauthorized access to the computer networking system, but he knows nothing about it. "Fischer" installed a backdoor program into the system that the Feds can't uninstall. And as we know that it wasn't this Fischer, we realize that the older one's secured his own fate... in prison.

Ellison meets Weaver outside a warehouse. He pops open his trunk and presents her with Cromartie's body. "We need to learn how they work. How to find them. How to stop them." It's up to them.

Back in Sarah's dream, she climbs down a ladder into an underground tunnel. She turns and curiously finds herself at Dr. Sherman's door. He's waiting for her. "What am I doing here?" But he doesn't know. And even in her dream she knows she should get back to work...

FLASHLIGHT. Sarah, awake, illuminates the bloody list on her basement wall. And there it is. Next to "Greenway," Sherman," and all the others -- three bloody fingerprints in the shape of the three-dot symbol. But what can it mean?

Sarah's Story
Sarah builds something while John walks Riley out. Sarah expresses her concern over his relationship with Riley, but as per usual, doesn't get through to him. Meanwhile, Cameron tells Sarah she'll talk to John.

Sarah's finished constructing the safe. Cameron leaves to restock the ammunition supply. She tells Sarah that John won't be seeing Riley anymore -- John's not stupid. Sarah doesn't like the way he responds to Cameron, but she got what she wanted.

Cameron drives off and Sarah looks up to find -- Cromartie! Right smack in front of her. He tosses her across the room, pulls her upstairs to John's room. He kicks down the door and they both realize John's not there! Where did he go?

Cameron's Story
We're back earlier as John walks Riley out -- only this time we see that Cameron's watching them from the porch above.

Surprisingly, Cameron sheds some clothes before entering John's room, clearly aware of John's weakness for her. Jumping in bed with him, Cameron and John talk about Riley. She reiterates that he brings danger into Riley's life, but also that she understands that being John Connor can be lonely. It's an intimate moment, one where she gets him to agree that it isn't a good idea for him to see Riley anymore...

Cameron tells Sarah that John won't be seeing Riley anymore and exits. Cameron finds the lock open on the storage unit with the ammunition. Inside? Derek. It's his drop point. When Derek's phone rings, Cameron glances the number and calls it from her own phone; someone speaking Spanish answers. Derek tells her that it's an alarm code from John, he's in trouble.

John's Story
We're back with John and Cameron in bed. He agrees with her that it isn't a good idea for him to see Riley anymore and Cameron exits. "Yeah right." John was only playing along with Cameron to get her off his back -- he didn't actually mean it! He grabs a bag, calls Riley, and sneaks out of the house...

John and Riley are en route to Mexico, a town that he lived in when he was a kid. In Dejalo, they wander through the village amidst the people dressed up for Dia De Los Muertos -- the Mexican Day of the Dead. Inside their hotel suite, Riley presses John for details on his childhood but he squirms out of the conversation.

When they hit up a local cantina, a local man takes their photo and even recognizes John as John Connor. He blackmails him for everything he's got, but a fight breaks out when Riley tries to rescue them from the situation and they run to escape-- but the Mexican Cops grab them before they can get away! Uh-oh, no bueno.

The police question John In the Mexican station, but the Chief tells him he'll let them go if John's mother or uncle comes to pick him up. Call them. He dials Derek and leaves the emergency code. But when he dials Sarah and enters the code, he doesn't get it back -- because it's NOT SARAH! Fear flushes over his face as he realizes what's going on...

John's sent to join Riley in holding as they run his name through Interpol -- both names, actually.

After a night in the slammer, Riley gets a guard's attention and tells him that she needs to be moved -- John's crazy and has been threatening her safety. Gaining the guard's trust, she gets him to unlock the cell and John knocks him out! But bullets fly out in the police station as John and Riley run for daylight in an escape...

Sarah's Story
Tied up in the back of Cromartie's car as he drives towards Mexico, Sarah notices a photo of Cameron. "She hasn't been careful, she's made mistakes." He knows that Cameron has damage to her chip. Sarah learns that the boy she let go from the bowling alley told Cromartie where to find the Connors -- she should have killed him.

Sarah gets herself untied and manages to throw herself out of the car, but Cromartie picks her back up and shoves her in the trunk. We stay with her in the trunk as Sarah twists a soda can to cut herself free and we hear the familiar sounds of the Mexican village followed by gunshots. Sarah calls out for help and as the car takes off she accidently cuts her hand. She kicks at the backseat to call attention to herself. Finally, the trunk opens -- it's James Ellison. Followed by John, right behind him. What the...?

Ellison's Story
Out running, Ellison gets a call from an old pier at the FBI -- seems that a kid named "John Connor" popped up in the system after being arrested in Mexico. Since it was the same name as the kid in Ellison's cold case, he figured he'd want to know.

It's later and Ellison uses his old badge to talk to the Dejalo Police Chief about his prisoner John Connor. The Chief is familiar with the cold case -- Ellison's just looking for closure. The Chief exits and Ellison watches as Cromartie brutally murders everyone in the station! Ellison braces for cover before spotting John and Riley. He grabs John and tells him he's there to help him.

Outside the station Riley runs for her life. John calls out for her to jump in the (Cromartie's) car and Ellison speeds the three of them away, Cromartie in hot pursuit, firing away...

They drive away while John searches for ammunition for Cromartie's gun left in the car. When Riley feels a kick coming from the trunk, they pull over and open it up to find Sarah. Methodically, Cromartie approaches in a stolen cop car as Sarah grabs the three of them and takes off.

Sarah pulls the metal from the soda can out of her hand as she converses with Ellison. "Why you here?" John was flagged by the FBI. He came to help. He admits that Cromartie's been watching him. "And you still came to Mexico?" Sarah asks. But she led Cromartie to John this time. Though Sarah has a hard time believing that Ellison's just there to help, he reminds her that he owes her one for saving his life at Silberman's cabin.

John tells Riley that she has to go. He promises to call her and explain things when they get back to LA. Sarah gives her directions to the bus -- "get her out of here" -- and calls Derek and Cameron for help. Derek tells her that they're there already, they're at the jail...

Derek's Story
Derek and Cameron survey the aftermath of Cromartie's carnage, aware that the machine's also in Mexico. They enter the police station, searching for John. Sarah calls.

Cromartie's Story
We're back with Cromartie when he enters the Mexican jail. "I'm going to need to see John Connor" as he shoots up the place. Cops fight back, but he's too much for them. Cromartie learns that John's already gone and makes it outside just in time to see them pulling away in his car. He chases after them, firing away...

Cromartie paces through the village and spots a familiar face -- James Ellison. Our T-888 follows Ellison into a local church. "Have you come to repent?" Ellison asks Cromartie. "I'm looking for John Connor." Quickly we realize it's a trap; Sarah and Derek are perched at windows above. Ellison has indeed fulfilled his destiny and led Cromartie to the Connors - just not in the way Cromartie anticipated.

They fire at him from both directions, blowing holes into his endoskeleton frame, spread in all directions like Jesus on the cross. Cameron enters from behind and shoots into his skull, knocking him down. From Cromartie's T-Vision, the group gathers above him as John Connor delivers the final blow -- rendering this killing machine useless.

Finally, after so long, they have stopped Cromartie.

Cromartie is tossed into a pit and covered with dirt until they can return soon to destroy it. Ellison asks Sarah what's next but she has no intention of including him in their mission to stop Skynet; it's too dangerous. Ellison confesses that he wants to know his role in all this. What else is there to know?

"This is it. There's nothing else behind the curtain. This is what I do, it's all I do. You already know why I do it."

And as Ellison comes to the grim realization that they can't help him get back everything he's lost in the journey, Sarah savagely destroys Cromartie's chip. John takes Sarah into his arms, distraught like he's never seen her. Ellison walks away, briefly turning back...

Even with this small victory against Skynet, it's not over. It'll never be over. And they all know it.

James Ellison, alone at home. There's a knock on the door. "James Ellison?" Ellison stares at himself -- or rather, a robotic version of himself. As he looks the end in the eye, Terminator Ellison is destroyed by... Cromartie?

...Yes, Cromartie still believes Ellison will lead him to John Connor.

Sarah, John, and Cameron return home to find their house burglarized. They scan the place and quickly discover the robbers must have been human (they even took some of their food!). IDs, credit cards, diamonds, Cameron's leather jacket -- all gone.

Derek wakes to his cell phone. He's spent the night in Jesse's hotel room. Sarah briefs him on the robbery. Derek tells her to head downtown and that he'll call with an exact location in half an hour.

Sarah wonders why the alarm system failed, but Cameron tells her that Riley climbed out John's window. John recklessly turned off the alarm for her -- she was supposed to turn it back on. Even Kacy stops by and is surprised to find the house in shambles. As Sarah and Cameron head to meet Derek, John's left to clean up the place. Sarah calls the credit card companies to report the missing cards.

At the halfway house Cameron spent time with Jody at, the Social Worker is visited by a surprise guest -- Cromartie -- fresh on the trail from the county records. He inquires about Cameron and meets Jody, who promises to help him find her. Jody asks if he's also looking for her brother, John Baum. "John Baum?" Uh-oh.

Back at Ellison's place, the police pay him a visit -- to arrest him. He's being held for the murder of one Peter Myers. Huh?

Derek takes Sarah and Cameron to his diamond fence, Moishe. Cameron identifies some of their diamonds in Moishe's collection. They ask for a name -- he says he'll do them a favor for Jesse. The name? "Walter Ostrowski." Outside, Sarah asks Derek who Jesse is, but he lies.

Jody rides with Cromartie, trying to find out who he really is. She asks him if he's going to hurt Cameron and John. "She try to kill you too?" Yes.

John and Riley shop for groceries to replace the stolen food. Meanwhile, Cromartie and Jody enter the store too! Jody knows it's the place where Cameron was arrested. The four almost cross paths, but miss each other by seconds...

At the police station, Ellison is identified as the perp in a lineup. He's then questioned by a detective. Among the questions, the detective asks Ellison why he stole the victim's clothes? We quickly know it wasn't this James Ellison, but the Terminator...

Sarah and Cameron find Ostrowski at his office, but he runs from them. They catch up with him outside and while threatening him, realize he had nothing to do with the robbery. In fact, they were used to do Moishe's bidding!

Sarah threatens Moishe for real information and gets him to admit he bought the diamonds from Tristan Dewitt.

Impatient, Jody waits for Cromartie as he goes door to door looking for John Connor. Annoyed with her, Cromartie shoves Jody out of the car and drives off.

Derek stops by to see Jesse, who is lounging outside by the hotel pool. He fills her in on Moishe; she says she'll have a talk with him. Derek wonders how long Jesse plans on keeping this up...

Cromartie shows up at Kacy's house (next door to the Connors), but she's immediately suspicious of his strange behavior and story when he claims Cameron is his "niece." As he approaches the Connor house, she calls...

...John, who's just gotten home with Riley. Thanks to Kacy's warning, John spots Cromartie at the door. John plans his escape but Riley says she'll "get rid of him." Cromartie pushes his way past her and into the house, while John grabs the shotgun. Finally convinced, Cromartie leaves the Connor house...

Sarah and Cameron visit Tristan Dewitt's parents and learn that he's a wasted bum who works at Saturn Video on La Brea.

Ellison's visited in jail by Catherine Weaver. She deduces correctly that it was another Ellison, a robotic one, that killed the man. She tells him she'll handle it.

Riley asks John about Cromartie and the story with him, but he doesn't give her real details.

Meanwhile, Sarah and Cameron head off to find Tristan Dewitt. She tells Sarah the story of the Brothers of Nablus. The credit card company calls Sarah and tells her that their card was used at a bowling alley in Van Nuys...

...but the report pops up on Cromartie's computer as well!

The detective that questioned Ellison earlier questions the witness again. The detective confirms that James Ellison appeared from an energy bubble and we quickly realize the detective is probably not the detective, but rather the T-1001...

At the empty bowling alley, Tristan Dewitt and his thug friends are surprised by Cameron and Sarah. Sarah realizes there is an extra pair of shows and goes off in search of the last person...

Cameron shoots them all and kills them. Sarah just looks on, knowing this time that Cameron made the right strategic move. Sarah finds the last one in the bathroom and it's just a scared, teenage boy. She threatens him but leaves him alive.

The detective lets Ellison go free -- claims the judge threw out the crazy witness's statement (who claimed to see an energy bubble spit out a naked man). Outside, the detective morphs into Catherine Weaver...

Derek shows up, gun pointed, at Moishe's place. There he finds Jesse, who has killed Moishe and his men. They collect the rest of the diamonds.

Ellison sits in his car, perched outside his ex-wife's house. She spots him, pays him a visit. He tells her he misses his old life, but she doesn't understand. She invites him in for coffee with her new husband, but he passes.

Sarah and Cameron return home to find John and a cleaned house. Sarah tells him that he can't bring people there anymore, especially Riley. Cameron reinforces that she's a security risk, but John reminds Cameron that Riley isn't the one that tried to kill him. John claims that they're just jealous of Riley, but Sarah says her job is to protect him. She wishes it were different. "Then why didn't you protect me when I was killing Sarkissian?" John asks...

Ellison stops by to see Weaver in her office. He believes he's being tested. "Like Job?" she asks.

Cromartie arrives at the bowling alley to find Tristan and the rest of the dead men. Cromartie's got the teenage boy from the bathroom tied up, questioning him about Sarah and the credit cards and the Connor house...

"She said she'd kill me."
"I promise you. She won't..."

...and we know things don't look good for the boy or the Connors.

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Flashlights. Sarah and Cameron somewhere they're not supposed to be. Investigating. A man calls out "anyone here?" But they're gone.

Dr. Boyd Sherman. That's the man but what's his connection to Skynet? As John drives Cameron and Sarah back, we learn that Sherman's name was on the bloody list left on the wall by the dying resistance fighter.

Meanwhile, Catherine Weaver poses for a photo shoot in her office. She tries to get Savannah, her daughter, to join her in the photos, but Savannah's resistant. After Catherine scares her daughter away, she questions her assistant about her own experiences parenting. The assistant offers up the number of her family therapist...

...Dr. Boyd Sherman, whom is coincidentally meeting with the Baums: Sarah, John, and Cameron. As he talks to them and plans for individual meetings, Cameron bugs the office. Sherman and John plan for their first session tomorrow.

In the lobby at ZeiraCorp, Ellison is suspiciously restricted from an elevator with Catherine Weaver and Murch. We follow them below ground to a secret control room, The Turk's playroom! Andy Goode's once Chess-playing machine has evolved and can communicate now through images. But Murch tells Weaver that there's a problem -- the AI keeps showing unsolicited images and they don't know why or what it's trying to say.

Sherman meets with a very hesitant Savannah Weaver. When Catherine exits the room, Savannah shows Sherman what's really the matter -- she's scared of her mother.

Derek returns home to the Connor house suspiciously late. He doubled back on Sherman's house. Sarah tells him that they still need his patient files. Then, upstairs... a gunshot!

...cleaning his gun, John accidentally shot it off. Or was it an accident?

Cameron listens to Sherman's session with Savannah. Savannah tells Sherman that she "wants her old Mommy back." Outside, Catherine watches them play, not comprehending this very human interaction.

Meanwhile, John enters Sherman's office too! Sherman asks Weaver about her strongest memories from childhood. "Why do you ask?" He believes the death of Savannah's father has taken a real toll on her. "Well, we can't make her grow faster, can we?" Weaver asks. Sherman tells the T-1001 that she needs to work on her relationship with her daughter. In the waiting room, John bonds with Savannah when Weaver walks right by him, not knowing she just passed by John freaking Connor!

Derek hangs out at his normal spot in the park, watching people. Oddly, he feels someone watching him. Someone familiar? He chases the girl, following her all the way to the Alistair Grand Hotel... "Jesse?" And she kisses him. Someone familiar, indeed.

Jesse has traveled back in time -- but why? There's an obvious sexual chemistry between them. She tells Derek that Connor didn't send her back, she found a way back herself. Jesse tells Derek that there's metal everywhere now -- John has stationed them in every base -- and she doesn't trust them. Jesse came back to be with Derek: "When everything ends, I want to be with you." But he's got other plans...

John sits in with Sherman, who likens him to a war vet because he checked all the exits when he entered the room. Sherman asks about the burn on his face (from the gun shrapnel), but John lies and Sherman knows it. As Sherman talks to him, John flashes back to the attic -- Sarkissian holding Sarah and John hostage.

Cameron gives Sarah some facts on teen suicide, when Sherman pulls her aside. He tells her that he wants to see John again. He asks her if she knows of any violence in his past -- again, more flashes of fighting with Sarkissian in the attic.

The T-1001 watches old footage of an interview with the very real, very pregnant Catherine Weaver and her husband pre-plane crash. She's learning about her, absorbing her memories!

In the Turk's playroom, Murch tells her that it's still acting up -- it's showing the same series of pictures and equations over and over. He suggests maybe considering scrapping the project, but she rejects that idea.

Back in her office, she finds Savannah watching the old interview footage. T-1001 Weaver make an attempt to connect with "her" daughter... creepy...

John finds Sarah working out in the garage. He wonders when he's going back to Sherman, but she doesn't think they should. Apparently, the patient list was a bust -- the files were encoded. He pushes to go back -- after all, Sherman's name was on the list. Sarah reminds him there's no time table on the list and Sherman might not be important right now. Cameron suggests that maybe Sherman's name is on the list because he helps John. "What makes you think John needs help?" Sarah wonders. "What makes you think I don't?" he rebuffs. but then quickly pulls back.

Parked, a city bus driver sleeps at the wheel. Suddenly, a burst of blue electrical current. Uh-oh. With the precision of like a machine, a naked redheaded Terminator girl kills the driver, takes his clothes, and walks off into the distance.

Derek tells Sarah a story about a friend in the future who wanted to kill himself. Both agree John is not suicide, but also know that he is changing; watching Sarah kill Sarakissian really took a toll on him. More flashes of Sarah and John in the attic, fighting back.

Sherman's secretary enters her car. In the rearview mirror she catches a glimpse of the redhead Terminator girl, which we know means the end of her.

Ellison enters the ZeiraCorp elevator with Murch. Awkward silence, as Ellison inquires about the floor below (the Turk's playroom). "I'm going to have to ask you to get off on this floor," says Murch as he swipes his super secret key.

In her office, Weaver tells Sherman about the Turk. "I'm still a little fuzzy why you called me here." She is impressed with the way he's been helping Savannah and thinks he could be of use on the Turk. She shows him the images and equation but Sherman starts laughing -- he tells her the Turk is telling a joke!

Why is a math book so sad? Sherman tells her the AI is advanced -- it recognizes humor. It's like a gifted child that's grown bored. Because it has so many problems.

Sarah listens to Cameron's bugged session of Sherman and John, never more aware of John's pain.

Derek goes to see Jesse at the hotel. He was thinking about the time they met -- the time she saved him from killing himself! It wasn't a "friend" he was telling Sarah about, it was him. Passionately, Derek kisses her, as they fall into bed...

...but when Derek gets out of bed, Jesse shoves some photos under her bed, out of sight... photos of Derek with John freaking Connor. What the...?

Weaver shows Ellison a giant lego castle she built for Savannah. He asks her about the basement, but she just tells him there's high security for good reason -- "We're building something."

John meets with Sherman again -- this time pulling out Cameron's bug to talk in private. John tells him the basics on Sarkissian -- someone broke into their house on his birthday. Flashes to Sarkissian and John fighting. But John can't open up about the rest. Sherman tells John it's not his job to protect his parent.

As Cameron enters the office, she does so at the exact same time as the redhead machine. They exchange glances, suspicious, before the fighting begins! It's an all-out bash that throws them into an elevator, where Cameron destroys the machine completely. When Cameron pulls out it's chip, it self-destructs in her hand...

...at the Connor house, they talk about the machine. "It was there for Dr. Sherman." But to kill him or protect him? Cameron tells them about the chip -- Skynet is advancing! They clearly don't want John reprogramming machines in the future.

Sherman and Weaver talk about Savannah. She's very impressed with his work -- but he's impressed with the improvements she's made to her relationship with Savannah. She offers him a consulting job helping her team with the Turk.

John examines the destroyed Terminator, as Catherine invites Savannah on to her lap in her office. Derek and Jesse evaluate their lives -- apart -- as Cameron reads the pamphlet on suicide and examines the disintegrated chip.

And we're back in Sherman's office once more. He's with Sarah, as she flashes once more to Sarkissian in the attic. But it is John choking him, ending him, as Sarah just looks on...

No, she couldn't protect him then.

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On a suburban patio, a man grills. "Martin Bedell?" a Terminator asks. Oh, crap.

Derek shows John and Sarah a newspaper article on the death of Martin Bedell. He explains that a man named Martin Bedell is one of Connor's best soldiers in the future -- a trained military man who will help John put the resistance together. Skynet has obviously sent back a machine to track and kill all possible Martin Bedells (like they did with Sarah Connor originally).

John confirms that there are two other Martin Bedells currently in Los Angeles -- and in fact, figures out that one is at Presidio Alto Military Prep School. As in "P. Alto." As in, one of the names on the Connors' bloody wall.

Derek and John head out to Presidio Alto. Sarah and Cameron will go after the other Martin Bedell and try and stop the T-888 before it gets to Presidio Alto. And so John and Derek take off (in their all-new 2009 Dodge Ram!)...

Ellison looks at file on the nuclear power plant meltdown. Weaver has asked him to look into it -- find out what really happened there. She has an interest in it and believes that the meltdown was not an accident. Weaver shows Ellison a triple eight's eye that she has acquired -- and he's off to find out what really happened at Serrano Point.

At Presidio Alto, Derek remembers the war -- particularly a mission involving his brother, Kyle, and Martin Bedell. He enrolls John at the school and gets offered a job filling in for the week (after all, he is a veteran).

A kid's video game is interrupted by the doorbell. "Martin Bedell?" the same Terminator asks. Oh, crap. But Sarah grabs him and throws him off to the side as the T-888 shoots! Sarah and Marty run out of the house and jump in the jeep, driven by Sarah. The Terminator jumps on the roof. Sarah shoots him, but he's still coming...

Nelson briefs Ellison at Serrano Point Nuclear Power Plant. He shows him the valve that Greenway ripped open (and Cameron later closed) and tells him that the truth clearly wasn't reported. Nelson reveals that there's a new plan for the plant to go back online -- in August 2009 -- completely automated.

At Presidio Alto, Derek finds some strange tar in the woods while John goes shooting at the gun range. After he helps a kid unjam a gun, he meets cadet captain Martin Bedell.

John and Bedell go running in the woods and stumble upon Derek. He remembers Bedell in the future and immediately recognizes him.

Sarah and Cameron hide Marty at the Connor house. She tries to find him clothes but he immediately recognizes it isn't her stuff and that she doesn't know much about acting like a mother. Marty wants to call his mom -- she was supposed to get him a book for his book report. But Cameron threatens him with the truth before Sarah makes her put him down.

With Marty asleep, Cameron tells Sarah they made a tactical error. She believes they should have not run and killed the Terminator when they had the chance. But Sarah tells Cameron that the boy is too important to risk.

Derek addresses the students. As the new TAC he is responsible for making sure they are all doing okay. But when asked about the war and if he's "got a lot of kills" by one of the students, Derek explains the the realism of the war and of death. War is no game.

Underground in the future, Bedell explains the mission to Derek, Kyle, and a scrappy band of resistance soldiers. Back in the present, he watches John and Bedell in the cafeteria at lunch. Bedell lets John in on a secret -- he met a girl and had decided to leave the military school to be with her.

Derek tells John that the T-888 is going to come from the woods -- it's the least secure place on campus. John confesses that Bedell plans on quitting school, but Derek insist he won't. It isn't written that way. "He doesn't have a choice?" John wonders. Not unlike his own life...

Marty watches his parents' desperate plea on the news. After all, they think he's missing. Sarah tries to comfort him but he's upset and is worried about his book report. Sarah offers to help. Cameron suggests The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. "It was John's favorite." Meanwhile, Sarah and Cameron make plans because the machine won't stop. She sends Cameron back to Marty's house to protect his parents.

Ellison visits the Busted Atom -- Serrano Point's bar where Sarah met up with Greenway. Ellison inquires about Greenway when he spots a picture. In the back corner of the picture, a reflection: Sarah Connor. Not exactly what he was expecting to find, but finally, some confirmation...

Derek and John begin setting the trap in the woods: a speed bump to slow it down. Derek tells John a story of Kyle's humanity, even in the future. Not unlike John Connor now.

Ellison briefs Weaver on what he found in the power plant. "So you agree it was a machine, as I thought?" she asks. "Two machines," he responds to her surprise. She wonders where they came from and why they fought, but Ellison doesn't know. He relays that he's not the only one asking questions. He tells her that Nelson wants answers, which will complicate the plant reopening. She agrees that he is not good news for either of them.

Back at the Busted Atom, Nelson drinks and meets a beautiful woman... who takes him outside the bar for a little action. In the moment, she kisses him with her GIANT LIQUID TONGUE! As she morphs into Catherine Weaver, Nelson drops dead...

Cameron tells Sarah that the FBI have moved Marty's parents. If it was her, she'd switch targets and go after the other Bedell. Sarah sends her to the military academy to wait for him to get there. Sarah calls and warns Derek that the machine is headed their way. Also, Cameron's on her way there too.

Sarah helps Marty with his book report on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Sarah apologizes to Marty, tells him this wasn't the plan. He thanks her for saving his life -- something she rarely hears in her life.

Bedell sets up an obstacle course exercise for the cadets in the woods. But Derek arrives with a new plan -- a faux exercise and way to trap and kill the machine. Back in the future, Derek sees that Kyle is trapped by the machines, his life hanging in the balance. There's only one way, one person who can save him...

Marty and Sarah read The Wizard of Oz as the cadets hover in the woods at dark. The machine arrives, and Pyle signals to the rest of the group. Derek sets up at a distance and fires his rifle at the T-888, hitting him, blinding one eye, but not knocking him down. The Terminator chases after Derek...

John sets off the detonator, knocking the machine down but not killing him. It spots Bedell, who falls within his range. Faced with Bedell's impending death, John does the only thing he can -- he diverts the machine's attention. "Hey! Look over here! It's me, Connor! John Connor!" Mission priority override.

John runs, followed by the Terminator. He lures him across a plank, when Derek shoots him again, knocking him into the tar below. Derek blows off it's face as John lights the tar and the machine burns up and right in front of Bedell...

...and behind them, hidden, is Cameron. Watching.

Sarah says goodbye to Marty and puts him on the bus home. Meanwhile, John and Derek pack up the truck. Bedell asks them what he's supposed to do now -- stay here and act like he doesn't know the end of the world is coming? It's familiar to John. "It matters. It all matters." Off Bedell, a new understanding.

On their way home, Derek tells John the truth of Bedell in the future. On a mission to save Kyle, Bedell volunteers to go in Derek's place; it's a suicide mission and they both know it. Bedell sacrifices himself for Kyle, rescues forty prisoners, including John Connor.

"He died, John. He died for you. We all die for you."

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A dark tunnel. Or a hallway. It's hard to tell. But Cameron runs... and runs.. and runs. Lights after her, she pushes her way through a door and into the outside, post-apocalyptic world. But a giant net catches her, trapping her...

...in her mind. Cameron and John park the truck. John checks in with her, they plan to split up. Cameron goes for groceries, John to the electronics store.

Kacy flags down Sarah on her way down the driveway -- she's bleeding. Sarah quickly realizes she has to get her to the hospital.

Cameron's a bit abnormal at the grocery store, even for her. Her T-vision spits in and out and she recalls being trapped in the net -- until she just freezes. Later, a Cop checks her out, asks her name...

...which brings us back to the future. She's being interrogated -- but by whom we can't see. She refuses to give up her name and so a Terminator brands her with a bar code. Finally, she relents and screams out her name: Allison! Allison Young!

Cameron remembers this in the present. In the jail's drunk tank she meets Jody, a local street kid. Confused, Cameron introduces herself as Allison.

Kacy checks out in the hospital but is told she's going to have to stick around for a bit. Sarah stays by Kacy's side.

John looks for Cameron in the grocery store where he learns that Cameron wigged out and was taken by the Cops. Meanwhile, Cameron and Jody are let out with a warning and while given back their belongings, Jody spots Cameron's huge hunk of cash. Jody takes Cameron with her.

Absolutely the last place he wants to be, John checks for Cameron at the police station. But all he learns is that Cameron took off with Jody, who normally hangs out on the Boulevard.

Kacy tells Sarah she's having a boy. She asks Sarah what having John was like. "I was hiking in the jungle." Sarah goes on to lie and tell her that John's father was there. It's a glamorized tale, one that is interrupted by Trevor, Kacy's boyfriend...

As they bond, Sarah checks out the babies in the maternity ward. She checks in with John, who is out asking around for a girl called "Jody." He lies to her and doesn't mention that Cameron is missing.

Weaver and Ellison meet in Catherine's office. As Weaver warns him not to anthropomorphize the machines, she tells him the story of the helicopter crash that killed her late husband. "Human error," she says. Unlike humans, however, machines are neither good nor evil...

In the future, Allison is held in some sort of cell. She's given food but throws it against the wall. Back in the present, Cameron and Jody grab burgers. Cameron compliments Jody's necklace. "I got it at this awesome thrift store in Echo Park." They're then interrupted Jody's confronted by a thug. He claims she stole his stuff and he warns her by punching her in the face. He grabs Cameron and as we wait for her to defend herself, all she does is coil in defense and give him her wad of cash. Huh?

Jody takes Cameron to a halfway house. She tells Cameron that to stay there they have to have an interview with a counselor -- Jody encourages her to lie her way through it. A new bond between the girls, Jody gives Cameron her necklace as a gift.

Ellison stops by to see an old coworker at the Bureau. She's especially friendly and the two seem to have a familiar banter. He asks for her help in checking into Catherine Weaver and ZeiraCorp. He tells her that Weaver offered him a job. The Agent notices that Ellison is different -- he's not wearing his cross. She knows that the massacre really got to him. Her assistant comes in to bring her a file and we learn that she is also Agent Ellison! This is James Ellison's ex-wife, Lila. She promises to look into Weaver for him.

Allison is interrogated in the future as Cameron is questioned by the Social Worker in the present. Allison reveals that she lives in a tunnel and eats garbage. The Interrogator asks about Allison's bracelet -- she reveals that her sister gave it to her for her birthday. As Cameron spots a statue of a tiger, we learn that Allison is from Palmdale.

John is told that Jody hangs out at the halfway house on Yucca. Meanwhile, Kacy tells Sarah about Trevor.

A young woman answers the phone. It's Cameron on the other line, calling her Mom. This woman tells her that she has the wrong number -- but we quickly learn the woman's name is Claire Young and she's pregnant! "Allison: very pretty name.."

Trevor brings Kacy and Sarah food. Kacy's told she can go home tomorrow. Trevor offers to take John out to the shooting range -- turns out, Trevor's a cop! And Sarah's silent alarm goes off...

Lila Ellison tells James that Catherine Weaver checks out. Nothing in her past. But James spots something in her file -- the plane crash that killed Catherine's late husband was due to mechanical failure not human error. Lila suggests James talk to a professional, but he rebuffs her.

John finds Cameron and Jody at the halfway house. She looks oddly happy. John approaches Cameron and wants to take her home, but she doesn't recognize him. She believes she is Allison but John tells her the truth: "You're not Allison. You're not from Palmdale. You're from the future. You're a machine." John knows her chip is messed up, as we flash to...

The future. Again, Allison wanders down a long corridor. She escapes through a doorway and finds cages, a Skynet concentration camp. There are humans, captive. And animals, too. Allison runs through the cages, climbs up a ladder to a deck -- she's on a giant ship in the middle of the ocean! Spotlights blaring, a terrified Allison propels herself hundreds of feet into the ocean but is quickly swallowed up by a huge net and carried back up again...

John tries to take Cameron with him, explaining that he's her brother John Baum, but she throws him against the wall. Security escorts him out of the halfway house, leaving Cameron wondering.

Dropped back into the interrogation room, Allison glances up to meet her interrogator -- it's Cameron! Cameron tells Allison that she wants to get to know her. She knows that John Connor chose her because she's brave, and even claims to admire him and his determination. Cameron explains that the machines are going to kill her and every other human until they're extinct -- but she doesn't want that. Cameron wants them all to live in peace. We learn that Allison was chosen by the machines, as well. She demands that Allison tell her where John's camp is.

Back in the present, Cameron explains to the Social Worker that she believes she is a machine, an infiltrator in the future. She was programmed to find John Connor. "Why's he so important?" She explains that he saves mankind from extinction. The Social Worker asks what she's going to do when she finds John Connor. "I'm going to kill him and hang his head on a pike for all to see."

As John waits outside the halfway house, Cameron wants to know more about Jody and her life. She seems to be becoming more and more like her old self -- machine-like. Our worried Social Worker brings the police in to find Cameron, but both she and Jody are gone!

Trevor questions Sarah suspiciously -- he's never heard of her before and now she's suddenly Kacy's best friend. Sarah questions him back, specifically about his job. Trevor has to take off for work; he asks Sarah to stay the night with Kacy.

Catherine introduces Ellison to her daughter, Savannah! The deadly T-1001 has a daughter!? Ellison tells Weaver he read the official report on the helicopter crash and that it blamed the crash on mechanical failure. She admits that it's not what she told him. He realizes that files don't always reflect what actually happened -- "I think you saw what you saw." "Just as you saw what you saw." Ellison agrees to go to work for Weaver.

Jody and Cameron break in to a suburban home (with John following behind them). When Cameron finds earrings that match the necklace Jody gave her, we quickly realize that this is Jody's parent's house -- everything she has said has been a lie.

Cameron remembers torturing Allison in the future. Allison told Cameron where John's camp is, but Cameron knows she lied about the bracelet. Cameron drops a bunch of identical bracelets in front of her -- "We found these on your friends." It's a pass to enter the camp! Allison planned on sending Cameron to the camp without the bracelet so they would know she was a machine! "I'll never help you get to John Connor," Allison says. Cameron kills Allison and takes the bracelet.

At Jody's house, Cameron interrogates Jody threateningly. Jody says that they have to go because there's a silent alarm. Cameron knows she was going to leave her there to take the blame. Like with Allison in the future, she grabs Jody's throat. As John gets in, we see that Jody isn't dead, she's just hurt. Cameron once again recognizes John and tells him they have to go.

Kacy wakes to find Sarah. Sarah confesses to Kacy that the story of John's birth in the jungle wasn't completely true -- John's father wasn't actually there. "Why did you tell me that story?" Because Sarah wished it was the way things could have been. She implies that Kacy doesn't need Trevor -- she's capable of raising this baby on her own.

John drives Cameron. He asks her about the necklace, but she lies. "I got it at this awesome thrift store in Echo Park."

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Off in the distance, a truck speeds up an empty road.

On their way out of town, Charley Dixon and his wife, Michelle, fill up at a gas station in the middle of the desert. As the truck arrives, Charley heads off to buy Michelle a soda. Michelle screams as Cromartie (revealed to have been in the truck) hops in and takes off with her. Charley chases after them on foot, but can't catch up in time. And just like that, they're gone.

John helps an extremely pregnant Kacy (their new landlord and neighbor) setup cable. On the local news they see a clip of Beast Wizard 7, the low-budget film starring George Laszlo (Cromartie's now-dead alter-ego and b-movie actor).

John comes home to find Cameron calculating the center of their new house. Oddly, Cameron analyzes that the house is moving and that they'll have to repaint in a year. Yeah, she's still not quite back to normal.

Sarah unpacks groceries when John gets a call from Charley Dixon. He doesn't have Sarah's number, so he asks to speak to her. Charley tells Sarah that Cromartie has taken Michelle but Sarah plays doesn't plays coy and doesn't want John to know because he'll want to help. Sarah finds out from Charley where he is and tells him to stay put. She scolds John for giving Charley his number.

Sarah packs up weapons as Cameron "investigates" a bird stuck in the fireplace. Sarah tells her to stay with John today and to not let him out of her sight. Sarah also fills in Derek who warns her it's a ploy, a trap to get to John. Sarah knows this but is going anyways. Derek grabs the guns and jumps in the truck with her...

Chillingly, Michelle is tied up in a chair. Cromartie methodically prepares something -- a device, it seems, that involves a mousetrap. But Michelle spots her cell phone and scoots towards it...

John and Cameron load new computer equipment into the back of their truck in the store parking lot. Riley calls from the Santa Monica Promenade, bored, and wants to hang out. But Cameron won't let John go and when she's distracted, John takes off on his own.

Ellison, rugged without purpose now, watches Beast Wizard 7. He receives a call out of the blue about a job opportunity -- from Catherine Weaver! She invites him for lunch to talk about "who or what" actually killed his colleagues.

Sarah and John meet up with Charley. Derek coldly tells Charley that Cromartie doesn't care about Michelle, it just using her to get to John. Michelle is probably already dead. But Charley's phone rings -- it's Michelle; she's managed to get to her cell. Derek and Sarah want him to test her, make sure it's not Cromartie imitating her voice. He does and she passes. As best she can, she tells him where she is, and they're off...

Michelle begs for her life, but Cromartie sets his trap and tapes her mouth shut.

John and Riley hang out on the Promenade. John tells her that he's not coming back to school, he's going to be home school now. Riley spots Cameron watching them, so they try to ditch her, but she follows...

Sarah, Derek, and Charley reconvene outside the building where Michelle's being held. They enter, search the place, and find Michelle, tied up to a chair set upon mousetraps and a bomb. Sarah demands Michelle not move while Derek double checks the rest of the place. Charley tells Michelle it will be okay, but "it will never be okay," she knows.

Charley announces that Cromartie took off (and killed their car before he did). Sarah realizes that this means it was all a setup -- even the bomb's not real! Sarah immediately calls John -- he tells her he's at the promenade and lies that he's with Cameron. Derek finds a computer that is broadcasting their call... right to Cromartie, who now knows their code!

Derek then finds a beeping detonator with a wire outside that leads to a cell tower. Cromartie dials his cell phone (the detonator) and blows the tower to smithereens. The massive tower falls into the building, but luckily no one is killed. All cell phone service is down. Quickly they realize that Michelle has been hurt by the falling tower and as she stumbles off, we see a big blood stain on her back.

From the desert Cromartie calls pretending to be Sarah. He tells John to wait at the Santa Monica Pier. Cromartie drives off, coming for him. Meanwhile, John tells Riley he has to go meet his mom at the pier. She tells him she's not afraid of his mom, but he leaves anyways, frustrating her.

Sarah, Derek, Charley, and Michelle plan to trek through the desert to find a car, but Charley doesn't want to leave because Michelle's bleeding out. Michelle says she can walk, no one has to wait on her.

Ellison meets with Catherine Weaver in her office and talk about the FBI massacre. She shows Ellison photographic evidence of a endoskeleton hand involved in a plain crash a few years back and shares that she knows that it was a robot that tried to kill John Connor in Red Valley, NM in 1999. Weaver even knows that a robot was involved in the FBI massacre! She claims to be working on reverse engineering the same technology and wants to hire Ellison to find out about these robots and to even catch one for her.

Cameron surprises Riley in a parking garage. "Where's John?" But John waits for "Sarah" at the crowded Santa Monica Pier, when Cromartie arrives...

Sarah carjacks a cell phone service van and they drive off after John. Michelle struggles to stay alive with Charley's help. He demands Sarah slow down, but she keeps repeating that he should have stayed away. Finally, Sarah stops...

John spots Cromartie and takes off running. The Triple-Eight follows suit, chasing John down the pier. Cameron, too, chases behind. John trades jackets with a fisherman, confusing Cromartie, but is eventually spotted by him. Trapped with nowhere else to run, John dives off the pier and into the ocean, Cromartie firing away at him. Forgetting that he can't swim, Cromartie jumps in after. John barely gets away by skirting out of his jacket, and Cromartie sinks to the bottom of the ocean. John swims up, looks up to Cameron on the pier. "Little help?" he asks.

"I can't swim," Cameron responds. Yeah, neither could Cromartie apparently. And John's safe again. For now.

John and Cameron meet up with Sarah and Derek in an alley in Santa Monica and hop in the van. John's okay, but shaken up. Inside the van he finds some of Michelle's blood and knows not all is well.

Cromartie walks out of the ocean, obviously having followed the ocean floor up to the sand. He's coming and he'll never stop...

Outside the hospital, John comforts Charley. Has Michelle survived? No, as it turns out. Later, Charley is joined by Ellison and others at Michelle's funeral, but neither Connors are in sight. Cromartie is, however, which is exactly why...

Somber, Sarah brings dinner to the table. She sits, quietly reflective, along with John, Derek, and Cameron. No, it will never be okay.

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FLASH! A time bubble. Downtown, a man emerges from the tunnel, shot through the chest, bleeding. He finds clothes and hustles off.

Back in the storefront church. It's the morning after John's birthday and the explosion. Sarah gazes at John as he sleeps, untrusting of Cameron. Derek enters and warns them that it's only a matter of time before she goes bad again.

John questions Cameron. She tells him he can't be trusted anymore because he risked his life to save her. Even she agrees that it was the wrong decision. Sarah instructs John to go to school. It's uneventful and the normalcy will distract him.

But at school, everything seems trivial. John paces through the hallway at Campo de Cahuenga HS, everything so different now. It's all changed. And so John ditches class. Outside, he meets a girl from his English class, Riley. He tests her, makes sure she is who she says she is. Charismatic, Riley convinces him to buy her lunch.

Kacy, eight months pregnant, shows Sarah, Derek, and Cameron around a rental house. She lives next door and is helping the owner who left in a hurry. Sarah says they'll take it. With all the furniture.

James Ellison visits Michelle Dixon, Charley's wife. Michelle confesses that she found a gun in the house earlier. Surprised, Charley enters.

Sarah checks out the new place and takes a moment to herself. But there's no rest for the weary as her window is smashed in and the man from the time bubble enters, barely alive. Sarah and Derek try to revive him, while Cameron guards the perimeter. But "Stop Greenway," "Serrano Point," and "two days" is all he manages to get out before dying. Sarah believes that he must be a Resistance Fighter from the future, but Derek doesn't recognize him. Both strong-headed, Sarah and Derek debate what they're supposed to do - kill Greenway or save him?

Serrano Point Nuclear Power Plant. It's the future war and an H-K flies above the plant. Two soldiers fight to defend the plant, shooting down the H-K. Back in the present, Sarah, Derek, and Cameron case the same spot. In the future, the resistance controls this plant and uses it as one of their key sources of power.

Sarah and Cameron enter the plant, undercover, as janitors. Their new Supervisor shows them through the plant and warns them not to get "crapped up" or contaminated. Cameron identifies Carl Greenway as he passes by.

Much to her confusion, Charley tells Michelle the truth about Sarah Connor and the machines. He promises Michelle that he doesn't love Sarah but she slaps him anyways. Sarah's the least of their problems. Ellison warns the Dixons that they need to leave town immediately.

Riley opens up to John about her past. She, too, has jumped from high school to high school. John explains that his family is moving houses again but he's never seen the place. Recklessly, John invites Riley to come explore the new house with him.

In the Serrano Point control room, Greenway reviews the coolant levels before the test tomorrow. Sarah hits it off with Greenway under the guise of "Karen." She watches him down some pills and follows Greenway and his boss, Nelson, out. Outside, Nelson argues with Greenway about the importance of tomorrow's test going well.

Sarah (as "Karen") cozies up to Greenway at the Busted Atom bar while Cameron hustles some pool players to scan their Serrano Point IDs. Sarah learns that Greenway is the black sheep of the plant because he's suffering from cancer - and even has a scar on his arm to prove it. With them inside, Derek breaks into Greenway's car and is surprised when someone vandalizes the windshield. The guy really isn't popular amongst his co-workers. Turns out, Carl Greenway has a reputation for being overly cautious - and if he stops tomorrow's test because of a problem, the plant will likely shut down and the rest of the employees may lose their job. His boss is pressuring him to ignore the problem with the coolant, but if he does, the plant could melt down. Now it's even more unclear what Sarah, Derek, and Cameron are supposed to do.

John and Riley check out the house and discover his hilariously juvenile new room. Sarah returns home, surprised to meet Riley. She lectures John about safety and bringing someone home, but he blows her off. Instead, John and Riley take off for his room, a new friendship born.

It's the day of the test at Serrano Point. Suspicious, Sarah follows Nelson, the boss, right into a radioactive area! Nelson sends her into the room where Sarah gets crapped up, and is forced to get washed down. Humiliatingly, Nelson hands Sarah back her clothes, as it "turns out" she wasn't actually crapped up. Did he put her through it on purpose?

John and Riley wake up in the morning, surprised to have fallen asleep together. As she takes off for school, John decides he's not going to go. Even though he knows better, John gives Riley his number and instructs her to use the "code."

Ellison sees off Charley and an upset Michelle. Ellison hands him a Bible, while Charley asks him his own plan. "We'll see..."

With the test upon them, Greenway has changed his ways, insisting that "everything is fine." When Sarah notices the scar on his arm has gone missing, she checks in with Derek, inside Greenway's house. There he finds Greenway, hanging. Greenway in the plant has been replaced by a Terminator!

T-Greenway reeks havoc in the plant, busting open a water valve to melt down the plant. Sarah grabs Cameron for help, who is unsure what to do -- she's still glitchy from the jeep explosion! With the plant falling apart and the reactor overheating, Derek hustles to make it over.

Cameron attempts to re-close the water valve, resulting in a fight with T-Greenway, while Sarah and Derek try the manual to fix the problem from the control room. On a closed circuit monitor in the control room, Sarah spots Cameron and T-Greenway fighting, grabs a machine gun from a security officer, and heads after them...

...but to get there she must go back through the radioactive room! In a hurry, she hesitates, but eventually makes her way through it...

And then, through the haze of smoke appears Sarah Connor, machine gun blasting at T-Greenway. Cameron forces him back, causing a firey blaze, and his skin burns off and destroys his endoskeleton. Sarah holds the gun at Cameron, asking her if she's okay. Has the machine reverted again? "I'm okay," replies Cameron. No, she hasn't reverted. Not now at least.

Cameron scans Sarah again for radioactive material. Previously, Cameron told her she dies of cancer. Is this how it happens? Cameron doesn't know. Sarah wonders what she's supposed to do. Is she supposed to wait for the cancer? Just wait for the worst like a time bomb that could go off at anytime? Cameron, too, wonders the same thing about her own fate.

Inside, John warns Cameron not to creep Riley our and tells her he has nothing to prove to her or anyone else. Then, his phone rings. It's Riley, just practicing the "code." John smiles, that bit of normalcy slowly creeping into his life...

Sarah spots blood on the staircase outdoors, a trail left by the Resistance Fighter in the beginning. More on the doorway to the basement. Inside, a wall:

Names, numbers, people, places. All written in blood. A list from the future.

Sarah showers, washing away the day and the radioactive materials. With this list she's more sure of her mission but now even more unsure of her fate...

A press conference is held outside Serrano Point power plant by the CEO of Automite Systems. There he announces that machines will replace workers in the control room of the plant in order to eliminate human error. Entering his car, the CEO morphs into Catherine Weaver, the T-1001!

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Close on a damaged Cameron. From her point of view, we relive the jeep's explosion. Damaged, she struggles to pull herself out of the wreckage, removing a shard of metal from her skull. All the while, Sarkissian and his thug have trapped Sarah and John in the attic, searching for his stolen hard drive. As Cameron kills the thug, she accidentally sets the house ablaze, making it closer to Sarah and John in the attic...

...where she finds Sarkissian. He is dead. Both Sarah and John, traumatized. But who killed him? Damaged chip, Cameron locks on to John -- her programming reverts, and she's instructed to terminate him!

As the blaze nearly takes her out, Sarah throws John out the window and they're off... running, now from their one-time protector, Cameron.

In the aftermath of the FBI massacre, Cromartie leaves Agent Ellison alive, more confused than ever about the machines. Later with police and paramedics at the scene, Ellison and Charley Dixon share the silent secret of what actually happened. Ellison is called in to headquarters to give his report of the incident.

Sarah and John speed through town in a stolen van, and in a moment of distraction, she swerves into another car. Bleeding and hurt, Sarah and John take off on foot, leaving the scene of the accident. Because Cameron is coming...

Hearing the news of the fire on his walkie, Charley turns back and heads to the Connors' house. There he finds Derek Reese, dressed as a fireman to salvage the hard drive. Derek deduces that something went bad in their dealings with Sarkissian. Charley wonders what they were looking for? Andy Goode's the Turk, the chess-playing computer system that will become Skynet and blow up the world.

But the Turk's long gone. It's new owner? Meet Catherine Weaver, stunning but intense CEO of ZeiraCorp. Weaver makes plans to acquire the Turk from her henchman. She then instructs her assistant to call a meeting of her department heads.

Cameron enters a convenience store, cleans her face with baby wipes, and stuns a gawking customer when she staples her face back together. Never a dull moment with this cyborg.

At the scene of Sarah's car accident, Charley tells Derek that a witness saw a woman and teenage boy run off. Probably Sarah and John. But Cameron's also there, still hot on their trail... Meanwhile, an injured Sarah and John make plans to get off the street and find a safe place. They take solace in a small storefront church where she asks for help from the Priest.

Derek inquires as to Charley's plans and his feelings for Sarah. Sarah's one-time fiancee remains dedicated to his new wife, but Derek's skeptical.