By Daniel
Sarah's three-dot obsession is taking her to such unlikely places as a Simpsons convention, where she stares at the liver spots on the scalp of Mr. Burns, and then to a UFO convention, one of those places where "experiencers" talk about getting probed, and believers tell people not to believe anything they read in newspapers but to believe everything they read on sketchy crackpot websites. She's there because of an exhibit on "California drones," which seem to feature the three dots. The authority on the California drones is one "Abraham," a blogger who vanished mysteriously six months ago, but a woman, Eileen, at the conference tells Sarah she's got some information. Sarah is the only one surprised to find out Eileen is actually Abraham (real name Alan) in disguise, and he tells some tale of working on a secret government project involving strange metal technology, but when he started blogging about it, his life appeared to be in jeopardy. He's got some sort of proof stored in a safe, only it's gone when he and Sarah go to retrieve it. Worse luck, someone on a motorcyle almost Uzis them to death. They go to a hypnotherapist so Alan can remember the directions to the secret lab, only he and the therapist are killed. So Sarah, who was naturally recording the hypnosis session, follows the directions and they lead her to a windowless warehouse where the sole employee claims to be an air-conditioner installer. Then he shoots Sarah. She ups the ante by killing him, and weakly crawls outside where, perhaps drug-induced, perhaps delirium-induced, perhaps cancer-induced, she sees the three dots on the underside of what looks an awful lot like a Hunter-Killer.
Hey, why wasn't Cameron along on this mission? Oh, that's right: she had to protect John who was PAINTING HIS ROOM and arguing with Riley over the mysterious bruise she's suffered. We see flashbacks that place Riley in the future as a Dickensian orphaned waif recruited by Jesse (who gave her the bruise by smacking her when she wanted out of the infiltration of the Connor Clan -- her assignment is to keep John as far away from Sarah as possible). Cameron's really suspicious of Riley, but she could just be acting bitchy because Riley didn't bring her a Peachy Keen smoothie. Ellison is getting to know the new Chrome Artie. Weaver wants him to teach Chrome Artie right from wrong, so Ellison plays chess and talks religion, which is a great move. Who ever gets worked up over misinterpreted religious teaching? Oh, and I checked. "Fall finale" actually means "criminally boring that may make you not miss us during two months off."
Are Sarah, John and Cameron like any normal family? See our take on the situation. Come back on Wednesday for the full weecap of this episode.