Episode Report Card Daniel: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sleepwalking in Your Footsteps
By Daniel | Season 2 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.20.2009
tter idea would have been to have Derek or Cameron search the room while John stands guard, hey? Or is Derek still too busy cramming shrimp down his throat? "Your father's alive, isn't he?" he says. She tells him to "get out," and runs off down the stairs, so he chases her and tells her he knows that she's scared, but he can help. "No, you can't!" she says, and points upward. Derek looks up, and sees a camera hidden in a ceiling grate. You know, if you're going to POINT at the camera, you might as well just say "There's a camera up there!" since the camera can, you know, pick up you POINTING just as well.Sarah's still strolling through the underground tunnel, which is quite reminiscent of the tunnels populated by the human resistance in the future. Eventually she comes to a ladder leading up to a door in the ceiling. Up she climbs and opens the door a crack and looks outside. It seems to lead to a garage.
At the wake, Derek answers his cellphone. It's Sarah, and the two of them do their little beepy code thing, and she tells him she's in a garage but "it's a long story" and he says he's at a "fake wake," and then she looks out the window and hangs up her phone. She walks over to the window and raps on the glass, because Derek is out there. Of course, so is everyone else at the wake, so it's a good thing she used her extra-special tapping that only Derek could hear and react to.
RECESSIONAL: So after the commercial break, everyone is down in the hidden basement with all the security monitors, even Zoe and her mother, which made me think I'd dozed off and missed a scene. Derek says this is just the way Skynet work camps were set up, with people watching other people on behalf of the machines. "Who are you people?" says Zoe's mother, and Sarah says she wants to know what was being made in the factory, and who owned it, etc. Zoe's mom is all, "How would I know?" and Sarah points out that the tunnel led to her garage. "My husband's garage," corrects Stella. She's not telling them anything, because she doesn't know them, and for all she knows they could be a terrorist organization, and Sarah says they are a terrorist organization, and if someone hadn't blown up the plant already, she would, like way to encourage Stella to be cooperative, and then there's John saying her husband isn't dead: "Not yet." And he takes out a gun and shoves a clip into it and I can't think of a less threatening image than that. Zoe pleads that her dad is innocent, and was all freaked out when he heard the news about everyone dead at the plant, and then there's Sarah and John yelling that they just want to know what was being made at the plant, and Stella says no one knew, and Sarah yells something about sleepwalking through their lives, and then Stella and Zoe admit that they're pretending Daddy's dead so they can get insurance money and move somewhere else and start over, which kind of makes Zoe's earlier snide comments about Henry's family getting insurance money seem even meaner. And Stella is defending looking the other way and not asking questions because that's what everyone else did, and that's maybe what Sarah would do because that's what most people do. Or something. For the love of god somebody SHOOT something. Or someone!
And then Cameron's all, "I pulled this from the archives" and we watch some footage of Ed Hoskins and Zoe's dad kill Mike Thompson and his family. "Daddy?" says Zoe. "You might not like asking questions," Sarah tells Stella, "but me, once I get started, I can't stop." Then John finds some boots with dried gunk caked on them and says he thinks he knows where George is.
So the Connor crew goes strolling outside, where Diana sees Sarah and comes running over to say she's been watching her, and you know what she thinks. "Ed would say you don't smell right." "Well, I guess Ed would know," says Sarah, and Diana says she deserves the truth, and Sarah says, "Sometimes it's better not to ask too many questions." So when it comes to what other people do, they're pathetic for not asking questions. But when it comes to what Sarah's doing, it's better not to ask too many questions. Got it. Sarah gets in the truck and the Connor crew drives off.
So I guess Weaver wanted her daughter brought in so we can have yet another scene of "Savannah is creeped out because this woman is a cold version of what her mother used to be." That's nice. We haven't had one of those in a couple of episodes, so maybe we forgot. Weaver tries to cheer up a sniffling Savannah by talking about what it was like when her own father died. "He was a tough man." He was a block of steel, Weaver, come on. Actually, what she does is repeat Ellison's story verbatim to Savannah, who appears unmoved. She misses her daddy, misses him reading her stories. Weaver says she can read Savannah stories. "He did it better," says Savannah, who's liable to wind up with a metal ice pick in her eye if she's not careful. Weaver says anytime she wants to see her dad, they've got videos, and Savannah has to tell her that it's not the same because she can't sit in his lap. Weaver hauls her up onto her own lap. "Your lap is cold," says Savannah. "I know," says Weaver. OH MY GOD THE BORINGNESS.
We're back over at Cattlekill Lake, where the Connor Crew finds the dead body of Mr. Walsh. He definitely has some kind of chest wound, though. "Where are we, John? What is this place?" asks Sarah. John says he doesn't know.
Suddenly, the water starts to bubble, and before any of the crew can really react, something erupts from the water with a ferocious roar. It's a Hunter-Killer, turbines whining, spotlight shining down on the Connors, before it turns in mid-air and flies off. The Connors all look at each other.
Elsewhere, George McCarthy gets out of the cab of his transport truck as the H-K approaches. He walks around to the back and opens the doors, and the H-K folds itself inward and flies inside. George closes the doors after it, and gets in his truck and drives off. Presumably at some point McCarthy is going to have to explain why he parked so damn far away from the pond instead of just next to it.