Episode Report Card Daniel: A | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Hasta La Vista
By Daniel | Season 2 | Episode 22 | Aired on 04.10.2009
y son is dead," she says. He sits there a moment longer, then stands up and leaves the cell. The door closes, and he asks if she knows who Danny Dyson is. Miles Dyson's son, she says. He asks if she knows where he is. She doesn't. "He's been missing for three months," he tells her, and leaves. Here's hoping this pays off in the as-yet un-greenlit Season Three.An underground parking garage. A car pulls up and parks right in the middle of the aisle, and water delivery terminator gets out, just as a security guard gets out of the elevator. "Hey! Are you the guy who smashed my gate?" he says. "Yes," says the terminator, pulling out his guns and unloading several shots into the guard. Suddenly, Weaver's there. "I liked that gate," she says. "Catherine Weaver?" he says. "Sure," she answers. So he starts pumping bullets into her too, at least until he sees that they're having no effect. I don't understand why terminators just stand there and take bullets sometimes. Aren't they risking damage? Well, maybe not the liquid ones. Anyway, Weaver looks down at the closing liquid-metal holes, then turns her arm into a long spear and pins water delivery terminator to the car. With her other arm-spear, she jabs a nearby electrical box, using herself as a conductor to electrocute the other metal but good.
John Henry checks out water delivery terminator's chip, which is burned beyond use, having been treated with phosphorous so it would burn up on contact with oxygen. Weaver asks him if any data can be retrieved, and he's doubtful, but he'll try. She wants to know who sent it. He says it's obvious the metal was sent by his brother. Maybe it was a birthday gift! A delayed birthday gift! Ellison strolls in with his coffee, and Weaver wants to know where he's been. "It's 7 in the morning! I've been asleep!" he whines. That kind of "humans need periodic stretches of sleep" attitude won't get you very far at Zeira Corp, mister. He asks if Weaver got his message, and she says it was very disappointing. She asks if he relayed the message exactly as she gave it to him, and he says he did, but neither of them will leave each other's side. "We'll see," say Weaver and John Henry simultaneously, and Ellison totally falls down on his teaching duties by not explaining that one of them needs to yell "Jinx!" and the other can't speak until his or her name is spoken by the victor.
Over at the motel, Cameron yanks the covers off John, waking him just the way his mother did, which bugs him. But what comes next isn't something his mother ever did, I imagine. She tells him it's important that he knows just how her body works, because her hardware and software were designed solely to terminate humans. "Not you. Not anymore," he says. "But what was there is still there. And will always be there," she tells him. "So down deep, you want to kill me," he says. Yes, she says. He asks why she doesn't. "I might, someday," she says. She says she needs to show him something: "This body." She takes off her shirt. John's like, so far, so good. Then she sits on the bed next to him, unhooks her bra. Eyes front, soldier! And then she lies down on the bed. And then she tells him to get on top of her. No argument from John. She tells him to put his knee there ("Uh, John? I said 'your knee.' And I said 'there'"), and then gives him a knife and shows him where to cut. He does so. "Reach down, under the breastplate." He does so. She asks him what it feels like. Cold, he says. "That's good, right?" he says. She says it's perfect. Jesus, John can barely breathe. Not that I can blame him. But let me get this straight: the way to check to see if a terminator is leaking radiation is to take her top off, lay her down on a bed and get on top of her? Give me a break. "John, it's time to go," says Cameron. Yeah, he's gonna need a minute, Cam.
Over at the church, Father Bonilla is singlehandedly keeping Los Angeles warm with all the candles he's burning. The phone rings. "Buenos dias, Father," says Cameron's voice.
And then Aldridge is leading Father Bonilla down the hall to Sarah's room. She's surprised to see him, and asks if he passed on the message. He did, but they've got a message for her: "She's coming." Before Sarah can even react, there's a siren in the distance. He frantically tries the door handle, but it's locked, like, it's a JAIL, Father. He says he doesn't know what to do. "You're a priest. Pray," she tells him.
So what's a Terminator incarnation without an assault on a police station? Cameron calmly strides through L.A. County Jail with a shotgun shooting at many guards, but not actually hitting them. She hits a light fixture that swings down and beans a guard. She's avoiding killing them. They, however, are throwing everything they have at her, and all seem to be armed with submachine guns.
John Henry watches the carnage with interest. On another screen he brings up the jail's electronic lock subsystem. In Sarah's interrogation room, she notes the green light on the door handle and asks Father Bonilla about the Bible story where the locks fall off. "Peter," he tells her. "Gird thyself," she says. Sure enough, the cell doors are sliding open across the jail, and the prisoners are spilling out into the corridors, like students on the last day of school in a summer comedy.
Cameron's still making her way through the jail, although now half her face is blown off. She can probably brush her bangs down, though, and no one will notice. Barely anybody seems to notice her anyway, in all the general hubbub. Weaver comes in and says it appears there's been a bit of an incident. She asks if he knows how it started. Yes, John Henry tells her, pointing out Sarah and Cameron in the security footage.
The two of them meet up. "You look like hell," Sarah tells her, when I'm pretty sure a simple "thank-you" would have sufficed. She asks if Cameron can keep up, and Cameron just breaks her handcuffs in response. They make their way outside, where John pulls up and the women climb in, and they go busting through a gate in this ridiculously unsecure, unguarded prison.
She angrily snaps that she told him not to come after her. "Yeah, bad John Connor. Ground me," he says. Sarah figures she should shut up now. John asks Cameron if she's OK, and she says she's not one hundred percent. "How far from one hundred percent are you?" asks Sarah, telling John that she needs to meet Catherine Weaver, and Cameron needs to destroy whatever's in the basement.
But first, no one can escape the corporate waiting room. John and Sarah sit in the lobby. No time like the present to have awkward family discussions, right? John asks his mom if she's sick. He tells her Cameron thinks she is. Sarah doesn't really answer. John points out she's lost weight.
Then the elevator door dings, and Ellison gets out. The two of them stand up. John says, "I love you," before walking towards Ellison, and after a moment, she follows.
In the elevator, Ellison asks where Cameron is. "In the car," says Sarah, doing her little head-bobbing thing she does when she's lying. "Expecting trouble?" he says. Although if they were expecting trouble, they'd kinda want Cameron with them? He asks if they're armed. Sarah's all, no, expecting trouble? If I'm Ellison, that answer is a big fat, "Yes. Always."
Down in the basement, Cameron is launching a security guard against a wall. She makes her way to John Henry's room, and they say hello to each other. I think you two will really hit it off! You both like the movies of Wes Andersen, and both of you need periodic lube jobs. He says, "Will you join us?" Cameron pulls out her knife, and shuts the door. But now we know that her knife is just part of her foreplay.
Up in Weaver's office, she asks them why they're here, but then turns it around and thanks them for saving Savannah: "She's the light of my life, and I'd be lost without her." Sarah asks where Savannah is. "Let's assume school," says Weaver. Hee. She tells John that they've got a common enemy, and Sarah jumps in to say "Kaliba?" on