Episode Report Card Daniel: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Hasta La Vista
By Daniel | Season 2 | Episode 22 | Aired on 04.10.2009
ah says she can explain it all for him, and then she's going to ask him to do something for her.And again we're watching the security footage being watched by John Henry and Weaver, although we don't hear any sound. Ellison comes in, and Weaver asks how his "friends in law enforcement" are, and right away John Henry asks the exact same question. Ellison says they're "very determined" and then asks about the security footage. Weaver says Sarah Connor's talking to a priest. Ellison knows that; what he wants to know is why they're seeing the footage here. "John Henry monitors all law-enforcement channels. Seems prudent," says Weaver. "It seems illegal," says Ellison. So's lying to the FBI, counters Weaver: "I don't think now's the time to be parsing which laws we'll be obeying, and which we will not." John Henry chimes in: "Now's not the time." "I heard it when she said it," Ellison tells him, testily. Weaver says she wants to talk to John Connor, because she thinks he may know something about her family being attacked, plus she wants to thank him for saving Savannah. "Thank you," chirps John Henry. Ellison wants to talk to Weaver outside, so they leave the room.
He tells her it's a bad idea, and he has no idea what she thinks John Connor knows. Well, he was at our house that got attacked, and I want to know why, she says. His mother thinks he's the messiah, and she wants to know why. "And despite your reluctance to tell me, I surmise he and his cyber-companion are connected to the John Henry body. And I want to know why," she concludes. Noting his surprise that she knows Cameron's a cyborg, she tells him not to pretend that he didn't know. "She's dangerous," says Ellison. Weaver sarcastically tells him it's "sweet" that he's trying to protect her, but he shouldn't lie to her ever again. Now, about finding John Connor ... Ellison doesn't know how to find him, but Weaver says she does. And apparently it involves John Henry rolling a twenty-sided-die and coming up with twenty every time.
Over at a gun shop, everyone's favorite new unstoppable terminator stomps in and lays a couple of guns on the counter. He wants silencers, but the clerk tells him they can't sell that kind of stuff. The terminator lays a wad of hundreds on the counter. The clerk looks at it, then scribbles down a number on a piece of paper and gives it to the guy. "Ask to speak to Manny," he tells the terminator. "I want to speak to Manny," is the terminator's instant reply. Heh. The clerk explains about dialing the number first, so the terminator picks up his guns and leaves. The clerk says he always thought the best thing about those guns was the sound. "No. It's not," says the terminator over his shoulder, and then he walks out of the store.
Over at the motel, John's still watching the news, like there has to be a Simpsons rerun on somewhere. He asks Cameron how much weight his mom has lost. Eleven percent of her mass in the past six weeks. My god, maybe then we could have someone other than Valerie Bertinelli on the cover of a magazine for a change. She says if she were leaking radiation, she'd know, because she has sensors for that. John wants to see them, but Cameron says he can't. Oh, so he's just got to trust her, right? "Stuff does go wrong with you, doesn't it?" he says, ticking off things breaking, her twitching, her trying to murder him, that time she accidentally erased his saved games on his PlayStation memory card... "You're not perfect. You're a machine," he says.
His cellphone rings, and he scrabbles for it, and answers, putting in his little beeps, thinking it's his mom. "Ah, yes, I remember you. Buenos días to you too, Father."
After the commercial break, Father Bonilla enters his side of the confessional, looking nervous. He pulls out his rosary, and just then the other door opens and closes. We can see a woman through the screen. At first I thought it was Cameron, but since the show's being cagey about the identity, it's not Cameron. Father Bonilla tells her there's an envelope under the seat: "I hope it is enough. It is all I could find." The woman stands up, but Bonilla says he also has a message for her. But we don't hear it.
The woman, face hidden by shadow and hair, carrying an envelope, walks out of the church and down the street, past a parked car in which Ellison sits, watching.
Sarah's in her cell, reflecting. I hope the other prisoners vote to watch Maury tomorrow in the common room.
Back at the motel, John's doing a great job of hiding out by peering out the window every ten seconds. I'm not sure what the point of doing that is if they're still going to be surprised by a knock on the door. It's Chiquita! From way back! And she fortunately doesn't get shot in the face by the fugitives, who've drawn their guns on her.
She's got new fake passports for them, which John looks through. He glances at the details, and then rifles through all the blank pages.
"There's nothing else there," says the formerly silent Chiquita. "There's nothing hidden there. No secret message there for her escape. I am to tell you this from your mother: Leave this place. As soon as it is safe, leave this place. Do not think of her, do not come for her. Leave." She looks over at Cameron. "You are to make sure that he does." She gets up to go. You know, John, she's pretty cute. Maybe you should see if she wants to get a bite to eat, maybe see a movie.
One more thing: "We lose everybody we love," she says. That's not a message from Sarah. That's Chiquita trying to bum John out a little bit more. She heads for the door. "Hasta luego," Cameron calls after her, and Chiquita glances over her shoulder.
Cameron goes back to the window. "That's interesting," she says, and then we hear the sound of her shotgun being pumped. Chick-chick.That sound can make any statement more dramatic, hey? "Are you done in the bathroom yet?" Chick-chick.
Cameron heads for the door, and the next thing we know, she's plopping Ellison down in a chair. He repeats that he had nothing to do with Sarah's arrest. If he had, there'd be a SWAT team outside their door right now. "The same thing would happen to this SWAT team as happened to your last one," says John evenly. Heh. Touché. Ellison says Weaver wants to meet with John, but John's all, "no thanks," and Ellison says he told Weaver he wouldn't be doing it without his mother. So in that case, he's been instructed to ask Cameron one question: "Will you join us?" Which is what, you'll remember, the message was from the liquid-metal terminator aboard the sub a couple of episodes ago. Ellison says Weaver hopes Cameron will know what that means. John asks her if she does, and Cameron twitches briefly before saying she doesn't. And she abruptly asks Ellison to leave, telling him he's said enough. Ellison tries appealing to John, but Cameron's not interested. "I won't ask you again," she says. Ellison gets up and leaves, Cameron closing the door behind him. "He upset you," she says to John. "Me? I think he upset you," he says. Cameron says, you know that's impossible, and John's all, "Is it?" "You said it yourself, John. I'm just a machine."
Sarah's sitting in her jail cell when Aldridge comes in to hang out. He tells her he believes her. About the machines, the time travel, that she's seen a world that he never has. He says in the last eight hours he's received dozens of calls from people who knew Sarah, John and Cameron Baum, who they now know are actually named Connor. "By all accounts, your son looks 16 and not 24, just as you look 35 and not 43," he says. Hey, good genes, man. "I believe you have participated in the miraculous and the terrible and through it all you have maintained a moral and good soul," he says, and he wants to help her and her son. "Help me do that," he says. "M