By Daniel
The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last-chance power drive: John and Cameron are hiding out in a motel while trying to decide what to do about Jailbird Sarah. John's other concern is that maybe leaking radiation from Cameron's nuclear power source is what's caused Sarah's theoretical cancer.
Meanwhile, Weaver's desperate for a meeting with John Connor, ostensibly to thank him for saving Savannah. Ellison manages to track him down and request this. John's all, "Not without my mother." But Ellison's other assignment is to pass on this message from Weaver to Cameron: “Will you join us?” He's expecting that Cameron will know what it means. She says she doesn't but she's clearly agitated.
So despite Sarah getting a message out to John to stay the hell away, he goes after her. Of course he does. Because what's a Terminator incarnation without an assault on a police station? This one's more T2 than original recipe, with Cameron firing her shotgun in creative non-fatal-yet-still-incapacitating ways. Weaver and John Henry look on with interest.
And Sarah and John go to Zeira Corp to meet with Weaver, while a badly damaged Cameron makes her way through the building's basement in search of John Henry. Things start to heat up very quickly when Zeira Corp is attacked by hunter-killer that flies straight into Weaver's office. She protects the group by turning herself into the Chrysler logo, and then the gang heads for the basement, and it's finally revealed that Weaver's not building Skynet, but building something to fight Skynet. So Sarah better hope Cameron hasn't destroyed John Henry, Weaver says, because John can't save the world without him. When they get there, Cameron's disabled, her chip gone. John Henry's vanished into time, and Weaver wants to get back to the future too. John's in, for Cameron's sake (dude, she's a CYBORG. A hot cyborg, yes, but still a cyborg), but at the last moment, Sarah steps out of the Electric Blue Time-Teleportin' Globe.
When Weaver and John arrive in the future, they're immediately intercepted by a resistance team led by Unky Derek. John's thrilled to see him, and he introduces himself. But neither Derek, nor any of the other resistance fighters, have heard of John Connor. But that jacket John pulled on after he showed up in the future naked? That belongs to Derek's brother. Sure enough, there's Kyle Reese. And with him is Cameron. Or, more likely, Alison from Palmdale, given the fact the dog she has isn't losing its shit. So: is this how John Connor started with the resistance? Do they not know who he was because he skipped over J-Day and joined the fight later? Or is this how it always happened? Since there's no word yet on a third season, we might not ever know. But what a way to go. Baby, this show rips the endoskeleton from your back.
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