My TV Musings

Part I can be found here
Part II can be found here
Part III can be found here
Part IV can be found here

Sarah has been shot and needs medical attention.  She sends John off in search of supplies and Cameron stitches her up while he is gone.

The next day Cameron takes them to a bank founded in 1963 and says she has a safe deposit box there.  Sarah asks when she opened her account and she says in 1963.  Upon entering the bank Cameron pulls the gun from the guard’s holster and tells everyone to get on the floor.  She gets the teller to lock them in the vault.  Cameron then opens her deposit box and uses the computer found there to open more boxes.  Apparently she knew the engineer who created the bank, he was from the future and made a homemade gun of some kind to fight the evil robot.  He was also kind enough to leave behind a time machine to travel forward in time.  Cameron prepares the time machine as Sarah waits for the gun to be ready to fight the shooter who is steadily demonishing the metal of the vault door.

He continues to beat the vault door to pulp as the gun revs up to full power and, just as he destroys the last of it and bursts through the doorway, Sarah hits the button on the gun and a huge wave of energy takes the robot’s head off and tears his body apart limb by limb.  A bubble enlarges from the time machine, engulfing them and they disappear, only to reappear in a burst of light on a freeway, naked for all the world to see.  They turn and run off the road, but not before a teenager in a nearby car turns his cell camera on them.

Once they are safely away, Sarah asks “Where are we?” to which Cameron counters, “Same where, different when.”  The construction signs flash 09-03-07 so we understand they are now in 2007 whereas earlier scenes have shown the year as 1999.

A car full of drunken college boys pulls up, ready to have their way with Cameron, but she takes them down karate-style, naked and all.  As they move on, now fully clothed, John asks her if anyone knows they are there and she says “No.  You’re safe,” to which John and Sarah say, in unison, “No one is ever safe.”

Later that night, they have found what appears to be an abandoned house.  The news mentions an amateur video showing 3 streakers trying to cross the 105 freeway earlier that evening and the camera pans to the home of Sarah’s ex-fiance, who is glued to the tv spouting the story.  Next it moves to the office of the FBI guy who was after Sarah way back in 1999.  It seems they haven’t forgotten.

The final scene is of the 3 time travellers in front of their house, wondering if they will be able to find out who creates the robots so they can destroy him.  We hear Sarah’s voiceover as she recalls just why it is so important that she save her son so he can save the world.  She doesn’t know what they are up against but her final words, “It’s gonna be one hell of a dogfight,” say it all.

And thus ends the pilot episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.  I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to this series!

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