Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: The Good Wound
We're back after a brief hiatus where we were left with the eeriness of the computer AI John Henry's new body and new questions about the three dots. This week on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Sarah faces death with the dream-like presence of Kyle Reese at her side, John Connor is distracted with Riley's suicide attempt, and the computer AI John Henry develops an intrinsic but dangerous human trait -- curiosity.
Sarah comes to in a hospital with a bullet still lodged in her leg. No one's found her out yet, but there's evidence of her everywhere. After Sarah harshly rips the IV out of her arm, there before her is a solid apparition of John's father, Kyle Reese. With Kyle's guidance, Sarah escapes the hospital and finds Dr. Felicia Burnett, who is forced to help Sarah.
Back at another hospital where John and Cameron await news of how Riley is doing, Derek hears from Sarah and heads out to destroy all evidence of Sarah that was left behind in the town and at the warehouse. John's informed that his mother has been shot, but Derek has him stay for Riley, because he has to live with the decision he's made.
Sarah comes to in a hospital with a bullet still lodged in her leg. No one's found her out yet, but there's evidence of her everywhere. After Sarah harshly rips the IV out of her arm, there before her is a solid apparition of John's father, Kyle Reese. With Kyle's guidance, Sarah escapes the hospital and finds Dr. Felicia Burnett, who is forced to help Sarah.Back at another hospital where John and Cameron await news of how Riley is doing, Derek hears from Sarah and heads out to destroy all evidence of Sarah that was left behind in the town and at the warehouse. John's informed that his mother has been shot, but Derek has him stay for Riley, because he has to live with the decision he's made.
Sarah's condition turns out to be much worse than first thought. Felicia is obviously understanding of Sarah's condition and concern as Sarah's conversation with the apparition of Kyle bleeds into her responses to Felicia. Felicia helps by sneaking Sarah into a hospital for access to better equipment. All the while, a local deputy gathers up information about the mysterious case, including the recording of Eileen with the hypnotherapist, and he's on the lookout for more.
Riley disappears from the hospital, but Cameron advises John not to look for her, even though John believes that Riley has troubling issues from her foster home. Jesse and Riley are together when Riley reveals that it was a setup to appeal to John's sympathies. We knew it!
James Ellison has some disturbing conversations with John Henry in the basement room. John Henry is now playing with toy Bionicles and searching the internet -- he's getting curious and aware. He tells Catherine Weaver he knows she's not human, but he hasn't told anyone else yet. He knows he's made of coltan, and while searching for more information about the metal, he discovered an audio recording from the Desert Heat and Air company warehouse shortly after the disturbance (with Sarah). Weaver leaves and ends up destroying the entire warehouse and everyone inside with plenty of blood and a massive explosion. Is this for her own protection, or is she becoming motherly with John Henry?
After Derek has taken care of Sarah's Jeep and files on the case, he tracks her down and finds her with Felicia, who has saved Sarah's life. Felicia assumes that Derek is Sarah's abusive partner -- the one who hurt her. Just as things get really heated and Felicia has a gun on Derek, the Deputy arrives with his gun raised. He begins berating Felicia, and a moment later, Felicia turns the gun on him and fires.
With Sarah's life secured, at least for now, Sarah and Derek leave Felicia to wonder if anything Sarah told her was the truth. In fact, quite a bit of it was, just skewed. While on their way to destroy the evidence at the warehouse, they see smoke -- the remnants of Catherine Weaver's visit.
This week's insight from Terminators: We'd be a lot more efficient with ball-and-socket joints like toy Bionicles.
This week's lesson for Terminators: It's not nice to access private phone calls.
Riley disappears from the hospital, but Cameron advises John not to look for her, even though John believes that Riley has troubling issues from her foster home. Jesse and Riley are together when Riley reveals that it was a setup to appeal to John's sympathies. We knew it!
James Ellison has some disturbing conversations with John Henry in the basement room. John Henry is now playing with toy Bionicles and searching the internet -- he's getting curious and aware. He tells Catherine Weaver he knows she's not human, but he hasn't told anyone else yet. He knows he's made of coltan, and while searching for more information about the metal, he discovered an audio recording from the Desert Heat and Air company warehouse shortly after the disturbance (with Sarah). Weaver leaves and ends up destroying the entire warehouse and everyone inside with plenty of blood and a massive explosion. Is this for her own protection, or is she becoming motherly with John Henry?
After Derek has taken care of Sarah's Jeep and files on the case, he tracks her down and finds her with Felicia, who has saved Sarah's life. Felicia assumes that Derek is Sarah's abusive partner -- the one who hurt her. Just as things get really heated and Felicia has a gun on Derek, the Deputy arrives with his gun raised. He begins berating Felicia, and a moment later, Felicia turns the gun on him and fires.
With Sarah's life secured, at least for now, Sarah and Derek leave Felicia to wonder if anything Sarah told her was the truth. In fact, quite a bit of it was, just skewed. While on their way to destroy the evidence at the warehouse, they see smoke -- the remnants of Catherine Weaver's visit.
This week's insight from Terminators: We'd be a lot more efficient with ball-and-socket joints like toy Bionicles.
This week's lesson for Terminators: It's not nice to access private phone calls.
This week's turn-ons:
- Sexy Ghosts: John's father, Kyle Reese, is the strong-but-gentle type. He shows up as an apparition and guides Sarah through her wound in the way only a true love can.
- Women, In General: Dr. Felicia Burnett explains to Sarah that women have a higher threshold for pain, especially women who have given birth. And of course we sympathize with Sarah, because who would want to go through that type of pain again but without the joy of having a cute baby to hold afterwards?
- Women Who Take a Stand: Felicia takes a stand against Derek, who she thinks is Sarah's abuser. When Deputy Alvin shows up, it's clear why she helped Sarah -- Alvin is Felicia's abusive husband. Felicia takes a stand and shoots him for all the times he's almost killed her. When it gets down to the wire, she decides to take the rap for the murder instead of using Sarah as an out.
- IVs: Yikes, did you wince too? Sarah yanks the IV out of her arm in a way we don't want to think about too much.
- Shady Emo Girlfriends: We've about had it with Riley. Some of us feels sorry for her because we know she must be experiencing trauma from her past (the future), while the others really worry about how distracting she's getting for John. Something's up, and we feel it could be even more dangerous than a Terminator.
- Urinals: Not again! We're just picturing Catherine Weaver shape-shifting from a urinal like before. Of course it's a set up, since she ends up being in the hallway massacring people in the warehouse left and right.