Dec 02 2008
The Sarah Connor Chronicles Episode 2-11
TV.com: Self Made Man - Cameron’s secret is exposed. A Terminator sent to the wrong time causes catastrophic results changing history.
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Recap & Review: Terminator seems to be picking up speed and only getting better as the season progresses. This series totally escapes everything that is part of the Terminator series of films, but with its mythology he is gaining only new viewers. In the last couple of episodes time travel and different time lines has become a focus, and that has continued on this week. We begin the episode with Cameron and some things she is doing.
At night, it appears she has another life at the library. She talks to the man that runs the library, taking him donuts. While looking through pictures in an old book from the 1920’s, she finds someone she recognizes - a terminator possibly. She has the librarian help her pull up more about the man and she finds out who he is. Even though, the records on the man are in a locked room, she breaks in. This angers the man.
However, she apologizes, and they continue on to find out about the man she saw. There is no record of him before a fire in 1920. He began to buy property in the San Fernando Valley and he built homes. He found the money to buy these properties by robbing banks. When the librarian finds her gun, he of course has way too many questions. Questions she all answers. The more she finds out about the man she saw in the picture, the more questions she has herself.
They find another video of a documentary, and in this documentary Cameron learns the story oh how the fire started. A terminator arrived on scene and started the blaze with his arrival. However, Cameron finds out that the terminator arrived at the wrong time in history. He wasn’t meant to kill all those people in the fire. In order to make things right, he makes sure the building that was going to be built by one of the men that died is built, and then he he hides in the walls for the next eighty years. She finds the terminator and terminates him before going back to the library. She tells Eric, the librarian, his cancer has returned, and he tells her to leave. The next time she comes to the library, he is gone.
As for Riley, we now know she is also from the future, and that night she calls John to come get her. She is obviously upset, but when he arrives all is well, and she wants to just hang out. Hanging out turns into John getting into a fight with the guy who lives at the house the party is at. He pulls her out of the house, and they end up parking somewhere to talk. He tells her about his past, and she does the same. This brings the two of them closer together. You really have to wonder what will happen once John finds out she is from the future.
Not much of Sarah Connor this week. Nothing of Derek and Jessie. This episode was mostly focused on Cameron and the past. The past did become important though because it looks like Cameron found the significance of the three dots. This series is really picking up speed though, and I can’t wait to see what happens next. What did you think of this week’s episode? For daily tv listings, check here .
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