Dec 09 2008
The Sarah Connor Chronicles Episode 2-12
TV.com: Alpine Fields - Sarah and Cameron attempt to save a family whose fate links in with Derek in the future. Jesse fights for her life.
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Recap & Review: Terminator has been slowly improving from the beginning of the season. The series has had its high points and its low ones. I’ll say from the outset that this episode was one of its low ones. It never really pulled me in. This week, Sarah is trying to save a family whose name also appears on the list. She doesn’t know which of the family is set to be killed by a terminator coming after them. It could be the father, the mother or their teenage daughter. She tries to get them back to the city, but the terminator crashes into them. This leads them to returning to their house in the middle of the woods.
Sarah tries to figure out which needs saving, and the teenager, Lauren, thinks it might be her dad. In his work, he has been doing banking with a computer tech company. They try to hide out in the house, and during this time we learn there is more to this family. The mother has been having an affair with one of the neighbors near the cabin. This is something her husband had no idea about. In fact, she is pregnant. With this new piece of information, Sarah believes that it is her baby they are trying to keep alive. We learn this to be so during the course of the episode.
The episode jumps back and forth through time. First, we’re in 2027 with Derek, and we see where he meets Jessie for the first time on a mission to save a girl that might be the only one immune to a virus unleased by the cyborgs to destroy the human race. The two are able to find the young girl, and they take her back to Derek’s headquarters. Both Jessie and Derek were both infected by the virus, but with the girl a cure is found and made. This is why the terminator wants her dead. We jump from this future point to the point of the girl’s birth ad back to when Sarah first encountered the family, and we keep doing this throughout the episode.
We do see Sarah and Derek are successful in keeping the girl alive, but this episode just didn’t have the strength previous episodes had. To me, it was weak point in the series. We didn’t even see John once during this episode, and he is the main part of this series. There was one phone call. I am a huge fan of this series, but this episode dragged on for me. What did you think of this week’s episode? Only one more episode until The Sarah Connor Chronicles takes its own winter break!
