Riley’s arrived back home where her foster siblings are squabbling. She heads to the fridge for leftovers as the foster sibs try to drag Riley into their argument. Riley's Mom is there and when she asks for Riley's input, Riley heads off the deep end in a perfect belly-flop imitation of Linda Hamilton’s psych-ward breakdown. (Movie: T2)
"You’re all crazy, every one of you. You just sit here in your cozy little house with your cold sodas and your Facebook pages like it all matters. Like it’s even real. But it’s not. It’s all gonna burn and you’re gonna be nothing but bleached skulls. Don’t you get it? You’re dead. You’re all dead!"
Foster Mom tries to calm her down, but Riley violently shoves her away. Stammering “I’m sorry,” Riley runs off.
Back at Dakara, there’s a problem. The chip’s a fraud and Sarah looks like she’s about to bust some heads. After a commercial break, she and Alex are talking and he’s spinning a story about his family’s history and how they lost everything in the 1940’s during the Japanese internment. Blah, blah, blah. Sarah’s trying to make him feel better, and he swears he’ll pay her back. She tells him she'll handle it and he spins a cautionary tale about the chip-maker being Yakuza. He really doesn't want her to pursue this, does he? But Sarah’s not impressed, especially after she gets a “target acquired” message from Cameron on her phone. This will be the second time they’ve had to steal their money back (“Brothers of Nablus” 2.7), so I guess they’ve got a system now.
Ellison’s talking about Babylon with Catherine and she FINALLY suggests he go talk to the AI, John Henry (hereafter, J.H., so I don’t kill myself typing John Henry every time). So we're back to Matt as he explains that J.H. uses picture representations instead of language to communicate because making it talk would be too creepy – like the 2.0 version isn’t going to freak anyone out or anything. (Hee, spoiler!) But Matt tells him J.H. has got voice recognition, so Ellison can go ahead and chat to his heart's content and J.H. will know who's talking to him. Ellison introduces himself and J.H. provides a copy of Ellison’s Zeira Corp ID. See? He knows. Ellison asks J.H. if he knows Dr. Sherman. A picture of the doctor is projected along with a “1.” Matt helpfully tells us about binary code, so a “1” is “yes", “0” is “no”. Ellison begins asking questions, but when he asks if J.H. knows why he didn’t work with Sherman today, he gets, “f(s) = s” or a null operator. Basically, J.H. does not understand the question, so Ellison has J.H. play Sherman’s death as Catherine narrates. Ellison notes that J.H. requested medical attention for Sherman, and asks J.H. if Sherman was alive when the power came back. “0” Did he think that Sherman could be helped by paramedics? “1” Am I alive? “1” J.H. seems to understand that his actions caused Sherman’s death, but Ellison realizes that because no value was placed on Sherman's life, J.H. had no reason NOT to take the power and condemn him to death by “Easy Bake.” He has no ethics or morals built into his rule structure. “What would you teach it if you could?” Catherine asks.
“You want to teach it commands? Start with the first ten.” Yeah, ‘cause wars were never fought over religion, where they?
Sarah, Derek and Cameron are breaking into the chip-maker’s home. Suddenly speaking perfect English, he stammers he doesn’t have it. He’s just an actor who was hired to play a role. Sarah doesn’t believe him, but Derek, who went through this last week, does. The trio leaves, after telling the actor to forget he saw their faces. Um, maybe masks next time? Just sayin'. John’s waiting at the car and when the trio walk out, Sarah says they need to dig deeper. Derek refuses – Sarah got played and she knows by whom. “Welcome to the human race.” He snits. One wonders if he’ll be so stoic when he finds out about Jesse's little side game.
GAAH! Note to self: when posting a comment, wait til you have read all the pages, as you will lose everything you have written otherwise;(
**Derek’s picking a lock. I do note he and Sarah have finally learned to wear gloves when breaking and entering.**
When he's done, could you please send him over to the CW and tell Our Boys that, as that is something that J2 has yet to learn. They still have time, it's only halfway thru SEASON 4!!
**John fixes on one showing a bear catching a salmon mid-leap. He thinks she likes the bear. She emphatically disagrees. It’s not a picture of a bear; it’s the fish being swept out of the water at random, violently. She wonders if the other fish care, or if they even noticed. CLANK! Ow, damn, anvil**
OHH, good catch!
Thanks again for a great refresher, I am almost up to speed for this week's episode, woohoo! It has been a looong hiatus ;(
For an amazing Terminator FAQ compiled by our recapping genius RavenRants, please join us in the TSCC forum, which can be found here:
http://www.tvovermind.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=…
GAAH! Note to self: when posting a comment, wait til you have read all the pages, as you will lose everything you have written otherwise;(
**Derek’s picking a lock. I do note he and Sarah have finally learned to wear gloves when breaking and entering.**
When he's done, could you please send him over to the CW and tell Our Boys that, as that is something that J2 has yet to learn. They still have time, it's only halfway thru SEASON 4!!
**John fixes on one showing a bear catching a salmon mid-leap. He thinks she likes the bear. She emphatically disagrees. It’s not a picture of a bear; it’s the fish being swept out of the water at random, violently. She wonders if the other fish care, or if they even noticed. CLANK! Ow, damn, anvil**
OHH, good catch!
Thanks again for a great refresher, I am almost up to speed for this week's episode, woohoo! It has been a looong hiatus ;(
For an amazing Terminator FAQ compiled by our recapping genius RavenRants, please join us in the TSCC forum, which can be found here:
http://www.tvovermind.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=…
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Actually I saw an article in canada.com this morning that I posted in the forum about that very thing…how the network is hoping Dollhouse will boost TSCC ratings…(I hadn't realized that things were that bad for the show)
http://www.canada.com/entertainment/tel … story.html
Sorry, broken link ;(
http://www.canada.com/entertainment/television/Te…
Ahhh, html fail. I know it well.
I really hope the one-two punch works, Terminator may be uneven in places *cough*Riley*cough* but it's a good show that asks good questions.
I totally didn't see the Riley being from the future bit til the actual reveal when Jesse was talking to her- did anyone figure that out beforehand? I just sat there with the "Bzuh?" look I have had over much of the season on ALL my shows. I now have a flowsheet for who recaps what when, *and* one for my shows and its characters and WTF plot bunnies ;)
LOL – now you know why I made that FAQ. I suspected Riley wasn't a local girl after that first conversation with Jesse, and her flip-out with her mom was the clincher – I kid you not, they lifted dialogue right out of T2 for that.
I still admit it was jarring seeing her in that flashback-forward.
I like how your review points how utterly incompetent the Connor Team is at crime.
How about the wonderful moves in “Brothers of Nablus”? Like showing up on the fence’s video surveillance system, you know, the fence who turns up dead later on, or visiting the family of the guy who turns up shot by Cameron an hour later?
Let alone Derek walking around L.A. with his “411 jacket” to cover his gun and his tattoos – every cop in town takes one look at him and says, “Ex-con! Armed robber! Stop and frisk!”
These idiots are leaving a trail the Hardy Boys could follow. A blind cop could follow these people.
Like Travolta said in “Swordfish”, “I’m talking about realism. Realism. Not a pervasive element in modern American cinematic vision.”
Josh will be up here in San Francisco in a couple weeks for WonderCon – and I’m going to be all over him about this stuff. Dude! Hire me as a script consultant before you get canceled!
I KNOW – I still think my favorite is Sarah’s absolute incompetence behind the wheel when she’s stressed. I haven’t ‘capped an episode yet where I can mock it, but she manages to do it on a regular basis.
If they ever manage masks AND gloves, I might fall off my chair.
I like how your review points how utterly incompetent the Connor Team is at crime.
How about the wonderful moves in "Brothers of Nablus"? Like showing up on the fence's video surveillance system, you know, the fence who turns up dead later on, or visiting the family of the guy who turns up shot by Cameron an hour later?
Let alone Derek walking around L.A. with his "411 jacket" to cover his gun and his tattoos – every cop in town takes one look at him and says, "Ex-con! Armed robber! Stop and frisk!"
These idiots are leaving a trail the Hardy Boys could follow. A blind cop could follow these people.
Like Travolta said in "Swordfish", "I'm talking about realism. Realism. Not a pervasive element in modern American cinematic vision."
Josh will be up here in San Francisco in a couple weeks for WonderCon – and I'm going to be all over him about this stuff. Dude! Hire me as a script consultant before you get canceled!
I KNOW – I still think my favorite is Sarah's absolute incompetence behind the wheel when she's stressed. I haven't 'capped an episode yet where I can mock it, but she manages to do it on a regular basis.
If they ever manage masks AND gloves, I might fall off my chair.
Actually I saw an article in canada.com this morning that I posted in the forum about that very thing…how the network is hoping Dollhouse will boost TSCC ratings…(I hadn't realized that things were that bad for the show)
http://www.canada.com/entertainment/tel … story.html
Sorry, broken link ;(
http://www.canada.com/entertainment/television/Te…
Ahhh, html fail. I know it well.
I really hope the one-two punch works, Terminator may be uneven in places *cough*Riley*cough* but it’s a good show that asks good questions.
I totally didn’t see the Riley being from the future bit til the actual reveal when Jesse was talking to her- did anyone figure that out beforehand? I just sat there with the “Bzuh?” look I have had over much of the season on ALL my shows. I now have a flowsheet for who recaps what when, *and* one for my shows and its characters and WTF plot bunnies ;)
LOL – now you know why I made that FAQ. I suspected Riley wasn’t a local girl after that first conversation with Jesse, and her flip-out with her mom was the clincher – I kid you not, they lifted dialogue right out of T2 for that.
I still admit it was jarring seeing her in that flashback-forward.
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