Flash-forward. Jesse’s being debriefed...by Cameron. Who is dressing her down for destroying the sub and the Trip Eight. Jesse notes she forgot about the people. The people who died. “Yes. The people.” Cameron agrees. “And the box.” Can't forget the box. Jesse’s still in shock, they opened the box and Jesse wants to know what that thing was. “We opened the box and Hell came out of it.” But Cameron doesn’t care. She has a mission and all she wants is the answer. Telling me is just like telling John, Cameron assures her. And this is where Jesse loses her faith, this is where she stops trusting. “Dietz was right. Who the hell is running this war? What the hell are we fighting for if telling you is the same as telling Connor?” They’re not the same, they can’t be the same, they never will be the same. But Cameron stands impassive, and Jesse folds. Game over. She’s had enough. And for a split second I think she’s going to lie, but she doesn’t. The answer is “no.” Cameron looks away. Jesse has to ask. “If the answer is ‘no’, what was the question?”
“Will you join us?”
While Jesse and probably the entire viewing audience sit back to ponder the implications of that little exchange, the writers have decided to deliver one more punch to the gut. Cameron turns to leave, but before she does, she tells Jesse that she’s sorry for Jesse’s loss. What loss? The Doctor’s aren’t sure when it happened, the fight, the escape, the ascent, but “You were pregnant. Now you aren’t.”
Not the hero.
What was left of Jesse breaks and we fade back to the past, and a parking garage stairwell she’s descending to leave. Derek’s on one of the levels, waiting. And Derek? Does not appear happy. Not that he ever appears happy, but now he’s really not happy. And there’s a song playing in the background...
I’m not a disciple of saviors./I’m not a diviner of souls./I know what the papers will say when I’m gone./They wont put me above the fold.
Derek’s next question doesn’t bode well for Jesse. “Do you know who Billy Wisher is?” She doesn’t, she wouldn’t. Where she comes from, he doesn’t exist. Time has changed. Derek continues. Wisher was his friend, best friend, his brother almost. They were soldiers, and Derek trusted him with his life, but Derek never really knew him, because back here? He had another name, Andy Goode. Computer genius. (“The Turk” 1.3) He made a program that would become Skynet. So now Andy Goode is dead (“Queen’s Gambit” 1.5). Billy Wisher, Derek’s almost brother, is dead. Because Derek killed him. He did it for Kyle, and John and he did it for her. Jesse tries, she does – he has no idea what they took from her, from them – but Derek tells her to stop. “I don’t know who you are.” She tell him she’s Jesse. "I'm Jesse." But she’s not his Jesse and she never really was. She nods, she gets it, but the look on Derek’s face tells us she really doesn’t. “John Connor said to let you go.” Her face goes cold, and the audience holds its breath.
“I’m not John Connor.”
Derek pulls his gun and Jesse throws her bag at him. She turns and runs toward the stairs, if she can get down them, she might get away. He takes aim and holds, and holds until you think he can’t. She reaches the stairs and pauses, taking one last look at his eyes.
You failed to define your messiah again./Now here I am.
The camera lingers on the trigger as she runs and Derek begins to pull. We never hear a shot. We don’t know if she lives.
**His mother on one side, Cameron on the other. And when he crumbles, when he finally lets go and the tears fall, it’s his mother who holds him, his mother who comforts him.
And the metal sits beside them, silently.**
Ouch, my heart hurts..especially since I am reading the recap *after* last night's episode *wibbles*.
Fox, please don not cancel this show.
Yeah, these next two recaps are going to have me in tears….
**His mother on one side, Cameron on the other. And when he crumbles, when he finally lets go and the tears fall, it’s his mother who holds him, his mother who comforts him.
And the metal sits beside them, silently.**
Ouch, my heart hurts..especially since I am reading the recap *after* last night’s episode *wibbles*.
Fox, please don not cancel this show.
Yeah, these next two recaps are going to have me in tears….