Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Wake

Passing through the buffet line, John muses to Derek that for all the logic in the steps they’re taking, they’re ending up in some pretty strange places. “You mean crashing that poor guy’s wake and eating his widow’s shrimp skewers?” Yes, Derek, we mean that that. John’s not sure he gets the point of it all, and - really, John? Just in case the audience had been asleep during Sarah’s other scenes, Derek reminds us it’s because Sarah thinks the plant was related to Skynet. “And you think she’s nuts.” Derek nods, granted, but it doesn’t mean he thinks she’s wrong. Looking around, John sees Zoe and her mom next to a giant picture of Zoe’s father, accepting condolences. Cameron notices that neither Zoe nor her mom have looked at the picture since the Clan’s been there. Since Derek doesn’t know what that has to do with the price of coltan in the Congo, she’s offers a more blunt approach. If Derek had a picture of Kyle, wouldn't he look at it? Cameron asks if there’s something she doesn’t understand and John finally puts it together. Zoe’s dad isn’t dead. Derek thinks that’s a leap, but John re-iterates Cameron’s question. Derek looks at Cameron, looks at the family, and looks down. “He’s not dead.” Cameron suggests that they find him before he is.

Who watches the...eh, you get the point.

The house Sarah’s broken into is empty, no furniture, no clue that anyone lives there. It has nice hardwood floors, though, although they’re scuffed a bit, as if something – like the conveniently located bookcase – was swinging along it. With a slight tug, Sarah Nancy Drew’s the bookcase open and heads downstairs. There’s some boxes and a tabletop full of papers, but what’s really bright and shiny is a top of the line bank of surveillance screens. Upon first glance, it looks like the entire neighborhood’s wired. That, ladies and gentlemen is the sign of a bad ass homeowners’ association. Sarah glances at the screens and looks around the room again, this time seeing a smear of blood leading to a passageway. Sarah opts for adventure over voyeurism and heads out. If she ends up at a Dharma station – I quit. Meanwhile, the steady-cam guy’s tired, so he decides to stay behind and watch the screens. Especially that one in the corner that shows...

...John searching a bedroom. Zoe walks in and busts him and John challenges her assertion that her fathers dead. He follows her to the hallway, claiming he can help and she insists that he can’t. Why? She totally does this (clicky) and the camera pans up to reveal an ill-concealed camera in the vent.

Sarah’s still walking down the concrete corridor when she finally hits an escape hatch. Going up, she’s finds she’s in a garage of some sort. Her phone rings and its Derek, remembering to beep and everything. He wants to know where she is and vice-versa. When they get to the part where Derek’s at a “fake wake” Sarah notices something out of the garage window. She walks over, peers out, and taps a few times on the glass. A very startled Derek turns around and gapes. Heh, nicely played, show.