T:SCC 2.08 "Mr Ferguson is ill today"

[hazelk]

Sarah Connor is making a safe and burying stuff under the floorboards, which is as good a definition as any of what her life has become. Cromartie turns up and suddenly it’s back to where it all began. Garret Dillahunt does have something of an Arnie look to him. Rounder eyed and less roidy but still it’s there. He’s her original nightmare but it’s not her he wants.

Jump cut back a day to Cameron’s turn of view. From which it becomes clear that much of her gnomic wisdom is more like simple mimicry. Drops her jacket before going into John’s room because “It’s hot out.” When Cameron isn’t sleeping I think she reads the bible and watches cable porn. Future John talks about how lonely it is to be him which in this context begins to sound like a really bad chat up line by a visiting rock star. No wonder 16 year old John is so skeeved out by his future self he skedaddles to Mexico. It saves his life.

John and Riley sitting on a bus and it’s something like the ending of The Graduate when “ the what do we do now” of the situation suddenly hits Dustin Hoffman and Katherine Ross just as the credits fall. Except that there are no credits and it’s not sudden. Riley to her credit actually wants to talk about it – I think in another world she might even be good for John. She has the classic Connor hot and cold commitment issues, if it weren’t for the killer robot thing she’d fit right in. Rocks fall, John phones home and not-his-mother answers. His real mother must be dead.

But she isn’t because Cromartie believes in people. He believes in their usefulness and underestimates their tenacity. Sarah won’t die for John any more but she’ll throw herself out of a moving car and nearly slice her hand off cutting the ropes around her wrists with a crushed coke can while unseen gunshots ring out all around her but still be ready to fight when someone opens the trunk and it’s Agent Ellison.

So the Tin Man has found his Dorothy or Job the Lord but neither of them are too impressed to see him. Stories are merging now, all the ducks coming home to roost in a row. Last to call in is Cromartie’s although strictly machines don’t have stories, things are either true or they’re not. Machines can’t be happy and yet Cromartie looks close to achieving that mystical state as he spots Agent Ellison picking up a first aid kit from the trunk of his car. “You will lead me to the Connors.” That was Cromartie’s story and finally it seemed to be coming true.

But this story had a plot twist and ended badly for the Terminator although in a way that will vid like a mother. They lay the body in a shallow grave and Sarah takes the chip. Sarah Connor making things safe and burying stuff like she always does because what else is there? She doesn’t even recognize the things Ellison has lost. Sarah Connor, hero, mother, survivor finally loses it and for a moment at least John grows up.

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