| First Season Episode | Sarah's Monologue | Executive Producer Overlay | Other Insights |
| 1 | A Mother may communicate her hopes and dreams to her son with pictures before it has a body.
Sarah talks about knowing her exits as the camera is on Charlie. | Charlie was overlayed with Executive Producers credits while he talks to Agent James Ellison about Sarah's identity...
At the end of the episode Sara is on TV nearly 8 years later. Agent Ellison has the news on but he is too busy with his popcorn to watch. Charlie is looking at Sarah as the very first one to recognize her after her time jump of 8 years. | Cameron smiles at John saying how his Mother raises him and at the announcement of going after Skynet.
After a couple brushes with death; John, Sarah are taken by Cameron to the future to hunt for Skynet to stop it "before it is born."
Cameron tries to tell John that he is safe, but John and Sarah say unison noone is ever safe. |
| 2 | Know thyself | Sarah Conner was overlayed with Executive Producers...
At the end of the episode lt was revealed she died of cancer in the original timeline. | Proshipper clues: Cameron
is a cat person. John gave Cameron a diamond. Future John Conner used the "Hang in there Baby Poster".
The vivid green Chevy in the "gang" neighborhood was a ripoff of my custom Caprice paint job |
| 3 | If Sarah could go back to the developers of nuclear weapons would she kill them? Would she prevent the future of nuclear weapons? | Sarah Conner was overlayed with "Executive Producers...
At the end of the episode the oncologist told Sarah that she shouldn't worry about the future...but prevent it. | Sarah struggled with killing her new aquaintence, Andy Goode, who built the Turk. Some of the software came to him in a dream.
Omage to Sim City when Agent Ellison was at the anti-skynet crime scene.
Sarah told Cameron that Sarah had the only right to decide who dies. Cameron tried a joke. Only John got it. |
| 4 | Prologue is about faces. Introduces the clay golem that was made to protect but ends up killing everyone. Epilogue with Cameron sinking the coltan is about different version with the clay golem saving everyone or being destroyed by its creators. Also compares our offspring to the golem that we don't know what they will do. | An unnamed LA police officer and Agent Ellison were overlayed with the Executive Producers credits. Ellison was barely in the view.
Agent Ellison lost his only baby to an abortion and appears to be still desiring to raise a family.
He unsuccessfully tried to find the murderers. All he accomplished was giving his business card to Cromartie at the end of the episode. | We saw that John is impulsive and unpredictable. We saw that terminators can work with people and not just kill them on sight.
We learned that terminators display basic manners, esp "thank you": Cromartie, Cameron and Carter the Coltan mission terminator.
Cameron explicitly refers the to the "John that she know"s but defers to Sarah on judgement call - not letting John chase after the coltan.
The coltan that was used to harden Cameron's endoskeleton is lost in the Pacific. The timeline is changed.
John's hand shakes after the episode showing that his nerves were frayed by it. |
| 5 | Prologue started with learning chess isa great training for war.
Epilogue with chess is different than war: in chess the pieces cannot change sides (while camera was trained on Cameron). In human war soldiers can change sides. In was there is hope that enemies can become friends. | Executive Producers was overlayed onto Charlie....
John brought him back to save John's uncle's life after being shot by Vick at the end of the episode. | In autoshop a machine was calling for "Sarah".
Learning curves for both Cameron and Cromartie: Cameron learns about greiving, but plays back her voice for the counselor.
Cromartie tells Charlie that he never sleeps.
Cameron foreshadows her interogation of Allison from Palmdale on the counselor.
Derek's 1st words to Cameron "Metal bitch".
Agent Ellison saw Vick's hand stuck in the pavement.
Cameron marvels at Vick's chip when she pulls it.
She then tried to write a note to Vick as part of her mourning lesson. |
| 6 | Prologue Sarah described the horrors that Kyle told her were coming with Judgement Day and the machines. Plus Kyle left her with John and a box of items: hope.
Postlogue Sarah described how the machines killed, and they would not stop until they killed you. This was with the camera on Derek coming straight to Andy's house and killing him after he first arrived in 2007. | Executive Producers was overlayed on Kyle Reese.
We finally see Skynet gathering jet engines to power the time machine. We hear that John Conner stole the time machine from Skynet and use it to send Kyle back in time 20 years.
Then he sends the chosen four go back in time also at the end of the episode. | We see Cameron using her famous push to upset the terminator that went bad in the tunnel. This was used in other battles in the 1st Season.
It is pretty obvious that Derek was with Cameron in the basement. He has a fit with her when he is on the table. He recognized her in the control room.
Cameron burns up the exoskeleton but lies about Vick's chip. The hand is missing.
Opinion: not very much action but a creepier show. |
| 7 | Prologue:
Sarah said our souls separate us from the machines. Some of the prologue was narrative.
Postlogue: Sarah expounded more on the human soul and proposed that when the machines learn art then they will become us. They will have no need to kill us. | Credit overlays were in two separate groups. I lost track & had to review to find Cameron was overlayed with Executive Producers...
The show highlighted Derek's prejudice against her. She showed good infiltration methods with the Russians. But she showed absolute callousness about them getting killed.
Cameron learned "dance is the hidden language of the soul".
At the end of the episode Derek saw Cameron doing a very non-cyborg thing - dancing to the music for the benefit of noone. She did not know he was watching. | Among many plot lines the resident psychiatrist at Pescadero Sanitarium showed he was "insane" with believing in the terminators. He was convinced by Sarah and the terminators he saw.
The isolated cabin with the doctor was also used for Alpine fields.
Derek continued to heal and showed his prejudice against Cameron.
John starts showing reluctance to go get terminators, even just a hand. |
| 8 | Prologue: All of us wear masks... We trade honesty for companionship.
Postlogue:
"...We keep our heads down never bothering to look behind the mask, and in doing so we resign ourselves to terrible fates we can never see coming" | Morris, John and Cameron were overlayed with Executuve Producers...
We learned that Cameron lies and we know she fools people. Morris is totally clueless. John is deliberaately lied to. How much is he in the dark?
We also learned that Cameron's ship can be removed, used and replaced.
She was in ARTIE to plant a virus and she "saw everything."
Derek asked if she would come out of ARTIE.
Did she? | Cameron is liing to the Conners.
Vick performed a facade to fool the programmer for ARTIE to keep her on the job.
Derek did not tell Sarah that he killed Andy Goode.
Vick's chip hacking started with John saying how the memory had no organization. He asked how Cameron keeps any thing straight. We learned that ARTIE was critical for keeping track of massive amounts of visual information.
Opinion:
We see deliberately displayed parallel develpment between Vick and Cameron. We see both of them hovering over their cohuman countrparts at a keyboard. Vick has difficulty making conversation with his "wife". Cameron works at making "small talk" with John. |
| 9 | Sarah's prologue:
She lamented the loss of innocence. We would love to keep these innocent days forever for our children. But she knows they will not last forever.-JD
Postlogue:
Sarah takes a page from "Lord of the Flies"and tells a story of lost innocence. | Executive Producers Overlay was on a poser Sarkissian with Derek and Sarah looking at them.
At the end of the episode John shows Derek that the man they were trying to buy from was not Sarkissian. | We see the battle for the Turk as Sarah tries to buy it from Sarkissian.
We become primed to value innocence. Sarah threatens to kill Derek if he lies again. She is upset over him killing Andy Good. Derek checks with John that his mother has never killed anyone. The story starts in a park with white roses which symbolize American innocence. Derek has no innocence.
At a park adult Derek shows John young Derek Reese with his younger brother Kyle. We see Derek in his innocence.
The roses are pink at the pool Charlie and Agent Ellison get togetherl after Cromartie's slaughter.
Of course Cromartie spares Agent Ellison.
After the rapper says "the man that sits on the pale horse is death and hell followed with him", a car bomb blows up Cameron. |
