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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Episode 2 Automatic For The People

Episode number:
2
Season:
2
Original air date:
September 15, 2008
Writer(s):
Natalie Chaidez
Director:
Jeffrey G. Hunt
Special Guest(s):
Busy Philipps

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TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES SEASON 2 EPISODE 2 AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE



Synopsis


  • Sarah and Cameron take it upon themselves to investigate a nuclear power plant. John becomes less enthusiastic about academics, but flourishes socially with the help of a new friend. Meanwhile, Catherine Weaver gains another piece of the puzzle for her pet project.

See Episode 2 Transcript

Unanswered Questions


  • Will the automated nuclear power plant be in the hands of Catherine Weaver after judgement day?

  • Why was Riley so rude to make the short first phone call to John?


Best Moments

  • Cameron to John

  • John looking at all the couples at school before Riley accosts him.

  • Cameron scans, copies and recreates security bar code for Sarah to use.

  • Cameron broke a little smile when their escort told them two laborers had emergencies and could not come to work that day.

  • John to his Mother

  • Cameron in the bar cleaning up playing the pool sharks.

  • Fight between Cameron and Carlbot

  • Catherine Weaver giving her Automatic Nuclear Power Plant for the People speech in disguise them morphing back into CW.


Best Quotes


  • Derek to Sarah at the mission: I spent the night talking to Him.

  • Sarah: I think she's outside His jurisdiction.

  • John Conner about Cameron's Samson & Delilah facial scars: It's healing quikly.
    Cameron: Quicker thatn yours.

  • Cameron to John: That was a very dangerous thing. That could upset people.
    John: I'll have to deal with it. (Looks at Sarah)
    Cameron: Not them.

  • Michelle Dixon to Charlie: Sarah's alive? In LA? And these things - they're not human?

  • John Conner to Riley: We're alive...for now.

  • Riley to John: You're full of carrots & apples... you know, happy thoughts.
    Do you think about the future much?
    ...It's a robot..big scary man. Whatever. Here for you. Protect you while you're asleep.

  • John Conner: This is Riley from school...Now is not the time? When is the time for me?

  • Sarah to Cameron: Am I still gonna get sick?
    Cameron: I don't know.
    Sarah: ...like a time bomb.
    Cameron: I don't know. Am I?

  • John Conner to Cameron:About what you said before...About not being able to trust me...I don't have to prove anything to anyone - anyone, including you.

Episode Trivia

Homage to T1 released by Orion Pictures their logo can be seen here Orion Pictures Logo the same star pattern is on John's bedroom ceiling. The camera shot even made the stars spin, just like Orion's logo.

That night Riley made a robot...big scary man...to protect John while he was asleep in honor of Uncle Bob.


Many thanks to The Sarah Connor Society for connecting the dots err stars.
The Executive Producers credits were overlayed on Michelle Dixon. She was incensed that Charlie brought the metal monsters into their lives.


  • Fact failures: Sarah says she's from Elgin, Texas, but pronounces it wrong. As far as I know, we're the only city named Elgin that prefers the soft "g" rather than a hard "j" sound. Also, despite what Greenway says, Elgin is just over 200 miles away from Corpus Christi.
  • Riley pronounced it Bibiano HIgh School two different ways.



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LiquidMetal Automatic For The People - 2.02 (page: 1 2 3 4 5 ... last page) 119 Dec 19 2008, 11:54 PM EST by rjmatz
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Monday, September 15, 2008

Synopsis
Sarah and Cameron take it upon themselves to investigate a nuclear power plant. John becomes less enthusiastic about academics, but flourishes socially with the help of a new friend (Riley). Meanwhile, Catherine Weaver gains another piece of the puzzle for her pet project.

Guest Cast:
Dean Winters as Charley Dixon;
Sonya Walger as Michelle Dixon;
Busy Philipps as Kacy Corbin;
Paul Schulze as Greenway;
Dean Norris as Nelson;
Tommy Hicks as Bradbury;
Obren Milanovic as Bloom;
Zack Ward as Wells;
Debra Wilson Skelton as Lilian;
Cory Tucker as Security Stan;
Vinni Ali’I Mesa as Employee;
Johnny D’Agostino as Bartender

Writer: Natalie Chaidez
Director: Jeffrey G. Hunt
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Cameron_Philips Nuclear plat 6 Oct 6 2008, 6:01 PM EDT by tk1000
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Seen the episode but dun really understand what is the meaning of the nuclear plant to skynet and techcom. If the plant is sabotaged and goes boom.. no one gets control of it in the future and millions in the present dead. The millions dead wouldn't do any benefit to skynet as they will be dead anyway. The fact that resistance captured it in the future shows it as being a skynet base and since it is, it has a strategic value to skynet and resistance. Why would skynet engineer its own base destruction?
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jdcaerels Is Riley really human? (page: 1 2 3) 43 Sep 19 2008, 7:58 PM EDT by nachi-wan
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I'm not 100% convinced that Riley is actually human. It's possible that she is John's new terminator protector at his new school. In the final few episodes of Season 1 Cameron was taking steps to appear more human, i.e. ballet, making small talk. It's possible that Riley is a newer model sent back at a time when future John knows Cameron is damaged. Her asking for money for food, odd expressions (apples and carrots) and being more laid back could all be enhancements. The fact that she build him a protective robot and is an "early riser" (Cameron: "I don't sleep") and the more thorough scan Cameron gave her all point to her being more than she 1st appears.
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