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"Adam Raised a Cain"

Episode number:
21
Season:
2
Original air date:
April 3, 2009
Writers:
Toni Graphia
Director:
Charles Beeson
Special Guests:
Larry Cedar as Detective Crayton
Mackenzie Smith as Savannah Weaver
Jeffrey Pierce as Water Delivery Man/T-888
Austin Highsmith as Debbie
Jill Remez as Teacher








[Untitled]



Synopsis

  • When John attempts to rescue Skynet's latest target he finds himself closing in on Weaver, but at what cost? Game plans change, causing Sarah and Ellison to reunite. Meanwhile, Weaver learns Ellison's secrets.
  • John Henry keeps his secret about Catherine Weaver from James Ellison. He is intrigued about his "brother " AI and Cameron.


Unanswered Questions


  • Who taught the new timeline terminator to shoot so accurately?

  • What is this about downloading the human mind for backup?

  • Why was John Henry curious about Cameron but not the other terminator in the fight?

  • Did John Henry swear when he realized he sent Savannah out of Blackberry headset range?

Best Moments


  • John Henry is explaining coterminus then gives direction to Savannah remotely.

  • Cameron tossed the terminator tumbling down the hill.

  • John Connor finds out about John Henry.

  • Catherine warning the LAPD officer that the eel only attacks when provoked and "don't tap the glass".


Best Quotes


  • Derek: Grass trees - could be worse. My brother, buried out there...I thought that counted for something between us.
    Sarah: Well, John counts more. You keep too many secrets for my taste.
  • Derek to John: Sorry about Charlie.
    John Connor: Everyone dies for me, right?

  • Catherine Weaver to Savannah about John Henry: But there are some people that wouldn't understand him...and people are afraid of things they don't understand.
    Savannah: If they knew him they would like him.


  • John Henry to Ellison about the other AI: I wonder if we share the same thoughts. I'd like to know if we do...I need to know what he plans to do. I don't want to die again.

  • John Henry muses about the human brain: The human brain, it is flawed. There's nowhere to download it when you die.

  • John Henry to Savannah: Do as I say and you will not be harmed, but you will have to do your homework later.

  • James to Catherine: How are you holding up.
    Catherine: The detective wants to speak to Savannah's friends.

  • James about Catherine to the LAPD: She doesn't talk about much much.

  • John Henry to James: Why did you stop looking for Sarah Conner?
    James: She died 8 years ago.
    John after showing the security records: So you accept she's alive?...We should tell Mrs. Weaver.
    James: No, I don't think we shouldn't tell anyone.
    John: Is Sarah Conner gonna hurt Savanna?...Would she hurt me?
    John about Cameron: Who is she? She's like me.
    James: Yes.
    John: If I keep your secret will you bring Savannah back?

  • James Ellison to Sarah: ...I've seen the surveillance tapes. Right now I'm the only one.
  • Sarah Conner to Ellison: Eight years ago you thought I was crazy...You've seen them. You know what they do. Let me talk to Weaver.

  • John Connor to Savannah: Who's John Henry?
    Savannah: He can't leave. There's a chord in the back of his head.
    John Connor: A chord?

  • Catherine to James: What you need to understand (I believe you're beginning to understand Mr. Ellison)...It's because I believe Savannah's survival may some day depend on John Henry's survival...I'll meet with Sarah Connor. Make it happen.

  • LAPD Officer to James: I'm not thinking anything yet. I'm just collecting information.

  • John Connor about John Henry: I don't think it's Cromartie...Something bigger. Something worse.

  • Sarah to Cameron: No one can be trusted...no one's gonna be killed...We don't kill just to kill.
    Cameron: I never have.

  • Catherine to John Henry: When you told me the security tapes were corrupted you were lying to me for Mr. Ellison.
    John: I'm lying to him for you.

  • John to Catherine: Cain and Abel. Which brother am I?

  • Cameron about Sarah: She's losing weight.

  • Movie script: I can't shoot a lady...

  • James Ellison to John Connor about Sarah's arrest: John, I swear I didn't know.

Episode Trivia


  • The season opened w/ a song Bruce Springsteen covered and both eps 21 and 22 are named also after Bruce Springsteen songs. So the Boss opens and ends the season. Here are the lyrics - maybe you can decipher the song and determine the plot.

  • ADAM RAISED A CAIN
In the summer that I was baptized my father held me to his side
As they put me to the water he said how on that day I cried
We were prisoners of love a love in chains
He was standin in the door I was standin in the rain
With the same hot blood burning in our veins
Adam raised a Cain

All of the old faces ask you why you’re back
They fit you with position and the keys to your daddy's Cadillac
In the darkness of your room your mother calls you by your true name
You remember the faces the places the names
You know its never over its relentless as the rain
Adam raised a Cain

In the Bible Cain slew Abel and east of eden he was cast
You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past
Daddy worked his whole life for nothing but the pain
Now he walks these empty rooms looking for something to blame
You inherit the sins you inherit the flames
Adam raised a Cain

Lost but not forgotten from the dark heart of a dream
Adam raised a Cain


  • Another bookends episode: starts at the indingent graveyard with Kyle's grave, and ends at the graveyard of Kyle and brother Derek. James Ellison's Executive Producers credits overlay were bookended from Season 1 where we saw the LAPD officer plainly but not Ellison. This episode we saw Ellison plainly but not the LAPD officer.

  • Executive Producers Credits were overlaid plainly on James Ellison with side view of LAPD officer. We think we know and CW thinks she knows what Ellison is about. At the end of the episode we see the LAPD planned a trap around Ellison to capture Sarah.




PICTURES & VIDEOS

Adam Raised a Cain
Adam Raised a Cain
Cameron in EP21

[Untitled]

Water Delivery Guy T888?

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ttrth Walking around corners... 4 Jun 9 2009, 6:27 PM EDT by Accept
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Did the writers take into full consideration about Derek's training and capabilities in a fire fight when rounding corners? I've looked at this scene several times and it bothers me. Am I the only thinking this way? Were the writers in that much of a hurry?
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Iranatest Was James suspicous all along? 12 Apr 6 2009, 12:57 AM EDT by Iranatest
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In the last couple of episodes we found out (contrary to all the whining) that John Conner was suspicious of Riley and knew about Jesse. He repeated all the clues that we saw.

Will we get the same treatment from Ellison about Catherine?
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SamStaurophobia Derek... 0 Apr 5 2009, 3:40 PM EDT by SamStaurophobia
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I'm not really all that disturbed that he died, I'm disturbed that it was so CHEAP!

Gah.

Also, what do you guys think the Connors will do about John Henry?

Will they try to understand him, or try to destroy him outright?

I want John Henry to continue to be in the show.
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