Synopsis

• Fate is changed forever on the explosive season finale episode! The Connors come face-to-face with Weaver in a confrontation that shakes John to the core and changes his reality forever. Nothing will be the same.
  

• Obviously it changed John's reality because he went forward in time. I got the impression that Weaver wanted to kill him but all along she was on his side. Right at the end what!!!!! I think Weaver is John's Dad in Terminator style camoflage. Lovely loved scc; awesome!
  

• Wow it was awesome! I was surprised that Weaver told them she wanted to stop Skynet. But I don't think that Weaver is John's father in Terminator camouflage. In his future no one seems to know John Connor. So by getting into the future this changes right? Or they give us a new explanation how the whole story began?
  

Unanswered Questions

Best Moments

• When Weaver protects the Connors and co by becoming a Terminator 'angel'
  

• Sarah, John Connor and Ellison bow down before Weaver as they recognize her powerful shield.
  

• The moment John saw his father, as a man, for the first time. The look in his eyes was very poignant.
  
  

• The eel in the tank was part of Weaver!

• John Henry kicks Merch's butt in Dungeons and Dragons

• Ellison finds Weaver and John watching Sarah in the interogation room.

• Waterboy terminator leaves roll of Benjamins on the gun store counter
  

Best Quotes

• John Connor to Cameron: I want to know if being around them (shielded nuclear power sources) all the time can give you cancer.

• Catherine Weaver to Merch about John Henry: I'm sure you've considered the possibility that he can roll whatever number he desires.

• Mr. Merch: I think what we know to be John Henry only exists as this specific collection of hardware and software: body and soul.

• Sarah to Ellison: Last time I drew a picture (about terminators) I ended up in a psych ward.

• Sarah to Father Amando Bonilla: I do believe that someone, something, wants the world to burn.
  Father Amando Bonilla to Sarah: I pray everyday to understand what happened that day.

• Catherine Weaver to James Ellison: You wanna meet John Connor?... And you think I need protection - that's cute.

• Gun salesman: You know, I always thought the best things about those guns was the sound.
  Waterboy Terminator: No it's not.

• John Connor to Cameron about his Mother: How much weight has she lost?

• James Ellison to John Connor: Catherine Weaver would like to meet you.

• James Ellison to Cameron: Will you join us? She says she hopes you'll know what that means.
  John to Cameron: I think he upset you.
  Cameron: You know that's impossible. You said it yourself John, 'I'm just a machine'.

• Cameron to John: this software was designed to terminate humans...I need to show you something: this body.

• Sarah Connor to Father Amando Bonilla: What was that bible story, the one where the locks fall off?

• Sarah Connor to Cameron: How far are you from 100% are you?...Cuz I need to meet Catherine Water.
  Sarah Connor to John: She needs to destroy whatever is in that basement.

• Cameron to John Henry: I know you.
  John Henry to Cameron: And I know you. Will you join us?

• Sarah to Catherine: Kaliba, don't presume we know Kaliba.
  Catherine to Sarah: I wasn't talking to you.
  Catherin Weaver to John Connor: We have a common enemy: Skynet.

• Sarah Connor: They're trying to kill my son.
  Catherine Weaver: No, they're trying to kill my son...Your John may save the world but he can't do it without mine.

• Catherine Weaver: He didn't take the chip. She gave it to him.

• John Connor: Where is he?
  Catherine Weaver: Not where, when?

• Sarah Connor: You lying terminator bith - you're building Skynet.
  Catherine: No, I was building something to fight it.

• John Henry: Mr. Merch, I'm ready to confront the mind slayer now.

• John Henry: Twenty!

• John Connor to Sarah: I love you.
  
  

• Cameron: Get on top of me!
  

• Sarah: I love you John
  

• Cameron: I'm sorry John (on the Turk monitor)
  

Episode Trivia

• Sarah's line, "You lying terminator bitch" is the first use of the word "terminator" in the series.

• The season opened w/ a Bruce Springsteen song and both eps 21 and 22 are named also after Bruce Springsteen songs. So the Boss opens and ends the season. See if the words give away any spoilers on the plot.

• BORN TO RUN
  In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream
  At night we ride through the mansions of glory in suicide machines
  Sprung from cages out on highway 9,
  Chrome wheeled, fuel injected,and steppin’ out over the line
  h-Oh, Baby this town rips the bones from your back
  It’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap
  We gotta get out while we’re young
  `Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run
  yes, girl we were
  Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend
  I want to guard your dreams and visions
  Just wrap your legs ’round these velvet rims
  and strap your hands ‘cross my engines
  Together we could break this trap
  We’ll run till we drop, baby we’ll never go back
  h-Oh, Will you walk with me out on the wire
  `Cause baby I’m just a scared and lonely rider
  But I gotta know how it feels
  I want to know if love is wild
  Babe I want to know if love is real
  Oh, can you show me
  Beyond the Palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard
  Girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors
  And the boys try to look so hard
  The amusement park rises bold and stark
  Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist
  I wanna die with you Wendy on the street tonight
  In an everlasting kiss
  1-2-3-4!
  The highway’s jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
  Everybody’s out on the run tonight
  but there’s no place left to hide
  Together Wendy we can live with the sadness
  I’ll love you with all the madness in my soul
  h-Oh, Someday girl I don’t know when
  we’re gonna get to that place
  Where we really wanna go
  and we’ll walk in the sun
  But till then tramps like us
  baby we were born to run
  Oh honey, tramps like us
  baby we were born to run
  Come on with me, tramps like us
  baby we were born to run
  Ru-uh-uh-un
  Mm-mm-mm-mm
  Uh-uh-uh-oh-oh-oh-oh
  Ru-uh-uh-uh-un
  Mm-mm-mm-mm
  Whoa-oh-oh-oh
  Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
  Ru-uh-uh-un
  
  
• The lyrics seem to indicate that John longs for the time/space/setting that would be suitable for him to express his desire (for Cameron?/Allison?).
  

• the above text how is that related to the episode because it wasnt even in the last episode unless i was unconcionce (sp).
  
  
• Rolling a 20 is the best roll possible in Dungeons and Dragons.
  
  
• Executive Producer's Credits overlay was on Catherine Weaver, front and centered. At the end of the episode it was finally positively revealed that she was the liquid metal terminator on the Jimmy Carter. (No surpise there.) However it was also revealed that she and Cameron were working as a team. Catherine sent a message through James Ellison "Will you join us?" This was a coded message. This obviously upset Cameron that it was time to donate her chip to Weaver's cause, John Henry.
  
  
• Just as in the Wizard of Oz, John Connor (like Dorothy) left all of his friends from his adventure. He met the wizard (Catherine Weaver) who sent him away. He went to his new home in the future. He knew Derek and recognized Alison as Cameron. But noone knew his story. (Dorothy's story was just a dream to her uncle et al.)
  
  
• It was pointed out that there was a painting on the wall above the bed in John Connor's motel room of New Caprica from Battlestar Galactica.
  
  
• Merch referred to John Henry as "body and soul". In an early Season Chronicle Sarah made a big deal about terminators not having souls; and if one did maybe it could live with us peacefully.