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"Born To Run" (Season 2 Finale)


Episode number:
22 (ends Season 2)
Season:
2
Original air date:
April 10. 2009
Writer(s):
Josh Friedman
Director:
Jeffrey Hunt
Special Guests:
Joshua Malina as Agent Auldridge
Carlos Sanz as Father Armando Bonilla
Shane Edelman as Matt Murch
Cooper Huckabee as Salesman
Linden Goh as Fuller
Jeffrey Pierce as Water Delivery Man/T-888

Born to Run




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


  • Why were Cameron's eyes red, instead of the usual blue?

  • Did Catherine Weaver and John end up at the same time as John Henry? If so, where was he when they arrived?

  • Did Catherine Weaver terminate the waterboy terminator or just cause a reboot?

  • Is Cameron in the Turk or part of John Henry or just gone?

  • How much different will John Henry be without the bulky bank of interface hardware but only a high speed chip?

  • Does Sarah have cancer?

  • Did John Henry inherit Cameron's glitch?

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.

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samosapowis john henry 17 May 12 2009, 12:52 PM EDT by mannymore
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we have to go to find our boy -0 hes not my boy - john henry - what the hell!!! aghhhhhhhhhhh we going in the future to find john henry!!!! who is cameron who has taken camerons chip...i mean aghhh there has to be another season cause that would mess the terminator film(4) if it explains it in that film then i take back all what i said because it would of all been exaplined and i would be satisfied buy the ending other wise!!! season 3 here we come...however alittle delayed but because of the unsatisfactary we get a finish oin the scc oh my oh my! anyone else have any theroes or what nots about this seasons whole ending?
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Zeno-2 It's Allison, we're sure, yes? 5 May 6 2009, 8:04 AM EDT by TooBoku
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Is there any doubt that we see Allison Young at the end of Born to Run?
Is it proven by the fact that the offcial recab tells us so?
Could it be someone else?
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trmin8r Weaver Knowledge 17 May 4 2009, 11:19 PM EDT by Iranatest
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Did anybody know that Catherine Weaver wasn't a bad guy before the season finale?
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