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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 1 episode 3 The Turk


Episode Number: 3

Season: 1


Original Air Date: 1/21/2008

Writer
: John Wirth

Director: Paul Edwards

Special Guests: Aaron Cash as Cromartie, Charlayne Woodard as Tarissa Dyson; Brendan Hines as Andy Goode

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Synopsis

Sarah sits over news clippings and photos from the Resistance’s apartment hideout. Sarah believes the Resistance was sent back to eliminate all Skynet loose ends.

John and Cameron start their first day of school. They notice some strange graffiti on a wall. A blonde girl nearby seems upset by it.

Sarah meets Theresa Dyson at Miles’ grave. Theresa hasn’t seen her since 1999. Sarah gives Theresa an envelope of photos and asks Theresa if she recognizes anyone. She recognizes and intern named Andy Goode.

Agent Ellison investigates the Resistance’s apartment with Agent Greta Simpson. Simpson thinks the dead guys are small time. Ellison thinks something larger is going on.

Cromartie, buried under a mess of clothes, breaks into a hospital and steals a large amount of blood.

Sarah meets Andy where he works, a cell phone store. Andy asks Sarah on a date, and after giving him a hard time, she accepts.

John’s new lab partner is a pretty girl, Cheri. Cameron transfers into the class.

Ellison goes to Carlos’ home, the man who made the new identity papers for Sarah. He wants to know why Carlos’ uncle, Enrique, called Carlos three times the day he died. Carlos plays dumb as to who killed his uncle.

Dr. Fleming comes home to find Cromartie waiting. Cromartie grabs Fleming’s neck and lifts him off the ground.

Sarah tells John about Andy and that she’s having dinner with him.

Cromartie orders Fleming to create something based on a formula that Cromartie has written on the wall. Fleming says he can, but he needs to go to his lab.

Andy tells Sarah that he’s building a computer named “The Turk,” that has the ability to play chess. And his version of the Turk has the ability to outsmart all human chess players. Sarah sees someone in the window and gives chase only to find no one.

Later that night, Sarah tries to describe The Turk to John, but she doesn’t know the details he wants and he can’t tell her if it might be the machine that brings down humanity.

Agent Simpson tells Ellison that a finger print from one of the dead men in the apartment matched that of a 4 year-old boy. Ellison doesn’t understand how. Ellison asks Simpson for blood evidence from the scene to compare with his crime scene. The blood he found has no red blood cells.

Fleming works in his lab, working on Cromartie’s formula. He pours a vat of what appears to be blood into his bathroom tub. Cromartie pushes passed Fleming and removes his coat, revealing the full T-888 endoskeleton. Fleming can’t believe what he’s seeing.

Sarah visits the doctor, wondering if there’s anything she can do to prevent cancer. The doctor says she’s healthy and shouldn’t worry.

John talks to Cheri in the hall and they pass another large piece of graffiti, which hints that a student may be sleeping with a teacher. The blonde girl from before walks by upset.

Cameron tries to blend with the girls in the bathroom, but not succeeding. She hears the blonde girl, Jordan, crying about the graffiti. Cameron does what she thinks is right to console her, but Jordan storms off.

Sarah and Andy walk through the park. Andy explains he’s put eight years of his life into The Turk and has installed a security system to protect it. Andy continues to say The Turk has moods.

The final piece of graffiti is being painted over at the high school.
A student announces that there’s a girl on the roof who might jump. John makes a move to save Jordan, but Cameron stops him. John has to blend in. Jordan falls forward and crashes to the pavement. Cameron pulls John away.

At home, Sarah defends what Cameron told John. John is furious that he couldn’t save Jordan. Cameron says Andy must be killed.
Ellison walks into Fleming’s home, a crime scene squad is already there. Fleming is in the bathroom, dead. Cromartie also took his eyes.

Andy returns home from work to see his house on fire. Sarah watches from down the street.

Before Cromartie killed Fleming, Cromartie emerges from the bathub, skin creating a misshaped face. Fleming cuts two slits on the face, and Cromartie’s red eyes flick open.

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Best Moments

  • Sarah and Tarissa at Miles' grave
  • Cromartie at the hospital
  • Metal detector scene, where Cameron tries to pass through and John explains that his sister has a metal plate in her head-a big one
  • John interrogating his mom about the Turk
  • The four year old's fingerprints
  • John trying to save Jordan
  • John yelling at Sarah that if they're going to act like machines, they might as well give it to them.
  • The blood bath

Best Quotes

  • Sarah to Cameron: Much better, with clothes on, much better.
  • Sarah: Don't you kiss me. Or anyone else!
  • Tarissa: Is he going to die too? Is that what happens now, he dies?
  • Sarah: What happens if I press these numbers here. If I press seven of them, will someone talk to me through the ear part up here
  • John: Oh, well, we went, we learned. I didn't get killed and she didn't kill anybody. It's a pretty good first day, I think.
  • Cameron: People die all the time, they won't wait for her.
  • Cameron: I fooled you again.
  • Cromartie: Can you do it?
  • Doctor: Is there anything else about your history I should know about?
  • Cameron: Here's a present. It's tight.
  • Cameron: I'm a bitch whore.
John: What?

Cameron: I have a new friend.
John: Did she call you a bitch whore?
Cameron: No. She cried.
  • Sarah: Now we're all sons of bitches.
  • When the other agent showed Ellison the results of the finger print trace is a small child: "That's one of your dead terrorists...and that's the look I wanted to see."

Trivia

  • Two omages to Maxis Sim City - "Wait a second, we're cleaning up" was imported twice into the sound track when Agent Ellison started his scenes. The sound bite is from Sim City background noise for the Sim Police Stations.
  • When Cromartie rises out of the tub of blood, the scientist uses an X-acto knife to cut open his eyelids. This hearkens back to T1, when Arnold cuts out his damaged eye in the bathroom with an X-acto knife.
  • Cameron said that the first door was "a re-imagining of a trompe-l'oeil fresco" a type of painting designed to be an optical illusion and to trick the eye.
  • Door 1 said "A", Door 2 said "DAN", and Door 3 said "IDAN" while being slightly ajar, showing a silhouette of man in the window leaning down and kissing a girl. Of the girl, blonde hair was visible, and a skirt that resembled a cheerleader's.
  • The original Turk was a hoax involving a small man in a very cramped box rather than a super computer

  • The Executive Producers credits were overlaid on Sarah just after she passed the "Cell Division" sign. Near the end of the episode Sara returns to the oncologist, who told Sarah that she shouldn't worry about the future...but prevent it.

    At the end of the episode we see the fruit of accelerated cell Division when Cromartie emerges from the blood bath with full body skin.

Unanswered Questions

  • Why did Sarah let John go back to school?
  • What did the drawings on the wall & the girls reason for suicide stand for?
  • Where do they get their weapons from?



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Sammysf415 Graffiti On The Walls (Black DoorS) (page: 1 2) 20 Jun 15 2008, 2:31 AM EDT by planetxan
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WHAT ALL THAT ABOUT....I JUST KNOW THAT A GIRL JUMP FROM A BUILDING BECAUSE OF IT.....IS THERE ANYTHING IMPORTANT ABOUT THAT SEANE?
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Wild-Kat What's the deal with Cameron's behavior now? (page: 1 2 3) 43 Feb 3 2008, 1:53 PM EST by Maxie-Maxie
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I can't figure out why Cameron was so friendly, and personable in the first episode--to the point where she totally faked John out, and now she's a total robot?!
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onus where can i find 5 Jan 27 2008, 5:17 PM EST by TerminatorPodcast
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Sarah's monologue at the end of this episode; where may i find it?
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