"Can Cameron shape shift like the T-1000. I mean if this is supposed to take place after Terminator 2, then the technology has been developed and just because Cameron hasn't done it yet, doesn't mean she can't. So Cameron has assumed the identity of a woman that Derek was in love with but was killed by an infilitrator. "

""Metal" yes Derek did shout metal, but that doesn't really mean that he'd seen Cameron before, remember Kyle said that it is possible to spot the infiltrator units if you know what to look for, the ones with human skins are harder, but it can be done.

But to elaberate on a few theories, I don't think it's feasible that she was using Derek to make herself heal faster, look how long it to the hunter to regrow his skin from the exoskeleton out. But I do think that it has to do with genetics, the terminators have John's blood on file, maybe there testing to see if they can find his father and kill him, like they tried to do with Sara in the first one, John Connor is well protected, but nobody knew that Kyle was his father, why would the resistance spend time trying to protect him??

I would also like to point out that if skynet was built by the government then it would have all the info the government had up to that point. genetics research, and more importantly biological warfare data, perhaps instead of fighting the War of the Machines, maybe they have decided to breed a supervirus that will kill the inhabitants of Earth, a biological judgment day instead of a Nuclear one. Maybe skynet was using Derek and the others to mutate the virus in order to insure max exposure, or maybe Skynet decided to use Derek as a carrier for the virus, making him patient zero for a biological holocaust.

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"I think Cameron gave them a lap dance then sent them back."

"These are my exact words from another thread. ???

You cut and pasted rather than "quoted and replied". No problem, but strange to my words.
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"I have said this some where else . In the basement they are taking blood and training RF's, also Sarah Connor is there she cheated death again."

"Didn't see it posted here yet but to sum it up...Cameron was in the basement. Cameron of the future that is, what she will become, is what those men met down there. The music was left of her memories of the ballet incident. She liked dancing so she continues to dance. The men were being experimented (interviewed) upon but not by skynet, skynet would have killed them as soon as it finished any interogation. They definitely wouldn't be allow to escape, not all of them. When Derrik saw Cameron she was accross the room and he knew immediately that she was a terminator model, That occured after the basement incident. After she had destroyed the terminator at the base she said that "sometimes they go bad, no one knows why". I think the Cameron in the basement might have broken off from skynet (remember in T2 that Arnold's "learning inhibitor" placed on the chip by skynet was removed so he could learn about people) and is doing her own thing in what she considers the best interest of John."