History Recap / TerminatorTheSarahConnorChroniclesS1E6DungeonsAndDragons

* ABNegative: Reese's blood type is rare. Luckily, being related, John can help him, with a healthy dose of ArtisticLicense.

* GrayingMorality: Derek Reese, who's one of the good guys, yet shoots Andy Good for inventing The Turk.

Charley patches Derek up, then Sarah explains some things to him (how she's alive, the machine war, endoskeletons, etc.). They talk further and make amends with each other. Charley saves Derek again when his lungs hemorrhage, but says he needs a large transfusion of AB- blood - John matches this rare blood type and gives a transfusion.

Cameron removes Vick the Terminator's skin and burns the skeleton to ashes in thermite, but secretly keeps the computer chip from its head. Cameron confirms to Sarah that the hand is still missing.

The episode is interspersed with Derek Reese's time in the future - Derek and his team are captured while on patrol, and taken to an abandoned hall. The team members are barcoded, chained up, and taken in turn to a room in the cellar where music is playing (where they are presumably tortured) by a T600.

One of his men, Billy Wisher, confesses to him that "this is all [his] fault"; his real name is Andy Goode, and he was part of a group who created Skynet.

The team wake up one day to find that the T600 is gone, and they have been left tools to escape. Unfortunately, their bunker was found and wiped out. Resistance soldiers find the team and take them to John Connor, who completed a top-secret operation nearby a couple of days ago. Derek meets the reprogrammed Cameron at this base, who takes down a Terminator which reverted its brainwashing and starting killing personnel.

John Connor explains (off-screen) to Derek that Kyle was sent back in time on a mission, and the team accept a mission to be sent back in time as well.

** It is implied that Derek's returning to the past changed his future, but the questioning still happens, just in a different way than he remembers. In the Season 2 episode "Complications," Derek has no recollection of being tortured by The Grays.

'''Charley:''' Okay, scary robot. Yet here you are, carving this guy into chum.\\

* NotSoDifferent: Sarah's voiceover at the end quotes Kyle's famous initial description of Terminators to her... as we see that Derek actually was the person who killed Andy Goode.

'''Cameron:''' He's not a guy. He's a scary robot.\\

** It is implied that Derek's returning to the past changed his future, but the questioning still happens, just in a different way than he remembers . In the Season 2 episode "Complications," Derek has no recollection of being tortured by The Grays.

--> Charley Dixon: Is that a complicated way of saying robot?
--> Cameron: Cybernetic organism. Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.
--> Charley: Okay, scary robot. Yet here you are, carving this guy into chum.
--> Cameron: He's not a guy. He's a scary robot.
--> Charley: He's a scary robot. You, you're a very scary robot.

--> Cameron: Every component must be destroyed beyond repair or recovery. Even a single unaccounted for piece of the exoskeleton can alter the course of technological evolution and hasten the arrival of Judgment Day.

* Robotic Reveal: Inverted. While Charley Dixon has been made aware of the existence of Terminators, and that Cameron is one, he still finds it hard to believe until Cameron begins incinerating the T-888's exoskeleton with thermite. The bright light generated is so intense that Charley can see Cameron's metal skull and blue eyes through her skin.
* ShoutOut: At the end of the episode, when Charley nods toward the sky and tells Sarah a "storm's coming." This is a CallBack to the ending of the first film.

* AbortedArc: The episode includes heavy innuendo that something sinister with long-term implications might have been done to Derek while he was a prisoner of Skynet. This is never actually followed up on.
** Arguably, Derek's returning to the past changed his future, but the questioning still happens, just in a different way than he remembers . In the Season 2 episode "Complications," Derek has no recollection of being tortured by The Grays.

--> Charley: He's a scary robot.[[CrowningMomentOfFunny You, you're a very scary robot]].

* PlayingPossum: The Terminator on the work camp bus.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Some of Derek's back story, set in the future.
* ADeathInTheLimelight: Very narrowly averted.

* ContinuityNod: Sarah's description of Kyle is very close to the way Reese described John to her in the first film. Derek's flashback takes place shortly after Kyle was sent back in time.

Cameron removes Vic the Terminator's skin and burns the skeleton to ashes in thermite, but secretly keeps the computer chip from its head. Cameron confirms to Sarah that the hand is still missing.

John, Sarah, and Cameron race to save a mysterious soldier, with the help of Charley Dixon. While he hangs between life and death, Derek Reese reminisces about his missions as a resistance fighter, and the events immediately preceding the first film.

* ABNegative : Reese's blood type is rare. Luckily, John can help him, with a healthy dose of ArtisticLicense.

* ADayInTheLimelight : Some of Derek's back story, set in the future.
* ADeathInTheLimelight : Very narrowly averted.
* ArcWords : In this case, the franchise-wide concept of "There is no fate but what we make."
* BackFromTheDead : Sarah, to Charley. He saw the explosion on the news eight years ago and thought she was dead.
* ContinuityNod : Sarah's description of Kyle is very close to the way Reese described John to her in the first film. Derek's flashback takes place shortly after Kyle was sent back in time.

* FlashBack : And, technically, a FlashForward into the future war with the machines.
* GrayingMorality : Derek Reese, who's one of the good guys, yet shoots Andy Good for inventing The Turk.

* KillItWithFire : Cameron burns the T-888's exoskeleton with thermite.

* NotSoDifferent : Sarah's voiceover at the end quotes Kyle's famous initial description of Terminators to her... as we see that Derek actually was the person who killed Andy Goode.
* PlayingPossum : The Terminator on the work camp bus.
* ShoutOut : At the end of the episode, when Charley nods toward the sky and tells Sarah a "storm's coming." This is a CallBack to the ending of the first film.

* PlayingPossum : The Terminator on the work camp bus.

--> Charley: He's a scary robot. You, you're a very scary robot.

* NotSoDifferent : In Sarah's voiceover, she points out that if machines can create beauty and art, they won't be like us. They'll be us.

John, Sarah, and Cameron race to save a mysterious soldier, with the help of Charley Dixon. While he hangs between life and death, Derek Rees reminisces about his missions as a resistance fighter, and the events immediately preceding the first film.

!!! Plot

John, Sarah, and Cameron race to save a mysterious soldier, with the help of Charley Dixon. While he hangs between life and death, Derek Rees reminisces about his missions as a resistance fighter, and the events immediately preceding the first film.

!!! Tropes

* ABNegative : Reese's blood type is rare. Luckily, John can help him, with a healthy dose of ArtisticLicense.
* ADayInTheLimelight : Some of Derek's back story, set in the future.
* ADeathInTheLimelight : Very narrowly averted.
* ArcWords : In this case, the franchise-wide concept of "There is no fate but what we make."
* BackFromTheDead : Sarah, to Charley. He saw the explosion on the news eight years ago and thought she was dead.
* ContinuityNod : Sarah's description of Kyle is very close to the way Reese described John to her in the first film. Derek's flashback takes place shortly after Kyle was sent back in time.
* FlashBack : And, technically, a FlashForward into the future war with the machines.
* GrayingMorality : Derek Reese, who's one of the good guys, yet shoots Andy Good for inventing The Turk.
* InsistentTerminology: Hyper-alloy combat chassis.

--> Charley Dixon: Is that a complicated way of saying robot?
--> Cameron: Cybernetic organism. Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.
--> Charley: Okay, scary robot. Yet here you are, carving this guy into chum.
--> Cameron: He's not a guy. He's a scary robot.
--> Charley: He's a scary robot. You, you're a very scary robot.

* KillItWithFire : Cameron burns the T-888's exoskeleton with thermite.
--> Cameron: Every component must be destroyed beyond repair or recovery. Even a single unaccounted for piece of the exoskeleton can alter the course of technological evolution and hasten the arrival of Judgment Day.
* NotSoDifferent : In Sarah's voiceover, she points out that if machines can create beauty and art, they won't be like us. They'll be us.
* PlayingPossum : The Terminator on the work camp bus.

John, Sarah, and Cameron race to save a mysterious soldier, with the help of Charley Dixon. While he hangs between life and death, Derek Rees reminisces about his missions as a resistance fighter.

Cromartie visits the school board for a list of new male students. When the office rat refuses, Cromartie kills him and finds the list on his computer. He then goes from school to school, trying to find John. When he arrives at John and Cameron's school, Cameron identifies Cromartie and tricks him by substituting Morris for John.

Sarah burns dinner while she's trying to track down Sarkissian. Derek finds the T-888's chip; when confronted, Cameron tells the other that the chip contains the T-888's visual memories.

John and Cameron watch the memories on the chip, and find out the T-888 was "married" to a woman who was working on an automated traffic system. Sarah and Derek break into the house and find out the woman's identity and her job with the city.

One of the images is of a woman running in the woods, whom the T-888 murdered. When they find the body, they discover it's not Barbara, but someone opposing the project.

Derek and Sarah stake out City Hall. Derek reveals that he and Kyle lived in the tunnels below the building, after the war.

* BigBrotherIsWatching : The traffic system would not only automate every traffic light, it would gather information on citizens. The prototype is city-wide, with a plan in place to go state-wide.
* DramaticWind: On Cameron.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat : The school board representative who won't give Cromartie the names he wants.
* {{Robosexual}} : The scenes with the T-888 and Barbara, and they're pretty damned creepy.
* ShowerScene: Cromartie walks into a boys' shower looking for John.