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* MoodWhiplash: The episode starts as if it's going to be a quiet character-driven episode in which the central cast deal with the emotionally wrenching events of the previous three. It ends up featuring a certain Big Name franchise villain making a shocking debut in this continuity and trying to wipe out most of the regular and recurring cast, and the violent death of a major sympathetic recurring character.

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* MoodWhiplash: The episode starts as if it's going to be a [[BreatherEpisode quiet character-driven episode episode]] in which the central cast deal with the emotionally wrenching events of the previous three. It ends up featuring a certain Big Name franchise villain making a shocking debut in this continuity and trying to wipe out most of the regular and recurring cast, and the violent death of a major sympathetic recurring character.
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* BucketBoobytrap : Of a sort. When Cameron walks into the warehouse to rescue Derek, she's soaked.


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* {{Foreshadowing}} : The bottles of water in the warehouse are a hint of the next episode.
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As the family moves to a new safe house, Sarah and John separate from Derek and Cameron. Sarah takes John to Charley Dixon's new home. Derek and Cameron are attacked by a Terminator. A power outage shorts out John Henry, compromising his programming. Cameron reveals a secret about Jessie. Sarah finds a lump, but it's not what it seems.

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As the family moves to a new safe house, Sarah and John separate from Derek and Cameron. Sarah takes John to Charley Dixon's new home. Derek and Cameron are attacked by a Terminator.mysterious human heavies. A power outage shorts out John Henry, compromising his programming. Cameron reveals a secret about Jessie.Jesse. Sarah finds a lump, but it's not what it seems.



* HeroicSacrifice: Charlie appears to die holding off Skynet's minions so John can escape.

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* HeroicSacrifice: Charlie Charley appears to die holding off Skynet's minions so John can escape.
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* ContinuityNod: When Derek and Cameron are clearing out the storage locker, he tells her off for removing some of his plastic explosive, and she refuses to tell him what it was for. It's probably for the explosive charge she put into her head three episodes previously so that John could kill her if it ever became necessary.

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* MoodWhiplash: The episode starts as if it's going to be a quiet character-driven episode in which the central cast deal with the emotionally wrenching events of the previous three. It ends after including attempts to kill just about everyone on the show, the violent death of a major sympathetic recurring character, and a shocking villain debut.

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* HeroicSacrifice: Charlie appears to die holding off Skynet's minions so John can escape.
* MoodWhiplash: The episode starts as if it's going to be a quiet character-driven episode in which the central cast deal with the emotionally wrenching events of the previous three. It ends after including attempts up featuring a certain Big Name franchise villain making a shocking debut in this continuity and trying to kill just about everyone on wipe out most of the show, regular and recurring cast, and the violent death of a major sympathetic recurring character, and a shocking villain debut.character.
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* MoodWhiplash: The episode starts as if it's going to be a quiet character-driven episode in which the central cast deal with the emotionally wrenching events of the previous three. It ends after including attempts to kill just about everyone on the show, the violent death of a major sympathetic recurring character, and a shocking villain debut.

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* ArcSymbol : We finally see that Sarah's "three dots" belong to The Turk.
* AndIMustScream : When John Henry powers down, it's an eternity.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs : "On a scale of one to ten, one being a hangnail, ten being Hurricane Katrina, this is Katrina with a hangnail."
* EvilDetectingDog : Too late, unfortunately.
* SacrificialLamb : Poor, poor [[spoiler: Charley Dixon]], who dies trying to protect John.
* ShoutOut : The title is a reference to ''Literature/ToTheLighthouse'' by Creator/VirginiaWoolf. In addition to taking place [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin at a lighthouse]], the episode, like the novel, deals with themes of death, separation, and family.
* WhamEpisode : So soon after the last one.

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* ArcSymbol : ArcSymbol: We finally see that Sarah's "three dots" belong to The Turk.
* AndIMustScream : AndIMustScream: When John Henry powers is powered down, it's it seems an eternity.eternity of slow death to his fast-processing mind.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs : BreadEggsBreadedEggs: "On a scale of one to ten, one being a hangnail, ten being Hurricane Katrina, this is Katrina with a hangnail."
* EvilDetectingDog : CainAndAbel: John Henry identifies the hostile AI as his "brother".
* EvilDetectingDog:
Too late, unfortunately.
* SacrificialLamb : SacrificialLamb: Poor, poor [[spoiler: Charley Dixon]], Dixon, who dies trying to protect John.
* ShoutOut : ShoutOut: The title is a reference to ''Literature/ToTheLighthouse'' by Creator/VirginiaWoolf. In addition to taking place [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin at a lighthouse]], the episode, like the novel, deals with themes of death, separation, and family.
* WhamEpisode : So soon after the last one.TrackingChip: Sarah's breast lump turns out to be a homing device implanted in her body while she was captured by Ed Winston.
* WhamEpisode: Skynet is already active.
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* AndIMustScream : When John Henry powers down, it's an eternity.


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* EvilDetectingDog : Too late, unfortunately.

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As the family moves to a new safe house, Sarah and John separate from Derek and Cameron. Sarah takes John to Charley Dixon's new home. Derek and Cameron are attacked by a Terminator. A power outage shorts out John Henry, compromising his programming. Cameron reveals a secret about Jessie.

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As the family moves to a new safe house, Sarah and John separate from Derek and Cameron. Sarah takes John to Charley Dixon's new home. Derek and Cameron are attacked by a Terminator. A power outage shorts out John Henry, compromising his programming. Cameron reveals a secret about Jessie. \n Sarah finds a lump, but it's not what it seems.



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!!! Plot

As the family moves to a new safe house, Sarah and John separate from Derek and Cameron. Sarah takes John to Charley Dixon's new home. Derek and Cameron are attacked by a Terminator. A power outage shorts out John Henry, compromising his programming. Cameron reveals a secret about Jessie.

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* ArcSymbol : We finally see that Sarah's "three dots" belong to The Turk.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs : "On a scale of one to ten, one being a hangnail, ten being Hurricane Katrina, this is Katrina with a hangnail."
* ContinuityNod :
* SacrificialLamb : Poor, poor [[spoiler: Charley Dixon]], who dies trying to protect John.
* ShoutOut : The title is a reference to ''Literature/ToTheLighthouse'' by Creator/VirginiaWoolf. In addition to taking place [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin at a lighthouse]], the episode, like the novel, deals with themes of death, separation, and family.
* WhamEpisode : So soon after the last one.

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