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* LesCollaborateurs: This episode introduces the concept of "The Greys" - humans who work for Skynet.



* LesCollaborateurs: This episode introduces the concept of "The Greys" - humans who work for Skynet.
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* TortureTechnician: Fischer supposedly acted in this role for the Machines, also teaching them how to torture humans.

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* TortureTechnician: Fischer supposedly acted in this role for the Machines, also teaching them how to torture humans.humans.
* WrittenInInfirmity: Sarah has a bandaged hand in this episode, because Lena Headey really cut her hand on the rifle while using it to frenziedly smash Cromartie's chip in the previous episode.

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A very ill Sarah has some strange dreams, sending her back to Dr. Sherman. Jessie and Derek question one of the "greys," traitors to humanity. John and Cameron return to Mexico to find Cromartie's body gone.

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A very ill Sarah develops a fever after returning from Mexico, and has some strange dreams, sending vivid and recurring dreams that send her back to Dr. Sherman. Jessie and Derek question one of discovers that Jesse has kidnapped a man who she believes is a pro-Skynet human agent from the "greys," traitors future, and has to humanity. decide whether she's right or paranoid. Meanwhile John and Cameron return go to Mexico to find recover Cromartie's body gone.
from its temporary grave for incineration, and discover that somebody else has already removed it.




* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique : Jessie is happy to beat the hell out of Fischer whether he talks or not.
* ThePlan : At the end of the episode, Fischer has [[spoiler: arranged for his younger self to be imprisoned]], resulting in a StableTimeLoop.
* TattooedCrook : Fischer has "prison ink," by which Derek is able to identify him.

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\n* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique : AllTherapistsAreMuggles: Sarah's attempts to seek help from Dr. Sherman are once again stymied by her inability to confide in him.
* AlternateTimeline: It is revealed that in the timeline both Jesse and Fischer come from, Fischer tortured Derek for a long period of time as a demonstration to the Machines of how to interrogate humans, causing Fischer to become Derek's ArchEnemy. Derek genuinely has no memory of this, leading him and Jesse to realise that they actually come from different potential futures, despite having been lovers in both.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Done by Derek on the younger Fischer.
* DistinguishingMark: Jesse proves the two Fischers to be the same person at different life stages by revealing that they have the same birthmark.
* {{Fingore}}: Derek rips the present Fischer's fingernails out with pliers.
* ForcedToWatch: Derek breaks the elder Fischer by torturing his present-day self in front of him.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique:
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Jessie is happy to beat the hell out of Fischer whether he talks or not.
** Cameron does some severe KungShui on Ellison to discover whether he took Cromartie's body.
* ThePlan : LesCollaborateurs: This episode introduces the concept of "The Greys" - humans who work for Skynet.
* ThePlan:
At the end of the episode, Fischer has [[spoiler: arranged for his younger self to be imprisoned]], resulting in a StableTimeLoop.
* TattooedCrook : ShoutOut: The episode features repeated allusions to the Voight-Kampff test for human emotion in both ''Literature/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep'' and its film adaptation ''Film/BladeRunner'', which involves the subject's emotional response to the image of a tortoise trapped on its back. Sarah rescues a trapped tortoise in Mexico, to Cameron's puzzlement. Her later dream of John and Cromartie also involves symbolic tortoises, and after John and Cameron violently interrogate Ellison, Cameron turns him from his back onto his front.
* TattooedCrook:
Fischer has "prison ink," by which Derek is able to identify him.
* TortureIsIneffective: Explored. Derek believes that the older Fischer will always be able to resist torture because he secretly believes it's what he deserves, but manages to break him by torturing his innocent younger self in front of
him. Meanwhile Ellison manages to convince John that he didn't take Cromartie's corpse despite being brutally beaten up by Cameron.
* TortureTechnician: Fischer supposedly acted in this role for the Machines, also teaching them how to torture humans.
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!!! Plot

A very ill Sarah has some strange dreams, sending her back to Dr. Sherman. Jessie and Derek question one of the "greys," traitors to humanity. John and Cameron return to Mexico to find Cromartie's body gone.

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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique : Jessie is happy to beat the hell out of Fischer whether he talks or not.
* ThePlan : At the end of the episode, Fischer has [[spoiler: arranged for his younger self to be imprisoned]], resulting in a StableTimeLoop.
* TattooedCrook : Fischer has "prison ink," by which Derek is able to identify him.

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