Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

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Daniel: B+ | 883 USERS: B-
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Heavy Metal Bummer

Over to the docks we go. Here's hoping John didn't stay up too late hacking his whatchamajigger to find the coltan, since it appears they could have just shown up and looked for the big crates with COLTAN stenciled on the side. A crew loads the coltan onto the back of a truck in a warehouse while Cameron skulks around in the shadows. Nearby, John and Sarah are getting the C-4 charges ready. Cameron comes back to report that there's no sign of Chrome Artie yet.

Sarah starts setting the charges by the warehouse entrance, figuring that Chrome Artie will have to go through there.

Just then, some dude with mirrored sunglasses and '80s-boy-band blond hair comes stomping up, carrying a gun. He's definitely walking robotically. He hasn't seen Sarah, who whisper-asks Cameron if that's Chrome Artie. No answer, so Sarah ridiculously pulls her shotgun on the guy, who doesn't appear at all surprised, just points his gun at her. Cameron jumps him, and flings him into some barrels, knocking him out. Cameron strides over and picks him up briefly to make sure he's out. "He'll survive," she says. "He's human," says Sarah. "Not a very strong one," says Cameron. How unfortunate for this guy that he WALKS LIKE A ROBOT.

This little battle has apparently failed to attract the attention of the guys loading the truck like twenty feet away. The truck starts up, and drives off. And only then does the Connor Crew notice three other guys knocked out and tied up nearby. Sarah asks Cameron if Chrome Artie could have people working with him: "Does that happen?" Because Sarah would have no idea if Terminators ever work with humans, I guess. Fortunately for Sarah, Cameron's not built for sarcasm and merely says, "You work with me." "We have to follow that truck," says Sarah.

Yes, we follow the truck to another warehouse, where it gets moved from one truck to another truck via forklift. "If that's the stuff you're made of, no wonder you're so dense," says John, and Cameron fails to detect the insult and instead says that coltan's used because of its heat resistance, not its density, and John and Sarah share a smile while Cameron rattles off the history of Terminator-making materials and how Terminators made with coltan have a much higher melting point. "You know what I love about you guys?" says Sarah wryly. "Even when you've evolved into the ultimate indestructible killing machine, you're not above self-examination and improvement." Again, Cameron takes Sarah at face value, and thanks her. "Please shut up," says Sarah, transitioning nicely from passive-aggressive to aggressive-bitchy.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

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