There's a pigeon flitting around the Connor Compound. Cameron's watching it, then, amazingly, tries to persuade it to leave. "You shouldn't nest in the chimney," Cameron tells it. The pigeon declines to answer. "You're migratory. You need to find a mate." Already tired of the lecture, the pigeon flies into the window. "That's a window, bird." So the pigeon tries to fly by her, but she reaches up and snags it.
Holding the bird, Cameron walks outside. "I'm not supposed to kill you, but you can't stay here," she tells it. When I was a bartender, that's exactly what I told people at closing time. People eventually got the message. She holds the bird up and tells it to go, but it does not. Possibly because Cameron starts to squeeze it, and then drops it, dead, on the ground. She stares at her hand, figures twitching, looking mildly alarmed. Since most of the time her features are expressionless, she's completely freaking out.
Sarah's brushing her teeth in the bathroom, and then looks over at the huge bloodstain on the floor, like "Oh, yeah. That." So she hauls out a can of Nova Brite and is scrubbing away and suddenly Riley's standing there. "I was wondering when we'd see you again," says Sarah, instead of, say, "hello" or "how are you." Riley's wrists are bandaged, and she says, "They make you rest a couple days." Sarah asks if it helps, and Riley says it doesn't.
Speaking of helping, Sarah's used up all the Nova Brite, and Riley asks if there's some anywhere else, and Sarah tells her that it's in the kitchen, so Riley volunteers to go get it, which seems fair.
Only instead of bringing it back, she sits on the kitchen counter with it, reading about how it's deadly to people and domestic animals, and in case you're wondering if maybe she's thinking of trying to kill herself again, here comes Capt. Sunshine himself, John Connor, and she says she needed a "minute alone," and John asks if "she" said anything, and Riley says she asked her, but she thinks Sarah was just trying to be nice. The nickname "Suicide Blond"? Not so nice! It's John's opinion that it's not anybody's business, and Riley has to point out that she did do it right in their bathroom. And then they talk some more about forgetting things and things that are in the past, and he strokes her hair, and meanwhile poor Sarah is up there just waiting for the Nova Brite, and eventually she gives up and goes to get it herself and it's just been left there sitting in the middle of the hallway, like thanks for nothing, Riley.













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