The damage to Cameron from the car
explosion reappears via a malfunction in her hand. Meanwhile Riley’s
cover story begins to falter; will John discover her secret at last?
While trying to remove a pigeon from
the Connor homestead, Cameron accidentally kills it. Her hand
malfunctioned and instead of releasing the bird she crushes it.
Cameron enlists John to help her repair her hand. In the process of
helping her, John becomes aware that Cameron has been hoarding spare
parts from defeated Terminators. Cameron had been instructed to
destroy any parts of future technology by Sarah but she has ignored
that order, due to receiving an earlier order from the future John
Connor to save some.
This bizarre order is interesting as it
raises questions about the sanity of future John Connor. Jessie has
come back in time to correct the path of John Connor as she believes
that in the future he is making bad decisions, is she correct? John
has always questioned his ability to lead humanity successfully, so
it will be interesting to see how he reacts now that he is receiving
evidence to suggest he was right to worry.
Cameron’s arm isn’t the only part
of her to be damaged. John begins to notice that she is acting
strangely again, such as asking for his help to repair herself when she
doesn’t need any. He asks her what is going on with her and she is
unable to give him an answer. Given his concerns she makes him a
detonator, which is wired up to an explosive in her brain. As he
leaves Cameron he finds another dead bird outside, showing that the
repair on her arm was not successful.
Riley has returned to hang out with
John again, following her suicide attempt. Sarah is worried about the
lack of information she has on Riley and decides to investigate her.
Upon visiting her foster home and ‘social worker’ (Jessie) she
discovers that Riley has been screaming about ‘Bleached Skulls’
in the future. John insists that he didn’t tell Riley about
Judgement Day but Sarah doesn’t believe him. A legitimate social worker then
appears at the home to question the Connors, having been tipped off
by a mysterious source.
John attempts to question Riley but she
insists she didn’t tell the authorities. Cameron also confronts
Riley and cannot decide whether she should kill her or not, worrying
John about the decisions that future Cameron will make. Even if
Cameron promised not to kill her, could she be trusted? After all,
she promised not to kill the pigeon in the chimney.
While Sarah and John are distracted,
Riley rushes off having realised that Jessie was the one to call the
authorities. Riley figured out that Jessie’s plan was to split up
Cameron and John by encouraging Cameron to kill Riley. Upon Jessie
admitting the plan, Riley and her fight. Unfortunately Riley kills
Jessie in the struggle. It will be interesting to see the fallout
from this fight. Jessie’s original plan has fallen apart following
the death of Riley so she will have to adapt her strategy. Will she
frame Cameron for the death or come up with another plan entirely?
Riley’s death is not the only issue
Jessie is facing. Derek had asked for Jessie help in grabbing a
lawyer who may have ties with Skynet. Due to her fight with Riley,
Jessie was unable to arrive to help him. Derek is likely to have some
pretty serious questions about her absence, how will she be able to
answer them?
‘Ourselves
Alone’ finally moves forward the Riley/Jessie situation, which I am
very happy about. At times this storyline has felt a bit slow and
directionless. Whatever happens now there will have to be a
resolution of some sort. It’s also nice to see Cameron’s bizarre
behaviour questioned once again.
This episode isn’t especially
amazing by itself but it does move the story on in ways which are
pretty interesting. There is a building feeling that ‘Terminator:
TSCC’ is working towards something; I just hope that with only five
episodes remaining the show runners managed to achieve what they wanted to do
in time.
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