Goodbye to All That

Skynet sends a T-888 to kill Martin Bedell, a resistance leader, and Derek and John go out to save him. Read the recap and review of this episode of Fox's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

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John, Sarah and Derek read in the paper an article reporting that a Martin Bedell has been kidnapped. Derek recognizes the name and says that Bedell helped train John in the future. He says the man in the article, however, is not the same man, but is someone with the same name. Derek thinks that the 888 Terminator is on a mission to assassinate the real Bedell.

John searches through the phonebook and sees that there are two other Martin Bedells listed. John figures that Martin is at a military school, the Presidio Alto. Derek loads the truck with guns and takes John to protect Bedell.

When they arrive, Derek poses as a soldier with the last name Baum and convinces the school to let John enroll. Derek is asked to fill in for a teaching position and he accepts.

Elsewhere, a kid is playing online video games at his house. The doorbell sounds and he goes to answer it. As the boy peers through the peep hole and the voice behind the door asks if he is Martin Bedell. He says yes and then is grabbed by Sarah Connor and pushed away as bullets shot from outside pierce through the door.

Sarah takes Martin and loads him into a jeep driven by Cameron. The T-888 sees them fleeing and chases after them. The Terminator leaps on top of the vehicle and tears off the roof. Inside, Sarah takes aim with her shotgun and blasts him in the chest, sending him to the pavement. Sarah, Cameron and the boy drive off and leave the T-888.

The boy asks what's going on and Cameron tells him that he is being hunted by a cyborg.

In the Presidio Alto, John is utilizing his time in the school by practicing shooting with the rifle. He helps another student when his rifle jams. Afterwards, another student gets his attention and gives him a demerit for not flagging down a senior cadet to take care of the jam. The student is Bedell, the kid they are sent to protect.

Back at her house, Sarah secures the doors and tries to get Martin ready for his prolonged stay. Martin wants to call his mom and grabs the phone. Cameron stops him, hangs up the phone and lifts him up off of the ground. The boy calms down and falls asleep in his new temporary home. Sarah is determined to care for the Martin until the T-888 is destroyed.

Derek is called to meet the students and answer their questions. He gives a short presentation and afterwards a cadet, Pyle, asks Derek about his war experiences. Pyle enthusiastically asks Derek how many kills has he had. Derek gets angry at Pyle's vision of war as a game. He recalls a story when the stomach of one of his comrades was blasted open during a battle. After hours of pain, he died. After the story, Pyle quietly sits down.

Later, Bedell meets with John during lunch. Bedell tells him that his family expects him to carry on the tradition of graduating in the Presidio. He is considering leaving prematurely to run off with his girlfriend.

Back at Sarah's, Martin watches his mom hold a press conference asking for help to find her boy. He gets upset at the thought of not completing a book report assignment that is due when he returns to his normal life. Sarah helps him find a book and they pick out The Wizard of Oz. Sarah sends Cameron to look after Martin's parents.

Meanwhile at ZeiraCorp, Weaver asks Ellison to look into the Serrano Point nuclear plant incident. He arrives and speaks to the plant manager, Nelson. He shows Ellison a valve that opened and started the meltdown. Nelson says that there are a number of unexplained events including the valve closing afterwards, an appearance of mystery employees, and the disappearance of surveillance tapes. He tells Ellison that the government may prevent the plant going back online on the scheduled date of August 2009.

Ellison goes to a bar where Greenway, the person that reports show was responsible for the plant accident, drank tonic water alone. After the bartender points out a set of pictures of Greenway posted on the wall, Ellison sees Sarah in one of the photos.

Ellison returns to the ZeiraCorp building and reports his findings showing that two machines battled at the plant.

Later in the same bar near Serrano Point, Nelson is relaxing after work. He is approached by a woman who takes him outside. After making out for a while, the woman's tongue becomes a metal like spike that enters Nelson's mouth, killing him. The woman then morphs into Catherine Weaver who walks away from Nelson's lifeless body.

Back at the Presidio, Bedell takes John and a group of cadets out for a training exercise. Derek stops the exercise and tells the students to take part in another mission.

Before this, Derek received a call from Sarah. Cameron discovered that the parents of the boy staying with them has been placed in protective custody and Sarah believes that the T-888 will now try to kill Bedell. Derek is now trying to prepare the cadets for the cyborg's arrival.

The students are told to give hand signals once they see an infiltrator enter the perimeter. The T-888 arrives and the cadets follow Derek's instructions.

Derek sees the signals and shoots the approaching T-888 in the head with a sniper rifle. The Terminator has part of his skull removed by the bullet, but still carries on with his mission. Derek runs toward John and Bedell with the T-888 chasing after him. When the Terminator is within range, John detonates a bomb that knocks the killing machine down.

The Terminator recovers and sees his target, Martin Bedell. John gets the T-888's attention and the cyborg re-prioritizes his mission and chases after him. John walks on a plank that crosses over a tar pit and the Terminator follows. Derek then shoots the robot several times, causing him to fall into the pit. John then lights up a pipe bomb and tosses it, which then explodes, burns and melts the T-888 as he sinks to the bottom of the pit.

Derek and John meet with Bedell while they are packing to leave. John tells Bedell to finish school because what he will do in the future is important. On the car ride back, Derek shares a story about Bedell that occurs in the future. He says that Bedell died saving Kyle Reese and forty other prisoners.

Before Derek and John return, Sarah sends Martin off on a bus to go back home.

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BeeThoughts

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This episode had some scenes with Derek and Kyle Reese in the future, but I thought they cheaped out by keeping all the action in the bunker. I felt like they could have enhanced Derek's storyline, but budget and time restraints prevented them from doing so. The audience is left to imagine Bedell's heroic death scene battling cyborg tanks by hearing Derek's retelling of the events.

- Kristofer M.

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