Gearing Up for “Sarah Connor” Return

It seems like forever since we last saw Sarah and Co. It’s been so long, in fact, that I’ve had to go in search of recaps of the last episode aired before the hiatus. I found what I was looking for, but I’m thinking I need to share it with you all as well, because I know I’m not the only one that has forgotten where we left our crew. I’ll try to be brief.

The episode was entitled “Earthlings Welcome Here”, and it aired on Dec. 15, 2008. (Holy Frak! That was two months ago, already!) It wound three separate story lines together in one episode.

First off, the John/Riley romance. Interestingly enough, when I was thinking that Riley was a throw-away character, we find out that she was actually brought back from the future, by Jessie,  to court young John Connor, and distract him from Cameron’s influence. When Riley begins to have second thoughts about what she is there to do, Jessie reminds her with a few well-placed slaps. We end up with Riley trying to comit suicide.

Next up, Agent Ellison. He’s still working with Catherine Weaver, who has asked him to teach a robot, named John Henry,  how to be human. John Henry is the doomsday machine created by the baddies to bring about Judgement Day. We’re still not clear exactly what Weaver’s prime directive is. As Ellison begins to tell Henry about humans, we hope that he may be able to influence the robot against blowing them all to smithereens.

Finally, there’s Sarah, herself. She was still trying to find out the mystery of the three dots painted on her garage wall. She finds Alan Park at a sci fi convention, where, apparently, there have been many sightings of the three dots in the sky. Park worked for the company that is creating the machines. He is ultimately gunned down for what he knows, but not before Sarah learns what she needs to from him. The three dots are turbines for a machine flying weapon we know is used in the future to eliminate the resistance. We leave Sarah injured after being shot by security.

We have been promised that we’ll begin to see John Connor step up to the man-plate, this season,  and begin looking like the leader of the resistance that he is in the future. The process has been slow, but I think necessary. I didn’t understand the reason for the trip through the tulips with Riley, and I was becoming very impatient with it. Now, I’m impatient to see how this all wraps up. Now the question becomes ‘where will season 2 leave us?’ With the new Terminator movie due to open in May, I wonder if there will be a subtle link with it, as we have seen the subtle references to the first two Terminator movies.

When the season resumes, an injured Sarah is guided by the image of John’s father, Kyle Reese, while Weaver’s move to protect John Henry results in deadly consequences. The Good Wound airs this Friday, Feb. 13, at 8/7 CST, on FOX.