In the world of the Connors, life is getting extremely complicated. Not that it wasn’t before, what with time travelling to the future to escape pursuit by a killer only to find he’s followed you and he’s not the only one. But now, whilst killing, running, blowing things up and trying to stay alive, all the while plotting to stop Armageddon, John’s decided to fall in love and Sarah’s ex husband and new wife have arrived on the scene.
John, albeit the hero of the world, is still a teenager and what do all teenagers do? Disobey their mothers. Nipping off into town, deadly “sister” in tow, John promises to stick with Cameron but is soon persuaded by his new love interest Riley to do a runner and have a fun “normal” day with her. Cameron’s not best pleased – although does she have feelings since she’s a terminator – especially when John gives her the slip and she ends up spending the day playing catch up all over town.
Meanwhile, receiving a frantic and terrified call from wife Michelle, Charley Dixon recruits help from Sarah and Derek. Turning up at her location they soon discover that she’s been tied in a chair, attached to a bomb, and likely to explode the second she moves from her seat. However, Sarah curious to why the terminator simply didn’t dispose of Michelle, quickly realises that it’s a plot to take her and the resistance cell away from John so he can more easily be disposed of himself. Whipping the fake bomb away and gearing up to tear after a now critically endangered John – not that he wasn’t critically endangered before, he has got an assassin after him – things don’t go quite as planned as a cunning system to steal John’s cell number and record his conversation with his mother ends with an exploding phone mast, unfortunately fatally wounding Michelle Dixon. One down, several to go.
John, being scammed into meeting his mother (or in this case the Terminator using his mother’s voice) at the pier is soon in mortal danger as he finds himself without his mother or Cameron for help. Plunging into the water of the ocean he finds himself extremely lucky – it seems Terminator’s cannot swim!! With all of this going on I fear the Connor’s will never cease Skynet from coming into operation. Michelle Dixon’s dead, surely John’s new girlfriend Riley isn’t going to get out without at least a scratch and everyone seems too busy with surviving than actual planning to save the world. Meanwhile Shirley Manson’s cropped up as the extremely evolved Terminator Catherine Weaver, what place she has in this story is not yet apparent, she doesn’t seem too concerned with trying to kill John at this precise moment. I’m sure the time will come when she is.
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