Terminator – Sarah Connor Chronicles, Season 2, Episode 14, the Good Wound

After what seems an eternity Sarah and John are back in our lives with the continuation of Season 2. With initial rumours that the series was to be scrapped to relieve fears for a flagging Prison Break, now that the latter series has been cancelled perhaps we will see a reprieve?!

The Good Wound opens with Sarah in hospital after she’s been shot in the leg at the desert warehouse. She slowly comes too and realises what’s happening, worried to see police outside her room, and feeling like death itself. John is currently tied up with Riley who has slit her wrists while Derek is trying to find Sarah and warehouse and Sarah finds herself completely alone until the vision of John’s dad, Kyle Reese who says “come with me”.

Yanking the IV from her arm and shattering the window as to lure the guard into her room she quickly takes him down, takes his gun and hobbles out of the hospital. But the wound is worse than she thinks and taking action she kidnaps a doctor at gunpoint. Checking into a motel and still with the doctor – Felicia – at gunpoint she directs the surgeon to remove the bullet. Again Kyle Reese appears, asking her to calm down, to take the gun off of Felicia, to accept help and not always be so wary. Following her advice she starts to answer the doctors question, talking about John, talking about how there are people after her, wanting to kill her. Felicia says that Sarah isn’t the only one and as she starts to dig deep into Sarah’s leg the pair discuss John.

Coming to half an hour later Felecia tells a drained Sarah that she can’t remove the bullet, its too close to the femoral artery and one small knick would mean 4minutes of life left. Summoning all her energy Sarah, with the help of the surgeon, travel to a hospital and breaking into the morgue prepare to do surgery with more equipment.

Meanwhile John questions his priorities when it comes to his mother and Riley. After Riley does a running act, he asks Cameron to help find her to have response “We don’t need to” and he finally starts to see what is truly important.

Back in the morgue Felecia successfully removes the bullet moments before Derek arrives and points a gun at her. Grabbing Sarah’s gun off the counter Felecia comes to the conclusion that Derek must be the man after her patient and the pair eye each other up carefully…that is until the senior police man and seemingly Felecia’s partner arrives. Whilst Sarah’s been having surgery the police force have been busy trying to track her down and clear up the mess as Derek has systematically destroyed all their evidence. It becomes apparent that the deputy has attacked Felicia in the same way she believes Sarah has been treated and pulling the trigger by accident the doctor ends up shooting and killing him. Making a swift exit with Derek the pair say to blame the death on them, but Felecia says she’ll tell them he attacked her, it wasn’t as if he hadn’t done it before.

At the basement lab Ellison is shocked to discovered that John Henry has accessed the internet and found out everything there is know about his new body. It seems John Henry’s intelligence is growing and telling Catherine Weaver that she is not human he relates to her a non encrypted message he found on the internet covering a conversation in relation to the chemical makeup of his body. Catherine Weaver visits the warehouse in the desert, obviously the source of the phonecall conversation, and kills everyone there before blowing it up.

Just what is she up to?

Just what is Catherine’s game? Is she creating John Henry to out do Skynet? Is John Henry skynet? When is Ellison going to realise there is something far more sinister going on here than he ever imagined? And will Sarah and John ever get a break from saving their skins to actually focus on bringing Skynet down?

I sincerely hope this series continues, even for those who weren’t original terminator fans it has drama, action, intrigued and actually attempts to characterise its cast rather than had 2D action heroes. The scene’s of the post apocalyptic Earth are great as well as the weave of characters from passed and present. Long may it continue.