The Turk
Sarah visits Tarissa Dyson at Miles’s grave in an effort to track down Skynet’s creators. Sarah brings with her several pictures of people which were part of the package taken from the Resistance fighters’s safe and asks Tarissa to identify them. Tarissa reluctantly helps her by identifying one of the people in the pictures as a computer programmer named Andy Goode (Brendan Hines) who once interned at Cyberdyne, and asks her if he will die too. Sarah finds Andy working at a cellphone store and is able to set up a dinner at Andy’s home. While Sarah is taking a bath, she ponders whether she has what it takes to kill Andy. At the dinner, Sarah’s investigation of Andy Goode reveals that he has built a learning computer, called The Turk (named after a historical claimed chess-playing automaton), designed to play chess and that it is showing random behavior in solving problems in different ways. John begins to have a panic attack when he finds out about The Turk, and asks Sarah about every technical detail about it in order to know if it is capable of intelligent thought, the answer to which she does not know. John tells her about the Singularity, a point in time when machines are able to build superior versions of themselves without the aid of humans, and when that happens they can consider their lives over. Sarah becomes more and more disturbed as she learns more of Andy’s intentions with The Turk, and at one point appears about to kill him. Cameron believes he should die; however Sarah ends up setting fire to Andy’s home, destroying the supercomputer and sparing his life.
At the new school, John gives Cameron a few lessons on proper social behavior in order for her to try to fit in with the students. Nevertheless she displays very poor social skills in the process (in unexplained contrast with her fine social skills at school in the pilot episode). Later John tries to save a girl (who is involved in a sexual situation at school with a student or teacher that is becoming public) from committing suicide; however Cameron restrains him from helping, and so the girl dies. Back at home John becomes furious and lashes out at both Sarah and Cameron when he does not receive Sarah’s support to save the girl, and says that if he is supposed to be the great future leader of humankind and is prevented from being proactive, they might as well declare victory now for the Terminators.
Agent Ellison tries to figure out the link between the death of his contact Enrique and the dead Resistance fighters (who are thought to be drug dealers). He vows that he will find the people who stole the contents of the safe. Ellison visits Carlos in an attempt to see if he had anything to do with Enrique’s death. Later, Ellison finds out from Agent Simpson that the fingerprints of one of the dead Resistance fighters are identical to those of a four-year-old boy currently living in Ohio. He also remembers a substance he obtained from a crime scene he investigated in Red Valley, New Mexico, where Sarah and John were eight years ago, which resembled human blood yet had no red blood cells. Ellison asks Simpson to run some tests on the blood she obtained from the Resistance fighters’s apartment, in order to see if there is anything peculiar about it.
Sarah returns to the doctor’s office, who assures Sarah that she’s currently in a clean bill of health. Nevertheless, she’s in fear of cancer after Cameron’s revelation that she’s supposed to have died of it two years before, and seeks preventions from the doctor. The doctor advises Sarah to avoid smoking and inhaling asbestos, to eat a lot of leafy greens, and to get plenty of exercise, which would minimize the chances. He tells her that he understands her desire to live so that she can watch over her son. He also tells her "Don’t drive yourself crazy chasing the future. We can’t predict. We can only try and prevent."
Cromartie has reassembled himself and goes to a hospital to obtain blood samples, seriously injuring (or killing) two people in the process. He then breaks into the home of Dr. Flemming, a medical scientist who specializes in cellular regeneration, and, after roughing him up, asks him if he has the ability to create synthetic flesh (Cromartie gives the doctor the working solution to the formula). The doctor replies that he does. The doctor prepares the liquid solution and pours it into a bathtub. Cromartie then takes all his clothes off and the doctor is shocked to see his robotic endoskeleton. After some time has passed, Cromartie rises from the solution, with flesh covering his entire body. Later, Ellison arrives at Dr. Flemming’s home and sees blood on the floor and blood over the flesh formula on the wall, wiping most of it out. He goes into a very bloodied bathroom and sees the doctor dead on the ground with his eyes missing.
