History Recap / TerminatorTheSarahConnorChroniclesS1E2GnothiSeauton

* PostNineElevenTerrorismMovie: The gangsters explain what 9/11 is, to an unprepared and horrified Sarah.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Sarah tries this, after Cameron says Sarah would not shoot Enrique [[spoiler: so Cameron did]].
--> How do you know what I would and would not do? I don't even know what I would do.

* EvilDetectingDog: The guard dog at the junkyard and the pitbulls at Carlos' house.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Cameron, after being hit by a car and ending up face-first through the windshield, says "please remain calm" to the occupants of the car, completely deadpan.
** Most of the interactions between Chola and Cameron.

Sarah and John are foggy from "time lag," after their jump across time to 2007. John has been stuck in the house for three days, and is getting anxious. Sarah tells him he can go out when their new identities are ready. Sarah and Cameron decide to track down Sarah's old friend Enrique, a paramilitary fighter and the "best paper man in the business." Cameron casually drops the news that John sent other resistance fighters at the same time as Cameron, infuriating Sarah. Before they can visit Enrique, they go to the meeting point and find the bodies of all four resistance fighters. Or so they think. One of the bodies turns out to be a Terminator PlayingPossum, which attacks Cameron, and eventually escapes. As they head home, Cameron reveals to Sarah that she died in 2005 from cancer.

* ArmorPiercingSlap : Sarah tries this, after Cameron says Sarah would not shoot Enrique [[spoiler: so Cameron did]].

* BackForTheDead : [[spoiler:Enrique]] briefly appeared in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', but doesn't survive the episode.
* BackFromTheDead : Carlos points to Sarah that she's this, and that makes getting ID for her more costly.
* BilingualBonus : An in-universe example. While Carlos and his friend whisper to each other in Spanish, they don't seem to care much that Sarah knows the language quite well. This is how she finds out Enrique's a rat.
* BlatantLies : Lots of them, but mainly most of what Enrique says to Sarah and Sarah's story to the cop about why she and Cameron are in gang territory. Also Charley's story of how he got a bruise on his arm.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny : Cameron, after being hit by a car, says "please remain calm" to the ocupants of the car, completely deadpan.

* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry : Played with. When they come back from the safe house, John gives Cameron one of the diamonds. It then cuts to Camerson asking Sarah why diamonds are a girl's best friend.
* EvilDetectingDog : The guard dog at the junkyard and the pitbulls at Carlos' house.
* FaceHeelTurn : "El Finito." We don't discover this until the end, after [[spoiler: Enrique]] is already dead.

* PostNineElevenTerrorismMovie : The gangsters explain what 9/11 is, to an unprepared and horrified Sarah.
* ShoutOut :

* SparedByAdaptation : Zigzagged. An unusual case with Enrique. A deleted scene storyboarded but never shot for T2 shows the T-1000 arriving at Enrique's camp after Sarah, killing Enrique. In this iteration, he lives...only to [[spoiler: rat on Sarah and get shot for his troubles]].

Sarah and John are foggy from "time lag," after their jump across time. John has been stuck in the house for three days, and is getting anxious. Sarah tells him he can go out when their new identities are ready. Sarah and Cameron decide to track down Sarah's old friend Enrique, a paramilitary fighter and the "best paper man in the business." Cameron casually drops the news that John sent other resistance fighters at the same time as Cameron, infuriating Sarah. Before they can visit Enrique, they go to the meeting point and find the bodies of all four resistance fighters. Or so they think. One of them turns out to be a Terminator, and attacks Cameron. He runs away and they're unable to catch him, so they go home, where Cameron reveals that Sarah died in 2005 from cancer.

While Sarah and Cameron visit Enrique, who tells them to contact his nephew Carlos, John sneaks out and does an [[EverythingIsOnline Internet search]] for old names. He finds Charley Dixon, but is unable to tell him anything about what happened.

Carlos agrees to provide the fake ID for everyone, but Sarah is shocked at the price. Carlos explains that 9/11 increased the risk of providing fake ID, and then has to explain 9/11 to a shocked Sarah.

Sarah and Cameron return to Carlos's house to buy the fake [=IDs=], but Carlos, not realising that Sarah can speak Spanish, jokes with a buddy about his uncle being an informer. Sarah and Cameron don't initially respond, but after they've bought the [=IDs=] go back to Enrique's house and interrogate him. Sarah is disposed to believe Enrique's denials, but Cameron coldbloodedy shoots him in the back, which somewhat disturbs Sarah. We then see Ellison, too late, receiving a voicemail message in which Enrique contacted him offering unstated interesting information, presumably on Sarah.

Meanwhile, a road cleaner finds Cromartie's metal head by the roadside where the Connors arrived, and brings it home. The head activates, and in a junkyard some distance away, the body activates and kills a security guard. Wearing the security guard's head as a disguise, the body kills the head's owner, and the complete but still-fleshless Cromartie wanders out into Los Angeles.

* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry : Played with. When they come back from the safe house, John gives Cameron one of the diamonds. She wants to know why diamonds are a girl's best friend.
* EvilDetectingDog : The guard dog at the junkyard and the pitbulls

** To ''Literature/TheWizardOfOz''. Sarah and Cameron discuss Sarah's calling her "Tin Man." Sarah read the books to John in Spanish when he was little, and it was one of his favourites. This sets up Oz as a recurring motif throughout the series. Their fake last name is Baum and John's back story is they're from Kansas.

Sarah and Cameron return to Carlos's house to buy the fake [=IDs=], but Carlos, not realising that Sarah can speak Spanish, jokes with a buddy about his father being an informer. Sarah and Cameron don't initially respond, but after they've bought the [=IDs=] go back to Enrique's house and interrogate him. Sarah is disposed to believe Enrique's denials, but Cameron coldbloodedy shoots him in the back, which somewhat disturbs Sarah. We then see Ellison, too late, receiving a voicemail message in which Enrique contacted him offering unstated interesting information, presumably on Sarah.

Sarah and John are foggy from "time lag," after their jump across time. John has been stuck in the house for three days, and is getting anxious. Sarah tells him he can go out when their new identities are ready. Sarah and Cameron decide to track down Sarah's old friend Enrique, a paramilitary fighter and the "best paper man in the business." Cameron casually drops the news that John sent other resistance fighters at the same time as Cameron, infuriating Sarah. Before they can visit Enrique, they go to the meeting point and find the bodies of all four resistance fighters. Or so they think. One of them turns out to be a Terminator, and attacks Cameron. He runs away and they're unable to catch him, so they go home, where Cameron reveals that Sarah died in 2005.

John, Cameron, and Sarah return to the safe house, where they find a stash of money, guns, and diamonds.

Meanwhile, a construction worker finds the errant head at a site and brings it home. [[NightmareFuel After it murders a security guard and wears its dead head, the body follows and demands the robot head]].

* ShoutOut : To ''Literature/TheWizardOfOz''. Sarah and Cameron discuss Sarah's calling her "Tin Man." Sarah read the books to John in Spanish when he was little, and it was one of his favourites. This sets up Oz as a recurring motif throughout the series. Their fake last name is Baum and John's back story is they're from Kansas.

!!! Plot

Sarah and John are foggy from "time lag," after their jump across time. John has been stuck in the house for three days, and is getting anxious. Sarah tells him he can go out when their new identities are ready. Sarah and Cameron decide to track down Sarah's old friend Enrique, a paramilitary fighter and the "best paper man in the business." Cameron casually drops the news that John sent other resistance fighters at the same time as Cameron, infuriating Sarah. Before they can visit Enrique, they go to the meeting point and find the bodies of all four resistance fighters. Or so they think. One of them turns out to be a Terminator, and attacks Cameron. He runs away and they're unable to catch him, so they go home, where Cameron reveals that Sarah died in 2005.

While Sarah and Cameron visit Enrique, who tells them to contact his nephew Carlos, John sneaks out and does an [[EverythingIsOnline Internet search]] for old names. He finds Charley Dixon, but is unable to tell him anything about what happened.

John, Cameron, and Sarah return to the safe house, where they find a stash of money, guns, and diamonds.

Meanwhile, a construction worker finds the errant head at a site and brings it home. [[NightmareFuel After it murders a security guard and wears its dead head, the body follows and demands the robot head]].

!!! Tropes

* ArmorPiercingSlap : Sarah tries this, after Cameron says Sarah would not shoot Enrique [[spoiler: so Cameron did]].
--> How do you know what I would and would not do? I don't even know what I would do.
* BackFromTheDead : Carlos points to Sarah that she's this, and that makes getting ID for her more costly.
* BilingualBonus : An in-universe example. While Carlos and his friend whisper to each other in Spanish, they don't seem to care much that Sarah knows the language quite well. This is how she finds out Enrique's a rat.
* BlatantLies : Lots of them, but mainly most of what Enrique says to Sarah and Sarah's story to the cop about why she and Cameron are in gang territory. Also Charley's story of how he got a bruise on his arm.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny : Cameron, after being hit by a car, says "please remain calm" to the ocupants of the car, completely deadpan.
** Most of the interactions between Chola and Cameron.
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry : Played with. When they come back from the safe house, John gives Cameron one of the diamonds. She wants to know why diamonds are a girl's best friend.
* EvilDetectingDog : The guard dog at the junkyard and the pitbulls
* FaceHeelTurn : "El Finito." We don't discover this until the end, after [[spoiler: Enrique]] is already dead.
* MrExposition: The cop, who explains to Cameron (and the audience) the importance of a pretty young girl hanging around in front of a car in gang territory.
* PostNineElevenTerrorismMovie : The gangsters explain what 9/11 is, to an unprepared and horrified Sarah.
* ShoutOut : To ''Literature/TheWizardOfOz''. Sarah and Cameron discuss Sarah's calling her "Tin Man." Sarah read the books to John in Spanish when he was little, and it was one of his favourites. This sets up Oz as a recurring motif throughout the series. Their fake last name is Baum and John's back story is they're from Kansas.

Meanwhile, a construction worker finds the errant head at a site and brings it home. [[NightmareFuel After it murders a security guard and wears its dead head, he body follows and demands the robot head]].

* Post911TerrorismMovie : The gangsters explain what 9/11 is, to an unprepared and horrified Sarah.
* ShoutOut : To ''Literature/TheWizardOfOz''. Sarah and Cameron discuss Sarah's calling her "Tin Man." Sarah read the books to John in Spanish when he was little, and it was one of his favourites. This sets up Oz as a recurring motif throughout the series.

Meanwhile, a construction worker finds the errant head at a site and brings it home. The body follows and demands the head.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny : Cameron, after being hit by a car, says "please remain calm" to the ocupants of the car, completely deadpan.