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Recap / Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles S 2 E 15 Desert Cantos

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The Connors infiltrate the funeral of the people killed by Weaver at the "Heat And Air" factory, and discover a town full of paranoia and secrecy.

Meanwhile, on the anniversary of Lachlan Weaver's death, Ellison begins to become suspicious of Weaver's lack of human emotion.

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  • Actor Allusion: Walsh tells Derek that he used to be a cop in Baltimore. Max Perlich, who played Walsh, had a regular role in Homicide: Life on the Street as Brody, a forensic videographer (not actually a cop) for the Baltimore police.
  • Blunt "Yes":
    Sarah:Yes, we are "some kind of terrorist organisation".
  • Call-Back: Walsh, the man who bought The Turk for Weaver, appears at the funeral investigating for her.
  • Due to the Dead: Everyone at Zeira wears something plaid on the anniversary of Lachlan's death.
  • He Knows Too Much: The fate of Zoe's boyfriend and his mother, whose corpses Sarah found in the storage locker. Also happens to Weaver's gopher Walsh at the end of the episode.
  • Meaningful Funeral: The entire episode.
  • Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: George McCarthy turns out to be still alive and working for whoever is building the drones.
  • Sinister Surveillance: The homes of everyone in the town are being monitored from a bunker beneath the McCarthys' house.
  • Stalker without a Crush: Cameron's Blank Stare creeps out Zoe.
  • Town with a Dark Secret: Many people in the town knew there was something sinister about the factory, but kept quiet because of the jobs.
  • What Measure Is a Mook?: The whole episode is designed to subvert this. Josh Friedman said in an interview that if we see Weaver kill thirty people in a cool action scene, the next episode we see their funerals.

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