Previously on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles:
Guess I'm still fuzzy as to why you called me here.
- You care about this girl? - Yeah.
You're pissed off because I found someone I like spending time with...
I keep seeing it in my dreams, John. It means something.
- Keep it running. We'll be back. - You got it.
- Right place? - Right place.
Don't need to know much about computers to know how to do this.
- There's nothing there? - I didn't say that.
Built to handle big problems. But you need a server farm to run it, and they've got zip.
Less than zip, after you lobotomized their desktops.
It's like those articles about how terrorists have the plans for nuclear bombs...
...and all they're missing is the plutonium. It's another dead end.
Artificial intelligence. The company logo. The three dots...
...while he was bleeding out in the basement. That's all. It's just blood.
Everything on that wall has meant something.
Nobody's saying to stop looking.
You've been looking really hard, Mom. Maybe too hard.
Hey, if you're gonna start in too, don't, okay?
They need investors for the server farm they're gonna build.
I made you an appointment.
I'm a rich divorcée looking to put my money into tech start-ups.
I also made you a cheat sheet so you wouldn't sound like a total moron...
...when you're asking about neural networks and emergent behavior.
- I have no idea what you just said. - Yeah, that's my point.
Dakara Systems is a start-up. Okay.
Barbara Chamberlain was trying to solve a traffic problem.
I was sent back to find him.
You could have told me you were living with him. With her. It.
He's making questionable decisions, getting people killed.
Imagine if he spends the next 20 years with her.
What she'll turn him into.
What the hell are you doing here?
Why'd Connor send you back?
James Ellison. Been a long time. Heard you lost some weight.
Heat wave blew a transformer on Sunday, blacked out half of downtown.
...spent eight hours in a sealed room, no a. c., no ventilation.
Heated up until it easy-baked him to death.
His name is Dr. Boyd Sherman. He was a consultant on a project here.
It's a sophisticated computer program.
During the blackout, the Al reserved generator power for itself...
...and in doing so, shut down the building's other systems.
...that the Al needs the facility's resources to help it grow.
...involve allowing the agonizing death of an otherwise-healthy man?
I don't know what its intentions were.
Now it does sound like a monster movie.
Thank you, colonel. Good to see you.
You'll have to bear with us. We had a break-in last night.
They took our drives. Industrial espionage, for sure.
- Is that why the Air Force wants it? - Air Force has been interested...
- Strange you call the '80s "far back. " - I know, isn't it? You a music fan?
Duran Duran. I loved Duran Duran. We used to go dancing. I miss dancing.
It's the hardest thing to get right.
- So. The Air Force. - Spreading money all over.
R&D, industry cofinancing, prizes.
- He never knew her. - She died in a car crash in 1984.
Coffee always helps me think better.
He operates in realms that you and I can't imagine.
He just has trouble with this one.
I bet sometimes it feels like he always will.
- You have any kids? - Just one. Just my son.
- In his own way. - Well, then you get it.
Throw our lives out the window if we had to.
Well, last night, I would have said $ 100,000 and a little patience.
This morning, I need 10 times that and a miracle.
- Xander's design is so good. - How much time do you have?
- You need more than I have, Mr. Akagi. - Call me Alex.
- Sorry, Alex. - Well, I'm sorry too, Ms. Gale.
- Hi. I'm looking for Riley. - Yeah, sure.
So your foster parents. Not really what I imagined.
You see those kids down there?
They're just losers and castoffs and rejects.
So, what about my posters?
Uh, I don't know. I like Yosemite. I've been there. With my mom.
- You seem like a bear person. - It's not a poster of a bear.
Just swiped out of the water, totally at random.
They just keep swimming like nothing happened.
- You know what? I think I'm gonna go. - No.
I mean, you came here for a reason, right?
Back in Mexico, I promised to explain everything.
But the truth is there's nothing I can explain.
You don't have to say anything, John. It's okay.
You can just sit here with me.
...and a strong sense of self-preservation, plus the United States Air Force.
- What does this add up to for you? - Not the Turk.
Xander doesn't play chess.
...than atoms in the universe. He's offered to teach me how to play.
- Did he offer to tell you about his Al? - It's not the Turk.
But it could be a piece of the puzzle. We've seen that before.
Strange things happen at the one-two point.
It means the usual rules don't always apply.
Dakara has no money. They'll miss the Air Force's deadline.
Everything they need. Every penny. They'll get their miracle.
I know because it's written in blood on my basement wall.
...and I thought he was gonna tell me everything.
I think that's what he wanted to do.
...nothing happened.
- Off balance. - Steady him.
He ran away from me.
There's a lot of mirrors in this world. Did you notice that?
I don't think I can do this anymore.
Maybe you even have some real feelings for him.
- Well, what if I want out? - How would you do that?
Take a look at this.
I'm talking about the three dots on this belt. I'm seeing them everywhere now.
Seeing things in every corner, on every wall. Pretty soon...
...you forget what it was you were looking for.
All of us. Everyone.
Derek, what the hell?
I need to know someone is, but especially you.
Guess we had our kids at about the same age.
- Had mine when I was 21. You? - Nineteen.
It was the debut performance of Pink Floyd's The Wall...
...at the L.A. Memorial Sports Arena.
- I wanted to see it so bad. - That was 1980, so you were 9?
This morning I told you I needed a miracle.
Do you remember the chess tournament the Air Force sponsored?
A friend works for a company that sponsored the winners.
They have a chip prototype. Twelve nanometers.
It's a supercomputer small enough to fit on the end of your finger.
...they get a real-world test, and if it works, we're all geniuses.
- Very rich geniuses. - What do you need? For this chip.
They want half a million to demonstrate seriousness.
And you think it works, this chip?
Gotta keep the temperature around freezing...
A computer's like anything else. More you ask, the more power it needs.
Power generates heat, requires cooling, needs more power.
Babylon, it's kind of a pig.
You know the story?
I was a comp-science major. I minored in beer-bong engineering.
I didn't read a lot of stories.
- God destroyed it. - God gave it a shot yesterday.
Blackout should have shut it down completely.
Babylon routed every watt from the generators to keep itself running.
Ms. Weaver said Dr. Sherman worked on the Al.
Yeah. Touchy-feely B.S., if you ask me.
I mean, how does a coffeemaker feel about coffee?
You're asking if it knew it was killing Sherman when it threw the switch?
- Everything. - Everything, then.
You have to use the full range of tools on a guy like him before you can close.
You're lucky you and your tech there aren't his type.
Are you sure you wanna do this in cash?
They used to think that 12-nanometer scale was impossible.
The circuits are so tiny, you're all but in the quantum realm.
...everything that makes you a person, turn it into pure data...
...and download it onto a machine, that chip could run it.
No pressure. No expectations.
So, Hideo, how long do you estimate before we stop screwing around here...
A pleasure doing business with you, Ms. Gale.
It's my turn to watch TV. No, it's not, it's my turn.
- You missed dinner again. Leftovers are in the fridge.
The remote. You took it, and I know you did. Riley saw.
I did not, you liar. - I'm gonna tell Mom.
I know you're upset, but we don't use those words in this house.
But she started it and Riley saw. - He's crazy.
- What? - I said, he's crazy.
...with your cold sodas and your Facebook pages...
It's all gonna burn, and you're gonna be nothing but bleached skulls.
- All of you are dead! - Honey, don't...
Connections are up. It's drawing full power.
Processor-register error in the CPU memory.
I'm sure it's just a hiccup.
It's trying to push a watermelon through a garden hose.
This chip is an older design, disguised to appear more advanced.
My family used to run a dry-goods store in Azusa, before the Second World War.
After Pearl Harbor, when they were all rounded up...
...the neighbors offered to watch our home and business for us.
...the neighbors were getting the property condemned...
You couldn't have known about Minamoto.
I'm gonna make it right. I don't know how long...
...but I'll pay you back. Every dime.
It's not important right now.
You don't just talk to someone like him.
Yakuza. You know what yakuza is?
He'll mail what's left of you to your son one piece at a time. COD.
You didn't buy that chip. You were paying him to steal it.
All we know are the facts.
Means. Opportunity.
Not even Mr. Murch can guess.
Well, why did you ask him?
- It has a name? - That was something Dr. Sherman did...
- It's not a person. - No.
The Al communicates through images. Symbolistic responses.
We thought about using a natural-language interface...
But it has voice recognition. Just talk to it.
John Henry. I'm James Ellison.
Okay. You know who I am.
Oh, it's a yes. Binary. One is yes, zero is no.
Did you work with him today?
Null operator. No operation. Could mean dead, could mean waiting for input.
He was in the lab when the power went out.
Dr. Sherman tried to leave, but the electronic door failed.
There was only enough power to run and cool the servers.
Security and biometric monitoring went off-line.
Show me security video and biometrics for the lab...
...at the time external power returned.
...standard ambient temperatures. Well above human survivability levels.
But John Henry says, "Medical attention required. " John Henry...
...was Dr. Sherman alive at this time?
You thought they could help?
Do you understand that redirecting the power to the server farms...
What image do you associate with that information?
It has no feeling for what it did.
Sure, you taught it procedures. You taught it rules. But it's got no ethics.
Whether it had any feeling about Dr. Sherman shouldn't matter...
...if you had taught it to value Sherman's life.
And it wasn't John Henry.
What would you teach it if you could?
Your English got good. Real good.
An actor? Who hired you? The real Minamoto or yakuza?
I just handed back what was handed to me by Akagi.
- Don't lie to me. - Please.
- And how the hell do you know? - I know.
You never saw my face.
The guy's an actor. You know who hired him and you know why.
It all adds up. The dots, the Al, the Air Force, the chip.
Listen to yourself. First it's the dots, then the Al, now it's the chip.
You got played. It happens. Welcome to the human race.
- Who you working for? - Sarah, what...?
- You heard me. - I don't know...
Sarah, I'm not working for anybody. It's just me and Xander. What are you...?
Time was, I'd have blown this building sky-high. So don't lie to me.
- I'm sorry about the money. - It's not about the damn money.
- Where's Xander? - Tell me about the chip.
Stop changing the subject. Making this about your wife, your son.
Please, it is. It's all about him. It's all about Xander.
- Three dots. - It's just a logo, you crazy bitch.
- Oh, please. - You wanna see your son?
Tell him. Tell him what you won't tell me. Tell him the truth.
Tell your son what you've done, or she will throw you both through that window.
There was no chip.
To get her money.
I mocked it up and hired Minamoto to sell it to us.
We couldn't make the Air Force deadline, Xan.
I had to make sure you were taken care of.
I just couldn't take that chance.
My design can work.
I hope you're right. I do.
I have faith in you.
...sometimes I barely understand what you're saying...
...and I wonder if you understand me.
The money is under my desk.
I'm gonna regret giving you a key. Aren't I?
Three people know that fact. You're the fourth.
To do whatever it takes to stop Skynet. Now. Today.
If there's anything that you haven't told me, I need to hear it now.
Remember when we were stationed at Serrano Point?
...I was using your toothbrush.
The one in my mess kit?
You know, I wasn't using that to brush my teeth.
I just wanted to stop by to let you know that I reject your rejection.
Do you wanna go for a walk?
I thought about what you said.
I'm not qualified to teach John Henry those things.
In folklore, John Henry raced a steam drill through a mountain.
One man alone challenged the machine, armed with an iron hammer.
His heart gave out and he died. I know.
...but he couldn't stop progress.
How are you today?