Previously on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles:
Weirdo. Kook. Nut. I've been reading the dictionary.
You don't know what you do. I love you, you love me.
- Now is not the time for this. - Well, when is the time?
I'm gonna see Riley even if everyone thinks it's a bad idea.
Don't worry about it and be happy you're a machine.
I'm a machine. I can't be happy.
There are hundreds of companies with three dots in the logo.
Organic fruit, candles, dog collars...
Nothing screams Skynet like baby wipes and ice cream.
And written in blood on the wall, so it means something.
Most efficient killing machine ever invented.
You got her doing laundry.
One glazed. One rainbow sprinkle. One cinnamon twist.
- You never forget, do you? - No. I don't.
Did you get to see your buddy down there?
- He was gone when we got there. - After you went all that way?
Is your brother still seeing that crazy blond?
She snuck out the window one night and left the alarm off.
We got robbed.
The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.
- You read Othello. - You asked me to.
- It was more violent than I expected. - I should've warned you.
You're not eating your doughnuts.
Do you have A History of California Field Artillery?
I'm interested in the muzzle-loading rifles...
...used during the Modoc Indian War.
...and the technological modernization of Imperial Russia.
What are you looking at?
That photo's from 1920. See? December 31 st, 1920.
Famous New Year's Eve speakeasy fire, during Prohibition.
There were rumors someone threw a Molotov cocktail through the door.
Lots of rivalries between the different speakeasy clubs.
I need to know what happened to him.
John? Can you come get me?
341 Grove Way in Van Nuys.
Most periodicals from the '20s haven't been transferred to digital...
But fire that big, there's always survivor stories.
You know, there's only one Titanic survivor left: Millvina Dean.
...so her story isn't particularly instructive.
Of course, having bone cancer was like being the Titanic and the iceberg.
So why do you wanna find out about this guy?
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
- What's wrong? - A little cold in here.
That's him. That's the guy from the fire.
"Rudolph Valentino and Myron Stark at the premiere of The Sheik. "
I enjoyed your film very much, Mr. Valentino.
...to protect herself from the caravan of thieves was misguided...
Stark is shaking hands with Valentino, but look at his eye line.
He's looking at that man.
We could search the city and county records for more on Stark.
You'll have to come back in the morning and talk with Barry.
Excuse me. Where are you going?
Excuse me.
Uh... I barely know Mike's friends. Gail Silver, Mike's mom.
Oh, hi. I'm John. Let me help you with these.
How come you never introduced me to your friend John?
And being helpful. You could learn a lesson from him.
TV in your room broken? Hard to relax if you're out here.
I didn't know you could just send your mom to her room.
Yeah, so? Who you looking for?
- I got your beer. - Thanks.
What are you doing? You called me all upset.
Oh, that was just... This guy was bothering me. That's all.
- Well, I have a car, let's go. - No, it's cool now.
- Come on, we can hang out. - Hang out?
I only came to get you.
- Then what are you doing down here? - Looking for records on Myron Stark.
I let you in, after hours, whenever you want.
- Really not cool. - Well, I need the information.
- I'll fix it. - Just put it back. Put it all back.
I shouldn't have gone down there.
Forget it. It's no big deal.
We're friends. I don't really have many friends.
Actually, I don't have any friends.
So did you find anything out down there?
There's no record of Myron Stark before the fire.
- Dead end. - I don't like dead ends.
Worked his way up from nothing. It's the immigrant spirit.
Single-minded pursuit of a goal. Never giving up.
Buying into the American dream.
Either that or he robbed banks.
Shortly after 2 p. m., a lone robber held up the La Brea Savings and Loan.
Witnesses say the masked man, armed with a submachine gun...
Eight citizens were felled and did not live to tell about it.
Detective, can you tell us how much was looted from the vault?
Over 70,000 in cash, silver and liberty bonds.
The robber was hit with 30 rounds, but escaped on foot.
That has not been ascertained. A manhunt is under way.
...Burbank, Sunland, Van Nuys. - Two days after the last heist.
He built houses. I found this application for a business license.
This is Worldwide News. Myron Stark versus Rupert Chandler.
... was the undisputed king of the expanding San Fernando Valley.
What started as a one-man operation soon grew into a thriving business...
... that went head-to-head with the largest builder in the county.
Stark spoke six languages, paid double his competitors...
Stark himself could always be found shoulder to shoulder...
Chandler's top foreman, Fred Jeffers, was recently asked about the rivalry.
To hear Jeffers tell it, "We're not worried.
Chandler's an established company with contracts booked through 1925.
Fred Jeffers, Rupert Chandler's man, went missing back in 1925.
- Why do you have it? - In case I need it.
- Yes. - Are you in trouble?
- Are you afraid of someone? - Afraid?
There was one last week. You were wearing makeup, but...
Sometimes I get into fights.
There are people out to hurt him. I protect him.
- Who protects you? - I do.
He was doing something and it doesn't make sense to me.
Not you, not the gun, not the guy in the photograph.
I never fired a gun before.
No. No. We can't do this here.
Squeeze the trigger slowly.
Game over!
- Yeah. - Oh, my God, I'm terrible at this.
What, you live in a cave? Come on.
I have no idea. I just pushed those buttons at random.
Hey, check you out, Mr. Normal.
Come on, Johnny. I'm rooting for you.
Hey, come on. Kill him, Alex.
Whoa, whoa. You're going? With that weirdo?
No, no, wait. Give me my lighter back.
- Come on, John. - Give it to me. Give it.
No one's talking to you, weirdo.
- Don't. Stop. - Come on.
I'm out here on Mulholland Drive, where a hiker has discovered...
... what appears to be the body of a man who died over 60 years ago.
... when he spotted a piece of metal in the ravine.
Well, I saw what looked like the bumper of a car.
... like you see in the movies. And then I saw the bones.
... reveal the remains to be those of Fred Jeffers...
... a man who disappeared in the 1920s.
What do you...? What do you want?
No. Wait. Stop.
"Jeffers' disappearance was a terrible blow for Chandler...
...starting with the death of his son, Will...
...who died on New Year's Eve, 1920."
Let's cover him up, let's get him out of here. Come on.
Will Chandler died in the speakeasy fire.
I thought you were gonna kill that guy.
- Why'd you call me? - Because...
I'm a teenage girl, John. We do that kind of crap to guys we like.
The loner weirdo? I don't get it.
...always talking like they were single-handedly saving the world...
"Should we take the deviant to see Bruce Hornsby?"
Because I thought, since you're a weirdo...
My foster parents used to call me "the delinquent. "
So you did take the lighter.
I like shiny things.
What happened to your real parents?
They died when I was little.
Why were you in a foster home? You have your mom.
Well, that explains things.
A little while ago he, uh, helped us with something.
There was an accident, and his new wife died.
Is that why you went nuclear on Mike?
Do you want to talk about it?
Sometimes, yes.
I'm kind of peeing right now. Can't it wait?
- He had a lot of friends. - His father had a lot of money.
- There's a difference. - I think Stark killed him.
And if Stark wanted to kill Chandler, why take out 43 innocent people?
- Or about suicide? - Why would I think about that?
Gee, don't ever look for work as a counselor.
Not for a minute. It would destroy my mom, for one.
To the people who love me. Could you?
I mean, I have to get a scan every six months...
...this woman's name came up in a documentary about the Roaring '20s.
It might tell us more about what happened inside the speakeasy.
Film vault's on the top floor. You'll have to go alone.
- Why? - No wheelchair access.
- You're really strong. - I work out.
DVDs are all right, but this is the real deal.
Before filmmakers figured out all the tricks.
None of that computer-generated digital crap they do today.
All these people, captured, frozen in time.
...they'll still be here, still look exactly the same.
Anyway, don't let me get all A.E. Housman on you.
We would go out to the gin joints every weekend.
... and dance the black bottom and the Charleston, the shimmy. Ha-ha.
We were together there, the night when the fire started.
He was helping everybody out.
Well, to tell you the truth, I was pretty zozzled.
That's what we called it then.
But I didn't see a bomb.
What I did see was this, um, flash of blue light and sparks.
This man, in the middle of the room, naked as a jaybird.
... maybe I just imagined the whole thing, who knows?
Probably the liquor talking.
Yeah, sounds like there was some electrical problem.
He didn't mean to kill all those people.
It's just like in The Wizard of Oz when the house falls on the witch.
...the distance in parsecs, and the Cartesian coordinates.
Stellar motion can calculate what the sky will look like...
...for hundreds of years in the future or the past.
- Why is the date so important? - It's not.
...our tears can prevent us from seeing the stars. "
A budding architect, his dream was to build Pico Tower...
It will remain his land forever, never to be sold or developed.
Instead, his legacy will live on, in a memorial garden...
...I will plant there in his honor. "
There is a Pico Tower in downtown L.A. It's an architectural landmark.
We took a field trip there in third grade.
Someone must have built it.
They show Chandler's rivalry with Stark cost him everything.
His assets were auctioned off to pay off his debt...
Bankruptcy, tragic accidents, the death of a beloved son.
- Mr. Chandler, I'm Myron Stark. - Do I know you?
I'm interested in purchasing a piece of property.
- That land's not for sale. - I'll pay twice what it's worth.
Does it say who bought it? The Pico property?
So he not only bought the land, but he designed it himself?
Stark accidentally killed the man who was gonna build it.
Everything he did was to drive Chandler under and get him to sell that land.
There must be a reason why Stark needed to build it.
Stark disappeared two weeks before the building opened...
- Never seen again. - What's happened at Pico Tower...
- Anything on New Year's Eve? - New Year's Eve when?
In fact, it's closed now. They had to retrofit after the last earthquake.
I'm not sure when they're reopening.
Hey, I thought you left. What are you doing back here?
You never touched your doughnuts.
You've lost 8 percent of your body weight in the past two weeks.
When I carried you to the film vault, I weighed you.
This whole night, the entire time, you've been examining me?
What the hell is going on here?
You have a secondary tumor in the long bone of your arm...
Then you're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about.
I know what it is, okay? I'm the one in here.
You can't just show up whenever you need something.
...and walk in the bathroom when a guy's taking a leak...
And you can't just blurt things out like, "You have cancer. "
Especially to someone who's already had it.
You have no idea what it's like...
...to have something inside of you.
Something that's damaged.
You should make an appointment with your oncologist.
- The tumor's still small. - Get out.
Where were you all night?
Carbon chain C24, lanolin and red dye number 27.
You were with Riley.
Is Eric here?
I have no idea. They just called and asked me to come in. Sorry.
I have one glazed, one rainbow sprinkle, one cinnamon twist.